Reviews by mrmewtant

I can imagine a weird girl in the 80s being too obsessed with this and acting like this is her personal bible, in an endearing way.

However, as someone who does like 80s pop, I find that the instrumentals are often way weaker than the vocals. I wish they’d done more in the vein of I’ll Kiss You.

There’s a few weak tracks but otherwise it’s pretty good. It makes me a bit sad seeing how young she was on the cover and what would come afterwards.

Pretty good but not enough for 5 stars. Knew a couple of the songs on here and those are great but I also quite liked some that I’ve never heard or even seen the titles mentioned before.

I’m usually against albums being over an hour long as they often have boring filler, but this one actually uses that time effectively. Not a weak moment on this album. This is one of their finest works. Cohesive, elegant, sometimes romantic, sometimes dark.

Not much going on instrumentally here, which is almost never enjoyable to me. Shame as I’ve liked most of the country records I’ve had so far.

I got Einstürzende Neubauten before this, so I am in fact listening to more songs about buildings.

Not sure how I’d rate this one as it was interesting but I wouldn’t listen to it often.

I’ve had to listen to Light My Fire two albums in a row.

A lot of this album sounds good but doesn’t do much for me emotionally. It’s just there. The highlight for me was the ending portion of the thirteen minute long track, although it took a while to get there. I didn’t care much for the covers.

Despite being a big influence on one of my favourite bands (Echo & The Bunnymen), The Doors themselves don’t do that much for me. I feel this is quite an iconic album as well but, while listenable, I didn’t connect with it at all.

Almost every song on here feels a bit too long, which is also the case for the album itself. There are some great moments on here and I want to like it, but I think some restructuring would make this stronger for me.

I’ve always meant to listen to this but never got round to it. It did not disappoint. I like her voice and the songs were great too, even if I’m not super used to this style of music (old)

50/50 on songs I liked and didn’t like. There was a giant poster of this album in my music class which I’d always stare at when zoning out. I kept fixating on that weird bit on his collarbone.

So boring. So many of these songs are just the same line repeated over and over in a way that doesn’t work.

I think this would be a lot stronger if they cut out the weaker tracks and just made this a significantly shorter album. There’s some great songs on here but also some quite boring ones. The title track is a stand out and I wish they’d done more in that vein.

Surprised to say I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. I didn’t really see myself as a Bob Dylan person from what I’d heard of his music. I was worried seeing the album closed on an 11 minute long track but it was one of my favourites. I listened to the My Chemical Romance cover a lot growing up, but when I tried to listen to the original back then I found it too long and slow. My opinion has definitely changed, although I still hear the MCR version even though it’s been years since I’ve heard it.

Never liked him that much

Not my style of music

Didn’t like the first track, rest of the album was way better than I expected. Absolutely loved the second track.

Got boring fast. To be honest, I’ve never really liked California Dreamin. At least they made this a short album.

The first half of the album didn’t really feel right in my ears. The instruments and vocals felt too separate to me. I thought Asking For It and Jennifer’s Body (didn’t know where the film’s name came from either) were phenomenal, but the rest of the album wasn’t as great for me. I’m more of a Britpop person than a grunge person anyway. I can totally get why people would love this album though, especially if you had been an angsty teenage girl with this, which I am not.