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.
