Pretty cheeks album.
I didn’t hate the first few tracks. Very avalanches vibes.
It became hard to listen to. Maybe I just don’t love “world music” that much.
I can appreciate the notion that this album introduced hip hop to the UK, but that doesn’t outweigh not crediting artists in the album.
Wish you were here is one of the all time tracks. Shine on you crazy diamond are also stellar.
The album loses me a little through the middle with welcome to the machine, and have a cigar. I think it’s probably part of a broader concept. I don’t dislike those tracks, they just pale in significance.
It may be a reflection of my attention span, or perhaps my generation more broadly, but there is a lot of ambient noodling on instruments that I find a little tedious. All in all, it’s a stark contrast to my day one Duck Rock.
4/5
Did Rod Stewart credit Jorge Ben Joe? Hope so. Actually a banger album. Can’t fight it. Nothing stood out as a real high or low point. Just really catchy tracks that I’d happily spin while road tripping, working, cleaning, or just kicking back.
Tuesday’s gone is an absolute track. Obviously free bird is pretty difficult to fight. No low points. Probably just not my sound for the most part. 3.5/5 if I could do half stars
Class album. Frustrating how relevant the themes remain decades on. Wake up is a stand out with the led zeppelin Kashmir-esque chords.
Album gives me more than enough energy to run through a wall. Probably would cop a 4.5 if I could do halves, 6 albums in. I can’t give out a 5 yet… can I?
Not for me.
Nothing against it. I’m sure it slapped back in 1957. But it doesn’t suit me.
I can still appreciate it musically. 3/5
I don’t mean to be rude. But this was quite shite.
Similar to some other albums I’ve reviewed thus far. Musically it was probably okay. But lyrically it was pox.
To reiterate the sentiment of one of the top reviews for this album “I guess you had to be there”.
2/5 for mine.
Love arcade fire. We used to wait and the suburbs are obvious stand outs. I really appreciate the music but something doesn’t work for me? It might be me? I was I no my most formative high school years throughout this release and maybe the angst i felt then surfaces once again while listening to this music?
No low points. Not a perfect 5 because there’s just something I’m not feeling and I can’t put my finger on it.
I mean I don’t hate it. There’s good parts. There’s average parts. There’s also 11 minute alternating solos. The Simpsons referencing it gives them an extra half rounding them up to a 3/5.
this sure was something. I would put it on to work to, but i wouldnt say I really enjoyed it. I think its very contextual. it is by no means bad, in fact its good. Its just not for me, unless im working, or sleeping. 3/5
I was conflicted on this album.
I didn’t feel a whole lot of much. But I also didn’t need to. I just enjoyed it. I tapped and bopped. I know there was an indie sleaze wave in this era, and I know the vines cashed in on it a little, the interview I heard was that there was too much demand in the UK for the industry to supply all the bands, so they imported them, along with the vines, there was the hives, and the strokes obviously to name a few.
I was about 8 when this his the radio waves, and I think the next 10 years had elements of this sound through most local bands in aus. You could say it was other bigger international bands that were the influence, but growing up in aus, there’s something distinct in the voices that we then heard from following acts like Eskimo Joe, kisschasy, gyroscope, and faker and I feel like these guys might have been the first. At very least, they found themselves on the cover of rolling stone magazine, surely that counts for something.
Maybe its the nostalgia driving me to be more generous to them. 4/5
