Nick Of Time

Dear god. Like a female Bryan adams where a two year old has written the lyrics. Basic not partically good Americana

Dull soft rock. Found it pretty boring.

I went in with low expectations. Not terrible but too close to Shania Twain for me.

Really layering on the cheese for this one. Favorite tracks: “Thing Called Love” and “The Road’s My Middle Name”

Nearly put me to sleep which is pretty bad considering I was driving. A lack of direction and focus really made it suffer.

Eh.

No sir, I don't like it

not for me

Standard 80s album

Did not like this at all

Some famous songs - but generally not my taste

sounds bland

Uninspiring

Not my thing but good

Country style with 80s production,.. to say it ain’t my thing would be an understatement!

Ah the world I was born into. There’s a certain nostalgia for a time when bland-ass sentimentality was embraced, but past that there’s nothing really special about this.

The album cover really tells you everything you need to know here. It's so generic it's almost as if it's done as a parody of what a generic cover would look like of an album of this genre and era would look like, but nope, it's completely unironic. And then the music itself is exactly the same. So generic that it's almost hard to believe it's not done as a parody to mock this style, but yet again, this album is the mockee, not the mocker.

It should have been Reba.Not really, any country after 1979 is ass.

This wasn’t quite Mariah Carey or 50 Cent bad but it was very very bad and I did not need to hear this before I die.

There is something particularly bland and meaningless about Nick of Time. The closer attention I pay Bonnie Raitt’s performance the less it delivers, faring best when I let it fade into the background as a pleasant, unfocused blur. It feels like the quintessential adult contemporary record - a mass market product intended to offend no one and inspire no one. For the right audience it will help pass the time or create the right atmosphere, for me it makes time slow down and bores me to tears.

I really disliked it

Not my cup of tea at all. Not into country especially not the more modern style. I'm sure this is popular in America, it's not for me though.

Her tenth album. Pop / Soft Rock. This is so dour and downbeat. The album is slow and boring, the vocals are boring too. Such a plain and non eventful album.

Well this was 10 minutes i will never have back.

Bonnie Raitt? More like Bonnie WRONG!! Alright after a few songs I'm once again changing her name, this time to Boring Wrong. I think it actually takes quite a bit of... the opposite of talent, to create music this boring and generic. In a better world, this album would have been forgotten a couple years after release. I don't think I've ever experienced an album being so bland that it faded into background noise and I completely forgot I was listening to it. Impressive. You might think I'm joking but i genuinely don't remember anything from somewhere around halfway through the album to the last song lmao.

Just bad.

Insanely, painfully boring watered-down blues for people who don't like the blues. One of the worst albums on the 1001 list and a mystery for the ages as to why in was included. Avoid at all costs.

Bonnie Raitt might be the epitome of receptionist rock. There is not a single interesting choice made on this entire album. I felt a wave of depression wash over me as soon as that synth line in Nick of Time kicked in and the aftereffects have lasted like 3 days. What's the point of living in the same world as this song.

NOT A FAN That weird blend of country rock that I already didnt like, but with an 80s spin

My brain can't fathom this one being a must listen. I appreciate the broad genre coverage, but it's just so God damn dull. I love Bonnie's voice, but the music does absolutely nothing for me.

I agree that this belongs on the list but boy is this an enormous swing and a miss for me

I didn’t think this was going to be that bad, but my god the entire thing is just so so boring. There is not a single worthwhile second on this album

Just no.

I'm sorry, sweet Bonnie (I haven't googled her so maybe she isn't sweet at all), but this is dross :(((( It's watered down Stevie Nicks not even to squash level, more of a tincture level of that kind of music. Not for me, but I'm certain there's some mums who eat this up.

PAS MON GENRE

Nah

So glad the album is over and I never have to listen to it again

Not for me

Absolute mid. Below mid. Like Lionel Ritchie song rejections picked up on the lounge floor. Production bland and nothing interesting in any of the arrangements. The singing is ok and that's about it.

po senti uma certa preguiça imensa escutando esse daqui é ruim

Good production quality, and its commercial success presumably means that everyone in the US had to listen to it in bars and on the radio for an extended period of time. That doesn't make it essential listening. 1 - shouldn't be on this list

🤮 The soundtrack to Menopause

Unremarkable, not very memorable. Only the second song stood out a bit to me, the rest is just unrecognisable background music. 1/5

"Are you ready for a thing called love?" This is as 1980s American Adult Contemporary as it gets. Don Was-produced, of course. All the usual 80s programmed percussion, cheap-but-soothing-sounding electronic piano sounds, bass lines, and so on are here. And as such, it's not as bad as I expected. But. It's still not something I want to actually listen to. At all.

its looks like she digging in her belly button on the cover. thats the most interesting thing about this album. feels about as inspired as stock music, how tf did this make the list? better question: how tf did this win album of the year in 1989? must've been a slow ass year for music, cuz holy fuck this is bland

Honky-tonk-tastic. Far too polished for me. All very professional but too formulaic for me.

I just really hate this kind of music. Nothing against her.

Complete shite

Fuck that

Department store music with some bouncy bass lines. And some country tracks interspersed.

Saccharine 80s pop with uninspired 80s country rock. Has not aged well. Why is this on the list? Like a lot of other commenters have said, this feels like the most generic or even AI-generated music possible. Like Obscurest Vinyl but not fun or enjoyable. I was going to give this 2 stars but it really wore me down. One star for this space-wasting entry.

Insipid - you can hear the influence on Shania Twain - it’s obviously an influential album - but minutes later I’d forgotten every track.

Not my thing

0.64

Sometimes you should judge a book (or album) by it's cover, because this was shit.

1. time -1 2. thing - 1 3. letter - 1 4. Cry -1 5. Man -1 6. Girl - 1.5 7. Heart -1 8. Soon - 2 9. Denied - 1 10. Break - 1.5 11. Name - 2

Pretty dire this, started off as sort of Shania twainy country pop and then meandered into even more generic schmaltz. The entire album sounded phoned in, wasn't a single part where it sounded like the aim was to make interesting music. Wall to wall offensive blandness. Possibly the least essential album we've had given how uninteresting it all is, a real waste of time

Extremely dull, nearly fell asleep at the wheel listening to this. Had to stop. Not sure what makes this essential listening. It's pleasant enough, but nothing interesting 1.5

This is “easy listening” country-pop. It’s neither good pop, nor good country. It’s just inoffensive, forgettable schlock. I don’t understand its appearance on this list, or the accolades this album earned. Was pop music in 1989 that bleak? How did this win album of the year when it had to compete with Full Moon Fever and The Raw & the Cooked (also - Disintegration and Doolittle weren’t even nominated??)

I cannot

Well, if you’re looking for some boring 80s adult contemporary singer/songwriter music, then here you go. This album is guaranteed to age you at least 10 years just by listening to it. I honestly don’t know how this one ended up on a top album list. It’s slow, polished, and just doesn’t do much for me at all.

American problem, nothing to do with me. The album peaked at number 52 and the best-performing single, the title track, reached number 82. She just means nothing over here, and deservedly so. The title track is my favourite, as it's generic adult contemporary, like a Richard Marx album track, as opposed to tedious blues rawk with harmonica solos and shit 80s production.

Day 75 Gave it a chance but not one ill return to 2/10 Highlights Love Letter Nobody’s Girl

1,3/5

This Americana album is like a painted fence around an empty yard—polished musicianship and expressive vocals shine, but the arrangements and lyrics (about love and heartbreak) lean on stereotypical tropes, feeling hollow, and unambitious.

Meh

Meh.

This was not very good at all.

Took us 40 albums to get one from a woman and I was very disappointed. Bland. Not for me.

1.5/5

Eleven lightweight genre exercises intended to touch all the bases without going so far as to make a statement in any given one of them. Made to *sound* good without any effort to *be* good.

incredibly boring and uninspired not worth your time at all 2/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: Nobody's Girl

Hissmusik Generisk countryskräp, 0/5

Urrgh, this was a tough listen. It drips in 80's cringe and shallowness. Its neither pop nor country and its very very bland She has a nice voice and nicer hair but this is one i did not need to listen to before i died.

Não sei o que um álbum destes faz aqui. Um disco inútil e dispensável, e ainda com aquela sonoridade pasteurizada dos anos 1980. Brega até!

Bonnie Raitt? Bonnie Shaitt more like

not a huge fan

Proto-Shania Twain, I was hoping not to hate this and I but it's a fine line and between love and hate and this album crosses it for me. I might be way off here but I feel like it's a last desperate attempt for mainstream success by an otherwise credible musician and it just sounds of it's time in the worst possible way. I might go back and listen to some of her earlier albums because I hope that they're less moulded with sales figures in mind. I just checked and before this album she never sold more than 500,000 copies of a single album and this shifted over 5 million so I guess it paid off.

While I can’t think of any circumstance where I would actively want to listen to this, it wasn’t as terrible as I expected. Easy listening country-rock with 80s synths and cheesy looks ? Absolutely not my idea of fun, but I’ll admit it’s a honest effort from a honest artist. That alone puts her above some of the hacks I’ve come across here. Let’s say it’s a 1,5*. I don’t really undersand why she's on this list, though. Sounds like she’d be more at home with "1001 Albums For Truckers Driving Route 66".

Started out ok but went downhill fast. Just simple, both in music arrangement and lyrics.

Ugh.

I respect her and her voice is great, but this is just not music for me. So, so boring

Today’s listen was Nick of Time by Bonnie Raitt—an artist and album I had never come across before. Unfortunately, this one really didn’t land for me. Overall, I found the album to be a rough example of dated '80s production. The sound felt overly polished in a way that stripped the emotion from the songs, and I struggled to connect with it. Real Man stood out—but for all the wrong reasons. Honestly, it might be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. I really did give the album a fair shot, but it just wasn’t for me. Favourite track: I couldn’t pick one—I didn’t enjoy any of them enough. Least favourite track: Real Man Album artwork: Very much of its time—classic ’80s aesthetic.

Gear: Sennheiser MOMENTUM TW 4 Artwork: 👩‍🦰🏅😬 Production: 🙄🤔🤷 Music: 👢🧼💩 Rating: ️🐮/5

Not my cup of tea 😔

nope

You know what, I'll just simply call the boring ones boring, instead of bothering to write whole reviews for them. Would I revisit this: no.

This kind of came and went, listened the whole way through and now it’s the next morning I can’t think of anything exciting about the album. Had never heard Bonnie Raitt before, and whilst I liked her voice, nothing stood out

God it's so funny isn't it, I'm like 'how on earth is anyone rating this 5*', but the very people rating this album 5* are probably the same people rating my fave albums 1* thinking the same about those. It's almost as if music is subjective

no idea how i got through this it is legitimately awful

0/10

Sorry Ms Raitt but this was shit

Strong dislike.

No. When you play this album and your streaming service follows up with Into the Mystic by Van Morrison and Carey by Joni Mitchell, it helps put this poor showing into even starker perspective.

Throwing in the towel after three tracks. Dull, dated, bland. I just can’t do this today.

Quoth Wiki: "In 2022, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry for being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'." They must have been on glue - this is cack from start to finish.

Wow it's Bonnie. If her earlier stuff isn't on this list I'm gonna be upset, but I guess I need to open my heart up to this 10th studio album by Bonnie Raitt. The title track isn't knocking my socks off so I don't know what that says for the rest of the album. I know I like a lot of Bonnie songs but we need to focus in on this specific album. Thing Called Love >> (HUGE GAP) >> I Will Not Be Denied > Real Man > Cry On My Shoulder > Love Letter > Have A Heart > The Road's My Middle Name > Nick of Time > Nobody's Girl > Too Soon To Tell > I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again Why does Nick Of Time have so many more plays than Thing Called Love? Spotify is so weird sometimes. Thing Called Love is the lead single and the shining star of the album but Nick of Time has like 18 million more streams for some reason??? Silly. Anyways this album is fine but it's all just buffer around "Thing Called Love" everything else is really aggressively mid. Capitol records peeled off their A-team songwriters for one song and C-team or even D-team on everything else. Oh a lot of these are covers I guess, including Thing Called Love, okay. Weird choices. Wow the OG John Hiatt version of Thing Called Love is crazy haha. "I ain't no porcupine, take off the kid gloves" haha what a great lyric. BUT ONE SONG DOES NOT A WHOLE ALBUM MAKE. In honor of Dave Geis I will not even rate this equal to The Clash debut. It's a high 1, because it has one major banger, but it is a 1.

Country, nope

Awful. Songs fall into 2 categories: boring or corny. Slow songs were boring and “up tempo” songs were corny af. Top 1001 album my ass!

That’s gonna be a nah for me, dawg. I don’t know what it sounded like when it came out, but it certainly didn’t hold up over time.

Pop blues/country is my least favorite genre

Au secours. Well this UK-US view centered list is getting on my nerves. Where is Axelle Red ?!

I just don’t get what’s supposed to be so special about this album. It’s like being stuck in a Tennessee steakhouse listening to the house band. Sure, there are a few glimmers of greatness (very few), but the country vibe and that ultra-slick ‘80s production are like a brick wall for me. And don’t even get me started on that lady’s haircut.

Oh no.... I was transported to a middle age Cat Lady's kitchen as Touched By an Angel plays in the background. I keep waiting for a Gospel choir to sneak up behind me to transport me to a world that this vibe is the only thing that will permeate my brain. I can already see the fade transitions as different smiling faces transcend over someone riding a bike on an east coast beach. IT is at the same time disconcerting and comforting all at the same time. I don't know what to feel anymore. other than 1. should have been deleted after 1989

I've farted more original and interesting sounds.

I dont remember a single song

Well, if you’re looking for some boring 80s adult contemporary singer/songwriter music, then here you go. This album is guaranteed to age you at least 10 years just by listening to it. I honestly don’t know how this one ended up on a top album list. It’s slow, polished, and just doesn’t do much for me at all.

Stop giving me country albums - great voice awful music … just really not my thing

Shania Twain't

There's not much to save from this album. This is pretty standard/boring pop rock from the 80s (which does not really improve it).

80's with some country and blues, nothing really stood out

Not for me.

Ooh. I'm not going to like this. Late 80s country slash soft rock. Let's start with a positive. What a lovely voice. The first track is perfectly listenable. Then the first second of the second track contains everything I feared. Man! I feel like a woman who doesn't want to be listening to this. Actually, that should be my one sentence review. But then where would I put all my other ramblings. Plus it's not as bad as Dire Straits, or Ryan Adams. But it nearly is. Also, I'm not a woman.

This was definitely an album that was hard to get through for me. Each song sunk to new lows, ones I would have hitherto thought impossible to reach. A putrid mixture of country and pop, terrible lyrics, nasty slide guitar, and crappy 80s synth. This is music for people who like line dancing. It doesn't even deserve a single star, but I need to click to rate it and move on with my life.

Never heard of hear, will never hear this again.

Boring and shit

I like country that feels like country. This has not aged well.

Didn't do nothing to me,

Schmaltzy country music, as bad as it sounds.

Not the kind of country / blues I enjoy, that's for sure.

I don't understand why this is here. This sounds like the album that Phineas and Ferb's Mom released during her one-hit wonder phase

This album was 2650 days ahead of its time. Meaning that this album sounds like the entire thing was produced in the Super Mario 64 Soundfont. I get this is here because it was popular, but to my modern ears it sounds like shit.

Ich weiss nicht, was begründet, diese Platte auf diese Liste zu setzen. Mir scheint es sehr austauschbare und nicht bleibende Musik zu sein.

Ew. No.

Maybe I don't like music after all

This list is going to kill me.

"Nick Of Time" more like "Waste Of Time". This challenge is just like the Grammy Awards, a total joke.

Sério, não percebi nada para consegui dar uma nota, assim uma estrela pela voz dela.

Not really my type of music

Is this the American Dream? 😵

Beige

I looked at the album cover and instantly knew what to expect. In that regard I wasn't disappointed, in every other I was very disappointed. Country tinged blues rock that was softer than talc, polished to a level where it would have put Fleetwood Cack to shame. What's not to like? Nearly everything, I didn't mind the bass rumbling on in the foreground on occasion, apart from that its pure dross, the type of which the Yanks are exceptional at churning out. My take away from the lyrics was that she likes men who smack her around and treat her bad. Not a good role model for the modern woman. It should be 0 stars.

Oh my, that is some peak 80s fashion on the cover. But this music is not for me, very bland.

Nicht meins!

First 2 songs were good, rest was absolute pish.

If the Tesco Meal Deal combination of ham sandwich, ready salted crisps and water was an album, it would be this. Bland as hell

So boring.

I actually really like this. It's a good one. But it's not a 2.

nah…

Did not listen

1 - It's blues, so I'm bound to not like it, and like it I do not. It feels very of its time in an aggravating way. What an annoying album.

Really bad

Man miss me with this boring bullshit

Country ...

Why is there so much country on this list? Why is this album, the most generic thing imaginable, on this list? Why am I even bothering to write a review when this was unlistenable? 1

Meh, not a fan.

No thank you this was country

Well that just wasted all of our time.

one-star raitting

Nope. Never liked her music, never will. Over-raitted.

There’s nothing wrong with it, I just hated listening. Also the drummer screws up the fill at 2:55 on I Will Not Be Denied.

Right from the start this album brings back memories of a darker time. When Thing Called Love came on, I threw up a little.

Judging by the album cover, the year and the fact I've never even heard of her, I'm guessing this might be country. It thankfully doesn't start out being country. It starts out being obnoxiously 80s. It does go on to become country, which is unfortunate. A few hard skips in there, but it finishes up with an actually decent blues track, and Tidal algorithmed onto her singing with John Lee Hooker which is always a bonus. That said, I will literally never listen to this album again.and asides from one fairly decent blues song, there's nothing of merit here for me.

Meh, shite 80s country-pop. Not for me

The 80's have been a bit of a musical blind spot for me before starting this project. Fortunately, I was able to discover some splendid, ear-opening post-punk and new wave from the decade. Unfortunately, I've also gotten the occasional soulless, drab, cliched snoozefest albums, like Nick of Time. Imagine going to your favorite pasta restaurant, bringing home a take out container of their specialty - fettuccine alfredo, then washing off all the sauce, and eating just the plain noodles, with but a slight hint remaining of what was once a rich, creamy sauce. On this album that's exactly what Bonnie does to country music, and on one song - reggae. One plate of cold pasta out five. 🍝

totaaaal niet mijn ding sorry Sommige liedjes wel grappig maybe maar nu dat ik er zo over terugdenk kan ik me echt geen enkel nummer meer bedenken

I'm not a country fan, and this just sounded to me like generic 80s middle of the road country fare

Very pedestrian. Plays it so safe that moms around the world rejoiced. But for me, it's so bland, it makes laundry detergent look exciting. Blah.

Pretty awful stuff. I'm in need of severe ear cleansing now.

Sometimes the 80s were great. Sadly, this was dirge.

Hmm is this country?? I don't country much. Okay good, Google says she's "an American blues singer and guitarist." Lets give it a listen. Well it def has the 80s synth sounds here and there. Sounds country to me, but tolerable. It was nice. Probably not something I'd revisit. But I didn't hate it. 2 stars

Aburrido

Shite

like Stevie nicks off wish.

Raitt shit

Make it stop. Please.

Terrible

Oh wow, the artwork screams of 80s clichés! Curious what'll happen when she pushes the button on her belly. I don't recall hearing Bonnie Raitt before, she seems a good Country singer, with a fine head of hair, but this album wasn't for me.

Kind of ballady country-rock/pop

I don't have anything nice to say about this. It's the lowest common denominator of music, country or otherwise. It's music for people who don't have any of their own thoughts in their heads. I'm mad I had to listen to the whole thing.

I didn't enjoy any of this

This was terrible. It sounded like a house band for an 80's hotel bar. Not one good song.

Not my cup of tea

Extremely boring album. I didn't find one song that I liked and I really struggled to finish listening to this. Bonnie Raitt doesn't have a bad voice and the instrumentals are not bad but somehow all together it feels bland. It's pop country and not enjoyable

Nope

Absolute dross

This is too over-produced for me. I listened to her 1971 release, and while the production was better, the song-writing was still lacking.

Wasn't into it

Pensioen-pop. Gatverdamme!

It's not for me.

don't mind a bit of country, but not this kind

This is an over generous score.

Bonnie Raitt is an American blues singer, guitarist, songwriter... Eso dice la Wikipedia y si uno se queda con solo la visión de este disco sería algo terrible. No se si es por el punto que mencionan que fue su décimo disco que era un pseudoregreso después de haber tenido muchos problemas pero es lamentable esta situación. El album se siente totalmente sin caracter, suena a "tengo que hacer música de moda" a más no poder... se sonido de teclado ochentero tipo casio para niño de primaria en el setting "ocarina," todo el arreglo del disco con las peores partes de los vicios de la época, la música suena plástica, sosa y apagada, el bajo totalmente artificial; se siente como una mujer completamente fuera de su elemento y creo que no hay mejor expresión que la cara que pone en la portada para expresar mi sentir de todo el disco. De todo el disco a final de cuentas solo dos canciones son escritas por ella, la primera, que es el sencillo famoso y en mi opinión la peor canción del disco, y la última que muestra un atisbo ligero de que aquí hay mucho talento pero perdido no se en dónde. Disco triste, con unas pequeñas ventanas de canciones tipo blues rock pero bajadas de tono y otras totalmente siguiendo la moda (que incluso para 89-90 ya se siente obsoleto el estilo en mi opinión) al grado que solo les falta una trapper keeper para intentar verse relevantes. En verdad no entiendo cómo es que este disco es tan aclamado. Mucho menos entiendo este disco cuando voy y veo la OTRA música que tiene Bonnie Raitt... De verdad ruego vean este video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHATfTpLre4&ab_channel=Bonnie%27sPrideandJoy y comparen el talento y la energía de esta mujer, casi treinta años después de este disco... a los 67 años de edad y ver la calidad de su música y su talento y compararlo con lo que ofrece en este disco... es de verdad incomprensible para mí.

Nunca había escuchado de Bonnie, ni alguna de las canciones de este disco. Su historia personal es interesante, pero el disco se me hizo X. Ni siquiera me dieron ganas de terminar de escucharlo...

o lordy crikey o'reilly

no point of listening

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