1001 Albums Summary

Thought I may enjoy this for nostalgic reasons… nope, the sounds and composition are antithetical to my musical preferences. A solid 2 star rating.

Love this. One of the best!

Pleasantly surprised… I liked this album. I never listened to them as I was turned off by their radio hit. A common mistake in my musically arrogant teen years

I like the creative rhythms and the way some of their words rhyme differently, but the lyrics and style, not totally my thing

Some might say best Rock and Roll album of the 90s? Nope. All rock and zero roll. This album sounds like it was written and preformed by a couple of arrogant high-schoolers. Unimaginative scaley guitar solos/licks, whiney yell-singing, muddy flat mixing, mediocre lyrics, derivatave drumming, and the most basic base possible - with no rhythm interplay. The fact that many Brit’s consider this album incredible, is horrifying, and it says some very telling things about the state of pop culture in Britain. It’s depressing. I listened to the first Beatles album AND Blur (their immediate competition) album as a comparison, and wow, the first couple of bars of each, blow this lame-dick album out of the water. The one song I thought started with a little creativity (cigarettes and alcohol) is an obvious rip-off of that T-Rex song everyone knows. In all honesty, it’s hard to find anything I like about this album. I can only think of couple: Sometimes their melodies are decent, and some of their bridges are well-crafted, I like the way their voices crack when they push a vocal. I’m sensing the end of this critique, and I’m getting joyful because I know when I press send, I’ll never have to listen to them with attention ever ever again.

Pleasantly surprised. I normally don’t like white boy blues, nor am I into zz top that I’ve heard on the radios, but this was good and enjoyable. Their blues influences were tasteful in this manifestation.

Never really appreciated this phase of Tom Waits, but I have the first half a good listen, and there’s a lot to appreciate. Interesting percussion, good lyrics, good melodies. It sounds like they just kind of pressed record during a jam session.

Decent variations of many Christmas classics, however, I’m so personally sick of Christmas classics. I’d rather listen to mediocre Christmas original songs, than great versions of these classic songs.

Perfect album. No explanation needed.

Pretty interesting music, I only listened to about .5”6 songs, and they were fun, but not compelling enough for me to give more stars