I fucking hate jazz, and all the assholes that name themselves "jazz players". every person I met that call themselves a jazz player had always been an entitled piece of shit. Are they playing in Newport CA? So it's a gig for rich People. Fck all of them. I'm sure the audience is just seeing them as funny little monkeys. So hard to not be biased cause what I've heard so far is really good. Great musicians!!. By the way, did Duke Ellington play here or he just took all the credit from all the great musicians heard in this album?? I wouldn't be surprised. Jazz musicians have always been major assholes. The performer's names should be on the front cover. But I guess they just were working for a check from Mr. Ellington. And his picture got to be on the front cover too! Without playing a single note, I asume. Despite personally finding this album a piece of shit, I think is a must to listen at least once if you're a music student. And if you're a brass student, you should pick up a song and transcribe the solos. This album is played by top musicians and there's lots to learn from it. But if you play piano, go look somewhere else to learn from. This is not it. My heart goes to those exploited musicians that had to record their parts again the next day because Mr. Ellington thought they were not good enough for this album. What a Dick. If I haven't made myself clear: FUCK JAZZ!!!!!!! I HATE IT WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL.

I don't know what to think. I thought this sounded like a gentle courtney love. Or a harder version of Alanis Morrissette. She certainly sounds like a rock girl. But I got kinda bored. And she doesn't sing that well either. I guess the importance of this album lays on the risque lyrics. Kudos to her. Sexism was awful in the 90s. But I didn't really like this album musically.

not really my cup of tea, but he had a really amazing voice!, I loved his passion and power. It's good to hear someone I completely ignored in the past and figured out how he influenced so much great music created later.

Sledgehammer es buena. Creo que la toqué cuando estaba estudiando. El videoclip me daba miedo cuando chico. Pero Don't Give Up me cargaba cuando la escuchaba en la radio, no tenía idea que era con Kate Baush. No sabía que era de Peter Gabriel ni de este disco. Es un disco ochentero de los que pasa la prueba del tiempo a mi gusto. Muy buena producción, excelentes ideas de arreglos. No me suena "kitsch" para nada. Muy buen gusto musical para todo. Los arreglos del bajo son geniales. Pero tampoco es un estilo de música que me atraiga salvo para sacar ideas de arreglos para sintetizadores. Solo me veo escuchando de nuevo Sledgehammer y el resto probablemente lo borraré cuando se llene de espacio mi Ipod. Me costó llegar hasta la última canción pero es solo por preferencia personal. En realidad este disco es excelente para los que les gusta la música de los 80s. Yo, personalmente, todavía estoy buscando el "factor goosebumps" qué este disco no me dió.

I'm more a music guy. I have trouble enjoying music that's supposed to be heard and rated because of the lyrics. I connect emotionally with the music mostly, not with the lyrics. Besides, I always had trouble understanding the lyrics on english songs. Igualmente escuché este disco leyendo las letras al mismo tiempo. Ella es una gran poeta, toda una trovadora. Y la música sigue manteniendo ese aire "pop" a pesar de que perfectamente podría ser puramente folclórico. Pero quizás solo lo estoy comparando al "canto nuevo" chileno que solo pertenece a mi cultura. No es música que me llegue emocionalmente a mi y no va dirigida a alguien como yo que no es de USA. Para eso preferiría escuchar Víctor Jara o Violeta Parra. Igualmente la voz de ella es muy linda y la producción musical es muy buena, very classy. Same as the mix and master (listening to the TIDAL versión). Doesn't sound outdated to me at all besides being such an old record. It just doesn't speak to me personally. But I can see why this album is in the book.

I fucking hate jazz, and all the assholes that name themselves "jazz players". every person I met that call themselves a jazz player had always been an entitled piece of shit. Are they playing in Newport CA? So it's a gig for rich People. Fck all of them. I'm sure the audience is just seeing them as funny little monkeys. So hard to not be biased cause what I've heard so far is really good. Great musicians!!. By the way, did Duke Ellington play here or he just took all the credit from all the great musicians heard in this album?? I wouldn't be surprised. Jazz musicians have always been major assholes. The performer's names should be on the front cover. But I guess they just were working for a check from Mr. Ellington. And his picture got to be on the front cover too! Without playing a single note, I asume. Despite personally finding this album a piece of shit, I think is a must to listen at least once if you're a music student. And if you're a brass student, you should pick up a song and transcribe the solos. This album is played by top musicians and there's lots to learn from it. But if you play piano, go look somewhere else to learn from. This is not it. My heart goes to those exploited musicians that had to record their parts again the next day because Mr. Ellington thought they were not good enough for this album. What a Dick. If I haven't made myself clear: FUCK JAZZ!!!!!!! I HATE IT WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL.

Boring. Except for the first song. The rest all sound the same to me. Kinda bland elevator music. But it makes good background music while doing something else.

Well at first I though this was generic sounding music from that era. But now, after reading more about them, I realized that they were the first and influenced more bands that I can name. Too bad I don't smoke weed anymore cause this would have been exactly the kind of music I'd be chillin' with my friends during my 20s. Even though this is not the music I usually like, I'm adding this album to my "classic rock" playlist.

Good record! I think I'm keeping this one. Very creative.

I don't like the vocals. Sound like he's uninterested and bored the whole time. And besides he could really use a touch of a pitch correction software. For now I'm trying to appreciate the music behind his voice. It tries to be experimental and I appreciate that. But sounds too much like if all the songs were composed with an acoustic guitar and the rest of the musicians had to figure out what to play around it. Everything it's just...... Bland. Boring. At the end, nothing from this album got me excited.

Not the worst album I heard so far here. But I don't enjoy this kind of commercial "indie sounding" crap. And Seven Nations Army is still over played af. Still trying to get through it. Maybe it will grow for me. Don't know.

I get the feeling I could enjoy this album a lot more if I understood the lyrics. Maybe I'll listen against with lyrics in hand. But for now...... It's just generic punk?? A harder version of The Clash?. I was reading they were one of the first and kudos to them for going against the on going homophobia of those years. But it's not really music I dig.

Nice raw sounds. Don't like the fake Live audience. And Janis Joplin screaming is giving me a headache. But overall not bad. Crazy hippie rock jams.

Ok I thought it started interesting enough. But then the songs, chord progressions, drums and even the "weird" noises don't sound original to me. I wanted to like this music but I ended up bored as fuck. It's all the same long boring crap. Where the fuck comes all the praise for this set of 10 dog turds???. Well sorry, I'm being too harsh. I'm sure this is someone's baby. But I'm still looking for the "goosebumps factor". Haven't found anything yet and, certainly, this is not it. What I can say is that I find this album less unbearable than the Wilco album I got a few days ago. So it's an improvement!. Still I'm not giving it more than 2 stars because this is not music I would listen again except for background music when I set my IPod to shuffle. Omg I just tried to listen to this album again. It's... So... Damn... Boring! :( and I hate that I feel this way about it because I need to see the positive side of life. But this is too much for me.

Nah

Better than the other indie rock sounding albums that I got before. I enjoyed some of the Electronic sections. I give it 2 stars only because it's not Coldplay.

First album I got here that I already heard before. I think this is a lot of fun. Raw and genuine rock. Even with the out of tune guitars or clashing chords at times.

Nice and interesting production. Maybe I like the somber atmosphere. And electronic music elements are always welcome in these kind of albums.

Funny lyrics. This music is the perfect real punk album. Raw and amateur sounding. But good music to get on a mosh pit. Unfortunately is not a style of music I enjoy that much.

I don't like jazz. But I like the occasional avant garde music mixed with classical and folk. This is a record to listen concentrated and analyze all the elements that play there.

at least is better than Wilco. Sounds like old rock pop to me. Nothing original, nothing interesting.

Very creative music. I think this is very interesting musically and lyrically too.

A fun album. It sounds good and has a nice production. Very creative to take inspiration as a keyboard inspired album.

What can I say. It's U2. I guess this album influenced a lot of bands because I hear many similar things that I've heard from other bands. Never payed attention to this album before. It's actually Ok. I'd play it again. Not the kind of music I like but this is fine.

Good 90s music. Reminds me of Beck's music also from the 90s. Never heard of this band before. I think is kinda ok now. My teenager self in the 90s would have hated this.

Music school ruined this music for me. It just sounds like work. Not something I can relax to. Too bad, because I remember there was a time I actually kinda liked bossa nova. But it just reminds me too much about being tortured as a student and also as a player. Frank's voice is very nice and Tom Jobin's compositions are beautiful as always. I just have too many negative memories attached to this music style.

Beautiful vocals. But I don't like country music.

It's always nice to hear artistas getting inspiration from other cultures. I like the mix with western and africano folk music. It sounds like this was done with respect and admiration. I don't think it's cultural appropiation.

Catchy songs, great production. And this is the album that started with the idea of releasing songs as a whole product rather than just individual albums. I'm not the biggest Beatles fan but this album is gorgeous.

I don't know what to think. I thought this sounded like a gentle courtney love. Or a harder version of Alanis Morrissette. She certainly sounds like a rock girl. But I got kinda bored. And she doesn't sing that well either. I guess the importance of this album lays on the risque lyrics. Kudos to her. Sexism was awful in the 90s. But I didn't really like this album musically.

Surprisingly enjoying this album today. Must be that I'm on a better mood. Anyway, the commentary about keeping peace at the beginning is nice (the Donald Trump comment aged like milk though). I'm not from the USA. I have no idea about the drama between rappers from this or the other coast, and frankly don't really care. When this album was released, MTV had already stopped playing most rock bands in favor of boy bands, pop music and this kind of hip hop. One of the extremely overplayed songs was "Work It" which, of course, I hated at the time, along with all the other crap that MTV started pushing. I was finishing high school at that time and I was very much into metal, hard rock and industrial. I had no interest in pop music and I deeply hated Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. But after all these years, I can appreciate more this kind of music. Not my cup of tea once again. But It's really well done, sounds great even after more than 20 years. And the messages of peace and "getting along and be gentle to everyone" sounds really good to me. Again, I have no idea about the beef between rappers, and I don't even know if Missy Elliot has been cancelled or has done anything bad since then. I'm only taking this album at face value.

This one is a keeper. I love albums that work a story and a concept from start to finish. I love the sci fi story that can also relate to what's happening in real life. The music is awesome too. I've never heard about this artist before or anything from this album. I think it's really well produced, like the good kind of pop music. Eclectic and not extremely commercial. This music is like an art project wrapped in pop music. I like it.

One of my favorite composers! I love Piazzolla so much and how he created the "New Tango". I never really heard this album that much before today but I really like it. The collaboration with a vibraphone virtuoso is a plus. Gary and Astor collab is awesome, and the quintet was on fire. I love the piano player Pablo Ziegler. Still, my favorite Piazzolla albums are the Live at Montreaux festival '84. And the Central Park concert. This recording is missing one of my favorite Piazzolla compositions: "Adios Nonino" which I'd have loved to hear with the vibraphone sound.

Beautiful voice. I think this album tries to be jazz and fails. Which is all good to me because I really don't like jazz. Although I hear hints of country which I don't like either. This is the kind of album I need to listen several times to digest it. I'm finding it kinda bland. I'm not hearing here anything that blows my mind. But I'm trying to figure out why this is one of the Best selling albums of all time.

The god of guitar. There's some impressive musicianship here, and I was happily suprised that there are also proper songs in the mix of the guitar solos. I had only listened to a greatest hits album before. This is the first time I hear a Hendrix proper album. Not bad at all. Just not my style, specially since I don't play guitar. A guitar player would probably appreciate more this album.

Fuck this album sucks. Even the Circle Jerks have more sense of rhythm and musicality than this guy. The beats sound amateur, everything sounds badly mixed and he's out of tune almost every time he's not "rapping" and attempts to sing. And when he's rapping he's annoyingly behind the beat. But it doesn't sound like he has a certain groove behind the beat. It just sounds like he can't keep the correct timing. How the hell is this shit part of the book????. The whole lack of musicality makes me not even want to care about the whole "rap opera" OR whatever the fuck he's talking about. I would give this album a negative ranking if I could. It doesn't even deserve 1 star. UPDATE: I gave this album a 2nd try while reading the lyrics... Nope. It still sucks. Couldn't make it past the 2nd "song". Sounds like the story of an asshole kid. Damn this sucks. I wish I haven't gotten this album.

Fun album. I like it very much. I know this is kinda the start of Alice Cooper career. It makes me wonder how much has he evolved over the years. I've never really listened to him, so I guess I'll be looking soon for more albums to check.

I always heard this band named as one of the pioneers of funk. But I never really heard them before. This is fun music, great grooves. The song Stand is my favorite so far. Apparently some of the songs from this album are very popular. But not where I come from. All the songs were new to me. Let's just say that in the early 70s my country wasn't in any shape to receive optimistic music. It was probably banned too. Isn't this the kind of music that later derived into "jam music"? the ones where they just play on a groove and each instrument solo for a long time?. It sounds like that to me.

This is my 2nd Nirvana album. Remarcable album. Very nice. I've never been a Nirvana fan but this album motivated me to research more about it. And after knowing it's story, all hats to Kurt Cobain. Actually, not just him. The whole band!!. They've been through so hard experiences!!. And despite all, they are still alive today.