Reviews by mkw

One of the best albums of all time. Minus 1 star for the McCartney nonsense.

The hight points are so incredibly high, but the low points are very meh.

The first Cohen album I heard, and the one I grew up with. This is Cohen getting older, and getting backup vocals to do the challenging parts, but the lyrics and production are still there. Some absolute classics.

This is very clearly Bob Marley & The Wailers, but I'm still left with a feeling that something is missing.

There is no rational explanation as to why I hate Jamiroquai as much as I do. On a surface level this is funky and fresh and full of energy, but the end result is just elevator music. Nothing interesting happens, and the lyrics are supremely "meh".

What an album!
The energy and playfulness is off the charts, and the entire band is on point.

Not for me. Reading up on the album, it's hard to deny its influence on other artists, but I'm simply not the target audience.

There's enough quality here that it could be an easy 5, but there's so much filler as well.

This is not a bad album. It's not a good album, but it's not terrible. It's just completely pointless and forgettable.

There's no point reviewing this. I don't even know where I would start.

I have absolutely no reason to like Morrissey in any way, except possibly nostalgia for The Smiths, but for some reason I always enjoy his music. Sure, it's pretentious, but somehow he always manages to absolutely nail a feeling or observation.

I don't get it.
Maybe I lost focus somewhere, but the storytelling aspect of the album was completely lost on me. The tracks are mostly fine, but it's a very long album.

I'm surprised how heavy this album was. I mostly know the later "softer" Aerosmith, so this was unexpected but interesting.

This didn't catch me at all. I'm not sure why I find it so bland, there's a lot of the ingredients I would normally go for. The end result was just boring.

Really not feeling this one.
Roundabout is clearly a classic, and the pure skill on display is out of this world. The problem is that the end product is overly long, meandering, and contains a pointless Simon and Garfunkel cover.

I don't think Moby did anything unique or revolutionary with this album, but he did it incredibly well. Every track is super solid, even if he was not the first to go this route.

This is an incredibly well made, and incredibly generic album. Nothing here is bad. Nothing is memorable either tho.

I was expecting an easy 5, but honestly this has aged badly. Still the era of sketches every other track, and while the production is great, lyrics are not amazing.

R.E.M. will never be my cup of tea.
It's big, it's dramatic, it takes up a lot of room, but it never really resolves for me.
The back stretch of this album is as good as R.E.M. will ever be, but it's still not a 5.

Great production, great flow.
Absolutely no holding back in the lyrics. Just an overall triumph.