I overall like The Doors and have listened to them passively for a year or so and I also tend to enjoy blues/psych-rock. This album, however, was just not hitting for me despite it definitely having elements of things I typically enjoy.
It just felt a little soulless and saying that makes me feel like some artsy vinyl collecting man is going to materialize and mansplain it to me. Idk I was just kinda bored and waiting for it to end…
I still liked some tracks which I listed below and from what I’ve read Ik this was like the band getting back to their roots and that it was the last album Morrison physically recorded before his death which is cool and all but doesn’t take away from what I said before.
This album feels like it should be important/classic but for me if I want blues/psych-rock I’m gonna look elsewhere.
Rating⭐️: 2/5
Top 3🪐:
1)Love Her Madly
2)Hyacinth House
3)The WASP or Riders on the Storm (inspired by ghost rides in the sky allegedly which is cool)
I was intrigued and a little taken aback that I knew none of the songs in the tracklist bc I grew up on Queen and the cover is iconic. But right away I knew I was gonna enjoy this! Its like peak dad-rock in the best way and felt very nostalgic to me. Procession locked me in because it rlly set this weird vibe that fit the rest of the albums dark mythical theme that felt like setting out for battle to defend your land lol
Hold up...THE TRANSITIONS! There is nothing i love more than good transitions on an album! I want to have no idea where one song ends and the other starts.
I think the main part of this album that wasn't clicking for me is as much as theres a shared feeling/vibe and like visceral theme of mysticism/royalty (plus the GREAT transitions), there was not like a coherent storyline throughout the album (that i follow at least). And thats fine because if theres a good collection of songs that fit together at the end of the day, I don't need a concept album. However, as unique as it was, it just wasn't distinct enough for me to want to return to it as a body of work and will most likely only revisit my favs.
Top 3:
1)Some Day One Day
2) Ogre Battle
3)Nevermore
(Funny How Love Is was close runner up)
This is like pure feel good 80s pop! Pop feminist to its core in the best way. The second half of the album kinda lagged a bit compared to the first half which in turn lowered my rating a bit.
I don’t have much more to say about this album besides I enjoyed it overall.
Top Songs:
1) Money Changes Everything
2) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
3) When You Were Mine
This was a solid album with decent lyricism and instrumentals and I throughly enjoyed a good chunk of it.
But it kinda faded into the background for me a couple times. It honestly might just be cause I was distracted or that indie music sometimes has the effect for me.
Top Songs:
1) Neon Bible
2)Windowsill
3)Keep the Car Running
lol I just listened to this the other night in my other project to re-listen to all my vinyl. I don’t have much more to say than this is a classic and makes me feel deeply nostalgic for mid-summers in rural Maine!
Top Songs:
1) It’s Too Late
2) I Feel the Earth Move
3) So Far Away/ Way Over Yonder
I mean I didn't hate it like some people on here clearly did, but this is def not something I'm revisiting. This is the first album so far in this process that i skipped halfway through some songs.
It did feel nostalgic tho as someone who grew up in the early 2000s which ups the rating a little bit bc love them or hate them Coldplay will always be part of the soundtrack of that era.
Idk this just feels like music that i could find a better version of in other artists and a lot of the songs just DRAAAGGGED (hence why most of my top songs were the short ones). Spies made me wanna commit an act of violence.
Top 3 (gun to head):
1) Don't Panic
2) Yellow
3) Parachutes
I just started to listening to Jorge Ben Jor the other day bc my friend made me a playlist with a collection of her fav global music and he was on the list a few time bc mpb is close to her heart.
It's rlly nice to hear a whole album of his and I was groovin the whole time lol- I will def be revisting the album as a whole bc out of everything I've listened to so far in the process this is the most my speed and something I can see listening to often!
Top 3:
1) Ponta De Lança Africano
2)Taj Mahal
3)África Brasil
I fucking love pop and for that reason i love ABBA! i'm sick of the pop slander from people who think the only real music has to be dark, contemplative, and in the rock-realm (you guys have some misogyny to work out lol). Sometimes you just wanna dance.
With that said, this album had more substance and drama then some other ABBA I've heard and i liked it overall. The whole thing kinda felt like being on the edge of a full breakdown where you're like half concious.
I don't think i would revisit the album as a whole and wasn't invested the whole time which lowered my rating a bit.
Top 3:
1) One of Us (new hyper-fixation song unlocked)
2) Head Over Heels
3) Under Attack
This album was like if Taylor Swift worked at a gentrified co-op, non-lovingly.
I love Lilith fair-esque shit and hate when it's used to insult female singer-songwriters, but in this case the talk-singing really got to me because there was no uniqueness in tone or the music overall that made up for it. This album is something that I could've seen myself potentially enjoying, but instead I was bored. Not even flowery lyrics could make up for it and I can be a whore for those.
Top 3:
1) The Queen and the Soldier (this is the one song I was invested in from a story-telling pov, even if it was simple)
2) Some Journey
3) Marlene On The Wall
oh I'm into this! This is exactly the weird niche shit I wanted to find through through this project. I'm eating it up!
This is like Ramones meets Beatles meets post-pet sounds Beach Boys meets Cramps with a bunch of other stuff mixed in, but in the best way possible!
It wasn't like mind-blowing for me to give it a 5 because some parts didn't hold my full attention. Still very good overall!
Top 3:
1) I Wanna Destroy You
2) Insanely Jealous of You
3) Positive Vibrations
Indie-rock from this era pisses me tf off is what I'm finding out. Like I'm bored as hell, every song just blends together!
I feel like a lot of people love this sound and i really wanna know what I'm missing? All I could think about while listening to this is how I would prefer to be listening to several better versions of these songs by other artists.
Also the audacity for 2 of their albums to be within the first 11 albums generates is wild, but at least i'm 2/3 done with them in this project.
Top 3 (gun to head):
1) Month of May
2) City with No Children
3) Sprawl II
Ok this is the first album I simply refuse to listen to because I know I'll hate it lol
I rlly just hate gross music that's gross for no reason except shock value and to be hateful
Musically I'm enjoying it, but vocally i'm a bit annoyed with that nasally alt-90s quality which is more a personal preference.
There She Goes really is a masterpiece tho. Doledrum also IMMEDIATELY grabbed my attention from the first few notes because of that 60s jingle jangly pop-rock quality to it.
This is an album that I ended up liking majority of the songs but not loving them. I think I liked the sound because it reminded me of artists I enjoy more with a similar sound. I wasn't absolutely stunned by the music enough to give it a higher rating.
Top 3:
1) There She Goes
2) Doledrum
3) Liberty Ship
"You're in the wrong place to bend over" within the first 5 min was wild LMAOOO
I watched the TV Special of the concert so the setlist wasn't the exact same as the album tracklist, but it was moving in its own right. The testimonies of the inmates and guards between the songs really added a whole new layer to the album. I was in tears a whole lot.
Hearing the prison abolition adjacent views/sentiments being expressed even at this time by those actively incarcerated was deeply interesting. I also appreciated the systemic failures that result in mass incarceration being so openly discussed by those most impacted. Like "Peace in the Valley" cut between the discussion of the death penalty?? I'm not even religious, but god.
Overall, I fucking love Johnny Cash flaws and all!
Top 3:
1) Boy Named Sue
2) San Quentin
3) Wanted Man
I don't have a whole lot to say about this album. It was by no means bad and actually had a few moments where I was like "damn" because of lyrics or just instrumentals. Especially "Family Snapshot". I just never felt fully in it for whatever reason and for that reason won't be going back to relisten as a whole.
Top 3:
1) Through the Wire
2) Family Snapshot
3) Lead a Normal Life
