1001 Albums Summary

This album was an interesting listen, while I find the instrumentation quite good on all the more upbeat songs, the sadder more emotionally driven songs with exceptions of Caroline, no sounded less pleasurable and found the song you still believe in me very unlistenable the first time around. However, the singing is very well delivered in all songs and the highs on this album such as wouldn't it be nice, sloop john b, pet sounds among the majority make this an enjoyable listen. While the review shows four stars I would give it around 3.5 stars for my personal enjoyment

This album is one that I have grown up with before and it remains one of the best rap albums out there. To start, in terms of instrumentation, they are beautifully crafted by Dre. Whether it is the infamous The Real Slim Shady or Criminal or any inbetween they are always enjoyable. In terms of rapping, Eminem delivers unique candence and flow throughout every track, with all of them sounding perfectly tailored for every track, such as the I sit back/ with this pack etc etc. His delivery is aggressive whether it is the way I am or Kim, you can feel the rage behind this album constantly and may even rally behind it. Subject matter and theming was unique for the time focusing on censorship and the media in reaction to his music on songs like drug ballad, who knew and marshall mathers. It also has the idea of fandom and standom in Stan showing the deep and various ideas this album contributed to the rap scene. I will conclude this with features, they do not miss, Dido adds a necessary chorus to complete Stan, sticky fingaz delivers a verse that arguably outclasses Eminem on Remember Me? and Snoop Dogg delivers his clean flow on Bitch Please II.

4/5 The instrumentals were very good, having interesting bass riffs and guitar playing, especially during the very melodic solos. The vocals were strong in terms of delivery, while lyrics were better on some songs than others. the structure does get a little repetitive after song 8 but that is a minor problem that just knocks it down off the 5/5, alongside the unforgiven and wherever I may roam being a little long in my opinion

This album for me is in the 9/10 ballpark or around 4.5 to 5 stars. the songs are all quite strong, with the highlights being hospital an incredible ballad with strong emotional presence behind it, roadrunner a high energy way to kick off the album. Pablo Picasso with a very unique premise centred around the artist with dry wit throughout the song.

This was one of the most surprising albums to listen to, despite being a good album, i never expected to hit the feels like this. In a crisp 48 min run time which is much shorter than most other albums I have listened to, they (Arcade Fire) have discussed many ideas from the present such as childhood loss, wanting to run away and other feelings that would be commonplace now in 2021. Companied with strong instrumentation that changes from down and slow to rebellious and upbeat to even using the French language this album stuck out in all the right ways

Pretty strong soul albumn with incredible vocals backed by unique although simpler instrumentation

This was certainly an interesting venture, with some good live instrumentation and the odd charismatic line. Although sometimes I felt too much of this was him talking which granted it is a live performance, there's only about 34 mins of recording and a large chunk is him not playing. 7/10

A very excellent rock production that sounds super varied especially for its time