1001 Albums Summary

Kinda nice but feels entirely like a "soundtrack to an 80s throwaway 6/10 romcom set in Ohio". Every track lacks any emotion in the instrumentation. Most tracks lack emotion in the voice, too, except 'Storms'. Just feels too capitalistic and shallow, constructed from beginning to end to be a summer "feel-good" hit. Production is sort of pathetic, too. If they were trying for radio music to play in the car, then The Doors did a better job before them. Maybe if I wasn't American I'd like it more for the novelty. Can't help but feel like if I was listening to this in the car, I'd be thinking of 101 artists I'd rather listen to than this [speaking of which, Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is this album but better in literally every way except voice variety]. It's not bad, just not human. Okay, this album goes on for an atrociously long time. I'm *still* listening to it an hour later. It was for the first few songs a 6/10, then a 5, then a 4, now it might actually be 3. The production on the song 'Tusk' is actually irritating. I'm bored and now irritated. I can think of 100 albums that deserve to be on this list more than this album. Definitely think there's some bias going on here because it's Fleetwood Mac. 'Never Forget' is the perfect ending for this album in that it perfectly encapsulates the complete void of humanity in this album. An alien or ChatGPT could mimic feel-good emotional music better than this.

Pretty meh the whole way through. Too one-note and simplistic.