The Band

Ended up listening to this one twice, which is a good sign. Might end up a 5 star album after some more thought.

I read that this came out 4 days after abbey Road. Which is extremely bad timing

If you don’t like the band by the band the band you should be banned.

Pretty strong record - top-notch performances by everyone here. Lots of variety and doesn't surprise me that everybody here picks up different instruments on each track. It is a musician's album through and through but also strong song craft. Super rootsy and organic, even pulls off a Confederate track without really stepping in it. Doesn't always keep my full interest but it's regularly very good throughout.

It's always these fuckass 60s albums that have you wondering why they're on the list, until you dig a little deeper and find out that they inspired basically every artist in their generation.

I can't argue with history, I suppose, but the yodeling goes too far for me personally

Standouts: Whispering Pines • Jemima Surrender • King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

Never heard of The Band before but will be checking out more of their stuff after this. Bloody loved this. Every track on here was a belter. I’ll be playing this for a good few days.

Top Track - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The Band (despite it's generic name for both the band and album) is a pretty good album. With it's album art and the fact that the other The Band album's sound, i came in here expecting some country rock and i was completely correct. The main thing i liked about this album is that it was able to find a good balance between more rocking songs as well as softer ones. There is also the fact that no song on here sounds bad as they had nothing that made them too annoying or boring to listen to. I also do think that this is better than Music From Big Pink due to the fact that the production here is just so much better. This album is a really solid one.
Best Song: King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
Worst Song: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Not really my cup of tea

Its very soft,yet enthralling.It does a very good job at building up the momentum in their songs and its a very smooth and calming listens.Extremely catchy too

7.7

Inoffensive and pleasant enough.
But if you'd told me that this was an album by Rod, Jane and Freddy out of Rainbow then I wouldn't have questioned it (apart from not being able to hear Jane).

Americana, Country rock with organs, twangy guitars and honky tonk pianos. Not really my thing.

YES.

Durchschnittliches Rockwerk der Sechziger, mit für meinen Geschmack zu viel Problembearbeitung.

I guess you can hear their influence on later artistes. Didn't really grab me at all.

Never been a huge fan, but I understand how great they are in their scene.

I really liked a few of the songs on here. The rest were fine but I wouldn’t go back and listen to them again.

This is one of the best late 60s Country Rock albums I've ever heard. Lovely mix and sound throughout. Not gonna revisit it too often, but definitely deserves the love

Twangy roots apparently isn't my thing. Thought I'd like this but too often it just reminded me of the Grateful Dead.

Masterpiece!

Favorite songs: Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Across the Great Divide, Rag Mama Rag, Jemima Surrender, Look Out Cleveland

Least favorite songs: Whispering Pines

4/5

RIP

A nice Americana album, without veering too much into country, which is always good in my book. No tracks that blew it out of the water for me though, 3*