Reviews by avoidperil

The first couple of tracks are awful, but it gets slightly better. I'm never going to listen to it again but if people are talking about it well I'm glad I can input to the conversation that I don't like it.

I might have given this two starts but for a few reasons: 17 is wtf. Why is he singing in cursive like a rock Dance Monkey? Why is this whole thing so flat and washed out?
Usually when there are big obvious singles I can jam along with them. These sound so awful in headphones I can't wait for them to be over. This has absolutely zero appeal to me.

Not for me at all.

The sounds on this thing are something else. Easy 5.

Incredible. A true work of artistic mastery and a complete surprise. I've never heard anything from there before but this is a work of considered perfection. It's like if The Cure scored a perfect hit with every song. The long songs need to be long, the dark ones dark. There's a wonderful contemplative number in 1959. I'm not even goth but this took me to that world for 45 minutes.

I thought I would enjoy this more but it really did nothing at all for me. The vocals are a bit off-key and lazy in places, and it just doesn't have the drive and interest of bands like The Smiths or REM or their other contemporaries in the genre.

I think there's CCR out there I can enjoy, but this one feels a little rough and ready, very short, and the only 'hits' are a very loyal cover and Proud Mary. Something about being born on the bayou, but he wasn't. Violently 'Murican.

Nothing really interesting or clever for me here. Just very standard punk sounding music.

Apparently everything on this album is ripped off and uncredited. Okay. I was likely never otherwise going to hear a single one of the samples used here 43 years later. Also as I sit here listening each of these albums at $0.0003 per stream or whatever I'm not really going to get on my high horse about some album from a time when people just sampled anything they wanted without attribution constantly.

I listened vaguely to some of the songs but it's all pretty same old style American crap and there's nothing impressive musically or vocally. I don't think Ella has anything outstanding about her vocal quality to carry these boring songs.

Absolutely wonderful album with incredible synth sounds. To get something that sounds this good takes real skill with production, and for what's basically their debut in this format - bonkers.

There's too much here to absorb in just a couple days but I really appreciate what I've heard and can tell it's something I want to listen to more.

Not really my thing. The whole album passed me by like loud, poorly recorded noise. I don't really do this kind of music.

Rated just on the music that I hear - there are moments of beauty and brilliance here. Actually the best bits are when Simon is plundering less from world music sources, but even the other stuff is intersting.

I like some David Bowie songs some of the time but most of this album is just fine. It doesn't really inspire me to listen much deeper.

Not really my thing at all. A few covers that just don't hit for me either.

This could be higher, I'm not sure. I really like it. The poetry carries this honestly - Bruce drops some incredible lyrics and I'm just all about it. More listens required.

It's fine, but also one star removed for Live album. I'd rather judge studio versions of albums than warbly blues and soul tunes.

There's a lot to like about this one, but nothing to truly grip me. I was up and down about it the whole way throught. Interest proto-britpop.

Quite fun, but also well recorded. A lot of ideas. Not really my jam but it did make me bop.