Reviews by mkw

The most Bob Dylan sounding Bob Dylan album. Not my favorite, but still up there.

I'm not sure I loved this, but it was perfectly fine for focusing at work. Then I got to "adrift" and was so annoyed I felt like throwing furniture. I think this is an album that works well when being slightly understated music that sounds good, but that's really all I see here.

I'm an age where Youthanasia was the first Megadeth album I remember - and I listened to that on repeat forever. Maybe it's my memory, or maybe I'm just older and more jaded, but this album sounds almost flat compared to that.
It's clearly Megadeth. Tons of energy, tons of riffs, but it never really peaks for me.

What I imagine I sound like when I'm 3 beers over my limit. Overly emotional and sad about regular shit.

The skill is clearly there (even if I don't love his voice), but the vibe is just dramatic with nothing to back it up.

I absolutely hate Sting as a vocalist. I absolutely hate lyrics that Sting is involved with.

"Reggatta de Blanc" had enough interesting choices to somehow overcome this and be a good album, but this is just actively annoying from start to finish - except "Every Breath You Take", but that track has so many other problems that including it is not a plus for the album.

On the other hand it's +1 for "Murder by numbers"

I had no idea what I was in for here, and I absolutely hated the first track. The vocal style seems to be different on the rest of the album though, and it turns out to be a pretty diverse and interesting 40 minutes. Not something I'll listen to often, but not everything on this list has to be.

I will never understand the hype around The Velvet Underground. It's not bad, but it's not very interesting either.

This did absolutely nothing for me. Pure distilled boredom for 46 minutes.

I will never understand Nirvana. I'm the right age, I listened at the right time, I even like some grunge, but Nirvana is just noise.

One of the most popular reviews of this, is how simple the construction of songs turns out to be. Pick a popular phrase, add a power chord, call it a day.

I completely agree.

But it just works.

Not a happy dude on this album. Some great tracks, but somewhat slow.

Not a deep or complicated album, but great fun.

I liked this much more now, than when I heard it as a child. Hungry like the wolf and The Chauffeur are great tracks.

Very laid back album of great backing music, and not so great singing.

The one jazz album that absolutely everyone already know. This was always going to be a five. It's not super challenging, but there's a ton of variety and great skill.

I absolutely cannot even begin to understand why this album is on the list. I actually quite like Motörhead, but the recording quality is completely off on this, and the end result is just messy.

What an album. Absolute everyone in the backing band are putting on a show, and then that voice on top.

I absolutely adore Tom Waits. I don't think this is his strongest album, but it's more than good enough. For some reason this man can distill jazz down to a format where I actually enjoy it. He seems to be able to improvise but still reign it in, and his stage persona keeps it strange and interesting where I'd have given up on other artists.

Great energy.

I absolutely loved Pink Moon, so I was looking forward to this. I was incredibly bored the whole time. It's not bad, it's just boring.