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I really wasn’t feeling the first two tracks at all but then I enjoyed Beginnings so things were picking up. The tracks after that were great until Free Form Guitar which wore out its welcome very quickly.

I’m A Man got me back into it, I love me some Spencer Davis Group and this was a great cover of them. After that nothing stood out massively apart from Liberation went on for donkey’s.

Overall there’s some brilliant tracks on here but also a lot I didn’t care for. It’s over an hour long and I really don’t think it needs to be. Chop 20-30 minutes off it and I’d be giving it a 4 minimum.

Top Track - I’m A Man

Great album. Beck is one of those singers that I always enjoy listening to but it’s quite rare that I take a notion to do so.

E-Pro, Broken Drum and Go It Alone were all cracking songs. The rest of the album was strong throughout as well. It’s one of those hard ones to score where it’s hard for me to find a fault with it but it’s missing some element that makes me give it top marks.

Top Track - E-Pro

I hated Country Life so wasn’t overly enthusiastic going into this but it wasn’t that bad.

Well I hated Ladytron but apart from that it wasn’t that bad. Sea Breezes was a belter.

Belter of an album. Monday, Monday was a great opener. I really liked their take on Do You Wanna Dance. I do prefer The Ramones version but this is right up there.

Obviously California Dreamin’ is the big hit from this, it’s an absolute classic. Thing is though it’s been used in so many movies, shows etc that I’ve heard it countless times so it doesn’t really stand out to me as much as it probably should.

After that there was nothing bad but the album did fall away a wee bit for me which ultimately stopped it from getting a five.

Top Track - Do You Wanna Dance

I was dreading this when it generated, did not think I was going to enjoy it at all but I was pleasantly surprised.

Across the whole album I really liked his voice. In saying that there wasn’t anything that made me go wow I need to listen to this again but at no point was I bored of it or hating life.

Top Track - The Wild Side Of Life