1001 Albums Summary

Great high school band!

OMG. Is everything that bleak? Plus all that noise? Though I have to say I the Orgasmatron cut message hits home.

Just great relaxed listening PLUS Ginger Baker's genius drumming.

One of the all time best albums. I think I still have the LP. I was 16 when it came out. Album perfectly curated up through 'Ball and Chain' which is one of the top songs in rock history as far as I am concerned. The gentle and melodious, but ominous bass accompanying Janice's pained voice/story interspersed with hard diving psychedelic rock is unmatched. The album losses its direction after Ball and Chain, but it is nice to have those songs for posterity as well.

I was mostly bored with the studio tracks, but really engaged with the live tracks. They have much more energy and seem to be having a lot more fun in live performances. Hey, but that's what it is really about . . . Right? So my score is about the live tracks. They found that energy for studio recordings later. Certainly by the time they recorded Eliminator.

Nice tunes!

Sounds like a mashup of Monty Python and a chanting monk. If there is a message there I can't see it. Seems like they were trying to make one.

Pleasant enough.

Was prepared to not like this album assuming a cultural divide that I would not be able to breach. Turns out I enjoyed it quite a bit musically.

I get it, but it doesn't turn me on or get me moving.

I know this was a huge album and a turning point for the Stones, but as a whole it doesn't speak to me. And I never became an avid Stones fan anyway. But thanks for many iconic tunes during their long career.

Eh!

Tight adolescent-themed rock band!

OMG how I hated this album. The music and the message. Totaler scheiß.

Nice variety with that unique Beck secret ingredient.

I don't know. Not all that it is hyped up to be. Found its adolescent, sex, love, eternity theme boring. And the musical talent was simplistic and rudimentary. The Moby Dick drum solo was impossible to listen to when compared to the true drummer legends of the era like Michael Shrieve.

This is a first listen of this album and group for me. I have to say I like it very much on many levels. It's Dylan at one moment, Beatles the next and then psychedelic/acid rock interjections. The messages are also still very timely despite having been cut in 1993. And, hey, I just wanted to sing along with it. Happy but poignant. Dire, but optimistic.

Who could argue anything less than a 5?

Dah boom boom dah . . . Dah boom boom dah . . . Dah boom boom dah! That's all I heard. Search the entire album for a track I even semi-liked. Gigantic came the closest and I can honestly say I liked it. The last track (Brick is Red) had me captivated up until when they started singing.

Pleasant enough! It is interesting that music about some difficult conditions can sound so happy.

Probably not many people's preference, but I really like it. It's the same type of work that Frank Zappa was doing with Yellow Snow in the latter part of his career, another album not to be missed.

The epitome of punk rock. Who needs speed with albums like this (lol)! Bleak perspective but an appropriate response to the political/social environment of the time (has it changed?).

It's Tom Waits. Always a 5 in my book. Can I get a 6? This is an interesting album with Keith Richards joining on a few of the tracks.

Eh!

First I always like live performance albums more than studio ones. The energy and musical improvisations draw me in. Second it's the Who!

Incredible new creativity after a 5 year break. It's all Waits, though interestingly Keith Richards shows up again.

Oh well! They work hard at it and you can't say they don't have a serious/furious theme going on.

Still pretty true to the original music they started with. Simple, honest pop music.

Kind of unstructured beat-pop-poetry-folk. Was different at the time because of that and because it was so personal. Perfect timing for the mid-70's. Also unsatisfyingly short. Eh! 4 for its time and 2 for not surviving past the moment.

I have to say that I don't feel qualified to rate this album as I have had minimal exposure to salsa music even having lived in Miami for several years. It has grown from and is an integral part of a culture that I am not part of. That said it was pleasant and is captivating and engaging in its rhythms and tonality. But I can't say it has moved me to explore more music of the genre.

Sorry! It is insulting, enabling and boring. Maybe worse. Can we ask for a zero?

I've gotta give them an A for effort. But . . .

Never was a fan of the Big Band era. And I never thought Frank's voice was anything but average to mundane. Probably good after sipping several martinis though!

OUCH!!!!!!! Though oddly it does presage by almost 40 years the sounds coming from Washington DC these days!

Pleasant enough but too mundane and too much of it. Monotony Inc.

I have always been fond of good singer/song writers. He is one of them.

Nice!

It was an interesting listen. Quite nice and unexpected.

Okay! Nice tonal qualities and vocals. Maybe relevant for the period. 3.5 scoring at 4.

Exceptional and leaving me wanting more.

One of my favorite Beatles Albums. They started to evolve pst straight 'pop' music in a new and interesting way for the period.

Some perfect tracks for the period. Memorable! Easy!

Classic singer-songwriter stuff. One of the best. The 60's wouldn't have been the same without him. Social commentary with wry humor all bundled up in a lose poetic wrapper. Right up my alley.

Liked it.