If you walk in to someone’s house and they call you in to the kitchen and ask you to smell something, there are really only two reasons why they would want you to do that.
The first is that they are cooking something so wonderful and the aroma is so magnificent that they want to share it.
The second is that they have found something so foul in their kitchen and the stench is so bad that they want to share it.
I think this album challenge is like that. Some albums “smell” so good that you have to listen to them so that your life is enriched by the experience, while others need to be experienced only so that you have a frame of reference of how bad something can be.
This album is the leftover oyster dressing from Thanksgiving that you find on New Years Day because your resolution is to finally clean out the refrigerator.
To learn more about the 1001 Albums Project, I first wrote about it here.
Your thoughts?