Green Onions

65/100

"Green Onions" opens with an instantly recognizable keyboard line - Rest of the album is not that great but still pretty good.

Title track is iconic, and tbh it kinda seems like they knew it’d be a hit and threw a project out around it. There are so many covers, which are all fine, but nothing really amazing or unique. I’m not trying to hate just a quick vibe check (3.5/5)

Listen, if you’re not bouncing around to this, you might as well accept that music isn’t your thing. Joyful arrangements and awesome musicianship

The Hammond Organ is unmistakable, and the title track is one of the best blues compositions ever written. But while there are some other good covers on the album, they all seem to kind of run together, and there are few covers that I prefer to the originals. But the whole sound of the album is still really nice so I'm only deducting one star.

“CAN YOU DIG IT, SUCCCCKKKKKAAAAA” Yes 4 spinaroonis

Classic, chirpy, jangly

Recognizable tunes. Very sampleable! Good vibes, enjoying it so far.

Great!

Recognized a lot of tracks on this one. Great album. Maybevennrate higher after a few listens

Iconic sounds! Immediately I knew I would like this album! 4/5

Green onions is one of the greatest bass lines of all time but the tracks do start to blend as you get deeper

chill

#24 It's always nice to put a name to a song or artist. Green Onions did that for me with Booker T and MGs. I simply felt happy listening to this. It reminded me of the following: attending baseball games, watching good movies, playing with my 1987 Yamaha keyboard, watching game shows, and childhood memories of shopping with my mother. 3.5* rounded to 4*

My only prior experience with Booker T & the MG’s came from The Sandlot, when Benny Rodriguez and the rest of the gang confront the kids who play ball on a real diamond with “Green Onions” in the background. It took me until now to realize that this album, released in 1962, came out the same year The Sandlot took place. Or, as the narrator would have us know, it was the same summer that Dodger Maury Wills would break the stolen bases record. The album as a whole is 35 minutes of addicting organ to stride along and snap your fingers to. There are great tunes I’d never heard before, like “Rinky Dink” and “Stranger on the Shore,” and classic covers, like “I Got a Woman,” “Twist and Shout,” and “Comin Home Baby.” It’s not the first thing I would choose to bump around Richmond, BC to but it served as a nice warmup for a quick hop across the Salish Sea.

Très chouette petit album jazz avec des certified hood classics dessus

Solid instrumental album. Very much enjoyed it. Only issue is too many covers. Otherwise this was an enjoyable listen.

Nice instrumental!

Lots of memorable, simple, catchy hooks. I can see why so many of these songs have been used in various media and advertising. Love the organ work. Songs all sound different from each other (but you can tell they are all performed by the same band/artist). A pleasant listen.

Strumentale, ma molto, moooolto interessante. Praticamente ha il sound di un 40/50% di tutta la musica che è venuta dopo.

Cool album. My favorite tunes were My favorite album of theirs is McLemore Avenue. Favorite songs on this one are “A Woman, A Lover, a Friend” and “ One who really loves you”

Great band.

This was cool. Love the organ though maybe too much after a while

Ik houd van het nummer Green Onions. Als klein meisje al op de repeat. Rest van het album had ik nooit eerder gehoord. Als je het achter elkaar luistert, word je er wel een beetje tureluurs van dat orgeltje.

Day 120 Booker T. & the M.G.'s was the stable house band of Stax Records; they backed recordings from people like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett; I wish these recordings had some of that grit. Green Onions, the album, is a collection of instrumental pieces that fall somewhere between soul, jazz, and pop/easy listening. I'm not really in the mood for this type of music these days, but that doesn't mean it's bad, if I could follow whatever is happening on the album I would probably say it's brilliantly executed and stuff, just not today.

Feel good music, even though it's the blues for the most part. Favorite song: Green Onions, but they're all good.

Title track is a classic

really just a group of guys jamming for 35 minutes. goes hard

Veldig Kult konsept, men litt ensformig

it's giving spongebob battle for bikini bottom goo lagoon vibes

AJ: Amazing. Fucking amazing.

Very close to being a 5 for me. I think if there were vocals it’d be a 5 for me. I totally recognize the significance of this album, but something about it just misses what it’d need for a 5.

the original songs are amazing, and the covers are quite interesting, though they fall a bit flat for me. it’s squarely in the realm of a medium idea executed extremely well. ends up better than i would expect but not perfect

For relaxed listening, well composed with some old sounding recording equipment. Nostalgic even though i’ve never listen to it before.

Great album...exactly what I expected it to be which was just a solid jazzy album. 3.5/5

Rautane levy saatana. Elokuvista tuttu. Alkoi toistaa itseään loppua kohden

From a time when instrumentals were cool (actually they still are). Great little combo, as they used to say. Bonus points for Green Onions, and the sequel Mo' Onions. Loved it.

Cool stuff. Too cool for you!

Thick oozey funky 70s guitar music. You have everything: tracks to strut to, tracks to make smut to. Basically v v cool

I’m familiar with the first song but had forgotten all about it. I always liked it and with the rest of the album being similar, I enjoyed this.

Oh boy oh boy these cats were cooking, I mean they were grooving. They punched in their time card into the studio and said mind if I ball tf out. Good album got me through a jam

3.5/5 just chill

Really fun and short album. Just classic 60's R&B. If you like instrumental music you will love this but as someone who is not that big on instrumental music that isn't Jazz I would not say I love it. I think I would rate it a 8/10 with the title track unsurprisingly being the best track.

I'm on board with this. My foot was tapping the whole time.

Meters-lite

Very hard not to like such a classic album with foot tapping songs all the way through and slabs of hammond organ at every turn!

Ble plutselig Dressmann i monitor... Kul musikk ellers! Stilig orgel - og blir faktisk ikke "kjedelig" i lengden selv om det er rent instrumentelt!

Odd pick for the list but enjoyable instrumental organ-driven R&B.

Cannot believe that they made baseball music into a real thing!

This a fun album, full of easygoing, soulful grooves. It's like a trip into another time and place, some smoke filled little 60s club where the drinks are plentiful and everyone is cooler than you. The title track is the obvious star of the album, one of the most killer instrumental tracks ever made. It's a genre-defining and era-defining song that never gets old. Nobody else sounds like this, and if you can find someone who does, they're absolutely biting this band's style. The album as a whole could never match up to that song, it's just not possible. It's almost entirely comprised of covers, a common practice for artists at that time. But Booker T. & The MG's pretty much owns these covers, with an incredibly distinctive sound that's catchy and affable and hip as hell. The band's own songs are among the best on the album, for what it's worth. I would have liked to hear more of their original stuff. Fave Songs: Green Onions, Lonely Avenue, Comin' Home Baby, Behave Yourself, One Who Really Loves You, Stranger on the Shore

Bit samey, good though.

This is great!

like it, chill!

good vibe. I am quite biased towards organs and electric pianos of any sort but this was a cool album

A groovy, smooth and very pleasant instrumental album which was ahead of its time when it was released in the early 60s. I love the sound of the Hammond organ. If you want to put up a record for an afternoon tea party or little garden party, this album would be a good choice.

Didn't realize how many of these songs I knew.

Classic organ+guitar riffs.

Sounds like my music, liked a lot

Green onions??? Why??? I thought that this is something awful but when you hear the opening…you are ready to give 5 stars. Unfortunately, all other tracks are not so perfect. Anyway I will think about this vinyl.

good stuff 5 4

Classic old school groovy funk. The first two songs have been heavily used in movies, completely forgot that this band did those!

Classic early American Soul. Everyone knows the song Green Onions: it has appeared so many times as the song people explain how the Heist is going to go down. Lots of great organ and instrumentation and enjoyable covers. Research led me to McLemore Avenue, a Booker T. and the M.G.s All Beatles cover album

Enjoyed this more than I thought I would...

Lovely album to chill to but a little too much organ for my taste

So many classics

Hardcore classic.

Fun instrumental album.

3.75/5 An instrumental album? This was cool as a cucumber man. I actually really enjoyed this album. I got it while driving through mountainous canyons, and somehow it was really fun. The organ sounding instrument was like a voice. It was a moment, and I enjoyed it.

😎

I like this, but apart from the iconic title track, I don't love it. Still though, it's a very pleasant one to listen to!

Similar to Yu-Gi-Oh's fusion mechanic, here we have an amalgamation of Slater, Kelly and BB King. Nothing to spectacular but in general a very good album with a specific genre havbing a "continuous" vibe, giving it, its own unique characteristic's of surf jazz fusion. I wouldn't call it memorable, but it's ok. Stranger on a Shore - 4 Mo's Onions - 4

Excellent instrumental album. Not all of the tracks are essential, though, but the sound is amazing.

Excellent, instrumental

Already on my list. Classic

Rinky Dink is standout here

Really cool 60’s instrumentals with several covers. Everybody knows green onions of course

Dia 4. Disseste que os nossos corpos florirão em lágrimas com a certeza de quem nunca regou uma planta na vida.

In a lot if respects, this is pretty simple music. But then the soul searing magic of Booker T's Hammond plays right through you. And you get that complexity is not an indicator of beauty.

4.5

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Green onion, You can’t sit down

Not really a big fan of instrumental music, but yeah this is an ok album. Has some great covers minus with lyrics. Keyboard 👌

vibbin'

R&B album released October 1962. No vocals, just Hammond M3 organ (Booker T. Jones) electric guitar (Steve Cropper) drums (Al Jackson Jr.) and both electric and double bass (Lewie Steinberg). Almost all songs are covers of older songs from artists including Ray Charles, Mary Wells and Jackie Wilson. Overall, a very decent album especially for its time. Not really my thing, but it made for great background music. Would listen again.

Fun R&B instrumentals some classics in here

Blues, funk instrumental. Muy bueno!

The definition of chill. It's not mind blowing by any means, but great music for when your hands are busy.

Fun funky background music. Good party soundtrack

This was a fun listen. Each song is a fusion of genres between funk, r&b, gospel, surf rock, jazz, blues.

Great instrumental R&B on here. Hammond organ + guitar (possible telecaster?) duo sounds great. Everyone recognizes that title track.

Fun blues album of instrumental covers.

pretty chill and nice to listen to. mostly instrumental, there’s some organ and it’s a little jazzy. you can definitely tell this is coming out of the 50s but in a good way

classic songs and sounds. very good album

Pleasant background music. I like how the instrumentation makes it sound like somebody is singing along to it.

1962, electric piano awesomeness. Instrumental. Lovely. Listenable. Anytime.

It's a fun instrumental album by a great band. These guys were the house band at Stax Records, and it shows. I'm amused that Apple Music requires them to change the title of Rinky Dink to Rinky D**k. It seems to give them an edge they never needed. It's a clean record made by some great musicians.

Awesomeness abounds from title track and onwards but surprised worst track to me was Twist and Shout. too much expectation. Took me waaaay to long to figure out Rinky Dink was using the rift from Mickey and Sylvia's Love is Strange...just kept thinking, Dirty Dancing, I know it's in Dirty Dancing.

So. Much. Organ.

groovy

4.5/5. Solid album, one of my favorites in my collection. Very enjoyable to listen to.

Blues Brothers moment

I love the cool funky vibe hehe

If it contained only the title track, it still would have to be on this list. 1962. Brought to the attention of so many a style of music that had already been developing for a long time, and accelerated a whole movement. Brilliant.

nostalgia!

The only song I've ever heard by Booker T. & the M.G.'s is the namesake of this album, Green Onions. It was in the film Pulp Fiction. Because of this, I am looking forward to today's listen because Green Onions is a rockin' song! What I discovered is more of the same for the whole album, funky, bluesy, fast, dancing music. This album is fully instrumental, which worried me at first, given my short attention span, but it was such a great album, and the songs didn't drag on like some instrumental works tend to (Avg. song length is ~3 mins). The heavy inclusion of the Hammond Organ front and center has a tendancy to remind you of being at a baseball game, but the way that Booker T. Jones plays the shit out of the organ quickly brings you back to reality. There is one point during the song "Lonely Avenue" where Booker T. is playing so fast, that the electric keyboard can't keep up, creating a clipping sound as the keyboard tries to deliver all the notes (perhaps a downfall of the electric vs acoustic organ). I also enjoy the way each instrument has its time to shine in the spotlight, making it seem like the band is just having a ton of fun jamming together. This was a phenomenal album, I wish it was longer. I will definately listen again. Favourite songs: Green Onions, Mo' Onions, Lonely Avenue, Rinky Dink, You Can't Sit Down, Twist and Shout, "A Woman, A Lover, A Friend" Least favourite song: Stranger on the Shore, Behave Yourself 4/5

goofy ah album rlly indicative of its time

Have heard the title track a million times and had no idea that was its name.

The track' Green Onions' is an absolute classic! Very good instrumentals of some classic songs as well. 4/5

It was pretty nice and enjoyable. Some nice covers in there too. Always interesting to find out the name of a song I've heard so much but not known the name of until now. Favourite: Green Onions

Some very good classics:)

The album gets a lot of things right. First the songs on do not drag on, as the album is not even 35 minutes long. Second this album influenced a lot of other of songs and artists. While none of the songs have lyrics, I found myself singing the lyrics from the other songs. Third, the organ was an interesting touch but they pulled it off. It is a close call but I will round up.

Simple and cool.

Fire instrumentals 8/10

Himmailuklassikko! Jos pääsee niistä 2000-luvun alun Dressman-mainoksista eroon niin tää on aivan loistava levy. Ei tätä jaksa kauaa kuunnella, mutta todella hyvää taustasvengailuu. Kyllä tää mulla on niin usein soitossa että isot bongot on annettava. Ei ihan femma mutta lähellä. 4/5

Essential cooking music.

Fun old school music. Sound like organ trio jazz but far bluesier and poppy. I could listen to this album a thousand times, will be in my rotation for sure. Clear guitar but not offensively loud.

i won't lie, i was disappointed by the lack of vocals, but this was a solid album full of groovy bops and i'm glad to put names to some songs i've heard before!

Classic R&B/funk album. One famous song and lots of other good songs.

A funky good time.

Green Onions is an unstoppable banger. The rest of the album is less inspired and a little too same-y, but still fun to listen to. I’d say the next best song is the surf-rock-esque You Can’t Sit Down

Great album. Feels like being inside a Quentin Tarantino film. Very cool.

Great album to listen to while floating through my workday. Will definitely revisit this in the future when I need some nice background music to keep me relaxed and calm, yet still attentive

Brilliant instrumental RnB/Soul album. The title track could be my new obsession.

Pure gold.

so many classic riffs, enjoyed the last few tracks especially (and the title track of course). Makes for great background music

Instrumental masterpiece. I can't help but think of The Blues Brothers when I hear the title track. Such a groove

A delight!

Enjoyed sitting down with some Booker T. Great album start to finish though the organ was starting to get to me near the end.

Good

Good stuff

Classic!

Interestingly I recognized a lot of songs on this. Very good foot tapper that will get you through a crappy day of programming and talking to customers.

Groovy

Green onions is a top 5 song all time

Good music

Great electronic organ and drums Album starts out fun, the middle contrasts with some nice slowed down songs, the ending picks up fun again Favorite songs - Green Onions, Behave Yourself, One Who Really Loves You, You Can't Sit Down

Great music. Only instrumental though

Classsssic!

ery much has that so-underrated-that-it’s-come-to-be-overrated energy. Moody and groovy. It sounds more classic than dated actually (though organ is a bit in its prominence, sounds hockey rinkish at times). But, overall, it’s all a bit too basic to be any sort of major musical milestone. Everyone loves an underdog (in this case studio musicians), wants to root for good guys (i.e, unsung heroes) to make it, and even more so to flatter their own taste and perception by discovering hidden gems and the non-obvious. But such overcompensations often distort the fundamental truths of thing; and for this album that truth is that it’s cool and groovy and an authentic artifact and should be better known, but is really only above average along each of these vectors. I bet there are in this class rather more underappreciated such artifacts out there waiting to be discovered. A 4 but just barely.

“Green Onions” has got to be one of the greatest rock songs of all time and I didn’t even know what it was called or who performed it. It’s just wedged in my brain from being featured in so many movies and TV shows. Top notch blues riffing on this album. A great inclusion on this list. Feels like an important piece of rock history.

Green Onions is featured prominently in the VERY IMPORTANT film "The Sandlot", where they smack-talk each other in a way only wholesome pre-teens can. My dad told me that the song was called "Green Onions" while I was jumping on the bed watching the movie for the millionth time, and I always remembered that. Anyway, this album has a lot of tracks that were sampled one way or another, so you can definitely tell that a lot of modern artists were highly inspired by it.

It's a classic album, very easy to listen to, albeit a bit repetitive. They riff on some similar ideas pretty often. What I find particularly interesting is that there's a lot of melodies in this album that other people took and ran with. There's a lot, like I could spend an afternoon piecing together melodies in this album that have then ended up on other people's records. That's weird right? I feel like that says that this record is pretty influential then.

Lots of songs that you know but can’t name. Fun jammy jazz.

Nice, upbeat but still chill vibes. Bit repetitive after a while but would probably be good in a playlist or to have on in the background while cooking or cleaning.

Really warm and fun, they set up a groove and it just keeps coming.

I have soft spot for the organ sound but man my ears really perk up when I hear Steve Cropper's guitar. So bright and twangy. Some real jams here. All elements balanced so nicely. Really miss the days when instrumentals could still be hits.

Quintessential instrumental R&B. Pioneering use of the Hammond and electric guitar interplay. Green Onions (the song) is obviously huge, but the rest aren't bad either. They don't quite hit the same high as the title track, though.

Feel good music for the soul. Steve Cropper is a legend.

Listened to on 7/10/22 4/5 Favorite song: green onions, twist and shout, runny dink Very familiar songs all instrumental but still phenomenal

that first song is so famous. Bonus star because it putme in a funky place all weekend.

Was great, good to hear the origin of so many samples.

Gillar de poppiga melodierna och det lite dammiga ljudet!

The album itself grows a little repetitive when you consider how far a southern Hammond organ-based soul group can go. But when you add in Booker T & The MG's are the house band to the current label that is driving the sound for 60s R&B Soul - STAX. AND Mr. Booker T is an 18 year old prodigy at the time, this album becomes amazing. How many other infamous house bands - the Funk Brothers, The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, The Wrecking Crew should have put out their own albums? 4/5.

Cool as ever.

Blues instrumental con una canción conocida. Un 4.

Very enjoyable!

Green Onions is a true undisputed classic. Mo Onions is also lost as good. And there are other great renditions of classic tunes that Boomer T turn into instrumental classics ...I've Got a Woman, Twist and Shout and the album closer, Coming Home Baby make you forget that they originally had lyrics, so adept are Boomer Ts organ and Steve Broker's guitar at filling the tune with melodic goodness. 4.5 stars

Cool vibe, lots of recognizable bits

Disco instrumental bastante bueno pero hasta ahí. Green Onions es buena y la selección de covers también pero no me parece nada más relevante que eso. 3.5 estrellas que me debatí mucho en subir o bajar y que al final termina en 4 porque sí lo puedo volver a escuchar.

Cebollitas verdes, en Universal Stereo. Creo que, aunque no es un discazo en su totalidad, sí es pionero en ese sonido del órgano como líder y en hacer algo entre funk y soul muy único. Me gusta.

17years old! wow. Great album. I loved it

The title track is iconic and obviously why it's on the list. I think it's the first official album Stax label. It's bit uneven as a whole album, so not something you back to listen to often. The MGs are much better backing band esp when Dunn joined later on bass.

Ahead of time!

Very interesting even without any lyrics! If I need to find out some BGM for making indie games or videos for uploading on YouTube, I'd like to use these. My favorite track so far is the second one, "Rinky Dink". And I love their version of 'Twist and Shout'. I wonder if the original versions of other tracks had lyrics. I searched for "Rinky Dink" for instance, but it had no lyrics, too. What makes Booker T. & The MG's version so special?

Realno najbolji luk. I said what I said.

Sandlot

Great background music to work to. Green Onions always makes me think of the Sandlot.

A fun listen! Great background grooviness to work to. Fave track - gotta be the title track!

Tästä tuli hyvälle mielelle ja varsinkin kun kuuntelu jakautu kahteen osaan niin ei kerinnyt kyllästymään tms. Nelonen kyllä hieman yläkanttiin, mutta menköön. Hauska!

green onions is LEGENDARY... the sandlot baby! but the album does sound like itself.

This album is good but I prefer their greatest hits album.

Plucky blues guitar, lots of recognizable jams, including that one from The Sandlot. Good stuff.

Very good album. Essential and captivating. Great for working.

More like 4.5 stars. Classic

Funky great hooks. no vocals which could have pushed to a 5, as it is it's great background music.

Классика.

The kind of classic album you didin't know you knew

Está Okeish fuera de los enormes clásicos y referentes culturales, pero siendo del tamaño que son, merece más que mi propia opinión

WHAT okay I pressed play and immediately recognized the title track, Green Onions - and so do you if you've seen/heard even a handful of American movie trailers. Booker T. wrote that riff when he was 17 and later improvised heavily for the recorded version that became a huge hit and shaped the sound of groovy Southern soul. But did you know there's 'Mo where that came from? That's right, 'Mo Onions is track 4! Besides the onion songs, Behave Yourself is the only other original on this instrumental album. The rest are covers of songs you probably already recognize - I was surprised to find out I knew most of them. Also, fun fact, this band and the Beatles had mutual appreciation of one another, and John Lennon affectionately referred to them as "Book a Table and the Maitre D's". This warmed the cockles of my Beatles-loving heart. Anyway. Great album, and glad to have filled in this particular gap in my musical history knowledge.

About as smooth and Iconic as it comes. Inject that fucking organ and guitar directly into my veins.

Cool keyboard centric instrumental music. First track is well known.

Green onions is a song everyone’s heard but doesn’t know the name of but everyone should hear the rest of the album. Really catchy and led me on a binge of this and Smokey Robinson and such. Favs: green onions, one who really loves you

This is a true blast from the past with Booker T and MGs bringing my teen years to life. This is a jazz classic that is underappreciated.

Whole album's a bop. Loved it.

Filled with songs I knew but didn't know the names of, a very chill time

Enjoyable... and though green onions stands ahead by a long measure, the organ blues works for me.

Wanted to get up and dance

Exciting instrumentals. Lack of vocals and lyrical content are fully compensated for in the simple yet full music. 7/10.

lots of hits I didn't even know were all from one group

Green onions is an absolute classic! Cycling along to this gave me serious main character energy on my morning commute! Dangerously bouncy and fun! This is right up my street, the only reason it doesn't get top marks is because I prefer music with vocals and felt some of the tracks are better with vocals than only instrumental, but this is perfect for so many situations. Musically it's so interesting and impressive, I LOVE that the title track was written during a spontaneous jam which they then had to recapture. Musical genius.

A very pleasant listens and some classic tuuuunes

Thought this was really fun! Enjoyed it.

This was great, just really enjoyable.

I went into this album thinking I've never heard of this band, I've never heard a song by them, and I probably wouldn't enjoy it. It took literally 4 notes before I realized how wrong I was. Despite being unfamiliar with them by name, I've been hearing the songs on these albums for years. They've appeared in movies, they've been sampled, and artists have "stolen from" them. I can tell this band is truly legendary just by how familiar I am with their music. Even though it's not my usual style, I found the music interesting and enjoyable. It is all upbeat and just sounded like the musical version of sunshine. The musicianship was also incredible. Overall, despite my reservations, I thoroughly enjoyed my listens and feel like my musical mind has been expanded.

The title track, "Green Onions", is one of my all time favorite tracks. I will listen to it EVERY time. I know I have heard at least a few other tracks from Booker T., but I couldn't name the tracks. This album easily qualifies as "I would listen to this album again" -- > 4 stars. "Lonely Avenue" and "You Can't Sit Down" were happy surprises, but I rated each track on the the whole second half of the album with 4 stars each.

Thought this was great. Had it on whilst I was writing a proposal for work.... not one of my favourite tasks but it's impossible to be miserable with this soundtracking whatever you're doing

so groovy! green onions was just the right song at the right place at the right time and stands up forever. the rest of the album was great too, but didn't meet the same level of perfection as the title track for me.

Loved it

Fun!

A lot of fun from beginning to end. I had heard Green Onions a million times and never knew the title.

Pretty good! And cool to hear so many crossreferences to other songs I already know.

Immediately recognizable opening, Green Onions is such an iconic jam and everyone should have heard it at some point. The whole album is instrumental jams, and a lot of recognizable songs. Not sure if they are covering them like Twist and Shout and Rinky Dink, or if these are the originals that were then covered by other groups. Sounds very 60s in the synths and guitars, pretty straightforward album with lots of hits from the time period.

The covers were meh, and the rest (other than "Green Onions") were a bit repetitive. But "Green Onions" is one of the coolest songs in human history. It's this album's saving grace.

Damn, lot of my instrumental favorites are on this album. I didn't like it AS much as the other instrumental albums but it was still really really good.

Title track is one for the ages - and the other albums cuts are pretty frickin' close. Good upbeat grooves. 3.5 stars.

Until I started this journey, I had thought surprisingly little about how influential some of these albums were at the time. I've heard Green Onions a thousand times but never knew it by name.

Great R&B album. Steve Cropper is the man.

Me gusto mucho! Parece un soundtrack de película basada en los 60’s.

Nice classic instrumental blues track with a flavour of "I know this song but did not know where it came from". Really liked it.

Groovy funky, could definitely listen to again

Man känner igen många låtar från typ dokumentärer på barnkanalen. Gött sound kort och lagom

First is classic!

The title track is one of the funkiest jams of all time, and the rest of the album’s tracks don’t slouch either. Steve Cropper’s guitar work here is the type of thing that makes someone want to pick up a guitar for the first time. And to think this is the house band!

A warranted classic. These guys don’t get as much praise as they deserve. 4.5.

I'm not sure if I had the right version but I only heard instrumentals

Instrumental bem interessante

Classic group that defined the Memphis Soul sound. The song Green Onions is something i think many people have heard, but do not know the name of.

wow. so many classic riffs. amazing.

Starts with an absolute banger and while impossible to live up to that start the rest of the album is funky as...

Great blues

Dug it. Have not listened before but really liked it.

Vibey instrumentals

Instrumental, used a bunch in pop culture.

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Very good, I recognize some of these from general poo culture and music history.

1. Green Onions has an iconic opening. Everyone knows it. High Hopes for this album. I am hoping for vocals because I generally prefer albums that have vocals. Guitar sounds great, beat is steady and good. Nice synthy, keyboard sound. Enjoyable opener. 2. This is another non-vocal album, oh no. Rinky Dink feels summery. Really nice beat and melody is simple and repetitive but in an enjoyable way. Guitar solo is a nice touch. 3. I Got a Woman has a lovely intro, drums sound great. However, the sound is very similar to that of Rinky Dink. If this is another same shit, different song album I will lose my mind. 4. Mo' Onions has a very different sound. Guitar chords sound great. The synthy sound is consistent but sounds better here than on IGaW. 5. Is this where The Beatles got Twist & Shout from???? Oh my god. The melody sounds the exact same. I am in shock right now. 6. Behave Yourself has a lovely intro. Calm, still, cool. Very nice. Very soulful. 7. Stranger on the Shore sounds very similar to BY. From around 1:10 onwards, it is gorgeous. Sounds absolutely beautiful in my opinion. 8. Lonely Avenue sees the return of the earlier sound, but in a different way. The beat is slow and steady, not sure what instrument I am listening to but whatever it is it sounds great. The guitar sounds fab, I can nearly see the person playing it. 9. One Who Really Loves You contrasts greatly with LA. The key change is lovely, very very nice. All songs have faded. 10. Although there are no lyrics, you can almost hear them in You Can't Sit Down. Bit repetitive but still enjoyable. Beat and bass is nice. That breakdown and build up was very good. 11. A Woman, a Lover, a Friend's intro has been my favourite so far. Again the lyrics are right there just need to be sung. This melody is gorgeous. 12. Comin' Home Baby's intro reminds me of The Monkees for some reason. Very enjoyable. Really liking this. Final Thoughts: Although without lyrics, this is a great album and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Classic. Important album, you can hear that they influede a lot of artists

The instrumentals were great, so I’ll rate it off that. Probably wouldn’t listen to it again though, since there aren’t lyrics and I prefer my music to have lyrics.

4/5

Bit unsure if all of these are original songs or covers. Nonetheless, the album is a vibe.

Knew the title track. Was interested to hear the rest. Enjoyed it.

Leuk instrumentaal album. Het nummer 'Green Onions' kwam me bekend voor

Dat ene lied van die film daar!

Fun, quirky stuff.

7/10

Nice to do homework to, sounded good. 7

When you become a meme it’s usually because you’re iconic

4/5

Just sounded really nice. 8/10, may listen to again.

"Green Onions" disco instrumental

Blues instrumental con una canción conocida

It sounds nice and Green Onions is classic but it’s mostly background. 7

Never had a name for the familiar opening track Green Onions.

Overall very soothing, easy on the ears and the slower songs really struck an emotion with me. I really enjoy this style of blues. A lot of rock jam standards are found here.

pretty darn fun

Seriously good R&B instrumentals.

awesome album. love jazz

elsket det, digg å høre på, nok av hits osv. kan være som følge av oaseeffekten etter en ørken av middelmådige album men hadde en fin stund med denne. Har en lekenhet som jeg setter pris på.

This whole album felt like an Austin powers sound track. And I loved that about it.

Fun fasho

7

The theme music of having a fun cool time in the 60s.

Solid classic jams to clean your house to

Groovy

The definitive Hammond organ album. Great jams. Best track: Green Onions

I know all these tunes but have no idea why... California Games? Movies like the Sandlot Kids? either way it's awesome 4/5.

60s popular music is so funny. Green Onions was a big hit? put a song on the album called Mo' Onions that's unabashedly a rip off of the title track. why not. pretty good vibe overall. tight musicianship and good organ and guitar tones. sounds really clean for 1962. deserves to be one of the 1001? probably. the whole concept of "instrumental" music as it existed in the 60s is underappreciated by modern ears. let one of the highlights on.

ça c'est de la pochette

actually pretty solid

Great vibes but felt long, I think because there wasn’t a lot of variety in the instruments. 3/5.

Essential soul. These guys didn’t just make groovy instrumental soul music, they were the house band for Stax Records. The driving force behind Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Albert King… they were major badasses. 3.8

Otra época distante, se siente la alegría y la experimentación. Se nota mucho la influencia que tuvieron sobre otras bandas, porque automáticamente escuche a The Doors, quizás es por el teclado icónic.

Fun instrumentals but did not blow my mind or anything Highlights: "Green Onions", "I Got a Woman", "One Who Really Loves You"

Look an album with no lyrics is going to struggle to get over three stars with me. I have to wonder why that last song is deemed 'explicit'? was the guitar too groovy? was the funk simply too funkalicious? im confused.

It's fine. It sounds like the music played during breaks in play at an NHL game.

I don't know what made me think this but it feels like the kind of music that would play over an extremely low-quality gif of a sea turtle spinning. That's besides the point. The music is pretty fun, but it started to get pretty old by the end. It still sounds like perfect low-quality turtle gif music, though.

Two or three songs yes, whole album no.

“Green Onions” is fun and funky. The rest of the album vacillates between that, and sounding like you’re at a baseball game listening to the organist banging out 60s classics. Pleasant background music and a worthy addition to the list for the musicianship and the band’s place in music history.

I had a similar experience here to that which I had with Kid A, surprisingly, where I unexpectedly recognized the first few seconds of the project. The Title Track offers one of the most iconic instrumentals of all time. For this being the earliest album on this list so far, some of the other instrumentals are pretty strong too and ahead of their time. It’s repetitive, but effective and a cool listen for what it is. 1 listen Favorite Track: Title Track

Well, this is an interesting find. I certainly recognize the Green Onions song. Would never have been able to name it or the artist. Did a little research and most of these songs are covers, which are well done. Enjoyed this album at a 3/5 level.

Smoooth classic.

I bought the UK re-release of Green Onions in 1980 and still love the track. I'm not sure the rest of the album is quite at that level (a big ask) and has a slight tendency to feel like the last dance in a working men's club (looking at you Stranger on the Shore). But it's pretty impressive and hangs well for an album that's approaching retirement age. Tempted to bump it up for Cropper's legendary guitar but it's a picky 3*

never heard of this before but while listening I realised i might have heard one or two songs on roblox. it has a nice funky groove

Me, listening: “omg I recognize all these songs! How cool that they came up with all of this” Me, on wikipedia: “oh they’re literally all covers (except for the onions)” Womp womp

good work music imo

No notable Textzeile Am Anfang mega cool, dann langsam immer nerviger. Der Sound jedes einzelnen Instruments ist klar rauszuhören und cool. Irgendwann werden aber die Grundrythmen zu repetitiv. Aber eines der besseren Instrumentalalben auf der Liste aus meiner Sicht. Vermutlich weil es sich in vielen Fällen trotzdem auf Songs bezieht, die eigentlich Lyrics haben. 3

Nach dem Bongo und dem Vibraphon nun das Hammond M3 Album. Joa, kann man machen.

I expected to like it more

Often when I listen to the records on this list I wonder about actually purchasing the albums that are not in my collection. I would like to buy them all, but do I see shelling out the $15 or more dollars needed to buy it? I would leave Green Onions in the bin, even though I give it a respectable rating. The title track makes the disc worth buying. However, buying it would ruin the thrill of occasionally coming across the song. Like “The Time Has Come Today”, “Rescue Me” and Looking Glass’ “Brandy”, “Green Onions” bring joy when I stumble upon it. Used in a movie, floating in the background at a store or part of a playlist. The rest of the songs are fine, but do not warrant damaging my relationship with “Green Onions.” For instance, after two acceptable tunes, “Rinky Dink” and “I Got a Woman”, I started to groove to the fourth song. Echoing “Green Onions”, I looked at the track list to discover, “Mo’ Onions.” Later the group excels with some slower, organ trio style grooves on “Lonely Avenue” and “Coming Home Baby.” Nice tracks to list while writing this summary, but not enough to have me running to the counter.

old but good vibe.

Litt svak 3 gitt. Til tross for introsang

7.10.26 vibey with an iconic title track. makes me feel like im in a pink panther movie or smth Favorite Song: Green Onions Rating: 3/5

Great vibe. 3.5

Day 333 Highlights Green onions Coming home baby

Fun instrumental rock n roll album. Didn't know Green Onions (the song) by name but I know I've heard it before, probably in multiple places. Rinky Dink was a pretty fun track too. Some upbeat and slower songs alike, but still with a consistent sound. Best song: You Can't Sit Down Notable(s): Green Onions, Rinky Dink

Title track was not enough to save this one for me

Green onions the obvious standout but the rest is good fun. Nothing too demanding. A toe tapper

Great opening track, but overall repetitive and boring

Infectious in its simplicity. The drum parts were often almost comically simple and often mirrored rhythmically by at least one other instrument. The electric organ is the main highlight for me; very staccato and soothing to the ear. I'm pretty sure a few of these songs are covers, if not most of them. Honestly that kind of cheapens it for me, because if there isn't going to be much unexpected or particularly impressive instrumentation I'd rather hear originals. I'd probably prefer the originals if I heard them. Then again, jazz tunes don't always have an "original," because everyone plays the same ones. If it's a 3, it's not a very strong one according to my taste

It's an instrumental album of 60s standards played on the organ. It's good at being what it is. As long as you go in expecting only that, then you'll be quite pleased.

nao gostei

Pretty good if not samey album. Title track is of course iconic, and the rest are good tunes that kinda sit in the background.

Perfect 3.5. Great sound. MO ONIONS

If I walked into a barbecue joint and this was playing I would be very happy. Goodbye belt, hello heartburn.

Smooth and simple. I'll give it a bump for it's place in history (3.5)

Decent instrumental organ music.

liking the swing, feeling like im driving down the coastline in my 1970 plymouth fury. liking how during the midway feels to slow down, but the vibes stay uninterrupted, smooth flow from song to song. not really my taste, but still not bad :) enjoyed more than i thought i would

This makes for nice background music for chill activities like cooking

Listening to this album whilst dying in the heat while picking up my groceries was probably not the ideal event to do so however that was the cards I dealt myself. What stands out most on this album is its organ grooves, very bouncy and gives the same vibe as being at a baseball game, while I did overall enjoy the album, nothing really stuck with me too much apart from the title track which while I’ve heard it many times, never knew it was from this album. I completely understand why many other artists have covered the song as it’s got such an infectious groove while being extremely lowkey. It does give the energy of a 30 minute jam being turned into an album but I can’t say I didn’t enjoy it. It’s not to be ignored however the impact this had on soul and music as a whole, these guys managed to propel themselves in such a way that allowed them to become the band behind some amazing songs and events in music history, namely backing Otis Redding across his sadly short career and have a mutual peer ship with The Beatles.

Title track is fantastic, unfortunately the rest of the album completely blended together and just wasn't anywhere near as interesting. Points for influence but forgettable as a full project.

THEY GOT MO ONIONS ON THIS THING? Great for background, not so good for active listening