In Utero
NirvanaLove that Nirvana got to make the album they wanted, not the album the studio wanted, and shoutout the band for having the balls to land that ship. Not all noise needs a purpose.
Love that Nirvana got to make the album they wanted, not the album the studio wanted, and shoutout the band for having the balls to land that ship. Not all noise needs a purpose.
Isaac Hayes second solo album! No longer in the shadow of Otis Redding and other Stax hitmakers! So much in this album is so fundamental to the music that was to come!
So, Springsteen first wrote Born in the USA for his Nebraska album, and when he played it for the E Street Band the keyboard player Roy Bittan immediately caught a new riff and changed that song forever. Check out the demo ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Gh1wQEe1I ), it's worlds different, sent chills down my spine the first time I heard it.
This album is such a vibe. Who cares if you don't understand the words, the vocals are an *instrument*, man. It soars, it dips, it glides across foreign countrysides. There's a freaking starchild on the cover.
I agree with everyone else asking why is this album part of the collection? Were they friends with the author of the book? Am I an eagle? If I were, would I fly and poop on this band's house? Do they even have a house? What does their label think about them, like, honestly? Does their label wish they could be eagles too?
Hell yes, everything about this album. Hell yes all the hits, hell yes the rest of it, hell yes the guitars, hell yes.
This sounds like what you'd expect the first Dire Straits album to sound like bob, sure does bill, glad we had this conversation bob, me too bill.
I like this band, they're fine, this album, it's okay.
Once again, not sure why this album was included.
I've never been a Costello fan. Listening to this album... nope. nope. nope. nopety nope nope nope, sorry Elvis but John Darnielle is the only overly verbose white dude singer for me.
There's some jazz I like, though I don't know why, so having a worthwhile opinion before "me likey" is a little rough here. I liked this enough to listen to it three times.
I last lived in Chicago on Jan. 3 2004, when I drove a truck with a motorcycle, an old Ford Contour and the rest of my belongings down Western Ave. to Augusta and to the highway headed south. This album landed a year later, and my collected years in Illinois drew my interest close enough to download the mp3s on soulseek. According to my last.fm, I listened to this album three times in 2006, but hearing "Chicago" just now for the first time in nearly a decade gave me the chills. So about the music: It's not my type and I'd like it less if I didn't give a shit about Chicago, but there's a tenderness to the curiosity and imagination that's rife here and it sits well. Unrelated, I try to avoid taking delight at the misfortune of others, but the fact that Sufjan's Broadway adaptation of Illinoise! is still going strong while the Avett Brothers fizzled within weeks gives me hope for audiences and the artform.
Imagine enjoying Led Zeppelin's first album and then Black Sabbath shows up with this.
Listened to it three times, really like Glittering Prize, but the rest of this sounds meh?
I'm sorry, I know people enjoy this band, but there is nothing in this album for me. I had to skip part of a song for the first time on this 1,001 album journey. Why do they sound so whiny all the time? Canada, you can do better.
Had heard songs on this before but never the whole thing, it's such a banger of a pop album. Enjoyed every track but maybe Bad Blood and Clean.
I feel like I get what this album is trying to do, I just didn't enjoy it all that much.
Heard of this album, and heard a couple songs on it but never listened to it all the way through. I'm a big fan of the Cooper Black font on the cover here, such a classic font, and I'm also now a fan of this album, such a classic album. Cooper Black has been around since 1922 and has found many uses in display lettering, on storefronts, signs, print ads, online ads, album covers etc. in that time; this album has been around since 1971 and has surely been accompanying dinner parties and lazy Sunday afternoons, since then. One of my favorite things about music law is that when you cover someone else's song, the original songwriter (or whoever owns the song I guess) gets the royalties. So putting a cover on your album means you love that song enough to make someone else some money. Harry Nilsson cared enough about Let the Good Times Roll to make Shirley Goodman's estate some dough. I've been trying to find a place to use the word "rollicking" in these comments and I never quite found it, so I'll put it here: god damned rollicking.
Lou..... Reed..... solo..... album..... and this is s'posed to be his good one. Some classics for sure but...... I'll take his Hudson River Wind Meditations.
I like to imagine hearing certain albums played live, in the era and place where the album landed, and this is one of them. There's a counterpoint between the sparseness of the production and how full the songs feel that must have been mesmerizing to witness in person.
SO MUCH FUN HOLY SHIT how much fun were these guys having when they made this album THE ANSWER IS SO MUCH FUN.
Not a 2.... definitely not a 4.... three it is.
I'm not a big Bob Dylan guy but this album was a lot of fun. Really enjoyed the adverb "obviously" in "Obviously Five Believers." Appreciated the "fuck you I'm Bob Dylan I can do anything" vibes present throughout, all the foolery reminded me of my old roommate Tom (RIP) and his delight. "Nonsense makes no sense" he'd chortle. Tom and I spent a decent chunk of our twenties in Chicago living in an $800-a-month three bedroom, he was trying to get his band (the Interociter) off the ground, I was working on a freelance design / web dev business. His last name was Zimmerman too.
Do we really need two The Band albums on this list? No, the answer is No. I heard everything I didn't need to hear the first time around. So I listened to this thing all the way through but it wasn't easy, didn't like it, and don't want to do it again. There better not be a third The Band album on this list.
Conflicted on whether to give this a 3 or a 4, enjoyed it but doubt I'd listen again.
oh shit, I honestly never knew Bob Dylan wrote Blowin' in the Wind. We used to sing that song at church when I was young. Fine album but Blonde on Blonde was better.
Almost turned it off after that dreadful opening track, but I didn't, and this album grew on me.
Liked this more than I thought I was gonna.
This isn't really a review it's just a bunch of blabbing. This album was the soundtrack of my summer of 2006, and I had a damn fine summer that year. I mean it was okay. I'd been into the Stones' best of in high school, Goat's Head Soup in college, and this was another step in my Rolling Stones appreciation tour. Guess it would be the last because I never really listened to them intently afterward, nothing against the album, it's a great album covers a lot of ground. According to my last.fm, I've listened to it at least 30 times.
I love a half-hour album.... but I didn't love this one.