This may be dad rock, but I enjoyed it. Walk of Life is a tune, and I enjoyed Money for Nothing too.
Think most of the heavy lifting is done by the first half of the album though, it drops off markedly in the latter end.
Fun album to get started with!
First half was a party - loved it.
Second half a bit more mixed, but still enjoyed it overall.
Have bounced off some of Prince's stuff in the past, so pleasantly surprised, and thought this was great.
Listened to the 1990 CD re-issue version, which has the full original tracklist (including DMSR). Apparently the remastered versions are victims of the loudness wars, so worth finding an original release if possible.
Some good stuff on here, knew more than I expected going in. Potentially a bit on the longer side than I would really like, but enough hits kept me going through it.
Love Nina Simone and her voice, and Lilac Wine is just beautiful.
It lost me a bit towards the end, and finding out afterwards that this album was pieced together from studio off-cuts explains that, but overall I enjoyed this enough that I will be keeping it around.
A bit of a surprise package this one. Hadn't actually properly listened to a Beck album before, I didn't really know what I was in for, but enjoyed most of this!
Start and finish tracks are obvious classics. Middle is ok, a bit Dylan-esque (which isn't a good thing), but more enjoyable than anything Dylan has ever put out. Solid middle of the road 3 of 5.
This one didn’t really grab me. Torn Curtain as the closer was the only track that properly stood out, and sort of gave me a The Eagles vibe.
Going back to a few tracks, there are some nice riffs here and there, but overall it just never clicked for me. The track lengths didn’t help either. Not necessarily a bad album, just not my thing.
I actually didn't mind listening to this - as a one off. A bit too much going on and the overall length of the album (at just over an hour) is a bit much for repeated listens of this style of electronica, which isn't really my thing. I'm glad I experienced it, but this isn't going in my library.
I liked the start of this but got a bit repetitive as it went on. Glad to have heard it but not one for keeping around.
Didn't get into this right away, but ended up loving it!
Really vibed with Here Comes Your Man, Crackity Jones, and La La Love You, in particular.
The screaming on Mannish Boy almost put me off the whole thing, and I wasn't sure if this was just going to be one of those “important genre-defining but not necessarily for me” albums.
That the album then goes and does something a bit more interesting than just playing the basic blues, really won me over, and I quite enjoyed my time overall.
Highlights: Bus Driver, Jealous Hearted Man, and I Can’t Be Satisfied
Muddy Waters has a proper set of pipes on him too.
Biggest issue with this album is how long it is, if they ended it with Under the Bridge, I would have actually quite enjoyed it!
Sir Psycho Sexy can fuck off though - that and the 1+ hr running time makes this a 2 for me.
I did also enjoy Breaking the Girl, Give It Away, and the title track; and the bass from Flea is pretty sick throughout. Wouldn't want to listen through the whole thing again, though.
This has some of the worst excesses of prog rock on it, especially in some of the first few tracks, but I actually overall enjoyed this...?
I am a bit of a sucker for prog-rock anyway, but I found the concept of this as an adaption really interesting, and Nut Rocker ends it on a high.
Like I get why some people hate this, but I will gladly listen to it again!
Eh, I can kinda see why this is on here, but I didn't find it that interesting, and nothing could convince to put an album with such an ugly album cover in my collection.
Standing in the Shower… Thinking - lowlight of the album - what even was that about?
Overall enjoyed it, although found Side A to be more memorable.
A suprisingly stacked album (as long as you don't bother with the re-issue and its bonus tracks). I absolutely loved this - maybe I just love disco? Such fun!
He's the Greatest Dancer, Lost in Music, Thinking of You, and We Are Family are proper bangers.
A proper dirge of an album, with only 'Up on Cripple Creek' really doing anything for me. Properly struggled pushing through the tedium of finishing this one, resulting in my first 1 rating of the project to date (at album #17).
I hope to never hear anything from 'The Band' (lol what a bad name) again.
Enjoyed some of this but it really started to drag. 18 tracks is too many really
Lot of nostalgia going into this one. Pretty stacked album but drops off a bit in the second half.
Girl from Ipanema is an obvious (if overplayed) classic and overall I did enjoy the timbre of this album, but it's hard to get over the fact that ultimately this is just the same song played 10 times.
I remember listening to this album before, and having been a huge fan of 'Funeral' it doesn't quite hit the same highs. Nevertheless, it is a solid offering, although the mix felt a bit flat in places.
It’s strange how little of the music from this album I’d previously heard before, despite having listened to their anthologies Greatest Hits I to III on repeat growing up. Only ‘Seven Seas of Rhye’ was familiar to me. I guess this means this isn’t a ‘hits heavy’ record as such, but I still enjoyed it overall. Opened my eye to how much of their back catalogue I might not have heard yet!
This is one I’ve listened to before, but not heard in a while. What struck me was the rawness and emotion througout the whole performance, and I liked that they kept in all the bits between Kurt and the band and audience. This would have been a great performance to see live, and I’m glad this record exists of it.
Favourite tracks: Come As You Are, The Man Who Sold the World, Lake of Fire, Where Did You Sleep Last Night (that last one especially, wow - bumps it up to a 5 for me).
I listened to this a lot when I was in my Riotgrrl era (although I don't think it actually counts as such, it was more just lumped in with other records I was into at the time). So any easy one to rate as already familiar with the hits.
Top tracks: Line Up, Connection, SOFT, Stutter
