Reviews by owen

This was fairly bland and unmemorable. Reasonably pleasant to listen to, but I can't see myself coming back to it.

I've listened to "Ladies and Gentlemen..." in the past and it never fully clicked with me. I liked this a lot, though so maybe I was particularly in the mood for this today. I look forward to revisiting L&G.

Yet another winner from Brian Eno - I've loved pretty much everything he's had a hand in that I've encountered in this project. This feels very ahead of its time.

Well, this rollicked along at a fair pace. Inoffensively fun British punk, it's a reasonably solid three for me.

It's hard to judge this solely on its merits, as it's like a Tiktaalik just having left the water and starting to crawl, on its journey from fish to land animal.

Dreamin' and You Are seem really out of place on this album. The rest is fun, especially the title track.

More hippy shite from The Byrds - my tolerance for this was pretty low today. Some of it not too bad I suppose; there was one song I thought was pretty decent, but I can't remember which one, and I'm not going to listen to them all again just to find out.

I was apprehensive about this when I saw the band shared a member with Rocket From The Crypt, who I really disliked. But I was very pleasantly surprised - this was more punk than emo, and I liked it quite a lot.

I am most definitely up for a twelve minute version of Walk On By. Didn't feel nearly that long. I also had no problem with the extended spoken word intro to By The Time I Get To Phoenix.

I didn't take to this; it sounded extremely dated.

Went into this thinking I would find it inoffensively mid, but I ended up actively disliking it. Spent the whole album wishing I was listening to Nick Drake instead. Low two.

Fantastic stuff. Continued listening to more Kraftwerk immediately after, which is a sure sign of an easy five for me.

Edit: listened to it all day at work and now I think I am becoming a robot 🤖

One album after giving Skepta a (high) two on the basis of interludes and excessive length, we have this which also has interludes and is even longer. But this gets away with it because of the quality of the material. Hill's voice, whether rapping or singing, is great. The singles are excellent (esp. Doo Wop). Slightly drops off in the second half, but still sneaks into a five.

I didn't mind the music/rapping but the interludes got tiresome fairly quickly, and it went on too long.

I keep getting the Vines mixed up with the Hives. Not sure why people think this is the second coming of Nirvana; there are some mild similarities, but only in a few songs. Anyway, I rather liked this.

I just noticed that Mr Wendal samples the same song as De La Soul's Eye Know. Overall I like De La Soul more, but this is still good stuff in a similar vein. A high 3, close to a four.

I think my review of Sail Away stands here too - not enough variation and a hard-to-listen-to voice.

I hadn't heard of Solomon Burke before. I liked this - he has a good voice. The arrangements and songs here don't seem as strong as some of his contemporaries though.

Every song here basically sounds the same. I'm sure these guys are good if this is a genre you're into, but I'm not, and am rating according to my enjoyment of it.

There are some (unintentionally) laugh out loud lyrics here - so earnest! I like the overall sound of it quite a bit, but it did feel a bit like being bludgeoned.

Perhaps I was a little unfair giving Synchronicity a one star rating earlier. Tempted to score this higher than I would otherwise to compensate, but I can't do it; there's just something about Sting's voice that annoys me.