Reviews by avoidperil

Another album that doesn't do anything interesting or do it well.

I can barely think of anything I'd like to hear less than this. This is a joke, right? This is so formulaic and boring it feels like paint-by-numbers music. There's an attempt at smoothness that is only going to convince a complete imbecile. This makes me cringe out of my skin.

I listened to the first track through, then skipped through the rest looking for anything that even remotely resembled an interesting idea. Nope. This is music for looping on videogame menu screens.

Not sure what everyone else is hearing here. It's fairly rudimentary and short. I found myself relieved when the 30 minute run time was over.

I wouldn't count the singles Chain of Fools or Natural Woman as songs I ever get excited to hear either. A bit of a dud album really.

An album I've tried to listen to in the past. It's actually rather good. It bears further listens.

I like some Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry songs but generally his swagger is a little tedious. I've never felt the need to listen to an entire album and I understand why. This is a little proggy.

I don't think there's any problem with being progressive and experimental musically, but it dates an album. What was new and exciting in 1973 just sounds hokey and uninteresting 50 years later. Maybe my dad found this subversive and interesting and the feeling stuck with him, but that's not part of my journey.

The gear change from the first track to the second threw me into reverse and wrecked my transmission.

But that's not a bad thing. The first track is just plain awful. Unimaginative blues with poorly sung cliche lyrics that can't even keep a set meter. The second drops us into a soulful telling of the lives of four women. Powerful, affecting, real. From there it's amazing. Lilac Wine had me bursting into tears!

I don't like dance music or 70s music or apparently Brazilian music.

I don't get what people's problem with Morrissey is. For some reason the British press decided to crucify this guy from the beginning, and he has a long standing practical joke of doing things to get headlines and attention. Good for him.

As for the album? It's brilliant. Cutting political savagery but not in the tired old 'fight the power' way. It's a slice of the UK in the early 90s. It's a mirror held up to an entire nation. It's disenfranchisement.

Unplug your ears for a minute and you'll hear character stories from the working class of Britain. Welfare slobs, football hooligans, locals down the pub, the youth taking up with the National Front. I'm not British but this paints a picture better than any article in the Guardian. This is real. This is a love letter to a country that Morrissey saw spiraling out of control.

Y'all have no idea. Certified classic. "Oh no it's too looong waaah."

News flash, this whole activity is too long.

I put this on for my drive home and almost immediately resolved to change it. Ten minutes later I remembered it was on and changed it.

Jazzy bossa nova background music. Ew.

This is an infuriating and unsatisfying listen. I stopped this down halfway through to do something else and I don't see any reason to continue to the end.

An instant groan of recognition, followed by an indifferent shrug, followed by an appreciative murmur. I take it as the toxic masculinity leaving my system.

This is a good album. If you don't think so, it's probably because of some weird male ego thing. Let it go, buddy. You're the only one who cares about yourself being macho.

This one surprised me. At first I got sent to the censored version of the album, but once I sorted that out it was great. This is the only kind of hip hop that I seem to enjoy. Clever, witty lyrics for the most part.

A couple of sections were a bit off colour. The Chinese restaurant martial arts beatdown? Not funny the first time, and who wants to listen to that EVERY TIME? Such a weird feature of hip hop albums.

Do you like Elvis? Do you like bad cover versions of songs by black people sung by a white person? Do you like songs recorded on a potato? Boy, do I have an album for you!

I don't like any of these things, so this is barely tolerable to me.

I just don't get it. There's nothing here I haven't heard elsewhere or done better. Maybe they got there first? I don't care. I'm listening to them after.

Oh now that is some terrible musicianship and some trite lyrics. I don't like punk, but especially I don't like this punk.

One of the all time greats. Listening again it's still as fresh and exciting as ever.

I would have just given this album three stars and moved on, but I've listened to it several times over the years and it just doesn't make sense to me. It's not good. God Only Knows is a nice song, but not perfectly executed. There are some ideas but poor recording, arrangement, and singing really let it down. Like nails on a chalk board to my ears.

I really don't care for this, at all.

This is like American AC/DC. Pure jock rock. This is the same song over and over again. This is probably the worst thing I've subjected my ears to in a long time.

And yes, I am familiar with all of the singles here. They're terrible. It's some cringeworthy guy claiming to be the Best At Sex. Who needs this? Oh there's a song that's about TV dinners. No deep insight. Just... TV dinners as a thing he likes.