When did we stop making songs eight and a half minutes long?? We lost something as a society with the growing ubiquity of the under-three-minute-song, I'm certain. Give me thirteen minute ruminations or give me death!
There are some bops on this album but I got hella jumpscared by Proud Mary. Probably my favorite song on the album--that or Graveyard Blues. Some banging bass and guitar riffs.
Overall: I liked this album! Might put it on for study music. You can definitely tell it inspired a lot of later music.
THELONIOUS MONK MY BEST FRIEND THELONIOUS MONK I have 'genius of modern music' on record and I literally listen to it all the time. guy does things to a piano........ my favorite song on here is the titular Brilliant Corners but I also love specifically the back half of Bemsha Swing, too. Listened to it on a bus and accidentally zoned out during Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are and when I zoned back in we were maybe about halfway through Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are. Love that.
Overall: I love Mr. Monk! Makes me wish I kept jazz piano up. Oh, well. There's always time.............
Late addendum: learned today you can see other people's reviews on here. Which is very silly--this is my personal diary lol. Apparently people who don't like freeform jazz don't like freeform jazz! Who would have thought!
Yeah, no, I mean--I like Coldplay. They're nice. When I hear a Coldplay song on the radio I'm like "Yep! That's Coldplay!" Idk, though, they don't scratch any particular itch for me. They're just kind of there.
I enjoyed Politik a lot--esp. the opening despite some egregious slant rhymes. And OBVIOUSLY Clocks is great though I do prefer the cumbia version. Though most things are better as a cumbia. Green eyes was nice (gonna make a playlist of song where we focus on eye color. Right now I've got Green eyes and brown-eyed girl. Maybe ocean eyes can go on there too?)
A Whisper was probably my favorite song on the album.
got 100% absolutely jumpscared by the piano riff in 'rikki don't lose that number'. genuinely thought I had put 'song for my father' on queue somehow. ON THAT NOTE 'rikki don't lose that number' is a BOP AND A HALF. steely dan is??? really good????????? I love it when popular things are good!
Barrytown is also excellent. Very catchy. And East St. Louis Toodle-Oo is also great I love a good piano saxophone moment. I think...guys I think I really like Steely Dan.
The Beastie Boys are so funny to me. They're over here screaming into the microphone and then you look at a picture of them and they look like they're insurance salesmen or something. I love these guys. they are my neighbor's teen son's garage band. I would definitely buy a homemade t-shirt.
HE'S AN ORGAN PLAYER!!!!!!
very nice! put it on while I was studying for physics and it was unobtrusive. As per my last review I love a good saxophone. Every song is like 5,000,000 minutes long and I didn't really notice the track turnover. Just...5,000,000 (43) minutes of cool jazz.
funkiness of this album is off the charts.
Close enough, welcome back Dropkick Murphy's.
There are some bops on this--I really liked Bottle of Smoke and Fairy Tale of New York (which is the reason, I'm guessing, why Spotify recommends Celtic Christmas music in the More Like This section under the album) and Mountain Dew.
I think the downside to this is that after maybe the fifth accordion track you want to take a break from the accordion. But I agree, more songs should have flute in them.
OH MY GOD TINA TURNER.............. she is so fantastically good. Like I knew she was famous and obviously had heard "What's Love Got To Do With It" before but I had no idea what I was missing out on.
Private Dancer itself is, of course, legendary, and I LOVE I Can't Stand The Rain........all the naysayers in the reviews saying this is "too eighties" have no joy and whimsy in their heart. That's part of what makes it so fun! Literally just tell me you hate fun and having a good time. The keyboard instrumental breaks...the saxophone instrumental breaks...the electric guitar instrumental breaks.........
Why is no one talking about Steel Claw????? Banger! Absolute banger! This album bangs, guys!
love the plinky piano in 1984........the electronic banging in Ball of Confusion.........
OH MY GOD TINA TURNER AND DAVID BOWIE DID A SONG TOGETHER?!?!?!?? O hvmyg,od.........
Maybe the coolest thing I have heard, maybe ever? Why do we as humans listen to anything else? Mr. Jorge Ben Jor I was not aware of your game?! Catch me listening to SO much more Brazilian disco funk in the future this is so incredibly my jam. Never before has so much dance energy been infused into one album.
Makes me want to learn Portuguese immediately. Especially enjoyed Ponta de Lança Africano. and O Filósofo. and Meus Fihlos, Meu Tesouro. and Taj Mahal. and Africa Brasil (Zumbi).
German industrial music! I am going to be so for real this is really bad study music. Very interesting! But bad study music. I think I am currently listening to a power drill?
JUMPSCARED BY A BAND I ALREADY KNEW! yes of Course I like Fleet foxes. I've been listening to White Winter Hymnal and Blue Ridge Mountains on my own for like years. I also really liked Tiger Mountain Peasant Song and Meadowlarks--very solid album but I already knew that lol
you are capitalizing off my love of acapella groups! very chill--the songs all felt a little same-y but that just might be because I'm not used to the genre. Really gorgeous voices.
oh, my friends, i have been converted. Samba is incredible and I love it. Girl from Ipanema is, of course, a classic, but I also really enjoyed Doralice. LOVE that they have girl from ipanema twice I could have sworn I had just looped to the beginning of the album again. very silly.
it's all just so rhythmically satisfying!! theyve made me a bossa nova kid..
boys will be boys will be boyOYoyoys!
rambunctious and fun! felt very david bowie to me, esp Strictly Confidential. I'm kind of in love. Love the wailing saxophones!
Editions Of You is my favorite on the album but they're all quite fun.
Very mellow. Maybe a little too mellow for my tastes? I'm running into a problem with my reviewing where there are albums that I certainly don't /dislike/ but I would never listen to them on my own. And I definitely don't want to rate this below Coldplay (which I did not enjoy).
It's just... a little Hallmark-y? k.d. lang has SUCH a gorgeous voice. but the songs themselves--is it horrible to say too much violin? I love a violin normally! there's just so much of it.
Miss Chatelaine was great. I really liked the intro of "still thrives this love". Season of Hollow Soul is very vibey and I think my favorite on the album.
chill! Hadn't listened to much The Who but they sounded basically how I expected them to. nothing super stood out to me on the album but it wasn't bad. good background music!
genuinely, genuinely, no idea what the lead singer is saying at any point in this album. of course I had heard the red hot chili peppers before. It was about what I expected! Vibey and likely very good road trip music while driving contemplatively through hilly plains. I liked it but it wasn't anything life-changing. Maybe if I had listened to it in the early 00's? Alas, I was not alive for that.
Otherside or the eponymous Californication were probably my favorite. Easily was also really good!
unfortunately this is actually really good. my generational feud with johnny cash, inherited from my mother, might have to die here at the feet of that greystone chapel. damn it johnny cash stop being a good singer i don't appreciate it.
Honestly really enjoyed this! I especially liked Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier, Enola/Alone, and the Girl Who Wanted to Be God. Oh also Interiors (Song for Willem de Koons). They do some cool deviations from more 'traditional' rock melodies. Listened to it on the bus while looking out the window and I think that was the perfect place for it.
banger! outside of just. really incredible songs (u and i and the interludes all being particular standouts to me), the album itself is super well constructed. The motifs....guys, the motifs..... overall excellent. really really enjoyed.
