1001 Albums Summary

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3.5/5. I don't love the Doors but there's some good stuff here

3.5/5 I can't stand this band but I can't deny this album

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Probably my favorite R.E.M album

4.5/5 All the hits here are magic

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3.5/5 It's fun!

2.5/5 It's just rather dull

It floats by

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3.5/5 Good, but not for me. Clearly a direct ancestor of Vampire Weekend. Drum recordings are some of the worst I've ever heard put to vinyl

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3/5 Tainted Love laps the field

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3.5/5 I'm not a big fan of Aerosmith but this seems like their best

3.5/5 Woohoo

2/5 and this is my favorite Def Leppard album

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3.5/5 Never heard of this guy before but this was fun

1.5/5 I really don't get it

3.5/5 I don't want to like it but there are a lot of good songs here

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5/5 For my money, the last great popular rock album

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4/5 This is not my favorite Michael era but Dirty Diana and Smooth Criminal at the end are too good

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4.5/5 Diabolical bass work

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3/5 This is like the 4th time I've given this album a chance and it's just never done anything for me.

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3.5/5 The songs are too long but I can't deny that it's pretty good.

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3/5 I probably need to spend more time with it but it didn't do much for me through a couple spins

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4.5/5 Tragic but still uplifting and optimistic somehow. Beautiful album all around

3/5 It's fine, I won't listen again

It's pleasant. I don't have the patience to find the good in this

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4/5 Our House hits hard when you have two cats in the yard

The cumulation of Muse's career up to this point is a ridiculous, overdramatic, guitar-hero spaghetti-western space-opera called Knights of Cydonia. I'll be damned if they didn't nail it. 4/5

I just learned his son is Sal Masekela and I just watched Sal call Bob Burnquist's legendary X-games vert run which occurred 25 years ago this month. Anyway, this doesn't reach the highs of a Bob Burnquist blunt kickflip to fakie but it's pretty good 4/5

I don't really want to like Lennon but like I can't deny this is pretty good. 3.5/5

The album's rep makes me want to rate it higher but there are too many songs that I'm not interested in. Though, this did make my best album art list. 3.5/5

Genuinely crazy to lead an album off with a ten minute guitar solo and end it with fart sounds, but it's still good overall. 3.5/5

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I don't know what to rate this thing. There is obviously a lot of good stuff here and then there's some frat rap nonsense that I'm not real fond of. Is Brass Monkey good or has it just been locked in my head for 40 years? This is my least favorite of the early Beastie records. 3.5/5

I was expecting to give this like a 2 but I have been charmed by Elton John. 3.5/5

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His previous album, Freedom Flight, goes a little harder and has some electric blues feel to it. This is decent but a bit sleepier than I'd like. 3.5/5

The title track is a perfect song and I love the multitracked vocals on My Blue Tears "Go spread your blue wings Go light your blue sky And I'll shed my blue tears" 4/5

Gains a half star just for the bonus tracks on the expanded edition. "An album that drinks and swears and fights and isn't afraid to cry in public." 4.5/5

Peak Swamp Rock 4.5/5

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I don't think I needed to listen to this before I died. 1.5/5

I thought I was going to hammer this but, idk man, the songs are well done. I'm just not interested in the genre. 3/5

Top 2 proto-punk album, and number 1 is also the Stooges. 4.5/5