1001 Albums: 0391 - 0400: 400 Albums Heard! Hooray For Me!

What a great day! Mere hours after Osamam Bin Laden is declared dead, I have listened to the four hundredth album of the 1001 Albums! Too bad it wasn't a better album. They should of cheated and flipped out 400 with 401. Anyways, it is truley a great day to celebrate since I now have 601 albums to go with this project! Hooray!


0391 Elvis Costello – My Aim is True - Real solid debut by Costello. I always ignored him since compared to punk bands at the time that I liked, he wasn't even a part of. Now that I'm old, I really like the honesty and smarts in the songs. And it rocks. And it has the song that John Cusack plays on the ghetto blaster in "Say Anything". So this one is good!


0392 Iggy Pop – Lust for Life - Iggy manages an even stupider album cover on this one. Thanks to "Trainspotting" the title track will be a big hit in the 90's. The whole album is solid though, and a step up sonically from the morose "The Idiot". So another one is good!


0393 Ian Dury – New Boots & Panties!! - Based on the title you already know this album has a cheeky sense of humour. It's also super annoying. I don't know why, but it is. I guess it's just the sound and the thick "I'm a British football fan brum brum!" accent Ian sings in. So this is a no good!


0394 Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the… - People tend not to like this one anymore and hate the band for continuing on into there sixties, but I still love it (and the band). I've loved it since first hearing it in Grade 7 where it closed the door on my 80's metal love of all things Twisted Sister. I still love Twisted Sister, don't get me wrong, but now there was room in my heart for more then one type of music. It was like I grew as a person or something! Anyways, this is good. It's not as piss poor musically as people let on, and John Lydon was born for this type of music. Not only all that, but bands today still come out sounding like they want to be the Sex Pistols (they fail, stupid kids these days!). So it's a good one!


0395 Pere Ubu – Modern Dance - All these years since hearing the name of this band, I thought them reggae. Huh! They are punk, and it started off ok but then it turned into noisy shit. So no good!


0396 Kraftwerk – Man Machine - Ugh Kraftwork, I already said I was done with you! Autobahn was good, but this is not good! It's just boring. BORING!


0397 Blondie – Parallel Lines - I recently saw Blondie in concert, so it was interesting to hear their biggest record and realize she was never a great singer. Not that this is a bad album, it's pretty awesome really! Great songs that play around with genre while still sounding like a whole. This is a good one!


0398 Elis Regina – Vento de Maio - This was in another language so I didn't like it. I already explained my reasons, so no accusations of bigotry please and thank you! It's Latin tinged, sounds really old fashioned despite having a bit of a disco feel on some tracks. So yeah, it's a skip.


0399 Pere Ubu – Dub Housing - Pere Ubu continues to not be a reggae band, and this one was noisier then the last one FOUR ALBUMS AGO! Seriously 1001 Albums, I know that in the future you're skipping two of my favorite bands, yet you have two shiter pieces from one band in a 10 pack? Come on!


0400 Only Ones – Only Ones (1st Album) - Here it is,the landmark 40oth album on the 1001 Albums list! It was better then Pere Ubu. It was also pleasant rock with a new wave kind of feel. It didn't leave much of an impression so it's neither good or bad.

There it is, four hundred down! Phew! No real stand outs since my favourites on the list are old favourites by Iggy and The Sex Pistols... man, Iggy and the Sex Pistols would be pretty great! Some one make this happen! NOW! They're nearly dead and we're celebrating!