A Date With The Everly Brothers

Pre Listen:
The album title is making me feel coerced. I never agreed to date even one of the Everly Brothers, much less two. I don't wanna get tag teamed by these guys oml. No expectations.

Notable Tracks:
Love Hurts - Favorite song on the album. Has the best harmonies on here, which is already this things strongest aspect. I may have heard this one before too?

Post Listen:
Album wasn't really anything good or bad. Didn't even have a least favorite song.

Just some run-of-the-mill late 50's early 60's romance pop, with a bit of blues sprinkled in. I wouldn't have liked this album even back when I craved this kind of thing, it's so generic and boring. Literally nothing special here.

It's not bad, their harmonies are actually pretty damn good, even if their individual voices are a bit...sour? I don't know, I just don't vibe with their sounds. Everything else is just so bland. I couldn't finish the last song of the album from how boring it was, even though it was relatively short.

Felt like eating somewhat dried out white bread, slice after slice, with nothing else. Would be a lot better in moderation, used as parts of a sandwich with other songs of the time period. 2/5.

Too you know what to be rock 'n' roll, too I don't know what to be pop, The Everly Brothers were committed to one genre & one genre only: harmony. That harmony could often be corny, but for the most part it was incredibly horny & it was never boring, at least not as it manifests on this record & its predecessor, It's Everly Time. We love the sixties for its range, & whether we like it or not (& we should love it), The Everly Brothers were integral to that range. Just go & ask Paul & Art how they feel 'bout this seminal duo. Let's remember that these boys are from Knoxville, TN: the country/blues spirit resides deep inside 'em, no matter how sweet or cozy their sound is. 'If I ever lost you / I'd cry & cry.' Innocence, not so much. Experience, yah.

Weird one to score for me. My father is an over-the-top Boomer music fan. He has thousands and thousands of vinyl records, multiple jukeboxes, and speakers throughout the house I grew up in. Weekend mornings as a kid I wasn't allowed to sleep late. And "late" was 7am. So every Saturday and Sunday by 6 or 7am the turntable or jukebox was BLARING the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Beach Boys. etc. I fucking hated it.

But the Everly Brothers are ingrained in my memory. I listened to this and knew every note. It's not their fault that my father is a narcissistic psychopath.. They just made nice music.

Доволі милий альбом. Останній трек і правда бітлз прям.

it doesn't really do anything for the modern ear, but it definitely served as inspiration to artists emerging in the late 60s and early 70s. Paul Simon being one.

Started off pretty dicey with the "handmaid's tale"ish track made to love, but got a little better after that with some unique bits. 2.5/5 -> 3/5

Some nice harmonies here from legendary Everly Brothers, I knew of a few tracks on this, but they do kind of blend from one to another, It is an enjoyable listen though, but still dead average with probably 3 stars.

Beautiful vocals and kind of innovative for the pop vocal style that was so dominant at this time. Love Hurts is enigmatic. Impressive.

Simpler times! Nothing deep, it’s all about the harmonizing.

This looks hella dated. Unfortunately, it is exactly as dated as it looks. The opener greets you with a chorus of "Girls, girls, girls were made to love", which reduces them to an object for the male gaze even before you get to the part about stalking them at the end. The rest of the songs aren't much better, being basic 60s pop with basic love lyrics that can devolve into misogyny at times. It might have been influential in 1960, but this just didn't age well at all. Maybe it's here for "Love Hurts", which was covered many times by various artists(the most well-known is by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, who are better than these guys despite being rather run-of-the-mill AOR). In seven years, we went from this to Hendrix and the Beatles, who leave everything here in the dust. It's not really a good record despite clear pop hooks and harmonies, but at least it's nice and short.

I enjoyed this. 3.5/5

This album is so generic 60s.

Two adult men whining about how women don't want to sleep with them. At its best this album is a boring, generic 60s album. At its worst it comes across as judgemental and sexist

The Everly Brothers, I think, are best in “Best of” compilations. They made a solid block of 5 star music.

The rest of their stuff is still “pretty good.”

This is an easy 3 and I rolled the idea of giving it a 4 around in my brain.

Listening to A Date With The Everly Brothers is like stepping into a 1960s time machine, full of harmonies that totally influenced the Beatles and the Beach Boys. I was kinda surprised the only Everly Brothers album on this list didn't have hits like "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have To Do Is Dream", or "Bye Bye Love", I mean, what are we even doing here? Though. It does have their big hit "Cathy's Clown" and the original, sad version of "Love Hurts", but it's more about deep cuts and cool covers like "Lucille".

At only 27 minutes, it's a fast experience that captures the style of the era, even if some of the lyrics about all the girls, girls, girls in "Made For Love" feel pretty dated by today's standards. It's got this sweet sound, but the amount of sappy love stories that keeps it from being anything but bubblegum pop. Those harmonies are amazing, totally timeless, and you can tell they really influenced a lot of other singers. It's not the greatest album, but it's a fun listen and brings back memories of old diners and stuff.

All rather samey, no real bangerz and it's all a bit "why won't me bird kiss me". We need something exciting at least once I think x

Good old sound! 3/5 #musicsky #albumsky

Musical revolutions were sparked in the 50s and 60s. In some cases, the music was so groundbreaking that it is still worth listening to today. This album is not one of them. It sounds too much like completely outdated pop from a bygone era. It was interesting to hear the original version of Nazareth's cover of Love Hurts, which I often listened to in my youth. But I don't need to hear it again. 3/5

Not only were they the first great duo singers, but very few people have surpassed them since.

4/5

Pleasant enough, but oh my god every song sounded identical - I didn't realise autoplay was running and I'd been going through multiple albums of theirs! I want to give this a 2 for being samey, but... it was nice music and I guess being able to listen to an extra hour means it was not bad at all! :)