1001 Albums Summary

I will probably never play it again, but it's beautiful. Great voice.

I'm glad I heard this. It's not like anything in the book. Would have been a good addition. It was fascinating at first, but even though it's only 30 minutes, it's still too long for me.

Sounds like an American take on brit pop. They do it well. Some of the songs are entrancing. Those are the best. Weird. I usually don't like that at all. Favorite song: the past is a grotesque animal.

They sound like a more energetic version of the Kaiser Chiefs, who are named after a sports team. The irony. The album is alright, but not essential. It falls in between a lot of stuff that's already in the book.

One of my issues with the original list was that there wasn’t enough fun or party music. This album belongs in that category. It made me chuckle a couple of times, but there’s too much room for improvement to give it a high rating.

This album sounds very mid sixties. It is. And it sounds like it. This great at times, cheesy at others. I recognize a few of these tunes from background music on TV. Never knew who it was. Herb Albert apparently. Turns out I do like trumpets. I thought I didn't because I didn't like Miles Davis very much. Turns out I just don't like the way he plays it.

I don't blame people for liking this album. There's not much to hate. It all sounds very safe and unsurprising. It's not for me.

In the early days of mp3 you could only select predefined genres. Primus were the only band who had their own genre named after them. That's how iconic they are. This should have been in the book. One of the biggest mistakes.

First impression: different enough, easy on the ear. But it's about twice as long as it should have been.

Pretty good pop punk. Good singer. The arrangements are not entirely a dime a dozen. The mix is fatiguing. Especially the drums sound too processed, but that was the sound of the 00s.