1001 Albums Journey

Phil Spector is such a creep. The Darlene love songs are the best.

I didn’t get it

Price tags is pretty good

I’m not in love with this sound but I imagine if you really liked Nico and Jefferson airplane it would be pretty exciting to see people making this stuff in 2017. I liked slow motion.

Did not need the rapping at all. “You’re gonna need a lyric proof vest” come on

Wow I didn’t expect to like it but I love it. This is the first one I hadn’t heard of that I’m really excited by. Catchy, diverse, smart and satirical in a hopeful, moving way rather than a bitter, snarky one. Song with no name wow what a track, it’s like haunted proto pet shop boys. I will say some of the songs could have been served better with different mixing, especially let’s all build a bomb. Side note between this and Gang of Four and dagmar Krause it’s becoming clear that this list has a real political perspective it’s trying to share and I think that’s cool. I expected the purpose of the list to just be about exposing people to many styles of music but it’s actually more than that!

I don’t listen to a lot of jazz so I’m not super confident in this rating. It’s very beautiful it’s just I think this is the first jazz record I’ve listened to without any brass and I’m really missing it

I’ve heard it before and I expected to give it a 4, but idk something about I’ve Seen That Movie Too coming after that shitty Jamaica song really changed my perspective on this album. There’s something really effortless and vapid about this album, like he’s such a talented songwriter I’m sure he could make 50 albums like this. There’s nothing vulnerable or crunchy here, even if it might look like that on the surface. The emotions he expresses on this album don’t feel like they’re his, I think it’s his closetedness coming through tbh.

Maybe I was in a bad mood, but this did not do it for me. Has some stuff I like, I think the last song is pretty good, but overall I found it pretty offputting. If you enjoyed/were intrigued by this, id recommend early Of Montreal, like specifically The Gay Parade. Now that I’ve heard this, the influence is really obvious, but I think that band’s frontman has the charisma that this guy lacks

When he says “There’s one thing about these monkeys, baby, they don’t know I’m around” it’s like yeah I think we’ve all been there.

Love it a lot, much more than the previous dnb record, but obviously it’s over two hours long and im a 21st century boy so my attention span is not long enough to listen to 2 hours of music for the first time and and internalize everything that happens enough to give it an adequate rating after. I really love track 3 and I love that it’s called “Music” what a great name for a song

Crazy that this is 8 years old. Probably just as good as pure heroine, but the vibes just arent as immaculate for me.

First few songs are pretty boring but then it gets good

Like if kate bush was a human person instead of a mysterious paranormal entity

Queen was never my thing idk

It’s not up to you is one of my favorite songs ever, like top 20 probably

Nothing for me here. Maybe if I was 13 and sexually frustrated. I always thought I had to give this album points for being like a really early pioneering punk album but I just found out that it came out the same year as pink flag by wire, which is crazy because pink flag sounds 10+ years ahead of this album. So idk maybe I would be fine if this album never got created. I’ll give it a 2 because there are some honestly great riffs.

Pretty great. I feel like animal collective got some inspiration from this. I like the song baby a lot

I got excited when the first song was randomly shoegaze but most of the album is solid but kind of boring

For some reason I always had in my mind Black Sabbath as a 90s band. This in 1970 seven zero is crazy. Thank you website for making me finally listen to this

1. I love how in early hip hop there was no concern about your samples having been “done before” so you would just throw in stand by me and sitting on the dock of the bay 2. Believe it or not this isn’t even the best de la soul album (DLS is dead)