Reviews by lancia037

Really an album of it's time, for better or worse. I like how impactful the guitar and bass sound. The mixing is kind of shit and of it's time, but it does make for a more raw recording. I enjoy it, but it does have flaws. It lacks a real hit first and foremost, which is something most other late 60's American Psych Rock bands could muster on their most famous album. The one and only fish chant isn't on here :(. Quite a bit of this album feels like stretched out instrument noodling too. A number of songs that don't really go anywhere or don't do much.

David Bowie is really great at doing blue eyed soul. Not his strongest or most challenging work of songwriting, but it's really groovy and enjoyable to listen to. The funky side of this album is noticable in his follow up, Station to Station as well. It's a good thing he didn't go in this direction for the rest of his career, like a proto Robin Palmer. For a one album sidestep it's amazing though.

Just a really good Country album. I have a soft spot for these 60's and 70's soft Country albums sung by women. It's a good blend of originals and covers and it all just sounds really good. Living country legend.

Not the rapper I think about most often. A real icon though, even though he sold out to Iced Tea Lipton commercials. This one had quite a few bops on it. Especially towards the end it had a lot of nice Rock infused and politically charged songs on it. Probably don't need to listen to the entire thing again, but there's a bunch of worthwile stuff here.

Landmark Trash album, really fucking cool and edgy and loud. It's all a bit much, but I guess that is part of the charm. There are times where I like it more than other times. I would've easily given this 5 stars other times but guess I just wasn't really feeling it. Can't really fault the album for anything, Slayer is just a bit of a divisive band.

Good enough, solid, even. Ticks all the boxes and sounds very of it's time. There was quite a lot of this Prog-inspired Folk music going around at the time. I don't think it did anything bad, the album just didn't do all that much for me.

As another user here said, the albums sounds kind of unfinished. I enjoy it for what it is, but there is this feeling that it could have been more, were it not recorded for 10 dollars and a bunch of pints. Still, I can enjoy just having a collection of cool sketches and doodles that don't fill up the conventional length of a song. Makes for a different but worthwile listen.

I normally like the White Stripes, this listen didn't really click for me. Guess it was the weather, or just not the right moment. It has less stand out tracks and the one that I do remember was like a minute long.

Some albums don’t even need to be listened to know which rating you’re gonna give them. This is all the experimental psychedelia of the 60’s fused with the bones of what would become punk and metal. A lot of these songs transform into pure noise as they go on and on and it really drags you into the experience. Probably the most consistent Stooges album as well, they learned that not having a 12 minute satanic mass as the third song makes for a better flowing album. There really wasn’t anyone as crazy as Iggy Pop around this time.

Beautiful work, the story of Nick Drake's gradual rise in popularity is a very interesting one. I find this album to be a bit unfinished though. It's very short and sparse which is kind of intended I suppose, but still. I find his other 2 albums to be a bit more enjoyable as full on works.

Curtis Mayfield, it's an album of his. It has like, more songs of his on it. The quality of this album mostly comes from the fact that Curtis Mayfield made anything he touched in the 70's great. This didn't really have many stand out songs but was just solid throughout. Perhaps I found it a little lacking in Funkyness, it was very much in the Philly Soul style of music.

Dizzee Rascal and Slick Rick are proof that the Brits can into Hip Hop and make worthwile stuff, The Streets are proof that they can't. Goddamn what an insufferable and mopey sounding album. Monotone British voice with boring ass beats. The Britishness and Hip Hop of it all mix like oil and water. 52 minutes I'm not getting back, at least I now know better what I don't enjoy.

I like the deepcuts here more than the break out songs. El condor pasa and Baby Driver are my favorites off this album. Simon & Garfunkel have a lot of brilliant stuff, this feels like it’s a bit more 70’s thrift store vibe though. The popular songs on here are a bit overplayed for me at this point.

He sounds a lot better here than he did when I saw him live last year. The live setting brings extra energy and room for improvisation that isn't really there on the studio albums. It's a bit of a long seat through and not every song really grabs my attention, but it's a beautiful piece overall. Probably not a necessary inclusion but definitely not a bad one.

What a bizarre fucking album. It starts out crazy and just stays that way the entire album through. It's very much out there Free Jazz and I love it for that. As it goes it seems to get more sane and normal, perhaps because eardrums have already been mangled by the start of the album. It takes some familiarity with Free and Avant Garde Jazz to enjoy this, but once you do it's quite enjoyable and novel.

Incredibly influential, really important for Hip Hop. The album itself fits in this weird genre of 60's and 70's albums trying to cash in on sounds that were popular at the time with cheesy cover albums. The covers itself sound real fun and have their own charm to them. The combination of recognisability and novelty works really well. Whether the concept is enough to sustain for an entire album is a different question, but there isn't much like it.

Fiona Apple didn't cook here. I like her earlier work, but this does little for me. It's certainly a bit more boundary pushing than her earlier stuff, so I can see why it works well for music nerds. Perhaps just a little too out there for me though, it kind of takes away from my enjoyment here.

I think they may work a bit better as a singles band, but this is still pretty good. Not really stand out tracks, but nothing bad and everything pretty good. Just a well made album.

Joan Baez has a beautiful voice and it’s on display here. It’s a bit too much at times though, I’m not really a fan of the high and long notes she’s hittinf, it doesn’t really fit the vibe for me. Other than that a pretty standard folk album, you kind of know what you are getting with these.

This was a welcome surprise. I didn’t like my previous the Fall listens that much but this was good. The Lost in Music cover is a baffling choice of a cover, but it’s kind of emblematic of the rest of the album. It’s a weird combination of dance, Madchester, Indie and spoken word poetry by one of the least singery singers out there. Yet it works and sounds really fun. Bizarre surprise.