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

Lee Newman said:
4/1/24
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Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell



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Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf | Album | AllMusic

Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf released in 1977. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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I’ve never listened to this album in whole until this week. I’ve always liked the singles when they would come on the radio but would never give them a thought past that. Meatloaf for me was mainly just the guy who popped up randomly in the middle of Rocky Horror to be killed.

I must say listening to this has been an absolute blast! It’s just so campy corny and horny which are some of my favorite adjectives. According to my boyfriend I have been “listening to way too much meatloaf” but I don’t care, it’s just a fun time.

The singles are definitely the 3 best moments on the album for me but the album cuts are close enough in quality to not bring down the total experience
 
Lee Newman said:
4/8/24
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The Clash - The Clash



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The Clash by The Clash released in 1977. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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One of the first CDs I ever bought and the band that started it all for me. Funnily enough I hadn't listened to it in a few years and I've been playing it a lot the last week or so. Great album.

I also had the U.S. version—what's a kid in the exurbs gonna do? Was thus also used to "Clash City Rockers" starting it off and while I love that tune "Janie Jones" is an all-timer track 1.
 
Lee Newman said:
So when I was a kid, I had a US version of this. It is one of a few records that I don’t know what happened to. Anyhow, where does “White Man on the Hammersmith Palias” come from if it’s not on this album?
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Was recorded during the Give 'Em Enough Rope sessions but not included on the album. Later released as a single. After that included in the US S/T version.

What a sublime song.
 
Muse is a band that I've never really listened to. My relationship with them mostly consists of playing "Knights of Cydonia" on Guitar Hero, which was pretty frustrating if I remember correctly. Singer sounds a lot like Thom Yorke, and they have a pretentious aura of seriousness about them.
A few songs in and this is ok, I guess. Kinda sounds as if Radiohead would have taken a step towards hard rock and prog metal after Pablo Honey instead of challanging our very notion of rock music with The Bends through Kid A.
 
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Lee Newman said:
4/9/24
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Muse - Black Holes and Revelations



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Black Holes & Revelations - Muse | Album | AllMusic

Black Holes & Revelations by Muse released in 2006. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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I actually really like this album but I can understand why it would rub people the wrong way. I used to listen to this all the time on the 1 hour drive between my girlfriend's (now wife) and my house after we graduated college. It seemed like a dramatic change in sound from the albums before it. The thing that stood out the most was all of the vocal layering, it kind of reminded me of Queen. It's far from my favorite album of theirs but it seems to grow on me the more that I listen to it.
 
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