Reviews by marcusmuck-again

Some good diverse sounds- psychedelic rock with a bit of folk maybe?

It's a good listen although no big hits. A nice, well produced album.

Just finished a Byrds album from 2 years prior to this and it's another world. Only VU can compare with this and the impact it had.

This is crude, energetic and in your face.

Pleasant and very stylised as you would imagine.

Very competently produced, sung and orchestrated but is there any depth above and beyond a desire to sell records?

I suspect not.

Billy's voice is very distinctive. I've had a hit/miss history with the band but I like the orchestral slant here.

Quite extravagent in places and quite thrashy in others places which demonstrates variation.

Still on the fence though.

I've always loved Samba, Stan, Joao and Antonio separate or together.

......and above all the dreamy Astrud.

This is just like warm honey to my ears.

The guitar, the sax and a contrast in singers too.

This doesn't get any better.

Really sounding like the late 60's this is quite famous.

Not really my cup of tea but it's ok to listen to for the purposes of the chart.

Well I wasn't sure as I thought this was the failure sandwiched between the debut and Coming up but time has been kind to this and I like the (now retro 90s) sound.

It is pretentious and grandiose but hot dang I'm loving it.

Lush stylish and overblown it's like a luxurious spa treatment with lots of oil and soft sponges.

This just goes to prove how different people are.

Geographical, cultural and age differences mean this is just generic and unoriginal to me.

The music is ok- I can hear other bands in there but it's just me.

It's easy to bandy the phrase 'Greatest' around but Jimi still is the best - his guitar, persona and energy eclipse anything before or after.

This album is right up there with 'Are you Experienced?' and has the 'Slight return' version which is in my top 5 GOAT.

This album is less constrained and more experiemental and fully realises Hendrix's genius and power.

Perfection.

Always going to have this issue with his albums on Spotify (and Joni Mitchell) but worth the extra effort.

Wholesome, no-nonsense ballads and rocky/folky songs about, ......well Neil Youngy types of things like environmental concerns, drugs, midwest politics I don't understand.

Always good though.

Like an Indie Haircut 100. Not unpleasant but by 1989 the world had moved on.

Lowscale and homogenised.

Maybe not as bad as some make out this isn't really that groundbreaking and allied with the fact the genre isn't up my street I wouldn't rate it highly.

Some interesting sounds but quite generic framework.

This was when I loved The Cure, before they became a pop band.

Early synths, distorted guitars and Robert Smith's voice it's hard not to think they'd progressed their sound and learnt as they went on from Seventeen Seconds's raw power through Faith's mesmeric rhythms this was a combination and who can argue that One Hundred Years is one of their best tracks but in reality band infighting and drugs had left them seemingly at a dead end.

It's a shame what happened afterwards but it's happened with other bands too, their sound, production and mood is so intense something must break.

This is an iconic album.

Now this is more like it.

To be fair I have come across this before in other charts and polls but it's so up my street it's untrue.

My family are pleading with me to turn Frankie Teardrop off but I love the screaming.

There were other albums and bands before them that tried to experiment (Velvet Underground for instance) but I've always been a sucka for an early synth.

I love a bit of Ska and and a slice of reggae too.

Interesting to read parts of this had been watered down but it doesn't sound too slick.

Has all the ingredients I like so what else is there to say apart from what is there about this album that makes it stand out from the rest?

I don't know.

This is really intense- a strange Prog Rock Opera come drugtrip all the vision of one man it seems.

Well put together and produced- musically accomplished but quite disjointed to the point of unenjoyable.

It's hard not to give this anything other than a 5* rating since it was so intertwined in our culture and music history.

So despite not really being my cup of tea with Bob's whiny voice and dated 60's sensibility it's really an album we need to hear.

A lot of the reviews have pointed to the background to this album quite rightly.

It's whimsical, wayward and offbeat. Not very coherent as you'd expect and basically a continuation of the psychedelic vibe in Piper.

There are a few good moments but it's such a mishmash. Sad but true.

I like Heavy Metal and strangely enough Venom is influenced by them.

It's ok, I guess. Maybe I'm just not in the mood but I don't feel this adds much to the Genre.

I love Lana but a bit mystified why her earlier albums aren't on here?

It's a great album but not the best Lana.

Great tunes, dreamy tunes and bold female statement.