1001 Albums Summary

It was not without its charms.

The soundtrack to every Scorsese movie.

Whoa, that was awesome. Drum solo on the last song kinda went on and on.

Love Dolly but the music's just not my taste. 4 stars because Dolly rules.

When I was in college I fucking hated Depeche Mode. I was dumb then.

Holy shit, this album rules. I'm 25 again - how did I miss this when it came out?

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Definitely in the "I appreciate this, but don't love it" category of Radiohead albums.

Partly unimpeachably incredible, partly weirdly overcome with ennui. Overall, excellent.

I think I'm getting old. This sounded exactly like a combination of Dirty Projectors and Real Estate (so much so that, when the album ended, it switched to a Real Estate song and I didn't notice), but I'm sure people my age in 1967 probably said the Kinks sounded exactly like a combination of the Beatles and Rolling Stones. Anyway, I'm giving it 3 stars, but it's very possible it's way better than that.

Anything involving Nile Rodgers gets a minimum 4 stars.

I had to give it 5 stars or Danny will beat me up.

Wow, I liked this way more than I thought I would. Really, this is the kind of experience that justifies this entire exercise -- there is a 0% chance I would have listened to this album otherwise, and I really liked it (this is the 4th or 5th time this has happened now, out of like 15 albums total).

The sensation of being slapped in the face by a freezing cold industrial hose converted to music. I kinda liked it.

I feel the same way about this XTC album as I feel about every XTC song I've ever heard - ANTSA(XTC).

Incredible album - just great stuff. I guess Richard Wagner made some pretty good music too -- here, have this 1, Nazi.