#1011 Amy Winehouse – Back to Black

I think Amy Winehouse was overrated. It is how I felt about her music. It was okay, but nothing to get all excited about. I think I only knew of one or two songs before doing this challenge. My opinion did not change with the first album. Perhaps her second studio album Back to Black […]

#1004 Common – Be

Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr? Does not really say hip hop star to me. Common was wise to change it. This is Common’s second appearance on the list of 1001 Albums… I was not a fan of his first entry Like Water for Chocolate at all. Be is the rapper’s sixth album and it was his […]

#421 Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear

Of course Marvin Gaye should make it on the list again. He was the king of soul music in the 70s. Gaye’s fifteenth studio album Here, My Dear was critically panned and a commercial failure during its release in 1978. It is a personal album about the divorce he was going through with his wife […]

#281 Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On

Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On” is problem one of the sexist songs ever. Can the album hold up to the reputation of this classic song? I hope so, but I have never heard the whole album Let’s Get It On. Gaye is the King of Soul. “Let’s Get It On” is the sexiest song ever. […]

#208 Marvin Gaye – What’s Goin’ On

Marvin Gaye. I feel like there is not need to say anything else, except Marvin Gaye. What’s Goin’ On is Gaye’s album which marked a departure from his former Motown squeaky clean mask. He took control of his image, music, and life. This is not the album anyone expected from a Motown artist, but it […]

#159 The Temptations – Cloud Nine

The Temptations was one of those groups that I heard my mother listen to when I was a child. I am not sure which album, but it was not Cloud Nine. I think it was the albums before this one when they had David Ruffin as the lead singer. This is different than the 60s […]

1001 Albums #44

Solomon Burke‘s Rock ‘n Soul was the album that put him in the books as one of the greats and as one of the founding fathers of soul. He has been called the “the greatest male soul singer of all time.” It has also been written that he is the “most unfairly overlooked singer.” I […]