Reviews by owen

This is almost the definition of inessential; what is Dimery thinking? Bubblegum 80s pop that didn't even stand out among its contemporaries at the time. A low two.

I don't really care for "Sunday Morning," nor, actually, any of the other songs with Nico vocals. The Lou Reed ones are generally excellent though. I loved European Son.

I remember being somewhat scandalized by this album cover when I saw it in record stores as a kid :)

This is enjoyable stuff, even post-Eno. "Out of the Blue" is a highlight, but I enjoyed pretty much the whole album.

I'd rather listen to "Spy Vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman" by John Zorn, TBH. I liked the "lick my love pump" bits in "To Live Is to Die".

I hated some bits of this, maybe most of it, but I actually enjoyed other bits of it quite a lot. "Ecars" was pretty great, for example. But on the whole, pretty hard listening.

I liked B.O.B. a lot. Gangsta Shit was a lot of fun too. Solid stuff from OutKast, I think I liked this maybe slightly more than Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (though, like that, this was marginally too long).

I like the White Stripes. This is slightly atypical for them, what with the marimbas, etc., but it's still just as listenable. Perhaps not quite their best, but a solid high four.

This is horrendously twee. The worst offender is the Gnome song, but it's far from alone. Interstellar Overdrive had brief moments that reminded me of bands I like a lot more, like Can, but lost me with the drastic left/right audio panning.

I did like the guitar work on Worlds Apart, but other than that, I found this a little tedious.

Did little to dispel my feeling the PSB never bettered West End Girls. High two

Good stuff, even without the big hit of Whip It. I liked this a lot.

Despite the fact that I've listened to Yoshimi many times, I'd never got round to listening to this. I'm glad I did, I like it a lot. Maybe not quite as much as Yoshimi, but that's probably familiarity.

I kind of go back and forth on The National. Berninger has an excellent baritone voice, but sometimes it doesn't sit 100% right with me; it's almost too good. Overall, I like this though; it's at least a strong three, and there are days I'd give it a four.

This isn't really my kind of thing, although I will concede that their voices sound really good in harmony together. Actually, I liked this more than I thought I would.

Even better than Unknown Pleasures, I think, though it's really close. This is excellent stuff.

"Marlene on the Wall" is a great song, and there are several other really good tracks on here. I like Vega's voice a lot too.

Like a less catchy and more shrieky Carole King. This was all a bit much for me; I found it quite a struggle to get through.

I'd never heard of these guys before, and I was pleasantly surprised. Some of it reminded me somewhat of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (not quite as good as that though). still, a solid four; very enjoyable.

Fun, if slightly unmemorable. A low three.

There are a few decent songs on here, but also a few stinkers (Na Na is one of them). And Crow seemed to ditch these guys that collaboratively made this music as soon as she was famous, which doesn't seem entirely cool