Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Huh! Well.. He can sing, for sure. And sometimes his music was even pleasant. But it was still boring the whole time. I also didn't like his texts, so all in all he doesn't have much going for him. Two stars. Maybe he got better?
Wasn't massively into it. And ew what a weird album title. Is he a big baby or something
BUT I'M SURE YOU HIGH-TECH NASA PEOPLE COULD CARE LESS ABOUT OUR RESORT-TOWN WAYS.
A little too slow and melodramatic for my tastes.
This was so boring, I have literally nothing to say. Was it bad? No. Was it good? No. It's like we didn't even have an album today. We've had a lot of stinkers recently, so I hope tomorrow is better.
Meh
I can acknowledge that the instrumentation and vocals here are exceptional, but I didn't find anything memorable outside of that in this LP.
sweet baby
Очень скучно
Zu viel Blues. Zu viel Jesus. Zu viele Babes. Zu viel Babyface. Zu viel Langeweile. Er ist schon lange dabei und meistens selbst auf seinen Covern abgebildet. Hat im Alter richtig Charakter bekommen. Auch meine Cowboynatur konnte ihm nicht helfen. Nicht nochmal hören!
A pleasant listen but nothing more
not bad, but not really my cup of tea. Not really the biggest James Taylor fan.
Fire and Rain is a highlight I guess. Maybe, like others suggest, it's a grower. Not over the course of its runtime. Frankly boring.
1970. Key Songs: Sweet Baby James, Fire and Rain
Skön röst men det är ärligt talat bara under de sista 2 minuterna av albumet som det händer något spännande.
Overly sweet country-ish singer-songwriter Americana which makes me glad I do not live in the 1970s when I might have been forced to hear this on the radio. Steamroller Blues is stupid, and the whole album sucks. Well done for taking every sharp edge, every trace of rhythm, every hint of excitement, out of rock and roll. An album to check your watch by.
I don’t like this easy listening stuff.
Yeah I'm a steamroller, babe. I'm gonna roll all over you. Yeah I'm a steamroller, baby. Gonna roll all over you. And if you're pickin' up steam, babe, you can roll all over me too. Do it BB King Style. Can we get some horns up in here, too? Oh yeah. FUck yeah. We're about to make me sO much money.
Saccharine and a little too country for me
Oh Susannah was a low point on this list.
It’d be utterly somnambulant if it weren’t for the cloying sentimentality. Fire and Rain is worth one star, but Steamroller and Oh, Baby Don’t You . . . are such cringe-inducing, deluded, ‘Nilla Wafer offenses to the musical gods that I’d give the album a zero if I could.
definitivamente um album. e dos ruins. não é odiável, acho que deve ser um daqueles albuns nostálgicos estadunidenses que os familiares ouviam perto de vc. sou brasileiro. caguei pra isso aí.
bland and boring. This list has been filled with bad stuff!!! Who made this ?
Not for me. 1/5
Every song is a skip. Garbage for me.
My dad played this album every Sunday evening for about 10 years when I was growing up. This now triggers an anxiety response where I feel like I’m going to school in the morning. 1 star for being the first album on the list to make me feel physically sick.
Oops sorry, nodded off. Oh NO, it's still going. SOMEONE MAKE IT STOP. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I was aware of James Taylor but never listened to one of his albums before. Now I agree with all those 1-star reviewers. I especially liked the one who said (to paraphrase) "this is the kind of music you play to old people to keep them quiet". One-word review: Anodyne.
not for me
Really? Generic ass
Ugh, can the terror stop now? First I got Adele, then Frank Sinatra and now "Sweet Baby James", how much more of overpolished mainstream pop, plastic crooners, or semi-folk- candlelight-whining songs, can a man take? My next 'present" better be good, hopefully my last 1/5 for a while.
I'm fucking tired of country.
"Cliff, Everyone's seen fire and rain" "Oh. Well, then, i guess I got nothing to say."
I hated this so much.
Likte da ikkje
Heard one song. Hated it.
Like the childhood cocoa that once felt sweet and comforting but now tastes cloying and sticks unpleasantly to your teeth, this soft folk-rock album blankets you in gentle acoustic warmth and soothing vocals, yet its persistent sweetness feels like tooth decay.
Folk, 62 eme album => 1/5
No thank you.
Do I have to?
Im
No talent trash
Gosh, this added absolutely nothing to my life. Given it was released in 1970, I don't see how it could have contributed anything new upon release either. 2/10
There is absolutely nothing cool or interesting about this album
Ik vind het saai, en alle liedjes lijken op elkaar
51/1089 he’s got a nice voice but it’s really not my style especially with it going down the christian country route on Lo and Behold really wasn’t very enamoured by this one, as i said his voice is good and shines occasionally but just isn’t utilised in a way i love for most of this album. highlight was Oh Baby, Don’t You Loose Your Lip on Me but it was way too short and the only song of it’s style 1 star or 15/100
Get the fuck outta here. Couldn’t have started this project off on a worse foot. I’m admittedly predisposed against James Taylor but would have happily been proven wrong. I knew the treacle — but the bad white boy blues? A cover of “Oh Susannah?” Good lord. “Country Road” and “Fire & Rain” are the only remotely salvageable pieces of this poorly sequenced, slapdash piece of Boomer nonsense, and believe me that’s damning it with faint praise. Silver linings: it’s only a half hour long, and things can only go up from here [smash cut to, I dunno, Peter, Paul & Mary] 💣
I hate country music, and even at half an hour this album felt like a slog
Zzzzzz
That was awful. A lot of country and folk music conjures up images of a mythical world of freedom and justice and whatever. To me it sounded like stolen music listened to by white men with red necks and racist thoughts.
Honestly doesn’t feel too impactful, there are a million dudes with a guitar making simple songs with more aura than this.
Bland and boring, I really struggled to finish this album.
On the face I would have liked this - only it shudders between overly twee, uncomfortably religious, and misogyny disgusted as romance. Even if you can ignore all this the music is bland and the lyrics as simply bad writing - too many examples of unintentional hilarity and attempts at half-rhyme which leave you cringing. Left me feeling sticky and gross.
I promised my wife I'd give this album a 1 because James Taylor's voice has always creeped her out. She describes his shallow weak vocals as "singing like he doesn't have a throat" (I don't disagree). The instrumentals were passable most of the time, but otherwise found this dull with his singing being what pulled it down further. 1.4/5 - > 1/5
Listened to the entire album and only knew one song ‘fire and rain’. Not really my type of music so 2 stars
If "allegations" was a soft rock musician...
Awful. Why does this project insist on giving me folk and country when I've said I don't want folk or country? This was about to be irredeemable until its final track.
D - dad's a fan, but not for me
Never understood the appeal of James Taylor. Like everything I've heard from him, this album straddles the line between the so-called "freshness" of simple pleasures to mundanity devoid of any real stakes so fast that it's hard for me to take this artist seriously. And the same goes for his vocal performance, so saccharine that it often makes me feel queasy. My theory for the success of "Fire And Rain" is that it owes a lot to the stellar cello arrangement within its string section. But like all the other rather hackneyed tunes in this LP, the song doesn't feel particularly memorable per se. Oh, and give me a break with that dumb rendition of "Oh Susannah"! How much more cliché can you go here? Gram Parsons, this is not indeed. More adventurous closer "Suite For 20 G" has the best arrangements and some very nice moments in its middle section, though. But by that time, it's too little and too late. 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums (mostly a protest vote for a slot badly used) 6/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1) Number of albums left to review: around forty, as I've gone over the 1000 line and this generator is including albums from all editions of the book Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 460 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 271 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 333 (including this one)
peruskauraa...
"Cliff, Everyone's seen fire and rain" "Oh. Well, then, i guess I got nothing to say."
Not for me
Easily forgettable
Even managed to fuck up oh Susanna, what a Twat.
I could not be less bothered.
no no no
Tepid boomer BS. I've never found him compelling in the slightest, although he's great in the movie Two-Lane Blacktop. Other than that, pass.
james taylor's voice is annoying sorry not sorry
This is so bad. The whitest boy alive singing blues
Just... no. Even back int he 70s this album was music for our moms and girls with emotional issues. It traffics in banality masking as depth. James Taylor doesn't even have a sweet voice. Instead, it's like Musak - dull with no emotional quotient. The success of albums like this was not due to any inherent positive quality. It was simply that folkies had nowhere else to go after Dylan went electric and the Vietnam War was winding down, leaving everyone exhausted with the now irrelevant protest songs. Sweet Baby James is only useful if you need to get some sleep or want. So, just... no.
I've heard better Christian Rock albums than this.
What a fraud. The best parts are when he’s pretending to be a poor white kid from the country instead of a prep school kid from Boston. The worst parts are when he’s trying to sound like Robert Johnson, it’s musical black face. Fuck you James Taylor
Sweet little piss baby of an album
Really not my bag. Made it through 2 songs and completely lost the will to live. Soz
Awful. Just awful. The most white bread album I’ve heard in a long time. Makes perfect sense why my mom loves him.
dear god james
God it sucks sooo badddd
Too s0ft
Not a Taylor fan
Nah
Shit shit country bad boo hoo bad
not my cup of tea
Boring
Rolig bakgrunnsmusikk man kan ha på hyttetur. Litt religiøst. Ellers uinteressant.
No
no
Sorry James. Can’t jibe with this right now.
Awful. Anodyne, insipid shite. Worst of all are the terrible attempts at the blues.
Smooth and soft..and that is maybe the problem here. I sm lacking a certain enge or nerve. So not for me thanks
Total barrel of laughs. Straight in the bin.
nisan mogla dovršit, baš mi je monotono
Sweet baby Jesus, this is wank.
So soso. Si hubiese una hecatombe y creyese que soy el único superviviente del mundo, tras vagar durante varios años en soledad, una buena tarde me encontrase con este hombre tocando la guitarra y cantando sus canciones, me haría el sueco y pasaría de largo.
No no no
Nope nope nope
I'm not enjoying this much, it's like singer/songwriter/country but not as melodic, soothing or engaging as other artists.
Treurig plaatje, op elke mogelijke manier
quite boring
So bad and boring
didnt like