1001 Albums Summary

What great melodies. The first three songs kicked me out my boots. It was their second Album, but their songwriting was already great. Back then, nobody knew what was to follow. McCartney is pop music in the purest form, whilst Lennon is s kind of predecessor of Indie/Alternative melodies. It gets a kind of mediocre in the middle. But "Mr. Postman" actually a cover, saves it and lets me dance.

Love the sound. Spector was maybe crazy. But he knew how to record great records.

I think their next record was the actual masterpiece. But it’s all already here in this classical of the 90s. Love it. It’s my youth. It’s about revenge. The “have” against the “have nots”. Ray Davies loves it I guess. It sound like Bowie and the Kinks would have made an album without starships and middle-class depression. “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” is my favorite. The rhythm of the words, the exact pronunciation it so on point.

I miss some kind of humor. It’s all so serious and I don’t feel any fun. I like Peter’s Voice. Mainly in the contrast to Kate Bush. A great duet. Nice deconstructed sound. Far from everyday Pop Music. I don’t like the slap-guitar. He’s no poet. “Big Time” is the worst song. I doesn’t catch me at all. Over-ambitious, swinging with meaning where there is none. Boring.

Love everything about it, although it has some lows.

Did not age well. The compressed drum sound, some questionable breaks, Trip Hop Beats…it’s a 90ies record, wich worked perfectly in the 90ies. But it is not timeless.

What a nice warm and relaxed atmosphere.

I know what people like about it. Does not work for me.

I like the drum sound…rhythmically…especially the base drum. Red Barchetta is about a profane car. What effort the music seems to have, it’s just about a car. Makes it lifeless and cold. I like the music…but I would like it without the lyrics a bit more.

Don’t know why, but I get some Coldplay Vibes.

What’s this over ambitious, megalomaniac, artificial nonsense all about? It’s a Blockbuster Movie turned into music. Pink Floyd on steroids. Rock Whores. Stadium crap without a soul. I guess you have to have the same desperate mood to like it. I don’t dare to read the lyrics…I guess it’s the old „I wanna hold your hand“ kind of poems. I don’t like it very much. My fault. Although I hear the stadium choruses and the perfect production.

It’s a child of its time.

Great songs. Great voice. But it are mainly songs for the single charts. As an album it misses a structure.

I don’t know if it is a good album…it doesn’t matter anyway. I feel 20 years younger whilst listening to it. It’s creative, it’s courageous, it’s silly, it’s clever.

Endless, nameless…if artists die young, their arts gets more important than it maybe should be.

This can’t be 50 years old. Impossible!

This album was the soundtrack to my first broken heart. This tells more about my age, than the quality of the record. But I like it. Couldn’t listen to it a while, but I’m enjoying it right know. It’s a kind of angry and depressed Black Sabath sound. I prefer the Pumpkins.

Masterpiece. I can’t give less than five stars.

Never heard of this before. Boy, what a sound. What a voice.

Sounds like Bob Dylan with laid-back Dire Straits as backing band. Love it!

Masterpiece.

Better things to come