1001 Albums Summary

Don't listen if you need coffee. Hasn't made me like jazz. Day 1 but I am still in a rut about known songs being easier for me to actually pay attention to. Realized I've been pronounce Ipanema incorrectly. Sax gets murkier in some of these songs (O Grande Amor?) than I have noticed before.

Walk On By- Awesome, you can really hear the influence on so much music in this one song. Hyperbolicsyllablecsesquedalymistic- Says it all. One Woman- Great emotion. By The Time I Get to Phoenix- You have all this musical talent and then spend 8 minutes ignoring it?? Walk On By (Single)- Looses the groove of course but overall good single. By The Time I Get to Phoenix (Single)- STILL TALKING?? IN THE SINGLE??

Once again I find myself impressed by the influence I hear in later music but mainly wanting to listen to the later music. B sides started to branch out a bit more.

Can a live album be better than the sum of the studio songs? Yes. This album is not. The crowd work is extensive-- voices are loudly heard instructing the crowd to shout and, worse, this is needed! Call and responses, or at least the capture thereof, are lack luster yet extensive crosstalk comes through everywhere else on the recording. Unprompted shouts don't seem to be related to particularly impressive or energetic moments in the song-- perhaps a visual of the stage would be needed to "feel" these moments along with the crowd. Listening to this album is simply an exercise in awkwardness. It comes off like he's a b-rate opener pleading with the crowd to pay attention.

Minimalism does not work with any of their overarching genres. Not their fault but synths were a bad idea. Couldn’t finish.

Half hokey half inspired classic classic rock

disgusting start to a morning

Finally some good dad rock.