Very loud and tense whilst also being quite chill and laid back.
Very excellent vocals. Very good use of silence/instruments dropping in and out.
The synthesisers all sound very simple, however this very "bleak" landscape does a lot of favours to the duality of the sound that they're going for.
Some beautiful use of strings too.
Funky, fun, what's more to want
Wow this is such a surprising and refreshing sound, yet it's so amazingly expressive. It knows exactly what it wants to do and does it all so well
You make me feel like a na-tu-ral womannn!
This is very cool. Great pacing too, it's hard to not like this!
This sounds likr a movie soundtrack about some cowboys and pirates all sitting in a bar woeing over their life's troubles. I feel like that makes it so hard to rate this album. Some of it is very groovy being almost impossible not to stamp a foot over, some of it also feels quite like Waits is really trying to make sure the listener "gets" the sound he's trying to make, as if it's not so obvious somehow... Is it a good thing to male bad music if you mean to make it bad? Is it even bad if that's the case? I think abrasive is a good word to describe the sound better than bad, which in turn helps to set the scene even more.
Between the unique orchestration, and the album being unapologetically itself, I think this album merits it's 4 stars
I always love Indian music when I listen to it, although it is very very complicated and I often felt like I was losing something. The introduction tracks made an excellent addition and were greatly appreciated for this reason!
As to be expected, there are loads of inspiring improvisational ideas, and overall a great listen
Some nice orchestration with upbeat songwriting, but nothing overly special to me
Woo hoo! I knew someone who created Song 2 from scratch.
A fine album
If I ever have to listen to this album again, I will turn the volume up so high in hopes that I go deaf before too long
Although I was quite upset when I listened to this so maybe it deserves another one day
Yooooo
Amazing album!
I will contend that this contains one of the best recorded versions of My Favourite Things in the history of mankind
What more can we wish for
Slightly better than the other one, I suppose
Very cool, super well produced and clean sounding, also quite repetitive and a little boring, this is maybe not the album for an airport and moreso a club...
Despite all known laws of nature, there's no way that a music should be able to fly on account of the singer's ability to do incredible falsetto runs over some upbeat rock, yet The Darkness somehow does so every song and they are all very joyous and fun! While I don't entirely believe that the vocalist is the only thing that makes this band and album good, their skills certainly overshadow anything the band can really try to do, including guitar solos, so I would almost say that it doesn't matter
Joni you're doing amazing honey keep at it <3
I super wish I could 3.5 stars this album but I suppose I'm being generous
The fact that the band members are cousins of Hank Hill is the most interesting part of this album (and the rest of their discography)
Idk I was having a bit of a mental breakdown when I was listening to this so I don't really know what my thoughts are
Very cool
I like the use of orchestration, each instrument knows its role and plays it very well
I think this is the one album where I'm alm.ost sad that the songs weren't a bit longer and go further in depth, but oh well.
It's aj octopus from me chief
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Trite, uninspired, marginally above average vocal performance at best. They did also play a song with a different tempo at some point, I guess that made you a professional blues musician in Germany in the 60s
Woo some bosa nova, time to flex because I can :p Also thanks for the soundcloud ditty Robert OwO
Claro que hai un sonido moi moderna tendo en conta que este álbum é dos anos noventa coas elementos electrónica. Creo que é un álbum moi creativo e aunque prefero os álbums tradicionais, a fin de todo, o creatividade vale moito no mundo músico. Tambén, para me, é un poco "easy listening" nunha xénero con influencia amplio do jazz.
Automatically this album loses a star for the god awful cover art, however, I would say I am on the side of plesantly surprised. There's some very crisp production here that kinda makes this hard not to like, despite that, I made it 2.5 tracks before I could no longer stand to listen to this
As obliged, I bought and smoked a whole packet of cigs while listening to this album.
Actually, if anything, I think this album may be a little underrated because it's not a Beatles album. Despite that, I think that this actually has a lot of very cool harmonies/chord progressions as well as great guitar work.
Sadly I feel like the production leaves a little to be desired, especially after the most recent Beatles remaster on Revolver, but oh well, it's still listenable and pretty good for being the worst(?) part of the experience - maybe this goes to the runtime... Especially with the track Let it Down, I feel like the production is so messy it takes away quite a lot from the track - why is the hi-hat so loud? Why can I bearly hear the orchestra at the start? What's with the organ being kinda muddy? I will give credit that the bass guitar sounds decent.
I can't believe the absolute BOP of My Sweet Lord has to end on a fade out and a croud cheering :( I was so enjoying it too
The StarWars noises on I remember jeep are a bit of a strange direction but I can forgive it I suppose
I wish again I could do decimals because this is a perfect 3.5 to me... I may have to round down sorry Mr. H.
I think this is super cool! The fuzzy proto-punk stuff is fun, sometimes it can feel a bit confused but that's ok. "We Will Fall" is super cool and I really shows the album's great psychadellic influences, which i think work super well in this context actually.
Very good and super funky for disco, because of that I'd say I enjoyed it a lot
Interesting, cool, I lost track of time when listening to this walking
I swear I had heard this before and wasn't so impressed but actually this is super amazing. Even so, it's not quite my genre, so sadlyl only a 3
Ironically in spite of the name, the 1st track of this album was miserable, however the rest of the album was, well, serviceable... It was good but nothing overly special to me...
some very good solos with the droning guitars going on too, however ultimately disappointing.
When the album art is better than the album... Although it still rocks
This album art is truly an eyesore, already it's being deducted 0.5 stars for such an atrocity.
Sounds great so far though, in fact, I'm rather sad that I had never heard anything by this band before. Waterfall is so good holy shit hell yeah. No more thoughts, but the album is very fun (3.5)
I decided to check this one out, it staying here over the weekend certainly boosted its chances and from the first song I was very glad of this. No galician this time but I'll write out my thoughts as the album goes.
I love the mix of blues and bossa that this album brings right from the start. The riffy guitars and the choir and call and repeat vocals are just so great. The percussion and groove as well as some other stylistic choices really sit in a great place for me
Oh yeah the portuguese vocals obviously are a big thing for the bossa/samba feel lol
I can't listen to this with headphones at the moment because I feel like I'm dying of sickness which makes me sad because what little I can hear of the bass guitar is really driving these tunes along
Also I think there's an organ buried in there. There's a lot of influence from african funk I think. The way that the horns are playing is quite remeniscent of this more than what is so typical for exclusively bossa nova stuff
It's very nice being able to understand a little of what's being sung too. Normally lyrics fly past me anyway so really I would say the input is not a super significant way off of the typical song in english or slower spanish
Again, I can't listen to this with headphones, but wft this production quality is insane for 1976 right!? There are albums by, like, the beatles or some really influential jazz artists that sound way worse than this, I mean overall the style also feels way ahead of the curve although I'm not as good at dating other music...
So apparently this is this dude's first album on electric guitar!? Damn he plays it so well. For something like afrobrazillian music I think conceptually we should strongly consider the 2 different instruments and although there are obviously elements of both styles, he's certainly not just playing bossa nova on an electric guitar
I have fallen in love with this album it turns out, I was growing dissapointed in the selection that this website was putting forth recently especially because I have been able to find so many great albums otherwise, but am so glad I didn't skip this!
I also love the vocalisms on this album, at the end of the songs or sort of over the other singing, it's really a great mesh of genres.
Cowboy of the immaculate horse is a great name for a song that I'll steal one day I'm sure, I'm glad that the album picked up with this song because I was just about to think that the album was slowing down in the 2nd half, and then BOOM this amazingness!
Wow I expected metal based on the name and album art but I'm totally down with this so far. Although it's a little boring, the music is still nice. I kinda wish it tried to say a little more but oh well.
Wtf this is good! Although I'm glad that this style of metal has fallen out of fashion, as it can certainly be a bit cheesy, I really enjoy this! I never got into Linkin Park when they were popular but I still enjoy this music in a similar way that I do That's the Spirit era Bring Me or System of a Down in general, which I think is quite indicative of how strong the early 2000s style comes through in a lot of this music. I think I will explore some more of the band sometime soon.
This 1st track feels like a bit of a love letter to Led Zepplin but if they only had interesting and cool drumming/groove 2% of the time... Actually maybe I would extend this to a few other tracks. I think the album is still fine but it's not quite as exciting as Rush's super proggy stuff, but also it's, like, just fine rock music. Which I think is a bit of a shame. Something for nothing is a great track though! If I could add a .5 I would for this track alone
Is there some slogan The Talking Heads have similar to Primus Sucks? Anyway I enjoyed this, if it wasn't a little long
I wonder if in the future people will listen to Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift and think; wow this is so good, it's so indicative of the genre as it was at the time and you simply can't go wrong!
That's kinda how I feel about Supergrass' music. It's not exactly overtly special - although they have some interesting instruments in places - it's just very rock rock music and that's why I like it! *spins and bops head to the tunes*
Actually their bass player also fucking slays on every single track, I kinda forgot about that, I'm starting to feel that my feelings on this album can be in many ways applied to a lot of rock music... Also this album is a lot more interesting than the other supergrass albums I've heard that are a lot more simple/cut back.
I love listening to OutKast and randomly hearing songs that I heard in the early 2000s! This album is good, it doesn't quite do what Speakerboxx does for me but it's still fun. I think this is one of the 1st albums where my indifference to the genre is getting in the way from me feeling that this is something truly great - that or it is indeed just good, that being said there are definitely a few tracks that swing very hard
there are people out there that think this shit is peak jazz and that makes me so sad
This seems like something that I would enjoy a lot but I find it remarkably mid. everything is overtly safe and doesn't really stretch far from what I'd expect to hear from some CASIO preset keyboard grooves. Until now I had been relatively happy with the "world music" givings from this list but now I'm starting to understand why it's so notorious.
Some particular gripes because I'm going to force myself through the whole thing:
The 3rd and 4th song could have easily been cut into 1/4 the length and combined. That way they wouldn't have been offensively bad at least
And the lyrics of the 3rd one? Was this taken from a child's beginner french 1 textbook?
Hell I think you could say that about a lot of the lyrics.
I would even love to say that this album can at least be carried by the good guitar playing and rythms but the fact that they NEVER change is, like, absurd.
Song 7 is yet again painfully basic in all of it's composition, the best I could give this is the vocal production at least is a little more interesting compared to the rest so far. Shout out to the russian space race news broadcast clip too
Song 8 seems to have picked up a bit finally, but again, suffers from a lot of the previous problems... Maybe if this tried a bit harder to lean into the reggaeton/club vibe and style I'd be willing to forgive this song but when the production is also so lo-fi it's really impossible to say this.
Was song 9 an unfinished file that somehow got put on the CD?
Song 10 at least serves as a reminder as to why you should pay your session musicians
Track 12 gave me a lot of hope. This album has really had to work for the single star that I'm going to rate it and this track and a couple others are its only workhorses
I only listened to this when tidying
However I don't think that's overly disrespectful to the music, there're some cool ideas but nothing ardently special
this sounds like a pretty mediocre psych rock album, which is fine, by that virtue its already defaults to being a good album as it's clearly made with love and fun. However, it's not like there's anything super special in terms of what other bands - The Flaming Lips, some Beck, some Hendrix, etc. - have demonstrated that the genre is capable of.
Also what's the deal with garbage spotufy cut of the album that this links to? :(
