This album feels like the cliche beach day, grabbing a beer, throwing a Frisbee, splashing the water.
I feel like I like the deeper cuts than I do the popular cuts. Hate & War is a banger
For a 35 minute album its slightly repetitive. Granted it is the 70's. Each song though its short and to the point
Police & Thieves is a banger
Surprised, liked this album a lot more than I thought I would. Great lyrics, catchy Punk chorus's
Thinking 7/10
First listen in the car, really good album.
Has a lot of great vocal melodies, I like a lot of lyrics and themes. Carole King has a great voice
Only tracks that bothered me was You’ve Got a Friend and Where You Lead. Both songs are literally the same thing about Carole just being like “Hey, if you need a friend I am right here”. Which is sweet in sentiment but like makes no sense, like I just started thinking Carole magically appearing when requested.
Otherwise, good album. 7/10 closer to a 6 than a 8
Simon and Garfunkel = Music
Music is Great
Therefore
Simon and Garfunkel are Great
Parklife by Blur was a wonderful first listen. For an album in the 90's it has aged really well due to its forward thinking blending a lot of different genres of pop, rock, and synth.
Listening to this album you can hear the influences of the Beatles on it, but I feel like Blur really brought its on sound on it with how quirky and colorful with lush production.
I even really like the interludes on this album, those were always fun to listen to as I felt like they were straight out of a movie. Like "Debt Collector" for example, just made me feel like a rugged 1980's 37 year old brit who is going door to door collecting money from person to person. Just a really fun album
8/10
Masterpiece, Masterpiece, Masterpiece
11/10
Personal note: I like how I hit on the thing “Yes I want to listen to albums on the weekend” just for them to give me a 6 disc, 3 + hour record to listen to.
Review: The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald is amazing. Honestly, never knew who Ella was but I have heard her. Ella has the most iconic voice for Jazz in her time period.
Ellas voice is really the forefront of the show. Wonderful quirky lyrics always keep a lot of these songs engaged even for 3 hours. Shout out to the Jazz band as well as they too did a wonderful job.
Two issues I ran into:
1. I hate how history has whitewashed Ella. Cartoons, TV shows, etc. really fooled me that this was a white woman singing and not a black woman. Big shame on the industry
2. Back to the actual review: some of the songs in structure for a 3 hour album are repetitive. A lot of the songs end in that classic “ TO MEEEEEE” with the horns blasting and strings stringing. If I had to be critical, there need to be a little more varience. But I wouldn’t say it took away from my experience.
Wonderful 3 hour experience and Ill probably be playing this album every Christmas now
8/10
Honestly, went into this album after the first not expecting to like it.
Still not a fan of that first track but after that, the album is just great. Amazing riffs great lyricism just really fun 80s Dad metal music.
9 out of 10
Honestly pretty good
Iconic for its time, I do feel like there were a lot of bands within its time period that would perfect this sound. Definitely ahead of its time but not the best.
6/10
Really fun late 80s synth pop album. Should have leaned more into the synth, but enjoyed the album through the entire thing.
8 out of 10
Live one of the best metal bands with an Orchestra. Pretty sweet.
It’s got a couple songs I liked. But I don’t know. I just didn’t do it for me.
