Fun album! Great to hear the original version of some songs I knew through their re-makes. Consistent energy, but a lack of variation makes it a bit repetitive by the end—and the style, though distinctive does make it less relevant to modern ears. Great dinner music!
Musically the album bounces between bashing cymbals rock with a lot of falsettos and an ethereal operatic sound. Good version of Hallelujah though! Not my taste.
Didn’t like this album-the sound of it isn’t for me, I think. The sound mix is muddy, leading to some songs having an odd dynamic between vocals and instrumental. Lyrically it’s pedestrian whining about life in a way that I find grating. These are personal reactions, musically the bad is quite competent and I can see why others would like it, which is why it is two stars not one.
Brilliant! An amazing collaboration between diametrically different musical genres that works! Can’t imagine what this was like live. It is too much to take in in one sitting recorder, so if this represents one show people would be wrung out by the end.
A delightful mess of an album-clearly on the cusp of transition and showing off all that they can do. Some classic songs here with some undiscovered (by me) gems
Each song is a Classic! Still think Stairway is a beautiful mess of a song, and listening to the album all in one go is a bit much, but a good album to get the Led out to!
Ok, I tried, but this eludes me completely. It is as if someone gave instruments to the deranged, fed them acid and recorded the outcome. The line between genius and insanity is a fine one, I guess?
This is the quintessential Dylan album for me. Some truly amazing songs, some fabulous lyrics, and a little bit too much harmonica when I listen to it all at one go.
A straight shot of adrenalin. This isn’t my style of music, and yet I was surprised how many of these songs were in my consciousness! Well crafted music by thoroughgoing musicians.
Meh. Beautiful Day is a great start to an album, but this is hardly one of their best. It’s fine, but nothing compared to Rattle and Hum or even Boy.
Not terrible, but the lead singer isn’t quite able to pull off what needs to happen for this album to really soar. Gets repetitive to my ears and no connective tissue to the music
Very enjoyable! Smooth, inventive and well produced! Can’t remember a single song, but liked the listening experience.
The prototype of industrial! A great representation of the genre, though not my favorite thing to listen to. Musically they are in a groove that they do very well
Great blues! Amazing guitar (shocker) and hearing a young Clapton charge through the songs was enjoyable!
Solid 80s synth pop. The album builds nicely toward Perfect Way but can’t maintain that peak. Enjoyable but odd.
Straight shot of adrenaline for much of the album! Stays true to punk roots while adding wit and musicality.
A classic that I enjoy now just as much as when I brought the record home in 8th grade and bothered my parents with it!
Great concert album!
Serious beats serious lyrics and righteous anger from NWA, with wit and style. And album by the OGs for the OGs.
Wow! Really enjoyed this album! Very different from my usual listening, but musically it is aces! Good for different occasions and helped me stay calm in really bad traffic!
I was pleasantly surprised, knowing only There She Goes, but the album is really great! It is what happens if you form the Turtles in the 90s and add some distortion to acoustic guitars!
Eh, didn’t love it. Lyrics are fine but didn’t move me/speak to me, so I think I’m not the audience for this album
Eccentric and eclectic. There’s no one else I’ve heard like Beck and I appreciate his genre bending approach, but I don’t need to listen to it every day!
A blast from late high school early college! The sound is so unique and distinctive and transportive to a particular time and place. Stipe’s nasal tonality is best in small doses so I will continue to enjoy this band that way!
No thank you!
I found it odd and unpleasant.
At times the album is like an updated Simon and Garfunkel sound, at others it is distinctive. Not enough vocal variation by the lead singer to make the album interesting all the way through.
Good, alternative blue influenced stuff. Spotify greyed out some of the album so I didn’t get it all, but I enjoyed what I heard!
The Bush of Ghosts is stuck in the Bardo for me. Too experimental to be called music to my ears.
No thank you!
I can see the appeal, but I’m just not impressed by a mashup of what others have created…
Awesome-a band at the peak of their collective powers!
Good, dated; a great representation of the era.
Classic and great!
Meh
I missed the Pixies in the 80s, and I’m not so sad about that. The sound is distinctive and I can appreciate the craft, but it isn’t music that moves me body or soul.
Great stuff!
Liked it! Never heard of Weller before, but this album made me a fan!
He’s great and the album as a collection of songs is too. The problem is listening to the whole thing continuously reveals that Common has one flow, one tone, one meter to his voice, so nothing stands out on the album. Heard individually it is much stronger
No thank you
An all time great!
A consistent album that built a sound and stuck with it…decent example of 1970s Prog Rock!
Super interesting album-it contains multiple styles/genres and creates a variety of moods. Interesting to listen to!
Holy harmonies! The first half of the album is just bluegrass brilliance. The last part that is religious is a bit too too for me.
The virtuosity on display is pretty amazing! A strong album that takes you on an instrumental voyage. Liked it a lot!
A classic-you can hear the echos of groups from before like the Turtles in the harmonies, while the newness of Townshend’s guitar and Moon’s drumming is pushing the music forward—definitely talkin bout this generation!
Brilliant and eccentric-the divisions between McCartney and Lennon’s musical visions are apparent, as is Yoko’s influence and Harrison’s growth. An album that takes you on a ride for sure! Not my favorite Beatles album, but does have some of my favorite songs on it.
A good album! Likely not meant to be listened to in one go, but in chunks it is a solid collection of songs
I liked it! A new to me album that mixed in much of what I enjoy!
Psychedelic virtuosity on display…some amazing guitar work on Little wing and Castles made of sand and if 6 were 9, and some noisy songs as well. As an album it’s uneven, and the gems glitter brightly!
Great upbeat Latin Funk! The world needs more music like this…
Noisy musical experimentation that periodically reveals beauty, but not often enough…
Great guitarist but I don’t feel his vibe
80s driving rock! A distinct guitar sound and style that I mostly enjoy. Strong album all the way around.
Sublime…
Languorously ominously compelling album -a magnificent voice and the arrangements play with dischord/dissonance in places that are unexpected to spin pop music in a different direction. I’ve heard individual Apple songs, but the first time going through the album was an interesting sonic experience!
Good! What PM Dawn could have been had they not found drugs. Beats are solid, singers are solid, MCs are solid-a solid album!
Greatness on display!
Exactly what I would expect of a CCR album!
I liked it! Lead singer has a small vocal range and uses it to good effect; a good listen!
Bjork isn’t really my bag-I can see the artistry involved in her craft but I don’t like listening to a full album of it. Small doses only for me!
Meh. Not quite my thing.
A bit too emo boy music for me.
Interesting and different, but not to my taste
Great stuff in small chunks-too much all at once!
I liked it! I missed this when it came out, but I enjoyed it a lot!
Interesting album! I’ve not heard anything like this before!
A very nearly perfect album in its sequence of songs, quality of match between lyrics, intent and musical style. Just great!
Liked it enough to add it to my albums! Good stuff!
Not my favorite 80s group, though their hits do slap! An interesting concept album where the music is variations on a theme, but it has too much repetition in places.
An amazing album from start to finish! A terrific blend of lyrics and music supporting each other to create a legit sonic masterpiece.
Not really a fan-it’s like Herbie Hancock’s third cousin found one of his old synthesizers and discovered how to loop a track, a beat, and got friends to record vocal snippets. It’s good background on a mellow night at the club I suppose, but not really for the light of day…
Pass. Not really my scene, man…
Good solid rock with a cool blues approach. Clear classics on the album and an overall interesting listen!
Total bias to my review as this was a formative album from my childhood and I can’t separate out my teen wonder of what I heard then from now. A phenomenal album start to finish!
I don’t think I ever realized exactly how dark the first half is-yikes!! A pretty brilliantly executed project with recurring themes in the lyrics and music-some songs are great and some aren’t; there’s an unevenness to how much I like it that keeps it from 5 stars.
Liked it, didn’t love it
The machismo, misogyny, vulgarity and anger that fuel this album are palpable and off putting. The verbal skills are impressive, and there are moments of humor in some rhymes, but the interspersed dialogue is overwhelmingly awful.
Good album! Shows the variety of the group!
Such an interesting sound for hip hop to encounter. Certainly groundbreaking in its sound and the storytelling through the album comes through. I don’t love it in terms of a listening experience, but the artistry is there!
Meh. It’s like the Byrds and Monkees got together, got high and wrote a musical. I do wonder if I had heard this before Tommy if I’d have a different opinion?
Meh. A bit like Dracula singing pop music-interesting but not for me all that much
Good! Better when they stick to straight ahead rock-gets a little wobbly when they try other approaches
Really really good!!
This album introduced me to Questlove when it came out and turned me into an instant fan-great beats, clever lyrics, great flow-good all the way around!
Meh. Not my jam.
Good choice for the season!
About the same level as the Boomtown Rats for me, though with more of an attempt to be like The Rolling Stones.
Angry Bruce Springsteen with a three pack a day habit has great lyrics, but his voice is an acquired taste, much like dylan. I’d listen to other people sing his songs, but maybe not a full album of his again
Not sure I’ve ever heard this like before, and I don’t think it’s for me
Not really for me.
House music isn’t my jam.
Really liked this! Great both as background and to directly listen to!
Nope.
I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a full album by ol blue eyes before! His voice is amazing and it was a very pleasant, if repetitive, experience.
Good album! He sounds so young on this-not sure he’s reached the peak of his powers yet, but he’s close!
Good album! Heard a bunch of it before but a few songs I didn’t know
Pretty good! The instrumental pieces are the high points for me.
It’s good a good album at times, and too many songs sound like the worst imitation of a whiny John Lennon.
Yeah, still not a fan of Waits. The music and lyrics are interesting and the album is wicked eclectic with style, but not an enjoyable sonic experience for me
Foundational is the word for this album. Chuck D’s stentorian voice offsets flavor flav’s whiny one and the two balance out through terminator x’s command of the samples. Not as good an album as Yo Bum Rush the show, but the layers both sonic and lyrical meaning make it a must listen!
Eh, it’s fine.
Simply great!
A good album-definitely jazz/improvisational and experimental (for the time) which lends it to feel uneven, I think.
Not for me-repetitive and blah
Good album! Solid and enjoyable
Interesting to hear familiar songs done differently!
Greatness on a platter!
Good album- 2 songs I loved the rest were fine.
Don’t love the boom-bap, don’t love the vocal style, the flow is interesting, but not worth my while…
Solid album with some greatness sprinkled in
Solidly enjoyable rock album!
Eh. Interesting but hallucinogenic psychedelia is not my thing
Classic!
Totally biased here because this was a foundational childhood album. No criticism, just a pure nostalgia vote!
Odd and hard to overcome the creepy Exorcist vibes that are associated with it.
Solid album with some standout songs-gets a bit drone-y though
Amazing stuff from a GOAT guitarist!
Definitely a favorite from this artist!
Distinctive lead singer and decent songs
I wish I lived back in the 60s and could find instruments from the Middle Ages and get a record contract…
Good stuff!
I’ve never listened to an Elvis album before now-only heard singles! It’s good, though his work on the covers sounds less enthusiastic than on songs that are more his.
Quality album in all respects!
Fun but I’m not really into this scene
Two iconic songs on this and the rest sounds like pale imitations of them until Babylon which is pretty unique and good!
A great album! Loved this one since it came out when I was but a wee lad
A masterpiece
Good album-not exactly my taste but interesting vocals clever lyrics and thoughtful arrangements
Good album-plagiarism aside!
Only two songs on Spotify so didn’t hear much but liked what I heard
Not my taste
Really good!
Brilliant
Great album start to finish!
Great album start to finish!
Trippy
Yuck
Such a talent!
Good stuff!
Good album! A couple of great songs and some that are mid.
Good guitar, decent lyrics, though tend towards the morose…
Cool concept of studio and live album! Confused about all the songs from Tommy though
Fantasy inspired, guitar driven noise with moments of beauty
The don’t do funk well…
Exactly what you expect and Issac Hayes album to be
Greatness
Great music, could have done without all the intervening conversations and announcements!
