mostly great stuff but weirdly overproduced at times. fast car is perfect though obviously
blown away by her voice... and those arrangements!!
first five tracks are all time. the rest is also pretty good
whatever man. title track and weep themselves to sleep are cool i guess but i'd honestly just rather listen to the bands he's ripping off
great stuff!! prefer how heavy Rid Of Me sounds but this is really cool too. love how the drums sound. sheela-na-gig is excellent and the folkiness of plants and rags really caught me off guard
the main problem here is that he cannot carry a song all the way through to save his life. i'm just not compelled even slightly, especially on 'Church.' i guess crosby and nash were carrying him big time. also he's mixed really really quiet, even on the one really good song ('Love the One You're With').
really pretty - loved the fiddle and his voice and emmylou harris's backing vocals. $1000 wedding is an excellent song. i thought Love Hurts was annoyingly saccharine though. first side is significantly stronger (besides In My Hour of Darkness). 3.5
beautiful!! definitely a new favorite. got very excited when barrett told me that eno was involved with this one. i can hear some influence from his rock records in the 'Zopf' suite, but this feels a little rougher around the edges, which i enjoyed. 'The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter' is absolutely the highlight here, but i also thought 'Chartered Flight' was incredible
the singles are great, obviously. enjoyed a few of the others, especially 'picture this,' which reminded me of an elvis costello song, but the second half fell a bit flat. 3.5
the first song was pretty good but the rest was decidedly Weak Sauce and featured a stunning lack of conviction from the singer. 2.5
great album. our lips are sealed is an all-timer pop song. really good beyond the singles too! love the harmonies and the surf rock influence
it still blows my mind that they went from please please me to THIS in the span of two years. some days i think this might be my favorite beatles album. you can really feel how happy they were to be there - still young, still a Band, but starting very slowly to splinter apart
before this i was really only familiar with the stuff she did for the magnolia soundtrack, which i love, especially Save Me. some really excellent songs here but there's a more than a few that just miss the mark for me. but i'm a sucker for that overproduced 90s alt rock sound. favorites were I Should've Known, Put Me On Top, and Mr. Harris. 3.5
okay i get it now. love billy corgan's voice despite myself, mayonaise and today are both all time incredible songs, ending of silverfuck is awesome
it was nice! kinda half-listened on the drive back from oklou. wild world and father & son are both such beautiful songs. don't have a lot to say about the rest but it was pleasant. 3.5
brian eno, daniel lanois, and famous protestant singer Bono team up to make some FUCKING BULLSHIT!!! i have a real soft spot for "Beautiful Day" and "Stuck In A Moment" because i used to listen to my mom's CD copy of this in middle school but man the rest of it is just Nothing
first two tracks are absolutely the highlights for me. abzug feels kinda pointless
i literally don't care bro
alternate review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLs19iXEWg
tiresome. right here, right now is fun
bjork is one of the greatest vocalists of All Time dude. the other guy needs to have some goddamn respect and SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! birthday is great. deus is great. fucking in rhythm and sorrow is great (and the first sugarcubes song i ever heard, when barrett played it on the working week).
i love this album so much!!! glad to have a reason to relisten. title track and pusherman have always been favorites but i was really rocking with freddie's dead too this time around
this MIGHT be better than thriller... it's more consistent anyway. in terms of album-opening punctuation, the 'woo!' in 'don't stop till you get enough' is rivaled only by the snare shot that kicks off 'like a rolling stone.' incredible production from quincy jones, was also really blown away by the bass playing on this listen. the other standout for me is 'she's out of my life,' which pretty easily clears every other ballad i've heard from him. the voice crack at the end really seals it
i had only heard their first two albums before today and was pleasantly surprised to find that this one (mostly) measures up to them. great guitar tone, excellent drumming. snowblind was definitely the highlight for me. was not expecting changes and laguna sunrise, which were both lovely. 3.5
tapped into this last year thanks to brennan and it's been a new favorite of mine ever since. first five songs are absolutely perfect; unfortunately, the second side doesn't quite match it for me, with the exception of 'Desire As.' goddamn can these guys write a chorus. 4.5
somehow had only heard the singles from this - really funny how they have this really overblown rap rock sound and the rest of it mostly have that really minimal production. especially liked 'the new style' (loved hearing the origin of those samples on Donuts) and the one with the reversed 808. 3.5
The Best Ever. peter buck you are in my personal guitar pantheon thanks in no small part to this album. i grew up with REM so no way can i be unbiased about this album but god it’s just the best. radio free europe, shaking through, pilgrimage, and talk about the passion are my favorites, but everything here is solid gold. i don’t know if i would tolerate michael stipe’s mumbling if it were any other band or any other vocalist. somehow Reckoning is even better than this
never really thought this would be my thing but goddamn it RIPS. some of the craziest drumming i've ever heard and yeah the lyrics are kinda dumb but corey taylor does such insane things with his voice that it doesn't matter at all. the end of 'scissors'?? holy fuck
just incredible. what can you even say? i probably don't know enough metal to say things like this but this is the absolute pinnacle of the genre for me, which is funny, since it's like the second metal album ever recorded. thank you geezer and thank you bill ward especially
i had listened to this many years ago and enjoyed it but never came back to it (with the exception of one hundred years) because i preferred disintegration. i'm glad i got the chance to relisten, especially today, because the weather was so perfect for it. it's a really overwhelming album; the self-hatred is so suffocating, i understand why xiu xiu covered one hundred years - "creeping up the stairs in the dark, waiting for the death blow..."
'a short term effect' is definitely the weak point here for me but the rest is excellent. 4-4.5 for me
I KNEW this run of incredible albums was ending soon. This is Britslop. This is Fauxasis. Fuck this shit.
edit: don't mind the last song actually. 1.5 anyway. fuck you
i had heard for so long that this was an important precursor to punk, so imagine my surprise when it just sounded like the rolling stones. but regardless Personality Crisis is great, Lonely Planet Boy is great, Trash is pretty great. i guess you gotta keep in mind how subversive this was at the time (especially their appearance in a new york just a few years removed from stonewall), but i'm not sure the music itself really conveys that. 3.5
whatever. there were a couple good songs. i liked the single and the one with the organ solo
it's awesome. can't believe i hadn't listened before. i liked when she screamed FUCK YOU!!!!
it's fine. interesting combination but i think it overstayed its welcome for me
when i was 17 years old, i decided that i should listen to the entirety of pitchfork's list of the 200 best albums of the 1960s. it's not a perfect list (inherent feature of lists, to be fair), but it introduced me to a lot of kinds of music i had never encountered before - free jazz, krautrock, chanson....
and also folk music. both of my parents really only cared about pop and rock, and although it's impossible to grow up in the united states without absorbing the various cultural impact of the greenwich village folk scene, i don't know if my high school self could've really told you about any folk songs besides 'this land is your land' and 'blowin in the wind.'
anyways... all that to say that i have heard fred neil's self titled album, because pitchfork decided that it was the 135th best album of the 1960s. all i really remembered about it was that it had the original recording of 'everybody's talkin,' later popularized by harry nilsson in the version he did for Midnight Cowboy (sidebar: i saw this movie a couple weeks ago and it's as great as everyone says it is).
on second listen, i think it's a decent little folk rock album. neil's got a very interesting voice, and his version of everybody's talkin is very nice, even though i think nilsson's clears. his vocal performance on 'that's the bag i'm in' is pretty fun, and the raga jam to close out the album is a cool and unexpected touch.
like dave van ronk, though, fred neil would be outshined by the younger greenwich village denizens he mentored. still a worthwhile listen, imo
i love the band!! i've spent a lot more time with Music From Big Pink cause i have it on CD, but this one is also great (maybe not quite as great). my only real issue with it is that, for me, the definitive recordings of Cripple Creek and Dixie are the ones from The Last Waltz. still very good though. robbie robertson you will always be one of my goats
yawnnnnnnn. steamroller blues is kinda nice and so is oh, susannah, but i feel Nothing listening to fire & rain. why are the strings there? why are the drum fills so loud? i was gonna say i can't hate him too much cause he wrote These Days but that was actually Jackson Browne.
#IFeltNothing
i love this album. a very important one for me in freshman year of college. i saw them at wolf trap in 2022 (i think?). adore how gentle how stuart murdoch's voice is, love the harmonica on 'me and the major.' i remember posting a cover of 'get me away from here, i'm dying' to tiktok in 2021 and being so excited when it got a couple thousand likes. 'judy and the dream of horses' is one of my favorite songs ever. 4.5.
like barrett said... he had Ideas. my biggest complaint was with the annoyingly affectless vocals, which really only worked for me on 'if you loved me at all.' great song. reminded me of yo la tengo. but my god there was a lot of BULLSHIT on this album. so much filler. why is 'safesurfer' just hotel california for like 6 minutes and then only get interesting at the end?? why is the big hit from this album just some weak-ass reggae song?? why is this on the list?? 2.5
incredible stuff. the first three songs are perfect
these guys love u2! sex on fire is a good song. cold desert is a pretty good closer. the rest is weak as fuck (drums sound so bad throughout) and i just don't like the singer's voice. not as bad as i thought it would be but ugh
