I've never heard this album before despite some Foo Fighters songs being some of my favourites. I think I'd only heard "Big Me" from this one. Really love hearing all the Nirvana DNA in these songs.
High energy, pop punk goodness. Didn’t realize most of the songs I’d heard from this band were all from this one album!
An absolute classic from Eddie and the boys.
This is the first one I’ve never heard before! In fact I’m not sure I know anything from Deep Purple except the opening to Smoke on the Water… I think that’s them? So after listening to it I am whelmed. I can understand the energy and the musicianship on display, and this must have been a very compelling album when it came out in the context of its era. Listening to it in 2024, it’s good, but perhaps too influential because I feel like I’ve heard all of it before.
I don't care for this very much. It's probably one of those things you had to experience in the right moment in time. Still, I was willing to give it some grace because I figured I was hearing the sound which would come to fruition with Psycho Killer... until I realized this album came AFTER that one. So the band got worse. Will most definitely not spin this one again.
Apart from the three singles I already knew, the rest of this album was a mystery. It’s very clangy, grating and Bruce is pretty much screaming his way through the songs. I preferred the slower ballads but even those were fairly boring.
Just terrible.
I like the mood and overall vibe of the album, but I'm just not a fan of the overly flat and spoken style of the lyrics, which - due to this website - I'm discovering is a very British phenomenon, and maybe doesn't resonate with me as someone outside that country. I don't think this album is anywhere near important or inflential enough to be considered an "album to listen to before I die". But the list is obviously coloured by the book author's personal tastes. I won't revisit this one.
Not much to say. It's simple and straightforward blues, performed well. It's very repetitive though and it suffers from being a live album. Not really my cup of tea. I'm not well-versed enough in the blues to understand if this is really worthy of being on the list or not, but personally it's average at best.
Pretty plodding and repetitive. I like the punk vibes but there is not much imagination to this.
Nasal sluggish vibrato country western. Not for me.
I’m sure this was fire at the time but now it’s just kitschy. It’s like Hansel opined of Sting: “I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that.”
Boring.
Terrible. This guy can’t sing, can barely play, and the lyrics are confused. I have no idea what the big deal has ever been.
