r/1001AlbumsGenerator

My summary page

Avg rating: 3.19

Best album generated so far: Innervisions by Stevie Wonder

Runner up best album generated so far: Since I Left You by The Avalanches

Best album generated so far that I hadn't listened to prior to this project: Kiwanuka by Michael Kiwanuka. It reminds me of the sprawling, slightly psychedelic r&b albums of the 70s such as Innervisions, lol.

Worst album generated so far: Aha Shake Heartbreak by Kings of Leon

Album generated so far which has the collective score that surprised me the most: Broken English by Marianne Faithfull, with a 2.9. You all are wrong; every song on this album is a masterpiece. I thought it might be pushing against a 4!

Album generated so far with the most chaotic review section: Libertines by The Libertines (this has a higher overall score than Broken English btw)

Number of Elvis Costello albums generated: 1

Number of Bob Dylan albums generated: 1

Number of Metallica albums generated: 3 😐

Number of Brian Eno albums generated: 0 ☹️

#138: Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors (1971)

Wow, great album to celebrate the 4th of July and America’s 250th birthday. I love every song on this album. Unlike other country albums I’ve gotten so far, this one makes you feel like you’re actually in her hometown in Tennessee with her while she tells you stories from her life. And I’m saying this as someone who usually doesn’t enjoy country. I do have one complaint though, WHY AM I GETTING THIS NOW!? I’M GOING TO BE IN THE SMOKIES NEXT WEEK! WHY AM I NOT GETTING THIS THEN? I suppose it’s better than getting another Elvis Costello album today.

Random Dolly Parton fact: In her memoire, she told a story of a time she went to a bar in West Hollywood that was having a Dolly Parton look alike contest. She entered the contest while over-exaggerating everything about her appearance, and lost to a man.

Was Coat Of Many Colors better than yesterday’s album, Van Halen by Van Halen? Almost, but not quite.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u6PTc7IkEya1wZfsagVtNYvxOOWX7N6SYV2HAs8v3cA/edit?usp=sharing

This should generate a lot of conversation.

These are the ones on the listing, there may be more but if the update is being done in the traditional way (a handful of new albums at the end of the book) then this is probably our lot.

Very happy to see brat. Very confused to see The Rolling Stones and Wuthering Heights soundtrack.

1. Alvvays - Blue Rev
2. The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
3. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling
4. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
5. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
6. Charli xcx - brat
7. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
8. jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning
9. Ela Minas - Dia
10. Mon Rovia - Bloodline
11. Poppy - Empty Hands
12. Charli xcx - Wuthering Heights

Side A is a masterpiece. I especially love The Great Curve and Once in a Lifetime. Was very familiar with this album beforehand but it was nice to revisit it. 4.0/5 because the second half is weaker, but still very good

Moon Safari is an outrageously perfect album to have generated on a Sunday morning! “(Un)Related” is a quiz that challenges you to find a link between my 1001 AotD and a bonus record (or records) that seem unrelated. Today what (specifically) relates Air to Justice, Daft Punk and Wuz?

I understand why this is among the lowest rated, but I liked this better than I expected. It certainly is not something I will return to anytime soon, but behind all the noise are some really great riffs and at times this was actually quite enjoyable. I would give this 3.5 stars if I could, but because of the replay value I won’t be rounding up. So 3 ⭐ it is.

5/5 (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

In my top 5 albums of all time, Nick Drake’s Pink Moon is in my eyes as close to perfection as an album can get. His predecessor “Bryter Layter” saw him expanding his sound with more orchestration, but Pink Moon opted to go the opposite route, stripping basically everything that isn’t guitar and Nick’s voice away. The only other instrument that appears is a piano on the opening title track.

The album is produced in an extremely intimate way, everything feels super warm and close which helps with the emotional potency of the album. Nick Drake is often a symbolic and vague lyricist but there are some devastating, more direct moments on this record like “Parasite” where he likens himself to a parasite leeching off of the people in his life.

And talk about a stacked tracklist. It’s a slim 28 minutes and every single song here is fantastic. They often seem simple being just guitar and vocals, but there is actually a lot of interesting, slightly-jazzy structure to a lot of the songs. If I had to pick a top 3 songs though I’d go with “Things Behind the Sun” which is the longest track on the album, “Free Ride” and “Parasite”.

A lot of discussion around Nick Drake gets clouded in the “mystique” of his reclusive life and tragic suicide. But the man had a pretty much perfect catalogue of music and I feel it’s worth celebrating that, even if he never lived to see his music get the recognition it deserved.

Look I know this record is not for everyone but my brother in Christ this review is just wrong. I just generated it today and expected this to be divisive but this is just a new low.