Reviews by tjehl

It’s only been a few days since I ranted about some electronic acts releasing several versions of the same song.

Pink Floyd put 3 parts of the same song on The Wall. And I applaud them for it and award them 5 stars.

The world’s not a fair place. Too bad.

It’s not actually an album album, is it now?
It’s fine for a few moments, but I ultimately don’t care about it.

Definitely Maybe?

Definitely Yes!

That one shit radio station in every GTA you scroll past every time.

If you know Grateful Dead in any way, you know exactly what you’re getting.

I’m still not at all sold on the idea of this 15 minutes rendition of “Turn On Your Love Light”. I know that they can jam out some standout blues - this just isn’t it.

I hate that it’s a thing for some electronic acts to release their albums in a myriad of different ways. Please decide on a mix and go with it.

Now that that’s out of the way, there are a few interesting choices on this album. Other than that it’s quite a bore.

Go ahead and sign me up for the 1001 Post-Hardcore Albums-list, please.

Born To Run contains some of his career highs - the magnificent title track and “Jungleland” being just two of those.

Having such iconic and powerful tracks also means that some of the other songs tend to feel less grand and more like fillers.
They’re obviously not though and Born To Run is still a great, AMERICAN record.

Contender for the most French album to ever come out of the UK. It’s rather atmospheric and Walker knows what he’s doing, but at the same time it’s also just too much and too monotonous.

Someone: “There’s no such thing as a perfect rock’n’roll album.”

Ziggy Stardust: *exists*

Miles fully commits to jazz fusion on In A Silent Way - only to later perfect it on Bitches Brew.

You probably can’t make this genre any better, than Norah Jones does on Come Away With Me. The title track is so hauntingly beautiful that it could carry this entire album alone.

Thankfully it doesn’t have to.

Crazy that this was released in ‘68 prior to the debuts of both Chicago and King Crimson. I am definitely adding this to my vinyl collection.

Slowly realizing that Can and its members might be some of my favorite music.

Czukay delivers some wonderfully challenging yet approachable pop music on Movies. Quite the masterpiece.

Solid songwriting, strong lyrics and great vocals. You’re never going wrong with Elliott Smith.

A blend of the most common musical ideas of the 60’s. They do those ideas justice but not much else.

Can is pushing the limits with the length of Tago Mago - parts of the half end of the record could easily have been cut.

At the same time Can is also pushing the boundaries of what music should sound like at the time of its release. Highly influential and never boring.

Very solid record from Mr. Weller.
It’s rarely anything too unusual and spectacular - it’s just really well crafted.

Jefferson Airplane could have yelled into a well for 30 minutes and this would probably still be a 4 due to “Somebody To Love”. Grace Slick sounds unbelievably good.

When I reviewed Idlewild, I criticized EBtG for writing very similar and boring pop songs.

On Walking Wounded they explore a new genre by focusing on downtempo electronica - mainly to prove that they manage to be boring in more than one genre? It’s rather admirable.