1001 Albums Summary

1. I Ain't The One - Blues Rock cliches galore, with some annoying squealing vocal tones. But could be worse. 2. Tuesday's Gone - Keyboard sound is a bit weird, and emphasizes the larmoyance of the lead singer's voice. And "Gone With The Wind" - did that work back then? Too long. 3. Gimme Three Steps - Finally a good riffage intro. Chuck Berry knew better. 4. Simple Man - Ode to Good Ol' Boy. Meh. 5. Things Goin' On - Oompah Honkytonk. Not the worst though. 6. Mississippi Kid - Slide guitar & harmonica filler. 7. Poison Whiskey - My favorite this far. 8. Free Bird - One of these songs that are so entrenched in pop culture that it seems impossible to judge it without bias. It seems fun enough.

Oh fuck.

No sense reviewing the individual songs too much, as they say, it's pretty much "a vibe". Musically quite cool, blues roots still evident, and given the length of the songs we're not entirely into psychedelia/jam territory, but there's a good amount of experimentation.

This is a lot better than I expected. Good sample usage. Machine Gun Funk slaps hard, as they say.

Hey, it even has an instrumental. Pretty ageless sound.

All time classic for me.

I can understand why this was somewhat ground-breaking, with the G-funk sound and lots of talented rappers.

This might've been a novelty back then with that fake-rapping combined with blues, but novelty alone doesn't carry an album.

Joni Mitchell is a great artist. Blue is an alltime classic, and you hear a lot of the songs from this album on certain radio stations, too. So it's almost a personal shame that I can say that I just can't get too warm about it. There's artistry galore here, from Mitchell herself and I wouldn't be surprised if the session players are Wrecking Crew level 70s all-stars, too. But, sorry…

All-time classic to me. Jethro Tull does overblown prog rock, but with a gritty undertone *and* theatrics.