Reviews by moysauce08

Felt like I was in the heart of The South listening to this record. It's funny when you know a band from just a couple of songs throughout their career, but you've never listened to an entire album. This was one of those cases with Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Obviously Free Bird being the most popular song and still a great tune, but I had no idea that Tuesday's Gone was the song featured in Happy Gilmore. This is a great debut album

4/5

First 3 songs are fantastic! And then it falls to the rest of the songs to try and match the "greatness(?)" of these and frankly the rest of the songs are not even close to being as good.

I didn't hate the rest of the songs, but I think to better format this album, they should be scattered throughout and have the good songs in between. It would result in a better paced album.

These other songs have their moments and have a likeable quality to them. I think I'd come back to this album, there wasn't really anything I hated about it. I could listen to it front-to-back again

4/5

This is just not for me.

Elvis Costello really likes to repeat the same words over and over again in his songs, kinda forcing the ear worm.

There's some pretty funky sections in 13 Steps Lead Down. However, falls victim again to saying the same words over and over again.

Elvis' voice really doesn't stray away. He has a typical sound that persists in all of his songs. I like the band more than the singer, and I'd like to hear more from them.

I think I'd like Elvis' music more if I didn't have to listen to an entire album of it.

I think given it's a Christmas album, I'll review it with context that it is always Christmas time when I listen to this. I think it's only fair.

I mean... I guess it's a collection of songs I've heard a billion times. Very traditional sound, very traditional songs, great for Christmas morning with the family, but otherwise I'd pass.

But also, what's with Phil Spector's monologue in Silent Night? So strange.

One of those "set and forget" kind of albums. Meaning you put it on, and you can just let it play on for a while without needing to change any songs. That's probably the one benefit of this album being over 2 hours, otherwise, it's way too long of an album to actively listen to. Great to have on in the background though.

That being said, there were a lot of riffs and sections that were really cool that'd I'd go back to the song just to jam out. Particularly the bass line in Down Through the Night. But then you get to songs like Electronic No 1 and it's literally (not figuratively) just noise.

I think overall, I still enjoyed my time with it and I can safely give it a 3/5

Definitely not my favourite Bowie album, but it's cool reading from the Wikipedia article that this album is when "Bowie starts to become Bowie", so it's interesting to hear that transition album. There are definitely sections and songs on this album that are very good and it's good to hear that he was able to carry that forward to future albums.

3/5

I actually really enjoyed this album. I think younger me would have enjoyed it more. I'm like debating between a 3 and a 4. On one hand, the album as a whole felt really well put together. On the other hand, I don't think there's any real singles I can pull from this record that I would listen to again on their own, but I definitely think I'd listen to the album again.

I found myself vibing a lot throughout the album. Maybe I'll regret it later, but I'll give it 4/5

This album is awful. Not a single song I enjoyed. Extremely repetitive and just honestly terrible. I also find it funny that the most played song from this album wasn't even on the original release of the album and was released in 2000 as a bonus track...

I've never gave The Rolling Stones a full album listen before, and I gotta say, I enjoyed this! I loved the guitar work. I 100% see their appeal and why they're given their acclaim.

Some of the songs were meh, for example, You Gotta Move and honestly the rest of the album after that point. The album started off with great energy and after this point, it dies down. I can understand a song or two and spreading out the high energy songs, but it was just one after the other after the other and really brought down my overall appeal of the album.

Overall though, better than I thought it was going to be

Certified hood classic. One of my favourite albums. Less than To Pimp a Butterfly, but before that, I was obsessed with this album. I love the concept of a kid (a good kid) growing up in Compton (maad city) and being pressured into gang activity but then finding God after one of his friends gets shot from a rival gang. I think the story telling throughout the album is incredible and it paints a vivid picture to the listener. Some of my favourites is The Art of Peer Pressure and Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst.

To me, this is one of, if not the best concept album I've heard. What I love about Kendrick is his ability to be able to pull an entire album together and be able to not just produce "party singles" like most hip-hop artists.

A very powerful album. I really enjoyed the first half and not so much the second half. Fast Car still holds up as an amazing track and also very bold to have a song with just vocals. I really like her style, I just don't know if I would listen to an entire album at once.

Man I love this album. Neil Peart was one of my idols growing up. The Godfather of complex drumming (at least to me). He really opened my eyes to what you can be done on the drums. Honestly, this whole band was so innovative and so many bands that I currently love are heavily influenced by their sound.

Tom Sawyer, YYZ, and Limelight were already in my love list of songs. Honestly I want to give this album a 5 stars, but I don't think it's a perfect album. The last 3 songs are kinda lack luster, especially when the first half of the album are just BANGERS!

4/5

edgy, raw, rebellious are a few words I can think of when I listened to this album. It was cool at times and just noise at other times. Considering this came out in 2004, I feel like there were other punk bands that were just better (at least in my opinion) so it's not like they were "ahead of their time" and I can't give them that benefit.

I did however, like the vocal exchanges between the two singers. I think they play well off each other.

2/5

I actually liked this album more than I thought I would after listening to the first song. Once I heard that country twang, I kind of rolled my eyes a bit thinking "Oh boy, buckle up", but there's some good tunes in here.

Miss Chatelaine and Constant Craving were great! Still Thrives This Love's guitar intro is also cool, but then it fades away. The vibe of the song is cool though. I can see someone performing some interpretive dance to this song and really bringing out the emotion from the song.

The rest of the album... meh. I did notice that a lot of the songs started off weak, but the more it played and as the song unfolded, it became decent.
It's a 2/5, but a strong 2

Although I can appreciate the atmospheric sounds, I don't think I can give this a higher rating than 2. I'm impressed that a movie soundtrack made the list of top 1001 albums of all time, and I do think its earned its place here.

It's not quite a 1 star because it's not like I hated the album, there was just nothing exciting or memorable about it. I'm sure it's a great movie score, just not a great album

2/5

This album was way better than I thought it would be. I think I took George Harrison for granted in his role in The Beatles as his solo work is nicely composed and thought out.

I really enjoyed my time with the first disc. These songs had a lot of life, which is shown not only in Harrison's guitar playing, but also with his voice and composition of the songs. Despite being the lead guitarist, he doesn't take his solo album as an opportunity to shine his ability to play guitar (he does in the second disc, but we won't talk about that just yet). Instead, he takes the opportunity to craft beautifully written songs.

The entire second disc could have been removed from this album. The first disc is a really good compilation of songs and it's kinda tarnished from the second disc. Both from the full length of the album, and the quality of the songs. The last few songs are full length guitar solos.

First disc, 4/5
Second disc, 2/5
Overall, 3/5

This album was such a nice surprise! I absolutely loved it to bits. I've been searching for nice instrumental music that isn't lofi (which I feel like ALL "chill" music is lofi these days). And whenever I search for chill jazz, it's not "quite my tempo" so to say.

It's not too simple where it's boring, it's not too complicated where solos are melting your face, but complex enough where replaying songs allow you to hear new things each time. It's nice, it's smooth, it's "buttery", it's interesting, it's a great freaking album.

4/5

I didn't hate this album, I just didn't think it was very good.

I don't really know how I feel about this album. On one hand, there were parts that made me vibe, on the other hand, I don't think anything particularly stood out and it all sort of blended together. Realistically I don't see myself ever coming back to any of these songs.

2/5