1001 Albums Summary

Peak Christmas music

Great album. Shame Billy Corgan is who he is.

Beautiful sounding if monotonous. I enjoyed it from start to finish, but kind of wished I was listening to a Tom Waits album. Wanting to listen to someone else is never a great sign for me.

Lots of fun! Copyright laws should allow everyone to sample everything. Nothing means nothing.

At the age of 9 I tried to sell penguin facts to fellow students for 50c, so I speak with expertise here. I don’t think these people have ever met a penguin. This album is weird, and interesting, and feels at times like a group of people trying to see how many different sounds they can make. Which, all things considered, isn’t a terrible artistic endeavour. I am glad I listened to this album. I probably won’t listen to it again. I listened to this album when walking home from the pub. I was going to give it 2/5 because it didn’t interest me. Then, ‘the Sound of Someone…’ started playing. The slow, beautiful interplay of instruments nearly made me bump it up to 3/5. Until they started introducing beeps and boops into it. No need! Allow your melody to exist unencumbered by sound effects. Maybe it’s still a 3. Who am I to give this a failing grade.