Reviews by jay_dub_vinyl

A compilation album on the list? A nice collection pulling together 4 years of Afrika Bambaataa 12" singles and showing us the best of early hip-hop. Arthur Baker is prominent on the early tracks using beats that he would use elsewhere (yes, I'm looking at you New Order).

A couple of decent tracks. You can understand the influence but a bit too inconsistent to make it more than average album.

Seems a bit overly long (too much filler?). Still OK though with some belters on there.

An easy 5* from me. The band arrived with so much swagger on this album. In I Am The Resurrection we have one of the best closers ever.

Has to be one of the best debut albums made.

An interesting concept to the album, well executed. Would I listen again? Probably not but I can see why it's on the list.

There are some great songs on this album, unfortunately Neil Young "sings" them.

The music is OK, vocals make this a difficult listen, particularly the Kim Gordon tracks.

This comes across as Weller having lots ideas and wanting to get them out rather than a coherent album.

An interesting collection of covers but hardly essential listening.

The moment when the business part of music business took over and they sold their souls for the yankee dollar.

Bland American guff. Not a redeemable feature about this album

39 minutes of my life I won't get back. The sax solo on Jungleland in the highlight it doesn't compensate for the grating voval throughout.

Let down by a very mediocre second half.

Pleasantly surprised by this. I was expecting a Get Real one-trick pony but there is real range here.

A few interesting moments in an a diverse album.

Fantastic example of what a live album should be.

I found the last track punishing but the rest was enjoyable especially when Neil Hannon shared vocal duties.

Wanted to enjoy this more than I did being a fan of Spiritulised.

Solid album album, so really good songs and a quite a bit of filler.