While this album is a drawn out hodgepodge of songs of varying styles and lengths, when the brain trust behind that is as creative as the Beatles, the product you receive is still quite good. I agree that many tracks could've been left out, but I also found myself enjoying many of the lesser-known cuts. I found the album. Does a pretty good job of keeping you entertained through variety, despite its length. This is one of my new favorite Beatles albums.
A solid fusion album. The first two tracks were funk-fusion, and I was also reminded of reggae due to the emphasis on the backbeat. The rest of the album was a variety of long-dorm funk/psychadelic fusion, Grateful Dead-es que jams, which were enjoyable as well. Among those, City country city was especially cool due to the concept of having two completely different grooves juxtaposing each other. My favorite track was track two. 6/10
This album sounds like it would have been fun t dance to and hear in movies at the time it was released. But yeah strong 3 to light 4/10. I don't like music where I can't tell if the singer is singing or talking
I don't speak French, but I also don't emphasize lyrics heavily when evaluating an album, so to rated purely based on musical merit, it was solid. The funky instrumentals and sampling could rival any other top selling boom-bap album. 6.5/10
So far we've had albums lead by guitar, drums, samples, electronics, etc., but this is the first album where the BASS quietly carries the entire composition. This album flows seamlessly and does not waste any time. The first 6 tracks all feel connected until you reach "Right On," where it's like "let's dance!" Then in the same song it's slows back down into the next track, and then you ride out smoothly yet mournfully with inner city blues. Surely an album with musical and philosophical influence spanning decades. 9/10
Very funky. I'm most familiar with their album "stand," where a lot of the songs are structured like radio singles with a strong vocal melody. This album had a lot more funk jams and some longer tracks, so I was glad to hear a side of Sly that I was less familiar with. The song "Just Like a Baby" has the same time signature and groove as Childish Gambino's "Baby Boy" from his funk-fusion album, and they feature the same clavichord tone, what is enough similarity to make me think it's not a coincidence and that Childish Gambinos song was directly inspired or may be an homage. Anyway, very funky album. 8/10
I haven't listened to very much David Bowie; this is the second album I've listened to in full, but my impression of him so far is that the instrumentals are top class, The bass lines are catchy, The compositions are solid, but I don't feel neither here nor there about David Bowie himself. But I can appreciate him for creating a style of music that exists somewhere in between progressive rock, funk and pop. 7/10
Cinema to David Bowie there was a lot of cool instrumentation and production tricks (panning, hand, percussion, etc.), but I don't much care for this style of singing. (Talk-singing with loose adherence to pitch) I was surprised how similar Lou Reed's music sounds to the Arctic Monkeys; it seems the former inspired the latter. 5/10
I'm conflicted about this album because there are many things that I liked about it, but it still isn't something that I would listen to regularly. The percussion was the highlight of the album for me. There's a lot of variety and unique percussion instruments used, most notable among which was the dissonant mallet instrument used in several songs. I don't dislike the sea shanty-like songs, but I can't really say the same for the Halloween-sounding songs. It seems like he tried his hand at writing a pop song with downtown train, which was an unexpected style after hearing the rest of the album. His voice is unique like many other artists we've heard so far, but I actually didn't hate his uniqueness as much as a few of others. I'm having a hard time rating this. 5/10
This is a singer that I can get behind. Slightly breathy and *pitch sensitive* but still with a lot of character. I was not familiar with this artist when I started listening to this album, but I recognized the famous "get it on," which like many other songs on the album sound like they could've been released in the 90s or later. So I think the album is a bit ahead of its time. I'm mostly like the use of repetition (repeating melodies with new lyrics, etc), but I would admit that there were repetitive moments. Still I like this album a lot. 7.5/10
She's trying to be edgy but listening in 2026 it's pretty cringe. I don't know. Not really for me. 3/10
I wasn't sure about this album hearing the first song, it seemed a little unfocused and the vocals were talk-y and loose rhythmically, but by the second track I got hints that it was inspired by African music, and by the next couple tracks it was undeniably an album of African music, which I love. I especially love multicultural music.i don't know much about the background but the album tells a story of a city boy from America traveling to Africa and discovering a new world. 8/10
The king of rock? More like the king of 6/8. Rock ballads in that time signature seem to be his signature style. I don't know a lot about the history, but I think I've heard that Elvis has been resented for popularizing styles of music invented by Black people, especially because he became popular during a time which I imagine had high racial tension. The song about the ghetto seemed particularly insensitive, maybe? Still the quality of this album is undeniable and I enjoyed it. I was surprised to find some songs had bass playing that was very reminiscent of Motown, a couple of the songs had very active base lines in a high register, which I liked a lot, also the gospel choirs in the background are nice, and the instrumentation is generally very good. 6.5/10
I don't have much to say about this album. Similar to Liz Phair I found it to be too overly sexual for my liking at some points. There were some redeeming qualities about the music, but nothing to write home about. 4/10
It must be said that the horns on this album are very nice. They combine with the percussion well. I liked a few of the songs on the second half. There are a couple moments in the album where there are layered vocals that create a male choir like effect, such as in the chorus of seven days is too long, which I like. I guess you could say the background vocals suit my taste more than the lead vocals. generally speaking I don't love this singer. Geno was my favorite song and I could actually see myself listening to it on my own volition sometimes, which is more than I could say for many of the other albums we've heard so far. 5.5/10
Even though I know that Led Zeppelin is legendary, somewhere in the back of my mind, I also saw them as corny, probably because I don't listen to this style of music very much. But giving this album listen, I found that, wallet did seem that way on the surface, there is a lot of talent and rhythmic interest on display. I like the drummer a lot and the bass player isn't bad as well. The guitar lines are memorable and the guitar is used in creative ways. They have a distinct style, but they're skilled enough to keep it from being repetitive. I didn't mind the long-form compositions because there was decent variety. Ramble on is an amazing song, the verses and chorus contrast each other very well. It makes me want to keep singing my song. 7/10
This album is perfect. The vocal harmonies, the instrumentation, the varying styles that drawing inspiration from folk, rock, and anything in between. I don't often pay attention to lyrics much, but these two are such artful storytellers as well. I found a newfound appreciation for the songs I already knew, and immediately loved the ones I was less familiar with. Just beautiful 10/10
