Reviews by mkw

I struggle with Peter Gabriel. This album seemed all over the place, and nothing really worked for me. Not a bad album in any sense of the word, but not something I'd seek out either.

I'm pretty sure I've never heard a complete KISS album before, and I had no intentions on changing that. I have to say that I enjoyed this much, much more than I expected though. I'll never be a huge fan, but this has aged much better than feared.

I was sure that this was going to be an easy 5. One of the best rappers ever, what a flow. Production is great. It just didn't age well. The skits are out of control, and there's just to much of everything.

Previous Bob Dylan albums on this list have ended up being reluctant 5s from me. Not because I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan, but because even the worst Dylan tracks interesting, and previous albums have had some incredible standout tracks that pull the entire album up. This album though, I don't actually like the generally accepted hits. Both "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Maggie's Farm" are lyrically interesting, but musically just not for me. "Mr. Tambourine Man" has been played to death, and honestly the cover versions are kindda better.

A lot of hate on this one. And to be honest I struggle with blues in general, and white blues especially. There is a pretty large amount of skill on display though.
Clapton might be terrible at almost everything, but man he knew how to play guitar back in 66. On the other hand the drummer is just uninspired. The solo on "What I'd say" is a distillation of everything bad about drum solos. Nothing interesting happens, and for some reason keeping time is ignored while he's slapping the shit out of everything in sight.

A pretty strong start, with 3 great tracks that set the stage with forward riffs and heavy drums. Then comes the string of covers. "Morning Dew" and "You Shook Me" works well, but "Old man river" and "Greensleeves" just sound incredibly tired and dated.

My spotify version of this album didn't have "Beck's Bolero" or "Blues Deluxe", and honestly I didn't care enough to hunt them down on other services.

A very, very strong start. Sadly the back half is a lot less interesting. Also this was the 3rd version of "heard it through the grapewine" I've had in the last 10 albums, and it's getting a bit much.

A well made album with very few things actually wrong. Grunge is something I just never got into, so not for me.

Okay. Look. I get it. He's been through some shit, and the lyrics and music are clearly shaped by that. That said, this album is dreadful. Overly long tracks, with very dim music, and something aproaching spoken word.Not for me.
Somehow this got listed as one of the top albums of 2019? Did nothing else release?

This was a surprise. A lot darker, and a lot slower than I expected, but very listenable.

Some absolute classics, but also a bit of filler, or at the very least overly long tracks.
The good tracks are great.

First half of this album is great, but honestly a few of the tracks a longer than they needed to be. 2nd half of the album is a bit down hill with a lot of filler. It's hard to go below a 4 based on the opening half though.

This really didn't do anything for me. Not good, not bad.

Bleh.
The album is fine, but I'll have forgotten about it tomorrow.

Great indie album. Extremely varied tracks, but still a unique cohesive sound.

Very folksy folk. I don't know. Not sure what sets this apart from every other album in the genre.

Somewhat uninpressed by this. I expected more from an album that helped spread hiphop to Britain.

This was a complete surprise to me. Everything is just so incredibly pleasant without being boring. Honestly it doesn’t really sound like any other album - and especially not 60s albums. I absolutely hate the old style stereo recordings with instruments separated in left/right. Who prefers this to mono?

How do you dislike ABBA?
It's so incredibly cheesy, but it's too catchy to really ignore. Just fun.

This was super fun. So much bongo bashing! It did get a bit samey after 20 minutes though.