Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Le style est bien et l’instrumentation j’ai bien aime. Pour musique de fond en soiree. Mais ily a de meilleures options.
Yeah, smooth jazz. It certainly doesn't do anything really to offend, though it's a bit 70's boring and there is certainly nothing interesting lyrically going on. Meh.
Elevator music (Muzak). Really not a great album in anyway in my opinion.
Pleasant background music for a party, but not terribly compelling. Smooth jazz feel.
meh it was pretty repetitive and the first song didn't have to be 11 minutes long
1 - strings are needed or something, ope there they are, groovy af, pretty basic sounding in the first half, so long wth, lacks something idk what yet, it’s just flat 2 - better song, vocal chorus could be nice, more engaging 3 - might just not be into this type of jazz. Dang if they brought the strings out more and a little more “epic” it would be dope, also this sounds like it could be an anime intro at points lol 4 - nah I’m done 1-1.5 maybe a 2, we’ll see how nice I am tomorrow
Not too bad but still did not convert me into a jazz fan
Elevator music
Nimen perusteella odotin taas jotain gangsteriuhoamista, mutta heti levyn ensi tahdit yllättivät positiivisesti. Street Life olikin jo ennestään etäisesti tuttu biisi ja levyn ehdoton helmi! Tästä alkoikin alamäki, ja korkeat odotukset murenivat jatkuvasti. Vaikka instrumentaalimusiikin ystävä olenkin, niin melkoista hissimusiikkia oli. Levylliselle Street Lifea olisin antanut vähintään kolmosen, nyt kakkonen lienee oikea arvio.
I really enjoyed the first song. Really long, varied, and interesting. The rest was kinda boring, and started to sound more like "muzak." I'm sure its a great album and representative of the genre, but it didn't do much for me.
Street Life was awesome. Rest of it was pretty noodley for my taste.
70s R&B jazz that is a little too smooth for me
Great title track, and Carnival is decently good. The rest is elevator music.
First sound is very different to the rest of the album
Ok
Like the music you get when put on hold while trying to get a doctor’s appointment for a worrying lump and then being told that they have no more appointments. But shitter.
No me gustó nada
How long is this fucking elevator?
Nope
A decent title track + 30 minutes of muzak does not a great album make
Street Life is alright….
I liked the fact the album opened with an 11 minute classic but disappointing after that.
I was expecting a funky jazz album but this album was really boring.
Not sure for me, 70s porn vibe.
Ei
55
Blinding title track which is as much about the vocal as the band. Unfortunately, the rest of the album felt like an overly long outro to the title track. It just never went anywhere at all!
Like my fellow traveller on this journey aptly put; this was all about the first song, a tour de force I might say. What came after was a rather limp and overly long coda.
1⭐️ at the first song (11 mins long) I thought “oooh I’m enjoying this more than I was expecting to, maybe 3 stars if the rest of the album’s like this!” but the other songs had no vocals or lyrics & seemed to go on for ages :( wouldn’t choose to re-listen songs I already knew: n/a fave new song(s): street life
No
First of all song Street life is good... until, after 4 minites, you realize that you will be listening to the same thing for another almost ten minutes. Or better to say for another half an hour, because the whole album sounds the same. It's not bad but I am not really into this type of music and its sometimes almost painfully boring for me to do so. I feel like I'm listening to elevator music.
3/10 This made me angry
The sexophone just didn’t stop. I was embarrassed to be listening to this. Even with headphones on, I kept looking around, thinking ‘everyone knows!’
Title track is a banger but did it need to be 11 minutes? It doesn’t, but when the rest of the album is filler elevator music maybe it has to be. Buy the 7” version ditch the rest.
Fuck jazz, why is there so much jazz on this fucking list?
Lød meget generisk og pænt. Ved ikke hvad det laver her.
Do you like Jazz but hate the freeness of it? Do you like Disco but hate to dance? Do you love being on hold in elevators? Well boy do I have the album for you. Listen to the smooth sounds of The Crusaders where no one could possible be offended, some people may even tap their feet!
Sounds like mizak
Corny overproduced elevator music.
Street Life
sad sax
I don't really enjoy jazz and 11 minutes is way too long for an opening track. The rest of the album is just Jazz instrumentals. No thanks
nope. No like this bland easy-listening stuff. ⭐
Ain’t no questioning what a cool smooth tune Street Life is & there ain’t no questioning what an incredible bunch of musicians this band was. But unfortunately for me, aside Street Life I could’ve been listening to music whilst eating breakfast in an above average hotel.
not my type
I believe that is Randy Crawford getting out of the car in the background on the cover. The band are chuckling among themselves because they have already completed most of the recording session without her. "Sorry love, we only need you for one track now - but we've padded it out to 11 minutes, so it won't be a wasted journey for you..." Wow, these guys really were on a crusade - not a single track under five minutes in length here. If nothing else, they've helped me figure out why I hate (with a few notable exceptions) the saxophone so much. The bendy sex whistle is rarely (and, as I said, there are exceptions) a constructive accompaniment for other musical elements - it is usually only ever some twat soloing away like his life depends on it. It's just immediately pretentious by its very nature. Yuk. Late 70s, disco-adjacent jazz, it's slick and groovy but a bit soulless... nothing particularly offensive here, except for the sax overload, but just really just isn't my cup of tea and so is marked accordingly.
Shades of all the reasons I never went to a disco in the 70s. Overplayed, sigh...
I cannot believe that Street Life, whose refrain I have heard before, is more than 11 minutes long. That's a quarter of the whole album, and I think it could have done all it needed to in 3 minutes. However, the rest of the album is so bad that it feels like they had no other choice. They knew this was the one good (or better) track, and the rest feels like filler, honest-to-goodness filler, wasting time to hit the minimum length to release an album. Each smooth-jazz track toddles about for a bit, then goes away. It's very, very bland to the extent that I was gritting my teeth to get through this. Other listeners comparisons to phone queue on-hold or elevator muzak are very apt. Who listens to this for pleasure in their own time?
First listen
Sleepy Montgomery Ward jazz 1001 album worthy: no - 62/116
So…easy listening disco isn’t my jam. This made me want to go back and give Chic another star. I don’t know why this album is on here—I guess I could research it, but man, I don’t need 5-10 minute smooth disco jams in my life. SAX! CHIMES! Smooth bass!
Painfully dull album. Just under 40 mins of background music.
Oh cool, elevator/dental office album to listen to before bloods comes out of my eyes.
Not for me. Does nothing.
Jazz for people who do not like jazz said one of the previous reviewers of this album. I might be one of those people so wondered if this album might tickle my fancy. Due to involuntary subjection to the song Street Life over the years and to my shame I was able to sing along to the first track on the album. So I now know who actually recorded this annoying song but immediately deleted that knowledge. This deletion process was helped by what followed next. If there was ever a good example of monotonous “Muzak” well this is it. I fail to see or appreciate in what circumstances anyone could sit down and listen to this. Even as background Muzak I just couldn’t imagine having this on whilst stood painting my ceiling or having a tooth filled with this streaming from the Dentist’s radio. So remind me who recorded Street Life? 1/5 16/2/25
Bad toothless elevator Jazz.
One good song, the rest is muzak
Jazz not my thing. It keeps going and going, never to stop. This won’t be in my collection
Not bad, but this is mostlly background music. The first track was pretty good, but it has a 3 minute outro for no reason. D
I just can't with light jazz. Like how many saxophone solos do you need to hear on one album?
didnt like it much
‘Please continue to hold, your call is important to us’ I tried, I really did try. I just couldn’t do it and had to skip through most of the last 5 songs. Not for me.
Ugh 70s chav sex/sax music of the worst kind again. This here is my musical kryptonite.
Not for me
In a nutshell: easy listening boredom Adding vocals to the other tracks would have changed my mind about this album. The band is skilled, the beat is repetitive. This is music I'd hear while on hold to a utilities provider. Overall: 1/10
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Good jazz vocal band from the late 70’s and 80’s.
Not bad, but this is mostlly background music. The first track was pretty good, but it has a 3 minute outro for no reason. D
Nice kicks! Short album but solid jams.
Juustoa on. On kaunista ja tyylillä tehtyä. Sinänsä ei siis pahaa sanottavaa, mutta tällainen hissimusiikin lämpöisyys ei tee mulle mitään. Paitsi saa huokaisemaan pienestä ärsytyksestä. Onneksi oli lyhyt levy.
Eivät tiedosta eroa musiikin ja hissimusiikin välillä, mikä saattaa olla rohkeaa, mutta johtaa aika turhan oloisiin lopputuloksiin. Jännää, koska eka biisi funkkaa ihan tosissaan.
Nothing memorable except the first banger!
Did this album fall in a tub of body lotion? It's so SMOOTH! It's like a simulator for being on hold with an airline. It's the soundtrack to going grocery shopping in the suburban 1990s when someone decided that this combination of disco, funk and jazz should be the default sound for all commercial space - no edges, just positive vibes and mellow moods. It's kind of a nadir for all three genres - the saccharine strings, the glossy production, the total coked out mundanity. But it has some fun elements: the bass especially goes hard, a d the guitar/sax solos sometimes rip off a hot line amidst the smooth noodle.
A bit too much of a cheesy jazz-funk bar feel for me.
Boring supermarket background music.
Funky Disco Jazz. Street Life is the only song on the album with words to the song.
Really boring. Didn't see anything special about it
Why?
Most of the album is a bit too easy listening for me. I do like the title track a lot though.
Kinda Earth Wind and Fire + an ok Donna Summer vibe + Super Market/Elevator music = No me gusto
Wow. Really is an album for it’s time. Sounds crisp but very boring and dated. Not for me.
Why is this essential listening?
First song was good, rest is elevator music
Not really my cup of tea. Ok for some background music, but not something I’d listen too again
No disco!
Después de una temporada con discos aceptables, volvemos a los bodrios.
Boring
I don’t get it. Who listens to this? It’s fine, but who would search this out and put it on. Sounds like it was written to be the menu music for Gran Turismo. Is there some super cool saxophone technique I’m missing? Isn’t jazz supposed to be free flowing, unpredictable? Street Life is as predictable and bland as anything I’ve ever heard I don’t get it. 3.7/10
bad and boring
Elevator music. Good musicians, but I would never listen to this voluntarily.
I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS
A good opener followed by 25 mins of 90s porn muzak, conjuring images of Peter North doing willy windmills. Unsettling.
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Worked with this as background music and I think I now know what it’s like to work as a receptionist in a primary care doctors office.
Was there ever a time where this sounded anything other than dull? Background music
What’s going on here? I want it to get me there. It’s not getting me even close to there.
Look, of course it’s really good but no. I can’t. I tried! I started off well with Street Life and then the rest. It was too smooth. Jazzy. It put me in mind of theme tunes to old dramedys.
Four minutes of a good track then endless muzak. Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Sax, see what evil you have wrought upon this world.
A great 4 minutes in an endless soup of saxophone.
sleep life
Oh God, my ears! The title track is a classic. The rest of the album is unbearable soft jazz wank.
Great opening track but then I was put on hold for half an hour
Just terrible. Even the recognisable hit is terrible.
I gotta say, I do not like jazz.
Fome
Elevator muzak Cover art 2/5
On here just because of the title track, presumably, and that's a drag. After that, it's all soft scoop funk and bedwetter soul. Really quite shit.
Nee, gladde jazz en een beetje disco
Afgezet na 1 nr...
Los van dat eerste nummer, wat wel ok was (Jackie Brown!), was de rest van dat album nou gewoon een extende versie van de openings tune van The Joy of Painting met Bob Ross?
Every second spent on Street Life was a second I wished I was hearing a jazz record, or something funkier, or something else from this list. It's very professional but entirely commercial. I was totally underwhelmed by the opening vocals which proceeded to completely disappear. There's meandering soporific music I like well enough, but the formlessness of several of these tunes was notable though that haze. Caught a few solos, at least.
Why?
nope
Not on my list.
Totally naff.
Absolute garbage - elevator music by numbers
Keek Life
Roxy Music has an album called Street Life. My personal preference is that one. This one is a lot too instrumentally that doesn't really seem to lead anywhere.
I wasn’t expecting something that was just one step above elevator music.
Yeh not down with the jazz fusion. Palatable but nothing but background noise.
jazz fussion a topeee