Reviews by mibbiesaye

I was always so focused on the first three albums I never got to this one properly but it turns out it is great.

Spoke to the innate cheesy 70sness of the UK

Another more recent album that just makes me feel like an old fart. It sounds incredibly dull to me and has one of the current variants of singing style I find really unappealing. It also sounds to me like a lot of acts are more or less singing the same unmemorable melodies. You wouldn't be able to tell from my scores but I do like plenty recent music.

Sorry to be a party pooper. Other than the two big hits it's pretty annoying. Also here in the UK it is hard not to think of Morris and the Minors.

This might be my favourite Led Zeppelin album because I like how much it sonically remains rooted in the 60s in the choruses to Good Times, Bad Times and Your Time Is Gonna Come, something they lost as 70 rock behemoths. Also I wish Jimmy Page had done more Bert Jansch/Davey Graham rip offs.

I wanted to like this because he was so good in Pil and Sinead O'connor is on it but it's quite boring.

Great voice obviously and some great song choices e.g. Just A Gigolo. But the arrangements get a bit samey.

When I was given this for Christmas at 15 I'd heard the Boys Don't Cry comp, The Top and The Head on the Door. None of which prepared me for this black pit of a record. At first I recoiled like from a first ever nibble of a brussel sprout. But I persevered because it felt like the grown up thing to do and my body was telling me I needed some greens as well as chocolate... um I mean my moody teenage self felt the draw of Pornography's gloomy black heart and it soon became a favourite. Ho! Ho! Ho!

I like a fair bit of this but they are so annoying and I recently saw a video where they horribly bullied some guy trying to interview them so it loses a point.

Another band where I don't understand the extremity of the reactions to them. It's OK. Maybe if I'd had to hear everywhere all the time growing up I'd feel different.

Nice to have something with a bit of free jazz about it. I hope there are some of the 60s touchstone stuff for that genre.

It's a shame about The Beatles that so many of the bands who are obviously influenced by them lack even a speck of their inventiveness or curiosity.

Was ever a band more overrated and over hated? Bono is sort of ridiculous. I think his ego gives him an over inflated opinion of his smartness. Ooh post modern so what? But there are a few very good songs on here - One, Until the End of the World. However, it's at least a couple of songs too long.

Always felt a bit daunted by this album's length. A day isn't long enough to cracking that.

For some reason I thought I didn't like Keith Jarrett but this was really good. The wrong piano does dictate limitations in what he doing and some sections can feel a bit background in their simplicity but overall it is an engaging trip.

I sort of wanted to like this more and having Photograph second almost did the trick. But it's just too cheesy for me and I'm not a fan of Joe Elliott's voice. He sounds both loud and slightly strangulated at the same time somehow. Rock music is filled with bad fake American accents but something about his is particularly unconvincing. Makes me wonder how Americans took to this band so much. As a Scot it feels like it would be like being really into a group fronted by Groundskeeper Willie.

Better than Cosmo's Factory. I'm always surprised that Bad Moon Rising isn't about werewolves.

I used to find this such a grim if compelling listen. Still sort of do but I can also just tap into how elemental and paradoxically life affirming it is the older I get.

I should listen to more disco. Lost in Music is the theme tune of this exercise.

The most Coldplay Coldplay of all the Coldplays. Every on the beat chord stab like a padded baton to the head. I don't full on hate it but I'm flummoxed why so many people love it.