1001 Albums Summary

enjoyed the piano intro. track 2 is great, definitely one i'll get some mileage out of. up to track 5 now and enjoying everything so far. plus, track 5 is one of the best so far. ohh, track 6 is where that rat in a cage line comes from lol. tracks 10 & 11 are my kind of thing. porcelina is a banggeerrrr ! oh, take me down is lovely as well. this album is really interesting - the varied sounds all balance each other out really nicely. 1979 is obviously a classic. thru the eyes of ruby is great. nearly teared up at the outro of that song, it was so unexpected and beautiful. we only come out at night is great too. now i think that's enough track-by-track lol. overall i really enjoyed this album. i found it really interesting, engaging, and at times unexpectedly soft and pretty. there were some points where i found the vocals grating, e.g. 'in the arms of sleep'... but the vocal and instrumental performances across the album were overall good to great (instrumentally, mostly great). i feel this was a really good album to start with as well, since i'm not overly familiar with rock music in general and this album is so sprawling and touches on a lot of different sounds. 3.9/5

never listened to a full david bowie album before. heard a few songs. i love his song "chubby little loser". opening instrumental track is cool. track 2 has a good groove to it, only a short one though. track 3 isn't for me. it's kinda...... goofy lol track 4 immediately sounds way better. OHHH I LOVE WHEN SYNTHS DO THAT! cascading airy synths are the easiest way to hook me in, seriously. nah this song is great. to think this came out in the 70s is crazy - it reminds me so much of the summery bedroom pop/indie pop i was listening to a lot of a few years ago. artists like gus dapperton, still woozy, boy pablo and so on. really good song. track 5 is really solid too. great stuff. a bit moodier but not oppressively so, still fun to listen to and sonically rich. track 6 'be my wife' isn't bad, maybe a little repetitive. okay nvm, the whole last minute of the song is a huge fantastic guitar solo. gg bowie track 7 wtf? what a gorgeous opening. rest of the song is just... okay to me. the harmonica is actually kind of annoying, and i'm not a harmonica hater or anything like that. it's very repetitive though. warszawa is excellent. very blade runner. art decade is cool. this album has really mellowed out now i feel. interesting how this has virtually become an instrumental album now. i bet this was a hell of a listening experience in the 70s lol. final track, subterraneans, is just a solid ambient kind of thing. this album is cool. really really forward-thinking. kind of shocking that this was released in 1977... but it does sort of feel like the 1st half is one album, and the 2nd half is another entirely. i think it would benefit from a bit more cohesion. the harmonica on track 7 was annoying, and that 3rd track being a bit too goofy and jaunty brings it down for me too. project is a great length, concise without being too short. lots of really good ideas. 3.3/5

nothing much to say, this album is great and influenced some of my favourite rock music. glad to have given it a full listen finally. 4.5/5