1001 Albums
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141 – Bayou County
Everything I hated about Zappa and Beefheart, is the opposite here with John Cameron Fogarty’s Creedance Cle..
140 – Trout Mask Replica
This is my listen to Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, with their influential album Trout Mask Replica. For “influential”, I usually hear “self-indulgent crap” and this album is the rule, not the exception.
139 – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Back on it, with Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Sounds good to me, I’m guessing this is when Americana, as I know it, began
138 – We’re only in it for the Money
‘We’re only in it for the Money’ is just self-indulgent hippie crap featuring the usual psychedelic tropes I’ve come to learn about on this 1001 Albums journey, namely: San Francisco…..
137 – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
In the middle, or beginning should I say, of a global Coronavirus pandemic when the instruction from the Gov..
136 – Astral Weeks
Slip slidin’ in the slipstream on the cherry road
Containing my very favourite Van Morrison song,..
135 – Odessey and Oracle
Well, we’re back with ‘Odessey and Oracle’ by The Zombies, there is a dominant psychedelic vibe with Hammond organs and off key harmonies
134 – The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album)
A week late, following the 50th Anniversary Remix by Giles Martin (son of George), I arrive at the amazing “The Beatles” album (a.k.a. and universally known as The White Album), by The Beatles
133 – Scott 2
Hmmm, wondering why Scott 2 is in the top 1001 albums, I would be quite confident this will drop off the end of the conveyor in an updated version of this collection of albums
132 – Ceatano Velosa
This is Ceatano Velosa with an eponymous release, apparently under duress and in protest at the the Brazilian dictatorship of the time