I think everything that's need to be said, is already said about this album. For me the pastoral and experimental sound of the Floyd I loved, is missing in action. What remains is an overblown Roger Waters egotrip partly saved by Dave's voice and playing.
When you say soul, you say Aretha. When you say Aretha, you say soul.
Miles above the rest. Aretha is a force of nature gifted with a voice that can split a rock.
This record, produced by the legendary Jerry Wexler, has some of her best known songs like Chain of fools and (You make me feel like a) Natural woman and there is not a dud on it. All hail the Queen.
In 1974 Bob Dylan did a succesful comeback stadiumtour with his old mates of The Band. Half a year later he returned to the studio. The sessions in A&R studio's in New York were a stripped down acoustic affair. Dylan was recently divorced from Sarah, something that left a huge mark on his new songs. Together with a few relative unknown musicians he laid down the groundwork for his new album. After which he returned to Minneapolis and showed the results to his brother who made him rethink the album. He decided to re-record 5 of the songs in Minneapolis which led to the released album.
Blood on the tracks is one of the best albums Dylan ever made and that says a lot. Every song is a stone cold classic and he sings the hell out of it.
Being the best writer of our lifetime, Dylan never just simply sings about my baby left me and I feel sad but draws his inspiration from the old voices of the blues, Melville, even Shakespeare or in case of Tangled up in blue, Dante. Which also happens to be my favourite Bob Dylan song ever.
I don't rate this album very high. Way to slick for my liking and even the hits on this album are not among their best. They certainly are good musicians but this album lacks the adventure and energy to make it the thriling album it should have been.
Nick Drake only made three regular albums in his lifetime which had an immeasurable influence on folkmusic. Nick Drake was sadly overlooked in his lifetime and never experienced the acclaim his work recieved after his death.
Bryter Layter is his second album and was produced by Joe Boyd. Bryter Layter is his most orchestrated album. I find this at times a bit to much and being the only minor flaw on this album. But I can overcome this easily because his songs are so strong.
There is fine playing by Fairport Convention members Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks and Richard Thompson on a couple of tracks. Regular Beach Boys drummer Mike Kowalski plays some drums and John Cale plays celeste, organ and piano on Northern Sky and viola on Fly.
Drake's songwriting is otherworldly beautiful, his playing and singing delicate and utterly beautiful. This album is a true treasure. (And I like his two other albums even more)
Favorite tracks: One of these things first, the jazzy Poor boy and the stunning Northern sky.
With the hype of punk diminishing, a new generation of rockmusicians like Patti Smith, Graham Parker, Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello caused a new wave in the rock scene of 1978 combining the energy of punk with well written clever rock songs. Elvis Costello was the smart guy of the bunch. His second album This Year's Model brought an exciting rock and roll barband sound with ska inflluences and a prominent role for Steve Nieve's organ.
This album contains some of his best songs like Pump it up, (I don't wanna go to) Chelsea, Lipstick vogue and Watching the detectives making this the essential Costello album you really need.
I'm listening to this for the first time. What's this, Beach Boys of the Highlands? Not bad but I don't think I'll come back to it again.
On this third album Talking Heads found their true voice and stept out of the New York new wave club scene to find their own unique form of music, dance and art. Guided by producer Brian Eno they created an polyrythmic sound to carry David Byrne's highly original lyrics.
This is one of my favorite Talking Heads albums with more greatnes to come.
Favorite tracks: I Zimbra, Cities, Heaven, Life during wartime, Memories can't wait and Drugs
A bunch of bullshit
On first listen I think this is bland fake reggae. No thanks
Boring and uninspired drones. A waste of time.
This album certainly has it's great moments but a little too much production for my taste.
On the day of it's release I bought this album (with the hidden bonus track) I thought it was sensational. Nowadays it has lost most of it's magic and have not been played for years.
Most unoriginal wannabe punkrock. By the time I reached the third track, I had a big headache already. Better listen to the real deal, this is useless.
One of the best live double albums ever. The boys from Dublin are cooking up a storm on stage and this album catches them in a great way. There are overdubs on this album but this does in no way spoil the party for me.
Phil Lynnott, one of the coolest rockers ever, is a hell of a bass player and sensitive singer, the twin guitars from Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson are ripping through your speakers and Brian Downey lays down a solid groove.
The definitive versions of all my favorite Lizzy songs are on this album: Jailbreak, The boys are back in town, Don't believe a word, Dancing in the moonlight, Rosalie and an absolute killer version of Still in love with you.
A fantastic live album!
I passed on this album in 1993. Now I realised I made a mistake. It's good
The band I hate the most. I really can't stand this pathetic overblown shit.
With this album Eric Clapton found his way back to the blues after the long psychedelic jams of Cream and Blind Faith and his therapeutic stint with Delaney and Bonnie.
Layla and other assorted lovesongs was recorded in Miami Criteria Studios with producer Tom Dowd at the helm.
The band was formed with Bobby Whitlock on keys, Carl Raddle on bass and Jim Gordon on drums. Clapton had met Whitlock on George Harrisson's All things must pass sessions.
After seeing the Allman Brothers Band live, Clapton invited Duane Allman for the sessions as well. Together they created a new standard for modern blues guitar with this album.
Fueled by enormous amounts of alcohol, drugs and despair about his love for Harrison's wife Patti Boyd they burned though a set of origials and blues classics with an intensity Clapton never reached again.
Impossible to call for the highlights because they all are, with Nobody knows you when you're down and out being my absolute favorite.
On release the album stayed a bit unnoticed (Who is this Derek?) but steadily gained its praise and acclaim.
Ok music when you are lying on some beach in Rio but too far away from me to feel a connection. Not a good starting point for Brazilian music I guess.
American Beauty is my favorite Grateful Dead album because it is a quite easy going and songbased album with a lot of country influences.
It has quite a few good songs like Box of rain, Friend of the devil, Candyman, Broekdown palace and their anthem Truckin'.
I'm not the biggest Deadhead but I always enjoy listening to this album.
Not realy a bad album but certainly not the classic as the hype goes. High on attitude, low on originality.
I have been a R.E.M. fan from Reckoning on. This album sounds incredibly tight but has some weaker tracks (Hairshirt, The wrong child, Untitled) to keep it from being a true classic. Highlights for me are Orange crush, World leader pretend and Turn you inside out.
3,5/5
Essential. Even though it has Maxwell's silver hammer on it. But hey, it's the bloody Beatles! The rest is brilliant.
Not my favorite singer. Mostly I can't listen to his voice for more than 10 minutes. When the music is exciting like on This Years Model I can get over it but I find this album very boring. I want you is the only song on it I like.
A bit of a dilletant our Elvis.
For this album British singer Dusty Springfield travelled to Memphis to record an album and to work with some of the best producers. The songs are all top notch, chosen from legendary writers like Goffin/King, Randy Newman, Bacharach/David among others
Dusty is gifted with one of the most soothing voices ever in music. I absolutely adore this album as it always feels like an arm around my shoulder.
pompous crap
It's OK to hear a Sister Sledge song on the radio every now and then but a whole album is far too much for me.
