1001 Albums #61

The Beach Boys again. I am starting to see trend here. Can Pet Sounds do for The Beach Boys what Revolver did for The Beatles? I hated all The Beatles music until my last review. Can The Beach Boys turn my feelings around. Pet Sounds is one of the most highly regarded albums of all-time. We shall see. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is creepy. I can picture this song in the opening of a film about […]

1001 Albums #60

The Beatles again. Revolver is their seventh studio album. It is unlike any of the previous six albums. It has unique sound effects, Indian flavour and psychedelic induced drug trips. All that in one year’s time. How is it possible that bands in the 60s produced some many albums and today we have to wait at least three years or […]

1001 Albums #59

The Who’s My Generation is one of the most overrated albums ever. My prior knowledge of The Who is from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, an American television series. Their opening song is “Who Are You“. I had a hard time listening to this album. I thought they were trying to sound like different bands. In one song, I thought it was The Rolling […]

1001 Albums #58

When I saw Bob Dylan on the list again, I suddenly got a chill. I was excited. I felt something I do not feel often. I felt I was about to listen to a friend talk to me about life, love, and things I would keep in my heart forever. Here comes Highway 61 Revisited. […]

1001 Albums #56

Bert Jansch self-titled album Bert Jansch is one I have never heard of. I have never heard of Bert Jansch either. Perhaps it has to do with him singing folk music and being from Scotland. I really do not know a lot about folk music, except that they all go to festivals and where old clothing from 500 A.D. England. I think they […]

1001 Albums #55

The Beatles again. Rubber Soul? What does that even mean? Do you know those guys were on drugs? They made zero sense, but they made a lot of cents. As you may know at the beginning of this journey I have stated that I hate The Beatles. Do I feel the same on this third […]

1001 Albums #54

When I saw the title of the next album Live at the Regal from B.B. King I became depressed. Another live album and another artist I am not familiar with in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list. Surprisingly it is an okay album even with all my hatred of live albums. […]

1001 Albums #53

John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme is avant-garde jazz, free jazz, modal jazz and more jazz. It has been classified as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Is it? Or were those critics taking drugs with The Beach Boys? I do not get it. I like some of the jazz, but some of it I […]

1001 Albums #52

The Beach Boys were known until 1965 for song about surfing, girls, and cars. The Beach Boys Today! took them in a new direction. At least that is what I have read everywhere. Is it enough to get me to like The Beach Boys? First off the group’s name is unfortunate. They did not think far enough into the future to […]

1001 Albums #51

I could safely say that I do not have any good memories of my mother except one. She listened to a lot of music. She would listen to songs over and over. If the lyrics were not included on the album, then she would try to write them out. I am not sure why she […]