1001 Albums Summary

while I can appreciate how objectively cool some of the songs on this album were, it wasn’t for me

“how many records are you expecting to sell when your second record sends you directly to jail” made me laugh hahahhaa at times this was a truly tough listen, at times this was really cool - I can’t give it more than a two stars for the rampant homophobia and misogyny xoxo

I loved ‘As’ so much, although this album wasn’t for me as a whole.

Would never have listened to this without this challenge and I’m super glad I did ! Very eclectic which I love, I will be giving it more listens as I’m sure it will grow on me even more.

I enjoyed this much more than I expected to honestly, even though I wouldn’t listen to most of it again haha. I also can’t rate it too highly as it’s not really adding anything new in my opinion, although I don’t think it’s trying to? She has a formula and she certainly sticks to it. Despite not having heard a lot on this album before, Adele is sonically very nostalgic to me, having grown up listening to her music on the radio and singing along to her with school friends etc. She kind of exists as this ubiquitous pop juggernaut, I never really consider if I’m a fan of her or not beyond her big hits, although I liked some of the lesser known songs on this album. I like her more uptempo songs on this track (Send My Love, I Miss You, Water Under The Bridge) I’m less of a fan of the slower ballads as I think they pale in comparison to some of her earlier work in that style and I’m less inclined to enjoy songs like that anyway. I also like how this album isn’t TOO LONG! Some other artists could take note. Anyways.

i’m ashamed to say this is the first full Bowie album I’ve listened to and I LOVED it! Girl Loves Me and I Can’t Give Everything Away are instant favourites - I predict there’s plenty more personal favourites to be found in his earlier work - exciting !

This is the kind of album they play in thrift shops way too loud and I’ve trained myself to drown it out lest I be overstimulated. Which doesn’t bode well for my ranking of this album but I’ll try to be fair. I kind of liked it !! I like the sound but nothing stood out to me. A part of me wants to listen to it more and a part of me wants to not bother with it again and that internal battle lands this album at a 2 for now I’m afraid.

This is my first album from the 80s on this project and you see the 1980s and you expect a certain sound right ??? This was NOT what I expected but honestly I quite liked it! It certainly wasn’t boring. Safe to say this years halloween playlist is sorted - I genuinely think they play this in the queue area for the London Dungeon.

Aw my first one star ! It’s weird to think this album is turning 60 years old this year - it certainly was ahead of its time. I like weird satirical music, in fact I like some music that was perhaps inspired by this. Did I like this though ? No … I didn’t. It was Frank Crappa.

this was really cool ! gonna listen to it more and it’s probably gonna grow on me