A very well-written and executed rock album. I have never heard a full album of this band before and I was quite pleased by the experience. I think Fogerty's vocals shine throughout the album and the riff quality is solid throughout.
I am not sure about this one. There just seems to be something that is missing here. I guess it's decently constructed but it just doesn't light the spark for me.
One of the more salient aspects of this live album is the prevalence of the vocals. I think they overshadow the actual instrumental by quite a bit. I also think the clapping by the audience is also perhaps a bit too loud and can be distracting. The songs themselves are alright, they do not standout too much but they aren't bad either.
I had never heard of DJ Shadow before, so I had no expectations going into this album. I have to say that I was quite impressed by this album, especially since it is quite outside the genres of music that I normally listen to. I found the instrumentals to be well constructed and engaging, and the album does not stick to a certain sound for too long. The overall atmosphere presented by this album is very pleasant and I could definitely see myself relaxing to this album in the future.
A very well-written and executed rock album. I have never heard a full album of this band before and I was quite pleased by the experience. I think Fogerty's vocals shine throughout the album and the riff quality is solid throughout.
I am not sure about this one. There just seems to be something that is missing here. I guess it's decently constructed but it just doesn't light the spark for me.
This is probably the first album of this journey that I would say that I don't like. I think some of the later tracks like Union Square, Blind Love, and Downtown Train are very good, but overall I found this one unpleasant to listen to. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to enjoying this album for me is Tom's vocals. It seems he is one of the artists where his voice grates on me and it detracts from the rest of the music. However, I would also say I am not the biggest fan of the instrumentals either. A lot of the songs kinda sounded they came out of some Banjo-Kazooie game, and it was quite the juxtaposition with the tone of the lyrics.
Overall, a very solid rock album. Everything just seems to sound well done on this album. I would say my least favorite moments would be the opener with how the singer vocalized "precious" throughout the song. Later songs in the album like Brass in Pocket and Lovers of Today stand out as strong tracks to me.
"This is a Missy Elliott Exclusive" is just as annoying as DJ Khaled yelling "DJ Khaled!" and "We the best music!" before every fucking track. Really doesn't help that none of the tracks here are nothing special. I just don't really like anything here: the flow, the beats, the lyrics. There really is nothing here.
Wow, This one befuddles me. As much as I disliked Missy Elliot's Under Construction, I at least could understand why it was part of this collection. You cannot convince me, however, that this has ever been viewed as good. I was probably looking forward to the end of this album roughly a third of the way in, and I don't think I'll ever listen to anything from it ever again. I don't think I've ever been as tempted to say "it's just noise" about an album as I have been here.
Prior to today, I don't think I've ever voluntarily listened to a Taylor Swift song. By that, I mean I’ve never opened a music player/streaming service, went to a Swift song, and clicked play. This is primarily because I have involuntarily heard too many of her songs too many times because of her complete proliferation throughout society. "Maybe this won’t be so bad, there’s no way they can all be bad" I lie to myself as I bring up the album and scan through the track list. "Look, you don’t even recognize the title of the opener". I then hit play and realize I very much do in fact remember "Welcome to New York" and I had just undone my brain’s years-worth of efforts to memory-hole this piece of garbage. Every song that I recognized prior to listening to this was terrible. "Blank Space" was worse than I remember it being, and my undying hatred for "Shake it Off" has never died from the many bus rides during middle school that this song plagued. Outside of the ones that everyone knows, most of the other tracks are still very dull synthpop songs which are not helped by the fact that Taylor is one of the least favorite vocalists that I have listened. I’ll hesitantly admit that "This is Love" might actually be a good song. Nevertheless, it’s not going to save this album from the fact that everything else is terrible.