Almost lost me with the never ending guitar solo on the last song
3.5 stars. Transported me back to driving around Atlanta listening to 92.9 Dave FM Atlanta’s only alternative station nothing but the nineties weekends
Not for me, but can also acknowledge that this album was not made for me.
This album was an emotional roller coaster. First I was mildly horrified, then was worried it was some southern pride wave the confederate flag nonsense, then it very much wasn’t? I didn’t like the main guys voice, but found it to largely be inoffensive southern rock musically?
Wide range of styles of songs - didn’t know the Smashing Pumpkins could also do soft. Generally enjoyed.
I really don’t have too much to say. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. Sounded a little like the Beatles at times.
I will always have a soft spot for Van Morrison. I already know Moondance will be a five star album for me. But can’t say that this one particularly stood out to me - classic Van Morrison vibes, I had a good time but no really stand out songs.
Didn’t really discover anything new about The Band listening to this album. I liked the songs I already knew (Up in Cripple Creek) but nothing else really jumped out at me.
Was Frank Sinatra a total creep? Yes. Do all of his lyrics hold up in the modern day? No, absolutely not. But for me it’s still the soundtrack of love and romance, the earliest one I learned as a little girl standing on my grandfathers feet as we spun around the dance floor and feeling like the most special person in the universe. Also how can you not just giggle during Making Whoopee.
Just no.
I feel like this would be very enjoyable on acid, but since I’m not enjoyment was more limited.
Not The Police’s strongest showing. A couple solid songs, but also a couple that were quite strange.
Middle school me would have been all over this. I’ve always liked Girl, was fun to discover several additional songs.
Don’t hate me
Not my favorite collection of Johnny Cash songs but I do love a live concert album and he really does have a one of a kind voice.
Fun fact, they are in the wrong order in this picture (Crosby is on the right and Nash is on the left). They only realized after they took the photo and when they went back to retake it the house where they’d been taking the pictures had been bulldozed. Anyways, any band that can be described as three people singing in intricate harmony is going to have my endorsement and albums like this are why Spotify thinks I’m 71 years old.
I kind of love the idea of funky aliens. I probably won’t ever return to this album, but the beats were infectious and it did make me smile.
The most Clash sounding album by The Clash where every song was obviously The Clash but somewhat indistinguishable from the other songs.
Exactly what I expected to receive from a Talking Heads album
Felt like the lead character in an 80’s movie the entire time
A few redeeming moments kept this from being a total snooze fest.
Just fun from beginning to end.
Listened, enjoyed listening and then realized about 30 minutes after finishing the album that I did not remember a single thing about it, not one single moment from one single song. Might have discovered the most neutral of neutral albums.
What a strange listening experience
I don’t know why I was so surprised by the sound of the music when they literally have the word “blues” in the band name. Super interesting and different sound.
This whole album felt like being dropped into a story in media res. Made it very compelling to keep listening to try and figure out what the story was. Never got an answer
A lot of fun, was head bopping along the entire album. Energy was just as high for the songs I didn’t know beforehand as the ones I did.
I’m very surprised I did not listen to more Arcade Fire in high school because my Vampire Weekend, Phoenix loving teenage self would have been all over this.
This felt like I opened a time capsule that a bunch of high schoolers buried in the 80s and gave me a very strong urge to go to the mall.
I have a strange soft spot for the Beastie Boys, I find them oddly charming even though I know that’s not the intent of the music. But I only generally enjoy listening to a few of their songs and this only added one or two to that list.
It is fun to go totally blind into an album because just based on name alone this was not the sound I expected.
Killing Me Softly is and will always be an elite level song but can’t say that this album offered too much more to my taste.
Um, points for originality, I guess? And great sound design - listened in my nice, over ear headphones and that added an extra layer to the listening experience. Definitely a vibe but not mine.
What a joy to listen to. Didn’t have my absolute favorite Bowie songs but was such a cohesive album with so many great songs.
I felt like I needed to square dance against my will. Also this woman desperately needs better taste in men.
I definitely thought “When the Stars Go Blue” was an original song from One Tree Hill. So I guess apologies to Ryan Adams (who maybe doesn’t deserve my apologies) for attributing the one not mid song on this album to Tyler Hilton of all people.
I felt the same way about this that I generally do about Neil Young when he pops up on my 70s playlists. Not a skip, but not something I’m going to intentionally seek out. Lean positive, but largely neutral.
One of the things I like about David Bowie generally is that his music is a little strange. This got a little too strange for me.
Hole had zero name recognition for me so when Celebrity Skin (the song) started playing and it was a song that I knew and loved I knew I was off to a great start. I kept waiting for a song that would give me a reason to not give this five stars and there was not a single one. Then looked up the band and got another surprise in finding out it was Courtney Love’s band. Excellent discovery, feels very early pop punk but with a strong female vocalist which is a recipe for a great time.
I found it very hard to take “Grinder” and “Breaking the Law” seriously, they sounded to me like parodies of an 80s metal song, I just kept giggling. Still made for a largely enjoyable listening experience.
There’s not much of anything I don’t like on Revolver and I love Elenor Rigby, it’s one of my favorites. But I do like other albums more - I like when the albums have a bit more of the full spectrum of Beatles sounds from the very soft to the more classic rock sounds.
Innovation does not always equal art. Or maybe I just don’t get electronic music. But a 17 minute song is a crime.
Forever iconic
This delivered pretty much exactly what I wanted from Elvis. Some smoother, crooner-esque songs, some rock n’ roll. Not sure there’s much I will return to - great cover of Fever but there are also much better ones out there.
I accept than any criticism of this album threatens my status as an Atlanta native. There is a five star album hiding amongst the 2hrs+ worth of songs, but there are enough lows, particularly in the second half, that made getting through the whole thing a bit of a drag. I would give the front half of the album a 4-4.5 stars and the second half a 3.5 excluding Hey Yeah but we’ll round up in the hopes they don’t bar the gates next time I try to go home.
This album wasn’t terrible. It also wasn’t great. Sounded like it was either influenced by or could have influenced a lot of other music of this era. But because of that very little stood out.
I didn’t hate listening to this, but also nothing particularly jumped out at me. There were some nice instrumental moments.
I liked this a lot less than I thought I would going in being a fan of Seven Nation Army. The songs that I like I really liked, but the songs of “let me talk and then play some guitar and then talk some more” really dropped the overall enjoyment of the album. A solid 3.5, but will round up for Seven Nation Army.
I might be suffering from a bit of Bowie fatigue but outside of Heroes, which I love (thank you Ewan McGregor and Moulin Rouge) I found nothing else on this album stood out in a positive way and few made me cock my head to the side and go “Huh?” or double check that I was actually listening to the same album and Spotify hadn’t moved on to something else.
My inner pop punk princess was having a great time for the first three or so minutes of this album head banging along. And then less fun as it became clear it was just 20+ minutes of unintelligible screaming.
If this album had come out 50 years earlier I’d probably have a kinder review. But everything that was done on this album has been done better decades previously.
I’m sure different things were happening in the lyrics each time but the repetitiveness of the style of rap made it so easy to zone out until it all blended together. They also sampled so many other songs I kept getting faked out and wondering if I knew the song. All that said, I can hear the roots of later artists in this so it’s cool to be able to trace how this might have influenced some later rappers.
I stand firmly by my opinion that no album needs to be nearly 3 hours long. This album in particular did not need to be 3 hours long. Thirty minutes might still have been too much.
Very loud with a strong base, lots of flashing lights and on a dance floor after a couple shots in my 20s I would maybe have enjoyed this but at work on a Wednesday afternoon is a hard no.
More rock albums should be rock operas. Give me a story, give me drama, give me a movie with Elton John as the Pinball Wizard. It was interesting to listen to this all the way through again for the first time since childhood. We can add Tommy to this list of movies that I probably watched way too young but still strongly imprinted on.
Without any background information on this album or even knowing who sang it about two songs in I would have been able to say it came out in 1989.
Excellent Sunday morning vibes. Nothing else quite rose to the level of Let’s Stay Together or How Can You Mend This Broken Heart, but every other song was still consistently good.
Noise (pejorative)
Refer back to my previous opinions on never-ending guitar.
I would join the lead singers coven in a heartbeat. Very reminiscent of Joni Mitchell but with enough of a unique sound, particularly in the more upbeat numbers, to hold their own in the late 60’s/early 70s folk rock scene. Not quite a five star listen for me but pretty close.
Not the strangest thing I’ve ever listened to but definitely up there. Strongly prefer Hounds of Love over whatever was happening on this album but even in its strangeness I was definitely having a good time.
Classic, solid, easy listening Beatles.
I think “I swear on the wetness of my first kiss of gonorrhea” is up there with one of the strangest lines I’ve ever heard. I don’t know that I’ll revisit anything on this album but I was certainly entertained and kept on my toes.
It was fine? Nothing offensive, but nothing that really stood out.
