1001 Albums Summary

This album is a little one trick pony for me, but it's a good trick. Fogerty's guitar work is some hot stuff from a blues perspective. "Sinister Purpose" has a bit of a Black Sabbath N.I.B. vibe.

This is probably the most energetic I've heard The Cure. Still, it's The Cure, so it's energetic for a funeral dirge. The album starts to drag, as the tempo and structure don't vary much from song to song. It sounds bloody fantastic, though. You could pick any song and easily see why they were pioneering for Goth rock. As an aside, Nirvana's "About a Girl" seems like it might have been strongly influenced by "M."

Is this album the progenitor of prog rock or just self-indulgent wanking? Do I care? How many other bands have the confidence to make the first track on an album 20 minutes long with a babbling brook in the middle? It's interesting to hear how 70s this record sounds from a gear/tone perspective. It's like the epitome of classic rock gear played with progressive orchestration. If the music shifted back to blues roots, the sound would already be right at home.

This album is like half irreverent class clown junk, and half dark and twisted brilliance. So I guess it's a Nirvana album.

Wow

Trying to stay positive here. This album brought metal to the masses, but for the band, it feels like they were stuck between the fiery stuff from their youth and the somber grindingly melodic songs that would appear on Load/Reload. So in a way, this album feels a little lost. In being more appealing to most, they lost some of what made them special to a few.

This is some great musicianship. It's also the Beatles. Sometimes they can be so...the Beatles.

Not for me.

Wonderul bass playing throughout.