Rated 6/10
This album was fine. Would make for good background music. Neil Young’s voice gets grating after a whole album though. I’m good for a Neil young song here and there but a whole albums worth was too much.
Rated 8/10
Solid album. Creedence is great. Not everything was amazing, but some absolute classics on here. Ooby Dooby was a fun one I hadn’t heard before.
Rated 10/10
Even without historical context this album is incredible. Add in the context and Nas completely changed the game with his debut. Still one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time.
Rated 4/10
In a fake patois Missy Elliott says I got the rhymes to make you jump, jump, jump. And when she does rap this is true. Missy has bars. Unfortunately the majority of this album is r&b slow jams. Based on my limited knowledge of missy elliott and the album cover I was expecting a hip hop album. I was disappointed. The beats are dope though.
Rated 8/10
This was great! I wish the bass was higher in the mix because the bass playing on this album is stellar.
Rated 4/10
Not for me. For a rock album it was too overproduced. Everything was so clean sounding. Talented musicians but it felt vapid even when the lyrics were biting social commentary.
Rated 6/10
It was good, a lot of the songs sounded the same.
Rated 8/10
All killer no filler!
Rated 4/10
If this album had been an EP and just had the songs from Blockheads onward it would be pretty good. As it is, the first 2/3 of this album are hard to listen to. The musicians aren’t bad but the music is cheesy. And I did not care for Ian’s songwriting and his voice, while solid for the faster songs at the end, did not work with his slower pop songs and ballads.
Rated 6/10
The first half of this album was a bit much. I admittedly almost gave up, it was exhausting. I’m glad I hung on because the second half is where the album really shines. The way It Doesn’t Matter, Don’t Stop the Rock, and Get Up On It Like This all flow together to make one long suite was a treat. Then from K-Hole on it really gets into a cool psychedelic groove.
Rated 6/10
A chiller for sure
Rated 4/10
Well I’m glad they kept practicing.
Rated 6/10
I tried going into this one without bias. I’ve never been a fan of U2, i find Bono annoying. But I wanted to give this album a fair shake. It wasn’t bad, although I don’t like Bono’s voice on most songs. I get why the hits were hits and why I’ve never heard the rest of these songs. Nothing on here is bad, just most of the album aside from a handful of songs was ok at best.
Rated 10/10
I remember when this came out, it received a lot of accolades so I checked it out. I did not care for it at the time. this is a testament to giving things another go. I thought this album was just not for me, turns out I just wasn’t ready for it back then. This album was fantastic! I will definitely be returning to it.
Rated 6/10
I wasn’t expecting to like this. I thought why not just have a country album by a country band? Why do I need to hear the byrds attempt at country? But they did a solid job. Not every song was great, but they really made a solid country album.
Rated 4/10
This felt like Odelay 2 in a bad way.
Instrumentals were great, the songs were good. I’m preferential to later James Brown, this was cool but mostly ballads.
Rated 4/10
Why?
Rated 10/10
I’m sure there’s a lot more to this album that makes it great that I just don’t understand. I don’t know a lot of music theory, if I did I would maybe appreciate this album even more. I do hope one day to know more and be able to really dig into this album and other jazz greats. For now though, all I know is I love how it sounds and that’s enough for now.
Rated 6/10
It was fine. +1 star for horns
