1001 Albums Summary

***Queen Jane Approximately, Tombstone Blues, Ballad of a Thin Man (& obv Rolling Stone) Not rlly my kind of folk // too bluesy // a little repetitive & the lyrics are kind of parody of themselves('one-eyed midget' lol) but like the Band / organ / sound etc plus every song has a few great/surprising lines min NOTE -- the end of Tom Thumb Blues seems to be referenced at the end of opening track of the Monitor "I'm going back to New Jersey I do believe they've had enough of me"

***10 zillion Listened to most of it, all new wasn’t familiar with a single one on here. Need to read more about the context but was pretty good, really cool melody / chord shifts. Idk honestly I feel like was probably groundbreaking in 1974 but production sounds a little chintzy to my today ears. But synth / whatever on reggae lady song was cool. Definitely makes me realize how much frank ocean is just a retread / pastiche of this sound - especially channel orange as in sweet life. Also one of the songs sounds like blonde - self control.

****High & Dry, Bulletproof I guess this is forcing me to confront that I'm kind of a Radiohead hater in my old age despite having passing fondness for OK Computer as a teenager. I think I resent their modern canon status especially since it seems like this sound / scene didn't amount to much + I like scrappy/punk/indie rather than mewling artsy indie. THat being said, giving this a fresh chance with fresh ears! Like this better in a lot of ways than OK Computer and onward -- slightly rockier and some interesting arrangements. Never heard most of the songs (maybe some from the ASOB Radiohead show lol). I think the stretch of The Bends -> High & Dry -> Fake Plastic Trees is kind of undeniable and pretty interesting. Some of the melodies too do work on me -- Radiohead do this melody turn that reminds me of 'Stay Faraway So Close' or whatever by U2 which is significant for obvious reasons.... IDK though, think it's pretty solid but just not really my thing these days.. too like grunge-y or something. Plus I've always found Thom Yorke singing kind of boring. But glad to fill this gap a little bit and understand what this sounds like.

***Remote Control, White Riot, Hate & War Funny to have to listen to this now since I should for work anyway lol. Been listening to so much UK post-punk recently, and have listened to London Calling before but don't think I've ever really given this a listen. Honestly kind of rules, kind of obvious to say but I feel like this is the template for like 55% of all punk adjacent music that came afterwards -- especially like 90s skate punk. I didn't realize how much the more reggae / goth elements style elements only came in later -- and also I didn't realize how sort of poppy these guys were compared to some of their contemporaries even. Either way glad to have given this a back to front listen and adding some of these songs to my playlists. NOTE -- just read the album summary notes, not sure if I listened to the original UK release or the US 1979 rerelease track order.... oh well

Listened to a bit - pretty cool but didn’t listen to the lyrics much so a little lost on me. But will come back to for sure - liked the PJ Harvey collab.