Reviews by mkw

Enough with the Beatles albums.

Yes, yes, very influencial. I still don't get why these guys are always held up as the gold standard of music. It's fine, but that's it.

Nothing to dislike about this. The tracks do seem a bit longer than necessary, and the start of the album is a lot stronger than the last half.

I honestly don't love this as much as I thought i would. The energy is clearly there, but to me it sounds a bit dated. Not bad in any sense, but didn't completely win me over either.

I liked it more than I thought I would. Some great tracks and a lot of filler that's really just background music. Nothing is truly bad, but there's just too much og it. Seems to be a general problem with 90s albums.

This seems indredibly uninspired and honestly designed to be middle of the road and not offending to anyone. The faster tracks are passable, but the slower entries are everything i dislike about country.

I went into this knowing one track by Dexys Midnight Runners, and not entirely convinced I liked the track that I knew. I honestly don’t know what to make of this. The talking between band members' gimmick is just absolute rubbish. The music is fine-ish when they stick to the upbeat (possibly strings driven) basics, but they seem to want to create a different album than what their strengths would play to - maybe to ape Dire Straits. I really do like parts of this, but it’s drowned out by so much pretentious art wank that a 2 is generous. I’m still sticking to no skips, but this album was the closest to breaking that.

One outstanding track, and a lot of decent but not great filler. I wanted to like this more than I actually did.

I've just realised that I absolutely do not like Joni Mitchell. It's rare for me to be this bored while listening to an album. Everything just sounds dated, and the few bits that are not incredible uninteresting are straight up annoying.

This was a struggle for me. I absolutely hate Radiohead in general. I've never understood what so many enjoy in the mess of whiny and jangly noise.
I was actually suprised that I almost liked the first two tracks, but then the depression kicked in. Background music that's not great, but not bad enough to get up and change.

Look. It's ACDC. We all know what this will sound like.

The music is fine, but sounds very close to tracks released decades before. I really had a feeling that entire riffs had been lifted, but I can’t really place any concrete examples.

Then there are the lyrics.

Surely the dude can do metaphors that don’t involve fruit loops, or caramel, or chocolate. Why is everything candy or movies? Congratulations on finding the edge to say "shit", and "fuck" a lot though. We even get some racial slurs. All of the edgy 12 year old tropes, and the he's even bad at swearing convincingly. There's just nothing worth listening to, or reading here. Edgy teenager stuff even if he was technically older when he wrote it.

3 for the music, minus 2 for the lyrics.

I have to admit that I was surprised to see this one the list.

I remember hating most of this album when it came out and was played constantly. I was probably wrong.

This is not my style of music, but it's not bad. I'm not sure what makes this album different from a ton of other pop albums from the same decade. Why did this album make the list instead of them? Or are they all here and I just haven't gotten to them yet? Overall good, but slightly too long, pop album. Not sure how influential it actually was.

Half an hour of funky tracks with incredibly smooth vocals. I'm not sure I would have stayed on board for much longer, but this was exactly the right amount.

No thanks!

This album is at best boring, and at worst actively annoying. Everything is just so uninspired. It’s almost like 90% of the album was made with the one objective of not offending anyone or taking any chances. The remaining tracks are some sort of whiny country knockoff.

I think everyone understood that he was a very sad boy after the first 5 tracks, so you could have saved the horrible violin stuff at the end.

Other reviews mention that this was released 4 months after his first album. Maybe he could have spend a bit longer and produced something worth listening to.

Just classics from start to finish. The music matches the voice that matches the lyrics. The production is very understated, and the tracks are somewhat similar. I can see how this album would be tough to get through if you're not into the feeling and vibe, but for me it's a very secure 5/5.

This is going to be a super unfair 4. There's absolutely nothing wrong or suboptimal about any part of this album or performance, but it's just so smooth that it ends up melting into somewhat boring for me.

It seems that this is an album with strictly one idea/riff per track. Most of the ideas are great, but every tracks is much, much longer than it should have been.

Great beats, good vibes. The lyrics and flow is too old school for me. I really don't get the whole story-teller setup of many of the tracks.

Everyone is saying how influential this album was. I'm sure they're right. It's also a great album.

This one really surprised me. Not really an amazing creative triumph, but tons of energy, and power without pretending to be super complex.