A masterpiece of an album by a legendary band. The first synthesizer hit of "Tom Sawyer" is on the Mount Rushmore of musical moments. Music for the ages.
Chic is a legendary band. Nile Rodgers is a musical genius. This album, however, is of its time. Can an album wow me without knowledge of the band? Can i be held captive by the music alone? Outside of the first track, no.
Great beats under some incredible rapping. Only criticism is the lyrical themes are somewhat limited. standout tracks: Song Cry, Renegade
Wish i hadn't been as musically myopic as i was in the early 80s. I don't remember punk rock being as musical as i find it to be now. Apologies to my friend Steve who tried to get me into punk rock when i was firmly entrenched in the NWOBHM. Some of it did stick; Dead Kennedys, Black Flag. I need to go back to these classic punk bands and see what i may have missed. I got into the later Clash but this album is a rager.
I enjoyed this album. it kept me engaged with cool arrangements, instrumentation, and production. Standout tracks: Play Dead, Crying, Venus As a Boy, There Is More To Life Than This
Outside the context of the Stones' place in music and society in 1966, in 2024 this album is just a decent blues record. A couple of songs are very musically dated, as well. The influence of "Under My Thumb" can be heard in some contemporary music. That song, "Mother's Little Helper" and the US-version track "Paint It Black" are the only real standouts.
Never been a Smiths or Morrissey fan outside of "How Soon Is Now", but I'm gonna have to check out some more of their work. Enjoyed this.
All I knew of Dexys was "come on Eileen". I gotta say, I was surprised at the soul sound of this album. The horn work was excellent. Not gonna be in heavy rotation, but it was a great listen.
This was well done "ambient" music. I didn't hear anything I would consider groundbreaking but I appreciated the composition, arrangement, and production of the album. You can just sit and let this music wash over you.
After knowing mostly the singles of their career, this is my first dive into a complete album and I loved it. Not a bad song in the bunch. Stellar songwriting, playing, production, the whole shebang. This one will be in rotation.
Without context, this was an album of beautiful soundscapes. Overall, however, there was nothing "exceptional" about it, in my opinion. Standout track: Flugufrelsarinn
Decent music but it mostly just sounds like their playing with all the knobs and filters on their guitar pedals and synthesizers.
Obviously, the predecessor to clown-core. Louis Cole and Sam Gendel have done the genre proud and carried on the sound. As an origin, this is "groundbreaking"?
This might be heresy but take away the title track and this feels like an album of Beatles' b-sides and outtakes. I said what I said.
This album was my kind of jam.
This album was amazing. I unknowingly already had a couple songs in my favorites. Will check out their other albums.
I never really "got" James Brown but this album drips with hard work.
Beautiful guitar playing, beautiful music...but sounds so dated. A great record of its time.
Elvis Costello has circled my life for a while. I finally listened to an album and boy did he land that plane.
Decent.
There are some good songs but it winds up feeling a bit repetitive.
Good chance I'll never listen to it again but having been having been a tween in the golden age of punk, this is one of the albums you play to explain punk rock.