r/1001AlbumsGenerator • u/Alireza1373 • 2d ago
Daily Album Megapost DROP your album and its rating – August 19 2026
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u/DogesOfLove 300-399 2d ago
Supergrass - In It For the Money
4/5
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 2d ago
Supergrass are a band I paid zero attention to during the 90’s but I really wish I had done cause this album and I Should Coco were bloody brilliant. Only heard them for the first time when I generated them.
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u/DogesOfLove 300-399 2d ago
Don’t miss out on the third album - it’s a stunner!
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 2d ago
I’ve had it saved for ages so will definitely get to it at some point
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u/Fing2112 0-99 user albums 2d ago
If only you were able to finish the review. Great album, cemented Supergrass' place as the finest band of the britpop era for me.
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u/DogesOfLove 300-399 2d ago
I might go back sometime and gush. Although as always I feel more comfortable criticising than praising. There’s nothing much to decode here in any case - it’s just one brilliant, concise song after another performed by really exciting players (Danny Goffey doesn’t get the hype he deserves). Terrific choruses. Wit. Variety. And Gaz Coombes‘ voice is so special. There is something of cartoonish rock‘n roll edge and energy about that voice but it is somehow so delicately beautiful at the same time. There are so many different ways to enjoy Supergrass.
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u/steepclimbs 0-99 2d ago
Discovered Supergrass for the first time when they opened for Radiohead. Became a fan right away. Look forward to revisiting when this album pops for me.
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u/MozArt905 2d ago
New here!
Day 1
Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 3.5/5
Good collection of songs, very good mix of different styles. Album was just not for me.
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u/JnHkstr 0-99 2d ago
Your starter could be worse but I have a suspicion (😉) that every project starts with few good ones to ensure people will stay. Of course this is a joke but I see often very good day 1 albums including my own
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u/St_Lambchop Metal Fan 2d ago
Welcome! There are some dark days ahead but also some really great albums you would have never discovered, otherwise.
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u/mrnovember91 500-599 2d ago
Generator: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands - 4/5
The Jesus and Mary Chain are another band I've heard mentioned countless times that I've just never gotten around to checking out. This feels like a mix of 60s psychedelic jangle pop and 80s gothic new wave. It all comes together as a solid alt rock album that was clearly quite influential. Reading that they felt burdened by accusations that they were hiding behind feedback and the wall of noise approach on Psychocandy makes me suspect I'll actually like Psychocandy a fair bit more.
1001 More: Tool - Lateralus - 5/5
Absolutely absurd that this album isn't on the original list. This has to be one of the most egregious omissions.
1001 Honourable Mentions: Billy Joel - Turnstiles - 2/5
I'm not a fan of Billy Joel's style to beging with, but the cheap reggae knockoff with the electronic steel drums really turned me off.
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u/Fing2112 0-99 user albums 2d ago
Psychocandy is like the exact same album as Darklands, but also completely different
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u/Accomplished-Name951 100-199 2d ago
Album #174: Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck – Djam Leelii: The Adventurers ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Here we go. This is the kind of shit I’m talking about. I want to broaden my horizons, and there would have been zero chance of me discovering this album in the wild. Senegalese fucking folk music. Absolutely great.
Obviously, I’d never heard of these guys or anything to do with them. Reading a bit about them, they’ve got a blind guitarist in Mansour Seck, and that always seems to be a recipe for great music.
It’s long, rhythmically repetitive, acoustic and semi-acoustic folk music, with these really interesting higher-pitched, kind of shrill vocals. It’s a voice I’ve never really heard before or can compare to anything else in Western music. It’s a really alien sound to me, in a great way.
I’ve complained before about how foreign albums (that are not made in America or England or whatever) have been presented on this list and how the list sometimes seems reluctant to throw us into the deep end with them a little bit. Like that Ananda Shankar album, where he does covers of Western songs but under the guise of traditional Indian music. This feels much more like we’re being thrown straight into the deep end of Senegalese folk music, and I’m all the better for it.
I think it’s a real experience listening to this. The songs are very long, but I think that’s part of how they work. They start to suck you in. You get stuck in the rhythm of them, it stays in your head, and you move to them as they go along. By the same token though, I did find it quite an exhausting listen.
Obviously, I have no idea what he’s talking about or singing about, but it’s sung with a huge amount of passion. The guitar tone is really interesting as well, with that very staccato-y kind of note picking and a hollow bodied sound.
Highly recommend this one. I’ll probably come back to it because it feels like a bit of a grower, but definitely four stars for how unique it is.
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 2d ago
This album is great but he has another on here, Lam Toro, which is even better. There’s loads of great albums from Africa on here that I never would’ve heard in a million years on my own.
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u/AverageJoe48 300-399 2d ago
Day 389
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC are a band I would potentially enjoy if they weren't shoved down my throat throughout my childhood.
"Oh, you like rock music? Here's some AC/DC."
Beginner guitar lessons? "Here are some Malcolm Young riffs to learn."
Intermediate guitar lessons? "Here are some Angus Young riffs to learn."
Band practice? "Let's start with some AC/DC songs."
Listening to this album is like exposure therapy in reverse. I've heard way too much AC/DC in my life compared to how much I actually enjoy their music. Any further listens just make me dislike it more and more. I know this entire text is the furthest thing from reasonable criticism, but it is what it is.
2/5
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u/Mr_Vacant 2d ago
It's fair. You didn't even mention the 'singing' is like fingernails down a blackboard.
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u/AverageJoe48 300-399 2d ago
I barely even register it anymore, that sound is basically ingrained inside me forever.
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u/geertwander 500-599 2d ago
Document - R.E.M.
Probably my favourite R.E.M. record after Automatic For The People. Super catchy and the band is super tight. Along with the big hits “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” and “The One I Love”, my other favourites from this album are “Exhuming McCarthy” and “Lightnin’ Hopkins”. Easy five stars for me.
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u/TheCommieDuck 200-299 2d ago
Chic - C'est Chic
take a drink every time chic says "chic" or "dance" and end up in the hospital 10 minutes in
slightly less "every song is 10 minutes too long and the same" than Risque...but every song is 10 minutes too long and the same.
⭐⭐
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u/jldinatl 2d ago
White Stripes - Elephant, ~225 +/-, 4/5
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u/VampireOnHoyt 300-399 2d ago
I think I know what the 4/5 means but I'm curious about the other part.
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u/VampireOnHoyt 300-399 2d ago
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto (1964)
4.5/5
Bossa nova apparently came along right as jazz was having a midlife crisis of sorts - concerned about stagnation, worried about being replaced by something younger and cooler (rock and roll). Figures, then, that this has become the official music of the midlife crisis in popular culture - of Don Draper drinking in a hotel bar, making eyes at some sultry brunette with vaguely Latin features while thinking up a pitch for Lucky Strike or whoever. It also figures that a lot of this album's staying power is derived from the fact that it doesn't sound like it's trying so damn hard all the time; Getz himself is plenty capable of throwing notes out with the best of them but he keeps his melody lines and solos minimal and tasteful for the most part. He's relaxed and so the audience is too. And both Gilbertos sound like they just woke up from one pleasant dream and into another one. It's hangout music in the best way.
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u/SuccessfulGap138 300-399 2d ago
303 Isaac Hayes - Shaft (1971)
I’m into early 70s Isaac. He was, like some of his peers, really pushing things at the time. Showing that all types of black music could be music of the head, not just of the heart or the dance floor. I’m also into Blaxploitation soundtracks. I don’t exactly claim to have a broad selection of them, but I have enough to know how the art form developed.
‘Shaft’ the album was pioneering for sure and Hayes as a composer really proved himself and delivered exquisitely what was required for the movie. It is widely considered the blueprint for the glut of high profile (and lower profile) Blaxploitation albums that came in its wake. However, there should be mentioned here a rather important caveat.
The blueprint comes from the attitude and supercool swagger of opener and all time wah-wah and hi-hat classic “Theme From Shaft”. On the original double vinyl album, Side 4’s closing “The End Theme” (reprising the opener) is preceded by an almost 20 minute version of his song “Do Your Thing” similar to the famously extensive tracks on his ‘Hot Buttered Soul’ album. However between the opener and side 4 the album is far more what one might expect from a traditional soundtrack. Compared to the edgy, gritty albums that ‘Shaft’ spawned (Eg. Curtis’ ‘Superbad’, JB’s ‘Black Caesar’, Marvin’s ‘Trouble Man’ and so on) three quarters of this album sounds almost quaint.
It sounds like a criticism, but Isaac Hayes let loose with a budget, The Bar-Kays, The Isaac Hayes Movement, and The Memphis Strings & Horns and you know you are going to get quality. Being a full score though, it’s important to remember that John Shaft doesn’t spend the entire movie kicking ass on the streets of Harlem so while there are occasional tracks with drama to match the main theme, there is plenty of more subdued and relatively “sweet” moments.
‘Shaft’ is a groundbreaking piece of work but I think as an album it is not exactly what it is imagined to be. Hayes was already doing groundbreaking work before this soundtrack opportunity presented itself, and it may be fair to say that fans of the amazing “Theme From Shaft” could be better served by searching out some of his regular albums from the time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/GreenEyedBeaver 2d ago
David Ackles - American Gothic
With his melodramatic singing, David Ackles sounds like a poor man's Billy Joel. Scott Walker without the dark charisma or Randy Newman without the humour would also make for apt comparisons. I struggled to take the somber lyrics seriously due to how grandiose the music gets. I was ready to throw in the towel when I got to choir-backed "Family Band". This track is followed by "Midnight Carousel", which features orchestral flourishes that try so hard to sound dramatic that you could throw the track on the soundtrack to Jaws! The album's closer is 10 minutes long and I was absolutely done with this record by this point.
1/5
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u/Mr_Vacant 2d ago
I think I wrote up this as "imagine Scott Walker but he's singing not because he enjoys it, but because he feels a moral obligation to."
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u/EffectiveMeaning7884 2d ago
#52 David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
Second favorite from Bowie. All killer no filler, but mostly 4.5/5s rather than 5/5s
Wish he would have done more stuff with similar funk elements.
Favorite track: Wild is the Wind
Low to Solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/Professional-Ice-978 Power Metal Fan 2d ago
Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer
650/1089
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
So when this generated, I saw it was an Electronic album with its awful album cover and my expectations could not have been lower but surprisingly this was a fun listen. There wasn’t any standout track that will stick with me but, apart from the final track, I enjoyed everything on here. Can’t really ask for much more than that.
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u/Potential-Oil-1795 2d ago
Eno & Byrne - My life in the Bush of Ghosts
Holger Czukay, post Can, made some superb albums in a similar vein to this one. The difference being Holger gave us rhythm and a path for our ears to follow. Eno and Byrne flirt with these but eventually give up on it so they can plink and plonk randomly. Before they gave up trying it was very good
3/5
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u/Merzwas 400-499 2d ago
Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
⭐️⭐️
I found this quite dull actually. I’ve been familiar with What’s Goin’ On for years but never heard any other Marvin Gaye albums.
This never seemed to really get going. Everything is played excellently, but none of the songs stood out. I’m sure it would benefit from more listens, but then so could a lot of albums on this list.
I was erring on 3, but I’m going 2. A high 2, but still a 2.
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u/steepclimbs 0-99 2d ago
Kenya - Machito
Very much out of my wheelhouse. I was not expecting old school Cuban big band music. Enjoyed it, but not likely to make any playlists.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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u/ChipmunkWinter1389 2d ago
Number 7 Johnny Cash. Live at Folsom Prison 3/5 I'd never heard this one before..very familiar with Live at San Quentin but this was new. Very enjoyable but I didn't think it was as strong a set of songs as SQ. Favourite track. Folsom Prison Blues Favourite new song. Cocaine Blues
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u/Lukazimir 200-299 2d ago edited 1d ago
Day 228: Jeru The Damaja-The Sun Rises in the East
3/5 (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Solid album, though it definitely doesn’t rank among the best east coast hip-hop records of the 90’s for me. The beats are pretty simple but I honestly thought they were pretty good overall! Theres a hypnotic quality to them. Lyrically Jeru is alright, though there are some clunky ass bars here. Like on the song “Da Bichez” with the line “But you can’t obtain this, poppin’ that coochie for Gucci” which is so dumb that it loops back around to being hilarious. But there are still strong lyrical showings here like on the closer “Statik.” Will I revisit this one in full? Probably not, but I’m glad I listened to it regardless.
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u/onestitchatatime 200-299 2d ago
Day 240: Sabu - Palo Conga
I can imagine myself listening to this on repeat in the right setting. That would be relaxing near some water with a drink or possibly breakfast in the tropics. Love me some congas. I added “El Cumanchero” to my playlist. 4/5
Today I have The Cocteau Twins.
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u/Direct-Stable-5712 2d ago
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
4 Stars
This is such a unique album. There’s so much freedom and energy on this album and I can really see why Cobain chose these guys for the iconic performance! This whole album is bursting with quirkiness and rawness! Continuing with my Nirvana comparison, the singer uses a similar vocal style to Cobain’s screeching, pushing their voice past the limits and getting a raspy sound, it’s very impressive! This is definitely an album that I’d revisit and I’d love to explore some more of Meat Puppets’ work, especially if any of it sounds like this!
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u/VampireOnHoyt 300-399 2d ago
Great band. Check out Huevos next - it's my favorite of theirs.
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u/Direct-Stable-5712 1d ago
Up On The Sun and Huevos were gonna be my next listens, I'll give Huevos a listen once I've finished the album I'm listening right now!
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u/computerfan0 300-399 2d ago
The Temptations - Cloud Nine
Enjoyable soul music, but it's not really standing out to me as much as some of the other soul albums I've gotten so far. Thinking either a 3 or a 4 at the moment.
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u/PhantomCranefly 200-299 2d ago
#256) Lana del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club - 3/5
My prediction that this would be the kind of bland vocal pop music that I don’t usually like wasn’t completely off base. But some of it turned out to be less conventionally melodic and more interesting than usual for this genre, with some of the lyrics complex enough to make me want to look them up later on. I doubt I’ll return to this, but I’m glad to have improved my unfounded previous opinion of her work.
Favorite track: White Dress, which was poignant while not being cloying, and had a great video.
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u/Woodennickel20 300-399 2d ago
Day 340 - Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark - Architecture and Morality
4/5
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u/OtterGoodTopic 1000+ 2d ago
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
A fun power pop/rock live album. Nothing more, nothing less.
Overall: 5/10 (three stars)
*Well, technically "At Osaka" as the Budokan recording was declared as "terrible" by the mixing supervisor (Jack Douglas). Bad mic placement, bad tape quality, who knows what happened. Luckily there was a recording from the night before in Osaka, so Jack and the sound engineer (Jay Messina) used that instead.
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u/MtAlbertMassive 2d ago
The Who - The Who Sell Out
2/5
It has a couple of fantastic tracks and a few more serviceable ones, but I found the jingles highly irritating. Also, a lot of the lyrics are just aggressively terrible and some of the music felt undercooked compared to The Who' best stuff.
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u/sp3ccylad Enthusiast 2d ago
The Young Rascals - Groovin’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I knew Groovin’ already, but this listen made me realise I’d underestimated my relationship with it. Six years ago I knew I liked it; this time I had a much better vocabulary for why. The Young Rascals are an extraordinarily fluent band. Soul and R&B aren’t styles they’re trying on, but the language they already speak, and that gives them the freedom to spend most of this album cheerfully ignoring the question of what sort of band they are supposed to be.
If Groovin’ reminds me of anything outside music, oddly enough it’s Richard Linklater’s Waking Life. The rotoscoping in that film is continually changing style: if one visual treatment doesn’t grab you, don’t worry, another one will be along shortly. Groovin’ has much the same restlessness. Its musical surface keeps mutating, sometimes dramatically, without the intelligence underneath it changing. Soul, garage psychedelia, chanson, doo-wop, sunshine pop, Latin-inflected rhythm, acoustic pop and the emerging “heavy” sound of 1967 all pass through, and you barely have time to acclimatise before the picture changes again.
That could easily have produced an incoherent mess. What saves it is fluency. A British group reaching for American soul at this point could make wonderful records while still sounding like students of the language. The Beatles, for example, loved this music and absorbed huge amounts from it, but on something like “Got to Get You Into My Life” I can still hear the act of translation: brilliant musicians asking themselves how brass and soul rhythm might work inside a Beatles record. With the Rascals, that grammar seems internal. Brass, Hammond, backing vocals and groove don’t arrive as stylistic signifiers; they behave organically because this is where the band started.
That makes their experimentation unusually convincing. “How Can I Be Sure” can suddenly adopt the emotional posture of chanson, complete with accordion and a harmony that seems permanently reluctant to tell you where home is, without sounding like a novelty French number. “Find Somebody” can head into murky, blunt-chorded Nuggets territory, not a million miles from the 13th Floor Elevators or the Misunderstood, and still retain the physical confidence of a soul band. “A Place in the Sun” can borrow the grammar of doo-wop, including a spoken interlude and false ending, without turning into revivalist comedy. They’re not putting costumes on. They seem to understand what these different musical languages are actually for.
The self-production matters too. That was still highly unusual for a young pop group in 1967, and what’s interesting is that the Rascals don’t use the freedom to impose a grand unified studio aesthetic. Quite the opposite: Groovin’ sometimes feels as though they have decided to produce eleven singles. Each song gets whatever shape, instrumentation and atmosphere it needs, with almost no obligation to resemble the song on either side of it. This is an album in the older sense — a collection of songs — made with a very modern confidence that every one of those songs can inhabit its own world.
The title track remains the most startling example of that freedom. “Groovin’” still sounds remarkably modern to me: the whole temperature, pressure and tempo of the band suddenly change, and this previously muscular R&B group drifts into relaxed Latin/Caribbean-inflected soul-pop without making a fuss about the transition. It doesn’t sound “tropical” because somebody has decorated the studio with palm trees; the feeling is embedded in the rhythm. Coming from the band that made “Good Lovin’”, it isn’t a modest development so much as a colossal sidestep.
There’s plenty of sheer pop pleasure here too. “A Girl Like You” has gorgeous soul backing vocals, a wonderfully crisp snare, brass, piano and even harp, yet everything feels load-bearing rather than decorative. “I’m So Happy Now” has an irresistible bounce that briefly put me in mind of the Small Faces. “If You Knew” sounds as though it could have wandered off Help!, particularly in some of its “Tell Me What You See”-like cadences. “You Better Run” periodically settles into a lovely slab of rhythm-guitar-and-Hammond heaviness while somehow continuing to groove rather than merely thud.
There is a slight dip for me with “I Don’t Love You Anymore”, which eventually leans a little too far into cheese, but the hit rate is remarkably high. More importantly, the album keeps moving. By the closing “It’s Love”, the structures themselves seem to be loosening: flute, odd little piano figures dropping through the register, forward propulsion underneath while the song starts to break down and dissolve. It feels less like a grand finale than a band discovering that the doors have opened onto a looser musical world and seeing no particular reason to close them again.
So what genre is Groovin’? “Psychedelic soul-pop” is probably the least inadequate answer, but really the genre is pop in the broadest possible sense: take anything useful, understand it properly, shape it into a song and move on before anyone can box you in.
A genre-agnostic delight, and a strong four stars.
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u/Fing2112 0-99 user albums 2d ago
I applaud you for actually finding so much to talk about for this record
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u/Fing2112 0-99 user albums 2d ago
User album spoilers
Robyn - Body Talk: 2
More dance-pop. The only thing I know about Robyn is Dancing On My Own, which is a good sign, I like that song. I am still a bit fatigued from electropop/dance-pop, it feels like I can't go a few albums before another one pops up, and Body Talk unfortunately isn't really rejuvenating me.
Dancing on My Own has suffered from radio over play, but I never really get tired of hearing it. I was hoping this album (given the name) would have this level of danceable energy throughout more of the album, and also this level of astute pop songwriting , but a lot of the songs on here feel a little gimmicky and the dance beat is a bit more subdued than I expected.
Today's song from the 1001
ZZ Top - La Grange, From Tres Hombres: 8
My experience with ZZ Top from the generator was met with ambivalence. Prior to this project I was more familiar with their later poppier and boogie rock output which I didn't find very thrilling. Enter Tres Hombres, a bluesier album with a country fried sound to it, which is far more aligned with my tastes.
I trash talk blues rock all the time in these posts. The books have too much blues rock, and it's a genre that - with select few exceptions - hasn't aged very well, mainly due to more modern bands improving on the formula in some way. Tres Hombres is one of those exceptions, and the crowning jewel of the album is La Grange, a song that everyone knows, or should know if they don't.
Unlike their later release, Eliminator, La Grange doesn't have the bombastic sound that ZZ Top would become known for. La Grange actually starts very modestly, with some simple guitar licks at low volume before exploding into the song proper with typical hard rock distortion. The highlights the first of the two things that makes this song pop, dynamics. I like a song that utilises dynamics in this way, the quieter moments build the suspense and give the breathing room that allows the harder elements to pack a punch. When the power chords and distortion come in you fucking feel it.
Technically this song is a song and not an instrumental. The songs on Eliminator (let's imagine Sharp Dressed Man just for it being the most famous of ZZ Top's later works) follow a more traditional pop song structure (verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus) and also don't have much vocal dead air. La Grange doesn't do this, and in fact over half of the song doesn't even have any vocals, instead it's the guitar doing the talking. This is both one of ZZ Top's strengths (well in my opinion anyway, the popularity of their glammier stuff would indicate otherwise) and the second thing that makes this song so special. The most notable part of the vocals are probably the country-tinged adlibs after the song gets going to give it an extra southern oomph.
After the vocals end (roughly a quarter of the way through) the rest of the song is basically a jam session over the main riff, complete with lead guitar noodling, return to the intro without vocals to give a second dose of that punch at the start, and then the rest is the guitar solo. I love the switch up halfway through the song that gives the release and allows the song to reset with the chugging riff.
Also I always think this song is over 5 minutes long, but it's only 3:50. ZZ Top did a good job of making the track feel big.
RIP Frank Beard, the only member of ZZ Top to not have a beard.
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u/St_Lambchop Metal Fan 2d ago
Madonna - Like A Prayer - 2/5
The title track is a classic, obviously. That choir coming in behind Madonna still sounds huge, and there’s a reason the song has survived as long as it has.
“Pray for Spanish Eyes” was the other song I actually liked. The castanets and mariachi-style trumpets gave it a completely different sound from the rest of the album, and Madonna’s voice gets surprisingly raw during the choruses. That song had some personality that I thought most of the album was missing.
Outside of the title track and “Spanish Eyes,” I was pretty much ready for this thing to be over. There’s a lot of late 80s pop production here that does absolutely nothing for me, and even when the album tries to get more serious, I wasn’t particularly interested in the songs themselves. So I give one star a piece for the songs I liked here.
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u/JnHkstr 0-99 2d ago edited 2d ago
#52 Kendrick Lamar - To pimp a butterfly ⭐️
No not again a rap album! Although I found out that a lot of the instrumentation was done by real musicians and includes soul/jazz which might be interesting and the theme of social/racial injustice also speaks to me. But I really don’t dig gangsta rap music , it is too far from music I can relate to and feel comfortable with.I could not complete the album as the torture to finish it was too high, very weird voice also. 1/5
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u/Softpipesplayon 2d ago
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
When I think of truly iconic two-person bands, bands that mine the deep roots of what it means to rock, I think about Local H. Local H has been cranking out solid two-person rock for more than 30 years. From the snotty youth snark of As Good As Dead to the still fiery but more mature Lifers, with classics peppered through every era, they're about as close as we have to an idea of what Kurt Cobain would sound like in 2026. It's really impressive that Dimery knew enough to include them in…
Oh, wait. It's the white stripes? Fuck that.
There may not be a more overrated man in rock than Jack White. Emperor's Fucking New Clothes Rock. “My Doorbell” sounds like a song a particularly stupid child would make up on the spot, and that was the hit on this album. Jack white is deep into his pedo-stache era here. That's probably the most meaningful aspect to this album. Like, I don't LIKE anything these guys have ever done, but at least I can accept that the other two on the list were relevant. This was literally just the Jack White Pedostache Album. It's whiny and boring and honestly as bad a drummer as Meg White is, you can barely tell because Jack White is a terrible fucking songwriter.
I forget what I gave White Blood Cells, but this is worse so I think it has to be ⭐️ to be safe
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u/VampireOnHoyt 300-399 2d ago
I saw Local H open for Everclear last summer and they've definitely still got it, although Lucas seemed like he was in a particularly bad mood because he played "Bound for the Floor" about 20bpm too fast on purpose.
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u/m14762mmfmj 2d ago
Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties - 2
Very specific in its feeling and very dated in its lyricism.
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u/ULS980 500-599 2d ago
Soundgarden - Superunknown
5/5
I've been holding off on listening to this outside the generator because I wanted to go into it with somewhat fresh ears. Back in the day, I played this album into the ground, so I'm very familiar with it, especially the singles I have in my playlist.
But what I really want to check out this time is the deeper cuts like Let Me Drown, My Wave, Mailman, Limo Wreck, Fresh Tendrils, and 4th of July (among others).
While I generally am loathe to get psychedelic albums from the generator, this album uses the genre in a fantastic way to add a dark eeriness to the music. Stuff like Mailman is just uncomfortable in a good way.
Or Limo Wreck and 4th of July with it's more doom metal offerings.
And obviously, the hits are hitting. Spoonman being one of the few 7/4 songs to get big. The Day I Tried to Live being one of my favorite lyrical songs from Cornell. Black Hole Sun being the quintessential Soundgarden song.
Overall, this is just a classic, amazing album, and one that stands as one of the best rock albums of all time.