Is this the birth of stoner metal? Kyuss and Queens vibes.

It’s the Beatles being very early Beatles. Hella simp. The Things We Said Today might be the highlight of the album. Never was familiar with it!

Listening to this feels so ALIVE. The mistake early on; the authentic crowd reactions, the intro, the banter. This feels like a living, breathing performance captured in a bubble and catapulted through time. This makes me think of every white girl that thinks she’s a jazz singer. This was wildly influential music and now the whole act feels a bit kitsch in the current world. Like a theater company hosting a “jazz night” at a bar as an excuse for the prettiest one to sing and drink too many martinis while the others all wear fedoras. A coin boy’s wet dream. But this album feels like the opposite of that. It sounds smokey, tastes like whiskey and stale beer, and has the glow of the neon outside of the windows. There’s a Cadillac outside waiting to pick up a beautiful woman. The smack was still pure, the pie tasted better, and no one wore a seatbelt.

Kashmir remains one of the greatest songs of all time. Feel like some of these songs meander a bit, I’m not a big fan of them just fading out instead of actually ending. Feels like Zep doing prog rock and it definitely feels a bit more ambitious then even Led Zeppelin IV and houses of the holy.

Suzanne hits like heroin. Father John Misty is just a Leonard Cohen with a beard and better voice. Someone asked the question “what if Lou Reed had a bigger brain and got way more ass?” Then Leonard Cohen came to answer. This dude be yearning like a mf’er This is songwriting on a different level. It feels like poetry put to music. But it’s still music. This feels like he hasn’t hit his stride musically but he knows who he is as a songwriter. That was a rough outro to the album.

Zeppelin beat to start is cool. Two hat store rap albums in a row is rough. I joke about hat store rap but I really have no concept of how important B-Boy culture was. I think it’s a bit like the hippie movement, where you kind of had to be there in the moment to understand it as revolutionary before it became kitsch and silly. There really is an irony to the Boys rapping over Zep riffs that Jimmy Page lifted from black bluesmen. I’m FLuke Wilson and Im hear to say, i be taking chicks every day. Yeah im not shy or meek, Got a new girl every week. Don’t believe me? Just Trudt Me! After the gym my socks are musty! Got a nice girl and she is BUSTY. Teachers hating cuz they’re old and CRUSTY. Holy shit this is easy. I can’t lie though. This is fun. The interplay with these guys is undeniable. Rick Rubin curated some great beats. It’s Hat Store rap that knows it’s silly so it’s able to be really playful. A core memory Of mine is the crazy hop all of my senior prom did when Girls came on. This album is stacked on the back half.

Yo this dude is ugly as hell. This is glimmering honky tonk music. This is from an age when one could slap a waitress on the ass, punch a stranger in the face, line dance and go to sleep knowing you had a night well done. I’m actually a big fan of this album. It was a lot of fun. I knew that movies song. It’s a lot of fun!

“Holy fuck this is a Carol King song?” Is the experience of this album.

This feels like the British Invasion version of Hat Store Rap. This feels like such a slog to get through. Regardless of my personal feelings and drudgery Mick is still undeniable as a force of charisma and the guitar riffs and grooves compliment him so well. 11 minutes of going home makes me want to go home. Maybe I’m just in a shit mood but this has felt like the most difficult album to get through. This feels like The Stones at their most boring. Is this when Keith started using heroin? So my first listen was the UK version which does not have Paint it Black and is ten minutes longer. So I was right on all accounts and they changed a few things. Overall this was unpleasant, pastiche, lame, uninspired, cheap brit rock. Essentially what the Stones lay their hat on but it just didn’t have any of the charm for me. I’m also not a big fan of their of the singles off of this. Compared to songs like Jumpin Jack Flash, can’t you hear me knocking, satisfaction and later hits like Sympathy and Wild Horses, paint it black and Under my thumb feel lame.

I love that first chord hit to open the album. Girls just wanna have fun feels like cheese dick movie soundtrack bullshit but it’s pretty fun in the context of the album. There really does feel like there’s a light innocence to it and a message of “girls will be girls” the same way we say “boys will be boys.” This is prime mall frolicking music. Iron and Wine has a cover of Time After Time that is gorgeous and showcased what brilliant songwriting is at work here. It’s fitting that Napoleon and Deb danced the night away to it. All Through the Night is the birth of synth/glitch pop. Charlie XCX owes a debt. This album was a fuckin blast. A genre I don’t particularly love from a decade I don’t particularly love yet I really love this album. This album makes me think Cyndi was super fun to hang with. Why isn’t Cyndi Lauper used as a measuring stick for pop success? Like if Olivia Rodrigo can experience Lauper level success, then that’s kind of the apex. And good lord she’s got some dynamic vocals. Time after time will still be in play long after I’m dead. At least I certainly hope so.