Reviews by leekelleher

Hadn't heard of the album nor band, I quite liked the melodies and progressions - especially on Shot By Both Sides. Probably not an album I'd listen to again, but enjoyed it enough for its 40 minute runtime.

I like Lou Reed, and I liked most of The Velvet Underground & Nico album, but I didn't get into this album at all. All felt a bit too slow and meandering, which is fine, but I got bored.

Listened to this for the first time a couple of years ago, I recall enjoying it then, but later forgot about it. Re-listening now, I enjoyed it again, and no doubt will forget about it later again!

We had John Martyn's Solid Air a while back, which I thought was good. This feels more of the same, interesting mix of styles, I liked it, but probably not enough to revisit in future.

Hadn't heard of them before. Album was fine, had it on in the background, enjoyed it enough.

I liked Only Love Can Break Your Heart.

I suspect there is much to like on this album, but I got so damn tired of the whiny vocals.

Another one of those "in the right setting, this'll be awesome" type of albums. More of a late night after-party feel to it, not a Tuesday morning workday.

Sexy music. Maybe too much sexy, maybe it's now cringy sexy music? But then, who doesn't sure love to ball?

I honestly thought we'd already had this album, then I remembered that we'd at Elastica a while back, and I'd checked out this album because of the Three Girl Rhumba/Connection.

It's a good punky album, not too aggro, quite accessible - the short runtime helps too. Enjoyed it!

Spotify had the remastered album, running at about 2 hours. Far too long! I opted to pick out the 5 tracks from the original 1956 LP (accordingly to Wikipedia). Much better.

Psycho Killer gets stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
Overall the album was fine, interesting enough.

Classic British Heavy Metal, great, but in small doses.

Enjoyed the hits (and Area 51), the rest never really captured my interest. 2.5

I'd heard of Mudhoney, mostly for "Touch Me I'm Sick", but hadn't listened to anything else. I was a bit bothered about the 2 hour runtime of this album, then found it was a re-release with a bunch of other stuff, and the Spotify one was the deluxe album, so even more.

The 1001 book entry on this was about the original 6 track version, so I listened to those tracks first, then had the deluxe one on in the background.

I really enjoyed it, will listen again. I can see how they may have inspired the more popular 90s grunge scene.

Probably should be a 4, but yesterday it's a 5 for the raw punky energy.

Argh, illusory motion of the artwork keeps messing with my head, haha!

As for the album, it's good - some parts pop, other parts pretty out there, maybe you need to be high to fully appreciate it.

Sexy music.

While I appreciate there are lots of ideas going on here, I can't help but think it all gets a bit too self-indulgent. Most tracks feel a minute or two too long, or at least that's the point when I start to hover over the skip/next button. 2.5

I'm all for the politics, but quickly gets boring and forgettable.

Lovely voice. Unsure how I feel about an album full of cover songs, (with the exception of "Boulder to Birmingham"). "Coat of Many Colors" sticks out, mostly because my mum loves that song. I struggled with The Beatles cover.

Better than the other Elton John albums we've had on the list. I had a good old singalong to the hits. What was going on with Jamaica Jerk Off? bit bonkers!