1001 Albums Summary

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.☠️