i didnt get the echo and the bunnymen comparison but i guess i kind of see it. liked the intros to bullet the blue sky, did not like anything else
less album-y listen more like yay here are the bops, so boppy tho. love the synths that are low and crunchy like beeeeoooww. fave track policy of truth but also really liked sweetest perfection more than i remembered
LFG i found out abt this bc i saw the jamie hewlett cartoon of common on dial up when i was a kid and was already wired to like brit pop by growing up on beatles but what can you do it's orchestrated so its impossible to feel bored. overall psychic manipulation to feel good vibes, like disneyland or cordyceps, i will always enjoy this music and cant help it. the disillusioned and creepy lyrical aspect adds to the not boring aspect. favorite track common people IG since it changed my young brain
dolly's voice is soooo pretty but this popified country stuff is just so not for me. the forced rhyming in travelin man made me question the sincerity of this project as a whole. i guess i have to put dolly in a similar state of regard as jimmy buffet where i admire the branding, entrepreneurship, and star power of the artist but cant really listen to much of their musical output. thank you miss parton for jolene, the less good covid vaccine, and trixie mattel. fav track here i am
i am questioning my committment to listen to 1000+ highly regarded popular music albums. is this objectively good? it is important? did i appreciate this more at a different point in my life? is the cover art kind of neat? do i ever need to hear the song "wish you were here" from pink floyd's 1975 album "wish you were here" ever again? i just dont know. fave track(s) shine on you crazy diamond
kind of nice, i would be happy to listen to this in a bar on a hot sticky night. i don't think i'll remember anything about this tomorrow. fave track six blade knife
groovy, cool. felt nostalgic in a joyful way listening in bed on a rainy saturday morning. read the wiki article after and didn't really square the sound with the resistance music thing, but you know what this is a vibe and if you have a good aura and your enemy's is bad then you will win. fave track maseru
i like the production on a lot of these tracks but i just didn't like any of the writing, so the lightness of it just felt kind of empty vs ethereal and not enough to hold up the falsetto singing, not in itself a bad thing but wore on me sonically and quickly. fave track cologne cerrone houdini, more of a trip hop vibe than the rest of the album
update read the wiki and would not have guessed this was going for british pagan folk except for the cover art... if youre gonna go wyrd, go wyrd...
i like 60s baroque pop, and i like this band, but i like sitting through a mix of hits better than an album like this one; there's definitely standouts in the genre to me but i guess to me the high achievement of a really really good pop hit, whether from a very good band like the zombies or even an industry plant, pulled together are what makes this era to me. i'm a big listener of the rhino nuggets compilations is what im sayin. im not an expert but i kind of suspect there was some tension between rock bands in this era of labels' demands for big radio hits to sell the albums and the bands' desire to pull of their own beates esque album of artisic achievement. this was definitely a no-skip but i still don't connect with it as a whole and don't see myself putting it on again, but i will find myself in a youtube zombies tv appearences hole again. fave track beachwood park
somehow lots of elements that are normally not for me come together in a singular work that holds a dear. i really usually hate that 80s solo guitar thing unless prince does it! thanatos lovers will be like ohhh there's too much eros. but it's got both ok. fave track when doves cry
wow this sucks its like a record exec said find some nice fellas to do some love songs and put a little a that seattle sound the kids like on it, did not finish
it's cool how the band's style verges on noise and i like whatever the engineer (?) did with the drums on this but these songs are so meh or maybe not coz i can't get into the melody with costello's singing. 10+ albums into the 1000 feel there is way too much rock on this list
i can see someone picking this up used at a store the 90s and being like wow this doo wop dude made a pretty good adult album and playing it for a few friends who agree, but for me now i dont care. wasn't so bad to have to actively skip tracks but felt weirdly drained as i gently ignored this for its play time. i suspect the thousand albums writer picked this because primal scream cited it as an influence? no fave track because i really really didnt listen carefully at all
just so lovely. i have a boomer dad that smokes weed so i'm not totally alien to willy, but i don't think i've ever sat and listened to this one. first new to me thing that i liked on the list so far. i listened to it three times today. i love the instrumental interludes, the bach rendition. i love willy's voice, i love his guitar. i love how every song seems like it just flows into the next. i love when it borrows tennessee waltz and red river valley and turns into something else. listening to this feels like you're at a friday night party at an elk's lodge in heaven. fave track hands on the wheel
thought this was just gonna be a chill vibe and then it got actively annoying. why is there a parade in there. why is she singing in english. why does this feel like a 60s ad for a sofa. don draper's second wife had this album.
can't put a finger on why i don't like this, its sonically OK, i like the harmonizing parts and guitar sound. i missed this when i was a teen because it was lame radio rock and i hated all that new york/london stuff, i was obsessed with joy division and all the post punk revival stuff felt soulless and gross, a weird imitation of something lost. it was a bleak time culturally if anyone can't remember it was the bush era, not the y2k, reality tv was happening etc... a real era for slop and this takes me back (deragatory). sometimes the songs sound like theyre building to something good and then go to a crescendo thats just unsatisfying. like k liked the intro on the first track andy youre a star until the chorus, but didnt really like any song all the way thru ans skipped a few tracks, especially when they kept trying to move into a grand sound halfway thru. also the cover art feels sinophobic idk
saw this come up and went oh nooo but was OKayer than anticipated. still wont ever revisit. dont like the vibe of the band or the vocals and cant relate but i get thay theyre good songs. had to skip everybody hurts for grew up in the 90s reasons. fave track sweetness follows
takes me back to moving back to la and working in a lab where we'd listen to kcrw in the morning and id always dread npr news ending and jason bentley playing his set of total dogwater music. i gave this an honest listen because i dont know id he played anything off this album in particular, so there was nothing traumatizing in this for me. but it all sounded like this. he also played the same vampire weekend song like every day that summer. but i dont think we'll look back on this time and remember this band, feels like a premature call on the list writer's part
i am having an absolute mandela effect moment with the "don't worry, i won't hurt you..." intro. anyway one of my first favorite albums ever in my life still hits like when i was six. absolutely manic orchestration and production on everything, and sex party and romance turn into a driven rhytmic state of euphoria. in my case, literally baby's first extended pop instrumentals. i tbh dont think its all really about sex except in the way that everything is about sex, its like the whole psyche and not having known prince personally it seems like it must have been pretty singular and weird. but also if it is all just about dance, party, sex, and romance, what else do we have in our short small lives? fave track let's pretend we're married
listened at the gym. its groovy and i the spacey weee ooo sounds and the basslines, when it's got a y2k futurism. wouldnt say it suffers from sameyness since i think the whole point is the exact mood it has. sort or suspect this is on here as an expression of the britishness of the list, as likely there is some black artist who influenced this (or even one that didnt) that could have been chosen in place of this.
this is like watching a 30s mgm musical when youre like wow there was a time when all these generational talents were just all pulled into the same room to make some popular entertainment and they were all so singularly good at their art and so alchemically combined that what could be just a really silly little bit of distraction is so much better. a bunch of geniuses telling you that they will fuck you up in creative ways for 30-40 minutes. idk how to talk abt this without using a bunch of cheesy music fan cliches. the beats are cool, the sketches are funny. odb is there. there's all the movie quotes. if youre in sync with the same dialogue as the the album there's belonging here for you. fave tracks shame on a -, chessboxin, aint nothin to fuck with, protect ya neck
ive been interested to learn more about this era/type of music but trying to get thru this was a slog. like the single tho
this rules. the musicality is so serious and the lyrics are so silly. i was stuck in traffic singing about fried ice cream is a reality. realized i knew all the guitar solos from my little brother learning guitar growing up. added to the library, fave track who says a funk band cant play rock
cover art goes hard
this is one of those things where you learn about it and youre like well that was a weird blind spot anyway, but then it keeps coming up everywhere for some reason? my understanding of this project is it's a prank on the music industry made with contempt for consumers. that it's itentionally low effort and bad, but apparenly enjoyable (?). i love the klf project conceptually but hated listening to this album so not sure where to rate.
i like american folk music very much. fave tracks boll weevil and dink's song
felt the need to browse the reviews for this one because of the circumstances of its release, my memory of its reception when it came out, wondering if i can say anything avoiding the most used words... one being "swan" from "swansong" like lol... but it is not unlike a ballet so ok. listened to this a lot in 2016-17 and havent since and i think a lot of tracks from "heathen" had gotten mixed up with this in my mind even tho theyre obvi very different... all to say to me the characteristics of this album are classic bowie songwriting and lyricism and orchestration with a clean electronic production style that is very of the time, which is to say shows an artist adapting innovations and contemporaneity to their personal expression (like what people like to call "genius"). the musical qualities of the album match the cosmic themes, which are of course a throughline of bowie's spaceman body of work, but have a particular depth of meaning from an established artist looking back on life and forward at the unknown. so as a listener i really get everything i could want from this, just kind of a big and swift glimpse at the experience of being a person with a body and soul and heart and head and all that junk. title track, i cant give everything faves
did i invoke this by singing "fuck you" at karaoke the night before?? didnt hate it. charitably it feels dated. will add this to the "oh you want to be nostalgic about actual early 2000s culture??" list when i have the chance to culturally reform zoomers by making them read tao lin and watch the most boring vh1 celebrity reality shows, preferrably one with andy dick. i like cee los vocals, i like the gospel choir moments. fave track my kind of people
definitely OD'd on loveless in college but i liked the more stripped back feel in this one, would love to listen in one of them record bars with big speakers and coffee. versus at the weights, mixed in with the guy next to me trying to max out the row machine. nice slow big sounds. really lovely songwriting. fave track all i need
sabbath rules. my favorite 60s album from the 70s. what metal should be, political and fantastic at the same time. the whole iron man is kinda glam tbh. fave track other than war pigs hand of doom
just unbelievably cool. im not musical enough to even comprehend brian wilson, but i laughed and cried and jammed through this. not as weird as beach boys love you, will return to this. fave track surf's up
me opening 1001albumsgenerator.com today "is that peter fucking frmpton?"
idk why this album art is so funny to me. its like he's the ghost of young love looking down on the happy couple. there's lots of songs to like in here but the whole album was too much frank for me. i like frank on kkjz on sundays broken up with stories and weird bsides. i liked frank when he came up in my grandpa's oldsmobile's radio. hut for me this is too much frank for one sitting. i also noticed that a lot of standards i like, pennies from heaven and how about you especially, i just really didnt go for this version. liked his anything goes tho. fave track old devil moon
so glad mid ass indie has some representation on the list
stop aruing about the mix you fucking nerds grandpa punk is on
i think my earliest memory of someone telling me a record is good and me not getting it is of a friend burning me a cd of this album. i think it may be good i just cant get into it, had to skip a few tracks. another case of theres too much anglophone 80s rock on this list imo
woke up ar 3 and couldnt fall back asleep, listened to this, nodded off in the last track. feel like i gotta get into nu metal, was listening to a chat pile interview where they were talking abt korn... my new favorite band and one of my oldest favorite bands tied by a golden thread... anyway this is cool idk what else to say i get why all those guys in my high school had the shirts. its almost like ambient and math rocky while still being something korn can do guest vocals on no problem. fave tracks breed apart, born stubborn, canyon jam
idk this is like to sincere for me or something. i know this is objectively good but im i guess cynical or something. it just doesnt take me anywhere, which is probably a flaw of my own psyche that this cant dind purchase to probe. never liked this in my classic rock era but knew boys that did. now i can only think of joe pera trying to get his church to join in acapella. actually fuck this why do i have to justify not liking this to myself
its angry, simple, and raw. some evil spirit possessed that acoustic guitar and was recorded as proof. these guys were really like how do we punch up this track and brought in a xylophone. captures that feeling of being so horny you want to actually be dead but also youre just a a silly little guy, a really core part of the human experience. ive loved this album for a long time but also i just saw the jackass movie last night so i was really primed for anything that does a lot with very little resources and a lot of energy this morning. i guess im just a teenage boy in spirit. fave tracks day after day, add it up, promise
