Reviews by wotanmjolnir

When I first started listening I thought that Spotify had got this album confused with the album by The Woolpackers, novelty celebrity band that was spun off from UK farmers soap opera, Emmerdale. Unfortunately I was wrong.

There’s a couple of ok songs, but the rest is just so ‘Country turned up to 11’ that it feels like parody.

‘Techno’s first concept album’, where the concept appears to be to make one of the shittest albums ever recorded, and stretch it to over one and a quarter hours.

I should like Sonic Youth - I like lo-fi garage-y pseudo punk noise rock, and I was in my teens when they were big, but they just passed me by, and continue to do so. It’s ok, but I didn’t really enjoy it, as such.

I quite like Tge Fall, but this is all a bit samey for me.

This is never going to be my thing. At least it was short.

It’s ok - the two big songs over-shadow everything else, but it’s not bad. I doubt I’ll listen to anything over than those two again, though.

A surprisingly large amount of insect-chat here. It’s ok.

I hadn’t listened to this since release, but wish I had listened more. Yes, some of the later tracks are a little uneven, but it wouldn’t be Peter Gabriel without that, and the rest of it, and his voice, are just great.

I mean, it’s just not very good really, is it?

My wife and I went to Paris on our honeymoon. My wife wanted to take in one of the most romantic cities on earth. I wanted to visit Jim Morrison’s grave. I found it in the maze of Pere Lachaise by following the sound of a very drunk Frenchman singing Doors songs. It seemed fitting.

Def Leppard were the first band I ‘discovered’ for myself, and I loved them as a teenager. This hasn’t aged brilliantly, and is over long and very front-end loaded … but what a front end end. Daft, overblown, super shiny sort-of-hair metal, and just enjoyable.

This is right up my street - I’m a sucker for that 70s rootsy mellow rock, and this delivered in spades.

The man may be a humourless, self-important prick, but I can’t hate the music. It’s not groundbreaking, but it’s well executed and nice enough to listen to. The album is way too long, though.

Jez and Super Hans would reject this for Danny Dyer’s Chocolate Homunculus as being too shit.

My second sort-of-ambient sort-of-background-music Brian Eno album in three days after Music for Airports, and this is much the same, if giving a different feel. It’s not bad, it’s not good, it’s not interesting, and it’s not getting another play from me.

And it’s not getting more than 2 stars.

I quite liked this, but when everything is so short there isn’t much to get your teeth into. Half the songs for twice as long would be better.

I feel bad for having a go at an album for basically doing what it says on the tin, but this is boring, bland background music. It is absolutely not bad, or offensive, but it is just magnolia wallpaper.

I should like this. I’m a metal head, and I love blues and blues-rock … but this is just a bit too embryonic. Blue Cheer walked so Zeppelin and Deep Purple could run, but really, they are just dawdling along in my way, like a pensioner in the post office.

Also, the stereo mix is horrible on headphones.

This may not be the best album in the world, but it did soundtrack my time at university so it has so many good memories. Enjoyable if a little inconsequential.

Sure, this is ok and was probably great at the time, but music has moved on and it’s not very exciting, plus some of the lyrics have not aged at all well …