Fantastic album! Already new a bunch of songs but I really enjoyed what I discovered =)
Good album, lots of classics, coherent piece of work
What a great surprise this album was! Loved it from start to finish. Fantastic late 60's body of work!
Good album all around, probably will like it even more if I pay attention to what I'm listening to hahahaha. Well gotta multitask
Fantastic album! Beautiful songs and melodies, a true gem. =) Glad I found it.
A true classic! Phenomenal album to take a walk around the city, ride a bike, etc
not my type of music, but good late 60's album
Cool album, probably will never listen to it again. BUT i gotta say: listening to this for the first time in the 80's must've slap.
Props for RUN DMC for being so influential and important to the genre =).
Started off really good and I think it kinda lost its shine through it, don't know, started to sound repetitive
Decent album, probably if I was still a depressed 15 yo I would enjoy it even more. =)
Started fast paced. Felt boring throughout the end.
Very good album! Quite surprised it doesn't sound as dated as I thought it would.
aw it's ok I guess, been feeling that listening some albums for the first time 30 years after it's realease has it's impact on my perception of it. Seems outdated even though i recognize the importance of it for the music industry. Sooo it's... mid?
Jesus Christ, definitely not for me, even though I like some of The White Stripes' songs.
yup, not my thing but well produced because it kept me hooked anyway
Quite cool experience to listen to such album! Really well produced and catchy, reminds me a lot of later Beatles stuff/ Pet Sounds and even a tiny bit of Stone Roses.
Great discovery!
Feelin like a 60yo farmer, crossing Texas on a road trip, wearing my hat and some of the tightest skinny jeans and the wickedest boots ever seen to mankind.
Meanwhile irl I'm a 23yo girl who loves some 1D, Adele and Olivia Dean. But I do feel like I'd define this album as the best ever made if I were American, 60yo and driving to my divorce hearing. Darlene is leaving me goddammit!
Probably should give it a listen once more paying full attention to it BUT at the same time if I had considered it phenomenal from the get go it would be because the tracks were getting my attention. Solid album, doubt I'll change my opinion even if I listen to it multiple times, or perhaps it'll grow on me as the time goes by.
I'd rate it as a 3.5/5 if I could
Yesterday I got "Queen II" as the album of the day, and it's crazy to think about the differences on their sound from one album to the other. I was way more hooked on "Sheer Heart Attack" and loved to see the evolution. Nice!
Fun album! Liked many songs on it. Not sure if I love the way Nick Cave sings but anyway - great work!
Honestly, I listened to this album twice, mainly because I have friends who are huge fans of this body of work and of TS herself. And I've listened to the Deluxe version to gather everything, no songs for forgotten nor anything.
It already pained me a bit whenever I saw someone saying Taylor is a great lyricist. And if she is it's symptomatic of how shallow and badly written songs are nowadays. From all of the 16 songs in what's regarded as one of her best albums I "liked" 6 - "Champagne Problems" (I fan favorite) has it's highlight in an interpolation of Blue Suede Shoes, and we can discuss if it is the best use of it in songs, as Lana Del Rey has also used the same sentence in one of her songs.
"Happiness" may be a highlight from the album, good storytelling, lyrics that could be used to justify the 'lyrics genius' status. "Cowboy like me" sounded fun but nothing more, and the last three songs - Evermore, Right where you left me and It's time to go - are good songs!
Evermore gains a lot from the collab with Bon Iver, It's time to go and Right where you left me are well produced.
"Willow", the lead single and biggest song on the album is boring and repetitive, "Gold rush" is forgettable, "No body, no crime" flirts with a song that could've been a disstrack (as far as Taylor Swift disstracks can go) but doesn't go all the way.
"'tis the damn season" is also repetitive and childish. "Dorothea" is a cute song, nothing more. "Ivy" and "Coney Island" are forgettable songs, Coney Island having a collab that was wrongly chosen imo.
"long story short" is another song where she plays the victim, this time in a song that was written for tiktok before it was even a thing, lines seeking impact but if you're moved by it...
"Marjorie" talks about grief in the most literal way I've ever seen - I'm amazed at how she could translate something so complex into simplicity. Not in a good way. "Happiness" has bigger depth than Marjorie when it comes to the confusing sensations we have when we lose someone.
Left them for last so I can criticize properly - I've never seen such badly produced song-that-wants-to-try-something-different as "Closure", it's an immediate skip and the feeling I got was: Taylor sat down with her producers and they all went through the "what if we bring a new rhythm into this one?" and that's a hard no - there are so many avantgarde albums, songs and artists that they could've listened to in an attempt to create a song that's unsettling but good. This is a disaster.
And finally - "tolerate it" is incredibly shallow, superficial and childish. That's what yoou get when you want to play the victim but you don't have enough arguments to do so.
Terrible, Jesus Christ
The soft guitars on this album are marvelous - great album to relax to, read, work...
