I didn't hugely enjoy this. I love Joni Mitchell for the soaring emotional highs and lows of Both Sides Now and Big Yellow Taxi. This was more of a stream of consciousness album with mild psychadelic tones. I think if I had been in a specific mood when I listened to this, I would have loved it. The music was enjoyable even without the correct mood, and I'm sure I would like the lyrics more if I was looking for a continuous story. I will have to see if I ever get in that mood and go from there. I'm glad I listened to it, regardless. It is very good music even if I didn't like it that much.

This album is the single best argument I have ever heard for the fact that I need to listen to more albums in their entirety instead of individual songs. No single song on this album immediately became a favorite, but the whole experience was amazing. Start to finish, this was incredibly enjoyable. My favorite thing that music can do is to incept one person's emotions onto other people. Normally with David Byrne, I feel emotions while listening but can't put my finger on any single emotion that comes through powerfully. This whole album was like that, but in the best possible way. I felt many things while listening.

Otis Redding is one of my favorite vocal performers, and this album showcases a lot of the reasons why. It is also chock full of hits. Really really enjoyable album by a legend.

I didn't love it but it had its moments.

A little too one note for my tastes, but there is no denying the sheer force of nature that is a Marvin Gaye song.

Beautiful, but a little too much for me right now.

Nope. Not for me.

This is going to be the worst review I ever leave, but I swear to Thor I normally like the Dead. When I was in college, Cracked was a huge thing. One of the authors on Cracked who wrote about music had a massive hate-on for the Dead. I didn't understand why at the time, but this album opened my eyes. The whole thing is long instrumentals followed by the type of muttery vaguely florid nonsense that people lazily making fun of the Dead do. Partway through I realized this could have been released as a parody album unchanged. There is an entire 7 minute track of feedback (titled Feedback, of course) as the second to last song. I'm going to keep enjoying Touch of Grey and Uncle John's Band, Ripple, Box of Rain, etc, but I am NEVER listening to this album again.

Solid 3.5/5. Closer to a three.

It was fine.

Pretty fun, then it ends with Radio, Radio. That bumps it from a 3 to a 3.5.

Pretty great.

Opens with a hell of a bop. Overall fun album.

Really fantastic album.

Meh.

Fun little bit of history.

Not bad, but super odd. It has its moments.

Genuinely just so great. Excellence in its purest form.

Fun, but I didn't love it.