1001 Albums Summary

Got this album as a gift in 7th grade. Achtung Baby had been released and a friend of mine gifted this to me for Christmas after I mentioned I hadn't spent much time on this album. This album has some great moments performance-wise and production-wise. Historically significant album worth a listen all the way through once. After my first time listening to this, I found myself skipping a few tracks on a regular basis. When I gave it a full listen again later, I found a new appreciation for those previously skipped songs. Definitely in the Top 3 of the U2 catalog.

A challenge to get through. As I was settling into a song, I'd get taken right out with the most ignorant of lyrics. There's clearly some creativity here, but this didn't live up to the hype for me.

This is one I gotta listen to from start to finish. Instrumentally, a very interesting album. It wasn't until I hear tributes/covers that I understood the lyrics. One of my favorite albums from their catalog.

One I might actually come back to!

I respect the technical capabilities of the instrumentation, particularly the drums. While this isn't an album (or genre) that I'll revisit any time soon, I respect that it exists and there is a passionate fanbase.

Classic. Love for this album has sentimental ties to family and friends citing this band to listen to as I was studying drums. Not sure how someone with a more "modern" lens would think of this, but as someone born 12 years after this album came out, the world had already changed quite a bit from when the album came out, but it was firmly embedded in my adolescence and is a happy place.

What a miserable experience of an album. The constant lectures and immovable points of view suck every drop of art out of this album.

This was new to me! Engaging from the beginning. Definitely one I'm coming back to.