Reviews by goldmund

great, that i finally spend some time with metallica, but not really my thing. first songs are super energetic, but the sound gets quickly old for me.

a lot of fun. very enjoyable!

cool, but quickly tiring

cool!

Very rough to rate. Not really enjoyable to listen to, but obviously very artistically impressive.

Good, but didn’t do much for me.

A couple of bangers, but too long and of course misogynistic, in my opinion.

Would like to like it more.

I fucking love Leonard Cohen.

very enjoyable pop music

what a beautiful trip

Super smooth & enjoyable, but peaks with the opener and gets repetitive really quickly. Good for the background, boring for intensive listening.

I feel bad for giving it only three stars right now, but it didn’t catch me as much as contemporaries like 2001. On the other hand I really appreciated the lack of skits and relative shortness.

still very good
(vinyl)

It’s all one song, but that song is really good.

It pains me a little to give this beautiful album just four stars, but while I thoroughly enjoyed re-listening to it and John Prine is clearly one of the greatest songwriters, I feel like the album itself is more of a collection of very good to great songs, and not really an album, with a specific arc or a “story” told through the songs.
Maybe that’s an unreasonable request, but was unfortunately somewhat limiting to my enjoyment of the listening experience.
Alas, I still love you John. You are one of the greatest.

There are these moments, that are pretty energetic and make me want to move, but also some, that are baffling in their annoyance.
Doesn’t work in most situations, but walking home last night in the rain, it was definitely a mood.

Good sound and energy. The mix of drum&bass with the indian harmonies and instrumentation is really cool and makes me want to move. In the end, it’s still not my preferred kind of tune.

To be fair, it’s more about my appreciation of the endeavor, than my actual enjoyment of the record. Normally I would give it a 3, as it is so very clearly an 80s record, and with that just a little annoying, but I’m fascinated by Paul Simon, his ideas for this album, and the lasting impact it had on much of the pop music, that came after. The musicians are also simply amazing.

Loved Miss Me Blind and the general vibes. Somewhat tiring music at some point though.