1001 Albums Summary

(4/10) initial review Sound is extremely raw, intentionally disorganized and abrasive. Almost as if Kurt want the album to be hard to listen to for the audience. Lyrics are interesting. Seems like most songs are both inward admittance of flaw and and outward damnation of something/someone else. Would be very interested to dive into if this “damned” entity is consistent over the full album or a mixture of specific(his wife, record label, family) or vague (general human nature, institutions) entities. Overall the lyricism is fascinating, even more so because of death soon after release, but the sound of the album is unpleasant. Struggle to think of a mindset that this would be enjoyable in, would not be a common album to return to. All Apologies was a great ending to the album, leads me to believe that the abrasive nature of the album was done in spite of or as an attack on another entity and Kobain is apologizing to the listener for being a casualty of it.

(3/5) A Spanish album of all time. Fun to listen to, makes me want to dance, and musically very interesting. Not familiar with genre so was often hard to analyze or isolate instruments and patterns, eventually I just gave up and enjoyed the music. Don’t even speak the language and it felt nostalgic and reminiscent at times. A beautiful album.

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