Reviews by moysauce08

There’s only such much reggae I can listen to at once before getting sick of it, and this album was long enough to fill that.

As I get older, the more I like Coldplay. I never understood the fascination for them when I was younger, but I get it now (does that mean I’m old?)

Every track is just charming and it’s so easy to listen to without it being boring. I’m also impressed with how many iconic songs from Coldplay came from this record.

I hated the content of this album (is it satire, is it British comedy I just don’t understand?) but some of the song structure was interesting and I enjoyed it as “at least it’s a bit different than most Brit pop”. Instrumentation definitely the highlight for most songs.

I really enjoyed the beats on this record. The jazz influence and the flow from the MCs are awesome.

I do think it’s too long of an album though as the charm started to fade after the halfway point. It became less “jazz influenced beats” to a more traditional 90s hip hop beats.

As an art piece, I appreciate this record. It’s really unique and thoughtful. I think in 2005 writing and singing a song like “For Today I Am A Boy” is brave. Even today it’s brave, but back then I can’t even imagine.

As the album goes on, I’m finding that there’s a lot about this record I really enjoy. The songwriting, the soul, the instrumentation, the simplicity to keep it easy listening while also being interesting enough to pick out some of the small details in the background.

Fistful of Love is a great track that really progresses into this full ensemble of incredible energy.

There are some pitfalls here, like the higher pitched falsetto voice sometimes leaves much to be desired. But for the most part I really, really enjoyed listening to this.

I can hear the potential here. The bass and drums throughout is really fun. It’s definitely got a good rhythm.

It was a decent time. Thanks higher than a lot of the other electronic albums we’ve listened to on here.

This album DEMANDED your attention. You think you’re getting some easy sway classical music? Nah, this is some serious shit.

The chord progressions (if you want to call them chord but whatever) took me by surprise. This is not what comes to mind when I would have thought of tango music. This is incredible.

You can put this on any time in front of me and I think I’d stop my conversation with anyone and just be like, “wow this music is really good”.

The Hard Times drum mix is so good. The toms buzzing around in both of my ears was extremely satisfying to my brain.

Other than that song though, this has definitely aged. Not in a bad way, just in a “there’s better music out there” way

Drawing inspirations from Leonard Cohen mixed with some modernization. It’s okay

It was a charming record and I thought was interestingly mixed to really emphasize the vocals. Idk why it stood out to me this time but with all other solo vocalists, it never really stood out like this.

But yeah, charming.

Holy David Bowie influence.

This is the type of Britpop I don’t mind. There’s effort in the song writing and it’s much appreciated by me.

Me and noise rock are like water and oil.

I like Latin music, but you can’t tell me that it’s not all so similar.

That said I still danced in my chair.

These bangers are absolute platinum certified bangers. Some of these songs were anthemic in my young teenage years. I feel like “Kids” is the song that defined my generation. Everyone loved it. And to me, that song instantly takes me back to my time in high school.

Loved the album, I don’t care. This is a biased 5 stars because some of these songs are just so iconic.

Give credit to the producer for this album because the mix and the beats are extremely good. I don’t know what the hell the reviews here are criticizing about.

Don’t let these reviews fool you. The range from this album alone is incredible. A bit long, but a great collection of songs.

I also kinda like that there is a split where the double album feels like 2 distinct albums. Bigger fan of the second half as a jazz fan. But don’t sleep on this album, it’s really good.

Their song “Geno” still holds in my rotation today after hearing it earlier on this list.

But I feel like their other music, at least for me, fall short and I’m still chasing that high energy, electric first album. There are moments in here that I feel are a natural progression as a band ages, for example The Waltz. Still has those iconic horns and his voice, and it’s progressed into this nice tune. That’s what I would expect as a band evolved over time. But I honestly felt like some of these songs here just really fell flat.

Comparing to other records we’ve already listened to around 1967, this does stand out for that decade.

It still kinda holds today. I enjoyed my time with it, as “generic” as I thought it was.

I always find it’s hard to find words to describe an album that’s mid. But fuck it I don’t need to explain myself, it’s mid.

I don’t think I actively hated it, but I actively didn’t like it.