1001 Albums #78

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is not an album I was looking forward to listening to even though the previous album Revolver showed some potential. Hopefully, the trend of featuring one of the members on a song continues. I hated their voices as one on the previous albums. The title of the album is great. It sounds depressing. I have heard the first song “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” […]

1001 Albums #63

The Byrds again. Some of these groups are over-represented in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The Byrds should not have another album in the list. If I were in charge I would delete the album Fifth Dimension. It sounds exactly like their previous album. I listened to the Byrds in the hopes that this would be better than the last album, but I had the same thought. Many of these songs sound like “Turn! Turn! Turn!” It seems […]

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 […]