Reviews by wotanmjolnir

Good album, this - a really solid early glam blast, with some really great tunes. The flow feels a bit off for me, and that stops it being a 5, but it is really close. Definitely a keeper.

Yeah, it’s pretty good - I’m not massively into this kind of thing but I can tell good music, and I enjoyed this. Better than Maggot Brain (which I was underwhelmed by), not as good as Mothership Connection (which I loved).

It’s fine in its post-punk new-wavey way, but it’s borne terribly exiting, and doesn’t have any standout tracks like some of their other stuff. I didn’t hate it.

Weird, in a frankly quite shit way. It’s a bit like Nirvana / Pixies, but not quite committed to it fully - it isn’t quiet-loud, more quiet-not quite as quiet. A bit rubbish.

The most egregious faux-American accent since John Osbourne started talking about dangerous pigs. This is fine - I never liked the Cult at the time, seeing them as music for poseurs and girls, but this is ok. Solid heavy rock, although it is all a bit samey. Not quite a 4, but a very high 3.

This came out when I was 17, and is very much of its time so it really reminds me of my youth. It is by no means outstanding, but it’s perfectly good pop, and I enjoyed it.

It’s perfectly fine, but not really my lane.

I’m not a fan of rap, but this is ok. Hugely overlong, but at least there aren’t too many stupid skits. It’s fine.

10cc were half right. I don’t like reggae, because reggae is shit.

I mean, it’s ok … but it’s very unremarkable and there is absolutely no requirement to have heard this before dying.

Perfectly pleasant American rock, but nothing special.

I’m a simple man - I get served a punk album, and I’m likely to be happy. This was proven true again today.

Well, it’s fine, but I don’t remember it at all. And I’m not sure it needed well over an hour of my time.

Really enjoyable album. My REM knowledge was basically Automatic For The People, Out Of Time and Monster, but I knew both The One I Love and It’s The End Of The World As We Know It from this album, and I really liked the rest of it too. Happy day.

I think we need to have a full and frank discussion around the fact that the American Cultural Hegemony has made the world believe the Beach Boys are a great band, when, under real observation, they are creepy and formulaic shit.

Soundtrack to a Ralph Bakshincartoon porno.

I really am done with Bowie. Every album has maybe one or two good tracks with the rest shit, and yet smoke gets blown so far up his arse he ends up looking like Mt Etna. I’m glad he’s dead.

Very average 60s tweeness from Shaun Ryder’s ex father-in-law.

Nice enough Salsa, but it does feel a bit repetitive at times. Good for the background, but not overly exciting.

It’s ok, not quite sure if it gets to good. The best of the three Prince albums I’ve had so far on the list, not least in part that it doesn’t go on forever. The singles are part of the cultural wallpaper, but aside from that nothing is amazing. He could sure as shit play guitar, though.