Rated 8/10
Really feels like a first album, put together before they'd properly found their feet. However, I must commend it for trying different things, using great dynamics, and making best use of the sonic materials they had to hand.
Rated 8/10
They had their formula, and it worked. Fair play. 15-year old me would've given this 5 stars, but they lose marks for the lack of musical bravery.
Did it change the world? Yes.
Is there better rock music out there? Also yes.
Rated 4/10
I fucking love funk and soul, but I just have no idea why Sly & The Family Stone are so popular. Maybe you had to be there. Poor mastering, even for 1960's 8-track novice recording, boring music, rescued only slightly by the progressive lyrics - the absence of which would've surely seen this album disappear into obscurity.
Rated 6/10
Yeah it's alright, I see why people like it. Not my bag, though.
Rated 6/10
Sounded exactly as I expected it to sound. Not bad, but reggae complaining weed laws is just boring.
Rated 4/10
Kinda shit
Rated 10/10
OooooooOOOoooOoOoooooooooo x 400
Rated 8/10
Not my cup of tea, but this album is mastered incredibly. The use of negative space is excellent.
Rated 10/10
Cigar Smoking Simulator
Rated 6/10
Strange Cargo III? No, strange cargo vroom vroom you idiot.
Rated 6/10
Honestly just doesn't tickle me. Fair play to the lads, but I'd rather not have to sit through this again.
Rated 10/10
Do I love this because I'm a guitarist, or am I a guitarist because I love this? Modern era Mozart.
Rated 6/10
Wasn't really sure where this was going. Nice, tho.
Rated 10/10
I want to hate prog, but I just can't.
Rated 10/10
5 stars just for Eddie Hazel's solo on Maggot Brain
Rated 6/10
Nice but wanky
Rated 8/10
Kinda like Kate Bush but not as good. Not terrible though.
Rated 2/10
Get fucked, Kanye
Rated 4/10
I saw a review here about how Brits are tone deaf for stealing music from colonies. It's good to remember that we did that with 2-tone music, whose bands were formed of a mix of Brits and Jamaicans, vocally anti-racist, and used their success to promote support for the Jamaican communities of Britain.
This isn't one of those cases, and is just shit.
Rated 6/10
Kick Out the Jams was a staple of old skate rock CDs, and I tried listening to their other music even back when I thought it was cool, but just couldn't get into it. I think you had to be there.
