Really good background, ambient music. The soundscapes are haunting and move along at a tick more than a spa music pace. The lyrics aren’t understandable but that doesn’t take away. Horns and drums are a surprising addition to this type of album. Almost like a Radiohead without the pollution of English lyrics. Jazzy, but not jazz. Probably good for getting work done or chilling out alone. Never would have heard this if not for 1001, so glad to be introduced to it.
I like the album. It was calm. It was clean. The musicians are great and would be good for work or long drives. The only thing about the music that I noticed was nothing stood out as incredible or remarkable but everything was consistently good. 10 years ago I would’ve been all over it Right now. In my later 40s it’s fine just doesn’t resonate like it used to.
Hard to believe this was the 1950s. The speed, the creativity the creative flow through each song was excellent. If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
Always a great listen. Refreshing to hear a concept album that stayed anchored with solid hits throughout. Transitioning from a mostly instrumental and big gig to a radio hit like money shouldn’t be a seamless as it is. I remember as a teenager having my ears opened to this and still love it.
That was a challenge. At first it had that early 90’s rage that at the drive in or the Nirvana bleach album had. Unfortunately the vocals weren’t as strong and the songs seemed longer than needed. Very repetitive. Cool to hear but probably my last time.
Great suggestion. I lost track of Jack White after The Raconteurs. Same sound, gritty, simple. Wish there were more “ball and biscuit” type guitar solos but was still solid. Will be added to my rotation!
Yikes, that one was tough. Perhaps if your formative years were in the late 70s early 80s it sounds a little better to your ear. Kind of cool to hear those 80s drums sort of early cars type sound but not my favorite.
Great listen. Really hadn’t played any of his songs, only remember on the radio or MTV. Great voice, energy, horns. The hits were especially good to hear.
Yep, there was a reason tribe called quest got so much hype in the early 90’s. The flow , beat were ahead of their time when comparing it to other hip hop. Less angry that PE, Ice Cube, or the first 2pac. Im on the line between a 3 and a 4. Let’s call it a low 4 star.
This album was good. I was surprised how super tight the band sounded especially the drums and the vocals. Interesting to hear younger people in the early 80s with sort of a teenybopper sound but also incredibly tight sounding songs. Although I’m writing it at three I would call it a heavy three maybe 3.5..
Weird, goofy, dirty for 1977 but fun. Maybe the Benny Hill of music!
This was okay but really not as good as the hype I remember on MTV when in Jr High. The radio sounds were familiar to my ear but not anything ground breaking. I’d put this in the same category as de la soul, maybe more professional but similarly okay but not shockingly good, 30 years later.
Pros and you can hear it. Not my everyday band but the album is a hit machine. High energy, all parts of the band as good as the next.
It was fine. I wasn’t impressed any more or less than before this recommendation. It’s fine.
Loved it! Completely floored by the musical talent. The rapping was fine but the singing, the beats, the sheer energy in all of the high energy tracks…wow. The range to go from Scorpio to Dreamin. This is the stuff 1001 is all about, a diamond I never would have thought of. I won’t listen to it all the time but can respect that it’s a winner.
This is a tough one. The album was okay with technically well played songs. Detroit rock city is great. I did like the innuendoes and entendre's. I can’t tell if they are serious or parodying a rock band but it was a fun listen. I’d call this a heavy 3.
Fine voice but not my favorite. Not something for my Spotify or will be coming back to. 2 stars
Excellent! Great to hear that oldies singers were much more entertaining and real when live. Hard to believe this recording showed Sam Cooke as too gritty to release at the time.
Ended up listening 3 times because it was good background music while I worked. Nothing terrible about it but also nothing that screams wow. Solid 3
Hard to believe how slow it sounded today vs at the time. Timberland’s beat stood out the most.
Nothing about this had any kind of spark to my ear. Less interesting version of Radiohead.
This is the kinda stuff 1001 is all about. Perfect background music for working or setting a vibe around the house. Upbeat, classic Latin sound. Big horns, xylophone, the works.
Good, nothing that blew me away like the 1952 miles Davis birth of the cool but what my untrained ear would say as standard jazz.
Fine musician. Sounded like Seal to me. Nothing wrong with it, just nothing screaming special either.
Classic 80’s sound. More horns than I would have expected.
Yow, I didn’t get that one. I can certainly hear the velvet revolver sound. Not something my ear could make sense of.
Okay, I like the energy and of course the radio song was familiar. Cool sound.
Great! Sad isn’t my favorite jazz instrument but good.
Wasn’t feeling it. Didn’t have the same late 60s sound like Zeppelin and didn’t stick
Solid but boring. Lyrics sound like a different, more boring time.
Always great! What an ensemble.
Hmmm. Was expecting this to be tighter than it was. The vocal sounded like a caricature of heavy metal (thinking Billy Madison’s 3rd grade graduation party). Perhaps the Public Enemy collaboration was peak anthrax for me.
Weird ambient music. OK for while working I guess, but nothing incredibly interesting about it.
Great album of course! Listening to other 1001 suggestions makes me appreciate Led Zeppelin even more.
The older I get the better Dylan sounds. It’s still an effort to listen to an entire album but no longer like fingernails on chalkboard. 3 stars.
Neat! They sound so pop, like the Beatles in 1965, just 2 years later. The adds were a cool concept and I’m sure a big hit. Not great but not terrible, 2
Glad to learn about this band and their story of under distribution. They sound as good as any of the other early 70’s pop band but never quite made it.
Okay, 60’s pop. Beat little flow in the delivery of lyrics.
Surprisingly more tame than I expected. I little beatle-y but also a little Ian Dury like without the colorful lyrics. Not great.
Underwhelmed for all the hype the clash gets
For punk music it sounded OK. Still not my favorite.
Excellent album really really really good to hear John Lennon a little bit more raw than one then went with the Beatles. Somewhere between four and five stars.
Great lesson. Appreciate that they made the album over an hour long sounded good.
Pop rock in the early 70s. Good clean fun but nothing I’m writing home about.2
Mehhhh, a little too slow in country for my liking. Good music, but not my cup of tea. Two star stars.
For a punk album, it was good. Could almost hear the roots of sublime or Green Day in them.
Really good beats for 1991. The rap wasn’t so great but was really impressed with the background music. Glad I got to get exposed to this British rap
I’ve listened to Kendrick Lamar’s hits for a while now. I was surprised how much of this I’m was like a jazzy improvisational poetry session as much as it was rap. He’s an artist, super deep and also weird. Cool listen.
Nothing really stood out to me on this album. Early 90s two stars
It was great to hear some of that older music I grew up with. The music and the beats sounded really good, the lyrics were kind of silly like De La Soul back in that day. I’m sure it was fun party music.
Hells yeah. Not their best but still fantastic.
Cool background music. Sounded good,
The album sounded good. It was a nice time capsule of the late 60s.. Nothing beyond the popular songs or songs that I had heard before jumped out of me but interesting to listen to.
Interesting sound. It didn’t necessarily blow me away or stick but definitely not horrible. Two stars.
This was a band that I didn’t catch back in the late 90s. Their first song Novacaine for the soul sounded really good. Really captured that 90s cake type of sound.
It sounded good, especially the popular songs that are already on the radio. Nothing that blew me away that I hadn’t already heard from their radio songs.
Surprisingly, it really didn’t sound so great. It was a superficial take on The Beach Boys and really didn’t make a ton of sense.
This album wasn’t my cup of tea. I couldn’t quite understand the mix of rock, jazz, and noises.
Megadeath has a unique sound that’s put together but also not my cup. Good for heavy metal.
It certainly had that classic late 90s electronic music sound. Although I recognized the first song, all of the others sounded very, very similar to that although I have memories tied to that that type of music from the late 90s it didn’t sound very deep very superficial. Two stars.
Believe that people actually liked heavy metal in the early 80s. I truly can’t tell if these guys are joking with their lyrics and the way that they’re singing kind of fitting into that heavy metal sound or if they’re truly meaning to be that way. Not my cup of tea.
It sounded really good. Smooth background comb music. I can hear some samples that early 90s wrapping hip-hop took from them. Summer breeze cover was neat.
Odd combination of punk music and country music. Glad I heard it probably won’t be a another lesson.
First time listening to anything Frank Zappa….underwhelmed. I’m sure in 1966 this was crazy and weird but it sounded very tame today. 1 star
I’m disappointed that the only song that really sounded good was the radio song that I knew from this album.
Weird and wild. Sounded good though for a 70’s funk sound
Almost the best Beatles album. Certainly the shift from pop to their own brand.
Not too bad! Sounds like Flaming lips or Grandaddy from that same time period. 3 solid stars.
Oh yeah! That unique stax Memphis sound. Love it! 4 stars.
Better than I thought it would be, more diverse. I thought it’d be all punk, guess I had them wrong
Yes! Always great to hear. Not a musical masterpiece but a time capsule of that turn of the century sound.
I know Thundercat’s popular songs. I was surprised how short and incomplete of thoughts. Many of the other songs were. He’s definitely an alien. Why shouldn’t the album structure be odd also.
