1001 Albums #40

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is not a book I will recommend. I am on album number forty and it is another live album: James Brown and the Famous Flames’ Live at the Apollo from 1963. I have not listened to it as I write this intro. My problem with the book is that it includes live albums which are […]

1001 Albums #39

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady from Charles Mingus is jazz. Avant-garde jazz! I will not mess around. I hated it so much. I wanted to run out of the house screaming murder. I felt like I was Janet Leigh in Psycho and Anthony Perkins was plunging me with his knife over and over […]

1001 Albums #38

Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 was released 22 years after Sam Cooke was murdered. The record company felt it was too gritty and raw for his pop image so they kept it hidden. It could have remained hidden as far as I am concerned. I cannot believe that this is what 1001 Albums… considers Cooke’s best of his short career. […]

1001 Albums #37

A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector is a ridiculous addition to 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. I read in the beginning of the book that Saturday Night Fever is excluded from the book because it is not one artist. This is not one artist. It is one producer with several of the artists he was producing at the time. This album was a way for Spector to squeeze more money out of the […]

1001 Albums #36

Bob Dylan. What can I say about Dylan that has not already been said since he first appeared on the scene with his 1962 self-titled album? I am not sure I will not say anything worthy of his music. This review is for his second album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, which gave him all the […]

1001 Albums #35

The Beatles is probably the most famous band in the world. But I have never heard one good song by them. I will say the only songs I have ever heard were on the radio or in a film. I am going to give them a proper open-minded and open-hearted listen. Their second album from […]

1001 Albums #34

Ray Price’s Night Life is a honky tonk country album. Is the fact that he talks about what the album is in the introduction song what makes it honky tonk? Or is it because he is white that it is honky (tonk)? I hate the intro song because I find it weird that he is talking to […]

1001 Albums #33

The Bossa Nova craze was fueled in the States in 1962 when the album Jazz Samba by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd was released. Getz toured Brazil in 1961 and brought back the “new trend” or “new wave” of jazz and samba fusion. If you do not like samba, jazz, or the horns, then I […]

1001 Albums #32

Do you want to hear something funny? This album is literally called Green Onions. This has got to be the weirdest title so far. Booker T. & the M.G.’s were probably hungry or high when they titled it. And more weirdly is the fact that the title song is really famous. I thought I had […]

1001 Albums #31

Ray Charles is back on the list with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. If you have been following me on this journey or know me in real life, then you know I hate country music. I hate it playing in the house. I hate it as much as I hate a mouse. I hate it coming from the music box. I hate it even if it served me a bagel and lox. I do not […]