Reviews by nevele

Point 1: Live albums shouldn't make it on a 1001 album list
Point 2: I'e heard The Who better live
Point 3: It's still a really good album, a tight and amazing live band

So... a 3,5 star?

I grew up with people around me worshiping the ground Stephen Malkmus walked on, so I stayed back a bit with my adoration of Pavement. I heard it a lot in my teenage years, never disliked it, but it also never stood out for me, for whatever reason.

Still, this is a great album. Unpolished pop songs with barbs here and there, but always melodic. And where the lo-fi sounds really give it its character, I sometimes, blasphemously, wouldn't have minded a little more polished sound.

Not all songs are as memorable as others, but the heights on this album are really worth listening to.

Definitely a bit of a surprise. I was very aware of most of the singles on this album and have heard, and played, them quite a bit in my life. Frozen, Ray Of Light, Power Of Goodbye are one by one incredibly strong songs, written by a very talented songwriter.

The album might not be strong throughout - there's certainly some filler on here and the album could lose some minutes - but it also has a few songs that might just be the best Madonna has released in her career, especially the very danceable tracks 'Sky Fits Heaven' and 'Skin'

A solid 4*

The time in the late 60's where the jazz audience, the cool soul frogs, the blues birds and the hippies all came together and listened to a very stoned David Clayton-Thomas.
Because there are so many styles on this album and it jumps from compact jumpy songs to long experimental instrumentals, the album does have a somewhat ambivalent character. But there's something for everyone to be found on this album.

After a few listens this album was actually a lot better than I gave it credit for at the start.
I never really got used to his way of singing, but the songs are diverse and of a high quality

Is it punk? Nah. Are these complex songs with a lot of depth? Also no. Is this an 'anti-american' and political album? Nah, not really. Was this 'punk-opera' the first of its kind? Nope, been done several times before.

But is it a fun, catchy and just rocking album? Sure as hell it is!

That was a really long elevator ride this album just put me on. It's a little bit of late-night jazzy feel but nothing stands out, nothing makes me listen a little deeper, not even after a few listens.
It all just pretty average songwriting, but offset by an amazing voice.

It's really just not for me. And I just can't hear the quality in it. I must be missing something.

He has a beautiful voice, but all songs on this country blues pop album are very slick honeyd and smoothed over. It feels empty. I didn't hate it, but also didn't really like it

Highly energetic and pleasant poppunk album

"Highway Star", "Smoke On The Water" and "Lazy" are the highlights on this heavy and well made album.
"Never Before" doesn't share in the main prize, and should've been switched for "When A Blind Man Cries" on the album, but even that songs can't diminish the fun in this funky hardrocking 70's classic.

4,5*

This album is to be listened for the beats, production, invention of the g-funk and the guest-rappers. They make this a very pleasant rapper, and probably the Top-5 of the best West Coast albums ever.

But don't listen this album for the sexist and homophobic lyrics or the wooden Dr. Dre raps. Every time Dre opens his mouth, I'm already looking forward to the next verse of Snoop, Kurupt or RBX. And that just takes this album down.

Then we have to talk about the skits which are just not funny at all and bordering on infantile and ths bring absolutely nothing extra to this album.

The influence this album has had can't be overstated, but when Dre released 2001 about 7 years later it did show he learned from a few of the mistakes of this album (minus the puerile lyrics) and created an even better version of this.

I haven't given this album the full attention it deserves in my humble opinion.

I've spun it twice, lost track a bit.

But what I heard was really enjoyable, well written, and the britpoppunk from The Jam is excellent. Will revisit.

I listened to "Listen Without Prejudice" before, and that was a real decent album.
This? This isn't it.

Ryan Adams is not able to do it for me. Some songs I can listen to, with difficulty. I've given this album a couple of tries, so Ryan has already been in the rematch several times, but I think it is generally too slick. The emotion strikes me as affectation. I simply don't believe him.

I'll give this a rating between the best song "Everybody's Been Burned" and the atrocity "Mind Gardens."

The absolute pioneers of the groove and I'm a sucker for a good bassline.
And this is about the best of them you can get.
The basis of the music is of course Edwards' really fantastic bass and Rodgers' signature guitar playing. The strings and the vocals on Risqué are really great as well and add to the general funk, atmosphere and groove. And it's no wonder this is a classic and one of the most sampled albums I know of.

Still. All songs feel about twice as long as they should be. It's made for dancing, but with only 7 songs on the album the long ended repetitions feel contrived. And that puts a little damper on the party for me.

It took me three listens to get into the right mindset to enjoy it.

But when I got there, this ambient space rock was a great experience.

A true 5* album. With the mix of Zeppelin like guitars, one of the most breakable voices to have ever sung and the redefining of the song Hallelujah for a new generation, this is a truly superb album