1001 Albums Summary

Great album with multiple standouts and not a single bad track.

An okay album, besides My Generation it was unfortunately nothing to write home about.

Not a standout, unfortunately. Wikipedia described it as unsuccessful on release, only to be called a masterpiece many years later, and I understand the early reception.

Finding out that today's album was from the great Ella Fitzgerald, I started listening with high expectations. She met all of them, and took me through this story of someone longing for love. I listened to the "best of" edition of this album, not having time for all 55 tracks of the original album, but I will definitely have to give it a full listen soon.

What I appreciated about this album is that it wasn't all love songs like many albums have. It scores all the points in the relatability category, being in the point of view of a blue-collar man who has opinions, got dragged into marriage and eventually divorced... Good listen overall.

An absolute classic of Hip-hop, with songs that remain well-known even today.

Metallica is actually my first time ever listening to metal, and it turns out to be a lot less violent than my misconception told me it was. It was overall a good listen, not my genre but I can appreciate it anyway.

Very... Experimental? The names of the band and the album intrigued me, but it wasn't my cup of tea. The beginning is very messy, and Human Cannonball turns out to be the one nugget or iron in the rough. Not a diamond, and I really mean rough. U.S.S.A. made me feel like I was going insane, and in the next track The O-Men we get a surprise feature from the Looney Tunes' very own Tasmanian Devil with a hint of Donald Duck. And then we switch over to a completely different Indian sty- nevermind we're going insane again. I'm booking an appointment with my therapist, now that I'm done writing this review. I'm going to give a second star based on my interpretation that it's the gradual collapse of a war veteran's sanity, but it remains a pretty bad experience.

A very fun listen. An upbeat album with multiple tracks that are absolutely welcome into my playlists.

I knew Aretha Franklin was a great singer, and I listened to multiple individual songs by her but never full albums. This one started off on the right foot with Respect, and kept being good.