Reviews by ninexnineteen

How one feels about this album is likely the same as they feel about U2 in general. In my case, U2 in general is pretty meh, but also inoffensive. So...

2.9

It's kind of amazing to me this came out in 1988

Banger after banger. There were like 4 singles on this album, and everything that wasn't should have been

What a waste of time. This album sounds like someone recorded the disjointed sounds of a middle school orchestra warming up, then running it through a synthesized piano machine, while whining about how much they needed a kazoo to round it all out.

This fucking sucked.

1.5

Not offensive, for sure. Pretty meh for me. First track was by far my favorite

2.75

When Corey Taylor sings like Corey Taylor, I'm into it. When he sings like he's in Slipknot, hard pass

I'm not really into "world music" because a lot of what I have heard has rhythm / musical conventions that aren't very pleasing to me. I'm not a musician, so I can't say if those non-western conventions are present in this album or not, but this is a rare thumbs up for me in the "world music" genre

3.75

Track 1: sounds like it belongs on The Matrix (or similar movie) soundtrack or in the closing credis. That's not a bad thing though

Track 2: could absolutely do without the vocals from the guy with weird voice

Overall, not bad. For a minute there, I was going to complain about the overly simplistic rhyme schemes / poor cadence / old white man flow of the rapping, but then I remembered this came out in 1991. And now that I'm writing this, I'm remembering other rap of the time did not suffer from this, so I still can't let them off the hook for it. I tried.

That said, nothing else sounded like this on 1991 that I can remember, so kudos to Massive Attack for creating something new. The echoes of this style can still be heard in some of my favorite new music, so I appreciate what they have done here.

My rating system is based on my own personal enjoyment, not as a criticism of the music. I'm not a music critic or a musician, so I don't feel like I'm qualified to rate this stuff any other way

Keep on rockin' in the free world, Neil!

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4.5

Enjoyable. 3.5

Pretty enjoyable. No notes

Fuuuuuck yes! Couldn't ask for a better opening track to an album!

Warm and fuzzy analog anger!

Haven't ever heard Police and Thieves before, and it's awesome. I was either tapping my foot, bopping my head, or drumming on something for every best of this album. Fantastic album

This was a pleasure to listen to. This crowd was super excited to listen to The Godfather, and so was I.

4

I liked this quite a bit, but I'm a little biased because bluegrass/Americana featuring female vocals is one of my favorite types of music.

While really enjoyable, there are dozens of albums in this genre subset that probably have been included on this list before this album.

3.5

Uninspiring and not very interesting to listen to

Loved it

This isn't my type of music, and for the first two songs, I thought I was going to talk some shit about it here in my notes. As the album continues into the 3rd track and onward, it grew on me. I'm still not sure if I like it, but there is definitely something there that compels me to listen again.

3?

This was a surprise. Like everyone, I had heard Jailbreak, The Boys Are Back in Town, and had heard Metallica cover Whiskey in the Jar. I didn't pay Thin Lizzy much heed, because truthfully, I felt like The Boys Back in Town was overplayed, And Jailbreak wasn't anything more than a really catchy guitar lick. I went into this album thinking I was going to skip every track 30 seconds in. I was COMPLETELY wrong!

Man, what an enjoyable album! Every guitar part on this album is just as catchy as Jailbreak, the vocals are unique and perfect, great lyrics, and the rhythm section.... fuck! I'm so flabbergasted by how much I enjoyed this, words fail me.

This will definitely go into my permanent rotation. A rare win for the 1001 albums list!