1001 Albums Summary

Beautiful album, has a number of classic songs from his catalog.

Some great hit songs but seems to be missing a little fire.

This wasn't for me at all. Just isn't interesting enough and the lyrics are silly.

It doesn't quite grab me, isn't quite experimental enough or pop enough or rock enough, pick one move that direction. She's very talented but it doesn't really push my buttons enough to go to a 5. I did enjoy it though even though it's very nice, very smooth.

Slow, predictable with a sameness between songs. Much of its very nice, but too middle-of-the-road.

Great album, but a little middle-of-the-road for my tastes. Tight English rock. Will played and sung

Thin, ethereal vapor with EDM beats. Would be great in a club but isn’t much of a listening experience.

Dynamic, melodic, powerful and constantly changing from song to song. Some extremely short leaving you wanting for more and other songs stretched out. Every individual performance is fantastic and yet melds into a whole greater than the aome of its parts. Don’t think. Enjoy.

It isn’t bad, but it is boring. Very middle-of-the-road and bombastic. Formulaic use of an amazing voice.

Fast, political, has a beat, melodies, harmonies adventure and discord. Everything you could ever want, it's real, it's life. 5 stars, one of my all time favorites.

Great easy listening, my only issue is it doesn't have any teeth. The strings often soften the arrangements too much for my liking. To me Ray Charles seems confined by these arrangements, as pleasant as they are.

It's really difficult to assign a 4 or 5 for this album. Since it's not an obvious 5 stars, I'll call it a 4. But it's a beautifully written, composed, arranged and played album. Such a beautiful combination of something that can be listened to in the background or intensely listening and engaging with it. 4.5 stars if I could.

One of the great bands of indie rock and what a debut, dynamic, fully immature and completely interesting at all times. Melodic and rocking and intense. With Deal as a secret weapon. Yep, yep yep yep