Mediocre at best

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