283. For Your Pleasure

For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
1973

Tracks
1. Do The Strand 
2. Beauty Queen 
3. Strictly Confidential 
4. Editions Of You
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache 
6. Bogus Man 
7. Grey Lagoons 
8. For Your Pleasure

All right, I don't know what the hell I am doing.  I have to leave in about forty five minutes but right now I am still in my pajamas, writing this blog instead of getting ready.  I blame it on Monday morning inertia.

Well, more experimental rock.  This is apparently right before the band collapsed because of artistic differences.  So, this is awkward.  I guess this is when they were at their best...and I didn't like it.  At all.

It was just so pretentious; immediately when you start listening to it, they go into this spacey jam.  Not to mention the song about the inflatable sex doll.  What?

I guess I am just not uppity enough to enjoy this.

RATING: 2/5

282. Solid Air

Solid Air
John Martyn
1973

Tracks
1. Solid Air
2. Over The Hill

3. Don't Want To Know 
4. I'd Rather Be The Devil

5. Go Down Easy

6. Dreams By The Sea

7. May You Never

8. The Man In The Station 
9. The Easy Blues 

Wow, it is Nick Drake with a better singing voice!  What a find!

I was really excited about this album.  It is dedicated to Nick Drake, who actually died 18 months later. Anyway, I haven't been too...enthused about the recent albums and this was a pleasant break.  Sad but pleasant.

This is folk but it is vibrant folk; it is full of sorrow but actually really catchy.  "Don't Want To Know" is pretty much him saying he only wants to know about love not hate over and over again.  Still, I found myself singing along.  Check it out.

RATING: 5/5

281. Let's Get It On

Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
1973

Tracks
1. Let's Get It On
2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Keep Getting It On
5. Come Get To This
6. Distant Lover
7. You Sure Love To Ball
8. Just To Keep You Satisfied

Oh my.  That was...um...intimate.

All right so this album is pretty much song porn.  It actually feels like the kind of music that Quagmire would put on in Family Guy.

Now, I am a wee bit of a prude.  Of course, these 1001 journeys are forcing me to get over it since the listmakers keep making me read and watch porn.  Still, this is not my scene.  He certainly sounds sexy and the music is smooth but just not my style.

RATING: 2/5

280. Selling England By The Pound

Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
1973

Tracks
1. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
2. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
3. Firth of Fifth
4. More Fool Me
5. Battle of Epping Forest
6. After the Ordeal
7. Cinema Show
8. Aisle of Plenty

FINALLY!

After a string of bad albums, we have an actual good one. I was so relieved when the first track came on that I almost felt like kissing the ground.  Then I realized how ridiculous that is and got a hold of myself.  But I was still relieved!

Anyway, what else would you expect from a band with Phil Collins?  Everyone likes Phil Collins.

So this album was really catchy albeit a little too long.  Still, it was a nice change of pace. RATING: 4/5

279. Berlin

Berlin
Lou Reed
1973

Tracks
1. Berlin 
2. Lady Day 
3. Men Of Good Fortune 
4. Caroline Says 
5. How Do You Think It Feels 
6. Oh Jim 
7. Caroline Says (2) 
8. Kids
9. Bed Listen 
10. Sad Song

So I listened to this album while I was trying on clothes.  If there is a way to feel more self conscious about your body than trying on jeans I have yet to find it. Anyway, now I am back to my pajamas and everything is right with world.

So this album absolutely bombed upon its release; Rolling Stone hated it when it came out.  Now, they consider it one of the greatest albums of all time.  Of course, this is because the masses hated it and they consider themselves better than us commoners.  Damn elitists.

Anyway, I think they should have stuck to their guns in calling this album a wash.  It has a plot and I usually do not like concept album (here's looking at you, Tommy).  He is not even singing, he is merely talking.  Maybe I just don't "get it".

RATING: 2/5

278. Future Days

Future Days
Can
1973

Tracks
1. Future Days
2. Spray
3. Moonshake
4. Bel Air

All right, so the book introduces us to a new genre today titled "krautrock".  Apparently, this is the name given to German experimental music in the early 1970s.  From that description, I feel like people generally don't hear about it too much.  And after this album, I have no desire to anymore.

God, I hate it when I have such a bad string of albums so all the readers have to just hear me bitch and complain.  I will try to keep it short.  This album is pretty much space rock with some chanting.  So yeah.

RATING: 1/5

277. Paris 1919

Paris 1919
John Cale
1973

Tracks
1. Child's Christmas In Wales
2. Hanky Panky Nohow
3. Endless Plain Of Fortune
4. Andalucia
5. Macbeth
6. Paris 1919
7. Graham Greene
8. Half Past France
9. Antarctica Starts Here

Well that was disappointing.  I was expecting something really classy.  I mean, Paris 1919 sounds like a trendy restaurant.  Instead I got a kind of mix between art rock and country.  Excuse me while I go vomit.

All right, so maybe I am exaggerating.  And maybe this review has more to do with me experiencing one of the worst days of my life yesterday.  But still, I didn't enjoy it.  So there.

RATING: 2/5