1001 Albums Summary

First user-submitted album, and it didn’t disappoint. I’d never heard it before, and I loved it.

I do love punk (slightly more than metal), but I have to admit this did seem like a "have to see it live to really love them" band.

Of dark early 80s post-punk, this was pretty good. I would have watched them with Joy Division in concert.

I want to thank whoever added this to the list. One of my favorite concerts was seeing Pedro right before this came out, and it still holds up. Granted, it could kill the best mood, but it's still so damn good.

Okay, I've decided in retrospect that Paul might be my favorite Beatle based on what he was able to do without the other three. By that standard, John has become my least favorite, I guess, because I cannot stand the Imagine and Ono phase. Anyway, you could definitely tell this was soon after The Beatles in Paul's career, and I don't mind that at all. Good, catchy songs, and great musicianship.

I feel like I just got trolled by the submitter of this album. There's no way this is their favorite album, and if they think this needed to be heard before I died, we are just very different. It's... random clips from the news and ads and jazz that I would have hated in any format? Seriously, this is a joke, right?

Another artist I had legit never heard of, and another good listen.

Interesting. This was very much an hour of songs that sounded much like the opening to The Sopranos (a song I enjoy but had never tracked down before).

This was definitely death metal, and I appreciate that. It was also over an hour, which seems kinda insane for a metal album. I don't know. I really like metal, but it started to wear thin after a while.

This is my kind of post-hardcore. Not my favorite, but definitely in the ballpark.

Loved this album when it came out, and I still do. Could be nostalgia, but it still sounds great to me.

Good voice and amazing production, so this works. Not my standard album by any means, but again better than most of the "required" albums.

This actually should have been on the original list.

I love metal. I don’t love progressive metal, but I do like it.

Didn’t expect to enjoy a demo for a type of music that I don’t care about, but the story and the “unfinished” nature were actually very intriguing.

I love some good hard rock, and this is really close to that. Or, I guess I love hardcore and metal, hard rock is close enough, and this is hard rock. Anyway, it was great fun. I won’t feel a need to relisten to get anything else out of it, but I enjoyed the time spent.

I "cheated" and actually just watched the concert movie for this because you really should do that. So, I can't rightly rate the album outside of that, and I don't care. I love the concert movie.

I don't know. Some part of me totally embraces the teenage feeling of grooving to this, and the other part files it just under ska for shameful joys of the 90s. It's not Soul Coughing's fault, to be fair, but this just feels so of a time that it feels weird to hear it in 2026. Still, my dislike for my own nostalgia is not a fair way to rate this, so I'll have to split the difference.