Reviews by londonhawkredux

Snarling vocals over howling Hammond Organ. The "middle" 3 tracks of Hanging Around, Peaches and (in particular for me) Get A Grip are probably amongst my favourite punk tracks.

Hmmm. Definitely falls into the "interesting" category - wasn't aware of the artist, let alone the album. Did it grab me by the goolies and DEMAND to be loved for everymore - no. No it did not.

Another in the list of "I can kinda see why it's significant without really doing anything for me personally Clive" (plus Nazareth did it better)

Paint it Black absolutely SLAPS doesn't it. Also, very fond memories of "Lady Jane" and "Under my Thumb" from my Dad's "Greatest Hits" cassette tape that he had in the car. Not quite peak Stones yet, but the road ahead is clear.

YAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Just phenomenal. I didn't really understand how good until later (too busy grumbling about how it wasn't "real" music unless it was a drums / bass / guitar / vocals - possibly keys at a push - combo)

EVERYONE already knows this and of course it should be on the list.

Ah, Stereolab - I *know* them. Having checked Wikipedia, it appears I don't know them at all. Can see why the indie hipsters would absolutely cream themselves over this - Anglo/French? check. Bloopy bleepy? check

Passed by in the background nicely enough. Am I going to rush out to purchase it on vinyl and learn to be a barista? No.

So funky my crotch hurts.

What an album. Playing it over and over trying (and failing) to appear smart and sophisticated and it still completely hits the spot to this day. Easily in my personal Top 50 I reckon.

Imagine an ENTIRE album with 12 songs as glorious and beautiful as "There She Goes" - would easily be in the Top 100 albums ever. Unfortunately this album only has 1 song that good.

Interesting what hip-hop would have been like without all the poppin' and hoes and the poppin' of hoes isn't it.

The end of the Stones creative genius for me, although for plenty, also the high point which baffles me. It's well executed white-boy-blues, but I prefer my Stones tracks to be more...... satanic :)

Almost too good. Now hated by those who consider it "dad rock" etc, but come on - this is world class choonage.

Meh.

Kinda passed me by to be honest. Logged in to do my review and my first thought was "is this what I listened to yesterday?" Which isn't a great sign is it?

Sometimes jangly, sometimes spiky.

It's not Yoshimi, but it's pretty damn cool

I remember this being a massive cross-over hit. You wanted to be a cool hipster before cool hipsters were a thing, then you definitely told people ALL about this album. Listening to it now, kinda hard to see why *this* one in particular was popular. Sure, it's cool and funky, but one of "the greatest" - I don't quite see it.

If you didn't know the artist / album, you'd say this was released in the 80s. It absolutely ooooooooozes 80s.