Reviews by cunningtarantula

Not listening out of principal

I'm just not gonna listen to this, I know it's bad

I listened to this years ago and it really didn't click for me then. But, I listened to it in full today and I was really impressed. There are so many styles that she has done so very well. This album is dense, there's a lot to unpack here. Will definitely listen again.

I do not like the song It's a Shame about Ray. It's lazy sounding in the worst way possible. And those little harmonizing vocals in the last chorus are not great to my ears. The song Rudderless, there's a discordant thing happening in the verses and I don't think it's working. I literally can't listen to this song. I kinda hate it. Ok, I'm maxed on this. I can't force myself through this. It's really not for me. I knew the cover Mrs. Robinson and that's pretty great but that's about the only thing working for me. Maybe the first two songs weren't bad either. 2 stars and that's a generous 2 stars.

Great live album, full of life and character. He sings like he feels it. The audience is loving it. You almost feel like you're in the room. Would relisten.

This was a weird album. I enjoyed parts of it, some of it was a little meh. But the weird was great

2.5 stars rounded down. This feels forgettable.

I love it sonically and he can sing but this grows very tiring very quickly

This wasn't bad but I think it was suffering from recency bias. I can tell it's before the advent of truly modern electronic unless it's doing something innovative that my untrained electronic ears just don't detect. I really am not enjoying the song, I Stole Your Car. It definitely invokes the early 90s on the song The Rough and the Quick, like something from dance mix 92 or 93. I feel comfortable giving this 2 stars.

Banger, no notes

The opening track, "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" is basically where sweet leaf by sabbath ripped from. Kinda wild. It's crazy that this is 1966, ahead of it's time in some ways but really dated in other ways.

British folk rock is usually really not my thing. But god damn did the beauty of his voice and the quality of the recording unexpectedly pulled me in on the first track, Time Has Told Me. There's a quality to the vocal recording that is at once new and old, familiar and unfamiliar. The third track, Three Hours, sounds like something that would have influenced Bruce Springsteen on Nebraska. I also really enjoyed track 6, 'Cello Song. That drum beat was dope. That piano on track 8, Man in a Shed, is so fun. It's so strange to hear both ease and urgency in a song. It works really well. That last track, Sunday Sun, is good. Really evokes the feeling of what Sundays used to feel like, lazy, laid back.

This just isn't my jam. It's like a poor man's Nick Cave

This evokes 80s college radio rock, Husker Du, glimmers of the Meat Puppets, and a touch of Swans. I can see how much it influenced Nirvana, not likely the other way around. I loved the sonic sound of this although there weren't a lot of hooks. All around though, I enjoyed this one.

Some catchy jams. Musically In the Ghetto is good but god damned those lyrics are bad.

So much of this I know through cultural osmosis. Loved it, only minor complaint is that looking back on it 50 years later, the sound is kinda thin. Like it's missing the bass end of things. That being said, Destroyer Resurrected gets it super right.

This is just not for me. Not bad, I'm sure it's good and important. Actually recorded pretty well. High energy for a live show.

I listened to the whole thing and nothing stood out for me. Not one thing. I'll definitely relisten to it more closely but.... I'm not so sure there's much to it.

I didn't bother relistening to it. I just can't be bothered. This isn't bad but I didn't find there to be anything interesting.

I know only a few Santana songs and as far as I'm aware, I'm not at all familiar with this. I don't normally go for guitar rock, which I believe this album to be the case.

So as a surprise to myself, I actually do know tracks 2 and 3, Black Magic Woman and Oye Como Va. I like the song Hope You're Feeling Better, it's got kind of funky rock beat.

This album is really well recorded. It's pretty clean sounding, which isn't usually what I look for but it's good. Santana is obviously a very good guitar player.

So overall, I get why people like this but in the end, it's just not something I'm likely to return to based on personal musical preferences alone.

This is fun background music. The fourth track, green onions, I unknowingly know quite well from popular culture so it's fun to now know and have this reference. The cover of Twist and Shout is also a lot of fun. Really overall quite enjoyed this, fun background music, nothing too abrasive or offensive.