#430 Germs – (GI)

The Germs‘ one and only album (GI) is one that was unknown to me. I was surprised to learn that Joan Jett had produced and mixed the album. In a couple years she would become famous with the Blackhearts for their song “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” and many others. I think the reason the Germs […]

#429 The Crusaders – Street Life

I thought jazz was over in the list of 1001 Albums…, but I was wrong. The Crusaders‘ Street Life made the list, but I have never heard of them at all. I wonder if anyone has heard of them. I looked at their bio for this album and it seems that they have been used […]

#428 Sister Sledge – We Are Family

Sister Sledge‘s We Are Family has the iconic song, but I have never heard any of their albums. Disco died in the summer of ’79, but fortunately this album came out in the beginning of that year. Actually the word disco may have died, but the music morphed and continued on as dance music and […]

#427 AC/DC – Highway to Hell

AC/DC‘s Highway to Hell is one of the albums I have heard of, but I am not sure if I have heard the whole album. I had friends in the 80s who like them so it is possible. They stayed in a hotel I worked at a long time ago. Vocalist Brian Johnson came into the […]

#426 Siouxsie And The Banshees – The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees is a band I knew of from the 80s, but I had no idea they were formed in the 70s. It is funny that we think of a band coming into existence when we first hear them, but most bands had to put in a lot of hard work to become […]

#425 Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Ambient 1: Music for Airports is Brian Eno‘s sixth album and the first album to be labeled as ambient music. I have heard of this album and probably heard it at some point in my youth. I just do not remember, perhaps after listening my memory will be returned. Trivia: The album was installed at the Marine […]

#424 X-Ray Spex – Germ-Free Adolescent

I have never heard of X-Ray Spex. Sometimes I like when I hear a band from the past, but sometimes things are better left unheard. I hope the album Germ-Free Adolescents is the former case. I know they are supposedly a punk band with a female lead. That could be disastrous. Oh wow! I hated this […]

#423 Chic – C’est Chic

In music history there are many famous duos such as McCartney and Lennon, Simon and Garfunkel and one that was overlooked in the 70s and 80s was Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of Chic. Today, Rodgers is seen as a music genius of his time, unfortunately Edwards passed away in the 90s so he did […]

#422 Willie Nelson – Stardust

Willie Nelson’s Stardust is not an album I wish to listen to ever. I am not a fan of country music and definitely not a fan of his voice. This album is better than I thought it would be, but that is not saying much. The only thing that is better is that the music […]

#421 Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear

Of course Marvin Gaye should make it on the list again. He was the king of soul music in the 70s. Gaye’s fifteenth studio album Here, My Dear was critically panned and a commercial failure during its release in 1978. It is a personal album about the divorce he was going through with his wife […]