Reviews by alien

I'm glad there are some newer albums in the later editions, I've been in a rut of listening to the same few artists recently. This isn't something I would normally find and listen to, but I quite liked it.

There is some cringy early 2020s "self-care" messaging in it, but the main message of Black people not wanting to be killed by the police is evergreen.

"I hate that soulful affectation white girls put on / why don't you move to the Delta?"

At least 60s/70s white guys who ripped off the blues would go wild with their vocals, this Millenial/late Gen X commercial rock for the radio, FIFA soundtracks and car adverts is totally sanded down despite its gestures to blues rock.

The instrumentation is pretty good, dragging the whole thing up to being pleasantly mediocre.

Great instrumentals, the goblin vocals aren't my thing and from what I understand inspired a whole bunch of dogshit American music, but they are distinctive and were novel at the time, apparently.

I'd only heard Sultans of Swing before. Great album, every song sounds the same in the best way.

Funnily enough, most of my exposure to Mark Knopfler has been listening to Dylan's Slow Train Coming.

Why shouldn't live albums be on the list? This one certainly deserves its place.

I was already going to give this a 5 having listened to it sober, but I relistened to it drunk and want to give it 6 stars.

Don't you know you're life itself?

Decent but kind of underwhelming

Though my problems are meaningless
That don't make them go away

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face stopped me in my tracks in a way a new to me song hasn't in a while.

I'm a nerdy guy with those same glasses, what can I say, I love it.

It's much of a muchness with whatever soft, smooth, frictionless music people who don't care about music listen to. The instrumentation is quite good, but the vocals and lyrics really piss me off with how bland, mannered and impersonal they are.

"The President sucks, he's a war pig fuck" - a perennial truth. Maybe one day there'll be a female President of the US and she'll be a war pig fuck too.

My favourite SY album varies from day to day, but Dirty is a five star album any day. "Accesible" is a word that comes up in a lot of reviews, and this album does tamp down slightly (but not entirely) on the amount of extended noise breakdowns, but the expert balance of noise and melody still shines through in more compact, linear songs. The drums are more prominent than on other SY albums, and Steve Shelley kills it.

I've always hated Bittersweet Symphony. The rest of the album isn't as irritating, I liked some of the psychadelic/shoegaze elements, Neon Wilderness is a good little song.

It just drags on though.

Oh no, I actually liked this. Zappa feels like a big can of worms to open, but now I may as well. I listened to Live-Evil by Miles Davis yesterday, so I was primed for some jazz-rock fusion.

I remember a couple years ago, when I mostly just listened to alternative rock and singer-songwriters, thinking that I wasn't bald enough to "get into" jazz, prog etc. Now my hairline has receded some more, I suppose I'm ready.

The day I get a Grateful Dead album and decide to go down that rabbit hole, all my other large discography artists/bands will go out the window.

They'll never reach the moon, at least not the one we're after.

I'm sorry, the government you have elected is not operative.

Five stars

What a surprise

This album starts off strong with some of the vocal songs, but peters out into some unremarkable instrumentals.

Muy bien.

Decent late 60s hard rock/proto heavy metal, charmingly shaggy.