1001 Albums Summary

I listen to this album from start to finish regularly so I think I could give it four stars for that reason.

The album was well written, and sort of melancholic. I like how he plays guitar. Will probably listen again.

I like some of his songs, and I like the album that came later. This i could do without. Reminds me of the old men in the smoky mountains...

Album is okay. Could have done with half the songs. Only gave it a three for the album art. Otherwise I would rate the album a two.

Album so good almost all the songs are used in other pieces of media 😭 I don't listen to this album frequently enough to have it as one of my top favorites so I gave it a four out of five.

The album itself is pretty okay with some good songs; ofc Crazy Love is a classic hit for garage/the early 2000s dance scene. While this album is a little slow and sort of boring (to be honest) I can hear a lot of the early sounds being used the the underground uk music scene. Elisabeth Troys vocals are worth the listen tbh. I think artists like Sophie, Shygirl, Rose Gray and Lynks are great examples of the influence of these earlier experimentations. Sophie specifically hits that industrial garage feel, while Lynks is a harder sound. Shygirl has an RnB flair, and Rose Grey is the closest to the sound of this album if it was more mature.

The world would have been a better place if it had never been made. The vocals are like if Robert Smith didn't know how to sing, and the music is like highschool jazz band, but if someone gave them a guitar player too.

It's alright. It's the kinda music your dad listens to from the garage while drinking a beer in the driveway with your weird uncle. It's just kinda on, and everyone sings the wild horses part way too loud. At worst it's just alright, and at best it's also just alright. I guess they have a magazine for a reason though. The guitar is pretty good.

This album isn't bad at all. I think it's just a little too long honestly, but I can imagine people actually playing this at techno raves (where they actually do the real dancing.) Not my favorite thing, but also not terrible. I do think the inconsistency with the album genre bothered me a little bit.

TWO TURN TABLES AND A MICROPHONE 🗣️🎤

I have no idea how to rate this due to the fact that it's phedophilic content by all standards. Even when released this album was controversial. With that being said, without knowing the context the album plays like a villain monologuing. It's unfortunately influential and very well made despite the content. The "narrator" is very much a Humbert character. Lolita being released about fifteen years prior, first published in Paris, France, and then this album being made seems to have some significance. First he hits her with his car that plays as the abuser aspect, and then bringing her to a hotel as the kidnapping aspect. In line with the Lolita story more or less. As a concept album it fails to deliver any moral correction. Instead of punishment for illicit affairs with a young girl she 'dies' as a solution... It was controversial then and has only soured with time; This is unlike Lolita, where we know the antagonist is not to be empathized with. I think there's some context to know from France: The age of consent is low, and as far as I have been made aware of through the art community... Their pornographic content makes everything in America look softcore. Not a justification for the album, just context to consider. Especially since (as already stated) this album was still controversial. Great minds don't always create the best concepts. They're just good at what they do in a technical sense. Good music, absolutely shit ass take for a concept work. Statutory rape and obsession cannot be rationalized into a love story.☠️

🥰❤️ I love when he screams and crashes out.