Reviews by alex_burke

This album didn’t do it for me and I generally like blues, not the best live album I’ve heard either. Barely any songs on the album are theirs, the songs felt long which made the album feel long. Just not a fan.

Drum and bass just does not do it for me, it’s too repetitive of ideas that to me were never interesting in the first place and 78 minutes is way too long

I think for the time this was a great record, listening now the sampling and production did not age as well as other contemporary albums imo, I think Ice Cubes 2 albums after NWA have aged much better production wise and have remained more fresh and accessible. I do think as well Dre is quite outshined on this record by Snoop Dogg in rapping ability. The content too while quite conscious in some areas is also quite braggart in others and is not my favourite. I do think it’s funny that the first 2 song are Eazy E disses

My favourite of the solo wutang records, the genius, the wizard, the GZA. Cool fact is that GZA has the second most unique vocabulary in hip hop which I find to be really cool and he’s a science nerd and big into getting kids educated so an all round good guy, and he casually made one of the greatest rap records.

I knew this was the comeback album after Bon Scott died, but I didn’t realise how many of their big hits this album had. Not only back in black but hells bells, shoot to thrill and shook me all night long. I do think the other songs were a bit to filler for my liking but I quite enjoyed this album as a whole and was fun to listen to

This is a hard one to rate I do like some of the songs and some others I could take or leave. The thing that really struck me was how modern this album sounds, this could be released today and would not sound out of place in the indie garage scene. If it were released today I would think it’s not very groundbreaking but I can only imagine what they thought back in the day. I can definitely see why it was respected when released and why it’s still so widely regarded.

I think this is a very nice record, and I didn’t find Cohen’s voice unpleasant sounding. I did take a couple pauses listening to it but overall quite a nice body of work

This album was fine, I couldn’t really get into it as much as I was hoping.

I was pleasantly surprised by this album, I knew a couple songs from the album and going into it I was expecting this album to feel as long as a double lp is. However the time breezed by and I was really surprised I was listening to it for so long. The reason it’s not a 5 however is I feel that the production choices while making a beautiful sounding record also date it more than other 70s albums similar to me how pet sounds while very pretty is also very dated sounding IMO. Now a dated 70s album is definitely not as bad as a dated 80s album imo but it does make me wonder what could’ve been if they eased back on the lush production choices.

I remember when my Spotify randomly recommended ‘Can you get to that’ and wondering who this band was. Then listening to the whole album a bit later on and having my mind blown. The opening track being a 10 minute guitar solo but being so chill. This album is great no notes and one that is always fun when I’m in the mood for some rock/funk sounds

One of the greatest live albums of all time with great crowd reactions and funny moments. The album that restarted Cash’s career. For me it’s brought down by really being a compilation album and the majority of songs were not written by Cash. Still a great listen and definitely one that is needed before you die IMO

I think this is a really good album, but I do feel even though it’s not long it feels a bit bloated. It feels sacrilegious to say so but I was expecting a bit more I guess which is unfortunate.

1 very famous song on this album, besides that it’s just U2 being U2. Considering around the time of this album you’ll have the rise of the strokes, before you’ve already had great rap albums and indie rock albums it’s not the most important album and again I question if I needed to hear this before I die

While I don’t think this album is as cohesive and good as the low end theory, this is still a great introduction to tribe, this album is a vibe and such a great relaxing album although it can be a bit bloated it’s still fun to sit down and chill out to. Can I kick it is also one of the greatest rap songs too

It’s a fine album but nothing to write home about, I don’t get the appeal behind the doors or the big songs on this album, they’re long and make this album more bloated then it needs to be.

I quite enjoyed this album, a mix of many genres and very ambitious in sound and style for a debut release, the first song hooked me right away and the rest of the album was good although as always with the talking heads very weird sounding. Also has one of the most recognisable songs with psycho killer on it. While it’s good I don’t think (like all talking head records) it’s one I’ll revisit often, but still good

It was an ok album, listenable but nothing really to write home about, very of its time and definitely sounds like a 60s album especially considering the year before had pet sounds and in 67, Sgt peppers was released

An inoffensive boring album, not unlistenable but a weird reggae album performed by a non Jamaican musician so quite weird. Not one I will be returning to.

A really good metal album, I felt it started a bit slow for me to get into but then it got into its stride and was a very enjoyable listen

The first 3 sides of the album are all really good, I do think they start to wane by the end of the album and unfortunately it does bring down what is otherwise an amazing album. Again my usual complaints with double albums is that they could be really strong single LPs which unfortunately is the case here again. Still a great album nonetheless