Reviews by dcspool

Its pretty good but I don't find it all that exciting. Most tracks are enjoyable, not really grabbed by many moments beyond the tracks I already knew, The Weight and I Shall Be Released.

3.7/5

At first I thought there were some cool ideas, but by the end of this I was really sick of it. Sounded very tacky and cheesey.

2.6/5

Its mostly very simple direct tracks, but i like it.

3.9/5

Surprised at how little I enjoyed this. I can appreciate the musicianship but still it didn't really do much for me.

2.5/5

Yeah alright, not bad.

Fave Tracks: Heat, The Light, A Song for Assata,

3.7/5

This is great, can't believe I've been sleeping on Joanna. Pretty much flawless. So lush, can't wait to dive back in and actually properly listen to the lyrical content too.

Fave Tracks: Emily, Sawdust & Diamonds, Cosmia

4.9/5

Well this is a band I haven't thought about for a good 15 years or so.

The tracks I remember here hold up ok, catchy pop songs, particularly One Horse Town for me. But generally this is just insidiously twee. Certainly not essential to the list

Fave Tracks: Big Sur, One Horse Town

2.9/5

Maps and some other songs that are ok but not as good as Maps.

3.3/5

This is quite similar to the other two TB albums, but I clicked with this one a little bit more. Again I really like the style, the atmosphere, the arrangements generally, but find it just a bit too raggedy at times.

Moments in this album give me very strong Doors vibes.

Fave Tracks: No Man Can Find the Sar, Once I Was, Morning Glory

3.8/5

There has to be some White Stripes on the list, but probably not multiple albums, and I’m not sure what the right one is. I think this one has a lot of great singles: Hotel Yorba, Fell in Love With a Girl, We’re Going to be Friends - but it doesn’t have 7NA sooo…

I think most White Stripes albums have a lot of filler, and that’s true here. None of the tracks I hadn’t heard before really captured my attention, except maybe I Can’t Wait.

Fave Tracks: Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, the singles I mentioned above

3.3/5

Too dry for me. The instrumentation is very unexciting and big Len’s voice is even more stolid.

2.4/5

Enjoyable but very samey.

3.4/5

The second half of Mask (the track_ is so beautiful. Some moments of this album are so inspired, creative and elegant. Some are a bit of a trudge through experimentalism. But I don't mind that trudge.

Fave Tracks: Mask, 1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash.

3.8/5

What's this shneaky little trip hop beat kicking off the album eh? Why does this actually kinda slap? Why?!

File Babylon away in the collection of songs that I feel like I know well but never listen to but actually really are fantastic and I should listen to more.

After the first few tracks this did slip more into what I expected it to be tbh. Quite boring singer songwriter music. If the whole album had the quality or even just the style of the first two tracks this would be a great album and a justifiable 1001 entry. But it doesn't, so it isn't.

Fave Tracks: Please Forgive Me, Babylon

3.3/5

The first two tracks very recognisable but I would never have identified them as Royksopp, that's cool.

I liked this a lot. It was a very nice time.

Fave Tracks: So Easy, Eple, Remind Me

4.5/5

I kinda respect this album but I don’t really like it.

3.2/5

Mostly just meh for me

3/5

Another decent Neil Young album, we can skip it from the 1001 though.

3.7/5

Some good tracks here, surely some of Run DMC's best. But still quite a lot of samey tracks that follow a very obvious formula and lack interesting instrumentation or diverse flows to keep the album interesting.

Fave Tracks: Peter Piper, It's Tricky, Walk This Way, Raising Hell

3.5/5

Like a Prayer (the song) is an all timer - the writing is so smart and subversive. And it slaps. The rest of the album is fine but I don’t feel like any other moments stack up. The Prince song is particularly disappointing.

3.3/5