They're bringing some early ween energy on this album. This overall got tiring to listen to about halfway through. I didn't hate them or the songs, but just after a while I felt some fatigue.
Highlights:
Get It On
Prince of the Rodeo
I have a soft spot for this album since it was the first hand me down record I listened to. It's a fun album, although I thought it started and ended weak. I liked a lot of the songs in the meat of the record. Stop Your Sobbing has been a favorite of mine for years since I first heard this. Space Invaders was a fun instrumental. Private Life sounds like a police song. I would probably give this another star if there was more songs I liked but the songs I do like I really liked. Fun punkish new wave stuff is fun.
Highlights:
Stop Your Sobbing
Up The Neck
Space Invader
Kid
I hate to say it but this album kind of bored me. Little Richard was huge in the development of Rock and Roll but this album and some of the music at the time in general all sounded so similar. This album in particular was just blues song after blues song with similar feel. Again I can't diminish the influence this music had on later music that I would love, but this album got tiresome. And I have to grade it on my opinion.
Highlights:
Tutti Frutti
Jenny, Jenny
This is a fun album. Nothing special but it held my attention and had my head bopping mostly throughout the hole thing. Very much not a fan of the rap rock songs though. I could listen to the drums to Perfection all day.
Highlights:
Perfection
You Be Illin
Dumb Girl
Absolutely loved this album. I love the frenetic jittery energy. The weird riffs and of tempo singing is really fun to me. It leans more on its energy and lyrics than worrying about singing on key or in time. I think I'll like this album even more with repeated listens.
Highlights:
Blister In The Sun
Confessions
Good Felling
Gimmie The Car
This album was so much fun. I loved the chaotic and free spirit nature of it. Sometimes it sounds like nonsense and just a bunch of noise at once, and that's a part of the charm for me. Music doesn't have to have verses easy melodies or harmony, its just sound that evokes emotion.
This whole album was like some of my favorite parts in the improvisational music I listen to. Similar to the song Dark Star by the Grateful Dead. The start of the song was just a springboard for free form improv. I found myself not being able to work while listening because I was trying to parse out what was going on. If you listen closely, you can hear the instruments communicate, and respond to each other, even in the midst of all the chaos.
I will definitely give this album another listen when i need that kind of energy
this album was front to back smooth groovy Stevie to full effect. I enjoyed it all the way through.
You've got it bad girl
Superstition
Big Brother
Devoid of artistic merit.
The keyboard solo in Hoover Dam wasn't bad.
There's definitely some quality songwriting here and I enjoyed. Though I think that this is one that gets stronger with more listens.
Highlights:
My Fathers House
Atlantic City
Highway Patrolman
I'm not the biggest EVH fan but this was a fun listen. He had more interesting songs than I would have though on the album. Still not the biggest fan of super shreddy guitar like that, but it was still an easy enough listen.
Highlights:
I'm The One
Jamie's Crying
This was a fun listen. Love some lap steel and country guitar vibes while some sensual crooning is happening over it. Maybe felt a little repetitive toward the end but still enjoyed the sound of it. Will probably listen again if I'm in the mood for some 60's crooning about night life.
Album just didn't jive with me. I respect punk, but this album just was mostly uninteresting to me. Falls into a class of music I call annoying British music.
