Average Rating: 4.40 Rating Variance: 0.30 Objectivity Score: 41% (Poorly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAlice Cooper The Last TemptationAlice Cooper DaDaI always had a thing about Alice, ever since I heard Welcome To My Nightmare and Last Temptation as a teenager. As time went by I gathered a few more AC albums, including the incredible Billion Dollar Babies, and one day I came across this oft-overlooked oddity. Here, Alice is in the depths of his alcoholism and went into rehab as soon as it was done - meaning no tour and consequently no sales. However, it's another Bob Ezrin album, which is usually enough to make me sit up and listen at least (let's forgive the man for The Elder, huh?). From the creepy ambient opener Dada to the seriously depressing closer Pass The Gun Around this is a great piece of work, filled with weird characters and the uniquely twisted and hilarious lyrics which make Alice everyone's favourite Crazed Uncle. Personal favourite moment is No Man's Land, which opens with "I got a job playing Santa in a mall in Atlantic, not because of any talent but because I was the only one the suit would fit..." A sadly maligned album with tunes (Scarlett & Sheba, f'rinstance) that should get much more airplay than the awful Poison.Jimi Hendrix Live At WoodstockOxbow The Narcotic StoryI got my hands on this record the moment it was released and for the last two years (almost) have listened to it more than anything else and have found it's the album I most consistently put on when I can't think of what music to put on. At first, it seems to be lacking some of the violence or edge or whatever it is about Oxbow that makes them great (I still can't quite put my finger on it, I just know I fucking love it), but gradually it seeps into the brain and before you know it it's your favourite album of all time ever. I saw them live this summer and I've listened to it even more since then. Could this be obsession? Stand-out tracks? Initially it was Down A Stair Backward, for that line "No man is an island? Like hell, I was thinkin'" and its killer riff-of-simplicity, but actually it's all of them... There is no weak moment here. Seriously.The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric LadylandWhat can I say? It's amazing from start to finish. Even the wildly out of place Little Miss Strange is there for a reason - think of it as a kind of marker, representing what everyone else was doing in 1968, while the rest of the album is what Jimi was doing. It's kind of cruel to follow Voodoo Child with this throwaway Noel Redding number, but it helps to place the album in a wider context and makes you realise just how mind-blowing Hendrix's work was. Why'd he die? Why?! Sniff.4.0 excellentJimi Hendrix Band Of GypsysOxbow Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic and DisturOxbow An Evil HeatThe Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love3.5 greatCradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's ThunderIt would get 4/5, but the lingering taste of Thornography is such that I can't allow a better mark. Also, Death of Love? What the fuck is that doing on here?
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