1001 Albums Summary

Started out strong with Sympathy for the Devil, but other than that I only like maybe two other tracks. The rest were a bit slow for me. Honestly lowkey a bit disappointing.

Well, that album art sure is something... I know I shouldn't be too critical, since it was made in 1996, but I've seen far better image editing done by children in MSPaint. Should I judge this album the cover, though? Well... Given that the first track starts out literally screaming like someone's being murdered and I was wearing headphones, I'm going to say yes. The actual music following the destruction of my eardrums was deeply chaotic noise. It didn't feel like blues at all, and rather like someone's drunken attempt at playing blues. There were some great guitar riffs, but the vocals were awful and I couldn't make it all the way through more than one or two tracks. When I think of blues, this is definitely not what comes to mind. They've got the "explosion" part right, though... and not in any good way. I feel like my brain has been exploded and my ears may never recover. I'm shocked this album made it on a list of things that everyone must hear before death!

I mean, it's okay? But it feels more like someone's cover band than anything that's really worth listening to when there are far better rock bands from this timeframe.

Meh.

Absolute trash. Nothing but noise and repetitive droning. Literally the title track just repeats "time becomes a loop" over and over for like two minutes and most other songs include extremely repetitive vocalizations and/or beats. Honestly starting to question the sanity and musical tastes of whoever wrote the book these recommendations come from. The only good thing about listening to this album is that I've been able to teach YouTube Music to avoid trash like it by thumbing down every track.