1001 Albums Summary

Good not great

Fine. Good. No complaints.

Good. Simple. A classic seaman’s album.

Groovy. Michael is better though. Funky listen

3/5 stars. Wouldn’t change a thing

Nothing shocking? More like nothing worth listening to.

Oh brother… These Guys STINK!!

Keep this album across the water you tea sipping yokels. Seriously, aside from Tiny Dancer this album would be lost to the hippie zeitgeist. 3/5 stars because Tiny Dancer is good and the grandiose piano parts probably went on to influence Hollywood mob pieces more so than music.

Good not great

Went in with no expectations - left with a favorite album

Peak 90s. Loved it.

Solid!

Y’all get mad at Tom Waits rambling on and on over a couple songs but overlook SIXTY-BLODDY-SEVEN studio albums of another man doing the exact same thing! This is like that one HR meme where the good looking guy gets away with harassment while the overweight coworker gets to talk with HR… Brandon, I triple dog dare you to do a discography review of Johnny Cash. ANYWAY, this is a good album. And I’m a fan of good covers - of which he has many on this album. This album is a great farewell. I liken it to Harrison Ford getting a lifetime achievement award. Love that “We’ll Meet Again” is the final track considering this was also a project for his kids.

Amazed my vocals carry a rather average album

It insists upon itself

Not a fan.

Loved it. Wouldn’t change a thing.

I once befriended a kid who grew up in a strict Christian Apostolic community. I’m talking women could only wear skirts type of community. We rode the bus together and I introduced him to A LOT of non biblical music on bus rides to and from school. He was my first kind of real friend in Kentucky so I overlooked a lot of red flags on a weirdo I probably otherwise should have seen. ANYWAY… His parents wouldn’t let him do normal stuff play call of duty or listen to music like Green Day (particularly this album). Sadly, I introduced him and his younger brother to both. I got to witness what a first person shooter tailor made for a PlayStation console and irate rock does to a guy. He went from like a silent/rebellious honor student who invited me to church to like full-on hanging out with D level students and bragging about getting into fights in the span of two months type of kid. I’m not kidding… His introduction to this album coincided with our grade reading The Outsiders. This kid LOVED American idiot. When we shared my iPod buds on the bus he’d always be like “Play that one American song man.” I also started noticing him bragging about going to fights against ‘socs’ to kids three levels younger on the bus. It was then I knew that maybe I had introduced this kid to too much. This guy reminded me a lot of Icarus and Green Day was his sun. After like two straight weeks of riding the bus together he kept requesting Green Day. That “play that American song man” request was starting to piss me off. Like, friends introduce each other to different music genres - they don’t make you constantly play Green Day 24/7. I started getting pissed and playing Don McLean and Bruce Springsteen when he made the “American song” request. But this album and particularly American Idiot had a weird withdrawal effect on him. It’s all he could crave. One day I silently deleted Green Day from my iPod and he couldn’t take it. I told him we could listen to other stuff. But after like a week of no Green Day (and particularly this album) he started sitting with other kids on the bus and our friendship never really recovered. Green Day was little more than a subtle paste that held us sitting together on a bus ride that lasted 20-25 minutes. Flash forward 15 years… I looked him up while listening to this album. He now has a couple of kids, didn’t maintain the apostolic lifestyle, and may or may not work. Wild to believe Green Day, this album, and maybe what American Idiot can do to a guy. Idk, maybe those weird republicans from the 90/00s railing against modern rock had a point. Was that all those republicans were trying to protect us from? Hell of an album though. I can still see this guy slapping his leg when American Idiot comes on. 4/5 stars, wouldn’t change a thing.