The one hundred twenty-first album: #121 The United States of America - The United States of America
At a time where a lot of rock bands were experimenting, it feels like The United States of America is even further out there. Just listening to the first track, it's hard to imagine them being able to repeat the feat of how unique the electronic sound is. It's repeated and imitated, but often to try to make it more of a song, while this feels like it's just trying things from start to finish.
There's bits of everything in there, which makes for a weird experience. It's not always coherent, and while those clashes may sometimes be intentional, I don't think it works as a single product either. Basically, what we get is a bunch of experiments, going poppy, rocky and psychedelic in different places, and there are some places where it works, some that don't, and on the whole it's a bit unsatisfying compared to something that focused on a thing. I guess more than that, it works as inspiration to other artists - and I know we'll see that later with, for example, the Beatles.