Reviews by alex_burke

I’ve been sleeping on mr Costello, this album is great. Perfect length, no dragging everything is tight with great musicianship and clever songwriting and all on his debut album. This will now be included in my regular rotation’s

This album gives me massive whiplash, there are moments of brilliance with great musicianship and brilliant songwriting that had me giggling. On the other hand really boring music that at times had me skipping the song entirely

A case where the streaming service almost ruined the experience for me, but on reflection actually a really good album, the original album only has 8 songs and looking at only them the album is really groovy and a fun listening experience. Spotify adds An extra 5 songs. Try and do the original track listing and it’ll be a much better experience

What a beautiful album, 2 very famous songs but I never sat down to listen to this album whole and what a mistake that was. Deep lyrics with beautiful musical compositions it was great and one I will be regularly returning to

Very hard album to rate as there are 2 versions the uk and us with very different track lists, Spotify has the us track list in order with the uk songs after. I’ll rate the us version, I like it but I feel the really big songs take away from the enjoyment of some of the deeper cuts because you’re expecting a bit more, his guitar skills are exceptional and the band together sound amazing, I feel though it could have been more cohesive. Still a good album though and one people should have in their collections

A very pretty album and a great first album. Very easy to listen to but I did find it dragged in some areas. Definitely not the peak as to me Pink moon was his best but a great listening experience to hear where he came from

It’s a stock standard country album where they wrote none of the songs, this song imo is not revolutionary in any way, if I want to listen to a bob Dylan written song, I’ll just listen to bob dylan

Hell yeah, I didn’t know what to expect but I guess it’s one of the big 4 of thrash so they must’ve been good. The energy is great and was engaged the whole way through. One thing I find that is just a preference is I think some of the musical ideas didn’t have a great musical pay off to me and was left being a bit unsatisfied but that’s a me thing (I find Metallica scratches the itch better for me). To me it’s 4 stars but again this will probably be 5 to many people

I’m not a modern pop guy, none of the songs appealed to me.

Expertly produced with many layers, in saying that this album felt like it was missing so much and it goes for way too long, glad I got to listen but one I don’t think I’ll be revisiting in the future

One of the greatest first albums in history and one of the ones that didn’t lead to a string of albums that were never as good as the first. That’s the only criticism I can give this album is that led zeppelin came out with the second album the same year and just blew this one out of the water. This album still deserves its flowers though, dazed and confused was one of the first metal riffs, babe I’m gonna leave you has entrancing folky verses and a hard rock chorus. In saying that the production is a little hap hazard but was immediately fixed the next album. Not a perfect album but no qualms about anyone putting this as a 5

It’s an ok album, inoffensive some good songs and some songs I was indifferent towards

Pretty good album, like the first half a lot more than the second. Reading that this was the first where they started going a bit dark in terms of music and lyrics so interesting to see how they develop if other later and earlier albums are on the list

Classic in the rap industry, and I can see why. To many this is a perfect album but it’s not to me, the flows and sample choice are all top notch and has absolute classic songs. However, this album could’ve been a lot tighter and some songs fill a bit of a filler role. While this album doesn’t have many skits they are so cringe that it takes away a lot of enjoyment. The next thing is the content of the songs, Biggie was really trying to promote a mafia boss figure and in that a lot of the lyrics have aged very poorly whether that be the misogyny or the crime boss lyrics which boil down to cross me and you’ll be sorry. Still a great album but held back by some interesting artistic choices

Solid album, very good song in picture book. Can see why the kinks were one of the groups in the British Invasion.

Same thing as usual, cover songs do not rank as highly in my books. However as usual Aretha’s voice is great

What a great album, starts off a bit slow but really gets into a groove, 2 great songs on this album surrounded by some very solid bits of song writing. The quintessential singer/songwriter record

I actually really like this album, though it’s not perfect. People might question the relevance of this album but the sounds developed here went on to consolidate the sound of shoegaze so undoubtedly quite an important album

Solid album, not remarkable but not offensive to listen to

Interesting album, both lore and music wise. Written by Clapton to profess his wife to Pattie Boyd who was then George Harrison’s wife, and as you would expect she said no and Clapton got so depressed he stopped performing music for like 5 years which Is objectively very funny.
The music aspect of this album is very good, it is musically very fun to listen to but I did find the majority of blues numbers to be very similar and I could predict the chord changes that was going to happen, which at times did take away some of the enjoyment. A good album but could’ve been much better if it was shorter and a bit more varied