The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

[Nee Lewman]

Hail To The Thief has great songs but it doesn’t work as well for me as your other top 5 as an album. A Moon Shaped Pool and HTTT are about even, where HTTT has the best songs; AMSP works better as a whole album.

I think HTTT ranks so high for me because it was the album that got me to pay attention to them. So there is a bit of that at play.

 

[avecigrec]

I think HTTT ranks so high for me because it was the album that got me to pay attention to them. So there is a bit of that at play.

HTTT onward is where I mostly lost track. I should remedy that at some point.

I should also remedy the fact that I'm like 3 or 4 albums behind now too, but that ain't happening tonight!

 

[Nee Lewman]

6/12/23


Jorge Ben Jor - Africa Brasil

África Brasil - Jorge Ben | Album | AllMusic

África Brasil by Jorge Ben released in 1976. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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[avecigrec]

6/12/23
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Jorge Ben Jor - Africa Brasil

África Brasil - Jorge Ben | Album | AllMusic

África Brasil by Jorge Ben released in 1976. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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Oooh, I have this one!

 

[avecigrec]

6/5/23
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Sufijan Stevens - Illinois

Illinois - Sufjan Stevens | Album | AllMusic

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens released in 2005. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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Personal project's on pause again, but I can't do that with this one, so instead I fall behind!

I don't hate Sufjan and I don't hate this album, but I don't love it either. Probably one of the top 5, if not top 3, most played albums at the cafe I once called home, and not something I've ever had an interest in going out of my way to listen to since. But doing so wasn't an excruciating experience - it just wasn't an inspiring one either. (knowing I have Robbie Williams to "look forward to" next definitely doesn't help with feeling inspired) 3/5

 

[Whiteout75]

6/12/23
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Jorge Ben Jor - Africa Brasil

África Brasil - Jorge Ben | Album | AllMusic

África Brasil by Jorge Ben released in 1976. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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I had quit VMP when this was issued so I haven't heard the whole album before, and my knowledge of Jorge Ben (and latin music in general) mostly comes from David Byrnes (albeit great!) compilations. I enjoyed this very much, although I don't have the codes and parameters to judge its quality in its context and genre. Gets a bit samey towards the end, but all in all a pleasant listen. I especially dig the funk/soul/blaxploitation-vibes in Taj Mahal!

 

[imtheocean]

Jorge Ben ~ Africa Brasil

I really enjoy it when I listen to it, and I can appreciate the musicianship. That being said it's also very forgettable to me and not something I reach for. 3/5

 

[Nee Lewman]

This is awesome and I wish I had a copy to study further. Giving it a four.

 

[Rip_City]

We've hit another VMPcore selection.

 

[Nee Lewman]

6/13/23

Sabu - Palo Congo

Palo Congo - Sabu Martinez | Album | AllMusic

Palo Congo by Sabu Martinez released in 1957. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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[Nee Lewman]

Nifty, keen.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I didn't see the 100 post thing.

1001 Albums Summary

Group statistics

1001albumsgenerator.com

 

[Nee Lewman]

list 2
...
55. 4/6/23 Chic - Risqué (2.38 stars)
56. 4/7/23 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (4.57 stars)
57. 4/10/23 Television - Marquee Moon (3.38 stars)
58. 4/11/23 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (4.2 stars)
59. 4/12/23 AC/DC - Back in Black (3.67 stars)
60. 4/13/23 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (4.11 stars)
61. 4/14/23 New York Dolls - New York Dolls (3.13 stars)
62. 4/17/23 The Jam - Sound Affects (4 stars)
63. 4/18/23 The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us (3.13 stars)
64. 4/19/23 James Brown - Live at the Apollo (4.25 stars)
65. 4/20/23 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (3.91 stars)
66. 4/21/23 T. Rex - Electric Warrior (3.42 stars)
67. 4/24/23 Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (2.17 stars)
68. 4/25/23 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (4.7 stars)
69. 4/26/23 Tom Waits - Bone Machine (4.22 stars)
70. 4/27/23 Anita Baker - Rapture (2.33 stars)
71. 4/28/23 Gene Clark - No Other (3.33 stars)
72. 5/1/23 Roxy Music - Country Life (3 stars)
73. 5/2/23 Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (3.29 stars)
74. 5/3/23 The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (4 stars)
75. 5/4/23 The Icarus Line - Penance Soiree (2 stars)
76. 5/5/23 David Bowie - "Heroes" (3.67 stars)
77. 5/8/23 Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (4.25 stars)
78. 5/9/23 The Fall - The Nation’s Saving Grace (2.83 stars)
79. 5/10/23 Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (3.83 stars)
80. 5/11/23 Peter Tosh - Legalize It (3.4 stars)
81. 5/12/23 The Doors - The Doors (3.71 stars)
82. 5/15/23 Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again (3.25 stars)
83. 5/16/23 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (3.25 stars)
84. 5/17/23 k.d. lang - Ingenue (4 stars)
85. 5/18/23 Parliament - Mothership Connection (4.14 stars)
86. 5/19/23 Green Day - American Idiot (3.88 stars)
87. 5/22/23 Sarah Vaughan and Her Trio - Live at Mister Kelly's (4.43 stars)
88. 5/23/23 Moby - Play (3.5 stars)
89. 5/24/23 Radiohead - The Bends (5 stars)
90. 5/25/23 Thundercat - Drunk (3.14 stars)
91. 5/26/23 Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (4.2 stars)
92. 5/29/23 Air - Moon Safari (4.57 stars)
93. 5/30/23 AC/DC - Highway to Hell (3.38 stars)
94. 5/31/23 Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (2.71 stars)
95. 6/1/23 Ash - 1977 (2.57 stars)
96. 6/2/23 R.E.M. - Document (4.44 stars)
97. 6/5/23 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
98. 6/6/23 Robbie Williams - Life Through a Lens
99. 6/7/23 Bad Company - Bad Company
100. 6/8/23 Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
101. 6/9/23 Radiohead - OK Computer
102. 6/12/23 Jorge Ben Jor - Africa Brasil
103. 6/13/23 Sabu - Palo Congo

Updated through Document.

Radiohead - The Bends takes the crown with 5 stars. Casanova is joined by Robbie Williams at the bottom with 1.6

 

[Nee Lewman]

I still say 1.6 is too high for that Casanova bullshit. It is the least deserving album on the list so far. Even if I dislike the Robbie WIlliams, it was a moment in time and evidently massive.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Updated through Document.

Radiohead - The Bends takes the crown with 5 stars. Casanova is joined by Robbie Williams at the bottom with 1.6

Also, for the record, OK Computer is currently at a 4.83

 

[Nee Lewman]

Artic Monkeys and Bob Marley had the most reviews at 18 a piece.

 

[Joe Mac]

I still say 1.6 is too high for that Casanova bullshit. It is the least deserving album on the list so far. Even if I dislike the Robbie WIlliams, it was a moment in time and evidently massive.

I sometimes like reading through the general reviews, I don’t know why, there are some really knob heads out there, but this one of Robbie Williams made me chuckle:

“I’m not originally from the UK so I asked my wife what it is that I don’t get about this Robbie Williams album, it’s really shit. She answered, you’re not a middle age woman who wants to sleep with him”

 

[avecigrec]

6/6/23

Robbie Williams - Life Through a Lens

Life thru a Lens - Robbie Williams | Album | AllMusic

Life thru a Lens by Robbie Williams released in 1997. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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I should have known better than to start my day with this one... now I'm just grumpy. On the plus side, I guess: things can only improve from here!

Derivative, overproduced and very poorly written. I kept hoping for him to blow his voice right out on one of the many occasions he forces it so much. We could all be so lucky.

1/5

I'm surprised one of the fake Christian far right Republican assholes running for president hasn't co-opted "One of God's Better People" as a campaign slogan yet.

 

[avecigrec]

I should have known better than to start my day with this one... now I'm just grumpy. On the plus side, I guess: things can only improve from here!

Derivative, overproduced and very poorly written. I kept hoping for him to blow his voice right out on one of the many occasions he forces it so much. We could all be so lucky.

1/5

I'm surprised one of the fake Christian far right Republican assholes running for president hasn't co-opted "One of God's Better People" as a campaign slogan yet.

I don't know that I've ever heard as much unnatural forcing of the voice at every karaoke night I've been to, combined.

 

[avecigrec]

6/7/23

Bad Company

Bad Company - Bad Company | Album | AllMusic

Bad Company by Bad Company released in 1974. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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I'm sure I'd feel differently if I were born 10 years earlier but this doesn't do a whole heck of a lot for me. I don't hate it, but I don't see myself seeking it out much either. 2.5/5 (round down)