Reviews by abee

Loved their album Moon Safari and this also didn't disappoint. While less vocals than Moon Safari I still feel that each instrumental had its own identity and it didn't feel like one long mash of melodies. As a fan of the book I also enjoyed the spoken word parts. It all felt very Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds - and that's a compliment from me.

Fabulous album. A lot of live albums I feel can be quite gratuitous in their capturing of the stage experience, five-hour drum solos being a particular bete noir, but this is pretty much is succinct in its garage rock ferocity. Love the Space Rock song at the end.

Now we’re talking. Perfect album, great melodies and lyrics and those harmonies are like a warm hug. Syrupy songs like Our House, are counterpointed by the harder rock sound of songs like Almost Cut my Hair. No fillers here.

Okay for its genre but not enough okay for me.

Great album, bringing their brand of hard soul. The opening track exudes social injustice and love their version of I heard it through the grapevine.

I had never heard of this gent or his parent band and this is exactly why the generator is a rewarding experience, to introduce me to an incredible singer songwriter whose music is both earthy and ethereal. The female backing vocals really bring this album to a higher ground. Will buy this.

I quite liked it, great melodies and production. Wish I could give 3 and a half stars but 3 stars it is.

A pretty nice album to listen to in the morning with a cup of coffee but jazz instrumental albums will never be actively sought by me.

Started off loving this funky celebration, got bored with the sameness in the middle but it redeemed itself with Give Up the Funk. Nearly got four stars.

Here we have a genius, an incredible vocalist, a crazily good drummer and the Ox more than showing what they were capable of. What must it have felt like to be a teenager when it came out hearing those stuttering ffffs. In turn, sounding like the Beatles and the Stones they in fact didn’t need to emulate, they were fantastic then and still are.

Really liked this one. Great melodies and rhythm.

Lots of great stuff here and man that voice.

Long possessed, even longer loved album.
Every song is a unique classic and brought to a new level by her amazing voice. Blues and soul perfectly combined in a heartfelt album of utter joyfulness.

OK I am not a Bjork fan, it’s a knee jerk reaction I admit and this is first time listening properly to anything of hers. Here goes….really didn’t care for it. It’s not her voice, that is interesting, but personally it felt a bit samey and some of it was ethereal and floaty and other songs were dance orientated. Couldn’t get a grip on it.

Dusty Springfield – A Girl called Dusty 3 STARS
I was tempted to give this four stars. All lovely songs sung beautifully, many of them among my favourite songs – Anyone Who had a Heart, for example. But while it enriched my morning, it didn’t rock my boat.

Jeez, irritating and boring for me. I gave her other album 2 stars too, not sure why there are two albums here. Even the fact that I have heard Paper Planes before did not help.

Gosh, shoegazing was awful. I know that the editor of the book is British but couldn’t he have left his favourite bands out? This went pretty much nowhere via seventeen songs, and got three stars only thanks to “Thinking of Ways” which was nice.

Fear of Music? Fear of Talking Heads more like. Only really knowing their poppier hits and finding Byrne quite irritating I was not really looking forward to this. That completely changed by the time I got to Mind. The album was so innovative, and though it felt so Bowiesque I can’t see that he laid a finger on it. Even more impressive.

The Beatles are one of the few bands where I like every album. Although their style over the years changed their output never lost its excellence and this early album is no exception. I think personally the thing I love about their music is that they can make the most joyful poppy song sound so melancholic. Here, even in the opening track singing about how it wont be long till he sees his girl they sound mournful. I love it.

Heard of them but never heard a song before. I personally found this quite boring. It was energetic and had some melodies but I felt it was quite meaningless.