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Sly & The Family StoneSing A Simple Song was my favourite track. Funky Album.
Sing A Simple Song was my favourite track. Funky Album.
Dour. Millennial Blues. As an album it tells its story but there isn't a track here I'd say to someone 'hey listen to this song'
Brilliant. Great vocals in her unique style and the use of synthesised drums, bass, strings, bells and all kinds of sound samples is amazing. Violently Happy is perfectly placed on the albums journey. There's More To Life Than This, Big Time Sensuality and One Day are also stand outs. Loved it.
Great start to the album with that intro to Like a Rolling Stone. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry is a good track as is Highway 61 Revisited. Nice F Scott Fitzgerald reference in Ballad of a Thin Man. Desolation Row is an eleven minute long poem witha line about Cinderella I loved. Classic Bob Dylan album with harmonica and organ sound and those poetry like lyrics.
Released same day as Kennedy was shot. 22nd Nov. 1963. Album cover is a classic. A photo by Robert Freeman. Mix of cover songs like Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry and Please Mr Postman - The Marvelettes. Originals like All My Loving - McCartney and Little Child - Lennon. The song writing is getting more complex after the Please Please Me album. They're evolving.
Lovely vocals. Hard Headed Woman, Wild World and Miles From Nowhere are good tracks. I like the depth of the drums and bass in the latter. I also like the album sleeve.Tea For The Tillermam is a beautiful way to end the album. Father and Son is an all time beautiful song and a classic. What a charming album!
First track is twenty two mins. Half of the album. Samples, synth. Clockwork Orange sound. Seminal. From here, Gary Numan, Human League, Depeche Mode etc. 80s pop. Genesis for electronic music. Influential and groundbreaking.
Very blues and rock n roll. The classic Jagger vocals and Richards guitar licks. Happy is a track with vocals by Richards which is rare. Rip This Joint is up tempo. Shake Your Hips has that Mississippi Delta feel. All Down The Line a good track, guitar, rock n roll.
Punk, Funk, even early Grunge. Poems. Punchy short songs. Their 3rd album. 45 tracks. Double album. Bass guitar heavy. Corona is a good track, as are #1 Hit Song, Two Beads At The End, Shit From An Old Notebook and A Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing. Some songs sound like The Sex Pistols, some like Joy Division. Some even sound like early RHCP or Strokes songs. Better than I thought it was going to be.
I get that this album is held up in high esteem by many. And the first four tracks are good. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For is good and With Or Without You is a particularly good track. After that great start the album loses me a bit though and I get bored.
Their 2nd album. Recorded at the house where Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson Family. A concept album, the downward spiral of a man into suicide. Techno, punk, heavy metal. Nihilistic, incel, dark, deliberately abrasive music. 90s rage, school shooter vibes. The concept is fine, the darkness and the journey etc but the delivery is average.
His 7th album. African inspired sounds. African backing vocals and choirs. Homeless has good lyrics and a good sounding choir. You Can Call Me Al is the signature track and a great single. Overall, disappointed. Heard so much about this album but I wasn't into it at all apart from one good song.
His third album..A jazz jam session of sorts. Five tracks for 43mins. If jazz is your thing this is a seminal album. It's still a good listen anyway. Great musicianship. Enjoyable.
Debut album. Many producers turned her down. Eventually it got done and became one of the biggest selling albums ever. Talkin Bout a Revolution has great lyrics and vocals. The whole album does really. Baby Can I Hold You is beautiful and the classic track Fast Car is just wonderful. Behind the Wall is an acapella song about DV. Why? Is a very good political and social track. Amazing album.
Debut album. Rock / metal. Really good guitar licks and bass throughout. Excellent vocals at times. Prowler is a solid intro to the album. Remember Tomorrow, good lyrics and vocals with nice guitar licks. Phantom of the Opera an epic seven minute rock opera track. Transylvania a good rock instrumental. Final track- Iron Maiden a good fun rock, ending track. Fun album, punchy and a toe tapping head banger.
Debut album. Indie / Lo Fi / Grunge. Not a fan of her voice. Clanky music. Poor production. Some good lyrics but also some awful too. Explain It To Me is terrible with a grating sound. Girls! Girls! Girls! Awful monotonous bilge. Tracy Chapman did female angst so much better. No redeeming track on this album. The one and only time I'll ever listen.
Their 8th album. Rock / Prog Rock and some synth. Tom Sawyer, Brilliant track and great intro to the song and album. Vocals and bass good on this one. YYZ is a good rock instrumental with nice bass licks. Limelight, a track about fame and quotes Shakespeare. Good song. The Camera Eye, an eleven minute track of rock, prog and synth. I kept waiting for this one to take off but it never got there. I enjoyed the first four tracks of this album, after that it went a little off for me. Nice vocals and lyrics throughout though. Solid album.
Their second album. Metal / Heavy Metal / Grunge. Themes of depression, angst, death, rage, war and drugs. The music is cliche Grungey Metal, the lyrics are okay and an occasional sign of hope. A dark journey overall though. Lyrically there is a story, musically it goes nowhere for me. It's almost a caricature Seattle, Grunge, Metal, early 90s album.
First solo album. British hip hop, urban, groove vibes. Main vocals by Martina Topley Bird. Sounds a bit like Lilly Allen before Lilly Allen. Some good lyrics like in the track Black Steel. It's okay, solid enough album but just not my thing. Decent production.
First album with his new band. A double album 1hr 12 mins. Song of Love is a very nice opening track with good guitar licks. Jet Set is a nice track. Album is Rock n Roll, Blues, Country, Easy Listening A solid middle of the road album, nothing stands out but nothing here is awful either.
Debut album. Rock. A bridge between the Do Wop of the 50s and early 60s to the harder sounds to come. Bass guitar throughout is outrageous! Out in the Street is a good opening track. My Generation is an all-time classic, that bass ! The Kids Are Alright is another classic. Cool and iconic album cover. Brilliant album.
Their 3rd album. Smack My Bitch Up and Breathe are two absolute bangers to open up with. Boom! Rave, dance, techno beats, DnB. Funky Shit is good, as is Serial Thrilla. Firestarter is another fantastic 90s dance track. This is Essex' finest dance banger of an album. Energisinh, urban, dirty and very slick production. 👌
Swing music. Sax, trumpets, piano, double bass. Vocals by Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Some intentional gibberish lyrics, fun. The whole album is very catchy. Some glorious musicianship. Just a Gigolo/Ain't Got Nobody is a good opening.The Lip and Oh, Marie are good too. Basin Street Blues/When it's Sleepy Time and Jump, Jive An' Wail are both superb! A very fun album.
Their third album. Rock, New Wave, Pop. The first two tracks are a real downer. Especially I Don't Believe You. Dull and droning vocals. This album sounds like hold music on the phone or a Doctor's waiting room music. They're annoyed and pissed off with someone or something but fuck knows what or who. Dull. Goes nowhere musically at all.