Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

It's just Frank.

Not my cup of tea. Very tentative themes with the lyrics.

Poor Antonio Carlos Jobim - your name and fine bossa nova tunes ruined by a crooner who wanted to revive his career by doing something new, that wasn't new at all, and trashed all your lovely songs. 1/5

Was this an album, or just the same song 10 times in a row?

feels like xmas songs, comfy vibe, but im not feeling it

Smooth vocals from an icon, of that there can be little dispute, but when you consider what else was going on in 1967, this is fairly inconsequential stuff. Here, Sinatra is on a vaguely misogynistic bossa nova tip - can't really fault the execution, but the content must have seemed dated and dull to anyone who mattered even back then. Hard to believe two albums on this list both open with The Girl from Ipanema, much less that I have drawn both of them in the space of a fortnight.

Lift music. Nah

The superlative that have been used to describe this man are too numerous to contemplate, and all completely UNJUSTIFIED. God this was awful! Morrisey come back, all is forgiven! This was so depressing! Its no wonder he needed the mafia to launch his career, no talent scout would have spotted him. Bearing in mind I found something positive to say about pil, you can guess where im going with the score for this one.

Thanks for providing a completely unwanted ear worm on track one. Thankfully the rest of the album just descended into a white noise level of dull, which hopefully has removed it.

This quickly faded into the background, to the point where I took a little while to realise it had actually finished. I suppose this is what people call 'easy listening', so easy you don't even notice you're listening at all.

Eh, this is pretty damn awful. One or two of the tunes aren't all that bad (Ipanema is a good one), and the inclusion of Jobim lifts one or two of them out of the utter banality that characterises the rest of the album. But the banality is the impression I take away with me.

We LOVE Latin flavours. Typically, I really don’t enjoy Latin music, and while I’m sure today will be no exception, I feel like as a white guy I need to explicitly state that despite my lack of enjoyment, that in no way makes the expression invalid. See, internet? Was that so hard? Ugh let’s get this over with. Girl from Ipanema - What’s the over under for how many times this song will appear on this list. I’ll take the over. This song should be sung by a woman. I preferred that version anyway. Tall, tan, something and lovely. Just like me. Dindi - Sloggers, rise up. We love a good painful slog through the interminable here, don’t we? Change Partners - Pass. Gross cheater anthem. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) - I’d be very worried if the stars could be heard from earth. We might have some bigger issues, like the imminent collapse of our planet. God, at least that might wake me up for a second. Meditation - I thought it said “Mediation” for a minute. This music does conjure up divorce proceedings. If You Never Come to Me (Intutil Paisagen) - Oh my god has the song changed?? How Insensitive (Insensatez) - Are the phrases in parentheses Frank Sinatra’s guess at Spanish? Or is it just Portuguese? I just ask rhetorical questions to try to stimulate some level of thought. This is like mainlining melatonin. I Concentrate on You - Orange Juice commercial type song title. Minor life detected. Wait, the fortune nay-nayed? It was written in the ancient scrolls that a spirit would whip with the intensity that fortunes nay-nayed. Listen, this is all I have. I’m sorry for my words. Baubles, Bangles, and Beads - Baubles. Excellent word. Real consonant enjoyers are having a field day here. B is a superior letter to most. Don’t get me started on G’s. Also good in the right measure. In combination??? Buggles? Incredible. Thanks for the random sound effects Antonio. Once I Loved (O Amor Em Paz) - Holy hell. Do you think all the Antonio Carlos Jobim heads were fucking amped for this crossover? I would imagine most of the Frankie fans were pretty oblivious, but Jobim nation had to be ready for a beast of a record. I can’t even believe how boring this record is. It’s almost impressive. Frankie is like 12 Valium deep here and the instrumental literally sounds like it’s being recorded from outside the elevator it’s playing in. You take a near comatose former star and pair him with the sleepiest guitarist this side of São Paulo and you’ve got yourself an audible Ambien. This album was 28 minutes, which we know is an infinity in the dream world. Sleep-RUN don’t sleepwalk to a thrift store or evil streaming corp near you and listen to the shiftless shamblings of bedtime’s sleepiest duo. Nightcap and candle holder sold separately. 1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: A restful slumber

Jaha, samma känsla som sist. Frank Sinatra är ju en hyfsat ball snubbe. Men musiken är så satans tråkig att man svimmar. Det är som dålig julmusik.

Incel 101. Som å høre maling tørke.

Bit too mellow for my taste. Didn't like the mix (vocals too high and instruments, especially guitar and bass, too low).

I've never liked Frank Sinatra and this album did nothing to change my opinion of this over-rated hack. Five versions of "The Girl from Ipanema" is beyond excessive. Absolute shite!

I was pretty excited to finally receive some Bossa Nova, but very unenthusiastic that it was this album (which barely feels like a Bossa Nova album). A quick search shows that there are a few other Bossa Nova records on the 1001AYHBYD list (like "Getz/Gilberto"!), but I got this one first. I would gladly throw this off the list for a better record by a Bossa Nova artist who isn't otherwise included, like "Wave" by Antonio Carlos Jobim (if we want to keep ACJ on the list), "Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66" by Sergio Mendes, or almost any early selection by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. These other records could offer a far better primer on Bossa Nova than you get here. Frank has two other albums on this list and including this cash-grab snoozefest is over-generous. In fact, I'll argue that this record is a direct rebuttal to the success of Herb Alpert & TJB in 1966, and its existence is a prime example of why Herb Alpert should be on this list! For the week of May 21, 1966, Herb Alpert & TJB had 5 albums in the Billboard Top 20: Whipped Cream & Other Delights(1), What Now My Love(2), Going Places(4), South Of The Border(17), and The Lonely Bull(20). And Billboard's list of top-selling albums at the end of 1966 included 3 in the top 5: Whipped Cream & Other Delights(1), Going Places(3), and What Now My Love(5) - eclipsing Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Barbara Streisand, and The Mamas and the Papas. Even if you don't like Herb Alpert, or Bossa Nova, it's impossible to argue that his sound wasn't king-for-a-day in 1966. And in that light, it's ridiculous that this album is included but not a single TJB albums is on this list. #JusticeForHerb

Frankie sure has a voice, but this one is a real snoozer. Hard to believe something this slow could go downhill so quickly and even harder to believe it almost won the Grammy for best album of 1968. Made it through on a quiet Sunday morning, but not by much. He nearly put us (and himself) to sleep. Glad when the last song was over. L = (0.5*s) Very weak song selection. He sang Off Key off key, so that was stupid. J = (0.8*s) I’m sure I didn’t have to hear this album before I die.

Francis was just a slow crooner that was for some reason the rage in the 50s. No way he held up in the 60s though with Sgt. Pepper released the same year as this album. Popular with just with the old smoking, martini generation but not the youngstas. Can't get behind this combo record in any way but I understand the duo was considered powerhouses in their genres. Johnny O liked Sinatra but he was from an "old" fogey family and I think he liked the cool image and not the music per se. Probably getting more albums from the Rat Pack on the list but I'm done with Frankie...0.45 stars.

About what I expected from Sinatra. I don't think I'm much of a fan since I find so much of this just forgettable music from another era. It sounded really repetitive even on a short 28 minute length. After the first song I felt like I got it and just had to listen to the same thing over an over. To echo prior review I'm sure this was influential in its time but nowadays its just a time capsule to the past. 1.15 stars

Lift music?

I still don't get crooning

Might disappoint my dad with this one

I could not like this less, it completely bores me. 1 star or F.

Don't care for those two.

This feels like Frank Sinatra singing in an elevator over the random music running in it.

I thoroughly dislike Sinatra

This was a rough one, luckily it was short. Both ing songs sung over boring music.

Very repetitive

Not for me. 1/5

1 Star (2/15)

Not my vibe

Nope.

Turns out combining two boring schmaltzy genres gets you a schmaltzy boring album.

Not for me.

Höre ich nicht! Kann ich nicht bewerten!

Maybe it is a sign of the times, but I found this unlistenable. I really like Frank Sinatra (or maybe I like his voice? Idk I like his hits..), but this album was not the best Frank Sinatra. Every time I start to get into a song the lyrics are just so cliche and trivial I feel bad listening to it. “I watch her so sadly… I’d give my heart gladly.” That line itself has to be on the album like 10 times. Too many yes men made this album. I assume it’s groundbreaking in some way I don’t understand, but the effort was not put into the composition for Frank’s vocals/lyrics. You can throw Adele on a track, but if she’s going to sing hot cross buns for 46 minutes, I don’t need to listen to it.

Sorry guys, this was not for me.

I think we have to call a spade a spade, Jobim was an incel. Well, at least, much like "80s movie hijinks were mostly just rape" these faded post WW2 tropes play much differently today. This also feels like the classic cash grab. Maybe it's just my strong dislike for the dinner jacket schmaltz that came to dominate the tail end of big band, but the whole thing feels kinda mailed in.

Felt okay about getting a Sinatra album, thinking “ahh some big band type shit will rouse me after my last few picks” but no, this is some weird easy listening record which was putting me to sleep by track 5. Sorry, Frank. Do better.

Elevator music.

Don't mind a bit of swing, but this is just awful. Dull and boring and goes nowhere. Gave up half-way through zzzzz

Elevator music for old people in vegas.

Dude I don’t want to listen to this. Why is it important? How does this possibly reflect the zeitgeist of 1967? Who cares 57 years later? If it is not necessary to eat at a mediocre Italian restaurant where the owner plays accordion while maintaining eye contact on slow nights before you die, then I should not have to listen to the music he’s playing along with.

Dean martin baby!!!!!

This just isn't the frank sinatra I want. I want the bombastic, leg kicking frank. This is just dull.

Music to turn the life support off to.

Dangerously close to a William Shatner album

There’s something so incredibly insincere about Sinatra’s songs. Everyone seems to find him so charming with his crooning but I see thru your act Frank, you swarmy pompous fuck. The only decent song on this album isn’t even his, he just took a good song in Girl From Impanema and made it worse. I truly hope this is the last album of Sinatra’s I have to listen to, Frank is a creep, he is not essential, overhyped trash from a period people enjoyed creepy crooners. Fuck you Frank 1 star

Same year as cap beef. Interesting. Sinatra was a top artist for me this year according to Spotify. I don't feel like I listened to any Sinatra this year tho. I really don't like this orchestral accompaniment. Yeah I'm gonna leave this after like 3 songs. Sorry frank not your best stuff stick to the hits.

The way I feel about this kind of music, is the way you probably feel about Alice Cooper, Hair Bands and Metal. I just can't. DNF

This sucks

I wanted to hate this. I despise Sinatra and all the banality that he stands for. I wasn't won over by this album. I might have tolerated it as an instrumental.

Blud kuullostaa aina samalta + ei täs oikee säväyttänä ngl

Not a Frank fan

Sinatra smarm. I hate it.

Bossa nova hirvittää, ja Sinatra kuulostaa päälle läiskätyltä.

Got a couple of songs in and just couldn't cope, just nit me bag.

Boring crooning.

Imagine actually liking Frank Sinatra lol.

100% aburrida y olvidable música de ascensor, funcional, de fondo, para hacer cosas, podría ser música de fondo para caudno tenés que escuchar música de verdad. Dicen que una ballena escuchó este disco de 10 mil km lejos y dijo "ah pero que aburrido porfavor". No puede darme más alergia escuchar a clásicso de Jobim cantados en inglés. Banco a Frank 100% pero acá la pifiaron mal,

Nope

Not a fan of Bossa Nova

Frank sucks

Well that was a massive waste of my time. I got nothing from this album and listening to it was the longest half an hour of my life. Halfway through I just put it on as background noise and started playing Civ 6.

Ugh

I like Frank. I didn't like this at all.

There was not one exciting song on this album. Next time I want to be put to sleep I’ll pull this up.

I suppose every now and then if I'm in the right mood and frame of mind for this album, or just about anything performed by Frank Sinatra, I could appreciate it; however, I'm so sorry to say to the many people I've met who just adore Frank Sinatra...he's not someone I care to listen to all that much.

Was this the origin of muzak? Or did they just contribute? Either way it's an unexciting ride.

Ai meu deus, this is not good. This may have been the first fusion album, but it does not work nor hold up well. Sinatra and Jobim sound like they were recorded in different studios. The most basic of bossa nova rhythms arranged with outdated (in 1967) strings do not fit, Sinatra's voice does not fit the faux bossa nova vibe. Overall sounds like an attempt at Brazilian music for gringos.

Fuck no.

C’est pas le meilleur matériel de Sinatra, ni de Jobim. C’est fromage à souhait, avec les cordes à l’unisson. J’aurais aimé que Jobim chante plus. Là, il ne fait que du comping de guitare un peu plate. J’aurais aimé que Sinatra sonne comme quelqu’un qui a envie d’être là. Autrement, ça fait une belle musique de fond pour boire un Gin Tonic au soleil.

C'est ok mais sans plus. Les arrangements sont bien, mais c'est ce qu'on retrouve un peu partout à cette époque. J'aime ce genre d'arrangements, mais cet enregistrement n'est pas le plus dynamique. C'est intéressant d'entendre la collaboration entre Frank Sinatra et Antonio Carlos Jobim, mais ce n'est pas un trésor caché.

I was forced to listen to a lot of Sinatra in high school. I still hate Sinatra.

Tedium incarnate. The second side may have been better than the first but I'll never know cos I gave up before then.

The bossa nova sound of this album is interesting for like 5 minutes but soon becomes annoying. A song will fade out but seem to start up again because all the songs start and end the same. It’s actually funny how noticeable it is that the same drums and guitars play over every song. Something band kids play.

Not Frankie's finest hour... creepy songs about obession over women who clearly aren't interested (not charming lol), the weird attempt at bossa nova stay in your lane mate. This isn't the usual soothing charming Frank, it's just boring. Glad this isn't his only album on this list because I love him, just not on this album.

Soothing, it is quite nice for a change. I was unable to sustain my listening. I needed more grrrrrr..

Dull

I understand the appeal, but not for me Very chill beat

I just find this really boring. His voice is smooth but so monotone and emotionless.

Another boring one-note album. Best track: The Girl from Ipanema

Not for me.

The first few seconds were great, I love Jobim, then Sinatra's stupid voice had to ruin everything

Not for me

Love this album. I've not listened to Frank Sinatra at length before. But all I want to do is slow shuffle dance with Erica with this in the background. SUPER GOOD