Reviews by mrmewtant

I mainly did this challenge to listen to stuff I hadn’t before, but I did cheer seeing this show up. I love this album and I love the Manics. For once, I actually think the author did a perfect job at picking two albums from them. My top two by them for sure (this one is number 2).

I love Richey Edwards’ writing so much. There’s not much I can say that hasn’t been said a million times, but he’s just great. My obsession with the band actually got me back into reading, after years of struggling with it. Also shout out to Nicky Wire. A lot of the best lines on Faster (my favourite song by them) were actually by him, and This Is Yesterday is the saddest song on the album to me and is the one that really makes me pause, stop what I’m doing and listen. Part of that is also because James Dean Bradfield’s incredible guitar work. He really brings the words to life, and sometimes just shows off like at the end of Archives Of Pain. I don’t know much about drumming but I guess shout out Sean Moore too.

Yes is such a good opener to the album. Love the guitar on that but it’s also devastating. 4st 7lbs is also just devastating. I like PCP as a closer to lighten the mood and help you step away from the misery of the album, even if it’s still a serious song. To be honest I don’t like Of Walking Abortion, and Revol isn’t a very well liked song generally. Also since I saw it pointed out Ifwhiteamerica… shouldn’t have an apostrophe in it I can’t stop staring at the apostrophe. For a band that reads a lot, they messed that up.

The fact I’ve written this much means it’s serious. Not proof reading it but trust me.

I then proof read it.

Il n'y a pas longtemps que J’ai eu la bande-son de Virgins Suicides, et maintenant J'ai un autre album d'Air. J'ai aimé celui la beaucoup plus, mais ça aide que c'est pas une bande-son. C'est un peu different que ce que j'ecoute normalmente, mais je pense que ça va devenir quelque chose j'ecoute normalmente.

Insane opening and closing tracks. Getting In Tune was a bit annoying. Behind Blue Eyes is a good song but it makes me laugh because my mum got really into the Limp Bizkit cover after it was featured in the Angry Birds movie. I was really surprised to find out the original was by The Who.

I find him musically boring. I know he’s supposed to be a great lyricist but I don’t want to listen to his words because of the way they’re delivered.

Most of this album sucked but it also has One Day Like This which I didn’t realise was by them. My parents used to love this song and play it all the time. Still holds up. Rest of the album? Not so much.

Found it so boring I questioned why I gave another one of their albums 5 stars.

Van Morrison I hate you… But your music

Choisir combien etoile pour celui la est un peu dure parce que c’est la bande-son pour un film j’ai jamais regarder. C’est pas nul mais je ne ecoute pas vraitment la musique comme ça tout seul. Mais je pense que dans le film ça doit être trés impressionante.

I love how most tracks fade into each other. Brighton Rock is my favourite Queen song. It’s not an overly long album and it’s satisfying to listen to.

Honestly quite disappointed by this one. It seems popular on online music spaces (which I know can often mean I won’t actually like it because they often choose snobbery over fun anyway) and when I’ve lurked on people’s profiles here I’ve seen it get five stars often. But this did nothing for me, and I felt it would be like that since I heard the opening track. I was just bored for most of it.

Full disclosure: I wasn't able to listen to about a quarter of this album due to geographical restrictions.

I really liked Who Discovered America? but the rest of the album was just okay to me. Sometimes the different styles of the tracks felt disjointed, so much so that I looked at the tracklist to make sure these weren’t just random songs.

Couldn’t stop imaging listening to this on summer car trips to random places and this album made me feel happy in a way not many albums on here will

Nothing wrong with it; it sounds good but I just don’t feel that passionate about it

Started off slow but then I got really into it. I’ve never heard someone with that deep a voice rap before.

First part of this album is insane. It does lose a bit of steam after B.O.B but that might just be because I really like that song. I love the presence the drums have and how strongly the words are said. I sometimes find hip hop/ rap/ similar hard to get into because I don’t really gel with simple beats but I don’t have a problem at all with this album. I love it.

I don’t have the music words to explain why this is 5 stars, it just is.

Nice voice, a few good songs but largely not my thing

I liked the sound at first, but the sound gets boring when there’s no variation

Sounded really good and helped me focus on the work I was doing. It made me feel very calm and blocked out distractions. I could see myself going back to this if I need help relaxing or working on things.

I know this is an iconic album, but it’s just not quite five stars for me, more out of personal taste than anything. Clearly great rappers, can’t fault them there even if the lyrics don’t always connect with me, and I did enjoy it. Most of my gripes with this are down to genre preference, and my ratings are based on my feelings not technical analysis.