1001 Albums Summary

I am really glad that I finally listened to this classic album and that this has been the first album I got. I’ve never been into anything metal-like and this has been my first album in this genre. It wasn’t really my cup of tea. Ozzy‘s singing didn’t really resonate with me. I quite liked some of the guitar parts especially in the last 3 tracks of the album. I totally understand the appeal, but it isn’t something that resonates with me at the moment. I will come back to some of the tracks for the guitar though.

Aretha Franklins voice is extremely powerful and beautiful. I imagine coming back to this album in the future for some of the songs, but overall it isn’t my style. While listening to this album it felt like some songs flowed together for me (in the sense that they sounded very similarish to me). Although I am sure this would change if I listen to this album more carefully and repeatedly.

So far the streak has been absolutely incredible. I absolutely love Pink Floyd and have been a fan before taking on this challenge. I love WYWH, although its probably not my favorite Pink Floyd album and I dont always want to listen to "Have a Cigar" and "Wish you were here" (because I've listened to it so many times already) I absolutely love "Shine on you crazy diamond" and "Welcome to the machine". Even if lyrically I am still a bit uncertain to which degree the latter resonates with me, musically I adore every second of it. This is an absolutely definite and easy 5/5.

I knew this was the case but I really start to notice how much outside opinions influence my perception of an album and how by listening to random albums you don’t really do the artists justice. Upon first hearing (and this was my first time listening to Neil Young) I didn’t really enjoy the album. I quite liked the instrumentation on the beginning track and liked its connection to the closer. The fact that it’s a mix of live performances and studio recording is really cool as well. I quite like the intonation of Neil Youngs voice and find some of the distorted guitar, especially in contrast to the first half of the album, intriguing. But I did not really enjoy the music while listening to it or reading the lyrics. I understand the appeal and the ideas behind some of the lyrics but it doesn’t resonate with me. After reading some comments and how the album is structured I immediately started to look at this album as a piece of art more than I did before and upon relistening some of the songs did value them more. But I think it is correct to rate this based on my first listen and I didn’t really enjoy it. Some of the songs like Powderfinger dragged on for me because I didn’t like them. I am sure this would change with time and I’ve read that this album is NOT the best introduction to Neil Young. But as it is, I didn’t really like it but will be coming back for the intro track.

A bit unusual to put my feelings into words here. In general I definitely found this album to be enjoyable for me, the instrumentation to be intriguing and Paul Simon’s partial singing/talking to fit perfectly in many cases. Although I can’t say that it resonated with me completely, I still felt compelled to come back to this album right after listening to it and relistening some of the songs. Only after listening to the album (and I really liked the influence of South African music) I found out about its controversy. Although it definitely is part of this albums history, I won’t let it influence my opinion too much here. I definitely think that I will be coming back to this and do feel that I want to listen to more of his music as this album definitely felt artistic in the best way possible. But I can’t quite give it 4 stars as I want to reserve that rating for albums that I definitely love. So it’s about a 3,7 for me.

I have not heard much of ragae in my life up to this point (haven’t even listened to a single album by Bob Marley, for example) and I tend to listen to new genres by putting them as background music while I do something else (as a first, second listen, afterwards I pay my full attention to the albums). I still listen to it and its songs but can also put my attention elsewhere. I’ve done this to many albums which I now love and have done this with Marcus Garvey as well. Because of this I have not payed attention to the lyrics too much and most likely misted many ideas. I really liked the title track and it got me excited to listen to the rest. I feel like if I am in the mood for ragae that this would be an album I would definitely come back to. Nonetheless, for my first listen, I was glad that it was about 30 minutes, as I would’ve found 40 or more to be fatiguing.

This was my first introduction to Radiohead (besides creep) and this group has become one of my favourites since then. I remember being extremely intrigued by the album and was really disturbed by the title track (I got goosebumps and wanted to play that track repeatedly after that to get the same feeling of eeriness, isolation, fear and disturbance which this song created) but for the most part found it unlistenable up to that point. I quit the album, wanting to get back to it again in the future and explored Radiohead’s incredible discography. Upon returning to this album time and time again I resonated with it more and more. I once felt that Treefingers felt kind of out of place and that overall this album didn’t feel extremely cohesive and inconsistent at some points. And although I still think that this is an album you have to listen to completely (so it’s more than the sum of its parts, in comparison to in Rainbows in my opinion), the feelings, emotions, atmosphere and thoughts this album provokes are completely unique to it. I think this is absolutely incredible, I really love this album.