1001 Albums Summary

The 90s sounded like this album.

Definite departure from their prior, more rock-forward albums. Gallows Pole is one of my all time favorites, though I do get a little bit tired by the end of the folk acousticness

Impressed with the experimentation throughout the album. Sometimes it creates amazing songs (Once in a Lifetime), other times less so, but either way I applaud the creativity.

This is a solid album of 90s rock even without featuring any of the Foo Fighters’ most iconic songs. Very listenable, good first record, not really any bad songs in the set

Interesting choice to have seemingly talented musicians intentionally play out of tune

This really scratched an itch for new wave-influenced music with a funk bent. I think I’m also partial to slightly out of tune British rock singers

It feels like this entire album has no bass sound - everything from the voices to guitar to the drums is in a narrow high frequency band, it makes the songs not sound very ‘full’

It’s impressive how, for as long as this album is, that it can maintain such a high level of quality across the range of rock from hard (Jellybelly, Bullet With Butterfly Wing), through pop (1979) to the softer side (Stumbleine). I was already listening to the hits off it all the time, but I’m very happy to have been introduced to the rest of it

It will always amaze me that what was retrospectively a record made just so Walter Becker and Donald Fagen could fund the music they actually wanted to make, is in fact one of the greatest rock albums of all time. This basically launched yacht rock, and I’ll always be grateful to Elliott Randall for playing maybe the greatest guitar solo of all time on Reelin’ In The Years.

Opens with three megahits that still hold up, and the rest is an interesting mix of different songs. Particularly like Bullet the Blue Sky and Exit

3 stars