Reviews by meowmeow

The fact that this album came up a few days ago and I saved it for my next bout of insomnia... yeah, that about sums it up. Dull but occasionally useful. 🥱

What the fuck did I just listen to?

I appreciate creativity and experimentation. I usually appreciate post-punk - my love of recent post-punk revival bands is what led me to this project in the first place.

It's just... on a personal level, as a listener, I'd like this album more without that infernal country-style twang.

Headphones: on.

Volume: at the high end of the range that's safe for one's hearing.

Me: getting absolutely lost in the music.

My criteria for five stars seems to be a lot more lenient than some other listeners on this project. I'm not after technical skills, I'm after how the music makes me feel. Did I enjoy the album enough to add it to my library? That's a five.

Violator really needs the headphones, though. It's not the same just echoing through my kitchen while I figure out what ingredients need to be used for dinner.

This is chill, you can definitely put this album on and get shit done, but the quality isn't consistent to my ears. Some tracks are absolutely amazing, some are meandering and lose me partway through. I think it averages out to a 4 star rating overall.

Okay. Led Zeppelin made some pretty fantastic music, but they also made some pretty tedious music that's difficult for my ADHD brain to stick with... and yeah, this particular album is nearly impossible for me to get through in one sitting. Good songs individually, but MAN. It's a lot.

I can't.

It seems, from reading other reviews, that Born To Run is an album you either connect with or not, regardless of how you feel about Springsteen as a person.

I'm in the camp that appreciates Bruce Springsteen more for his personality than his music. Failure to connect. I'm not his audience.

Boring boring bland blah beige WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

That was certainly different.

Is this an album you must listen to before you die so you know what not to do if you make an album of your own? Yow.

Beautiful, avant garde, definitely interesting enough to hold my focus. Another delightful experience.

For the other listeners on the same journey of discovery: if you don't like Waking the Witch, never hand me the aux. I'm in my happy place here.

What the fuck? This came out when I was 8?

*double checks release date*

Is Michael Franti a time traveler? Did he escape from our current hellscape back to 1992 to give us a (distressingly unheeded) warning?

I'm sad now.

I have a pre-existing bias heavily in favor of this album.

I'm not going to fight the bias.

5/5 kickass Queen album, will absolutely keep listening to

Hypothesis: whatever genre you happen to dislike, you will think there's way too much of it as you work your way through the 1001+ albums in this project.

I've seen people complain that there's too much electronica. Too much post-punk. Too much Bowie.

It's not Maxwell's fault that he helped me form this hypothesis, as I reacted to his music with "WTF, more R&B?!" but I did not enjoy the listening experience.

For me, the project has too much R&B. Sorry, Maxwell; it's not you, it's me.

There's something about that country guitar twanginess that I find really off-putting. I wanted to like this album more than I actually did.

Hot damn! This is big band/swing proving - quite explosively - that it never faded into irrelevance. Phenomenal.

Day 81 and I finally get the first of nine total Bowie albums within the one thousand and however many (since we're listening to all the albums from all editions). Also the first of those nine chronologically. Bowie was, what, 24 when he made this?

First listen was through my phone speaker while skeining my latest handspun yarn. Not the best sound quality, but the mellow meditative activity paired nicely with the softer piano melodies on the album. Gotta relisten with headphones on sometime later.

Dang. This is some good stuff. Welcome to my music library, Hunky Dory.

Nirvana! A pleasant surprise for my Gen X husband, who has to deal with my eclectic tastes and my decision to take on the 1001 albums. 😅

Scentless Apprentice is brutally unpleasant to listen to. The other eleven tracks range from fine to excellent, but the screeching. The screeching! Extremely skippable track. I know this is the final finished artistic product of a tormented mind, but eeeeeeesh.

Love the Albini production, love Albini's snarky dismissal of Nirvana as a band. I was 9 when this album came out, and I liked MTV back then (before it turned into a reality show dumpster fire) so a few of these tracks are woven into the soundscape of my youth. I have my biases.

Four stars. Yeah, Scentless Apprentice is that bad.

Quiet storm is typically way too smooth and mellow for my taste, but I'll give Anita a chance...

Smooth. Mellow. Great music for other people. Doesn't feel particularly essential to the history of music, unless you're specifically talking about popular 80s music that wasn't new wave.

Meh.

So, uh, I tried to listen to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and fell asleep. Nice refreshing 7 hours, but not a great endorsement.

2002. I was 18 when this album came out, and I remember being politely baffled by all the people who loved it. It's perfectly lovely music, I don't hate it, it's just not giving off the energy I look for in music I actively listen to.

While this didn't knock my socks off, it's perfectly good Senegalese music. Yeah, the synth element is a bit of a giveaway that it's from the 80s, but it is what it is and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.