Alabama Shakes

[rincon2]

I want to like this album more than I do. A few of the songs are great, but it bores me as a whole.

This reminds me of some of the truly classic bands. Try listening to a whole Cream album without getting bored.Same with Janis, The Airplane, and many others. We only seem to remember the best of what they did, and forget at least half was not classic stuff.

[oistheone]

Am I reading this right?!?! Brittany is universally adored (rightfully so), but some of y'all don't dig the band?! The Shakes are lethal! Sure, they don't hop all over the stage, but if they did, they'd look like a ragtag band of amateurs. Leave the animated actions to the frontwoman, and the rest of the guys can stick to playing flawlessly behind her any day! Heath is a woefully underrated guitar wizard, by the way.

Fully, I'm right with you. "This Feeling" is one of the best songs on the album, and one of the best I've heard in a long time. The performance is perfect, but the recording is equally impressive. Sounds SO DAMN GOOD on this clear vinyl edition.

The more I listen to the album, the more it grows on me as a whole. At first, I was all about "Gimme All Your Love" and "Future People", kinda diggin' but mostly lukewarm about the rest. After about a week in the rotation, I'm finding it flawless from start to finish. "Dunes", "Miss You", "Guess Who", "Shoegaze, hell, even "The Greatest" -- lovin' it all!

[BH]

Shakes and FJM tonight!   My first time seeing the Shakes and third FJM.    Can't wait for Shakes and I thought FJM sounded amazing with the bigger sound on Hangout stream.

[dookie shoot bandit]

The Shakes fucking killed it last night at Gentleman of the Road!!!!