Super funky and casual in a way that isn't really my jam. A song about getting into Japanese culture from DBZ is both a wonderful affirmation of how things can matter to people, and not something I really want to listen to.

The best moments, when it grooves, are fantastic (and where all the hits are). She of the other tracks come off as Jack White trying to explain why he loves a genre of music and not always succeeding.

Funky in a way I actually dig. I think I like funk more when it can fade into the background. Lyrics more as tone than statement.

I might like jazz? There's a flow to this that's so hard to describe it's basically zen. The music just washes over you like its always been there.

Maybe it's just listening to this not long after Grandpa passed, but this feels old in a way that not even other albums I've listened to as part of this felt old. It really has a sense of when I'd think to hear it. I think that's an impressive kind of good on its own.

Really interesting album. It sounds like a soundtrack, and I could like it as one. Or a concept album (which I guess maybe it is, but it didn't feel like it and that structure). Without that form to fit all these stories into, it felt rambling. Not bad, but not well-formed.

This is a better album than I knew. It's got a laid back big rock swagger that totally hits.

Given how much I listened to Flogging Molly, and that they've been covered by Titus Andronicus, you'd think I'd have heard The Pogues before this. But I hadn't. I have now, and my life is better for it.

Too rock opera for me. It all feels like a soundtrack to a movie, but the soundtrack is trying to take over.

I wasn't thinking I'd like this much, but it surprised me. Moe Dylan than honky-tonk, with a lyricism that I could see getting embedded in my brain.

I'd always felt the Stones were less bluesy than advertised, but I think that's just the hits. This is a lazy Sunday blues rock I can get behind.

Not sure I'd ever heard Ray Charles before. More swingy than I'd really like, but I can see where it would have been a big deal.

I just cannot get into the carnival barker thing, and that's most of this. DNF.

Can't really get behind the singer, and this overstays its welcome by roughly a whole album.

Oddly my opinion hasn't changed much in the decade+ since this came out: some amazing moments but too ornate most of the time.

Impressive lyricism.