Reviews by alex_burke

This album is really boring, I wanted to like it after hearing some of their later work. The tracks with vocals are ok and inoffensive but the instrumentals are really boring with no changes throughout and I had to skip them.

It was an ok album, wasn’t offensive but didn’t knock my socks off

This album is a vibe, I really enjoyed it. Bit of a whiplash with the genre changes that I think could’ve been done better but that’s about the only thing I can say

This was a weird one, if you only do the tracks on the original release it’s not that long of an album and I thought I’d just be able to power through and it wasn’t the most groundbreaking thing in the world but it was ok, heading for 3 stars. But that stupid 9 minute closing song was the most dull boring thing ever, there are so many folk songs that are long but they keep you engaged at least. I’m not knocking it down to 1 but I think 2 stars for what is an ok album ruined by an ending track is a fair score

Not as much as a fan as I thought I’d be. His voice is amazing but the songs didn’t hit me as well as some other in his catalogue have.

I’m not doubting the significance of this album on the impact on modern music and pop and there are genuinely some beautiful moments on this album and some very good songs that I listen to regularly. In saying that I think a lot of the production choices have made this album sound dated (I think rubber soul which is older than this album sounds clean and modern today), I also think it starts to drag towards the end but I am appreciative that this album is relatively short and feels quick to get through.

It’s a good live album, but again it’s most likely a form of compilation of the songs from various albums so hard to make a determination of the significance. It was easy to listen to though

Quite a fun listen, I enjoyed it about as much as blue, I did find myself getting a bit bored by the end but I though it was well produced great musicality and great songwriting

Quite a fun listen, I enjoyed it about as much as blue, I did find myself getting a bit bored by the end but I though it was well produced great musicality and great songwriting

A pretty good album with some absolute classics, there were a couple songs that I didn’t particularly like. I think the overall issue with this album is that it’s incredibly whiplashy, so many genres so quickly, going from a punk rock song into disco is incredibly weird.

This is the first truly great Beatles album and the album that made Brian Wilson have to make pet sounds to compete with what the Beatles were doing, great songwriting throughout with great musical choices and melodies. Paul’s bass playing is also super melodic now and adds so much to the listening experience. I listen to this album regularly while early Beatles I just listen to the songs I like vs listening to whole albums. I also recommend if anyone can listen to the mono as it’s the version the Beatles approved and not the stereo (I’m lucky and have a 1966 mono that is very clean)

I tried, I gave it a good shake but couldn’t make it to side 2. It’s incredibly long and repetitive with not much development, if you’re going to make a 2hr album it has to be ground breaking with minimal misses but this isn’t that, it’s repetitive edm.

I like the idea of this album and at times it’s really good and engaging, the blending of pop and rap with Indian instrumentals was very inspired and it does it quite well. It’s just so long it’s almost an hour and some songs didn’t need to be that long.

Very generic 80’s synth pop, there is really only 1 song on this album I like which is also the one everyone knows, it’s listenable but very boring

A very good first half of the album that was very fun listening to with 2 very famous songs, however the second half really dragged and was quite a slog to get through and really hurt the listening experience

Avant-Gard in all the right ways, lots of unconventional instruments and sounds but still very musical. Very impressive walking such a fine line between a jumbled mess and an artistic musical mess

Very interesting album, it’s like if classic rock bands all got together and distilled their essence into one band with modern production, the vocals are very familiar but at the same time I’ve never heard this band before. I think that’s this albums biggest weakness is that it doesn’t really stand out to me with enough of a distinct sound. It’s good but that’s because the form they’re copying off of is good

Country rock but more palatable, one very good in take it easy but the rest is kind of generic but inoffensive to listen to.

It was ok, I think other groups incorporated or did psychedelic rock better but this wasn’t a bad toe dipper if you’ve never listened to it before

Not a bad album but a bit harder in my opinion to get into compared to some of the other jazz albums I’ve listened to so far. Does not take away the skill of the musicians involved but it was not as much as sit back and relax listening experience.