Reviews by similartie

Nice!

I like Bert Jansch. This album for me is three five-star songs and a lot of other stuff that is merely good.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that this album doesn't totally suck.

It's like if you lobotomized Mick Jagger and removed the part of his brain that exclusively thinks about David Bowie then plugged the brain segment into a machine and then this is what come out the other end.

I want to like the Byrds, but outside of The Notorious Byrd Brothers, I have a hard time really digging into many of their albums. I wish this album was more garage-y. Like, why would I listen to this when the 13th Floor Elevators exist?

No, not at all, really.

It stinks!

Stoned, blissed-out early 70s jams. Yes. Incredible album.

Bob firmly in his do-no-wrong phase. King Midas in fourth gear.

At first I was impressed, despite the horrible 80s-ness of it. Then I started to get a bit bored, but by the end I was sort of impressed again. I think this guy is talented, but it's just not my kind of music and I would never listen to it again.

A colorful album, to be sure. I liked the indie-jangle tidbits more than the dance, pop, and metal(?) stuff.

I don't particularly like most of Van Morrison's stuff, but this album is amazing. It picks you up and takes you away, then floats you through gauzy, melodic clouds and gently puts you back down again.

A little off-kilter, a little deranged. I like it.

It sort of plods on like a wooly mammoth on quaaludes, but other than that it's great.

I've heard this album many times, but probably not at all in the past 20 years or so. Yeah it's a little weird, but it's still a great, distinctive album.

I like a mellow indie rock record, but I'm not a fan of Berman's vocals. And lyrically, I prefer a more impressionistic style rather than the bold-face type here.

I don't like this type of music.

Maybe this is just outside the range of what I can absorb and comprehend as a listener and as a human being.

It's not bad, but it is the kind of album that you only bought because you needed one more slot to fill on your Columbia House record club deal, then you listened to it twice and then it sat in a Trapper Keeper-like binder full of CDs, untouched, until the end of time.

Maybe it’s unfair to pigeonhole an artist like this, but I think she should stick to the torch songs. The more uptempo and poppy songs don’t feel natural. The whole thing is a bit awkward, which makes sense in light of her age.