Reviews by bob

The Good: Who doesn’t like an Arcade?
The Bad: Except when it’s on fire…
The Ugly: Who goes to a funeral for fun?

Why is it so difficult for these modern bands to just understand that rock and roll is about having fun?
Stop trying to reinvent the wheel, chug 3 chords, and just be a band, instead of a close knit group of friends who are all showing off that they are multi-instrumentalist and therefor will include sounds just to be different.

I am a big fan of Indie music, but not this contrived crap…

1*

The Good: The Boss
The Bad: Having to look at his ass on the cover…
The Ugly: The tucked red baseball cap in the right pocket, which we all know is code for…

To think that I never listened to the album when it came out… at least, I can’t recall sitting down and listening to it. I did have a friend in high school who was totally into the Boss and tried to get me to start listening to him, instead, I spend my hard saved cents on Van Halen’s ¨1984¨as well as the glorious ¨Purple Rain¨…

Thus, decades later, I sit here and wonder why my supposed intelligence did not tell me ¨go ahead, take a listen to the Boss, as there has to be a reason they call him such…¨

In the best of faith I am not allowed to give this album 5*, though it sure gets close to that ranking. Instead, I will give this a more than solid 4 1/2* as hours later I am still whistling ¨my home town¨ and analyzing the piano portion of ¨born in the USA¨

Awesome album, and greatful to have finally ¨forced myself¨ to listen to it!!!

4 8/10*

The Good: Golden Hour is the best time to take pretty pictures!
The Bad: The cover shot on the album was NOT taken during Golden Hour.
The Ugly: even if they would have shot the picture during Golden Hour, it would not have made the experience prettier…

If this is supposed to be country, what do cowboys listen to now-a-days?

If mrs Mulgrave would have done her versions of ‘80s classic songs, which is what this album begs for, maybe I would have had a better time… Imagine her version of “The Reflex” or “Wildboys”, and I don’t know why I am using Duran Duran tunes as example…

Sure, the album has production quality, however, seeing as this is the modern Nashville sound, it better. And yet, all this album does is make me want to skip track after track.

1* as I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS PART OF THE LIST

The Good: There are lions in the jungle…
The Bad: The lion hasn’t been able to eat anything for a while, and it’s getting hungry…
The Ugly: I guess the mess the lion will leave behind once he’s able to kill something…

Yes, as you can tell, there isn’t much positive I can say about this album. I have had to sit through 4 hip-hop albums this week, and thought this one isn’t the worst of them all, my level of irritation is.

So please, if you happen to belong to the fan club of Jungle Brothers, don’t cry about my low score… cry about the poor family of whomever it was that the lion ate!

1*

The Good: S to the N to OOP and the D O G
The Bad: It’s rap music...
The Ugly: G-Funk rap music…

Oddly enough, in comparison with The Chronic, which I hated, Snoop does have something enjoyable to listen to. Guess there is a little less bravado in his rhyming, and more of a “I’ll shank ya if ya don’t like it!” kind of thing.

Going to go against my gut, and dish out a 3*...

The Good: Who doesn’t like it when it is evident which color to apply?
The Bad: However, what if I don’t agree with the indicated color?
The Ugly: That the British keep pestering us with the word Colour…

Loved it!

Brought me back to my youth, and also made me realize that, though a massive Pop band, they knew how to play their instruments, and Boy George has some more than impressive pipes on him.

It would be 5, but it isn’t perfect...

The Good: Minimalist album cover!
The Bad: Minimalist music…
The Ugly: the mislabeling of this album being “Krautrock” which this isn’t at all.

Never heard of this group before, and have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. Sound-wise, one could argue that they are ahead of their time, like contemporary artists such as Kraftwerk et al

Will dish out 3* as I don’t believe this album will become part of frequent listens, however, worth a spin once a year...

The Good: a bunch of songs in the same key!
The Bad: only a double album.
The Ugly: it isn’t his best album…

I had a massive smile on my face when this album popped up, and I’ve listened to it 3 times since, as this album is a the soundtrack of 3 formative years of my life.

Favorite song has always been Ebony Eyes, and yet on playlists, most people will opt for As, Isn’t She Lovely, Sir Duke, I Wish, Black Man, or any of the other MASSIVE songs on this album… and then most people react to the fact that “hey, Coolio actually covered one of his songs”… makes me sad as it means all those persons had never heard about this album prior.

This is a must hear album that should be mandatory listening in school!

10000000000*

The Good: jazzy hip-hop
The Bad: doesn’t age well
The Ugly: annoying drum-machine

I really wanted to like this, but the damn drum machine is getting on my nerves so badly, that I fear there’s a 1* rating heading towards the Tribe

This has NOT aged well at all.
Give me Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) and I will give it a 4*, but this…

1*

The Good: Muddy Waters
The Bad: third time Mannish Boy was recorded by him
The Ugly: there wasn’t a fifth time!

I believe that I was put in a trance while listening to this album… so I decided to play it a second time, and again I believe I was put in a trance, so I decided to play it a third time, and…

Reading what the actual meaning of the song Mannish Boy really is, made me appreciate the song even more, and to think it is in 1 key… brilliant.

4* because that’s how I roll

The Good: RnR
The Bad: one too many WOAWWWW
The Ugly: listening to this might cause confusion…

I am trying to figure out what punk has to do with this? Most of the songs sounded like a bad impression of what Little Richard would do with a song. Guess that means that Little Richard is the grandfather of punk??!!?!??!??!!

Reserving my stars for other albums…

2* because, though annoying, the album does not make you want to skip songs and at times even gives energy.

The Good: The Band
The Bad: The Band
The Ugly: The Band

Maybe it is due to me playing catch-up on my listening, but I am finding it difficult to listen to this album today.
I also need to take into consideration that this is the 4th album in a row from late ‘60s era, and I am getting a little sick and tired of the late ‘60s era trying to figure out what era it is.

In order not to screw up the ratings too much, I will give this album a 3* due to the fact that I recognize the importance of The Band when it comes to modern music, but I would really want to give this album 2*

The Good: Iggy
The Bad: Iggy in 1969
The Ugly: supposed punk…

I don’t much care for punk music in general, and can not understand why I’ve had to listen to this album seeing as there is much better product to listen to from that era.

So shoot me for giving this album a 1* for the simple reason that I felt like skipping each song after listening to it for more than 15 seconds...

The Good: it seems we are going on a sailing trip…
The Bad: nobody clearly explained to us where the trip is heading…
The Ugly: once we reached our destination we realized we are all screwed…

WOW. I’ve listened to this album many times over the years, but since starting this 1001 journey, at least for with several albums, I’ve started paying attention closer to what the lyrics actually mean, and this album is a gut-wrencher.

I always appreciated Randy’s songs, the ones that I was very familiar with, but today I shed a tear during the ¨Old Man¨ song, what a harsh story he is telling there.
And most of the songs on this album are just that, in your face, harsh stories, but told with such simple charm that you need to really make an effort to find out what’s really going on. And by that time, you can but only applaud the genius of Randy.

5*

The Good: great classic rock!
The Bad: too many jam songs.
The Ugly: no weed no joy...

Of I were interested in listening to a jam band, I'd go and see them live...

3* just because, but I don't believe I will be listening to this album again soon, and I love rock, and blues...

The Good: the Queen of Soul
The Bad: the album I was directed to on Spotify had the first 3 songs of the album repeated at the end of the album
The Ugly: it was only 3 songs, should have been all songs...

Killer album of killer songs sung by a killer voice.
5*

The Good: King of the Blues live!
The Bad: live albums can be a little too exciting than reality showed it to be.
The Ugly: this album will make you blue...

I love me some BB, and thankfully the album isn't too long.
Probably the best live version of How Blue Can You Get?

3* because of the above

The Good: AC/DC
The Bad: finding neighbor's who don't mind me blasting this album at full volume!
The Ugly: The look on my neighbor’s face when the police scolded him for complaining about AC/DC!!!

5*

The Good: They aren't pretending anything!
The Bad: They have bad taste in clothes…
The Ugly: only 47 minutes and 2 seconds long…

What an absolute joy to listen to.
I believe that I was familiar with 2 Pretenders songs, gratefully now I am familiar with more!

Off to give them there well deserved 4*… oh so close to 5*

The Good: my first ´ol blue eyes album on this list.
The Bad: it isn´t what I would call a good one.
The Ugly: it made me feel ´ol myself…

Seriously, I was all excited that my Sunday was being blessed by an album of one of the greatest singers in modern music… and after a couple of songs, as well as several images of a Scorcese movie flashing through my mind, I was done thinking about how to clip the next wiseguy…

Tedious after a while. Yet, if you add any of these songs to a random playlist you would be more than happy to be listening to it… now that´s what I call irony.

3* which should be 4 1/2