Reviews by wotanmjolnir

Yeah, it’s ok but it never really gets going for me - a bit slow and stodgy until the latter part of the album. Not bad, but not listening again.

An absolute delight of an album. Thoroughly enjoyable, beginning to end.

Stevie Wonder is obviously a great singer, and an extraordinary musician. The songwriting, though - it just doesn’t usually work for me, and that holds true here. It’s fine.

This is not as bad as the reviews suggest. It’s not good, mind, and it absolutely does not deserve a place on the list, but it’s fine sub-James Taylor-y noodling, with a couple of actively quite good tracks.

If you have this on in the background then this is an ok album. Start to pay attention, though, and you realise it is just all the early 2000 musical tropes, alternatively invoking The Corrs, The Killers, maybe throw in some Suede and Kinks and even Robbie Williams in there, with all the while the self-pitying wank-balladry of Steve-o mewling over the top. He really thinks his lyrics are cutting and inciteful and oh-so-very sharp.

They are not.

It’s jazz. It’s massively long. It’s boring. It’s shit.

I’m not a huge fan of The Who, but there’s a lot to like here. I’m A Man, The Kids Are Alright, The Ox, and of course My Generation are good to great tunes, and while there is still enough Keith Moon-like drumming at least the tempo is pretty solid - I've never been a big fan of the looseness of his style, and he never really had the groove or swing that John Bonham had, but it’s impossible to deny that his drumming was vital to The Who’s sound.

This is so over-produced I’m surprised that there was any production left for the rest of the music industry.

This album makes me feel like I should be driving around early 90s LA with my ragtop down, about to commit some sex crimes.

Really surprised by the negative reviews this is getting. Ok, it’s not blues (like it says on the tin), but it’s pretty good punk-styled alt rock. Ok, it’s uneven, and can be a bit more noise-rock at times, but I enjoyed most of this.

Incidental music for a very low quality film-noir-style kids TV program, or that really crap 80s stage magician that had Vanilla Ice’s hair, Stevie Wonder’s glasses and David Byrne’s suit. Utterly inessential. The auditory equivalent of stepping on a mouldy dog turd in your flip-flops.

A perfectly fine power-pop album. It’s not quite fully developed REM yet, but it is showing those shoots. Solid, but not great, album.

This is ok - a bit backgroundy, but perfectly listenable.

Once somebody decided to turn that fucking harpsichord into firewood this album took a turn for the better. Not at all bad, but that baroque-pop-bollockness really damages the score for me.

I’m glad this generation is dead.

Heirarchy of Floyd, from worst to best goes:

Gilmour Floyd
Barrett / Waters Floyd
Waters / Gilmour Floyd

At least this isn’t A Momentary Lapse Of Reason.

Macy Gray does 12 subtly different takes of the theme song for a Disney Animation Studios James Bond film.

I’m no fan of jazz, but this was ok. I didn’t hate it, and that’s an achievement for a jazz record.

I’ve tried to give this a fair shake, but this is terrible. Everything goes on for far too long, and even if this was halved in length it would still be terrible - there is no development in song structure, not even a simple verse-chorus, it’s just the same four bars repeated with slight instrumental variety, whilst John Lydon whines away somewhere in the background. The sound mix is awful, and the discordance / atonal / microtonal stuff is just painful. Absolute cockwash.

Aerosmith’s best song is by Run DMC.

This was surprisingly enjoyable - not incredible but a very enjoyable dance-lite album.