1001 Albums Summary

Loving You Too Long is the best. Interesting to hear Respect before Aretha Franklin took it over.

Not my cuppa

This album would have sold 10,000,001 copies if my momhad let me buy it when I was a teenager. Despite not owning a copy, this is one of the soundtrack albums of my younger years. Whenever I hear "Back in Black" it takes me right back there. 57 year old me doesn't blame my mom for not letting me buy the album. It is full of misbehavior and disregard of women's autonomy over their bodies. I could do without "Let Me Put My Love Into You." They busted into the '80s and then broke the mold. Bands that followed in their footsteps never quite hit the mark that they set

I bought the cassette from Columbia House Records and Tapes back when this album came out. Nearly wore it out. African sounds have always been at the core of American made music - jazz, blues, rock, bluegrass (that banjo), hip-hop, rap. Sounds and rhythms brought here through the instruments and voices of enslaved humans. Whites condemned it and took credit for it when they figured out how to appropriate and profit from those who were responsible for it's roots and development. I understand how Simon also did this. I also see that he went to the source and brought forward the music and voices of those oppressed by colonization and apartheid. Would I have had the same opportunity to attend concerts and support the music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo were it not for this album? Perhaps breaking that cultural boycott opened a door that helped wake up white people and did some service toward ending apartheid. This album helped this white girl understand better the African roots of all the music that I loved. After this album I ate up roots music, I started listening to Zydeco. Simon doesn't deserve all the credit for broadening my listening landscape. It was the African voices that this album incorporated celebrated who made me keep listening. African voices and rhythms were the best thing that happened to the over synthesized music of the mid-80s. I still love this album

Not my fave genre. That said, I liked the mellower songs. I like Karen O's voice very much

Best version of Help Me, Rhonda. Otherwise, meh. Beach Boys have some fun sing-a-long songs but they're often too bubble gum sounding for my tastes

Love Needs Love Today

ELP have an unmistakable sound. I always liked that the psychedelic sounds were still present in the prog rock. I liked parts of this album less than other parts. I fully appreciate their musicianship and experimentation. They put out sounds that no others were making

If I'd known about this album and listened to it in 1994, I'd have thought myself one if the cool kids

I love this album

I don't get it. This album thinks that it is hot sh!t in a champagne glass when it's actually a cold turd in a Dixie Cup

Santana's best album, IMO. The influences he brought to rock music are significant and best showcased in this album.

What fresh hell is this?!

Well, they know how to rhyme. That's all I've got. Not my cuppa

Liked the psychedelic aspects. Probably would have liked it more about 25 years ago

Good stuff

There are better albums by Bowie, IMO. That said, "Lazarus" is great.

I love the heavy use of acoustic instruments and the range of influences that are evident in their music

Not my genre anymore. If I liked heavy metal, I'd love this

The Allman Brothers' L.A. cousins I like some of the bluesy guitar but that's it. No repeat listening for me

Excellent

Ok, not amazing

It's interesting until it's annoying. I think more than anything, the Velvet Underground offer a glimpse into a sub-culture

Listened to this a lot back in 1984

Nope

Nope

Too broody

Definitely in my top 100

Fantastic

Sounds like the soundtrack to most 70s/80s sitcoms that I watched

Love the lyrics, just can't listen to him for very long

This album is da bomb

Annoying