Reviews by dcspool

Quite bad. Mostly delusional mumbling. Sadly sounds like too much acid. The first track was pretty good, then steadily downhill.

2.4/5

I don't really feel qualified to review this. The speedier, heavier, darker shades of metal just don't do it for me.

This one was not particularly difficult to listen to, but I also didn't take much from it.

2.4/5

This album has 3 absolute huge glam rock belters, if that’s your cup of tea this might be the greatest album of all time.

I was struck listening to Livin on a Prayer by how minimal and quiet the guitar is. This song is so overplayed it’s difficult to really enjoy.

Of the big hitters Wanted Dead or Alive was the most surprisingly engaging.

Wild in the Streets sounds a bit like a Bruce Springsteen song.

I feel like I should be more critical of this album but really it was quite enjoyable.

3.4/5

Bizarre quirky but fun album. Reminds me of Supertramp and Nilsson Schmilsson. Makes perfect sense that these guys did Dreadlock Holiday.

I liked a lot of this. But it’s music you’d mostly be embarrassed to play to others.

Shout out J Dilla.

Fave Tracks: The Wall Street Shuffle, The Worst Band in the World, The Sacro-Iliac

3.7/5

Some boring shit from the byrds, the only interesting part was the stereo panning on the intro to Mr Tambourine Man.

2.3/5

This album is something. A load of covers, somehow I think they all kinda work. A 13 minute epic in the title track: a really fun track at points, at others a moody ambient soundscape. Relax - certainly the best song about not jizzing I can think of. Random voiceovers like in Tag and Fury. And then The Power of Love at the end, a really powerful ballad that its hard not to sing along to. It somewhat defies explanation, but I think it all works really quite well together.

Fave Tracks: Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Fury, Wish the Lads Were Here, Krisco Kisses, The Power of Love

4.3/5

I liked this one a lot more than the other Dusty album. I'd say there were a couple of tracks I really liked rather than just appreciated.

Fave Tracks: The Windmills of Your Mind, In the Land of Make Believe

3.8/5

Maybe the biggest discovery of the 1001 for me is that I'm really into industrial krautrocky post-punk. This one slaps just right in that same sweet spot. Gritty but groovy. Pretty much all the tracks are bringing some heat.

Fave Tracks: Requiem, Wardance, Bloodsport, Complications, Change

5/5

Timbaland beats are distinct but garish. I don't hate it, but I think its overrated.

2.8/5

I'm feeling a bit sick today and this was perhaps not the best choice when you have a headache. Obviously a great great super important album, so lets focus on qualms:
- Some tracks like Lounge Act and Stay Away recycle too many tropes from other tracks.
- Too many loud power chords that aren't as musically interesting as eg the quieter moments on Something In the Way, Lithium, Come As You Are etc.

Still a 5 though.

Fave Tracks: Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Come As You Are, Lithium, Drain You, Something in the Way

4.6/5

The intro of Battery is truly beautiful. Sometimes I wish that metal bands would just dedicate themselves to making less metallic albums. I've heard the start of this song a lot but not the end because I used to play it on Rockband drums but could never get to the end... too many kicks.

Master of Puppets (the track) is overrated for me. I don't really get it. James Hetfield kinda sounds like a pirate when he sings "master!"

Orion intro. Orion those two guitars wailing together about 4 and a half minutes in. DO MORE OF THAT PLZZZ.

Fave Tracks: Battery, Orion

3.6/5

Never been a huge fan of the track Straight Outta Compton but on this listen it hit. Its a banger. The same is kinda true of Fuck That Police. The energy carries.

However after that I think its pretty downhill. The tracks have aged to be fairly generic. The beats are somtimes good, but they never go anywhere, and on these tracks the energy is not enough to carry.

Fave Tracks: Straight Outta Compton, Fuck Tha Police

3/5

When I discovered MBV and had a shoegaze epiphany Boo Radleys were on the list of bands that I tried to dabble a bit into, but that couldn't quite recreate the beauty of Loveless for me. Pleasantly surprised then that I liked this album. Obviously nothing like a Loveless - not even that shoegazey all things considered - but a decent crop of cool songs.

Fave Tracks: I Hang Suspended, Butterfly McQueen, Barney (...And Me), Lazarus

3.9/5

I didn't like this. I was bored, the music is not interesting in the slightest. I would have liked to give Bob's words more respect and had a proper listen, but I'm a busy man. The last 2 tracks were my favourite.

2.7/5

Weird one. Artificial sounding, background music. Definitely sounds like an album where the artist is "____ project". Didn't hate it, just confused.

3/5

Very enjoyable album, I don’t get how I’ve never heard of her before.

Fave Tracks: Luckie, Lonely Women, Timer, Women’s Blues, Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe)

4.2/5

Meh

2.3/5

Pretty nice, don’t have much to say about it though. A standard sort of three and a half

3.5/5

Trash, derivative, imitative.

2/5

The 1001 has basically made me hate punk. I basically get nothing from this apart from appreciation for the energy. The last track the only interesting one for me.

1.8/5