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.

I saw that this was part four in a modern prog collection, and I was concerned, to say the least. This was so very listenable, though. Reminded me more of The Decemberists than any other prog rock.

It's hard to be objective after listening to this so many times in high school and having this as one of my "intro to emo" CDs. Still, I love it.

Okay. I’m honestly a little surprised now that this wasn’t on the original list, and that was a mistake.

Huh. Ska punk that doesn’t just make me think of the 90s. Better punk vocals than most ska. Better musicianship than most punk. I love punk, and I had never listened to Streetlight Manifesto. Very good.

I had never heard of this, and it was wild! I went in without the backstory, and I still loved the experience.

I didn’t realize I needed this in my life, but I loved it and my blood pressure was lower.

Decent alt rock music. It had more stars until I started paying attention to the dumb lyrics.

I just can’t go with the extreme vulgar hip-hop.

I didn’t follow Low, but this was wonderfully dark.

Hmmm. There were some actually really interesting parts of this, but it was a double album with so many random points I could barely listen to. I think it could have been a great single album.

Evidently, there was an "emo revival" that sounds a lot more like the emo (screamo) that I knew in my youth. Interesting. It didn't hit me at the time because I was already aged out of emo, but I appreciate this newer album that sounded more like emo from 20 years before it.

Yeah, I still don't really get the hype, but I realize I'm just not the right audience. That being said, I didn't hate it.

Wow. This is so 90s. Ironically, I remember being annoyed by it in the 90s, and teenage daughter listens to it all the time now in 2026. I still don't get it.

Damn. I loved this so much. This was my kind of punk. Hardcore. A little crazy. Anarchist. Loved it.

More Brit punk, please.

Okay. I got this for my 16th birthday from my coolest aunt, and it will always have a soft place in my heart. Thank you for adding this. I needed the nostalgia and actual appreciation for late 90s Weezet musicianship today.

Thanks for adding Clutch. Good call. Great listen today.

At some point, this had transitioned into a singalong bar album, and that didn’t upset me.

Well, that was an experience.

The name and the summary had me worried, but it was not as bad as I feared. I still don't believe "psybient" is a real thing, but this is not the worst British techno I've had to listen to on this list.

Such a great album on a Friday.

I had missed this release completely, but I did really enjoy it. Great songwriting, and I could hear the influence of the Black Keys in the best ways.

Not bad at all, but still kinda generic for me. I'm not trying to ding them for their peers, but I was already listening to Helmet and Fugazi by the time this came out.

This is surprisingly my vibe of Honky Toni and reminded me of The Old 97s in the best ways.

I was on the fence, but closing with the very Irish post-punk sound that made me think of The Pogues pushed me over the edge to loving it.

Hell, yeah! I forgot how short-lived Operation Ivy was based on their overall influence in punk. Great to listen to again.

This was better than I expected (but still not my thing).

I lived though DMB fandom the first time, and I just can’t anymore.

This was my late childhood (and influenced my adulthood). Thanks for reminding me to listen to this.

Not for everyone, but I liked this okay. Not Nebraska good, but find.

I still find Beyoncé extremely overrated, but this was very listenable.

Second Japanese jazz album in a row, but they’ve both been fun!

This wasn't bad, and I'm sure I could have almost seen them back in the day in concert. I hope they were a great touring band. But. But. This is just so generic. I couldn't have pulled out one song as a single or just one that was "definitely Shihad." I dunno. It felt like the ultimate three-star.

This is just... so bad.

Okay, I agree musicals probably shouldn’t be in this list, but I love this one. Too much fun.

Man, this was fun.

Should have been on the list, to be honest.

Almost five stars, but I heard this so many times when it came out that I’m a little tired of it still.

I didn't get this album when I was young, but I have to say that I totally see this as the cathartic album for divorced men that it became.

That was fun

Hard to find now with streaming, but I’ve always loved GY!BE

I’m not the target audience, and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t alive in the 80s to be proper nostalgic, but it was fun enough.

C'mon. There's a reason we don't have more Beyonce on the list, and we don't need all of them. This is a great sign of producer work, but that's about it to me.

Didn’t need to be an hour (constant refrain), but was a decent working soundtrack.

Great cover, but the actual album made me unreasonably angry. It’s just so… meh.

That was fun.

Biased because this is one of my wife’s favorite artists, going back to before she knew me.