Not heard this before and it sounded like late '70s punk (although more sophisticated) for the first few tracks. Album got more interesting and grew on me more from the longest track - "No No No" - onwards. That one has vocals reminding me of Gilli Smyth from Gong - so even earlier than the '70s! Will be listening to the second half at least again without doubt. Edit: been listening to an earlier EP which has 5 tracks with even more energy and better on first listen to than this album.
You can almost smell the pot listening to this one. May have enjoyed it more if I'd been under the influence! Not really for me though and considering what else was available to listen to in '67 not surprised this passed me by at the time. Still like the two main singles though and happy they get a lot of radio play even today. So a star each just for those.
Generic pop music of its day. Nothing too objectionable but nothing exciting either. A couple of these tracks might still get me on the dance floor if I'd had a few beers but otherwise would go almost unnoticed. . The last few tracks almost wore me down but I persevered and listened to the end. Was quite glad when it was over though. Perhaps listening to it early on a dreary wet Monday morning didn't do it justice? Not that I will be listening to it again anyway.
Well, apart from Lovefool I didn’t know/remember anything else on this album. Nina’s Marilyn Monroe-esqe vocals suit the tracks I suppose which are pleasant enough to listen to but nothing catchy enough to need to hear again. Left me wondering if Black Sabbath had covered Lovefool whether I would have laughed as much as hearing this Iron Man version! Have to admit I did listen to that song once again just to make sure I hadn’t been dreaming.
Wouldn’t ever think of listening to any of her stuff as it is too much “easy listening” which for me = “why bother?”. I quite liked this album though. However, I felt that most of the songs ended before they came to a satisfactory conclusion and I kept hoping they would build into a bigger ending. Best track was the more up-tempo “Raised on Robbery”.
Great album! I could easily have given 5 stars for this as it is pretty much perfect. But then how do I rate albums I like even more? We need a 10 star system really then I could have given 9. I will justify it losing a star for track 5. I normally enjoy instrumentals but find this one, although OK, doesn't really add anything to an otherwise perfect album and I'm always waiting for it to finish to get on with the rest. I would hope/expect ‘Out of Time’ to be in this list too at some point as that is almost as good.
The first Stones album I bought and has always been my favourite. I still have a flexi-disc sampler of it given away with New Musical Express just before it's release which was the bait. From here on in I was hooked. It won't please those hoping for recognisable hits (apart from Tumbling Dice) but shows off all aspects of their music that I love. Has the feel of a live session rather than studio album for much of it too which makes it stand out from both later and earlier albums. The remastered CD edition had an extra 10 "new" tracks which I have had an excuse to listen to again today :) It includes the single released in 2010 - "Plundered My Soul" - which deserved to be on the original vinyl but was resurrected from 1971 out-takes and overdubbed with new vocals etc. in 2009.
A fun album despite so many songs of unrequited love. I'm a sucker for songs with definite endings rather than fadeouts and as there is hardly a fader in sight on this album that's a plus. Of the 2 tracks that do fade out, one is "Not Fade Away" ironically. There was a much better cover version of that song released later of course (!) but then it is good to hear the original.
Boring. One Roberta Joan Mitchell album in a week is more than enough to hear thank you. Rambling lyrics on overly long songs which could easily be interchanged with almost any other backing track. No more please!
Too late to appear on this album but "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and other singles they did - especially when they teamed up with the Supremes - were good to hear on the radio at the time. Never interested me enough to buy any though and this album would have not persuaded me either. Interesting to hear but plenty of other Motown releases were much better. What would have been side 2 was nearer the mark.
Ok, another old man rant...I suppose if I had been nearer 13 rather than 30 and never heard any real music when this lot peaked I may have been able to say "Armageddon It." I didn't then and I'm still not. They were successful enough though so it must have meant something to many. Just leaves me cold though. Have to admit this is the first album I have skipped through several tracks - I have heard (and hated) them enough before to know I would happily die without having to hear any of this again. Come back Joni, all is forgiven!
I had never heard of "noise rock" or indeed The Liars before today. I'm trying to pretend I still haven't. The only redeeming feature of this specific noise collection was the final track. I like to think that this was included as some sort of calming recompense for having endured the preceding weird nonsense.
More than "OK", this is wonderful! The first 3 tracks and the last are my favourites but having heard it through a few times now (and with headphones on it's even better), track 6 - Disser/Point.Mento.B - almost has me in tears. I just wish it wasn't so short (never satisfied!). I've heard plenty of pure Indian/Asian music which I can happily live without but the intertwining with other styles/instruments/moods here just does something and sounds exciting for me. In fact I am still trying to understand why I know that I find it difficult to listen to a lot of the individual genres on their own (dance, drum & bass, Asian beats of varying types...) but put them together and I can't get enough. I'm also pleased that persevering with a few hours of dross in recent days has its benefits if something like this can be discovered. Perhaps I should start paying attention to the Mercury prize again too if this sort of stuff appears. It passed me by at the time. Just ordered the CD of this anyway because I'm one of the few who still prefers to hear good things that way.
