1001 Albums Summary

Most of the songs have a sort of classic 80s poppy post-punk (?) sound that isn’t really my usual taste, what with the reverberated pick guitar and generic chord progressions. However I think that sonically a lot of this album just sounds really good and Bono has some great vocal moments (though also a few choices that came across as quite corny to me, but those were rarer). Too many of the songs sound very similar and don’t build or variate to much for me to really think of ever revisiting this album as a whole, and I think just a track or two could have been cut for time entirely to tighten the package a bit. There were a few standouts that I REALLY liked: Bullet The Blue Sky and Walk To The Water have a sound that’s a mix of early 70s Led Zeppelin and turn of the century grunge, and those more experimental, darker sounding tracks got my attention completely. Beautiful Ghost also made me stop in my tracks with it’s hauntingly beautiful synth ambiance and dissonant chord pattern. It’s a fine album, in some parts a good album, but not a great album both due to my personal taste but also in some part objectively due to a partly repetitive and safe sound throughout.