Already know and love this album. Have it on LP. So fabulous.
It's... fine. Nothing special to really recommend it. There is no reason for this to be on a list of "must listen" albums. It's fine. It's a solid folk-rock album. But there's nothing special about it. It came out in 1979. It has some good songs, but doesn't pioneer, experiment, fuse, or perfect anything. Everything it does well has already been done better by earlier albums.
I really liked this. Didn't have enough chance to listen to it through closely to fully form an opinion, but I want to give it a closer listen. I did enjoy that it's a concept album. Musical variety and production quality were great. Didn't immediately jump out as something obviously super special. But very good.
Great album by one of my favorite artists. Will listen again. Would enjoy owning. Some fantastic but approachable soul-jazz.
Good stuff. Will listen again.
Funk yeah! Great piece of art. Great musicianship. Great arrangement. Solid production. Enjoyable to listen to, while also being hugely musically and culturally influential.
This was really great. I need time to sit down and listen to it more closely.
Great album. Solid alternative rock classic.
Fabulous jazz classic. Probably not for people who aren't already into jazz. It is almost ecstatic and impressionistic at times. Going off into near pure emotion. Masterful artists walking the very edge of spinning out of control.
This was surprisingly enjoyable. Lots of energy. Crazy good bassline. Raw punk energy.
This was surprisingly enjoyable. Lots of energy. Crazy good bassline. Raw punk energy.
It's Bowie. It's good. But not his best. Neither as experimental, or conceptual, or peak poppy as his other albums.
So hot. This album is fantastic, start to finish. "Walk On By" is possibly one of the greatest popular songs ever recorded. I've heard this called "Progressive Soul". I think that might be labeling it wrong. This arguably predates Progressive Rock. It's clearly doing it's own thing, too. And I think drawing from vastly divergent influences. It is sweeping and epic.
Solid. Fun.
This is everything good about early hip hop. If you went out to a street corner in New York, put down a boom box, and slapped "play" on a cassette of this, you would still have a party. Slap down some cardboard, and someone would randomly start break dancing. One song is a ballad where five grown, straight, men sing a love letter to Stevie Wonder because, "He's the greatest." 10/10. No notes.
Great album. Mix of latin, jazz, psychedluc rock. It is expansive and full of passion. The sort of exploration where you can imagine musical rituals taking casting magicspells and transporting your consciousness. 4.5 stars
Solid punk. Not their best album.
Solid and enjoyable Blue-Eyed-Soul. It's good stuff, but I don't think blazes many trails.
It sounds like a demo tape. The recording is too muddy and incomprehensible to really speak to the quality of musicianship.
Great live album. One of the few cases where the live recordings surpass the studio ones as the definitive versions of the songs.
Great album. Love it. My favorite Steely Dan, but not their best. Has some "meh" songs (Garrytown, and Through with Buzz). Not their finest work
Very nice. 3 or 4. Reminds me of Radiohead or Massive Attack, but with lush strings and wind instruments.
Just sort of rambles. I get that that's the point, and it's exploring. But like... it's like watered down jazz.
Dylan was/is very influential, but I don't care for most of his work. He opened a path, but I think he was surpassed by many other artist. Even among contemporaries, Paul Simon and Townes Van Zandt are better.