1001 Albums Summary

Memories of high school for some tracks. Others I didn't remember at all -- those were a little too much easy listening for me.

Atmospheric, moody, which was interesting at first, but less so as the album wore on. I don't take the right drugs.

I love the overall sound, but Michael Stipe is not a great singer and as much of the lyrics as I could make out are really random. R.E.M. got a lot better as they went on. I would not listen to this again.

I appreciate what they're doing more than I enjoy it. It's impressive. Thoughtful and catchy at the same time. So many things coming together in this -- I hear electronic and jazz with the hip hop. And it's smart. I'm not a huge fan of spoken word over music in any format, but this is good, if not to my taste.

The title track is a banger, and "Fame" is interesting, but the rest is not Bowie at his best.

Morrissey seems self-centered and pretentious, but this is all pretty great. Maybe I'm just too old for this?

Why can't the front man ever be a guy who can actually sing? Or maybe this guy can sing but doesn't want to? I don't understand why the instruments all sound so good but the voice doesn't seem to be important. The soaring violins really bug me too, on the opposite end of the timbre spectrum.

Hard to rate something so familiar. But I do love this album.