1001 Albums Summary

Well this album is very nostalgic to me for reasons that won't be discussed here 👿 I wonder if they knew what they had made, they seem like such chill dudes I don't know if they can recognize their own genius.

I really appreciate Outkasts unique, musically informed approach to hip hop. Unfortunately I just can't stand cocky ass rap. Mixed in with the genius I have to hear about how much better at rap you are compared to the other rappers and also how excellently you can get your dick sucked.

I have never understood U2. Some of their singles are a bit catchy but it doesn't match their status in my opinion. They are the corniest most self indulgent band to ver receive universal acclaim. Also Bono is clearly a narcissist and I don't know why he doesn't give the whole planet the collective ick.

I've heard this album many times! It is foundational punk, may pu k purists these days downplay it's significance but I feel that just hindsight. Members of the band, Johnny in particulary, have turned out to be right wing pricks that don't embody the punk ideal AT ALL and other bands came right along to carry the mantle of being just as important such as the Ramones, The Clash, or the New York Dolls. It's still one of THE 1977 records and a study of punk history is woefully incomplete without it.

I had never heard this album before. It is very musically competent but nothing about it reaches out and grabs me. I read that this band was assembled and funded by a dutch millionaire investor, it's no wonder it feels a bit manufactured to me. I will say, this is a remarkably good recording even by today's standards let alone 1974. One of the best mixes I've ever heard.

This is un inoffensive little pop rock album, I was wishing the whole time that it didn't sound like it was recorded in a soup can. Weird choices of vocal effects and mixing in my opinion. Not sure what makes it legendary it's just not that exciting for 1977.

I do not understand this type of music. I know that there are people who like softer music than I do and that's totally understandable but stuff like this and other things that were happening at that time are so rife with platitudes and meaningless sugary romantic nonsense. It has no emotional weight whatsoever. Never mind that it's also musically quite flat it doesn't challenge the senses in any way. I can't imagine wanting to create this at a time when rock and roll was young and punk rock was being born and proto-metal was happening and other exciting and transgressive forms of music were taking the world by storm. Drugstore music.