Reviews by mkw

This is just fun. A few great grooves, and just go.

This is nowhere near as good as it should be. The vocals are poor, and why did you mix this to hide the horn section?

The ratings for this seem incredibly harsh. This is not my favourite album ever, but it's interesting. Punk lyrics with a very 80s sound. No truly weak tracks.

If this album had been half the length it would be an easy 5. There's a lot to love here, and every track is passable at worst, but there's just so much of everything.

This really didn't work for me.

The thing about soundtracks is that they're made to support and expand things that are happening on screen. Except there is no screen, and no movie.
The album itself is not bad by any stretch, but it's not super interesting either. A few good ideas, but way too much footsteps/broken dialogue for anything to shine.

I truly don't understand the point of this.

Well produced, but really not for me.
I hate the era of RnB/rap that had all these skits - it wasn't that great on the first listen, and it hasn't aged well.

This is an incredible performance and recording, but honestly it's more of a greatest hits than an actual album.

This is better than it has any right to be.
Nothing new or challenging happens, and there's tons of other bands with the same sound, but this album just works on every level.

No thanks. I think this is makes a pretty strong case that there are not in fact 1000 albums that are essential to listen to before you die.

Super tight album with short tracks. There's absolutely no filler.
I like almost all of this, but the vocals and lyrics really do not work for me.

Not sure why I didn't know that Janis Joplin was anything but a solo act. I usually hate live albums, but this is undeniably great. Just pure energy.

It's fine. Completely forgettable, but fine.

Is this a joke album?

What a waste of a great voice.

I have to admit that I didn't know this album or this band, but growing up in Denmark in the early 90s the sound is very familiar.

All vibes. My very first album on this list was Getz/Gilberto, and I hated every second. I just went back for a relisten, and that's still true.
This album manages to expand the idea and the feeling, but actually makes it work.

The first five minutes of this ensures that it can never be anything but a one-star review. Fuck that. I don't care that people will generously call it avant-garde - it's either pretentious wank, or just noise. The result is the same.

Sad thing is that interesting things actually start to (slowly and unevenly) happen from 5 minutes and forward, but it’s not nearly enough, and nothing about this is essential listening.

No shit this garbage is not on Spotify.

I absolutely cannot stand Neil Young, and this album is a distillation of everything I dislike about his artistic output. The music is generic, the lyrics are meandering and bordering on incompetent, and either the man cannot sing, or he badly needs someone to tell him not to strain for notes he can’t reach.

Other reviews describe this as unfiltered tragedy, and I can certainly see that, but unfiltered tragedy only works if the performer is actually expressive and capable of delivering. This just ends up whiny and annoying.

I have to admit that I was bored. In theory a stripped down, dark, album is a great idea, but this is a step too far for me.

I don't get it. Music is irrelevant at best, lyrics are bad, vocals are weak. What is the point of this?

This is a boring, but not terrible, example of the truly generic 90s vibe. The album would be fine as background music, but unfortunately it’s way, way too long for a focused listening.