If someone told me this was their favourite Beatles album, I would give them nothing but the utmost respect.
This album definitely doesn't need to be as long as it is, but I never really got bored. This is the most polarizing Elton album at this point in his career and the album brings numerous new ideas together for a dense double LP. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" is another great repetition of Elton John's melancholy piano ballad formula with "Someone's Final Song" following suit.
There's nothing really bad here, and the highs are great, just some tracks that off ... read more
It's decent. "Heroes Are Hard To Find", the title track, is a great opener. The next four tracks are okay but it picks up steam again with "She's Changing Me" and "Bad Loser" which has one of Mick's best drum performances, its really great. "Prove Your Love" is also just really beautiful. The lows of this album dip as far as *just ok* and the highs are nothing mind boggling, but overall its pretty solid and for lack of a better word, underrated.
A great bittersweet ending to the greatest band of all time. John's vocals sound great. My only complaint is Paul and John's unison sounds a little bit muddy. The arrangement is perfect, its lush, the strings sounds amazing. The vocal harmonies sound straight out of because from the abbey road era (they're even the exact same harmonies). We even get George on the rhythm guitar. It feels like they're all together again, because they are. What a finale.
Some really good beats mixed with a handful of odd middle of the road tracks that aren't really worth revisiting without a full relisten. Its solid.
Super underrated honestly. The production isn't too lush and although I was iffy about the sound initially, it was easy to warm up to. That which I have lost is one of George's worst songs though. Nothing really mind blowing here, but fairly consistent.
A lot of really mid beats that often overstay their welcome. There are a few highlights though.
Every track on this is super solid, its a great listen front to back. The highlights for me in particular are the opening and closer. Offence is invigorating, punchy and filled with attitude. Great start to the album. Flowers is absolutely beautiful. Simz flows are on point as they are on the rest of the album, but she's backed with a solid performance Michael Kiwanuka and an AMAZING beat. I can't stress how beautiful this song is but its such a phenomenal closer.
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It's pretty fire but the opium glazers are going rampant
Edit: 75 --> 80 Ken's best to date
He's bringing back the satellite flight sound with this and I'm all for it. Hope this is on Insano and I hope we get more music similar to this.
Obviously no YB album needs to be this long, but some of the content here is pretty alright. What you say is also a beautiful song, probably my favourite song of his that I've heard from this point. I usually don't like The Kid Laroi but his vocals were great along with posty. The beat is heavenly too.
It's 90% filler but sonically, its kinda ok.
There are some important things to note here. If this wasn't a redux for one of the most critically acclaimed and popular albums in music history, if this *was* TDSOTM, it wouldn't really be bad. The instrumentation and play on the original song structures isn't without effort. It's clearly refined.
However...
This isn't The Dark Side of the Moon. This is a re-imagination. An idea and very much so an Idea that should not have been acted upon. This is almost as offensive as Nostalgia Critic's ... read more
This is supposed to be a concept album about mental illnesses but it really only talks about them in the few skits. But honestly, its decent. It's really one note, but its just bangers you can throw on in the background and not care much about. There are a few bangers that I can see myself revisiting in the future—these being No Man, Aint Cool, Deadbeat and Different Type. Drink To Escape and Demon of Addiction are pretty fire too but the rest is kinda just what it is. Decent but don't ... read more
Only makes me wonder what we could've gotten from Dennis.