The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread

Should we do a group project

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Lee Newman said:
Here’s the other thing to hate about them:
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That is clearly a guy who thinks way too much of himself.
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Definitely but that some how fits with the music. It’s like such an 80s aging rock star album. Him and Phil Collins solo albums are perfect music for their place and time. 80s yuppy Rock, and from that very narrow perspective Thayer are great examples.

The real feat is that War On Drugs essentially worked from the same palate and created something far more substantial.
 
Joe Mac said:
I think that’s probably my biggest peeve about them, all 4 are just clearly unrepentant narcissists. I feel no need to give any of them any leeway or to re-evaluate anything they’ve done as a result.
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Joe Walsh is kinda awesome though, he didn’t become an Eagle until later and already had success on his own before joining so that might be why.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Definitely but that some how fits with the music. It’s like such an 80s aging rock star album. Him and Phil Collins solo albums are perfect music for their place and time. 80s yuppy Rock, and from that very narrow perspective Thayer are great examples.

The real feat is that War On Drugs essentially worked from the same palate and created something far more substantial.
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Yuppy rock. No wonder it was terrible. It was made for the worst human beings that have ever existed on the planet. The entire group of bland shouty fuckers whose bullshit is almost entirely responsible for our current breakdown in society. Although all of that is perhaps more excusable than Phil Collins…
 
Joe Mac said:
Yuppy rock. No wonder it was terrible. It was made for the worst human beings that have ever existed on the planet. The entire group of bland shouty fuckers whose bullshit is almost entirely responsible for our current breakdown in society. Although all of that is perhaps more excusable than Phil Collins…
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It would never be my favorite genre or style of music but also if ya were to look at that specific style objectIvely Don Henley and Phil Collins do it exceptionally well. I feel like the incorporation of synth into their music as a way to stay current is an essential part of the equation.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
It would never be my favorite genre or style of music but also if ya were to look at that specific style objectIvely Don Henley and Phil Collins do it exceptionally well. I feel like the incorporation of synth into their music as a way to stay current is an essential part of the equation.
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I don’t think any of it, or the production, has aged all that well and I think that doesn’t help me either. Drum echo/reverb really irks me.
 
Joe Mac said:
I don’t think any of it, or the production, has aged all that well and I think that doesn’t help me either. Drum echo/reverb really irks me.
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Eh, even 80s Springsteen and Petty shares some of that production value. Personally I think there is a place for it in my music library but it’s very of it’s time and place for the most part.

It makes me appreciate what WOD as done with the same template but then stretched beyond into a more droney psychedelic place than Don Henley was ever willing to go.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Eh, even 80s Springsteen and Petty shares some of that production value. Personally I think there is a place for it in my music library but it’s very of it’s time and place for the most part.

It makes me appreciate what WOD as done with the same template but then stretched beyond into a more droney psychedelic place than Don Henley was ever willing to go.
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Perhaps. Maybe it’s because when you like the music it’s kinda fine or you can forgive it to a degee but when you don’t it’s just an extra layer that annoys you more. The 80s mainstream isn’t really a place that holds a whole deal of fertile ground for my tastes.
 
Day 17

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Okay, here we go!

I think this is the first time I've listened to a complete Gn'R album; my relationship with the band has always been complicated. For starters, they were verboten in my household, by decree of my mother, growing up (joining Snoop Doggy Dogg, MC Eiht and The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience.) An even bigger factor is likely the fact that I think Axl Rose is an absolute idiot! I also vacillate frequently between whether I love his voice or hate it. 😂

Regardless of my thoughts or feelings on Axl or his voice, he and it suit the music here very well and the music is mostly pretty friggin' awesome. Sleazy as all get out, but awesome. This album feels pretty much exactly how I would picture L.A. in the mid-80s - the real L.A. not the made-for-TV L.A. The violence, the grime, the sex, the drugs and the rock n' roll. I can see why my mother found this so alarming - I'm sure she came to it through extra-glorified media fearmongering too, which also tracks given the era.

The album is definitely not without its cringy moments, but all in all, I enjoyed it far more than I expected I would. 4/5
 
avecigrec said:
Day 17

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Okay, here we go!

I think this is the first time I've listened to a complete Gn'R album; my relationship with the band has always been complicated. For starters, they were verboten in my household, by decree of my mother, growing up (joining Snoop Doggy Dogg, MC Eiht and The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience.) An even bigger factor is likely the fact that I think Axl Rose is an absolute idiot! I also vacillate frequently between whether I love his voice or hate it. 😂

Regardless of my thoughts or feelings on Axl or his voice, he and it suit the music here very well and the music is mostly pretty friggin' awesome. Sleazy as all get out, but awesome. This album feels pretty much exactly how I would picture L.A. in the mid-80s - the real L.A. not the made-for-TV L.A. The violence, the grime, the sex, the drugs and the rock n' roll. I can see why my mother found this so alarming - I'm sure she came to it through extra-glorified media fearmongering too, which also tracks given the era.

The album is definitely not without its cringy moments, but all in all, I enjoyed it far more than I expected I would. 4/5
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Yeah, MTV was banned in my house. However, a 14 year old Lee convinced his mother to buy this cassette for him at a trip to Rose’s. It had the stupid sticker on it and NC had a law for a very short time that said you had to be 18 to buy a record with the sticker. I have no idea why she bought whatever cockamamie story I gave her.

Years later when I was in college, I remember my mom called me asking if it was okay for my brother to get some tape called “Check Your Head.” Why I was still a reputable source of information about appropriateness of music at that point in time is beyond me.
 
avecigrec said:
Day 17

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Okay, here we go!

I think this is the first time I've listened to a complete Gn'R album; my relationship with the band has always been complicated. For starters, they were verboten in my household, by decree of my mother, growing up (joining Snoop Doggy Dogg, MC Eiht and The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience.) An even bigger factor is likely the fact that I think Axl Rose is an absolute idiot! I also vacillate frequently between whether I love his voice or hate it. 😂

Regardless of my thoughts or feelings on Axl or his voice, he and it suit the music here very well and the music is mostly pretty friggin' awesome. Sleazy as all get out, but awesome. This album feels pretty much exactly how I would picture L.A. in the mid-80s - the real L.A. not the made-for-TV L.A. The violence, the grime, the sex, the drugs and the rock n' roll. I can see why my mother found this so alarming - I'm sure she came to it through extra-glorified media fearmongering too, which also tracks given the era.

The album is definitely not without its cringy moments, but all in all, I enjoyed it far more than I expected I would. 4/5
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An important album for me. Probably the first “heavy” album I listened to that wasn’t Cream or Jethro Tull. At the end of the day, it influenced a lot of my music taste.

I never listen to it now.

It kind of feels like it has a lot of baggage to get past now. The later albums weren’t as good, it’s pretty sexist/nasty, and there is a general stench of arseholery about them. The hits (especially Sweet Child and Paradise City) are so overplayed now that the impact has been lost.
 
14/1001
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin
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My first time listening. I don't typically enjoy live albums much, even from artists that are in my top50. This was enjoyable. I noticed here that the performances are noticeably more up-tempo than I remember from his studio recordings. The audio quality of the audience applause/cheers is rough on the ears.
I initially found it strange that "San Quentin," a song that he had written the day before this performance, was performed twice in succession. Given the lyrical content/proclamations made within the song and with The Man In Black performing to a crowd of prisoners, it resonates.

Personal highlights: "Darling Companion," "San Quentin," "A Boy Named Sue"
Rating: 3/5 [Good]
 
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