The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

Rip_City said:
Slightly preferable to The Number of the Beast but it will get the same score from me. Better songs as a collective, but weaker guitarwork.

Rating: 2.5/5 [Decent]
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I went straight to the words and missed the tiny bit of the cover in the quoted section and read it for a second as you were saying Sister Sledge was slightly preferable to The Number of the Beast and wigged the fuck out about that compairson inside my brain for a second. Thet was fun. 🤣
 
Nee Lewman said:
11/19/24
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Sister Sledge - We Are Family



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We Are Family - Sister Sledge | Album | AllMusic

We Are Family by Sister Sledge released in 1979. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Ummm...yes! I've never listened to this before.

Fun songs one after the another. I obviously know the title track, but "He's the Greatest Dancer," "Thinking of You," and "Easier to Love" are standouts. It isn't mind-blowing by any means yet it doesn't hit lulls anywhere. I will say that the closing track "One More Time" could've been placed elsewhere in the tracklist or been given a longer runtime.

Nile Rodgers works some magic here.

Rating: 3.5/5 [Great]
 
The Kinks was surprisingly and refreshingly unpolished and punk-ey! I've only listened to a couple of compilations with The Kinks and Ray Davis (and "Arthur" previously in the thread), before but this album was pretty solid. As I said, Waterloo Sunset is brilliant in every way, but I also fell in love with "Love Me Till The Sun Shines" and "Situation Vacant".
 
Joe Mac said:
I think the stones suffer for longevity and the ever decreasing returns it entailed. That run of albums from 69 to about 75 was absurdly good and not far off The Beatles but before could be a bit basic and after increasingly less interesting.
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I like all of them, a bunch, just the stones the least. The stones really start to suffer in the eighties though. (As do the Who, as do the Kinks)… so there may be something to that.
 
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