Green Onions

Immediately recognized track one. The rest was fine, but ultimately boring instrumental rock.

I'm afraid this didn't do much for me. Green onions is great but I did find the album overall to be very repetitive.

Nice but repetative.

The album that was made due to the success of one single, happy for them that they got to make this but really you're not listening to more than the song Green Onions here. Playlist Track: Green Onions

boring mais pas mauvais non plus

This is just such a underwhelming album. Apparently this album most likely was made because the title track was a huge hit, and that adds up to me. There is literally no reason why this album should be on here, the 1001 list tends to include some albums just because of the one hit wonder is apart of an album. So no this is not a album you must hear before you die. Highlight Song/s: "Rinky-Dink", "Behave Yourself" and "I Can't Sit Down"

Do you know when you like a song, your whole life and you have no idea who sang it that’s me and green onions

Interesting album - recognized the music even without lyrics . . .

4/10

Odlicna muzika ako bi isla u pozadini neke igrice tipa “make your own hamburger”, inace ide na zivce jako

I mean it’s got that one song but otherwise forgettable, as good as that one song is.

While the organ is a pleasant instrument, this album is pretty unpleasant. 2/5

The onion songs are good, the organ gets a bit.. grating eventually on the whole though.

Hey, it's that one song from all those movies! :D ... oh... oh god its all the same D:

Title track is great, and it was kinda fun to hear them do different classics under their distinctive sound, but no real reason to listen to this album past track 3 tbh

Kind of mad to think that this pre-dates the Beatles releasing Please Please Me. Can absolutely see why this is on the list, but it’s pretty dated now. Green onions still Cool AF, but the rest of the album does drag on a bit. 2

didn't expect it to be fullt instrumental,, very much a one hit wonder band it seems bc i recognized the titular song immediately ofc. but idk it's got a nice blues, organ vibe, but not more than that. again, i could see myself putting this on if i had it on vinyl but otherwise eh

After the opening track it was a bit dull

Music before the Beatles continues to be odd. Enjoyed some of it in a chilled out background kinda way.

The title track rocks! Other than that it was ok at best. A lot of covers does not make for a must listen. Ok background music but gets old fast. 2

iconic opening track but the rest is very samey and gets boring fast

Not my cup of tea, but I do know the title track which was fun to discover

Sounds like a sarcastic soundtrack. (First song is a classic though)

If you like instrumental covers of mid-50s songs by an electric organ and guitars then this is for you.

Maybe I'm underestimating the influence of these guys, but this seems to be one decent original song and a bunch of forgettable covers, including a version of Twist and Shout that's not even significant enough to be listed on the Twist and Shout Wikipedia page. Maybe that's just the state of jazz and R&B in the early 60s idk.

not exactly unpleasant but there were points where i was looking forward to the album ending. i will say though, Stranger on the Shore made me feel like i was watching charlie brown walk down the street by himself on christmas morning but as like a 45 year old divorcee and that gave me a new perspective on the blues that i really appreciate. favorite track is One Who Really Loves You

Rating: 5/10 The most 5/10 for me ever. Perfectly fine and not something I would choose to play as background music but it would suffice. One of the most iconic recognizable soundtrack songs ever and then a bunch more instrumental chill jams

Hey chatgpt please turn these popular songs into elevator music except knowing 1001albums these guys probably invented elevator music before elevators even existed YO BUT THE KEYBOARD SOLO HALFWAY THROUGH LONELY AVENUE? still a 3.5/10

Me gustó, no me encantó, pero me gustó. Me gustó escuchar un álbum muy viejito con música que no sé si después le pusieron letra y se hicieron populares.

more elektrische orgel please

Lost interest in this one veeeery quickly, I think because there are no lyrics. It’s okay as background music but it gets a little repetitive after a while. Sitting down and listening to the album as a whole just makes me feel like I’m waiting for something. Musically it’s fine but there’s nothing really attaching me to this album.

Pretty good, a bit funky

Låter som sämre versioner av samma låt om och om igen.

- no lyrics, good background noise - alright but wouldn't go out of my way to play when I want to listen to music - study music

No estoy muy acostumbrada a escuchar este tipo de música. Al principio me gustó, pero a medida que avanzaban las canciones se me empezaron a hacer muy similares entre sí. Diría que es un buen álbum para escuchar de fondo mientras estas haciendo otra cosa.

It’s a great album, if you happen to be precisely in the mood for funky instrumental music played on a ballpark organ. The title track is a classic, and each individual song is really good, but for me it’s not my thing to listen to all of them in one sitting; it can feel a little repetitive.

We all know the song. But man it gets boring fast on an album. I think this is where elevator muzak was born. An extra star for the title track though.

The title track is an obvious classic. Other than that, I found the rest of the album quite boring tbh. 4/10

Favorite tracks: Green Onions, One Who Really Loves You, You Can't Sit Down, Comin' Home Baby Torn on this one... On the one hand: this album was really fun and had me groovin' during work. On the other: how much organ is too much organ? Because I think the answer is less than what's on this album. Rounding down simply because, even if Green Onions is a bop, the rest of the album is almost all covers and the organ gets pretty old.

The Good: Scallions! The Bad: This album is not meant to be cooked with… The Ugly: Finding out that the Chinese have purchased the MG brandname… Setting aside the title song, the rest of the album starts dragging on and on… it is the organ that just starts killing it all. Great musicians don’t always = great music 2*

My listen through this album was definitely a journey. I have to admit I did not know what I was stepping into. "Green Onions" proved to be a very well known song. This was also the case for the "Rinky Dink" characteristic tune. This kept happening for the following songs. I could not believe all these famous sounds would originate from the same instrumental album. Then, embarrassingly late, I realized with "Twist and Shout". "Green Onions" is an instrumental project that mixes originals, versions and covers. The only songs that were created by "Booker T. & the M.G.'s" are the onion songs, "Behave Yourself" and "You Can't Sit Down". These songs are great and so is the rest of the album. I am not a fan of instrumentals, but I definitely enjoyed this compilation. Disappointingly, I do not think it is fair to rate a version album higher.

Like the organ sound and jangly guitar, but tracks don't really stand out from one another.

- 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummers al toegevoegd aan MMMM

Med tittelsporet karvet de ut et sted i musikkhistorien. På resten av skiva bruker de samme oppskriften, men treffer sjeldent noe som fanger oppmerksomheten. Eller, Hammond-orgelet fanger oppmerksomheten min, men det er fordi lyden er based; tror man kan spille nesten hva som helst på det og det vil være i hvert fall litt kult. Helhetlig blir det veldig muzak. Musikk jeg ikke har noe imot å høre på, men sannsynligvis aldri kommer til å sette på.

Tittelsporet er selvfølgelig alle tiders, og jeg vil slå et slag for «Rinky Dink» også. Dessverre høres mye av albumet litt ut som muzak-versjoner av kjente låter. Jeg savner vokal mesteparten av plata, med unntak av de to låtene jeg allerede nevnte.

Dressmann! Det er fine greier det her altså, men det blir for kjedelig. Det var sikkert kult og spennende i 1962, men i dag funker det ikke helt.

Green Onions is great, but the album got pretty annoying pretty quickly. There's only so many hammond organ covers a man needs to hear in his lifetime.

There’s that iconic song… played twice! This album sounds pretty chill and fun, maybe too chill and fun because it comes off pretty straight and harmless. The music here is certainly well played but lacking any edge which I suppose is the point. You can certainly play this album almost anywhere and pretty much never offend anybody. I think there’s a sort of generic sound to this album though which makes it hard for me to recommend as necessary listening.

Meteen maar even het verschil tussen lente-ui en bosui gegoogled. Het moment van oogsten dus. Productief begin van de dag dankzij Booker T. Dit album voelt bijzonder oud aan. Enerzijds is dat charmant, anderzijds gaat het wel echt ver. In kringloopwinkels vind je vaak vaak die '[artiest] on his Hammond' LPs. Ik noem een Jackie Davis, die ik nog gekocht heb ook. Blijkbaar was dat eind jaren 50/begin jaren 60 helemaal de shit. Ik vind zo'n Hammond ook wel vet, maar dan liever als een extra laagje in plaats van front en center. De openingstrack is geniaal. Daarna wordt het allemaal iets minder geniaal, maar het is nog steeds wel geinig voor een keertje. Al kun je niet anders dan jezelf afvragen waar je mee bezig bent. Het is vooral leuk om er op een museum-manier naar te luisteren. Voor normaal dagelijks gebruik is dit te oud. Wel lekker bluesy overigens. Lastig om hier een cijfer op te plakken. Ik waardeer dat het er is, maar ik vind 2 sterren het meest realistisch. Al is "Comin' Home Baby" ook wel een heerlijke track.

4/10 no like

A pleasant listen although it sounds a bit old fashioned to me. But I rate it down just because I'm missing at least some vocals. 2,5

Eh..background sounds of instrumental covers - I'd rather hear the original - no denying they are musicians, but I agree w Michael - too much organ !!

I get that it’s 1961 but this is super simplistic and uninspiring. I don’t feel any soul in it. The electric organ is actually irritating. Did not enjoy and will not listen again. Green Onions is overrated. I don’t get why that song gets so much airplay.

It’s tough to love an instrumental album. I appreciate that this has had lots of samples but meh

Nakon nekog vremena baš dosadi, a to vrijeme dođe poprilično brzo.

It was fine. The first few songs were good but it dragged, even with it being a short album. The schtick got old quick

I can see how this wouldn't been cool when it came out, but it's really just generic blues jams with an organ. The slower ballads were the most interesting pieces of the album. What I can't see is myself willingly putting this on again. Culturally relevant? To an extent, sure, but it's 1 original song (that was basically completely improvised in the first place) filled out with a bunch of covers/wanking. 2/5

One bangers and lots that sound like that banger!

Albumil on: * Green Onions, revolutsiooniline ja legendaarne lugu * posu palasid, mis kõlavad täpselt nagu Green Onions See album võibolla inspireeris terveid žanreid, aga nüüd seda kuulata oli küll päris igav.

Another album I thought I never heard of but turns out I have. It's a testament to the influence of this album and how much it has seeped into our cultural landscape. I didn't enjoy it though. I generally dislike electric organ music and this album full of annoying noodling highlights exactly why. It sounds like inoffensive lift music. I felt like I spent thirty five minutes waiting on hold for British Gas customer services. Not my thing but clearly a very influential cultural piece so I'm glad of the listen.

Too jazzy!

This served as background music more than anything else. Flat, felt repetitive and a bit one dimensional. I kept wanting solos to develop, but each song just finds a groove for a couple of minutes then leaves. Musically it’s not bad, just uninspiring. Can’t think why this should be something folk need to hear before they die.

I just couldn’t get excited by this. I was expecting more energy, or maybe more blues funk. Disappointed.

The one songnis good. Maybe would be ok background music to set a vibe. Not one I'm going to feel a need to revisit.

alright

An album of Organ cover music. Booker T is a great player but this album wouldn’t be on here if it wasn’t for Green Onions

Green Onions is a great tune but the album isn't one I would listen to again. It sounds too much like music blaring from loudspeakers at a fair.

A little too dated for me, a little too much organ for me. Of course Green Onions track will always be a cool classic.

Fist things first they are called spring onions. Secondly I was disappointed there was no Spinaroonie or a Can You Dig It Sucka! The sound of this got a bit repetitive after about 10 minutes If this album had been as good as his wrestling then it would have scored a lot higher.

I started this quite liking it, then it all got very much the same. Electronic Organs are okay in moderation.

I recognized Greek Onion almost immediately, so it was cool to see where it originated from. And then I found out that most of the songs were covers from other musicians... whomp, whomp. As a whole, though, this album isn't objectively bad, and its impact is undeniable. It didn't hook me necessarily. It felt like I was listening to a jazz cover band at a bar, and I'll be honest, most times I tune that stuff out. 2 out of 5.

Oh yeah. Green Onions, well I know the first song and that's probs it. But it's good I don't mind a Rhodes/electric piano, cause this could've been a hard listen, but it's under 40 mins so overall quite good. Great guitar work on it and a good listen. might see what more Booker T & The M.G.s have to offer as love this kinda 60's music as great way to build my music knowledge/catalog and some nice blues to play guitar over and learn from.

its chill ig 2/5

Not really into instrumentals, but this was some solid rock music. Also nice to hear some tunes that have been sampled in later works, especially Twist And Shout. Best song: Twist And Shout

Good background music for a film, nothing else.

It's heartbraking. On one hand you want to acknoledge the influences you do recognize in many songs of that era probably ignitiated by those "hired guns". Starting with the classic Green Onions. On another hand you can't pass the fact tht these insytrumental versions are just plain dull. Some of thes tracks you wouldn't even play in an elevator, at best in an 80's video game or a funfair thyanks to the the organ. The best version of Twist and shout is the Beatles' with screamin John Lennon, while I do love Mel Tormey's "Comin' home", I can only feel half of the hamronies in this one...

yep thats definitely some hammond organ

I don’t like this band- I have always found the sound annoying.

Undeniable talent and thousands of samples have been ripped from this album, but it doesn’t move me.

No entiendo porque está acá este disco. Es MUY menor comparado con miles de otros discos mejor preparados para estar en una lista. Bueno, hay UNA razón: Green Onions, la canción homónima del disco que es un clásico instantáneo. Pero es un clásico más 11: el resto del disco presenta la misma fórmula pero de manera mucho más genérica. TODAS las canciones son instrumentales, en TODAS domina el teclado Hammond de Booker T. (su presencia debe ser lo más relevante del álbum; desconozco si hay otros discos con una presencia imponente de este instrumento anteriores), en TODAS el teclado dialoga con la virtuosa (si bien poco emotiva) guitarra de Steve Cropper; en TODAS las canciones la batería y el bajo acompañan el ritmo pero sin ponerse nunca en el foco. La mayoría de las canciones son covers. Y estos covers parecen ser solo ejercicios de virtuosismo. Me quedo, siempre que las conozca), con otras versiones de estas canciones. Hay un par de canciones donde los artistas buscan hacer algo distinto, como sucede con la blusera Lonely Avenue pero, en mi opinión, no funciona. Mención especial por el último tema, que no funciona como final. Termina con un fade out que me deja esperando una canción más. Le pongo dos estrellas, solo por la canción Green Onions que vale una estrella en sí misma. Pero estuve tentado de dejarle una sóla. Es el peor disco de los 36 que escuché hasta ahora.

Very disappointing. 2for the excellent Onions.

Green Onions is a classic. The rest of this album is fine, though I found it to be a bit boring and same-same. Would not revisit as a result.

Sounds very dated,

not bad. era-defining sound and songs. the band itself is on many classic cuts from this era which I probably prefer, but these are mostly organ-led covers. it reminds me too much of a dirty shag carpet and bad lighting though

Not my exact style but not bad. A little repetitive at times.

Green Onions is a decent track, rest of it is pretty forgettable.

Один из тех альбомов которые после прослушивания оставляют впечатление будто прослушал одну песню длиной в целый альбом. Орган который пытается повторять мелодию вокала в каверах из которых в основном состоит альбом быстро надоедает. Альбом не впечатлил.

I mean, it sounds like what it is... an album of backing tracks. It's not bad per se, just boring.

A Hammond organ led collection of instrumental covers, a number of them blues standards. “Green Onions” is the clear standout track, but there are a number of others that work well including “I Got A Woman” and “I Can’t Sit Down”. The band is tight and the performances are solid, but ultimately a collection of instrumental covers can only inspire so much passion. This is good background music for the right vibe, but outside of “Green Onions” its hard to get too worked up.

Kinda nice, but very dated. I do miss the vocals.

I'm a big fan of the Stax sound, and the Stax documentary is excellent. Great stuff, but this album?? Ehhh...the title track is a classic! I understand wanting to strike when the iron is hot off a hit single, but a full album of organ-led instrumental cover songs is a little much. Especially when the other original is "Mo Onions". Some of the tunes are nice, but the ballads are a little sleep-inducing. I understand why it was released, but not entirely sure why it made this list over putting another Otis Redding album on here.

This is great music for trying to impress your dead grandparents

interesting

Muzak

Man, Green Onions is one cool song. The rest of the album was fine. Not earth shattering

sounds like a surf funk album or something. Its okay, nothing special to me. listenable. would be alright to hear while swimming or something. First track is recognizable and probably the best on the album. Use of the organ is interesting but gets boring after a couple tracks. 2.5/5 for me

The title track is such a great song that I had high hopes for this. Nope…

Led Zeppelin x The Doors as an instrumental

Not my kind of thing.

Green Onions and then 11 tracks of elevator music

The song is factastic but the album struggles to ride on its coattails. Full of generic licks and predictable drum fills. Its ahead of its time in the sense that it feels like it belonga in the 80s, the decade where the blues had finally died.

Reminds me of elementary school skating rink parties. I know I dated myself.

That's a lot of organ

Not really my thing besides ‘Stranger on the Shore‘, drifted away and couldn’t differ the songs, only song I already knew ‘Green Onions’, overall 4/10

One of those albums that is no doubt culturally significant, and the melodies are good. But it sounds like lift music to the modern ear. ‘I hate the musics’ - Nina ‘I don’t hate it’ - Jude

Uma característica que incomoda em música instrumental é a banda replicar as letras dos temas originais em suas interpretações. Como se ouvíssemos o órgão (neste caso específico) "cantando". Prefiro interpretações livres, com o tema suavemente citado e não replicado em sua integra. Temos dois momentos aqui que se aproximam deste ideal: a faixa de abertura, que é fruto de uma jam de estúdio e "Lonely Anevue", onde o órgão caminha livremente por fraseados de blues, acompanhado pela guitarra.

I’ve got to own up to being really quite disappointed by this album. It’s one thing to be know for just one song, but producing an album of mostly covers plus that one song seems a waste. I can’t even increase the score for the cover shot being by the photographer for MAD Magazine. One star for a basic ‘I’ve listened to it’ score, plus another for one of my favourite tracks.

Meh.

Man, it’s super weird listening to an album with songs so iconic they’ve popped up everywhere and don’t sound original at all. I enjoyed giving the record a spin and thought there were some differences between the tracks, but when I did a bit of digging I discovered they were mostly covers—and that was a bit of a letdown.

All I can really say about this is that The Sandlot is a great movie and that's how I know the title track. It's alright, nothing too mind blowing. A record full of organ pop standards (5/10, 2/5 on this scale)

It's fine, but instrumental organ proto rock isn't my thing

Nothing from this album grab me. The song covers are not as good as the originals, I was always missing vocals.

Couple of tunes early on but album seemed to drift. Decent but not great

Title track is an all timer, but I don’t think I needed the rest of this.

Chill for in the background. I honestly didn't realize these were cover songs until Twist and Shout came on lol. I like the sound of a lot of the songs, but in some of them the organ can get a little too much. When it starts riffing it just becomes irritating, this happens more in the second half of the album to me. Perfectly fine, but not anything that feels especially grand. Very much an ok, it's mildly pleasant most of the time but that's really all I can say. If I could I'd give it 2.5/5, but I guess I'll go with 2/5, since I really dislike the organ sometimes and it all sounds very samey. favorite songs: green onions, i got a woman, one who really loves you least favorite songs: behave yourself (annoying riffing), lonely avenue (same thing here, sounds like a computer glitching), a woman a lover a friend (the riffs from 1:48 reeeaally bother me)

2.5/5 - While I can appreciate this classic sound and it is fun and easy to listen to, I can’t really get into it - just not for me. Standout tracks: - Green Onions: 4.5/5 iconic - Mo’ Onions: 3.5/5 the name made me laugh, because it literally is just Mo’ Onions

This album sounded like a band warming up before a concert. A tease of something exciting that could come but ultimately nothing.

Green Onions is a classic song, there should be a lot more of this on the record. This album as a whole though? I'd respect it more if it was original work. The 9 instrumental covers are nice and all, but 3 originals does not an album make. I think this album should be ranked higher on the talent alone, but I just can't give them a good rating for benefiting so much from others work. Obviously, Green Onions will make the 1001 playlist here.

Don't like organs but did like the music

Ah - so, this is who did that nameless song that's been featured in every movie and commercial ever. Wait a second - did they just rip off Mickey and Sylvia? What is even happening here? I guess for what this is - a background mix of mostly instrumental covers - it's OK. There's a distinct vibe they've managed to capture here, but it's a single vibe, and active listening to it for over 30 minutes gets repetitive and dull fast.

I like the title track, the rest of it is OK, but I like lyrics a lot. 2.25/5 stars

Green onions is definitely a classic, but cant say i knew much beyond that. I think my general mood throughout the album was boredom. Everything was technically good but just didn’t move me. In particular their version of Twist and shout just put me in mind of a fairground organ tune.

Having already established that I’m not a fan of albums which are purely instrumental, this was never going to score well from me. “Green Onions” is obviously the track that is most well known, but opening with it meant I lost interest quite quickly after that.

4/10 Top 3 tracks: 1. Green Onions 2. ⁠Comin’ Home Baby 3. ⁠Rinky Dink

Green Onions is a certified stone cold classic. Pretty much everything else here is a snooze.

Huh, so that’s where that organ is from.

Only knew the title track so i had high hopes. A bit disappointed by the lack of creativity on the rest of the album. Fine background music but that’s it

The title track is a classic blues song that still sounds incredible. But the rest of it sounds like baseball game organ music. Also it's a bad sign when you're already doing a reprise of the title track in TRACK FOUR.

This 60s Rock album sounds so generic, it's almost a parody in itself. It's not that bad, but also not something I would return to. 2/5

Very recognizable sound bites but like mid

The music is okay but I much prefer Booker T and the MG's when they add a vocalist. 2 stars or D+.

How many songs can you have that sound like you are watching a live sporting event? Hell even "Green Onions" is like THE song while you need to watch the shuffle on the big screen. Also there are minimal differences between that song and "Mo' Onions". We love a motif, but c'mon...This album was not bad per say, but it all kinda started to sound the same to me. "Twist and Shout" was fun and that song always makes me smile, but give me The Beatles. Liked Songs: "Green Onions" , "I Got a Woman" , "Twist and Shout" , "Behave Yourself" , "You Can't Sit Down"

liked songs: Oh, it's that song. Neat. I think two songs with onions in the title is too many. Not a whole lot of anything interesting going on. There's only so many times in a row you can listen to a 12 bar blues. 2

I need lyrics.

This was OK, but apart from the title track everything else seemed a bit... empty? Like something was missing.

2/5

Cool title track, but knowing this whole album exists because of it defines its rating. 5/10

All sounds a bit dated and ‘Austin Powers’ now. Quite repetitive. Enjoyed Mo Onions though as a variation on the famous track!

Can’t deny the stand out first track. The rest felt a bit samey. Ok but not great

Quite pleasant background music at times and cheap hotel lobby music at others.

Pleasant enough background music but not much more to it. I have heard some great tracks by Booker T. but none are on this album.

Man this album was fucking boring

Iconic title track, wouldn't relisten to whole album though

Their signature melody is totally ruined by commercial appearances. Everytime I hear it my head is filled with underwear models. Disturbing

I'm sorry but this is such a boring album. There's hardly a single song with interesting melodies, changes, harmonies, or even rhythms. Just forgettable track after forgettable track. It sounds like what your uncle who loves "The Blues"" would say is "REAL music", and that music nowadays has no soul or sm bs Even the extremely famous title track sounded a lot less cool than the first time I heard it It's not like it's completely unlistenable, but I for sure don't want to listen to it when there's music in the same genre that's 100 times better and less bland 4/10

Groovy. Fun. Shallow. Pure jam band. 2.5

A lot of the songs sound the same and there are some questionable quality of guitar and organ playing. Didn't mind Behave Yourself.

It's quite boring, unless you play the organ, wich you probably don't, or maybe i'm Just out of fashion,i dunno

Although groundbreaking at the time and a very unique style. Has become dated and fairly repatative.

Crafted perfectly for some goateed white dude in a bowling shirt to talk over while drinking coffee in 1996. Absolutely inessential

Muy groovy pero sin letra, que es lo mejor de la musica...

Absolute banger for track 1 (title track obviously) - but the rest is a bit of a let down. Either slight rehashes of Green Onions, or groovy instrumentals ideally suited to Austin Powers montages of him trying on increasingly fanciful outfits before finally turning to the camera with a 'yeah baby'

Onions have layers and of course it’s a classic. Twist and Shout is a fun one mid way, but overall feels quite samey and I found myself losing focus on it as it went through.

Der er ikke *rigtig* nogen grund til at lytte videre efter man har hørt titelnummeret, men nogen af de andre numre er også ok. Lille 2er.

Okay. Not too excited by it

Not unpleasant but could with some lyrics after a while.

I just can't get behind an album full of baseball organ instrumentals, especially when they're covers of songs that are iconic on their own. No wonder they're a one-hit wonder

Ok

Pues aparte del tema que da título al album no me ha interesado nada más, aunque tampoco me ha aburrido. Cultura musical principalmente.

first artist that i've never even heard of. let's see. oh okkkkkk i like these instrumentals but i feel like something's missing. i don't know. it's very blues, which is not a style of music i'm a huge fan of. I like "mo'onions"! prefer the beatles version, but it's nice to know where it came from! this is just really not my thing haha. glad other people enjoy it though! overall, this was really not my cup of tea. at a certain point it became a slough to get through. but i do understand and admit that blues is just not my style of music. there's nothing necessarily wrong here, it just doesn't speak to me at all. and my rating reflects that.

One great song and the rest okay

OK background music but almost bingo Hall like. 2/5

It’s light. It’s fun. It has some tasty guitar licks. It also reminds me of something for the old timers at the North Pier in Blackpool. I didn’t like it much. I can see how it influenced southern rock, and there is a real bluesy feel on a lot of the tracks, but the organ becomes wearing after a while. It should be in the book because it does something new, but it isn’t for me.

Green onions and 11 more songs.

I don't want to be a fart but like there is no possible context where I will want to listen to this ever again lol

It was fine. I'd love hearing a church organist play this at a baseball game, but otherwise, meh. A lot of it was cover of popular songs, and honestly, I'd rather just listen to the originals (of which Booker T was likely playing).

Aburriiiiiiidoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Green Onioes un clásico no nos vamos a engañar ahora quiero jugar al baseball. Le doy dos estrellas porque me gusta el tono de la guitarra.

Not my brew

Pretty good if a little dated

hmm. the instrumental music did not much for me and was quite boring to me. I think this album might be too dated to be included in the 1001 albums.

Een album dat steunt op één nummer. De rest is niet echt wauw. Oké misschien om als achtergrond te spelen, maar voor de rest... meh 2.5

Musical versions of some classics. Not bad but pretty boring. Good for an elevator or background at dinner.

That one song, greats A whole album of it, grates

After the first song, everything sounds the same. The first listen I completely blanked out the last half, and the second time I was begging for it to end so I could play something with more variety. Green Onions is a great song but it's not a great album.

i know this is like impressive technically, but man i was so bored by the end. the track Green Onions is fine, but then you have to listen to just worse versions of that track for 30 minutes. i picked up my phone and thought, "surely, this is almost over" and then i was only half way. i'm 90% sure booker t was slipping in extra tracks to fuck with me.

The version of this album that I listened to had the track listing reversed and the first two tracks on the normal release absent for whatever reason. I listen to every gol-darn album on this list twice, with me jumping in at the second half of the album and rolling over to the first on my second listen. Nice of this album to do that job for me on the first listen, I guess. I'm not sure how I feel about this one. There's a virtue in being safe sometimes and as someone with an immense, soulcrushing backlog of albums to get through I appreciate the brevity. That being said, there's something deeply sterile about this album that makes it difficult for it to hold my attention. I blame the organ. It's cool in short bursts, though I don't think you can get an album's-worth of mileage out of it, especially when you're delving into organ solo territory. Something about the organ just sounds nauseating to me the more I'm exposed to it, like it's out of key or something. I don't think there's enough of a transformative element to the songs that are covered on this album either, though I admittedly have no familiarity with the original iterations. I need to check the book in on this one. "Booker T. and the M.G.s" is a band name that is vaguely familiar, so I shant classify this as a "nowhere album". Let's see. One of the rare instrumental albums to hit it big. Umm. A whole lot of nothing. 🚨EEEEEEEEEEE🚨 I am officially disqualifying this album from inclusion in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book. This is a red-alert situation. Grab your nearest white out and cover up this entry in your copy of the book NOW, as did I with my computer screen I don't actually know id I am typign sthis shit correctly can i gaet anonscreen nattator in here some thing it's too tark in the basement to see whether i;'m hitting the keys correctily

im climbing this ladder

Is okay

Of course I'm familiar with the magnificent title track, but frankly the album as a whole doesn't hold my attention - the rest of the tracks just aren't as good as the title track. Much of this album seems to consist of rather plodding cover versions. It's like a band without its lead singer. The album reminded me of Arnold Rimmer's Hammond organ recital night... Title track - 6 out of 5 (!) The rest of the tracks - 1-2 out of 5.

Perfect example of a label trying to capitalize on a really great recording, Green Onions. So they had to fill all other tracks to create an album…with elevator music. Not to take away from the musicians, as they were all excellent, but this album lacks any luster other than Green Onions.

Cool vibe but not something I ever want to listen to on purpose personally

This felt so flat I was disappointed.

N F M

these songs all have no words which i wasn’t expecting. the beats are catchy and some remind me of the beach boys a little. for me it’s hard to enjoy them as much when there is no words but i could see myself playing this album in the background while i study.

Pretty ok

Echoes memories of times I’ve never had. A record best used as a sleep aid.

I truly just don’t have like any feelings about this album.

Elevator music-adjacent, but still quite good

⭐⭐ Aged like milk. Album sounds like background music used for 'funny' corporate compilation videos

Iconic title track but the rest is far from essential

thinking this might not be for me kind of sounds like i’m in a garage with a bunch of 50 year old dads smoking cigs played their instruments well though! 4.5/10

Not bad

Annoying

2.5

Goes on a bit, doesn't it? Aside from the opening title track this all sinks into the background. I wouldn't be surprised to hear this as phone hold music, or playing through tinny supermarket speakers. It did have me shuffling around the place a little in what some might interpret as a dance. It made me go and listen to the much better, real versions of many of the songs.

Music as furniture

Interesting as an artefact of its time. Otherwise not.

Other than the title track making me think of the sandlot I just found this to be very frustrating. Very similar to hearing songs you know done by an artist they would play in an elevator.

If I listened to it in the 60s, maybe I'd enjoy it more. As it stands, it sounds like boring noodling on some jazz scale to me.

Good tunes I just didn’t enjoy some of the lesser known songs

Theres only so much electric organ you can listen to.

i think i'm too young for this.

Perfectly good for background music, but I really don't see what else this album really has to offer.

The title song is classic. I forgot I was listening to the rest of the album

One song and one song only

Nice, chill instrumental album, I recognized a lot of the songs on this album.

I’ve got no qualms with the quality of music, thank you Green Onions for the iconic Sandlot lick. But none of this sticks. It’s like how some people feel about house music, it’s all just kinda in the background, kinda not impactful or wanting to make its presence known - but at the same time it’s clearly not trying to do the ambient music angle where it’s intentionally out of the way/in the background too. Cool guys, important that they were racially integrated as early as this was, but just not doing anything for me musically

Kind of just consistently ok. Middling 2.

not good

It's an alright studio session but they're just jamming out some instrumental covers. C

CAN YOU DIG IT SUCKAAAAAAAAAAA "We'll be right back after these technical difficulties" type music. - familiar sounding.

I feel like I was at a baseball game during breaks in innings with the amount of Organ that was played. Too high pitch but some of the blues songs sounded good.

Who's going to walk in and stomp all over Green Onions? It might be me. Western popular music lovers all owe a debt to Booker T. & The M.G.s. but 1962 it isn't anymore and now much of this music sounds more like stale cheese than the pungent and powerful onion. I won't shackle it with a one star review, I reserve those shameful designations for true abominations of history and crimes against our ears. But time and the way people and culture move through it has taken what one day may have been a 5 star album down and cut these Green Onions in half to a 2.5 star review.

first song good, then you listen to the same song over and over

Not for me

Maso

groovy

Also woni eifach nur s cover gseh ha, hani scho angst gha es isch hip hop. Denn hani aber gseh "1962" und ha gar kei ahnig meh gha was das jetzt wird. De erst song isch mer natürli denn sofort sehr bekannt gsi und do demit denn eigentlich au scho, wo die reis no anegoht. Würd säge, nöd unbedingt mis ding. Aber s bemerkenswerte a dem album isch wohrschinlich eher s erschinigsjohr. Wür das jetzt usecho chiemts wohl nöd i das buech.

I'm sure this was revolutionary for the time, pretty cool even. But I fucking HATE the Hammond Organ and I hate the tone of the guitar in this. I just couldn't take it. It was so boring.

2- Stars (4/15)

Went into only knowing the title track Green Onions and left wishing that I only knew Green Onions

It's very pleasant background soundtrack for someone further on in life than present me

yucky

Sounded like I was at an old roller rink.

Like being stuck in a lift in the 1960s The title track is a classic, but the rest is just guitar riffs and hammond organ solos, like green onions themselves, probably okay in a mixed salad, but it isn't a meal

Can understand its significance considering when it came out, but not interesting in 2024

Green onions? Hammond cheese sandwich, more like 🙄 Real tasty as a quick snack; tiresome and bland as a multi course meal.

Nice Groovy beats Surprised that I know some of these songs or know songs that were inspired by these! With the lack of lyrics you can pretty much tell the story as you like from the title which is cool. <<< Rinky Dink, Comin’ home baby, One who really loves you

puuh, so ganz ohne Gesang .... und davon direkt ein ganzes Album; wo hat mn sich das früher angehört; ok, das erste ist/war ein Hit

Didn't interest me

Not for me

What a terrible album. Honestly. All the songs are THE EXACT SAME! I could not bear to finish listening to it because it’s so damn boring! At least put some variation in your 12 track record. Geez

This album was fine. Just fine. There are no memorable tracks on it, and nothing that made me think "wow! this sounds pretty good!". It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't think it's an album that everyone needs to listen to, by any means.

Nicht meins. Blues, Rock, nervige Orgel.

Pleasant enough, but wouldn't necessarily come back to this album again any time soon. Largely instrumental covers of other people's work... Originality should factor into the listing of these albums in my opinion.

The title track is great, and instantly recognisable. The rest of the tracks are good but stay into movie soundtrack vibes occasionally. Maybe it's the lack of vocals? 'I Got A Woman' is definitely movie montage territory, veering close to Benny Hill. A couple of tracks in and I lost interest. 'Twist and Shout' was bad. Not sure when I'd listen to this again. Three 2.5 stars, rounded up to three.

This is basically on the 1001 albums list for the title track. The rest of it is mostly elevator music instrumentals featuring cover versions of other artists songs (and a couple more originals from Booker T. And The MG’s themselves). That’s kind of it. This didn’t do anything for me.

One amazing song. The rest is meh!

It’s an undisputed jam but it is the same jam over and over

ok. buy won't listen again

Nothing exciting about it.

Look up "Background Music" in the dictionary.

A little too Austin Powers for my liking. I got slightly interested with Twist and Shout. But not enough to dance. The bluesy elements work best. But still background music.

Green onions (the song) is quite iconic. It's in 1001 different movies. I don't need no Mo' Onions. A reprise of the iconic song but at a slower tempo? And not only 3 songs away from each other? It honestly took the magic away from first song. This album kind of plays the same thing over again. It's almost formulaic with the sounds that they come up with. "Ohhhh, here is that organ again with a slow bass walk." I was hoping this album wasn't an instrumental as it would have benefitted from something different Such as vocal melodies. I can hear tons of melodies thwt would work for vocals in this album. To be honest, the first song, amazing. Off to a great start but then it went downhill. I was quite disappointed with this record. I could be ok with never having to listen to this again. As an audio experience, I was bored. It's nice when music like this is paired with a visual. Be it seeing it live, in a movie... Etc. It's like jazz, its boring when you're not watching because there is obvious talent going on.

ugh

Love the title track (the hit), but the rest is typical of the times. A bunch of covers padding an album just to have an album. Must have been good background music at parties but it’s just uninspired now. Hopefully we’ll come back to them for the far more interesting McLenore Avenue project.

50/100 It sounds very fresh and the opening song is killer but it feels improvised and doesn't make for a good album listening experience.

1.5 hit wonder

not my jam

Wasn't in the mood for this one

Yeah whatever it's fine but kinda meh.

How many movies used “Green Onions” in it? I guess this is a pretty fun album to listen to once, not sure if it’s something you have to hear before you die though. I don’t think I’ve ever really listened to the whole thing beyond the title track, or if I have I don’t remember. First off I’m glad they included “Mo Onions” cause after two songs I was really missing “Green Onions”. There’s some great musicianship on here but just not my thing for more than a song. Glad this album is only 35mins, I was getting bored with it pretty quickly. On to the next one!

When I first saw the album name I got excited. I use green onions in almost every meal. They are a versitle food. This album makes me want to smoke a doobie and cut a rug. I bet they influenced The Braves' organ player, and probably all baseball organ players. My favorite tune is You Can't Sit Down. I sit down all day at work, so the prospect of me not being able to sit down is wonderful!

Fantastic title track, clearly. This was recognised and someone basically went, hey, let's make an album - this is an engine powerful enough to pull a goddamn train of an album. The result, the rest of the songs is just pulled along unremarkably. It doesn't hurt to have it in the background while the world passes you by. This band can play, they do, but there's just not much else here. The whole drama is captured on the cover: A pile of veg of the kind that essentially supports other parts of a dish.

Some decent jams (of course the title track is an all-timer), but mostly reminded me of what a baseball organist listens to for inspiration.

I like the title track. Always have. The rest is fine but gets a bit too repetitive after a while. There’s a reason only “Green Onions” popped from this. 2.5/5

Entspannt jazziger R&B, der leider weder mitreißt noch zum Wiederhören wollen einlädt.

Some of it sounded familiar but I know I’ve never listened to this. Good background music but forgettable.

2.5 Felt like more of a novelty record more than anything else. Like those Red Hot Chilli Pipers who do bag pipe covers, haha. Green Onions (the song) is a great but I think Ive heard it ten million times in my life. And the band has great players, but the album is not something I will seek out to listen cover to cover.

Not overly exciting.

They obviously were very excited about thier shiny new hammond organ, and I understand but the novelty wears off by the 2nd track.

Another lovely album of background music, but not interesting or attention-grabbing enough to be more than that.

Average and of course the track Green Onions is iconic

Veel van hetzelfde, beetje veel gepingel

close to a 3 but could i write poetry to it? n

A little Hammond goes a long way. A unique sound that starts to feel like novelty music after a while. Edges close to being carousel music or a soap opera theme. I like Green Onions a lot, obviously, and their Christmas album is great.

Some cool stuff here. A perfect album for getting chores done. Nice to have an album that gives the electric organ a chance to shine.

dull

On one hand, the musicianship is top notch and the idea behind the main theme is great. On the other, at a brief 35 minutes, it really loses steam halfway through when it shouldn't. Used it's best idea first and it shows.

'Green Onion' is really cool, but the rest is pretty bland unfortunately. Even the electric organ and piano couldn't save this one. I feel that my opinion was also heavily dragged down when I found out it's mostly covers, and I only think that can take you so far. The 'Twist and Shout' one was horrible, by the way. In summary it had great potential, but perhaps a whole album of this just was a bit too much. Plus, for some reason it feels a bit like circus music or something less serious. Maybe because 'Green Onion' has been used as soundtrack in sneaky scenes in movies or something.

Unfair to call it a "one-trick-pony" but by the third track I was tired of the organ. Sure the title track is iconic but I wasn't too convinced by the numerous covers on this album. It's not bad it just doesn't grab my attention. Strong 2 star.

Everyone knows Green Onions. Cute but quite samey. Listens: 1 Fave Track: Green Onions Rating: 2

One superclassic song and a great sound, but always find this album as a whole a bit boring (even though it is short) and I like these tracks more on Stax compilations.

The opening is classic, the rest largely unremarkable.

The title track is sorta famous, I think? At least, I've heard it before and I have no clue who this band is. Furthermore, the second song, Ricky Dink, has some parts that are very familiar to me even though I'm fairly sure I've never heard the entire song. The third song is I Got A Woman, which is a cover of a Ray Charles song. It took this long for me to be sure that that this is just an instrumental album. It's kind of catchy, but it's a lot of organ playing, which gets old fast. Otherwise, it's just kind of there, you know? I'm not sure what's special about this album other than the fact that it appears to be a vehicle for promoting the organ, which doesn't really scratch any of my personal itches. Listening more through the album, it seems like it's very bluesy but distinctly, like, 60s rock organ bluesy. It's not my jam, but I think I can see why it was included in this list, because it is kind of its own thing, but at the same time, there appear to be several covers, which is the opposite if "it's own thing." I don't know. I'll never listen to it again. 2.5 stars.

Iconic instrumentals but I don’t see y one would listen to this. Just instrumentals

The title track was good but the rest of the album was covers are reprise of green onions. 2/5.

Interesting that we got an entirely instrumental album on this list; I can't recall any others so far. Some great organ playing and solid vibes to have on in the background here, but not much more other than that. And I get the same feeling I've had with plenty of other albums on this list; this whole album is only here because it has one insanely popular song (in this case Green Onions because of it's ample use in TV, Movies, and commercials) and the whole album is just tossed on the list, despite nothing comes close to the same level of quality as the one breakout single. Which is disingenuous to just arbitrarily say the source of one important song is wholly as important, when it's just not. As I've said before on this list, just because you find a $20 bill in a public trash can doesn't mean everything else in the trash can is automatically worth the value of the $20 bill.

RATING SYSTEM: 1*: Horrible 2*: Bad 3*: Middle of the road 4*: Good 5*: Amazing ALBUM 1: GREEN ONIONS Rating: 2* This album isn't unenjoyable, but it's as bland as elevator music. Although it has a pretty nice (and classic) title track, the other songs are just somewhat enjoyable but pretty boring covers that only really work as background music. It's not that I dislike instrumentals, or that I found the album super draining to listen to, but it didn't do anything for me, and it was all kind of samey. I wouldn't want to relisten again. Even the pretty alright title track isn't something I can see myself going back to. I was planning to give it a 3, but the album was so uninteresting, and I honestly think it might deserve a 2. The title track and the fact that it's so (boringly) inoffensive (making it still somewhat enjoyable but not interesting) gives it a few points. If I could, I would give it 2.5*, but I chose to round it down. It's just kinda subpar, but I wouldn't call it bad.

Album Nr. 76 Etwas langweilig.

like me some bam bam baw

Fun and playful music but it doesn't take too long before the fatigue from the overly dominant electric organ sets in and things get kind of same-y, tedious and boring.

Green Onions by far the best track, all the rest fall short and a few of them just blend into one another. 2 stars purely for Green Onions.

Some great songs, but a bit boaring after a while.

2/ 2.5

Cocktail lounge cover band

Lo-Fi Organ Jazz 60er Jahre. 2 Sterne wg. 'Lonely Avenue'

Green onions is one of my all time favorites but the rest of the album was a little too churchy and sleepy for me.

Booker T. & The MG's are the backbone of the Memphis sound. Donald "Duck" Dunn in one of my main influences as a bass player. With that said, I prefer them as a backing band for a great singer than as a solo act. This is a good album and worth a listen every now and then as background music but I wouldn't put it up there as one of my favorites for the genre.

Ok green onions is a classic but a whole album of hammond organ greatest hits is a bit much. Like a scene from Phoenix nights I picture a welder by day wearing a gold velvet jacket playing a bontempi keyboard in between rounds of bingo.

Enjoyed this more than I thought, but I think that's from recognising a few songs from films or tv, and getting that weird excited 'ooo I know something' feeling.

I wanted to like this. God knows that Green Onions is an absolute belter of a track. The rest of the album just couldn't live up to it.

I really wanted to like this album. I thought there was so many really creative elements to this one. I can’t get past the fact of how much they just mash the synth-keyboard button though and it really starts to detract from the other performances. By the end of it I felt like I was trapped in a fun house mirror maze at a minor league baseball game.

Chill but didn’t pull me in

One good original and a bunch of ok covers.

Kinda checked out here. Obviously, an iconic title track, but not a whole lot else that really grabbed my attention. Found myself waiting for it to be over about half way through.

This was lovely listening to. I was 3 or 4 years old when this recorded. Don't remember either of my parents listening to this stuff but I did hear this in different places growing to with them. Restaurants, bowling alleys, at my uncle's house on a Saturday night. Good memories of an interesting sound that fills the gaps of memories filled with the music my parents liked, and the music I grew to enjoy. 3 stars.

I don't know about this one. Seems suspect.

Sounds like the 7th inning stretch of a tied baseball game.

35 minutes of instrumental music, where the majority are covers. And lesser versions as well, I might add. And after hearing Poison Idea’s cover of Green Onion, the original pales in comparison. Boring.