Reviews by henry-winchester

Basically Benny and the Jets 17 times.

In 1973 David Bowie recorded a song about wanking and that's all.

Just those amazing melodies, like birds against a blue sky, but with a lower chance of getting pooped on.

Some of these riffs are just too much.

FCKN SHT

Hey kids let's make an album that sounds like Phil Collins B-sides.

You can totally feel how this changed the gear of electronic music.

I see what they did there.

Neil Young definitely went electric for this one.

NO.

I think one Supergrass album is enough, and that one Supergrass album shouldn't be this one; it should be the brattish "I Should Coco."

I thought this might have been a bit too much to start with, but it's just right. Still sounds fresh and exciting even though it's over 60 years old.

Moss Side Story is pretty good, but I'm not sure it fully works. Film music is always about being good but not drawing attention to itself, but these tracks feel more like conventional "songs." Great production though.

Weirdly, I had Helplessly Hoping running through my head this morning, and then it turns up here. It's so good! I love the way that this album takes the infectious pop of The Byrds and adds a dash of cynical folk rock to the mix.

I do love this album, and I never really realized how much Kim Deal adds to The Pixies sound. But the remastered edition on Spotify is cack! I had to bump the volume up to hear the details and it just made it sound like complete trash. Give me shitty 80s production over this weirdly spiky mix any day.

I don't think I've ever heard an album that so perfectly captures being in your early 20s. Alternately drunk, angry, energetic, worried, stoned, political, melancholy, and frequently hilarious. It made me realize that, with Dylan, it's good to start at the beginning.

This was so insipid that I don't even remember listening to it.

Never really got NIN. Until now!

It just always sounds like Shane MacGowan has written too many words to fit in with the music.

I didn't want this in my head.