Reviews by dcspool

First half was a bit of a slow burn for me but from "And Through the Wire" I really quite liked every song.

3.9/5

3.9/5

Very nice album. Never been a huge fan of VM but I think I could listen to this album all day.

Fave Tracks: Moondance, Caravan

4.3/5

Went into this expecting the worst, and really didn’t hate it at all, in fact quite liked a few parts and felt it had very little filler. Possibly the biggest surprise of the 1001 so far for me.

Fave Tracks: The Beautiful People, Tourniquet, The Reflecting God

3.6/5

Better than any Beatles album don't @ me

Fave Tracks: Band on the Run, Jet, Bluebird, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

4.6/5

Sometimes its magical, sometimes its just madness. I appreciate the energy as an important part of Sonic Youth, but the fact of the matter is I would rather skip the vast majority of this album. The first few tracks toe the line, then the middle of the album is a really (intentionally) chaotic scramble, then I really quite love Madonna, Sean and Me.

Fave Tracks: Starpower, Madonna, Sean and Me

2.7/5

Strange little album, I liked the back half more than the front.

3.7/5

Pretty much a perfect album for me. All My Friends is one of my favourite songs of all time, but every other track hits too.

Fave Tracks: all of them

5/5

Toooo long, but I thought pretty solid jazzy downtempo drum n bass. Some of the sound palette sounds a little dated as much electronic music from this era does, especially the sort of airy new age electronic music that this verges on. But overall still a pretty enjoyable background listen.

Fave Tracks: Brown Paper Bag, Share the Fall, Destination

3.7/5

The angry cacophany of some Halloween sad boys. This is absolutely not my type of music, but I have actually enjoyed at least one Slipknot song before (Duality) - yet I took nothing from this. If you want to hear a drummer try to break the record for the number of consecutive kick drums in a minute, then this is the album for you. And then there's "Snuff", which is basically an emo song that serves to totally undermine the facade that these guys are scary monster men. How can the rest of the album be seen as in any way authentic artistic impression when that track is there? I don't get it - I think this whole Slipknot fandango is a sham. This type of music is just competing to see who can be the most unintelligible, the most melody-less, but they don't believe it - they want to make sad boy emo pop songs too, they're just caught up in their web of miserable lies.

1/5

This was the most losing my edge album of the losing my edge albums so far.

3/5

Never been a huge PJ fan. I like a few of the tracks here but others are just too dreary for me.

Fave Tracks: Good Fortune, We Float

3.3/5

I like the style but nothing particularly striking from this album. I guess it gained significance because of Gram’s death. Second half of the album from the live track onward much better than the start which was quite slow and by the numbers to me.

3.4/5

Couldn't get into this, just noise. Didn't sound like magmuffs to me.

1.9/5

Fine, but a bit too clean. California Dreamin' is clearly the stand-out as expected. The rest of the tracks have some nice moments but really nothing special.

3.3/5

Bryan Ferry's vocals are super annoying. This mostly just felt pompous to me. Some nice parts but overall it left a bad taste in my ears.

2.7/5

This was as predictably cheesy as I expected. I really did not like it at all. It probably doesn't deserve 1 star but I'm feeling wronged.

1.3/5

My goodness those basslines. Rio (the song) was more fun than I expected - another one of those songs I have heard a million times but never chosen to listen to, actually a real good anthem. The rest of the album doesn't do as much for me. Hungry Like the Wolf has a great chorus progression and I like some elements of Save a Prayer, but overall its all a bit too 80s for me.

3.2/5

Pretty nice, but none of the tracks jumped out for me.

3.4/5

Enjoyed bits of this more than I thought I would, still a bit cheesy.

3.2/5

Let’s Stay Together (the song) almost carries this album by itself. Most of the rest of the track list is fine, not quite filler but never reaching the same heights.

Fave Tracks: Let’s Stay Together, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

3.8/5