Reviews by angrybizkitz

I can see that someone might have appreciated the art of it, but I think it belongs somewhere between not on the list and Kid Rock. It's very chaotic and the lyrics sound like a mix of English, backmasked Arabic, and nonsense. The artsy-fartsy people who like this can keep it. There are moments where you get a few bars and think "Oh my, a bit of music I can hang onto", and then it gets interrupted with a goose-honking saxophone or a weird turn of phrase and you remember "Oh yeah, I'm listening to Robert Wyatt, not a sensible musician". Ending the album with that laugh sounds like he just pulled the biggest joke on all of us. Like... "I made the worst album I could think of and YOU ALL LISTENED TO IT." This is like the Voynich Manuscript of albums.

My Rating: 0/5, but I have to put a 1.

Good entry to 60's sounding surf rock, even though this album is from '79. I think "Rock Lobster" carried on way longer than needed. Enjoyed the album, wish it was longer.

My rating: 4/5

Smooth beats, intricate, easy to lose yourself in. Nothing really stands out, though. It's all feels like one long continuous track, and it's hard to tell where one stops and the next one starts.

My Rating: 3/5

You can keep your Michael and Madonna. Prince is the only pop royalty we need. This album is just funky enough to keep it interesting, sexy enough to be alluring, poppy enough to keep it bouncy, rocky enough to groove. This is an actual "you must hear this" album. It deserved more radio play. Come on, radio guys, play more Prince!

My Rating: 5/5

Oh Neil....
You spend this entire album being squeaky and quavery in order to posture "vulnerability". The music is awesome. The lyrics are strong. You r delivery is weak. Anybody else could sing this with more conviction and more emotion and it would be more convincing.

My Rating: 2/5

Awesome album. Excellent use of indigenous rhythm and music integrated with the "cookie-monster" metal. I might check out others from their catalog.

Hot garbage. If I gotta hear Thom Yorke whine in that crap falsetto one more time I think I'll scream. Gimme the Radiohead that sang "Creep".

What a weird album. It feels like they're trying to be a little like Duran Duran or The Cars, but just can't quite get there. It's like the album your dad picks up for you at the airport while he's on business in London, because he knows you like British music. There's hooks that almost get into you, but not quite. Weird enough to keep it from getting radio play, except maybe on the college radio set. I liked "Use Me", "Traison", "Kilimanjaro", "Poppies in the Field". The live version of "Sleeping Gas" at the end of the remaster currently streaming on Spotify is blindingly hilarious.

My rating: 3/5 mountaintops.

I remember when "Holding Back the Years" got radio play. The album isn't bad, but that's the only song that really got me. The whole thing felt like it was trying to figure out where it wanted to be. Blues? Rock? Pop? Pick a lane, buddy.

My Rating: 2/5

Interesting album. Shocking use of the "hard R" in one song. "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" felt like it belonged on the Shack soundtrack, and went on longer than it really needed to. Surprising bird of tenderness in other songs.

My rating: 3/5 stones.

This was ok. Maybe this was groundbreaking when it came out, but others have done the same thing. It's very soft, sexy R&B over downtempo electronica. It's bedroom techno. You could bump uglies to this.

My Rating: 3/5

This is like the adult contemporary version of Duran Duran. Strip away the eyeliner and the edgy chorus, and replace it with tasteful chord progressions, and this is what you get. Kinda meh. Nothing really grabbing, it's just there.

My rating: 2/5 butterflies

An emo/glam album from Queen. I was expecting 80's rock Queen, not 70's glam Queen. It's good enough, the songs are masterfully done, but nothing made me want to listen again.

My Rating; 3/5

Ok, that was a journey!

Yes, it's weird. It's interesting, though. It starts out kind of proto-ambient/proto-industrial, lulling you into a sense of comfort, and then it gets really weird. Never boring. The lyrics are very sparse and repetitive. "The Sad Skinhead" is kind of silly. "It's a Bit of a Pain" is more than a bit of a pain. If you listen on Spotify, you can stop at Disc 1, because Disc 2 is just remixes and other additions from the Deluxe set.

My Rating: 3/5

I had no idea Rod Stewart was ever in a band, so this one snuck up on me. It felt like Rod Stewart put together a band and tried to do George Thorogood. I'm not going to say it was a bad album, because I found myself getting into a couple of songs, but there was nothing that made me want to come back to it.

My rating: 2/5 blind horses

Bee Gees before the disco era. I thought I was getting disco, but I got post-Beatles boy band. A couple of the tracks that Robin leads on makes him sound like Jim Nabors. It was alright, but I don't really think this one belongs on the list. There's nothing groundbreaking or spectacular here.

My Rating: 3/5 ships

It was good to hear all these standards sung by her, but I did not need ALL of them all at once. Three hours is a little much.

Came on rocking hard and carried that all the way through.

He's too showtunes for me. It's very theatrical, which I'm not looking for.

Rolling in like fog through the swamp, this album wraps around you in a comforting southern‑rock blanket. “Good Golly, Miss Molly” shows up in a deliciously funky swamp‑boy groove, “Proud Mary” finally sits in its proper habitat instead of floating around on the radio or a Greatest Hits disc, and even the deep cuts feel like overlooked gems. Lines like “If I were a politician, I’d prove the monkey talk” land with a strangely prescient bite in today’s climate. After hearing this album, I’ve changed my New Year’s resolution to choogle more and hopefully keep on chooglin’ on…

My Rating: 5/5 swamp rats