#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 […]

#91 Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is one of Pink Floyd’s album that I have never heard. I was a huge fan of them in my teen years. Even my mother listened to them when I was a child. I am really curious how this will sound compared to the albums that I know from Pink Floyd. This first album from Pink Floyd has […]

#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 […]

1001 Albums #85

The Beau Brummels fourth album Triangle came out to critical acclaim, but the fountain of hit singles did not follow the great reviews. Vocalist Sal Valentino would get comparisons to Bob Dylan and Gene Clark of The Byrds. I can tell you that he is a better singer than Clark. The album triangles on three genres: country rock, folk rock and psychedelic pop […]

1001 Albums #83 & #84

I have just made a decision. Since the band Love has two albums in the year of 1967 according to 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die I will change their order and review them together, but as #83 and #84. Also, according to Wikipedia the book is wrong. Da Capo came out in 1966. I have lost faith in humanity getting the facts down correctly. Love. What a nice name for a […]

1001 Albums #82

Moby Grape released a self-titled album in 1967 to critical acclaim, but not to a buying public. Everything from then on is another downhill story in the books of rock and roll. If I did not live in the land of depression, then these biographies that I have read about the artists in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die would make me […]