1001 Albums Summary

I’ll never forget the people scream singing Mr. Brightside on repeat at 3am while camping at the Renaissance Faire. Going over to yell at them to shut up and finding all of them completely naked will forever be burned in my brain when I think about this song.

I was thinking this sounded like Reggae Elvis Costello, and after finding out that he produced this album I feel vindicated in my earlier judgement. I am not an Elvis Costello fan at all, and this album isn't doing it for me.

I feel like I'm back in 2003 with my sister blasting this as she was going though her edgy middle/high school phase. Fun fact, the album Bella from Twilight is thought to be listening to is this album. She listens to it over and over again in an angst filled rage as she is trying to not think about Edward, who is avoiding her. She deconstructs it until she finally falls asleep. I think that encapsulates exactly what type of nu-metal this is - so accessible that it appears as an "edgy" moment in a vampire romance book. That is to say, I think tween/teens can really identify with this music because everything about it screams melodramatic and has big feelings that only puberty can really bring out. When everything that happens both positive and especially negative feels like the biggest thing that will ever happen to you. I think that this album is one that you kind of have to be in that age group to really see and feel the merits of when you first listen to it, otherwise I think it's hard to put yourself into that mindset. I wasn't much of a nu-metal fan, though there were a few times I angrily put on a couple of songs when I was going through a bad day. 3/5 because I can really see why this became popular, but it's just not my personal taste. I would say .5 of that is personal nostalgia of listening to it with my sister, and those moments where the worst thing that could happen to you was you had a breakout that wouldn't clear up and your crush was into someone else. Now I have bills.

I don’t really get why this is on here, but is good background music.

This album is effortless cool. One of my favorite albums before this project. I am so glad its on this list. The mixing is great, the lyrics are top notch, the vocals are clean, and this is nearly a perfect album for me.