Reviews by k-dot-r

Very good, but not quite great.

Odd, in a wonderful way. Sounds like at least three different bands playing at the same time - sometimes many more! LSD infused folk music, with a bonus point for being Scottish.

Very boring

Very 80s and not very good. The singer has some odd affectations, and the lyrics are nonsense. Not their best work, probably, but not actively terrible.

Perfection, a band I have seen live a bunch of times, including at a Radio 1 Roadshow around the release of this album.

Very loud, fast, and short. Songs about a wide variety of topics, which got them in a bit of bother. The 'big 4' band I knew least well before, but would be happy to see them pop up again

What a voice! All the songs sound about a hundred years old, which is fair enough, because they are.
Very catchy, very enjoyable, very good

Nah, just hip hop backing tracks (with a few vocals). Could be good, if they were finished songs, but only ok as backing music as they are

Dull, and he seems like a bellend. The album starts with wankers arguing about who loves a prick more, and gets worse from there.
Musically ok, but lyrically and in terms of the flow of the album, it is crap.

Genius album by a genius (and Meg), never going to be any less than 5 🌟!

The guy is not a great singer, and by this point his lyrics kind of sucked too. "trying to get to heaven" is kind of funny if you imagine heaven is a club with a strict doors close time, but most of the other songs are fairly dull.
With an album this late in a legendary act's career, you have to wonder if it suffers in comparison to his earlier work, or would never have seen the light of day if anyone else recorded these songs. With this album, I think it's the latter

Time after time is a great song, girls just wanna have fun is one of my most hated songs.
When you were mine is an interesting and enjoyable cover (of a great Prince track), but he's so unusual is boring and weird.
Money changes everything is catchy and good, witness is simplistic and sticks in your head.

So it's pretty patchy, with (just!) enough good stuff to take it to 3 🌟!

Very fun, but not one I could appreciate fully because I don't understand why it is so good. I really enjoyed it, but jazz just isn't my thing.

Good, and with a couple of really well known (and really good) tracks, but patchy and inconsistent later on.
The Black Sabbath cover and the instrumental seem pretty unnecessary, perhaps even self-indulgent

Very smooth and very dated, with way too much saxophone for me. Good vocals, but not a lot else worth revisiting.
Torn between 2 or 3, I will err on the side of generosity!

Wonderful, almost perfect, one of my favourite bands ever, and was always going to score well. Listening to it again, I was reminded why I loved it first time around, and it has to be five stars (at least!)
Pyramid song and you and whose army are stand outs, even in an album so flawless

Nope. Off their faces, clearly, and Nico just can't sing. It's not quite as bad as her solo album, but still the 2nd worst album I have ever listened to in full.
How this got on the list, I will never know.
Absolutely rubbish; 0 🌟

Very summery and psychedelic, and very very dated. Daft lyrics, clichéd music, but fun and enjoyable in spite of that.

Good but not great. No real stand out tracks (other than Rebellion (lies) which I knew before) but works well as a whole piece. Singing in French and playing accordion are always welcome here!

Pretty wierd, sounds like the soundtrack to some bizarre 70s kids TV show. Strange voice, nonsense lyrics, very outdated. And yet, there is something ethereal and enjoyable there too.