Pete Whitehead
@petewhitehead.bsky.social
education policy guy. scouser. your favourite pintman's favourite pintman.
“hey do you want some labudu-“
You bolt awake in the mountains
of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
You bolt awake in the mountains
of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“hey do you want some labudu-“
You bolt awake in the mountains
of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
You bolt awake in the mountains
of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
An enjoyable sub-plot of this is me turning this project into 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Dad Rock' because this was great? The folk influences really enjoyable. Immigrant Song an all-timer. Obviously. But the back end, where it's the fellas getting really into folk... great actually.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
An enjoyable sub-plot of this is me turning this project into 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Dad Rock' because this was great? The folk influences really enjoyable. Immigrant Song an all-timer. Obviously. But the back end, where it's the fellas getting really into folk... great actually.
This is quite samey at the opening, and then 'No Love, No Sympathy' comes in and it is noticeably different, but I just don't quite think he's got the vocals to pull off what he's trying to do.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is quite samey at the opening, and then 'No Love, No Sympathy' comes in and it is noticeably different, but I just don't quite think he's got the vocals to pull off what he's trying to do.
Genuinely taken aback at how little I enjoyed this.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Genuinely taken aback at how little I enjoyed this.
I mean, it’s the absolute opus by one of the best bands? Listening to this with a more critical ear really brings out just how many people these guys influenced. Hard to hear the opening of cactus with that dirty guitar and not go ‘oh, it’s ‘roll with it’’. Brilliant album.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I mean, it’s the absolute opus by one of the best bands? Listening to this with a more critical ear really brings out just how many people these guys influenced. Hard to hear the opening of cactus with that dirty guitar and not go ‘oh, it’s ‘roll with it’’. Brilliant album.
Like many sensitive young men, I had a pop punk phase, and you really do see the genesis of that here. This must have blown you away if you were say, 10 years older than me. Some really good tunes, lot of filler, gets points due to defining a genre I got into at 13 and cannot bring myself to hate.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Like many sensitive young men, I had a pop punk phase, and you really do see the genesis of that here. This must have blown you away if you were say, 10 years older than me. Some really good tunes, lot of filler, gets points due to defining a genre I got into at 13 and cannot bring myself to hate.
I absolutely love Deep Cuts by the Knife, so slightly mad that I didn’t know this was a solo project. Anyway, it’s absolutely brilliant. Moodier and mellower than the Knife but with the exact same ability to really capture a mood and your attention.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I absolutely love Deep Cuts by the Knife, so slightly mad that I didn’t know this was a solo project. Anyway, it’s absolutely brilliant. Moodier and mellower than the Knife but with the exact same ability to really capture a mood and your attention.
If you put aside just how bad 'honky tonk' sounds as a phrase - and that is no mean feat - what you're left with is some very listenable country music with a clear 80s bent to it and some interesting technical parts... but a certain lack of soul, for me.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
If you put aside just how bad 'honky tonk' sounds as a phrase - and that is no mean feat - what you're left with is some very listenable country music with a clear 80s bent to it and some interesting technical parts... but a certain lack of soul, for me.
Very little to say about this one - that's not a bad thing, it's just an album I'd previously listened to before starting this project. Doesn't take anything away from this, though. It's a really, really good album. The jazz influences incredibly enjoyable - possibly the jazziest Steely Dan album?
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Very little to say about this one - that's not a bad thing, it's just an album I'd previously listened to before starting this project. Doesn't take anything away from this, though. It's a really, really good album. The jazz influences incredibly enjoyable - possibly the jazziest Steely Dan album?
I've been to Vienna a few times now. And I look around and I go 'I like beer and I like schnitzel and it's all very pretty. Why's it leaving me so cold?'
I should like this. I can see why other people would. But there is something about this that just didn't click for me. The Vienna of albums.
I should like this. I can see why other people would. But there is something about this that just didn't click for me. The Vienna of albums.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I've been to Vienna a few times now. And I look around and I go 'I like beer and I like schnitzel and it's all very pretty. Why's it leaving me so cold?'
I should like this. I can see why other people would. But there is something about this that just didn't click for me. The Vienna of albums.
I should like this. I can see why other people would. But there is something about this that just didn't click for me. The Vienna of albums.
local bar having summer party, and the forest gate dads are absolutely battering interpol on the karaoke
September 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
local bar having summer party, and the forest gate dads are absolutely battering interpol on the karaoke
cruelly banned by my fiancée from buying this in the kew garden gift shop and wondering if this wedding malarkey is worth it
August 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
cruelly banned by my fiancée from buying this in the kew garden gift shop and wondering if this wedding malarkey is worth it
Tell you what troops, this has done me in. Never sat down and got through a full Cohen album. Hugely regretting that. This is absolutely beautiful. It's dry, the guitar is lovely, track after track has these beautiful little bits of poetry. Going to come back to this. Might buy the record. Amazing.
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Tell you what troops, this has done me in. Never sat down and got through a full Cohen album. Hugely regretting that. This is absolutely beautiful. It's dry, the guitar is lovely, track after track has these beautiful little bits of poetry. Going to come back to this. Might buy the record. Amazing.
I don't think I'd listened to this before despite enjoying peak Holiday, and I found myself really quite moved by the audible deterioration of her voice. Adds a really mournful quality to a lot of these covers.
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I don't think I'd listened to this before despite enjoying peak Holiday, and I found myself really quite moved by the audible deterioration of her voice. Adds a really mournful quality to a lot of these covers.
Do you like the music of Thin Lizzy? Oh, you don't? Not a fan at all really? Well, what if we did it as a LIVE ALBUM so you could listen to tunes you don't really like but without studio sound quality and with audience noise/riffs?
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Do you like the music of Thin Lizzy? Oh, you don't? Not a fan at all really? Well, what if we did it as a LIVE ALBUM so you could listen to tunes you don't really like but without studio sound quality and with audience noise/riffs?
Faintly juvenile and not in a particularly fun or funny way. Wouldn't go back to this and didn't enjoy the listen.
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Faintly juvenile and not in a particularly fun or funny way. Wouldn't go back to this and didn't enjoy the listen.
I want the finest wines available to humanity. I want them here, and I want them now.
August 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I want the finest wines available to humanity. I want them here, and I want them now.
Proper swiss army knife of an album this. Banger after banger. Works at home, in the club, in the car, in someone's kitchen at 3am. Something for everyone. Cover of Comfortably Numb absolutely batters the Floyd original. Laura one of the best ever album openers. Unmatched fun.
August 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Proper swiss army knife of an album this. Banger after banger. Works at home, in the club, in the car, in someone's kitchen at 3am. Something for everyone. Cover of Comfortably Numb absolutely batters the Floyd original. Laura one of the best ever album openers. Unmatched fun.
For years, we have debated the meaning of Jay-Z's adlib on 'The Blueprint 2', where he claims to have 'brought the flutes this time, though', and asks staff to 'unleash the flutes on them'. I am now choosing to assume that he, too, was listening to Aqualung.
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
For years, we have debated the meaning of Jay-Z's adlib on 'The Blueprint 2', where he claims to have 'brought the flutes this time, though', and asks staff to 'unleash the flutes on them'. I am now choosing to assume that he, too, was listening to Aqualung.
I had to Google this, to find out in Venom had invited Black Metal. They did! Which, it turns out, makes sense, because the lyrics to the title track are so formulaic they're what I'd write if you asked me to do a black metal song as a joke.
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I had to Google this, to find out in Venom had invited Black Metal. They did! Which, it turns out, makes sense, because the lyrics to the title track are so formulaic they're what I'd write if you asked me to do a black metal song as a joke.
Some of my lowest grades so far have been for punk albums, but this was genuinely listenable, to the point where I could imagine myself choosing to listen to this. It's easy to look at punk lyrics and get cynical and eye-rolly, but parts of this that reminded me of, say, 'Bohemian Like You'.
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Some of my lowest grades so far have been for punk albums, but this was genuinely listenable, to the point where I could imagine myself choosing to listen to this. It's easy to look at punk lyrics and get cynical and eye-rolly, but parts of this that reminded me of, say, 'Bohemian Like You'.
What do you want from me here? Shall I pretend I was never thirteen? I dunno if this is musically *good*, all I know is that this comes on and suddenly I'm in Year 7 again, walking home and shitting myself about my Art homework with some absolutely appalling Limewire rip of this in my headphones.
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
What do you want from me here? Shall I pretend I was never thirteen? I dunno if this is musically *good*, all I know is that this comes on and suddenly I'm in Year 7 again, walking home and shitting myself about my Art homework with some absolutely appalling Limewire rip of this in my headphones.
This is an incredibly weird one, and I think my first real instance of 'why's *this* on the list?' - if you want slightly schlubby, garagey pub-rock from this era, then do Wolfmother or Jet, both of whom have albums I would have enjoyed listening to more than this. This gave me absolutely nothing.
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This is an incredibly weird one, and I think my first real instance of 'why's *this* on the list?' - if you want slightly schlubby, garagey pub-rock from this era, then do Wolfmother or Jet, both of whom have albums I would have enjoyed listening to more than this. This gave me absolutely nothing.
This was set the day Ozzy died, which I suspect was deliberate as Heather also got a Black Sabbath album. Look, I gave it 5 stars. What else was I realistically gonna do?
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This was set the day Ozzy died, which I suspect was deliberate as Heather also got a Black Sabbath album. Look, I gave it 5 stars. What else was I realistically gonna do?
Previously I noted that I don't dislike Pink Floyd, I dislike Late Pink Floyd. Well, this made me just hate The Who, despite enjoying 'Who's Next'.
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Previously I noted that I don't dislike Pink Floyd, I dislike Late Pink Floyd. Well, this made me just hate The Who, despite enjoying 'Who's Next'.