Reviews by dcspool

The songs here are so basic. The vocals are rubbish. It really doesn’t sound cool to me either. Some of the tracks I was already familiar with are pretty fine, but overall this is a big monotonous yawn.

2.4/5

3.3/3 duh

Remurmur remurmur the firth of novermbuh

3.7/5

Pretty cool, I get that this was way ahead of its time. Still have an aversion to live albums though and this was another odyssey to listen through.

3.3/5

Not as interesting as the other Getz album

3.2/5

Could barely understand a word this guy was saying.

2/5

Not quite sure how I felt about this one. At points I loved the fusion of genres, and at other times I felt it was just putting too much Western sheen on world music. It has elements of that late 90s/early 2000s new age fusion that to me is way overrepresented on this list. But despite those qualms I thought this was a pretty engaging listen with lots of interesting timbres.

Fave Tracks: Pilgrim, Nadia

3.6/5

Aqualung is such a bizarre unique song, I love it. The title character evokes disgust and empathy in equal measure and the music swings from jagged and jolty to slow and pondersome to racey and anthemic as it pleases. The rest of the album backs it up well.

I was surprised to read after listening that they didn't actually plan it as a concept album and there's just some loose themes. I think I'd like it even more with some intentional overarching concept.

Fave Tracks: Aqualung, Cross-Eyed Mary, Locomotive Breath, Wind-Up

4.4/5

Never been a huge biggie fan, but this album was way more cohesive and consistent than I expected. Not a lot of supreme stand-out tracks beyond the hits I was familiar with, but really liked the vibe, theme, production etc.

Fave Tracks: Machine Gun Funk, One More Chance, Juicy, Big Poppa

4.3/5

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.

Fave Tracks: Pablo Picasso, Someone I Care About

3.7/5

Fun, quirky, quintessentially Kate Bush, but I don’t think her best.

Fave Tracks: Sat in Your Lap, Houdini

3.7/5

This was so much better than the other Elvis album. Liked a lot of these tracks even beyond In the Ghetto and Suspicious Minds, which are far and away my two fave Elvis tracks.

Fave Tracks: Wearin’ That Loved on Look, Only the Strong Survive, Long Black Limousine, Gentle on my Mind, In the Ghetto, Suspicious Minds

4.1/5

I was incredibly surprised at how much I enjoyed this. I'm familiar with one Prefab Sprout song, The King of Rock and Roll, and I like it quite a bit, but I've always thought of it as quite unserious, cheesy, and a bit of a dated 80s aesthetic. But this album bares little resemblance to that track. Instead its comprised of sparse reverbed soundscapes, with flourishes of beautiful guitar, only occasionally verging into danceable pop territory, as on Moving the River.

Other tracks like Goodbye Lucille #1 remind me of Talk Talk. I kept waiting for this album to fall off and it doesn't really do it, though the strongest tracks are certainly on the first half.

Fave Tracks: Faron Young, Bonny, Appetite, Goodbye Lucille #1

4.6/5

Don't really have a bad word to say about this. It's a tight 8 tracks of funky Chic vibes. It's not a 5 for me as there isn't really any real stand-outs on here for me, but a very solid album.

Fave Tracks: Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Sometimes You Win

4.2/5

I really enjoyed this. There’s a hardcore Rush fan hidden somewhere inside me.

Fave Tracks: Tom Sawyer, Limelight, The Camera Eye

4.5/5

This was quite stressful in a good way.

Fave Track: Gentlemen

3.5/5

This album is like a dream you never want to wake up from. It feels like bathing your ears in melted euphoria. The sounds mbv managed to extract from guitars are beyond comprehension.

only shallow as an opening track is a powerful statement of intent. when you sleep is in a three or four way tie for my favourite song of all time. sometimes can bring me to tears without even really being able to make out the lyrics. to here knows when feels like flying.

Producing this album was a notorious labour of love, but it’s one of those cases where I’m thankful they toiled for their art - they did something special. Even the album cover is perfectly apt, iconic.

Mbv didn’t invent shoegaze on this album, but they undoubtedly defined and perfected it. Nothing slowdivey comes anywhere close, come at me bro.

Fave tracks: only shallow, loomer, touched, to here knows when, when you sleep, i only said, come in alone, sometimes, blown a wish, what you want, soon

5.1/5

This might be one of those albums that I think is a very apt inclusion on the list, but not actually a very good album.

Hip Hop has come so far from these basic beginnings. The flow is so painfully predictable, the beats are mostly formulaic (save for the interesting Rock Box), and some tracks are just awkwardly devoid of instrumentation.

There’s still moments like the aforementioned Rock Box and the iconic It’s Like That, but not an album I’d dive back into.

Fave Tracks: Rock Box, It’s Like That

2.7/5

Noisy and boring.

Fave track: Running Free

2.3/5

Very consistent and very boring in a very Coldplay way.

3/5