1001 Albums Summary

Disco.

The tritone to rule them all. Still heavy 50+ years after its release. Some lyrics come off as a bit silly but this is the template for all heavy metal that followed.

A fine post-Cale effort. Highlights are Pale Blue Eyes and What Goes On. Murder Mystery, however, makes the 2nd side drag a bit.

Drum solo could have been about 10 minutes shorter.

I love this album, it's a classic for me and one I listen to a lot.

This is a bit of a downer, all the songs are slow tempo ballads.

A perfect country album.

Some interesting percussion work and I appreciate the melding of metal with indigenous sounds. I wish there was more of that. The vocal stylings are really what put me off here, it too often veers into what sounds like violent retching.

Overall s good album undone by some hard to take vocal choices.

Listening to this mediocrity raises the question: Why aren't I just listening to Soundgarden?

A relic from a past best appreciated on the dance floor. Not my cup of tea but not wholly terrible.

This is Brooklyn hipster affectation elevated to the highest degree and it mostly sucks.

Track 1 is boring. Track 2, is what we all came for but, after collecting dust for 30+ years, it's boring too. A little Hey Jude vibe that goes absolutely fucking nowhere. Speaking of going nowhere, track 3 careens straight into a dead end and the driver just walks away pretending like repeating the song's title over and over again is something. Track 4 is a half-baked soul slow jam with stupid fucking lyrics that are just a half-step above gibberish, but hey, there are horns! This song should have been done at the 3 minute mark. Track 5 is a half-assed fusion between funk and late-era Beatles with more idiotic rhyming ("we'll make love in the shade / and in the ocean we will bathe"). Speaking of idiotic lyrics, "teached" is not a word and, no you cannot take poetic license for using it to fit the meter and rhyme. Fuck you Lenny, you haven't earned that right. Track 6 starts out a little funky but is just all over the place with its message, (fear is.... Bad?) pick a more focused topic for chrissakes. Track 7 is called "Does Anybody Out There Even Care?" I'm going to employ Betteridge's law of headlines here and say "no." Track 8 - Lenny couldn't catch a cab once because he's black so he wrote a song about it. 5 stars. Track 9 - again with the middle school first draft lyrics. Jesus is this record almost over yet? Track 10 contains the lyric "Am I rapist who needs release?" which he sings in a weird overdriven way which just draws attention to the horribleness of the question. Did I accidentally listen to the CD bonus tracks? Yes I did and I am fucking furious about it.