1001 Albums Summary

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.

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