No skips, every song is a classic.
He's so charismatic and sassy.
I love that he's performing in a prison, the crowd are off their nut and I don't blame them.
There's the perfect amount of talking between songs and it adds so much to the set. He has beef with everyone at this show.
This is the best way to listen to him, its raw and chaotic and you lose all that when its not live. It perfectly captures what made him so iconic.
As an album this isn't going to be something i listen to a lot. It's more of a documented proof of character and the kind of thing you'd put on at an afters.
I put this on whilst cooking dinner and was beating a chicken breast during the title track. It was a pretty crazy experience for me and the breast was well beaten by the end.
This was such a fun start to the album and the 'fun' didn't take away from the political message. I loved the singing, the screaming, his voice is so infectious and fits the music perfectly.
Fairytail of New York is obviously a banger but I wish it wasn't on this album. I've heard it so many times and im listening in February so it kinda took me out of the experience a bit.
Was in a shitty mood before i listened to this album but by the time mountain dew came on I was doing a little jig around the kitchen.
I found this kinda boring. None of the songs were that memorable,
the album is too long and all the songs blur into an underwhelming slop of generic rock and roll.
To be fair I don't really know the context of when they made this. They must've earned their reputation somehow and I'm sure they were very influential at the time. I wasn't there though so I don't care.
It was fine to have on in the background but I'm not going to relisten, on purpose anyway. Bit dead.
This is like if Shrek and Donkey made a double album.
It's an interesting idea.. I think at this point just make solo projects, stitching them together makes it really long and inconsistent.
There are some really good tracks to cherry pick from here but also a lot of filler.
If I wanted to wallow in self pity I can think of so many albums I'd rather listen to, where I wouldn't have to listen to Thom Yorkes droning voice.
I don't understand how this is so highly regarded, maybe I'm missing something?
It's just boohoo poor me incel music which I suppose has its place but it's not even vaguely interesting boohoo poor me incel music.
The only song that stood out for me was 'Just' but I'm not even sure I like it or if it was just slightly better than the rest of this snoozefest.
Eh, they are fine I guess?
The kind of music horrid henry listens to
I saw that this is a best of album and none of the songs really stood out for me.
They would be fun to see live
Unfortunately they're not my new favourite band, but I respect the effort.
I wasn’t aware of this band before now and then the first song came on and I was like yooo the meme song. The rest of the album is a very different vibe from the first track and honestly I’d rather it wasn’t on this album because it just makes me think of instant regret tiktoks. I can’t really blame them for that though.
The guitars are definitely the main attraction here, and the other instruments support them well. They know their place and let the guitars take the limelight 90% of the time.
There are a lot of shorter instrumental pieces and even when the guy is singing it’s not overbearing, which I’m fine with as I don’t really love his voice anyway.
Songs like mood for a day are so stripped back and I feel like I’m listening to a medieval squire or something. And then other songs are more rocky or jazzy but it all feels consistent and flows still somehow.
I enjoyed this! It’s so noodly and whimsical and fun.
Don't have much to say about this. It's fine I guess, just not really my kind of thing.
Maybe in another life where I'm a truck driver in Texas.
I really wanted to like this, but I don't.
'head cut' was fun when she was screaming and going wowwwowoww and making weird noises.
The rest of the album is kinda dreary and repetitive.
So this is a live album but its a mashup of performances from different shows. That's cheating.
The fact that it's live doesn't even add anything. Sometimes they'll say something cheeky between songs and then there's a polite applause after each track, which is actually just annoying. You would think if they are cherry picking from different gigs they would choose ones with more energy.
The singing also pisses me off. He sounds exactly like someone who would wear those leather pants.
The guitars are impressive i guess but cliche.
Towards the end of the album I feel like I'm listening to a pantomime.
Cringe.
At first I wasn't a fan. I felt like they were trying so hard to be quirky random not like other boys.
I gave it another listen and it grew on me a lot. There's a lot going on though and it's a bit all over the place. I think this was their first album which makes sense. Their influences aren't subtle, 'If you don't want me to destroy you' just sounds like a Bowie song. I'm interested to hear their later stuff, this was a really fun first album.
My favourite tracks are 'Fuzzy birds' and 'Hometown unicorn'.
The OG culture vulture and probably the most overrated artist ever. He has some catchy songs though.
Really liked this!
Super stupid was cool. They introduce an idea in like one verse and then the instrumentals tell the rest of the story. Sounds like a horror soundtrack and then the guitar spiralling and losing control is so fun.
So many nice elements. The little clangy bell thing that floats from left to right in 'Back in our minds' Lots of nice textual stuff happening throughout the album.
Wars of Armagedden sounds like a bunch of demon kids in music class whilst the teacher is out. It's actually kinda scary.
I can't tell if they had the best or worst time making this, it is very funky and psychedelic though so they lived up to the name.
It’s good but way too long. There’s some really good songs on here:
Under the bridge
And some not so good:
Apache rose peacock
I love the Chili peppers in small doses, like the real things I guess.
I find his voice a bit grating after a while and some of the lyrics make me cringe.
I cannot fucking wait til Morrissey dies
Nope. Music for nonces, made by nonces. I really tried to separate the art from the artist here but each song either made me roll my eyes or my skin crawl.
Absolute monstrosities sung in the most cheery and soothing voice.
I love the storytelling and every song is so catchy.
This is so cinematic and atmospheric, makes me want to ride a horse and wear a hat.
They keep saying how they're conscious, political rap but are they actually saying anything? Their main selling point is that they're not rapping about sex, drugs and violence but this just ends up sounding like Christian Dad rap.
There's a lot of catchy tracks here. I was mostly just a fan of the beats though. I can think of so many better conscious rappers: Tupac, Kendrick, Mos Def, Common, Little Simz. This was just a bit surface level and didn't really say anything.
Also a bit confused why they went in on RnB rappers and then literally the next song is over an RnB beat.
This was a nice break from all the 70’s rock but I was a bit disappointed.
haha she's weird
Some crazy accents going on here. Very theatrical, maybe too theatrical for me. I'm all for expression but reel it in a bit Kate.
This has some absolute bops on it:
Money for nothing
Walk of life
The saxophone on Your latest trick was also very nice.
Shame about all the slurs, and the album gets a bit dead towards the end.
It took a couple listens to get used to his voice, and I still picture Byrne as Grandpa Simpson for some reason.
Once I got used to the singing this grew on me so much. The lyrics are great and it's very funky and fun.
Love a lot of these songs, could cut out the covers though. Really nice album but not their best
