Reviews by nevele

Singing this album from front to back. It's one of my youth favourites.
From Out Of Nowhere grabbed me the first time I heard it.

It's album 3 of the band that was still growing. Album 4 was their masterpiece.

It's a hiphop classic, and you know where a lot of famous bands got their sounds from. Still, it' decidedly simplistic album, beats wise and lyric wise. Some songs are quite catchy though. Jay's Game, Rock Box and Sucker MC's in particular.

This was one of the best albums of the genre around that time. Especially when they slow down, with Bittersweet Symphony, Sonnet, Lucky Man and Drugs Don't Work they're at their best.
Good album. Not great. 3,5*

It's an ok album till Dancewitme, it's very easy soul with just a little flair of funk. But starting from 'Til the Cops Come Knockin' the album collapses into generic RnB.
Listened 3 times, and will not put this on ever again.

It's beautiful and esoteric. And one of the best singers that's ever graced this earth.

But this album is just not their best work.

Sometimes an album just click after a second or third listen. This was one of them.
I have owned the album for quite a while and might've listened to it once or twice. Never got into it, I thought The Who had made much better.
Now years later re-listening it on a 3rd and 4th listen and it fully clicked. It's an amazing album.

The guitar riffs are great, the bassplay is amazing, the lyrics are as non-sensical as always.
But the whole thing is flat. From production to songwriting, it's safe and a bit empty.

"Sing out loud
We all die
Laughing into the fire"

The album falls short compared to their later work. Safe From Harm and Unfinished Sympathy are beautiful though.

Yeah, I'm glad they got better over time

I have listened to this album twice now and I just don't get the generally positive reviews. The album actually makes me almost angry, that's how much I disliked it.
This is the epitome of what was wrong in the 80's (even though there also was a lot of great music). It sniffed New Wave but doesn't seem to get it, saw soul from a distance, uses filler sounds like a trumpet or harmonica to make the music sound smarter than it is. Ugh.

Well, wasn't that a surprise. Aerosmith does indeed Rocks.
I'll be honest, I only really knew the band from their 'MTV-years' and never really had taken the time to listen to their back catalog because of it.
Something I wished I knew before I was in my 40's

Neil Young, drunk, recording an album in one night, to recover from the loss of 2 of his mates.

"I'm singin' this borrowed tune
I took from the Rolling Stones,
Alone in this empty room
Too wasted to write my own."

There's a lot of raw emotion here and at times a terrible voice. I get why this a classic and why Neil Young is revered. It's just... not for me.

What a great discovery. This is just a superb album that I kept listening to on repeat. The fretless bass makes this album even one step better than the songwriting already does. I hear influences of Roxy Music and Bowie, and you'll definitely hear where 80's bands like Duran Duran got their inspiration.
Absolutely great album from start to end with no bad songs in between. Even as a big VU & Lou Reed fan, I really could appreciate the cover of All Tomorrow's Parties.
Fall In Love With Me & In Vogue are my two favourite tracks
4,5*.

At first listen I didn't really know what to do with the album, but with the second and third listen it started to grow on me. The songs are of a high variance in quality, but there's power and emotion enough to be found

Definitely the album where it all came together for Zeppelin. The mysticism of III, combined with the rock of I & II

The major hit More Than A Feeling and two songs after (Peace Of Mind and Foreplay / Long Time) are really quite good. Everything after that is decidedly mediocre.
The production on this album is really quite good, especially for the time. They seem to have been able to get this full bodied sound, where a lot of their contemporaries struggled.

I'll be terribly honest, but Leonard Cohens old music never did it for me. And I've given this album another 4 listens and tried. But even though I really enjoy his poetry/lyrics and know how good of a songwriter he is, most of the songs just leave me feeling... nothing.
I know I'm probably alone in this, but I like his later work better

Listened to Die Mensch-Maschine, I just like this album just that little better in the original German, especially Das Model. I grew up with this music, my dad put this in my casette player when I was just 3 years old. And I enjoyed it back then and still do. Classic

I was pleasantly surprised by this Kinks album. I mostly knew their rambly (but pretty cool) older era music, but this is more room for the songwriting. The songs become a lot better than I know of them and even though you can hear beatle-esque inspiration on some songs (especially the opener) they're creating an own style.
I do want to give the singer a hug though, he really wasn't going through the best of times it seems.