Favorites: Teach Your Children, Helpless
Carry on: great “Wah” guitar tone - 0.75
Teach Your Children: perfect folksy/country vibe - 1
Almost Cut My Hair: premise stupid, great guitar - 0.5
Helpless: Guitar seems to sing along with Neil Young. Beautiful. - 1
Woodstock: feels like I’m right there back in the 70’s - 0.75
Deja Vu: intro is annoying. Start to like it at the 1 min mark - 0.5
Our House: Piano coupled with the harmonies is beautiful - 1
4 + 20: Wish it was longer - 1
Country Girl: too much going on, here - 0.25
Everybody I Love You: Epic conclusion - 0.75
Rating - Composite of each individual song score - 7.5/10
Favorites: John Barleycorn (Must Die), I Just Want You to Know
Glad: Effectively conveys the mood it describes, quite jazzy, a bit too long - 0.25
Freedom Rider: Flutes, piano, and sax all make for an interesting jazzy composition - 0.75
Empty Pages: CCR meets soul - 1
I Just Want to Know: really good, wish it was longer - 1
Stranger to Himself: Eagles “desperado” meets soul, guitar kills it - 1
John Barleycorn: very folk rock - 1
Every Mother’s Son: Good, but too long - 0.25
Sittin Here Thinkin’ of My Love: Love the bass guitar in this song - 0.75
Total: 6/8
Favorites: Hounds of Love, Mother Stands for Love
Running up that Hill: interesting synths - 0.75
Hounds of Love: Very fast-paced - 1
The Big Sky: meh - 0.5
Mother Stands for Comfort: i love everything here, from the beat to the synths, to the vocals - 1
Cloudbusting: Violins coupled with vocals makes me feel like I could be flying through the clouds - 1
And Dream of Sheep: meh - 0.5
Under Ice: interesting dark vibe, but still meh - 0.5
Waking the Witch: hearing clips of incessant British voices is very annoying - 0
Watching you Without Me: Very soft and beautiful song - 0.75
Jig of Life: I like the use of the Irish jig for a pop song, but it’s still an Irish jig - 0.5
Hello Earth: Novel and too long - 0.25
The Morning Fog: love the acoustic guitar picking in this song - 0.75
Total: 7.512
Favorites: You Shook Me, Your Time is Gonna Come, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
Good Times Bad Times: needs more cowbell! - 1
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You: acoustic finger-picking is sweet - 1
You Shook Me: Very Bluesy - 1
Dazed and Confused: Really picks up in the second half - 1
Your Time is Gonna Come: wow. The piano/Oregon riff here is really awesome. - 1.25
Black Mountain Side: nice folksy instrumental, almost like a palet cleanser going into the rest of the album - 1
Communication Breakdown: not the most unique, but still totally rocks - 0.75
I Can’t Quit You Baby: more blues - 0.75
How Many More Times: Guitars in this song are pretty beastly - 0.75
Total: 8.5/9
In general, it’s not my thing.
Favorites: This Town, Fading Fast
Favorites:
Freedom: Good beat. Effective use of sound bites. - 1
If You Only Knew: love the flute in this beat. Reminds me of the boondocks theme. - 1
Break: I enjoy everything after the intro. Lots of good flow switches - 0.75
A Day At the Races: average - 0.5
Remember His Name: good transitions between rappers. Solid flow throughout. - 0.75
What’s Golden: Fucking awesome beat - 1.25
Thin Line: Subject-matter hits close to home. Solid hook - 1
After School Special: meh - 0.5
High Fidelity: unique sounds in the best - 0.75
Sum of Us: great flow and switches - 0.75
One of Them: Beat is kind of tedious - 0.25
Hey: meh - 0.5
I am Somebody: good beat - 0.75
Acetate Prophets: pointless for a rap album - 0.25
If this album wasn’t so bloated it could’ve been a lot better.
Total - 9/14
Favorites: For the Turnstiles, Motion Pictures
Walk on: some of the vocals could be better. I like the trumpet/sax bit - 0.75
See the Sky About to Rain: good, but kind of slow - 0.75
Revolution Blues: good - 0.75
For the Turnstiles: very folky - 1
Vampire Blues: cringey lyrics, but good groove - 0.75
On the Beach: guitar solo is solid, but the song kind of drags - 0.5
Motion Pictures: harmonica makes this song - 1
Ambulance Blues: way too long - 0.25
Whole album has a consistent vibe - 0.25
Total: 6/8
Garbage
Favorites: Georgia on My mind
Stardust: decent - 0.5
Georgia on my Mind: Wondeful rendition of a classic - 1
Blue Skies: talk singing - 0
All of Me: like the harmonica - 0.75
Unchained Melody: another good rendition of a classic - 0.75
September Song: too slow for me - 0.5
On the Sunny Side of the Street: one of the better songs on this collection - 0.75
Moonlight in Vermont: meh - 0.5
Don’t get around much Anymore: I like this song, but not when Willie Nelson is singing it - 0.5
Someone to Watch Over me: pretty good - 1
For country music, this is tolerable. However, Willie does a lot of talk-singing throughout this album. If you’re going to cover a bunch of old jazz standards put some fucking effort into them. They’re classics that deserve respect. A lot of the music here is just meh. - -1
Total: 5.25/10
Mediocre at best
