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THE GOOD THE BAD & THE QUEEN "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" Reviews
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AZRating: 8.0
Users rating: 7.5 |
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Release: 23 Jan 2007
Label: Virgin Records Us
Genre: Pop
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| Spin |
Rating: 10.0 |
From Damon Albarn and Danger Mouse: a different kind of bananas.
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 9.0 |
Where 'Parklife' was exuberant and almost knowingly callow, 'The Good, The Bad & The Queen' is weary, confused, almost mourning for what once was. Draw the curtains and inhabit its quaint morbidity and allow the dark majesty of it all to seep into your very soul.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 8.0 |
Fantastic tunes like "Kingdom of Doom," "Nature Springs" and the doo-wop pastiche "80's Life" set the tone for the album's strange beauty, but it peaks with the cinematic strings and megaphone-vocal melancholy of "Herculean."
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| NME |
Rating: 8.0 |
Damon Albarn finds his soul with new supergroup
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| Aversion |
Rating: 8.0 |
The Good, the Bad and the Queen bucks the curse of the super-group: For once, we have a high-powered collaboration that's not a mutual adoration society. It's a powerhouse that lives up to its ridiculously high expectations.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 8.0 |
Britpop’s narrative arc suggests triumphal times, but when all’s said and done, anyone squeezing Albarn’s best bits onto one CD-R will find nary a jaunty song among them.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 6.8 |
If there's a direct musical antecedent to Albarn mood music of this bent it's the early Blur track "Sing" (most prominently enlisted on the Trainspotting soundtrack), albeit bolstered by Simonon's dubby throb and set on the same paranoid, post-apocalyptic landscape of the two Gorillaz discs.
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| Uncut |
Rating: 6.0 |
A couple of songs here could wind up on that collection: the gales and gloom of "Behind The Sun" clear to reveal a chorus as bright and frail as winter sunlight. And "Green Fields" (adapted from "Last Song", donated to Marianne Faithfull for her Before The Poison album a couple of years ago) is a beautiful Goldhawk Road twilight ballad which, unusually for Albarn, is genuinely touching.
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Users comments
| Luke The Porky Rebel 2529 |
Rating: 8.0 |
This is a fantastic Alternative debut album from The Good The Bad and The Queen. It shows a different side to Damon Albarn's music - a more laid back sound.
History Song - Good beats on the Drums and love the guitar and the La La's at the end. 8/10
80's Life - Good use of few instruments, simple but strong. 8/10
Northern Whale - Very Gorillaz esque, love the storyline. 8/10
Kingdom of Doom - Dark sound but I like it. Good lyrics too. 8.5/10
Herculean - One of my favourites, love the synths towards the end. 9.5/10
Behind the Sun - One of the weaker songs on the album. 7.5/10
Bunting Song - Good storyline, like the ending. 8/10
Nature Springs - All the band are involved including Tony. 8/10
Soldier's Tale - Good lyrics 8/10
Three Changes - Another one of my favourites, like the changes. 8.5/10
Green Fields - Lyrics are great, a good penultimate song. 8.5/10
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Fantastic ending, one of many few happy songs on the album, the ending is lengthy and loveable, also like the extra bits right at the end. 10/10
Overall, a good album from a great supergroup. 8/10 |
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