1001 Albums Summary

Starts off with a strong funk groove for a Monday morning. "Living for the City" and "Higher Ground" are classics I can still sing along with. But the whole album feels like it's telling stories. Could easily be a movie. -D

What a live album really should be. Reminded how well The Who can weild a wall of sound. They are clearly such nerdy and talented musicians. I'd also forgotten about the trans anthem I'm a Boy and the way counter cultures functioned at the time. Made me quite depressed about our current moment of backsliding rights. -D

Feels like the 70s. Definitely a consistent sound, I feel like I'm at an arcade the whole time. I actually liked the acoustic version of Psycho Killer best, which sort of told me I just didn't enjoyed their sound that much. Definitely good, if not my thing.

Smoke on the Water reminds me well of my marching bad days, bit this album otherwise leaves me pretty flat-D S finds it more accessible and has actually enjoyed it a lot more than much of the other rock this far.

Each song leaves me with a groove, a thought and an emotion.

The album is so varied it is hard to pin down. It's the entire career of some rock groups in one work. There is a common thread of call and response in most of the songs, which grounds it, and the technical skill is obvious throughout.

Nice to listen to something it feels like I would have picked out on my own. Chill and soothing, enjoyable and I would come back over and over again.

Varied, ethereal and cosmic. Felt timeless in a specific way, could have been produced last year or 40 years ago. I'll be waiting for the 2037 remaster, since it seems to need one every 20 years.

Fifty years later these songs still feel relevant, both through their content and the way they have been sampled and replayed in the decades since. I don't know if Stevie was trying for something timeless intentionally, the album's title kind of sounds like he is, and the use of school children's voices seems that way to me as well, but I think he achieved it. Disc 1 is certainly my favorite and has songs I've come back to listen to over and over again throughout the years but Disc 2 has some I loved as well. Isn't She Lovely is truly better in this original form as a ballad of parental joy, rather than the beauty pagent theme it became in later decades. Saturn and Easy Goin' Evening were new to me and enjoyable as well.

Been awhile since I listened to Beatles lyrics closely and I was generally appreciating the talent in the writing. The songs that hold up are the ones you generally would probably guess as they've been remixed and redone in so many media versions over the years since. Glass Onion however, my first response is "how insufferable to reference your previous songs in some tortured multi-layer metaphor" and upon looking it up, apparently it's Lennon specifically making fun of people being insufferable about their lyrics and reading too much into them. So I guess, fair enough?

Catchy and fun at once. Makes me want to play Geometry Wars late into the the night or something else to vibe in a flow state.

I'm usually a fan of a concept album, but this felt like the soundtrack to a play I hadn't seen, and still didn't like. I found myself bored too often, but there is still some good music in here. Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats was my favorite on this listen, which is probably saying something.