Nice music, for the nice people

Shocked that I really like the back half of this album more than the first three songs that are all really famous singles

Excellent and inventive

So fun and silly, wish I had this as a kid (even better, we got it when we’re 40)

Tears Dry On Their Own bangs

Richard Thompson is a great arranger

Razor Face 🥰

Awful

“Dirty Work” and “Reelin’ in the Years” are both great, classic pop songs. Hope there is more Dan in this book as this is probably the least interesting album!

One of my favorites

“No More No More” is right

This is another 3.5 to me. Glad I re-listened, some great songs on here!

Never heard this before, it was fun!

Not for me but I can appreciate some good thrash metal drumming

This was dope. Name a spookier song than “Good Morning, Captain”!!!

“Duncan”, “Peace Like a River” and “Congratulations” are so beautiful that this gets four stars from me even though I actively dislike a lot of the lyrical content

Perfect album, with perfect sequencing. Bonus assignment: listen to the Neil Young tracks from CSNY’s 4 Way Street

Like for the general soundscape they cultivated here, don’t love bc the songwriting is a bit too same-y for me

Gotta appreciate these guys

This calmed me down while commuting through Union square so it really is transportative. Yes I paused it on the train to watch several Lonely Island videos but that’s really none of your business.

Did I need to hear this again? Probably not. It’s fine though.

Unsurprisingly I liked the super long ambient track at the end better than anything else, kind of loved that. Everything else meh.

I think this is what’s meant by “caterwauling”

Liked this a lot!

Nice music, for the nice people

When the vibes player really went off that was pretty cool

I respect the energy with which Janis Joplin threw herself into singing but this music is not really for me

I love this band for their sincere mishmash of hardcore and southwestern Americana, aggressive rhythm playing and surprisingly elegant harmonics…if you listen to Up on the Sun you also realize they are huge nerds, a fact that makes me love them even more. Maybe an acquired taste but endeared to me. “New Gods” slays.

Important context for The Muppets

Who am I to rate Miles Davis 4/5. Oh well, it’s a 4/5.

Really didn’t like the bluesy stuff much at all, but I like Questions 67 and 68 a lot

The Lennon/McCartney songs are like pre-TikTok dopamine factories

We have to trick the moms into letting the kids bop with us

Fun!

There are 4 or 5 songs on this that I think are great and then there’s a lot of cacophany. In general I like what this is throwing down though

Would give this a 6/5 if possible

Never heard this before and pleased that I liked it so much, it’s cool that Dave Grohl did this all himself. The exuberance behind it is very Dewey Finn but I’m not mad at it.

The title is truly exactly what it is and it’s awesome

Was going to give this credit because I like “Scar Tissue” and “Otherside” but the new lows that it reaches on the back half are literally like a -2.

Extremely solid house album

Impressively technical but also incredibly lush and alive. Amazing.

Perhaps suffered from my having heard it so many times so it was missing the excitement factor

Definitely a vibe

Solid album, “Heart of Glass” is a 5

Entirely juiceless man

An obvious 5 star classic. Probably the best thing I ever bought at Borders Books

This just washed over me and left almost nothing behind

First time hearing this aside from “Sulky Girl.” Not my favorite album of his, but what a creative songwriter, there’s a lot to enjoy here as there always is with Elvis Costello

Go off, Max Roach. Loved “Pannonia,” also “I Surrender Dear” with just Monk on piano…lovely

Still sounds fantastic

Excellent front to back. “Thinking of You” is pure bliss.

Great energy but they lost me on the last two tracks

Love Sunshine of your Love, otherwise no thank you

Maybe their best IMO

I like “Tom Sawyer,” this was not equally interesting to me throughout

Would like to be the guy yelling in the background, I think I’d be good at that

Having all these tracks on the same album is objectively wild

And that’s the story, of the key change baby

Any songwriter should aspire to the high highs of “Sweet Life”

So potent and beautiful

I respect it but I don’t like it

Misty Mountain and Four Sticks is an awesome b2b

“River of Orchids” is incredible

Nothing special

Forgettable

This is really a 2.5 but I have to be true to myself as a Metallica hater and round down

Y’all need to stop right now

Not my bag style wise but pretty good

Noisy and pretty fun

A classic

For some reason I couldn’t stop thinking about these two guys who were at the open mic night at my favorite college bar literally every week and seemed really old to me at the time

I like “Come On, Come On”

Is she weird? Is she white? Is she promised to the night?

Dismayed that I know almost every song here. I guess my people do come from Boston

I feel like this is just before they really started being a band that I love, but the seeds are there

Not surprised this holds up but surprised it’s so good throughout. Great songwriting!

A slog

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B.B. King really sings the shit out of this material

Incredible. I particularly liked II b but this is beautiful throughout and it’s simply wild that a human can do this.

Still great at 36