I know many of these songs from bootleg Counting Crows live tracks! The deluxe version of this is overstuffed. I really enjoyed the studio feel of it - another thing the CC took away from VM. The reprises confused me; it felt like the album went on a long time or I'd accidentally set it to shuffle and repeat.

Found it a bit muddy and indistinct, tracks blended into each other even on third listen. The only bit I remember is when he says "meat is murder" which reminded me to have lunch

Each song had a unique texture but the album as a whole still felt cohesive. Some absolute bangers on this one. Can't believe I've never actually heard the whole album before when I'm word perfect on Mrs. Robinson.

Maybe this is a timing thing but for such a seminal group and album it felt really watery and diluted. I guess it was harder to access folk, rock, soul and fusions from Black and traditional artists so everybody's rich friend's dad's favourite group of white dudes was what you had.

Really liked this as a teen but went right off Richard Ashcroft, probably due to overplay. Revisiting after a long break, many of these songs really stand up - emotive, textured. Some of the production feels unnecessarily dramatic from a modern perspective.

This is fantastic. I want to play this all the time

Bounced off this hard. Just not my thing I think. Felt all very samey, hard to pick up particular riffs or lyrics. Maybe if I knew more about guitar I'd be more compelled.

Loved this. So much texture and interest

Enjoyable but I felt like I had to really, really lean in and engage to pull anything out of it - I kept losing concentration.

The big hits on this album are very familiar to me and indubitably work. The in between tracks are a little muddier, grounded in that era-appropriate hard man style of lyrics and vocals that feels so offputting when served without the dramatic flights of fancy found in the opening and closing tracks.

Man all these white man groups sound the same. It was fine. I don't remember anything about it.

People talk shit about RHCP and it'sa very uncool to like them, but this and One Hot Minute are amazing albums full of bangers.

Pretty good

Honestly kind of a banger

I really enjoy this era of hip hop, the production and flow always make me smile. This isn't LL's best work though. There's a lot of lyrical repetition and some gross 90's cultural stuff that hasn't aged well.

I don't think I appreciate high level guitar enough to really get this one, and the oft-imitated 60's cultural touchstones really catch for me. Definitely channeling "ratings are for personal taste and not quality assessments" thing today.

I love how this album is stretching towards something it couldn't quite achieve. These beautiful, dramatic songs, full of melancholy, angst and rage, each have a distinct emotive voice - but even with every trick thhey threw at it in production, the late grunge era guitars, bass and drums are foregrounded and bury the rest of it, making it hard to differentiate between tracks if you focus on anything but Shirley's voice. When the other instrumental elements do break through, it's sublime. You can see why they were moved to lean into digital production in 2.0, trying to channel that energy to the foreground. Even failing to hit its target, it remains an all time great.

So great. The presence of the audience noise is additive rather than distracting, because there's so much chemistry between Cash and the inmates. It's so humanising, in a scenario which is anything but. One of the best live albums I have ever heard.

I appreciated this more than enjoyed it. The most interesting parts are the leats fun to listen to.

Didn't expect to like this - looked him up and was like "ANOTHER highly influential jazz and folk influenced dude seminal to the rock and acoustic scsnes of the 60's and 70's? Christ" but then it was so wonderful. You can see the direct DNA leading to eg Fleet Foxes. Great structure and drama, no pretension, just beautiful.

Liked this one much more than the othr Hendrix disc I've had so far - much more melodic and accessible, less of a 60's vibe