1001 Albums Summary

im not particularly fond of long guitar solos but this is more than alright. title track and wars of armageddon are both solid and bookend some really fun funk. also wasnt expecting super stupid to go so hard on the rock part of funk rock

Absolute landmark album that suffers from being 65 years old and the book combining volumes 1 and 2 into a single album. I could easily justify a 3 if it were just volume 1 but by the end of volume 2 you have listened to 24 songs that sound (to me) nearly indistinguishable It just kind of turns into forgettable, repetitive background music, there was a stretch of 5 songs at the end of the album that genuinely sounded identical. The strings and choir(?)/backing vocals sound pretty dated and a lot of the ballads sound like christmas music and like i enjoy christmas music and all but 24 is a lot of songs

As a rule I do not like double albums, especially when (according to wikipedia) they made the choice to to stretch this out into a double with unreleased material There is a genuinely incredible ~9 or 10 song album in here (the stretch from Houses of the Holy to Ten Years Gone + The Wanton Song is great) but instead its 82 minutes long As far as rock goes there's a nice amount of variety, In the Light was a really pleasant surprise. Unfortunately the album still manages to drag a little

A lot of 2010s rock is completely soulless and this is not an exception. Vocals, lyrics both suck and even when the instrumentals are good they feel derivative. Not a single bit of substance on this album Also this guy looooves misogyny Freedom at 21 is absurd and then his excuse is like yeah i was talking about technology actually.... i have female friends....

I didn't hate it, Son of Sam was a good opening and his voice is actually quite nice, but it still ended up repetitive after a while, with later tracks losing a lot of the energy that made some of the early tracks nice Mostly kind of turns into background music. It feels like one of those albums that is only on the list due to a tragic death because there are a TON of those. I'm sure I'll like his other album on here more