A great single album hidden inside a double album. I'm not against a long album as long as it earns it, but I feel like with some cutting this could have been a front to back no skip album, but instead we have a lot of I memorable filler splitting up the moments of genius. The album's sequencing is also something I'm not a fan of. Multiple times they go straight from a nice subdued pretty song into just a wall of distortion, which while I can see what they were going for, is just completely ineffective in my eyes.
Bump it: Galapagos, 1979, Jelly Belly, Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
Skip it: Where Boys Fear To Tread, Cupid De
Locke, An Ode To Noone, Tales Of A Scorched Earth
The eternal question, do you rate something based on cultural impact/importance, or personal preference. While I recognize how monumental and album this is, how fantastic the production and song writing is, it's just not my thing. I think just an album of front to back MJ is just a bit much for me. I'll enjoy the singles enough when I hear them but can't see myself ever putting this on intentionally.
Bump it: the Vincent Price Monologue
Skip it: PYT (using the word young in a love song has always been creepy to me, in the case of MJ more so)
This album is a glass of skim milk. A plate with 2 pieces of plain toast with the crusts cut off. A white woman complaining at a restaurant because the pepper is too spicy.
Shit is boring as hell is what I'm saying.
Such a fun listen. Slice of life lyrics, fun instrumentation, interesting songwriting choices. Going to be added into regular rotation for sure
Step 1) play a mediocre chord progression you've heard 100 times before. 2) organ and guitar solos for 2-4 minutes.
Was completely bored and do not understand
The groove is very real, just wish it had a little more than that going on for it
Has some great moments, has some incredibly boring moments. Fantastic drumming, when Jack Bruce stays out of falsetto range he's a fantastic vocalist. Overall solid album but don't think I'll be coming back to it
Creative, disjointed in a wonderful way, beautiful at times. Really just a fantastic listen.
Its Radiohead. If you need more than that I don't know what to tell you.
I can recognize how much musicianship and talent went into it, but have no desire to ever listen to it again.
It gives the vibes of a Christian youth counciler trying to help inner city kids find God while also sliding into a 15 year old's DM's.
If the only thing you want is guitar solos this is the album for you. Not for me.
While this probably blew minds in the 60's, I just don't vibe with it.
Yes, it's pretentious noisey bullshit. I'm pretentious and love noise. 5/5.
I want to be more.into this because I do like folk music. But honestly I can only listen to so much of this asthmatic grandmother going between utter nonsense and "war bad" lyrics.
What a goddamn classic. Wonderful pop songwriting, the Alice of life lyrics, just an absolute gem.
Yeah the lyrics are total nonsense, but the music and vocal performance is so good do you honestly care?
The greatest album of all time...according to your uncle who calls waitstaff Honey.
The only real issue is it starts of with Tiny Dancer, which yeah it's a big song but there's a reason, it's a masterpiece. Rest of the album is also great but never reaches that height again.
Such a fantastic record, everything that's right about punk. Smart in it's dumbness, massive in how concise it is, just a brilliant record that was way ahead of its time.
Fuck Eric Clapton
The issue with this album is its structure. You start out with the 20 minute, concept heavy, virtuosic, fan fucking tastic 2112 saga. It is everything that makes rush great. Then you have side B which is not at all bad, just underwhelming. 4 stars because 2112 is just that damn good though
Some interesting ideas here, but overall just didn't do anything for me
The soundtrack so 14 year old angst and anger at the world. But there are worse things in the world than that. Plus Chester was always a fantastic vocalist. The rapping and turntables have aged like milk though.
I just don't understand reggae. It's fine but nothing I will ever go back to
Fuckin Hippies man.
It my have been a big thing at the time but I found it mostly forgettable. A record that I've heard 1000 times, maybe because it's been copied, but just not my thing
You can tell this was Dave trying to write nirvana songs, hadn't really come into his own yet. Definitely the sound of someone finding their feet, not that I'm the biggest foo fighters fan ever but they for sure got better after this.
Joyful, groovy, not the best talking heads album, but still a talking heads album.
Music tastes and opinions are subjective. Paranoid being a 5 star album is not.
Despite listening to metal for pretty much my entire life I have never really understood motorhead. Every song blends together, jailbait is creepy as hell, the bass tone is really the only thing giving this above 1 star
