This is very good but it should have ended at track 11 - it got too goofy and predictable
Pretty disappointing for a Britpop classic.
5 or 6 of the songs are pretty fun and don't take themselves seriously, but the album for most of it feels very uninteresting, especially when it tries to do sentimental, weird or grand sounding songs that don't pull off what they were trying to do. Even when those songs sound decent (To the End, This is a Low) they are not really re-listen worthy and feel too long, and at its worst (Magic America) it is just weird for the sake of it ... read more
some of the most progressive and forward thinking pop of the 60s
Favourites: Surf's Up, Disney Girls, Long Promised Road, Don't Go Near The Water
Favourites: Heroes and Villains, Do You like Worms, Surf's Up, ,Cabin Essence, Child Is The Father of The Man, Look Song for Children, Good Vibrations
it's not Fashionably Late levels of bad, be honest..
EDIT: Actually it might be
Incredible, this could probably get anyone into jazz
Rolling Stone can't stop taking Ls
Feels like it deserves another listen, there is so much so dissect here musically and lyrically speaking
Favourites: Between The Bars, Angeles, Say Yes, Alameda, Pictures Of Me, Rose Parade
Least Favourite: 2:45AM
Don't love it all (AHEM European Son) but it is pretty ingenious at times and very influential, cause no one has mentioned that yet, lol. Heroin is the most blood-curdling song I've heard in a while and had great use of wailing violin and pounding on a drum which left me speechless.
Sunday Morning is my favourite song on here and I wish the quieter songs on here sounded more like that and had amazing bass-lines fit with trippy sounding guitars instead.
Least Favourites: All ... read more
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