Posted this when the album was chosen....
Mixed feelings about this album, both in terms of where I was in life when it came out and the music itself.
I often feel like I wasted my 20s. I look back and struggle to think of anything I really achieved. Of itself, that’s not a crime, but there was loads of stuff I could have done. And I didn’t. I smoked too much draw and let my world shrink when I should have been expanding it. This album was part of the soundtrack of that time. My ex bought it and played it to death. It served its purpose in that respect. A flat full of people, drugs, drink. It worked. But I’ve never played it since.
And that’s where the music bit kicks in. Albums like this sound a bit ’we’ve got this new equipment, look what we can do with it’. It’s a mix of lots of stuff but it’s less than the sum of its parts. I guess that explains why it was a good soundtrack to a life. It was good background. But didn’t really have much else to offer.
35/100 (10 of those are for the cover). Not essential.
Reading it back, it sums up where I am with them.