Reviews by blakestewart

Like Seal had a Memphis Soul uncle and I liked it.

I'm not a huge Beatles guy though I certainly was was exposed to them. Johns writing here is fine but I never cared for his voice alone as much? It's sort of like Simon and Garfunkel; both are okay singers but put them together and it's kind of magic.

I feel like Elbow is what Radiohead fans get out of Radiohead. I don't enjoy Radiohead broadly. I do, apparently, enjoy Elbow quite a lot. A couple of the songs felt like pieces from a weak musical but usually they were both musically and lyrically engaging. The vocals were strong as well. I'll be giving this another listen.

Decent classic rock album. Probably ideal for a segment of driving through Kansas?

I enjoyed practically every track.

I'm not really an ambient guy when it comes to selecting music to listen to. That was still a great album for most of my work day. It did feel a little punishing to see an album this long right after Soft Boys yesterday at 2 hrs and 27 minutes and then here comes LTJ at over 3 hours. Being forthright, I actually enjoyed it more as I went along.

Great writing and the music was often more complex than one might expect from what felt like a punky band from that time. Downgrade for eating 2.5 hours of my day.

Not as intolerable as their hits but I just didn't really enjoy it.

Incredibly funky for a bunch of rhode islander college design nerds. I imagine that school as Real Genius but for style.

I always felt on casual listening that arcade fire was simply a Springsteen adjacent work with less effort. That's in there but also a pretty great set of lyrics. I can't say I enthusiastically listened but it got my attention despite my initial bias.

Weird brit techno babble. Fortunately, I had to clean the whole house so this helped a lot somehow. Ordinarily not my thing...but everything in its course I suppose?

I've heard this a few times over the years passively. Few people handle lyrics like Jethro Tull. I imagine like Rush that's something you like or not. I personally enjoy their lyricism and vocals. I don't mind a weird bag of early folk prog nonsense. I liked it.

Pretty fun listen. I'm familiar with the hits but this was a great album to get ready for and drive to work to this morning. Quite motivating. Some of it was a little samey dad-rock but overall a decent listen.

I get that Radiohead are a generational band. They're brilliant. I don't really love them. I really like individual songs. This album contains several of those. It's a good album for me and a great album for others.

Solid, if short, Bowie album.

Pretty nice album. Lots of different influence and rhythms. I'm more elo than elp but this was really good.

Felt like a pretty average Dusty Springfield album. This means that it was good and that most people will probably like it.

Not the best technical recording and I think the album suffered a bit from feeling sort of flat. The instrumentation is clearly great and the gang harmony is intricate but it gets lost in the squash a touch. There are some solid lyrics in here but maybe it just isn't my speed?

There are a few U2 songs that I like. None of them can be found here. These aren't terrible but, to come from such a legendary band, they're fairly lame in terms of construction and lyricism.

I don't mind Adele's hits thought they are a bit overplayed. That said, the remainder of the songs I hadn't heard were actually more to my liking. Not a bad album on the whole.