I feel like Stevie Wonder are the CEO of songs I’ve heard before but don’t know the name of or know anything about really. (Superstition and most of the songs from Key of Life are the exceptions) I’m glad to change that, because there is a reason I have heard them, and it is because they are gems. It is not a genre I’m too familiar with but I can tell it has inspired and influenced a lot of the modern pop and rap music I love and adore today.
Favorite track(s): Tuesday Heartbreak, Superstition
«Ya like jazz»
Well, yes and no, thank you Mr Seinfeld. Or Barry B. Benson or whatever. I enjoy ambient jazz for example, with its slow and quiet melodies, perfect in the background while a small group converse. Or big band jazz with its grandiose and larger-than-life sound boasting through the room.
And then, there is this. I went in, not knowing who either Herbie Hancock or what a Head Hunter was. (That’s a lie, I have read Jo Nesbø) I put on the album and was intrigued by the synths and the building of the music. Then, when the instruments had jammed a bit, I waited for the vocals… and I waited
But the moment never came. Okay sure, that is the kind of album this is. It’s instrumental jazz. And that is fine. But I just kept thinking “this part would be great with some vocals”.
Instead the instruments do the job the vocals usually do. And there is many great solos by a lot of different instruments on this album. To write music for so many instruments is impressive in itself. I like most of if not all of these solos.
But then there’s these parts where there are too many instruments playing at once, these parts often get chaotic and sometimes even wearying.
So yea, I like to think that I like jazz, but sometimes, it just gets a bit too… jazzy, I guess?
See you next time Jerry!
Favorite tracks: I like parts of all of them, but I mean they are just so looong. The start of Chameleon and most of the second half of Sly.
5/10
This is a good folkrock album. I mean there is some songs I like and some songs I don’t. There is no songs I love, but neither are there songs I hate… It is a very indifferent and inoffensive album. It is alright. I don’t know what more to say, really.
Oh and Paul Simon is American?????
While I listened I thought that this was the most American British album I had ever heard… only to find out that my life was a lie and Bridge Over Troubled Water wasn’t made by two British chaps.
Favorite tracks: Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, Duncan
6/10
I’m usually not the biggest fan of live-albums but this seemed to translate the experience of being at the venue in person very well.
Although this genre is not my cup of tea, I enjoyed this album. It’s a shame that so many tracks are removed from the Spotify version. (from copyright I guess?) I could listen to this for a little bit longer than 22 minutes. But a good, short weekend album.
Favorite track: Great Balls Of Fire
6/10
It’s cool that Radiohead tried something completely different from what they originally got famous for, and I think this album is a big part of why Radiohead is labeled as a band who never settles and is very innovative and unique.
That said, although I want to love this, I feel like In Rainbows is a much greater record, maybe because it mixes the earlier sound of Radiohead with a sound you find a lot of on Kid A.
It may be worth noting that I also like Amnesiac more than Kid A. That being said, I think that maybe besides OK Computer, that this is the most important Radiohead album.
Favorite tracks: Everything In Its Right Place, How To Disappear Completely, Motion Picture Soundtrack
Favoritt sanger: Smoke on the Water, Lazy