Rated 4/10
Pros: for a heavy and heavily distorted album the production is really crisp and clear, so much so that you can actually hear every word.
Cons: for a heavy and heavily distorted album the production is really crisp and clear, so much so that you can actually hear every word.
Rated 6/10
It’s perfectly pleasant, but nothing more. Reminded me of Counting Crowd in parts, and Sheryl Crow. Quite a crow heavy review, really.
Rated 4/10
Perhaps the most beige album I’ve ever heard. If the cover had just been a stencilled ‘Live Laugh Love’ I wouldn’t have been surprised.
Rated 6/10
This should be right up my street, but it doesn’t quite land. Reminded me in parts of a greatly inferior ‘Days of Future Passed’ which I think is a massive omission when this album is included.
Rated 6/10
Hmmmm. I like prog. Actually, I LOVE prog. But it’s ‘70s prog I love, and really this isn’t something I could get my head around. I feel bad, and may give it another go quite soon because it wasn’t bad, but I can’t say I particularly enjoyed it, either.
Rated 4/10
This is such a mediocre album. Nothing good, nothing particularly bad, nothing to write home about. Boring, bland, entirely unmemorable.
Rated 6/10
Ste, Ste, Ste. Ste, we get it - you were subjected to corporal punishment at school and didn’t like it. A lot of people were, and I’m going to say most of them didn’t like it either. You aren’t special.
I quite like a The Smiths, but I have to admit it’s in an Alan Partridge-esque “Very Best of The Smiths” kind of way. Give me the good tunes, filter out the filler - I think the fact that only ‘That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore’ is regularly anthologised in best ofs kind of sets out where I stand on this. No better than ok, the self-titled debut and The Queen Is Dead are both far superior.
I really enjoyed this. It’s a little bit countrified, which is a bit surprising from a British duo, but it also has some really nice folky elements come through. Overall, very pleasant.
Rated 6/10
This is perfectly pleasant but feels a little directionless. I had ‘Here Come the Warm Jets’ earlier in the project and loved it, this is just ok.
Rated 10/10
Such a fantastic album, and one I’ve loved for a long time, but Arthur Lee must have had some properly dark shit going around his head when he wrote this.
Rated 6/10
I wanted this to be better than it was. The Mondays are hugely important to the Baggie / Madchester / Indie scene of the early 90s, but this is really just so very … meh.
When this started I was thinking this could be my first 5-star in a loooong time - but as it wound on the quality took a major downward trajectory. It never gets bad, but it does get uninspiring, and to end an already overlong album with 15 minutes of navel-gazing instrumentals that rival Deep Purple at their own-fart-sniffing best just drops it down pretty hard. Shame.
Rated 8/10
I wish I had realised sooner how much I like punk. Great album, spiky, harsh, angry, vibrant, powerful. If you don’t like this you’re probably part of the establishment.
Rated 4/10
It’s better than I expected it to be, but my expectations of French hip-hop were benthonically low.
Rated 4/10
If you quickly glance at the cover it really looks like that woman is giving him a blowie. Also, this music is more than a little bit shit.
Rated 6/10
Not bad, but it’s a little too industrial for my proper enjoyment. I prefer my punk a little grittier.
Rated 8/10
There was a massive buzz around Ash in the UK when this came out, but they never really seemed to properly take off. This is a good album though, but maybe that’s more a memory thing for me, as I was in my early twenties when it came out.
Rated 6/10
Ken Lee, ee libidibidouchoo.
Rated 6/10
This is ok, if unremarkable. I don’t get why this has been singled out for inclusion ahead of many other identikit indie rock albums that sound like they are from The OC OST.
Rated 4/10
Not bad, not good, not even particularly boring it’s just uninteresting.
