Reviews by mibbiesaye

Well oil me up and strap on my winged briefs, it's Feyd Rautha's finest turn.

Great album but I never listen to it as it was way too apt at the time it came out. My obsession with it probably wasn't helpful and now it almost provokes a Pavlovian response. Gee thanks album generator for bumming me out for an hour.

The soundtrack to too many late 90s bar shifts.

He goes on a bit doesn't he?

Had me with that first phased guitar chord.

Like a less austere Stereolab.

The reviewer who says he made all his jeans into jorts really made me smile because there is a lyric by The Fall that fans of James Murphy "show their bollocks when they eat".

Anyway, decent enough indie dance but I've never really got the fuss. If it came out ten years earlier when I was working in pubs I'd have all kinds of good and bad memories attached to it I'm sure.

The Rolling Stones weren't really built for that 1960s six month album cycle thing were they? Two moments of real inspiration, a bunch of competent stuff with some interesting moments and one awful blues cover they grubbily passed off as their own. It could be a 3 on another day but you have to factor in the Jagger tax.

Been meaning to listen to these for 40 years. I wish I hadn't waited. I would have loved them even more in my teens.

Some fives are better than other fives. I read one guy who worked with Kate Bush who felt that this album was over cluttered with too many sounds but I think that's what makes it so great. Every time you come back you hear new things. Also some of her best lyrics and use of different styles of singing in the one song, line even.

It is a shame that I find myself admiring later Björk albums more than I love them.

If this was 1001 tracks My Generation would be a 5 (as would The Kids Are Alright). The album mostly sounds like young men trying on too many jackets that don't fit.

None more 70s

Nice to have at least one truly great album from the 00s.

I've always thought of them as a sort of mid point between Coldplay and Radiohead which ought to be anathema to me but I have to admit I thought this was alright.

I read the five star reviews for this and think I must be hearing a parallel universe version. I don't think it's terrible but it does feel like an awful lot of not very much.

Bland technique. The dullest idiot to come out of the British Blues Boom. It's funny how marketing can work. He was labelled God by the nice clueless middle class London types who made up the core of the audience of the BBB and somehow it has stuck.

Only a true idiot would make an appalling racist rant in public while playing blues and then say they thought it was "quite funny" when later attempting to express some sort of regret.

2 feels a bit mean but 3 would feel too generous. A shame because at first I was pleased it wasn't what I expected, a grunting underbite grunge album. Surprisingly Beatleish in places but a bit bland

Liked this more than I was expecting to. It caught me on the right Sunday morning.

Doodles