TenderLovingKiller®
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My SO just got this for me as a Valentine’s Day gift. I stil need to spin it though. I am so far behind on new albums.
The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread
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this is not a record by her that i'd even heard of. and compared to the last entry, it's a quick listen at just over 28 minutes. that's efficient! i listened to it twice even! some good, classic country songwriting here and a showcase of her incredible vocal talent, with strong but guitar and piano work backing her up and filling out the songs. the last song is called 'i got caught' and is about how they both cheated but she was the only one to get caught doing it (just once, unlike her partner) and is directly calling out the double standard. she is the sole songwriter and i have to think that's some pretty bold, progressive stuff to put out there in 1967.
i still can't believe this is the same band that made dookie. i like this enough and appreciate it as a listening experience, and i do think this (re)listen gave me one of those 'this is better than i remember' experiences, but it's not something i will probably ever put on on my own (and i sold the cd i had a few years ago). given the times that inspired it, and what all has happened since, i think it holds up and is still has relevant commentary.
Rip_City
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52/1001
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
*groan*
Dad rock.
This was rough to listen. I thought I would be pleasantly surprised with lead track and UK single "So Far Away," but that was as good as it ever got. "Money for Nothing" is a rough listen because of not one, not two, but three F-slurs in the second verse. I've heard "Walk of Life" many a time in my youth, I could go without it now. The rest is mostly pop rock elevator music.
No.
Personal highlights: "So Far Away," struggling to find something else I'd want to revisit
Rating: 1.5/5 [Bad]
Joe Mac
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52/1001
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
*groan*
Dad rock.
This was rough to listen. I thought I would be pleasantly surprised with lead track and UK single "So Far Away," but that was as good as it ever got. "Money for Nothing" is a rough listen because of not one, not two, but three F-slurs in the second verse. I've heard "Walk of Life" many a time in my youth, I could go without it now. The rest is mostly pop rock elevator music.
No.
Personal highlights: "So Far Away," struggling to find something else I'd want to revisit
Rating: 1.5/5 [Bad]
Hey they do serve one very important purpose rip. If you’re ever suffering from insomnia stick on these guys. You’ll be the dead to the world before the first very long very slow very boring guitar solo has ended.
an album with several songs i like but none that i love. of the four 'led zeppelin' albums this is easily my least favorite (IV, I, II, III), though i don't think IV happens and is as good as it is without this one leading the way. i'd be fine never hearing immigrant song again, or at least sports teams and movies and the like not using it.
Nee Lewman
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This was actually my entry point for Air. I love it. 5/5
avecigrec
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Day 55
Only half of this is actually available on Stupify, and I couldn't very easily find an alternative source for the full release, but based on what I heard I can comfortably give this a 4/5 I very very much enjoyed it. I really need to dig into more Bollywood stuff, as I absolutely love a lot of what I've heard but I also really don't know shit!
Only half of this is actually available on Stupify, and I couldn't very easily find an alternative source for the full release, but based on what I heard I can comfortably give this a 4/5 I very very much enjoyed it. I really need to dig into more Bollywood stuff, as I absolutely love a lot of what I've heard but I also really don't know shit!
Nee Lewman
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Way back in the day, this is where I jumped onto the Metallica bandwagon. I've been a fan (for the most part Loaded through St. Anger were real tests for me) ever since. I've since come to appreciate Ride the Lightening just a little more than this one. But this is their best sound WITH their best content. Production after this only got better through Black. After that it gets a little weird but probably sound better to people who don't like bass because that's always buried for whatever reason. Not that there is anything wrong with the second side, but Batter through Sanitarium is one of the greatest sequences ever recorded. It would have been real nice if they had kept up this level of well everything.
5/5
Rip_City
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53/1001
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
"Let me put it this way: Wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of Songs in the Key of Life. For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it. When people in decades and centuries to come talk about the history of music, they will talk about Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder."
- Elton John
There are albums out there that I enjoy more than Songs in the Key of Life, at least 50 for me, in fact. There are albums I return to more often through the years. There are artists and other albums that bear greater personal value to me. But through all that, if you were to profess to me that you didn't find Songs in the Key of Life to be a good album at the very least, it would cause me to immediately distrust every opinion you held on anything regarding music ever. And there are maybe only a handful of other albums I can say that about.
Elton said it best. This is masterclass. Don't mind the the 100min+ runtime; there is not one wasted moment on this breathtaking excursion through this musical celebration. It's in the National Recording Registry for good reason. It remains my favorite record of the soul legend.
Personal highlights: "Love’s in Need of Love Today," "Sir Duke," "Knocks Me Off My Feet," "Joy Inside My Tears," "As," but it's so awe-inspiring throughout and rich with vibrant beauty. I don't think you can have me pick only a handful of favorites...they change as the album proceeds on or as I think about it in casual conversation.
Rating: 5/5 [Masterpiece]
Hemotep
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Forgot to post yesterday. Hadn't listened to this one in a while, but it's great. I first discovered the Yardbirds when I was 15 and spent a lot of time with their albums that year. I'm surprised that this one doesn't get more attention, but I suspect it's because it toes the line too much between the rock sound of what came before and what will shortly come after. So it doesn't fully fit into either generation of rock, but it foretells a sound that is right around the corner. 4/5
Hemotep
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One of my all time favorite albums. I saw him in a very small venue right before this album dropped, a few months later in a medium sized venue, then in another few months in a stadium. It was crazy to see that shift so fast, but at the time getting the Dave Matthews Band stamp was a big boost. He was a hell of a performer back then. Would love to catch him again one day.
this album sounds like what i imagine a renaissance fair coffee house open mic night might feature. there's some lovely playing and it's a very welcoming record with primarily acoustic folk and jazz instrumentation, but it's also seemingly directionless at times with few hooks or choruses, and with five of its eight songs longer than five minutes it can be hard to maintain attention unless you're really paying focus to the lyrics and story being told (and there's a LOT of lyrics, which aren't always easy to understand). also, van morrison obviously has a unique and impressive voice, but it's not one i enjoy all that much, even on his well known songs.
Nee Lewman
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You make Lester Bangs sad.
this album sounds like what i imagine a renaissance fair coffee house open mic night might feature. there's some lovely playing and it's a very welcoming record with primarily acoustic folk and jazz instrumentation, but it's also seemingly directionless at times with few hooks or choruses, and with five of its eight songs longer than five minutes it can be hard to maintain attention unless you're really paying focus to the lyrics and story being told (and there's a LOT of lyrics, which aren't always easy to understand). also, van morrison obviously has a unique and impressive voice, but it's not one i enjoy all that much, even on his well known songs.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I don’t know, Astral Weeks seems like it’s always been very well regarded amongst the music intelligentsia. I personally preferred Moondance but I understand why AW receives all the praise, it’s more about how the album makes you feel, it’s pure pathos but it also something you have to be in the mood for.
Rip_City
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54/1001
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Hoo boy, another pile of OK. Not to mention another instance of reflecting on teenager me and inquiring to him "what was wrong with you?"Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
While yes, there are still a couple of songs on this outing that I enjoy (namely "Scar Tissue" and "Otherside"), and recognize that Frusciante, Flea, and Chad Smith are talented musicians, Anthony Kiedis is the anti-X factor. Bluntly put, I cannot stand his herky-jerky brand of talk-singing, especially for over 50 minutes. Californication is absurdly uneven in quality, and it unloads mostly all of the choice numbers into the first half and seems to go on forever, with the passable closer "Road Trippin'" signifying the end.
I didn't particularly enjoy listening to this for the first time in full since the early college days. Didn't loathe it either.
Personal highlights: "Scar Tissue," "Otherside," "Californication"
Rating: 2.5/5 [Decent]
I thought about a 3...but christ I can't get past how annoying Kiedis can be. DING DANG DONG DONG DENG DENG DONG DONG DING DANG
Nee Lewman
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Yesterday’s record was:
Lou Reed - Berlin
Have a weird relationship with Lou Reed. I love the Velevet Underground stuff when I listen to it, but hardly reach for it. The solo stuff (before this) that I’ve listened to haven’t really smacked me over the head. This one, is beautiful and SAD. Like it was a bummer while I was driving to Home Depot yesterday and even more of a bummer this morning while I was installing an electrical outlet in my cabinets this morning.
3 stars, might go up with time.
Today’s album is:
The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
I mean, whats not to like? They have great voices, great harmonies, wrote or chose great songs. It’s very catchy folk.
4 stars
Lou Reed - Berlin
Have a weird relationship with Lou Reed. I love the Velevet Underground stuff when I listen to it, but hardly reach for it. The solo stuff (before this) that I’ve listened to haven’t really smacked me over the head. This one, is beautiful and SAD. Like it was a bummer while I was driving to Home Depot yesterday and even more of a bummer this morning while I was installing an electrical outlet in my cabinets this morning.
3 stars, might go up with time.
Today’s album is:
The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
I mean, whats not to like? They have great voices, great harmonies, wrote or chose great songs. It’s very catchy folk.
4 stars
yes, i agree, and yet my point stands- that's how well known and regarded bangs' review on that album seems to be, and it's not surprising it came up in conversation here. pretty sure there's more than one person that cites it as the best critical review of a record ever.
i agree with you on moondance regarding preference- that's why moondance is still in my collection and astral weeks isn't.