1001 Albums Summary

- first album of 1001 - One of those notorious albums that become famous due to a few notable hits. The vast majority of the album is a slog to get through but chipping away toward the albums' namesake - and 'Respect' made the session generally worthwhile. All around decent, obvious influences apparent in most music but otherwise nothing to write home about.

As always with led zeppelin: great average quality but once you've heard one song you've heard 'em all.

Definitely the most miserable listen yet. I would advise taking ice cube as the larper he is and engaging with his work through a more comedic lense. When he isn't shelling out surface level political slop his music is just pointless whining. To his credit he shines the best when he's writing about fictional characters or scenarios. 'Today was a good day' solely justifies this tracks existence - would recommend skipping to it and then throwing away your CD away after.

Great vocal work, diverse bag of tricks. Repetitive base mopey sound though

True Americana and incredibly nostalgic! What a fun listen. Anyway, I'll try and avoid letting nostalgia cloud my lens. I want to try ranking albums more on (according to my criteria) 'objective' value moreso than personal enjoyment. That's the whole point of this undertaking after all. Moving forward I'll try and rate based on categories such as: 1. Lyrical Value (if applicable) 2. Instrumentation 3. album structure (ex: if an album only has one good song vs has a good general theme between tracks) 4. Syntactic complexity 5. Vocal performance (if applicable) finally 6. track diversity (not every song should sound the same), surprise me! for this album: 1. ~1-2 2. ~4-5 3. 4 4. 2 5. 3 6. 4 Great listen, very solid 3.

Vocal work is atrocious, there’s an Eminem lamp shading tactic - but even if you admit you can’t sing you still can’t sing. Instrumentation is incredibly repetitive, As in every song is the exact same song repetitive. It’s not even a good song they’re regurgitating. Lyrics are good actually which is my only takeaway. I quite liked the namesake surprisingly. Little to no syntactic complexity, though the songs do blend well for the whole album ( again if only for being the same ). Solid 2/5

Surprisingly wonderful lyrics and soothing vocal work, though instrumentation is incredibly repetitive. No wonder my Parents love 'em so much.