Christine's Tune - Interesting Rock/Country fusion. Other than the instrumentation, it's somewhat forgettable. 6/10. Sin City - Good musicianship, not my favorite genre. 5/10. Do Right Woman - Good musicianship, not my favorite genre. 5/10. Dark End of the Street - Excellent guitar work, pedal steel is very nice. Lyrics are repetitive, mostly a forgettable song. 6/10. My Uncle - Excellent guitar work, pedal steel is very nice. Lyrics are repetitive, mostly a forgettable song. 6/10. Wheels - Interesting instrumentation. 5/10. Juanita - Formulaic Country song. 5/10. Hot Burrito #1 - Good musicianship, just not my style. 5/10. Hot Burrito #2 - Forgettable. 4/10. Do You Know How It Feels - Meh. 4/10. Hippie Boy - Sounds like a hippie's parody of Gospel music. And not a good one. 2/10.

Looking forward to this, because I love Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark - 7/10. Very solid, typical of Ms. Mitchell's work, rich vocals, simple harmonies. Help Me - 10/10. Rich, velvety sound. This song is one of the reasons I love Joni Mitchell. Free Man in Paris - 8/10. Very pure vocals, simple melody and harmony. People's Parties - 8/10. Nice bass work, excellent guitar, vocals use a lot of nice changes of pace. The Same Situation - 7/10. I would have liked this song better if it had stayed nothing more than Joni Mitchell and a piano (like the beginning). Car on a Hill - 7/10. Very much the same as the other songs on the album. Down to You - 8/10. Captures the feeling of being lonely well. A little over-instrumented in places. Just Like This Train - 8/10. Very similar to the rest of this album. Raised on Robbery - 8/10. More upbeat than I'm used to from Joni. Feels very 1950s rock to me. Trouble Child - 7/10. Good, but not great. Twisted - 10/10. Jazz feel. Not at all what I expected, and I like it.

I looked at the track list for this album, and knew this would be a banger. Cinnamon Girl - 10/10. Classic Crazy Horse. Everybody Knows this is Nowhere - 9/10. More restrained than Cinnamon Girl, but that's no complaint. Round and Round (It Won't Be Long) - 8/10. More pure folk rather than folk-rock. Neil Young does this well, but he's better when he embraces the rock fusion. Down By The River - 10/10. One of Neil and Crazy Horse's best. I can't believe anymore that I once didn't care for Neil's singing. The Losing End (When You're On) - 8/10. Elegant in its simplicity. Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) - 8/10. Great tune, chord progression sets the mood VERY well. Excellent composition, good instrumentation, Does Neil Young ever miss? Cowgirl In The Sand - 10/10. Great guitar work, Classic Neil Young vocals, incredible guitar solo in the middle. This is what truly great music sounds like.

This is one of the great albums (although I actually prefer Dark Side from Floyd). In The Flesh? - 10/10. The guitar intro is iconic. The vocals are tight. A perfect track to start an album. The Thin Ice - 8/10. Impeccable musicianship. Very simple. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 - 10/10. Sets up themes of loss and loneliness. The Happiest Days of our Lives - 10/10. Another Brick in the Wall Part 1.5. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 - 10/10. If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? Great chord progressions, and that guitar outro is one of the most recognizable riffs in the history of rock music. Mother - 10/10. The cool-down piece needed after the peak of ABitW 2. Perfection isn't when there's nothing left to add, but rather when there's nothing left to take away. Goodbye Blue Sky - 10/10. The ominous synth in the bass really puts a jarring contrast to the simple guitar line, but it fits the lyrics. That juxtaposition speaks to me as a veteran, having seen the cost of war in real-time. Empty Spaces/Young Lust - 7/10. Putting these together because they belong together. A great pair of songs on their own, but actually weaker when placed in the context of the album. Fills the same story purpose as Acid Queen from Tommy, but, in my opinion, not as well. One of My Turns - 8/10. As someone who struggles with depression, this song definitely hits me hard. Roger Waters understands depression so very well. Don't Leave Me Now - 8/10. Welcome to the depths of what depression does to someone. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3 - 10/10. This is exactly how depression feels. Goodbye Cruel World - 9/10. Retreating behind the wall. Heartbreaking in its simplicity. Hey You - 10/10. I always liked this song, I always thought it was a call out to the lonely and depressed, but placing it in context with the rest of the album, it's even better and is bringing me to tears. Is There Anybody Out There - 9/10. My thoughts ask this question every time I get a depression flare up. Nobody Home - 9/10. That piano intro is amazing. Somehow the music is triumphant, but the lyrics are still mired deeply in despair. Vera - 8/10. Solid, but on the weaker side of the album. Bring the Boys Back Home - 8/10. Solid, but on the weaker side of the album. Comfortably Numb - 10/10. Only because I can't rate it higher. One of the top 5 guitar solos of all time (Sultans of Swing from Alchemy Live, Stairway, Don't Take Me Alive, Little Wing by Hendrix). The Show Must Go On - 6/10. An interlude that seems to have little connection with the previous song or the next song. In The Flesh - 9/10. Same intro as the opening of the album, but this is longer. from 2:34 it sounds like what's happening in the US right now (October 2025). Run Like Hell - 10/10. A great song that gets even better in the context of the album. After the overtly Fascist lyrics of the last song, the urgency of this song is even more fitting. Waiting for the Worms - 9/10. A background of goose-stepping Fascist Stormtroopers undergirds the lowest point in "The Cult of Pink." Very effective piece. Stop - 8/10. And the main character's morality awakens. Again, the simplicity comes through. The Trial - 10/10. Even more than anything that has come before, this is exactly what Depression feels like. TEAR DOWN THE WALL! Outside The Wall - 10/10. Oh. Oh. That must be what the people who love people with depression feel like.

This is not my usual style of music. The whole album sounds like pretentious, overmixed, coffee-house hipster music. Bittersweet Symphony - 8/10. I mean, I liked the accompaniment better when it was The Last Time by The Rolling Stones. That said, this is a great song. Only gets an 8 because they ripped off The Stones (although there are worse bands to rip off). Sonnet - 5/10. "Don't sound like no sonnet." Neither does this. Good musicianship, lyrics are OK, if a bit repetitive without a reason. The Rolling People - 3/10. Forgettable mid-90's grungeish rock. Not terrible, but not great either. Should have been about half the length. The Drugs Don't Work - 1/10. Save me from early 20's angst from the late 90's. Catching the Butterfly - 2/10. Forgettable and overly long. Solid musicianship, just not to my taste. Neon Wilderness - 3/10. At least it isn't too overly long. Not a fan of experimental 90's music. Space and Time - 5/10. On the stronger side of this album, good musicianship. Weeping Willow - 5/10. Decent. Not good, not bad, just decent. Lucky Man - 3/10. Meh. Much like the rest of the album. One Day - 3/10. Meh. Much like the rest of the album. This Time - 3/10. Meh. Much like the rest of the album. Velvet Morning - 2/10. Pretentious, overmixed garbage. Come On/Deep Freeze - 2/10. On par with the rest of the album. Four minutes and still no "bonus track." Overall rating - 1/5