Reviews by leekelleher

I was hungover, couldn't stomach Leonard Cohen that day.

On initial listen I was immediately comparing it to Transformer, which on a second listen is unfair - as you can tell Lou Reed wanted to do something different, a concept album, the tragedy tale of a couple's misadventures.

Did I enjoy it? Some good songs on there, but overall, not really.

Sure, okay, but is it Britpop?

Is this album flawless? No. But yet again it's another example of my subjective bias of 90s nostalgia! Enjoyed re-listening.

Its an important album, in that it shows the transition of replacement after the death of a band member, in this case the singer Bon Scott. I had to re-listen to Highway to Hell to see how different the vocals are, interestingly they aren't that different.

Black in Black and Hell's Bells are great tracks, classic hard rock. Love the energy and riffs, but some lyrics haven't dated that well.

Bah, another ex-1001 album.
See http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex

It niggles me that this is a compilation album for UK marketing purposes - wouldn't Veni Vedi Vicious have been a better choice? I was already on the backfoot before re-listening yesterday.

That said, "Hate to Say I Told You So" and "Main Offender" are still firm favourites.

Context. It's all about context. Give this album to a teenager and she'll think it's someone's granddad doing karaoke. Whereas 40something me, getting older, the album has more grounding, reflecting on a life of love, loss, regret and wisdom - albeit through the medium of selected cover songs.

Hurt and Personal Jesus are the stand-out tracks for me. I appreciate the rest, but they aren't as powerful.

"What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

"Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a 13 year-old girl".

Beautiful haunting romantic solemn curious tragic.

I listened to it blindfolded.

Mixed feelings on this album. The first 3 and last 3 tracks are brilliant! The middle tracks seemed to drag the album down. I was close giving it a 3, but the bookends are so good it deserves more.

Generic middle of the road Americana country music, not terrible, just uninteresting.

Mind blown! First time listening. I'm not sure how the opening track got me, it almost became transcendent. The rest of the tracks flowed rockingly, until that oddly annoying metallic pronging noise throughout the penultimate track. I was close to giving it a 5, but the metallic annoyance down-starred it. An otherwise sublime album!

Apart from the hits, I never really picked up on Black Sabbath - I think the whole 'Keeping Up With The Osmonds' MTV nonsense kinda put me off Ozzy as a musician - "they're all fookin' mad!"

Turns out is a decent album, quite enjoyed it. Dark, heavy, moody and introspective - will revisit.

Hadn't listened to this album before, Sympathy for the Devil is a classic - great opener - then it went down hill from there, next few songs were so lackluster, derailed the rest of the album. Beggars Belief would have been a better title.

It's funny, I knew some of the songs, but had no idea they were by Bad Company.

There's the album, then there's the backstory of its production, which I think adds to its overall appeal.

Considered to be the album that established grunge as a genre.

I'd heard of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion because they were on the Baby Driver soundtrack. This album is a bit too long, messy and experi-mental.

I'm still laughing at the "Like your drunk neighbors are having open mic night" review. ☝😆

With the exception of Pump It Up, (which is great), I've can't say that I've ever knowingly heard anything else by Elvis Costello, which is strange as surely someone would have recommended his music to me at some point in time - especially given his connections to Liverpool - but no. It makes me wonder who is Elvis Costello's audience?

I quite enjoyed this album. Lots of interesting lyrics and compositions, more up-tempo than I expected, good fun.

Listening as a kid, I seem to remember that (on vinyl) side one was better than side two. Still a nostalgia trip. Was initially going to give it a 4, but re-listening to the whole album, it's worth a 5.