The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread
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Hemotep
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Not bad. It has a lot of Asian musical elements I really like, but there are couple tracks that were too mellow for my mood. I'll definitely revisit it though. A nice discovery. 3.5/5
Nee Lewman
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Tonight I drew -
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris - Trio
This one is pretty great!
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris - Trio
This one is pretty great!
TenderLovingKiller®
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I love this album. The album artwork does not do the album justice. For the longest time I thought it was some 80s modern country but it’s closer to a folk country. I didn’t really give it a chance until I watched the Linda Ronstadt documentary.
Not on this album but I always enjoyed this performance.
avecigrec
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Fun facts: It was released on my 31st birthday and won the Mercury Prize.
avecigrec
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This definitely sounds different than whatever sound my memory associates with PJ Harvey, although it seems from reading the Wikipedia entry for the album that it isn't just me. I'm digging it though. "The Glorious Land" is an especially great song! Highlight for the first third for me for sure.
i know of bobby womack but nothing of his own studio material, so i have no idea what the context of this record is in relation to his career, and there isn't anything on here i recognize. the album is a slickly produced hodgepodge of soul/jazz/r&b/funk/disco that definitely sounds like a product of the 1981 period. also drugs probably. unsurprisingly it's pretty much all love songs or songs about love, but there aren't really any sappy ballads here, no, rather the songs (even the slower ones) are propelled by funk bass and given emotion by bobby's not-great-but-better-than-good voice backed by a ladies chorus. bobby's got a guitar on the cover here, but his guitar playing isn't really a focus at all, he more or less supplements the songs along with providing an occasional solo. babies were probably conceived to 'if you think you're lonely now'.
avecigrec
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"Written on the Forehead" is super cool!
Rip_City
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16/1001
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
An all timer. A consensus top10 jazz record by most, for good reason. Not merely just an accessible jazz record, but one that those with more wild preferences in jazz can also appreciate. Transcendent, generational, divine, all that.
Personal highlights: the entire 32.5 minutes
Rating: 5/5 [Masterpiece]
avecigrec
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I feel like further listens to this will be deeply rewarded, but even on a first slightly distracted passthrough it's a great album painting a portrait of England not dripping in blue-blooded finery or jingoism. I'm too exhausted to add much, or any, poignant insight. But I'm happy to have finally dipped further into PJ Harvey's world and look forward to spending more time with this album, and beyond.
avecigrec
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Definitely the best part of the album!
Hemotep
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Mine is quite a lot different than y'all's for today. I bought this on vinyl during the recent reissue campaign, but I don't like it anymore than I did when it came out. Good reason to spin it again this morning, but I've had the same reaction. A couple good songs and a lot of filler imo. 2/5
Joe Mac
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Man I love this album. But then I love almost everything PJ Harvey has done. Definitely a top 3 of hers for sure.
It’s very different to what she has done before both vocally and musically and also it’s probably her only, loosely speaking, concept album.
I always found this album really deep and poignant in the way it spoke it about the horrors of war. I think it touches on the misplaced patriotism of the time but doesn’t use broad strokes and is a bit cleverer and more nuanced. I think it also is very much of its time in that it was made in a period when Britain was both coming up to 100 years since the start of WWI and the culture and media were beginning to do some serious retrospectives of it and also being far enough into Afghanistan that it was a slog but also not far enough in that it looked like we’d be withdrawing any time soon.
I think that she went to Afghanistan with an Irish filmmaker shortly afterwards and made a documentary.
God, flashbacks. I adored this when I was 16/17. Remember loving them live a couple of times around then too. Revisited it a couple of years ago and was not keen beyond the undeniable energy.
Hemotep
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Live they put on a great show and remembering that from around that age is what prompted me to buy the album. But you lose some of the pageantry not getting to see them and the visual nature feeds into the sound for them. I don't think I'd really enjoy seeing them live now though. I still love metal, but I like more melodic stuff now and only some angry music does it for me anymore.
Joe Mac
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gaporter
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Alright so I'm running a day late on this but I figured I'd share my last thoughts on Darkdancer before I move on to my next album. It's probably in contention for my second favorite I've pulled so far after Pink Flag. But in the case of bot, I feel like I don't have a lot to say about the actual music. I don't think this is really music you're meant to sit down and analyze anyways. You're meant to dance! 
I will say though there were a few weaker tracks in the latter half that held it back from being the perfect 5 Pink Flag was. However the run from Hypnotise to Brothers is absolute insanity and more than makes up for it.
I will say though there were a few weaker tracks in the latter half that held it back from being the perfect 5 Pink Flag was. However the run from Hypnotise to Brothers is absolute insanity and more than makes up for it.
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