Amazing first half, followed by a mediocre second half. I'd only ever listened to the hits with one and never the full album. Would probably be a 3.5 if I could get half stars but it doesn't feel right giving it just 3.
First time listen
River Man is beautiful and haunting
Love the guitar work on Three Hours
Love the use of the strings throughout especially on Day is Done
Never listened to Nick Drake before but I see why hes such a cult classic.
First time listen.
Never listened to Springsteen before but an overall enjoyable experience. Favorite song: Johnny 99
I think most double albums ( butnot all) would work better as a trimmed down, focused single album. So a triple album is just too much. Definitely a case quantity of over quality for me. Some amazing songs with a lot filler in between
While the first half of this album may be overplayed, it is not overrated. It's kind of still amazing to me the stark contrast of the 80's glam and hair metal bands, to this grunge masterpiece. Stripped down instrumentation, focus on lyrics, minimal solos. I love everysong on this album front to back, although favorites would definitley be Drain You and Something in the Way.
I also enjoy how catchy all of these songs are, Kurt really had an ear for a melody. I could gush about this album and In Utero for hours so I'll stop while I'm ahead.
Absolutely snoozefest. I dont really have much else to comment other than this album feels like its meant to be live mixed at a club 20 years ago, or used as a blueprint for remixes.
Repetitive and weird, and not in a fun a way. I read that Björk cited this as an major influence, but I feel like what this album influenced is a lot better than the album itself.
Im so meh on this album, I wouldn't turn this off if someone wanted to play it, but I would never willing choose to listen to this.
I can understand it's importance I'm just so utterly uninterested in it. I like some of the blues influences I guess.
This album is goofy as fuck but I enjoyed it. Definitely a product of 70s, I liked the blues rock throughout this album. Unfortunately it does not reach the high bar that the track Swampsnake sets again
2.5. Electronic music really isn't my thing anymore, so it was a struggle for me to listen to this one actively. I would've loved something like this when I was a young teenager, staying up late to game and tinker with my pc. The songs are very long and repetitive, and started to become background noise for me. I think if the songs had been about 20% shorter this would've worked better for me.
Fine album. Never listened to Beck before. I can see why this is such a big but to me it just sounds like 5 different genres smashed together with the occasional tambourine thrown in.
No thanks.
4.5/5
I have such a strong connection to Pink Floyd as they were my first experience getting into a band and going through their discography, not just simply listening to radio hits. I learned to play guitar to many of the tracks on this album, and I was lucky enough to see Roger Water perform The Wall live in DC in 2010 as one my first concerts and it was a really formative experience for me musically.
While I love The Wall, I think it suffers a bit from being almost exclusively a Roger Waters project and I feel like I'm missing some David Gilmour input that was present on previous albums. I'm also a bit bummed the movie version of Empty Spaces, which included What Shall We Do Now? was cut from the final album, I feel some room could've been made for it.
Still The Wall is undeniably a masterpiece of a concept album and I'm happy when it comes on over most other albums.
It's a bit hard for me to pick out favorites as I enjoy the whole thing so much, but Hey You and Comfortably Numb would be those if I had to pick.
A fine Bob Dylan album. I typically enjoy live albums more than most people, and I liked the acoustic and live sets, gave a bit of contrast.
