I really liked it! Was worried it would be a very too heavy album with those first three tracks but it was solid all throughout. Thought it very clearly reflected a bridge between 70s and 80s music in style and sound. 4/5
I didn’t really enjoy this at all. I don’t really have any familiarity with Cohen so I don’t have any emotional attachment to this album others must. I can recognize he’s an excellent musician and his lyrics are good, but he’s clearly an old man with a really weakened voice and bland (to me) instrumentation. I recognize the impact of his lyrics and his reflections on life, but I did not enjoy this musically at all unfortunately
Doesn’t get much better than CCR.
If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis
Actually though it’s a wonderful piece of music, although I’d definitely never choose to listen to it. Beautiful artistry with some all time legendary musicians. Giving 4 stars due to personal taste however
Really great music, can tell why he’s so revered although I’d never choose to listen of my own volition.
This was my first album from an artist I had never heard of or knew anything about. I have it a full listen and while there was nothing outwardly BAD about the music, there was nothing special or even good about it either. It was all very samey, somewhat decent Brit rock but I could never also figure out what it wanted to be. It had some various influencer but felt very much like a tweener genre that never actually sounded like anything in particular.
Crazy how Led Zeppelin’s very first album was nowhere near its best, and still better than almost every album ever. Can’t believe it was released as early as 1969, they really pioneered an entire sea change in music.
I was expecting to like this album a lot more than I actually did. There were some of the progressive elements of the music that I really enjoy and he is obviously a talented singer, musician, and performer but a lot of the songs just didn’t hit right for me. The piano oftentimes felt jarring and not as well-integrated in some songs and a lot of it just felt very Billy Joel to me.
Title track obviously fantastic. Other than that pretty emblematic of the 80s, in a pretty good way. Not my favorite decade personally however and I found some of the songs blended together while others shone.
Didn’t make all the way through this marathon album but it was perfectly fine music. Interesting blend of surf rock and British 60s/70s rock, every aong was enjoyable without being overwhelmingly great
Had never heard of this band before but really solid album! Good old fashioned rock with some prog elements thrown in. Just a good time overall, no one particular song blew me away but I was enjoying my way through the whole thing. Wild cover art to open in public though lol
Incredible, not much else to say about a live performance like that. Cash had a mastery of how to command the room, and his performances to boot.
What could I possibly have to say that could add anything of value to the impact of this album? One of the most transformative albums in music history, particularly rock, and setting the stage for a true “rockstar” paradigm introduced by Hendrix along with an entirely new way to play the electric guitar. For this to be a debut album on top of everything else… wow
Perfectly decent old school 70s R and B. Nothing bad about it but nothing stood out. I really hated the mixing and mastering on this album though, everything sounded out of whack
I actually really enjoyed this album. My dad listened to a lot of Flogging Molly with us as a kid and it brought me back to those times, plus I always love the Irish as its part of my heritage and my visit there was great. Almost knocked it down a star for that Fiesta song which aged just horribly but the nostalgic feeling was too strong
Really solid 90s rock. Had never heard of this album but definitely enjoyed it
Good old school R and B. Would rate it three most like but the quality of the opening track brings it up to a four for me.
King is obviously a legend and sounds great but not my personal cup of tea
Really good music, drags on a little at times but I love Johnny Cash and his end of life reflections and voice were still beautiful
Was not a fan of this music. Beach Boys were legendary and revolutionary but still doing the same thing but worse in 2004 was not what I was looking for
