Fantastic album. Top notch technical playing. Certainly underrated drumming and time signatures. The first three songs are undoubtedly the highlight then starts to tail off a bit after that. Love his voice. Love the lyrics. Great album. I agree should be in the top 1001.
This is way better than when he went electric. I can actually understand him. Too bad he's a terrible lyricist.
Definitely felt like an eclectic collection of random unrelated songs than an album, but each Individual song was decent. Better than I was expecting.
Nick Drake for me is the CLASSIC example of critics thinking they know music better than everyone else. Everyone who buys music is a critic and the REAL critics obviously say it is not that good since no one was buying his albums.
Super boring. His voice lulls me to sleep. I can't understand his lyrics. The music sounds like improv in his basement. This was rough.
I am a huge White Stripes fan, but this is my least favorite of their work. The challenge with the White Stripes is they are uncompromising, which I highly respect, but it makes for a lot of hit or miss music, a lot of experimental stuff, and a lot of genre switches, so you will never love an entire album, but when you make a personal greatest hits of them, it would be GREAT, and very different for every person, which is super cool. I like their heavier, more guitar driven stuff, but I appreciate that they can make stuff that sounds like this.
When it comes to what rock music has sounded like from about 2005-2020, for FIFTEEN years I think no band had a bigger influence on the genre than the White Stripes. I could name a dozen bands that made it pretty big that copied the White Stripes sound. I think they are one of the top 10 most influencial bands in defining modern rock.
This is another album that I think was so incredibly crucial to an entire genre of music... Psychedelic Rock! Very few hands sounded like this in 1966, and by 1967 (after this was released) the market and airwaves were saturated with this sound. They were quite ahead of their time.
Somebody to Love and White Rabbit are two if the greatest psychedelic songs of all time. Grace Slick's voice is my favorite female rock voice of all time. Jorma Kaukonen's guitar is some of the best the 60s had to offer. So much talent.
Jefferson Airplane is a love it or hate it band, and they were too experimental to have a solid album, but I love that about them.
I always forget that just about every Rolling Stones album is an odd conglomeration of rock, country, and blues songs. Only their rock songs tend to make the radio or greatest hits so not very representative of what they actually sound like. It was always hard for me to listen to a complete Stones album since the transitions were so jarring. But this album I actually think they nail it. It works well and I really enjoyed it. I think this album best represents what the Rolling Stones probably wanted to sound like. Moonlight Mile was a nice gem I never heard before.
This isn't my cup of tea and I struggle listening to it. That being said, I do appreciate the talent it takes to make this "manufactured rock" and it is interesting. Just gets old after one or two songs.
I think The Stooges might be the most underappreciated band, behind maybe Uriah Heep, when it comes to the early metal scene. This was 1969. Just incredible. It's not the most talented album, but the energy is amazing. I enjoyed this listen.
The A side was AWESOME. I was really enjoying the 70s funk music. I realize the older I get, this is the one genre I have really been getting into... Parliament, Funkadelic, etc. The B side was tough to get through. Overall decent album.
This was one of the more boring albums I've ever listened to. I tried so hard to pay attention and within 30 seconds of each song I already lost concentration. There seems to be talent in the music, but just so boring and monotonous.
His voice was incredibly unique and fun to listen to, but the songs were pretty boring. A few went somewhere, like Eternal Life and Dream Brother, but the rest made me fall asleep.
This was some good ole classic early seventies guitar/piano fueled blues rock. Doesn't stand out necessarily and all sounds the same, but still good. It is way more of a fun curiosity listen since it is Rod Stewart before anyone knew who he was, and Ronnie Wood before he joined the Rolling Stones. Stay With Me, That's All You Need, and Debris were highlights. I liked the other lead singer songs better than the Stewart ones!
Im so glad to see this album on the list! I think Marty Robbins might be the greatest male country vocalist of all time. The harmonies vibrato, and smooth voice, just AWESOME. I do also enjoy the nostalgic romanticized western scenes he sings about. As good as old country gets. Sure the music is a bit repetitive and lame, but it's about the voice and stories for this genre. El Paso is a top 5 greatest country song of all time for me. Great album, great voice, great storytelling.
The best part of the 1001 album challenge is listening to stuff I would have never listened to otherwise and broadening my music knowledge. This one definitely broadened my knowledge. I don't listen to this genre ever.
This sounded like Billy Idol as a lead singer of Midnight Oil or something. Unfortunately his voice sounds like my white noise machine that helps me fall asleep, and the repetitive drumming makes each song instantly forgettable. I do appreciate that they have a unique sound and it does feel different from the mainstream. I wouldn't be able to listen to it again, although the guitars were enjoyable.
Wow, this is about as black as early 70s music gets hahaha. I really like the music with the horns, bass, etc, it's about as cool as music gets. I just see bell bottoms, black shade sunglasses, and bling when I hear this. I can only handle so much instrumental so I do like when he sings. This was a fun listen. Don't need to listen to again, but glad I did listen to it. I'll take War over this for black / funk 70s music.
This was an unbelievably fun album to listen to! The sampling and music writing was incredible. The "singing" is so incredibly unique, you know who it is right away. The lyrics are awesomely awful but fit the goofiness of everything so well. Probably the only rap album I will ever enjoy.
This was a super fun album to listen to! I never would anec guessed there was music that sounded like this in 1980! This was like Royal Noise Brigade meets Less Than Jake while sounding Irish. I loved the horns. I actually liked that every song sounded a bit similar, when I usually don't like that. His voice was very unique.
WOW!!! Did not know there was music our there like this in 1982!! This was crazy. It was so many genres coming together at once. This was a fun crossroads between me hearing all kinds of influences like the Temptations, Sly and the Family Stone, Steve Wonder, to all the artists that I can tell used this template into the future. I loved how the whole time I just felt like I was either at a party, or just sitting in the living room with those 6 guys. It was such a fun album. Every song was unique. I never got tired of listening to it. Seemed way ahead of its time. It was also interesting that they were sampling popular songs that came out within a year of THIS album!! The sampling was clearly primitive but obviously built the foundation for lots and lots of artists to follow. This was a gem.
I was quick shocked by the sound of this album. I never listened to Prince before. This was way more electronic / keyboard driven than I was expecting. I thought he was a little more rock. Not taking anything away from it as I thought it was GREAT. The songs were very well written. They kept my attention throughout. I never got bored. He writes some very catchy music. The vocals were outstanding. My goodness, I would have thought there were 3 different lead singers on this album. And to top it all off, it is kind of cooky, very odd music, and lots of vocals I wasn't expecting, so it kept me entertained. Definitely deserving of this list, and not as sterile or expected as I thought it would be. It was actually quite adventurous.
This is undoubtedly my favorite punk (although some people u guess don't call it punk) album. So many phenomenal songs on this album. The drums are great. The bass is great. The guitars are great. The singing is great. The lyrics are great. The songwriting is great. Sums up mid-90s angst so well. Right place right time. My first 5 star.
Reading up on this album, it was the first jazz album to ever sell 1.0M copies, and the song "Take Five" became the most played jazz single at the time. I mean, the album is good, and the first three songs I think are REALLY good, but after that, it begins to all sound the same. I don't know what makes jazz great vs terrible, it all sounds "good" to me. Now one thing that was cool about this album was that it sounds timeless. You could tell me it was from 1959, 1997, or 2018, and I would believe you.
This was a really cool listen! This type of music is one of my guilty pleasures when I'm in the right mood. Just the old school, stripped down, low-fi folk-rock singer/songwriter. But this was even better than that because they layered in all kinds of additional sounds and instruments. The music composition was fantastic, great guitar chords and sounds. Lyrics were good and the songs were catchy. The title track was the highlight. Calvary Cross was pretty good. The version I listened to on YouTube Music had some love bonus tracks that were even better than the originals. Very fun listen.
I've taken dumps that were more audibly pleasing than this.
This was a fascinating listen. I could really picture what the concert probably looked like. It was super fun hearing the response from the crowd to almost every line. I was surprised that most of the songs were slow. I always thought if James Brown as high energy. Fun to think this was before the Beatles and rock as we know it.
Wow!! This was way ahead of its time! I would imagine a ton of rappers have samples them over the years. This sounded very different from their radio stuff / greatest hits. The rhythms were so unbelievably catchy. The music was so textured and interesting. I don't know how they would play it live. The first two tracks were 5 star, then Once in a Lifetime is one of my top 40 ALLTIME favorite songs.
The t first two songs started out super strong, then Smoke in a Bottle was probably the worst song I heard yet while doing this. Then the rest was interesting but not very memorable. It was awesome how they blended Irish folk, punk, and 80s sound so effortlessly. And I commend them for not making every song sound the same. Very glad I got to heard something extremely different like this.
I always generally enjoyed the doors. They are more of a "best of" band for me where their deep cuts usually aren't great. But I gotta say this album was strong. I liked his singing style. I liked the heavy blues influence. I liked that it was psychedelic without being crazy. Riders on the Storm is just one of the best keyboard driven songs of all time.
I never would have guessed that out of all the albums we listened to so far, THIS would be the first one that I own. I find this album very interesting and complex. The writing style is so bizarre. My only negative with this album is it starts to feel repetitive towards the second half, and the slow songs all start to sound the same. Their follow up album At War With the Mystics corrects this problem and allows for an absolute fantastic album. I hope that is in the list as well. Fight Test and Do You Realize are the two best songs.
I felt like this is what cats fighting would sound like. It was as annoying as listening to someone with the sniffles. The ONLY reason this doesn't get a one star is because just about every song had a KILLER bass line. Wow. Loved that part.
When I listen to albums like this, I'm like, really, top 1001? Makes me feel like they really needed to add some filler. This felt pretty run of the mill. Nothing spectacular. It just seems like this list came out at the peak of the "black people complaining about life of black people needs to be recognized" phase. The music was interesting and the beats were awesome, but I heard it all before.
Wow! So far this album was the biggest "exceeds expectations". Van Morrison was always that boring soft rock / jazz guy with a few hits. But this whole album was excellent! Each song so well crafted, the instrumentation was awesome. Each song was unique and kept my attention. The production was phenomenal. The singing was top notch. First five star for an album I never heard before.
This was really impressive. I feel like this is the first artist I listened to from the 50s that wasn't mostly slow music. This actually sounds like a precursor to rock and roll. The songs even varied a bit when most sound similar from that era.
Janis is an UNBELIEVABLY talented singer, and defined a generation. The songwriting is fantastic and the music is great. But it's just not my bag. I can't get into her no matter how hard I try. I just don't like her style. The album should get a 5 but I am basing my rating off of how much I like it, just like the others.
What is this, the college football playoffs? All you need to do is be black and sing about black life and you get an automatic bid to the 1001 best albums? This was bad.
