Everything steely Dan does is gold
Everything steely Dan does is gold
Everything steely Dan does is gold
Unique album, Ok, not much theme to it, some toe tappers. I liked the vibes of “in my mind”. Very Simon & Garfunkel meets vampire weekend song.
I like the ambient easy listening and eclectic inspirations he drew from. I’ll never listen to it again. Unless i decide to get a dangly cross ear piercing and choose to live the rest of my life in 90s dance album aesthetics. Not my favorite but didn’t feel like a waste of a listen either. I did save barber’s adagio of strings from his other album when I checked out his Spotify profile. This was better than firehose album so I wish I rated that a 2 as well.
I “respect” this album. Didn’t get anything new from it really. Weird how there’s like 3 songs that are on the album twice. Respect IS the album, everything else is in its shadow, except a change is gonna come which has such power in its lyrics, which is beautiful. I appreciate the historical significance and the flawlessness in her voice, but the album as a whole is dated and boring. Somehow falls short of timeless, but not far behind I guess. And also it’s low key depressing, lots of toxic love vibes. The album title is giving manipulator. I find it hard to separate the art from the artist sometimes. Bet Aretha was a rebel-rousing honeytrap diva in her day. God bless
Super duper chill. It’s like if jet set radio was a video game about chillin and Graffiti art instead of roller blading and graffiti art. This was a fantastic background music album. Some grooves, some head boppers, but it never ever dropped out of or exceeded the chill zone. Wasn’t too ambient, nor too distracting. Perfect balance between directly engaging and enabling a flow state throughout the day. I saved it on Spotify. Being very stingy with my 4s and 5s but this almost got a 4.
Already have 4 of these songs saved to my liked songs, very much in my bag. She really made jazz different, rejuvenated, unique, and toxic. Her lyrics are interesting and creative, but kinda piss me off. Very contrived I like bad boys and am very mentally disturbed vibes. Will I ever find art that is balanced in its pain or is the best art really the deepest darkest stuff that is tortured and depressing at the core of it…. Despite my personal criticisms, i think my criteria for a 4 star or 5 star album is that it must be a full listen thru that I truly enjoyed, rather than cuz it’s part of the discipline and homework of this album project (which is awesome in its own right to have to have discipline in my music consumption.) I digress. Definitely a 4 star album in that sense for me. Perhaps 5 stars is I could listen all the way thru many times. I’d get tired of this after one full listen thru and wanna put it down for a while, til I inevitably come back. very happy to have listened thru this entire thing. I just wish Half Time was on this album, my fav Amy Winehouse song. If you’re reading this, peep it, worth it. RIP Amy you would have loved vapes.
I’m Jewish so no hard feelings but ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, there’s tons of great refreshed Christmas music (e.g. This Christmas - Donny Hathaway) out there. all of these songs are the rudimentary boring classic versions but hey I get it if that’s your thing. Very outside my purview.
RIP biggie
So up my alley you’d think it’s a dumpster but this album is anything but garbage. Quintessential funk that makes my face look like I just smelled a dry-aged fart the entire listen. God I love P-funk. I will say, 40% of this album is derivative of other songs on the album, however that to me is a positive. I can’t think of a better funk album so it gets my 5. Wish I could rate to the first decimal cuz it would def get like a 4.6 not a 5.0 but maybe I’ll just start putting the decimal in my descriptions. Anyways Godddd it’s so glorpy 😩
Good god what a snooze fest! They
Should use this album as the soundtrack to a documentary about napping. Or like for a Juno remake where they make it even sadder and more awkward and less funny. I had to skip thru most of the songs mid-song, I could not stand this whatsoever, takes a lot to get me to love folk music. positive notes 1) I actually enjoy his mildly annoying voice 2) Tit Smoking in the Temple of Artisian Mimicry is a pretentiously fun name for a song and the guitar in it was interesting to hear but won’t ever come back to that song either 3) cool album cover. His guitar playing is generally impressive yet not interesting. The rest of this album was dogwater. For me, generally, Great lyrics come after pulling me in musically and I just couldn’t get pulled in. I bet the lyrics are beautiful poetry that would have been more interesting as spoken word, but I can’t be sure because I had to protect my sanity by skipping most of it. 0.8 stars. ZZZZZZZZZZ
Soooo I did some digging cuz I loved how violent and in your face this music was. So awesomely punk. But it was so drone-y and too much grr not enough lalala, compared to Songs About Fucking which I think is a better album than Atomizer. Perhaps the two albums are like yin and yang and I just happen to like yang more than yin. Just go listen to that instead. All that said, punk is not my fav genre so 2.9 stars which is like a 4 adjusted to my overall music taste.
This album cool as hell, secret 77 is a really groovy song but with The Cure vibes, neat. I enjoyed this lots 3.5 stars
So glad I have a reason to listen thru this entire album. It’s fucking prince y’all. Perhaps the deepest bag of gold from any artist of his era and realm, and probably since.
Dunno what it is but it feels dated but like I see why they were influential to a lot of 80s bands, it’s cool, but just a little too deep in the shadow of the Rolling Stones and I’m not the biggest stones guy anyway
Pretty neat video game vibes, was good for work, nothing that pulls me in to stay. Nothing got my head boppin but almost entirely stuck it thru cuz it helped me focus at work. 2.7 stars
not into the breathy electronica, but it was an entertaining listen on my commute to work. It had me interested but not quite bjorkin my peenits. 2.3 stars
Fav electronica album on the list so far, makes me wanna rollerblade real fast. Feeling generous today 3.6 stars
Ok
My goodness what a song writer. George was the real deal man. The arrangements on this album are dreamy. Thoroughly enjoyed every song, i can have this on repeat all day. This is an unheard album for me (aside from my sweet lord of course) and I’m so glad I came across it. Didn’t realize he wrote isn’t it a pity (Nina Simone covered this incredibly well). Solid 4.0 for me.
It was iight, bass lines were more than iight. 2.9
Immediately excited about such a high profile album, I suppose I have bias cuz I already know and love a few of these songs. Opening song nice n groovy. Authentic evolution in blues that I think they nailed and is unique to them? Would love to hear adjacent styles of blues to the doors. 3.7
Some fun tunes that I saved, incomplete album. 3.1
Wow this is cool as heck, it’s like the cure or smiths but like unique as well? I liked this album quite a bit. It kept me engaged with the interesting variety. 3.6
Unique n cool I like but don’t love and didn’t save any of the songs.
3.2 I likey some of de songs
Holy shit this is a long album, I like about 1/3 of these songs. Novel sound that’s a fun change from regular Metallica, I feel like I’m watching a bond movie to some of these songs. It was a long listen though. Idk about 2 hrs of Metallica. Some of the songs are worse with the orchestra, some of them are not better but different. Some skips in here for sure. 2.9 unfortunately.
Very nice jazzy long songs to keep the mind stimulated through the day. It gives off a a great afrobeat vibe that puts you in a mental state of vacationing to a place you’ve never been before. It put me in a good mood. 3.8
It’s like really pioneery n shit dawg. I’m sleep deprived and so is this music. I like it. It’s got groove and punk which is a combo that gets me hard and staying hard. Yum. Let’s see what much more intelligible and respectable review Drake has for us. 3.6
It still holds up, makes me feel young again. What a great childish punkish album to rock out to. Some genuine bangers on here and the whole album is a good listen. Nostalgia. Well done pop punk doesn’t really get any better than this. 4.1
Whatever
Lyrically impressive, music that transcends into poetry, I could just read the lyrics and enjoy it as poetry. Their blend of indie into pop is inspiring. Some of the best sad boi music I’ve ever heard. 3.7
This being my only real reference of industrial rock, it’s fantastic. I can’t say this is my cup of tea but it certainly rocks. Closer and hurt are def their best songs off this album (and any album?) 3.2
Is it genius? Maybe. Is it good? no. Can’t get into the monotonous Americana, although lyrics seem to be good when my attention span can handle paying attention to them. I’m sorry Bruce. I like your heartthrob fun stuff, I don’t like your dark side. But to be fair, I struggle to like dark music. It’s not you, it’s me!!. 2.4
42 min live album is wassup, not 2 fucking hours of orchestral Metallica so that’s a plus. Opening song is good. Didn’t know I want you to want me was by these fellas, nice. Oh shit and surrender? Fantastic song, like gives the album an extra half star alone. Nostalgic for me (THPS anyone?) Very very straight pop/arena rock that appeals more to teenage girls (as is apparent by all the annoying audience screaming) than headbangin fellas, but dammit listening to surrender made me feel like a teenage girl a bit. I get it tho, this album was their breakthru album as I understand it, so this isn’t their best stuff but also has some of their biggest hits. It’s enjoyed but I have listened to a lot of music like this and it can get tired pretty quick. Some very drawn out vamps were a smidge gratuitous. I can imagine having fun at this concert for sure, it’s amazing what live music can get away with when you’re actually there seeing it live. Great vocals. Tight band behind them. Real professionals. The recording on this live recording is a lil dated tho? Can’t fault them for that, it’s prolly the best there was at the time. A generous 3.8
Wow I’m pulled in immediately and transported to a different time. The vocals are so so good, incredibly clear harmonies, and the musicianship is tight. It’s so obvious why these guys were the pioneers of hunky rock stars. So talented. The song writing is catchy (although I would assume they had lots of help writing) and enjoyable. I’m honestly surprised by how much I enjoyed this album. Eeeeeasy listening. Lyrics are basic bitch shit but like these lyrics were definitely made for the basic bitches and the harmonies and arrangement is for the nerds so everyone wins (isn’t that was pop is all about, everyone wins?) 3.9
For me, much of the Stones discography is background rock n roll, formulaic, meh. I think they are also awesome and very entertaining but this album is not. 2.4
It’s a 3 cuz Drake says so
Man I forgot how good Radiohead is, I liked this quite a bit.
I both like it and think it’s missing some dynamics. Was hard to stick to it, but was nice background music actually. A smidge too experimental in a boring way, I suppose, but a valiant effort I appreciate. Won’t be back, I saved Valley to my liked songs, memorable tune. Very Skillful vocals. A-tier production and engineering. 3.0
Fucking love wings, Paul is my fav beatle, band on the run is a great song. The thing w Paul is he either writes bangers or the silliest goofiest bad songs and even that I love about him, he pumped out so many dang songs. This album, save for band on the run, was basically just the Beatles. Didn’t tickle anything that Beatles don’t. That being said, 3-4 great songs on here and the rest were decent none sucked. Very solid album. 3.4999
Maybe I’m just blind to this genre but all the songs sound the same just different tempos. Super mid for me. 2.8
Immediate 5 I didn’t even listen before writing that down. I mean come on. One of the greatest albums ever. A true album project, where it’s a journey from song to song. It’s a genuine masterpiece and so widely regarded as such. It’s some sort of auditory drug that shifts your state of mind if you sit and give it your full attention. There are few pieces of music let alone entire albums that truly do this to me. Now for the notes I have while/after listening. I’m so happy to have a reason to come back to this and dig in a bit deeper. There is not a single song on here that I had any desire to skip. That is my bare minimum requirement to give an album a 5. It far surpasses the minimum.
His voice is interesting, everything else was so meh for me
Yes, of course.
Makes me wanna go to ‘nam in a good way.
