The kind of thing you'd probably like if you like that kind of thing.

Prog nonsense.

Technically, impressive and worth listening to, but at least on first listening I was not actually moved.

Well that was a lot of fun.

I don't understand what they mean, and I could really give a f*ck.

I will be singing Take On Me until the day I day. But I didn't need the album.

The kind of thing you'd probably like if you like that kind of thing.

I don't know if it's possible for me to "listen" to this again. I mean, I can play it, but (like Murmur or Rumours) it's already so loud in my head.

There was a time I would have tried to love this. But there's too much sawing and just not enough joy or enough anarchy.

Come on. The only way it could be better is if it were tusk.

Some really evocative moments - esp. 8:05 - but the whole time I kept thinking I was listening to a really adept pastiche/re-creation of that moment. A totally unfair perspective, I realize. I bet their shows were fantastic.

All the middle-school feels.

Love the horns, and the technical level is high throughout. But this kind of funk-rock has never really moved me, even if Spotify claims it is the lineal descendant of the ska that I once did love.

What's not to love about her voice? But I feel about this just as I feel about an album of jazz covers by Rickie Lee Jones - very nice, but not what I'm here for.

No thank you.

My son tried to get me into this a while ago, and I had the same reaction this time. It's fine.

Some of the classics of my youth that have popped up here - Rumours, Murmur - have instantly evoked nostalgia, amusement, or wistfulness. This one still gets me in a place that feels present, live, and meaningful. From the first chord on the album, I am engaged.