Funky jams
Perfect album for being on the water
Can fade to the background at times
Dust is a Strong beautiful ending.
4.3 outta 5
Great live energy
Dated ('63 Obvio) but well done, quality music.
Fun record
3 outta 5
Killer drums.
Buttery smooth lyrics.
Give me this album, on an open highway, in the outskirts of the city, at any dark hour of the night.
5 outta 5.
Good music.
Groovy Latin swing.
Reading the Spotify write up about the album I learned it was very influential to today's Latin music.
No Buena Vista... No Bad Bunny?
2.5 outta 5
Nick Drake makes sweet, beautiful, melancholic love to his guitar.
4.6 outta 5
Pavement seems to want to make Indy rock music with punk rules and it just doesn't work for me.
Cut Your Hair is worth a second listen.
2 outta 5.
Plenty of eyebrow raising moments.
This album being released 5 years after Sam Cooke was at the Harlem square blows my mind.
I enjoyed this album as a whole for it's raw sound and obvious impact on rock and roll.
3.4 outta 5
Foot-tapping fun.
Effortless instrumentals.
CCR clocked in at Cosmos Factory and churned out nothing but certified bangers.
5 outta 5 classic
I feel like Nirvana made music that they loved and tried really hard to make it sound good.
What made their music listenable was their energy and authenticity.
2.2 outta 5
First impression: "Wow what an image."
The lyrics held true to theme.
Poignant and still tragically relevant in 2025.
Nonetheless Curtis somehow makes this social liberation blues record sound like hot sticky sex?
3.8 outta 5
Great music.
Fun album but also moody at times which I wasn't expecting from what I knew of his big hits.
4 outta 5
Laughably bad.
The Streets has absolutely zero flow.
Uninteresting lyrics
The song with the most potential is Wouldn't Have it Any Other Way. The singing has potential but The beat has this sound throughout the whole song that is 100% a chicken pecking corn kernels off of a metal trash can lid.
0.4 outta 5
Being an american-born musician and going to the UK to find success is an indication of the quality of music.
Four songs in, I was hoping I was eight songs in so I'd be more than halfway through.
It sounds like Foreigner, put Michael Jackson out as front man and they were tasked with making elevator music.
1.8 outta 5
The last few albums have been lackluster so when I saw '80s UK pop. I was not thrilled.
I wouldn't say the album surprised me but it was not bad.
Catchy and boppy all the way through.
3.2 outta 5
Quintessential.
5 outta 5 Classic.
Very interesting.
I didn't love it at first but the B side grew on me.
I think this one deserves a second listen.
2.5 outta 5
Didn't enjoy this album
I did however enjoy them making the American National Anthem into circus music.
1.8 outta 5
Perfect jazz album front to back.
5 outta 5
This album is four songs, 39 minutes. I got through the first three songs without enjoying much. When the fourth song started and I noticed it was 18 minutes long. I may have just given up.
1.6 outta 5
Replay value on this is, use it to go to sleep.
Not my flavor but I can understand the appeal.
100% instrumental.
Fine for the background.
I want a bit more from my music.
1.5 outta 5
Less amplification makes Nirvana less abrasive.
The highlights of this record for me are the guitar and bass.
The last 4 songs are all good but the finale was absolutely killer.
2.7 outta 5
Surprisingly rangey album.
Fade Away and Radiate almost sounds like a Black Sabbath cover while One Way or Another and Heart of Glass are undeniably poppy.
I really enjoyed the album.
4.3 outta 5
I listened to it twice because I felt I might not have been attentive enough the first time, but it faded to the background again.
I want to like it, its good music, I just lose interest.
2.4 outta 5
The singles on this album are absolute classic bangers.
Everything else is a bit lack luster.
2.5 outta 5
Background music, at times it's just background noise.
I hate songs longer than 15 minutes.
2 outta 5
Great grooves.
2.2 outta 5
This album is a movie.
It's easy to hear how Biggies effortless flow, punchy lyrics, and creative storytelling still have a heavy influence on hip-hop today
I will never complain about another Mac Miller interlude ever again.
5 outta 5 Classic
Head banging, face melting, eardrum piercing, unadulterated metal.
A bit untextured.
I liked how he introduced all the songs and even dedicated most of the songs.
4.4 outta 5
This double album needs a double review.
Speakerboxxx
Sick mix of slick lyrics and silky flow.
Filthy beats.
4.4 outta 5
The Love Below
Electric and eccentric sound.
Andres flow just goes crazy, he's definitely a top 5 spitter all time.
That being said I think both albums were a little too long and could have the fat trimmed.
4.4 outta 5
Jimmy's guitar scratches an itch in my brain unlike any other.
Crosstown traffic is one of my favorite songs ever.
5 outta 5 Classic
Extremely danceable.
Weird in the most wonderful way.
Endless stank face funk.
The production quality on this album is through the roof.
There were many times throughout the album where I heard a sound that I had heard before, I wonder how many times this album has been sampled? Or how many samples it used...
This album has so much texture. It feels multicultural, bilingual, and interdimensional.
This went from completely unknown to me, to probably one of my new favorite albums.
5.3 outta 5 masterpiece
Easy listening
Top tier production.
Nothing really stands out as spectacular but definitely not disappointed at any point.
3.5 outta 5
I was delightfully surprised by this one.
The guitar sounds like Jimmy Paige meets Chuck Berry.
Really high quality production.
Definitely will get a respin and a dive into more of their discography.
3.7 outta 5
The Smashing Pumpkins sound like Nirvana if Nirvana made interesting, good music.
Bonus points for unique song names.
2 hours was way to long, I really struggled to make it through.
2.4 outta 5
The most impressive thing I've noticed about Nick Drake is he is credited as the only performer on this record.
He is a master of all things strings.
Absolutely beautiful music.
4.4 outta 5
This record seems filled with angst.
Oftentimes leaving me at the corner of "what was that?" And "what could possibly be next?"
A bit too slow and moody for me.
1 outta 5
Good tunes.
Nothing remarkable though.
2 outta 5
Very fun.
Eccentric.
Ahead of its time.
I think you need a dose of psychedelics to unlock the true potential of this record.
I would like to sit down and read the full manuscript of lyrics and spoken word.
After listening to it all the way through, I have this strange hard to explain feeling that I enjoyed it more than I should have?
3.4 outta 5
So good all the way through.
Super textured, yet extremely cohesive.
Thoroughly enjoyed this record.
4.4 outta 5
Easy listening.
Fades to the background on occasion.
2.4 outta 5
interesting poppy, rocky, electronic, good music.
3.3 outta 5.
Powerful.
Kind of screamy but it was ok.
2.5 outta 5
Some decent stuff here it's just extremely heavy and too much screaming for me.
1.4 outta 5
I like it.
Very textured but cohesive.
Definitely worth revisiting.
3 .3 outta 5
Run of the mill jazz.
The Big Apple was the highlight for me.
2.4 outta 5
I wasn't expecting to hear funky stinky slapping bass from Duran Duran.
It was very good, I can see why they were so popular.
3.8 outta 5
I didn't know I'd like '80s pop so much.
This stuff slaps so hard.
5 outta 5
Great flow over super raw, gritty boom bap beats.
3.5 outta 5
Good, powerful instrumentals with rough screamy lyrics.
I feel like the lyrics do have content they're just hard to catch.
2.4 outta 5
Interesting.
Nothing remarkable.
2 outta 5
Good stuff.
Very textured all the way through.
This album rocks for sure.
4.5 outta 5
It was alright but kind of boring.
Disappointing when you think about how many t-shirts are out there.
1.8 outta 5
This record is overflowing with hits, influence and fun.
3.7 outta 5
Definitely not boring.
Decent stuff, nothing special but definitely nothing bad.
If they carved out the meat of this album and made it 35 to 45 minutes, it has high potential to be a 5.
3 outta 5
Hits all around.
This is a unanimous classic, though it is great it didn't blow me away in the way I feel like it's reputation warranted.
4.6 outta 5
Good stuff here.
Some songs felt a bit long.
Caught By the River is a beautiful finale.
3.4 outta 5
Ethereal, beautiful music.
Made me think Nick Drake got a rock band together.
4.6 outta 5
Definitely good music. I just don't love slow, swingy, bluesy jazz.
It's not even like I didn't enjoy it, it's just not my taste.
2 outta 5
This review is written before I listened:
Heavy, moody, headbangy, shite.
After listening: yep
1.3 outta 5
Sheryl Crow can't sing.
The last 3 songs aren't all that cohesive but they're the only ones worth listening to.
1.4 outta 5
Neil was DEPRESSED & extremely talented.
Lana Del Rey, eat your heart out.
Beautiful album.
4.5 outta 5
It started off with a really strong four songs, then went completely off the rails.
Is this the score to a musical?
1.3 outta 5
I like this more than I thought I would.
It was good front to back, just not exactly my style.
2.7 outta 5
It was good but slipped into the background often.
2 outta 5
This record is a baseball game won using small-ball. No home runs, (although Weight is definitely a stand up triple) everybody is at least 2 for 4 with an RBI and a run of their own. The Band wins, final score 16-5.
4.3 outta 5
There's not a bad thing you can say about this album.
Crisp, funky, and danceable.
4.5 outta 5
Amazing record front to back.
Danceable, headbanging, rock done right.
Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured is one of my favorite songs ever and I don't even know if it's objectively the best song on this album.
5.2 outta 5
What the hell is this guy talking about?
Bob's a critically acclaimed lyricist though so I might be missing something but it was just way too much gobbledygook to wade through and try to decipher.
1.7 outta 5 and only because Mr. Tambourine Man is a certified hit.
Good sound.
Untextured.
Raw.
Obviously very influential to punk rock.
2.6 outta 5
Hell yeah, yeehaw, this is the shit! Musicians just having fun doing their thing. Singing about life, love and disappointment.
What the hell happened to country music?! I understand things evolve but things have not gotten better. Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley eat your heart out. Anybody can make records and albums. This is MUSIC!
Lyrics, flow, instrumentals, content, this album has it all.
Beautifully smooth front to back.
Santana and the classroom interludes were the perfect additions that push this record over the top.
5 outta 5 classic
Awesome record.
I love that a song like No Woman, No Cry and Am-A-Do can live on the same album in perfect harmony.
I had listened to all of these songs previously but never listened to this album and it seems like the recordings are different and I like them a lot.
5 outta 5
I can't say it's bland but it feels flat.
Just alright.
2.4 outta 5
Interesting.
Nothing bad to say but nothing much to say at all.
It was good, would listen again.
This is a strong case for why records should only be 35 minutes. It was an hour. I think this review would be very different.
Raw Power is a good title for this record.
3.2 outta 5
I don't know what exactly I was expecting after seeing the title and cover art but it was not this!
Fun, moody, hard, soft this rock album has a full range.
In the end it was just alright.
2 outta 5
Younger hip hop fans clown early records like this, mostly for the simplistic flow and sometimes silly lyrics I think, but that's what makes it so fun for me.
Highly influencial.
Rap and the people that listen to rap are way too serious nowadays in my opinion.
You can tell they just had a blast making this music.
3.3 outta 5
Not super captivating.
Lacks a certain "punch".
The song Drugs is an interesting piece of music.
I enjoyed the alternate versions that the deluxe offered.
2.7 outta 5
Dope storytelling.
I love Cube for his unabashed aggressiveness.
It's A Man's World is actually a hilarious song.
High quality front to back.
4.7 outta 5
Really strong song writing.
This sounds like Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie but not nearly as depressed. (Compliment)
The legibility of the lyrics deserves a positive note.
The music on this album has a certain "UMPH" that I really appreciate.
I'm not going to hold it against it because it wasn't on the original cut but, the last song, the "long outro CD version" pissed me off.
4.4 outta 5
I like this a lot.
His face is my face.
Easy listening at it's finest.
4.4 outta 5
Good music.
Strong instrumentals.
I could have done without the spoken word on the last one.
2.6 outta 5
It's definitely something.
If it's something I could not die without, I'm not sure.
2 outta 5
Groovy tunes.
I don't love what he did with across the universe.
Despite being bookended with hits, I think this record lands itself in the Hall of very good.
3.4 outta 5
Quintessential Rock.
Super fun record.
The Prophet's Song is an ethereal experience.
Extremely cohesive.
5.1 outta 5
