Reviews by conorr90

Not a new one to me, very solid album. Maybe not as good as "Music From the Big Pink" though.

I listened to the US version, so at least it had "Paint It Black", which is obviously fantastic. Under My Thumb is a great song too, but the lyrics are downright horrible. I'd like to think that level of misogyny was unacceptable in 1966 too. Apart from those two and "Lady Jane", I thought this was mostly terrible.

The was a big ol' yawn for me. Elvis sounds like he had a bad headcold half the time, the other half he sounds like he was trying to swallow the mic.

15 year old me probably would have been really into this. 32 year old me just wants the 10 minute drum solos to end.

Some good songs on here, but ultimately they sound kinda like a cover band to me. I've heard waaay too many bar band covers of "Hard to Handle" to get any enjoyment out of it anymore, "She Talks to Angels" was a standout track though.

I love this album! Tom Waits is definitely an acquired taste though, not everyone's cup of tea.

Expected to dislike this, as I've never been a big fan of the Beatles' early work. However, it wasn't too bad. I enjoyed "All My Loving", "Till There Was You" and "Please Mister Postman" especially. Not an incredible album by any means, but interesting to to see the early stages of a great band.

I thought this was ok, but there is a bit of a cringe factor for me with Metallica. I much prefer Master of Puppets and the Black Album. I agree with the reviews that mention the bad mixing, the band sound like they're playing inside of a tin can. The only songs that stick out to me are "One" and "Harvester of Sorrow".

I think I read somewhere that they have 4 albums in this book, too many! Master of Puppets and the Black Album would suffice. They could have included two other metal artists instead. No Tool albums in this book, really!?

Not terrible per se, but not particularly interesting or memorable either. The first song started out well instrumentally, but the vocal melody set my teeth on edge. Overall I thought this was too long and a bit boring. It reminded me of Gomez, Grandaddy and Elbow in parts, but I'd much rather just listen to them.

Bittersweet Symphony was one of my first "favourite songs" of my childhood that I remember clearly, I was around 7 or 8 at the time and it always takes me back. The rest of the album never really clicked with me, but listening to it again now, it is very solid.

"Faith" is a fantastic song, but the rest of the album didn't do much for me. "Father Figure" is a bit creepy, "I Want Your Sex" comes of like a bad Prince cover, but without any hint of innuendo or cleverness. "Hard Day" has a good instrumental with nice bass line, but I didn't think it was going to save the album.
It rallied a bit in the second half however; "Look at Your Hands" is a good song, "Monkey" was a bit of fun, I guess, and "Kissing a Fool" was a nice bit of schmooze to round it off.
Overall it's well produced and I see the appeal for some people, but the rest of the songs in between sound like something you'd hear in a dentist's waiting room.

This is an intriguing album, I had listened to it before but never really penetrated it until now. I'd like to look up the lyrics a bit more because they seem to have some quite specific historical references. I'm wavering between 4 and 5 stars for this one, but I'm feeling generous after getting several very mediocre albums in a row, so I'll give it a 5.

I though this was just OK, I only knew Epic well to begin with. A couple of other tracks stood out to me, but none were particularly memorable.

I'd never listened to this album before, but have liked everythibthing I heard from The Fall in the past. I thought this was great, interesting lyrics and a lot of interesting things going on musically. More complex than I was expecting for a punk band, I can see why they're considered so influential.

Incredible album! Music today simply wouldn't be the same without Kraftwerk, and this is probably their most accessible album, of the ones I've listened to anyway. I still prefer TEE I think, but this is still fantastic.

I enjoyed this one almost as much as "Hello, Goodbye", but found the songs on this one to be a bit less memorable. Maybe a bit too lengthy in places as well. I did really enjoy the jazz instrumentation though, along with Tim Buckley's perfect voice!

Hadn't listened to this one before, but I love Fragile and Close to the Edge, so was excited to check it out. Its almost as good as those, and might grow on me with further listens. Hard to believe they brought this and Fragile out in the same year - that's some impressive creative juice flow!

"Daddy, why is the Toy Story singer saying the n-word?"

I enjoyed this but it didn't really leave much impression on me. I only listened to it once though, so didn't really get to absorb the lyrics. I'll come back to it another time, given his reputation.

I've only really listened to Queen's hits, never a full studio album. So I was surprised to see that I only recognised one song off this, Killer Queen. I enjoyed it for the most part, some of the songs were a tad boring, but the guitar and vocals (when Freddie was singing) were fantastic. I didn't know their early stuff was so Prog. This is somewhere between a 3 and a 4 for me, but I'll round it up.

This was a bit of a strange one - I'm not sure how I feel about it being on the list. On the one hand, it's a fantastic soundtrack to a fantastic film. On the other hand, it also sounds VERY like a soundtrack and not really like a standalone album. There's also a piano piece that sounds far too close to "The Great Gig in the Sky", to my ears.