Reviews by abitfishy

From my understanding without looking anything up, The Band was originally Bob Dylan's backing band and they'd record and - maybe tour as well?? - with him. BUT after Dylan's motorcycle accident I suppose they got more free time to do other stuff.
Well stuff that isn't speculation, is that this album is a nice combination of folk and country and rock, it gives me strong CCR vibes.

"Up On Cripple Creek" verse melody sounds like the verse melody from a song from their previous album, "The Weight." Speaking of "The Weight" the first song on THIS album says something about a woman named Molly which "The Weight" mentions as well, I wonder if its inspired or just a name the songwriter really likes.

This is a good album in a after having recently gone through mostly mediocre albums.

Highlight Song/s: Rag Mama Rag, When You Awake, Up On Cripple Creek and Jawbone

This album has some quite lovely arrangements accompanied by some (blue-eyed) soulful singing. It doesn't really excite me, nothing jumps right up at me like some other new albums I've discovered.

Highlight Song/s: Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring

Since I learnt about him and listening to one of his other albums from the generator, Beck is really an eclectic individual. While the other album I heard - Guero - was more eclectic, this one is kinda more like eclectic undertones with slacker rock overtones rather than new genre every song on Guero.

Highlight Song/s: The New Pollution

I thought this wasn't that baaaad and I think I like noise music, because I enjoy My Bloody Valentine and yadda yadda, yadda, but that feeling was only for the first song... THEN the second song of the album came on and holy hell, that was so bloody loud!

I mean I had done a little research on these guys and knew they are infamous for the atrocious amounts of noise they've made via home-made instruments - which sounds like a combination of a screwdriver and a vacuum cleaner, so I'm honestly not sure what I was expecting to be different.

And they manage never let up the noise after the second song, so I nervously kept my volume at a low-to-moderate range so I don't get hearing damage.

I've heard some 2Pac songs from All Eyez On Me and they tend to be so bloody aggressive and filled with just HATE especially after he went full throttle at Bad Boy Records and associates, it honestly makes my guts churn a bit. I am glad this album is more thoughtful and seems more introspective than some of the other songs I've heard from him, and I definitely prefer this side of him.

Highlight Song/s: Me Against The World, Heavy In The Game, Dear Mama and Can U Get Away

The first album by one of the first super-groups. The first thing that manages to stand out to me is the lovely vocal harmonies, it sounds quite Beatles-esque. I've gotten a lot of folk albums recently so my lack of enthusiasm might stem from that.

Highlight Song/s: Guinnevere

I just can't over how that all this sounds nearly same, it's the synths man. I don't think synths are bad, but when its put together with stereotypical 80s production and especially that monotonous drum sound, it really does sap my energy! "Pimpf" is pretty cool and unique, nice album closer with its orchestral-like elements.

Highlight Song/s: Sacred and Little 15

I was honestly expecting a lot more from this album, not sure why. I mean it's nothing too special. But I always manage to enjoy the country harmonies and the bright guitars, so it isn't BAD. Emmylou's interpretation of the Beatles song "For No One" is great.

Highlight Song/s: Bluebird Wine and Queen of the Silver Dollar

Hadn't had a jazz album in quite some time until this one popped up. It sounds very optimistic (especially Birdland) and bright and luscious. Like a lot jazz music, it makes me feel like I'm in a mafia-filled bar with the sound of glasses clanking together.

Highlight Song/s: Birdland

Love an album that screams what decade it is from, that is in this case from the 2000s, which similar sounding music to this album called garage rock/post punk revival is from. When people decided to give a back-to-basics approach another chance. It's pretty alright, but It gives me an urge to just listen to Is This It? instead. A re-listen to this one probably maybe will help.

Highlight Song/s: Mr. Brightside and All These Things That I've Done

Every now and then I gotta indulge in some the most FILTHIEST classic rock and this manages to fill that urge. It's nothing crazy, but all I have to say is that junk food is good sometimes.

Highlight Song/s: More Than a Feeling and Rock & Roll Band

Still not impressed... This is a band I was keen to listen through their albums a little while ago, I got up to Steady Diet Of Nothing and just couldn't push on. Which is a bit odd as I really liked 13 Songs, but it seems they're other albums just don't do it for me. Maybe it's Guy's vocals that I don't like, or maybe it's something else. Oh well.

Highlight Song/s: Merchandise

Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys is a landmark album in the history of music. I once heard somewhere, I can't recall WHERE but someone said somewhere that the Beach Boys managed to create the sound of sunlight via intricate instrumentation (provided by the Wrecking Crew,) and that just hits it on the top of the head. Like I just said before, its instrumentation helps give the album its own character, triumphant, big, bright, which is quite juxtaposed by melancholy lyrics, but it manages to work. A few of the pieces of music on this album sound like straight movie incidental music, which is quite quirky for a rock album. It's tragic Brian Wilson lost his mind in the process of trying to out-do this album, which would've been a nigh-impossible task.

Highlight Song/s: Wouldn't It Be Nice, I'm Waiting For The Day and I Know There's An Answer

This a pass from me. It just gives off inspiring you-can-do-it crap vibes. The album sounds very BIG which adds to the you-can-do-it feel. And also this album feels like I have heard it before. Probably because they sound a combination of bands that I like or have heard in the past.

This album has such a charm to it, the vocals are so sweet and the tone of the few instruments this album has makes it so texturally-rich. I find a lot of the songs are quite sing-along-y, but that's honestly fine with me. The harmonies are great. I definitely see myself returning to this album.

Highlight Song/s: When I Get To The Border and I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

This album showcases more the punk side of the grunge pendulum rather than the metal side. It has great energy and emotion - especially on the guitar solo in "Broken Hands" - and the guitars are all fuzzed out. One more thing to note is that this album cover really frazzles my brain, I'm straight tripping when I happen to take a gander at it.

Highlight Song/s: Something So Clear and Broken Hands

Another album of many albums that I never got around to listening. But some of them the generator has helped with getting me to listen to it. This one right here is debut album of the iconic rock band R.E.M., Murmur being a seminal album in alternative music.

A fair chunk of the songs are straight boppers and are quite anthemic and upbeat, whilst the mesmerising album cover - that I've definitely spent too much time looking at - gives off opposite vibes. The singing tends to be quite slurred together, making it a challenge to figure out the charming-sounding nonsense lyrics. The guitar parts are jangling out the wazoo. The bass is fairly melodic and doesn't fully stay in the expected range of a bass guitar.

Highlight Song/s: Radio Free Europe and Laughing

This is an album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer that mixes original material with a classical composition called Pictures At An Exhibition. Which is quite cool. Another thing that is cool is they did all these songs in one swoop; no breaks.

When I get sick, for some reason I just lose interest in listen to music, which is the complete opposite when I'm not sick. So when I fell ill was around the time I heard their previous album (Tarkus,) and maybe thought because I was sick that I didn't like it because of that. But I figured it out, I just don't think I can do with the overzealous amounts of artiness, and I understand even more why punk music sought to get rid of it.

Highlight Song/s: The Gnome

This album is hauntingly beautiful. I imagine all these ballads being played at a camp-fire near a considerably dense forest as dusk happens to set in, except the songs being play at the camp-fire isn't whatsoever cheesy. Sorrow is featured heavily on the album, but the sorrow never manages to drown out the resilience the singer has.

Highlight Song/s: The Pearl

My third Beatles album, with the third not coming long after the second, only 4 albums ago instead of it taking another 190 albums like it did with the first to the second. With Rubber Soul the four guys decide to turn the song-writing up a couple notches, alongside new guitar tones and new production techniques and just getting BETTER at being musicians. This is also when I think the experimenting started up, and the experimenting which would continue until the break-up.

I have other thoughts that don't mesh with the paragraph above, so I will leave it here:
-The chord progression in "Drive My Car" is lovely.
-The song that stands out the most to me and is "Norwegian Wood" which never fails to make my head drift side to side, I just adore that so much, everything about it is so sweet.
-The interlude in "In My Life" is really nice.
-"Run For Your Life" has Lennon make a song, that sounds like something off of Please Please Me or With The Beatles.