James Brown Live At The Apollo
James BrownFantastic album, James Brown was an incredible musician and this really made me feel like I was seeing this live performance. If anything I found it too short.
Fantastic album, James Brown was an incredible musician and this really made me feel like I was seeing this live performance. If anything I found it too short.
It's just alright until you hit Layla then it becomes amazing for a bit then goes back to just alright.
Pretty good - consistently fun to listen to, it had me trapped in the rhythm for most of it. Consistently fun to listen to
Very good
Fantastic album. Bowie is weird in a very special way
Iconic album, incredible start but unfortunately goes downhill from there. Love the Beatles but this isn't my favourite album from them.
Good - overall enjoyable but I found it a bit forgettable
Not a huge fan, lacks a theme. Some songs are good but not very consistent
Such a peaceful listen. Some fantastic songs and a very unique style.
So chill, I was literally caught in terrible traffic and still felt super calm. Great stuff
Amazing.
Very interesting, I'm not a huge fan of the main vocalist voice but it's not really the protagonist of the album either so it's not a huge problem.
Absolutely incredible - so epic and energising, I don't think I can go back to listen to Metallica without an orchestra now.
I've listened to this album so many times. I'm not even a huge Dire Straits fan but this album is such a pleasure to listen to all round.
Pretty terrible, it's like Pink Floyd at their most artsy but they don't really know how to play instruments or sing. Really not a fan
Surprisingly good - I was expecting something pretentious and artsy but it's a lot more honest than I expected.
I enjoyed it all the way, it's a bit dated but it still sounds good. Her voice is beautiful and unique.
I assume they didn't have money to pay for a vocalist. There's a song that starts with the sound of breaking glass and I would much rather every song had that instead of vocals. Absolutely terrible. 2 stars for the band cause they actually know how to play instruments.
Great album, very chill and enjoyable. I'd give 5 starts but I know they can do so much better and I also hate the fucking eagles man.
My problem with the Beatles is that I find them comforting so I'll eat anything they do. It's like playing a silly sitcom like friends when you don't feel like watching something heavier.
I can't really properly score it having listened to it only once if I'm being honest. I feel like I'm missing so much..
Biggie has this incredible way of being extremely real, such a good storyteller. There's a few songs that really lets him down as they're quite sexist and it makes it hard to relate.
Fantastic album, James Brown was an incredible musician and this really made me feel like I was seeing this live performance. If anything I found it too short.
I'm surprised about how much I liked this as it's not really my style but I really enjoyed it. Improved version of Arctic monkeys in my opinion. Would listen to it again
It was alright, found it pretty unremarkable - definitely didn't need a 2nd part.
Really good - pretty consistent in style and theme without feeling repetitive and boring.
Absolutely great - every song was remarkable. I had heard of Stills just from Crosby, Stills & Nash but never actually listened to him separately. Will definitely add to my favourites and listen to it again.
I'm a bit disappointed with myself for not liking this more. I quite like The Who and this album certainly has great tunes, but I somehow didn't tune into the story and after a while it was a drag. I must be missing something
Always loved Supertramp and 'Dreamer' was one of my favourite songs as a kid so I enjoyed this a lot.
WTF - why do I like this?
Good stuff - some great tunes and a general energising feeling.
A problem I often have with these less-known UK bands is that they often sound like a knock-off of a famous band. I don't think that happens with this album, they have their own sound and it's absolutely great. Will listen again and add to my favourites.
This album feels like they've done all the styles that they could think of with the hope that some will stick - annoyingly it kinda works. Some of it is good and some of it isn't so when I look at it as a whole piece it's a bit average. If I could give it 2.5 stars I would.
Hard to say anything bad about this, it's jazz
Nice voice and good singing for a live album, so doing this on one go seems meritable. It does make me wonder wether there'll be more albums in other languages too or this is just a one-off because it's french and stuff in french is automatically art or something.
Pretty awesome - strong sound and something feels very unique about it.
That was a nice discovery - I really enjoyed that. It sounds to me like Indie should sound like.
What in the Yoko Ono is this? I'm not against a bit of psychedelic sound in the right dose but that was definitely too much.
It's hard to put oneself in the context of hip-hop of 40 years ago, knowing how far Run D.M.C came after this. Having said that, I really appreciate how this is them pretty much stripped to their essence, and I really like the anger and vindictive spirit of this album, and the sort of "pulp" sound is something that really hits the spot for me. In summary, even the songs that aren't as good have me engaged and entertained so it pretty much has all I ask for in a hip-hop album.
It's the sound of the 60s - I find it somewhat soothing.
My father in law sadly passed away after a motorcycle accident the day before I got this album in this app. I could not bring myself to listen to it. I was going to tell him about this app, cause we loved talking about music and he wanted to expand his horizons so I thought he'd love this. 5 starts from him.
I don't really know why but it wasn't what I was expecting - it wasn't bad tho
I can't listen to more than 30 seconds of this without getting PTSD flashbacks from when my mum would drag me to a shopping centre. I'm definitely not putting myself through 2 whole hours of this.
Absolutely not
Meh
Great discovery - they might not be a new favourite but I'd listen to it again. The album cover needs work tho
This is their best work in my opinion - they do a great job of making you feel deep emotions
Not bad at all - I find that they're charismatic enough for me to tolerate the more artsy bits that I'd normally find irritating
I'm not a huge Michael Jackson fan but I guess this is as good as it gets
Worth listening to in my opinion - feels honest and real without being pretentious.
I feel like a fraud for not liking this more - I really enjoyed most of the songs and he's undeniably a lyric genius. However, as an album I found it heavy and hard to listen to in one sitting. Also some very shrill harmonica playing that just wasn't very pleasant and not very musically interesting in my opinion.
Another pleasant surprise from this app - weird at times but in a way that I find enjoyable. Great energy and tone, overall really good.
It's just alright until you hit Layla then it becomes amazing for a bit then goes back to just alright.
Absolutely fantastic - I didn't know how much I liked Peter Frampton until I got this album on the app, really enjoyed it.
That was pretty awesome
I feel like this album for me is in the fine line between sort of catchy and terribly boring. It kept getting my interest and losing it all the time. I think overall was good tho
This was so incredibly harmless that I don't know what to rate it. I guess someone needs to do background music for garden centers
I was not expecting to like this at all - when it started I instantly thought it would be extremely indulgent and pretentious for no reason and I was more than ready to give it up after the first minute. But I quickly realised that there was a story behind it all, a message of uncertainty and transition that I found extremely moving.
I am so disappointed with this album, I genuinely thought I liked The Verve but that was so dull.
Fuck no
My expectations for this album were relatively low, I thought T-rex was a bit of a one-hit-wonder. At first I thought my expectations were correct but it won me over with that sort of glam-like sound that just puts me in a good mood.
Some interesting stuff here but I never really got into it.
It took me a bit of time to get into it, mainly because I feel like I was overthinking it and it's also not quite my style. I'm not a huge fan of his voice but the production is impeccable and it's very interesting musically. Overall I think it's a good album.
Stills is a true artisan - it may not be the most exciting album but it's crafted very carefully.
Beastie Boys always deliver - incredible energy
I got this straight after a Beastie Boys album and the contrast is really striking. This album was really good though, the beats are just incredible and the lyrics are pretty good.
This guy is absolutely brilliant, you can encapsulate this album into a category of its own. Absolutely timeless
It's a hit and a miss for me. I guess that's the risk of going experimental. Some stuff in this album I found overwhelmingly beautiful and some other parts were just overwhelming.
As iconic as it may be, I'm not a huge fan.
I didn't know this band before - I was quite disappointed to learn that they're dudes if I'm honest. That said, it's a pretty good album - although the vocals are not what I'd normally like, it creates a sort of unsettling atmosphere that reminds of the darker parts of the Rolling Stones. It also achieves a very distinctive sound with a relatively simple production which I think is very valuable
I liked it, but I was expecting more - it felt very dated and I found it lacking in pace.
Really didn't like it - it feels like it was designed to play in a very crowded fancy club that people go to just to say they've been. Not a fan
This is an exceptional album - her voice is full of character and flawless in the execution, but it's the production that makes this feel relatively fresh despite being a genre that's been done to death.
I absolutely loved every minute of it - I can't disagree more with these extremely dated values, and I doubt I'd ever find myself in their shoes, but the feelings are just very real, and that's something I do relate with.
Bowie just takes you to places you never thought you'd ever go and that's just beautiful. Listening to Bowie songs here and there is good, but listening to a whole album is just an incredible experience.
This is not really what I would normally listen to and subsequently I'm not a huge fan. That said, I can appreciate that this is good stuff - it does manage to put you in a good mood.
This was such a contrast from the previous kinks album I got a few weeks ago - that was so empty and just plain boring, I was very disappointed. This was interesting in all ways.
Some interesting stuff there, I was almost expecting to get bored to death and I didn't really. I gave the last Elvis Costello album 2 stars and this was just a bit better so there you go.
I didn't hate it, but I also didn't like it. Overall just makes me feel like they're so tired and I think they should've taken a nap instead of recording an album
I thoroughly enjoy listening to Bowie, and I found with this album that's not his characteristic voice and singing style that makes him the artist I love. I could hear him in every track whether he was singing or not and I think that says a lot about him as an artist. He's unmistakable.
I quite like country, and this folk-like sound, with its rough-and-ready vocals and its personality does hit the spot for me.
Proper ass-kicking punk - I wasn't too sure about it in the beginning but the longer I listen the more I like it
I forgot how fucking dark and weird this guy use to be
I found this album very puzzling. It ticks all the boxes to be the kind of album I enjoy, yet I could not wait for it to be done. Even the crowd attending the concert sounds only mildly enthusiastic in the beginning and slowly looses interest throughout. I'm glad I listened to it before I died cause now I know that you can also do good music and somehow be absolutely terrible.
So good
Feels a bit like a halfway house between Bowie and ELO - and although I love both, I'd say the sum of the two is not equally good as them separately. I still found it very enjoyable and would listen to it again so I think 4 stars does it justice
What a surprising one - the production is so fresh and innovative without being purposefully obnoxious and irritating. I'll definitely add this to my favourites
Pretty good stuff - I feel like they had more freedom as artists by this point and had the chance to do something edgier. My biggest problem with them is that I struggle to understand what they say, so a lot of the lyrics are missed on me.
Everything about this album sounds right to me - only flaw, it's too short
Good ambience music, the kind of chill-out bar vibes. I guess it's not really designed to pay a huge amount of attention to it so I just kind of left it as background noise and thought about my own stuff - once I did that I actually enjoyed it.
This is the one male stereotype I allow myself to have - fucking love this shit
So strangely good
I thought it sounded very aged, I can imagine people listening to this at the time it was released (which wasn't even that long ago) and convincing myself this was good for the time. Then I realised that so many other albums in this list stand the test of time and manage to be worth listening to after 50+ years and suddenly this album went down the drain for me.
I love every bit of this album - I find Paul Simon weird enough to be interesting without being pendantic and that is a very fine balance
This album makes no sense in terms of theme. Musically it's just a product of the end of the 90s where we were so use to singers not singing that when someone sang relatively ok we worshipped them. Beyonce has a terrific voice, but the endles and aimless runs are insufferable
I found this a bit too "formula". Happy song - Sad song - rocky song - repeat. Feels very generic.
Delivers what it promises. I feel like in the 80s it was frowned upon when a metal singer was actually good at singing so it feels like they actively sing like shit. Good songs, poor execution - the sign of the 80s metal