Reviews by nevele

It's not a bad album, but there's so much better music from Senegal than this specific album.

Elvis is great by voice on this album, but I'm just not a fan.

Album gets 1 bonus star for the great rendition of fever though.

Very briefly: Duran Duran popped up and I thought to myself: Ah yes, a nice 3* album, just the standard 80s.

I was so terribly wrong, I think this is an incredible album. I really had no idea anymore. How did I dismiss this all these years as 'just another 80's band'

The bass, the melodies, everything on this album is just right. I'm not skipping a song.

Personal Favorites: My Own Way and New Religion

4.5*

It's the first album where the Beach Boys show a bit more that they're talented. Where Brian Wilson takes the time to write songs.
It's the step between their surfpop and Petsounds.

You can hear it's coming, it's just not there yet.

This was a surprisingly good album. I've listened to and not disliked Megadeth whenever one of my friends played it, but this is the first album that really stands out. An absolute masterpiece of the thrash era.
Musically, especially the first couple of songs, are the absolute top. And whatever you think of Mustaines voice, it surely adds a uniquely Megadeth sound.

You have live albums and then you have live albums

Goo is always my recommendation as a starting point for anyone wanting to go on a Sonic Youth tour.

It is rough and - with the layered guitars - noisy enough compared to their previous records. On the other hand, it has acquired a bit more of an alt-rock appeal because there are some more structured songs with a starting and end point.

For me this album has the perfect balance between the two giants on both sides of this album (Daydream Nation and Dirty). There really isn't a note wrong on Goo and the song Disappearer is the best they've ever released.

And from here you can slowly return to the delicious raw creativity of Sister and EVOL.

But this album is rock solid.

What an amazingly intense album on survival. The songs are incredibly strong, her voice broken and you can feel power, pain and disillusionment throughout the album. And an absolutely haunting version of Working Class Hero to boot.

4,5*

I have been told by several friends that this is a true masterpiece of its era. But I can't do much with it. I like about half of the songs after 5 listens and the rest either go one ear in, one ear out or I actually dislike them.
The psychedelica/folk combo is not for me.

Normally I would try and write this a bit more subtle and less crude.

I actually like symphonic rock but thought this was a whole bunch of wank.

One extra star for the musicianship

It's the famous Beatles White Album. A record I've heard dozens of times during my life, and it's the typical double-album with double-album issues. There are some masterful songs on here, but also some songs I loathe with such a passion I could never rate it as high as some of the Beatles' other works than are just amazing albums start to finish.

An album where I start skipping songs is just not worthy of 5*. Still, the album never gets boring and the Beatles play a wide range of songs and styles.

Stay for: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I'm So Tired, Julia, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long

Skip every time: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon, Honey Pie, Sexy Sadie, Revolution No.9

This morning I was walking in the nearby wetlands, on a foggy morning. Revisiting this album.
I almost forgot how warm, ethereal and beautiful music can make me feel.

This is one of the most amazing pieces of music ever made.

I like me some good hiphop, but overall I just find this a very inconsistent album, with on one hand some absolute great songs (TakeOver, U Don't Know, Renegades) and on the other atrocious missteps like Girls Girls Girls and Never Change.

I seem to always be in the minority when it comes to this album. I have a lot of time for Jay-Z, but this isn't just fully it.
Would love to see an album with the quality of the top songs throughout. And this just isn't it.

3,5*

Absolute killer voice. Reasonable songs.

It's a great slick and happy album to listen to. Not as jumpy as their first, but a bit more polished. Good music.

There are the big four records of the Stones (Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers & Exile On Main St.) and this one is like the Beatle's White Album.
And for me that means it's a bit too long and the real fans adore it.

I like it. It's rock 'n roll and the band really feels like they know what they're doing at this stage. They're pulling off every genre within the Stone's repertoire.
It's a really good album, but I'll let other persuade me why it would be their best, because I can't hear it (yet)

I always gave Anthrax a wide berth for one reason or the other. But this album definitely showed why they were considered part of the Big 4 in Thrash Metal.

Everytime I hear an album of Sonic Youth I absolutely adore it and wonder why I'm listening to it more often. Everytime I tell myself to dive deeper into the whole discography and listen to the rest over and over as well till all the creaks and squeeks of every album are ingrained in my head.
Until the next time I'm hearing a Sonic Youth album and I tell myself the same again.

Tom Waits is one of my favourite artists of all time but this is not one of my favourite albums I'm afraid.
I like this as the semi-live showcase for Tom's showmanship it is. His banter is amazingly funny and the jazz quartet he took in the studio with him are incredible. You can quote hundreds of lines from this album.
Still, in the end, it's the music that counts and Waits has made better than the ones on this album.
Bad? No, it's still Tom Waits. Just a little lower tier than most of his other work.

Not a single moment of boredom while listening this album, but it's all a bit too safe.
The album feels like a cross between blues-folk-rock bands like The Band and prog acts like early Genesis.
And anyone who can appreciate a dash of jazz will also like John Barleycorn Must Die.
3.5*