1001 Albums Summary

I remember first listening to this album after the sensation of "Song 2" when I went through the Blur back catalogue. "End of the Century" and "Girls and Boys" both caught my ear. I've had this album in my rotation ever since, "Girls and Boys" being the track I probably hear most often. I had been out of touch with music for a while so had missed the Brit Pop trend of the early 90s until being introduced to this album. I preferred Blur to Oasis as more direct successors to The Housemartins.

I really did not like the droning noises over most tracks. Should have called the album "Tinnitus"

This is my favourite Cat Stevens album. It is also the only one that I have owned. The consistency of the tone and overall quality of the songs keeps you engaged.

Listened together the songs end up sounding too much alike.

Has several classic radio hits that are familiar but the rest of the album feels like an average jam band to me

Meh. This is underwhelming. It is hard to imagine anyone being enthusiastic about this music. It would be fine for background while working but I can't imagine it being something that I would "listen" to.

I found this to be totally cringe. I am glad that has been mostly forgotten. It sounds like bad community theater.

I've never listened to the whole album in order before. The unfamiliar songs were…forgettable. It is a strong album for what was then a young band.

I found some of the tracks a little too similar to others. Loved hearing the hits in context of the rest of the album.

I hadn't heard of this group at all that I know of though once I looked it up I recognized their hit "Get Together". Seems like an OK album that doesn't deserve to be forgotten but mostly because it is of a time and seems to capture that well.

I couldn't wait for it to be over. But for one song I found this unlistenable.

I had absolutely no idea that they were this gay. I don't mean this as a bad thing but their mainstream presentation was more neutral (or I lack gaydar). It is a dance album that they tried to package as a pop album.

This doesn't seem like heavy metal…things were different then apparently.

I was unfamiliar with this and listened through twice. It didn't leave much of an impression unfortunately.

I can hear how this influenced later work and indeed, continuing to listen to the algorithmic radio station generated for this album I heard a lot that came from this work. Not my favourite work of theirs but formative.

I enjoyed all the familiar songs but it took a second listen to enjoy the rest of the album. It really fits together. Not everything works perfectly and some sounds very dated but a masterpiece album.

Not my thing but I do have to agree that it is well produced. I can understand why this was a significant album in the metal genre.

This isn't as superficial as I thought.

Bored and annoyed by it. 4 minutes of music cut-and-pasted to 1h14m. When the song is the same 18 second loop how do you decide if it should be 4 minutes or 7?

It is a mediocre album.

Listening to it as a whole album I found it sonicaly uninteresting and not engaging.

OK, but not their best. Though a fan I don't think this belongs on the 1001 list.

Boring and mediocre.

Not a strong enough album for 4 stars but this is a worthy 3 stars.

This is a reluctant "3". I found this album distasteful. The songs are subversive but without benefit. Burn On alludes to the Cuyahoga river burning but doesn't actually have much to say.

Not m favourite Rush album but worthy.

As good to day as the first time I listened to it in 1985.

This is a generous 3.

Couldn't wait for it to be over… I had heard that this list was heavy with late 1990s brit pop and dance and this is prime example.

I've never appreciated this album.

New to me but I liked the guitar. Shame that they screwed over the guitarist and she is not on the later (disappointing) albums.

Never heard this before despite knowing what I thought was a good amount of Brazilian music. Didn’t really catch my ear the same way as other Brazilian music has and I don’t know the context for why this is important and possibly beloved.

I remember one or two of these tracks from back in the day. Ironically when playing it was followed by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet which I enjoyed much more.

Trope filled and highly repetitive. Feels uninspired to me. It would have been a crime if it had beat Portishead Dummy.

I am not going to pretend I am a middle aged white guy who has any of the necessary context to properly understand this album. I recognize it as significant even from my limited exposure (mostly through GTA) but would be insincere if I rated it higher than the "3--belongs on the list" that I am giving it.

So much energy.

I am always happy when a Lucinda Williams song comes up in my mix. Listening to a whole album they all felt like they were of similar tone and delivery. There was a distinct lack of variety.

The wikipedia article says that they wanted to "get back to their roots and make a blues album" but this album does best when it isn't being a blues album. The blues numbers are underwhelming to me.

Never heard this before despite knowing what I thought was

Doesn't quite make the cut for "should be on the list". Michael Franti's writing definitely has good moments.

I have not listened to this album before. I was expecting to give it a "yeah, it was significant" three but was really engaged by it. I usually listen to my assigned albums twice through but even after a third listen I thought that i would continue to appreciate this album even more after additional listens.

This just doesn't do anything for me. The drone of the drums and guitars muddies the musicality and lyrics. If I could remove the 'heavy' I might enjoy this.

I have listened to this album hundreds of times. I made an effort to listen to it critically and, being honest, it does sound like a debut album. It is a taste of what is to come but not as formed as later work.

Some of the non-hits tracks are truly awful.

It seems like they are trying to be everything but nothing specific.

I enjoyed this album where I didn't enjoy Metallica's first album and it comes down to the listening experience. Audible vocals and solos beat the metal drone wall of sound. The lineage to hard rock is also more evident in this album.

I listened to the whole album three times and absolutely nothing caught my ear.

I found this to be a really interesting concept album.

Musically this lacks diversity.

Wow, I can't think of an album with music that sounds so dated. I hope that someday a "remaster" is possible with better instruments because this sounds like garbage.

This was much lower energy than I expected. In the context of the rest of the album even "Get It On" was less energetic than I remembered.

Not terrible but it feels like I am paying for someone's fooling around in the studio.

Not sure why but this did nothing for me. Even on the third listen none of the tracks clicked for me.

I have run across the song Private Sorrow before but never knew where it came from or the context. This album deserves to be better known than it is.

I wanted to like this album. I wanted to enjoy this album. I was disappointed and managed neither. Entirely too much indulged "genius" here along with slidewhistle and other sound effects.