This sucks. It (especially North American Scum) sounds like Pixies if they were electronic and sucked. The only good song is "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" because it sounds nothing like the other songs. It reminded me of Fugazi's I'm so Tired mixed (at some point) with alternative electric guitars from some Radiohead B-side.
I never listened to a soul album before and I'm surprised by how nice and groovy this is. Great general atmosphere and prologue to this amusing genre.
Solid. The sounds are quite conventionally predictable and in my opinion foreshadow 80s early pop - even though some lengthy songs are kept. It's just Iggy, Bowie and this rocky (literally, not too much in sound) bridge between the 70s and 80s. Fascinating musical period and this album reflects it finely.
This album perfeftly paints an "American dream" picture in my mind. These are Songs you'll hear during a ride through a suburb. It's a fourth-of-July Saturday and families are gathering together for BBQ. The smoky smell penetrates your car but you don't mind. Neighboring children with bright t-shirts are playing and giggling, running yard to yard. You can faintly hear the songs in your car echoing from some radio down by someone's lawn. And the lawn is so artificially green, therefore falsely portrayed as healthy. Burgers and hot dogs are ready. Some big-bellied man violently squirts ketchup and mustard from huge bottles. The people are enjoying the music, not looking into the actual meaning of "Born in the U.S.A" as long as it sounds as if conveying any patriotic theme.
The music itself truly romanticises white American Patriotism. The lyrics and their meanings are so dissonant to the music, it's chilling. I hate the way most Americans view this. But it's a feel-good album as long as you're some idiotic, white American patriot, and that's how the music of the album makes you feel. The meaning behind it all - that's a different story.
It's good! Some songs sounded like Beatlesy The Strokes songs. Nothing bad about that, other than the lack of originaltiy.
The atmosphere is nice and optimistic. Something to listen to on a weekend morning. Sounds quite repetitive and can be dull at times.
This was extremely nothing special.
Enduring this was great... suffering.
I listened to this while doing math homework and it made me know math! It's a great album, felt a bit too triggeringly American at times, but besides that it's just great and raw. La Grange made me lose my mind!!
I feel like everyone sees in Fleetwood Mac something that I don't seem to. I won't get into the childish "overrated" rants (that I agree with!), but something about this just generally isn't that great. It's not the worst thing ever, but it's not as amazing as people say it is. Too pop. Feels like driving to somewhere you don't want to at 7 a.m and this is what's playing on the radio. And on one hand you're like, "okay, good music", and on the other you're like, "okay, the bad side of good music" and your day just becomes more miserable. And by "good" I generally mean "of quality." And so, I feel like "the bad good music" is the perfect category for this album (and the band in general, at least as for now - as in their works that I have heard, not works released. I don't think they need to release new songs just for me to judge if they're good yet. They can if they want to, though. Aww that'd be nice of them!) The only song I can say I liked is "You Make Loving Fun." I also think that the songs being so overplayed really affected what I think of them and their tolerability. 2.5/5 sorry :(
Too happy for me, if that's a legitimate critic. I feel like it totally is. In every single song I feel the need for a progression that highlights a major chord turning minor. But Marvin Gaye is no Shmulik Kraus. It's a good album, but it's not something I'll choose to put on. I'll choose The High Windows (very very weird how I decided to compare these two albums that have absolutely 0 correlation. And, well, that's exactly why I did.) I now read the description of the album on the site. Oh! I guess I didn't listen to the words haha... apply my review to the music solely (don't. He could've still made a "Soldat De Chocolate"...)
This party music makes me feel like I want to go home while I'm in my house. Would've loved their million quid...
I once saw this cassette at a flea market and for some reason the regret of not buying it stuck in my mind (probably because it was the only actual album there, all the others were "greatest hits" that no one has interest in.) I can now proudly say, after listening to the entire album, that I don't regret not buying it. An 80s synth pop cassette is as bad as a greatest hits cassette.
This is like those pictures NASA wants to show aliens in order to tell them about humanity. So they'd let them hear this album if humanity was blues (maybe it is.) That's how generic this feels in my ears (just the most basic blues scales and melodies to exist.) Not in a bad or good way (it's usually a sign for great influence!) - I just feel like I'd (obviously) appreciate it way more if I listened to it in 1957, not 2026.
Amazing album. One of the most prominent reasons why this isn't a 5 is that Mr. Blue Sky is one of my least favourite songs ever. God, I hate that stupid song. "It's Over" is an incredible song, though, I wish it wasn't ever over.
Absolutely not. This is as painful as listening to Coldplay oh my god
I don't remember if I bought this cd or I got it for free, I just know it's great!! (Yes, the point of this sentence is to flex that I have this on cd - although it costs like 2 dollars to buy. I just needed to include it so I remember I have it, obviously!) I quite hate how so many people in the reviews praise only the title-track. It kind of alludes that listening to the rest of the album was pointless. I think their reviews are pointless.
Idk, this is just pretty boring. I'm listening to it in a bomb shelter and I'm wondering whether the bomb should just hit instead. Still it wasn't the worst thing ever, somehow. Just doesn't block well the sounds of war so I had to switch to (my go-to) The Smashing Pumpkins after every song.
I Reccomend listening while playing chess, makes the game even more boring.
"On Any Other Day" really reminded my of Nirvana's "Lounge Act" (just not being so overplayed that it makes my ears bleed.)
Wow, so airporty! Love you Brian you always know what to do.
I listened to this while reading a poetry book and all of a sudden Brian Eno's name is written there?? Biggest jumpscare of my life. But man, a Brian Eno poem does go hard.
The logo of these dudes has been designing the face of the democratic middle east ♡
Really good album. I mostly like the progressive parts, the rest is a bit too painfuly 80s (mostly because of Lee's voice, the guitars weren't thattttt bad, I liked them.) YYZ is a genius song. I'll rush to listen to it again!
"Mental Stamina" sounds like that one Nathan For You episode when he gathers a band and makes the guitarist abandon his instrument to become the fire-alarm player.
It's not the worst thing ever but at the same it is idk lowkey 1.5. I'll give it 2 cause it makes me laugh giving it the same rating as Rumours.
This would be a five star album if Damon Albarn's voice wasn't in the band.
The moment I saw what album I got I smiled very widely. I love this album from head to toe, and Bell Bottom Blues is one of my favourite songs ever. An anecdote I have is that I somehow prefer the unplugged version of Nobody Knows When You're Done and Out. That kind of never happened to me with a song before, definitely not with a blues rock song. I have an underplate with an art work that really reminds me of this cover. Everytime I look at it I just gotta listen to some songs off the album. Gets you hungry for blues, not food. But that sounds like something a 60 year-old guitar teacher would put on his facebook status.
It was very scary
I am very scared of Joni Mitchell
This is like Pixies if they were a shitty millennial band that are the "rockiest" music played in southern U.S radio stations
I understand why people like this, but I don't
The harmonica is the worst instrument to ever be invented.
Radiohead has been my favourite band since the 7th grade yet I've always felt that this was their most overrated record. I love it so much but it's probably not even on my top 5 radiohead albums. But it changes pretty often so idk. Faust Arp will always be the best song on here I dont care. I really don't know what to give it. Compared to other albums I gave a 4, it's incredibly better. But is it a true 5? I can't say so. I don't want to regret my rating, but that will happen anyhow, probably. I don't like Reckoner. Without Reckoner this could've been a 5.
It's good but it didn't put me on cloud nine.
I like my music Past Progressive
I kinda liked the guy who talked, he added more depth to the listening experience. And more time, way too much more time.
Idk what to write:
It's good but it's Elvis.
or
It's good but it's repetitive.
Or maybe they're synonyms.
Pretty sure that the oldest target audience for this is sixth graders.
Whenever I listen to RHCP at the start I'm like "oh, this is better than I remembered/thought" and then the singer starts singing and I can bear it no longer. This could've been an amazing instrumental band, man.
I listened to this album on repeat throughout the course of seventh grade and it was a bit difficult for me to go through now (idk if because it's so incredibly overplayed or because it's something to do with the period in which I was obsessed with this album&band.) I would come back from school and ON MY WAY (not even bloody waiting to get home) would listen to some songs off the album (I mostly remember it being Drain You) out loud. It was a great time, but it's just kind of over. This album and band were revolutionary for me and probably are the ones that got me in to rock and music in general. And I'm forever thankful for that. Do I think this is a good album? Yes. Do I think it's incredibly overrated and overplayed? Absolutely. But something to with the sentimentality connected to it makes it closer to my heart, as should. I think it's a canon event to "discover" Nirvana in middle school. Maybe because of that, I find this band and die-hard Nirvana fans to be a bit childish. Would I be happy if songs off this album would be played on the radio? Not really, not as much as I would at like 11 or 12.
I love how it has "chirping" (with quotation marks) on the cover, so that we won't expect that they'll actually chirp but we'll still expect that his band is made of crickets.
