Excellent, big vibe for me in the 2010s.

Fine; not anything I would put on again, but it wasn't a problem to get through. Jet was the only song I actively enjoyed.

Solidly good album overall. Enjoyed how Don't Go Near Water was an almost satirical take on their early work. Great harmonies throughout the whole record.

Eh. Two and half stars is my actual rating but I'll give it 3. At best it's generic 90s-2000s radio pop. At worst it's Call Me Maybe level bad songwriting. Didn't have to skip any songs but I know I won't be listening to Robbie Williams again, unless it's over the shitty speakers at the grocery store.

Sounds like an alternate universe Cocteau Twins where the lyrics make sense if you just concentrate hard enough.

Fun & funky, great vibes. Added to my library.

3.5 stars, really. Unoffensive, some good harmonies, but not something I go out of my way to listen to.

3.5 stars. Not my favorite Joni Mitchell personally.

Better than Rush, not as good as Yes. Enjoyed the very metal interlude in the opening track.

Disco isn't really my thing but does still have an innate power to sometimes make your booty move without input from your brain.

Confirmed my belief that the only reason to listen to the Dan is to test your new expensive sound system for 5 minutes before putting on literally anything else. The worst middle of the road nonsense I've heard in a long time.

Definitely not my first time hearing it, and not my favorite of one of my favorites genres Sad White Men With Weird Voices Who Sound Like They Need A Friend, but overall a solid 90s alt album. The softer songs are much weaker compared to the heavier ones.

Great album, of course have listened to it dozens or hundreds or times.

I've always enjoyed the 1960s renaissance revival.

Ah, the feeling of the Obama years.

Kind of reminds of Morphine.

Too disco for me personally.

Honestly not an album I super love. It's a bit too all-over-the-place for me. I like Simon & Garfunkel but I only ever like maybe 60%-70% of each album. I do think 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night is interesting as piece of art (both for the obvious juxtaposition of the peaceful imagery of Silent Night with the horrors of war and also the fact that neither of them sing the melody, inviting the listener to do so), but it's not an album I will listen to whole.

Obviously a classic album and one of his most beloved, but I personally think of it as more of a proof of concept than a great album. I love Neil Young, but he's at his best live, when he's not trying to gussy up simple music with complex orchestration. His simple melodies, straightforward guitar playing, and idiosyncratic voice are what unique and effective; covering those up with strings and harps doesn't elevate it, it just clashes. It's like putting on a pair of old overalls and then adding a tiara and thinking you're dressed up. It's somewhat incoherent. The clear top song of the album, for me at least, is The Needle and the Damage Done, the simplicity of which allows the emotion of the song to come through sincerely and without artifice. A Man Needs A Maid suffers the most from the unnecessary and overwrought strings; it's almost as if he heard Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left and tried (unsuccessfully) to replicate it. Any time I listen to Harvest, I end up wishing I had just listened to a live album instead (just not the one where he's Too High and can't make it though a single verse of Sugar Mountain without interrupting himself to spout some nonsense. I want to say it's Young Shakespeare).

Not really my thing tbh

I know people love Sting but man is he a terrible songwriter. The melodies are boring, the lyrics are insipid, the rhyme schemes are all just AAAA or ABAB. The track about dinosaurs sounds like it was written for a 5th grade science project.

There's obvious Bowie inspiration, and a lot of elements that are very reminiscent of Rufus Wainwright, but overall I think it's a little incoherent and honestly just not my fave.

Too Grateful Dead-esque to be enjoyable to me.

Not really into the down-home country boy 1970s rock aesthetic tbh.

What can I say about Getz/Gilberto that hasn't already been said? It's a masterpiece. Stan Getz is my undisputed sax king, and João Gilberto is the bossa nova master. What could be bad? Listened to this absolute classic as it was meant to be played, on vinyl pressed in 1964.

Melodies are boring and the lyrics are like a high school boy's diary.