1001 Albums Summary

This is the very first album I was given, and also the first time I’ve ever attempted to express my thoughts on music in written form. I’m pretty inexperienced when it comes to analyzing songs, much less an entire album, and that’s something I hope to grow in over the course of the next few months using this site. I can say I was surprised how many songs I was already familiar with, and getting to listen to them all in the full context of this record revealed how quintessential this is as a reggae album. From what I can tell this is THE reggae album, and I found it remarkably consistent and easy to listen to. I was tempted to give it a 5, but I don’t want to throw off my scale on the first entry.

Didn’t love this. The music itself is pretty interesting, but each song goes for too long and just kind of drones on. An instrumental version of this would go crazy though.

A stone cold punk rock classic. All hits no misses. Other bands wish they had as many iconic singles on one album.

Unfortunate for this album to be generated right after “Nevermind.” A few fun tracks, just don’t fully love her style.

This album is very split for me. Half the songs are real 70s rock jams, and the other half are either too weird or too plain. As a debut there’s one or two impressive singles that have stood the test of time, while the rest is clearly not their best work.

Really solid all the way through. Sade would have killed an 80s James Bond song.

Each song tricks me into thinking that there won’t be any vocals, but I usually didn’t mind they were there.

Boring. Has one iconic song surrounded by 70s mediocrity.

Very silly, but I honestly had fun