1001 Albums Summary

I’ve listened to this album a couple times before, but it’s been a few years. This is the first time I really understood it in a deeper level. Everything from his personal feelings and battles, talks between Kendrick, God and the devil, American materialism, all leading to him turning around to be the positive leader for his community. I really enjoyed every part of it. One of my favorite parts is how the outro builds after each song and reveals more of the story being told. In my experience, it’s an album you have to listen to a couple times with the lyrics to fully digest it, but it’s very much worth it to hear and understand his entire perspective shift throughout the album.

This album was definitely not my favorite. It sounds like it’s from 1981 for sure. There’s some bits and pieces of some cool guitar and drums throughout it, but it was all taken away by that Pat Benatar style voice that I cannot stand. Some of the drums almost reminded me of a Phil Collins sound, but not enough to outweigh the not-so favorable in my opinion. No saves or standouts from this album. The song “Voodoo Dolly” was absolutely atrocious.