1001 Albums Summary

Very dark, gloomy album. Traditional folk stuff with the mood and aura of Nick Drake

Not much to write home about. A kinda boring synth-pop kinda thing. Not my style, never been a fan of Depeche Mode, but this hasn’t converted me

A pretty nice fun album. Not the best, not the worst. Smashing Pumpkins are still lame though

Really experimental, but really great. I loved this album, probably my favorite of Bowie’s that I’ve heard so far

Some nice tracks but hurt by the fact that every song sounds the same

Groovy and far out

Boring, alt-rock album. Very generic, not much substance at all

Sweet little freak folk record, but Joanna Newsom does it better

Some really great stuff here, but it’s too repetitive

Unquestionably a masterpiece. My favorite of Cohen’s albums. This is what Bob Dylan wishes he sounded like

I love this album so much. An all-time favorite

Some really great stuff but also some really bad stuff. In the end, it comes out in a wash to produce a very middling album

Pretty damn good, but still a tad overrated. Not perfect

Really great, really groovy

Good stuff but very samey

Never liked QOTSA and this hasn’t changed my mind

Really excellent. I loved this album

Some alright stuff but the rockabilly is insufferable

Elvis Costello is overrated but there are a few good tracks here

I love this album

Some crazy cool stuff here. Very strange but very nice

Rush is awesome

Another absolute masterpiece. This has been a good run of albums

This sounds like the background music to a YouTube video. Nothing of redeeming value here. And I don’t just hate techno cause I love kraftwerk

Not bad, this Beck album is pretty good

Awesome psych stuff

This sucks and is super boring. At least they tried

Pretty nice but this just isn’t my type of post-punk

Some neat guitar work but too many bum tracks

Another masterpiece by Bowie

Perhaps the Kinks’ best album. Very sonically diverse

The smiths are just boring

Mitchell is a master and this is a masterpiece

Outside of the hits, there’s not much here

Some nice stuff but not a fan of the whole thing

Sinatra’s talented but these crooners just aren’t for me

Overproduced garbage that sounds vaguely like the smiths or television at times. Boring as hell

An excellent noise record. Sonic Youth is one of the great noise bands without a doubt

A good album but by no means an all time great

Never been much of a fan of Aerosmith but this is great

Fun early rock stuff

Better than his first record but still not an all time great

Excellent album. CCR is legendary

Megadeth’s best album. One of the essential metal records

Really great, unique record

Hawkwind is great but the album is very long-winded

Probably the best Country Joe and the Fish album

A fine jazz record but Monk’s piano is the only thing that really makes it great. Not really getting the hype

So-so punk album

This is the exact sort of country nonsense I can’t stand

Rundgren was unreal during this era of his music

Public Enemy is the greatest rap group of all time. This isn’t their best record, but it’s close

One of the Ramones’ true masterpieces

Damn this album sucks. Sour Times is good but the rest of the album isn’t near good enough to warrant a second star

An absolutely classic soul album

There’s some nice stuff here but it’s not really outstanding

Really quite boring. Nothing of substance outside of some neat guitar stuff

Easily one of the great live albums. Really captures the ferocity of Motörhead

There are some good tracks here, but a lot of fluff. Doesn’t come close to justifying its runtime. Middling effort

Buckley’s jazz-folk fusion is always fascinating, and it shines on this album. Some tracks drag a bit, but songs like Dream Letter and Buzzin’ Fly show why Buckley was such a brilliant songwriter.

Sounds really dated. The pop bits hold up a bit better, but the rap-heavy sections have aged poorly.

One of the most outstanding and wonderful albums of the psychedelic 1960s

Enjoyable, endlessly danceable, and funny