The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread

Should we do a group project

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CrazyDiamond84 said:
I'm sorry you missed out on pop-up video. I miss watching all the music channels during that era.
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I like pop up video, I was mostly just shit talking. I ignored VH1 until the early 2010s when I had cable for the first time as an adult on my own. MTV no longer showed videos at that point.
 
It's been a while since I listened to this:
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The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
 
Hemotep said:
Today's is the first one I'm going to skip. I've heard it before and I didn't like it then, I'm not going to like it now, and I don't need to consume art by pro-Nazi bigots. 0/5

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As much as I will want to, I have committed to listening to each of these albums as unbiased as possible for the project. There are possibly three in the list if this is in the generator. I was never a big fan of this one outside of Jesus Walks anyhow.
 
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I don't know that I've actually listened to any of their albums properly but I've always been much more into Buffalo Springfield than CSN(Y) with whatever exposure I've had to each (in the case of Buffalo Springfield it was mostly the CD copy of Retrospective that I had back in high school.) This album starts really strong but then dips into the mostly okay/good category before closing quite strong as well. It's no surprise to me that two of my three favourite tracks were written by Neil Young and make for great album bookends. Richie Furay's "A Child's Claim to Fame" is my other favourite here. Those three songs alone earn the album an extra .5, but it'll be rounded down anyhow. 3.5/5
 
avecigrec said:
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I don't know that I've actually listened to any of their albums properly but I've always been much more into Buffalo Springfield than CSN(Y) with whatever exposure I've had to each (in the case of Buffalo Springfield it was mostly the CD copy of Retrospective that I had back in high school.) This album starts really strong but then dips into the mostly okay/good category before closing quite strong as well. It's no surprise to me that two of my three favourite tracks were written by Neil Young and make for great album bookends. Richie Furay's "A Child's Claim to Fame" is my other favourite here. Those three songs alone earn the album an extra .5, but it'll be rounded down anyhow. 3.5/5
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Their first album is much better. Again and Last Time Around are very much like Let It Be, records made by a band that had already broken up but hadn't realized it.
 
Lee Newman said:
It's been a while since I listened to this:
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The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
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I got this CD on sale just before I got back into vinyl. I ended up with a copy of Mr. Tambourine Man as well. The Byrds were sort of an unknown to me. My younger brother was a fan. He also dug other bands that took me a while to get, like Radiohead and The Beach Boys. He also like bands I never got into like Toad the Wet Sprocket.

To me, the Byrds weren't the band that had David Crosby and Roger Mcguinn and gave us the gift of Chris Hillman and Graham Parsons or Gene Clark. I didn't know all of this until later.

To me, they were a pop outfit that mostly did safe covers of Dylan. An electric version of Peter, Paul and Mary.

Mr. Tambourine Man didn't really do anything to dispel that feeling. But this album with its lush baroque psychedelia changed my feeling about them and led me to explore the rest of their catalog discovering that Crosby and those guys mentioned above were in the band and eventually arriving at Sweethearts and Notorious Byrd Brothers and really becoming smitten with the band.

If only my brother didn't make weird choices with music like falling in love with stuff like Me Phi Me so that he was a more consistent source of quality listens for me.

4 stars.
 
Since Garbage made me bring up grunge....

The other book had me listening to Dirt by Alice In Chains this week, which is never a bad thing. The RIYL had Days of New, I don't think I ever listened to them before today. I would not be able to tell you if I ever mistook one of their songs for Stone Temple Pilots though. So I guess grunge is a genre, but I'm gonna take all those bands that I like that aren't "grunge" and not call them grunge. Kay?
 
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