Reviews by ninexnineteen

I love Aretha's voice; so much power and just the right amount of smokiness.

Of course the ethics surrounding the amount of stolen(?) music is a valid discussion topic, but for my purposes, it doesn't matter. I'm taking it all at face value.

The weakest song on this album is better than many, many entire albums on this list. Led Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands because they have so many albums that are this consistently awesome all the way through.

Can you imagine listening to Good Times Bad Times in 1969? The next "changing rock history" album was going to be Abbey Road, which wouldn't come out for almost a year. Yeah, the Beatles were changing music, but these guys were creating an entirely different sound. I would have loved to have been present for this era of music. Blazing guitar, wild vocals, and maybe rock's best rhythm section ever would have put the 1969 version of me in a fucking coma.

Easy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

3.75

I don't know what I was expecting, but it sure wasn't this. Quite a breath of fresh air

Awesome drumming. Adding to my collection and will listen again

It is said this is DP's best album; I disagree. To me, it's par with everything else in their catalog, which is to say it's REALLY good. I prefer Violator.

As always, extraordinarily well-produced

3.75

I have mixed feelings about this album. On one hand, I quite liked the music. The arrangements were good (though not groundbreaking in anyway). The guys voice is good and nestles into the music quite nicely.

On the other hand, wtf are these lyrics? I have seen a lot of comparisons from the other commenters here that I agree with: John Lennon-esque nonsense, Harry Nillson (tonally pleasant), bad middle school poetry.

Another head scratcher as to why it's on the list. I can definitely see why I haven't ever heard of this guy or this album before

I was really disappointed by this. The only song I could get through was Nothing Compares 2 U, and it's not even her song

I would have liked to have heard this when it came out instead of 25 years later. This very well could have been one of my favorite albums if I had heard it at the right time.

I had to skip "This Song" because of the hard, rapid left/right panning. Wearing earbuds with a good seal, it was affecting my balance, not to mention annoying.

Enjoyable, but nothing stood out as notable or remarkable. I'd definitely listen again, but probably not on purpose

I didn't like Springsteen for like 40 years. Lately though, he has been growing on me, and everything I hear endears his music a little more to me. This was his exception. Solid album.

This was such a terrible fucking album. I couldn't listen to any one song all the way through. I need a palate cleanser and legitimately something for my newly developed headache. I can't say enough bad things about this. While AWFUL, still not as bad as Velvet Underground

1. Whatever. Skits are lame
2. Absolutely not
3. No
4. No
5. Better than previous songs. Still not good
6. What? Useless
7. Boring AND bad
8. Not sure how this song can be monotone and boring with so much going on. But it is!
9. These songs sound like that song the Italian musician made to sound like English but was just nonsense
10. OK..?
11. No
12. Best part of this album so far is the Sanford and Son theme song sample. Bad otherwise
13. I'm developing a headache
14. Finally done. I feel like Frodo after having dropped the ring into Mount Doom.

Pretty meh up until the track Fantastic Disaster, which really couldn't be any more descriptive of a name for that song.

Happily Divided, with its acoustic guitar was the first song I actually liked on the album. I hope there's more of this type of thing later

Nope. Elixir is Zog makes as much sense in its name as it does musically. Maybe like 12 people know what that means, and maybe half of those enjoyed the song.

Emma Get Wild was fun. Tied for 1st place on this album for me

Everything else was either meh or not good.

This was like listening to the average of all the filler songs on all other grunge band albums at its best, and just plain bad at its worst.

This was nice, but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the other Nick Drake album I have listened to on this list.

I really enjoyed the bass accompaniment in Man in Shed. While I like Drake's stripped down feel of most of his other work, I think the piano and bass still allow for that feeling and give a more "whole song" feeling rather than demo track vibes.

Nothing to do with the album, but reading Drake's Wikipedia article and learning he died at 26 after a lifetime of not connecting with other people so sad. A life of mental illness seemingly causing "voluntary" isolation from other people who obviously cared about him is pretty tragic. If you're reading this and that sounds familiar, you won't be a burden by asking for help. You might not be great at music or some other easily-recognizable talent, but you have something else the world needs.

This was quite good. I'll be adding this to my collection

Certainly not a chore to listen to, but I'm not a huge punk fan. I normally like to hear distinctions between instruments instead of a wall of noise and yelling.

That said, Holiday in Cambodia is an excellent song. And Viva Las Vegas was an interesting choice. Not bad though

I don't like Tom Waits, so this album was quite a surprise. I did like this album, but I likely won't ever listen to it again. The atmosphere created for this album makes me want to have attended the "show." The crowd sounds fun, and the seemingly improvised nature of Waits' performance sounds like a good time. The band is great too.

I don't much care for when Waits actually attempts to sing, as he does in Warm Beer and Cold Women

3.75

Nonstop bangers. They could re-release this album as a Greatest Hits album and I wouldn't bat an eye.

Badass technical guitar work, some of the best harmonies in rock, (mostly) good songwriting, and solid band cohesion make this a Top 10 album for me.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I'm glad I was exposed to this album. I really enjoyed listening