Pleasant BG music.
4/5
3.2/5 - vocals and some other harsh sounds threw me off
Reference:
1 = Dislike, nty
2 = Not my taste, objectively pretty good though
3 = Fine, tolerable BG music but not preferred
4 = Pleasant BG music, but not necessarily top preference
5 = Liked this, might listen again in future
4.2/5 - objectively great vocals, nice BG music to listen to. generally good vibes. however, would probably listen to the ambient tracks separate from the rest of the album
3.2/5 - Generally pretty good. Would not listen to in my own time, but definitely suitable party music for an evening BBQ in the summer.
4.3/5 - Pleasant music. Strings give off a beautiful vibe.
Fav Track - Sonnet
Reference:
1 = Dislike, nty
2 = Not my taste, objectively pretty good though
3 = Fine, tolerable BG music but not preferred
4 = Pleasant BG music, but not necessarily top preference
5 = Liked this, might listen again in future
3.2/5 - Not for me. I think the music is still objectively quite cool, but third track in and it all sounds the same to me.
Fav Track: no preference, maybe Elegia but only by a hair
3.7/5 - Was enjoying it at the beginning, but got a bit old quite quickly. Nice to mix some of these songs in with other music, but a whole album worth of this is a bit too much for me personally.
2.9 - not for me, but I can see how people would enjoy this. still classifies in my subjective opinion as objectively cool music
4.0/5 - catchy, cool.
Fav Track: No particular preference for songs, but prefer the first main section of album up to the last 4 songs. (First part is a 4.2/5, from last 4 probably more like a 3.5/5)
4.4/5 - Pretty damn good. Nice to have playing in the background anywhere, although, not something I would listen to in my own time.
4.4/5 - No comments, just nice music :)
Fav Track: no preference.
Reference:
1 = Dislike, nty
2 = Not my taste, objectively pretty good though
3 = Fine, tolerable BG music but not preferred
4 = Pleasant BG music, but not necessarily top preference
5 = Liked this, might listen again in future
4.1/5 - calm and peaceful. no further comments. cozy, although nothing too "out there"
3.5/5 - fine, although personally speaking it isn't strongly evocative.
3.3/5 - sometimes intentionally quite discordant, and to me not in an evocatively interesting way. enough to put me off a little to be honest. may give it another try in the future: still a good album :)
3.6/5 - no further comments
3.8/5 - quite cool, but I'm not listening to an 18 minute remix, so I'll cut it early :)
3.0/5 - gets old pretty fast.
3.3/5 - Was OK at best, may not have been the day for it. Might come back another time to give it another go.
1.4/5 - Lyrics: yikes. Vibes: not there for me. The sounds of Rock and Roll & Country: ever droning on, whether I like it or not. Such is the magic of this album, there was a point at which I became so immersed, that my brain thought I was forty years older than I actually was. Magical.
3.9/5 - Pretty cool album! Left me hungry for a film to accompany it with, which I'm sure would elevate it even further.
2.4/5 - At first impression, this album seemed to push the boundaries of my ears. And yet, I decided it might be worth giving my eardrums a thrashing in order to appreciate this album in all its glory. This was quite an experience, but nonetheless was a decision I wholeheartedly regret. On a more serious note, this is indeed quite a cool album, but not for me.
1.2/5 - Pleasant to listen to? No. A genuinely interesting abstract album with a variety of uniquely interesting musical experimentation? Also no.
4.4/5 - Pleasant. Nothing more to be said.
4.7/5 - It's hard not to enjoy this album (Elton is generally peak anyways), and at the very least I think everyone should find this to be pleasant background music. Everyone else has probably already made all the substantial positive comments there are to be made about this album, so will just leave it at that.
The Beatles were, up until now while partaking in this here project, one of the few bands I had actually listened to. I generally enjoyed what I heard of their greatest hits, so my expectations for this album were considerably high.
After listening, I would say despite being one of their earlier albums, and hence considerably lacking in the degree of creative spirit that was signature to their most critically acclaimed compositions, it wasn't terrible. A letdown for sure, and not holding much above mediocre, but not terrible nonetheless. Perhaps worth a listen solely to see the band's progression over the years. The kind of music that plays at a café at breakfast, and when everyone stops talking at the table, makes you stop and wonder if the atmosphere would be better without it.
Solid 3.4/5
2.6/5 - not for me: found vocals a bit irritating, which was the only notable thought I had in regards to this album.
3.1/5 - Despite having played quite a bit of jazz in music groups in my life so far, I am not actually a jazz enjoyer in my own time, although I do appreciate the skill and artistry within the genre. From that perspective, I thought this was generally quite mediocre. Nothing special, quite possibly to the point of being dull, but at least not unpleasant to listen to.
2.4/5 - Started off as a 4+/5 during the first three songs, but rating quickly fell off at Everything Reminds Me of Her, which marked my realisation that there's only so much "moody acoustic" sound + lyrics of varying degrees of substance, or lack thereof, that I can take. (Terrible grammar within this here review, but not worth a rewrite).
General notes [Positives: mood, vocals Negatives: some songs have sloppy lyrics, repetitive sound]
Notes after finishing the album: Opinion has not changed.
3.9/5 - Went from "what the fuque is this" to "magnifique." Pretty cool stuff.
2.5/5 - The high energy reminds me of a particular recurring situation from my primary school years:
There would be some kind of free time activity, like a music class or drama production, where the teacher would put on upbeat music almost identical to this. They would then ask everyone to start moving their bodies, to which all students would look back and forth between each other awkwardly and stand frozen in the middle of the room. A mutual vow of silence would be settled on by practically everyone in the room, only broken by a forced attack on an unlucky individual by the teacher prompting them to start doing something, to which the rest of the crowd would follow along out of fear of being the next one singled out. Strange activity would continue with occasional hushed awkward laughter and uneasy looks until the music would suddenly cut and be broken by silence and wholehearted relief by all involved.
I do not wish to return to memories like these.
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1 = Dislike, no thanks
2 = Not my taste, but still objectively good music
3 = Tolerable / OK background music, but not preferred
4 = Pleasant to listen to, but not necessarily preference
(</= to) 5 = Liked this enough to consider listening again in future
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4.3/5 - Can't think of a good comment, but this was a long-awaited refreshing album to break a streak of either heavily repetitive, or just generally tiring albums. No bad things to say about this album thusfar.
4.3/5 - Now I know where Oye Como Va is from. Not outstandingly interesting, so probably would not listen again.
2.5/5 - I didn't hate it per se, but I can certainly say this must be in the bottom 100 let alone bottom 40 albums on this list. Worth the listen? 100% yes, solely for the experience.
3.4/5 - This got recommended to me a day after she died, and only realised after coming back during the weekend to do the review here. While the recent events at the time definitely make it heart-wrenching to listen to this album, my honest rating still doesn't push beyond a three and a half out of five at best. I wouldn't mind if someone else was playing it in the background, as it is quite pleasant in that regard, but not for long periods of time. I definitely wouldn't listen to country music like this in my own time for leisure. Respect to the artist, but not my cup of tea.
4.8/5 - Aside from a couple lyrical songs which I didn't dig as much as the rest of the album, this album was pretty cool.
