Reviews by cunningtarantula

The 20th anniversary edition of this album is 5 hours. That's about 4h58m too long

It's too long and there's some content that could've been left behind. The highs are high but the lows are pretty bland. It's 3.5 stars rounded up

I don't think this of the best Muse album

I normally don't fuck with soul and R&B but I gave this one a fair shake and it was a banger.

Boring Duran Duran knock off. That bass player really needed to find another band to play with. Really funky

Extremely Talking Heads coded. But I guess it's the other way around. Talking Heads is coded to this.

I have so many drug fueled memories wrapped up in this album that sometimes I struggle to hear the difference between the good and and not so good parts of this album.

I don't really know this album and I've been told it's not their best but I liked it nevertheless. Lot of talk about sucking on dingdongs and finding mainlines. They knew what they liked and they weren't afraid to let you know.

It wasn't as boring as I thought it would be but it's still pretty boring

As a teenager, I had the SST CD version of this album which has a cover of the Peter Frampton song, Show Me the Way. It's too bad that album version isn't on Spotify

This is certainly from a moment in time. That album cover didn't age so well. I remember when this came out. I didn't like it much then and I'm not so sure I like it any better now.

This feels like Let it Bleed (69) or Exile on Main Street (72). This album (71) sits squarely between the two and came out the same year as Sticky Fingers. Also, am I hearing some elements that might have influenced punk? Maybe, maybe not. And the song, Evil Hearted Ada has a real rockabilly sound to it. Very pleasantly surprised!

I really enjoyed this, actually listened to it twice! I mean, as a friend of mine put it, if buddy's gonna play a strat against a bare chest, you know it's gonna be good shit.

A double album, that's 80 mins long, is back to basics?! So if I could give this 2.25 stars, I would. I appreciate the piano, horns and choir. There was an interesting bass line at one point that sounded like it could've been a Talking Heads sample. And for those who care, I guess she can sing. I'm not a person who cares about singers and their abilities but to each their own.

I felt this really lacked emotionally. It didn't stir anything in me and I didn't feel anything from her.

Was this her attempt to break out of club music? Maybe. I just found it boring as heck.

I'd never even heard of Talk Talk until 2026 and suddenly they're everywhere. There's a local brewery that has a beer named after them. Where have they been the last 40 years? The guitar solo in I Don't Believe in You has so much promise but is a touch disappointing.

I saw someone say that this has so much British new wave. And I agree with that sentiment. But of all of them, this is one that should be discussed before final cutting decisions are made.

A Hazy Shade of Winter is a banger. The rest is fine. The Lemonheads cover of Mrs. Robinson is two thumbs up.

I don't mind Aphex Twin but overall, this was pretty uneventful

It's tooooo looooong. And there's just so much harmonica and it's all realllllly high in the mix.

It was fine. I've got no arguments from it, although I prefer Mexican to Tex-Mex

Ouf... Where to even start. The highs are high but the lows are just beyond more low. I don't care about the lack of credit Paul Simon have to the South African artists (I do but not in the context of how I feel about the music), I don't think it's cultural appropriation, and I don't think it was wrong of him to record in Johannesburg during the apartheid embargo. His voice is just so muted and soft and kind of twee. The mid range is really muffled. I have good memories wrapped up in this album and it was hard to decide if this were a 3 or a 4. Either way, it just doesn't resonate like it used to.