Love the blues heavy album, it’s raw! I wax eloquently but it’s cerebral hemorrhaging as I sang out loud…
Man in black. What more can be said? He got his audience, and they got him! I can hear his empathy through his deep frog-horn call. The duets are soul rendering. I also think the recording has a genuine feel, you can hear the wardens calling for individuals because they had visitations. Overall it’s beautiful: a five star for me.
It’s hard to not make these songs not sound dated, probably because there are so memories associated with them. Starting with “welcome to the jungle” and memories of the Boulder County Fair and neon lights. Was the album overrated? Yes. Give me anyone of these albums released in 1987, over this album:
Cult “Electric”
Kiss”crazy nights”
White snake “white snake”,
Def leopard “hysteria”
Joe Satriani “surfing with the alien”; sonic youth “sister”
Pixies “hello pilgrim”
*** not really in the same field but
u2 “Joshua tree” was released this year.
The songs that highlight this album are:
"It's So Easy"/"Mr. Brownstone"
Released: June 8, 1987
"Welcome to the Jungle"
Released: September 21, 1987[1]
"Sweet Child o' Mine"
Released: June 3, 1988
"Paradise City"
Released: January 1989
"Nightrain"
Released: July 1989
12 songs total
Starred: 5
Rating: 2.08 (5/12=2.08333)
It’s hard to say because the music here has been played and known so I can’t make a new assessment. There are classic songs here. His rendering of “hurt” by Trent Rezner is awesome but does it move the needle forward. Overall I think this is a three.
You will love this or hate it. But I don’t think it can be ignored. I loved it, big 5 for me! Abstract ideas that come to my head while listening to this album:
Jordan Minnesota: noisy dialectics,
Gyrating hips, we do what we like, murder on the vocals, violate me
Passing complexion: yum yum sushi, conveyor food wizzes by, I’m hungry, high school halls smell starchy.
Five star because it is making a new mold. It doesn't seem like it aged because it has such freshness, I’m sure some would say it has a rotten vegetable smell. I say it smells of heated organic decay that I call humus. Perfect sound.
This is a solid three, probably a 3.4 as most of them are covers. It does not cross new ground but covers old ground in a solid way. I would listen to this if I needed a good start for a hard day to come. 3.4
A great album to wake up to. Yesterday’s, Richard howley was a bit slow to start the day. But now that I am up and about it’s a great album. Different albums for different parts of the day? 4 stars for this wake upper.
Girls against boys started as a side project started by Brandon Canty the drummer for Fugazi. Brandon Cantù is the It has a darker feel. It also features Scott McCloud, a member of one of my favorite all time bands Soul Side. This is the first time I listened to Girls against Boys. I really dig the sound of “Girls against boys”, it has those dirty guitar licks I love, the deep resonating vocals, and an ethic of let’s kick ass (punk rock). I would listen to this album to break things up. This is there sophomore effort. I can hear the sonic rumble I love in soul side and other bands like them on Discord. This album was released on “touch and go”! A five for daring to be that band that brings the noise to focused harmony. A five star album to me must have a guttural reaction, it can’t be considered that’s “nice”. It must either be considered great by some and others think it’s horrid. The diverse ratings shows that you have to have a reaction to the album. As a teacher once said sitting on a fence post create a mighty wedge. This album does not sit on a fence post.
2 not my cup of joe, recording made the sound muddled.
These live recordings are phenomenal.
Pitchfork review said, “ It was music for the revolution that wasn’t televised.” Yea it seems a little forward politically, but her voice is crystal on porcelain. I agree with the independent” At 74 minutes, it wanders out of the groove far too much. They could have chopped 20 minutes off this.” I at times wanted to groove and was yawning instead. 3 star for me!
Hit songs:
Sunny Afternoon
Just like lavender is supposed to be calming; cold play is described by some as soothing instrumentations. For me though it is far from calming, in fact I want to be destructive, not that I am a violent person, but forced calming is something I can’t abide in. This album is a one.
Pitchfork said “ In short, it's fun and functional, yet disposable: Play is the condom of rock.”At least it’s not a used condom, but it’s safe!
Canadian band that rocks. I loved this album when it first came out. I was an emotionally wrecked dude when it first came out, this album brought me tears, as tofu burned up the back of my apartment. I was nervous to listen to it again, but it rocks out. I really liked the NME review of this album. 9
10:10 a classic classic soundtrack
This album was the soundtrack to a blaxploitation film starring Ron o’Neil and directed by Gordon parks junior.
The album is my favorite
Time line 1972 great albums: the seventies was a time of progressive music. The music pushed the boundaries of space and time. So many good albums came out at that time, a lot to be excited about from Jim Croce to Yes.
These include-
Wars” the world is a ghetto”
Genesis “foxtrot”
Allman brothers “eat a peach”
Frank Zappa “wake/jawaka”
David Bowie “the rise and fall of ziggy stardust”
Stevie wonder “talking book”
Yes “close to the edge”
Fela kuta “Shakira”
Jim Croce “you don’t mess around with Jim”
My brother bought this for my birthday in 1986, I was thirteen, and loved playing it under the stairs of my parent’s house. A great album. My parents hated it and would forbid me from playing it on my fisher price record player. They did not understand the power of hip hop. So what do I think of it now? It sounds dated but it’d great.
5 I love Bob Marley. I am sure I did not listen to reggae as a kid, so I think I was introduced to friends in junior high school. I also watched two movies that were reggae influenced: “the harder they come”(1972) and “the mighty Quinn” (1989). Reggae probably was one avenue to my early Christian walk, it was definitely art that had the greatest influence on me in finding Christ. I would sing to Bob Marley and feel like an activist and that something needed to be done for my brothers and sisters. It was a safe place for me to develop my testimony, as I could say to my parents “it’s only music.” Music has a way of working itself into you, it gives an entrance to worship.
1977 was a great year for music. There were 28 albums ranked at least 88% by critics. As I scrolled the albums were ones I would call classic. This album was ranked according to rating at 20 with a 93. Including one of my favorite jazz albums “heavy weather” by weather report! But Marley’s Exodus is a seminal album one I have enjoyed for a very long time. I think this is my favorite part of his short career. At one time I had his box set and these are the songs I would play the most on it. So yes this album deserves to be considered a classic.
This is a love or hate classic. This album won’t get to many middle scores because it is pushing the edges of taste. I love albums like this. At first listen, I was what the heck is this album trying to do? What is the thesis Brian and boys are feeling at this time and Space? But, then I listened again, and again, and again, and each time my mind captured a new look, a new feel, a deeper love for Roxy Music.
5
Love Nina Simone’s voice, it is so powerful. The “bosa nova” beat with her voice is so rich, the rolling drums, coupled with the trill of her voice is a wake up call. She imagines a world full of cups of espresso, gentle winds, and the newness of spring buds emerging from a long frozen winter.
4 Balearic beat the sound of the Argentinean waves crashing on the shore. Coupled with dance floor ibiza happenings. Ibiza was where the rich could be hippy, in sea breeze open air venues. New order found free expression and acid house influence, and blended it into the group's dance-rock sound. There is a sense of Dance floor spirituality.
Technique was the first New Order album to reach number one on the UK charts.
(5)
Love this album. Tom sings calliope while Sad hands strum on harpsichords, and a sax screams into the city street, William Burroughsesque poetry is read like an old man reading the newspaper on the subway.
5 Napalm Death according to “all music” invented “grind corp”, a brutal assault on your ears but also calming. The kind of calming you might get when you put your head into a riverbank, or swim a brisk mile avoiding demon alligators ready to chomp on you. But it’s calming, yes it is especially good for that morning rush.
(4) Koffee Alomide is a Congo musician. This is a four star because according to the Rolling Stone Record review guide: the best introduction to an artist’s work for curious listeners.” This is my first time listening to him, but not my first time listening to the Congo beat.
“Agbepa is considered one of the most significant figures in 20th-century Congolese and African popular music.[11][12] His lyrics often explore themes of love, politics, technology, success, infidelity, religion, chicanery, and disillusionment.[13][14][8] Through his music and stage performances, he introduced the slower style of soukous known as tcha tcho[15][16] and popularized a flamboyant fashion subculture called La Sape, alongside Papa Wemba.”
(5) classic tracks that define who and what The Rolling Stones were, are, and forever will be.
Vocals sound like a glam Elmore fudd.
The mass appeal was their appearance on the Talledega Nights sound track, and featured on video games.
5 I dance, dance, dance, trying to forget yoko ono, and laugh as the absinthe hits my gullet. I take a drag on the bong and dance around the room. This album is perfect.
3 Waiting in the rain at rail road crossing is the feeling I get.
(4) I loved this album as a kid. I had the record; and would play it for my birthday every year. But, I know it too well to critique it, there are a lot of songs here that are fun but not of greatness, rocky raccoon, back in the USSR; this is not their greatest album. Rubber Soul is a lot better.
5 he is the best concert I ever attended. It was a brutal fatalistic revelation. However, his music when recorded often lost its intensity, not this one!
5)released in 1969, the mood is sad, an overwhelming sadness taints this album, the final album by these blokes from Liverpool. Gone are the fun ditties
(4)Iron Maiden’s debut album, hit the charts at #4 in the UK. Paul Di"Anno the lead singer on this album. His vocals are more punk than compared to Dickinson’s operatic harmonies. This album feels like a late seventies album, the hooks reminiscent of Blue oyster cult, or hawk wind. I have always appreciated Iron Maiden for their love of literature. The track “phantom of the opera” is such a song. “Iron Maiden”is a track the band plays as their final song before their encore. This is the first appearance of that song.
5 I can tell how influential this album was, and is. It’s the basis for a lot of music today.
(5) I love it because its authenticity bleeds through the recording. Curt does have a grating voice and I can see why some might not like it; but it has emotional rawness, which if smoothed out would lose its power, and its grit; it wouldn’t be Nirvana. David Bowle’s song “the man who sold the world” becomes uniquely emotional compared to the original which was catchy and beyond feeling; Both versions stand on their own merits.
4.(3.5 rounded up)
1958. A time period with a lot of folk, rockabilly, and jazz. It is a bit slower, contemplative, and full of story.
I love the inclusion of woody Guthrie on the track New York Blues. Tracks I especially liked were: New York Blues, Old Blue,
2006 best hip hop album to me goes to j dilla donuts. However, this is solid, a great way to get psyched up! I want to hit something now, I want to get off my butt and do something, some days I need that beat. And this album is that beat. My favorite two tracks are: (momma), and (dogs of war).
(1) I’d like to know more about what this is… I’m sure someone thinks this is the best band in the world,I would love to hear from you. Try to convenience me the beauty of this album, but for me heck: No! Rating of a one. Maybe I’m not cool enough! It’s just too weak, soft.
(5) I love this so much and here is why:
URAQT love the sample of the Sanford and Sons main theme with Red Fox saying “you big dummie”.
(5) Good country music is better, if not best when it’s an authentic look into a cowboy’s heart. This is an authentic look. Steve Earle, John Prine are my favorite roots country artists because they speak so truly in both musicianship and in lyrics. As far as some people think is this cheesy? No. He is a singer songwriter at his earliest. He has lived a bit, and from this bit he draws from. He wrote or cowrote all the songs on this album, so it is original and true to his voice! Is this his best album? No. But it’s a great debut. The title track has been covered by Emmylou Harris, and Shawn Colvin.
(5) Even has xylophone, this album does not have a weak track, they are all solid, yet they pushed the limits of music for their day.
(4.5) Released on Epitaph Records, the definitive label for those young punk. this album made the group popular! And that sucked. Popularity sucks. But man it still rocks! I remember a “grange hall” we Colorado punks staged shows, they showed up in a white van, and I never saw the show because back then there was curfew. I hope to see them at the strawberry festival this year, 2026.
This album is a definite four. It’s smooth and nice; Chill back and let the thoughts be kind.
3 nice! Just nice! Nothing more but nice, just nice!
(5) I love this album, not sure why I remember listening to this the first time in Israel. I even remember a discussion regarding this at the Al Arab hostel, but this is improbable, as it was released after that date of 1997. Memory is a tricky matter! Maybe the sound is my soundtrack surrounding me at my steps in between this world.
“Air-Moon safari” is best heard in liminal spaces. I love down tempo or EDM, because I love when music is my soundtrack. It creates a mood that takes me into philosophical realms. Their sound takes you deeper. So put this on, pour some wine, and turn the lights on low, as this is love making music.
Air influenced bands like “Tame Impala” and “mouses”. They also helped solidify downtempo, chill wave, dream pop, and the French Tpuch scene”.
(2) it’s hard to look past its success but…
1. It’s not a definitive album.
2. It does not define a genre.
3. Its average.
And it does not have the beat I can’t help but dance to!
2
“Are we there yet?”
“How much longer till the next song?”
“Where are we, still on track 2?” Track two had gems but how do you play this on radio? Track 2 weighed in at over nine minutes. I guess if you’re a Disc Jokey and you got to pee, and you need a long track, then put on track 2 and you will have no problems, you will have time to spare!
So who produced this album? Alan Winstately and Kevin Rowland. Winstately is probably why a lot of these songs sound like Elvis Costello. Winstately produced for Castello, Punch the Clock and Goidbye Cruel World. So i wonder what the discussion between Alan and Kevin Rowland was like? I believe Kevin Roland had the final say and that’s why it’s a Yugo and not a Porsche, it could have been so much more. The production of it is weird where editing was most needed they just kept playing. The sound levels are not mixed correct, the vocals don’t match the instrumentations. But I don’t think it was Winstately fault on this one!
Is it me or does “one of these things” sound like a copy of Werewolf of London by Warren Zevon; only it’s a bunch of rambled and not like a hit by Zevon. “They all sounded the same! That’s a bit of it. One of those things.” Then he reminisces again into oblivion, this would be a great live album, or something like VHI’s storytellers. .
The problem is there is a lot of good here! If only they could have found a producer who could filter the mess into coherence! Or that Rowland listened to his producer. Uncut was right when they said it was a “neglected masterpiece”. The good stuff and there is a lot of it. Kevin Rowland has a great voice. violinist Helen O'Hara, and saxophonist Nick Gatfield. I think a Christmas album would be a good choice for them!
Or an ode by Shakespeare. Something that would keep their creativity at bay and not at odds with performance.
Overall a 2:5.
4 better than I thought. Overall really good with only one Yugo!
One of my favorite all time albums.
3 Arapaho Basin, spring skiing, and the smell of bbq. Ladies in bikinis. And I am thirteen thinking this is “all right, the grill is all right!”
(3) better than I thought before i listened to it!
3 nice but nice is a three!
This is like if Neil Diamond or a yacht rocker went hard! It’s cheesy. However, it slays.
3 not my style but well played!
(3) it is an original piece and the first rock opera but it’s not my cup of tea.
(5) ice-T’s master piece. Gangsta-Rap classic, it brought everything to help generate the sound of this hip hop genre. I think I have quoted this album a lot, it was definitely an influence on my vocabulary, not the words you’re probably thinking of, but phrasing like “I don’t play that!” I also remember listening to this as I walked behind the lawn mower, I would act out the scenarios as I mowed next to the geraniums.
(1)
Best track:
“This is our lot.”
One sentence: Melodic train set music.
(3) at one time I loved this album, now it sounds dated…
(3)
for an unfinished, half thought album, the album is better than what other artist would pull off. Jaco white self produced this album so he did not have anyone hearing it from a coaching view. So the album is unfinished. Self production is so hard to pull off, you end up not knowing how to arrange all your special pets. An example of this is the jarring effect between the first and second songs. The question is, “can anyone pull off producing their own material, or does it need an outside POV.
I agreed with the Guardian, mojo, and EW:
Guardian
The material sounds frustratingly underdone - seeds of good ideas that might have flourished into something remarkable with more time and TLC.
mojo
When the approach works, the results are bracingly exploratory; when it doesn't they're frustratingly half-formed.
EW
Get Behind Me Satan is surprising, all right, but not always in the right ways ... Too many of the tunes — and Jack’s lyrics — are undercut by lurching, half-finished arrangements.
(5) ok she could be a daughter, but there is something I really love about her lyrics, and musical arrangement… jack antonoff produced this gem. Antonoff is known for producing Taylor swift, St. Vincent, sia, Lana del Rey, 1975, Pink, Nick Cave; the big names have been shaped by Antonoff’s direction. He knows how to create a cohesive album. An album that flows from track to track.
(5)
Produced by Harold Batiste s New Orleans Producer. Batiste also produced Sam Cooke’s “you send me”. So here with Dr John, New Orleans comes alive with all of the nuances, A New Orleans feel, with some chicory Coffee included for free.
(5) I got a FEVA; and the only prescription is more bongos!
Like the sound the first track was sublime
3 a great album but it’s not his best
5 love this classic one! Rush rocked! It accompanies my reading of the book A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah j Maas. Yes, I am a nerd but I love me!
(5) 1977
yes yes yes! I love me some weather report. This is the first album I heard of them. I found it in the music library at Pacific university, next to miles Davis’s Bitches Brew and Dave Brubeck’s” take five”. I fell in love with all three! I passed Western Civ. that semester because of this love affair. I often preferred “heavy weather” over the three probably because of Jaco Pastorius, and that groove got me through the Battle of Thermopylae.
5 man I love me good xylophone and tango, this boy from Colorado digs it!
(4.5) solid work, amazing, Metallica is jealous of its former member!
Okay, there is a gap between what I have known and what I have become. Morrisey is like a mint julep on a May Day, refreshing. For years I never listened to morissey or the smiths because I saw them as a weak man’s music. I think I hated him for loving. I prescribed to the poison pen of Colorado’s war lock punchers moto, “morrisey rides a cock horse”! I repent it’s a mint julep for my lazy day at the races.
(2) give me “the comet is coming” any day over this jangling lumbarjack sing along.
5 because they were great… and there are tracks I love on this album
