2 good songs (Tiny Dancer and Levon) and 1 decent song (title track) among a 9 track album. The rest is a mess of terrible lyrics, overwrought vocals, and excessive arrangements (strings everywhere).
I think Holiday Inn could have been an ok song, but I don't want to hear the narrator talk about being in a rock and roll band when the song is mainly strings and mandolin.
I suppose the excess of the 70s doesn't work me. It definitely doesn't on this album
Fun and energetic, if somewhat lacking in depth.
Jittery and paranoid with mostly excellent songs and lyrics. One or two tracks that aren’t quite at the level of the rest
Decent disco album, but not much sticks with you once it has ended. I don’t think I’d ever go back to this one again
I expected a lot of folk, hippie nonsense from this one, but was pleasantly surprised. Beyond the 2 well-known hits, there are some excellent tracks. Plastic Fantastic Lover and 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds are among my favorites.
There are a few boring clunkers, but, overall, you can hear how this would have been new and exciting in 1967 and go on to influence a lot of subsequent acts.
Lounge pop with a bit of a dark side. It doesn’t always work, but when it does, it is pop gold.
Classic 2000s British snarkiness. Probably a few songs that should have been cut from the album, but still a fun rock record with numerous butt wigglers
Perfect 10 album of anthemic indie rock. To hear this for the first time back in 2004 was exhilarating. The album is still amazing and outshines the music that it inspired (including later Arcade Fire releases).
Nothing really grabbed me on this ine
Some enjoyable tunes but repetitive. The samples are the best part
Not a perfect 10 due to some bad backing vocals and the one Noel Redding sung tune. Still a great album, though
I’m struggling to understand how this would be required listening, except as a cautionary tale.
I assume this is very technically proficient, but it is also boring.
The lyrics the lyrics are repetitive are repetitive. Maybe that is Hooker’s style, but it isn’t for me. Guitar-wise, blues is fine but it all sounds like every other blues song Ive heard.
Some great songs, but needed a proper producer to edit things
I always avoided Pink Floyd based on the kind of kids that were into them in the 90s. This was actually very enjoyable, if at times over-indulgent.
A few good songs, but an overall mess.
Shout out to Baltimore! First things first, “My Girls” is a 5 star jam, a near perfect song. The rest of the album has some other fine songs but also some that are a slog to get through
A true classic
Not a fan of Joplin’s voice.
My 15-16 year old self thought this was 5 stars, but I’ve cooled on that opinion just a bit. I do disagree with many other reviewers on this site about the noisier songs (Milk It, Tourette’s). I still like those. If you searched out Bleach and Incesticide after hearing Nevermind, you were used to this side of Nirvana. I like the punkier, noisier bits
World music…no thanks
