This Is Fats Domino!

This is unfortunately a bit boring - understand how it would've been influential but much prefer this style with a more energetic singer, this ends up sounding quite dull.

Better than Coldplay

Fats was one of my father's absolute favorites so I've had a lifetime of exposure to his music. This is classic proto-rock 'n' roll. It's not just simple blues, it's become something more, and arguably this is where it all started.

Enjoyable album but nothing spectacular. Very good background music

A gentle, good-natured slice of early rock ’n’ roll. Fats Domino’s warm voice and rolling piano are instantly likeable, with 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘭𝘭 standing out as the iconic gem. Not every track hits, and it plays more like a singles collection than a cohesive album — but it’s hard not to smile while listening.

La mitad del disco no está disponible en Spotify, así que para compensarlo escuché las canciones más oídas de él. Un clásico del rock.

Solid record, but nothings really hitting my ear. Not Fallout-core enough to be in my wheelhouse, although You Done Me Wrong does scratch that itch. Mostly sits in a tempo thats *just* slow enough to not really grab my attention, especially with his vocals not being as bombastic as other artists around his time. Couple somgs verge into blues which I've found with this project that I'm just not big on. But still, solid record.

This Is Fats Domino was only an okay album at best. I did like some of the stuff it tried with a lot of it sounding like an early version of Sam Cooke's Live At The Harlem Square Club but this one unfortunately lacks in one area where the former excelled in, that being liveliness. This album just has the issue of sounding very empty at points especially during the last couple of songs. I get that this album is from the 50s so you would probably expect the production to not be the greatest but that emptiness still kinda irks me. Thankfully, this album is really short because if it were longer, it would be very repetitive. This one gets a very soft 3.
Best Song: So Long
Worst Song: Poor, Poor Me

Couldn't find this exact album, so I listened to a Fats Domino best of. Once it had finished, the CD started playing again from the start. Instinctively I moved to press stop, but the music was so good that I listened through again.

Nice little listen here. Probably won’t listen to it again but nice vibes for a Friday morning.

Good ol’ timey rhythm and blues.

Some good jazz tunes, the vocals have some oldie recording quality that really adds to the charm.
Standouts : Blueberry Hills, Blue Monday

I'll admit, this album took me a bit to find. I had to check YouTube, and I also had to steer clear of the similarly named album This is Fats, which has a completely different track listing.

With that out of the way, Fats Domino is someone I heard of before from one of his first hits, "Ain't That a Shame". While Fats considered himself an R&B musician, his contributions helped shape rock and roll music such that even Elvis Presley and the Beatles were influenced by him.

As for his third album, This is Fats Domino! is a solid collection of old-school tunes carried by Fats' belting delivery and excellent piano playing. The rhythm section swung and swayed as needed, and the saxophone players added an extra layer of pizzazz. From the opening ballad rendition of Sammy Kaye's "Blueberry Hill" to the high-energy closer "Trust in Me" and hits like "Blue Monday" and "Poor, Poor Me", Fats and Dave Bartholomew wrote and compiled a good, jaunty variety of songs.

Sure, this album may not be super exciting in the modern age with its simplistic song structures. But it made for an entertaining listen all the way through, and I'd say that's commendable for the legend that was Fats Domino.

Always fun.

Pretty cool although it can be a little bit samey.

I didn’t mind this but it didn’t do anything for me. Blueberry Hill was a cool tune.

I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5.

I know, perhaps it's heresy to not give this a flat 5, but it’s just because there’s a few too many “woe is me” sad tracks on the album, sue me. Besides that, Fats Domino did live up to what little I knew of him – “Blueberry Hill” is a trivia staple and a pretty strong song in the musical canon, but I’ve never heard it until now. Hell, I’ve never really heard Fats’ voice until now, and while I was expecting more of a Ray Charles-y tone, I’m surprised that he has a slight country twang on him. I’m not surprised that these were all pretty good tracks; classic blues structure to a lot of them, and his voice really glides on some of the heavier percussion / piano / sax present throughout this thing.

Not too much to say besides that, really. I have a decent reverence for 50s music like this, and it’s just because it’s all stood the test of time, and they’re simple & easy tracks. These fit the bill, and I had a good time listening to them – pretty breezy 27-ish minutes, even if it took a bit longer to find them all on streaming like that. I can hear why Elvis called him “the real king of rock & roll”, and how influential his music must have been to his contemporaries. It’s a good album, and I’d be a moron to not give it the bump up – it’s certainly no less than a 4.

Half the album is unavailable on spotify so I had to make do with just listening to another album lmao

Fun piano driven rock-n-roll. Enjoyed listening to this.

Great songs don’t constitute a great album. But these are great songs