Green Onions

OK as background music

Pretty good for all instrumentals, + blues.

The title track on "Green Onions" is one of the most iconic and influential instrumental pieces in modern music. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is a collection of mostly uninspiring covers in the same blues organ style, and one echo of "Green Onions." But man, is that song worthy of all the echoes and ripples it's caused through music and pop culture history.

Play this prehistoric rock offering on a Victrola.

Alright o suppose

Little bit samey, and yet such a welcome relief from a bit of a low score run of average old rock that i've been on.

It's a nice fun, happy upbeat instrumental of other famous songs in one album, my favorite as to be rinky dink

Title track is iconic. Most of the other songs are covers, no vocals at all. Great song, OK album.

Green Onions obviously classic, bangin, good intro. Weird transition to second track, and I mean it's an ok track it's just polka-y, sounds like game menu music. Mo' Onions is more onions. I dunno, I'm not in the mood right at this second but I'd play the heck out of this at a BBQ.

Title track is an all time classic. The rest is pretty decent covers of already great tracks.

albums that mainly consist of covers always throw me off. because i'm not really a fan of covers. this does it well but that doesn't mean this is worth a listen.

Good background music!

Pleasant instrumental album

Groovy shit 3.5/5.

Hey it's that song we've all heard on TV!

Ballpark music. Doesn’t expand very much from its base concert.

Left it feeling pretty much the same as I did before. The title track is a classic but the rest of the album sadly doesn't expand on the concept of it.

One or two instrumental songs is ok for me, but a whole album is way too much. That being said, I can’t believe how many recognizable tracks are on here.

Boogie and indeed woogie.

Het is niet veel meer dan de ene hit, maar prima

Phenomenal opening track, but then the rest is flat. A few crap, pointless covers too.

Church organ version of popular songs + Green Onions

holllllup dis kindaFIYAH

Wario Land 4-ass music. This exists right on the edge of rock music and elevator Muzak. Fortunately for Mr T and his M.G.s, I happen to like Muzak.

2023 remaster, nice! A little less loud that the other version. Reminds me of Sandlot, obviously. Love the title track! Other than that, this is great sounding record but nothing else very inspiring. Mo' Onions, literally just a less good version of the title track. Some covers without any energy... just bland backing tracks.

HA! I didn't know the band OR song was called Green Onions. Pretty distinct sound. Pretty sure this was on The Sandlot. Hm, that's cool they do instrumentals for well known songs. Like I Got a Woman, Twist and Shout. Stranger on the Shore is nice. Slow. Comin' Home Baby is also cool!

Some great sounds and genius playing - definitely one I can have floating around while I tidy my room or spend an afternoon cooking. Can understand the legacy of this one, though this sits at a strong 3 for me. Fave track: Green Onions

Mellow, tuneful, organic soul. Won’t change your life, but it will keep you company. Standouts: Green Onions, Mo’ Onions

This feels like the soundtrack to every 60s movie where everyone is frantically doing the watusi.

Good background music and some solid instrumental grooves. Nothing life changing for me though.

Green Onions is a classic piece, and this is a fun album. However, I don’t think it’s one I’d ever relisten to in its entirety.

OK, not really special but nice tunes

The single Green Onions is one of the greatest grooves captured in record. Green Onions the album is not. A few highlights here and there but otherwise, sadly, underwhelming despite the talent of this quarter.

nice, i like it

what is this? it’s just noodling

2 stars for content. 1 extra star for album title and matching art.

Purely an instrumental album, but it was a pretty enjoyable listen. I think I had heard the title track somewhere before, and it was probably my favorite. Not sure how much re-listening I will do, but I put a few tracks on a playlist. The second half of the album felt weaker and it was naturally a little repetitive.

This reminded me of the riffs one should play when trying to learn guitar.

This was a pretty cool, soulful sound for way back in 1962, and it’s great that a soul-jazz crossover like the title track could be such a big hit. It would have been nice if there were more original songs, but I guess once Green Onions hit the chart they were under pressure to throw something together quickly. I like some of the guitar playing but overall the arrangements sound a bit stiff and predictable. The album offered up before this on the 1001 list is Back at the Chicken Shack by another Hammond organ player, Jimmie Smith. I prefer the more sophisticated arrangements on that LP, but it’s lacking a colossal hit.

This probably qualifies as the greatest one hit wonders of all time. Green onions is of course classic, but the rest of the album is forgettable.

Same song for the entire album

I... Don't think I enjoy fully instrumental albums. Sure I recognised a few songs and the first track is iconic but I got bored. Guitar and organ, guitar and organ, guitar and bleeding organ again and again. It was a very long 35 minutes for me.

Kind of dorky but if I catch myself dancing it’s an automatic 3-star min.

Electric organ jamboree

Old school soul/ funk very easy to listen too and very nice and smooth and relaxing, no verbal lyrics,just instrumental. Wouldn’t listen too again

Overall a good listen. I didn’t like their covers of a couple of tracks but otherwise as close as I’m likely to get to liking jazz. 3*

One cannot overstate how iconic and peasant to the ear the title track is. But, to be honest, and as open as I can be about sixties music and the cultural milestones they left us with, I'm still having a hard time finding the rest of this album as compelling as its opener. I've tried before, and I will probably try again. But in the meantime, I'm putting this on my "maybe" list... Number of albums left to review: 586 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 199 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 94 (including this one) Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 123

Remind of Dressmann ads, but chill music overall

Title track immediately recalls countless television/film experiences, so much so that one cannot remember the specifics. Bluesy jazz is the best kind of jazz. Forego the weird experimental jazz where it is all math and chaos, and instead go with what music was intended to do, which was to build and create an experience. Is this an overhype? Probably. Instrumental albums are going to be more on the subjective end of the spectrum. This is a great jazz blues album, period. It is a solid, enjoyable experience that makes the work day glide on by, and for that, a good rating.

CAN. YOU. DIGIT. SUCKAAAAAAAAAAAA

The title song is amazing, the rest not as much.

6/10 Best Song - Green Onions

Steve Croppers biting guitar is great, but otherwise nothing for me.

Green onions, a classic. Already a big fan of their title track but I have never delved into the rest of the album. It most definitely does not live up to the title track although it certainly captures a similar bluesy sound. I would not go as far to call them a one hit wonder however. An enjoyable listen but not an album I would return to. green onions (single) 5/5 green onions (album) 3/5

A bit one-sided as an album but Green Onions sure is a timeless bop.

Good vibes cool blues licks, only instrumental however and kinda small size (35 min). (70%)

Familiar with the often sampled rifts but never listened to the original. Obviously good and influential, not sure I would listen to it on the day to day though

Like an organ player at a baseball stadium with a chill rock band behind him. Fun for a song or two. Points for making me think of the sandlot.

It was good and definitely defining I imagine, but I likely won't listen to it again.

Great title track, used to soundtrack many food advertisements and film sequences. The rest is quite homogenous and agreeable. Respect the sound but not enough is done with it. Fine in the background but don’t expect me to tell one track from another.

Pas mauvais, très bluesy/southern, se laisse écouter comme bonne musique de fond, mais pas quelque chose de très captivant.

Blues à l'orgue, rigolo mais casse pas 3 pattes à un canard

A couple of songs for sure are already cemented in history of music. It's classic, and surely gives feeling of that era when you listening to it. Overall, full album seems like a lot to me. Kinda boring.

no singing, not bad though

The opening title track is great. It's appeared in so many movies, (maybe too many movies), it's overly familiar. The whole album feels a bit lounge background music, whilst still good, it's samey, not quite the main attraction.

EA Skate brought me here before, amazing instrumentals, very jazzy and upbringing.

Not bad

Obviously the title track is fantastic, and the rest is an easy listen but doesn't get anywhere close to the unmatched coolness of the opener

Didn't finish whole album. I enjoyed the songs I listened to but very similar to be honest. Some great songs for a one off listen but while album bored me after 4 songs.

Green Onions is a great track, instrumentals getting boring quick though

good old plain fun

So green onions is great - full of verve and excitement, but after that it’s just flat as though it’s different people entirely.

La quintessence du 3/5

pas soufflée mais pourquoi pas

Needed to take a couple listens, which was easy because it's pretty short. The title track is obviously a classic, and it's the slow stuff like Behave Yourself that really shows off creativity and talent. The others are just covers, and a cover has to be really special, or else I'd rather just listen to the original. (prior listen)

Funky R/b instrumental album with some legendary sounds, riffs that are familiar from later stuff like higher ground, gold digger, baby. Hard to tell what’s original vs cover vs borrowed but nice sound throughout either way.

Pretty fun vibes on this one albeit a little sleepy. Would be a cool soundtrack to some kind of old school film.

Det svänger! men lite för många låtar kske

Green Onion, an instrumental only covers album by Booker T. and the M. G., is a chill, bluesy trip through the best and grooviest songs of the 60’s made even funkier by the band’s meticulous reimagining with not much else but an electric guitar and hammond organ. they leave no stones unturned here, covering hits from Ray Charles to Mary Wells and The Top Notes. The instrumentation is surprisingly minimalist (especially when contrasted with the massive songs they were covering), but the detailed variations of the already known and loved songs do little to stop Green Onion from sounding like the music of a cover band at one social event or the other (or dare i say, music heard in a quiet elevator) — the individual tracks stand out on their own (“Behave Yourself” and the title track proving deliriously funky and memorable), but listened collectively, they begin to blend into each other; the majority of the highlights are stacked at the top of the track list, and as you listen through, the album collapses into a samey, monotony that slowly begins to exhaust. But I can’t help but feel like this is what a Sunday morning should sound like — a toe-tapping, whistle-inducing cornucopia of beloved soulful hits that affect just as much as the sweet aroma of mother’s cooking in the kitchen.

This album should be called Spring Onions

coming into this relatively blind, as i have very little in the way of knowledge about these guys. the name is familiar to me, and from wikipedia this appears to be their first album? definitely before my time. the closest i have to experience in this field would be the blues brothers soundtrack which for sure reason i listened to a lot as a child (i enjoyed the film i guess), and maybe the one time my parents played a ray charles album. that's like the extent of my genre knowledge here from listening, this music is very cool and very enjoyable. super easy listening. some chill-ass noodling around on guitars and keyboards. i'm incredibly sorry for that awfully inadequate description lmao. i just don't have an ear attuned to this kind of music, and i just can't isolate the intricacies of the rhythm - don't have the language to talk in any further detail. i hope that i was able to at least point in the right direction of a vibe. i would listen to this again if i wanted some background music while i was working. doing programming or computers or whatever the fuck i do. this makes for an excellent non-intrusive music bed. favourite track is green onion, as it is the only one that suck in my head as a stand-alone tune after i finished my album listen. probably because i recognise it already, from adverts or movie trailers or wherever it pops up. never would have known who it was by our what it was called though so fun to discover its origin!

przyjemne

This was a bit wishy-washy, cool, but wishy-washy.

Some superb musicianship, great covers... but 40 minutes of instrumental blues is just a bit too much. I was longing for some searing vocals to kick in.

Pretty good stuff

Like it, if I could give half i would

"Green Onions" was a great instrumental song. Also, in this album there is a instrumental and famous cover songs. Big band.

Not a big fan of Instrumental albums...

Yeah if I was good at music and made an album of instrumental covers I'd probably sounds pretty good too.

Woah… I feel so… cool…

The songs were very much stylistically the same. But with the instrumentation they had, I guess that was all they were willing to pull off? Just a basic groove, and that was it. Putting "Green Onions" at the front, pretty much tells you all you need to know. That was the best and most memorable track on the album. The rest was... ok. More of the same.

Is it the lack of background vocals that make it feel like great background music but not much else? There's some really good musicianship going on but if you don't really pay attention it just passes you by. Glad I can now put an artist and song title to Green Onions, or Rinky Dink (though they're not the originals), and I heard some other beats that likely got adopted or adapted elsewhere (Comin Home Baby in I'm a Man by the Spencer Davis Group). Enjoyable but didn't really blow me away.

I love when I put on an album here thinking I don't know anything about it, and then a song like Green Onions plays and I go, oh, yeah! I know that! Just didn't know the band or the name. The album is enjoyable. I can appreciate it for its historical significance, especially since the band became the "house band" for a ton of great artists. I'd listen again, mainly as background music, but I don't think it's anything I need to hear again.

I imagine that the vast majority of people in the western cultural regions of the world know the title track. The rest of the album follows the same formula - no suprises - nothing to upset the gentle groove set up from the begining of the album. Unfortunately that results in an album of elevator music. It deserves a place in the 1001 because of the title track, the rest of the album is incidental

There wasn’t much to wow me. It was a nice downbeat album full of instrumentals, but I feel like most songs are forgettable. It’s not terrible, but there feels like little substance present. It’s something I would hear in a royalty free library; it’s good enough to be music but doesn’t really appeal to anyone. Favorite track: Green Onions

They really capture that feeling of being at a ball game

Mukava ja letkeä, muttei mikään tajuntaa räjäyttävä. Jos pitäis valita mahdollisimman perusvarma ja turvallinen taustamusiikki johonkin firman cocktail-tilaisuuteen, se ois varmaan tää.

Oon varmasti kuullut koko levyn (tai jos en kokonaan niin paljolti ainakin) osissa mutten aiemmin kokonaan. Ihan jees, mut ei kovin kiinnostava kuitenkaan. Sanotaan 2.5/5

nicht schlecht, aber ist schon ziemliche hintergrundmusik. wobei, ab und zu schon ganz groovy. the one who really loves you ist cool. aber ich fand zombie von fela kuti schon echt deutlich besser. nicht über 3

Lite softa och sköna låtar.

It’s a solid album with fabulous instrumental performance (nods to Booker T and Steve Cropper), but it’s Green Onions that lands this thing on the list, and rightly so. You can’t hear a blockbuster comedy movie preview without that song somewhere in the background. Such an amazing tune.

The title track is an all-time classic, but the rest of the songs-mostly covers with a few originals-don’t live up to the hype. Guitarist Steve Cropper is a gem throughout, though.

7/10

Disc instrumental executat per músics de primera línia i que fa d’un matí de diumenge assolejat un dia encara millor. El tema tirular és un clàssic de l’época, i la resta és igualment interessant, si bé res que hagi de canviar el món

Interesting and jammy.

Fairly enjoyable overall. The title track is a jam. 3.5/5

Good classic tunes

A little disappointed in this one? I love Booker T, and I love the song “Green Onions” even more, but the rest of the songs on this one just felt very uninteresting and inoffensive. 3 stars.

Cool! Funky organ

Homer Simpson doing the baby elephant walk

Great musicianship all around. Some of the tunes seem to be variations on the title track.

Nice instrumental album. Lot of tracks that I’ve heard in movies or at baseball games, good to see where they originated

Lots of familiar stuff. I didn’t realize they wrote all of those songs. It was interesting

Good Instrumental. Fun to listen to but gets repetitive and doesn’t have much replay value due to the lack of lyrics. However the guitar work and actual musical aspect of the songs were pretty good. Favorite Track: Green Onions Least Favorite Track: Lonely Avenue

‘Green Onions’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…

Jamming session Life is Strange Mikey & Silvia (#2)? Nice little mood chill.

Fun record, some tunes still hold up 60 years later

Classic sound. Definitely "of an era".

What a great showcase of musicality and the organ was different and fun! Highly enjoyed this listen

I felt like I was at a baseball game with the organ playing quirky music, then it dawned on me Green Onions was in The Sandlot. So it made a lot more sense. Weird album but I appreciate its uniqueness.

Not exactly something I would just sit and listen to but has a ton of classics on it.

Interesting Instrumental bluesy rock album

Yea another solid one, good vibes

I learnt how to kiss to this record. I would practice on my hand and also sometimes on my sister. Yeah, looking back, we did get a bit carried away. I probably shouldn't have bummed her, but there's no point in dwelling on that now. Besides, how can you regret the time of your bloody life?

Onions

Prima orgel tunes, maar buiten de onions niks aparts

Ništa nije ni blizu naslovnoj temi ali je kul

i had a good time with this album. it's the raw material for endless remixes, samples, arrangments, etc

A peppy background listen

Groovig, aber schlecht gealtert.

Not my type of music. Nice to listen to a few songs, but not all.

Good, but definitely of it’s time. Not sure I’d go back to it often.

Possibly brilliant at the time, but bit too cheesy for me.

Favorite song is Green Onions, without question. Absolute classic from the Sandlot. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is pretty much just blues covers and background music.

Bankare

Pleasant organ grooves

Agradable. Pero sin más. Instrumental rocksoulR&B

funky good beginning and end

i mean its a cool album buts its basically of the opening track an the organ to make it with all the other songs just tributes to it

The track green onions is amazing but after a whole album?

A series of instrumental covers of classic soul songs performed with rock n roll instruments with the vocals performed by a Hammond organ. Of course we have the classic "Green Onions" that shook the music sphere. You may be saying "so what?" until you realize this album was released in 1962. The jazzy groovy nature of this album is a push away from the intertwined nature of soul with rock n roll, propelling it into its own genre. Most importantly everyone tried copying them. I enjoyed most of the songs, recognizing half of them. Today I learned "I'm a Man" (Spencer Davis, Chicago) ripped off "Comin Home Baby" (Dave Bailey). Favorites: Green Onions, Rinky Dink, Behave Yourself, Stranger on the Shore, One Who Really Loves You, Comin Home Baby

Классика. Green Onions и Mo' Onions знает примерно каждый поклонник музыки. Но многовато каверов для попадания в список альбомов, которые обязательно услышать. Т.е. не хватает авторского вклада. 5 из 10.

Relax

Getting severely boosted by Green Onions. Don't really care about the rest.

Recognized a bunch of the tunes. Sounds classic. Way classic. Too classic to revisit anytime soon...

It's like listening to the greatest hits on a jukebox that doesn't have the license so the songs are just instrumental versions. Such a cool vibe, very enjoyable grooves. Green Onions and Mo' Onions were the standouts for me.

Genre: Rhythm & Blues 3/5 Man, back in 1962, this thing must've sounded like the coolest thing ever. The title track and opener, Green Onions - a song so injected into pop culture that people don't even know what it's called, who performed it, or where it came from - is so flippin' cooool, man. Blues guitar licks bend over a classic blues progression, played elegantly on the hammond organ. It's such a classic tune that it's hard not to absolutely love it. Through the rest of the album, Booker T. & The M.G.'s groove quietly through a collection of blues covers and originals, that range from catchy to goofy, with the line between the two drawing thinner as the project goes along. The problem with this one is that NOTHING else comes close to the title track, Green Onions, which is such an obvious lighting in a bottle recording. Impossible to duplicate. But tracks like Stranger on the Shore and I Can't Sit Down meander about and sound like the soundtrack to a goofy cartoon, in a funny, cute way. A few songs towards the end of the setlist truly blip and blop throughout the length of the song, which made me giggle a few times at some of the random guitar or organ licks. Overall, completely and totally inoffensive, and might be worth it for the title track alone.

Fun, albeit a bit samey

Instrumental music of a different kind, plus some classic tracks, very enjoyable

A pleasant listen

oh is this cool! covers can be so interesting, to see what an artist does with an existing song. and more interesting when you take a song and turn it into an instrumental! the music really stands out then. booker t and the mgs did a cool, cool job. not to mention the ever famous, non-cover "green onions," which is always a treat to listen to. nice to listen to while working. i also learned that a popular song from dirty dancing, love is strange, used the guitar riff from "rinky dink"!

You can just see the 60s era movies (or more likely, modern movies SET in the 60s) with these songs playing in the background. But that's all I like it for, background music. Won't be going back to listen to again anytime soon.

Ah. Good background soulful instrumentals. Oddly I'm tired of Green Onions by now. Feels harsh giving a 3 but it's a reminder I don't need to listen to the album again despite it being Booker T

Highlights: Green Onions, I Got a Woman. Starts very strong, but it does drag on a bit by the end. Fun, mostly.

Jazz instrumental 3/5

Great instrumental album, the song green onions is iconic and the covers are good too. Maybe slightly repetitive by the end.

Fun fact navodno su promijenili ime u green onions jer je funky onions zvucalo ko psovka.

ako sad nije vrijeme za ovaj album, kad je? mladi luk 5, ovaj album 3,5.

Ok, but I got bored

A bit slow at times, but was grooving all the way through.

Cheese and Onions.

green onions and gammon organ

Green Onions is a great song. Rinky Dink is a decent cover. Mo Onions is just a continuation of Green Onions and It's good. The rest of the album contains cover versions of other popular songs around the time this album came out. If there were more original material like Green Onions I can see this being worthy of being on this list, but with a bunch of covers, it hardly makes the cut for me. Still enjoyable, just not great. 3/5.

Pretty good. They just do too many cover songs.

Instrumental music can be tough when I’m running, but this was better than expected. Some groovy tunes and fun bass lines. Was hoping this was Booker T as in the profession wrestler, only slightly disappointed.

Wow, de ahí viene wsa canción que es un lugar común de las películas ambientadas en los años 60! El resto del disco está bien y tiene varias tonadas que suenan conocidas. Ahora, ¿por qué se llama Green Onions?

Heerlijke deuntjes, vooral die verlenging van geen onions

what if good jazzy background music, but played on a baseball organ. Nice for an afternoon.

First track was extremely familiar. I had no idea this is who did that song! The entire album was instrumentals which I was not expecting. Good background music, but no songs that really wowed me.

Excellente chanson thème. Quant au reste, ce sont de bonnes interprétations de succès de l'époque mettant en valeur l'orgue. Musique appropriée quand, à la mi-mars, on pellette des congères encore immenses malgré un soleil est de plus en plus chaud, et qu'on essaie de ne pas penser à la dernière tempête de l'année qui viendra inéluctablement.

It was alright. A lot of the same.

Fun 1960's instrumental. Relaxing in its own way.

Quite like it so far, didn't expect it to just be instrumental. Sounds like 3 or 4 stars.

I feel like I'm being introduced on a 60's game show.

Green Onions (the song) is a bonafide classic. The smooth, walking bass paired with the bright electric organ makes it an easy song to enjoy. Unfortunately, few other songs on the album stack up. Worth noting that it's all instrumental and basically just jam sessions. Mo' Onions, for example, is a rehash of Green Onion with more guitar. Not that I'm complaining, but there's a distinct lack of structure or purpose here other than "we recorded a few jams that we liked". I don't know, I feel like there are maybe two or three good ideas in here and the rest is just cobbling together what they can. Not bad by any means but super underwhelming. I wish they just put a bit more time and effort in pulling together these songs.

The album is a nice collection of r&b style jazzy beats and Melodies. Green onions itself is a great song and will be played forever. Some of the other songs on here I’ve heard before and enjoyed again. Solid album. 6.7/10

Fun, playful, funky, trying to redo green onions, but that's not a necessarily bad thing

Grew on me as I listened

groovy

Proving the band is so much more than Green Onions.

Bit too much organ playing for me, but I didn't think the entire album was bad. The title track is a classic though.

It was definitely music.

It seems like the same song over and over again

eines dieser Alben, bei denen ich nicht weiß, ob sich die Challenge lohnt - ja, es ist ein mir bisher weniger geläufigeres Genre (bzw. Band, klar) und in manchen Punkten (Twist and Shout) bin ich definitiv überrascht, aber die Quintessenz ist und bleibt leider, dass ich weder mit Blues noch mit Orgeln nicht wirklich etwas anfangen kann. bin mir ehrlich nicht sicher, ob ich es - wie die meisten Alben bisher - einfach abbrechen oder mich die verbleibenden 15min noch durchzuquälen... ist beides doof. Hm. (aber U2 war schlimmer... :D)

Lekkere achtergrondmuziek

Mostly mediocre

Oh, so that's what that song is called. In a way, this feels like an entire album based around "Green Onions" but there's still plenty to like around the chill blusey instrumentals.

Mouais (sauf chanson titre)

La chanson-titre est géniale, le reste va de très bien à écoutable. Bonne musique de fond. Prefs: GREEN ONIONS, I Got a Woman, Twist And Shout, Lonely Avenue, Comin' Home Baby Moins pref: Behave Yourself

Some good classic tunes

OK

Cool Jam, man.

This was decent. 3.5, not yet a 4, so I'll go with 3 for now. I'm not sure if I would put this on if I wasn't working/doing errands/chilling. But I definitely recognize what they were going for and can respect that. It just didn't click for me much.

Oh! Green Onions! Love that Mo Onions uses a heavier guitar riff. Better in some ways. Upbeat blues. I wonder what this would sound like with some banjo?

Nice. Tight. Fun.

After looking at the album cover and the year it was released I wasn't expecting too much from this album. however when I popped it on, immediately I recognised the sound, although can't pinpoint from exactly where I recognise it from perhaps from movies or TV shows. Overall a good instrumental album with many familiar melodies. Best: Green Onions Worst: One Who Really Loves You

Foundational

I did not know that THAT song was titled that or by this band. I don't love it but I don't hate it either.

A couple of classic tracks complimented by some top notch easy listening standards. Outstanding keyboards!

groovy, i like the organ nothing mind-blowing, just some classic funky jam music. good for its genre. I give a 2.5 but round up to 3

Nostalgía, pabbi á skemmtaranum. GO er meistaraverk.

"Green onions" is a big song. Oders aren't importants.

Booker T (organ) was 17 when they recorded this. 17. So the title track has been so ubiquitous throughout my life that it almost feels like it's not a "real" song - just a theme that people hum from time to time. That's not to say it's not great - it is - it's just so known to me that I was curious to hear the rest of this album. It's pretty decent. Yeah it's...ok. I don't know, maybe it's just....meh? So I did some reading - the band were one of the first integrated bands which is really cool so I get that impact and is definitely important. And it's an easy listen - good playing, especially for 1962 - but for me is decent background music and not too much more. I'll give it 5/10 for cultural impact and it probably would have had a MUCH bigger impact on me had I been alive for it at the time. 5/10 3 stars

Fun, great background while doing chores.

Needed to take a couple listens, which was easy because it's pretty short. The title track is obviously a classic, and it's the slow stuff like Behave Yourself that really shows off creativity and talent. The others are just covers, and a cover has to be really special, or else I'd rather just listen to the original.

Acompasado. Buenos ritmos. Todo instrumental.

listenable

Decent although sounds more like background music

3 Stars. I didn't find this terribly interesting. I like that it's instrumental, but the keyboard sounds dated. Steve Cropper's guitar work redeems it a little

Jaunty, but a bit cloying after a while.samey.

It's great as an instrumental album, but listening to it actively doesn't appeal to me that much. Good background music though.

Leuk deuntje maar niet zo bijzonder dat ik er iets mee ga doen

piksel tarz video oyunlarındaki soundtrack gibi

Ordinare

On one hand, it's the dictionary definition of "classic"; on the other, it fails to deliver as an album. Not that this takes anything away from the awesomeness of the title track.

Favorite tracks: Green Onion Rinky Dink Twist and Shout

Enjoyable, but nothing terribly groundbreaking here. This band was the house band for Stax records and contributed to the Memphis soul sound. However, on their own, the music is just a bit too sterile for me. These players are tremendously talented and are great at what they do, but the music is just not as alive as I would like

A fun album the title track is unmatched and sometimes the rest of the album seems like filler. But the band COOKS! 3 🌟

Good, instrumental, fairly recognizable

I like Green Onions. pretty solid album, but didn't knock my socks off.

Pretty cool instrumental album- I had no idea how much of their stuff has been sampled over the years!

Title tracks usage in films would lead you to believe this was more upbeat pop but a more jazz oriented genre.

I'm familiar with this one. It's pretty cool. Booker T's electric organ is peachy. For both positive and negative reasons, you can tell these guys were the house band at Stax. Positively, they already play great together, even though this was their first album; and you can hear their larger contribution to soul, blues and rock embodied in this short album. Negatively, this instrumental album, once you get past the amazing and influential title track, does often sound like a backing band, waiting for a vocalist to show up. I suspect this album was chosen for the 1001 list entirely on the basis of the title track, which should certainly be on a list of singles to hear before you die. 2.5 - good music, but not really as an album...

Would prefer lyrics, but sounded good

A really nice instrumental jazzy blues album. Great for background listening. It's main failing however, is that apart from the great title track, the tracks are completely forgettable. If all of them were of the quality of the title track this would easily be a 4 or 4.5. Instead this is a solid 3.5 for me. Good experience to hear it once, but won't listen again.

Instrumental album. Nice vibe for older music. It is, however, something, my grandpa would be listening to.

raj za semplove

I, II, III, and Physical Graffiti all make appearances on the 1001 albums list. I love me some Led Zeppelin, but that seems like overkill. Especially because LZIII was critically panned when it came out, damned both for being less aggressive than its predecessors (Melody Maker) and for not being substantially different (Lester Bangs). Perhaps this album was included because it foreshadows Led Zeppelin's later work--Arabic modes and English folk songs both make their first appearance on LZIII. But I'm going to ignore LZIII's place in music history. Is it any good? The leadoff track, Immigrant Song, is relentless and menacing, driven by a staccato pedal point and Robert Plant's double-tracked vocals. A prominent tri-tone and a bridge that leads to nowhere, ending on a flatted 6th, contribute to the track's edge. Friends is a spooky modal tune, feature a flatted 5th and a minor 2nd. The arrangement is both sparse and ingenious, with strings handling a countermelody while Jimmy Page pounds out a rhythmic drone on the bottom. The song ends on a gorgeous synth drone from John Paul Jones, which leads into the next tune, Celebration Day. Here, Jimmy Page repurposes a riff from Robert Johnson's Terraplane Blues, but completely makes it his own. The chorus is pure pop. John Bonham's pounding drums seal the deal. Since I've Been Loving You is one of Led Zep's patented supercharged blues workouts--they wring out every last drop of emotion and intensity from the tune. Out On The Tiles is anchored by an extended Jimmy Page riff, woven together with Plant's vocal. The band is killer throughout the first half of LZIII. What guitarist Jimmy Page lacks in precision, he makes up for in taste, tone, and arranging prowess. John Bonham was the most powerful rock drummer of the era; sorry, Keith Moon. And the band's secret weapon is John Paul Jones, who plays keyboards with consummate taste, as well as bass. The second half of LZIII is less bombastic, which presents a problem for some fans, but is it really the weak link that critics claim it to be? Gallows Pole is a powerful rendering of an old English folk tune, driven along by mandolin, banjo, and John Bonham's kickass drums. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp has a more basic arrangement, but it's effective nonetheless. The softer tunes, Tangerine and That's The Way, are cunningly arranged and cast a melancholy spell. The weakest tune in the bunch is Hats Off To (Roy) Harper, which is 4 minutes of raunchy blues slide guitar paired with Robert Plant's processed vocals, in which he seemingly randomly spouts snippets of various blues lyrics. But even there, I appreciate how Jimmy Page recasts a traditional blues into something contemporary, utilizing the simplest of means. So, what's the verdict? I personally prefer Led Zep's harder side, but they pull off their more acoustically oriented stuff with skill, too. I prefer I, II, IV, and Physical Graffiti, but LZIII is pretty damned good.

Het begin van het album vertegenwoordigt ongeveer 30% van alle filmmuziek

Not my typical musical style, but I found myself grooving to it, nice!

That first hook comes at you like a brick wall to the face. Second song is part of a Wu-Tang sample... oh shit I’m in love. 4th song is... is... unapologetically, the same as the first song, but slower. Huh, maybe I’m not in love. Some sweat, saccharine keys in this album, just lulling you. Hard to hate on something with such loungey good vibes. It’s great background music. Perfect for boozing and chilling. I’d definitely buy a vinyl, but it’s a bit one note. Hmmm. Is this better than Dusty Springfield? 3

Background music and nothing more. Green Onions is a ripper.

Initially, I didn't like it too much, thinking about why these ambient songs were here in this list. However, I finished it with the opposite opinion. It is a very good album with some very good instrumental songs. It is surprisingly modern for a 1962 album.

Groovy. 5/10

Bon cover de chanson connu et bon musicien. Plus musique d’ambiance. 3.25

I had no idea that this song I’ve been hearing my whole life is called “Green onions.” I need to Google why the hell it’s called that, but I’m probably too lazy to do that. At any rate, these onions are pretty chill and I don’t even like onions. Put this on shuffle with some albums by the Meters and that’s a pleasant Saturday afternoon backyard bbq party.

alright

i can see the appeal. some of the songs were cool and i recognised them from being sampled in newer songs.

Great smooth jamz

MMMmmm... Nice!

organ driven blues. Some themes seem to be repeated through the album, which detracts from its quality. Still enjoyed listening

I really thought I was going to like this album more than I did. The first song is incredible, but the rest of the album doesn't have much to offer. Most of the covers are a bit uninspired, and the songs tend to all sound the same 3/5

funky fresh

Decent, influential album. From a pure listening experience, the organ got a bit overused towards the end of the album

Närmare en tvåa än en fyra. Det är svårt att få ett instrumentalt album att verkligen flyga tycker jag.

Good and fun

Very funkalicious

Pleasant working music

Instrumentalt 60’er soul/rnb, elorgel, sprød guitar, covers

I like organ and I like the blues. Both can certainly sound cheesy over the course of 12 tracks, but together the cheese cancels out and the good parts of the Hammond and the form reinforce one another. Very fun instrumental version of Twist and Shout.

Signature sound. Good album

Hmmm…like Green Onions, but the rest are so cheesy it’s comical.

Another one for Arnold Rimmer. I actually like some of the tracks, especially the first, but I found a whole album too much.

Good music but need a good lead vocalist and this could have been a few more stars

Pretty good...but how did it make it to this list?

Bad but influential

honestly not getting the sheer amount of the 60s music in a way it overwhelms the generating and lead me even more bored than i'd normally be with this, it certainly wasn't a time with more songs or more music output (although perhaps better quality over quantity, but debatable). it just gives this "they don't do it like they used to" vibe that simply means you haven't looked around enough. so, i appreciate this being instrumental, it actually gives more life to it if it makes sense? alowing the instrumentals to breathe and build their own story. that is, some funky-jazzy soundtrack

There's only so much organ I can stomach.

Likely never go back to it even tho it was ok

Shows how hard it is to write a banger, they did it once and failed 10 more times

While I recognize and appreciate the historical significance of this album, it isn’t something that I will feel the need to listen to again.

Respect to them for green onions. It's a foundational peace of music. But to be honest, all these tunes feel like a rehash of that one

It’s great background music or something you would enjoy in a seedy bar.

DNF. DNF because I didn't feel like listening to instrumental music, but it was nice otherwise.

Green Onions

I really don’t want to say “one trick pony” but…

Listen to this in the original mono, and the sleeve is in colour where mono would have been more suitable. The Sleeve design by Haig Adishian, front cover shot by Irving Schild.

Kinda boring lol 2.5?

Важко критикувати цей реліз, але мені було дуже нудно. Все звісно ж стильно і звучить класно, але хотілося вимкнути десь після четвертого треку. (Однойменна композиція звісно ж хіт)

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Tota… musta tää on niinku blues!

I think I understand why this is great and all, and the opening track is iconic, but it's hard to listen to this whole album and not feel like you're listening to the soundtrack of a very early generation poker phone app.

Should you hear "Green Onions" before you die? Sure. Should you hear the whole Green Onions album before you die? Nah. The song, while classic, is basically a novelty hit. This album feels like an attempt to stretch out that magic into a full-length (I mean, "Mo' Onions"...), and it's straining beneath the effort. These songs are pleasant background music, but not especially grabby or engaging.

not awful just no lyrics

Cool but all instrumental. Would be cool to hear live. Favorite song: green onions (live vers)

2.9

Gawd awful ancient keyboard organ

While the titular track is immediately recognizable and I was initially very excited for this album, my initial excitement quickly waned once I realized with the exception of Mo' Onions, all the tracks on this album are just instrumental covers of popular songs.

The title track is obviously the best thing here by a mile, but Steve Cropper shines throughout - one of the best rhythm guitarists of all time

2 for the title track. The rest was fine but unremarkable

Fair enough LP, nothing that touches “Soul Limbo” though - 2 stars. Tom.

50% cool, 50% fairground backing track.

mmm, a little too twangy for me

It's fine.

This is an all-around fun album.

Starts fine but gets increasingly less interesting and fun the more you losten to it. So yeah not something you need to hear.

The band sounds great throughout, and the title track is an all-timer. But this is mostly nice background music at a over 60’s party.

Title track was not enough to save this one for me Playlist add: "Green Onions"

First track obvisiouly a classic. However the rest is all very background. In fact at one stage I thought I was waiting in a funeral parlour for the funeral to start.

The title track is a bit of a bop but idk who is actually asking for the rest of this album 2

Yeah I mean the title track kills it but extremely underwhelming after that.

Instrumental so just 2 stars good vibes though

the music begs for you to leave it in the background. elements are interesting at first glace. however, after about 10 seconds of focused listening, the brain wanders off... it's inherently interlude music: it sounds like the type of music in between the main musical numbers or when you're waiting for the main show to begin (which isn't a negative thing imo-- it sounds fine and it's well-played). but when it's entirely an album of just that, it doesn't make for a good listening session or a high-quality album. = highly repetitive and boringly inoffensive. H3.

Enjoyment: 4 Replayability: 4 Cohesion: 8 Flow/Pacing: 3 Artistic Merit: 6 Weighted Average: 4.8 Summary: A gentle blend of R&B and Soul with the spice coming from the bass and Hammond organ. Favorite Song: Green Onions Least Favorite Song: Rinky Dink Recommend? No

Hmm… too much organ.

Boring background but like good music I suppose

Respect, but not my thing

Love track one, but too much instrumental

A: ... mhmmm... eeeh dehär om NÅGONTING är hissmusik. Green onion och Stranger on the shore var helt bra. MEN BUUU va e de hä fö Mario Kart bana???!?!??!! Inte ens kiva relaxing bakgrundsmusik utan ba irriterande beep beep 1/5 D: Jättelyckligt och lekfullt album. Hade en unik, konsekvent och tydlig baktanke. Gillade båda lökarna. Mina smaklökar gillade den också. Skulle spela på en function för att imponera på mig. 4/5

didn't have the cricket one so i was already disappointed, then just a bit boring