1001 Albums Summary

Pretty good. Like most REM, it has a couple of fantastic tunes, but the rest is pleasant but sort of samey-samey.

Some of the tracks are pretty catchy, others are repetitive.

It's probably good, but its not my bag.

Bad. The Doors may have had potential if Jim Morrison hadn't been the driving creative force behind the band, but his lyrics and singing are so unlistenable that it ruins any talent the band behind him had. Roadhouse Blues is a mildly competent blues song, but every other song on this album should have been rejected immediately by a competent producer. Only giving this two stars because I'm sure there are worse albums out there, and I have to reserve the 1 star rating for albums that don't actually contain what I would consider to be "music".

Not really my type of music, but i enjoyed the album!

This is an album that shows the artist has potential, but the album itself is basically a bunch of ideas loosely strung together.

Decent Folk Music

I'm torn on this album - it is, objectively, good. But it's not my thing. Suzanne Vega was ahead of her time with this. The female-led folk sound on this album is something that you would be more likely to hear in the early to mid 90's era, and she was no doubt an influence on all of those singers. But I just couldn't get into it. The first track, with the spoken word style singing, is also pretty grating.

I can see what he was trying to do, but this is pretty boring coffee house music. Or rather, the kind of music that a movie thinks would play in a coffee shop.

It's fun, and Big Iron is great, but it's really hard to take this album seriously.

34 days in, and I've finally hit my first 1 star. Good lord this is unlistenable. The first track, "Intro" (real clever name for an album that doesn't have a concept), doesn't have any singing. Which is a good thing, because holy shit does the album go downhill once the singing starts. The vocals, which are somehow both way too present, given the sparsity of other instrumentation, and entirely forgettable, sound like they are being sung by two people who are just barely awake. The female singer is louder and easier to hear, but it doesn't make it interesting. The male singer has no compression on his voice, so half of his singing gets buried in the mix. And the majority of the dual singing is just the two of them singing the same melodic line with no attempt at harmonizing, and they're voices don't blend well. And every song sounds like they tried to recall Chris Isaac's Wicked Game from memory having heard it only once. Moody guitars with a pseudo-surf rock sound, slow, plodding beats, total lack of dynamic change across the entire album...gawd this sucked.

Its Elvis?

Queen is interesting to me...every album has at least one just absolutely perfect song. This album, that song is Seven Seas of Rhye. But no album is perfect from start to finish. In that way, Queen are very consistent. The filler material on this album prevents it from being a 5 star, but there are 5 star songs.

Anyone who doesn't rate this 5 stars has issues.

No notes.

True punk. I'll give them credit there. But every song sounds the same and none of them are all that good.

Belle and Sebastian is always enjoyable, despite being a genre I normally wouldn't enjoy. I don't know if its their choice of chord usage, or arrangement, but for some reason I have a soft spot in my heart for this band.

This could possibly be a 4, but I just don't see myself listening to it multiple times. High quality, interesting songs, but not enough going on to make me want to listen to it multiple times to find new things.

There should be a rating for "unlistenable".

I know a lot of people talk about how Metallica have gone downhilll since their early days, but Lars sucks on this album too.

The only song on this album that isn't nearly perfect is Baby Driver.