Reviews by scousepete

Yes? That’s a no from me dawg.

One hour of auto tone

I’ve never dropped acid, but if I ever do I imagine this is how every album will sound. Both going up and then coming down.

If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known this was Taylor Swift's fifth studio album. The album where she sheds her country skin and reinvents herself as a pop icon.

This album came out in 2013, before my daughter, who knows the words to every Taylor Swift song, was born.

This may not be my cup of tea, but credit has to be given where credit is due, and I did find myself singing along to a song here and there. My six year-old knows her stuff.

Adding samba to jazz is the equivalent of adding pineapple to a pizza. Some people will absolutely hate it, others will think it's the best thing ever.

Bon appetit!

This was worse than that German band hitting pipes with a hammer

Have you ever taken a test or completed a survey, where in amongst the questions there is a control question? Something along the lines of "Select 5 as the answer for this question". It's to make sure you are paying attention and has nothing whatsoever to do with the test itself.

This album is the equivalent of that. It has absolutely no business being here. It's just a test to see if we are awake. We are, this "music" sucks.

Never heard of this artist. Hoped it had stayed that way.

What a voice! What a voice full of sorrow and pain.

Even though many might consider The Ramones a pioneer of (American) punk, this brand of punk isn't as angry as that of The Sex Pistols or The Dead Kennedys. Not sure I would really label it punk at all.

The tunes are catchy, but the opening anthem aside, all the other songs sound the same. Same rhythm. same beat, similar lyrics.

Good album, worthly of this list, but not amazing.

I'm not a fan of rap, but I am a fan of trying everything on this project with an open mind, so looking at the track listing I was excited to see a rap album where every song didn't have the explicit filter next to it.

Boy, how did all these songs dodge the NSFW filter? The first "song" is a porn scene with someone that sounds remarkably like Arnie. There's another porn scene in the middle of the album and the rest of it is full of doctor-themed inuendo and weak rhymes.

No idea how this made it to the top 1001 albums.

Disclaimer: I’m not a big fan of country and Dolly’s helium-infused vocals wouldn’t be my first choice of what to listen to, but I really enjoyed this. Boy, was it sad at times. I felt a little tear trying to break through. Poor little girl with the dodgy coat. Sniff, sniff. Girl whose fella is leaving her for someone else. Sniff, sniff.

Extra star for the dodgiest rhyming and made-up-wordery and grammar.

“I sure wouldn’t telling”
“I didn’t told her”
“I reckon I ought’n’t”
“Don’t think I ever knowed you either”

She gets away with it because of her cute Southern accent 😃

Second Muddy Water album in a week and I much preferred this to the other live album that was full of filler and repeats. None of that here, just solid magic.

I imagine if there was music in a Finnish sauna, this would be it. Background and quite forgettable

Old school hip-hop. Rhyming is life!

It was very nice, but completely forgettable. Like elevator music

Bit of a mixed bag this one. It often sounds very 80's synth-poppy. It's like they were trying to emulate Soft Cell or Human League, but 20 years too late. And they do sound very English, which no doubt prompted "North American Scum", which I quite enjoyed.

This album gave me the blues.

I'd never heard of this band before, and I'm generally not a fan of hip hop, but I liked this album. I've heard "You're Golden" somewhere before, but no idea where.

3.5/5 rounding up

This is beautiful music