Reviews by akak10012002

3
very energetic, to the point where its just a bit too much, good really have benefited from slowing down a bit in places I feel

4
Really cool hip hop/rock hybrid .

4
She's got a great voice and some really good song choices here, I know she didn't write them herself but that's hardly unusual for the time to be fair

4
Enjoyed much more than LA woman, this is a lot fresher. Im definitely not gonna point any 60s rockstar towards any little girls though

4.5
Short album but really lively, the story behind it is incredible too

3.5
Not sure how I feel about this. There were parts that were amazing, parts where I honestly felt a little nauseous. Definitely a really interesting work though

3.5
I still love sweet child o mine but honestly a bit tired of paradise city and welcome to the jungle and the rest of the album isn't quite on the level of those songs. Not bad or anything but not something I'd really chose to listen through as a whole again really

4 5
First time hearing these guys, definitely will have to give more of their stuff a go

2
One of my least favourites so far. So many times where he's just playing the same bloody chord over and over and it goes on and on and...

3.5
Really interesting album, I'm glad I listened as it's truly something different. But several of the songs let it down a bit, and not all of the style shifts fully work I feel

3.5
Better than on the beach but again Neil's just not doing it for me, at least to the level that some people have him as

4.5
Was surprised that this was on the list over Ironman which was the album of his I'd heard before (and is great) but honestly this is fantastic too so fair enough

4.5
Not as consistent as MLIR, but maybe the highest highs of any blur album

4.5
Never been a huge personal Jesus fan so wasn't expecting too much but honestly there's so much more to this album, and I actually enjoyed that song more in the context of the rest of it

1
I once listened to Drakes 'certified lover boy' just after it had come out in an attempt to understand what all the fuss was about with him. Because of that punishing mistake this was only the second worst album I've ever heard - at least napalm death kept it under 30 minutes.

There were points in this where for 15 seconds or so I'd think, this isn't so bad - a nice guitar riff maybe. And then the singer would start scream/growl/choking out something completely illegible, or the drummer would decide to see how fast, hard and tunelessly he could smash up his drums and it was back to being awful. The fact that the second half was by an almost entirely different group of musicians was the most impressive bit, because they'd somehow managed to find people worse than the first lot.

I've tried to see the positives in the albums I haven't enjoyed so much, and almost all of the time I can get why other people would. But it's genuinely incomprehensible to me why anyone would actually chose to listen to something like this. Sorry to those who do :(

4
Take five is my favourite of the (admittedly very few) jazz songs I know. The rest of the album isn't quite as good as that song but still great

3.5
Some great bits but the album (and a lot of the songs on it) just dragged on too much. Another that could have massively benefitted from a little restraint

5
Legendary singer releases his final album in 2016 and dies days later. Sounds familiar.

A really good album, haunting almost. Death is universal but not an aspect of life that you hear artists reflect on so much, especially from someone who knows its so close at hand

3.5
Pretty good listen, he's not Fats Domino though

4
Enjoyed this, only knew come on Eileen before, like most people I'd think, but the whole album was a pleasant surprise