Reviews by mkw

It should be impossible for an album to be simultaneously this boring and this annoying.

I cannot recall ever being this bored listening through an album. I really don't know what makes this worthy of the list.

This is a fascinating album. This is clearly not everyone's taste, and it's not exactly easy listening, but it's not chaos and all loud noises either.
This is not an album I want to listen to often (or ever again), but I'm glad I did listen through it before I die.

C-tier musical garbage.

Too artsy to bother with basic shit like rhyme schemes. If there's any sense of structure to the track, it was written - and almost certainly performed better - by someone else.

I have no idea why this band works so well for me. It's incredibly repetitive, and not a style of music I actually like, but for some reason I just can't get enough.

No.
There is no way this album is essential listening. Half the tracks are already on this list with Machine Head, so all this adds is guitar wank and crowd noise. Noone needs a 20 minute version of space trucking.

This didn't grab me at all.

Great album. I'm not sure I'll ever understand the hype for Claptons skill, but a very enjoyable 40 minutes.

Allright. So. This is my least favourite Kendrick Lamar album by a long way. The narrative aspect is intereting, the flow and lyrics are obviously fine, but the sound and tempo is just not really my thing. That does not mean that it's a bad album by any stretch, but it's not amazing either.

How does Arcade Fire have 3 albums in the 1000 most important albums list? Nothing interesting happens, and nothing innovative is tried. It's not bad, but it's not exactly great either.

This really did change the sound of the 90s for me. It certainly wasn't the heaviest, or darkest or even most provocative thing around, but the personality really gave it an edge. The Beautiful People will always be an amazing track.

This is my 2nd ever ZZ Top album. The difference between this and Tres Hombres is stark. Not necessarily bad, but very, very different.

The sound is now ultra processed, and while the grooves are still there, everything seems more sterile. I think that costs a lot of charm, but on the other hand it makes the album sound a lot younger than 40 years old.

Short and fairly weird album. Could do without Mothers Lament, but otherwise very, very well executed.

I love Tom Waits, but I honestly think this is one of his weaker albums. The lyrics are great as always, but the music is just less interesting than his other efforts.

I truly do not understand this album. Clearly I'm missing something, but I didn't find any of this interesting.

This is so intense, so energetic, so tight, and so funky that I really don't know what band and performer could ever match it.
Obviously Brown is the standout piece of this, but the band is much better than could reasonably be expected in a hectic liveset.

Looking at the band name, and the cover, I really did not have any hopes going into this. What an album though!
Some very interesting choices and ideas, but still with a bit of a folk vibe.

It's clearly an influential album, way ahead of it's time. I had a very hard time getting into it though.

I really, really want to give this 5, but it's just too long. The opening of this album is downright haunting, and it closes strong, but it just cannot keep the steam going through the middle section.

I've never been a huge fan of Pantera, but I did own "Far beyond driven" growing up, and honestly the difference between that and "Vulgar display of power" is so big that I find it hard to imagine what happened in the less than two years that passed between them.

Vulgar Display of Power is a solid album, but I really prefer the tighter more coordinated grooves of later releases.