Nice, easy-listening album, I particularly enjoyed the more 'jazzy' songs, 'Bye Bye Love' and 'Just A Little Lovin''
74/100
Interesting, quite varied as well which is nice, at times it reminded me alternatively of David Bowie, Bob Dylan or Jimmy Hendrix, whilst still retaining the rock sound. None of the tracks stood out to me as outright favourites but they were overall enjoyable.
66/100
Difficult to rate, had some decent songs - I liked 'A quick one whilst he's away' and 'Magic Bus' had some cool harmonica, the start of my generation was good but it didn't need to be 15 minutes long. Other than those songs nothing stood out overly and Im not a huge fan of the way Rogery Daltrey sings.
46/100
I like jazz music but there wasn't much too this one, pleasant and added a certain vibe to my pasta cooking, but not much more than that.
48/100
I've quite a hard time rating this, if I could give 3 and a half I would but unfortunely given the rating system I couldn't warrant a 4.
There were quite a few good songs, abattoir blues and hiding all away (albeit with the odd lyrics of the latter) were good, and O Children, which I recognised from Harry Potter was the highlight of the album for me. If the album had been full of songs like this it could have easily achieved 4 stars but fable of the brown ape and babe you turn me on, amongst others, just didn't stand up to this and in these songs his voice could be a little boring if not annoying at times.
My criticisms are not to say that this is a bad album, just that it was inconsistent and so overall sits at decent, but not great.
70/100
I hadn't listened to much Stevie Wonder before this and I was pleasantly surprised at how good this was. I enjoyed every song on the album, in particular I thought "village ghetto land" was quite a beautiful song and was followed by "contusion" which had some great guitar sections. "Summer soft" was a good 'bop' and was very nice to listen to. I also enjoyed the lyrics and message of "Black man". Really enjoyable overall, great listen.
86/100
Not the typical thing I'd listen to but it was pretty decent, to be honest not many of the songs stood out to me as much better than the others, I liked Spaceboy and Luna a decent amount and thought disarm was a little crap. There was some cool guitar, especially in silverfuck, but I don't really love the "cool guitar" sound, I tend to focus more on singing, which here was alright but nothing incredible for me. Having a hard time placing this between 3 and 4.
71/100.
I enjoyed this, didn't know that they sang 'good times' which is a very good song, the bassline in that reminded me of wham, although apparently its used in rappers delight which makes sense. I also thought it sounded like 'Le freak' which it turns out they also song. I also liked 'will you cry' later on. That being said the songs were somewhat 'samey' so not many stood out beyond this.
