Reviews by jonathanptait

Inferior in every way to his peers, emperor of shlock rock

An enjoyable folk-jazz album, I think this is overrated at four and underrated at a 3

Absolutely incredible, I knew earlier hard and post bop Mingus, this was another level

39 and I'm In Love With My Car are passable but would better suit another band (I know they tried to do the Beatles-esque everyone gets a song thing but it never really worked for Queen).

There are two iconic tracks (overplayed but still enjoyable).

Everything else was horrible.

Mixed bag, like all Faust really, sometimes genius, sometimes too esoteric to enjoy

I love this record with all of my heart, but it's unfortunately the ship that launched a thousand trilby donning millennial whoop indie pop bands in early 2010s

Fun live album with a well practiced band - but not exactly the most memorable experience

Here's some truth, this record is poorer than it has any business being. Less than the sum of it's parts, springs to mind

The world's most overrated band, diddly day oh

A very pleasant surprise - never heard of them or heard them before - and it was decent punk record

What a record!

Influential for a subculture that I couldn't care less about

Incredibly dated synthesiser sounds, missing a signature song to unite the album, it sounded like a poorer version of mid eighties Genesis

Incredible, 10/5 would not be enough

A very pleasant surprise - mid career highlight?

I am quite shocked this is NIN's only album on here, it's abrasive and I think a testament to their powers but not my favourite thing to hear

Inoffensive, but bland country

I can't really think of many flawless live albums. This comes close, but I guess my only criticisms would be that there are one, or maybe two too many covers for my personal liking, and I find the starkness of Pennyroyal Tea to be unpleasant (although, perhaps also a great strength of this performance) - however it's an incredible document of a cultural moment.

A poor soundtrack for a minor film, I don't think this is a good representation of 'albums' from India

Incredible record, let down by Moonchild