1001 Albums Summary

When I was in middle school my mom's boyfriend asked me to download this for him on Kazaa but I don't remember ever doing it. 100s of tiny sins such as these litter my life, although that guy was evil.

uh, holy shit

I think it's just that "rock n roll piano" is not my thing I could see myself giving this the full 5 with more context or history under my belt, but in this moment and with the sole rubric being "how much I enjoyed listening to it," it's a 4

certainly not a dance record, and a lot of the beats are pretty straightforward, but the creativity is crazy

oh wow. isn't music amazing? aren't people just great?

I listened to this on a DAP that allowed me to push the volume until my headphones were literally (literally!) vibrating

I've been trying to set aside my ego and pride, which have no purpose or value, and reexamine certain things I married myself to an opinion of when I was much younger than I am now. Trying to correct a bad personality, more or less. This record was on that list even before I started doing the album a day thing here. So, acknowledging that I'm not saying anything brilliant or original here: one man can change the world!!!

The three big hits are still incredible, especially if you can remove yourself from what I assume is the nearly universal experience of having heard the songs one million times before. The rest of the album doesn't speak to me as much even though I couldn't shake the feeling that it *should* because there's a lot of music in the same neighborhood as this that I have really loved. I believe my rating is the best numerical approximation of the sum of these feelings

Margot Tenenbaum type shit

can you hear the future coming?

for a couple of songs I was tending toward "not that bad" but you know, it's just smoothed edges, creatively devoid. easy to pick the hit out of a line up, and QT was right to do what he did to them

helped me solidify how I want to think about ratings during this project

with an open heart and an open mind this nearly got a 5. the attitude adjustment is ongoing.

I just kept saying "wow" I think I would never have listened to this album if not for this project, this experience is just what I am chasing. Part of it anyway

listen, nobody, if I'm being true to my heart this was a 3 experience. but I so badly *want* it to have been a 4. and in a way, doesn't that make a 4 *more* true to my heart? please don't let me be so uncool that I don't like bowie. one of these is going to hit for me

rock n roll came a long way in 10 years man if one element is stumbling just change your focus. every time I heard a weak lyric I'd just start listening to Phil Collins drumming his heart and brains out

hey man. what the fuck.

this one came out of nowhere for me

I was sure I wasn't going to like this, but I was wrong

stadium-sized cheers every time I catch a movie reference

not completely soulless, but make no mistake, this is selling out

frankly shocked but this is a huge 5 for me

Prejudice - NO Ignorance - NO Bigotry - NO Illiteracy - NO

[sitting straight up like Neo in The Matrix] I get Nick Cave

this album art is so damn good

some really cool sounds but I did struggle to appreciate this

maybe I'm just in a bad mood but I see through this and him

dips just a little too far toward corny at times. just a little!

my favorite Stones album so far but list I beseech thee give me a break from the Rolling Stones now

I can hear an origin of so many albums I like in this, it's hard not for me not to take that into account

I introduced the biggest Springsteen fan I've ever known to the love of her life in our college bar sometime in the early 2010s. in some ways it has been fun to be alive

would have been easy to slip into dismissiveness but I love a lot of movies that owe their soundtrack and/or whole vibe to this record to be played in cars with a scent that is not-unpleasant-yet-distinct

dude, it has mr brightside on it

there was a man, Frank something, Pendergrass maybe, at the church my granny took me to, he sang just like the Louvin Brothers. *Just* like them. I listened to him lead hymns probably for 10 years. So I'm happy to say I have a cheat code for this album, I get to skip the learning curve completely.

once received two box seat tickets to pearl jam misdelivered to my home, and let's just say that a hypothetical past version of me and my roommate used to have a hypothetical habit of opening any and all misdelivered mail. As you can probably imagine that hypothetical habit would get someone into some hot water when they realize they have something a little more valuable than junk mail. Anyway. Music touches our lives

the impression I powerfully received is a record full of songs 3 times longer than they need to be, desperately trying to build out "repetition and references" as a theme to conceal that there are only 2 or 3 original ideas hanging around

I was going to give this a 4 for complex internal reasons but there is a sound in the middle of the track Atom Dance that gave me chills, full body goosebumps. Unbelievable

musically very strong, but I have to admit that it falters lyrically somewhat often. that said, it's just so damn lovable

my life doesn't matter in any way at all

cool record. I really do hate to sound square but I did kind of find myself wondering somewhat offhandedly how we got to a place where Reznor is singing "I want to fuck you like an animal"

wish this did anything for me but I just can't align my wavelength

sometime around the year 2000 I was sleeping over at my best friend Tyler's house, spending all night talking to girls from school on yahoo messenger until their parents sent them to bed and then, having nothing else to do in the small hours of the night, Tyler played me the song Hotel California. He presented it as if he was bringing a cursed, sinister presence into my life. It was a bit like our stupid little version of playing with a oujia board. Who knows what would have happened in my life if I had done something else that night? There's no way to know and given everything in my life I guess I just have to say thanks and 5 stars to fucking Hotel California