This album is a mixed bag for me. The Cash originals and lesser known covers are the strength of the album. The Man Comes Around is an amazing start to the album, and Give My Love to Rose and I Hung My Head are excellent also. The more famous covers are either mediocre (Hurt, Bridge Over Troubled Water, In My Life) or bad (Desperado and especially Personal Jesus). A shorter, tighter collection would have been more effective. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I will probably give the same review to a lot of albums.
The musicians have obvious technical skill, but this type of music just isn’t appealing to me.
Slow, morose, and lacking the charm that made Beck a 90s alt rock staple. Only Sunday Sun here carries much weight. The rest is pretty dull.
Monster was a pretty good track, especially the portion with Nicki Minaj. Otherwise this was just a bunch of nonsense.
Dull. Not fun or grand or exciting. Just meh. Not for me.
Neil Young - Harvest ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Album #6 for me, and it’s the best one so far. I’m not always a huge fan of slow, downbeat music, which has been a problem with the project so far for me. I’m certainly familiar with this album’s existence, but I’ve never listened to it before. I have heard a couple of the songs. It’s a strong collection for sure, but just a little too down tempo for my tastes (mostly). I do plan to listen to it again someday, which I will not being doing with any of the other choices provided so far.
One extra star for some interesting guitar work, but otherwise this is just hippie nonsense.
Nah, not for me.
Not great, not bad - very much in the middle. It’s basically the OKest type of music possible. I enjoyed it a lot more than most of the albums on this list so far, but it was a little too soft and slow for me to be super excited about it. And it was repetitive, with a couple of the songs presented twice with different remixes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finally, an album that I was excited to listen to (again). The Black Album is an absolute monster in terms of its cultural and musical impact. Some fans felt it was a sell out by Metallica, but it was the opposite. The world finally caught up with metal’s greatest band and we are all better off for it. Every track here is fantastic. There is literally nothing that doesn’t hit exactly. A total master work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
