Classic record. Songs that remind me of being a kid and discovering my own taste in music.
Repetitive crash/bang neo-garage rock. It's fine, I guess, but doesn't really do much. Never really understood the Jack White obsession. Feels uninspired. Couldn't wait for it to be over. Not for me.
Jammer. Nice easy grooves, layers of sound come through with plenty of headroom. Let it rip.
Don't care much for The Doors, but I'm glad this is one of their more tangible records. Songs were short enough that the next one would start before I needed to change. Overall better than expected.
This record brings together many musical elements that I love. Unpolished dance rock with a punk-leaning spine, songs that build despite repetition. Brings me back to my grad school days when I would go to my favorite bar which had a great catalog of LCD Soundsystem on the Touchtunes and my friends and I would load up 5-6 songs for an hour-worth of good feels - the real bang for my college buck. I welcome revisiting this record every time it pops up, haters be damned.
While I appreciate Hendrix's contributions to music and culture, I don't appreciate "Guitar God" as a genre of music. Looking at the tracklist, I am already terrified of 15 and 10 minute-long songs. I lasted 5 minutes into Voodoo Chile. I get this dude rips, but my attention span can't handle this. Onward... Made it to Gypsy Eyes - I'm hanging in through the shorter songs. But I'm feeling a little lopsided and realize that it's because all of the drums are in the left channel. Wild that stereo was new around this time, but very glad we have learned from this. Beginning to experience fatigue. Enter electric harpsichord and outer space guitar effects. Extreme cognitive dissonance. Ooof only made it 90 second into 1983. Is this what the future sounded like in 1968? I'm all fuzzed out. Like the Beatles, I will accept Hendrix's impact of rock and roll, but I will likely never be a fan.
I can almost taste the bananas and peanut butter listening to this. The record moves. Enjoying a record of sub 3-minute songs with some variety. Overall it was pretty good. Not something I'd go to grab off the shelf, but wouldn't mind it playing in the background.
Classic record. Songs that remind me of being a kid and discovering my own taste in music.
Bowie has admittedly been a blind spot in my listening history. Excited to give this a listen. Starts pretty fun. Nice little rocker to kick things off. Catchy and fun bopper. Track two gets Doors-level weird. Perhaps too avant-garde for first thing in the morning. Eh overall it was fine, leaned a little too Doors-esque drug-addled drone rock. Not my fav.
I've never listened to Liars, I know nothing about them, and I really like this album cover. Excitement is high going into this. Ok first track is out there. Really hoping this record morphs into something cohesive and it's not trippy experimental drum n bass the whole way through. Track 2 was a hard no. Nevermind. This record sucks. First one I can't get through. Maybe these guys needed to exist for The Books and TV on The Radio to be received as well as they were, but this sucks. Fucking terrible. It's like Blue Man Group spent the summer in London and decided they wanted to put out a punk record.
This hits somewhere between The Books, Moby, and a generic PS2 racing game's menu/title music. It's not bad. Kinda sits in the background. Could benefit from some brevity.
Punky and kinda fun.