1001 Albums Summary

the opening of immigrant song with the, like, george of the jungle howl is pretty good. no thoughts on friends. no thoughts on celebration day. no thoughts on since i've been loving you. no thoughts on out on the tiles. gallows pole has a great rhythm to it. tangerine is the catchiest of the bunch so far but it's kind of a low bar for catchiness (i do not think they are going for "catchy" at all). that's the way has better vocals than the rest, it's sort of ballady, and i think i like that more than the, i don't know, airy/atmospheric vocals of the rest of the album. the opening of bron-y-aur stomp sounds kind of like, banjo-ey and that's pretty dancey but it literally turns into stomp clap which i have been informed via osmosis is cringe. hats off to (roy) harper sounds like someone just found out about knobs and is playing a tape while cranking those knobs all over the place like a child, genuinely stupid song tangerine > bron-y-aur stomp > i guess immigrant song for the cool yelling melody thing and the rest is kind of whatever

crazy good opening track. sort of a combo between ennio morricone and justice. this is exactly the kind of thing i was hoping for when starting this. the latter parts trailed off a little bit but the general vibe is so magnificent i can't fault it for that really. immediately went back to listen to the start of it after finishing it. i think my appreciation for this kind of thing comes from hearing so much motown growing up. had never heard the name isaac hayes before this but i sure hope i remember it

recognized Yellow from hearing it on the radio, but that's about the only feeling i had during this. pretty bland overall. it has the trappings of being emotional but nothing about the music conveys emotion, so it just comes off as hollow

clearly a talented singer, and great poetry, but not really doing enough musically for me. feels like a lot of default choices

they're having a great time on this. really get the sense they're doing their favorite thing in the world which helps sell the enjoyment i get out of this more than other classic-ish rock records.

pretty okay. i can imagine having a great time dancing to this in a party setting but it seems more functional than anything

pretty good music to relax to. mission venice was probably the catchiest track.

pretty good, but so short! makes total sense how much this busted through norms, sounds really good even today

from the cover i was expecting this to be obnoxious hair metal, but then when dancing in the moonlight came on and they were thanking their saxophone player, i realized i had them totally wrong. and then the boys are back in town came up and i was like ohhhh it's those guys! really fun time on this one

pretty good variety here. break on through is good of course. alabama song is really goofy, it's like honky tonk or something. the end is just indulgent

did a double take at the line "let's get arrested, wanna be molested? who cares how old you are?" and i'm afraid that's gonna cost peter a star. but the cool talkbox tech gets another star back to make him completely average

really fun instrumentation, but over half the album is the aimless final track of noodling. not actively bad to listen to or anything but it feels like they kind of gave up and just improvised most of it. probably really sick if you're high in the 70s

surprising and impressive! one of the issues i've had with classic rock is that songs are all the same intensity. this feels like each song as a specific idea and it's walking you through all the points of the idea. this culminates in imo the best song on the album, fistful of love, which starts softly and understated and builds piece by piece up to a shouting crescendo by the end. it always feels like something new is happening

great time all around. really catchy songs that are cringe in a satisfying delightful way

rare album where i started it over right after finishing. every song is unique and kept my attention almost the whole time. hard to pick a favorite since they're all so great

really catchy and would be happy to listen to this pretty much any time. that said, it doesn't really evoke any moods besides aimlessly upbeat

like this better than lz3 which is in some ways kinda disappointing. pretty bland

kinda wild honestly. i have no idea what this even is. some of it sounds like jazz, some of it sounds like silent hill, huge fan of the variety here. i read that he made this album with the concept of "the soundtrack for a movie that doesn't exist" and it came out really great, all kinds of moods. didn't know they had this kind of innovation in 1996

really nice vocal-forward tracks on this, and there's a huge variety of instrumentation. i was expecting mostly guitars again but there's a lot of nice piano and stuff too

really pleasant listen. pretty good instrumentation although it never really rose above the level of pleasant

really liked how much this sounds like motown classics

good jazzy sound on this. i'm a sucker for gang vocals too and they're all over this one

this is a little too heavy on the screaming and a little too light on the fun rhythmic stuff i want from them

lots of recognizable stuff on here. pretty fun time all around

really good! so much energy in all of these, especially killing in the name of. hard to not get swept up with it