1001 Albums Summary

This is a chill record that I could see my parents listening too while hanging out around the house doing normal every day things. Maybe as background music at a Christmas party. You can feel the shag carpet between your toes and all the appliances are avocado green.

Hill's voice is authoritative as it ever has been and cements her position as one of the great voices of the time. The album could do without the skits. Those are interesting only the first time you hear it. After that, it would be better if the music spoke for itself.

The light airy instrumentals are a dramatic contrast to the darkness of the lyrics. Those are emo AF. It's easy to see how a song like Patterns could be covered by Disturbed or Staind. The closing of Silent Night with news stories is a powerful statement of the time.

It seems so wholesome now, but this record must have been controversial when it came out. I can just imagine kids listening to it for the first time on vinyl thinking "That's right, man. We do get around." It's easy to tell which tracks they intended to be radio friendly hits and others where they were just having fun rocking out.

This is a solid collection of standards. Ms. Vaughan's voice is powerful and lovely. The live setting gives it a looser more playful feel than a formal recording. Any fan if Nina Simone or Billy Holiday would enjoy it.

This is a record that comes out late at the party when things get interesting. The melancholy lyrics are the calm seas that sit atop strong currents just hinting at the turmoil that lies beneath.

Many artists go for the big melodramatic moments of life. Springsteen is the voice of everyday life for everyday people.

I don't really know about this type of music to give an opinion.

I can respect the talent it takes to do this, but find it difficult to take death metal seriously.

I enjoyed this album. The rhythms are light and breezy, but the lyrics give the songs an emotional punch. It's perfect coffee house pop.

This record is a how to manual of how to get your woman back. Or how to take one away from someone else. Most of the record is about that except for the title track, which is about getting stoned. So, a good record.

If this record has some key significance, I'm missing it.

I could never really get into Joy Division. They are classic Premo, but seem to take the moodiness as the point rather than whatever caused the moodiness. Emo for the sake of emo. Still there are a couple of really good tracks like Dead Souls. I can see why NIN covered it for The Crow.

At first I thought this was just some cover band doing Eric Clapton songs. Turns out it is Eric Clapton. This is an entirely fake band created to hide the fact that the title track, Layla, is about Clapton's infatuation with George Harrison's wife. These songs are still played in blues bars across the country every night. This album really is a hidden gem.

This is a great record. Would be great at parties to show you are OG. Too bad it's not on Spotify. Had to go to YouTube.

I must have listened to this on 100 times before this. It's good.

Long Black Limousine sounds like Presley talking to his future dead self. As a small town country boy he was well aware of his own excess and vices, including fancy cars. It was said he chose the song with a sense of dark determinism. It was him saying "If this is how I'm going to die, I might was well do what I do and sing a song about it." Maybe Elvis didn't go out as metal as he thought, but facing that fear and turning it into art is all rock 'n roll.

Maybe this was better in the 70s if you were doing a lot of cocaine. I couldn't get into it.

I didn't really care for this album. Looking at the history with Warhol it looks like an experiment in what would become reality television. The Real World Chelsea Hotel, and just as fake.

Duran Duran has held up well. They still sound great.

This has the real late 90's cyberpunk industrial house feel to it. Good background music for coding.

I didn't really care for it. It seemed more like random noises thrown together. That may have been the intent, but not for me.

I have to say it was just okay. I'm not a big Bowie fan. I like him more in Labyrinth than from his music. That's a me thing, I know.

This is like the background music of every 80's mall montage scene.