yeahhhh, this is so great. Sade is the epitome of cool. her voice and the endless sax are a combo I can definitely get behind. i knew smooth operator and your love is king already so my "fresh" listen of the album only really started with hang on to your love and oh boy, what a start. sally another hot fave from this album. love love love this one.

soul is always a winner for me :)

surprised how much i enjoyed this! soooo 90s coded with the groove and the questionable lyrics about women personal faves: - excursions - butter

meh, this didn't do much for me. very samey throughout and just generally depressing. easy listening in the sense it didn't spark much joy or focus to it, so I guess I would listen again, but can't say i'd recognise anything that made an impact on me

yeah i enjoyed this! its pretty cheesy, but there are some good hits on the album, such as "girls just wanna have fun" and "time after time" that deserve to have lasted in the musical stratosphere for as long as they have. i particularly enjoyed yeah yeah, feels very quintessential of the timing of this album. overall, I listened twice through and enjoyed it!

yeahhhh, this is so great. Sade is the epitome of cool. her voice and the endless sax are a combo I can definitely get behind. i knew smooth operator and your love is king already so my "fresh" listen of the album only really started with hang on to your love and oh boy, what a start. sally another hot fave from this album. love love love this one.

meh .. its a great beat, sure, but after 1999 it starts to sound really repetitive

i can see how this would be a very influential album (jay z basically carbon copied the rapper on 7th chamber), but it's not my style of music. really not a fan of the chatting at the start of almost every song (edit: OMG STOP TALKING ITS NOT A PODCAST). i get that it has its time or plan (love it on Kneecap's Fine Art) but its used to death here and really takes you out of the flow. enjoyed: - shame on a n***a - cool minor sequence on the piano! - da mystery of chessboxin - CREAM not a fan of: - clan in da front - method man (had to skip it 30 seconds in) - tearz (shame, cause I like it without the 30 seconds of terror at the start) count of songs saved: 0/15 would I listen again: no

surprised myself with how much i enjoyed this album! its not like anything I've ever listened to before, and I wouldn't be familiar at all with sengalese music. i found it really beautiful to listen to a culture of music so (assumedly) different to my own, only to hit lilts of what i'd recognise as Irish trad sounds in the opening track. however, in saying that, i didn't love the cheesy synth in olel or lem gi, it made me feel like I was on a cruise ship. this would be a 4 star album without the cheesy synth. particular shout outs to: - yela - hamady boiro - sy sawande didn't like: - daniibe (but not strongly dislike) - olel songs saved: 0/11 would I listen again: yes

I had to listen to this twice in a row because the first three songs sounded so similar that it took until I reached "look at where we are" for me to realise we're onto another, let alone the fourth, song. some of the songs sound like they're taking progressions from really famous songs and incorporating them in to catch your attention. which like great, its working, but if I wanted to hear those progressions i'd just listen to the original? a lot of "kooky" songs in the second half too .. is this really the best we have to show for the 2010s? enjoyed: - flutes - how do you do - look at where we are not a fan of: - night and day - now there is nothing - HATE the time sig change count of songs saved: 0/11 I probably would listen again, passively, if it was on in a cafe in the background or something. but I don't think i'd go out of my way to listen again

this was surprisingly cute! its giving grease I listened to this twice on repeat and I enjoyed it equally both times :)

I surprisingly loved this. A really great introduction to the genre, one that I would’ve never listened to before trying out this challenge. I’ve relistened about five times already. Something so satisfying about the steady flow of it, and the progression between songs was so smooth!

this is a little too ............ american for me its grand, easy listening, but I won't be donning the stripes and stars just yet.

expected more from this tbh as i've listened to the national before and really liked their sound. this was really dreary

what in the psychedelic shit show was this

soul is always a winner for me :)

i really cannot get on board with queen .. i WANT to but i'd struggle to differentiate between their albums and see any progression or growth. endured this with gritted teeth tbh

the self indulgent final boss. there's absolutely no need to make people listen to 69 songs of drivel. its okay to edit sometimes !!!!

this and 69 love songs back to back is a bit cruel ..... need a lie down to process the volume of new sound i've listened to in the last 24 hours. i had higher hopes coming into this, i'd enjoyed chemical brothers and i was some of that consistent electronic sound that i liked might follow over to here. but no, that really didnt happen .. i went out of my way to find the youtube links to the right recordings. what a waste of time. i hated this. way too intense and repetitive with nothing of note to remember. i couldn't engage with the "music", it's about as melodic as someone jiggling their keys infront of me for two hours.

the aggressive harmonica start did not set us off on a good footing .......... his music is good, voice ....... not so much like, this is fine. my ears wouldnt bleed if someone turned on this album but i also wouldnt reach for it myself

a great album ft some stellar jazz <3

I don’t think I was or have ever been the target audience for this album … I don’t hate this, it’s grand, and there are some more palatable bops on it like “Gotta Get Away”. But it’s not something I’ll ever reach for again.

not at all what i had imagined for beach boys, but that’s definitely a good thing in this scenario. Songs like long promised road and a day in the life of a tree are really really great. However, songs like take a load off your feet (so cheesy) and student demonstration time (Jesus Christ) and feel flows (stop the flutes) make this a hard album to listen to straight through. Overall, more bad than good bops imo.

The first 1001 albums that I listened to was a tribe called quest album. I liked that one but I loveeeee this one. Super cool, suave, I’m tapping my foot the whole way through. Yeahhhh I can see how these fellas would do well after this debut album

someone pls tell men that anger is also an emotion

I’d never heard of this album or artist, nor had I any idea what they’re saying, but I can feel the funky grove of it throughout. Sure, some songs don’t hit as hard as others (‘O Filósofo’ mar shampla) but the opening 'Ponta de lança africano' is simply a bop. It gets a littleeeee bit holiday resort-y with ‘Camisa’ and ‘A Historia de Jorge’ but there are solid songs sprinkled throughout.

Hmmm idk about this one .. felt a little too theatrical for me. The songs are good, but like dial it down a smidge

not for me .. its fine but too beatles-y, baroque-y, arpeggio keyboard slams for my liking of course time of the season and this will be our year are great so points for that, but nothing new stands out to be to carry the album

yeah enjoyed this more than i thought i would, which is to say, i didn't think i'd enjoy it at all!

I can definitely see how this album influenced a lot of artists that I really enjoy now. It’s the exact style of hip hop that I look; suave, effortlessly cool, nothing too frantic. Admittedly, I think I still prefer the artists of today that have been influenced by these folks, but it’s still an album that deserves a lot of credit.

This is one of the first albums I’ve come across that I was already pretty familiar with the artist, and knew a lot of songs on this album already. I really enjoyed it but I can’t deny the fact that after listening to the full album, it is a little … samey? I really enjoyed the first half but it got real monotonous anfter that. And the ones that are super different, like Porcelain, become almost jarringly so. I do like the noise they’re making, but there’s a lot of it without a lot of variation so I can’t score it higher based on familiarity alone. I would listen again, and if it was playing somewhere, I’d happily enjoy it. But I can’t say I’d be able to differentiate what song exactly is playing.

i'd give this 3.5 if i could but with that option gone, i'm going to be brutal and stick to 3. it was a nice, enjoyable listen, just not particularly memorable

a lesser man's bob dylan

ah jeez, i don't think i'm musically informed enough to be able to engage with, let alone critique, this album. it's quite the ambitious masterpiece and while only being composed of four songs, each piece takes you on a journey. it's undoubtedly cool and i hope is studied by those who understand funk far better than i do

Not for me

oh hell yeah this is quality over quantity and i'm grooooooooving baby

this was lovely <3

i saw another review that said "in your face, a difficult but wonderful listen" and i agree with two thirds of that statement ...

now cmon now .. this is just fancy hold music

mom come pick me up im scared

meh

oh nowwwww we're talking, this is such a masterpiece

this was fine, i wouldnt have called this rock, it was pretty soft

fu2

this is the second elvis costello i have gotten from 1001 but i didn't enjoy it as much as the first one, at all. this is pretty cheesy; pony st as the first song is almost nauseatingly so. kinder murder and 13 steps lead down are an improvement but we're right back to it by clown strike. i like costello's good vibes, groovy style, and still enjoyed this as an easy listen, but it didn't land as anything meaningful

okay after getting past the atrocity that is "save the life of a child", america is a welcomed addition its a very short album though, is there a need for a "voices of old people" interlude?? idk, this album just screamed pretentious to be and while i enjoyed some of the songs in isolation, i can already hear some knobhead telling me i dont "get it"