Reviews by tjehl

Hauntingly beautiful record from Cat Stevens displaying grande emotions, storytelling that feels as contemporary today as during its release and all of that is topped with the undeniably strong vocal that is Stevens’.

The greatest tracks are among the best of the entire genre. And the few songs that are not as good as those are never actually bad. It’s just hard being on the same album as “Wild World” and “Father And Son”.

I honestly think that Guns N’ Roses never made a single truly great albums. They are a greatest hits band (mainly). But what a greatest hit album that is.

The fact that this album includes “Welcome To the Jungle”, “Paradise City” and “Sweet Child O’Mine” is beyond insane. Honorable mention to “Think About You”. I’m just a sucker for that chorus.

The rest of tracks range from plain boring to outright annoying. But Rose’s pipes and those few absolute masterpieces are just difficult to really hate.

Those Bunnymen really were up to something great right from the get-go.

Sounds as plain today as it must have been refreshing 60+ years ago.

The Divine Comedy continues to be one of my favorite discoveries from this list so far. Hadn’t expected another of his albums so that was a pleasant surprise.

The songwriting is amazing and his balance of extremely heartfelt and comedy is on point.

As “Through a Long & Sleepless Night” suddenly arrives out of nowhere with its epic sound I find myself thoroughly convinced that Neil Hannon is one if the genre’s most underappreciated artists.

Hate the cover, like the music.

I honestly never listened to this because while I thought “Lovefool” was fine the band probably didn’t have much else to offer. Boy, was I wrong.

I could have done without the Sabbath cover, but everything else feels incredible fresh with Nina Persson’s vocal being the finishing touch.

I mean… It’s Priest. So it’s pretty damn good heavy metal.

It’s a bit too radio friendly to be my favorite of their records - especially “United” is a mess that should have been left for a live album.

If I ever need to listen to techno, please let it be the likes of Orbital.

This would probably receive an extra star if played in the right place, at the right time.

Like Water For Chocolate just keeps going. It’s easily half an hour too long. Why is it 70+ minutes? Just why?

Common is still a great rapper. But it was, among other things, the tightness that made Be such a great record.

There are some very good tunes on this… There’s just so much else as well.

An unbelievable line-up on an equally unbelievable jazz record. There’s really not a bad second on this legendary piece of work.

One prog album to rule them all, one to find them, one to bring them all and in the light unite them.

If you’re not having goosebumps at the beginning of “Epitaph” are you actually alive?

I listened to this album yesterday… And I can’t recall a single tune.

It was decent britpop but featured nothing truly memorable.

And the length? Oh shit… They could have easily cut 15 minutes had every song not been 1-3 minutes too long.

Given the history of country albums in this list I was slowly losing faith in the genre altogether.
Of course, all I longed for was for Lucinda Williams to appear to make it all okay.

Thank you country.
Thank you Lucinda Williams.

Tom Waits’ vocals alone makes Rain Dogs an easy 5/5.

Waits further explores the fascinating and experimental depths that musicians like Captain Beefheart first came across, but he does it with such an ease and raw beauty that he suddenly opens up this weird musical world to a much larger audience.

It’s no wonder this album contains some of The Doors’ best love songs, since La Woman is obviously “the woman” in Spanish.

Well executed jokes aside, L.A. Woman is perhaps the greatest blues record ever. It initially took me some time getting into The Doors, but then it hit like a sledgehammer.

The entire Side A is a piece of perfection and while Side B is not as good, songs like “L’America” and especially the legendary closing track is something to behold.

An all time favorite of mine. I’m an absolute sucker for this period of the Supertramp discography.

It’s classic 70’s prog but while several of their contemporaries were battling in the difficulty game, Supertramp brought amazing melodies and a level of emotion to the field that was almost unheard of.

Iggy dives deeper back into his Stooges roots while still keeping up with the incredible partnership with David Bowie. It’s what I missed on The Idiot.

Yet another album in the continuing series: “Is this released today or have issues sadly stayed the same for (insert year since release) years?”

Rhythm Nation is overproduced in just the right ways, there’s a combination of absolute pop bangers and soulful love songs and many hip hop artists could learn from the lengths of these interludes.

But I can’t get over the fact that this social commentary of a concept album has so many love songs on its track list. Even though some of them are among the strongest tracks, it keeps me from fully emerging myself into the idea of the album.

I could’ve almost forgiven the lazy jazz were it not for the horrendous rap.

Do not, I repeat, do not accept councel from this council.