The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread

Should we do a group project

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I think it was maybe 1993? and my best friend at the time's parents bought tickets to take us to see Rush. My mom would not let me go because, yes, she thought Rush was devil music. She talked shit about my friend's parents in church with other moms and caused a ridiculous divide between insane moms on one side and moms who thought it was insane to think Rush was devil music on the other. Needless to say our parents wouldn't let us hang out anymore and my friend's dad turned into a huge dick to me everytime he saw me after that. The funny thing is that I'd never even heard any Rush song other than Tom Sawyer before.

Never got to see them live. Peart was an amazing musician. And Lee certainly has his moments for me, but I can only ever take his vocals in limited quantities. Keeping everything else the same, but swapping out lead vocals, and they probably would have been one of my favorite bands. This album deserves the status it has. 4.5/5
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Joe Mac said:
As an aside my favourite way of saying I’m off out for a few pints was always:

“I’m going to see a man about a dog”
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On the wonderful 1980s American Sitcom, Cheers, many of the bar patrons use “I need to see a man about a horse” for polite euphemism for excusing ones self to use the restroom. I’ve incorporated it into my vernacular but most folks have no clue what the heck I am talking about when I drop it.
 
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Day 88

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I had a big Doors phase in my twenties but it's been a while since I've really dove in much, so this was a nice one to have come up. Not my favourite of the lot, but features a couple of my favourite tunes. Which sounds a lot like my notes for Songs From a Room - in fact I could mostly just cut and paste a lot of them because this one too has a killer Hard Rock Cafe side and then loses a bit of that steam on the Morrison Hotel side. All in all, a solid return to blues rock form after getting a little more symphonic and experimental on the previous album. A side: 5/5; B side: 4/5 - Album, 4.5/5
 
Day 89

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First time listening to a Steely Dan album - time to see what all the fuss is about.
The groove out the gate certainly caught my attention, but things never really carried my excitement from there - except maybe the occasional moment of recognizing a sample or two I've known forever but heard in its original context. I would definitely enjoy this album more if it were strictly instrumental - the vocals really do nothing for me. And even as an instrumental album I wouldn't love it, I would simply enjoy it more than I enjoyed this as is. The music is very obviously well-played but it's far too cream-of-wheat for me. 2/5
 
avecigrec said:
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First time listening to a Steely Dan album - time to see what all the fuss is about.
The groove out the gate certainly caught my attention, but things never really carried my excitement from there - except maybe the occasional moment of recognizing a sample or two I've known forever but heard in its original context. I would definitely enjoy this album more if it were strictly instrumental - the vocals really do nothing for me. And even as an instrumental album I wouldn't love it, I would simply enjoy it more than I enjoyed this as is. The music is very obviously well-played but it's far too cream-of-wheat for me. 2/5
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The lyrics are clever/fun if you enjoy that sort of thing.
 
AndySlash said:
The Poet


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'.
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Reaching the halfway mark now and I would concur with this synopsis. I dig it a lot. It's somewhere between full soul and full blues and it's pretty cool even with the eighties sheen.
 
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