Reviews by dcspool

Maybe Radiohead's best.

Fave Tracks: 15 Step, Body Snatchers, Nude, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Jigsaw Falling Into Place

4.6/5

Two For the Price of One chorus is fire. Sounds like Everywhere era Fleetwood Mac. Most of the rest not doing much for me though.

Fave Tracks: One of Us, Two for the Price of One

3/5

This was a lot more funkadelicy than I anticipated. Lots of very famous beats, in cases more famous elsewhere, but still this is a good time.

4/5

Sick of punk music. Why does punk music think it has an excuse to sound shit. Not much patience for it from me, which is fine, because this album is super short.

Fave Track: Look Back & Laugh

2.5/5

Quite nice but I felt like a lot of filler in the middle. Kinda loved the last track.

3.4/5

80s music. Not exactly bad, but kinda surprised that I've not heard of this at all considering what it brings to the table is just 80s pop. Also what happened to the second and third Looks of Love?

Fave Tracks: The Look of Love, Pt 1

3/5

Definitely the best stones album I’ve heard, not much detour from their normal style, but more interesting song structures and generally more expexperimntal vibe

Fave tracks: Wild Horses, Can’t you hear me knocking

3.9/5

This one's pretty cool, especially the start, I sense this is the Dinosaur (Jr) album that belongs on the list. Why on earth does Just Like Heaven end so abruptly, its so jarring.

Fave Tracks: Little Fury Things, Kracked, SludgeFeast

3.8/5

Its kinda ok, but its all just preamble to Time of the Season.

3.6/5

Really enjoyed this, an album I should've dived into long ago but never did.

Fave Tracks: Fight Test, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 1., Do You Realize?

4.5/5

Pretty pointless Radiohead inclusion if you ask me. First two tracks are the best.

2.6/5

No real strong feelings about this. I support the inclusivity.

2.9/5

The time signature changes on Cornbread Moon are really ear catching. This is the most exciting start to a country album I can recall.

I've become quite unenthused by Country music from the 1001, but this is a really welcome change. There is way more character and originality here than the vast majority of what I've heard on this list.

Another great example of that is the slightly strange key change in the last 30 seconds or so of Honky Tonk Masquerade. It grabs you as if to say, get out of your comfort zone ya hick.

Then there's the vocal cracks on I'll Be Your Fool. They reek of tongue in cheek coyness. That's a compliment.

Favourite Tracks: Cornbread Moon, Boxcars, Honky Tonkin'

4.2/5

Dull for me, don’t get the wu tang hype

1.9/5

Not a big grime fine, but this album is ok. I feel that there are probably better grime albums out there though.

3/5

Didn't like much of this. Reminded me of Dinosaur Jr but a bit too fuzzzzy for me.

Fave Track: Something so Clear

2.4/5

This was the second album I ever bought. I had to really turn the volume down on Last Call to make sure my parents couldn't overhear the lyrics.

Overall it falls into all the usual double album pitfalls, bloated and too long. But this is a weird one. Its a Big Boi album and an Andre 3000 album, and a perfect showcase of why the pair need each other.

The Speakerboxx side has some bangers, some great rapping, but also a lot of generic 2000s rap and some completely pointless skits.

The Love Below is beautiful at times, and has 2 of the best pop songs of the 21st century on it, but also has some definite misses. I actually really love the jazzy breakbeat instrumental cover of My Favorite Things.

I think maybe Speakerboxx is a 3.5 and The Love Below a 4, but together they feel like less than the sum of the parts. This isn't one of those cases where you can combine the two and make a really great album out of it though, the sides and songs are just too different.

Fave Tracks: GhettoMusick, Bowtie, The Way You Move, The Rooster, Knowing, Reset, Last Call, Happy Valentine's Day, Prototype, Hey Ya!, Roses, Love In War, She's Alive, My Favorite Things, A Life In The Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)

3.6/5

I was trying to not really like this but it was kinda good. Certainly not bad, but exactly why you might expect of a Morrissey record.

Fave Tracks: Alsatian Cousin, Break up the Family, Margaret on the Guillotine

3.7/5

Bjork.

2.3/5

A beautiful little 60s folk hippy album with a playful edge. Alone Again Or is so great, possibly the very best song from the Laurel Canyon scene. This album is way way better than Da Capo.

Fave Tracks: Alone Again Or, Andmoreagain, Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale

4.4/5