1001 Albums
Category
142 – Crosby, Stills and Nash
Crosby, Stills and Nash were the first Supergroup (Crosby (The Byrds), Stills (Buffalo Springfield) and Nash (The Hollies)), though they might not have realised it at the time
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