1001 Albums Summary

2 good songs (Tiny Dancer and Levon) and 1 decent song (title track) among a 9 track album. The rest is a mess of terrible lyrics, overwrought vocals, and excessive arrangements (strings everywhere). I think Holiday Inn could have been an ok song, but I don't want to hear the narrator talk about being in a rock and roll band when the song is mainly strings and mandolin. I suppose the excess of the 70s doesn't work me. It definitely doesn't on this album

Fun and energetic, if somewhat lacking in depth.

Jittery and paranoid with mostly excellent songs and lyrics. One or two tracks that aren’t quite at the level of the rest

Decent disco album, but not much sticks with you once it has ended. I don’t think I’d ever go back to this one again

I expected a lot of folk, hippie nonsense from this one, but was pleasantly surprised. Beyond the 2 well-known hits, there are some excellent tracks. Plastic Fantastic Lover and 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds are among my favorites. There are a few boring clunkers, but, overall, you can hear how this would have been new and exciting in 1967 and go on to influence a lot of subsequent acts.