Reviews by stevebonus26

Some pretty groovy tunes. Didn't totally grab me but not a bad listen.

Started out not really liking all the wacky psychedelic sounds that hit my ears, but the deeper into the album I listened, the more I liked it. Not likely something I'll spend much time with going forward, but it was an interesting listen.

Didn't love it. The music wasn't bad, but it didn't grab me at all.

Started off strong with the opening tracks, but didn't really pull me in the same the rest of the way. Nothing bad here, though, and glad I listened.

Absolutely fantastic! I grew up with the CCR hits compilation, Chronicle, as a regular cassette in the rotation on family road trips. While I am intimitely familiar with all of the hits, I never did dive into the rest of the catalog. So far so good, as this album was thoroughly enjoyable. No surprises, but just A+ quality tunes start to finish.

I came into this knowing Running Up That Hill and thinking it was a pretty cool & interesting song, and that was it. What I did not expect out of this listen was to have my mind absolutely blown by the music!

This is such a fascinating piece of music, and while things fell off a bit in the 2nd half for me, when Kate Bush hit the spot, she REALLY hit it. I could see myself getting immersed in this. A very strong album.

I always kinda groan when I come upon a new double album, because if it doesn't connect with me then it's a real slog to get through. This, though? A real treat. Plenty of nuggets of goodness on here. Love the energy of this thing and very glad it was being there, in my ears.

Kinda good, kinda uninteresting.

As soon as you see Joni's name come up, you know you're gonna get some quality tunes. I think this will take more than just this single initial listen to unlock the wonders of this album that are surely there, but there were definitely some standout moments on first listen.

Didn't really grab me, but it has its moments.

Fela Kuti just hits the right spot for me every time. His music is an absolute vibe that I absolutely dig.

Pretty fun listen. I can definitely hear how it influenced sounds that followed it in the 90s. Not sure I'll return to it but glad to have heard this.

Nobody does the rockin' blues better than ole Muddy.

I have been a Neil Young fan for some time, and I particularly enjoy this era of his. Plenty of familiar favourites here, and those that I haven't listened to much over the years still bring that familiar Neil Young joy to the ears. A fine listen!

Not really what I'm into, but it is well done.

While it definitely sounds dated and is very much of its era, it's still enjoyable. If I was around in the 50s I would have totally bopped to this.

What a terrible day to have ears.

Much like the sound of car wheels on a gravel road, this album is pleasant yet unspectacular.

Makes for okay background music, but it isn't all that interesting a listen.

What an absolutely fantastic album. I've been pretty familiar with about half of the album for a long time now, but it had been ages since I listened to the whole thing start-to-finish. So glad to come back to this one, because the songs I had overlooked previously really stood out this time. What a treat!

Fun lil side story:

Back in 2005-2009 a few buddies & I had a campus radio show (called Happy Time, named after the Daniel Johnston song which was also the show's theme song). I also worked a full-time job, and one night during night shift when my buddies were manning the booth they played Heroin.

My co-workers and I were listening to the show and one particularly grumpy co-worker decided to phone in to complain about Heroin's raucus, dissonant violin ending. He expressed with great contempt over the phone to my buddy in the booth that "it just sounds like a broken violin!". The response he received?

"You're a broken violin!"

And you know what? In a metaphorical sense, he kind of was.