Reviews by leekelleher

I once went for a full english breakfast with Tim from The Boo Radleys, it was 1999, we were a web dev training course, and he was there to set up a website for his new recording studio. Top bloke.

As for the album, it's good, but long, experimental for the time, mixing genres, but feels dated now.

Awww... that bloody harmonica strikes again!
It's a shame I have such an issue with it, as Gene Clark's voice is quite soothing. Fecking harmonica!

FWIW, I liked the album artwork photography.

For no particular reason, I'd never listened to much Pink Floyd... Great to finally listen to this masterpiece! Shine On indeed!

The artwork is mental, almost Pythonesque! ...and the album itself is just an mental! Would have been ace to see them perform live.

Not what I was expecting at all, it's quite the rollercoaster... it's got the usual funk/soul tracks, then it would hit an outlier ballsy track, and then drops down to some lacklustre track! Overall I liked it, but feels an odd album. 2.5

Disenchanted lullabies

Hadn't heard of Hanoi Rocks before... not bad, in as far as 80s Glam Rock goes.

At this point of the 1001 list, I'm tired of Kanye West!

Subjectively, it's a fine pop/hip hop/rap album, good beats, well produced and all that, a little too much autotune, but by the time I got to the Chris Rock skit, I couldn't take any more.

Yet another ex-1001 album!™
http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex

Surprised that this album ever made it onto the list. Fred Durst comes off as a total knobhead, so why did I rock so hard to it?! Awww... it's complicated! 🤘

I always think that Nick Cave albums are going to be a struggle... which this was, but in a good way!

Great stuff!

Yet another ex-1001 album!™
http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex

Plenty of good time mellowing lo-fi summertime vibes to be had here. Shame its largely forgettable.

The mid 90s were a good time for female vocal-led singer/songwriters.

I've been intrigued by Fiona Apple, but never really listened to much of her music. This album was fine, but quite didn't grab me, I wanted to like it more than I did. Criminal is classy track though.

Not my thing at all.

Hadn't ever listened to their debut album, better than I expected it to be, quite repetitive and samey throughout. 2.5

This album used to be on my regular rotation during the 90s, it's been a while since I'd listened to it. It's difficult for me to listen subjectively, to separate the nostalgia from the album - being (a tiny) part of the Liverpool music scene in the 90s, The La's meant something to all of us. While I didn't know any of them personally, (realistically there was a decade between us gigging), I had mates who did know them and we played the same venues, (Phil Hayes once told me to get the fuck out of his office!), so I felt close enough connection.

As for the album itself, I've really enjoyed re-listening to it today, so many great songs! But the album does feel like a thrown together collection of songs, rather than a coherently flowing track list.

I've read the stories that the record company were exhausted of waiting for Lee Mavers' approval, so released the album anyway. Whatever Mavers uncompromisingly envisaged as the sound of the album, I'm glad that a version of it did see the light of day.

Not really my thing, but interesting to listen to whilst reading the background of the recording, Gram Parsons' death and Emmylou Harris having her credit removed. Love Hurts.

Yup, that was a chore! I liked how several of the songs start off, then they seem to drop off the cliff edge.

I thought it started off okay-ish, then the 3rd track kicked in and I was ready to throw the stereo into the river! and oh gawd, the cover songs were dreadful!

I'm not too familiar with Richard Hawley's solo work, (I listened to Lady's Bridge last year, which was decent enough). I quite liked Coles Corner, bit slow in places, but overall had a classic rockabilly vibe to it.