1001 Albums Summary

Before listening thoughts: - Seven nation army is iconic and is the only song I am familiar with - the song titles are wordy but fun and remind of examples of hooks that your English teacher would tell you to write During listening: -I forget how simplistic SNA is, and I mean that in the best way possible. - omg speaking of English teacher, black math has some imagery and references that bring me into a classroom, love the guitar solo - track 4 could easily be in a scene of a coming of age movie where the angsty protagonist is going through a breakup - gotta say, there is always some sort of storytelling or detailed visualization in each of these songs and it’s super cool to figure out what each song’s story is about - track 6 = Stacy’s mom ballad - track 7 is literally me recording a voice memo😭 let that girl liveeee it’s giving man with manic pixie dream girl delusion - ball and biscuit has the 12 bar blues chord progression omg!! And I loveee the guitar solos - track 9 is a more instrumentals heavy song with a simplistic, repetitive, and still catchy rhythm and chord progression. Reminds me of Seven Nation Army! - I’m realizing this album has themes of youth, whether it’s directness of messages or immaturity from the singers pov - also, there are some songs in here that emphasize that women/girls aren’t just a spectacle and it’s refreshing to hear them be encouraged to be comfortable in their own skin After listening: - I just found out track 4 is a cover and my queen Linda Ronstadt did one as well! I still stand by what I said, this band’s version expresses a more youthful yearning - a critic said they continued their “back to basics” style of music in this album and I didn’t realize that during the time this album released, there weren’t that many mainstream guitar-lead garage band type music, so it’s cool that this took initiative to introduce this sound especially with Seven Nation Army - this album will most definitely be on repeat

OMG YAYY FINALLY HAVE A FEMALE ARTIST

I SAID I LOVE THE SMITHS UGH Listen I know the singer is a horrible jackass, this truly is my yellow flag😭 There is a light and it never goes out is literally my favorite song ever

II have listened to this album before, love let down!