Reviews by rhymingnonsensically

He's just brilliant at those little fills between lines and the title track is so damn good. I don't know if I've ever quite got my head around Prince being on the Mount Rushmore for all time pop artists but this is a very good album.

Well they can't all be good

There's energy here and that's about it

Love the stylistic variety here from Mother and Child Reunion to jazzbo Run that Body Down to actually going and getting Stephane Grappelli to do a gypsy swing bit on Hobo's Blues. Obviously Me and Julio is one of the catchiest songs you'll find in the entire 1001 project. Overall a Good (if not great) Album lyrically I feel like this is second to some of his better S&G projects and Graceland.

I don't know what to make of this album or the apparent Coldplay phenomenon and it leaves me slightly unsettled

Not nearly enough Radiohead here

Surprised at how much I didn’t like this. Might need to revisit at a later date with different expectations, I was expecting an album of Just Like Heavens

Traffic was good on the way down

Lot of fun stuff going on here, can definitely hear these guys as a bridge between the late 60s and Stone Roses

Felt like a 90s Reboot of the Go-Gos. Hilarious cover of Iron Man and didn't realize Mad Men used Great Divide. Quite enjoyed this if I didn't outright love it. 3.5 and currently under consideration for a future 4.

The Stones have to have the highest floor of any of the major rock bands, just another rock solid album with 3-4 lights out songs plus I don't have to sit through anything resembling Tommy or much of the White Album. Don't think it's quite a 5, Love in Vain and Live with Me are just good not great but this is as good an album you'll find from this era.

Much like going to church it's an interesting album that bounces between transcendent and downright boring

In which the Who finally make a good album.

Half these songs feel like they belong as the background to a rom-com or Scooby Doo 3. Some of the lyrics read like a high school kid smoking pot for the first time and becoming socially conscious for the first time. However there are a couple tunes that were real toe tappers which takes precedent over bad lyrics.

I think I liked this more than Back to Black. Just a great combination of old and new.

I found this repulsive yet oddly alluring and hypnotic which saves it from a one

Unbelievably pleasant if a bit unremarkable. Is there a band with a more recognizable sound than the Beach Boys?

Really didn't expect to like this as much as I did but it really blew me away, this does for Hair Metal what Boston did for Arena Rock. Zero skips and if they don't rise to a head banger they meet the required toe tapper status. It makes sense that the most commercial albums (Thriller, Born in the USA, Purple Rain, Brothers in Arms) of the most commercial decade of the second half of the twentieth century would be the best.

Great Sunday type of album without being overly moody. Sort of feels like a female Lyle Lovett with the country and cabaret crossover.

I like my techno and industrial noise type music but this fails to move break through from repetitive to transcendent that this type of music requires.