Can recognise that this is a beautiful album, Ray is the star of it obviously, but the strings and backing vocals are a little too treacly for me to really enjoy fully.
This is my favourite EC album. Clever punk(?) with great lyrics and melodies. I think every song is great on this one - can't say the same for later ones.
I saw Elvis a year or two ago and it was among the worst gigs I'd seen - as a result (maybe unfairly) this may have been a 5 star album. Its a 4 now.
Been a while between spins for this one! I think i once called it the best album of the 80s, until a friend corrected me with Disintegration, which is hard to refute.
Stacked side A, with hits i can't even hear properly any more I've heard them so many times.
Side B has the gold. Trip Through Your Wires, Red Hill Mining Town etc.
Only complaint - fizzles out at the end. An album that starts with 3 absolute anthems should probably end in kind, IMO.
Wow, this is a discovery.
So. Much. Sound. Very much a mood thing, I think on a bad day it would induce a panic attack (and nearly did in the car in heavy traffic today), on a good day would be the best thing ever.
Pet Sounds on 21st Century drugs. Recommended.
I always feel like a tourist listening to gangsta rap, and I'm just generally not a fan, so it's difficult to rate this objectively. This is pretty good though! Good beats and atmospheres, and I like Raekwon's voice.
3 stars, but it's no doubt worth more to those who like this sorta thing.
This is an immediate 5 stars for me. Venus in Furs, Heroin, Sunday Morning, all of it. Perfect. Imagine getting the bait and switch of the come down of the first few tracks and then descending into the drug hell of side two in 1967.
Had never listened to a Prince album in full, no idea why not, this is awesome!
Extended funk jams, slap bass even on the ballads, heaps of sleazy weirdness.
At least a couple of songs are destined for various late night party playlists.
4 stars, only due to the absence of half stars.
The hits are undeniably great, and Ice Cream Man is pretty fun, but overall this is just ok.
I had a minute in 2005 where I listened to other Tropicalia bands like Os Mutantes a lot, but never ventured further.
This is ok, a little Muzak-y in places, but there were occasional moments where the cheese meets fuzz guitars or other bits that grab my interest.
Don't think I'll explore further...
