Reviews by melibretto

Just not for me, I can kinda get why it’s hear but just not my music

End of the first track sounds like a lore accurate cover of what does the fox say

1.5

Really good, not had the time to give this the attention it deserves today so will definitely have to come back to this

Hearing human come on and being the Kanye sample had me sitting up like Leo

Highlights: lovely head, human, utopia

4 (but maybe higher on 2 more listens)

quite a depressing album really, Behind the Wall is kinda chilling. i have heard this album before and it is really good but i think outside of Fast Car theres a specific mood you need to be in to listen to this and thoroughly enjoy it.

3.5

yeah i mean its fine, its good music but its just jazz... as far as jazz goes it is pretty accessible, its not like 90 mins of random crap

take five sounds great, but thats probably mostly because ive heard it a bunch before

wouldnt be against putting this on just in the background or something if i had some particularly sophisticated people over but idk if im going to listen to it again myself

2.5

Holy snoozefest. Incredibly forgettable

Frozens not bad, driving me crazy trying to think which song samples it, more or less the only thing compelling me to come back to this

1.5

i feel like i appreciate this album more and more every time i listen to it. ive enjoyed it every single time i listened from the get go but each time i listen to it again i find another song that im like yeah this is also a 10.

listening to the remastered OKNOTOK also gives you additional B side tracks, i partiulcarly enjoyed I Promise, Man of War, polyethene and How I made my Millions

5

Perhaps i judged you too harshly

When i listened to this album for the AM top 100 list i ranked it at 73 on my personal list, which wasnt a great review. but i did kind of speed run it. its only 30 something minutes long so i blasted through my 3 required listens in under 2 hours driving home from a trip away in the van on a relatively low volume as to not wake jess who was asleep in the passenger seat.

in doing so i missed a lot of the things that make the album great. obviously i know three little birds and one love are great and classic songs. but writings in vain and the heathen also have little bits to them you only notice when you concentrate and in my case use headphones. i particularly enjoyed the use of autotune on the title track.

whilst the frequent religious lyrics dont do anything for me i can still appreciate the lyricism on this album

whilst not a perfect match for my tastes i definitely enjoyed this album upon revisiting it more than a 73 so maybe i need to reconsider some of my AM rankings at some point

4

Nothing bad but nothing too notable either, not sure I could name a single song with it now off. Definitely good music to just have on in the background and I may come back to it for that reason

Despite this I can understand why this album is on here and how influential this album was, but I’m rating these for my current feelings and enjoyment of it rather than impact it had and how “good” the album is

3

Really fucking weird, not necessarily in a bad way. First half is a normal album and then the second half is a musical narrated by a guy who is currently having a stroke. Really difficult to decide what I think about this album, not sure I’ll be back but it really was an experience.

3.5

instant 5, already heard this with the AM top 100 and have been back to it a few times since

highlights: golden lady, dont you worry bout a thing

5

couple of corny lyrics but overall a really solid fun album

make the bus just completely throws me though, did not enjoy that song

highlights: dance or die, sir greendown, wondaland

4

Kinda feel like brimful of Asha is the only particularly interesting song here, and the fatboy slim version is better

2

feel like this probably inspired Sam Fender (keep the car running could totally be a Fender song if it was sung with a Geordie accent) and Wet Leg (less the singing/lyrics, but i felt like the guitar on a couple of the tracks (The Well and the Lighthouse) reminded me of moisturizer).

all well made but i kinda feel like this is nothing really that special, none of the songs are drawing me in a lot and making me want to come back to this album, but i wouldnt complain if someone put it on.

3

I mean yeah it’s a 5, so many classics

Probably quicker to list the songs that aren’t a 10/10 (sun king, mean mr mustard, polythene Pam, her majesty) but that’s being pretty picky

5

Nothing offensive about this but nothing all that special either. Nothing that makes me want to come back to this with any urgency.

2.5

Not sure how quick I will be to listen to this again, not that it’s boring I’m just not sure I get Bob Dylan.

Didn’t realise “Make you feel my love” was originally a Dylan song and I did enjoy that, and “Standing in the doorway”.

3

Sultans of swing is crazy good

Whole albums flows nicely

4

Some classic songs you forget are all on the same album

Very chill calm pop rock

4

Barely close second behind OK Computer

Everything in its right place and idoteque are both 10s

4.5

Lots of Beatles/beach boy vibes
Time of the season sounds like stand by me

3.5