Significant album, you can hear its influence in so many bands that came after, especially in terms of production.
Compared to other Funkadelic albums I think this is a bit weak. Hit it and Quit It is a stand out. I don’t get the hype around the Maggot Brain guitar solo.
I'm not a big JC fan, but I enjoyed the between-song chat, captures the atmosphere so well.
Never listened to this as a full album before. A handful of absolute classics, but drops off in the middle, not feeling Quicksand / Feel your heart
Hard to fault this album, so I won't.
Big fan of this album, Dull Life / Soft Shock / Heads Will Roll are highlights for me
Really nice textures with the french horn and tuba, but this has never been a go-to Miles Davis album for me.
Not really my bag, enjoyed Traveling Man but the rest didn’t grab me
Top 1001? aside from Feelin’ and There She Goes i thought it was dross
Doesn't get much more 80s than this. A bit dull overall.
The first few bars of the album filled me with hope, but didn’t quite deliver. Percussion in City/country/city a highlight.
It was 7am on 8th November 2016 and I was sitting contemplating breakfast at a small table in the corner of a vast deserted restaurant at a hotel in county Meath, Ireland when I heard Born In The U.S.A blaring from a tiny phone speaker. Across the way, the only other guest, a mountain of a man with slicked back hair who was too large for the furniture, was celebrating the announcement of Donald Trump's election victory and boasting to the bewildered waitress about the large bet he'd placed on the result. This album takes me right back to that misty morning and watery porridge.
Some outstanding tracks like (I don’t want to go to) Chelsea, but I can only cope with Costello‘s vocals in small bursts.
Inoffensive but did nothing for me
Loved this, wasn’t expecting the melody on Taj Mahal! Stolen by Rod Stewart / N- Trance?
Many of these tracks are etched into my brain from hearing them a lot as a kid, so I don’t know how much is enjoyment on their own merit vs familiarly. Blame it on Cain / Watching the detectives highlights for me
Everyone is having a good time
Hard work, no discernible redeeming features.
To me the orchestra doesn’t add anything, the arrangements feel more like a film soundtrack
Distinctive but dull. The vocals are not for me.
Cheese? Bacon? Mayonnaise?!
This all felt a bit bland and repetitive, I think it stems from the drum machine, seems like the same beat all the way through each track with no variation
Enjoyed a few of these, like Big Iron and The Master’s Call
I’ve never been able to get past Pet Shop Boys vocals.
Not my go-to public enemy but some great tracks like Welcome to the Terrordome
I’m quite fond of some Neil Young, Harvest/After the Gold Rush are both on regular rotation…..but this isn’t on my the same level
One of my all time favourites
I’ve consciously avoided iron maiden, but the raw punkiness of this album was a pleasant surprise. Not sure what to think lyrically…looking at you..Charlotte the Harlot
Did not enjoy, felt like all of the worst things about 80s pop music rolled into one album
Nothing remotely memorable here. Strangely restrained vocals stuck on top of mediocre backing tracks which don’t go anywhere.
Pleasant but not spectacular
Meh. Could be any early 90s middle of the road band
I like the textures and sounds in a lot of Cure songs, but have never been on board with Robert Smith’s vocals. This album is too lumbering for me.
Great version of Desafinado, and no doubt an influential album in bringing bossa nova into the mainstream. Maybe not my favourite Stan Getz though.
I haven’t listened to this in years. It’s a solid album, but would I choose to put this on instead of the Pixies?
I can imagine this growing on me with concerted listening, jury’s out.
Nostalgia trip
Not entirely my bag, but it must have been quite something to hear this in 1956. Tutti Frutti a highlight
Not keen on the ballady stuff, but the upbeat tracks like rolling in the deep are exceptionally polished pop songs. I’d always assumed Rumour Has It was a cover of a 60’s Motown single!
Absence of cymbals gives it a distinctive vibe, vocals are a bit meh, overall too disjointed as an album.
All over the place stylistically, in a good way. Will give it some more spins
This did absolutely nothing for me. Perhaps if I could hear it without the baggage of being pub-rock influencers it would get another star
Allison / Dig for Fire / Velouria are all top drawer
Mixed bag, a handful of bangers but otherwise unremarkable
Time after time is a pop classic, but it stands out more because a lot of the rest of this album is feeble