Reviews by dcspool

I feel awkward saying that I don't like this. I know people love Missy, so it feels almost blasphemous, but this album doesn't sound nice to me. The production has that big glitzy early 2000s hip hop sound that I think has aged particularly bad. There are some Neptunian elements that kinda still slap (did they produce this? I don't really care enough to check), but a lot of it is just annoying.

I really could not care less about the spoken word sections. To me these are just messages that could have been turned into songs, but weren't.

Fave Tracks: Work It, Can You Hear Me

2.4/5

This album is a strange experience. On paper I love what De La Soul are doing. But I look through the track listing post-listening and I think do I really like many of these songs? Usually the moments that capture me are the fairly on-the-nose samples of my favourite songs - Peg in Eye Know, Hall & Oates in Say No Go, the very famous Me Myself and I Funkadelic sample. After hearing those samples I want to go and listen to the originals rather than appreciating what De La have done with it. Maybe Me Myself and I is an exception there.

Fave Tracks: Eye Know, Me Myself and I, This is a Recording

3.4/5

ohhhh mommmy.

Fave Tracks: Jumpin' Jack Flash, Snow Flower, Light My Fire, Raghupati

4.1/5

This is a great Radiohead album, and it has a bit more identity than I expected. Still though… we don’t need it on the list - it doesn’t have the same importance has OK Computer or Kid A or In Rainbows or even The Bends.

The drums on There, There are so good though. Most underrated Radiohead single.

Probably my favourite collection of Radiohead song titles.

Fave Tracks: 2+2=5, Sit Down Stand Up, There There, A Wolf at the Door

4/5

This is what I came to the 1001 for. I have no idea who or what Penguin Cafe Orchestra is, but that was very fun and unique and sonically pleasing.

Fave tracks: Penguin Cafe Single, most of the Zopf suite, Chartered Flight

4.5/5

Very run of the mill for me. Mostly inoffensive, very few standouts, felt a bit of a drag.

Fave Tracks: Beautiful Child

2.5/5

Didn't really do anything for me. I'm very up for this sort of droney representation, but frankly I just found this boring.

2/5

I felt this was definitely one of the better punk albums i've heard on the 1001. The punk energy feels more genuine, and musically interesting, quite aggressively experimental at points.

Fave Tracks: Theme, Public Image, Low Life, Fodderstompf

3.6/5

A pretty fun time

3.9/5

Been Caught Stealing is such a groove. The first half of the album is a bit middling for me, but from BCS onwards I'm more in.

3.7/5

I can see how this might be important music to some. Its political, cool. As the album title though its more like poetry. The music itself doesn't grab me much. A couple of times there was a pretty nice sonic palette like on The Marriage, and I also quite liked Levi Stubbs' Tears.

3.2/5

I think this is the third Elvis C album. That's too many, for sure. But this one might actually be my favourite.

Fave Tracks: Welcome to the Working Week, Alison

3.4/5

Good stuff, these boys sure can right a beautiful number.

Fave Tracks: Scarborough Fair, Homeward Bound, The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy), 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night

4.3/5

Felt lacklustre compared to the other Fairport Convention album.

Fave Track: The Deserter

3.2/5

I was quite into this at the start, reminded me of the Blood Sweat and Tears record, a good reminder that there was a lot of cool rock music going on in the late 60s, buried slightly beneath the mainstream. But it faded for me at the end, the last track just too meandering for me.

3.4/5

The Killing Moon is so good. And the rest of this album was pretty solid. Felt like it had a bit more sheen and a bit less bite than the other E&TB album (Porcupine), but I don't think that was really to its benefit or detriment, good solid album.

Fave Tracks: Thorn of Crowns, The Killing Moon, My Kingdom, Ocean Rain

4.1/5

Good fine, as you might expect from a Talking Heads offshoot. More than just the inimitable Genius of Love.

Fave Tracks: Wordy Rappinghood, Genius of Love, L Elephant, Lorelei, Booming and Zooming

4.2/5

Some interesting chill yacht rock vibes here at first, but it all becomes quite sedentary quite quickly.

3.1/5

Uninspiring in a very Grateful Dead way

3.2/5

Its too much maaan

3/5