1001 Albums Summary

Great mix of jazz along with the blues.

"Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs" are bangers, for sure, but the rest of the album really starts to feel the same.

I should like this album. I love the wall of sound concept, and this definitely has it. But in execution here, it's just annoying. And in now way did this album need to be 22 tracks. He ran out of ideas after about 10 and then just kept going.

Fine and forgettable.

Funky and groovy for a lot of it, but disappointingly languid for too much of the album.

I think I really need to have heard this album when it came out to fully appreciate it. It's good enough music, but isn't blowing me away at all.

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You can definitely hear how this impacted quite a lot of electronic music: building a little these/snippet and repeating it with some variation over time. But other than there I couldn't find a whole lot to like about the album. Not bad, just kind of boring. Like with other albums (and I suspect more and more that we'll listen to), it's hard to fully appreciate this when you started with the music that this inspired, which has also been refined, enhanced and expanded. It's kind of like watching dead-ball baseball when you started watching in the modern era.

Phenomenal sound quality. The experience is ruined a little bit by all the breaks for introductions, crowd control, etc. I would have preferred more music and less of what was happening at the actual performance.

Really good album. Roundabout is an all-timer. Lots of really interesting ideas. I really liked Cans & Brahms. About a 3.5 rounded up.

Good album. I really liked the first track and wish the rest of the album could have been that good. Would have been an easy 4+. Also, what a dumb album title & cover.

Fine, just not my cup of tea.

I hate Leonard Cohen as a vocalist. Let me repeat that, I hate Leonard Cohen as a vocalist. Only Bob Dylan might be worse. Every song sounds exactly the same. He takes his voice, which is pretty good in and of itself, and does absolutely nothing with it. Like any sort of inventiveness, dynamism or variety is morally wrong to him. The music itself occasionally has a bit of life, but mostly that is pretty monotonous (except, Diamonds in the Mine, that was a nice change of pace). I now know I'll never need to listen to one of his songs again. The album title is two words too long. Being generous and rounding up 1.5 stars entirely because of Diamonds in the Mine (though the more songs I listen to the harder this becomes).

Nothing special.

There's a couple of really high highs. "Sweetness Follows" is one of my favorite songs (not just on the album), and "Man On the Moon" is excellent. However, they aren't enough to raise the entire album to anything more than average for me.

Very innovative music with lots going on. But I'd have to be in the right mood to want to listen to this album too much. Kudos to Bjork for naming her debut solo album "Debut".

Song length really hurt this album. Easily 4+ stars if each song was just shorter. Fantastic music with an incredible rhythm section. This is exactly the kind of album I was hoping to hear from this site. Giving it 4 stars because of that.

I say this with all sincerity, I'm not sophisticated enough to fully appreciate this album. I liked it, but I believe I need to be more of a musician or jazz aficionado to get the most out of it.

Yup

Fine, and I've already completely forgotten it. I would like to hear the justification of why I needed to hear this album.

Brilliant album top to bottom. Incredible and inventive beats perfectly matching Q-Tip and Phife Dawg.

The singer's voice really grated on me. The music wasn't any better.

If you're going to copy someone, may as well be The Boss.

I really should have liked this more, but it just didn't click. Still good, though.