Reviews by ella_ayates

A lot of it sounded pretty much the same to me, not necessarily bad just the same.
Favourite: Highway to Hell
Least: Walk All Over You

The Beatles response to Pet Sounds and it's almost as good! Sometimes the tone shift was a bit jarring but I liked the music so much I can look past it.
Favourite: She's Leaving Home (or When I'm Sixty Four)
Least: Within You Without You

There are a couple songs that are so Elvis-y it feels like he's impersonating himself.
Favourite: Long Black Limousine (or Only the Strong Survive)
Least: Don't Cry Daddy

Sometimes (when I completely ignored all the words) I enjoyed it! Hate that the fun beats were completely wasted on such violently misogynistic lyrics. I think that teenage boys listening to this album makes the world a worse place.
Favourite: My Name Is
Least: '97 Bonnie & Clyde

Little jazzier than I'd like sometimes and definitely jazzier on average than my favourite Steely Dan songs. But still so beautifully Steely Dan-y that I was having a lovely time listening!
Favourite: Peg
Least: I Got The News

The band name made me think it would be rock, the album art gives psychodelic vibes and the album title gives pretentious poetry but what it actually was is lovely 60s pop music.
Favourite: Time of The Season (or This Will Be Our Year)
Least: Butcher's Tale

Perfect music for a rainy day in Glasgow (which must be why he filmed the music video here!). His voice really suits the sad vibe but there were a couple moments where it slipped to the annoying side of off pitch.
Favourite: Raining in Darling (or the music video version of I See Darkness which is more upbeat than the album version)
Least: Knockturne

Iconic cover, iconic songs! Feel like the medley could easily have been lots of great independent songs without all the linking bits (and without some of the songs...). But that's me being overly critical, it's objectively a great album with the perfect mix of pure fun and emotion.
Favourite: Here Comes The Sun
Least: I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Another album with "Jenny In The House" featured songs. Liked the songs I was nostalgic for more than the rest of the album (shocker) but still really enjoyed all of it. I just want to hear what he has to say!
Favourite: So Long, Marianne
Least: Teachers (really struggled to pick a least, I really like this album!)

Never fully sat and listened to a full Van Morrison album before but I've heard some of the songs on this album from my mums playlist- most nostalgically Into The Mystic. Just lovely, calming music, don't think I can fault it.
Favourite: Into The Mystic
Least: Everyone

I know it's only a year before pet sounds but the lyrics make me feel like they're much younger at points. My main criticism boils down to the fact that it's just not pet sounds.
favourite: Help Me, Rhonda or Dance, Dance, Dance
least: Don't Hurt My Little Sister

Fun! There were parts where the instrumentals went on a bit too long for my liking but otherwise just lovely and joyful!
He's reached the top and had to stop and that's what's bothering me!
Favourite: The Lip or (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
Least: Body and Soul

Very different from music I'd usually listen to and am happily surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Very fun dancey beats but I could have enjoyed it just as much with the songs a few minutes shorter, think some of them got a tad repetitive.
Think Changes was listing things he disagreed with and then had lyrics about women wanting to be like men, men becoming women, men marrying men and women marrying women... Not 100% sure its sexist/transphobic/homophobic but I didn't love it, think it's 4 stars without this song.
Favourite: No Shame
Least: Live For Today (or Changes)

I appreciate the history and significance of the album and would very happily listen to any individual song again but god some of them sound so similar it became a bit of a chore to listen to the whole thing.
Favourite: Oh Why?
Least: Jenny Jenny

I just really enjoy the way that he sings. Beautiful. Rare case where I wish I hadn't checked out his wikipedia page, hard to not hear every song a little more tragically than before.
Favourite: Can't Make a Sound or Son of Sam
Least: Everything Means Nothing To Me

Their voices are so different that I wasn't a huge fan of the bits where they sang together but I still thought it all sounded pretty darn good, that Sinatra sure can sing!! Not my favourite version of Girl From Ipanema that I've heard...
Favourite: Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
Least: How Insensitive

Was instantly apprehensive when I saw it was techno as I live in fear of more kraftwerk but instead I thought it was really enjoyable and interesting music. Some songs went a little too weird or a little too repetitive for me but overall shocked by how much I liked the album.
Another one that I never would have listened to without the list but am very happy to have heard.
Favourite: Nothing (or Sacred)
Least: Pimpf

I quite like his voice, the songs I did like I really liked and even most of the songs that I wouldn't listen to again had bits that I loved. But some questionable lyrics and any mention of England/Britain/London instantly reminded me how much he sucks. Think it's too hard to separate the art from the artist when the art keeps reminding you of the artists shitty views...
Favourite: Certain People I Know
Least: You're the One for Me, Fatty

When I first listened I found the singing really annoying on the first three songs and then from Add It Up onwards was having a lovely time- and then I listened again and the vocals on the first three weren't any different to the rest of it (expect the "bye bye bye"s on Please Do Not Go- still too whiny).
Really liked almost all of it in the end (second listen).
Favourite: Prove My Love or Ugly
Least: Gimme The Car

Feel like Mother should have stayed between Andy Summers and his therapist... Some very enjoyable tracks (plus the iconic Every Breath You Take) but overall just fine.
Favourite: Tea In The Sahara
Least: Mother