Reviews by alex_burke

I thought I would be more impressed by this album, but it’s very generic 90s rock, I feel the next album the foo fighters sound is more consolidated and the hits start to come out

I preferred this to the first PJ Harvey album I got. The grungy alty vibe of the album really suits her voice. The songs were pretty good and although I preferred the original the cover of highway 61 was really cool. I think I’ll come back to this album in time as I do find the length hurt it a bit as it did feel a lot longer then it was but overall a pretty good album

I think this is a very good album, some songs are absolute classics like baba oRiley. I think the production is really goods and this album sounds very fresh. The acoustic numbers sounded a lot like zeppelin 3 which is not a bad thing. But things keeping this from being a top tier album for me, the choices to keep some of the songs as long as they are for example baba oRiley and amazing song has that long outtro that I always skip, won’t get fooled again already quite a long song has that long outtro that it doesn’t need, and the filler songs in the middle are ok but don’t blow me away.

One song wasn’t too bad, but this album falls into the same routine as a lot of edm which is very repetitive with not very interesting music so it’s very hard for me to get into. I like edm that is smart with samples and/or interpolations that create a new piece of art and for me this is not it

Pleasantly surprised by this, again not my genre but I liked it a lot more than I thought. The opening track I’ve heard to death and not a fan of but the album itself was nice and didn’t overstay its welcome, one I might return to later in the future

There are things I like and don’t like about this album, the blending of genres was good and made this album very varied and cool that I didn’t know what was coming next. Their voice on the more tender songs and also their rapping ability was really good so that was an unexpected surprise and why I wanted to do this challenge because it got me out of my music bubble. I did think some of the songs weren’t needed and I needed the whole weekend to get through the album, some songs should’ve been cut in my opinion, there are some real good songs on here but I felt like I needed to get through filler to find them.

Never listened to a full cypress hill album before and I wasn’t disappointed, great samples and great interplay between the members and great rapping. No skits too which is always a plus on a rap album. The only downside is that I wasn’t into some songs and I feel you could’ve cut the fat and made a super tight album with all bangers

I always wanted to listen to this album as a whole but unfortunately It’s repetitive, it’s long, it’s super dated and sounds like a product of the time. It has one good song on it which is a cover. Not one I’ll be revisiting as a whole will only come back for tainted love

I was not expecting this, what a great album. It’s so close to being a 5/5 except for the song a sailors life which starts really slow and the lyric portion of the song (the first half) doesn’t do it for me. However the rest of the album was fantastic, the unique but entrancing vocals of Sandy Denny and the folk instrumentals with hints of blues was great to listen to.

Really good album, didn’t realise there was a song in here that I know quite well. Fun alt rock songs done well.

This is a very good album and I really enjoyed it especially the mixing of indie with lush orchestration and was a treat to listen to. It was very close to getting top marks but there are 2 songs on it that are not as good as the rest of the album and as such did affect my enjoyment as a whole.

Queen are bedsides the Beatles my favourite band, obviously the hits are huge but people accuse them of being only a singles band which is a huge disservice to their musical abilities as a group. This is the album that they start sounding like queen but still have a very prog sounding sound about them. The songs on this record are great and as a concept album this is a great inclusion with the light side and dark side. The vocal harmonies are amazing and what I feel they took from the Beatles and elevated to a level that most other bands couldn’t replicate. Great album and incredibly fun to listen to

It’s a fine album, nothing extraordinary about it, does it deserve the hate. No. Is it the best thing since sliced bread. Also no. Nu metal is kind of a weird genre in itself but whatever floats your boat.

Not sure how I feel about this album, his singing is good, but I don’t know how this genre changed the face of music. It’s very of its time and doesn’t blow me away

Good but weird album, I like it but it’s not as heavy as the previous albums. I don’t see how this album was as much as an influence on doom metal as the previous but I did find the proggy influence very inspired. I will say one of the things I don’t like about this album is how quiet the mix is, it’s very soft and is probably why it didn’t hit as hard as it could. Still a good album but prefer the earlier ones

For the genre of music it’s meant to be I’m sure it’s very good but it just didn’t click for me.

I quite liked this album, the opening track was a bit weird but overall very good, some very big hits on this album. I did find that although this album wasn’t long I did find myself struggling to get through to the end and if it was any longer that would affect my score more but still a pretty good one overall

There’s much to say about this album and very few are complimentary. This album is what the stereotypical person who doesn’t like punk thinks punk sounds like, skipped basically the first half of the album and nothing really grabbed me. The vocals aren’t great, the music never develops both in the songs and over the course of the album. Apparently this album is important in developing the sound of the post punk movement, I’m happy that other bands like joy division didn’t stay or sound like this

More than a feeling is a great opening track, but that’s about it in my opinion, the musicianship is great but it’s very generic for me and doesn’t stand out to some of its peers such as Pink Floyd or Queen who had very distinct voices in this era

I quite like this album, good harmonies and good production. I did find that the well known songs from this album while not bad I didn’t prefer to the deep cuts which is probably due to over hearing them and becoming sorta numb to them. Still good though