1001 Albums Summary

favorites - a day in the life, being for the benefit of mr kite, sgt. pepper’s lonely hearts club band least favorites - within you without you, fixing a hole

Ramones • Ramones (1.5) favorites - Listen to My Heart, Chain Saw least favorites - Beat on the Brat, I Don’t Wanna Go Down to the Basement To me, these songs all more or less sound the same. (Not necessarily the lyrical content, but the guitar strumming patterns, vocal delivery, and compositions.) Now these next points are my personal preference, so I am well aware these could be very ill informed and wrong, but I digress. When it comes to listening to music, I much more enjoy when you can clearly make out every word someone is saying throughout a song. The ‘shoutyness’ of these songs doesn’t do many favors when it comes to making the lyric’s intelligible. Throughout this album, there also doesn’t seem to be much vocal variety, nor is there much lyrical variety within one song. The The mixing of these tracks all feel as though the instrumentals are MUCH farther forward than the vocals, only amplifying the feeling of everything running together. Even though this album is only 29 minutes long, I couldn’t help but keep checking my phone to determine if it was over. I will give credit where credit is due and say that I do enjoy the guitars in this album. (And God, there’s a lot of them.) The instruments all blend together well throughout, and there aren’t moments the composition seems jarring. (Comparatively to the rest of the record.)

favorites - The Robots, Neon Lights

favorites - Why Worry, Your Latest Trick, The Man’s Too Strong WOW! That is really all I have to say about this album. Listening to this for the first time felt like a spiritual journey… just, and I must say again, WOW!