Reviews by wotanmjolnir

It’s not bad, but it’s not my bag, and it feels more like a DJ set rather than a traditional album. Frontier Psychiatrist is the highlight, and is entertaining enough, but I’m never spinning this again.

Really good grunge record, and part of my youth Chris Cornell had an amazing voice, and some real demons.

I don’t like a the Police. They always come across as a try-hard bunch of white boys, and they appear to hate each other nearly as much as I do. This is better than the other shit they’ve produced, though, and Synchronicity II is quite good.

And then there’s Mother.

I really don’t enjoy reggae, but at least this is authentic as opposed to the awful shit pumped out by UB40 or The Police. Not my bag, but not (Natty) dreadful.

Good album, although it does feel a bit samey at times. Dark and gloomy, a bit hypnotic, and very of its time. You can see where Bobby Gillespie took inspiration with Primal Scream.

This is ok. It is a little bit like hold music for the first half, but gets more interesting after the flip. Destroy Rock & Roll is pretty good, reeling off all these artists that are bringing about the downfall of western civilisation due to break dancing, including <checks notes> Christine McVie, The Alan Parsons Project, Patti Smith, Huey Lewis and the News, Men At Work and REO Speedwagon. Oh, and Cyndie Looper too, whoever that may be.

This is ok - better than either of the other two Tim Buckley albums I’ve had on a less folksy, slightly rockier edge way.

It’s hip-hop. I don’t really like hip-hop, but this is fine. I don’t remember a thing about it, I’m never going to listen again, but I didn’t hate it.

Pffffff - this isn’t bad, but it’s not very interesting. I’ve had a couple of other PJ Harvey albums on the list, and this is better than those in some ways and worse in others. The grungy elements are ok, but it’s generally quite dull, so it’s sitting at a low 3.

Ok, I can give it credit for being an important document for black women and black people in general, but I’m neither of those things and I’m judging this on musical merit.

It’s shit.

It’s like a LiveLaughLove sticker in musical form. It’s for people that have French bulldogs, or drive poverty spec white Range Rover Evoques on finance, or live in new build greige boxes on soulless estates. And it’s 51 minutes long, and has 18 producers credited on Wikipedia - something something cooks something something broth.

It’s ok. It gets a bit weird and experimental in places, and not really in a good way, but it’s not rubbish.

Horatio Velveteen but without the charisma.

This is ok, it’s a bit Smiths-y, but nothing is outstanding and Morrissey is a gigantic cunt.

This is way better than the reviews suggest score (currently 2.82) suggests, but then I do love rootsy, swampy, blues rock. Yes, it’s way too long and over indulgent, and there are too many times that it sounds like Mary Jane’s Last dance but fuck it, that’s a great tune and this is a good album.

I’m sure this was pretty cutting edge when it came out, but now it sounds like rock music for people who have heard rock music exists - people who’s favourite Beatles album is ‘Best of The Beatles’. Not bad, but dated and now sounds unimaginative.

I’m no fan of EDM, but The Chemicals are a bit different. It’s not my favourite, but it’s good task completion music and I will deffo have it on when doing something else.

Perfectly good album, but not something I’d actively listen to. This could become an ‘on in the background while I paint D&D miniatures’ album.

I lived this album when it came out, and it holds up well today. Dynamic, diverse, challenging musically and lyrically, and just exciting. Mike Patton’s vocal style may not be to everyone’s taste, but he can certainly sing.

Right, first things first, Christina Aguilera has an outstanding voice. What she also needs here is some musical range, some restraint, and at least 12 fewer tracks.

Production and performance is excellent, but the album is massively bloated and does not have enough variety in style to make it interesting - it’s when something a bit different to the standard diva-pop appears that it improves, for example there is some Muddy Waters-style Blues, and some Billie Holiday-style light jazz that stands out in quality. This is t an awful album, but when there are maybe two enjoyable tracks out of 22 that makes it pretty bad for me.

Ravi Shankar - The Sounds of India

In today’s episode, Norah Jones’ dad gives us a short lecture on Indian music, plays the opening to Within You Without You, and then tunes up for 10 minutes. 4 times.

It’s not necessarily bad, but it is boring.