1001 Albums Summary

I've been recommended it many times, but never checked out Nick Drake's Pink Moon. This album has a great opening run and an amazing closer in From the Morning, but it lost me a little in the middle. I couldn't really get behind the track Know; it drags on for far too long without doing anything, especially in such a short album. Nick Drake has a unique vocal style I can get behind and he's clearly a talented writer, but I personally lean to harsher sounds in my favorite folk records. This album couldn't quite scratch the itch I was looking for, although I have a feeling it might grow on me with time.

I don't think Muse is for me. This album gives it's all to have this larger than life sound, which it succeeds at, but at the cost of any coherency or original sound with the exception of a few tracks. Over half the tracks have these vague rebellious lyrics with almost the exact same sound. This could work if they built further on them; instead of doing that, Muse decided to load this album with 8 tracks that all do the exact same thing for me. The exceptions to this rule are, of course, Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole, and, to an extent, Knights of Cydonia. Even so, these tracks still end up sounding very derivative of other alternative rock bands of the time. Starlight has the sound of an Is This It B-Side. Half of the tracks have Matt Bellamy doing his best Thom Yorke impression.