1001 Albums Summary

Obviously this is great and iconic and everything but if you've worked any shifts in any hipster food service kinda place Blue Rondo is borderline traumatic. I just feel like there's a queue out the door and someone is shouting at me that their latte is not microfoamy enough and it's 2013 so my skinny jeans are digging in. That's the only reason it's not 5*

I really hate talking heads a lot. I almost feel bad about it. It's completely irrational. I can understand that, musically, it's not bad. I just hate the way it sounds so much.

Powerful gospel vocals from Meatloaf driven by saccharine over the top cliche filled rock opera compositions from Jim Steinman.

Every morning Anthony Kiedis gets on his knees and thanks Christ in Heaven that these talented musicians ever let him make that awful noise over their music. Back in the day he must have had the vanor the bag. There are some 2 or even 3 star RHCP albums but this isn't one of them.

I was almost enjoying this until 'Reeling in the years', which I like almost as much as Talking Heads (see prev). Again, I understand this isn't technically bad, it's just so not for me in a really profound way I don't fully understand.

1001 albums... But 901 of them sound exactly like this god please make it stop.

It just sounds really sexually aggressive and not in a consensual way. Just gross. The vocal is distractingly bad. I thought it suffers from being overplayed and hoped sitting through an album would unlock some charming b sides, but it's just 50 minutes of shit. Its a shame because I think I'd love the instrumental version. As soon as that nasal creepy whining starts I just check out mentally.

I-IV-V for 40 minutes. I wish I'd given a mid sonic youth album more points. At least something happens there. Obviously this is well done and unchallenging but that makes it hard to love it.