Beautiful songs and covers. Not really a big nirvana listener but was a pleasure to listen to.
ill drink a big fat beer (beer)
then ill go to the potty (potty)
Nothing really memorable
Can a white boy speak a little patois?
Message in a bottle is a really good song and the rest was okay. I like Zenyatta Mondatta a lot more.
I bet if I were 12-20 when this came out it would have blown my mind.
Also definitely music to be dancing to.
Otherwise we be I-IV-I maxxing.
Some good songs some snoozers. Holier than thou was rlly good.
Solid album. Silly songs are funny and the serious songs are good.
I liked death of a clown, love me till the sun shines and lazy old sun.
Colonizer album.
“World music” is fun and I’m sure this introduced people to non-western sounds, but the whole project falls apart when the british guy starts talking.
Never listened to Alice in Chains before but the whole album was great. Gritty and powerful.
I wanna meet the guy who’s jacking anton off.
A bit boring but a few song like dynamite and green light were good but overall wasn’t that impressive to me.
Quintessential jazz fusion.
Also quintessential high school jazz band music.
It’s fun when you can tell a new synthesizer came out when an album has bad string presets.
Don’t play the butter notes.
There are 1001 albums that this guy has told me that I have to listen to before I die. That means that, within the Anglosphere that this list was mostly chosen from, this is the cream of the crop with what culture had to offer.
If I had died without listening to this album, I would have been perfectly content. I did not miss out on a great achievement of humanity. Some songs benefit from the string arrangement, but others did not sound good. Especially One. Some of the performances also did not sound very tight, as one might expect of a band of this caliber. Overall, ass album.
Extremely pleasing album. Unlike a lot of music from the 50’s, I thought the album format wasn’t a hinderance to listening.
The songs are reasonably varied and the recording quality of this album was like 20x better than the metallica album I listened to yesterday.
Overall pleasantly surprised.
Really awesome album.
My prior exposure to The Stone Roses was GH3, which slightly mislead me as to the rest of the sound of the album.
Was expecting jangle but got a very sonically dense, slightly experimental, but very mature and entertaining album.
I remember the day I listened to this album for the first time. I was listening to Vulfpeck's 1612, which references a Bernard Purdie interview in the Classic Albums episode covering this album. Home At Last was playing in the background and my mind was blown.
I will fight anyone who does not like this album because you do not get it. You are a simpleton who refuses to understand the ethos of what makes Steely Dan a beloved group. Their Machiavellian method of producing means that this album has no mistakes. The cream of the crop studio musicians in Los Angeles were plucked out, made to perform, and culled if they did not reach expectation.
If you do not understand the lyrics, you need to read more postmodernism. If you think the arrangements are bad, you require a more tempered ear to interpret the complex harmonic content. Not liking Aja is an issue of skill, not preference.
That being said, I used to skip I Got the News every time. Bit of a blunder.
