1001 Albums Summary

brown sugar should slap can't get over the lyrics didn't realize the stones were so damn solid sway kinda slams wild horses is a great ballad can't hear me knocking too long bitch rocks B-side is nice and mellow could grow very attached to it with more listens

fuckin CLASSIC front to back? listened a million times already. south side of the sky underrated as hell

AGAIN one i know its also lovely plastic trees is beautiful “just” is weirdly cunty? its a very solid alt rock album but radiohead still isnt fuckin Radiohead at this point. love it tho

m-m-m-MID band on the run, jet, mrs vandebilt, picasso’s last words, 1985 all good-great bluebird annoying as fuck let me roll it, mamunia, no words all quite boring. insane downgrade from RAM tbh

good sound but the choice to do covers really hampered it, the compositions just aren’t as interesting. still decent instrumentals for easy listening

YEAAAAAAAAH dust brothers can fuckin Produce man. sad we cant get samples like this anymore. the beastie boys are so damn charismatic too.

78 minutes of beats to ice skate uphill to

its lovely. sadly a lot of my reviews will be subpar cause of my work trip rn but this is really in that lovely joni mitchell vein…or was joni mitchell in a joan baez vein? i can see myself getting really acquainted with this record and growing to 5 stars but i feel like it maybe couldve been trimmed to 40 minutes? could just be me getting frustrated at how hard it is to listen to a full album while managing a convention lmao

tracklist may be a bit bloated? it may serve me poorly in some of these to be so album-brained (despite it being an album challenge) as like, not all genres *work* quite like that. generally quite good. will check it out more. 3.5 if i was able to, but i cant put it on the same tier as a lot of these other listens as a 4-star lol

would be 5 if that dumb ass student demonstration time song was cut.

hot

only knew this band from come on eileen, a song i really dislike. happy to report this album is nowhere near as obnoxious to me as that. kind of a broad-strokes palette of new wave music, hearing berlin trilogy bowie, television, david byrne, and XTC in here. i think for the most part these tracks stay in their groove for a bit too long, not shaking things up quite enough to justify the length; funny enough the longest track by far, this is what she's like, fully earns its twelve minutes to me. unfortunately though i don't think it does quite enough to shake itself free of its obvious influences. this could go up later but for now a 3.5 feels about right.

OH NO LOVE YOU'RE NOT ALONE

fantastic album weighed down by its mixing. adore those pounding drums that grind and churn like those comically fucked-up factories that seem to only exist to give cartoon characters a beating. i'm always a slut for distorted vocals. but god damn the rhythm guitar does not need to be THIS loud, some great lead guitars are all-but lost on some of these tracks...

incredible start, very unremarkable side B that starts to turn to mush in my brain. good but not the best michael jackson.

great to know about, solid but not the most impressive listen. fuck the awful stereo mix tho

stuck between 2 and 3. two good tracks (the title tracks, every breath you take is very overplayed but i have to admit its pretty good. mother is an absolute failure in experimentation that really shows why the rest of this album is so boring; if That is what happens when they try to branch out i guess i’m glad theres so few risks in this thing.

the most agreeable beatles

around the world is fantastic obviously. da funk is great, a lot of good side A stuff. alive is a strong ending. side B is just decent yet unremarkable with the only two Outright Bad daft punk tracks i can think of (rock’n roll and oh yeah) back-to-back. its a fuckin crime this is the only daft punk on this list because it just doesnt reflect their insane talent

incredibly consistent songwriting, great compositions. couldve gotten away with running longer but also doesnt feel like its missing anything significant. 2 somewhat lesser tracks (the mystery of the mystery and a better place to live) arent enough to weigh this down for me.

read on the wikipedia this is one of the first country albums to be recorded digitally. sure explains a lot about the flat, cold production. there are decent songs on here but as a whole it fails to stand out. managing to feel bloated at a relatively short 34 minutes and 10 tracks, it lacks the depth of emotion and warmth that i need from country music. i would never go as far as to say i don't respect this album, but i do think a line could be traced from something like this right into that red solo cup, beer, ford f150 shit i despise.