"And then some day you find, 10 years have got behind you. No one told you where to run. You missed the starting gun."
You turn on Paint It Black, and you're absolutely sure this album is going to be a ripper. Within 30 seconds of Stupid Girl you realize you've been mistaken.
The Stones/Beatles debate seems really stupid when you realize this was the type of stuff the Stones were working on when the Beatles were making Revolver. Stones didn't fully hit their stride until Let It Bleed in 69.
I was gonna give this album a 5, but if you guys can give Dark Side a 4, I can give this a 4.
Let’s be honest, everything after Heroin is a drag. And I get you invented feedback, but where do we draw the line between important and enjoyable?
Most albums could be cut to 25 minutes. This is a great example. Would be a ripper.
Also, why do so many bands have to add a 7 minute last track like they're trying to do their own version of Desolation Row
The bayou boys of San Mateo.
The Green River lick is so tasty, but we lose all our momentum in the next two tracks. Pick it back up on Bad Moon Rising.
Solid record, not perfect by any means.
This is a perfect record.
The way they go back and forth, and switch tempos and feels on the first track does a lot for me.
Of all the scenes in music history, the 80's DC punk scene is hardest for me to really grasp.
It just doesn't add up for me. None of the records of that era are as good as what the Stooges were able to accomplish 10 years prior.
The Asian Delegation chooses, The RZA, The GZA, U-God, Inspect The Deck, Ghost Face Killah, THE WU TANG CLAN.
This album is perfect. I think we got to see them at Bonnaroo forever ago.
I think I trained myself to have an ear for this type of Indie rock, and over the years I’ve just lost that ear. I just don’t get it. I was listening to this album while I was moving, so obviously I’m not in the best mood, but I just was not feeling it. Gay.
A lot of great songs on this record, but if I make a list of 1001 albums, this ain't on it.
That said, I forgot how good Gotta Get Away is. What a banger. The whole record takes me back to playing Crazy Taxi on Gamecube.
Bonus tracks are also pretty funny in the streaming era
I hate myself for not enjoying it more.
Fun fact: The Band got their name from being Bob Dylan's backing band.
Vocal jazz is a genre I don't spend much time listening to. It's beautiful, but it's rarely what I'm looking for. This is the kind of music a movie character's grandmother dances to in a wedding flashback.
It's been really hard to meet these records where they're at. I'm sure if you're in a sad, sentimental mood, this record hits hard. That's just not where I'm at right now.
That said, the fact that I'm not in a place to emotionally receive this record, does not change it's greatness. But if I don't actually enjoy the listening experience that much, how do I know it's great? Because it's critically acclaimed? Because I've heard the name Billie Holiday thrown around a lot? It's a hard problem to solve.
Me and Harry's freshman Jazz teacher used to always say, "If it sounds good, it is good."
I really enjoyed listening to this. A lot of it reminded me of those "No Pirating" messages on DVDs from the early 2000s.
Rikki Don't Lose That Number is a perfect song. Reminds me of my Aunt Joan.
I found myself vibing along to this one very heavily from the jump. Nodding my head. Generally loving it.
So many great tracks. A touch slow in spots.
4.5/5
This album has come up in so many "Greatest Albums of All Time" lists, that I've been had to make my way through it before.
Every time, it's been a rough listen. I've always ended up with a brutal migrane.
When I saw this album come up, I was immediately filled with intense dread. I put off listening to it for days.
Yesterday, the day came. I had to listen. I made it about 30 minutes. I'm choking my way through it now.
I have to accept it. This is my least favorite record of all time. In terms of pure listening experience, nothing fucks with my ears more than this.
I have listened so many times.
I've always appreciated what this did for the standards of music production, but it's not something I find myself wanted to listen to all the time.
I could imagine an alternate reality where my parents get divorced and I get a step-mom that loves this album. And it's one of 3 cds she has in the family van. And we listen to it every day on the way to Catholic school.
The "wohooos" on Happy Phantom crossed a strict line in the sand for me.
The piano parts on this record are super interesting, I just don't care for her voice at all. It's a style of music I don't like. Fiona Apple is like the apex of this genre, and if I don't like this, it makes sense I wouldn't like this.
Tear in Your Hand kind of rips.
A lot of the songs made me laugh out loud for some reason.
I had this marked as a 2, but the last song was so corny, I had to go back and change it to a 1.
I wonder what prompted the creators of this list to include this record by a blues legend WAY out of his prime.
If we're going to go with legends way out of their prime, we've got to go with Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders' Promises, right?
This one would have killed with the Trustafarians at Suffield.
There is something really funny about these guys being from Philly. A notoriously tough city, and these guys were running around making bro-rap-ska music.
Idk what happened to me. I used to love this type of shit. 17 year old Joe would have been a fan. 32 year old Joe, not so much.
Very cool record.
You can tell Rod Stewart ripped the melody for Da Ya Think I'm Sexy off of Taj Mahal.
I was not expecting the synth to kick in so hard on the last song.
The whole thing flows and works really well. Obviously I don't speak the language, but I felt like I understood what he was talking about a lot of the time. I found myself nodding along.
I think it was Harry that once said to me, he could go the rest of his life without hearing any of the songs on Zeppelin IV. Not because they're bad songs, we've heard them so, so many times.
I feel the same way about so many of the songs on this record. How many times have I heard Rolling in The Deep walking through a Marshalls?
But, take a second to imagine with me. Imagine, you'd never heard any of these songs. How hard does Rolling in The Deep hit if you've never heard it? Does it change the trajectory of your entire listening experience?
I'm not blown away by the depth of the songwriting. Obviously, her voice is unbelievable, but the songs didn't do much for me.
That said, BALL DON'T LIE. The least popular song on this record has 89 million streams on Spotify as of this post.
3 songs with over 2 billion plays. This record is unfathomably popular. It has something
3.5/5
It's almost remarkably corny at spots, but I still enjoyed it in spots.
