1001 Albums Summary

liked this overall but I thought the most well known songs from it were the best, not a ton here for me in terms of deeper cuts worth going back to

britslop. i liked what became of the likely lads

Now That’s What I’m Fucking Talking About!

liked this more than i expected. particularly skidmarks on my heart. not sure i see myself going back to it though. would give like a 3.5 if there were halves on here.

About two years ago a gay guy i was pretending not to have a crush on in my Beatles class who would later sour on me as a friend once i started wearing a Jewish voice for peace button around made fun of me for liking Michelle. Immediately following this we watched a documentary as a class which opened with some self-described Beatles expert spending a good 2-3 minutes ranting about how much he fucking hated Michelle. You would think Michelle was a real person who had personally slighted him. This guy fucking hated Michelle and by extension Paul McCartney, he said it revealed his weaknesses as a writer or some stupid shit like that. It was maybe the hardest I have ever laughed at anything. I don’t care if it’s slop I still like Michelle. I feel kind of silly “reviewing” this album having not experienced what popular music sounded like before it existed. But from my limited perspective I feel like a little most than half of it is like the best shit around at its time (DRIVE MY CAR!!!!!!!) and the other half-ish is them still figuring stuff out with mixed results, some of which I still enjoy. I love this album overall but it’s not a fave Beatles album for me. Definitely worth going back to though.

I LOVE AIMEE MANN!!!!!!!

I liked this :D

The best part of this album is the cover. How is this guy a classic singer songwriter he can’t write for shit. I enjoyed Miles From Nowhere musically more than the other songs but was “I can make my own rules” not already a cliche in the seventies, and is there really a need to clarify that extremely trite lyric by immediately following it with “the ones I choose?” You think we didn’t understand what you meant by “make my own rules?” Do you think I’m stupid? Look at me. Do you think I’m fucking stupid? Not every line of a singer songwriter album has to be trying for something new but this is how almost every line feels, across the entire album. Nothing individually sounds interesting and nothing works together to sound interesting. “I don’t want to work away, doing what they all say.” Come up with one original or interesting lyric you are a singer songwriter that is your job. The instrumentals are nice but not good enough to make up for any of this. What’s with Sad Lisa using the most generic imagery ever to describe a sad woman and then coming in with violins to re-emphasize the core and only idea of the song which is that Lisa is, in case you forgot, sad. I guess Longer Boats is alright, Into White is fine too. This album feels like a random Guy who had never written a song was locked in a room and forced to write it. This album feels like it was written from a 101 Songwriting Prompts listicle you get by googling “songwriting prompts.”“Look at me, I am old, but I’m happy / and all the times I’ve cried keeping things inside.” KEEPING THINGS INSIDE HUH. “THINGS.” CRIED/INSIDE. REALLY. WOW FASCINATING INSIGHTS YUSUF/CAT STEVENS. THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING THESE NEW IDEAS TO THE WORLD. I liked Peace Train.

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weak sauce