Didn’t listen this time but remember it as a deeply sad album.
The Beatles starting to find their feet.
Decades ahead of its time.
Over the top, ridiculous, but utterly brilliant and unlike anything else. If anyone else tried to make an album like this it wouldn’t work, it shouldn’t have worked when Meat Loaf did it, and yet it does.
Enjoyable 70s prog rock time capsule, has aged well
Intent to shock and does but still great tunes.
Interesting album, guitar oriented rock, difficult to pigeonhole into one genre.
Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, soulful.
Shame he’s such a prick because this is a great album.
Some great songs, the rest hasn’t stood the test of time
New, eclectic, brilliant. Knocked me out the first time I heard it.
Eclectic. Yes, there are weaker tracks but the good stuff is more than in most shorter albums.
If Michael Buble is a pale imitation of Frank Sinatra, Adele is a pale imitation of Aretha Franklin. I get the appeal, she does have a great voice but this is not a consistently strong or original album.
The greatest by the greatest. Broke down the walls that everyone afterwards walked through.
Absolute perfection, every song shimmers. Fast paced, fun, gorgeous melodies, relentless.
Never fussed on the Jam/Paul Weller, never sounded original enough to stand out from other bands. I’m still not, it’s all very similar.
Virtuoso rock, full of energy.
Virtuosity and some great tunes but a bit too self indulgent.
Smooth, and there isn’t enough saxophone in modern music.
Angry. Not my type of music but I enjoyed a lot of it, hated a lot of the rest of it.
Too angry for me to enjoy it.
Nothing special, I don’t get the hype
Sounds like Dylan and I love Dylan
Dreadful country shite, nothing remarkable about it at all, has no place being on this list.
Save it snobs, this is good pop. No, it’s not Revolver, but for what it is it, it’s great.
All time hard rock classic.
Yes, the lyrics are a bit misogynistic but it’s over 40 years old and was never about the lyrics. Every song is a banger, has to be 5/5.
To others saying that this is some sort of pastiche of 60s music or that she isn’t sincere, you’re wide of the mark. The best music takes something familiar and changes it to make it new, that’s what Winehouse does here. As for sincere, listen to the lyrics then look at how her short life panned out. She meant it.
I think what is said about Wagner applies to this ‘it’s better than it sounds’. Not for me, no melody, no structure. Influential/important etc. etc. yes, clearly. Enjoyable to listen to? Nope. All the 5/5 people are giving it that to look like they’re musical intellectuals but I doubt if they have this on vinyl that it’s worn out.
Beatles inspired but enough of its own thing to make it enjoyable.
Slightly ridiculous and of its time, but enjoyable in parts.
I can appreciate that she’s talented but this was boring to me
Of its time. The unique thing about them is Noddy Holder’s voice, which is also the worst thing about them, they seem to be a decent bunch of musicians held back by that screaming banshee of a man.
One of the defining albums of my teenage years, I can’t not give it 5 stars. It holds up well after 30 years.
The epitome of psychedelic music.
Influential but also boring in parts.
The hits still stand up well after almost 70 years.