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There's not really a plot - Kerouac supposedly wrote it in three weeks on a long roll of paper, stoned out of his mind - only a bunch of amazing things, one thing happening after another. Hipsters, sad-faced hobos, con-men, muggers, scumbags and angels. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about Jack Kerouac, a druggy, hard-drinking writer who goes hitchhiking around America, working crummy jobs, howling through the streets at night, meeting people and parting ways. edit: probably the only exception is Accelerator.“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. Medication on Vanishing Point is good, but it's the least interesting track on the album) so I don't really bother with the full-on rock albums.

I also find the more rocky they are, the less interesting they are, even on otherwise good albums (i.e. Despite taking on various aspects of previous albums, it sounds fairly cohesive likely due to keeping one producer for the whole album. I'm not entirely sure if More Light is the comeback people make it out to be, but it's at least their most consistent album in a long time. Beautiful Future is a bit more radiofriendly version of the same, but not as good. Might have to do with being a bit front-loadedĮvil Heat is under-rated, but not quite as good as you'd think an album produced by Kevin Shields would be. XTRMNTR is also really good, but it sounds oddly filler heavy to me a decade later probably because it has 2 versions of Swastika Eyes (only one of which is good) and features a remix of track that came out 3 years prior (and appeared on a single 2 years prior), so it's somewhat lacking in ideas. It's one of those albums that I would've assumed its reputation requires "having been there", but it's like the only album by them anyone wants to talk about.įor my money, Vanishing Point is easily their best album as it integrates their rockier side with the more electronic side a bit more seamlessly (rather than it being an either/or thing on Screamadelica) while being a lot more consistent in quality and way less dated. If there hasn't quite been the same kind of mix of classic rock and dance music (though even then the two aren't entirely mixed as its reputation suggests), it's a special kind of dated where obvious nods to past genres rub up against since out of style production. It's all just so goofy: Loaded brings to mind special ed kids squaredancing and quite a bit of it is cheesy hippiedom set to then-modern club music. I really don't get the love for Screamadelica. I'd say their longest winning "streak" is like 2 albums, maybe 3 if we're being somewhat generous to Evil Heat. If they don't quite get a lot of talk, I think it's because you never quite know what you're going to get from them in terms of quality.