1001 Albums Summary

Check Your Head was the more ground-breaking album.

prog rock of the most boring kind

Brilliant stuff

Great album. The Great Curve is 6/5.

Yeah, the music that you think is pretty wild when you are about 12 years old. (Hot for Teacher is actually quite ok)

Too ballady for my taste. But Superstition!

Campfire music

For some reason, the second half caused a great sadness in me. Good album, though.

A little too experimental for my taste. But unlike Captain Beefheart, they know where the business end of their instrument is...

Meh... Has its moments. But it's also a weird mixed bag.

\"Singing Winds, Crying Beasts\" as the extended intro to \"Black Magic Woman\"? Pure perfection! This album was peak Santana.

Sounds like the music I expect to run in the background of a hotel bar...

The unbearable blandness of weltschmerz-oozing, guitar-strumming songs, all condensed in one album. And a mostly white cover, to boot. Completely unmemorable songs, sung with a voice that makes me wonder why nobody gives the guy some painkillers... What's it doing in this list? P.S.: the "hidden track" at the end just shows what they would have been capable of... alas...

Nice!

That one didn't age well...

Great music, great texts.

I am kicking my younger self now for dismissing Arrested Development as basically another De la Soul (which I found overrated hippy rap), because the radio wouldn't play anything but Mr. Wendal, which is probably the weakest song on the album. Not so. This is great!

Not really my style of music, but unoffensive in the background.

Really cool album... But the next one sounded exactly the same.

Started as a 2, but worked it way up to 4. So I'll give it a solid 3.

The Bogus Man is outstanding. Far ahead of 1973. The whole album is a 3, though. Let's say, lack of cohesion.

Essential!!!

Entirely forgettable. The only remarkable thing, maybe, is that this was published in 1975, not 1985.

"Oh look, the Ozric Tentacles are making Techno now! Do you want to listen?" "Err..., thanks, pass."

Too many angsty teenage songs about lost love. Has a very specific target demographic, to which I don't belong anymore.

Probably the most accomplished ZZ-Top album. Classic.

The longer the album went (and it's basically three LPs), the angrier I got. When would this thing pass? All sounding more or less the same, hippyesk acoustic guitar kumbayah. Bo-ring. And then the Apple Jam started. Wow. Which was dismissed by most professional critics, Wikipedia informs me. Which, in turn, leads me to conclude that professional music critics spout as much bullshit as other professional art critics. Giving it a 3 on average.

I can't relate to the music, and not understanding the texts didn't help. So this review will be unfair... Sometimes this was like listening to someone getting tortured, with all the wailing. "Ali Maula..." send me into a nice trance, though, but it didn't last.

Nice enough, although not really groundbreaking. Reminded me a lot of Kingston Wall's "II" and Dog Society's "Test Your Own Eyes".

Rap with questionable lyrics _can_ be combined with cool grooves! Who would have thunked it?

45 years, still the freshest feelgood party music

Smooth as silk

Sounds too old-fashioned for me. From an ancient well, indeed.

Probably great music for live concerts. But as an album, it doesn't work for me. Not for casual listening, and if you do listen, you get depressed.

If you could only listen to a single Stones album, it might as well be this. Quintessential.

Today, I find it even more annoying than when it was released.

Weird mix of a Bowie album and a Stones album.

Unoffensive music that might run on the radio in the background all day long and that you've forgotten as soon as the song ends. No drama here.

Never heard of that guy before. Now I know why.

Meh.

A US band playing bona-fide punk? (not "punk" like Billy Idol or Blondie) With an album cover that would not be out of place in the house or techno section of a record shop? Brilliant!

Usually not my style, but this was nice enough.

Great Blues album!

These meandering pieces by Funkadelic are not really my kind of Funk. Funk needs to be raw and edgy. This is "Prog Funk"... (the clue is already in the costumes) Fun(k) Fact: I was at a George Clinton concert in the late 90's. Small-ish open-air space. PA sytsem was so horrible oversized that it hurt the ears even at the back end of the enclosure. Brutal. :-) P.S.: on Spotify, only two songs of the album are available. (why does Spotify do this?) So to listen to the full album, I had to use YouTube.

Pretty "meh" for a Depeche Mode album

Only ballads at the country club. Meh. Fun decidedly lacking. Album cover very much misleading.

Seventies Fusion Lounge Jazz. 'Nuff said.

10% good (e.g., Electricity), 90% infuriatingly annoying (e.g., Stay With Me). E.g., The Individual: 4 minutes of an air balloon squeeking over some electric droning? I'm sure that's violating some human rights charta. Giving 2 stars, barely, b/c of the few good parts.

The best part of the album is that it is less than 40 minutes.