Super cool use of stereo.
Sometimes the lead guitar was in the left and sometimes it was centred. Production feels deliberate. Knopfler voice is rad
Top 3 songs
1. Sultans
2. Six blade knife
3. Wild West end
I was very young in the 80s, so I missed a lot of the pop music in the moment, though I do have a lot of respect for Prince. The heavy production and use of synth sounds isn't really my thing, but what I did like about this album is that it feels representative of the time. You can hear the influences across genres: you hear back beats, you hear hip hop influences, obvious pop influences. You can also tell Prince has a Thom Yorke-like control on the compositions. Everything is deliberately chosen.
With all that said, the first few tracks just felt way too busy for me. Things turned a corner around starfish and coffee & slow love, where we got into even more influences, especially the Soul influence in Slow Love. Overall, interesting mix of Genres, but I never really felt captured by the album. Not my favourite Prince album but not terrible.
Top songs:
1. Starfish and coffee
2. Slow love
I love this album. It has a bunch that f huge, well known bangers on there obviously, but what I love about it is how it lets you take a breath every now and then, and then proceeds to rip your head off. I love the punk songs that make it in here, as well as the heavy instrumentals across a lot of the tracks. A fun album and an awesome nostalgia hit
Solid classic. Great cruisy album all the way through
Norah Jones does have an incredible and unique voice, and the session band is amazing.
This is really nice album to listen to. A good mix of jazz/blues/folk genres. I will say that this album could easily pass me by in a day and just simply become background noise if I'm not in the right mood. I did catch it in the right mood today (a great soundtrack for a sunny, early spring day), so I was able to enjoy it for what it is.
Top songs:
1. I've got to see you again (really cool tension in this song, that the rest of the album doesn't really have.)
2. Cold Cold heart (great Hank Williams song, and well covered)
3. Come away with me (the only one she wrote)
Love it! I've heard the wizard in isolation before, but it made it even better to hear it within the album. This is going to fast become a heavy rotation album for me. I'm pissed It wasn't before. I can only imagine how hard they'd have gone live back in the 70's. No notes.
i could take it or leave it - I know these guys are important for the post-punk movement, but It wasn't really my jam. There were a couple of songs that captured me but otherwise I'd be ok if I didn't sit on this album again.
FUCKING AWESOME
it'd be silly not to give this anything but a 5. Its awesome all the way through.
super fun album. very raw and very early hip hop but It was awesome to hear and you can really tell why it hit so hard at the time, and why they became so big. I'd listen to this again.
i was a very passive listener of these guys at the time. I was a teenager and I don't think i really appreciated them at the time. NOW I DO. I really loved this album. Yes the songs are long but it transports you. I love the sound and the feelings I was getting from this. I'd put this on high rotation.
good background music. enjoyable but nothing earth shattering. Don't need to hear it again.
