1001 Albums Summary

I feel like I’ve listened to this before, but maybe so intentionally. So interesting how weird this band was for being the most popular in the world. Love the transitions between “sun king” through “she came through the window” were so theatrical and made the second side feel so epic!

I was kind of skeptical when I saw it was a live album but it slayed

I mean it is a classic for a reason. Also, I think the thirty tracks here could show contemporary artists how to do what usually may be thought of as a "bloated tracklist." Taking thirty tracks to do folk, satire, Beatles-core ballads, classic rock, proto-metal, ASMR, and sound collage (non-exhaustive list) shows how runtimes justify themselves. Also, it is only in so many tracks in such a long, far-reaching, experimental album that songs like "Birthday" can be justified. It is about the gestalt!

Music that has become cliched with time and subject matter that is wholly uninteresting

Incredible stuff. So so so influential

Reminded me of a lot of things I like. Like dream pop/rock Bruce Springsteen

Very good! I feel like a lot of albums from this time have a track that is sort of pedagogical like “runaway child,” but I’m not sure they’ve aged well