1001 Albums Summary

The music is funky and reminds me of a soundtrack to a dystopian future movie. I enjoyed a thorough listen The Fat Of The Land is not an album I feel I need to listen to again.

This sounds like Elvis just dialed in his performance. The band sounds like it’s made up of competent studio musicians, but not much soul. The album is chock full of forgettable songs and just got more boring as the album progressed. If it wasn’t for In the Ghetto and Suspicious Minds, the two extremely well known hits, this album would be a complete and total dud to my ears.

I sometimes forget what a unique album this was when it first came. Nothing compared to it and, in my opinion, it has held up remarkably well. It still amazes me with it what lyrics and complex rhythms and time signature.

I didn't turn it off. I've never been a Rush fan. I'm mostly turned off by Geddy's voice. But I made it through 2112. Ok, next...

This album, besides being a bit overproduced, holds up very well and sounds as good today as it did 39 years ago!

I probably need to listen to this album a few more times. I love XO, but Either Or sounds like I’m listening to the same song over and over again.

For my money this is one of the best "soul" albums of all time. Certainly in the top 10.

Never heard of them. Very poppy.

Once metal became a defined genre all the albums in the genre started to sound the same to me. This album might be a prototype of the sound I quickly tired of. A metalhead, I am not.

I had not listened to a Mekons album before listening to Fear and Whiskey. I had heard about it being singled out as one of the first alternative country albums, so I was interested to see what the Mekons were all about. I enjoyed the album and now need to go back and listen to more of their catalog.

A solid rocker and a great first studio album.

When I first heard this album I thought it validated my taste in music and that it made me very sophisticated. But, in secret actuality, I found it tedious and not that easy to listen to. Now, all these years later, I’m inclined to double down on the sense of sophistication, but I still find it a bit tedious.

Hugely important album. It is timeless, like a Beatles album. Nothing in music was the same after it came out. I’ve owned a clean vinyl copy of Blond On Blond since it first came out.

A classic that never gets old. The two disks with songs are solid 5 stars, but the jam disk only works under the right circumstances and one listen goes a long way. Hence, by 4 star rating.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was my introduction to Wilco. I was familiar with Uncle Tupelo, largely because of their overlap with Doug Sham and after they broke up, I lost track. I later stumbled on Wilco and Son Volt, once again because of their origins in Uncle Tupelo. At first I was a fan of Son Volt, but as I paid more attention to both groups I began to favor Wilco. I love the guitar work of Nels Cline and while Son Volt seemed to auger into a very specific sound, Wilco’s music seemed broader and more experimental and generally more appealing.

This was the #1 country album in 1965. A lot of rockers were paying attention and we had the birth of country rock. (Even if rock kind of started in country.)

I was six years old when this album came out. I think I first encountered it sitting in my uncle's Chevy Malibu listening to his 8 track tapes, probably sometime in the early to mid 1960s. It had an impact on me and ever since I have kept an eye on and an interest in jazz.

The Band's eponymous album from 1969 was a landmark release and a total deal changer for popular music. It's still a near perfect album. The unexpected chord changes and the intricate vocal harmonies were a revelation. This album was a huge influence to popular music. (Does Jemima Surrender make you think of Derek and the Dominos?) It had everything, from unusual instrumentation, polyrhythmic textures, gospel tinged harmonies, soul infused funk, and it rocked. Is this the first "Americana" album? In spite of the group only had one American along with 4 Canadians?

In the shadow of The Beatles, but just as innovative, provocative and generative. “David Watt”,, “Death of a Clown”, “Waterloo Sunset”. WOW!

Not my favorite Bee Gees album, but a solid listen.

This album was many peoples first introduction to Brazilian music. This album is so soothing and listenable, timeless. Since I don’t speak Portuguese, the album plays like an instrumental work. The soft lyrical singing is like a fine tuned instrument. I love this album and am glad to be reminded of it so I can add it to my current rotation of music. It's perfect.

This is not exactly my listening sweet spot, but I found the album intriguing and will take a closer look at Lorde's catalog.