This Is Fats Domino

This was great to hear back to back with Solomon Burke. While Burke bridged rock and roll to soul in 1964, Fats Domino in this album from 1956-7, stands on the precipice between blues and rock and roll. Not that one needs to distinguish between genres, because great music draws on multiple influences, but this album feels like it's helping create rock and roll. The underlying blues are strongest, but it's going somewhere new. Or maybe I'm just talking out my backside, and lack the context to really know, but this felt seminal. It was a fun listen.

Blueberry Hill, Ain’t That a Shame. Perfect.

It feels bland by today's standards

Blueberry Hill is great. I like it better than the rest but I'm feeling generous.

Fats Domino is a legend. While his songs are repetitive and the beat gets tiresome, I believe this deserves a solid rating because of the effect Fats had on future rock 'n' rollers, jazz pianists, and more. And the NOLA blood that runs through his piano touch is something else. "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" is always a favorite!

Fats Domino is the 1957 equivalent of Notorious BIG

This is a great album for its age. Sure it shows its age but, it's literally the start of Rock and Roll. Yes there are other albums before this but this is considered the first one. The others are more of a proto/lead to kinda thing. It's albums like this I wish this list could be broken down to listen to in chronological order. Then you could hear how we grew as a cultural through music.

I was already familiar with Blueberry Hill but no other tracks. Blueberry Hill is an excellent song, still good even all these years later. The rest of the album is good but not great. It is really Blueberry Hill which carries the album. I would listen again.

I can see why this dude was so impactful to some of the greats like Elvis and the Beatles.

That's some very good early rock and roll. Not to the levels of a Little Richard or Chuck Berry, there's still too much blues and RnB, but it swings and has an indisputable charm.

It’s short and sweet. An okay+ album, though it’s propably a more important album than most on this list. Favourite: Blueberry Hill

1. Blueberry Hill - 8/10 2. Honey Chile - 7/10 3. What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasing You - 7/10 4. Blue Monday - 6/10 5. So Long - 5/10 6. La La - 4/10 7. Poor Poor Me - 6/10 8. Goin' Home - Bonus Track - 7/10 9. Mardi Gras In New Orleans - Bonus Track - 8/10 OVERALL - 6.4/10

It’s okay but I don’t know if I’d listen to it again.

Wow this was a blast from the past. Not that I was alive at the time this came out, but that songs from this album was played at my 1st grade 50s Sock Hop. I specifically remember hearing "Blueberry Hill" and never being able to ever find it again. Well, here it is some 25 years later. Very quick album, done before the turn of the hour which was a good change of pace. I'm not here or there on if I liked it. It's got good parts, it's got boring parts, it's got pretty average parts. It's a solid 4/10 for me and I know how important it was for the evolution of the genre of Rock & Roll.

Vibey

Meh

Thank you fats domino for helping pioneer rock n roll, so dads all round the world can pass on their music taste. This album was an easy listen, it’s short and sweet.

Hard to find the entire album, but enjoyable smoky club blues.

It was ok like enjoyable but not necessarily memorable

I had to rebuild this album using Wikipedia and Spotify's queue, but besides that it was a great experience. A lot of 50s music doesn't hold up to today's music, but Fats Domino is an exception. It's wild how ahead of his time he was. Truly a pioneer of rock and roll. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

good

both rocking and rolling. certainly must be important, but also not something I'll listen to a lot

This album isn’t on Spotify so I gave the Greatest Hits a listen. I was very pleasantly surprised. What a fun listen. 30 songs just over an hour. Really enjoyable.

A very pleasant collection of classic New Orleans R&B. It's full of this jumpy, toe-tapping energy that resembles jump blues the most. Both genres served as one of the myriad influences that combined to form rock and roll. Fats Domino, with his shy, reserved vocal and piano style, doesn't seem like the most likely of rock pioneers, but Elvis and the Beatles both cited him as an influence. On this frustratingly hard-to-find album (the Spotify tracklist doesn't have all the songs available, and Youtube has no clue what I'm asking about,) Domino does what's typical of this era - sway left and right between bittersweet piano R&B and jumping blues numbers. It's repetitive, and songs are samey, but this is the 50s! The idea that an LP could be anything but a collection of the singles you had out at that time was basically unheard of. The material here is fine enough, though I must admit the best songs are the ones with "Blue" in the title, "Blue Monday" and his signature tune "Blueberry Hill." This is really a collection of singles more than anything else, a good release made up of short, mostly interchangeable songs outside of those 2. I will credit the list's authors for keeping these 50s releases on the list since their historical importance is somewhat lost as we get further and further away from them. Key Tracks: Blueberry Hill, Blue Monday, Poor Poor Me

Yeah this is clean for the 50s

Good stuff

Really dug this

Glorious, joyful, rounded, jolly fun.

Come on Fats (if that really is your name), theres only so far you can go with a walking baseline and a boogie-woogie riff.

music is love

Just feels very classic. Nothing more, though highlights: blueberry hill

Impossible to find. He’s either super prolific putting out more than half a dozen albums in two years. Or more likely, he just did a big ol’ release of everything he’d been working on. Seemingly at random. I listened to a different album and really loved it. This is the music that all rock and roll is based on. Partially anyway, you could certainly go further back into that delta jazz arena, but so many artists mention Fats as their inspiration.

Fats Domino Chubby Checker Portly Pawn Obese Parcheesei Thicc Tac Toe

No lo disfruté

Legacy R&B from '56.

A short and sweet album, but it had its moments. It was full of personality and good music. Just wasn’t really my thing. 3/5 ⭐️ 282/1081

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It was fine.

Old timey bops. Didn't leave a huge impression.

Hard to criticise, this kind of stuff is just very easy to listen to.

this was excellent. He has an economy in his music that I enjoy, never overdoing it but always making you feel like you got enough. A true ARTISTE

My father might disown me, but this bored me.

Some good stuff but falls flat overall for me

Hab dä Song nöd gfundä aber en anderä vom Artist glost, naja

Fast or slow, always good to dance to and melodic! Bluesy and in perfect harmony, each song has it's own story to tell. Awesome musical history lesson in how modern pop and rock were born.

Old man music according to my wife, classic as I call it Very dated but still lovely 3/5

This was fine.

Definitely an important and influential musician. Catchy and decent listen.

Appreciate his influence. Fun and quick listen.

Oh boy this is always music I avoid as much as possible. Luckily the tracks don't last very long so within half an hour this exercise comes to an end. This music is way too old for my ears.

Easy listening stuff here, I dig it

It’s a bit of a challenge to accurately grade an album you cannot access, in it’s entirety. Having said that, the original base album, is just outstanding, and I would give it a 4.5, if I could grade in half points. We’ll see later, whether I round up or down, but regardless, this is a great album, love Fats.

This was so excellent I’ve been listening to it ever since.

4 ster

Sounds like the jungle book songs

2 stars C’mon. It’s fine. Music to listen to while eating a burger and drinking a milkshake. But an album I need to hear? I don’t even think I listened to the right album but there were enough of the right songs and they were all in the same vein. This is music that does not stand the test of time. It’s fine. Not bad. But not a necessity to listen to.

Half the album was missing from Spotify, so could be that I missed out on something important. It was good, but probably not something I’ll return to often.

10 years ago a simple idea was born. That every Monday a setlist should be produced and shared that is exactly 10-tracks, no more and no less. While the idea has gone through many tweaks and evolutions over the years since, the core is as solid today as it ever was. 160711_chump sauce, my first setlist contribution to this wellspring of joy, first track: Blue Monday-Fats Domino First track.

Well I’m glad I bought the book because I never would’ve found this on Spotify based on the title. (It’s the playlist with the Sufjan Stevens song at the end)

Sometimes music from this era annoys me and sometimes it’s exactly what I feel like I need to be listening to. I feel like this album was a perfect way to start my day.

I love original 50's Rock and Roll and Fats often gets overlooked. Great album

The thought of my man Dennis from work getting crunk to this justifies my rating. Also the horns are real nice, real NOLA flavor (7/10, 3/5 on this scale)

Pretty good, very good vibe

I Found My Thrill on Blueberry Hill 1001 Albums Generator 359 (9/28/2026) Inoffensive old school rock and roll. However, no individual song really stuck out to me, the whole album just is in one ear and out the other, never becoming obnoxious, but never becoming great. Definition of a 2.5/5, rounded up to a 3 for being fine. Favs: Blueberry Hill Honey Chile Blue Monday Least Fav: Poor, Poor Me

Not something I’d naturally go for, but this is 30 minutes of just good songs. It’s of its time, but still enjoyable

Good vibes l

JL : 2, Blue Monday

As one of the earliest albums on this list, I can't fault it for sounding like many sounds that I've heard before since this has undoubtedly gone on to inspire whole genres of rock and roll. It's a catchy album and I enjoyed listening to it.

Not for me, but not bad. 3 leaning 2, but going to give a 3 because if someone had this on I wouldn't be annoyed or bothered. I just wouldn't really listen to it on my own.

Look I think Fats is great, but I do not think a compilation album is essential listening.

some cool songs

Highlights: Blueberry Hill, So Long, La La Version #1, Poor Me and Blue Monday. 3.1

6.3/10

Not really sure I even found the right album as I had to listen on Youtube! But I did enjoy the songs on that playlist at least:)

This was a good album by the Fat Man. With his big hit Blueberry Hill. Some covers done well and original songs.

Enjoyed this

Great rock’n’roll album. It was time I listened to it.

I spent so long trying to find something to say about this album but I knew in my heart that all there was to say was: certified fiver.

escucho esto y pienso en cintura pequeñita. chasquilla redonda. labios brillantes.

Ah oui, Fats Domino ! Je connais pratiquement pas le gars, mais j'adore Blueberry Hill et c'est justement l'album sur lequel cette chanson se trouve, alors forcément, ça fait bien plaisir ! Le reste de l'album est à l'avenant. C'est fort agréable à écouter et Fats Domino a une voix qui me parle beaucoup, riche en personnalité, etc. Alors c'est un chouïa redondant, les albums de l'époque avaient souvent ce petit défaut, mais je vais pas faire la gueule, je suis super content de l'avoir entendu. EDIT : alors, visiblement, c'est le bordel. Parce que l'album listé par Robert Dimery est celui de 1957 (et pas celui de 1956 que j'ai écouté). Quant à la pochette bleue affichée ici sur le site, c'est encore une autre chose. Bon ben je vais aussi écouter celui de 1957 et je revendrai donner mon avis sur celui-ci aussi, puisqu'apparemment, c'est le plus influent des deux et celui que j'étais censé écouter. EDIT 2 : eh ben non seulement il était très bien aussi, mais il était aussi plus varié au niveau de l'instrumentation, ce qui est une amélioration par rapport au premier. Décidément, deux belles écoutes en une journée ! Allez, ça sera un 4 bien mérité pour les deux !

fun, felt like dancing in a military tent in the 40s after the war like in captain america yk

Maybe not the best album to get right after 3 hrs + of The Gershwin Songbook, but 50s music usually does makes me happy and this is no exception. A quick, fun listen.

Buenas vibras

Cant find this on streaming so ill come back to it

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

some songs missing off spotify, its alright kind of meh

Maybe it was revolutionary at the time, I have no idea. Right now though, its not great.

If this is a greatest hits there must be some shite on his normal albums

You can just tell how influential Fats was, kicking about some length of time

Nice piano rhythm. Simple and fun but a bit similar across the album.

Scratched my brain in all the right places!!!

Cool album, I enjoyed listening to this in the morning

This album doesn't seem to exist on streaming services, but I listened to some compliation tracks and it was solid.

Disco interessantíssimo de um músico que nunca ouvi falar. Voz marcante, músicas bem legais e contagiantes. Pode ser considerado talvez um ‘mais do mesmo’ do gênero, mas isso não tira o fato de que é disco muito bom e bem feito.

Приємний рок-н-рол/рнб. Не без філерів, що для альбому на 27 хвилин звичайно не дуже прикольно)

Легенда рнб 50х, але сказати про цю музику мені нема чого.

I grew up with Fats Domino as part of all the other Oldies station stuff and feel like this particular record was put in the book since they couldn't just add actual compilations into the count. It's boogie-woogie 1950s piano rock stuff, and it starts to sound the same when played in a row. As an album, it's a big Meh. I'd rather just put on a Best-Of if I'm feeling Fats (which is very rarely to begin with...). (3/5)

This was really good. 4 stars for me. It was fun!.

Cuando piensas que grabaron esto en vivo, entiendes el talento que tenían estos artistas

Artiste connu de nom uniquement. Blues rock bien exécuté. Les morceaux sont courts, avec des chorus de cuivre pertinents. Découverte intéressante donc, mais je ne suis pas fan du style par ailleurs, donc je ne suis pas sûr de le réécouter. =>2/5