1001 Albums Summary

Not a bad album, especially for what it is; a swing album. Nothing special to me however.

Not my favorite Dylan album but also not a bad one.

Phenomenal debut album. An interesting and enjoyable listen! Made me wanna check out his other albums!

Beautifully produced with some interesting music concepts. But ultimately a boring listen all the way through, and after the first listen it became sort of a tiresome relisten.

If Oasis was actually good at music. A lot of the songwriting is a bit bland though, but beautifully performed.

Like a Paul Simon record but with wonderful female vocals from the legendary Joni Mitchell

Not one bad song! Amazing production by Ronson!

If i could, i would give it 4.5

Would give it 3.5 if i could. Wiuld be a 4 it it wasn’t as repetitive. New York I Love You is worth 5 stars in it self.

3

I like Thug a lot but I’m biased from growing up with it playing on the radio in GTA4. Wonderfully atmospheric track. Other than that, this is a very poor attempt at combining an old genre with new technology. I knew about the hits but never liked them, probably because my introduction to ZZ Top was La Grange which is one of the greatest blues rock songs of all time. I honestly don’t understand how this album and its singles became such massive hits, but the 80s was a weird time that i didn’t experience, so it probably made sense back then. Then i read that half the album was written by a sound-engineer Linden Hudson, who got no credit whatsoever. That settled the verdict for me: Ass album (with the exception of Thug which was also co written by the aforementioned Linden Hudson)