Reviews by jawlessfish

got 100% absolutely jumpscared by the piano riff in 'rikki don't lose that number'. genuinely thought I had put 'song for my father' on queue somehow. ON THAT NOTE 'rikki don't lose that number' is a BOP AND A HALF. steely dan is??? really good????????? I love it when popular things are good!

Barrytown is also excellent. Very catchy. And East St. Louis Toodle-Oo is also great I love a good piano saxophone moment. I think...guys I think I really like Steely Dan.

Yeah, no, I mean--I like Coldplay. They're nice. When I hear a Coldplay song on the radio I'm like "Yep! That's Coldplay!" Idk, though, they don't scratch any particular itch for me. They're just kind of there.

I enjoyed Politik a lot--esp. the opening despite some egregious slant rhymes. And OBVIOUSLY Clocks is great though I do prefer the cumbia version. Though most things are better as a cumbia. Green eyes was nice (gonna make a playlist of song where we focus on eye color. Right now I've got Green eyes and brown-eyed girl. Maybe ocean eyes can go on there too?)

A Whisper was probably my favorite song on the album.

THELONIOUS MONK MY BEST FRIEND THELONIOUS MONK I have 'genius of modern music' on record and I literally listen to it all the time. guy does things to a piano........ my favorite song on here is the titular Brilliant Corners but I also love specifically the back half of Bemsha Swing, too. Listened to it on a bus and accidentally zoned out during Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are and when I zoned back in we were maybe about halfway through Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are. Love that.

Overall: I love Mr. Monk! Makes me wish I kept jazz piano up. Oh, well. There's always time.............

Late addendum: learned today you can see other people's reviews on here. Which is very silly--this is my personal diary lol. Apparently people who don't like freeform jazz don't like freeform jazz! Who would have thought!

When did we stop making songs eight and a half minutes long?? We lost something as a society with the growing ubiquity of the under-three-minute-song, I'm certain. Give me thirteen minute ruminations or give me death!

There are some bops on this album but I got hella jumpscared by Proud Mary. Probably my favorite song on the album--that or Graveyard Blues. Some banging bass and guitar riffs.

Overall: I liked this album! Might put it on for study music. You can definitely tell it inspired a lot of later music.