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.

ass

🤩🤩🤩

weak sauce

One of my faves yet

Hadnt ever listened to a Michael Jackson album all the way through before. Wow

Hadn’t heard of this before! Liked it more than expected! Faron Young was a cool opener!

I like beastie boys generally but they have better albums than this

sorry guys I think I might just not be an R.E.M. person. On first listen at least (which is all I got in yesterday) this was nice enough but nothing stood out to me.

In another life, I am born a cis boy in 1985 and this album comes out and makes me profoundly annoying. My parents come in while it’s on and I explain to them why it is amazing and they say “that’s nice, honey.” They’re a little worried that the people I hang around are getting me into drugs. I outgrow it and get into better music but look back on it with nostalgia as an adult. I did not grow up with this album and harbor no such nostalgic feelings toward it. But I cannot help but recognize some aspect of myself that would have fucked with this to an annoying extent had I discovered it earlier. Listening to this now, however, I have to recognize that it is ass. The production sounds really bad to me? Like everything sounds hollow and I feel like the vocals are too loud? And of course it is profoundly corny but I feel like harping on that too much isn’t taking this album for what it is. Coming in with the “allthetimeI turnaroundbrothersgatherroundalwayslookingatmeupanddownlookinhatmy(uh)” flow on spit it out made me laugh. Would give a 2.5 if halvsies were allowed.

Glad we got this on a rainy day it made me feel very cool

Lameeeeee

Question: can you get me to like something I wouldn’t otherwise like by telling me that it is trans a little (ik drag ≠ trans but you know with it being from the seventies the lines were blurrier) Answer: yeah kinda

Can’t believe I hadn’t listened to this before. Great stuff

You’re so right king the world IS sound.

Idk I liked this

Nice tunes, cripple creek mogs everything else, I think I just don’t like the band

Boooo

Finally some good stuff. What a lovely collection of songs. Not too long not too short. Great fucking MELODIES. Listened to this on 2 separate drives today and it made me feel like i was in a movie

I liked a few songs on this but not most of it

Idk I liked this!

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