The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread

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Talk about the passion - Stipe gets a lot out of a few repeated lines. He’s really one of a kind. Such a pretty song too.

Moral Kiosk is just fun sounding. Makes me want to spin around with my arms out bopping. Love the guitar sound! Peter Buck is kind of an underrated genius.
 
Hemotep said:
I think I'm going to have somewhat of a hot take for folks around these parts on this album. It's just ok. I've listened to it at least a dozen times over the years and I would go so far as to say I lean toward enjoying the album, but it's nothing special for me. Birds and Ships with Natalie Merchant is the track that most stands out to me stylistically. Lyrically I enjoy the whole album, but I prefer Wilco on their own and only the occasional Billy Bragg song.

I could see this being an album that might grow on you if you dug deep and kept it spinning for a few sessions close together, perhaps aided by some mind relaxing substances. But it feels like work to love this and the appeal to do that work is not there for me.

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Yeah, I am a big Wilco fan and enjoy the Billy Bragg I’ve heard though I haven’t explored his stuff too much. There are a few tracks on each of the the Mermaid Ave. albums that are fantastic but as whole albums they don’t do a ton for me.
 
Perfect Circle - another masterful vocal.

Got me thinking. Right here at the birth of alternative music there were three guys Stipe, Morrisey and Bono that were kind of larger than life and certainly bigger than their bands, really. So much hate was aimed at them (okay maybe Morrissey deserved it) I mean I know it’s mostly envy driven but he really is something and he hasn’t really gotten full of himself here.

Catapult - just like LCD the other night. If folks weren’t trying to sleep there would be a dance party in the listening room.

Incidentally, this is a band I don’t listen to near enough as my wife dislikes them.

Also, they were my entry drug to The National and Modest Mouse as I saw those guys open for R.E.M. when they were touring to support Accelerate.

Sitting Still is just another awesome song.
 
9-9 sounds like u2 playing punk through an R.E.M. filter.

Shaking Through is an example of how an uptempo song can just sound beautiful.
 
We Walk is a little grating (I, however, have no problems with Shiny Happy People or Radio Song)
 
Lee Newman said:
From the allmusic review: “Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings” wuh? I should probably listen to Chronic Town Again but this isn’t garagey and jangly?

Pilgrimage - like the way it builds and stops to start over again…
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I just picked up a Quiex II pressing of Chronic Town just a few weeks ago to go with my Quiex II pressings of Murmur and Reckoning. R.E.M. is a band that was highly influential on a bunch of other bands I loved and one that I have grown to love over time. The issue for me initially was that my introduction to them was “Losing My Religion “ which is a great song but felt very adult during the early 90s and I was in Junior high and while I enjoyed Automatic For The People and Monster a decent amount it wasn't until college that I really began exploring their back catalog probably after I came to the realization that Kurt Cobain and Thom Yorke were huge fans. Seeing there evolution is quite outstanding. Think I enjoy the early stuff the most but their discography is peppered with excellent albums and even their “bad” albums are better and more interesting than most. I recently finished reading Our Band Could Be Your Life which is an excellent history of many of the 80s Underground bands that would be highly influential to the 90s Alternative explosion; and even though the book doesn’t cover R.E.M. directly, it’s astounding how often they are referenced as the the first truly underground band to achieve mainstream success and none of the bands thought of R.E.M. as “sell outs”. They saw them more as aspirational.
 
Yeah, I mean Out of Time came out my senior year of high school. I remember being aware of them around the time Life’s Rich came out (still my favorite album by them) and they just seemed to get bigger with each album. For sure It’s the End of the World, The One I Love, and Stand were ubiquitous.


Most of the folks I hung out with in college were fans no matter if they were listening to grunge, the Dead or Prince.
 
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another one i am very familiar with. i was first exposed to burning spear at bonnaroo 2004, and getting into his records as a result helped me understand there was more to reggae music than bob marley. i mean, i was aware enough to know that, but i'd never really explored much beyond marley and toots. marcus garvey was one of those records that broadened my horizons. i've never listened to the original mix of this album, so maybe i will do that for this challenge.

here's one of my favorite ever performances from that roo show, african postman from the hail h.i.m. album:

 
The deluxe version has a show from 1983 in Toronto and damn if they don’t sound just as good if not better than the album. Like I said, they seemed to arrive fully realized. Such a great band that really didn’t have a less than great album until at least Monster
 
AndySlash said:
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another one i am very familiar with. i was first exposed to burning spear at bonnaroo 2004, and getting into his records as a result helped me understand there was more to reggae music than bob marley. i mean, i was aware enough to know that, but i'd never really explored much beyond marley and toots. marcus garvey was one of those records that broadened my horizons. i've never listened to the original mix of this album, so maybe i will do that for this challenge.

here's one of my favorite ever performances from that roo show, african postman from the hail h.i.m. album:

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Yeah Burning Spear and Black Uhuru were the music that made me realize that it didn’t just sort of start and die with Marley. I dug some Dancehall in the 90’s, Shaba Ranks was real big when I was in college. All that being said, VMP actually did more for me getting into Reggae. Also with me realizing that I like ska the best of the music from Jamaica (and I don’t mean the Mighty Mighty Bosstones - although I do like them)
 
Album #3 for me:

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My first familiar album on this journey is a very familiar album. I could have written on it last night without listening to it, but that would betray the point of the exercise!

There's something about albums recorded by bands fraught with tension - more often than not they end up being shit, but once in awhile you get something like Abbey Road or Rumours.

"Come Together" is a fantastic opening salvo, and the immediate switch of gears into "Something" is a nice touch.

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is... "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." Not the finest moment in The Beatles catalogue, nor their history.

"Octopus's Garden" was one of my early favourites when I first started exploring the lads from Liverpool.

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is a BEAST! Billy Preston is an incredible addition to the group here.

"Here Comes The Sun" led to one of my favourite Nina Simone recordings.

"Golden Slumbers" is one of my favourite later life/deep cut discoveries.

Five-star album through and through. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" can be forgiven for the fact that this album also brought us McLemore Avenue by Booker T & The M.G.'s and George Benson's The Other Side of Abbey Road.
 
avecigrec said:
Day 4 is the first one I already own on vinyl so far (thanks to @jamieanderson1968!), as such I'm spinning it rather than streaming it.

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Dusty is the fifth I own on vinyl.

Just a Little Lovin' - that voice, this song, what a perfect way to start off an album. Bringing her to Memphis to one of the hotbeds of the music she was exploring in England was a brilliant move.

So Much Love - really this could only be more perfect if it was Aretha.

I mean I'm just gonna gush about every song.
 
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