Reviews by marcusmuck-again

I've come across this album before in other charts and of course "A Minha Menina" is a classic in any genre.

Generally I've always liked any music from Brazil (from Astrud, through Mutantes even to Sepultura) and this album has a real ambience to it.

An incredible and influential album which pinpoint why Bowie was so massive in the several decades he operated in.

Not every track is a 'true-nailed-on' hit and there's a lot of ideas and fragments of sounds in each song.

I prefer Low but this is what this chart was created for.

I don't normally like Country but this is quite enjoyable.

It seems to be a mishmash of styles and reading the Wiki it was quite groundbreaking at the time.

Sounds dated it's true but it's the 'OG' as young folk say nowadays.

Rebellious, loud, uncouth and focused on the 'youth' this really was a wake up call in a way the Beatles and Stones weren't.

Iconic

I kinda get acapella / experimental vibes from this.

It's certainly unusual.

I do like it but still not 100% sure yet..

It's really difficult to judge this as it's pretty much out there in it's own genre.

It's pretty good to listen to from an outsiders point of view and well sung, played and produced.

If this is fair game for the 1001 why can't there be Mozart or Beethoven albums on here?

Quite endearing in it's own way.

Odd wistful, whimsical songs sung out of tune but the accompaniment is good. It begins to grow on you after a bit and I admire the guts to just go out there and make something like this that stands on it's own.

It's 'okay' I guess.....very stylised techno and quite dated now.

It's nice to listen to but can be a bit samey in places.

Very influential but somehow seemed to pass me by.

Listening now it's pretty good but having listened to a few of their albums now they can get pretty samey.

Considering this is 1987 and comparing it to a lot of late 70's New Wave it's not really that innovative either.

Going to go with a safe 3*

Distinctive sound- they really were at the forefront of this rock-power-theatre.

Everything from the cover to the guitar and over the top vocals is iconic.

Sure there were others as well but few did it so well.

I can appreciate what they're trying to do here but if you listen to British bands 10 years previously (Ska bands from Coventry and Dexy's to name a couple) they were doing this better.

I love the Cocteaus - Treasure and Victorialand but lost interest when they went a bit poppy (which proved to be their 'breakthrough' sound it seems in terms of popularity.

It's very distinctive sound and Liz's vocal and 'wall-of-sound' guitars immersive and moody.

Early Cocteaus would get a 5* but this is only a 3* I'm afraid.

This is always pushed forward as one of the greats but it seems pretty average Rock? Maybe it was groundbreaking then.

That is apart from Freebird but 'one track does not an album make' as my daddy used to say....

I was in the right mood to listen to this today- it slipped perfectly into the groove.

Some diverse tracks- meandering from Post-Rock to Britpop and Indie soounds.

A nice, well produced and executed album.

Prefer the earlier albums as this is veering towards solo-artist Sting territory.

Even so, this has the 'biggie' and a few minor hits and was very well produced and marketed.

A great sprawling album meandering between hits led mainly with Stevie's voice and talent.

I do like Lindsey though but he stayed pinned to the band.

Still, this is a massive album.

Fairly standard late 60's psychedelic Rock?

I've seen this around before but it's a bit disappointing.

Preferred Sould Mining but this is a continuation I feel.

Still quite dated but if you like the sound why should that matter?

I wasn't especially taken with these guys at the time but over the years this album has grown on me.

It really is packed with great songs and although the band was never groundbreaking or innovative they're really good at what they do and what they do is write and perform great songs.

I like Folk and Sandy Denny's voice is beautiful but I just don't like Richard Thompson's Rock-orientated version of Folk.

It's just a personal thing....