Reviews by mkw

This seems very bland and really missing something. The first 3 tracks are pleasant, and the album speeds up a bit after that. Never really does much for me though.

How do you not like this?
Classic sound, classic tracks.

I hated this. I know the story, I know the struggle, I still hated this.
I hate his affectations, and the way he phrases his lyrics on this album. His style was amazing when it worked, but this is just worse than forgettable.

Very, very, very long album.
There's some really great tracks here, but the remaining hour is just a bit much.

After reading the top review on this site saying that this is music for people who clap when an airplane lands, I was somewhat concerned that I quite liked the opening track. Happily the very next track was a bit of a let down.
After a complete listen, I am gonna have to rate this better than average though. The great tracks are actually great, and the weaker ones are at least passable. Since the album is short it doesn’t get tired.

I guess I’ll live with being a middle aged dude and liking this album, but I still have no plans of applauding pilots for doing the minimum expected of their role.

Pretty solid "meh" from me. Not unpleasant, but I don't get along with the vocals. I hate that (mostly french) style of singing.

Not sure what to say about this. Everyone I've ever talked to has known who Bob Marley was, and what he sounds like.

I was incredibly surprised at not hating this. I do think that he descends into the usual piano-wank at some points, but it’s hard to argue with the sheer skill on display. I think this would have been a 5 if it was shorter, but an hour of solo piano and applause is a lot.

Good fun, but I'm so sick of these skit heavy albums.

Well, that was fucking boring.

Okay, look. I hate Christmas music, but this is actually a decent album. Clearly Phil Spector sucks at being a human, but he is undeniably a musical genius, and he managed to make even me appreciate holiday tracks.

Bleak with no redeeming qualities. Portishead can produce great tracks, but this is just a dud in every sense.

Oh, fuck off with the goddamned live albums. I'm not a groupie traversing the US in search of the perfect permutation of a Grateful Dead track, I want to listen to a thousand genre defining albums. This is just wank. "Uh, we'd like to carry on [...] quite what that means I don't know"- Fuck you, and fuck your meandering 15 minute version of decent tracks.

I like The Who, but I want to listen to the best version of their tracks - and live shit is just never gonna cut it.

As someone who never liked "respect" this was a long 36 minutes. The talent is obvious, but the instrumentation and production really doesn't do much. Nothing here really caught my attention.

I was completely blindsided by this. I'm the right age, and the right scene for this, but I guess from the wrong country. I had no idea who these guys were or what they'd been doing.
I really like the vibe of this, but honestly the album is likely 10-15 minutes longer than it needed to be, and I'm not too sure about longevity.

Fucking Neil Peart, man. This was always a 5.

This seems incredibly generic. Not bad, not interesting.

I will never be cool enough to actually enjoy avant-garde punk. Some albums make me feel like I'm getting closer though.

For my money there's a lot to get into here, but I truly struggle with the vocals.

I can live with, and maybe even appreciate, the opening tinnitus whine. I find a lot to love in the rock solid drumming and bass lines. The weirder instrumentation choices are interesting, and some of the guitar riffs are fire. But that leaves the vocals, and nothing will save that for me.

I don't think anything this man touches Will ever be below 5 stars from me. It's so unique and somehow sounds ancient and brand new, despite being 40 years old.

Not for me. I'm sure this is a fine example of prog rock, but I just find it intensely boring, and I hate the vocals.