Reviews by owen

It was fine, I guess, but not especially memorable. I liked Murder Mystery the most

Works best on the riff-heavy tracks like Supernaut. I quite liked most of this. Wasn't so sure about the slower tracks. A pretty strong 3

This underscores to me that I prefer later Bowie to the earlier stuff. Changes is great, but the rest is nowhere near the highs of Station to Station or Low.

I think I need more time with this album. I liked some of it a lot - Last Goodbye and Lover, ... For example. Other songs did less for me, and I'm afraid Hallelujah is so overplayed now that it loses all power. But I think it's plausible that if I listened to this multiple times I could grow to love it and maybe it would be a four or even five star album.

This was very much my kind of thing. Great beats, interesting flow, good contrast between the voices. Break and High Fidelity were a couple of standouts.

This seemed groundbreaking at the time (to me, anyway), but only Moving On Up. And Loaded stand out here; the rest seems kind of dull to today's ears.

This was fairly good - the production was good, although sometimes it felt a little too smooth for my tastes

Best Beatles album or second best, pipped by Abbey Road? Either way, an amazing record. Incredible to think this was a mere three years after "Love Me Do". Tomorrow Never Knows is up there with the best songs the Beatles ever did (brilliant drums from Ringo), as is For No One. George also really starts to come into his own on this record too.

I've complained in the past about overly long albums, but Illinois totally earns its running time. This is an easy five stars for me.

This isn't what I expected from the band name. Some of the music is not bad, but the singer has a pretty poor voice.

Better than The Wall, mainly because its a more appropriate length. Again, the musicianship is excellent, but it's still a bit highly strung. A low 4.

I like the instrumentals more than the vocals here. The individual songs are fairly good, but not good enough to merit a 64 minute runtime; I was ready to be done after half an hour.

I liked this. Would be interested in hearing more if their earlier stuff too. Particularly enjoyed Let Me Help. A strong 3

Another Girl, Another Planet was familiar. Interesting that this shares both stylistic and lyrical similarities with Ash's later Girl From Mars.

They sound a bit like Television at times, especially on "The Immortal Story".

I quite like some of this, but only about half the tracks. Low 3.

This is good at doing what it intends to do, which is melodic pop punk. But it's not got the bite that I like in punk.

Nice of them to let Kermit the Frog sing the last song.

Two Steely Dan's in a week! I liked this more than the last one (Pretzel Logic). The sitar solo in Do It Again is pretty great. A high 4.

His voice sounds like the stereotypical voice that people do when taking the piss out of folk singers, with their finger in their ear.

Some decent songs on this, but also some dire ones (e.g. Beggar Girl). Overall not really my thing.

Hazey Jane II sounds like a lost Belle & Sebastian song - you can see they were influenced by Nick Drake.

Similar to the last two albums we got by Drake, this caused me to want to binge on his whole catalog immediately afterwards. Great stuff.

This is the third Iggy/Stooges album we've had. This one much like the others; which is to say an enjoyable listen, feels ahead of its time.

Twenty year old me wouldn't have been seen dead listening to Steely Dan. But there are some decent songs on here; the title track and Rikki especially. I didn't particularly like the Duke Ellington cover though.