Wow. I can't believe with how obsessed I've been w greta van fleet I didn't look closer into their predecessors. This album was amazing beginning to end.
I just earlier today watched a video about the movie Sinners and I couldn't help but be reminded of the music in that movie during my listen through. Especially the song Mississippi Kid. It really puts into perspective where we get the roots from a lot of our modern music, and how few of their descendants are at the forefront of the popularity of the genre. I'm trying too hard to say it in poetic ways, but what I'm trying to say is that lynyrd skynyrd's sound, at least on this album, is very much borrowed from black people. And I can't help but notice everyone in the band is white. It makes my feelings while listening a little complicated.
But this album was definitely a good experience, and I will be adding some songs to my playlist for sure.
After more listens, I can confidently say I am a fan of this album.
This is bringing back memories from when I was in my school's jazz band one year. I'm obsessed w the way each instrument is used. It's just so classic jazz. I love it sm.
My favorite part of the album was definitely the instrumentation - the horns, the bass guitar, and how they're all used. I very much enjoyed this album.
Ofc I'd heard all the iconic songs on this album before, but I really loved the other songs I'd never heard before. The opening song was especially cool. This was a very good listening experience.
This was hard for me to get through. I just really did not like his voice and singing style. I like the vibes of the music though. And the harmonica was fun.
I absolutely loved this album. The vibes were so good, and I actually feel like I heard the message he was portraying in the album.
Enjoyable listen
Fun classic christmas
I first tried to listen to this album a few years ago bc I youtuber I liked said it was one of their all time favorite albums. And I just really didn't get it.
Idk what it was that changed since then, but I absolutely loved every second of this album as I listened to it today. I can see this becoming an album I listen to on the regular.
I have mixed feelings about this album. I really like the instrumentation, like the drums, guitar, and bass. But I couldn't decide how I felt about the singing.
It kind of reminded me of Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
Very clearly greta van fleet's predecessors. Genre defining. But also it somehow feels more experimental the greta van fleet's stuff? Very interesting. Overall pretty good.
This was incredibly boring for me. Maybe it was just my headspace when listening, but I really was not enjoying this much at all. It felt like a chore to get through. There were a couple tracks I did enjoy a bit.
This was an amazing album. I enjoyed every moment.
Pretty good! I enjoyed it
I actually liked this album more than the first one. I don't know what was different, maybe I was just more into the vibe this time? In the right headspace?
Also, I think I'm gonna still rate this 3 stars, but I wish I could do half stars, bc I'd actually give it a 3.5 if I could.
Really not my favorite. I'd start kinda liking a track and then it'd just keep repeating the same strain and I'd get annoyed with it again.
I really like how they use different time signatures than is normal to use in your basic popular music. The 5/8 was really fun in get to you and tribal gathering. I should listen to the album again to try to find other times they use funky time signatures.
Such a banger of an albummmm. I absolutely loved it, and not just because I had a Stevie Wonder obsession as a kid. Every track is just perfection. Love love love.
Not a fan of the talk singing, unfortunately. The music was fine, good even. Sometimes the way he was singing reminded me of over the garden wall, which was nice.
Not a fan. The instrumentation was fine. But the singing was just so so bad, especially when they decide to sing falsetto. Terrible listening experience.
I really really liked the back half of this album. It was so much fun. I think just not much of a fan of slower songs in general, so the more upbeat songs were definitely my favorite, especially tall in the saddle and people.
Very fun listen. Gotta love David Bowie
This was a very enjoyable listen. I can see myself listening to it more especially when I want to be more zen for a bit.
It took me and second to get it, but once I got it, I GOT it. I'm normally not the biggest fan of her style of singing, but I really enjoyed listening to this album. It was so so good.
This was such a fun listen. I've never been one to think I'd like Johnny Cash, but every track was so enjoyable. It definitely helped that it felt like I was at a concert. It was fun to hear him talking to the crowd and them responding. This album was amazing.
This album was so fun! I wish it was all on Spotify so I could add more songs to my playlists. The vibes are super fun and the instrumentation is really captivating.
Meh
The guitar was very cool. This was an enjoyable listen for sure.
The music was extremely enjoyable in this album. Unlike the san quentin johnny cash album, the live aspect actually was a drawback for me with this album. There was a little bit too much screaming from the crowd at times for me. But other than that, I really liked this album. James Brown is an amazing talent.
This album was fine. It didn't really grab me much. But it was a good enough listening experience.
The overall vibes of this album were fine. But wow, his voice is so bad. I am really not a fan of how often it felt like he was struggling to reach or hold a note. That was not a very fun listening experience.
I was so incredibly bored by this album. It took me multiple days to finally finish it bc I just could not bring myself to put it back on.
The overall vibes for okay ig, just so boring.
This was such an enjoyable listen, especially after getting a few lackluster albums in a row, this was a welcome change of pace. I think I just really like higher energy, higher paced songs that involve a lot of layered instruments. Especially if they evoke an emotion in me. And this album definitely did that for me.
This album was really fun! It reminded me of turnover, which has a vibe I really enjoy. A great listening experience.
Not too bad. Some songs I really enjoyed, while others not as much. Some songs were not my cup of tea, but I could still find them interesting.
I enjoyed the instrumentation in this album. It felt cool and different.
I really enjoyed this album. I'm a big fan of early metal, much bigger than I thought I'd be before starting the album a day thing. This was a really good listening experience for me. It's definitely at least a 4.5 for me.
Amazing vibes all around, but that last track was exceptional. I love me a good guitar solo, and that was no exception. I was cleaning my room while listening to this album, and I just had to stop and just sit down to fully experience that last track.
Very good listening experience, I love funk.
This was an interesting change of pace. I felt like I was in a speakeasy, having polite conversation with other socialites. Overall, a pretty good listening experience, but nothing too exciting.
Even after how much I loved his san quentin album, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. Johnny Cash is truly an amazing artist in my eyes.
This album was interesting. It sounds like if the boogieman from the nightmare before Christmas decided to make an album.
This was fine
Absolutely amazing musicianship. This was a delight to listen to.
Idk dude. I thought I'd like this with how much I enjoy other kinds of metal, but I just could not get into this. It's almost not interesting enough to me. Like the vocals are so one note, the instrumentation isn't super variable, or at least not enough to hook me. There are some points in some of the songs where it gets more exciting and I'm like yes, pls more of this, but then it quickly goes back to the same stuff.
This was so much fun. While there wasn't much sonic variability among the songs, I still found them all pretty enjoyable. I felt like I was in the 90s.
Eh. Tbh I really wasn't the biggest fan. Maybe I was just in the wrong mood. The repetition was pretty annoying after awhile.
This was a really fun listen! I was a little unsure of it at first, but it grew on me as I kept listening.
Absolutely amazingggg
I listened to the second half while I was in the shower, and that greatly improved the listening experience. I think that's probably how this album is supposed to be listened to - with shower-like acoustics.
Absolutely amazzzziiiinngggggg. This was a very delightful listen.
Not a fan.
This was an amazing listening experience! It made me want to dance when I was driving.
This album really grew on me as I continued to listen to it. By the end of my listen through, I just wanted to keep listening to the album over and over.
This was an okay listen.
3.5
This album has taught me that the type of metal I really like is groove metal.
I loved listening to this while reading about who Hugh Masekela was. Knowing about his history and impact made the music that much more rich to me. He is credited as the flugelhorn player, no trumpet mentioned at all. He didn't play the trumpet even once in this record, only the flugelhorn, which I found extremely interesting bc my mind always assumes trumpet to be the default jazz instrument. But I love the timbre of the flugel. This was an excellent listen.
I definitely need to listen to this whole album again to appreciate it fully I think.
2.5
Fine, just made me wanna listen to David Bowie
So so so good
I absolutely loved this album. It was an amazing listening experience.
2.5
2.5
Not too bad of a listen, but not my favorite.
4.5
This was so so good
2.5
Kind of conflicted. I liked it at times, but other times not at all. Let's just say it was on the higher end of 2.5?
This was really enjoyable! This is one that I definitely want to listen to again.
4.5
Still not a fan
Such a good vibe
This was so so good
I feel bad rating this without actively trying to finish it, but the first few songs were so hard for me to get through that I just couldn't listen to it anymore.
I'm becoming a bit obsessed w early metal
Love love love
I am amazed by how smooth and rich his voice sounds, even though the recordings are so old. Some me some good ole frank
3.5
This was pretty fun
I listened to the whole first discus I'd feel bad quitting on an album again, but this was so unenjoyable for me. Not a fan really at all.
This was much like the simon and garfunkel album, in that it was average for most of my first listen, but then by the end of the album and when it started over I just really got hooked some how. I really liked this album.
4.5
Absolutely amazing guitar playing
I wish this album was on Spotify bc I would add so many songs to my Playlist
Average, but good
Eh, some tracks i really liked, others I really didn't
No thank you. Not a fan of British
Yes Yes Yes Yes! This was an amazing listen.
2.5
Started off fine, got boring
She is truly amazing
2.5
Love love love
Boring. Each song was long and repetitive. Not interesting enough to keep my interest for very long.
Not bad, very musical theater esque.
Love me some classic metal
I would have liked the last track much more without the 10 minutes of interlude where almost nothing happens. Idk why that was necessary.
Unfortunately I liked this album too much to give it anything less than a 5 :(
Tbh I didn't hate it. I even tolerated it
Normally I'm down for 10+ minute songs, but a couple of these dragged on just a bit for me
Sometimes it would drag on, but overall I really enjoyed this album! I was close to rating it a 5, but some songs were just a bit too repetitive for me. So 4.5
Sorry I could not get past the love song to a genocidal state
Idk how I could rate this less that 5 stars
Sometimes I get a bit tired of the vocals, but the guitar i can never get tired of
4.5
I liked this way more than I expected to!
Not a fan. Anytime I'd start liking it, they'd start singing again and I'd have a bad time all over again. I just need singers to actually sing the notes instead of dropping off the moment they hit it.
The slow lyrical songs were absolutely awful. The faster paced songs were a bit better.
I really enjoyed this album. Lots of fun.
Overall good listening experience, some of the songs just felt a bit too long and repetitive
This was so much fun!
Eh, not bad
Better than the last album I listened to by her. Seeing her name twice in a week was not exactly fun. I just don't really like her style. The way she talk sings and forces a lot of words and syllables in short melodies.
Very much not my style of music, but it wasn't bad, it was clearly well done music, just in a genre I would never choose to listen to
Fine? Just very much not my thing
Kinda boring ngl
Very long album, but Ella is iconic
