AOTY 2025

I expected a lot from this, cause their previous record is one of my personal best rock albums of the last decade (and of course I'm a big FWF fan). Their weird idea of pop is always there, but there are not as many memorable melodies. Lias singing is very similar to the last FWF album, that's good, creepy and trippy, but I was hoping for more hooks. I'm not disappointed anyway, the sound is amazing, they traded the psychedelic 60s for dark electro moods ("Yama Yama" ... read more

The album starts with a couple of songs that are way too typical for Viagra Boys so my first thought was like "ok they're just being themselves doing themselves and I won't be excited", and it happens a couple of times again, cause they have a template and now we know it very well and it can turn things a bit too predictable. BUT, there are also great variations of their classic themes ("Dirty Boys") and some new approaches ("Store Policy" and "Uno ... read more

Maybe the rest is not as good as "The Way" (that's an unbeatable 100/100 masterpiece of the nineties), but the power pop is strong in this record and there are a lot of classic hooks an melodies that just makes you feel good.

When this came out it was 10 years after their first album but they sound like at least 30 years passed. Sadly for them 1979 rock music was going somewhere else but Led Zeppelin didn't seem to notice and thanks to the heavy hand of John Paul Jones they're already projecting themselves in the 80s big dumb mainstream rock act mood. From this point of view you can even think they were ahead of time. To be fair, Bonzo is trying his best to give some vitality to the material and sometimes ... read more

Yeah we can say that Achilles Last Stand could save this record with a little help from Nobody's Fault But Mine, but I have to admit I don't even like them that much. Achilles' riff is amazing, the drumming is perfect (the influence on metal songs like Metallica's "One" is huge), but Plant is sadly on a very low point here and there's something very odd with the production. You can definitely hear that the band was disjointed and the focus was on something ... read more

Yes, there's more than the first four self titled. Here's another classic with a light touch of forgettable silliness (The Crunge and D'Yer Maker) but with some of the band's best songs. No Quarter is still unbelievable in its perfection; the first three songs in a row are a non stop exaltation; Dancing Days is one of my favourite underrated ones; The Ocean is a classic Led Zeppelin live banger riff. If it wasn't for those two, it'd be another perfect 10/10 album. ... read more

Yes, it's kinda generic 70s blues rock, and yes it has only one strong song (Dream On, obviously), but it already shows the swagger that Aerosmith are famous for, and even though Tyler's voice still wasn't their impressive secret weapon yet, you can already hear something in the last couple of tracks. Anyway, the pretty cool guitar riffs are the main thing keeping the listener awake.

Fav: "Dream On"
Least fav: "Write Me a Letter"