Reviews (page 8 of 8)
A bit silly.. But a couple songs made me wanna get up and dance.
A nice sound (great voice) but not my jam.
Eh this is way too cheesy for me.
Nice soul. But just ok. The bassist is too showy and distracting for most of the album and only they and Bobby have much soul. “Games” is really good. If this is on this list but I don’t see any Tower of Power anytime soonish, I’m going to send a strongly worded letter to the editor. {prior rated}
Just okay. The souls genre doesn’t sit well with me
Enjoyable soul album. Maybe not something I'd come back to a ton but I'd never complain if it was on. Feels kinda dated.
Nothing very exciting for me here. A couple high points, but it felt like second tier 70s soul adjacent music.
Fine, but pretty cheesy and not really my thing.
Second Listen. Standouts: If You Think You're Lonely Now Others: Just My Imagination, Where Do We Go From Here
Na
1st listen. Seems ok. 2/5
Nice soul. But just ok. The bassist is too showy and distracting for most of the album and only they and Bobby have much soul. “Games” is really good. If this is on this list but I don’t see any Tower of Power anytime soonish, I’m going to send a strongly worded letter to the editor.
Smooth!
Mwha
MBO-neuk-muziek! En die tijd is voorbij.
Veel te gladde soul!
Dit ging eigenlijk volledig aan me voorbij.
Beetje braaf.
I thought I liked Bobby Womack but this didn't do much for me. Pretty standard soul
I can respect the music but it just isn’t for me
Standard 80s soul
Hard to review and album when the whole thing isn’t available.
Dzien po dniu znow sie dzieje funkowego soula cud, tym razem w wykonaniu Bobbiego Womacka, z ktorym takze spotykam sie po raz pierwszy, a widocznie jest to jakas gruba ryba czarnego r&b lat 70-90, bo 28 albumow studyjnych sie nie wydaje, jesli nie jest sie sluchalnym muzykiem, dzisiaj trzynasty, to musialo wylosowac akurat trzynasty album w jego dyskografii, the poet 39 minut to bardzo czarny soulowy material, ktoremu w niektorych trakach niedaleko do r&b zwlaszcza w pierwszej czesci krazka, otwierajacy so many sides of you oparty na synthowo klawiszowym brzmieniu w polaczeniu z precyzyjnym basem perkusjowymi drumami i bongosami, ktore nadaja czarnego klimatu calej kompozycji, no i chorkowanie jak przystalo na r&b, praktycznie przez pol plyty je slychac, sam wokal Womackowy brzmi jak ten ojcow zalozycieli czarnej muzyki popularnej, readdingowych influencji z latwoscia mozna sie doszukiwac, ale najbardziej trafnym okresleniem na ten typ maniery wokalnej jest czarny soul, dobrze zrobiony, ale nie niosacy w sobie nic nowego, podobnie jest jesli chodzi o liryke osluchane juz wielokrtonie milosne rozsterki soulowego artysty, z poety wrzuce na soulowa plejke otwierajacy so many sides of you, jako najmocniejszy lirycznie kawalek i if you think you are lonley now jako podsumowanie drugiej, wolniejszej, strony plyty, trivia tajm pana Womacka powinienem kojarzyc z kolaba z Gorillazami z 2k10 na plastik beachu mial swoj wklad w kawalek stylo
Está incompleto en Spotify, supongo que no me pierdo de nada.
La neta le terminé cambiando... Gracias por participar
I can see why this record is on the list, however I absolutely do not enjoy it. Beautiful voice, good instrumentals, but it's not for me. The "oh girl I love you so much" thing gets very old very quickly for me.
Not bad, but a little boring to me.
I definitely recognized Womack's great voice from his work with Gorillaz on the song "Stylo", so I was interested to hear this album. But though he's a great singer, these songs are mostly not doing anything for me. "Stand Up" is the only exception. Great use of synthesizers, funky rhythm, just a good, danceable song. Everything else just strikes me as relatively generic soul/R&B, and I'm not really a fan of R&B from like the '70s onward. It's not unlistenable, but it doesn't do anything for me.
Not really my thing. It sounds like the incidental music one would hear while watching "The Love Boat". I am sure it is a fantastic album, but it just isn't to my taste. Which is admittedly pretty narrow and bad. This is why I am doing this. To hear new things.
Talented guy but this album did v little for me
Really thought I’d like this more than I did. Just felt a bit like an 80s movie soundtrack.
It's smooth blandness
Fine, probably 2.5
Bad thrift store me music
disco/funk type stuff. Made my foot tap, but I probably wouldn't listen again.
not for me
It’s 80s. It’s fine. But I wouldn’t choose to listen to it. Completely inoffensive.
Obviously Womack's voice is gorgeous, but all the songs on this album are very basic. If someone said to imagine a 1970s soul album, this is what your mind would conjure up. Nothing is surprising or innovative, interesting or exciting. It's all pleasant enough, but it's background sound.
A lot of reviews call this "funky" and I call shenanigans on that. It's BORDERING on funk but stays too solidly in the smooth R&B camp to be funky. And "smooth" is another word for "boring" when applied to music. Boring is exactly what I found this album to be.
All due respect to mr Womack but baby making music doesn’t really do it for me
Again, really not me. I suppose he can sing, but this was really uninspiring. Just can't give a 2.
Lame
Boring
I didn’t enjoy this. I just wanted it to be over. Not for me.
Not for me really.
weibliche tina turner elevator c
Meh
If You Think You're Lonely Now
coked-out r&b can be fun, but this is not!
Urgh.
2/10
None of the songs are really grabbing my attention
Ei tällainen kutumusiikki kyllä koskaan oo oikeen napannut. Ei tarpeeksi melankolista, ollakseen mielenkiintoista, eikä tarpeeksi menevää taustamusiikiksi.
I really wanted The Poet to fire me up, but it left me stranded. Bobby Womack’s voice is smooth, sure - too smooth. The slow grooves and mellow vibes might work for a late-night drive or a whiskey-on-the-couch moment, but not when you're lacing up for the gym. I needed urgency, energy, something to kick me into gear, but this album just sways and simmers without ever boiling over. It’s soulful, yeah, but it felt more like background music than something I could connect with or feel moved by. Respect to Womack, but this one just didn’t hit where I needed it to.
Very very very cheesy. Lots of slap bass
Putting the 'ack' in Womack since 1944.
Meh. Nothing jumped out at me.
Bobby Womack's "The Poet" came after a self-imposed hiatus following the loss of his son and battle with drug addiction. He may not have been ready to attempt a comeback or a big hit. "If You Think You're Lonely Now" was a crowd pleaser and well received critically, but this wasn't a showstopper.
Nothing special here
Not bad music but no bangers - makes it a 1 by default. Reminder as to rubric: 1 - no bangers or truly painful to listen to as an album but maybe 1 banger 2 - 1-3 bangers but the rest of the album is so bad I don't want to listen to it again 3 - Anywhere from 1 to half of the album's worth of bangers and the rest of the album is alright. 4 - High density of bangers necessary - can have one skip. 5 - Not necessarily all bangers but works high density of bangers and works as a cohesive album. No skips. While Bobby Womack here has no skips - there are no bangers. It feels wrong because the music isn't incompetent or anything but there's just no bangers here.
This man is on crack and so is anyone who likes this album. The only halfway decent song is "Stand Up" but it doesn't redeem the others. Way too many boring, slow, tacky, love songs that bring nothing new. I thought this was going to be a lot better based on the cover art. He looks cooler than he actually is. 0.75 which rounds to a 1 for the audacity to call yourself The Poet.
Womack...you SOB. This was not at all poetic or at all good. Cheesy love ballads complete with sparkly harps and sax. A shimmer of hope with the funky tune "Stand Up", every other track was lame muzack barely worthy of a dentist's waiting room. Bobby has a voice but I'm sorry, you can't be a true poet if you reference KFC...0.85 stars.
as much as i tried to enjoy it, this just isnt my sorta music
Not a lot to say about this apart from I hope I get something I really like tomorrow. 1/5 17/12/24
Manages to bring just about everything I despise musically together for this album. We have obnoxious synths, cheesy lyrics, plastic-funk, limited diversity, too smooth and safe. Okay, some of the tracks have lyrics so bad that they're hilarious. But this isn't enough to save this album from the single star I'm awarding it.
Didn’t particularly enjoy this, but there are some solid basslines. Definitely not sure why I had to hear this before dying…sounds like a typical cheesy 80s soul record. A little overproduced, a little over sung. Feel like he occasionally said some stuff that made me do a double take.
Really mid
Crap
Not my jam
The music was good, enjoyable, but the singing was very bad. Ruined it for me.
borderline horrible. eugh.
Another day, another selection from the 990 Albums You Can Happily Go To Your Grave Having Never Heard.
Non entity boring is worse than bad
"Girl, you know how to make my cookie crumble, my cookie crumble When you hold me close and do all the things you do to me Ooh-wee, baby Just like some good old Kentucky Fried Chicken And all of it was good enough to be finger lickin′" Poetry. It rhymes. Sort of. "Secrets" is so bad that it's probably the reason Spotify refuses to play it, just in case users unsubscribe from their premium accounts in protest. And the obnoxious music that's played behind those lyrics is even *worse*. Everything in this song is a dumpster fire. The same goes for "Stand Up", a subpar version of Parliament/Funkadelic shenanigans. It's, like, a "clean" version of them. Which is quite a nonsensical idea. You can feel Womack grabbing at everything at hand around him so as to sell unit shifters. His label must have been pleased. But decades later, I'm not. Conversely, "So Many Sides Of You" and "If You Think You're Lonely Now" are OK. The bass on the first sounded familiar, as did the vocals on the second. Maybe those songs inspired others that i know (or the other way around). Whatever the case may be, the overall mood for those cuts sounded *right*. Unfortunately, you can't say that for the other tracks.The other songs are just boring (except for the two dumpster fires I mentioned earlier, lol). And the production values have not aged very well. Another example of the artistic dead-ends the eighties led so many great musicians to. So next, please. Number of albums left to review: 535 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 224 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 108 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 135
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I like one song, but it’s not really the vibe I’m looking for.
At 39 minutes and 59 seconds, this album is a smidge under 40 minutes. Although I understand why many people love his music, for myself, this was the best thing about this album. Actually I'm lying, I skipped the last couple of tracks.
Quite enjoyed the more funky / energetic Stand Up, but the rest of this early Eighties soul set just wasn't for me. All a bit too polished for my taste. At least this was 'normal' album length at 39 minutes, unlike some of the recent double album endurance tests of late.
Pretty f-ing dire. Not good enough to be soul. Not funky enough to be funk. No standout singles. The kind of music some bloke you're stuck with on a ferry boat for 2 days into.
Naw, man. Just not my thing. There was a bit of funk in there, but straight-up 80s R&B (without any hip-hop) has never intrigued me. Also, Womack seemed a little too-R Kelly in his lifestyle to be anything worth praising.
This is the only album that I've rated but not listened to in it's entirety. Bobby Womack had a fantastic voice, but the music to accompany it on this album is atrocious (at least the first five tracks). Not recommended for a Monday morning listen!
Really not what I needed to see today. Slick, well produced and inoffensive but totally devoid of originality, guts or a cutting edge. I could play this late at night with a bourbon and incense smoking in the corner but Barry White did it so much better. He's not in the top 1001 so this is getting 1*
Huh. I didn't really connect with the album. It's just shy of 40 minutes and I still couldn't resist the urge to keep skipping ahead, looking for something that evoked a sense of how this is one of the 1001 greatest albums. By the time I got to "It You Think You're Lonely Now", I felt like I'd already heard what the album had to offer and my interest was entirely lost.
God dammit, these album all suck dick I HATE THE FUCKING 80S!!!!!
not sure why this made the list...killer guitar on the cover though.
When I saw it was called "The Poet" I sensed bad news. Not for me.
Never again
Not for me!!