Nick Of Time

Fun, finally a woman after a long time.

Production is way too soft. This should be hard edged blues, not semi-pop. This just sounds like Shania Twain. Very disappointing - Bonnie Raitt can play mean blues, but this ain't it.

Ta bien supongo.

Alegre pero no me ha parecido diferente

il y a de très jolies chansons mais aussi de grosses influences COUNTRY et si ça continue il faudra que ça cesse

This album is very much of its time, but taken on its own, it's quite good. Bonnie Raitt is an exceptional guitarist, but her playing is fairly polished and restrained on these songs. The arrangements are pleasant and musically tight, with Raitt incorporating a really strong supporting group of musicians. But the focal point is really Raitt's gorgeous, silky vocals. The songwriting is strong, although Raitt is only credited as writer on 3 of the songs. A little bit of grit would have improved this album immensely, but it's still a solid listen. Fave Songs: Thing Called Love, I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again, Nick of Time, Too Soon to Tell, Have a Heart, Nobody's Girl, The Road's My Middle Name

There were a few songs I knew. Not a bad album

Bonnie Raitt has a beautiful voice but her music doesn't really draw me. Still a solid album.

Have a heart has a nice melody. And yes, she's hot!

Liked the first track!

Bland and slick. Don’t need to hear much more of this. I prefer my country with a bit more passion.

Nice 80s

OK. The 80s production hasn't aged well (was it a digital recording? Can't find out, but it sounds like it has that sort of early digital cold cleanness), though I can understand why it wound up being a hit for her at that time after some pretty bleak years.

Wow there is a lot of acclaim for this album. I like Bonnie Rait and I like this album, but if this won album of the year, it must have been a slow year. It sounds like a C&W album to me but when I read the definition of Americana, the genre assigned by Wiki, I think that shoe fits better.

Faux reggae, easy blues, power ballads, big hair. Like a time machine to the mid-80s.

I didn't realize Bonnie Raitt had released so many records previously, as this is her tenth album, but I knew this her comeback album. Easy to listen to and so many familiar songs I had forgotten about, though kind of generic at the same time. Enjoyable enough, I'll probably listen to more from Bonnie in the near future.

Beautiful voice and a couple of big tunes but ultimately nothing special

Klinkt echt als iets uit een ander tijdperk. Desalniettemin sympathiek en rustgevend.

Such a weird album cover! It's so difficult to tell what you're even looking at, it seems like her belt(?) is coming out of the picture, and also that it's a gourd or something. And like...why is she doing that with her hand?! What's her face supposed to convey? It's basically the Mona Lisa. Anyway, the actual album was okay, though it went a little too long. A true 3/5. I liked it better than I thought I would...but I was also so utterly and wholly charmed by Dennis Quaid's bizarre character that my judgment is very clouded.

Easy listening, sounds very much of its time.

Well, it wasn't terrible. There were some fun guitar sounds. Some songs were bad (Real Man) and some were okay. Maybe it's because I left to take a class and came back, but it seemed like the last song in the album took a swift turn in a different direction sound-wise. Seemed out of place.

Late 80s mainstream rock. Competent, but not really my thing. 2.5/5.

It grew on me, I did not like the title track but it closes with better instrumentation and music overall

Ok album, sounds a little dated now.

On one hand, I'm gonna be nice to this album, because it's one of my mom's favorites and I grew up on Ms. Bonnie Raitt. On another hand, this is the same time of corporate blues-rock that Clapton was putting out in the mid-eighties. It's boring, somewhat uninspired. Bonnie is a fantastic guitarist, and this record doesn't really do much to showcase it. Still, it gets a bonus, for my mom. Favorite tracks: "Nick of Time", "Cry On My Shoulder"

This is the album that introduced me to Bonnie Raitt. I have heard 4 of the 11 tracks from Nick of Time many times in the past. This album is fine, but I think I prefer to hear more of Raitt's music that has a stronger connection to the blues. Some of these tracks feel firmly rooted in the 80s. This is no surprise, but makes it harder for me to want to take a second listen to the album.

Perfectly played. But with a smidgeon too much of that everything-in-exactly-the-right-place ingredient.

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Nick of Time, Love Letter, Too Soon To Tell Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: I personally don't like this album very much because it's not my genre, but *TAKE INBOUND* I think a lot of people on here who don't like this album would've liked it if it was the exact same album except by Bennie Raitt and for that I'm rounding this 2.5 up.

Good one

Very much "mom music", but I still enjoyed it. One recognized song

Overschat album. Doet me weinig. Zal zeker kwaliteit hebben maar te gladjes….

Easy listening album, great vocals, gets a 3.

Some songs were familiar. It is a blues/rock album. It was alright.

I was super uninspired to listen to this album today, but I was surprised by how many songs I knew off of here. It's all fine, but I have no real idea why it's on this list. This seems like a fairly traditional white boy blues album with the only twist being that the white boy in this case is a woman. It's like putting a Kenny G album on this list. The best compliment that I give to an album shouldn't be that it's inoffensive 3/5

Beautiful voice: clear and open then with that sexy, bluesy rasp that could be described as smoky. Love it. The songs are either set up to showcase her voice as pop power ballads or blues rock n rollers (my preference). I knew Bonnie in the late 80s as a blues guitarist guesting with Clapton, BB King, John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy. Surprised to hear her straight pop voice.

Way mellower than I had expected. But damn what a voice.

3/5 nice, but not enough

more like 3.5

Ho hum. Not really attention grabbing

Decidedly, Not. For. Me. Look, I get it. I get why folks dig her thing, but I just...don't. Each song evokes a 90s sitcom intro. Did she have one of her songs used for a sitcom theme song? She must have, right? Personally? A 2 for me. Understanding her overall role in the greater aspect of music? A 3? Sure. A 3.

The penultimate song was my favorite. Overall, very white bread. 6/10

Bonnie Raitt is pretty great. Excellent, gritty voice, good songs, well produced. Not something I would listen to often, but enjoyable when I do. 3 stars.

Solid. Great album. Haven't heard it in years.

Great voice. Good songwriting. But not a masterpiece... (5/10) FT: A Thing Called Love, Nick Of Time

Poppy county blues. Pretty solid for what it is. Stronger vocally and lyrically than musically though. Pretty consistent and enjoyable throughout save for a couple of the twangier songs. The familiar Have a Heart and the title track are the standouts. Easy to listen to though and a nice change of pace, even if it's not something that I'd normally seek out.

3, it's fine. Not my jam normally but an enjoyable dip into an unfamiliar style.

Strong 3 stars. Not a bad listen. Her voice is good, and the chords have a little more color than I was expecting from this style

I'm aware OF Bonnie Raitt but can't say I've ever heard her stuff before. Ok yeah, just soft country rock type stuff, nothing mind-blowing but still foot-tappable in places. No real staying power, though - can kinda see why no one remembers it today. 3/5.

Yeah it’s ok.

Buen disco de voz senior femenina con ciertos toques de blues y country. Sin muchos alardes, se deja escuchar, aunque te deja un poco indiferente

Not bad, but a little bit folky for me

Good singing. Raitt is often praised for her vocal interpretation, and I agree with that.

Why did I always just assume Bonnie Raitt was a straight up Country singer? This album is way more Blues than Country, though.

Bedre end jeg troede men ik så godt

Actually enjoyed this quite a bit. Nothing to compare it to though. Couple catchy songs.

Alright Bonnie, you go on with your bad self. Some nice 80s ballads in here. I prefer the bluesier tracks on the second half of the album, as the acoustic guitar tracks

Soft rock is fine

Interesting country songs

Good record. Second single my favorite

Some ok sections, reminds me of Mario 64. Not too exciting overall

Truly was dreading this but to say I was pleasantly surprised. I'm not above some good "mom rock" and this is a solid album top to bottom.

I thought I did not know this artist. But I know the song 'Have A Heart' from Bonnie Raitt. I like this song a lot. Found a good live version as well. This songs was still pressent in my memories. The live version sound more to how I remeber it, a little bit more raw. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cf3lbnz5sw)

Kinda sounds like Fleetwood Mac, just not as iconic. More folk-country

I love Bonnie but this album sounds very, very much like a stereotypical country/blues album in the 80’s. The guitar didn’t seem to be on fire.

Actually ended up liking this more than I thought I would

no.

This was ok. It felt very of its time, and that sound gets muddy for me to hear if this set the tone or stage for 90s adult contemporary or was just following along. Its a fine album, but it didn't pull me in like I hoped it would.

Not peak Raitt if you ask me. I mean, everybody loves a love song, but with this much 80s sheen? I’ve got several all timers released in the 80s, but this is not one of them. It’s fine, and smooth enough where it can be played early in the day, but not what I’ll be reaching for regularly. She would go on to have bigger hits (Let’s Give ‘Em Something To Talk About) and her early career has higher highs (Her self titled debut and the album Streetlights are worth a listen.)

Not sure what merited this to be included on the list

Don’t know what to say honestly. A bit generic. Nothing caught my attention

Pfff un poco chapa

Combines the worst of country, pop and bar rock, polished to corporate perfection. The foundation of such horrible things as Shania Twain.

This album was everything I dislike about middle of the road 80s commercial albums. I don't hate this, in the same way I hated Private Dancer, but it is relentlessly bland.

I love Bonnie Raitt. That being said, this album has not aged well. Ironically, when it was recorded, she said this was a stripped-down / back to her roots album, but the production on this sounds so slick, and so late 80's, it's distracting. The songs for the most part are ok. "Thing Called Love" is a great song. But when this album gets slow, it gets really rough. I give Bonnie a 5, but this album is a 2.

2.5 - ok

This was too clean and didn't capture me at all. I could imagine clipped parts of songs in scenes on TV and movies in the 80s but overall fades to incidental music for me. Low 2.

She has a good voice and an impressive head of hair! The music lacks an identity as it meanders through blues, country, soft rock and reggae.

High 2 for me, her greatest crime is being boring, but the arrangements and compositions are nice enough and create some worthwhile moments

Aside from the slide guitar, this album just feels uninspired. It’s hard to translate blues to recording and keep it feeling energetic. This album didn’t accomplish that.

I've heard of her but not sure I've ever heard her music. This is what I imagine plays when you enter a bar in a small town in the middle of nowhere in the States. Which is to say it's ok as background music but I can't imagine intentionally putting it on. It had some ok songs but the closer it got to the end the more boring, slow and repetitive it got 2/5

Bonnie's doing a bluesy adult contemporary thing here and it doesn't speak to me.

Some shit I’d hear on the shitty soft rock radio station playing at the orthodontist office when I was 13

I'm a little let down after that very lovely first song! This 2 feels harsher than it should, but while I had a pretty enjoyable time with the album, none of it's very remarkable. In in one ear and out the other, it's Default Music. Sorry Bonnie! Standouts: Nick Of Time • Too Soon To Tell • I Will Not Be Denied

#158/1001 🇺🇸 Wasn't a big fan of this, horrid synthetic 80's production with bluesy country sound. Better than the Abba album that i got yesterday, but only just. Best Tracks: Nobody's Girl

It’s some old school country from the 80s

Meinas mennä parikin työpäivän alotusta pilalle näiden ameriikan musiikkien takia

Perus jenkkimeno, ei lähe.

Parin biisin jälkeen huomio kiinnittyi siihen, että tuotanto on kyl ruuvattu huippuunsa. Kiinnostuksesta lähdin sitten tutkimaan, että kukas tässä on ollut puikoissa, niin kyseiselle tuottajalle oli tästä rämmi-palkinto saatu kaivettua. Varmaan ihan ansaittuakin, kun on nippelit kohdillaan. Tämmöstä monelta osin hempeetä ja sitten osin puoliROUHEETA tavaraa. Levyllinen on vähän liikaa, mutta ei nyt täysin tuomita ja annetaan bonusta siitä, että aikalaissaundi on ainakin läpsytelty maksimeihin.

Vähän, tai aika paljon, liian kasaria omaan makuun. Muutama biisi oli kuin suoraan huonosta kasarin romcomista. Ihan kamala syntetisaattori useammassakin kappaleessa. Laulajan äänestä pidin kuitenkin, sensuelli!

Completely reasonable blues, but it gave me some weird flashbacks to family parties.. hmm.. I think it might be a bit too honkie tonk for me.. On a better day I might give this 3. Well..

all skips except for title track

I don't mean to alarm anybody, but is this.. kind of alright? Yes, there is a slowed down reggae song, which probably sheared a star off of this,. Yes, there is a white guy doing background ad libs saying "Girl" in his best funky Huey Lewis voice. Yes, I am now ANSWERING questions nobody is asking, rather than asking questions nobody can answer. You have to consider the fact that perhaps she is a wraith from a cursed marsh, and her name was changed by immigration officers, who are famously in cahoots with ancient spectres. So I better respect this woman, lest my body be dragged into the briny depths, and my consciousness vomited forth in a protoplasmic vessel, cursed to roam this mortal plane as a nomadic spirit, wailing for past I scarcely remember. For a record that I am scared to rate poorly, (and truthfully; wasn't that bad) I am pleased to say this isn't a zero. Toll the bells! Fill the chalices! REJOICE! 2.5 HIGHLIGHTS: You only go around this ol' blue marble once.

Inoffensive to a fault. Pretty much just washed over me aside from two songs. Can you believe this won Album of the Year at the grammy's in 1990? Must've been a slow period. Highlights-Love Letter and I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again.

Never really been dying to listen to Bonnie Raitt's music, but I guess Nick of Time is one of the albums on the 1001 albums to hear before you die list so I guess I'll get around to it. I can't even lie this album did have some solid bangers at times like with the Real Man, Nick of Time, and Thing Called Love, but then this album really devolved into very basic Country Pop. Bonnie Raitt doesn't even have that crazy of a voice or sound and feels extremely safe all things considered. I don't think Nick of Time is bad album by any means, but it is exceptionally safe for the most part and the risks are by far the shining moments here. I wish I had more to say but I feel the music really speaks for itself and it doesn't say a whole lot. I guess it is decent but far from essential hearing before you die.

Bonnie Raitt is a good singer but her music is not very exciting. I guess if you were a fan in your youth you'll like it but in any other case not much

I'm struggling with this hybrid of country and soft-rock. The better moments are when it gets little bluesier, but even then, the whole thing feels far too polished!

Yep, this takes me back to the 80's, and not in a good way. No question she has an amazing voice, but the soft rock combined with 80's pop production has not aged well at all.

Just not feeling it. feels like its a rock album that wants to be a country album.

Meh. Bonnie is a legend, not afraid to say she had good music. But the 80's stuff is washed out and so lackluster. Some charm and cool sounds. Like the harmonica and the bloozey boogie on later tracks. But the 80s stuff is mostly junk. Sorry Bon, I know you got good tunes and a ton of clout from the Laurel Canyon days. But this is a dud.

Not the biggest fan of folk sounds! Some songs were very beautiful tho, love heartbreak topics

the piano tunes kind of save this cheesy mess

Timeless, in the sense that it would be bland whatever decade it was played in.

2/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/bonnie-raitt/nick-of-time/ Booooooooring.

Fairly banal 80s soft rock with a small twang of country. Not the most inspiring but not the worst assault on my ears either.

I can feel it when I type. I have no personality. Everything I've done is just a ripoff from somebody else. I can hear it in my head whenever I say anything, I'm just parroting something I've heard or have been told before. It's aggravating. Any speck of self-examination I try to do is shot down by my own brain. I don't know how to fix this. I don't know if therapy has been helping me. I feel like an idiot. I don't know how to do anything. I can read numbers, but I can't read people, or figure out how to accomplish simple tasks. I often embarrass myself. I'm not cut out for my job, I'm not cut out for a relationship, I don't even feel really qualified for existence. I often feel like I may actually take my own life after this 1,001 album journey is over. I don't want to, I definitely don't want to die, but I feel like I have to. My brain doesn't work. I don't know how to fix it. This album isn't helping. Every song felt like its own individual kind of nothingness. Her vocal chops are great, and I guess she's versatile. But why are so many of these songs covers? The best songs, the beginning and the end, were the only songs across the entire album that she wrote. I wish she had done that more often.

This is really not my wheelhouse. It was OK.

Just alright

kinda unbearably 80s

This is epically late 80s. Being a woman then was like armoring up with neon, Aqua Net, and shoulder pads, only to realize you were even more empowered and invisible.

horrible american folk country or whatever with some small moments of light shining through the clouds. not enough for a 3, unfortunately... what a waste of this voice.

Just didn’t need to finish this at all. Generous 2. RYM: N Saved a song: N

Not quite a waste of time but not far off.

ANOTHER 80s album with a great female vocalist that gets undermined by mediocre lyrics and an over-reliance on synths? What are the odds? (sarcasm)

This album starts off really well but falls off big time. It becomes repetitive and also just boring. Bonnie has an amazing voice though. I just fall asleep halfway through any of her albums. Sorry Bonnie. Fun fact I saw her live in a small venue in Roanoke VA last year.

kinda boring sorry bonnie

It is missing something…some kind of wow factor or hook

one too many 80s albums in a row. i'm starting to get sick

Groan. Get me Lucinda Williams, stat.

Tolerable but not my genre.

After the wacky, experimental, and distorted sounds of the Residents, I get an 80s easy listening pop album. I don't know if it will be good, but I do know that it won't be nearly as interesting as yesterday's album. In fact, it isn't very interesting at all. It's insanely safe sonically, so safe that you wonder why it's even on the list. The vocals and underlying songs are decent enough pop, but it's incredibly disposable. This album was made to get play on top 40 radio for a couple months and then be forgotten about, and it is very much a relic of its time. In just three years, grunge would explode and kill this dated slop in the mainstream. So yeah, this is not an essential album. The Wikipedia entry says that critics were falling over themselves to praise it, and I genuinely wonder why-until I remember that those same critics love U2(who I can't stand). It is literally music for people who hate engaging and interesting music, and that makes it-nuclear level take incoming- worse than the Residents album that sits proudly in the bottom 3 albums. In short, Bonnie Raitt sucks and I'm not going to listen to anyone who says otherwise.

One of my earliest memories of “hey, women can be rock stars too” - distinct from a Madonna, Janet, or Cyndi who felt distinctly in the pop performer guise - but like an actual guitar hero. Of course at the time this seemed like vh1 adult contemporary fare and feels more or less the same today. Very slick, maybe something in the same orbit as Fleetwood, but very blues rock forward. Not the first time I expect I’ll make this observation, but it’s wild how much older late 30s/40 seemed in 1989 and *still* does. Raitt was making observations about aging and the preciousness of time...when she was 39. I’m in my late 40s in the mid-20s and have only just recently arrived at that phase. But man, Raitt seemed sooooo much older back then. Anyhow, lovely song, rest of the record...shrugs.

Great music for a bad but entertaining early 90’s action comedy.

muzyka typu przyjeżdża ciocia i daje w prezencie pokrowiec na karty kredytowe

Americana, rock, blues rock.

Solid 88s hair but a bit boring

Tedious MOR waffle

was kind of bored. 2.5.

This is just a typical country pop / americana from the 80s. Very mediocre music, not offensive and perhaps even good lyrics wise, but it'a just really not my kind of music.

I just didn't enjoy this sorry Bonnie

Working in a record shop just out of school, I occasionally had to hear this on shifts with an older co-worker. She was probably less than 10 years older but she seemed ancient at the time lol. Her taste for this probably contributed my perception of her age. Now I’m older let’s see if I get it now…. Nah. It’s not an age thing, well not for me anyway. I’m sure Bonnie Raitt has done things to earn the respect she has (she seems very good at guitar for example and I’m sure she’s very nice) but this is album is MOR slop, bland beyond bland. I’m cool ignoring things I don’t like but I've experienced fans of this kind of thing telling me it is “REAL” music, with the implication that, while music is my life, I listen to a lot of “crazy shit”. I know music is a subjective, but most music I like is objectively better than this album.

This must've been special when it came out, bc it surely isn't now.

2.75/5

I’ve never heard of Bonnie “Road” Raitt before today. A lot of the songs on “Nick of Time” are quite bluesy, with a bit of a country vibe to things. Songs like “Thing Called Love”, “Love Letter”, “Real Man” and “The Road’s My Middle Name” are decent enough blues tunes. But that’s it. It’s grand and bland. Her voice is good, but there’s nothing here to suggest it’s an album you must hear before you die. More like a CD you’d find for sale in a petrol station in rural Ireland.

No thanks!! Why is this here!! Just basic 80s rock, a big dud!!

Bonnie Raitt is one of only 4 women to have rejected the advances of Len Houmous. Reports suggested that this album was all about her narrow escape. 2.4 1/11 Nick Of Time

If it wasn't for doing this project, I would have never listened to this album and I'll never listen to it again. I wonder what sort of people like this album.

I guess anything can just win album of the year

A couple fun songs but overall it was kinda boring.

This is the most bland, vanilla album that I've ever listened to. It's not actually bad, but it's not actually good.

i did not like this album. it felt boring and forgettable. there’s lots of talent on this album and sonically, it’s pretty decent. there’s just nothing special about it to me. idk if i’m missing something.

This is boring. That pretendy pop rock that somehow fails at being either. It sounds like Shania Twain before she was a thing, but with that horrible keyboard organ sound you hear on karaoke tracks. Not that she's terrible at singing or anything, but this feels like churned out bollocks from the late 80s.

I’ve always appreciated Bonnie Raitt, at least the times when she shows up to jam with Roy Orbison. This is to say that, beyond the couple hits she’s had that I genuinely like and that one time she played with Roy Orbison, I don’t have any real experience with a Bonnie Raitt record. But she’s seemed like someone I should get into, I guess? She always has a guitar slung over her shoulder on her album covers, indicating she has some guitar chops, and there’s a slight bit of gravel in her voice, making me think she’s got a bit of the “rode hard and put away wet” vibe that I usually think works well for some lady artists. Turns out that Bonnie Raitt only works for me as a concept, and one that I guess I’d largely invented for myself. The reality is that—at least for Nick of Time—I don’t know that I’ve heard many records that are so milquetoast as this one. For someone with alleged guitar chops, she’s pretty shy about expressing them on this record. The songs are pretty paint-by-numbers soft rock love songs, but without many obvious hooks. And every song could be made better without the garbage synthesizers. The lyrics are uninspired and rote. The production feels the exact opposite of road-worn and gritty. None of the work here is probably objectively terrible, but it’s so lukewarm that I can’t understand why anyone paid attention to it in the first place. This record has no balls. No risks taken here. I don’t feel any real passion here, or any real joy. “If I Can’t Make You Love Me” is badass, but unfortunately, it’s not on this record. 4/10

Bonnie can play and the song tunes are fine but the 80s production really gets at me. I did not notice this when the album first came out but I guess I was swimming in that milieu. Two days ago I had a Muddy Waters album live from Newport and you can tell the difference between straightforward blues and over-engineered stuff. I do like Don Was but I don't think this album works.

I do not get it. I started listening and it seemed entirely unremarkable, so I figured that it may be included for some kind of impact or historical importance (though I don't know what I was expecting from an archetypal 80s pop record). Turns out this album is just very popular, loved and critically valued. I can accept I'm wrong but I just don't see anything at all special. Seems like very ordinary stuff to me

Boring

Couple of decent songs on here but most of it was really bland.

This is the most unappealingly 80s album I've listened to thus far

Tenth studio album. A commercial breakthrough after years of personal and professional struggles. Idk man. If this is what commercial breakthrough sounds like I don't even want to know what the other albums were like

You couldve told me i had listened to this five times before and i wouldnt even question it

Late 80s country is probably the most boring genre of all for me. The production and songwriting always sounds so uninspired, repetitive, and sterile. It is so clean and thin, that is sounds so manufactured, and has no heart, so it feels inauthentic and just made to sell. This album is no different. Songwriters penning songs in their rooms, sent to session musicians to play in a recording studio, and a talented singer to sing over top of it all. I'll give it a 2 just because her voice is very very good.

This was solid, but nothing really stood out to me beyond Raitt's vocals. She has a great voice! Songs were a little uninteresting to me, though. Not a bad record just not my vibe today, I think.

- Another disappointment on this list: from the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Centre: "Given our alignment and shared vision on environmental and justice issues over the years, we were shocked and disappointed to receive a message from a member of your team with the Guacamole Fund stating that we are not allowed to share any information or messaging to acknowledge our hope for a Free Palestine at your concert." - I was hoping for music from a strong, independent woman, but it was another one singing about centring men (on every. single. song.), with shitty lyrics. But, she does have a nice voice. - Dated synths (on the first track, especially) and sound (in general). Other than the first song, it's just basic country with a little good guitar playing of boring riffs, some okay bass, and some shmaltsy piano. Basically, I found the instrumentation pretty unremarkable. - It's pretty inoffensive/adult contemporary, overall, but there are a couple of hits on here with nice melodies - like "Have a Heart" and the opener. - I guess it's a 1.5? - What is with her, like, fingering her belt on the album cover? I do like that "B" "R" styling, though - really satisfies my inner child trying to come up with her signature, lol.

Nothing groundbreaking, avant garde or experimental, just very sincere.

Normally I don't mind 80s production aesthetics (in fact, I rather enjoy them), but this album was just so bland. It felt like a parody generated album made to resemble the time. Nothing about this told me anything about Bonnie Raitt as a person, what her style is (or more of a lack thereof).

fik ikke hørt færdigt, men det var ikke lige umiddelbart noget for mig (2.5)

I would not be upset if everything about this album stayed in the 80's. It is seemingly stuck there, refusing to move on even though the rest of the world was moving on without it.

80's-90's pop country. Very blah. Nothing interesting. No stand-out songs. Pitchfork: 7.5 Rolling Stone: Top 500 Albums #492

Very much of its time. Has a lot of the 80s sounds. But it's a very generic album, easy listening, but very forgettable.

This has its moments (the bluesier bits), but mostly its yawn-inducing country-tinged rock. 2.0/5.0: Disappointing

Inte för mig.

Some goods songs but overall feels dated

I really recognize Bonnie Raitt's value as a songwriter, I think she's underrated (outside of the USA). But personally, country-blues bores me out of my mind. And the reggae hints are not for me. Nick of Time is a great song, though.

Man, that first song is quite good. I hope the rest is just as inspiring. The rest: ZzzzZzzzZzzzzZzzzz (4/10, 2/5 on this scale)

Good voice, bad production, bland songs, trite lyrics. Sounds like the soundtrack to a forgotten 1980s made-for-TV biopic. Surely 1988 had more to offer than this. Sorry Bonnie.

Lame. Really didn’t like this. Sappy, cheesy, unimaginative. I know Raitt can sing. And Have a Heart is an enduring tune. But that’s not enough to salvage this.

Rich voice, over various beats including country/folk and also more jazzy sounds. Some up-beat (hopp-hopp-hopp) type music and than also some drawn out in-the-feels kinda music.

This album didn’t deliver, it gave me nothing. Meh. I gave it 2/5 because of the the few pretty nice but kind of mid guitar solos

Ok, men kommer nok ikke til at høre det igen.

It’s a nice listen, but it’s just so boring. I just can’t see myself ever going back to this, or thinking about it much ever again. Best Track: Nick Of Time

This feels a bit beige: earnest lyrics, tidy production, and not a single moment that really grabs you. Perfectly pleasant. Utterly forgettable.

I'm sure she's really nice but sorry not music I could ever warm up to.

This is album 1089 for me. Last one of the challenge. It's not a very good one. This album would have benefited from a more traditional production. Her voice is not the issue. Some of the songs are potentially pretty good. It's not the worst case of tight '80s production, but it's bad enough to squeeze all the life out of the music. It doesn’t sound like a band that’s used to playing this style together, more like some random pros doing what they’re told. Especially the drums. Favorite song: cry on my shoulder

Schnulzenpop

heartbreak, comeback, and standing tall alone, with another man.

Great musicianship, good production, average songs.

I like Bonnie's voice but these songs are pretty bland. Favorite song: Nick of Time

Not my thing, music and her voice were good but the uninspired lyrics that you've heard a million times brought it down.

All and all a pleasent listening experience. Would listen to while relaxing and chattin with friends. Best song was either Nick of Time or I Will Not Be Denied.

One surprisingly good soft rock track (Nick of Time), a few unsurprisingly boring blues ones, and the worst of it combines the two, or just goes into incredibly slow ballad mode. Thing Called Love is a surprsingly new wave sounding uptempo blues track.

Bit too country for me.

No denying her talent, but not for me.

Over-produced. The songs would have benefitted more if they were raw. Sure, she has a half decent voice. But it's also too AOL and MOR for me. No ta.

This is forgettable I ended up playing it twice to come up with a review. Still can’t remember anything about it. So bland.

Not into this at all.

Alright rock but didn't really stand out in any way to me

Después del túnel musical oscuro que me tocó, esto es una luz que puede ser algo....dije, puede.

Bland and tepid. This is one I could have died happy without ever hearing. The title track's lyrics imply urgency, but the music, with its repetitive funky beat, does not.

Yeah it was ok

Favorite track(s): proof that depression and addiction and bankruptcy can't turn an okay songwriter into a good songwriter

One of the most milquetoast country you'll find around. Didn't know what it was so it ended up being everything and nothing at the same time. 4/10

The first track was surprisingly good, but the rest dissolved into generic 80's radio-friendly pop-rock.

This record is painful. She’s made much better music than this laminated, mall-ready late-’80s pop. “Cry on My Shoulder” was a second away from getting the "gong".

Mostly a record of radio friendly adult/contempo pablum. Raitt does have a great voice and she can play. Which makes this record a shame.

This isn’t for me at all.

Wasn’t the worst thing I’ve heard so far, but will I ever seek this out to listen to again? No!

From the opening bars this feels like overproduced eighties guff. It may have been released at the end of that decade but there is no doubting what decade it came from. Thing like love just sounded like Shania Twain (albeit this obviously came before her Mutt Lang era). So much i went scurrying to check that this wasn’t also produced by Mutt Lang, the fact it was however produced by Don Was is equally unsurprising. Nobody’s girl and The Road’s my middle name are as close to a highlight ss you get. If you like cliched eighties music you might like this, if not, avoid!

Bonnie Raitt undoubtedly has a lovely voice. Aside from that, I can’t find anything special about this album. Some tracks sound very of their time, such as the opener, and most of it is your typical country-rock affair.

I got to this late, due to a trip, so came back to it while stood up on a packed train. I would like to think this didn't affect my marking too badly, but I did not find this album interesting. At all. She has a nice voice but the tunes are dull. I am not mad at it, but I genuinely don't understand why this is one of the 1001 Albums you should listen to before you die. Following my self imposed "just being dull can't get you 1/5" marking system means this is a 2 (but should have been a 1.5 in a better scoring system). 2/5

This album was jarring from how it went from one of the softest, most beautiful opening album tracks to then one of the cheesiest. She has a great voice and the album is overall a good singer songwriter record. It's a weird blend of classic country style singer songwriter and at times some weird 80's pop/synth choices. Overall it's good.

I can't tell if I'm getting numb to new music or if were rolling dud albums. Not for me really. Any time the instrumentals would pick up, the lyrics would put me off - eg. Real Man. Favorite Song: Too Soon To Tell

this probably hits hard if you are a southern mom

Just not my thing, American line dancing country rock. No thank you.

Tough to get through. All sounds the same, drums never change across the album. 80s slow country pop, ugh.

Listened twice as the first time I didn't really pay attention. Music that doesn't grab you . Dentist waiting room stuff. Wikipedia tells me it was enormous at the time, a "professional breakthrough", but I'm not sure it holds up. Not terrible, but not at all memorable nor engaging.

For a country record, this album really ping pongs back and forth between country and R&B style pop. The opener is pretty great, but once ot gets beyond that its a lot of standard country or 80's style pop rock similar to Huey Lewis. But overall, not really enjoying it. Not much that I haven't heard before.

Every album is also a kind of family tree. And few will feature as bonnie a collection as Bonnie Raitt’s. The video alone for “Thing Called Love” exists as a sort of handsome who’s who (as well as neatly describing the transition between 80s and 90s mainstream America). The song, a first ever cougar anthem(?), puts in its immediate sites the perma-grinning Dennis Quaid, whose 1989 appearance on the set of Raitt’s breakthrough would’ve lined up with soon-to-be wife Meg Ryan’s own appearance on the set of When Harry Met Sally. (You might imagine that what happens when we combine Bonnie Raitt and When Harry Met Sally. For me, and deliciously given the surname, you get one of the later 90s biggest phenomenons: Shania Twain.) The overwhelming feeling I get from this record – given its lyrical themes, the sense of serendipity about its success, the influence it had, the aforementioned briefly sketched family tree – is one of being the witness to something with an awesome kind of valency. Something that was absolutely “in the nick of time” in a way that I’d doubt even Bonnie herself can believe. Perhaps one day I’ll get around to a deep exploration of the family tree, the extent to which the 90s was Bonnie Raitt’s creation. Or maybe I’ll just preoccupy myself with another giggle at the incredible silliness of a song called “The Road’s My Middle Name”. It’s possible to do both, of course. Polyvalent Bonnie strikes again.

Not for me

In a certain type of Hollywood film (often when the sophisticated city type(s) are dragged into The Real America through all sorts of mis-haps, think Thelma and Louise or Something Wild) there’s a windowless bar with a neon sign in the window and some pick up trucks in front. It’s hot, damn hot, Paris, Texas hot. Our heroes, as their battered sub-compact Toyota gives up the ghost, open the doors and peer through the gloom. They’re there to meet the one shady person who has the mcguffin it’s all about. They walk up to the bar nervously in their ruined city clothes and several men in hats and plaid shirts/sherpa jackets turn round from their stools. ‘A-a-a-beer please. Two actually’. In the corner of this bar even though it’s mid-afternoon is a small stage on which a band is churning out generic blues rock. Hey - Hollywood moves with the times right - it’s fronted by a woman. Nick of Time or Have A Heart over the closing credits.

Every single one of these sounds like a soundtrack to all those rom coms in the 80s

Will not remember this album.

I actually like country a fair bit, but when it’s combined with 1980s tinkly synths I’m pretty turned off.

You couldn’t escape this in the late 80’s. I cringed then and do now.

Nothing wrong with individual songs but a complete lack of cohesion leads to total tonal whiplash. Not an album but a collection.

The first three tracks may have a little bit of attitude, but after that, it becomes an incredibly generic blues/rock/pop album. Neither the clear production nor her good singing can save this album from getting slow and derivative with all the ballad it has.

Never been a big fan of Don Was' production style. His work behind the board was integral to the soulless, smoothed-out, cocaine-eared (it was a thing, look it up), and formulaic music that practically printed its own money in the Eighties. Ms. Raitt has certainly made better music, but she never made as much cash.

Dentist office music

Ok 2/5

Was dreading listening to this one...but ultimately it was better than I expected. 2/5

"Cry On My Shoulder" and "Real Man" were the two standouts on this album. The rest is pleasant but not memorable. Most of it sounds like background music for some late 80s coming of age movie. It is what it is.

Blues-thereal vibes

Resident Sleeeeeper. 1989 album with the vibes of 1982. This can’t be all that noteworthy if it’s just replaying the same old formula

It would be hard to imagine an album I'd be less interested in listening to. Not interesting enough to get a 1, but absolutely nothing justifies this being included on a list of 10000 albums, let alone 1000.

This was not enjoyable

No offense, like at all, but what the fucking hell is this fucking bullshit? I’m just kidding this is totally fine, very inoffensive music. Didn’t much move me and that’s ok, not everything has to get some strong reaction out of us, come on! Peace and love guys! Bosh

i dont exactly get it,,,,,,, kinda the most generic and boring shit of all time ?

Waste Of Time. You’d have to be Bonnie Raitt-arsed to start considering this hokey, ho hum, heavily dated 80s Americana offering as essential listening.

Very dated, annoyingly ballady and overall dull

Pucha Bonnie, me da lata ponerte mala nota porque eres de las pocas mujeres en este grupo, pero qué se le va a hacer, si la onda country no me gusta. Cantas bonito pero eso del country 80ero no va conmigo. Saludos cordiales, que se mejore. Album 100 (voy a empezar a anotar esto porque a medida que avanzo en la lista está cambiando mi criterio y he estado odiando cada vez más esta lista, y porque no lo he estado escuchando necesariamente en el orden que me han salido los discos)

schön bluesig, der Sound ist mir aber zu dünn

# Album Name: Nick Of Time # Artist: Bonnie Raitt # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Wow, what an absolute snooze fest. Boring AF. # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? No

Track one was ok. I really like the groove on track 2. Track three is ok. This album sounds like a victim of the production values of the time. Had they made other sound choices I might be enjoying this more. But so far tracks one and three sound dated. Track four sounds like they pulled it from a karate kid movie. It’s over the top 80s synth sounds. Ok. This album just sounds dated. Everything sounds electronic and over processed. “Nobody’s girl” sounds great and is a good song. This sounds like real people playing real instruments. “The roads my middle name” is a good closer.

This isn't my taste. It's not bad. It just sounds like wallpaper to me. BR is a great singer though. I think of all the albums in years past were that everywhere and this was one of them. We don't seem to have that as much now. Adele and Taylor Swift seem to be the only ones

This is a bit of a weird mishmash of 80s stuff, I was getting a bit of Sledgehammer in Love Letter. I normally have a fondness for very 80s sounding music, but here it feels like a pure distillation of that sound and production, it's almost bordering on parody. That chime keys immediately comes to mind, that's a hallmark of 80s pop I also wondered why this was labeled Americana during the title track but Thing Called Love slapped me across the face I think her singing is pretty good, but this is just a pretty plain listen overall. It's fine but I won't be rushing back to listen to it again 2.5 Highlights: Nick of Time, I suppose

Respect. Not for me. A bit cheesy movie soundtrack from a rom com.

Its quite well produced, and she's a good singer but the songs are just so bland that they do nearly nothing for me. Nothing really else to say, at least she's not got a horribly croaky voice or something. Favourite songs: have a heart. Overall around 4/10

Okay, this is an inclusion that I just do not understand whatsoever. It's pretty standard fare country music from the late '80s... is Bonnie Raitt particularly influential or special or innovative in any way? No? That's what I thought.

1.6 1x

Hey, have a fart.

Safe, bland, boring. Not worth my time.

Hmmm... Moja napoved je country ali pa power ballads? Hiter pregled naslovov komadov daje isti vajb. (Wiki prav Americana, kar je kinda country.) Ok, gremo. U, kul začetek. Zmer je fino, k se album začne dobr. Fajn upbeat ritem. Ampak "Nick Of Time" mi še zmer ne zacementira v katermu žanru se gibljemo. Časovno je ful očitno, da se bližamo devetdesetim. U ja, fade out za zaključek komada. Uu, ok, country I guess. "Thing Called Love" je že bolj twangy. Še zmer kul sicer. Všeč mi je besedilo "I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves". So far all bangers. Ženska ma hud glas. Evo jo balado! Mislm ja, naslov je "Cry On My Shoulder". "Real Man' bi bil idejno komot inspiracija za Shanio Twain in njen "That Don't Impress Me Much". Al pa je to na splošno nek motiv v country komadih, ki jih pojejo ženske? "Have A Heart" mi je mal znan? Še ena balada... Na splošno nism tok ljubitelj balad. "I Will Not Be Denied" je kul. Tak mal, girl power komad, kar pa odobravam. Ena lepa heartbreak balada in za zaključek spet mal bolj poskočen country komad. Čist soliden album za poslušat, ampak ne pa neki h čemer se bom vračala.

Overall, this an odd album. The blend of ’80s-style production and country/blues elements just doesn’t really do it for me. While she is clearly talented, the sound here is a little mismatched.

This was the album of the year in 88???

Meh

Man the 80s were BLEAK. This sold 5 millions copies? No wonder people liked grunge after putting up with this

Oh man this album was everywhere for a minute. It was especially on all the adult contemporary stations our parents would listen to. It was country for people that didn't own pickup trucks. It's not a terrible album, she has a nice voice and the songs are put together well. The music is decent, it's just kinda dull. It also doesn't seem to pretend to be anything else though too. Some albums have a song that gives you hope the next song will build and become better. This album holds the line of relax and get through the day. You can have a beer or glass of wine when you get home. Then do it all over again. This album is the lamest parts of adulthood.

No... She's good at what she's doing, but not a fit for me personally.

This feels disrespectful but Bonnie Raitt just sounds to me like the best version of a local act at a club.

2.4 The title was a burner. Rest of the album sounded like how a soap opera looks, with a soft filter over the picture. Dont really think Bonnie's chops shone through on this

#DÍA 32: 1001 Discos Que Hay Que Escuchar Antes De Morir (English Translation Below) Con este álbum empiezo un nuevo cuaderno de tomar apuntes, todo un logro ser tan consistente en algo para mí. Aunque no lo abro de un modo especialmente llamativo, pues este álbum de Bonnie Raitt la verdad que no es nada del otro mundo. Un LP que en su día fue bastante galardonado en los grammys y en general, pero que no le termino de ver nada especial. Sin duda a nivel vocal Bonnie es muy talentosa, muy buen rango y un rasgo áspero que la hace más que apta para el Rock. Por otro lado el personal es bastante amplio y adornan bastante las canciones, pero no llega a tener demasiada esencia. El entrante es una de las dos canciones que sí son escritas por la artista principal, algo que me gusta poco en un proyecto supuestamente solista, pero bueno lo paso si al menos el contenido es de calidad y el rendimiento de la cantante se siente genuino. Este primer tema es bastante sólido, con un groove potente guiado por un bajo que suena fantástico. Thing Called Love es otra canción de Pop Rock buena dentro del álbum, con un estribillo pegadizo y una letra ingeniosa y divertida, por esas menciones al Príncipe Encantador o a la Reina de Saba. La actitud de Bonnie sigue siendo sugestiva y enérgica en Love Letter o Real Man. Sin embargo, el contenido lírico flojea en muchos puntos por ser demasiado genérico, como Cry On My Shoulder o I Ain’t Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again. Por otro lado los temas dejan de ser pegadizos o de tener algo de interés, se vuelven más una vibe y aburren cuando les prestas demasiada atención. Finalmente la canción de cierre es la otra escrita por la cantante, y se siente algo más genuina, con un ritmo Country divertido, pero tampoco tiene un impacto del otro mundo. Es un comeback decente, la verdad que el álbum salió sonando bastante bien pese a los problemas que tuvo Bonnie Raitt, tanto personales como para encontrar una forma de financiar un proyecto nuevo. Aún así, a mí no me llega demasiado, aunque creo que es interesante escuchar algo que triunfaba tanto en la crítica por entonces. Favoritas: Nick of Time, Thing Called Love, Love Letter, Real Man Menos favorita: I Ain’t Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again #DAY 32: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die With this album I’m starting a new notebook for taking notes—a real achievement for me to be this consistent with something. Though I’m not opening it with anything particularly striking, since this Bonnie Raitt album honestly isn’t anything out of the ordinary. An LP that back in the day was highly awarded at the Grammys and more generally, but I don’t really find anything special in it. No doubt, vocally Bonnie is very talented, with a great range and a rough edge that makes her more than fit for Rock. On the other hand, the supporting personnel is quite large and they do dress up the songs a fair bit, but it never really manages to have much essence. The opener is one of only two songs actually written by the main artist—something I tend not to like in a supposedly solo project—but I’ll let it slide if at least the content is of quality and the singer’s performance feels genuine. This first track is pretty solid, with a strong groove driven by a fantastic sounding bassline. Thing Called Love is another good Pop Rock track on the album, with a catchy chorus and clever, fun lyrics, with those mentions of Prince Charming and the Queen of Sheba. Bonnie’s attitude remains suggestive and energetic in Love Letter and Real Man. However, the lyrical content falters in many spots for being too generic, like Cry On My Shoulder or I Ain’t Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again. Beyond that, some tracks stop being catchy or interesting—they turn more into a “vibe” and become boring if you pay them too much attention. Finally, the closing song, the other one written by Bonnie, feels a bit more genuine, with a fun Country rhythm, though it still doesn’t have much impact. It’s a decent comeback—the album actually ended up sounding quite good despite the struggles Bonnie Raitt faced, both personal and in finding a way to finance a new project. Even so, it doesn’t do much for me, though I do think it’s interesting to hear something that was so critically celebrated at the time. Favorites: Nick of Time, Thing Called Love, Love Letter, Real Man Least favorite: I Ain’t Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again

Kinda boring

A nice voice a fine style, just not really my thing

Wow, this list doesn't know how to handle American country music. It feels like you are asking someone who doesn't like the genre from 1995 to list their favorites. Bonnie Raitt. KD Lang. Dwight Yoakam. And NOTHING from the past 30 years, when country music has exploded in the States. This album felt incredibly '90s, like Raitt was being hirednto write theme songs for feel-good family sitcoms. My favorite tracks were the ones that didn't.

Lame

Speaking of dated.

She might be Bonnie, but she’s fucking boring

I think this might be AI generated

Listened Before? N Listen, I had a crush on Bonnie Raitt when I was like... 11. Mainly the red hair and cleavage. Anywho... this record was truly a snooze fest. All soft synth and sleepy lyrics. I'm sure it's someone's cup of tea, just not mine. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Nick of Time

it's too much "easy listening radio music" for me.

This was Ok. Very safe and middle of the road. Have no desire to listen again or seek out further Bonnie Raitt albums!

Ah, 80's country. Some synth, electric piano, but definitely country. Title track "Nick of Time" was definitely the standout for me. The whole album had me tapping my foot. Some easy listening! Favorites: - Nick of Time

Never heard this before but it's such a 'nothing' album that I can't believe it made it onto this list. It isn't horrendous is the only nice thing I can really say.

Artiste inconnue. Cet album mélange plusieurs styles. Certains morceaux sont un peu plus rock (Thing Called Love) ou blues et passent un peu mieux que les autres. Mais globalement l'album ne présente vraiment rien d'original. Pas de seconde écoute pour moi. =>2/5

This went right through me. Just, nothing.

i really only knew Raitt from angel from montegomery so i didn’t even know she released more full band electric stuff like this. i don’t think it’s very good unfortunately

As far as country is concerned. I didn’t want to jam a fork in my ears. So that is at least a win for the genre itself. It was so boring though.

🥱😴

Just plain boring :/

I don't know if it's fair to say this album is bad - she has a great voice. But at the end of the day her blend of 80's pop and country is just not a sound I like.

Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: Love Letter So listen. I was not looking forward to hearing this, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. Is this an objectively bad album? Not by my own standards and certainly not based on how many Grammys it won, including album of the year! Is the instrumentation good? Yes. It's diverse; there's blues, R&B, (what I consider) country, rock and pop found on all the tracks. A good spread. The backing band, whoever they may be, put their work in. Especially in Love Letter, which I could imagine hearing on Shakedown Street by the Grateful Dead. Are the vocals good? Yes. Bonnie can sing and she does it well. So where does that leave me? Well, I don't particularly care for this. It's just not my style. I will probably never listen to this again and I certainly won't go out of my way to put it on. I will not add it to my library. I will not play it for company when they come over. That puts it in solid 3 territory for me. Objectively, probably a 4 Subjectively, a 2

Tough one. The early tracks with 80s synth were not a good choice. There’s no really memorable single on this album either. That said, I like Bonnie’s voice, and the final track ‘The Road’s My Middle Name’ finally seems to get it right. Chalk this one up to the sins of late 80s production style, I guess.

Not super my cup of tea

I had never heard of her before and did not recognize her voice. And I don't regret it. This mishmash of genres on this record doesn't make it better. It seems that she "borrowed" from other artists who were successful during that time.

I didn't appreciate that '80s-era country also contained peripheral sounds, over-dubbing, and perhaps excessive harmonization at times. Too bad for Bonnie Raitt, whose voice and guitar excellence gets washed out at times.

She has a nice voice, but stereotypical trite lyrics and over-production drag this album down

Did not tell me much

ok i guess. very 80s 2/5

I mean...it was ok...it is just so vanilla. Kinda like a female John Mayer. Just meh! Not sure how this record sold so much but I guess some people just dont need music to move them.

I’m genuinely not sure how this album hit number one on the billboard charts, it is one of the most soulless boring soft pop rock albums I’ve ever heard.

Talented for sure. Not my style. Boring.

3/10 Top 3 tracks: 1. Real Man 2. I Ain’t Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again 3. Nobody’s Girl

I respect Bonnie Raitt as an artist, but this does nothing for me.

Finished the album, and I still haven't worked out who Nick is. In fact, I listened through all the songs twice: once while half-asleep in the car, and then later with all my attention. I liked it significantly more the first time, which is not a good sign. There's so little creativity, so few musical liberties taken, that Nick Of Time comes across as a mostly-lifeless parody of dozens (hundreds?) of albums before it. Even the guitar solos feel half-baked, the synths empty, the vocals tired and without soul. It's not at all unpleasant – otherwise it would receive 1 star – but it just doesn't do much for the ears, brain, heart, or vertebrae. Raitt's singing is strongest on the opening/title track and I can definitely see why it was a moderate hit. I think the bleedy, echoey sound is a big part of this album's downfall, but that's more a fault of 80s production in general than specifically Raitt's music. The compositions also aren't that interesting. I struggle to see many of these songs being sung along to (at least not these versions), though they do seem like covers. The Wikipedia article for Nick Of Time notes that, when asked why Nick of Time sold as well as it did, publicist Joan Myers said: "Bonnie's personality and sincerity just won people's hearts, in addition to her music. There was nothing ever pretentious about her." And sure, I guess I can see that. But that's not what makes good music for me. I look for musical complexity, interesting chords/melodies, a unique sound, and a selection of instruments that create a satisfying texture. Most of those are absent here. Key tracks: Nick Of Time, Have A Heart

Boring, not completely horrendous to listen to ig

Eh.

S'alright, definite influence on artists like Sheryl Crow

Adult oriented blues-rock is not really my thing. But I'll tell you whose it is: my mom's. And mom was a big fan of Bonnie Raitt. I grew up begrudgingly listening to a lot of this in the car when I was a kid. Although this record was familiar, I didn't really personally nor aesthetically connect with anything but "The Road's My Middle Name." I wish the album with the cut "I Can't Make You Love Me" was suggested instead because that song is some seriously solid work. All the same, what I did connect with is this: driving around in my mom's car that I recently inherited from her, listening to one of her favorite artists, her photo on the dashboard, remembering her. I might have rolled my eyes at a lot of her mom-rock etc. when I was a kid, but I would give anything to have been in that car listening to Bonnie Raitt with her in the other seat today.

Passerade nästan obemärkt förbi.

Easy to listen and clear vocals. Nothing extraordinary from a soft country album.

Not really my thing. Chill alt country pop from the late 80's/early 90's. Nothing wrong with it, just not my vibe

Nothing super crazy

I definitely wasn't expecting this music when I saw Bonnie Raitt come up. I honestly always thought that she was just another 80s pop star but I was wrong. That said, it's not really my cup of tea and it's kinda generic.

"I'm not a porcupine, take off your kids gloves" is unintentionally hilarious

Good and very much not my thing

Meh. Got nothing out of this one. Cool hairstyle i guess

Erster Song Banger, danach whack

Parfait candidat pour le livre des 1001 albums qui ont tout ce qu'y faut pour tomber dans l'oubli.

Oh my god, this is an 80s album from note 1. Don Henley, Steve Winwood, this album; the 80s triumvirate of dad rock. This was Album of the Year! 80s music is terrible and the fact that this is on the list is insane. This album makes me understand cultural appropriation and why it pisses people off. It feels like there were a lot of singles off this album...maybe they just used songs from the first half of the album. The singles are only ok and the album tracks are universally bad. I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again is the worst song on the album.

Awful boring music and I like Bonnie Rait, generally.

Pretty generic, nothing really stood out to me. Lyrics weren’t great, but she has a good voice.

This is some smooth '80s blues-infused pop that lacks the look and glib attitudes that are easy to latch onto when you want to enjoy the era ironically. If you're going to say that you like Nick of Time by Bonnie Raitt, you're inviting some eye rolls and maybe a few chuckles from scenesters. And here's the reveal: I'm the hipster. I'm sorry. I feel bad about it. This is an earnest record and was much lauded at the time, but it was never my thing, despite its well-crafted material and the quality of her singing. Bonnie's got my respect, but she doesn't have my ear.