Though it doesn't have his two most revered songs, I find Oval Room to be Blaze's best overall record and one of the greatest collections of music in American history.
As difficult as in can be to rate/rank Foleys stuff, any record by Blaze is a great record.
The godfather of contemporary music. One of the greatest songwriters in history, one of the greatest singers too.
The Wall of hip-hop. A very unique record, and one that anyone who calls themselves an “artist” or “creative” should respect deeply and learn things from. Though, I of course am not afraid, and actually encourage criticizing and analyzing flaws of “widely acclaimed classics”, this album does have some of its own. The record has some obviously less attentive tracks, that though add to the record as a whole, something like The Wall maintains these ... read more
I have measurable respect of Björk and her story. A clearly creative visionary, whose solo work brings me to question, who in the world was willing to fund this? But of course, it took years of effort to attain the respect of creative control and risk. Though, I do not find this style of music to be personally moving or substantial, I have to respect the artistic element of this album.
A solid country, but deeply folk and Americana album. Cash as always with a phenomenal voice singing American classics and ballads.
The establishment of Serges witty, cynical, cigarette-smoking Left Bank poet image and persona. A powerful image, an artistic genius.
Influential and some good jams. A bit to on-the-nose with the “destruction radioactive rats yea evil whoo🤘”, also just not much beyond the surface.
Everything wrong with ‘music’ as an art form. For one, this album is not art, it’s math. Hollow, emotionless, no message, nothing to relate to, to me, the opposite of creative. Art-school types making noise for the sake of being weird. Was it unique and impactful? Yes. But not all impact is good impact. This album adjusted the inevitable slingshot of technology to an empty place.
Just an extremely creative, well done, visionary album. The essential glam-rock album. An art-rock masterpiece.
Such a well done album. The ambience production, lush recordings, such beautiful vocals and lyrics. An amazing album.
This album lives and dies at its own chaos.
Production is very abrasive and hyper textured, to me, the definition of less is more. Not very meticulous; sloppy.
Takes some jabs yet not sure why/at who, also comes across self indulgent. (aggression with no direction)
The performances are weak, lyricism is very very weak. No depth, shallow themes, mediocre wordplay.
Just crest songwriting, great tunes, great folk/country pop ballads. So fun, playful, and charming.
An all time great psych record. Some of the greatest vocals and writing ever, the composition, the guitars, so bluesy.
I deeply appreciate Waylon’s message and what this record stood for, but I don’t love the music all that much. By no means a bad record, I just wouldn’t take this over, say, an early Kristofferson one; more raw, stripped down, honest, and emotional.
The Man in Black. To sing these songs to this audience, each so perfectly picked, Cash was a phenomenal performer and charismatic. So country, so American, so great.
The production is amazing, the vocals are AMAZING, and the song selection is nearly perfect. Nostalgic tracks, emotional, playful, this album does it all and does it well.
American, western, country. Just good tunes, a bit bland and boring in production, but that’s not an area of intention for this album.
Extremely solid songwriting, perfectly atmospheric and raw instrumentals. Just great Americana-Country.
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