Reviews by jollyra475

Considering how much I didn't care for the other Marvin Gaye album we got, I was shocked by how much I liked this one. Great songs and messages and extreemly well made. It's pretty good.

Didn't connect with this one. Voice isn't for me. She needs Cale/Reed to help her out.

This one is a little more out there and a little more avante garde than Country Life. But I don't like or dislike it any more because of it. It's fine.

Yeah, we all get it. You're super edgy. You're the industrial equivalent to the drive time DJs saying things just to shock people. And your shock value is about as nuanced as the book report from your typical high school listener.

That all said, I just don't hate it.

Do I really like this as a 5 star album? I guess I do. Sure, it's dated, it's 65+ years old at this point. But without music like this, we wouldn't have any of the music that we get today, either. So it's pretty great.

It's just boring. No message that I care about. Fades into the background as if it's not even there. The singles I can get how they got popular but the rest just exists and no better than that.

U2 starts out as a meh band for me. On top of that, this is a very meh album. Some popular songs that you can't escape but nothing here that is worthy of going back to.

Band sounds like a Talking Heads cover band but not done as well. It's fine, but nothing that I'm looking forward to listening to again.

It's pretty good. I still could do with a little less Flavor Flav, but Chuck D makes up for it.

I loved this album. 40+ minutes of hard, fast, rock. Lemmy's vocals are unique but work. Amazingly full sound produced by just three guys.

I listeneted to this one twice because I wasn't sure what to do about it. I think I landed on "it's fine." I like some of the songs, some of the lo-fi stuff works. Sometimes the singers vocals work well, sometimes I really dislike them. I will probably listen to this again, but not anytime soon.

Based on my rating scale of 1 == “I wanted to turn this off multiple times” I have no choice but to rate this a 1. I must have double checked the playlist every single song hoping I was closer to the end of the album. Drums and guitar were good at times and I didn’t even mind a few of the weird songs in the middle that had no lyrics, but every time the singer “sang” I wanted to skip to the next track.

Like most Morrissey, if I'm in the right mood, it's a good album. I enjoyed it and will listen to it again.

When the two best songs are the opener and closer and they're the best, not because they're good, but because the singer doesn't sing on them, you have a bad album. It's very very bad. The singer is what you think of when you think of a parody of bad 80s singers, like I kept waiting for them to be in on the joke.

Ehh, not for me. Some of it was sort of interesting, but it's all too similar to itself. And it's just too weird.

It's weird. I prefered Snoop on Dr's Chronic album over his own album. A couple of songs that i liked a lot, but overall it was more of the same. Really good production, no surprise there, but just not for me.

I think the first 4 songs are pretty much perfect, they sound like what I think of when I think Heavy Metal. Depending on version (I listened to the Uk version with the 10 min cover of Warning) the second half I think shows some cracks in the “perfectness”. It gets a little too bluesy (and I like blues) but Sabbath isn’t the best at that sound.

This is a 4.5 album but I’ll bump it to 5 because of the significance of the start of a sound.

It's werid and disjointed, and I cannot figure out why I had to hear this one. Apple isn't my favorite to start with and this might be my least favorite of her albums I've listened to. At least she can sing, so she has that going for her, I just didn't understand the percussion, the strong structure, the recording quality, etc. The only plus it got is that, while I never enjoyed it, I never got to the point where I really thought about turning it off, either.

This is the usual type of music I say I don't like, but there's something about Lynn that's so complelling that you can't help but notice. I prefer Coal Miner's Daughter to this one, but this one was perfectly fine to listen to. Although I have to say that the quality of the recording itself took me out of the music a little bit, it's pretty bad.

The album is too long. It's the biggest knock I have on it, it's too long for how unvarried the vocals are on it. Many of the songs, while the messages can be different, just "sound" the same. It's fine for a little while but, IMO, overstays it's welcome. I really like some of the funky bits. It's a perfectly fine album to have on, but not one I'm going to seek out to listen to again any time soon.