A lot of these songs are songs I've heard a billion times and don't really like. I don't know if I actually don't like them, or if I've just heard them so many times while not really having any emotional attachment to them. I think it's funny that I, a person with 0 musical exploration, opened this site and was dealt an album full of stuff I've already heard as my first one.
I don't think I've ever heard Little Dreamer (fine), Atomic Punk (fine), Ice Cream Man (kind of funny i guess), or On Fire (good).
I don't want anyone to think "oh uhhhh yeah uhhhh he's saying these guys can't play or he doesn't like their sound or whatever." They're obviously amazingly skilled and can play the shit out of their instruments and sing really good and all that. I've just heard it so many times and it's not really for me I guess.
Van Halen did give us Why Can't This Be Love which is an all-timer but it's not on this album it's nearly 10 years after this album so their sound will definitely evolve. Thinking of it, with this being their debut album yet having THIS many hits on it, it's kind of fucking crazy. I give it a 3 for "I like it, it's a fine album, but if I saw a copy at a store, I wouldn't be like "holy shit I've gotta buy it.""
Man the people who bought this on release got one hell of a bang for their buck huh?
It's fine. Good and great sometimes, not something I'd go to but I wouldn't change the channel on any of these songs.
Holy shit. Mr. Springsteen I apologize I was not familiar with your game. I'd heard a few of your songs but got DAMN
I don't think I'm equipped to rate this or give input on it. It's a world that I can't even imagine myself in. It's hard to know how much of an artist's work is "genuinely the truth" about themselves and their feelings, and how much is just a show being put on, but finding out that Biggie died so young and that an album with so much horribly negative emotion in it made the whole thing one of the most distressing listens of my life. It's got a lot of incredible sounds and incredible songwriting and lines in it, though. And I enjoyed my time with it quite a lot. But man.
Overall, great listen, lots of stupid silly stuff mixed in with the serious depressing shit, tons of amazing lines. Great.
Mmm. This was the album that made me realize that the whole conceit of this site might not be great. Well, not that. It's just that a single listen really isn't enough to rate an album.
I keep revisiting this. It's the only one I've gotten in the short time I've been doing this that I feel a real need to do that. It's beautiful. I love it.
Overall good. Not that memorable to me but it's just. It's the Rolling Stones being the Rolling Stones. You know what I mean?
This is yet another album where I listened to it the first time, went "eh, this isn't for me," but then gave it another listen and was like "wait, isn't this really good...?"
Music really depends on what type of mood I'm in when you're listening to it for me. Also the activity you're doing at the time of listening. The first time I listened, I was playing a fighting game and I was pissed off at my job. Now I'm just chilling listening to this in the afternoon while I plan to go to the store to get stuff for dinner. If it was a slightly rainy day out, it'd be perfect.
I'm not one for this style of music, but this is a great album. I don't think it's memorable for me personally but I bet for a lot of people it is.
Awesome.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about how bad things are and how they're not getting better and how I keep waiting and nothing changes and things just keep getting worse. Some may find comfort in the fact that they were making albums about all the same problems we've got today 50 some odd years ago but not me. Fucking hell. I hate everything.
Musically it's fine but I don't want to hear this right now. I'm tired of thinking about mortality and the environment and about racial tension and on and on.
Okay, so, this was the album that reminded me you really need to pay attention to what activity you're performing while listening to an album in order to properly enjoy it, provided you're not solely listening to the album with nothing else going on.
Holy fuck
Yeah this is awesome. I recognize a lot of the songs on here and even though I've heard them a million times I'm not overcome with an immediate urge to go "I've heard this too much ew" like I am with a lot of other classic rock.
I thought this was "just fine" at first but the more I revisit it the more I like it. Favorite track is Stop That Train.
Not for me.
Wasn't expecting this to be decent. Also I was surprised to recognize California Dreamin'. I remember hearing it on the radio on the oldies station my parents used to rock when I was a kid. Man...
Nice
THIS is rock n roll. Jesus. Starts with Baba o Riley and just blows the doors down every single track. Awesome as hell.
People didn't like this at the time????
People don't like this currently????
What the fuck????
How can you listen to this and not have a good time? I get the sentiment of "oh the singer sounds a little weird I don't like that" but seriously... The point of this project is to hear "all kinds of different things that you might not normally have heard." And this is definitely that. The weird conversational pieces, the pastiches and even the wholesale lifting of Werewolves of London, the 12 minute long song that's basically just a bit... There's so much beautiful guitar work in this album! The keys, my god! What the hell!
You guys really, REALLY didn't think it was funny that the song where they rip off Werewolves of London while lamenting that everything on the radio sounds the same is like, extremely funny? Maybe you're not paying attention?
Come on. You, yes you. Did you start using this site so you could hopefully roll into yet another classic rock album you've already heard a million times so you could give it a five out of five and smugly write a blurb about how "nobody really gets it like you do, not anymore?"
Try being a little more adventurous. Try being a little more curious. Try to understand and try to seek meaning. I think this site telling you to "rate albums" after hearing them one time is also bogus. You can't give a proper rating after hearing something once.
Anyway, open your damn mind. Don't just write things off. LISTEN!!!
It's a great album, just not really "for me."
Awesome, loud, good combination of metal and punk, sick as hell.
Slow and haunting and beautiful.
Easiest 5 of all time. Look at those handful of pretentious dudes in the reviews "it's been done better by now." Brother, I promise you, okay, if you named any artist who "has done this better," not only would you get laughed at by everyone in the room, the artist themselves would slap you upside the head for implying they're better than Jimi.
If I HAD to say one nitpick it's literally just "I don't like how the final track just fades out."
Understated but cool.
Absolutely packed album, completely stuffed back to front with just whatever the hell they wanted to do and wanted to say. Fun listen. Not really my thing, but still very fun listen.
Bob Dylan brings the goods as always. Breakup songs don't really do anything for me, but either way, great stuff.
People in the reviews on here cannot visualize the apple in their head.
Awesome.
The core experience I'm having with this project and one of the biggest things keeping me going on it is that I'll see an album like this, go "eugh am I about to hate this" and then I start it up and it's beautiful, and not only is it beautiful, it features a few songs that I heard on the radio when I was just a little boy and my parents had the oldies on, and I'm immediately transported back in time to the big blue van they used to drive me and my three big brothers around in (I was in the very back seat, crammed in the middle), and I feel this incredible warmth as well as physically experiencing the passage of time in a way that hurts a lot.
Nice album.
Not much to say on first listen but will revisit. It's a fun listen, though, and a fine one too.
Some nice jazz for a quiet, chill evening. Jazz always takes me back to going to Barnes & Noble with my mom as a kid.
Challenging listen. I don't have anything positive to say about this.
I listened to this three times in a row. Didn't understand 99% of it. Scared to look up the lyrics lol.
It's good. No strong feelings from me.
It's fine. Will revisit.
Something I could listen to while writing or drawing I guess. I'm too lyricspilled I need to songwritingmaxx to enjoy anything.
I've gotta stop reading the reviews on this site man. You people are homophobic as shit, uncurious as shit, and pretentious as shit. "Duhhh durrr it sounds like opera music, duhhh why does he sing like that????" How about read the fucking article! Are you a worm?
On a first listen, not really for me. Who knows.
I was thinking about these guys just the other day. Obviously I knew "Blister in the Sun" already, that was kind of a hit when I was a kid, or maybe my eldest brother had it on one of his cds, but either way. I remember trying to check them out a decade ago and bouncing off, but nowadays this just sounds awesome to me.
Fucking awesome.
This is what the thoughtless dipshits listen to in the parking lot between the hours of 10PM to 10AM that makes you fantasize about smashing their windshield with a baseball bat. I hate Daft Punk, I've always hated Daft Punk, I will always hate Daft Punk.
Fine stuff. Delighted to have learned the term "swamp rock."
How the hell are there this many all-timers in a single album? What the? Huh??? God damn!
Like most old rock albums, I feel a need to revisit this one to give actual thoughts on it. On first listen it's pretty standard stuff, but who knows, maybe it'll grow on me. 3 for "wouldn't skip, but wouldn't go out of my way to listen to."
Endearing enough I spose.
Yeah i'll choogle to that.
There's like, a couple stinkers in here, but the bangers outweigh them. I hate to be that white boy, but the good stuff on this album is really genuinely great. I'm not a Beatles believer, but geez.
2deep4me somehow.
Dull and repetitive.
It's fine. There's a few radio hits on here.
Wonderful.
A bit dreary. That's the first impression. Then I listened again, and paid more attention to the lyrics, and about twenty seconds into Wake Up I started sobbing. I don't even know why. It hurt.
This band spawned countless other bands trying to chase the trend they set so it's reasonable that if you grew up during that time you either find the sound irritating and grating or nostalgic. For me, the needle flickers left and right, but I think this album falls right on "great." There's a lot of love and a lot of pain packed into this one.
Poppy goodness with nice strong messaging throughout. Radio hits you've heard a million times aside, there's plenty of other good stuff here that you've not, or at least I hadn't. Was it all memorable? No but it was good. And damn she's got a range on here too. Great album.
