Rikki please lose my number

This is another you must separate the art from the artist album. This album is beautiful start to finish. You may not like the man, but the music deserves a listen.

Why???

Hard rock + renaissance fair=Babe I’m Gonna Leave You Brits playing blues - John Lee Hooker = Dazed and Confused x I Can’t Quit You Baby Hard rock + raga - George Harrison = Black Mountain Side

Perfect from start to finish!

I loved this record in high school, but I don’t feel the same admiration today. Jim Morrison is just a little overwrought to me now.

Not really my thing, but I can appreciate why people like it. Homeward Bound is a nice song and I like the juxtaposition of the newscast over Silent Night. It makes a pretty powerful statement.

Classic and a favorite!

Great record should not have dismissed it during my music snob period in college

Wankery pretension run amok. Why are the tracks, so needlessly long.

Disco, funk, soul, r&b, jazz all in one record. Nice!

He’s a brilliant guitarist, but this isn’t my thing. Long guitar solos don’t do it for me

Little bit Roxy Music, little bit the kinks all British.

This is the most tolerable Billy Joel record. Some good songs, but the bad ones are really bad. Case in point “Get it right the first time” yuck. He didn’t get it right the first time

I liked this more than I thought I would. Her voice and guitar playing are beautiful. While I appreciate the beauty in her voice, I would prefer it in smaller doses. A whole album of her lilting soprano grated on my nerves a bit, probably the opposite of what this type of music should do for the soul.

I love Peter Gabriel solo, but can’t deal with this record. Prog-rock concept record, no thank you. I wouldn’t be surprised if some broadway producer tried to stage this…

I can’t decide if I love this or hate it. Psychedelic folk with entirely too much kazoo. This is an album I most likely will not listen to again, as I don’t do drugs. I’ve decided—I hate it

Great production, but way too long.

I haven’t listen to a lot of salsa/latin jazz, but I loved this record. Couldn’t help but dance to it

Pseudo reggae, bad pop music

I want your love is my favorite track. Some of the instrumental tracks sound like hold music

Absolute classic.

One of my favorite records of all time. All the singles are amazing and still sound modern today.

More psychedelic than other Byrds albums. Always love the harmonies.

Reminds me of middle school. Not their best album, but still some fun tracks. Paul Revere is my fave.

Never heard this before. Some songs reminded me of Beck’s Sea Change album.

Ugh! Terrible white guy jammy blues. Hate it!

Best party album

“We Will Fall” sounds like a bad doors song. I can hear the influence this record has had on other bands, but I didn’t find most of the tracks very memorable.

Appropriate title for a brilliantly beautiful album

This album got me through my awkward teenage years.

Syrupy sweet and a bit hokey, but easy to listen to.

Overwrought, pretentious and cheesy all at the same time. “Everybody Knows” was the best of the bunch.

This is what I imagine a band made up of oompa loompas with guest vocals from Les Claypool would sound like.

I love singing along to all these classics. My favorite Sinatra album by far.

I have this on cassette, but alas no working tape deck. I liked this album a lot in HS, but hadn’t listened to it in decades. Still like some of the tracks, but feel a little bored by the bulk of the tracks. The success of this on mainstream radio did open the electronic pop music flood gates, so I suppose that is its legacy, that and funky flute. Younger me would have given it 4 stars, but older me realizes 2 stars is generous.

This did not give me a peaceful easy feeling

That opening Kim Deal bass line on “debaser”sucks me in every time. Every track on this album is pure passion and artistry. It’s an incredible feat to produce an album that still feels fresh and vibrant as it did when it came out 35 years ago.

Hard rock + renaissance fair=Babe I’m Gonna Leave You Brits playing blues - John Lee Hooker = Dazed and Confused x I Can’t Quit You Baby Hard rock + raga - George Harrison = Black Mountain Side

New wave classic. Great 35 minutes of music that bridged 70s guitar rock with what was going to become the synth laden early 80s.

I found the interludes unnecessary. Lots of rap royalty here so overall a solid album.

I found this a little too boring and long.

Without Kraftwerk there would be no EDM.

Her voice is annoying but the music is lovely

Absolute classic from one of my all-time favorite bands

Not surprised to find this was produced by Patsy Cline’s producer. This could be a modern Patsy album. Great voice.

So dumb, so dumb

I’ve never listened to an ELO album from start to finish, so this is a first. I found it pleasant enough. It’s hard to not like Mr Blue Sky. And I really liked the last track Wild West Hero.

Ok, not really my thing

Rikki please lose my number

I saw them get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and it was the only time I’ve seen them live. I must admit they were great. I forgot how massive this record was. 7 singles? Crazy. Still not my favorite genre, but this album is a fun listen.

When this came out I was too much of an indie snob to appreciate it. Now that I’m older and less cool, I realized I was wrong. This is a great album and deserves all the accolades it has received over the last 2 decades.

His voice is pleasant enough, but this is just a little too light fm for me. I’d rather listen to Cat Stevens.

Better than Pretzel Logic, but still not my jam.

I love Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but never really like The Birthday Party. Too much noise and not enough melody for me.

The acoustic versions of these songs are beautiful.

This is crap. If I could go “Space Truckin” to never hear this again, I’m callin’ shotgun.

Sounds like the 7th inning stretch of a tied baseball game.

White guy southern rock isn’t my thing.

One of my all-time favorites. Too bad he didn’t make it past 27, can only imagine what his career would have been.

Classic!

Perfect from start to finish!

Perfect from start to finish!

Perfect from start to finish!

I loved this album when it came out. I hadn’t listened to it in years, but glad it held up. It is such sunny indie pop that makes me want to take a road trip

I find her voice grating, but the songwriting is beautiful. I prefer others singing these songs. I give it a 4 for adding these songs to the canon of popular music.

I like The Who, but I find the whole rock opera thing to be a bit cheesy.

This is way too cacophonous for me. I couldn’t get through it, so I listened to Ornette Coleman’s “Change for the Century” instead and that was beautiful.

This is just background music for me. I can appreciate the musicality of the tracks, but I just find them long and boring.

I had never heard this album before, so went in with no expectations. I really enjoyed it. I wonder if she’s an influence on Cyndi Lauper?

RESPECT!

Every time I hear zeppelin I imagine a bunch of pimply Bevis and Butthole lookalikes playing Dungeons and Dragons in a damp basement with shag carpeting.

Boring

I wish I could give this negative stars.

If you like jam bands you can jam this record up your ass. That is where it belongs.

Yuck!

The album came out my freshman year of high school and it definitely soundtracked that period of my life. It remains one of my all time favorite albums. It is both haunting and beautiful. Robert Smith’s voice gives me chills on “Lullaby” and “Prayers for Rain”. “Pictures of You” is my favorite song from the band. Lyrically brilliant and musically engrossing.

This is another you must separate the art from the artist album. This album is beautiful start to finish. You may not like the man, but the music deserves a listen.

This album got a lot of play on my college radio show, Fallopian Tunes. My inner riot grrrl never tires of this classic.

Why???

I wish I could give this negative stars. What a steaming pile of shit!

This deserves negative stars. What a piece of shit album. He’s a disgusting human who creates garbage music.

I like Bell Bottom Blues, but can listen to any of a number of covers, so no need to listen to this album again.