The song Ravers is the most enjoyable reggae song of all time. Besides Louie Louie by Toots and the Maytals. Cuz nothing is better than that.

Finally some minimal house where the tracks actually kick in. What makes it different is that the tracks become memorable immediately. They don't just wander all over the place aimlessly and never getting anywhere and with nothing that sticks in your head or makes you want to hear it again. These are loaded with little musical hooks that you want to hear again and again. You don't have to force yourself to try to enjoy it like you do with most minimal house and minimal techno.

This is one of the best DJ mix albums ever. I listen to a lot of mix albums, and very rarely is there a great one. You kind of gotta take what you can get and hope you find one where you like at least half of the tracks. It's really hard to find one that you like all the way through. This one not only has mostly great tracks but it all adds up to something instead of just wandering all over the place. He actually builds up to something . Which is what DJ mixes are supposed to do, but in reality ... read more

This is one of my all-time favorite albums even though I've always thought that Lou Reed is only any good when whoever is producing the album comes up with some good music and production for him. And on this one he had Bob Ezrin who made a bunch of good albums like Pink Floyd's The Wall. If you think about it this album wouldn't be all that good if it wasn't for the atmosphere and the general sound of it. But it is good. In fact it's a riot. It's even better than Transformer.

I'm not quite sure why this album is better than 99% of all the other instrumental Hip Hop albums that I've heard, but it is. Maybe because you don't mind listening to it all the way through and you enjoy it all the way through.

Their two previous albums were semi-disappointing to me even though the good tracks were up to par with their better albums. But they each had a couple too many tracks with guest vocalists who weren't as good as the guest vocalists that they used to use. But on this album the vocals are mostly used for atmosphere and it works like a charm. It actually adds something to the music rather than subtract something. It's also different than their other albums because most of the tracks are kind of ... read more

This is actually a better batch of songs than Tapestry. But it doesn't sound like Tapestry. It's got lots of guitars and organs and it sounds like that noisy kind of late sixties album. And it's mixed really badly. The band plays really well but either the guitars or the drums or something else are sometimes mixed way too loud and half of the time she's buried in the mix somewhere and you can barely hear her or her piano. The songs are great though. Including the best version of Goin Back ... read more

I think this is their best album. For the longest time I didn't know that it was a compilation because it was the first album by them that I ever owned and I didn't know their discography yet, so I thought it was just a regular album. And the tracks on it aren't on their other albums, so it didn't seem like a compilation at all.

The only thing wrong with this album is that it's too long. Its got about three too many tracks. Otherwise it would be as great as most of their earlier albums. All the Tour de France tracks are great, and a couple others are pretty good. It could do without a couple of the Lesser ones though. I guess since it was made in the CD age they had to make it at least 60 minutes long instead of the old 40 or 45 minutes of the vinyl LP age.

This is really strong and there's only 2 that I don't really like. Long as I Can See the Light and Heard it Through the Grapevine are fine musically, but John Fogerty's vocals stress and strain when he absolutely doesn't need to. And these bad vocals on the songs are enough to ruin them. If only he would have relaxed and sang in his relaxed voice rather than his shoutng voice they would have been two more perfect tracks. They're just way too abrasive and they don't go down easy like everything ... read more

Years ago most people thought that Queen was nothing more than a novelty act that made better than average novelty records. I believe that this opinion is absolutely correct. Nothing can convince me otherwise, especially after re-listening to all of their 70s albums. They each have one or two amusing songs on them which became hits. But like all novelty records, the novelty wears off pretty quickly, so there's no reason to ever want to hear them again. It's like hearing the same joke over and ... read more

This was the most fun one out of all those albums in the early 80s that were a cross between disco and New Wave. But this bad really had their own sound and it's not really like anything else. And it's funny too.

This was a fun first album by one of the three or four big name bands in the ska craze. And just like the rest of those bands, they changed their sound a lot after the first one or two albums, because just like all the original Punk bands did, they realized it was pretty much a dead end type of music. In the case of the English Beat it turned out to be a good idea because I think their third album is their best. But this one is really good too

This album isn't consistently good, but Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) and Blame It on the Boogie are better than anything on Thriller.

For a long time Dark Side of the Moon was the only Pink Floyd album that I loved. Once they started making all those albums about how horrible and difficult it is to be a famous successful musician, I think their music became so dreary . But then I started listening to Animals again and now I kind of like the music on it. I still don't like Wish You Were Here or The Wall though.

I like her version of Tom Waits' Shiver MeTimbers better than the one on his album and I like her duet with Bob Dylan on Dylan's song Buckets of Rain better than the version that was on his album Blood on the Tracks the year before. He sounds livelier than he has in years. There's a few other pretty good ones too, but this was her last album that had anything good on it.

I think this is his most disliked album, but I say it has about five songs on it that are as good as all his seventies albums before this one. There's more good ones on this album than on Coney Island Baby and every album that came after it. Ladies Pay, Temporary Thing, Vicious Circle, and You Wear it So Well are no worse than anything on his other albums. They would fit in well on any of his better albums too.

Reading some of the critic reviews above, I have to wonder why so many of them feel the need to describe an album with terms like "full of emotional depth", "a display of sensitivity". As if an album couldn't be good if it wasn't these things. The reason Elton John was so popular is because of the entertaining and pleasurable aspects of his music. They don't understand that years ago musicians understood that they were in Show Busines . And so did the audience. Nowadays, ... read more

This album has two of the all-time great singles on it. Backstabbers, one of those "don't trust your friends" songs that were popular at the time. And Love Train, one of those peace and love songs that wer also very popular at the time. They both have very lush string arrangements with a dancey beat and they're both probably the best example of the 70s Philadelphia sound. With the exception of When Will I See You Again by The Three Degrees.

Like some of his other 70s albums this has a good side and a bad side. For some reason his albums split right down the middle with all of the best tracks on one side of the album. It's not really accurate to call the one side bad because its not exactly bad, just a lot weaker compared to the other side. Anyway, this album here has four great tracks out of five on the first side, and one very good one out of five on the other side. The most awesome tracks are Angelsea, Sitting and Boy with the ... read more