1001 Albums Summary

It's time for nouveau jazz, if you're into that.

A good jazz contempo album

If you want new grassy blue country, this is for you.

Dreamy new wave

70s party country music. Jimmy Buffett is low-key my nemesis, so this is not one for me.

This was a fun romp!

Community theater dropout musical. If you want a long prog album, this is for you!

Haunting prairie melodic punk

This is an example of cut over from the last century. So many albums have come after it that it sounds banal at this point but was not at the time.

What is this death cab? Who is this cutie? This takes me back.

Chill music

90s lady power!

High energy punkpop

70s arena rock for you.

Imagine the worst person you know made an album and other people liked it. Good for them, but I'd rather not hear it again.

It sounds like a combination of random cartoon music, Eric Cartman, and if a ska band was introduced to even more horns. Not my cup of tea, but maybe for someone else.

Music to vibe with

Your college band got a record deal!

Music that your grandpa used to woo your grandma

If you're up for a whole concert of the boss, this is for you.

60s sound with raunchy lyrics.

I heard a lot of "kids these days aren't as hard as we were" and this is from the aughts. This proves that everyone thinks the kids aren't okay.

Stadium rock

Fun and noisy garage rock

Mr E's beautiful blues

An unexpected enjoyable album

A good, nay, great relisten

It's dance music to watch cartoons to. It's a miss for me.

It's like TMBG for more modern theater kids

2000s indie pop

Tragically under-rated

Unexpected!

What a weird and fun listen

Portland shanties

This music is a vehicle for beer pong and bong rips.

Supreme dad rock

Angry music for math nerds

Men in fancy blouses playing psychedelic rock

Interesting modern jazz

So many bangers on this album

I was not expecting an Edgar Allan Poe concept album.

It's 2 hours of live Phish. Buckle up, it's all of the trappings of a concert without any of the common extracurriculars associated with Phish.

Chill music and beautiful lyrics

The level of noise that one would expect by the band name.

Australian garage band, if that's your thing

Are you ready for Jonathan Davis to do even more Korn? I wasn't.

Another good relisten

Jazz is not typically my musical genre of choice and yet, I enjoyed this.

I missed this album when it was released and am glad to have listened to it now.

Puerile and funny!

Socially conscious punk

Interesting background music. Some of the songs were interesting enough to want to replay and some sounded like a robot's idea of jazz.

Folk lyrics with more modern instruments. It didn't really hit for me.

70s psychedelic rock hath been unleashed on my mortal ears.

Sad party music for sad party people

Because it's Childish Gambino, it's great.

Even more French than Air.

A great re-listen

Semi-experimental folk but more

Forgettable 70s

Are you ready for weed party punk music?

There are a few songs that I recognize but never knew who it was. Nice addition to the list.

Forgettable pop music to me.

Someone is really living out their best 80s bubblegum pop dreams by recommending this album

This album represents the mid-aughts girl group turned solo artist. It's not my thing but if you're into that sort of thing, here it is.

This is for lovers of Evangelion and pop music. I will likely not listen to it again but it was a nice excursion into music that I do not typically listen to.

Grimy 90s garage rock!

I'm not sure what I expected but I definitely didn't expect it to be this fun.

This was an interesting listen and super enjoyable.

I bet you didn't know you needed a 2 minute amp up courtesy of a song about husky bathroom habits.

Go in knowing nothing about this album

The album cover looks like bro-Talking Heads. The music sounds like proto 80s indie rock.

Another great relisten

Love to hear it.

This one made no impression either way on me

Why pick a musical style when you can use them all? This one didn't do it for me.

It sounds like a modern 90s punk band

Cool 90s pop!

What ever you think this album will be, it will surprise you.

Lofi with great lyrics

Unlike other folks with filthy lyrics that manage to be clever, these are just filthy without the clever.

It sounds like Australian Bruce Springsteen and I feel like there is enough of him on this list.

I'm going to have to say no to this, Billy.

Ethereal instrumentals and soothing vocals = more of this!

Childish Gambino gifted us this.

Another good listen from Sparks

Scandinavian trance fusion - this was better than I would expect by the descriptor!

90s hip hop and a worthwhile listen

70s semi-psychedelic

An enjoyable relisten

Chill bluesy folk

Too cool, jazzy album

I can't judge this fairly due to my despising country music. If you look at some of the one liners? Amazing? But then you add the country requirements of twang and whatnot and I can't. 3 stars for the one liners.

A-okay background music

Mid-aughts call back to the 90s

A beautiful and haunting album.

Dirty rockabilly

The marching band grew up!

The 80s wanted to drop a little taste of rock for you

Vaguely country and rock and pop and yet not hitting any of the notes that would make this album succeed for me.

Beautiful elements of French jazz

I didn't know that the lead singer of the Crash Test Dummies was following this project just to submit this album. Real review: are you ready for an irreverent album that misses the mark? Buckle up because it's 45 minutes of pure torture. Bring a friend and torture them, too!

It's a moderate party in this album

Don some heavy eyeliner, refer to the things as "Random", and play this album. It's 2007 and you're feeling a little emo.

Mildly experimental indie

Not my cup of tea but beyond that, the guitar work displays technical mastery.

"Hey, it's me! Your bland mid-2010s progressive rock band." -The Dear Hunter

Fight me, but this sounds like if 70s Genesis had formed in the 60s.

Observe some of the song titles and giggle with me. Aside from that, this album rocks harder than the cover album would indicate.

This gives the feel of walking through a stuffy record shop in the 90s. This is clerk's favorite 70s dub record and you can see why they like it but it's not for you.

This was a cluster of synthesizers. Not a bad background listen.

RIP Sophie! You had such a future ahead of you and this album showed what you were capable.

Experimental cello! Listening to this, it sounded more recent than 1986.

Dub may not be one of my preferred genres, but I could feel this album growing on me a bit. It was so smooth.

Synthy 80s lady led pop

Folksy blues for the theater-nerd set.

I will join TMBG for a great time

Generic rock that's a little indie but really rock.

They distilled my least favorite aspects of 90s rock into one album.

Quiet and lyrical

The Rise of Chappell Roan explained in an album.

Haunting

A slide back to disco while incorporating late 90s hip hop.

An enjoyable bop.

Great voice and I wish the style was something other than country.

Mid mid-2000s music

For a duo that sounds like lambs, they have the lion's roar.

Profane and profound.

A concept album that tells a story. I didn't want to hear the story, but maybe you do.

The album cover art does not prepare you for how it goes way harder than the album contents.

A fun loud album

An okay listen for once but likely won't return.

Interesting rock

An enjoyable album but I feel like it could have trimmed a song or two

I enjoyed this far more than I expected!

This didn't do it for me. It may have been groundbreaking for 1980 but by now, it sounds banal in comparison to what came after it.

Feeling a little dark and brutal

An okay background listen

Immense amount of metal

I can hear the potential and how it has been influential but I prefer the albums that built upon it.

I'm having a Brat kind of year with this album

Sick bass!

It sounds like someone's incongruous, chaotic playlist.

Hoppin' horns!

It's no Sleepify but it was an entertaining bro funk band.

There are some real standouts on this album.

A more mature monkeys

Preppy edge pop

Absurdism for 2023

Enjoyable and familiar

Lyrical rock

This had no effect on me whatsoever. Not bad, not good.

Treat yourself to some raucous punk

If this is a genre, it would be Weird Rock

Get low with Low

Proto-90s in the 2010s

Hardcore!

This album is quintessential 90s. If I were to try to explain the music scene to someone, it would include this album.

This one didn't do much for me.

Stunning, beautiful, and sad; this album continues to be a great listen.

This album did nothing for me.

This was an interesting exploration of punk + rock + garage together in a little package.

Experimental bro music

This wild planet is better with The B-52's in it.

The anthropomorphized version of this album broke into my house, shotgunned a Monster drink, and then punched a hole in my drywall.

An okay transitional album from the 70s to the 80s

I love this album. You need to be prepared that it is an experience album and allot 20+ minutes for each song performance.

Not my favorite Tool album

My bangs fell over my eye and put heavy eyeliner on my eyes for me while listening to this album

Early aughts party punk

Interesting beats.

They certainly spawned a lot of imitators

A quick jaunt with hints of experimental jazz. I enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I sit and think about how much I enjoy this album

An a-okay listen

Jazz with heavy bass lines. It didn't really draw me in.

Mid-aughts indie

Isaac Brock's voice is peculiar and works for the lyrics

More Aussie grime punk

Emo punk

A fun newer album from The Cure!

Over an hour of progrock. If that's your thing, you'll probably like this.

Grimy Aussie punk

Okay post-punk

Very 90s

I am not generally a fan of jam bands and this was an hour 15 of the jammiest jam band.

I like Bob Mould but I enjoy him more with Husker Du.

Live speedy pop punk in its most enjoyable form!

Shiny pop

The smoother side of disco funk of the late 70s

Aughts folksy indie with beautiful lyrics.

Like hearing music from another room, but in a good way

Tortured guitars for the sad boy set

If you like chill surfer folk, this might be for you.

French techno!

You could ask what's with these homies and why do they gotta front, but you should know it's just 90s music

Chill and beautiful!

Shoegaze pop for the 2020s

It's a pop folk album. Oh look, there's clapping. Oh no! It's been invaded by twee drum beats.

Fun & irreverent 90s music

Storytelling but make it a little kooky

Beautiful and harkens back to the early 90s.

Recent rock that actually rocks

East Coast math rock.

Chill and a great background listen

Chill and too cool for school French music

Bjork continues to impress with Homogenic. This album still sounds masterful on replay years later.

Semi-country pop dance music. The country pop portion is not my favorite.

Operatic metal rock that tries a little too hard.

Experiential bro stadium rock

French 90s punk that sounds far older

Canadian shanties with an abundance of accordion.

90s power pop!

Catchy lyrics and music!

A foray into pseudo punk pop

I'm old enough to have heard most of these songs but young enough to not have realized they were all on this album. While it's not my style of music, I can recognize how it's a strong album.

Metal emo

This is an album that felt that the 2000s didn't have enough of bro rock and wanted to give us one more album to suffer through.

This is the boy band recipe. You have the shy one, the bad boy, the stylish one, the alternaboy, and the other guy. Add in songs about heartbreak and loving your girl. Bake for the duration of 12 songs and try not to cringe at the banality.

This may have been groundbreaking at the time, but now it sounds like standard progrock

Adult contempo for the 2020s

Iggy Pop performs his best angry punk man daring the audience to egg him and otherwise abuse him. He then lets them know it doesn't hurt. Songs included in between the banter.

Interesting noise and effects orchestrated into sound.

Hauntingly beautiful songs.

My cat was disturbed by this album. Secure your ears for operatic screamcore. Is it my jam? No. I did appreciate this more than Backstreet Boys.

Fully and completely Canadian rock.

Irreverent and naughty pop punk

Further leaving behind her Disney persona with this album. Angst is present but so are great lyrics.

In the best way possible, this sounds like it's being blasted out of someone's transistor radio that they dropped out of a building onto uneven concrete.

Indifferent to most of this album, but I did appreciate the not-subtle digs at Ashton Kutcher on the song Kutcher.

This album makes me feel so alive. It's like a dose of epinephrine straight into my brain.

Sufjan Stevens continues to find ways to haunt us with his sad boy tunes.

They have a lot to say

Grerrible. Not quite great but not quite terrible by Mew.

An excellent concert set as a retrospective

It sounded like background coffee shop music.

A standard of early 90s punk

Angry Swedish punk.

Get unwound

Smooth

Another great album from Portishead

Up tempo bop

If it sounds like you've been immersed into the weird world of video game noises, that's because you have been.

Some of the songs sounded so similar, I had to check that it wasn't Fleet Foxes. Still enjoyable but not necessarily ground breaking for me.

Late 80s serviceable adult contempo

Witty country

It sounds like Kermit the Frog trying to sound more like a human and drop a 70s album. Not for me but maybe for frogs?

Beth/Rest sounds like it was ripped from 80s smooth ballads

Dudes didn't have to be this lyrically masterful.

I had forgotten how much folksier this album sounded than their other albums.

A brief inquiry of why was I ambivalent on this album?

At the time, this was probably an instrumental foray into 70s blues rock, but it sounds de rigeur now.

The Deal sisters are superb. Great lyrics, great bass.

For people who like math, Joe Rogan, and GHB.

I'M SCREAMING. now i'm whispering. SCREAM whisper. -all this for 53 minutes

This listened like a satire of krautrock

A-okay rock dance

Settle in for fun & weird lyrics plus kicky bass.

This may have seemed groundbreaking at the time, but now it sounds like another rote album of man yelling about things with fast guitar.

A lot of talk over rock. It's just fine but I won't listen to it again.

Introspective Sad Boy Rock

This chill album reminds me a lot of The Field

I enjoyed this far more than I thought I would. It's an interesting combination of echoing music and early 80s oddities.

Too twang for me, but I did appreciate some of the funny lyrics.

It's got diss tracks, songs about heartbreak, and just absolute jams.

It's like a shoe gaze jam band

An enjoyable chill listen

One jazz legend? Nay, you get two.

Sad boy music to be sad to

A comfortable background album with some swears.

I wasn't aware how many absolute bangers were on this album! I had thought that these songs were on several albums.

Retro bass lines and an occasional organ. I likely won't relisten to it, but it was a chill background album.

Recipe 1 part German deathcore 1 part 2000s pop 1 part techno beats Combine in a bowl with reckless abandonment. Bake at whatever temperature you want. This was not enjoyed by me, but I did appreciate that they tried something different.

Synth soft lady music. Very relaxing

This was an enjoyable listen

Boring punk metal

Sometimes irreverent, sometimes thought-provoking lyrics.

Fun Spanish punk

If you're into chill symphony music, you may like this.

My second favorite Pearl Jam album!

Boy band member converts to pop solo career.

Fast speeds, fun pop

Unexpected Danish rock. Radiohead influences to the point that I questioned if this was a side project. Enjoyable.

Folky rock with accordion. If you're in the mood for folk, it's enjoyable. If you're not, it will be suffering.

I thought it was a Fugazi album that I'd never heard. A good post-hardcore listen.

A fun romp in Argentinian rock

If you need heavy drums and some screaming, you've arrived.

Irreverent and funny

Carry the Zero is one of my favorite rock songs and it seems so timeless.

An alright listen but didn't pull me in a great or terrible direction.

Stoner music for country folk or country music for stoners.

Canadian rock that ends with a power ballad to prove they have deep feelings.

Dark ambient music with some points of lightness.