Reviews by fingunray

A fun acid-laced album with a couple of great tracks. Nothing particularly exceptional, but little to complain about either.

Fine I suppose. It's actually quite good in parts but never in a particularly memorable way. I just can't get behind anything Jack White for some reason.

Heard a few of Scott Walker's earlier records but this one is particularly good. Starts of a bit slow but the back end of the album is jam-packed with great tracks.

Hurts me to give a group I adore so much a mediocre rating, but Autobahn is a record that screams out that Kraftwerk were still growing. It's not bad. The title track is classic - but slightly outstays it's welcome in my eyes. The rest is a decent collection of tracks. I'd just rather be listening to any of their many better albums.

Really fun. Some good tracks - nothing exceptional. They know how to make catchy tunes though, and are above some of the other britpop albums on the list so far for certain.

An intresting one. Some really intriguing songs on the first half that I enjoyed, and it's was amazing to see how early Lovefool had come out having only heard it out of context. A fair few tracks fall short though.

A very pleasant surprise. Mixes acoustic songwriting and more downtempo electronic production to cool results! A lot of nice tracks, although some are kind of forgettable.

Aw man, its days like this that remind me of why I stick with this project. Obviously I know Marvin Gaye - unsurprisingly for What's Going On - but by the virtue (or maybe sin) of how I go about finding music I hadn't bothered with listening to his other works. What a mistake!

Previous exposure had me expecting slow, if well-produced and high-quality, soul. Instead Gaye Delivers a groovy funk-laden tracks that keep on surprising. Interspersed are some more classic soulful tracks, but they bang as well. Just gorgeous instrumentation all the way through.

It's well worth checking the story behind this album out. It's one of divorce - and Gaye practically wrote it to settle the affair in court. Adds a new level to the lyrics - but does not in a way that seriously detracts from the music.

Fairly standard blues rock affair. Some fun moments but nothing akin to the greats of the genre.

Really cool album. Some really cool stuff on it and the piano is brill.

Not much to say here. The production is good because Phil Spector is producing, but the content is forgettable. Would be unlikely to revisit.

Coincidentally, a friend of mine recently reccomended this album to me - due to my love of psych rock. Relistening to it for the project has reasserted my opinion when I checked it out at his request. This album is absolutely awesome.

I think the USofA really nail the ethos of psych rock in their one album. It's weird at times, quirky at others - but underneath all of that it's got some kickass moments. Take the opening for instance, which fades from circus-esque twee to a haunting vocal-led track. It's almost like a portishead track, only decades beforehand. Or Wooden Wife, in which the catchy satircal chorus is interspersed with a manic bridge, which feels akin to a more unhinged Zappa track.

This album won't please everyone. It's too wierd for that. But for the right person this is really engaging, fun music.

I used to be a massive Radiohead fan. I remember having my first teenage turmoil over a girl, and avidly consuming their entire discography - my very own 24 hour emo phase. I can't really hold the same regard for them these days. Maybe it's because I played them out in my hormonal years, or because they are massively in vogue in the minute on social media. Maybe I've just moved on. I still like some of their stuff, however. I still revisit The King Of Limbs a lot, despite that albums mediocre reception (or maybe because of it).

With that all being said I'd still struggle to give Kid A any less than a 4. This used to be a top 5 album for me, and despite some songs souring on me, many of the elements that make this album special still shine through. It still sounds strange and apocalyptic in an empty, lonely way that no other records capture. It's guitar-heavier tracks still have a groove to them that I can't resist finding cool to this day. Motion Picture Soundtrack and Untitled capping off the album still bring a tears to my eyes.

Anyone who seriously devoted themselves to musical exploration knows that it can be hard to gleam the same wonder the records of your childhood could spark, but I think sacking them off completely is erasing a part of yourself. Kid A may not be important to me now, but I refuse to forget what it was to me in some of my most important moments.

This is the kind of album I wanted to pick up the project for. Something I likely wouldn't have heard otherwise. It's brill to hear classical music from cultures so different to my own, and the music was really relaxing and pleasant.

Yeah, it's pretty misogynist. Yeah, they aren't actually saying anything groundbreaking. I don't care - it still sounds pretty good. Far from the best, but it has so many iconic moments that it's criminal not to pay it it's dues.

It's bizzare to me that this is the same group that would go on to do Songs For The Deaf. I often baulk at the Josh Homme hero worship you see a lot these days but I'd never deny the fact that he's made some damn good rocks songs. This album doesn't contain any of them though - I can barely remember a single track.

Just a gorgeous album in every sense. The fact that this was Drakes first makes his untimely death even more impactful.

Not as crazy about this as I used to be as a angsty teenager, (which I can apply to almost every radiohead album). With that being said I still like some parts of it a lot. Does a fantastic job at feeling like that warm, almost comfortable parts of sadness and depression.

Inoffensive dross. I'm sure there's some merit to this stuff but I really don't have the time to dig it out.

The Smiths at their best in terms of album work. You'll struggle to find a poor song outside of the titular ending track, which is a bit too much full on for most sane individuals. Outside of that you get 8 tracks that have some of the wittiest lyrics and sharpest instrumentation you'll get out of an 80s record.