Reviews by nevele

For me this was a guine slog to get through

This album would have been the worst on this list if it were not for the one redeeming song near the end, "Boiler." This song stands out with its catchy hook, proper bassline, and riff. It raises the question: why is the rest of the album of such garbage quality, with its lyrical dribble?

You take the Rolling Stones during their heroin period and you put them through a distortion pedal. If that sounds like your thing, well, have I got the album for you!

It has taken me 44 years but I finally get it.

Something must've happened in the late 1970's to Aerosmith to make them go from this really good early 70's stuff, a combination of Rolling Stones rock with a Led Zeppelin power to it - to whatever the hell they started doing during the 80's and 90's.

And yeah, I know.
It's drugs.

Oh, I tried. I just really wanted to like this more than I actually did, because I got such a softspot for Neneh Cherry, who with 'Buffalo Stance' in 1989 and 'Woman' in 1996 wrote 2 songs that have never left my rotation playlists.

But this album just isn't of the quality that I hoped for and sounds incredibly dated. And I can't help the feeling that in 1989 a lot of these songs were even then already feeling dated.

Buffalo Stance is still an absolute banger though, and with

I'm enjoying it, but I genuinely can't find why this is regarded by some as such a classic

It's a classic for a reason

Folk, folk-rock or folk psychedelica are not any of the genre's that has ever really popped out during this 1001 albums challenge over the last 3 years.
And indeed on here, there are several songs that fall in that 'pleasant-in-the-background-but-nothing-groundbreaking' territory.

However, then there's also songs like 'A Sailor's Life' and ' Who Knows Where The Time Goes' that are reminiscent of the best work of Jefferson Airplane and even Velvet Underground. These songs, with Sandy Denny's amazing voice combined with Richard Thompson's dynamic guitar playing elevates this album far above many of its contemporaries."

Wow, what an album. Where the sounds of light and darkness intertwine into an atmospheric soundscape.
This will be going on repeat in the coming months.

A nice debut with a handful of classics including several covers. However, Dusty does not yet have the emotional depth and sensuality that would later characterize her voice.

Karen Carpenter has one of the best voices I've ever heard, and Richard Carpenter's arrangements are incredibly rich due to being severely classically influenced. However, the music is so soft and sweet that it's not really my cup of tea. The covers that mark most of this album are really hit and miss. Interestingly though, the standout track for me is "Mr. Guder," which is one of their own compositions.

I'm thinking about this album in a bit of two minds. Tim Buckly is a phenomenal singer, and musically this is not unpleasant.

And while I normally like my musical pornography more on the erotic side, I have no issues with the straightforwardness either. From Prince's '23 positions in a one-night stand' to Peter Steele's ' I'll do anything to make you come' I've enjoyed it all.

But this, this sounds more like the raunchy teenager's first steps into kink kind of amateur porn. And the album is much more of turn-off than arousal.

It is another Curtis Mayfield record that is definitely worth listening to. For me, "Billy Jack" is THE song of America Today. Another true classic that Curtis produces here. All the ingredients are present again. It's wonderful how this man can put songs together. "Jack" is subtle, there is reggae in that beautiful drum/percussion work. And of course, marinated under a thick layer of soul and funk. And as usual, Curtis also knows how to write a text that is more than excellent. It is violent as hell but sung oh so relaxed.

Unfortunately, it's a shame that Curtis is unable to maintain this level throughout the album. the rest can't match the first song. Not that it's getting boring, because with "Hard Times" and "Love to the People" the album picks itself up again near the end.

Lyrically this is also a typical Mayfield album, so lots of social issues impressively explained on small scale.

A good album, but not great, unfortunately

A very pleasant version of 60's rock, with some added latin influences.

In the late 60's early 70's the Rolling Stones released in quick sucession Beggars Banquet (1968), Let it Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Mainstreet (1972) which forms the highlight of their repertoire.
Of this complete tour de force Sticky Fingers is in my opinion the top. Not only because, unlike on some of the other albums, there is not a skippable song to be found here, but also with the masterful flow this album has.
Starting off uptempo with 'Brown Sugar' it then slowly settles to the ballad 'Wild Horses' via the slow rocker of 'Sway', then to pick up again with 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking.'

And a highlight of this album is the heartbreaking and terrifying 'Sister Morphine', with the electric slide of Ry Cooder. Possibly the Stone's best song.

This is the Stones at their best

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is perhaps the most critically acclaimed album by Wilco. At first listen, I certainly understood where this appreciation comes from. The melancholic and somewhat slow songs in particular are of high quality. Songs like Jesus, Etc., Radio Cure, and Ashes of American Flags are memorable songs with fantastic lyrics.
But what didn't happen back when this was released continued now that I'm giving this a few more listens all those years later. There's no spark between this album and myself. I appreciate it on several levels but it has never given me the idea that I'd put this on myself again.

ROCK 'N FUCKING ROLL!
Move over Strokes, Libertines et all, it was already here in 1978.

I'm thoroughly enjoying this, also the more raw International Robot Sessions before they started playing with horn sections.

4,5*

It's American hiphop.

Listening to this album I went from curious to indifferent to dislike. Stopping short of hate.