First time really listening to Sinatra, and he has the most amazing voice. Perfect easy listening at a lounge.
I do find the songs are all very similar, in bpm (~65), mood (relaxed but melancholy), theme (pining after love lost), and Sinatra's own timbre, with really only the subtle instrumental ornamentations really providing differentiation. But, it's truly a winning formula.
Highlights: Deep in a dream, Can't we be friends
Talking Heads 77
It's like, really groovy? Nice guitar riffs. Lyrics make no sense. Kitschy songs like Don't Worry about the government is meh
Highlight songs: The book I read, Psycho Killer
I don't know what bluegrass is but this sounds like bluegrass more than it sounds like Rock, but it also sounds like Rock? Blame my poor ear on my lack of rock knowledge.
2nd song is a god song yuck
The uptempo songs are fun, but the downtempo songs aren't my style. I'm not one for lyrics, and the downtempo songs focus on lyrics
Please be with me sounds like an iron and wine song
Let it Grows refrain sounds neat. I'm liking it more than I thought
Highlights: Motherless Children, I Shot the Sheriff, I Can't Hold Out
Don't really have a lot to say, Ella Fitzgerald is a legend, but back to back the songs blend together, especially for a novice like me. So nothing really stands out, but it's so nice to listen to. What to give to listen to her in a speakeasy
It feels sacrilegious to say, but I don’t really like this album. It of course has some timeless bangers. But, I’m not one for lyrics, for me they rarely make a song, and if they’re the only thing going on, it usually loses me. The simple looping guitar riffs and drums, with earnest but rough vocals, doesn’t do it for me.
Highlights: Born in the USA, Dancing in the Dark
Overall, just kinda forgettable. The beats are fine, the flow is fine, but it’s not my thing.
Don't panic and yellow are great, and for coming out in 2000 I think this is great, but there are other albums I like more.
Album started out on a terrible foot with an awful muddy sound on the first two songs, plus a very old fashioned trite sound reminiscent of the beatles. But then wonderwall and don't look back in anger reversed that, with a crisp, well balanced sound, and a slow listenable groove. At the best, they can find that nice groove mixed with energetic rock, like She's Electric. At worst, it's just muddled sound with uninspired melodies and simple lyrics, like Hello or Morning Glory. It should be a 2, but I can't help but love Wonderwall, and all the terrible memes it's created.
Highlights: Wonderwall, Don't Look Back in Anger
Solidly not my kind of music. Simple and repetitive melodies, off tune singing, a perpetual rushing feeling. Maybe in a 1980s dance hall this would hit, but not on my speakers in 2020s.
Highlights: Pump it Up, Little Triggers
Insufferable lyrics, boring melodies that don't change within songs, and barely change between songs. Best I can say is that it's reasonable background music, and music me and my buddies could play at open mic night
Highlights: Lazy days, Pretty Poly
Amazing songs on this album. The contrast between this and boring bluegrass rock can't be more stark. But, why do half the songs sound the same?
Highlights: Apache, Bongolia
Much better when I cut the album down to its 37 minute incarnation. It's a much tighter and more expressive album without the fluff.
Also, the first song was my favorite song on a first listen to the hour long expanded edition, so my taste is good
Highlights: Young Man Blues
Sounds like Joy Division, but in the boring mumbly way. They try to build gothic sonic soundscapes that build and grow and consume, but are usually not successful. Lucretia my Reflection does this the best. It builds and grows into a thumping rock beat. Then dips, before exploding once again, before fading out. It tells a good musical narrative. Versus 1959, nothing to grab on to. Wikipedia tells me this is Gothic Rock/Gothic Punk, which feels very apt.
Highlights: Lucretia my Reflection
not interested
Utterly forgettable
This some industrial noise that I almost like, but those grating unmelodic yelling that I don't understand, pulls it down. This is live music for sure. I really wished I liked it more, but it's random noise more than the complex syncopation and melody I like out of music like this. I do not appreciate the beauty in texture and timbre in discordant instruments like these artists do. Gonna have to give it a 1 cause just I don't know what they're going for, and don't think I'll enjoy the process to figure that out.
