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Reviews by dcspool

The PredatorIce Cube

4/10

I found this quite uninspiring outside of the big hit.

Fave Tracks: It Was A Good Day

2.4/5

Apple Venus, Volume 1XTC

4/10

What's this doing here? I like XTC but this just ain't it. Your Dictionary is up there as one of the worst songs I've heard during the 1001, at least in terms of lyrical content.

1.8/5

The Holy BibleManic Street Preachers

8/10

MSP are a funny band for me. As a child I was aware of them from their late 90s radio hits (A Design for Life, If You Tolerate This...). They seemed like a pretty clean cut indie band, like U2 or the Stereophonics. Only much later did I learn they had a mucb punkier origin and outlook, and of the tragic story of Richey Edwards.

I've known about this being their revered album but always steered clear as I didn't have a gateway track that I already knew. Well, turns out its pretty good.

Fave Tracks: Yes, Revol, Faster, This Is Yesterday

3.9/5

Moss Side StoryBarry Adamson

2/10

We're 9 tracks in and I sense I might be giving out my first 1 in a while. This isn't the worst thing I've ever heard but its just really annoying me. Normally I am very pro anything remotely experimental, but this doesn't feel like music to me, it feels like a collection of sound effects, or at best the score to a film. Most of it is just passing me by - occasionally there is something jarring enough to jerk my ears into action - but mostly it blends in to the background noise of the street out my window. I like chocolate milkshake.

1.2/5

The Real ThingFaith No More

6/10

I loved Epic at one time, but never known anything else about FNM. That song is still fun but it is kinda corny.

The rest of the album is quite boring (especially for a loud rock album) until the Black Sabbath cover. Which just goes to show how uninteresting the FNM penned songs are. Tbf I did then find the slow rumbling closer quite interesting.

2.6/5