Reviews by melibretto

Pretty wild to discover that duke Ellington is in fact not just a horrible caricature from that awful Big Mouth show

But at the end of the day this is still jazz, and I’m still not loving it

2

Starts off pretty strong, even the first few songs after message in a bottle, but it doesn’t really go anywhere and all ends up sounding pretty samey

3.5

Pretty odd at times but I could feel it growing on me as I did quite like a few songs

Did think Dreaming of you was actually going to be love cats and I’d just somehow horribly misread the track listing

3.5

Can’t believe I got to stroke it on my birthday

This albums just incredible, it’s what initially got me in to the strokes, and whilst it isn’t my favourite album of theirs it will always mean something special

It’s just banger after banger from as soon as is this it comes on

5

Overhated, far from her best album but no where near as bad as RYM would have you believe. Hello really takes me back to a simpler time when that was the most popular meme format

Second half is a lot less interesting however

Hell yea

Remember this reasonably well from the AM top 100. The three classic GNR songs off this obvs slap but there’s a bunch of other great tracks here too

NEWCASTLE MENTIONED PART 4

This was really weird, but not like it a good way, more of a this was a bit of a chore to get through way.

I almost enjoyed the great gates of Kiev but they kinda ruined it.

Nutrocker was pretty good though, even though I wasn’t actually going home

2

Just some pretty classic rock

ramble on, heartbreaker and whole lotta love all slap, although I’m not a fan of the middle bit of whole lotta love, or the drum solo on moby dick

3.5

Just not my type of music, I tried but there’s just nothing here that particularly interested me. I thought Roygbqpgv was going to be alright when it started but it just sort of fizzled into nothing

1.5

This was fine, there wasn’t anything bad on here but dear god was it a slog to get through

I already knew bring it on home and I just want to make love to you but wow was it annoying how he kept ruining the hook for the chorus

2.5

Didn’t enjoy this as much as the previous album from them but it wasn’t bad by any means. Did just sort of blend into the background on a long driving day

3

Really don’t get the stooges hype

Got through most of this thinking it was kinda iight but the last track is crazy bad

2.5

Pretty mid ngl, don’t really feel like this went anywhere or did much thought the hour and a half it was on. Didn’t have time for multiple listens (due to the runtime) so may have missed something, but I’m not racing back to this

2.5

Yeehaw!

Really loved the first track, and whilst I didn’t necessarily relate to a lot of the lyrics on the other tracks (mostly the Christianity one), this was pretty much the perfect album to listen to whilst parked up in the van on a dirt track in the middle of nowhere

4

Hell yea

Seven nation army is obviously up there for one of the best songs ever but there a loads of bangers on here I’d not heard before like Black Math

4

Just kinda loud and drones on a bit, wasn’t much all that interesting here. The guy can’t really sing either

2

A few highlights on here, I liked how the last song changed, but not a lot happened that was all that interesting

3

Really really nice and chill, wanted to give this a proper 3 listens through as I really liked the first album of his I listened to (Either or) so I had this on a few time since getting this album, and it’s been perfect just to have on as background music whilst we’ve been eating/playing board games, but also to listen to with the headphones on whilst I walk the dog.

Will definitely be coming back to this

4.5

A good chunk of this was quite interesting and catchy but there were a few songs that didn’t really go anywhere and just dragged a bit

Listening to this has probably made me more interested in listening to breakfast in America though

3.5

Not only does this sound like Jeff’s granddads son a lot he also looks like him too

Definitely not as good however, some of the longer songs on this really drag, but it is kinda chill for in the background maybe

3