1001 Albums Summary

For the fame this album created, it's only 9 songs. It always reminds me of the 80s and the Purple Reign junk associated to Marion's basketball success. Take Me with U and The Beautiful Ones...they bleed into each other so easily I'm not sure I even heard Take Me with U. I Would Die 4 U - best song on the album.

This is a noise album. It really isn't something I enjoyed. I read that their popular song Autobahn is a 22 minute song expressing a trip on the Autobahn. The album was compared to Tubular Bells but I loved that album. Thus just was too mechanical for me. This album was hard to focus on anything else with it's constantly moving melodies that feel a little like something I would have made at home on a 1980s Casio keyboard. I wonder in concert if these songs sound the same each time they play them? Morgenspaziergang is the best of the album. It is quiet and mostly calming. Birds chirping...water flowing. It feels Asian in places.

Is it ok to say this is just weird? I don't hate it...but I'm not exactly sure I like it either. It's noise with a melody. I don't really feel like I understand any of the songs but I appreciate the quiet smooth music. Some of it felt like Christmas music - like that choir - near opera feeling. I think this is the type of music you feel comfortable hearing in hallways on low volume. I'm not sure the melodies are exactly ever really recognizable - just pretty and calming. Bjork fans are probably like omg I have a favorite but to me it's just fairly calm music that sound mostly the same. It's not up to you is the best of the album for me

I like this. Bluesy. I had no idea. I thought they were country and Neil Young was more like ummm folk music or blue grassy. This is not what I expected. Traditional blues riffs everywhere. I had this cd in high school that was all backing blues stuff for you to do improvised solos over the top of it. I'm sorry...maybe they'd hate this...but this is what that sounded like. Also look how happy they look in this album cover but like you can tell....this group does drugs. Gregg Allman married Cher. What? Whipping Post is 23 minutes long. 23 minutes. How does that work? Like how did that song ever get exposure? In Memory of Elizabeth Reed is 13 minutes. How...did ....that ....ever ....work? Whipping Post is the best of the album. All 23 minutes. Wild man, wild. It stands out with it's opening. Blues can sound like the same song over and over and over...but Whipping Post is blues and then this unique heavy tripping triplet feeling bass-line. Fast moving base lines in general are memorable.

Why don't people put Blondie on the same type of pedestal they put Madonna? I'm disappointed this was not the album with Rapture. Heart of Glass is the best of the album.

Smooth. Really enjoyed this. Godchild is the best of the album for me. I like the low bass intro.

Sort gad a churchy beach Boys them.

I liked it. I didn't expect to...but it was fun.