Reviews by mkw

Some amazing tracks, and lot of not so great compositions.
The opener had me questioning my will to listen to this, but it does pick up from track 3.

Such a ride. This is very, very close to peak prog.
To me prog has always been about struggling through protracted periods of complete nonsense, but with the payoff being incredibly sections where everything works. This album has all of it, but despite the overly long tracks, there is less of the wank.

What a journey. From the very opening choords this was interesting, but I'm not sure I was ready for where this was going. Solid 5.

Great album. Yes, Clapton is a muppet, but he did know what he was doing with a guitar. This album is long, but it is fairly varied so it never really frels boring.

A band I've always known, with a frontman I've always known, but somehow I've never listened to this album end to end. I don't know how they evolved this sound, but they absolutely own it.

This is a short album, but somehow it still starts out stronger than it finishes. It's a great album, but not a 5.

60s slop.
It's fine, but pretty generic.

I think my problem with most thrash is the vocal. I didn't find this super interesting.

Very repetitive.
I think I would like most of these tracks individually, but the album just blends together into something more bland than it's parts.

Bleak and strangely minimal album. Not sure this is for me, but it certainly created a mood.

Great performance. Highly influential. Super boring for a lot of the double album.

18 year old me had a terrible taste in music.

It's certainly intense.

The scream at the start of "Angel of Death" really set the tone, and it never slowed down or looked back from there.

I don't think I'm american enough to appreciate this.

Most of this is fine, but both "Steamroller blues" and "Country road" are actively made to annoy me, followed up with a version of "Oh Susannah" - who needed this in their life?

I have made it through 429 albums, including 4 of the 5 worst rated, without skipping a track. This is the closest I’ve been to breaking.
Rambly nonsense lyrics mumbled over a dude apparently tuning up his guitar for the entire duration of the album.

No skill is displayed, and nothing interesting occurs for 39 pointless minutes before the album ends.

2nd. album by this band, and I still don't get it.
First track is fine (though not the best reuse of "daydream"), but it's all downhill from there.

Instant classic. Maybe the ambition was greaer than the actual raw talent, but it works.

I will never understand the hype for Grateful Dead. This is a fine album, but it's nothing more than that. Jangly country stuff. Not bad in any way, but not remarkable either.

I've never been into Springsteen, and basically only know his hits. Somehow I expected something very different from what this album delivered. It's clearly very, very american, but it's also way less energetic than I expected.

Great band, great album.