1001 Albums Summary

1. Good Golly Miss Molly 2. Penthouse Pauper 3. Born on the Bayou I liked the instrumentals a lot, voice gets a bit repetitive as there isn’t a great deal of range. I don’t think the lyrics are the first thing to grab your attention, but it leaves the impression that they would be meaningful if you read them properly. I think the songs sound more like short story telling rather than anything overly catchy which I like.

1. Wake Up Alone 2. Tears Dry On Their Own 3. Love Is a Losing Game I love this album a lot. I like the instrumentals and the mix of slow/fast songs. Some are really music oriented and others are more mainstream pop but they all work well together. I have given it 4 mostly because this is not my favourite Amy album, I prefer Frank. But, i would have given it 4.5 if I could because it’s not missing much. I like the talking/singing style of some Frank songs and more emphasis on the instrumentals which is not on this album as much. (Frank also has an intro/outro which I love).

1. Sunday Morning 2. Heroin 3. There She Goes Again I appreciate this is an important album for music in general seeing as it’s so experimental, however i’m rating this based on objectively how does it sound. It’s not something I would just put on and listen to. Note that all the noise in Heroin made me anxious and was not nice to listen to but i did like that it was so different to everything else on the album and in fact songs in general. I think one of the reasons I don’t like it is because the lead singer has the same type of drawn out American voice that annoys me - Bob Dylan/ Dire Straits type thing.

1. My Sweet Lord 2. Let It Down 3. What Is Life (Out of the Blue is my favourite instrumental tracks) I really enjoyed this. I’d only ever listened to ‘My Sweet Lord’ but liked the album. I think it’s hard to keep people interested in such a long album but it did a great job. My favourite parts were often the guitar interludes (unsurprisingly), there were varied instrumentals throughout which I loved. OH and there are full instrumental tracks which are great and I like when albums have these because I think it helps pull the concept of the album together and show that it’s clearly not just odd songs pulled together. I don’t think I appreciated how much you can hear George Harrison’s voice in Beatles songs until I listened to this. I put him down to just playing the guitar to be honest. I knew he wrote ‘Something’ though which is one of my favourite Beatles songs and I think that similar style carries through to this album. It’s Bob Dylan made more enjoyable… (p.s. All Things Must Pass is like Beatles Evermore)

1. Big Poppa 2. Juicy 3. One More Chance I think the key thing to enjoying music is that you relate to it - this doesn’t have to me because you have experienced an identical thing. But, you need to be able to attach a memory, emotion or similar experience to music. I have nothing to attach to this, and so it’s not something I enjoy. That’s not to say it’s a bad album, however for rating purposes I rate based on how much I enjoyed listening and would be likely to listen again. I really did not enjoy listening to this. It’s angry and swears a lot and I have nothing to relate to it. Hence, this has 1 star.

1. Paper 2. Life During Wartime 3. Memories Can’t Wait I don’t really know enough about Talking Heads to fully comment on this, but I did quite like it. From what I gather, it’s quite different to their previous albums. I liked the instrumentals and the lyrics seemed more geared towards storytelling than repetitive phrases. It’s different to what I usually listen to but it was interesting. I don’t like that the voice has that same tone that I can’t quite describe but similar to Dire Straits, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground that I find irritating. But apart from that, pretty good.

1. Introduction 2. Beginnings 3. South California Purple This album made me so excited right from the opening few notes. I knew I was going to love it. I’m not sure what genre it would be but I think that’s part of the draw. It blends genres together, often mixing harsher rock and roll vocals or electric guitar with saxophone instrumentals. A lot of the songs are quite long but they are often more like shorter pieces strung together rather than one long song which I like. For example, Pyramids by Frank Ocean does this. A song with stages. I hated Free Form Guitar though, so it was not a perfect album. This is what I wanted to come across in this project. Hearing artists that I’d never listened to before and then being excited to listen to their other work. I definitely will be listening to their later albums.

1. I Got the News 2. Deacon Blues 3. Home at Last Not thrilling. I don’t mind Steely Dan but there are certainly better albums of theirs. I just found it quite repetitive and boring. There are some nice instrumentals at points, especially i got the news. But overall they’re quite samey.