1001 Albums Summary

”Jeremy” is a good song. The rest of the record was forgettable except for the absurd amounts of reverb. I really can’t get behind rock music where the rhythm section is meant to go unnoticed.

Not as bad as The Dude makes them out to be. The slide guitar is cool.

One of those albums that was obviously very influential, but also holds up in its own right. I’d say the Nico tracks are overrated but it’s hard to imagine Twin Peaks existing without them.

Not as bad as I thought it would be, though my expectations here were basically through the floor. There are a couple of legit good songs here, and it's hard to argue with the rhythm guitar work. The less said about the vocals and the keyboards the better.

Good crowd-pleasing party jazz.

Half of the songs on this record are absolute bangers. The other half are boring as hell. Too bad Coldplay leaned into the boring and forgot how to write the bangers.

It’s uneven. But it’s Bowie so the mean is still high. And I don’t envy having to follow up Ziggy.

Kind of fitting that this came up for me right after Bowie's Aladdin Sane, because my feelings are largely parallel: great artist follows up an absolute banger of a record with a record that is good-but-not-great.

The voice is an instrument, and this record is a great illustration of that principle. The non-vocal instrumentation here is quite good too. A lot of emotion in this music. All that said, I do think it got to be a bit much by the end. Probably would have clocked in at five stars for me if it were half an hour shorter, but less is more when you're talking about this level of intensity.

I can't say this was a particularly worthwhile or enjoyable listen. I thought about two minutes of it were interesting-and-good, another two minutes were interesting-and-bad, and the rest I couldn't understand why on earth this is something I would need to hear before I die.

How much is there to say? Brilliant record.

Really good musically, vocally, and lyrically. But also just not really my thing at all, and to me it got pretty repetitive by the end.

I liked the jazz rock parts and was meh on the jangle pop parts.

Bomb Squad is on point, as always. This is a really good record, but not quite five stars for me - it's hard to imagine this be something I put on repeat given the sheer density of misogyny.

It’s very good for what it is. I’m just never going to be super enthused about a record where the vocals are, by far, the main attraction and everything else sits in the backseat.

Quite good folk rock. I was digging it from the opening seconds.