Some pretty good bangers!
Top songs:
"Falling in Love Again"
"Thank God it's Not Christmas"
"Here in Heaven"
Favorite lyrics, tie:
"There I'll spend the night/Meeting fancy things/At bistros and old haunts/Trying very hard to sin"
"Dear, do you often think of me/As you overlook the sea?/
Do I qualify as dearly departed or am I, that sucker in the sky? The fall guy for the first and the last time! "Juliet, I thought we had agreed/Now I know why you let me take the lead""
Not as much to my taste as Achtung, but some good diamonds in the rough here:
"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
"Two Hearts Beat as One"
"New Years Day"
"40"
Favorite lyric: "I waited patiently for the Lord/He inclined and heard my cry/He lift me up out of the pit/Out of the miry clay/
I will sing, sing a new song/I will sing, sing a new song/
How long to sing this song?/How long must we sing this song?
How long, how long, how long/How long to sing this song?"
Overall - kinda meh! Neil Young's voice is lovely but not to my taste, and most of these songs just kinda washed over me without leaving much of an impresssion.
Best songs:
"Southern Man"
"Birds"
Best Lyric: "Tomorrow, see the things that never come today"
Shockingly good. Perhaps their best? Almost every song a banger, but my favorites:
"One"
"Love is Blindness"
"Mysterious Ways"
"Until the End of the World"
"So Cruel" '
Favorite Lyric: If you wanna Kiss the Sky, Better Learn How to Kneel (On your Knees Boy)
This is a strange one. I love the synthy background tracks a lot but most of the songs on this album didn't jump out at me. I don't really like Numan's voice.
But I adore those synth tracks.
Favorite lyrics: "i turned off the pain/like I turned off you all/now there's only me"
I was surprised by how much I liked several songs on this. It's an incredibly genre-twisting album -- from blues to rock to gentle singer-songwriter and back again. Buckley's voice is fantastic, and I say that as someone who doesn't even like falsetto voices most of the time. Even though this has such a range, it's surprising how many of the songs I liked.
Favorite Songs:
Grace
Lover, You Should've Come Over
Dream Brother
Favorite lyric:
This is our last goodbye/I hate to feel the love between us die/But it's over/Just hear this and then i'll go/You gave me more to live for/More than you'll ever know"
This is pretentious folk rock bullshit but its exactly my type of pretentious folk rock bullshit. You put a glockenspiel in your band, I give it no less than a 4. That's the rules. I LOVED this.
Favorite songs:
Once I had a Light
The Cuckoo
House Carpenter
Favorite Lyric:
"I wish I were a scholar and could handle the pen/I'd write to my lover and to all roving men/I would tell them of the grief and woe that attend all their lies/I would wish them have pity on the flower when it dies"
ROUGH listen. I'm old enough to remember when Eminem first got famous, and its clear he's a talented rapper. But so many of the lyrics here have aged HORRIBLY -- the casual homophobia, the extremely violent lyrics toward women. It was one thing in the nineties, but it feels entirely worse now. This was a struggle to listen to.
Best song on the album:
My Name is (it's catchy, at least)
Favorite lyrics: Nothing grabbed me off this one.
