1001 Albums Summary

Shite

This is very solid album and Morrissey’s music means a lot to me, but 4 solo Morrissey albums on the list makes no sense. No one NEEDS to hear this album before they die. Queen is Dead and Hatful of Hollow would be sufficient to represent Moz on the list.

Death Certificate is a much better album. It has some pretty unsavory material on it, so maybe that’s why Predator was chosen instead. I was a fan of his first two albums. This one I felt he was struggling a bit to stay relevant after Dre and Cypress Hill defined the LA scene and his mainstream acting career was colliding with his gangsta persona.

Black Sabbath 4 doesn’t break any new ground, but it’s a near perfect heavy metal album. They did what they did better than anyone else. Even the sequencing tropes of having one ballad and one instrumental was standard for the genre for years to come.

I’ve listened to this album a few times trying to get what makes it a masterpiece. I can appreciate the ambition of a grand artistic statement, but the songs themselves just don’t really connect with me. Some of the vocal tics are rough for me. I don’t like the “boo boo” song. Anyway, I’m not the target audience, but happy to accept it’s a masterpiece for many, just not me.

Like most double album, this would have been a single LP on par with the previous two if they trimmed out some of the coked out Lindsey Buckingham tunes. That being said, I Walk a Thin Line is the album highlight for me.

Fairly forgettable heavy blues rock. Waiting for the Bus and LaGrange are the highlights. I’m sure many people feel this is the “real” ZZ Top, as opposed to the MTV darlings they became in the early 80s, but those 80s songs were way catchier (hence all the hits).

This album’s reputation exceeds its quality, in my opinion. Bowie and Iggy are legends, but this collaboration is a bit of a slog. The songs plodding and not engaging. The sound of the album is also muddled and drab. Dum Dum Boys is the highlight for me.

It’s great music. Would be a shame to die without having heard it.

This is the type of music that generally appeals to me, but there’s just too much of it! The second half drags and I found myself hoping it would end soon.

Dumb, lowest common denominator rap-rock. It doesn’t try to be more than this and mostly succeeds. Kid Rock is political now and easy to hate, but I have to give him credit for achieving fame and success with some completely ridiculous music. I think at some point he brags about “getting Matchbox 20 money.” Smooth.