1001 Albums Summary

Almost seems quaint when compared to the heights she's since reached. Beautiful, compelling songs. I didn't know that she was signed to XL Records. That seems, again, dwarfed by how her legacy has grown. I'm struck by how it has a Muscle Shoals "session musician" feel to it, like a Dusty Springfield album might. Truly powerful, beautiful stuff.

Like the soundtrack to a musical that didn't exist for another 40 years. Where other rock operas stretched rock music out to the grandiose limits of opera, Meat Loaf instead confines all that is opera into the form of a rock song. Earnest. Bombastic. Ridiculous and refined. Glam as grit. And truly emblematic of those aching teenage years, at least more so than any of the moodiness that you think it's all about at the time.

That's gotta be the tightest live band of all time. It sounds clean and contemporary. James and his Flames put on one hell of a show. You can't go wrong what the sub-half-hour runtime, too. This thing would be BLOATED if it came out today, but instead, it's a lean, mean R&B machine.

Yeah, it's Straight Outta Compton. It revolutionized everything, and set a clear division between what came before and what came after. What else, really, am I going to write about? Eazy-E is a better rapper than Dr. Dre is.

Yeah it’s good it’s Radiohead

With little knowledge of their earlier records, I have very little context for this album. But, holy moly it's got some depth to it. They're really aiming for something here. Cosmic lounge music pushed through a heavy psychedelic filter. Like if a robot bartender took acid in the deserts on Mars.

5 stars. It's the Dan.

Melancholy and beautiful. Glad I gave it a listen, cause I like it better than the pink moon.

Like the platonic ideal of hip-hop. So bona fide. So... fun and bouncy and HIP HOP HIP HOP

Brilliant proto-metal. Hard to understand how this is the progenitor when so much sounds exactly like it. But I feel like that context is pretty fundamental to enjoying this album. However, even stripped of its historical significance, there are some great tunes on this albuM!

This isn't available in the United States, so I had to skip this one. I'm going to make up for it by diving into the rest of their discography! Just not right now!

Classicism, but it elevates its long-established methods.

Yeah, it's great, it's Nirvana

The greatest album of all time.

The best Beatles album the four never made

I don't think this is available in the states

Gorgeous

Yeah it’s great it’s Neil Young

Break down, 1979