Wow! I mean I knew The Clash influenced a lot of punk bands, and I can totally hear a few in this album. Operation Ivy and Dead Milkmen to name a couple.
Not really my style but I can hear why they were popular in the 70’s era. While listening I could hear how they may have been an influence for Belle and Sebastian.
To be a fly on the wall when this album was made.
Enjoyed this before bed with headphones. Doesn’t grab the way Kind of Blue does but a good listen none the less
Where has this album been in my 48 years. Funk, R&B, Soul, Style and Essence. What an album.
Never heard of Count Basie before. Enjoyed this album. The bass, meets and horns are all amazing.
Love that I’ve found this album. Screams New York City to me. I have a hard time liking albums with female lead singers (I have no idea why it’s just something I’ve noticed) but I love this album.
Very Beatlesque. Seems like they went away from the pop hits on this one.
Definitely not an album I would have ever listened to. I did listen to the album 3 times thru. The last time I listened while reading translations of the lyrics into English. Not an album I would listen to again. Not my style. One of the first things I thought of when I started listening to this was that there was so much art and changes going on in the world in the 60’s and this was definitely not part of the progression.
I gave it 3 stars due to Tiny Dancer. It says that this is his prog album but I’m not hearing much of that genre.
Fucking so weird. My first taste of Zappa and I am blown away. Genius. Punk. Psychedelic. Funk. Blues. Dripping LSD. Psychosis. Complete mind fuck.
Pure teenage memories. Angst, anti system, anti imperialism. It formed a part of me that I can’t deny. The entire album does not let up and just continues to deliver on its message.
Solid album. Definitely took me back to a time in my life during a rough breakup. Great songwriting and a great shame that he left us so early.
Complete miss on all accounts. Not sure what they were going for in this album? I want to call it experimental noise jazz? It’s fine to set out to make an album that sounds like nothing else ever done, but I feel like it has to have something that keeps the listener engaged.
1970’s glam rock…so bad. Basic, theatrical, shallow, over produced. 2nd spin was a better listen.
West coast meets east coast production. Definitely feel the Public Enemy’s production team on this album. Cool backstory with Ice meeting Chuck D and Chuck D dropping him off in a warehouse in Long Island filled wall to wall with records for 10 days and have him pick out his records for the album. Dr. Dre nowhere to be found to hand him the beats. Ahhh the days before the East Coast West Coast beef. Great record and his 1st stepping away from NWA and heading east.
Not my style. Definitely came in on the back end to capitalize on post grunge Portishead wannabes. Had some ok songs but felt over produced.
I guess you would call this Big Band Jazz, at least I would. Not something I would listen to again. Definitely appreciate the talent, just not for me
Can definitely hear who inspired Brandi Carlile with this album.
Bass lines are good. Decent album from the ex bassist from PIL that got his nickname when Sid Vicious drunkenly pronounced his name wrong and it stuck
Not much to say…just is not my style. I understand what the critics say they she’s going for, but I couldn’t get down with it.
Drone sounding, lush, definitely early 90’s sound that influenced bands a few years later…The Sunday’s, Lush, Ride. Appreciate the musical direction of the album but just didn’t grab ahold of me.
What a silky smooth voice. Just closed my eyes and listened to one of the greats.
2 1/2 Stars. First half of the album is pretty basic. Starting with the track with Marley which is a banger, the rest of the album is tighter.
2 1/2 stars. Has that Strokes wannabe feel. Wasn’t unlistenable but not ground breaking in any way
Classic. Definitely brings back some great memories from my teenage years. What a great time in the music scene to be growing up. This album and it’s accompanying videos left a mark on my teenage life.
Some of the most important songs from this era are on this album. Love how his guitar plays in your right ear and his voice in your left.
Though I’m partial to Gish, this album is flawless also. Brings me right back to high school and the sadness I was feeling at the time because a girlfriend moved across the country and we had to split. Oh how I thought nothing would ever compare to those times and in a way they don’t. They existed in their own way, forever a part of me. Certain album just take you right back to that time in your life, and this is definitely one that does it for me.
I wore out a Sergio Mendes album that I “stole” from my stepdad. Loved that album. I wish I would have found this album sooner.
Got so deep into this album in my late teens, early 20’s. We listened to this album non stop on Biscayne Blvd. A lot of crazy shit went down in that house and this album was part of the soundtrack to some great memories.
I’ve come across this album in the past. I can appreciate the beauty of the album, it’s just not something I would have in steady rotation.
Discovered these guys late. Great album. I remember it coming out right before my first son’s birth. I couldn’t get down with anything by them after this album.
Love this album. Listened to this non stop in my early 20’s when I was devouring anything and everything by Radiohead.
Art Brut…Art Brut. Could not think of the band that I hear when I am listening to this album. Also a little Artic Monkeys. The Stanglers definitely had influenced those band and probably many more in Britain
I can’t get that hour back. This album is horrible, unlistenable, ridiculous. Wish I could give it no stars
Great album. For an album that’s over 45 years old, it feels so fresh and boundary pushing.
Automatic 5 stars. I played this over and over and over in my teenage years. I would wake up to it, fall asleep to it, take LSD and listen to this with my eyes closed and let the drug take over behind my closed eyelids
Nice flow. Like his earlier mixtapes that were floating around in the early 2000’s. I remember buying one on the streets in Manhattan.
Love this album. Shame it didn’t get the recognition it deserved until after they broke up.
Sympathy, Street Fighting Man and No Expectations are great tunes. Could leave the rest.
1st track on the album was strong, then it just became background noise.
Album got better as it went on. Not really feeling this album. It has a theatrical feel.
He was never really my style during this time of my life when the album was released. It’s got a few tunes on it that I enjoyed.
AM sounding (of course) but it seems like they are trying to get “political” or catch up with the times (60’s counterculture). Student Demonstration Time sounds like a total Beatles ripoff.
When I was a kid, I would be browsing at Sam Goody in the 1980’s and pass the “J’s” and see Judas Priest albums. I was more frightened by the covers than I was interested in what they might sound like. So scarred I was that at 48 years old this is the first Judas Priest album I’ve ever heard. It’s a shame because I probably would have dug this album more I had listened to it back then in my heavy metal phase of music. It is typical 80’s heavy metal that served a time and place for the metal genre.
I’ve heard El Paso near 1000 times when Bob Weir sings it with The Dead. Cool to hear the original. I enjoyed these old western cowboy tunes. Great song writing about a time that’s long past us. Takes you there with his storytelling.
What an album! What a genius! Way ahead of his time. There’s beauty in this album. Not a lot of pain but beauty.
Man love some old school Gen X gangsta rap. The songs that drove Tipper Gore mad. Solid album for Ice T it just didn’t age well
Has some decent songs that had an almost Lou Reed feel, but then it had some songs that were just background music.
