Reviews by mibbiesaye

Bonus point for making me think about The Walkingseeds track Blue Cheer from their debut album Skulkfuck

I saw them around the time this came. They were amazing. I hadn't listened to this in a long time and I like it even more now if anything. I hear the usual Suicide and Stooges reference points routinely attached to them but surprising to me I hear Cluster even more.

So, my wife said this sounds like the music that plays when a clown comes round to murder you and we were both like "Rock on, baby!".

Most Deep Purple songs are just a half regurgitated blues riff extended in a not very exciting way. Child In Time is great in all its ridiculous operatic glory. And I could easily have gone a lot more of Ritchie doing his Hendrix in noise mode impersonation as per the intro to Speed King.

It's a weird thing that Ozzy is regarded so much higher than Ian Gillan (correctly in my mind) but Gillan is way more influential within Hard Rock and Metal. Gillan leads to Rob Halford and Dio, leads to Bruce Dickinson and the like. Even the guttural deep vocals of more extreme metal is simply an extension of the arms race between singers and guitarists in Metal that has its roots in Gillan/Blackmore. I can't think of anyone who really mimics what Ozzy does.

My least favourite of their first six albums but that opener and NIB. The Wizard and Evil Woman are fun too. The Wizard especially probably deserved to stay in their set longer.

Great start, great end and pretty good in the middle. I totally missed that there was a Rezillo on this.

He doesn't sound constipated on this one so it gets an extra star.

I think this list is pretty clueless on electronic music. This is dreary.

It gets a two because I quite like Karma Police and No Surprises but overall I prefer the 70s long haired flare wearing variant of posho prog types. Thom Yorke's voice thoroughly rips my knitting.

90s Saturday bar shift about 4pm. The effects of Friday's lockin hangover have receded but tiredness is kicking in. The place it still heaving, how are people ordering lunch at 4pm? How many times have I polished the entire complement of cutlery in the place? The Celtic supporting staff and the Rangers supporting regulars are shaping up to be either joyful or raging, neither option is quiet. Looks will make every effort to kill. The Tennents barrel needs changed again. I think I've sweated through my deodorant. Oh fuck the new start has been fooled by the alcoholic with psychotic tendencies who lives in the hotel over the road into serving up a half and a hawf. That's all it takes for chaos to ensue. Who's asking him to leave this time before he starts howling at the random sat next to him minding his own business?

Someone sticks this on. It bounces just enough to keep you moving, has enough of a fug not to exacerbate your head, melodic enough not to offend anyone too much. Two more hours. I wonder if tips have been enough for a post shift sesh?

A situational four stars. I actually find Beck a bit uninvolving in laboratory conditions.

Aggressively nice

A foundational text, a monolith, influential but never equalled.

I like this more than I expected. There's nothing innovative in it but it has a real charm in how it's done.

Bland and preppy music for junior executives. Music for adverts right enough. I really wasn't in the mood for this.

Like a second debut. I hadn't listened to it in a while. It's just incredible and might be my favourite of his 80s Island Records trilogy, although maybe if I'd just listened to either of the other two I'd pick one of those.

I enjoyed reading some of the musicians bios off the Wikipedia page. I suppose I shouldn't be so surprised how accomplished a group of session musicians it is but it almost seems at odds with how otherworldly the music often is. You've got the bass player from Canned Heat and a guitarist from Little Feat here!

It's easy to forget how just a little bit of grit or discordancy upsets people. These 1 star reviews read like slugs doused in salt.

I like my 70s classic rock to be doomier and weirder than this. Also never been a fan of Paul Rodgers' voice.

I like my psyche less polite and polished than this.

Amazing the impact Sly and the Family Stone had on music at the time.

Living in my small home town, I recorded a few tracks off this from Peel. It was like having fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, dark, mysterious and difficult to comprehend. Then I moved to the big city and felt like Indiana Jones when I found a copy in a second hand shop. Ah, callow youth.

The first two and the last two are doing a lot of heavy lifting for all those 5 scores. The Who are the ultimate 'just get a Greatest Hits' band for me. Won't Get Fooled Again is irresistible but it is definitely the grand finale at the centrist Dad disco.