1001 Albums Summary

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3.5 / 5.0 The weakest among their first five albums that make up Sabbath's peak but it's still decently strong. Each album for that run, five albums in a four year period, have 2-3 all-time classic songs (like Snowblind and Supernaut) surrounded by relative fluff. I wonder if they would receive more critical acclaim if they didn't pump so many albums out and could release just two albums with their best material. RIP Ozzy but Changes is a painful song to listen to.

3.0 or 3.5 / 5.0 Early Miles Davis songs just don't resonate with me, which is sad because he's got a crazy run of all-time great albums in his discography. I think the difference is as simple as albums that are "just" Jazz and albums where Miles Davis pulls the Jazz genre into an unexpected destination. Birth Of The Cool is a fine compilation of background music but miles (heh) behind In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, On the Corner, and Get Up With It.

4.0 / 5.0 - I generally like San Francisco Sound bands and this is a pretty good example but behind the real pillars of the scene. Darkness, Darkness is the obvious standout song but the rest of the album is that nice combination of laid-back folk rock. This kind of album used to be transgressive music from the hippie devil, lol.

First three minutes of Part 1 and a few minutes in the middle of Part 2: SPOOKY, SCARY SKELETONS SEND SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE SHRIEKING SKULLS WILL SHOCK YOUR SOUL SEAL YOUR DOOM TONIGHT Rest of album: I am at the proper level of high to love this album. prog forever.

4.0 / 5.0 The best album ever made that includes my old apartment on the cover.

1.0 / 5.0 ughhh

4.5 to 5.0 / 5.0 Listening to this as a 13 year old blew open some doors on how I thought about music. I didn't know songs could be this weird & artsy, yet I still found it all great somehow. My nostalgia is just mine alone, the novelty isn't as extreme now that I'm more versed in music history but here, I'm alive, everything all of the time.

3.0 / 5.0

3.0 to 3.5 / 5.0 Mezzanine is the group's best and most consistent album but this album has Unfinished Sympathy which is such a banger of a track. I will never not like 90's trip-hop might-as-well-be-the-amen-break drums over giant orchestra pads and I cannot be swayed from this correct opinion.

2.5 / 5.0 Uncle music. Coworker music. NPC music. Music that makes you glad you weren't a teenager in the late 70's because this lame stuff would've been your childhood.

4.0 / 5.0 You have to understand how groundbreaking this album was at the time. Who would've thought a white guy from the midwest in 2000 could be an angry edgelord?

3.0 to 3.5 / 5.0 Clearly meant to match a super-specific mood but it's not a mood I connect with personally.

It was mediocre at the time. It's aged poorly and even worse now.

5.0 / 5.0

3.5 / 5.0 More bland than I remembered but it's fine background music and I appreciate any attempt at an album-length story. This album, along with the Blink-182 self-titled album and others, are those little looks at bands that are trying to do something more mature and developed than the simple pop songs they're known for. Not that it works out well all the time but it's better than making more of the same.