1001 Albums Summary

A couple of classics, but I never realized how much the rest of AC/DC's catalog sounds pretty much identical to each other. They're not bad, but they're not great. As an album, OK.

Fine. It was interesting background music. Probably one that I need to spend a few more days with to appreciate more.

I’ve heard like one Nick Cave song from a movie soundtrack, and it was… fine, but otherwise am unfamiliar with his music. But this album is so weird and so BAD. I seriously thought it was a joke, but the Wikipedia page has it listed as ridiculously well-reviewed: most places have it as 5 out of 5 stars, 96 of 100 on Metacritic, and says it was rated as the Best Album of the Decade, tied with Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butteryfly. All of which makes it feel even more like I’m being pranked. When I was younger, my aunt was really into Ray Boltz, the Christian music singer who also did narrative songs. You’d know him from the terrible “Christmas Shoes” song (all of his music is like that). This album makes Ray Boltz sound like Sinatra. The music itself is... fine, but the sing-talking… ugh. And his vocabulary oof. I get that this is supposed to be deep, and there’s a good amount of imagery, but the actual sentence construction sounds like it should be sung by William Shatner. The insane praise is what boggles my mind. Every weird music has its dedicated fans, not gonna yuck other people’s yums, etc. But this things gets five stars across the board - a 96 out of 100 on Metacritic. “Highest rated album of 2019 and tied for highest rated album of the 2010s with Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly”. I’m looking out the window for zeppelins man.