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

[Rip_City]

11/15/24
View attachment 218651
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden | Album | AllMusic

Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden released in 1980. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

www.allmusic.com

Slightly preferable to The Number of the Beast but it will get the same score from me. Better songs as a collective, but weaker guitarwork.

Rating: 2.5/5 [Decent]

 

[avecigrec]

Slightly preferable to The Number of the Beast but it will get the same score from me. Better songs as a collective, but weaker guitarwork.

Rating: 2.5/5 [Decent]

I went straight to the words and missed the tiny bit of the cover in the quoted section and read it for a second as you were saying Sister Sledge was slightly preferable to The Number of the Beast and wigged the fuck out about that compairson inside my brain for a second. Thet was fun.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Have we had any disco music that wasn’t Niles and Bernard?

 

[Joe Mac]

Once you have been slipknotted it takes days to recover any sense of purpose to live.

I think I only got the Weather With You Out of my head a couple of years ago after it being rammed in there at some point in the 90s. I need some restbite.

 

[Rip_City]

11/19/24
View attachment 218960
Sister Sledge - We Are Family

We Are Family - Sister Sledge | Album | AllMusic

We Are Family by Sister Sledge released in 1979. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

www.allmusic.com

Ummm...yes! I've never listened to this before.

Fun songs one after the another. I obviously know the title track, but "He's the Greatest Dancer," "Thinking of You," and "Easier to Love" are standouts. It isn't mind-blowing by any means yet it doesn't hit lulls anywhere. I will say that the closing track "One More Time" could've been placed elsewhere in the tracklist or been given a longer runtime.

Nile Rodgers works some magic here.

Rating: 3.5/5 [Great]

 

[Nee Lewman]

The Sister Sledge is the most successful Chic album on the list (so far - idk, i’m not pulling out the book right now). C’est Chic overstayed its welcome sometimes and had that one dreadful song. Risqué was a little disjointed and dark. This is just good time music.

 

[Nee Lewman]

11/20/24

The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks

Something Else by the Kinks - The Kinks | Album | AllMusic

Something Else by the Kinks by The Kinks released in 1967. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

www.allmusic.com

 

[Nee Lewman]

Original album ends with Waterloo Sunset (so first 13 tracks)

 

[Nee Lewman]

Soooo British. I love its humor and eclecticism.

 

[Whiteout75]

Waterloo Sunset is one of the best pop songs ever written in my opinion. Haven’t listened to this album though. Weird.

 

[Joe Mac]

Soooo British. I love its humor and eclecticism.

Yeah they certainly have an eccentricity about them that is quintessentially British. Love the opening and closing tracks. Waterloo Sunset is perfect although I probably prefer The Jam’s cover of David Watts.