Sea Change - Beck - I just can't get into this album at all. I've tried and tried to listen to it in one sitting but usually get bored after a couple of songs. Maybe I've never had that bad a break-up or I just can't empathise with Beck's lyrics. It just seems so, I don't know, self-indulgent/self-conscious. Either way, I know it's one of his strongest albums, but I just can't dig it.
Nevermind - Nirvana - The second half of the album is great, but the first just leaves me cold. I can't stomach to hear the hit songs anymore after close to 14 years of constant radio play. Besides, the live versions of most of the songs here on Muddy Banks... are far, far superior to the studio originals.
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief - Now here me out...I am a Radiohead fan, but this was about 7-8 songs too long. It should have been an EP, instead it came out like a rushed collection of faux-political rants that came out a couple of years too late. Had the album consisted of: "Sit Down. Stand Up.", "Backdrifts", "Go to Sleep", "Where I End and You Begin", "A Punchup at a Wedding" and "Scatterbrain" it would be 5/5. I don't know, I guess coming out after Amnesiac, which in my view is their greatest triumph, I just couldn't dig the 'head's latest. But even now, these past years gone, I still think Hail... was a let down.
