"Not my cup of tea" doesn't seem quite right, as I oscillate between my feelings on this album I hear strokes of bands I adore intertwined in this album. I can hear the influences to and from things like the Pixies and Velvet Underground in form, or Talking Heads and The Raincoats in style. All things I like without a doubt.
It's hard to say I like this just as much as it's hard to say I don't. Whatever rating I decide on, it won't be directly comparable to anything else I place in the same category as if it almost deserves a totally separate rating system.
Not to sound insanely stuck up but I'd say this album is only a "must listen" if you care about the genres it's in or the genres that come directly after. Is it interesting and experimental and well deserving of its place in music history? Absolutely. Does that mean that by modern standards it's an easy listen everyone should do once? Maybe not.
Hard to say if this album has aged well, it's about as 80s as an album can be and that could certainly be seen as a bad thing now but I happen to love that sort of sound.
Tina's voice is excellent, and plays wonderfully to this day. I just can't rate this higher because I know better music came out not just in the 80s but within the same year. Just in terms of comparison it's capped but I do think it's a fun listen even after 40 years.
No real notes, this is the first album I'd already heard before this project recommended it and I do like it and Sonic Youth in general.
So, I listened to the original tracklist but live. I find Jazz an incredibly hard genre to judge... so, I won't.
I like long songs generally, they give room to do different things and tell stories but without words you'd think that would be harder. But no. These songs are experiences, they pick you up and let you breath and then continue to climb. Phenomenal listening experience.
This is right in my preference. Creatively fantastic and probably even better than their debut, which is not an opinion I thought I'd have. Really excellent and definitely the cream of the crop of 70s music and that is extremely high praise.
Two Doors albums in a row is wild. Not as good as LA Woman, probably a little below the self titled but they show brushed of their advancement in both their sound and their abilities. Still an excellent album and well worth a listen.
I've used the term "cream of the crop" already but good god, now this is it. I've heard this album a couple of times and every time it's such an experience, sometimes like floating through space and other times touching an oily hand rail, it has an outrageous amount of character. I started listening to hip hop as a genre around 5 years ago and as a result it's transformed my taste, and if asked what were the 10 albums that most majorly opened my eyes this would be on that list, and definitely on my top 100 albums of all time. The production is stellar, the vocals are incredible and breath-taking, slow and suffocating and yet beautiful and ethereal. Trip-hop is a genre I know only a bit about (i.e only the most formative groups) but this definitely is my frontrunner of the genre.
Best song: Roads, followed closely by Numb
Worst song: N/A
Rank compared to everything else so far: 1/7
Trying something new with the formatting, we'll see how it feels.
