1001 Albums Summary

I listened to this album 1000 fucking times as a kid since my mom loved it but I truly have almost no attachment to it outside of childhood nostalgia. I find it better than most other Beatles albums but nothing they do has ever really grabbed me. Overall kind of boring and reminds me that the Beatles were just shitty shitty people.

Music is intrinsically linked to memory for me and this album really has a special spot in time for me. Rikki Don't Lose That Number got played alot by my mom when I was a kid so hearing it kick off the album immediately got my attention. I'm passingly familiar with Steely Dan so I had an idea of what to expect on this. It's a very jammy kind of record to me lots of really talented musicians throwing ideas at the wall and then constructing a lattice of sound together. A definite funk underline for the whole album but the jumps from jazzy to folk to rock to funk and back and forth made for a breezy album. Really hope there's more Steely Dan on the list even if they are kinda corny sounding sometimes.

Slow and spacy kinda folk rock album. I'm a fan of Kurt Vile already so pretty immediately I clocked that he had something to do with this. I really appreciate his and by extention TWOD's cadence when singing. It really does capture the sort of rambling daydream quality of the album. I def prefer Vile's solo stuff but this was a cute little album to vibe out to.

Pre listen: This is one of my favorite albums of all time I will take any excuse to re-listen to this whenever wherever. Mid listen notes: God i love this so much. You feel this album in your teeth. It claws it's way into you heart and never let's go. It's stop and start is so incredibly engaging even when not "active" listening it grabs so much attention. Listened: I still adore this album it just hits me right like 90% of the time jazz and funk and rock are just joyfully combined into a fever dream. It's not perfect but it's damn close.