Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Yawn

Okay - not a huge Sinatra fan

So there's this girl in my class that I like but I've been kinda nervous to talk to her. Frank sounds like a real lady killer, so getting this album today has really given me the motivation I needed. Tomorrow, I'm going to go to school in my finest fedora, and gonna ask that girl in my class if she'd like to make whoopee. Wish me luck boys! 🤞🤞

did not enjoy

meh

I made it through the whole thing. As it was 1956 Sinatra and not Bublé from 2006, it does make a difference (but not much!) However all the songs sounded similar, same pace, and very little variation in swing style. Pleasant, but boring. I suppose to modern ears. But I'll give it a 2 for his voice and the musicianship for the band. NB got better with a second listen when Charlie got in, due to more familiarity with the songs. Still a 2 though.

Not for me

It's Ok. I really wanted to like this more, but it's hard for me to connect with it. Much of the songs plod along with not much standing out to me until about halfway through the album. And maybe it's not Sinatra per se but rather Nelson Riddle's direction. And maybe I need to be in the right mood.

Beautiful voice, but just not my jams.

I do not like Sinatra's voice. After this one I think maybe it's his constant vibrato, which is especially grating when it's subtle.

Nice voice and all, but dull.

Boring

good singing, but songs are showtunes

This was ok. Had a couple of good songs with lots of nostalgia. But that was it.

It was okay, I'm not a big fan of croonerss

Just read a biography. Very good. Can't stand his singing though.

It goes without saying that he had a great voice, it's just not my sort of music.

There's a reason Seth Macfarlane made Brian Griffin a modern-day Sinatra fan: they're obnoxious, self-absorbed nerds who aren't very smart but think they're Real Intellectuals(tm). Yep, the fuckin' lot of 'em. And reading the wiki for this album it seems that was the case even in 1956? It's a covers album of existing popular songs, intentionally Sinatra-fied, with the ham dialled up to 11. Makes me wonder what the point of Richard Cheese is when the original is the same gag. I guess because Sinatra died before he could give RATM and Limp Bizkit the treatment himself? 2/5.

Also es war in Ordnung, es hat mich nur ein bisschen sehr an die Musik, die ich zu Weihnachten höre, erinnert. Und es war irgendwie sehr wiederholend….

I just can't. Stuff like "Making Whoopee" is so cringey.

I tried and I wanted to like it, but I could not

Every song sounds the same on this. It starts out fine, but after like 2 tracks it gets boring and then u still have like the whole album to go.

Too cheesy in black and white.

They're all the same song! Well played, well sung, (although he always sounds like he's phoning it in) but he could play the same song 15 times and I wouldn't know.

Fine. Classic songs. But if you've heard one you've heard them all.

It just didn't click for me.

Bloody old timers

Nicely put together, short and relatively punchy crooner songs. Does all blend together a bit though, a couple of vaguely memorable tracks but that's not particularly impressive out of 15. 2/5.

The schlock is too thick. 2 stars.

Classic stuff - xmas‘y

There is not much to elaborate. Frank Sinatra was a great singer, one of its kind, who inspired many other singers and songwriters over the years. Unfortunately, there is one problem - I just can't listen to more than one of his songs without getting nauseous. I can appreciate this music in theory, and I'm glad I listened and got familiarised with it, but I won't ever listen to this again. I'm not a fan of Frank Sinatra, just a little outdated music in my opinion.

Too old School for me

Best Song: You Make Me Feel So Young. It sounds theatrical in a good way. Worst Song: Too Marvelous For Words. Sometimes (often) Sinatra dips heavily into the cheese for his lyrics, and this is some of the worst. I get that it was a part of the style of the times, but damnit if it doesn't make me cringe. Overall: This is probably the effect of a retrospective lens, but a lot of this is just (both lyrically and musically) exceedingly saccharine. It's like a big piece of cheesecake from a chain restaurant. When you first taste it, it seems sumptuous, but the more you eat the more you realize it's just one thin note propped up by too much sugar and fat.

All of the songs sound basically the same, although you gotta appreciate Frank Sinatra's voice and singing capabilities.

Aburrido

Det är ju inte dåligt men samtidigt är det ju inte särskilt bra heller.

Nice album. For me the last time…

This album is a classic and I don't dislike it, but it's just not my thing. I just find Sinatra a cut clean and perfect and biting. At the end of the album Spotify recommended Nat King Cole and I immediately perked up, bc BLUESY. Sinatra feels square in comparison. Yawn. 2.5/5

Meh, I prefer Chet Baker. This is ok, feels very much like a late night album. Kind of a drag to get through it, a lot of the songs are too similar so it gets predictable. But it's a 50s album so I guess I shouldn't judge it too harshly.

Most tracks sound similar. Not for me

MEH

Favorites: You Make Me Feel So Young, I've Got You Under My Skin, Anything Goes

Decent, but not my favorite.

It says who this is for in the title, and it isn't me.

HL: A punchy “Anything Goes”, “You Make Me Feel So Young”, “Old Devil Moon” Sinatra’s music in advertisements & movies is so ubiquitous that I could never fully shake that feeling of commercialism. Will revisit when I have a lover to swing with, see if my attitude changes. August 31, 2022

Boring, too many tracks that had little variety from the previous. Smooth voice but not for me.

It's not like I hate it, it's just that I can't relate to it as a music. Can't get past the sound, the slowness the lyrics. It feels more visual and doesn't really speak to anything beyond having a swell time. I guess it works well in films.

S'ok I suppose, if you're in the right mood. Bit too much as a whole album of crooning though

idk

damn I know its a classic but it's hard to tell one song from another

Smooth voice but everything about it is so dated and the sounds mean nothing to me.

Pleasant to listen to (although all the songs sound pretty similar). Rarely something I’m in the mood for, but it’s easy listening.

It’s technically a good album. The band is excellent, his voice is very good. The lyrics are not very creative or complex, simple. An entire album of swinging love songs? With virtually no change in his voice from one to another? It’s Frankly on the boring side.

I guess it's okay, a little too boomery for me

Yes, he's got the voice, but I found myself more interested in the band. Still, I was ready for this album to be over less than half-way through. 2.5/5 stars

I don't think I'll ever understand the appeal of this

Speaking as a swingin' lover this is just boring.

This album was fine. It was Sinatra, but it's not the 'sound' that I think of when I think of Frank. In my opinion it feels like Sinatra struggled through the concept of the album.

Liked this more than I thought I would.

I have it in my head, rightly or wrongly, that Frank Sinatra was a bit of a douche, but I'll try not to let that cloud my judgement. Pros: His voice is pleasant and I enjoy the big band flourishes. Also, it made me feel appropriately festive despite not being a Christmas album. Cons: Each time I listened I lost interest by about halfway out of sheer sameyness. And as with Elvis, I just can't bring myself to score an album of covers very highly. Plus, I think Sinatra might've been a bit of a douche? 2.5

It's ok easy-listening stuff but I find the celebration of the rat pack a bit strange. Simply songs (that they didn't write) and fairly bland vocals. Suppose it reflects the sparsity of music at the time!

Me deprime escuchar Sinatra.

OK, but done better by many others.

That silky gravy voice, just needs a side of Dean Martin to make any night a pizza and pasta night. Without it I feel like wrapping Christmas presents. How grand would life have been without: global warming, the knowledge of cigarettes causing cancer and shoes off international plane travel. Tip of the hat and we are away. Also, feminism.

I'm not a massive Sinatra/swing fan, but Anything Goes is always a good time whether it's sung in English or Mandarin.

Not my bag baby!!

Not bad I guess? Fine. Songs sound kind of samey.

#metoo

A me il vecchio Frank è sempre stato simpatico e dopo Evangelion riconosco anche la vena bittersweet nei suoi pezzi. Purtroppo st'album è veramente sciapo, il target era chiaramente quello che era e alla fine, sì dai lo dico, era un po' il dico trap dei suoi tempi. Quantomeno questi dischi rendono evidente che puoi prendere musicisti bravi quanto ti pare ma quando manca il contenuto difficilmente il risultato cambia in modo sostanziale. Diciamo un 2.5 scarso.

Meh

Mysigt 50-talssound som bara puttrar på utan att någon gång utmana eller bli särskilt intressant. Efter några låtar börjar jag undra hur många gånger en man kan beskriva sin kärlek till en(?) kvinna och jämföra henne med månen och havet. Svaret är, åtminstone tillräckligt många gånger för att Frank Sinatra ska kunna fylla ut 59 studioalbum och 297 singlar under sin karriär. Rösten är fin, det är det inget snack om. Men, TÄNK om man 1956 kunde veta vad som gömde sig i musikvärlden på andra sidan decenniet, och hur tråkig Sinatra skulle bli i jämförelse med 60-talets musik. Bästa låt: Ingen som stack ut, allt flöt ihop. Kände inte heller någon större lust att lyssna igen för att hitta någon Bästa låt. Sådeså.

Kinda outdated and stale, but alright to put on during supper.

Old Sinatra, not really my cup of tea

You listen to one, you heard them all

Cá nos deparamos novamente com o senhor Frank Sinatra. Tenho muitas ideias na cabeça após este álbum e nenhuma delas particularmente coesas, vamos lá a isto então. Um dos pensamentos que passa na minha cabeça é o seguinte: “Será isto cultural?”. Pois eu não entendo, isto parece uma coisa muito americanizada que pouco percebo. Parece que estou a jogar Fallout e isto é a música que isto passa na rádio do jogo. O Sinatra pode até ter uma boa voz, mas quando todas as músicas parecem iguais e soam ao mesmo torna-se enfadonho, para além das letras simplistas. Não sei se sou eu o problema, mas não consigo compreender este álbum, o fenómeno consigo compreender. A semelhança do álbum anterior tenho de dizer o seguinte o álbum terminou, vi que ainda vermelho e pensei que fosse o mesmo e não era. Assim, não consigo destacar nenhuma música do álbum, só uma e foi porque não gostei nada dela, dai surgir na memoria. Acho esta lista extremamente enviesada para um público anglo-saxonico, não levando em consideração outras culturas, assim sendo incorpora coisas muito próximas ao povo estado-unidense e não ao resto do mundo, como julgo ser o caso do Sinatra. Destaco pela negativa a It Happened in Monterey e dou uma nota de 4 pela frustração e não devido a falta de talento. Nota: 4/10 Data: 15/01/2025

its all very nice and all that, he's got a voice like butter and i get it that he's the best at big band stuff for a reason. it just got a bit boring.

Frank Sinatralle itselleen 5. Kuitenkin levy on minulle turhan paljon yhtä ja samaa biisiä. Sinatran äänellä nyt kannattelisi mitä tahansa, mutta en erityisen paljon tästä levystä tykännyt.

Prima op de achtergrond.

Big horns, jazzy vibes, Frank’s silky smooth voice! What’s not to love? The answer comes easily for me: big horns, jazzy vibe and Frank. Never been a fan, and I was unable to listen to even one complete track on this album. Is this the third album given to me on Hell Island? (Other two artists from the list so far were PereUbu and Laura Nyro) Maybe, but I’m still giving it a very generous two stars out of respect/fear for the reputation of Ol’ Blue Eyes.

Still don’t like Frank Sinatra

Cheesy

Meh

I feel like I'm supposed to rate this album higher because it's Sinatra, but if I'm honest all the songs sound the same.

Never got into Sinatra, but it's fine. I see why people like it, but not for me.

Show tunes just aren't my thing

Ihan mukavaa taustamusiikkia siivoilun lomassa. Ei häiritsevää, ei tosin myöskään millään tavalla mieleen jäävää.

It's fine. I'd heard a lot of the songs before and I get it, I'm just not super excited about it.

It's Sinatra. It feels like it's always been there, somewhere in the background, like I know even the songs I've never heard. This gets very samey very quickly, but it's fine in the background, doing its thing.

Can't really go wrong. easy listening, not something I'm going to sing along to though.

Recognized a bunch of the songs, but kind of forgetable

If you’re not buying what they’re selling in terms of fake whimsy then it’s incredibly hard to get invested in this crooner stuff. 2stars for genre defining!

I don't get Sinatra

Still don't get Frank Sinatra. It's just so slow and lame, with zero spirit.

Meh con Meh. Volvemos a los hombres blancos. Would they be famous as in today? Every songs sound the same.

I can recognize that this album is at least some what good but OMG i found it sooooo boring. I couldn’t even force myself to finish it. Not for me.

Frank you, and the horse you rode in on

If I could give it a lower score I would.

1.8 achei as musicas mt parecidas e n é tão minha vibe

Swing is always fantastic and Anything Goes is particularly great. EDIT: Just learnt he's a Zionist. Fuck that noise.

Whatever. This is just whatever I guess it’s wedding music for assholes.

I do not get the appeal and the resurgence of this style of music.

You can appreciate the performers’ skills and its place in history, but the songs just aren’t up to the same standard. They all sound the same and the lyrics are uninspired. The sound is evocative of an era, but there’s really no reason to listen to this.

His voice gets under my skin and not in the way his song means. Songs are killer though

This was awful and I was miserable listening to it.

Sinatra may have been the man in the 50s but the sound is just too dated these days. Songs for Swingers is better than the other entries from Frank on the list but I'm still bored. "Anything Goes" was recognizable and a decent track I guess. "Makin' Whoopee" shows just how old and lame this album truly is. Nowadays it would be SZA or Frank Ocean singing "Gettin' Pussy" and would just be new and lame. Hoping we are done with Ol' Blue eyes. 1.19 stars for this record.

It's sinatra. It's fine

Loves to mention the moon.

To jazzy and old timey for me. Fly me to the moon and something stupid by frank sinatra will always be a goodie tho.

Wank

No. Sorry, Frank, but this is background music for Catholic perverts

While Frank Sinatra was a Grade-A piece of shit, it's not the reason that I hate him and his music. There's a smarm to his voice that I find cloying and insipid, and which belies what a garbage person he was in the same way that P-Diddy's weird drippy flow made him sound like a massive, leering creep. Maybe they both rot in hell.

Better then the other 2 Sinatra albums we've listened to. Still don't like Sinatra.

- Light, superficial love songs; not much variation. - Includes "I've got you under my skin" (the other songs are consistent with each other, but can't compare). - Can't see myself listening to this very often... I definitely prefer a best of album to this one. I get tired of it really quickly - there are 15 songs, for me, it would be more enjoyable as, like, 5 or 6.

Never was a fan of the Big Band era. And I never thought Frank's voice was anything but average to mundane. Probably good after sipping several martinis though!

That's repulsive.

Not for me.

Hate this guy and his music

I do NOT like music like this. It sounds old and the lyrics are all lovey dovey. It's too upbeat, all the songs have the same instruments and sound so similar. I know it's classic or whatever, but I can't stand this. It could be worse, because the instruments are played well. 2/10

pff

Sorry Frank, it’s not you, it’s me…

Are there still Sinatra guys? I'm inclined to think the appeal is to be transported to a different time, rather than actual enjoyment of the music itself. I just find it corny, and it didn't age well. I'm sure to some, they hear class when they listen to Sinatra. I don't.

I'm going to say something probably controversial now. Did Sinatra really have that good a voice? Like, it's really lovely, but it's almost like he isn't singing. It's like he's talking really really nicely at times. Every track is very similar, I can't lie. That repetitive double bass 'badum badum badum' and the drum sticks with a brush on the end to get that distinctive sound. Maybe a bit of trumpet or twinkling piano here and there. I also dislike how Swing music sounds as if it's so off the cuff. This is most noticeable on 'Pennies From Heaven'. I'm so used to the Louis Prima version and listening to Frank's version it honestly sounded like he was plucking the vocal notes and length out of thin air. You'd have no chance at guessing what's coming next and trying to sing along is pointless. I'd have to REALLY be in the mood to listen to this. One star does seem harsh but after 15 minutes of this, you've already heard it all and you still have another half an hour to go. Sorry Ol' Blue Eyes.

bleedly boop dah duh who gives a fuck. I hate this shit so much.

Not a big Sinatra fan. The songs on this album for the most part were pretty ordinary, with simple lyrics, and uninteresting music that didn’t bring out the greatness Frank is capable of and lauded for. If I never hear this album again, I will not care one bit.

what a douche

blah

Fuck this Olive Garden ass garbage

Not my stuff

It all sounded like the same song tbh. Not a huge fan

yawn

What’s that Frank? You like potato chips and you want to know if I do too? Clown ass dude. That Makin Whoopee song was corny as hell too.

Tried, still find crooning really boring

Fuck this shit. I’m pretty sure this album is all the same song regurgitated like that one episode of bagpuss where they keep using the same biscuit and make it look like there’s a whole biscuit factory going on behind the scenes. Awful.

Hi everybody! What a wonderful album, oh golly gee whiz! Well now, this is the bee's knees, I gotta tell ya! THE antidote for all the east-coast rap I've been getting. That Frank Sinatra sure is nifty! { Okay, I can talk now... some goon who I overheard being called \"Johnnie the Finger Breaker\" just left to use the toilet so I gotta write fast! I'm tied to chair in a warehouse, address unknown, except it smells like fish and sweat so I must be near the docks. Couple hours ago I'm in my usual coffee shop, writing this review of Frank Sinatra's \"songs for swingin' lovers\" (hey! it's not capitalized on the album, why should I have to follow the rules?) about an hour ago when all of a sudden these two huge hairy guys come walking up behind me and ask, in the most sinister way you can imagine, \"Are you writing a review of Frank Sinatra's \"songs for swingin' lovers\" for your 1001 Albums generator site?\" and I said \"No, this is, uh, this is just a quick email to my sister stationed overseas! See, she joined the Army last year and I haven't talked to her in a whille...\" \"HEY,\" one of the thugs says in a stage whisper (at least they have a modicum of politeness, or maybe they were just trying not to draw attention to themselves), \"I can SEE the album art right there on your laptop and the too-small review box right below it! You think you can pull a fast one on us?! Well guess what Shakespeare,\" (aww! thanks man!) \"you ain't writin' nothin that we don't tell ya to write, capiche?\" \"Kuh what? I'm sorry, didn't quite catch the last bit there my good man (trying to buy time -- I hit the power button on my phone 5 times in quick succession to alert the authorities -- you know if you do that, you can call 911? Pretty cool feature, on the iPhone anyway) and the other guy says to me \"OH! A WISE GUY! Hey Johnnie, we got us a wise guy!\" Then they both start laughing hysterically. Well, no sooner do they STOP LAUGHING ABRUPTLY than I find myself tied to this god damn chair, and I'm trying to put together what happened between then and now. And good lord do I have a headache. Anyway, I really disliked the Frank Sinatra album, except for "You Make Me Feel So Young," which I only feel OK about because it was in that movie Elf, which is a fun time. As is the song "Pennies From Heaven," but it's the MUCH better version by Louis Prima, of course. Jazz is not something to approach casually. If this is your entry point to Jaz, then by all means, have a good time. The arrangements are perfect, every accent is perfectly timed, perfectly placed. But Jazz, like Rock, has some edge, it has some underground origins. This bears little resemblance to the Jazz of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, etc. But, you know, I guess everyone has to hear Frank before they die. (Insert bad Amy Winehouse joke here.) OH! These dumbasses used blue painter's tape instead of duct tape! HAHAHAHA! My lucky day! Well cats and kittens I AM GONNA skedaddle before Fingers McGoo (or whatever) comes back to slap me again for dissing the once great Sinatra. I guess those Mob connection rumors were true after all!

I hate Frank Sinatra. It doesn't surprise me that he was a swinger.

One paced.

I don't care about this fellow

Good songs but not my style.

estaba qt al principio

Imaginate enamorarte en los 50s y Sinatra dropea esta madre... si lo hubiera sentido pero hoy esas trompetas me pican bn raro. Me suena a lo rico que es enamorarte pero me suena mas a casarte y vivir pa quitarle las pantuflas a tu marido cuando llega de jalar,,,(y seguro de engañarte ñerisimo también) y ps ahí si ya no te sientes tan en las nubes Alguien sabe si Sinatra le pegaba a sus parejas? lowkey siento que si es eSe vato. Ya lo google, obvio si. dedícame old devil moon? de niña me mamaba Ive got you under my skin,, sigo siendo bn asi jiji ok ya acabe d escuchar todo suena igual Zzz prdn x no ser swinger

Jesus fucking christ

Fucken pish

No

boooooof 1/5

Hat sicher bessere Alben gemacht.

It blended together and it was hard to distinguish one song from another. However it didn't make them all feel connected, it was just boring and mundane. I didn't feel anything so even though it was possible and I didn't care. The fact I forgot it was on is 1 star

Simply the worst genre of music on the planet. I just don't get the appeal of identikit, unemotional swing, with a singer putting in as little effort into his delivery as humanly possible. Sinatra's popularity baffles me. He's no better or worse at this kind of singing than anyone else, because it's the laziest, most untechnical type of singing imaginable. And there's no depth to any of the songs musically or emotionally either. At this time, Elvis was writing Heartbreak Hotel and musicians of colour (who Ol' Blue Eyes would obviously have hated) were creating electric blues music. Why is this the prevailing genre? Fear of having to hear this kind of music is what's stopping me from going to an American wedding, as well as not knowing any Americans.

not my thing

Nie dla mnie :(

Not for me.

i hate frank sinatra. i hate swing. i’m a metalhead. this is crap to recommend to a person like me.

bad

i see you. i can see you. i don't know if you can. do you remember? he told me you didn't. but this should be enough for you. adrian, michigan. not now. not soon, much later. you will be notified. they are here and there are many more coming. goodbye.

It's Old Blue Eyes, never have been a fan.

I unapologetically despise big band crooner music. Frank Sinatra is uninspiring, lame and looked 40 as a teenager. This is awful, anyone who willfully listens to this is either super old or super lame. 1 star

😏

Noooooo thanks!

Did not listen

Sinatra. Typische muziek voor een liefdesscène van een romantische komedie. Het is goed te luisteren, goed gespeeld en goed gezongen. ****

not kanye

I’m not a fan. Obvs great voice. Not for me.

Nothing special. In one ear and out the other

Swinging lovers?. Frank you old dog

Great album

Nice