Reviews by wotanmjolnir

Well, it’s fine I guess, but if I heard it again it would be like the first time listening to it.

I don’t like early U2, I don’t like mid-career U2, I don’t like late period U2, and I don’t trust anyone that does.

Non-descript, boring, forgettable pap.

It’s the best album by a band that only make good albums. Outstanding.

This pair always look as if they’ve just finished listening to one of their own interminably drab records.

I remember the splash this made in the British music scene when this came out, and even so I really don’t think this has a place on the list. It’s not bad, it moves along quite nicely, and the big singles are part of the cultural wallpaper now, but it’s not something I’m going to be rushing back to.

This is going to be a difficult one to be objective about. This came out when I was 22, and at University, and the singles were absolutely everywhere (Angels still is, of course) so formed a soundtrack to some of my funnest memories. And, in fairness, the singles are pretty good, if lightweight, pop-rock - South of the Border, which didn’t do particularly well is one of my favourite Robbie Williams tracks (Let Love Be Your Energy is my other favourite, which again failed to do well - suggests I’m not quite the target market, which is fair). The album tracks, though, are noticeably weaker. Life Thru A Lens is poor and the rest aren’t any better. Plus, his voice can verge into quite a whiny nasal tone, which isn’t very nice.

Reading that back, I’ve smashed it pretty hard, but those singles have such good feelings and memories tied to them that I can’t really give it less than 3 stars.

I really enjoyed this - alt-y indie-y dad rock. My street.

Yeah, no - I had to tap out of this one. Utter crap.

Nu metal was a dark time, and this is really not good enough to be considered part of that shitty genre. It’s barely metal, and it’s not even really nu enough either. Everything sounds the same (with the horrid exception of Battlestar Scralatchtica, which is really, really shit), and it’s all boring and tame. This is poo.

This is just not at all my lane. I’m sure it’s fine if you like that kind of thing, but for me it’s just cold cat shit.

I mean … it’s a bit bollocks, isn’t it?

The fact that the singles off this album are head and shoulders above everything else on here says quite a lot. This is a perfectly fine album and she really could sing (although I don’t particularly like her voice), but the album doesn’t excite me and the manufactured nostalgia feel is not my thing.

An ok post-punk / New Wave album, but nothing really stands out.

This isn’t the most Britpop Britpop album, but it is probably the one that best typifies what Cool Brittania was all about. I was there, I loved it, and this, while not an outstanding album, really is a great document of the time.

Ok, a lot of these songs are a bit same-y, and he massively overuses the vibrato, but there are some pretty solid tunes here, and The Amorous Humphrey Plug is an all-timer. Not great, there are too many indistinguishable songs for that, but it’s pretty good.

I don’t think it’s essential to listen to an hours worth of average Celtic Country before I die, but if it is at least I’ve done it. Meh.

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh goodness me.

This is one of the crappest records I’ve ever had to listen to. Shitty hip-hop ‘concept’ album, where the incredibly juvenile is dreadfully presented, and lasts for over an hour.

Utter, utter shit. How this is not in amongst the lowest rated albums on the app is beyond me.

This is pretty good - I enjoyed most of it, and Brass In Pocket is a great tune. It has a bit of a punkier edge to its New Wave sensibilities, and that’s fine by me.

This is like Screamadelica-lite, like if The Lightning Seeds were fronted by a woman who idolises PJ Harvey a bit too much. It’s ok, but it’s not interesting, and I don’t remember anything about it, really.

I don’t like jazz. I don’t understand it, and I don’t enjoy it. However, this album I did really rather enjoy. Maybe it’s because Mingus plays more of a background role on the rhythm section, as opposed to Coltrane or Davis firing off self-fellating fireworks at the front end and that appeals to me more, but it is comfortably the best jazz album I’ve heard.