Reviews by nevele

Highly enjoyable early rock-opera. A child of its time.

Holy Post Punk Junkman. Nick Cave as a manic trashman with hypnotic drums, feedback, percussive macho bass lines... Dirty, steamy, swamp fever. This album is one psychotic madness, but a genius one. It sound like Bauhaus who had a mental breakdown.
People who have read The Ass Saw The Angel will also recognize elements of Cave's Faulknerian novel characters in this album.

This came off the back of yesterdays Dark Side Of The Moon and the contrast almost couldn't be higher. The album version ends with the hallucinatory Junkyard, in which Cave really gives *everything*, his voice almost to pieces, and just about to At the end you hear him coughing his lungs out during the fade-out after that effort. Sublime.

This is unrecognizable one of the great albums of music history. I can give dozens of reasons why this is amazing, from songwriting, production, lyrics, clever buildup of songs, use of 7/4 time signature in Money changing to a 4/4, the centralising of themes. And more.

And still. This album has never grabbed me as much as Wish You Were Here or Animals did. And for years I've tried to figure that out. Objectively amazing, personally not one of my favourites.

This was a delightful album, and even though a double album, it doidn't feel like it, and it never became anywhere near boring.
Not all songs might be of the same high quality, but with songs as U Got the Look (which to me will always be a loveletter to that excellent cowbell) and The Cross (Prince at his best?) it reaches incredible heights as well.
I enjoyed Prince knows how to leave things out instead of putting them in, which makes him different from many of his 80's counterparts.

But mom! I want to see the Talking Heads!

No, we have Talking Heads back home in Scotland. You can listen there.

The best thing I heard about this album was in an interview with Iggy Pop where he explained that they wanted '1969' and songs like 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' to be played faster than you hear them on the album, but that the entire band was too stoned to be able to pull it off.

Between the detached icy-cold cynicism of 'Perfect Day,' to the Rock and Roll animal in 'Vicious', from the ability to tell life stories in just a few sentences in 'Walk On The Wild Side' to the depressing lyrics but beautiful sounds of closer 'Goodnight Ladies,' this is an album that never bores.
And when you prick through the thin veneer of glam, you feel the songs underneath.
5*

It's on the crossroads of 80's and 90's rap and kinda misses the boat on both.
I like my rap, but LL Cool J just never sparked any interest

An album that lies completely in my musical tastes. Great basslines, dark atmosphere, uptempo enough to make it danceable, lyrics to make you think, interesting rhythms. Everything is here for me.

And still, it does me very little and I can't put my finger on it.

It's marvelous how someone, after making 14(!) mostly decent albums and lots of sales, all of a sudden goes: and now I'll make 5 albums of brilliance, before succumbing to mediocrity again.

This is one of those five.

Masterfully talented and I'm really glad I listened to this. It really belongs on a list like this and is a great introduction to traditional Indian music.
But on the other hand, it's really just that. An introduction to the Raga.

I just can't

You know those support acts for the bigger bands that you always think about: "Yeah, this sounds like a real decent opening of the night, I might look them up when I get home," but then never do?

North America had Pet Sounds, Europe had Sgt Peppers and South America had Os Mutantes.
Decidedly an album of its era and area, it all sounds a bit rambly musically and production wise at times, but you hear so much quality here. I really enjoyed this one and will pick this one up in the future to give this a few spins.

This is of course not the most profound or groundbreaking band, they bring unpretentious poppy hard rock with a high sing-along content and they are quite good at that.

I understand people not liking this, but there's a time and a place for this, whether on a road-trip or an 80's night.
I have heard much worse rock being made after this album came out (also from Bon Jovi).

You hear the same craziness Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention displayed, with the same sometimes crude lyrics, but musically a little more punk-avant-la-lettre, combined with hard- and bluesrock in the mix.

An artist that influenced quite a few of my musical heroes, so I'm glad to have finally listened to this album, and it was surprisingly awesome.

With the influence of Van Dyke Parks, this album sounds as a mix beween the artistic pop of the Kinks, combined with a bit of American folk and country.
So might this have been the first country-rock album?

When I saw it was a live blues album I couldn't be less enthused. Live albums, especially on Top 500 or 1001-album lists, are mostly just a cheap way to put a 'Best Off' in a list.
And while I always appreciate the influence blues has had on modern music, it never really was my thing,

Until I heard this album. The ambiance is perfect: the interaction with the audience and a still young and technically very strong BB King who sounds like he's preaching to his Blues congregation. He is accompanied by a fantastic band that smoothly improvise all the songs into one.

And yeah, in the lyrics you feel the blues. How Blue Can You Get?

Received by the press at the time as a dance act of Underworld/Orbital/Chemical Brothers class. But listening back now, this was slightly exaggerated.
It has a few noteworthy tracks, ('Red Alert', 'Rendez Vu') but too much filler to call it a great album

A very interesting album of a band who called it quits too soon due to lack of success.
They feel like the in-between stage from Blur to Alt-J