Reviews by moysauce08

It's a good album, but way too long. I've learned that the ~40 minute range is a good album length.

The album ended, and I didn't even realize. Which probably means that it was so backgrounded in my head. I didn't hate it, but clearly my brain also didn't like it.

Holy smokes what a snooze fest. I couldn’t wait for the album to be over

This album is incredible and so unique. The story behind the album, amazing. The instrumentation, brilliant. And blues in 2015? Heck yeah! They definitely captured the spirit from those before like Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan...

It's a foot tapper for sure, and just for kicks, they wrote "Al Hassidi Terei" in 11/16? You don't hear that everyday, and it was awesome! I gotta checkout their other stuff sometime.

A snooze fest ... but not necessarily a bad one? This album flew by, but part of it was because it was easy to ignore. There are sections of this album that are good that grab my attention, but I find there are sections where I'm totally tuned out (the ins and outs of ambient music I guess).

I get ambient music, some people are into it, some aren't. I kinda fall in between where it's based on a mood, but also I really feel like there are ways to execute (at least in my opinion) good ambient music.

Take for example one of the epitome's of post-rock, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. There are experimental sounds within their music that make the ambient sounds interesting and thoughtful and like "Wow, I've never heard this before." I feel like, I didn't get that vibe from this album. I could be wrong and I could have missed some parts, but that's my first impression.

Get me off this k.d. lang train please.

You know what, there are some songs on here that aren't too bad. I didn't mind Waltz Me Once Again Around the Dance Floor. It was a fun foot tapper. Not to mention, I can't ignore her voice being incredible and powerful.

But seriously, please no more k.d. lang.

I was pleasantly surprised by this album. I thought Alice Cooper would have been one of those old guys I didn't like. There seems to be a theme here where I think an old band is overrated but then when I take the time to actually listen to the entire album, it's actually good!

I enjoyed my time with it.

Honestly, I thought I'd hate it more given my past with country music. But I actually didn't mind my time with it. Maybe because it's only a 27 minute album and I didn't feel like it dragged on. But each song was unique in its own right and still flowed well together. It's a well put together album.

Honestly I'm impressed that some of their greatest hits all come from the same album. Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine. This was a really solid album. I'm actually surprised I liked it as much as I did just because I typically am not a fan of the older hard rock groups. But I guess they're iconic for a good reason.

This is the UK food equivalent for music, bland

The Door continue to surprise me with how much I seem to enjoy their music. I just really enjoy the fact that the guitar is usually doing something pretty cool and the bass player is solid as well. The instrumentation in general is a highlight, and it stands out in this album too.

There are just some songs on here that are kinda boring (i.e. Blue Sunday, The Spy).

Overall, decent album.

I don't mean to be a quality snob, but hearing the levels peak at times just irritated me. 'Tis the curse of mono audio...

The album itself actually wasn’t bad. I feel like this would totally be my jam back in the day. Simple, pleasant, and having 3 vocalists made each track pretty unique. The bass player was great too and it was definitely.... groovin'....

I didn't think it was too bad. Listened all the way through with no complaints really. The only song I knew was "Dreamer" because of some commercial that it's on. Although I've heard of Supertramp, I've never been exposed to their music.

I dislike Arcade Fire, both for their music and their attitude towards others. From my memory, they act entitled when on tour and treat others very poorly. Again though, this is from memory and I'm pretty sure it was Arcade Fire that everyone was complaining about.

Regardless of that fact, I don't really like their music. I don't hate it, I just don't find it enjoyable either.

My initial reaction was "Wow, this is the Bee Gees? The same Bee Gees that wrote Staying Alive?" I'm honestly impressed at the diversity of this group, but let's talk about this album as a standalone.

There's clearly a favourite song from this album that has 76 million players whereas the second most played song only has ~600,000 plays. I find that kinda strange because I feel like most of the songs have a similar vibe.

Overall, sad vibes. Didn’t really stand out to me in any way and I’m surprised this is included in the list.

This is peak "Dad Rock", and I love it. It's also peak "Prog Rock", which I also love. 2112 is an incredible song. Let's all remember too that classical music is all long as well with different movements, that's no different than this song! All you complaining about long songs should get better attention spans.

There's so much to unpack in just this one song alone, which is obviously the highlight of this record. I can understand if you don't like Geddy Lee's voice, it took me a while too but I've gotten past it now because the music is just so well written (minus the guitar tuning part, why is that here? hahaha).

I had no idea what to expect from this. Never heard of this group before and the first song didn't really set me on the right track for the rest of the album. But I was pleasantly surprised as I progressed through, and found that there's some solid songs in here.

NOTE: please wear headphones with this album

There are so many subtleties in this album that can easily be missed. By all means, this album could have been a folk/singer/songwriter type of album, and in some ways it kind of is. But the instrumentation and SFX in some songs make it really unique and interesting. Often times, there are multiple guitars going on in each ear that are incredibly pleasing to listen to. Like I said, most of these songs could have probably been guitar chords and Beck singing, but there are added strings, added lead guitar riffs, added little elements here and there that make it more interested than most, and I can appreciate the effort put into these songs from Beck.

I find it's incredibly difficult to judge albums that came out in the 60s, 70s, 80s... The technology was different, the era of music was different, what was probably "progressively moving music forward" and challenging the status quo for music at the time just doesn't hit the same when it's been 40 years since the album came out.
When I judge this now, I have all this forward knowledge of how music has progressed in 40 years! Mainly this line from the wikipedia page The album was widely acclaimed by critics. Praise centred on its cohesive merging of disparate genres and sonic experimentation to me, it's hard to judge that since music nowadays is all about blending different genres into your own unique style.
To me, while I understand this take, I don't agree with it. I love it when genres blend, but when every song sounds completely different than the other, it sounds like a mish-mash and each change of song is so jarring. I feel like there's a better way to do this nowadays (again, comes back to 40 years of music that's been doing this now).
I'm nit-picking obviously, there's plenty of gems on this album too. I'm just trying to justify my rating to myself.

Honestly I didn't hate this album as much as I thought i would. When at a bar after a few drinks would definitely give this a better rating.