Reviews by tjehl

Oh, so your choice of drummer actually matters? Huh?! Who knew?

A wonderfully pleasant listen, that ultimately leaves only a little mark.

Conceptual character studies disguised as R&B.

I like the concepts and themes.
I will probably forget the music itself rather quickly.

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Give a man access to every instrument conceivable, and he feeds us all for eternity.

Introducing 5 star reviews.

Surprisingly pleasurable debut.
It's too long and touches on more genres and ideas than Frankie Goes To Hollywood can handle ... At the same time, that is exactly what makes this feel more like a play than an actual album to me.

There's a clear narrative in the order of the songs and I just have a really hard time not enjoying this.

Michael Jackson moonwalks through this entire record and still manages to never make any missteps.

Legendary record from one of Bowie’s most prominent eras. The title track is one of the greatest songs ever written - and I feel like it’s doing its fair share of lifting on this album.

I’m not calling the rest of ‘Heroes’ bad; that would be downright blasphemy.
I just don’t think it’s as strong as what he presented on Low. Especially the instrumentals of side 2 doesn’t leave me moved in the same way as Low does.

You will have a hard time finding a more organic sounding hip hop record from this era than this.

A Tribe Called Quest was an entirely different entity than the majority of their contemporaries. It’s a long record, but time flies by.

1001 albums leading up to 1001 albums you must hear before you die.

Lazer Guided Melodies is good - the later half is great even with “Shine A Light” and “Angel Sigh” being Amazon tracks.
You can really hear where Spiritualized was heading; they just wasn’t quite there yet. It’s a debut, so it’s more than fair to be honest.

I’m not on board from the start.
That’s the sole reason why this isn’t the 4 it could so easily have been.

When this book is the greatest source of an album it tends to be either brilliant or a disaster. Rarely is it just quite good - but that is the case with Modern Kosmology.

There are songs where I fully get why Jane Weaver deserves her spot on this list; then there’s the rest where Weaver seems out of ideas and just ploughs on.

Possibly the greatest metal album ever.
It’s just absolute perfection from start to finish.

I have a hard time understanding that this was released in the late 90’s.

Robert Wyatt always takes you places you wouldn’t have foreseen - and Shleep is no exception. It’s a journey.

Extremely influential metal record.
You can clearly hear the difference in style between the two sides - weird that changing everyone but the drummer does that, huh?

I prefer the first side where Broadrick and Bullen helps develop a sound that would later be perfected and somehow commercialized by bands such as Slayer.

Another plus with these kinds of records; if you don’t like the song, a new one will start in about a minute.

One of his better albums vocally.
I still don’t get why you would need to listen to this much Elvis Costello in one lifetime. His songwriting really isn’t that impressive.

Almost done with him for this list - and maybe for good?

It’s good. It’s not great, but it’s good.

There’s very little information on this record - and I have a hard time understanding why it should be a necessity to listen to this album.

Slade is doing Slade-stuff. It’s overrated.

Hailing from the legendary Kuti-family it should come as no surprise that Femi Kuti delivers.

Fiercely political and wonderfully groovy.
Even the most opinionated folk singer will have a hard time keeping up with angry and oppressed African musicians.

The authors must have predicted an entirely different course for Ms. Dynamite when they opted to include this totally unnecessary record on the list.

The best thing about it is Kymani Marley who appears for a minute or so - the rest is irrelevant beyond belief.

This is the third White Stripes album in the list. Please don’t force me to listen to any more of Meg’s drumming.

A big plus that she actually isn’t doing a lot of drumming on this one, but at the same time it’s definitely not Jack White’s songwriting at his strongest.

Paul Simon’s inevitable contemporary pop album. The genre itself is perfectly non-offensive - and so is this album. It’s still Paul Simon though, so there’s enough strong songs and melodies to not make it dull.

During the otherwise bland “Cars Are Cars”, Simon proclaims that “cars are cars all over the world”. I would really like it to be a commentary on racism - but there’s a real possibility that it’s just about cars.