Reviews by mkw

What a voice. Just pure power.

An interesting album, with a lot of different ideas. Some of them work, others not so much. The intense tracks are almost manic, and the chilled tracks are bordering on boring.
It's going to be a small 4 for me.

Really, really not a fan of the first track, but the rest of the album more than makes up for it. Very 80s. For some reason Pet Shop Boys just hit my personal sweetspot for the mix of upbeat synthpop and undertones of sadness. I love this.

Brilliant, brilliant album. Common People, Disco 2000, Mis-shapes and Underwear are the standout tracks, but the rest of the album is good enough to have been lead singles from most other bands in that period. Very close to a perfect album for me.

Very dated. Great opening track, but everything is downhill from there. Lyrics are not great, and the overall sound just screams early 90s in a way I did not miss.

Well, that was a waste of time.
I don't know who this noisy mess is for. It has the sound and distortion, but it lacks anything catchy or interesting.

I'm super surprised with how much I enjoyed this. Not a genre I would normally go for, but what a pleasant way to spend half an hour.

A lot of classics.
This seems to be a cleaner sound, and fewer 20 min. songs. Just a great album.

This one is absolutely not for me. It's trying so hard to have chill and happy vibes, but the vocals are just straight up grating.
I have no idea what this album is doing on a list like this? What did it influence? Who remembered this band or this album even 5 years later?

I loved this when it came out. Not so sure I still do. First half of the album is great, but the last half is a complete waste of time.

I want to like this more than I actually do. The guys are clearly immensely talented, but the end product ends up a bit over the top, and mostly just playing all of the notes all of the time.

Honestly I think the rap and lyrics are a bit too old school for me, but the beats are absolutely crazy, and the combination is amazing.

I never gave Gang Starr a fair chance when this album came out, but I absolutely should have.

This is a strange one.

I really liked the opening, but it just got progressively more grating with every track. By the time I got to "Horsin' around" everything from the lyrics and phrasing, to the lazy latin inspired drumming, and the feel changes, seemed almost custom designed to be as anoying as possible to me personally. Then "Desire As" started.

I did not enjoy this.

I love this. It's not my favorite album by LCD Soundsystem, but it's still a super solid 5. It's just such a unique sound, and I find it extremely hard to be even slightly bored listening.

I'm not really a huge fan of reggae in general, but how could you possibly dislike this?
Some absolute classics, and the remaining tracks are more than good enough.

Pretty great 90s hiphop. Upbeat, funky and having a laugh.

Some incredible tracks, but all my enthusiasm for the album got killed with the opener. How can this man write such great tracks an also pump out that overly sweet nonsense?

It's incredible how boring this album manages to be. I love the basslines an the old school synth sound, but it still just blend into a grey soup of boredom. Absolutely nothing happens.

Super sparse early electronic music. I love it.

This really didn't do much for me. A couple of great tracks, and a few tracks where his voice is straight up annoying.