1001 Albums Summary

You can really hear how new stereo was on this album. Lots of aggressive panning. I did know how much musical DNA Queen shares with led Zeppelin until now.

Listened to this one a million times before. I don't like it as much as some of radiohead's later stuff but it's undeniable how good some of the tracks are. Also, a rare use of sleigh bells in a song that isn't a Christmas song.

I love Black Sabbath, but most of their songs kind of run together for me. This album has a couple huge tracks in it, including Changes and Snowblind, that are distinct from a lot of their other work, but much of the album is forgettable even though I love Sabbath.

Today I learned just how long the full version of in a gadda da vida really is. It's "so much acid I forgot where I was" long.

A lot of great writing and instrumentalism, handed to a mix engineer who was high as balls, deciding that panning drums and vocals to hard left and right and then swapping them every couple seconds, not aligned with the music, was a great idea.