1001 Albums Summary

Got a handful of stone cold classics, hits the bluesy-country vibes it's going for (but sometimes seems like it's making a little fun, as in the title track)

In 1977, my dad's friend pulled him out of a bowling alley in Summerland so they could listen to Bat out of Hell for the first time on cassette in his truck. In 2004, I was riding around Summerland in the back of a car driven by a boy trying to flirt with a girl by reciting the Hot Summer Night monologue. This album is perfect; it completely achieves what it was trying to go for and captured that essence of teenage emotions. It's totally over the top to the point of being a parody of itself, but fully sincere. Paradise by the Dashboard Light and Two Out of Three Ain't Bad are all-timers and everything else is very good. For Meat Loaf and Steinman, it never felt so right again after this, but this was the masterpiece that defined them both. 5.

This is really cool to listen to and I like the way that it sets up the hip hop sample culture to follow, one year before Three Feet High and Rising

Would never have been exposed to this and it's pretty good! I liked the closing track

This is an era-defining classic, with many memorable funk jams and great lyrics too

This is really fun and funky as hell, the music is great and the group vocals are great too

Liked this a lot, Roundabout is a revelation and there are other great jams too, like that this has either massive sprawling prog rock masterpieces over 8 mins or short two minute noodlers

To me this is the sound of CFOX and the 90s, an era defining sound that was the template for so much that came after it. And it's really good! There's a lot of variation in the sound and I would say other than the closing track it's basically perfect. Favourite song: Come As You Are

This isn't awful but I feel like an album like this is why people wanted Napster so they could just get singles without having to pay C$20

This is extremely good, the use of samples is great and the vocals are something that is still unique and really fun to listen to. Perfected the audio collage sound that Public Enemy was going for but that one was more (intentionally) abrasive

I was going to riff on this but it does hold up as an ambitious pop-punk album with theatrical scope

I had a pretty good time with this, I like a rock organ (Foreplay/Long Time is so good holy shit) and More than a Feeling is an all-timer

I usually think of Morrissey as an Ezra Pound figure whose misanthropy/disassociation with other people fueled even his his pre-shithead art, but there's some genuinely touching, kind stuff on this record. Bigmouth Strikes Again and Light that Never Goes Out are classics