Like if Frank Sinatra and Randy Newman had a baby and that baby had depression. The whiplash from the first song into the second song is pretty crazy.
Look, I'm sure that this album was very big and influential in 1994, but it sounds like the background music in several different parts of an Austin Powers movie. Lot 105 is an obvious parody of Brak's "Don't Touch Me." Favorite Song: Bank Holiday
Imagine releasing your final album and people in 40 years are like "Oh yeah, The Police, they had that super popular song - Mother." Good thing Every Breath You Take was on here too. Overall, fine? Sting's voice is dope and carries some mediocre songs, but looking at the Spotify streaming numbers you can tell that basically the first half of the album is fairly forgettable. Honestly, everything other than Every Breath You Take and Wrapped Around Your Finger falls into that category.
Obviously starts strong with War Pigs and Paranoid - Planet Caravan feels like a super dope song that they did some really cool etheric background vocals for and then forgot to add in the actual song, and it upsets me. The lesser-known (for the general public, I'd say) back half of the album is still pretty good. Overall, a good listen. I got through it twice in the day.
It turns out that one Smashing Pumpkins song in a row is a good time, three in a row is a less good time, and twenty-eight in a row is a war crime.
Fuck Kanye.
I find that CCR is one of those bands whose songs are better off mixed in with other songs, but even when listening to an entire album, it's not bad, just a bit much.
A dope album full of dope songs with dope lyrics. If you've never listened to it, do yourself a favor and sit with it for a while.
I don't have any idea what he's saying, obviously, but the vibes are immaculate. Enough that I plan to do a deep dive and learn more.
Not everything is for everyone, and this isn't for me. It's not bad though.
All of the songs on this album are fine, but overall the album just kind of... runs together into one long semi-same-ish amalgam of a similar tune.
"Look up here, I'm in heaven I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen Everybody knows me now" Honestly, this album starts off rough. The title track is a ten-minute fever dream that meanders its way around being worth listening to, never quite getting there. "Tis' A Pity She Was A Whore" is actually awful. But then, something wonderful happens. Lazarus is wonderful. Sue is the kind of experimental that doesn't make me wish I was deaf. Girl Loves Me interrupts the good album that's hiding inside the album as a whole. It's like if someone told MGK to write a Bowie song. What the fuck is this. Dollar Days and I Can't Give Everything Away round out the four songs worth listening to. But honestly, those four songs make the whole thing worth listening to. I'll just skip the others.