Reviews by lancia037

Nick Drake is a great singer-songwriter and his music is always a soothing joy to listen to. I don't really like all the instrumental backing on here though. Sometimes it works great and on the whole it's fitting instrumentation, but especially towards the end there and moments that would've been better left without. This is still part of a great trilogy of albums though, and it's nice that Nick Drake eventually found his following, even if it's years after he passed.

Fun listen, I don't usually listen to Reggae but this made me wanna listen to more of it. Always nice to see an album where someone is fighting for something. Reggae always manages to sound fun and positive, even when it's surrounding serious topics. The album cover is a true classic as well.

Was fun listening to this, I remember all the hits from the radio from back in the day. That said, the non-single tracks aren't really that interesting to me. They fall kind of flat without the nostalgia attached to them. They do have their own sound. Between INXS, Split Enz and the Dundee scene, this continent really brings it's own flavour of pop music to the table.

Everything here is fine, but nothing here is impressing or worth revisiting. It sounds like a compilation album for teen comedy series music. I can't say I really disliked anything here outside of maybe 1 or 2 songs, but the entire thing is just so non-noteworthy. The album cover sure is some late 90's goodness though.

Fun listen. They sound quite far removed from the Greenwich village scene they were originally from. Their sound is folky, but also clearly inspired by Jazz and Psychedelic music. I liked the improv's throughout this album. Generally well made and fun to listen to, the Byrds if they were a jam band.

Probably the best Queen album on here. This one has quite a few good songs on here. Stone Cold Crazy and Brighton Rock are some of the best songs ever played by Queen. Unlike the other Queen album I had this week, I don't really mind the hit singles off this album either. That said, it's a Queen album and I still find it wholly inconsistent. There's a few duds and awful non-rock songs on here that ruin the flow and an otherwise nice album. I wish Queen had some more consistent albums.

Bizarre album and kind of hard to rate. I liked the novelty of it and the goofy cover songs on here are fun, but there's a lot of meandering pounding synths and bongs that don't do much for me. A lot of this album doesn't really do anything. Still, having a Slovenian industrial band on here is a pretty fun thing.

It's a weird album for sure, but I quite enjoyed it. The guitar playing is quite random and erratic and reminds me of Captain Beefheart at times. The playing and singing is all quite varied and the album doesn't wear out its welcome. There's intricacies and interesting tempo changes all throughout here. Not really my music but I enjoyed it.

The Manic Street Preachers are one of many British bands of this era featured on the list, but they are one of the best ones to listen to. The music is really energetic and catchy while still maintaining a rock edge. I found myself enjoying a bunch of the songs on here, such as Interiors and The Girl Who Wanted To Be God. There's a lot to explore here and a lot to love, I don't think one listen is really enough to give it a fair rating.

Ravi Shankar is great at ragging a Sitar and making it sound insane. I couldn't ever mirror what this guy is playing. The explanations of how the Sitar and Indian Classical music work serve as a nice introduction, but take away from the album as a whole imo. Still, can't go wrong with any Ravi Shankar album consisting of some nice Raga's.

I find Queen albums to be very inconsistent, but that is part of the fun of the listening experience here. I really don't like the hits on here, especially Love of my Life and Bohemian Rhapsody are incredibly overplayed. Besides the hits and the few cornball musical-esque tracks here, there are some good songs on here. Death on two legs and The Prophet's Song are great surprises for me on here. Queen can write and play some great tracks, but it's almost like they don't wanna do most of the time.

I like the Byrds, but this is one of their weakest albums from their classic period IMO. The title track is a fun one and the other songs are all decent, but there aren't real standout moments or anything here. I'm kind of baffled as to why this one was included at all. There's enough Byrds representation as is and there's other albums not featured that I think showcase the Byrds better.

This one was pretty fun. Was pretty obvious what it wanted to sound like with this one. It's a bit derivative and it kind of falls off by the second half, but I enjoyed this a lot more than other offerings from the 2010's that the list has given me so far. It's quirky yet weirdly dancable nerd music.

Thank god this is over. This one got boring really fast. The orchestra is beautiful and I don't really mind Björks voice, but there is absolutely nothing happening on this album. 9 long songs that all barely change throughout their lengthy runtime. I'm sure Björk can do and has done better than this snoozefest. Words can't describe how much I disliked listening to this, but numbers can, 1/5.

What a load of nothing, the first few tracks have some ok moments, but after that it turns really boring. It's synth-pop without any pop. It's doing a worse version of what bands like Kraftwerk and Ultravox did before them. I never really enjoyed the major hit they had and I didn't like listening this album when I got it on LP from a large collection. I'd be fine with never listening to this again, I'd want to never listen to it.

It's a real classic within music nerd spheres and the jazz world as a whole, but I've never really cared for it. It sounds pleasant enough but there isn't much going on for me. Perhaps a victim of having influenced a lot of overly polished and awful fusion to come after. The bass is a high point on this album, but outside of that I find myself surprisingly bored for something that is really groovy in essence. Some albums I'll just never click with I guess.

Always a joy listening to Jimi Hendrix. For the album considered the ''least'' of his 3 big albums, this one sure is filled with a lot of great songs. There's a vague alien concept going on here but the strength of this album mainly comes from all the great individual songs on here. I love Hendrix' playing and his subdued voice really fits the album.

Acceptable generic classic rock. The very definition of dadrock to me. It's got a few hits, it's got some well made deepcuts, it's the average length of an album. It's not really an important album, just one of the many classic rock albums people like that you still hear on radio stations. It's fine all in all.

It's music, it's competent, but I'm growing weary of Echo & the Bunnymen. I don't really care for this sanitised post-punk they produce and they sure as hell don't need 3 albums of it on the list. Realistically a 3-star album but it ain't getting that out of spite. The Cutter is a fine song, but everything here kind of becomes a forgettable mesh. Ocean Rain is a more interesting work by them IMO and that was all the Echo & the Bunnymen needed here.

You can really hear how Indian classical music influenced the Brits in the mid to late 60's. Donovan's album is full of hypnotic percussion and sitar work. This is his best work IMO. His best songs like Season of the witch and Sunshine superman are right here. The comparison between him and Bob Dylan may be a bit too glazing, but Donovan is a fine musician in his own right.