1001 Albums Summary

Soulful delivery; mostly covers, but man this dude can sing.

Dreamy; heartfelt; frankly spoken and delivered lyrics that sound like they're coming from the neighborhood kid. Ultra intricate layering worthy of the call out to Pet Sounds. Basically, this album is the blueprint for the indie art band sound that became such a hit by 2010.

It's U2. Safe, easy listening and really just not my style. There is nothing wrong with this type of music, but I feel like you had to "be there" when U2 was up and coming to really subscribe to anything more than "this is some safe, light rock with entry level 'deep' lyricism." It does not surprise me that this band is freakin' huge.

This was a really cool album. Musically, it moved all over the place between things that were straight R&B to English Folk to borderline Punk Rock. Big Boi's influence on the album was pretty apparent to me as it sounded liked Janelle was channeling Outkast at times. Good listen

A sad, forlorn, and frankly delivered album from the mid-80's that is just as catchy as it is critical of humanity. Must be The Smiths.

This album is clearly top notch late 60's/ early 70's singer-songwriter stuff. It's got a great sound, but I kind of have to agree with Van Morrison himself about dismissing the transcendental and exalted position of this album. On the one hand, I can ABSOLUTELY see why people put this up on a tower for all to see - I can totally interpret the music that way. On the other, I can also see Van Morrison saying literally nothing at all and just delivering pretty meaningless stuff in a super competent soul/R&B manner. Maybe that's the genius?

It's fine. Note a Springsteen fan, but I can tell the man is a song writer.

Fun stuff.

Some soft, well written music. Not much otherwise to pique my interest.

Good freakin' 60's music

Banging shoegaze - THE shoegaze album. Dreamy as hell, good listening. Music itself is not overly interesting, but neither is a warm blanket.

It's Thriller.

Not Bowie's best - and it kind of sucks to have to say that on his heartfelt final album before his death. Artsy and interesting at times, but not something that lends itself to being played often.

Better than most 90's albums of the exact same flavor

Stones near the height of their prowess. An almost overzealous attempt to capture the American blues/folk sound that many (somewhat unfairly) try to claim the Stones appropriated from African Americans. I struggle to make that jump since there are plenty of Appalachian folk influences present here, and the Stones never tried to hide the fact that they were disciples of old, Black bluesman that white audiences chose to ignore. Still, not my favorite band by any stretch, but I cannot deny that Gimme Shelter is an S tier song.

Well damn. This is a fine gem that I never knew about. It's like this album is perfectly situated at the crossroads of everything punk - what came before, and what came after. I was surprised to to get something that sounded so much like old school punk in the mid-90's (i.e. paralleling the development of pop-punk, without crossing over). And yet it also has those horns/sax to give it that ska feel without being a "college rock" album in the style of Reel Big Fish. And heck, there was even some noodling in there that spoke to the midwest emo/math rock sensiblities. Good listen.

That boy needs therapy!

At times, completely forgettable early synth pop. At other times, really compelling well crafted music.

Really quite good. Can't argue.

Really artsy, sweeping, and dramatic. Good music, all over the place in many different styles. Kind of takes away from the song's "albumness" though. i.e. had they chosen a consistent style to REALLY hammer home, could have been nuts. Instead we're left with an appetizer plate of a bunch of really great starts, but nothing complete

Jazzy. Very moody

That's megadeth.

Got real David Bowie vibes off a lot of this. Good stuff

I really liked this album for some reason. Vibe was right for the time and place

Pretty solid guitar rock/indie. Their choice of sound and instrumentation instills a certain sense of timelessness in the music - really only the use of an 80's drum machine here is what dates them.

You can tell that there is some good musicianship here, but this album is basically psychedelic nonsense - and there are other works contemporary to this that are more musical/convincing. I think this has its place, but it is mostly going to be a 60s novelty.

Some really cool sounds in here and I like the vibe - I just wished a liked the vocal delivery better

Gotta say: pretty fun

Straight to the point album that is representative of a truly American sound. Oh, and the lyrics are as poignant as ever.

Fun album. Kind of seesaws between 80's esoteric dance and mid-00's indie.

Very good.

Pretty good

Jazzy, folky, well composed. Feels sincere

Really good mid-late 60's musid