Track a - very heavy, alto soloist awesome
Track b - plunger sounds so good - like this one a lot more got a slow swing then it speeds up. I like when the saxes come in and are just so sassy
The jazz is very very chaotic (don’t hate it)
Charles Mingus being a bassist and making this music makes a lot of sense
Spotify says he wanted this to be a ballet… not sure that would work very well
Track c - I’ve heard this before! Guitar??? Track c my fav so far by a lot. Blend is so good very good supporting line
Medley - also heard this before love the bass at the start. I love the guitar. Love the sections. 🪠 finally some trombone
This album just got better and better as it went on storytelling so good lots of emotion
Ranking: c > b = medley > a
No (first listen, made it half way through)
Second listen (since *some* people were mad I didn’t like it the first time):
Power of equality sounds like the boy band from lemonade mouth just a little
Redeeming songs: I could have lied, under the bridge, sir psycho sexy (very funk-y and that last bit where he’s not singing is so so good)
Overall still a 2 but those final minutes of sir psycho sexy almost brought it up to a 3. I do appreciate the funk of it all but I don’t think I’ll be revisiting anytime soon
Me when stevie wonder -> 😁😁😆😆😆😆😄😃😃🥳😆🎉🎉😆🙌🙌🙌🎊🎊🎊😁😁😁
My fav stevie is the album made after this one so excited to see what came before
Track 1: I love him so much stevie my king
Love 10 zillion and love the groove on you haven’t done nothin
Refreshing after sex magik and it’s so short! I still like songs in the key of life better but this is very classic stevie and I love
Favorite: you haven’t done nothin
this album contains probably my favorite song of all time - walk of life
thank you to my dad for introducing me early to some dire straits
So far away starts playing and it’s like I'm a teeny tiny child with my dad singing to me 🥺🥺
Like the amount of instrumental and how it complements the lyrics but the second half of the album wasn’t super strong or memorable for me maybe I’m too biased from the ones I know
Favorite is walk of life and second is so far away. Both those songs are five stars but overall …
So many* things to say
this album has made me realize that reggae is really not my thing
Sarah Vaughan just serenaded me through the grad problem on nonlinear
Honestly pretty good
Would be higher if it didn’t feel like one thirty six minute song
Queen II
Awesome. Love. Freddie mercury voice of an angel.
Really liked it and will be realistening
Love how it started so crazy, fast tempo, lots going on and then slowed itself down. Super cool.
Very deserving of my first 5 stars
Lots of brass. I liked it a lot
On the second song - I don’t like it
We will fall has got to be one of the worst pieces of music I have ever had the misfortune of hearing
No fun slightly redeemed this album but I still have lots of hate for the whole thing. The amount of relief I felt when it ended is immeasurable
Not bad but got super repetitive and her voice started to annoy me (this was how I felt on the third song)
End opinion - not a fan but wish I was. I feel like some people might really really like this but there was just something missing for me. I was very happy when it ended. I feel like her voice is a big part of the band’s success but there was something about it that I didn’t like
But really WHO is listening to this
Just not for me.
U2! Yes!
I actually quite like me some dolly
WHAM!
Did not make it through the HOUR AND FORY FIVE MINUTES OF MUSIC but not bad
Definitely not in spanish
So good
Hot chip: good for eating and good for dancing!!!
Really really liked this one
Not sure if it’s the lack of sleep or the stress of having my flight rebooked five times but I quite liked this
Also the band is canadian! And I’m going to canada!
And I’m quite behind of ratings but I’ll use this weekend to catch up
I liked it but I liked sticky fingers quite a bit more. This is a much more mellow stones
So many different styles but my favorites have to be the mellow acoustic ones or really any of paul mccartney’s
Top song - I will
Good
Very much meh
Yep
T swift can drop some heat (or at least she used to be able to before she started dating that FREAK from kansas city)
But I do like this album a bit and it has so many of the t swift songs I would choose to listen to (blank space, style, shake it off, bad blood, wildest dreams, how you get the girl)
I listened to it on friday and at the time I thought it was good but now I remember nothing about it
I liked some of the songs but it just felt like they were trying to tell me something in a very loud and very aggressive way.
It was ok
Kind of underwhelming? I feel like it would’ve been better if I had really sat with the lyrics but on a first listen it just felt like something was missing. I did like a lot of the instrumentals though, very funky
The audience was going crazy
Didn’t hate it though
Just made me feel happy?
I can see its merits but each song just felt three minutes too long (and yes, each song was in total about three minutes long)
Groovy
Was really quite unremarkable for me until I suddenly started recognizing everything
I have a feeling rowan is not going to like this one
Yeah these songs long
vivid memories of bert and i screaming the ah ah ahhhh ah part at the beginning of the immigrant song as loud as we could until our mom told us to stop
I feel like I would like this is I was a completely different person
ok yes. I like this a lot. don't even care how long the songs are. and I feel like I would have LOVED this in middle school. (and sorry devon, I didn't fully listen to the lyrics but perhaps on a relisten I will pay more attention)
Yes
Vivid memories of this cd being played as my mom drove berty and me to school 🥺 we’d just be belting the most emotional lyrics in our little kid voices from the backseat. I’m sure we blended quite well with adele’s voice
Maybe a nostalgia bias but this album is actually so good. The lyrics, the VOCALS, the music. Such a pretty listen
Can’t even pick a favorite but my mom would play remedy on the piano so I have a specific love for that one
good album. wasn't giving it my full attention. sorry lupe.
i have some not nice things to say about the harmonica
bob dylan take notes - this is how you play a harmonica
this could have been 20 minutes and i would have gotten the same exact thing out of it. no thank you.
enjoyed
i don't know why but this one took me a really long time to listen to. just wasn't feeling it
I like summer breeze and I like that lady and I liked this album overall
don't really have much of an opinion. kind of turned into background noise at some point...
almost walked in front of a bus while listening to this. a trauma album for me.
better than the last one but every song was just so long, and I never want to listen to this ever again. ever. I wish I wasn't a bob dylan hater but his voice makes me angry and I don't think it will grow on me.
appreciated the lack of harmonica. the only reason I knew this album was over was when a new song began with that cursed instrument
THIRTY SEVEN MINUTES! beautiful. and the longest song is four minutes, I could cry
after listening though - pretty underwhelmed, glad it was so short
fun! short! enjoyed!
ray charles can sing the soundtrack to my life. also love how the song titles are the opposite of cryptic.
Tried to listen to it so many times and just couldn’t get into it :/
I like this a lot
not terrible but very boring
Needed to edit because I wrote my first review before the last three songs (or maybe I wasn't paying good enough attention before that) and that's when things got real weird. Reminds me of Coraline.
Suzy Creamcheese
good but not for me. the frayed ends of sanity is great when you're in a rush (I was late for something and this song made me feel like I was on a high stakes mission)
can't deny it's a very influential album and some consider it the best jazz of all time, but doesn't quite do it for me. i like my jazz to be a tiny bit more structured and with a lot more brass (biased opinion but whatever) and maybe more dancey too. i want my jazz to be stuck in my head for the rest of the week.
john was rippin it though
feels like a combination of a bunch of things I like. thumbs up to this one.
not my favorite. eternal. couldn’t wait for it to be over. the music wasn’t bad bad but just not for me
don’t like it
Fun and funky and I liked it 😊
made the nastiest face when the "singing" started.
made me want to throw up but not necessarily in a bad way? pere ubu is lucky this is only 35 minutes because I think that's all I can handle
also - the pere ubu song that autoplayed after the album was much more enjoyable than anything on dub housing :(
pretty good but I like elton when he's super fun and flashy and dancey (maybe I just like dancing). the first half was good but I'm pretty indifferent to the second half. I probably liked levon the best (hot take - I don't love tiny dancer)
don't have super strong opinions toward. parts of it I really didn't like, but there were parts I really did like.
enjoyed it, but for some reason spotify loves to play a song I like more than the album after the last song. still wasn't my favorite album, but I feel wrong giving it the same stars as dub housing
oh to be alanis morissette in the 90s
favorite song was head over feet
very very enjoyable!
big tench inch
record made me giggle and happened to be my favorite
Perfection (even though there’s a more perfect michael jackson album)
This album is a masterpiece. I love
I like it! Quick and easy and I like mr otis's voice
Very 2000s coming of age
I liked it! Favorite was country yard
Yes!! I remember learning about this album in a history of pop class I took in hs. Very influential in its own way as I remember. But good yay! Good airport listen!
FIVE FIVE FIVE
Perfect I love
Most iconic album cover ever?
This is very tarry harvey. And he would tell you that this is not bruce springsteen, it’s the boss
