1001 Albums Summary

Funny how many songs on this album I've already heard and love. Big Wheel is the perfect closer and Horace Andy's best performance with Massive

Did they love tom toms in every other decade as much as they did in the 90s? Opens and closes hard, full of dissonance in the middle. Gonna listen again on headphones 🎧

Y'all knew about Prince's pterodactyl noises and didn't say anything? The second half of this album just gets better and better

Somehow avoided this one for decades. Stacked with absolute bangers.

How can you even review jazz?

There's a lot going on here. Knights of Cydonia will never not go hard, but you have to get through a bunch of Ford pickup truck rock to get there.

Music: 🌈 Lyrics: 💣

Had no idea King was such a sex symbol (he was perpetually 75 in my mind) but it's undeniable that he had this crowd wrapped around his guitar neck

It definitely grew on me. First half comes off incredibly corny, especially with the lead track sounding like every 90s commercial. Second half had me in a groove and a little sad that it ended.

It doesn't slap, but it sure sways.

Oh so THIS is where all my favorite metal tropes came from

A formative album for me. AF could have just repeated "you can never go home again" for 90min and it would have hit the same.

I can imagine this album had a huge influence on Radiohead

An hour-long solo record feels so self-indulgent that it was hard to enjoy. It gets one star for teaching me that the interplay between musicians is something I need in my music. (Headphones users beware, Jarrett's foot stomps add nothing but annoying low frequency thumps when his piano mic picks up the vibrations)