Reviews by mikltabey

I didn’t know what this was. After reading the description and some reviews, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but was excited to listen.

I dug it. I don’t know when or if I’ll ever relisten, but I liked listening today.

One of my all time favorite albums from one of my all time favorite artists. An eaaaaaasy 5.

I don’t own this vinyl, and it pains me. I look for it every time I go record shopping.

Whelp. H2Ogate Blues hit pretty hard. Isn’t it disheartening that it’s 50 years later and we’re in the exact. same. thing?

I listened to this at some point last year. I like it then, but liked it more now.

PJ is a 4 artist for me I like her music. This album is very good. Is she over represented on this list? Maybe, but this album isn’t one I’d cut.

Speed metal is not my thing. This was pretty good though. I won’t revisit, but I can’t deny that those chaps know what they’re doing.

I had never really given Roxy Music a shot. Maybe I should listen to more, because this was really great.

This sent me down a rabbit hole about Bryan Ferry and he doesn’t seem like the best guy. I loved the music, though. It’s hard to keep track of all this.

I won’t argue against this being some pretty basic blues rock, but sometimes I get an appetite for some good electric guitar solos, and this has some good electric guitar solos. However, there were a LOT of them, and for every instance of really good playing, there seemed to be a 1:1 of lackluster noodling. This can become tiresome when they jam for 20 minutes.

I’m not mad at all that I listened. This must have been a very fun series of concerts to go to. All in all, I think it evens out to a solid 3.

Jesus. We done with this asshat yet?

Annnnnnnywaaaaay……I liked it alright. Here’s your 2.

If you listed all 600 albums we had left and ask me to rank by my excitement to listen to them, this probably would’ve been in the bottom 50. Listening to all 90 minutes of this was a big ask. Usually these huge albums take me all morning to listen to, but an unrelated change in the household morning routine allowed me to get half of it listened to before I got to work.

I am not sure what to make of some of the messages in this. Genuinely. Musically, it was pretty good overall. A 2 feels like a safe rating. I liked it, I thought it was really long. I don’t think shortening it would’ve given it a higher rating.

Also, Lynyrd Skynrd might be one of my least favorite bands? And they didn’t change my mind.

I had never heard of this. It sounded like “Make an album that teenager Michael would’ve loved,” so I’m sad I missed it when I was a teenager. But I still really liked it, though an hour was a bit much for 44 year old Michael.

Waaaaaait a minute. Is every Beatles record on this list? Because that’d be ridiculous.

Pretty fun stuff. It had me bopping my head and tapping my foot while I had my earbuds in at work.

I liked this and would buy the vinyl if I saw it in a record store. It didn’t light my world on fire, but has a cool vibe. I had never heard it before.

A little long and boring for me, but ok overall.

The Sly Stone doc comes out, I watch it, I listen to Sly and the Family Stone all weekend, I even think to myself while preparing dinner yesterday “Wouldn’t it be funny if we got a Sly album tomorrow?” And we did.

I do wonder if they pushed a Sly album to everyone that hadn’t listened to them all yet just because of the doc.

Some really good stuff on here. This is a group I always look for when I’m record shopping.

Dang. Banger after banger. The songs I hadn’t heard before were bangers. The hits were obviously bangers. A great album.

Watered down The Clash.

Hey, I’m surprised too. This was great. The energy, the messages, everything. So good.

Like Bob Marley, I had a BJ greatest hits CD in high school.

I’d say I was a BJ fan when I first started developing my musical tastes, but that dropped off as I got older. I don’t begrudge the many, many people who get enjoyment from his music, though. He’s brought joy to a lot of people, and that has value. One of those people is Shea. She loves Billy Joel.

This was good. Billy Joel seemed to be able to craft a good pop song of no consequence or real substance. There’s just something about him that makes me think he’s trying so hard to make good music. I’m not sure why that’s a knock against him, but it is.

This gets a four for how good he was at what he did, and how much people like him. BJ is alright in my book.

I’ve never been super into Bob Marley. I, like everyone in the world, owned Legend on CD at one point in my life, but it didn’t get a ton of play.

Recently though, Redemption Song (not on this album, but my favorite of his so far) and Three Little Birds have been in my rotation when I need Alexa to play a song or two while I do dishes or something.

Anyway, I’m not sure I can’t not give this a 5. It’s really good top to bottom, and certainly my vibe. I’m NOT super into Bob Marley now, though.