1001 Albums Summary

Hard to overstate how massively influential this album was to 21st century rock music. Has a couple songs that are kinda weak and sound the same but overall this rules

This thing just goes hard non-stop for 36 minutes. the lyrics are maybe the weakest part by being either very corny, or problematic (jailbait). Everything else is killer, lemmy’s voice is one of a kind and this has some of the best guitar work I’ve heard in a long time

I’d heard some Yes songs before but never actually listened through an album. Crazy how much of them you can hear in the 70s/80s prog rock bands that came in later. There’s a few weak points on this album but overall the instrumental work on here and composition is very impressive

Never been a huge lou reed fan. I haven’t listened to any of his or VU’s stuff in a long time so I figured this would be a good opportunity to re-evaluate my feelings. Turns out yep, it still sucks.

Queen rules, such a fun listen.

I can certainly appreciate this album as “art”, it picked a direction and really went with it. Maybe it’s an acquired taste, as I started listening I found it pretentious, grating, and almost unlistenable, but I warmed up to it by the time I reached the end. I thought there were some things that were really interesting production-wise and the lyrics are evocative and well-crafted.

It does like 12 different genres all amazingly well. Awesome album.

Very weird, very interesting. There’s two really good singles and the rest is kind of a mish-mash of varying quality.

Very solid dad rock album

Impossible to listen to and not bob your head constantly. Absolute banger.

This rocks

It’s like Pixies meets Pavement. Which in theory is cool but in actuality I’d rather just listen to Pixies or Pavement. Couple standout songs, the rest is fine.

Never heard of this band before. Nice indie-pop guitar driven rock, liked it a lot even though I could only understand like 60% of the words they were saying

Funny how at the time their whole schtick was considered so scandalous and controversial, while in hindsight it’s just kinda corny. Liked the album, it was fun, not great.

Funny how at the time their whole schtick was considered so scandalous and controversial, while in hindsight it’s just kinda corny. Liked the album, it was fun, not great.

It’s a vibe

Just how I felt when listening to transformer, I’m just not a Lou Reed guy. I get it, I see why he’s important but it just doesn’t work for me. Should I give this album a higher score because I at least understand it’s cultural significance? Probably. Am I going to? Nah.

Like the vibes on this album a lot. I do wish I could understand literally a single lyric though. It’s impressively Scottish.

Kinda fun, but not my style of music.

It’s for the children

It was definitely interesting?

It mostly sounds like noise. On some of the songs that’s a good thing and it’s used in an interesting way, and sometimes it’s not my fav. Overall good.

When I started listening to this I was confused and almost offended. Like I thought I was being pranked. I thought somebody recorded randy newman trying to do an impression of the clash, and I was not sure at all why this album was so critically praised. As I listened through I warmed up to it a little bit, I enjoyed the more punk-type stuff at the end of the album, and overall it was a mostly enjoyable if not strange album.

One of the best rap albums of all time, and one of the best albums regardless of genre. Just so good.

This is the Devil's music. Won't somebody please think of the children??????

A lot of fun, really enjoyed it.

Theater Kid-core

All your favorite rock bands fucking love this album.

There will never be anyone else quite like eminem. I don’t think this is his best album but it’s definitely up there.

4.5, this was dope. Really good britpoprock with some cool psychedelic elements sprinkled in

Ultimate dad rock

With the caveat that I’ll have to re-visit this and re-evaluate in the future. HoLV didn’t really hit for me the first time either

i ain’t listening to all that i’m happy for u tho or sorry that happened

Probably the weakest of the first 4 albums, but definitely one of their more interesting ones. Feels like a transition, figuring out a new style that they would do a great job incorporating back into their blues rock sound in IV.

Yes.

Look it's objectively one of his best, but personally there's only so much of these "actually it's really hard being famous and successful" albums that I can take

One of those albums that spawned an entire genre of people trying to copy it and nobody else even came close.

I’m mostly pro-U2, and I do think this is a good album, but I’m pretty sure half the tracks on this album are the exact same song just with slightly different delay setting on the edge’s guitar

If you had never heard of meat loaf before and you looked at this album cover you would have a very specific idea of what you think this album would sound like, and then you would be very surprised when you listen to it and it’s billy joel if he were a theater kid that got bullied a lot in high school

Fun fact, fogerty is actually saying “born on the bay, ooh” referencing the fact that the band is from the SF bay area. there’s no way they’re trying to pretend they’re from louisiana, that would just be silly

merry chrysler

fuck eric clapton

yep

very good, but deja vu takes everything this album does well and does it like twice as good

4.5 People can say what they want about taylor swift but this album fucks

it’s a good album but fuck ryan adams

I mean, yeah.

*gordon ramsay voice* finally, some good fucking food

lmao

Unfortunately I think I like the idea of Bob Dylan more than I actually like Bob Dylan

Eddie Vedder really popped off when he said [indecipherable]

WOW i thought these guys were great but I just read the lyrics and realized they’re WOKE how do i change my review to 1 star

RHCP to me has always felt like a band that is lesser than the sum of its parts. -John Frusciante, one of the most well-respected guitarists of all time and has all kinds of great riffs on here -Chad Smith, great drummer and remember how he looks like Will Ferrell? Isn't that funny? -Anthony Kiedis -Flea, one of the most well-respected bassists of all time Other than a few notable standouts most of their songs are kinda fun but also pretty ass.

Music made by, for, and about huge weirdos

I dunno man, sure.

Great reminder that this list is NOT called "The 1001 best albums of all time". If nothing else I hope that people will appreciate the work of Wes Borland.

I know this album is not gonna be everyone's shit, and that's ok. But it is extremely my shit.

I dunno, if I’m Zooey Deschanel in Almost Famous I just don’t think this is the album I would pick to show my brother that music is good

I mean what am I gonna do, NOT give Illmatic 5 stars?

If you're reading this before you listen to the album: Just skip Dark Star and Feedback. It's ok, don't feel bad about it. Just skip them. You're not missing anything. You don't need to listen to 30 minutes of that. Just skip them. The rest of the album is actually decent. Just skip them.

It's good, but it gets absolutely bodied by every other CSNY solo album that came out around this time.

I think this was one of those "you had to be there" things

The megadeth formula: -Sickest riff you’ve ever heard -Corniest vocals you’ve ever heard -Guitar solo

It's good because it's Paul McCartney, but I don't think there are many other people who could have gotten away with this

Sleepy-core

That’s gonna get a big ol' Hell Yeah Brother from me

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So good it almost makes you forget that throughout the latter half of the 20th century the United States backed and funded coups in Brazil and other South American countries to overthrow democratically elected governments and install right wing dictatorships who were more favorable to their corporate interests which resulted in the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of people

"It is considered to be their most accessible album" lol, lmao

music to listen to while a thick goth woman steps on me

I'm looking at my rating stats and it seems like I've been too nice, so I need to start giving out some meaner ratings. Sorry to do this to you Goldfrapp, it's certainly not bad but it's giving "We have Portishead at home"

When will the British be held accountable for their crimes

There is a LOT to unpack here

Played this record for my 19 year old girlfriend. She had no idea who it was and thought I was crazy for liking it. I dunno, we don’t really have anything in common and there’s not much for us to talk about. Maybe I’m just getting old.

It has at least half a dozen of Pink Floyd's best songs, but as a whole it's just so silly and self-indulgent

1001 albums on this list and 998 of them are 90s british electronic music

AND IT WAS ALSO THE NIGHT THAT THE SKELETONS CAME TO LIIIIIFE THE BONES ARE THEIR MONEY SO ARE THE WORMS

I know complaining about the list is pointless and my taste is not the same as everyone else’s blah blah blah, but it is legitimately insane how so there are so many incredible artists that only have one or maybe two albums on this list and fucking kings of leon have three fucking albums are you fucking kidding me

I do actually like the first three tracks. The rest I could take or leave, and All in the Family has got to be in the running for worst song of all time

Beautiful peaceful music, I like to have it on in the background while gardening or painting

I’m glad this kind of music exists even though I don’t really like it at all or want to listen to it ever again

There are like 3 songs that are legit good but overall it feels like Pharrell kinda just fuckin around

We need more prison live albums. Give me wu tang clan live at rikers island

Eddie’s guitar and michael anthony’s backing vocals are so good that they turn what would otherwise be absolute dogshit into something that’s pretty good