You can't deny that this album sounds different. It's competently executed by the band, has some elements of punk and celtic music, but, for me, it sums up like a low budget Jethro Tull. Ok album, but it's not a bunch of songs that I would come back to listen.
Not all songs are remarkable, but all of them are fun to listen to. Short, energetic, kind of falling down the stairs songs, creative riffs, moments of low energy between some songs to recover. An honest good listen. Out of 10, 7,5 with some tranquility.
60s. Psychedelia. Vocal harmonies. Short songs. Absolutely average album. Good songs, nothing remarkable.
Elements of country, 3 incredible songs and the rest are competent, but nothing overwhelming
Elements of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and even Pink Floyd all over the record, but some songs are too long, bland and monotonous. Seems like they lost the war on drugs... Well executed record though. 5.5/10
Talking Heads is some kind of hit or miss to me. They have enough songs to fulfill a setlist or a Greatest Hits album, but the studio albuns are kinda meh. This one, for example. Life During Wartime, Heaven and one or two more songs are hits (live, like on Stop Making Sense, BIG hits), but the rest feels like a miss to me. Thin sound, ideas that are different but not enough, etc. Thus, for me, Speaking in Tongues is a far better record.
I've listened to it so many times that I can skip this pat and rate it anyway. FIVE FUCKING STARS. ABSOLUTE BANGER. One of the best albums of all time. There's no bad (even mid) song on this album, although Side A is STELLAR (War Pigs, Paranoid, Planet Caravan and Iron Man, one after the other), being better than Side B. Lucky for me that I had the privilege of seeing this legends (3/4 of them, at least) live twice. RIP Ozzy
Stones at its best. Lots of blues, one of the biggest hits in the history of music, other good songs too, but nothing stellar. The Stones aren't a band of albums, but a band of hits
You can't deny that this album sounds different. It's competently executed by the band, has some elements of punk and celtic music, but, for me, it sums up like a low budget Jethro Tull. Ok album, but it's not a bunch of songs that I would come back to listen.
Another one that I don't have to listen to rate. I've listened at least six times at its entirety and my impression probably will not change. Queen II is an interesting album, mixing the heavy sound of the band's debut with operatic elements that were more refined in Sheer Heart Attack and, especially, A Night at the Opera. Although it suffers from poor mixing (not as much as the debut, of course), there's a extremely rich sound palette to be explored here. I personally recommend the strong start of the album, with Procession, Father to Son and White Queen (As It Began), but the whole record is pretty respectable (with the exception of, maybe, Funny How Love Is, with its endless fadeout)