Reviews by bob

Sade, the woman who marked an entire generation, because not everyone might have admitted they liked her music, everyone kept listening when one of her songs was being played on the radio.

Should be 5 🌟 but to be fair to other artist, I will give her 4 1/2 instead.

But what a joy to listen to this week.

Nothing against our good buddy Lam, but, seeing as I don't know what he's singing about, I am having a hard time getting into the groove!

One thing I don't understand is the complaining people have done regarding the "simple" production, bad synth sounds et al... I say; what-ev's!

3 Stars just to bat par!

If there is such a thing as "cup of tea", this was not mine...

Having listened to the Jean Michelle's of the '80s, I could have been spared the Air of the '90s

Having said all that, it is worth 2 stars as it isn't total crap.

The Youngbloods; maybe they should have chosen a different name for themselves?

In movies, the "youngblood" is always the little upstart who ends up doing great things. This band did not... why?

Of all the albums I've listened to on this list, this is the first one where I was able to play the album back-to-back 3 times in a row, and almost a 4th.
What an absolute gem, for me. Oddly enough, I am not able to whistle or hum a tune of the album by heart, so only for this I am limiting the rating to 4-stars, but it really should be 5!!!

Nostalgia can be a bitch!
How I recall listening to this, when it was my brother's turn to pick the music to listen to in the car...

What a great album! What great memories! What great simplicity!

4 1/2 stars, only because the album isn't perfect.

What's there to rate?

If anything, this sounds like a musical written by a high school student who is not on the honor roll, using some simple open-source software, some duct tape, and maybe a well-trained hamster as a cheerleader.

Best record of the year for 1998? Then again, not much good came out of 1998, if you ask me.

Is the cause due to the limitations of what human beings can do with 7 chords?

2 stars, because I didn't hate it.

So, I found the “edit” button option, and now I am pleased that I can change the ratings of this album which, probably 1 day after rating it, told me “oy, listen to me again” and again and again… and since I’ve started to really like the bastards…
3 1/2* which I will bump to 4*!

The oddest thing about listening to this album is that it makes you reflect on what your period reflection is for specific music-styles.
Thus, The Atomic Mr Basie, for all intent and purpose, belongs to the '30s, not the late '50s.
However, does this mean that your favorite band, when growing up, is never allowed to release more music 2 decades later? This would have killed the Stones, Pink Floyd, and on and on and on.

So, consider me happy with some Big Band music, and the Count brightening up my day! And should this app throw another "old persons" music my way, I will be happy to give it a listen.

I was not a fan of Beck when he burst onto the scene in the '90s.
But there were several bands that I was not a fan of back then...

Listening to it today, I really found myself having a very enjoyable time, and paying more close attention to the influences which shaped Beck's sound: the funk, the rock, the sampling, the groove, the multi-culturist aspect.

Am I a Beck fan today? No. But, I know I will listen to this album with a lot more frequency than I've listened to it before... Odaley, cabron!

Let's find out if I check all the boxes to be a Ramblin' Jack Elliot fan?
Like Country music? No
Like troubadour music? No
Big fan of flatpickers? Not really
How about cowboy hats? Never owned one.... but that doesn't mean I don't like that...

2 stars, to be polite?

Third day in a row that I am listening to the same type of music, from the same era... and how fortunate I am to have spent my teenage years in the '80s

Of all his work, there is only 1 song by Neill Young that I can stomach hearing with frequency, and listening to this album I am scratching my head as to why he was in so many influential bands... To think that many of my heroes from the Grunge era view him as the grandfather of Grunge.

I will go ahead and give this album 2 stars as I reserve the 1 star to absolute works of trash, and this album does have its merit musically, just not my cup of tea.

First time I listened to this album.

Didn't know that "love the one you're with" was penned by the Stills... then again, I don't know much about the Stills.

Enjoyed the album, but I don't believe that I will be listening to it with great frequency.

Pronounced Owe-Sum

Though not 5 stars... but a solid 4.8 stars!!!

Is this a redefinition of what noise should sound like?
I don't know...

I do know that it is tiresome to listen to...

And I gave it a second try, just to see if, somehow, I would all of a sudden see the light, like so many people suggest one will.
Consider me blind still...

1 hour long listening to the following words creatively being used: bitches, ho, dick/nuts, N'&&@$, Longbeach, motherfuk@, and let's not forget the references to themselves and the record label.

All in all an album that will not be listened to again.

It is Jazz... I listened to it... I will give myself 5*

As background music it isn't too bad, but if you have to actually sit-down and listen to it, then you might as well start cleaning the attic while you're at it.

Lou Reed.
Icon for many.
Revered by some as even more.

I still don't get it.
Though some of them there diddies weren't bad…

Future me again… maybe, just maybe, after having listened to one too many shit albums, I find that I was a little too strict with my scoring when I originally started this journey.
This album, the 36th to be presented to me, I found to be worthy of a 2*, yet, I just listened to it again, and I am going to double that score… weird how things can work out...

It is Madonna. It is '90s pop, even if critics say this was the album with which Madonna showed to the world she was a real artist.

One can't deny that the album is well produced, and that there are several songs that are easily added to a top-something list, however, I was no fan of Madonna in the '80s, nor in the '90s, and neither am I today.

Though I am grateful that I had to listen to this album, I don't believe that I will be listening to it too many more times in the future.

While I was listening to it, my daughter asked me if I was listening to Chinese Opera, which I thought was actually not too far off when you think about it.

Did not get a chance to read the lyrics, though I understand that this is part of the magic of this album.
Again, grateful it showed up on the list.... oh, and the first album that was not available to listen to on Spotify for me!

One needs to have loads of confidence to start an album off with a 2-minute lasting, simple chord progression that a 1-year band member could write, while jumping around on a pogo stick, eating a snickers bar.

Then off we go on our Cure journey, with it's ups and downs, yet undeniable sound that, like it or not, if you were awake in the '80s, makes you wish you were back in that era acknowledging how special the band is--or should we say, how special Robert Smith is?

Though I only give this album 4 stars, the song "A Forrest" is a top10 all-time favorite song for me!

Though not all numbers on the album are excellent, there are too many that excel way above par.

Great listen, classic album, top 100 of all time for certain, though only 4 stars for me... but I am weird!