Reviews by wotanmjolnir

Such a good album, and totally unexpected. Really groovy - if it doesn't get you tapping your toes it probably means that you have early stage leprosy.

Nu-metal was a bit of a bust genre for me - I was more of a blues rock / heavy rock / heavy metal / thrash metal kind of guy, and so was very judgy about it. This is OK, not my thing but not awful, and the singles are OK. It's short, too, which always helps when you're not a big fan.

Remarkably unremarkable. This left no impression on me other than it was not a bad album, just utterly unmemorable.

Prince is the Stephen King of music. Talented, but can't write an ending for shit. I don't know about his views on weird teen sex, though.

Pretty much every track here could be cut in half and nothing of value would be lost. Having said that, an album like that would still only get 3 stars at best from me, so the fact this bloated thing is solidly over an hour long means that I'm sorry Mr Nelson, but it's a 2 from me - I just don't get your stuff.

Never judge an album by its cover. This one looks like a shite New Romantic-type of thing, and then you find out it was critically savaged, barely troubled the top 150, and was deleted from the catalogue in short order and expectations drop further.

And then you listen to it.

Jesus Christ, this album is great. It's initially a little bit over countrified for my British ears, but once the shock wears off you realise what a bunch of idiots critics in the 70s were. A brilliant album.

Proper prog done proper. It does get a bit over-weird (Moonchild's second half could do with getting back in its box) but otherwise really good.

It's not my favourite Zeppelin album by any means, but it's still one of the best heavy rock / blues rock / folk rock albums ever made. Immigrant Song, Since I've Been Loving You, Gallows Pole, Tangerine ... just so much really high quality stuff.

I did not know what to expect, and checking the reviews I feared the worst. Went on to Spotify and saw it clocked in at 2.5 hours and my arsehole nearly dropped out. I checked Wikipedia and saw the original release was 'only' 1 hour 16 minutes, and found that one instead.

I wish I'd gone for the two and a half hour deluxe edition, because this is a great album.

Many years ago I went trekking in Nepal with a bloke who was at art college with Phil Oakey. He said he was a foppish twat.

This album is better than I expected, not that I had very high hopes. It's fine.

Eeeeh, it's OK I guess - just twee folky tunes that hurt noone, but are entirely unexciting.

This is such a good album - I personally rate it as only just behind Kid A, Amnesiac and OK Computer. I totally get why some people just don't gel with this album, but there's so much really good stuff here - There There (which is amazing live), Sail To The Moon, Scatterbrain, A Wolf At The Door are amongst their very best material in my opinion. Brilliant, brilliant album

It's ... fine, I suppose. It isn't that it is all very samey, but there is just nothing distinctive about any track on this. You could play me anything from it and it would be like hearing it for the first time again. Beige music.

I can say with absolute certainty that some people made this album, and that I listened to it. Beyond that, I've got nothing. So totally unmemorable.

This is a cross between Smashing Pumpkins and any band that played at The Bronze in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

It's OK, but it hangs around far too long.

To all the idiots saying that this is an album full of incredibly repetitive songs that could be a minute long and would contain all that the song had to offer, I refer them to My Feet Keep Dancing, which has a tap-dance solo in it. Take that, dickheads!

This album makes me think of pressing a 9V battery onto my sweaty balls - yes, it may make my leg jiggle a bit, but it is otherwise horrible and makes me feel a bit ill.

Groovy

As

Fuck

I like The Smiths, but I do think they are a bit over-rated. Still, having said that it's hard to ignore the quality here, and without the band then the landscape of modern British music would be dramatically different. Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Boy With A Thorn In his Side and I Know It's Over are all really good, and of course There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is magnificent. Good album.

To paraphrase 10cc, I don't like Reggae - because it is shit.

Also, that reggaeification of Strange Fruit is a crime all by itself. Fucking he'll.

When my wife and I got married in 2013 we were both overweight - in fact when we looked at the wedding photos on a DVD my wife said we looked like Les Dawson and Matt Lucas in a dress. All the while, over the top of these photos, the photographer had added One Day Like This by Elbow.

3 out of 5, would get married looking like Les Dawson again.

The smallest of The Big Four, and one I'd never listened to before. This takes a while to get going, and even at at it's best it's not as good as the other three, but it's OK. Scott Ian is a great rhythm player and the album gallops along like a decent thrash album should, but it doesn't quite have that certain something that Ride the Lightning or ...And Justice For All or Seasons In The Abyss has, and so not even Judge Dredd can get it above three stars.