#96 Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow

If any band had many versions of itself it was Jefferson Airplane, who became Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship who became Starship I knew of Jefferson Starship and Starship more than I knew of Jefferson Airplane. As I look at the track list I realise that I might know some of their songs from Surrealistic Pillow. I have heard two of the songs from this album prior to listening to it. […]

#95 The Young Rascals – Groovin’

If you titled your album Groovin’, then you are definitely in the 60s. The Young Rascals (later known as The Rascals) did just that with their third album. Is that why I have never heard of them? Were they too 60s? Firstly, Groovin’ is their only album on Spotify. Secondly, it is in mono. Yikes! […]

#94 The Byrds

The Byrds again? Noooooooo! I have not liked any of their albums on this list. I highly doubt Younger Than Yesterday will change my mind. Does anyone like this band? Does anyone listen to any of this music? Am I alone? The albums begins badly with “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star“. They decided to […]

#93 The Doors

The only things I knew about The Doors were that Jim Morrison died in Paris at a young age, he is buried there, the band had the overly long hit “Light My Fire” and Morrison was some type of sex symbol. This is the first time I will listen to their eponymous debut album. I […]

#92 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

I thought I was done with Frank Sinatra and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Hopefully, this will be it for both of them. I want to rock. “The Girl from Ipanema” is the first track. I did not like it at all. I think I am tired of all the cover versions now. Everything in the 60s […]

#90 The Who – The Who Sell Out

Another Who album. I hope The Who Sell Out is better than the mediocre My Generation. This album is unique because it seems like satirical concept album to me. Many of the songs are interspersed with fake commercials. I am not a huge fan of Roger Daltrey’s voice. For a song to work you must at least like the vocals of the artist. It is […]

#89 Cream – Disraeli Gears

I have never heard a Cream song before and I especially have never heard of the album Disraeli Gears. I know who Eric Clapton is, but I do not know much of his music. I remember that he had a song about Cocaine. I will keep this review short. I did not like this music. It sounds like all the songs I will come to love later, but the […]

#88 Tim Buckley – Goodbye and Hello

I have decided to change the way I title the blog posts for 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. From this post onward I will have the number of the album in the book, the artist and the album title. Actually, the book has albums out of order, but I tried to change a few of them. It was a headache! I will return to the book’s order soon. And finally, I […]

1001 Albums #87

The Velvet Underground & Nico from The Velvet Underground is out of order in the book of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The problem is that the book is wrong on the order of some of the albums. I think I will make more changes with the next post. The Velvet Underground has risen from an underappreciated band that was briefly managed by artist Andy Warhol to one that […]

1001 Albums #86

Headquarters was the third album from The Monkees. It was the one they took back their control. If you remember the 80s, Janet Jackson was not the first to want “Control“. I did not know much about The Monkees so I read about them. They are really interesting. They were not a real band, but […]