1001 Albums Summary

First impression: yuck Lotta hits on here. Good representation of cheesy 70s music?? "Tuesday" ballad is very cheesy. "Mississippi Kid" def the weakest song here. This had to be in the same vein as a bunch of other artists copying Robert Johnson during this time, but not really getting the blues (although the blues structure is solid). And, of course, "Free Bird" End impression: better than I expected. it’s a 70s rock album

sick. perfect album. didn’t know this was the original “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”

back to back perfect albums!! i fuckin love this one

like most Rolling Stones albums, starts of great then takes a nose dive. this one kinda sucks

god this album rips. this dude was HORNY

God said to Abraham “Kill me a son” Abe says “Man, you must be putting me on” God said “No.” Abe said “What?”

perfect. no notes

never listened to this album before, but i knew all the songs except “Get it Right the First Time”. this is a good one

i get “Chan Chan” stuck in my head like once a month. Cuban music rules

this is an album where i understand that it was perhaps groundbreaking at the time, it doesn’t really hold up today imo. the ideas here were fleshed out later and greatly improved upon. sounds like a prototype CSN&Y. “Draft Morning” is an insane song, and the moog is sick

didn’t enjoy the “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” cover or the twist at the end, but everything else was really nice!! great production, really clean mix, and Ananda is incredibly skilled at sitar. really enjoyed most of this despite having reservations at first glance

it’s fine. nothing really spectacular going on here tbh

kind of had a hard time collecting my thoughts on this one. best analogy i could come up with is when you’re watching a movie/tv show from the 70s and you see an actor that looks like a regular person: no perfect teeth, no big muscles, nothing in particular that would make you think they’re part of Hollywood. you see that and think “wow, i guess they were just letting anyone be in movies back then.” maybe this album has some sort of incredible cultural significance i’m missing, but ultimately it just sounds like mellow inoffensive adult contemporary music from the 80s (albeit released in 1978). the production is clean and the mix is great, but nothing else really stands out for me here. Dire Straits is the Coldplay of gen x

this album is pretty cool. lots going on here and only a couple boring tracks. this time period is a huge blind spot for me so this was cool to listen to

this one’s weird. nothing too crazy, but it’s weird. kinda like if Bowie was a crazy German guy?

Jeff Lynne tha god

an interesting collection of songs.

i’m more familiar with PJ Harvey’s earlier work, but this is really cool. kind of a distillation of some early 2000s sounds like Arcade Fire and Santigold. “The Glorious Land” and “The Words That Maketh Murder” are similar songs, but the storytelling is really compelling. man, this one takes me back to the simpler times of 15 years ago in (good lord) 2011. last track ended on a weird note to me. this is a solid album

this is a good one

i knew Blue Boy King was a singer, but hadn’t really heard anything outside of when he was pretty old. it’s so insane the greatest blues guitarist of a generation also had a voice like Donny Hathaway. i found it interesting how short a lot of these tunes are. would have guessed more improv/solos. also a plus he told the fellas not to hit their wives. one can only conclude this was a radical departure from the norms of the 60s

yikes

not in english. one star

80s rock baby

got through about half of this. some tracks weren’t as bad as others

“If we don’t take action now we settle for nothing later. We’ll settle for nothing now, and we’ll settle for nothing later” FUCK ICE

70s rock

this album is pretty good, but Demon Days better be on this list!!