On my last listen of this, I accidentally had Thong Song queued, so after the majestic opener I was blessed by a cacophony of noise by a man who loves nothing but big booties and thongs to death. Honestly, it made for a heavenly opening for the album, would heavily recommend doing the same.
Some of the songs are genuinely up to Plastic Beach standards, which is remarkable. Some of them are middling, which is to be expected for the later Gorillaz catalogue, especially since Cracker Island was ... read more
Favourite Song: Cursive
Best: Magazine, try saying, Dodecahedron, A Brigther Tomorrow, Life Hex, ist halt so
Worst: Sevastopol
Favourite Song: Can I Have You For Myself?
Best: Dead Weight, In My Town, Double Trio 2, GGG
Worst: Best Interest
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Favourite Song: Nothing Really Matters
Best: Drowned World / Substitute for Love, Swim, Ray of Light, Candy Perfume Girl, Skin, Frozen, Mer Girl
Worst: Shanti / Ashtangi
I'll leave Alt-J with other indie bands experiencing a phenomenon known as 'challenging vocals'.
Favourite Song: Tessellate
Best: Intro, Breezeblocks, Taro
Worst: Bloodflood
Favourite Song: Penitentiary Philosophy
Best: Didn't Cha Know, My Life, ... & On, Cleva, Kiss Me On My Neck, A.D. 2000, Orange Moon, Bag Lady, Green Eyes
Worst: In Love with You
Favourite Song: stick
Best: new david bowie, '06 wayne rooney, issues of trust, father, d.b.a.b, big time forward, sos, i just banged a snus in canada water, 3x
Worst: sun
It's like Abbey Road but if they had their dicks out and were lost at sea.
Favourite Song: Ocean Man
Best: I'm Dancing In the Show Tonight, The Mollusk, I'll Be Your Jonny On the Spot, Mutilated Lips, The Blarney Stone, The Golden Eel, Waving My Dick In the Wind, Buckingham Green, She Wanted to Leave
Worst: Pink Eye (On My Leg)
One of those albums that I'm kicking myself for not listening to sooner. SO much fun, and extremely well produced. This would have easily been in my top 10 favourite albums last year if I had not been lazy.
Favourite Song: epitafio
Best: debut, worldw1de, NANA フリーク版, www.hotxulito.com, POPPER!, superficial, teoría del tiempo, para siempre(｡>﹏<), carta a mi papá
Worst: mucho, poquito, nada
Favourite Song: not a lot, just forever
Best: two reverse, ingydar, anything, forwards beckon rebound, heavy focus, half return, come, zombie girl, dragon eyes, my angel
Worst: N/A
Favourite Song: One Armed Scissor
Best: Arcarsenal, Pattern Against User, Sleepwalk Capsules, Invalid Letter Dept., Enfilade, Quarantined, Cosmonaut, Catacombs
Worst: Mannequin Republic
Favourite Song: Wings of Feather and Wax
Best: Face Down, Melting of My Marrow, Snakes of Jehovah, Curb Crusher, I.E.D., Dust into Darkness, Twelve Labours
Worst: Save the Robots
Favourite Song: STOLE YA FLOW
Best: ORDER OF PROTECTION, HELICOPTER, STAY HERE 4 LIFE, NO TRESPASSING, STOP SNITCHING, PUNK ROCKY, DON'T BE DUMB / TRIP BABY, SWAT TEAM
Worst: STFU
Favourite Song: In My Arms
Best: Foolish Love, April Fools, Baby, Beauty Mark, Barcelona, Matinee Idol, Imaginary Love
Worst: Damned Ladies
Pretty great throughout, but The End is absolutely spectacular. Conceiving a song that masterful in the 60s is baffling to me.
Favourite Song: The End
Best: Break On Through (To the Other Side), Soul Kitchen, The Crystal Ship, Light My Fire, Back Door Man, Take It As It Comes
Worst: I Looked At You
It takes some adjusting, but it's a truly entrancing pop album.
Favourite Song: The Passionate Ones
Best: Automatic Love, Idiot In The Park, Max Potential, It's Time, 9 2 5, Crazy People, Jojo, Tossed Away, When The War Is Over
Worst: BABY BABY
Favourite Song: HARDLY EVER SMILE(without you)
Best: FACT 2, MELTING MOMENT
Worst: THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Favourite Song: Style
Best: Blank Space, Out of the Woods, All You Had To Do Was Stay, Shake It Off, I Wish You Would, Wildest Dreams, I Know Places, Clean
Worst: Bad Blood
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Recent Review Comments
On my bloody valentine - loveless
"@Quesadilla yeahh i've felt alone with my opinion on this album for a while hehe it's nice to know someone else feels the same, i am due a relisten however this review is outdated by almost 4 years and things may have changed who knows (also i was a tad harsh)"
On Various Artists - Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense
"@larkwashere This convinced me that psycho killer would be an insanely good for an IDLES cover https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q6WqqRlAMNQ, and yeah the whole thing's just a massive shame. For such a creative and different band they picked some extremely conformist artists"
On King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Changes
"@TazRatesMusic NEEDS MORE MICROTONES 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥"
On BaddieBaphomet's review of Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
"This review made my year"
On The Smile - Wall of Eyes
"@masivnipero Many thanks :)"
On Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
"@NeedlefluuJr Hehe no worries. The beauty with art is that our opinions and views on things change over time, and when people invite you to look back and reassess something it's always a nice feeling regardless if it's something you do or don't enjoy. I'm very much an opinionated person but sometimes I can be a bit harsh, so thanks for highlighting my WAY TOO harsh score. No piece of art deserves a 0 unless it's actively offensive or devoid of any integrity, which is rarely ever the case, and this song certainly doesn't fit that category especially because Simz is a true from the heart story teller. I hope that going from 0 to 30 has increased the songs average rating by at least 0.1% 😎"
On Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
"@NeedlefluuJr True actually 0 is too harsh, although I'm really not huge on it it does deserve a little weight"
On Alice in Chains - Unplugged
"@BartDaGoat Yeah that's been on my radar for a while, I'm just not sure I'd enjoy it since I'm not the biggest Nirvana guy but I might give it a go just in case 👍"
On Louis13's review of Nothing But Thieves - Dead Club City
"Yeah Conor definitely put in an underperformance on this one. Going from his beautiful ballads on the self-tilted to his booming screeches on the Broken Machine bangers, to then landing on a laid back not-even-trying indie pop rock whimper is kind of jarring. Still a good album IMO but as a vocalist he's been pushed to the sidelines by inconsistent synth pop formulas and idk how to feel about it."
On Royal Blood - Royal Blood
"@bfranco I wrote this review 2 years ago when I did not know as much about music generally, so trust me when I say that I have known for a while after writing this review that the lead plays a heavily beefed up bass (mainly because it's the only thing that the band has going for them 😅). Sorry that I got it wrong in the past, I am a changed man now!"
On Oliver Tree - Ugly is Beautiful
"@Vespertwink So damn true"
On Pearl Jam - Ten
"@hpianomusic Thanks man, and I'll agree to disagree on that front 🤝"
On Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
"@LukesTunes I guess it's an AOTY tradition to obsess over a few kooky albums every year, but yeah it's still pretty good :)"
On sweaty_ballz's review of The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
"Gotta love obligatory 90's hip hop album sex interludes"
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