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Solid stuff! I love hearing music from across the world, and Songhai/Malian music isn't one I'd touched on before now.

Didn't enjoy it as much as her later, weirder albums that I've heard, but still some solid leftfield pop/house tunes. I'm afraid I do not stand with my compatriots on this one :pensive:

Sheer slick jazz-rock perfection. Undeniably cool and breezy listen for any time of year.

Great voice, but way too little variety for over 3 hours of music.

Great album, love this kind of sound, it's just not the absolute best I've heard in this style. I like some of Thelonious' later work more.

Great relisten! Noisy shoegaze in the "my vacuum cleaner is malfunctioning" style is getting up there for me. What really brings it out is getting absorbed enough into the noisy, all-consuming atmosphere that you can start to pick out the really pretty melodies buried underneath.

Interesting album with a neat vibe and some good songs, unfortunately some of them didn't quite land for me.

Enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to! 70 minutes of grunge/hard rock seemed like it would get old fast, but the songwriting on here kept me going the whole way through - and of course, "Black Hole Sun" is an all-time great.

Delightful! I love this band but had never heard this particular album before, and I really loved its chamber-y, spring-like whimsy. There were a few songs with goofy lyrics, but overall a very pleasant listen. Easy 9/10

Pleasant vibe, but not really much keeping me anchored through the whole album.

Incredibly angry and politically charged, a fine introduction to the heyday of gangsta rap. Fuck the police indeed.

Scorching psychedelic Latin jams. Exactly the kind of music that's up my alley! The B-side just needs to sink in a bit before I rate it higher, but already it's a 9/10.

Maybe I just wasn't listening to enough of this in my prime teenage angst years, but I don't really get bands that sound like this. Some solid songs for sure, but nothing that really grips me all that much. Also, British

Easy 9/10. Incredibly lush, layered production mixed with biting songwriting and a veritable cauldron of musical influences combine to create one of the best listening experiences so far.

Sorry, Fats and New Orleans :pensive: This one just wasn't hitting for me. My real rating is closer to 5/10, for what it's worth.

I can absolutely see how this went on to influence punk rock and glam punk in the years to follow, but in the cold light of the present day, it just doesn't do much for me. Highlights were the opening track Personality Crisis, and Pills with its Beatles-esque harmonica.

Some more extremely tasty swing. That double bassist was putting in work! :theWildest:

I dunno, I wasn't feeling it at first but then the title track hit and I was locked the fuck in for the rest of it. Good good stuff here

God I fucking hate Anthony Kiedis. This album suffers from so many problems - incredibly brick-walled mastering that makes it sound like it's playing out of a cereal box toy, weirdly sexed-up lyrics, a frontman whose voice and general personality/actions are offputting and disgusting in every way, and generally just being uninteresting. The verses of the title track and the closer are the only parts I can really say I enjoyed. Flea and Frusciante deserved better - they should've dumped Kiedis into a sewage canal and shacked up with The Mars Volta full-time instead. Did I mention I hate Anthony Kiedis?

Some absolutely jammin' club tunes.

Regardless of influence, I enjoyed this one! Raucous, sloppy, and brimming with energy - exactly what a hard rock live record should be.

Enjoyable! The whiplash from Sympathy for the Devil into No Expectations was certainly something - I still don't understand why that song was chosen to open this album - but otherwise it was some solid roots rock stuff.

I wasn't especially impressed by the A-side, but starting at the 6-minute track and on, I found more to enjoy than not. Definitely a very ramshackle record.

Perfect album I literally do not care

Very solid! This album, to me, encompasses more of what The Rolling Stones' strengths are than Beggars Banquet - I'm not sure they pull off the roots-y sound on there as well (though those songs were ofc enjoyable), but the grimy blues rock jamming on this one are their bread and butter.

GROOVY as fuck album. A couple of the more soul-oriented tracks toward the middle I didn't vibe as much with, but the sheer FUNK on display toward the start and end were enough to make this an easy 9/10.

The A-side was some pretty decent if forgettable psychedelic rock songs, all serving as anticipation to the legendary sidelong title track. Thank you for this hymn, I. Ron Butterfly.

Solid effort, though definitely a bit backloaded.

Really just not that great. This was clearly before most rock songwriters actually got good at rock songwriting. The 11-minute track is the only thing dragging this above a 4/10 for me.

Solid outing, a nice blistering 29 minutes of punk rock energy. "Three chords and the truth" indeed.

Unexpectedly fun! Pure, raw headbanging energy to turn your brain off to for a half hour or so.

Absolute fucking fire heat all the way through. There's a good goddamn reason he's remembered as one of the greats.

Grooooovy. I love post-punk like this, there's just such an energy to it.

Very pleasant listen! Easy to throw on as background music but also sounded nice whenever I actively tuned in.

Solid beats, solid rhymes, overall solid experience!

Absolutely sublime, one of the finest jazz fusion albums of all time. Miles and his band lay down rock-solid grooves and absolutely tasty jazz jams all throughout. Excellent nocturnal listen, and one I'll be spinning fairly regularly any time.

Sublime! Very breezy listen, with a great mixture of jazzy and folky vibes mixed in with some great rock songwriting.

Funky fresh. Great funky, jazzy, soul-tinged vibes for a late night.

Extremely fun! Great, catchy, funky breakbeat goodness made for nothing more than getting stuck in your head and getting your booty in gear on the club floor.

Unexpected sound for Madonna, but an enjoyable one! It did start blending together about halfway through, and didn't need to be an hour and change long, but still pleasant.

Loved it! The group used their intimate recording circumstances well, and created a record replete with excellent use of space and really nice Americana-tinged soundscapes. For sure a great one for our first country album of the run!

Very confusing listen... the first couple of tracks were kind of boring me to tears, but then once the moodier, slower strains of Holocaust hit, I think the album really found its stride. From then on I enjoyed everything, aside from a couple of the bonus tracks which strayed back to the earlier sound. If only the whole album had followed that wistful sound - it presaged so much of the alt rock, shoegaze, slowcore, and other such sounds of the 90s.

What an experience! I should've listened to this album ages ago. Nothing but hitters upon hitters for 72 straight minutes - absolutely deserving of the title of one of the greatest albums ever.

Consistently fun listen, but nothing especially special to me, and not something I can see myself returning to much. The track Plateau was a highlight, though.