Reviews by bingle

I usually love 90s rap but this was pretty forgettable until Nas showed up. A few good songs towards the end but it's such a long album that it feels like a real chore to get to that point. Best songs were Guillotine (Swordz), Verbal Intercourse, Ice Cream, and Wu-Gambinos. I saw a lot of people mention Blue Raspberry as a highlight but I found her vocals annoying and distracting.
I have mixed opinions about skits on albums. If they're used right, they can really add to an album, but this wasn't that.

I have Neil Young fatigue so I wasn't looking forward to this one but it was better than expected. Still nothing amazing though. Best song was probably Over and Over which has a video on Spotify so I'm assuming that's probably the lead single. It's nothing special but it stands out from the rest. I still can't give it more than a 3 though as it was over an hour and felt like a slog to get through the entire thing.

Pretty good for background music. 3.5/5

My problem with Lana continues to be that she's a one trick pony. She writes sad, haunting ballads and she writes them well. But it's all she writes. You know exactly what you're in for when you listen to a Lana album. If you're into it, it won't disappoint but, if you're not, you're going to get bored quickly. She needs to understand that she'll never top Video Games in the genre of sad, haunting ballad. Everything else falls short. Move on, Lana. Make a synth pop album.

Two or three decent songs but I'm still not a fan of Neil You- I mean... Stephen Stills. It feels like a very particular genre for a very particular (albeit large) demographic of white American. Also, the album cover looks like it was made in MS Paint around the year 2000. Just terrible.

This was awesome. Can hear the influence on many later bands. Feels very modern despite its age.

Knowing nothing about country music, I can't help but compare every female singer to Dolly. Nanci has a lovely voice, the songs are simple and sweet, if not a little unrelatable to anyone not from a small Texas town.

I have no Idea what they're singing about most of the time but it sounds good. Really liked Plastic Bag.

Feel like I should have been on acid for this, though the album is a trip in of itself. What an experience.

Simply amazing from start to finish.

Swing > Jazz

Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf are classics but the rest of the album is just okay. Not good, not bad, just fine. I'd give it a 3.5 if I could but I don't think it deserves a 4

Default jazz rating

Default jazz 3/5. Not good, not bad, just jazz.

Great album. Stand out songs of course are Hells Bells, Back in Black, and You Shook Me All Night Long. Other than that, I wouldn't say there were any hidden gems here. It's all quite standard hard rock. None of it bad but I think they should have spaced out the latter two a little because the last 3 songs feel like an anticlimax after two legendary songs in a row. It's not quite a 5, but it's close.

Shout out to the guy whose review pointed out the Spotify link takes you to a double album. The only way I could find the actual Devotional Songs album was by googling "Devotional Songs Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Spotify". Saves you 45 minutes. I enjoyed just a single song from this slog of an album. It was "Yaad-E-Nabi Guishan Mehka" and I think it's because it didn't sound exactly the same as the other songs which could honestly be a single song for all I know. However, that one song can't make up for how bored I was listening to the rest of it. Maybe if I understood Urdu/Punjabi, I could appreciate it more at least just for the lyrics but that's not something I'm prepared to do at the moment.

I enjoyed the mix of hard rock and blues songs. Really good cover of Please Please Please and of course My Generation and The Kiss Are Alright are iconic.

Never listened to this album before but I can see that Foo Fighters have basically always been the same since inception. It's a guitar and Dave Grohl repeating the same line over and over. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. My favourite song was "Big Me" which sounds very Beatles inspired to my ears.

Great album. Only song I didn't like was Mental Stamina because of the annoying bleep sound that plays throughout, though I enjoy the other components of the song still. Just a good example of the late 80s / early 90s flow.

Love Nina Simone but I've never listened to a full album of hers as I always imagined that, as a Jazz singer, there wasn't much value in her albums vs just listening to selected songs. However, this was a lovely album with some nice songs and (obviously) fantastic vocals. There were still a few too many "boring" songs for my liking though. I wish the entire thing was more like "I Love Your Lovin' Ways" or "That's All I Ask".