1001 Albums Summary

Putting this album on only in very specific circumstances. It’ll be on my commute by walk or metro to the grocery store after work; I’ll be listening to it, not on earphones, but headphones—the retro kind, or the Koss utility pair I’ve had my eye on for some time now. It has to be a kind of ordinary day, but I should feel light about it. It should feel as though all is right in my world, and I can just be and I choose to just be in that moment. Maybe there’ll be a certain skip to my step… musingly I imagine all these sorts of details. I like that this album is short- only 6 songs. It easily transports you to a certain mood. I never really like when songs start out with speech or onomatopoeia but that’s exactly how Station To Station kicks off with—roughly a minute of train sounds. I think it put me off initially, but perhaps I can appreciate it as a stylistic choice now. By the third loop of the album, I don’t think the train sounds were as jarring as I first thought them to be. My favorite song is the fifth- “Stay”. I like it lyrically and I also like the guitar—whatever kind that it is. A guitar solo makes up all of the song’s end and it gives the song an interesting sound, it’s funky and it just sounds cool. There’s not a lot of variety in the lyrics but I really when in the chorus, Bowie says, “Stay, that's what I meant to say, or do something But I never say is stay this time I really meant to so bad this time 'Cause you can never really tell when somebody Wants something you want too” I think a lot of people would feel seen in listening to those lines,, “the singer knows my same secret longing.” I also think the final song, “Wild is the Wind” was right up my alley. It’s all soft and mellow and I can hear myself the most clearly when it’s on… This album was a great, great start.

First song, first sound in and I’m thinking, “Is this what psychedelic sounds like?” Been otherwise preoccupied, so I couldn’t confirm for myself. This album has such a raw energy kinda sound… it’s experimental and raw. All of these sounds turned into music and the listener can’t quite place what’s making them—only that it’s good stuff. The acoustic and synthetic elements compliment each other. I think this album is still the type that’s right up my alley, so I can’t be saying much. It definitely checked out to me that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an early 2000s rock band. Will be playing this album when I’m trynna speedrun a task, for sure. Extra points if that task calls for more right brain activity, e.g. anger painting, scrapbooking, furniture assembly, etc. Oh, you know, just to be fitting. Album cover’s sick too.

Nostalgia factor going, with Moondance being a song I know was my lolo’s jam,, but alas, not mine.