While I have a lot of respect for R'n'B and the musicians in or in vicinity of Motown, I could never get into it myself. But this one is so funky and jammy, it's just so fun. "That Lady Pts. 1 & 2" with those keyboard licks just fucking slaps, If you were there has that great bass lines and tasteful guitar runs.
Still a lot of ballads for a dull toneless fuck like me, but eh
I will not be tricked into a good mood!
— quote from woman tricked into a good mood
Not sure what the keys are trying to do during "Hooked Up", but I'm loving it
Some really cool instrumentation (including record scratches and fun synths), but those strings did not need to be there and sound the way they did.
The bass is really cool and fun
The distributed singing parts must have hit different back then, but today it is hard for me to listen to a full album of it – it's like they smuggled in some a cappella behind their instruments. Anyway... uhm... that's a lot of falsetto. Is it called falsetto because it's wrong to use it so much?
The interplay of guitar and bass in Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me is super neat. I have consumed so much a cappella that I now use expressions like "super neat". My slacks have turned beige. I now own 10 identical polo shirts and salmon shorts. This is white people kryptonite.
I have been born in the wrong environment to be cool for enjoying this. Because make no mistake, this album is cool as fuck.
First one I knew already. What a fucking opener!
Plays with the variety of punk songwriting in its time... but spooky!
It's cool how California Über Alles pulls no punches on a liberal politician. And that it got to express the sold out promise of California hippies and the dark potentials hidden behind a freedom loving, spiritual image before the Lukewarm Red Jalapenos beat that premise to death.
...Pol Pot!
Jazz people love to say how great Stevie Wonder is at harmonisation and songwriting.
Alas, I am not a jazzman, nor – it seems – constitutionally able to get through one of these songs unbored.
More like Stevie Natural Occurrence!
The first two songs absolutely slap, which I am filing under false advertising
On My Hotel TV slaps really hard, and seems to have a much better overall guitar and bass tone than the rest (with the exception of And This Is Something That I Thought I Had), maybe because there were going more for funk riffs.
Then there's 10 more songs. They all sound like music a rock band would produce in the time they were produced.
In this R.E.M. Album, R.E.M. do indeed sound like R.E.M.
Interminable violin-sample-textured whining in uncreative umm-ta-taa-rhythms
Hey man, I'm glad you had fun jamming out while zooted, but this isn't good.
This album slaps so hard, oh my god.
The album cover, from R Crumb's hand, is super cool and a super creative way to present the band and songs. Apart from the... you know...
I like the part where it goes doot doot
having to listen to the whole album almost made me quit my 1001 albums project altogether
Of all the music albums I've ever listened to, this also meets the definition of music album
Got this album on the morning after the queen died lmao.
It's their London Calling, in that the cover looks great on a shirt, if you mention the album, it's in order to look cool, and you never want to listen to the whole thing for how goofy the non-single-or-title-track cuts are.
I never managed to get into The Roots, which I will admit is on me – as anyone who (like me) knows them as "that band from Jimmy Fallon" is not late to the game, they missed the whole tournament.
What stopped me from really being into them was never listening to this record.
Why did I believe Rush was an instrumental band?! Wow, these lyrics suck and are sung in super uninspired melodies.
So yeah, The Camera Eye is pretty neat, some cool changes – OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE HE'S SINGING AGAIN!
Not shaming anyone for being into the dorky, corny stuff, but this is not even the best of that genre, and they're not singing about elves preparing to war and running through meadows admiring the fantastical flora and fauna even though they sound like they should. I like the idea of Rush according to what fans will tell you, but I love none of this; We have Math Rock and The Mars Volta now, old men!
Best described by the fact that you will likely call it prog rock if you like it and hard rock or classic rock if you don't.
People paid, got on the subway, stood in line, and spent about 3 hours inside to listen to this?
And then other people and some of the same ones paid to listen to a recording of it?
And then these people and many more would spend decade blubbering about its importance?
If this inspired you to write some "no frills folk music" in the year of our lord 2022, I need you to know that this does no mean you don't need to know a second strumming pattern. I beg of you to learn a second strumming pattern.
In the second half, there is at least some dynamic musicianship (so I agree with his detractors at the time that it is extremely un-Dylan). This also forces Dylan to actually do something with his voice and the songs to be different from each other.
Also, the singing is broken up by some guitar noodling, keyboard solos and Bobby D indiscriminately blowing random harmonica chords at will as opposed to the sound of the pipe I intermittently hear in my bathroom after 10 pm.
Does that mean I tacitly agree with the official Dylan narrative about him knowing what would stand the test of time, in that I actually like the electric half? No. But is it at least damn interesting by virtue of being an important historic document? Also no.
I am not big into pop music history, and if I believe in paying respect to the most influential artists, then I do in a more theoretical way – not by making myself like it.
But I do have to give kudos for paving a new way musically while writing absolutely iconic lines such as "Everybody needs cash to spend; Everybody needs love and affection; Everybody needs 2 or 3 friends"
I am completely deaf to bleeps and bloops, but I can't help feeling some appreciation among weirdos
I would be eating this up if I was a virgin looking for songs to burn onto a CD permanent-markered with the title "FUCK JAMS"
I Went to the Mirror is pretty good though
Perfect distillation of "the kind of shit that will make the optimal amount of music critics fawn over it"
Good Jazz. Confused the shit out of my cats, so you know it's real. Made me do the Early Disney finger wag, so you know it's catchy.
Ah, the good old days, when every rhyme would land on the end of the bar like a bag of bricks. I like the aggression, groove and sampling.
"Kicking. Like the kick from a kick drum. Yella Boy on the drum getting dumb... programming a beat that's hitting. And if you listen then you know we're not bullshitting" lol. lmao.
Raise your hands if you're not the one to get played like a poo butt!
Taste havers with a time machine: Bruce, drop the E Street Band
Starts pretty good and just gets better and more interesting.
This is perfect for fans of Polvo or the kind of obnoxious people who will tell you that the guitars in At The Drive In's Relationship of Command are out of tune with the air of someone who uncovered the hidden secrets of Rock'n'Roll. I am both of these people.
You put on the album and it's got a kinda cool, sleazy energy to it. Surprisingly good, considering you never liked Aerosmith. The second song come on and it starts to feel repetitive, yeah, okay you get it. By the third song you try to leave but whatever door you take, whatever corner you round, you end up back in the Hard Rock Café Merchandise corner. You had just wanted an Irish Coffee. Janie's Got A Gun goes for a different energy, but that doesn't help. The Other Side puts you right back where it started and you figure you never went to strip clubs for the musical experience.
People in 1966 hearing a sitar for the first time: "holy shit hoLY SHIT WHAT THE FU-"
Some of this is really good, but dragged down by stuffing the back half with piano ballads, twinkling away until I finally call the cops on her. Turn the music up, lady, we got a lack-of-noise complaint! Supercut is just Lorde improvising over royalty free ad music.
Sound so thick you feel it fill up warehouses and pushing all the air out. So good!
Hard to tell how I would be listening to this without the wave of American Bossa Nova followed by Muzak and other easy listening enterprises flattening an acoustic inventory and group of genres into elevator music. This makes it to my ears – and ironically – harder to listen to.
Some cool guitar runs though
Even I have to admit this is really good. and I hated listening to it.
Also, you need to be *really* into okay guitar solos to think Free Bird is great, because if the line "I'm a s free as a bird now, and this bird you cannot change" makes you feel a lot of things, you're a dullard
If you looked up "90s Alternative" in the dictionary, this should come up. And if the Wikipedia Page for literally "Alternative Rock" counts, it does! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock
I took me so many years to appreciate Peal Jam, and all it took was to sit down and listen through all of Ten without distraction. Could be a bit less classic rock, especially in the second half
