Fucking stupid. Seriously. What the fuck.

What a surprising musical journey. Beautiful vocals and grandiose music pieces.

Fantastic!

Almost feels like a parody of international radio. This album is like listening to GTA World Radio where the DJ talks over the entire song with nonsensical hype. I like the world music itself, but I'm not sure how to listen to this. Messes with my ADHD.

Transformative sampling essentially started here and in this time. But it's difficult to go back and listen to, even through rose colored glasses.

Unique blending of jazz and hip hop. Easy to listen to in the background. Beautiful.

David Byrne is a terrible singer. The only redeeming quality I found here is that each song has a clear theme to it, but musically and lyrically. It's a clever sound.

Beautiful

You know that time when Funhaus played as a German boy band? Imagine that boy band were actually an industrial band. The lead singer is Animal from the Muppets. I do not like this album at all and I fail to see how it's important or significant in any way.

What a surprising musical journey. Beautiful vocals and grandiose music pieces.

Modern throwback hip-hop.

This album was fine. It was Sinatra, but it's not the 'sound' that I think of when I think of Frank. In my opinion it feels like Sinatra struggled through the concept of the album.

Origins of the 'indie' sound perhaps? Reminicent of The Beatles.

Not for me. I can't find any significance in this album whatsoever. There's nothing memorable here for me, even in the slightest, and I can't even suggest it's a good album. Perhaps it's just a snapshot of a weird moment and style in musical history.

This is awful. Truly.

Gloriously simple old country.

While this album was likely culturally relevant back in the 60's, it aged terribly. There's hints of Beatles influence but feels like it's just noise created to stand out in a crowd of other anti-war Vietnam songs.

Bowie ain't for me. I recognize the contribution to pop music, but not for me.

Jazz I think? It was all over stylistically.

Perhaps a little too metaphor driven, but a masterpiece nonetheless. I will suggest that it's a pretty standard formula of "angry verse, crunchy guitar, angry verse, witty chorus, squeely guitar, crunchy guitar angry verse, backed with aggressive bass and drum." I love this album, and it defined a genre, even if the formula exhausted itself. Callouts to Orion, Welcome Home, and Battery.

It's easy to see the artists that were influenced by this sound over the years.

Almost feels like a parody of international radio. This album is like listening to GTA World Radio where the DJ talks over the entire song with nonsensical hype. I like the world music itself, but I'm not sure how to listen to this. Messes with my ADHD.

Every song sounds 'the same'.

Fantastic!

Terrible. Just awful.

Antony's vibrato is probably the worst part of this experience. A very beautiful album, but the vocal styling is what ruins it for me.

Love/Hate relationship with this one. So much musical potential then they start screaming and beating on their instruments. Poignant lyrically, with a lot of angst and political strife.

No.

Terrible.

Noise.

Fucking stupid. Seriously. What the fuck.

I'm not high enough for this.

Apparently I like Willie Nelson.

Smooth 90's Nu Jazz.

I needed a good reason to relisten to this album. Then I listened to it and remembered why I hadn't listened to it in so long. Droning loops no longer hold up in modern music, but it's undeniable how influential this album has been on modern day music.

I don't love lo-fi garage recordings, but this was certainly a wild sound.

I used to work in a place that had a classic rock radio station on all day, every day. I didn't realize that most of that radio station's rotation came from this single album. I don't ever want to hear any of these songs ever again.

This was a strange trip. Makes me wonder how they ever found the success they did.

One great song does not equate a great album.

Completely and totally unremarkable and forgettable. Office pop.

Shut up. JFC.

Never heard of this artist. Sounds like a mash up of every other female 80's pop artist. I'm not sure why this is so important for me to hear, but it was fun.

I like some industrial, but this was not great. I remember when this album came out. I didn't get it then, I don't get it now, and I don't understand the cultural relevance, especially in 2022.

Catchy retro-pop with very suggestive lyrics.

I hate Bitter Sweet Symphony. Because I hate that song so much, I never even considered the rest of this album. One song grossly overshadows a fantastic album.

I've never gone out of my way to listen to Deep Purple before. Their songs are recognizable, and jumping straight into a live album would not normally be how I introduce myself to an artist, but this was a treat.

So _this_ is what they play on my local classical/jazz FM station when they make the switch at 6PM. Our family always dubbed it 'noisy jazz'o'clock' and had a laugh. "Blue in Green" is an excellent noir track, but the rest of the album is stereotypical unstructured jazz with complex chords, tones, measures and bars that don't usually sound 'pleasant' while still being technically competant.

https://youtu.be/EftDLxJ0bEo?t=188

Transformative sampling essentially started here and in this time. But it's difficult to go back and listen to, even through rose colored glasses.

Entertaining strange trip.

Kevin Rowland is the worst part of this album.

Yo, I'm here for this. *vibes*

I feel like I need to hear a justification as to why this album is an album I needed to hear before I died. It's 'fine'. It reminds me of early mornings. But after listening twice, I don't feel like this is Frank's best work.

Groundbreaking for the time, but doesn't hold up in 2023 in my opinion. The composition is solid, but feels primarily like music written for a stage play of yesteryear. I'm over the lead vocalist.

A perfect album. I've never liked the singles off this album, however, as part of what feels like a cohesive story the album in its entirety as a whole is fantastic.