Reviews by abitfishy

Highlight Song/s: How Blue Can You Get?

B.B. King seems like a really charming fellow just by the way he talks. It kind of gives me the impression that he's narrating the album alongside singing the songs and playing the parts. Love the comedy in the songs, wasn't expecting for it to be that light-hearted.

Solid guitar lines, no wonder all those 60s British guitar players who were obsessed with the blues and took a bunch of riffs; I probably would steal some as well if I WAS a 60s British guitar player. Anyway, I think that at least the racist ones ought to pay up. Eric Clapton...

I quite liked the album, the charisma of B.B. King is so far unmatched in the limited amount of live albums I've heard.

Not too sure if it's because of the amount of long albums I've been getting recently or if just this albums fault, but does this seriously need 76 minutes worth of songs - when most songs are heavily repetitive - to convey its emotion. It just repeats ad nauseam, like goodness gracious me! I'm not sure what is with some electronic musicians and 80 minutes albums with the same few bars, going over and over. And I don't even reckon you could dance to a lot these songs; as some electronic music gets the point across better in a live setting rather than the studio.

The only track that amounted to anything is Tow Truck. Which has this menacing surf-like riff in it.

Bubble and Slide sounds like they played the song in a toilet bowl and sounds like someone is pissing, like genuinely what were they trying with that song? 0.01/5.00 song, absolutely god awful.

Highlight Song/s: I Wanna Be Your Dog and No Fun

Right here is the holy relic of punk music. If there IS a beginning to punk this would definitely be a fair contender. The album contents feature the most erratic frantic sneering vocals ever, guitars that are fuzzed out the wazoo, the screeching of the feedback loitering around the album.

The album gives me some Beatles-esque vibes. Even though it is really loud, it has this pop charm to it hiding beneath all that distortion.
The hand-claps in No Fun are very reminiscent of the first couple albums.
Not Right sounds like something that could fit in Please Please Me (if you remove the distortion.)

Some tracks that I have something to talk about:
- I Wanna Be Your Dog has such an iconic riff, and a really good intro
-We Will Fall sounds like a Christian hymn gone wrong, and became about the devil instead. It also sounds really dreadful, like awfully dreadful.
-No Fun has one of my favourite riffs ever made. I always find the riff finding a way back into my mind, no matter what's happening.
The vocals are top-notch, and the hand claps is the song's cherry-on-top.

Highlight Song/s: Someone

This sounds like music from a soundtrack of a movie that features a man staring out at sea at night-time with some light left from a moon that is particularly bright, and which he has very, VERY strong longing feelings that he needs to convey via singing.

Highlight Song/s: Visions of Johanna, One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later), Fourth Time Around

Never thought I'd give Bob Dylan a 5 star, but to be granted I've come around a lot to him recently. Blonde on Blonde is one of the first rock double albums in history (maybe actually THE first?) Blonde on Blonde never dips that hard in quality, it has a consistent high; which is remarkable for a double album (for me.) The Wall is the only other double album that has similar consistency that I can think of.

Blonde on Blonde is also instrumentally diverse compared to prior albums, my personal favourite that showcases the diversity is, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. Just the brass instruments give it such a sweet sound. The album has Bob Dylan's least grating vocals to date (in my journey.) Quite, quite melodic the vocals are. AND like always Dylan always nails the bitter-sweetness.

This album is definitely worthy of a re-visit, I'm looking forward to the next listen.

Highlight Song/s: Easy

Didn't like the previous album I got from them (Hot Shots II,) THIS one however improves on the album before it. I really like the emphasises on atmosphere and dance elements on the album.

Liquid Bird had me thinking my headphones were bugging out. Not cool man, not cool...

I'm still not sold on this band even if they did improve. Instead of a 2 it will get a 3 instead.

Highlight Song/s: Rock with You, Girlfriend and It's the Falling in Love

First Michael Jackson album, definitely what I expected to hear. High-pitched vocals, disco beats, lyrics mostly songs about love, heavy 80s vibes

I spaced out a little bit on "Working Day and Night" and Get on the Floor the result was they kind of blended in together, so I didn't even notice that a song had ended. That says a tad bit about the backing tracks, and a tad bit about my interest in the album.

It was alright but I wouldn't seek it out again. That's probably the case with other Michael Jackson albums or songs, if it came on in real life or GTA: Vice City I wouldn't skip it or turn it off. But I wouldn't go searching for a song or album by him.

Highlight Song/s: (3 is) The Magic Number, Ghetto Thang, Eye Know

Quite a relaxing album, no yelling or other aggressive forms of rapping are present. Positive and light-heartedness and comedy are some other elements on this album. De La Soul; all three of them have a really clean, steady, punctual flow. De La Soul references like a dozen or so words in most of the songs, which to my ears gives it a more cohesive feel to it; like it's a show or something.

Some thoughts that didn't fit anywhere else:
-Eye Know sounds so hopeful and so so sweet.
-Tread Water's flow kind of sounds like the flow from It's Tricky by Run-DMC.

Highlight Song/s: Breathe

This is a lot more enjoyable than than previous album I'd heard of theirs (Music for the Jilted Generation.) It is very texturally rich, not as monotonous as Jilted Generation. I really like the vicious vocals in Breathe, Serial Thrilla, Firestarter.

Highlight Song/s: Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd.

Not bad at all. Some of my likes: lovely singing, laid-back, witty lyrics. Some of my dislikes for the album are: It started to get quite bland and lost its charm starting at the halfway point of the album, the lyrics are quite repetitive.

Highlight Song/s: You And Whose Army, Knives Out, Morning Bell/Amnesiac, Life in a Glasshouse

I name-dropped Life in a Glasshouse in reference to good closers when I got Heroes by Bowie yesterday. It's as if I summoned this album, I'm not superstitious but that's really weird. Out of all albums!

Amnesiac, Amnesiac. I love how strange these songs are on the album. Beep-boop electronic noises, jazz, and a return of the guitar-based rock music. Most of those are used in conjunction with each other. Has a nice haunting quality as well on most of the songs, though that is the case with most Radiohead songs.

Amnesiac is so much more than Kid B, sometimes people can get so blinded because it did the crime of being recorded roughly at the same time as Kid A but being released less than a year later. So people saw (and still see,) the album as a leftovers/b-sides album. If that happens to be true, Pyramid Song, You And Whose Army and Life in a Glasshouse are some bloody good leftover tracks, you can't deny that IF that is the case.

The Amnesiac Award Show:
Winner track: Life in a Glasshouse
Most beep-boop sounds: Packt Like Sardines
Favourite to win: Pyramid Song
Most underrated song: Pulk/Pull
Best singing: You And Whose Army

Highlight Song/s: Beauty and the Beast, Heroes, Sons of the Silent Age

Finally a Bowie album! The second album from The Berlin Trilogy (best trilogy ever,) just like Low (the previous album in the trilogy) it does different things for the different sides. This album is my least favourite of the trilogy, b-but the trilogy albums are all 5 stars. No more, no less... maybe more.

So, on the first side it contains this energetic dance-rock with jazz elements sprinkled throughout, and some of the songs to me gives the feeling of yearning.

And the second side has mostly instrumental and mostly ambient tracks, or both combined. THAT is the final track has singing on it in contrast to the other tracks on the second side.
That final track - The Secret Life of Arabia - gives the impression of like an encore, in the same vein of A Day in the Life or Her Majesty or Life in a Glasshouse, or all of them (first two by the Beatles, last one by Radiohead.)

Highlight Song/s: The Fun Powder Plot

This is a really frosty album, my teeth are shivering. A lot more ambient than I was expecting when I saw on Wikipedia it was labelled dream pop. I was going to say I enjoyed the female vocals on the first track and the next few, but the male vocals not so much. But they don't have a female vocalist or band member... Well hats off to the amazing androgynous singing.

The main theme of This Is Our Lot suspiciously sounds like the main theme of Lullaby by The Cure. No doubt these guys were inspired by The Cure. The droning, the length of each part of the main theme, ITS LITERALLY ALL THERE.

Highlight Song/s: Roller Coaster and Splash 1

Nothing too exciting nor is it too boring, it's just alright. The lead singer sounds like Robert Plant with all that wailing. It's quite haunting and surf-y, musically.

Highlight Song/s: Crack Rock, Pyramids, Bad Religion and Forrest Gump

My experience with Frank Ocean consists of like one song, I can't recall which one, but it has a chipmunk voice doing backing vocals, I think. Anyway, so this listen is coming from very fresh ears.

The likes:
-The production is amazing.
-I'm a big fan of the interlude tracks, just nice and relaxing.
-I like the laid-back style

Frank's singing voice is quite difficult for me to get into. I think this album is superb, in like every way. I feel like in another life this would be in my top 10 albums, It just sounds like that; gives off that feeling. Re-visiting MIGHT help.

Highlight Song/s: Animal Nitrate and The Drowners

Love how the album is jam-packed with most degenerate lyrics, featuring the favourites: Drugs, sex, and rock and roll. The guitar lines are quite good, kind of garage-y at times, and atmospheric on the other times or on some songs, both. The yelp-styled singing is quite unique and suits the album elements of the album.

Now about Animal Nitrate, because it's just that good:
I'm amazed a song about male-to-male sex (Animal Nitrate) has a CRAZY good hook, you'd think maybe with something taboo it'd be less poppy but nope.
I loved when they played this song at the Brit Awards singing a song about jumping on a persons bones whilst high, in front of these guys in suits. The singer giving off a confrontational vibe, the bassist dropping his guitar with no regards after the performance and them walking straight off without waiting for the very forced-sounding applause to end. Punk as fuck!

Highlight Song/s: Masters of War, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"

Not too long after my previous and first Bob Dylan album (Bringing It All Back Home.) This one was pretty good vocal wise compared to Bringing It All Back Home at the cost of less interesting instrumentation, which is honestly fine to me; It is a fair trade.

I've been wanting to listen to songs in a similar format to The Times They Are A-Changin' and this is album is what I wanted. As in the delivery of the lyrics and instrumentally. None of the songs are as good as that track, the closest is A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall.

Some thoughts that didn't quite fit elsewhere:
-Bob Dylan is quite vicious on Masters of War, a shock compared to his other stuff.
-Harmonica on Bob Dylan's Dream sounds like the The Times They Are A-Changin' interludes.

Some solid dance floor tracks, some cool hooks. This album is a pass from me. I'm not fan of the synthesizer on this album, it just tends to sounds more obnoxious than anything else.

Highlight Song/s: Stand In, Orange Crush and Turn You Inside-Out

I've been meaning to listen through R.E.M.'s 80s albums or listen to just Automatic for the People, but that just hasn't happened. But the generator gods blessed this album unto me, telling me I should give them a chance. Well, chance I will give them. Well for starters I'm going in mostly fresh having heard Turn You Inside-Out (from GTA IV) and maybe Orange Crush, as I recognise the name.

So apparently they experimented a bit with this album, with major keys, odd instruments for a rock band and the band members switching instruments.

The overall tone and the atmosphere to the album is fabulous. Their earlier albums probably even better with minor keys; as I'm a fan of minor keys.

Highlight Song/s: Warm Love and I Believe to My Soul

This album was surprisingly tolerable, and it wasn't half bad! I shuddered when I saw it was 90 minutes long especially as the previous album was 75 minutes I just wasn't wanting another long one, but it was mostly fine. The songs were a nice mix of rock, pop and jazz. I definitely enjoyed the first side more than the second side.