Reviews by dcspool

"Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won" - I love the wordplay on "Illegal Smile", its such a playful and poetic counter-culture ode to weed, or whatever substance.

Fave Tracks: Illegal Smile, Pretty Good

3.7/5

Really cool to see an insight into these prison live shows. There’s something very real and raw, yet it also feels quite staged and somehow cinematic. The music itself is ok, but I guess the Folsom Prison recording is the more iconic and seminal piece of musical history.

Fave Tracks: Wanted Man, San Quentin, Folsom Prison Blues

3.3/5

There's certainly nothing wrong with this, but I don't really feel like I'll want to listen to much of it again.

Fave Tracks: Zero, Heads Will Roll, Faces

3.5/5

Its a 10, pitchfork already said so.

Fave Tracks: I Want You To Love Me, Cosmonauts, For Her

3.6/5

Enjoyed this.

Fave Tracks: No Other, From a Silver Phial

4.2/5

Great album with no skips, but also none of my very favourite Talking Heads songs.

4.5/5

I can’t believe that I don’t dislike this. A very consistent set of tracks.

Fave Tracks: Notion, Be Somebody

3.9/5

Ok then

3/5

Definitely better than the other BB album.

Fave Tracks: Sabotage, Get It Together, The Update, Flute Loop

3.3/5

Even though I didn't much like LZ2, with each additional release I listen to my appreciation for Led Zep grows and grows. This is such a good hard rock/blues rock album.

Kashmir is one of the most unique rock epics ever recorded. Ten Years Gone reminds me of Wings - maybe Led Zeppelin are the band the Beatles could have been. The Wanton Song is just an Immigrant Song rehash, but it still kinda slaps.

Fave Tracks: The Rover, Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir, Ten Years Gone, The Wanton Song, Black Country Woman

4.9/5

I like this album when it has interesting dissonant tones of bass and guitar, like in Elixir Is Zog - beautifully scruffy slacker rock. In general it struggles from the usual problems that plague slacker rock and 90s alternative in general - unrefined punky energy creating uncohesive and/or bloated albums.

Fave Tracks: Soul and Fire, Sixteen, Homemade

3.4/5

I've always thought that I don't like Madness, and I still don't really like Madness, but I didn't find this album annoying as I do some of their most famous hits. Speaking of which, Our House is a quite undeniable bop.

Fave Tracks: Our House

2.7/5

Great jazz album, maybe the greatest jazz album.

5/5

I liked the title track but then it kinda fell off for me and was too samey.

Fave Tracks: I'm a Lonesome Fugitive

2.9/5

There is something so uncool about rock operas. Its all so cheesy and self-serious.

Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2 is another good example of a track which in my head I don't really like, but when it came on in the album I was bopping along.

Goodbye Blue Sky interpolating Goodbye Ruby Tuesday. In the Flesh sounds very much like a Dark Side of the Moon chord progression. Some derivative ideas here.

Comfortably Numb is my favourite Pink Floyd song, so good.

Fave Tracks: Another Brick in the Wall Pt 1 & 2, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell

3/5

I really liked this - a lot of fun. A bit of a hodgepodge of tracks, but in a good way, like Harry Nilsson.

Fave Tracks: I Saw The Light, It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference, Intro, Hello It's Me

4.5/5

I can't say enough good things. This album is a movie, its got it all. There are straight bangers (Backseat Freestyle, m.A.A.d city), chill moments (Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe), tracks that are somehow both (Money Trees, Swimming Pools), a 12 minute odyssey (Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst), and no skips.

Through it all there is such a clear compelling narrative and such incredible world-building. I've listened to Sherane aka Master Splinter's Daughter so many times and the song's conclusion still gives me chills on every listen. Even the voicemail skits on GKMC add something, tying Kendrick's tales of the night together.

Fave tracks: All of them, but at the moment my favourites are Sherane, The Art of Peer Pressure, Money Trees

5/5

The first four tracks I really enjoyed. Then the middle third I find to be a bit up and down. Some very strange campy Paul songs like When I’m Sixty-Four and Lovely Rita, but the awesome eastern-influenced Within You Without You sandwiched in that run. I like that track a lot, but some aspects are very reminiscent of Tomorrow Never Knows.

There is something very weird about this album that just works. Even though I find the lyrics oftentime to be ludicrously mundane and childish or just annoying, the high points are very high, and the Beatles feel like a band on top of their game.

Fave Tracks: Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, With a Little Help from My Friends, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Within You Without You

4.4/5

This sounded to me a bit like what the Jimi Hendrix Experience without Jimi might sound like. Some nice ideas, but not really many good songs.

Fave Tracks: Don’t Fall Down, You Don’t Know

3.2/5

Surprisingly enjoyable for me. Love the Big Mouth theme tune.

Fave Tracks: Changes, Snowblind

3.8/5