Reviews by lancia037

I love this album. Captain Beefhearts work is actually pretty accessible, outside of his most famous album. This album is a great blend of experimental music and blues with great songwriting. This album is also just really groovy. The songs get stuck in my head easily, the bassline bops and the guitar work is really unique and twangy. Captain Beefheart was great at attracting great musicians to his band, not as good in treating them well though. Still, great album from one of my most listened artists.

The engine behind Motown and the decider of what pop music was gonna sound like for the rest of the decade. It's impressive how instantly recognisable these covered and instrumental versions of songs are. I got a Woman and Twist and Shout are recognisable from the first note. Green onions is also a classic in and of itself. It doesn't really have the depth of later albums on this list and it doesn't make me want to put on a second Booker T. album, but it's a worthwile inclusion nonetheless.

Sounds like cave rock Nick Cave. I liked it at times, but not too thrilled overall. It feels a bit undercooked and unfocused and it's not too clear in what it wants to do. That said, it's really cool to see this proto-Nick Cave album and the album has its moments. The title track is really fun and the album is bursting with raw energy and power. Nick Cave belts his way through this album and the backing band adds to the force.

Peter Frampton is a rockstar without the rockstar attitude. His songs here are fun and good, there's a lot of improvisation, good guitar work and talkbox singing going on. This album is also pretty much the best selling live album of all time. It lacks a bit of edge, but it's a fun listen of a pretty generic but competent artist. I really love the hits here, ''I want you to show me the way'', ''Jumping Jack Flash'' and ''Do you feel like we do'' are all certified classic rock staples. The rest here vary from nice to a bit forgettable, but they are all energetic.

I was really surprised to hear Feargal Sharkey on here. The famous Feargal Sharkey, known for his 1980's hit song ''A Good Heart''. Amazing to hear Feargal Sharkey in unexpected places like this. Hearing Feargal Sharkey on a late 70's / earl 80's new wave / pop-oriented record makes Feargal Sharkey even more of a typical 80's star. This album was a pretty fun albeit generic listen, it's the typical fun new wave but with Feargal Sharkey singing over the songs. The instruments are pretty fun and aid Feargal Sharkey well. Goddamn Feargal Sharkey.

Starts out nice, but falls off fast and gets boring for me. Perhaps it's the fatigue of catching up with 2 weeks of albums in the past 3 days. Het voice is beautiful and the music suits it well. I can see how this would catch on in a time with artists like Celine Dion.

This one has some of the best R.E.M. singles on it and is the best blend between old school alternative R.E.M. and the later, more pop oriented band. The singles here are brilliant, I really like Orange Crush, Stand en Turn You Inside-Out. I feel the album is a bit lacking besides the hits though, the deep cuts don't really feel on par with the other songs here and are kind of mediocre and forgettable. Still fun to listen to and maybe my favorite R.E.M. album through the strength of its singles.

WTF, this is really cool. The rating on here really isn't justified. This is some bizarre combination of French and industrial rock that seems to blend really well. There is nothing I've heard that is similar to this, for better or worse. I really enjoyed just how bizarre and fun this entire thing was. French and rock mix like oil and water but the contrast works really well here.

Maybe not my favorite album by theirs, but you can't go wrong with any Byrds-album. It's a really short album that seems to fly by in a moments notice. It's nice and comfy Folk rock that was quite a trailblazer at the time. The Byrds don't often get mentioned in discussions, even though people love them and they're included multiple times on this list. I'll gladly listen to more of them.

Kind of a boring release to me, dissappointing after enjoying her first 2 albums. Bitter Branches was fun but outside of that I struggle to really enjoy or even remember the other tracks here. It's probably well written but I don't really tend to focus on the lyrics too much. The songs were all this kind of meh indie pop to me, a far call for her rougher and rawer earlier work.

Sounds nostalgic, even though I never listened to this artist before. Reminds me of the era of Minecraft-video's and other 2012 stuff for some reason. I liked this, but the album got tedious pretty fast. The noisy synth blares and drums get tiring quick and the 1 hour runtime is just too long to be justified IMO. There's some nice moments here, but as an album listening experience it wasn't to my liking.

There's a lot of 60's folk music and each artist brings his or her own flavour to the table. Bert Jansch has a pleasant voice, some great John Fahey-esque guitar playing and is from the same country as Donovan, to my surprise. It might not be my favorite album ever, but it was nice enough listening to it. A bit on the short side, but that is to be expected with albums of this era. The fact that this was self-made for peanuts makes it more special to me as well.

Same Cooke is a brilliant artist and a very energetic performer. This album doesn't have the audio quality that his studio albums have, and this means that Sam Cooke's voice sounds a lot more raw. Can't say this album really has any of his hits on it, there's a lot of classic Soul repertoire on here. No one like Sam Cooke to interpret these songs and bring them alive though. I find the songs fun, but Sam Cooke nevers really wows me like he can in the studio or with some of his other live performances.

Does this album need to be on the list? Not really. Still, I had my fun with this one. The first few tracks, especially the opener, have some great percussion on them. I want you is also a nice track that I keep confusing with the Beatles song of the same name. I liked this more than his other 2 albums I've had so far, every vocal performance Elvis Costello seems to give it his all.

Judas Priest, seemingly at their poppiest here. The tracks differ between good old heavy metal to some awful 80's cheese. This really isn't their strongest album, but it's fun to listen to nonetheless. Songs like Grinder and Breaking The Law are great and metal classics. This album is brought down by some of the more anthemic poppy songs on here. This could've been a great album with shit like United and Red, White & Blue.

Big album of nothing sauce. The first track is a great banger, and then nothing of note comes afterwards. There's a bit of every genre that was big in 90's Britain, Shoegaze, Britpop, Alt rock etc. It all kind of blends in an artists with whom I have no idea who they are making music for. This was a really dissappointing one, especially after how good the first track really was.

One of the easiest 5 star ratings to give out. Every song on here is a joy to listen to. Side one of this album is one of the single best sides of music ever made. I love almost everything about this album, the guitar work on Reeling in the years, the chorus on Midnite cruiser, the piano on Fire in the hole, etc. Side 2 calms down a little bit after Reeling in the years but the songs stay strong throughout. I always enjoy this album, you can put it on in pretty much any situation as well. Saying this is my favorite Steely Dan album is a boring pick, but damn it is my favorite.

Influential for sure, but I always found the Circle Jerks to be a bit boring compared to their peers. All the ingredients are there, but it suffers a bit from being the first of its kind. MDC and a league of other bands do 15 minute straight to the point hardcore albums better.

I don't really like this singers voice, he sounds like a Chris Martin impersonator giving it the full 30% at a karaoke bar. There were some fun beats and rhythms throughout, the playing saves it from being really bad. A really uninspiring and boring sound to me though, perhaps because everything on 2000's radio was sounding like this at one point. The way the music swells up and blooms into solo's is pretty nice though.

What a fun album to listen to, punk at it's best. The horns make it sound like the band really had a blast putting this together. The album isn't really more than a collection of lots of their singles, but it doesn't really need to be. It's the perfect length with the 2 bonus tracks on streaming, I'll listen to it again for sure.