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.

Good classic stuff. Kept the energy high and didn't waste any time. Not too much I could take away from this one but one thing that stood out to me was how much of a potential influence Fats was for Ray Charles and some of his earlier work.

Härlig Boogie Woogie som är svår att stå still till. 4,5 av 5.

Fats Domino is one of those artists where I knew a couple of his hits and that's about it. Primarily from 50's collections, which use Blueberry Hill ad nauseum. Important artist for sure. But I'm gonna feel a little weird ranking some of these early albums on this list, because times were very different and albums were usually made up of a bunch of singles. The 45 was king, so it feels a little disingenuous to rate an album like this. However there's some great tracks. La La, Blue Monday, Poor Me, etc. So, I'm ranking this a 4 due to importance of the artist.

Fun and oh, so dated sounding. If I knew more about music production, I would try and explain how..

Track By Track Blueberry Hill - A stone cold classic. Great vocal delivery. Brilliant. Honey Chile - This sounds also very classic. Early rock n’ roll. It’s got a lovely swing. Enjoying the simplicity of the structure and the solos. What’s The Reason - It sounds like early jazz for sure. A fun bop. There’s definitely a formula for this stuff! Blue Monday - Bluesy start. Nice. Fairly relatable for the working man! Decent tune for sure. So Long - Does sound similar to the others! But I do quite like these, despite the simplicity, so it’s kind of alright. Nice, slightly mournful sax solo. Still tight though, like so many of the songs here. La La - When you can’t think of lyrics, best place to go. Solid strategy, Fats. A template if you will. A fan of this one. Good to boogie to gently. Troubles of My Own - Bit more of a story. Nice. You Done Me Wrong - A fun, upbeat bluesy number. Nice with that 7th in there. Slightly washed out. It’s almost like an interlude for this album. Reeling and Rocking - Bit of a switch. Really moaning this one. With those horns and guitar drawls. Could almost be more smoky. It’s like a first template of a smoky blues one that someone like Tom Waits or B.B. King could really develop, make slower etc. The Fat Man’s Hop - Do like this piano. Similar vibe in terms of structure! It’s kind of referencing the first song. Poor, Poor Me - Not bad, it is slightly mopey though! Trust in Me - It wasn’t the jungle book one I was expecting. Way more upbeat. Nice to end on an upbeat one! Band is going a bit more loose and fun and jam-y. Overall Review: I was definitely feeling a fair amount of these. Great bops. They sound so classic, with their blues/rock n’ roll formulas. The solos and band are tight and he does seem to be enjoying himself! Good length too, not boring. Again, it was fairly samey but very good overall. I would return to some of these tunes as a fun little background playlist for general vibing and pottering. 3.4/5 Favourite Songs: Blueberry Hill, So Long

It is, indeed, Fats Domino

3.5/5

Obviously this is a classic and I enjoyed it. I would enjoy the music if it came up infrequently on playlists but that’s it.

This is very cool and I will add Fats hits to my regular shuffle - great driving music or chillin around the house

Love a tight 30 minute album after a long double-LP. Also love my guy Fats. He has this way of singing where it's sometimes not immediately obvious if the emotion he's evoking is supposed to be happy or sad, which I really enjoy. I remember listening to some of these songs and thinking about how joyful he sounds while mourning the end of a relationship and thinking about how one day I will also be able to feel joy while looking back at a relationship I was currently mourning the loss of. Not sure if that's what he was going for, or if he was just given lyrics to sing and has a generally jovial sounding voice, but that's what I get out of it at least.

Really good album that was just a fun, quick listen. Loved the intro and felt the rest of the album followed a good tone.

Not my taste but can appreciate the influence this had on music.

Love my guy Fats. Always a good time

Love a bit of Fats Domino but a full album is a bit of a stretch

It’s very doubtful I would ever listen to this again but I quite enjoyed this playing in the background

This is fine? Not something I'd revisit but I can see why it has its place in the list.

New to me and not for me I’m afraid. One star. Tom.

Pre Listen: I've heard of Fats Domino before, but I'm struggling to remember any of his songs. I feel like I've heard at least one before, as I used to *really* be in to songs from this decade. Higher than usual expectations. Notable Tracks: Honey Chile | Poor, Poor Me - Tied for my least favorite songs. Boring instrumentation paired with unforgivingly repetitive vocals and lyrics. The Fat Man's Hop - Favorite track. The instrumentals are the highlight of this album, and it's always a joy seeing them get a song to call their own. Post Listen: So I didn't recognize any of his songs, but his voice sounds so familiar. I still think I've heard him before, but I'm still just not sure. Album was ok. I liked Domino's voice mostly, it was a little one-note, but it was a good note, so it's alright. The instrumental works were the highlight, as with many albums from this time. Classic rock and jazz fusions, when such fusions were just sort of the norm, have such a golden sound to them. What dragged a lot of the album down for me however was the lyrical work, it was painfully repetitive through the album. I'm not a fan of blues to begin with, so when you pair blues-styled lyrics with a one-note singer, and make the lyrics as repetitive as possible, it became old incredibly fast. 7 out of 12 of the songs on here blend together horribly. I think I figured out why Domino can't please his woman. It's probably because all he does is missionary and doesn't see the joyous freedom beyond simple yet comforting repetition. 3/5

This was fun. It was nice to hear something from the 50s again as I think this era is like the last time the music sounds like this, before it gets really expressive.

This was just alright, passed over me without much of an impression. Forgettable but not offensive.

New Orleans Inspired Elvis and Beatles

Timeless

I love this kind of music. The flow and just danceable music is amazing I love it

Giving a four to get another classic of American music. I don’t ever really wake up, thinking I want to listen to Fats Domino specifically, but I do think everyone should go to New Orleans and walk around and get a sense of where all this music came from.

I do love me some proto rock and roll. I do wish that these arrangements were more stripped down. Bass keys drums. Too often the piano is either buried in the mix or dominated by the brass. Stil, a rollicking good time though to be honest I didn’t have access to the recommended album. I listened to what Apple Music has as his first album, which I believe has some crossover songs. Both of them seem to me to be a collection of early singles. Maybe with some new Phil tracks. They certainly weren’t recorded at all times. There is variance in the audio quality.

Good swing

Pure joy.

6/10

This guy man, what a great voice, only isn't getting a 5 cus Ain't That A Shame isn't on this

Great songs and an excellent vibe.

Yeah solid bit of blues stuff this. Great voice on him. Imagine being called Fats. 3.5/5.0 Best Song: blue monday

Fats Domino made lovely music. What a lovely voice. I enjoyed this a lot tbf

Hugely influential album but sounds a bit dated. 4/5

Not much to be said. Piano driven blues, with that hint of rag(time), and a precursor to rock n roll. Some bluesy guitar work too. Reelin and rockin has quite a jazzy sax solo going on Best track - could literally be any, let's go for Trust In Me 3 stars

Nice and easy, and with a freshness

Love fats

跳ねるようなピアノのリズムと、軽快な声の組み合わせがグッドです。R&Bや、ソウルの初期の作品としても有名なのかな。ロックンロールの源流でもあるらしい。 ピアノとかベース、ドラムのシンプルな音でそれらがとても楽しそうに演奏するから、こっち側も楽しい。

His third album produced what many would consider his definitive song and, other than Blueberry Hill, consists of reliable 12 bar blues numbers with Fats's faithful New Orleans posse of musicians, but nothing THAT remarkable. However, the theory that he was in fact the King of Rock n Roll, or at last the true founder of the idiom, does have greater creedence, now that the jazz influence can be seen as influential as the country/blues common theory. I enjoyed listening to this music, but we are at a time when only jazz related artists are making effective non classical albums. John and Paul were in thrall to Fats, amongst many others.

Very outside of my usual wheelhouse which is cool, I enjoyed it probably a 3.5 but I didn't want to round down

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.

I can see why he was important in the early evolution of rhythm and blues and boogie woogie to bonafide rock and rock. He predates Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Elvis by a number of years, but (as a result) feels a lot tamer than those wild cats.

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 is Fats Domino. Couldn't find it, so I played The Best of Fats Domino instead. Marvellous.

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

Boring

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.

bom mas n eh o estilo de musica q eu escutaria mt

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.