Reviews by mkw

One my absolute favorite albums of all time. The lyrics, the melodies, and the African vibes are just amazing. By most accounts Paul Simon is an absolute demon, but my god can the dude make music.

The tracks on this album are enough to justify a 5, but I absolutely cannot get into live albums on this list. I don't care about the crowd work, and I don't want a repeat track - that's the beauty of albums, you get to repeat the things you want.

We all know what this is. We all know the story.
The tracks are great - Hurt is off the charts - but it's a long album, and I really didn't need to hear Cash covering Bridge over Troubled Waters.

This was always gong to be a tough listen. I cannot stand The Beatles, and I despise double albums. I was not pleasantly surprised although the last part of this album is, strangely, better than the first.

This album is extremely forgettable and uninspired until you reach the title tracks, and the rest is just wank.
Who thought that including a live performance with tons of crowd work was a good idea? Get over yourself, you fucking idiot.

Incredibly generic music, with a mix that makes sure nothing stands out. It honestly sounds like the producer didn't trust any individual instrument or lyric to stand on it's own, so everything is just pushed into a strange carpet of sound. The result is a unpleasant mush. It's a mushy album.

The funkiest 40 minutes you'll spend. I don't really enjoy the overarching flute theme of Watermelon man, but it's hard to argue that it doesn't turn into something interesting.

2nd. The White Stripes album in 3 days. I love that none of their albums sound exactly the same, and clearly they are experimenting and evolving. I still think that their albums have a high ratio of filler. I love their sound(s), and I love a select few of their tracks, but even the shorter albums are just too long.

A difficult album to rate. The great tracks are genre defining, but the filler is incredibly boring.

This is such a heavy hitting album. From the seven nation army opening, things just keep going. That also means no surprises, and it's a very long album. The standout tracks are truly great, but there's a lot of filler.

This was way, way too long.
First half of the album is great, but it completely loses steam at the 50% mark.

No thanks. This really did nothing for me.

I have no idea how this is an essential album. Not good or bad enough to be memorable.

I really liked this. It's not highly rated here, but I found it quite interesting. Not really sure what style this would be, and wikipedias "art rock" description is not that helpful.
The first half of the album is by far the strongest, but it stays interesting till the end.

I really liked this. Laid back, and doesn't try to do too much. Possibly a bit longer than it needed to be.

Quite pretty. Quite boring. An album of tracks that I mostly know from other people playing them.

Great album, great voice. One of the only ones to actually make the nostalgia heavy throwback sound work.

This album still sounds somewhat fresh after 30 years. None of the tracks really hit all the things I would be looking for, but there's so much power and conviction that you just have to give in.

I have very little frame of reference for deciding if this is amazing or completely average. I haven't had many instrumental albums so far, so that alone was nice. It's a style of music that no algorithm would have recommended to me, and that I would not have picked myself, but I really enjoyed it.

The sound of my early teenage years. There's no way this is going to be in any way an objective review of the music.

Of the 3 big hits, I never really "got" wonderwall, but Don't look back in anger and Champagne supernova are such great tracks.