1001 Albums Summary

Honestly found this kinda meh. I love some Steely Dan, but this isn't a patch on Aja. 3 Stars.

Tiresome, one-dimensional nose occasionally punctuated by a decent guitar solo. One listen was enough. The idea that this is a must-listen is laughable.

This album is proof that just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Awful.

Enjoyed this, but found it a little one-paced, which made it kind of a chore to listen to all the way through.

There's probably a decent 12-song album in here, but unfortunately the majority of the record sounds like a series of half-formed sketches and twee nonsense that make the juice of the occasional highlight not really worth the effort of the squeeze.

Did not enjoy.

Despite a number of great individual songs, this album felt like a band trying to figure out what comes next--with highly varying degrees of success across the 2 discs. Easily could have cut half the songs and not lost anything in the process. Another way of putting it: if this wasn't an album by the Beatles, I doubt it would have made this project.

Finding albums and artists like this is why I'm doing this project. I think it's (mostly) fantastic, and am looking forward to hearing more of Barry Adamson's back catalog. Having said that, I can also see why some people hate it. It's an uncomfortable listen at times. But it's the only one in my first 40 days of doing this that made me need to learn more about the artist and read other opinions to help me understand what I was listening to.