Reviews by mibbiesaye

Streets ahead of all those dick swinging Gansta bores from around the same time.

A day isn't really long enough to work out how much you like some albums. Maybe I would give it more given a week or maybe I'd still be thinking you could give its 'obscure US 60s' slot to The Fugs or Pearls Before Swine.

The Experience were the perfect trio. Hendrix and Mitchell matched each other for fancyness and Redding kept it simple and anchored it.

Grandiose and pretty silly at times but I love its simple sense of melodrama.

A 2004 release of a reworked 60s album is symbolic of the old fartyness of this list.

Even though an old fart myself I've never felt able to fully access the cult of Brian Wilson. I can tell he is uniquely talented and has a vision unlike anyone else. There some brilliant tunes and arrangements on here but sometimes it's all a bit cutesy for my taste. The one I didn't know but really liked was Mrs O'Leary's Cow.

21st Century vanilla flavoured blues and soul simulacrum. If The White Stripes are too Bohemian and Two Gallants too junior murder ballad. There's nothing really wrong with it but there's nothing really right either. Or maybe I'm just too old for these younger white guy's version of old music.

I don't think they did a dance for it but for some reason I can see Pan's People swivelling their arms about to Maggie Mae.

New Wave's very own Dark Side of the Moon. Blokes would nod sagely and tell you to listen to this on a set of really good headphones.

Like a lot of pop albums it is a bit unrelentingly samey but I liked the feeling I was in a remake of a John Hughes film.

Surprisingly sad in places like My Old Man. If I Was With A Woman is sad and terrifying. It reminds me of that Margaret Atwood quote "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

It's also funny and funky and angry. It's got range.

And so a million ropey bluesy bar bands came into existence. Waiting for the Sun is great though.

The fun less chin stroking side of the British Blues Boom. I'm thankful that neither Brian Jones or Keith Richards are hung up on being guitar virtuosos (see Clapton). They went on to write great stuff after this as well as a lot of mediocre stuff but at least they weren't yet able to be so in love with their own myth at the start.

Some 70s acts would have benefited so much from the modern 3 year album cycle. Some killer, plenty filler.

Great selection of songs. Great simple arrangements. Extraordinary voices.

First half of this is great but then it runs out of steam. The sound of a band writing songs in the studio and dusting down a couple of early cast offs. I'm surprised it is on her when there are no Breeders albums.

My brother came back from a summer working in America with this on cassette. It was like he had come back from the future.

But no really, do these smartypants only come in beige?

It's weird to me that people were disappointed in this after Ziggy. The piano takes it somewhere just slightly different but it is still full of songs that grab you immediately. Even the filler of doing a Stones cover is elevated by that ending.

More US Hardcore on here than I was expecting which is fine I suppose.

A lot of 90s dance music albums don't really fit this process. Not for me anyway. You need to be doing something while listening to this (preferably dancing) and even then you probably don't need the whole 74 minutes. Sitting on your couch eating your muesli in your 50s does not fit this soundtrack. At least it isn't Fatboy Slim.