1001 Albums Summary

Last Night I dreamt someone love me has a wild opening Unhappy birthday is iconic

Layla sounds familiar... the others didn’t really stick out to me

Seventh Seal is wild... was it all about a chess match? Or a battle between life and death? Hero of the War hits — definitely a post 1969 (post 1968) song, very anti-war with an ironic jolly tune The Old Man’s Back Again — a song about Stalin of all people 😳 but it’s well written (with a bad pronunciation of Ivan) Overall: interesting album. Not sure if I’ll relisten, but I’ll give Scott his due as a songwriter.

The Dire Straits should’ve said “you’re so far away from me” one more time — I don’t think we got it the first 50 times in the opening track. I like the message behind Money for Nothing, but don’t like the offensive slang — also these songs are really slow and repetitive. The sax in Your Latest Trick is really nice. These songs are SO long. I admit the instrumentals are good, but I don’t have the patience lol. Why Worry would be a good song if you cut out 4-5 minutes of it 😂 The Brothers in Arms title track has great lyrics, but again why is it so long?? Overall: the album was ok. The songs, particularly the instrumentals, were WAY too long for my taste. Some lyrics were beautiful, some not so much.

Nope. I can recognize the talent and the good songwriting, but long instrumental breaks and songs longer than 6 minutes aren’t for me. The really slow electronic sound doesn’t work for me either. I will say that the lyrics in Protection (title track) and Better Things stick out, but I only saved the latter because the song Protection is just. way. too. long.

This is the first album in which I knew most of the songs! Maybe it’s because of that nostalgic familiarity, but overall I really enjoyed this album. I am a huge fan of the South African beats that Paul Simon employed and his witty lyrics about his personal life (specifically his divorce from Carrie Fisher) as well as global injustices.