1001 Albums Summary

This turned out to be grungier than I expected. That is not a good thing.

"I Hate Alternative Rock" Yeah bro, me too.

Too anthemic, too melodic not in a good way, and even the parts that have a bit of a harder edge are boring.

Shut the fuck up about this band.

All of these songs feel longer than they really are.

I'm not a blink-182 fan or anything, but I think their earlier stuff is pretty good. This album is kinda where they started to go downhill for me. It till has some great songs like Dysentery Gary, but also some absolute cringe like Adam's Song. Still, compared to most of these user-submitted albums (and a lot of the original list, really), I enjoyed this more.

An album that's popular among people who let others decide their taste in music. For me it just faded into the background, and ignoring it was much more enjoyable than paying attention.

Some songs, especially the slower ones, bored me a little, but the rest was pretty fun. Catchy. I didn't mind this one at all. 3.5, rounded up.

There's nothing worse than when a pop punk band abandons pop punk in an attempt to become "serious". Blink-182's early stuff can be pretty fun and catchy. This is just boring. I just gave a much worse album a 2, though, so...

I hate theater kids.

Reddit and RYM love this guy so I'm already predisposed to hate him. But he certainly isn't doing himself any favors here. There's way too many overblown, overdramatic, forced anthemic moments, and it's not particularly fun or catchy otherwise. This is one of the top rated "pop punk" albums on RYM (#2 as I'm writing this), even though, like most albums on that chart, it has very little to do with actual pop punk. No memorable hooks or melodies, little energy, too slow and self-serious, with too much forced emotion and melodrama. This is just boring indie rock with shouty vocals and I hate that shit.

Every bit the poppy mall metal I expected. It's just boring and cheesy.

When I was in middle school, if you were a loser who didn't like radio pop/rap but was too wimpy to listen to actually out-there music, you either listened to nu metal, or this. I cringe when I look back on my nu metal phase, but I'm glad I at least wasn't into this. I can't stand this overdramatic theater kid bullshit. Rock operas in general were one of the worst things to ever happen to the history of music. And it's even worse when they're made by bands who make music for teenage girls with a persecution complex. I hate the forced over the top dramatics, the attempts to be anthemic. The melodrama. I know I keep saying this but way too many albums on this user list are so full of these overblown theatrics. Everything about it is just so fake. I also hate that people call this "pop punk" when it's anything but. Not even remotely punk and not even remotely fun, or catchy. It takes itself way too seriously. The fact that this album (and MCR in general) has been rehabilitated in the eyes of the public is a travesty. Let's just admit it's pathetic bullshit for teenage girls and nothing more.

I didn't mind the Cure albums on the original list, but did I really need to listen to a mediocre late career album?

This is just so boring. I'm not one to complain about bands sounding like something that's been done before at all, but they have to write good songs. And The Chats clearly can't write good songs. They're not as funny as they think they are either. So many people on the internet act like this is the only good newer punk band to exist, and all for a band that's just so nothing.

Seriously?

I liked Bad Religion a lot more when I was younger, at this point I pretty much only listen to their 80s stuff (no, not Into the Unknown). That being said, this album is still more enjoyable than most user submissions, and Bad Religion absolutely deserves to be on the list. I just think No Control or Suffer would've been a better choice.

I'm conflicted on this one. It has its moments, but ultimately not enough of those 2 minute songs. It just doesn't grab me enough. Too rock leaning for my taste. When it comes to Spanish punk, I prefer Depressing Claim.

I considered submitting this myself, so I'm glad to see someone else did. Great album and highly influential, and a grievous omission from the original list.

This started off promising but kinda fell off by track 4.

You know it's not a good sign when the first 2-3 tracks are longer than some full albums.

I hate this band. Cringe name, music is nothing special (and this one is downright bad), insufferable fans. If I never hear their name again it will be too soon.

There's already enough garbage on the original list.

I didn't like the other Ween album on this list but the first track here gave me hope that this could be a solid, straightforward rock album. Unfortunately, the second track snatched that hope away immediately. And then it continued like that, a decent song followed by something boring or atrocious. I just can't do with this "look at me I'm so quirky" bullshit.

This is my submission. My thinking is that the user albums are a place to fill the gaps in the original list, and pop punk is one of the genres that really isn't that well represented. Okay, there's a decent number of 70s stuff (though I doubt it was included as a deliberate attempt to represent pop punk), but after that, there's Dookie, and that's it? I mean, that's probably as much as you can expect from a list like this, pop punk is certainly not a genre the creators consider worthy of it. But I like pop punk and I want to represent it better. And what better album to choose for that than the one that pretty much set the blueprint for all (real) pop punk that came after it? I know that term has been used to mean 10 different things that have nothing to do with each other, but this is the true pop punk sound. To the point, high energy, and hooks after hooks after hooks. Those leads are everywhere for a reason. Apart from its massive influence, My Brain Hurts is also the album that got me into pop punk. Sure, I had heard the Ramones and (early) Green Day before, and they're great, but it was this album that made me think, yes, this is it. This is what I wanna listen to for the rest of my life. This made me dive in and discover hundreds of bands this sound inspired, or that led up to it.

The first track had me worried with how synth-y it was, but it got better. I still prefer Jeopardy, but I enjoyed this.

Ugh, fake "hardcore." No thanks.

Better than the other Alexisonfire album on the user list, at least. But I had to laugh at how melodramatic this was.

First album on the user list I've been excited for in a long time and it did not disappoint. Definitely gonna listen to this again.

I hate folk punk.

Third album by them on the user list. Come on. They're not good enough to warrant this many submissions.

This is boring and somehow fake sounding. It's not really punk, I mean, it has some of that influence but it's definitely more garage/pub rock leaning. The vocals are grating. And yeah, it bothers me how hard they're being pushed.

I couldn't make it through this one. The first couple of songs put me off right away with the boring, show sections that then go into this over the top mess of too much going on at once so that you can't really latch on to anything. But I guess the biggest problem is that it's not catchy at all. That's what pop is supposed to be, right? It's supposed to get stuck in your head. But not even an hour later I couldn't remember a single thing from this.

Put me to sleep.

There's a lot better punk out there but this is pretty fun and the user list is weak.

I'm getting sick of all this Talking Heads bullshit. And these are all worse versions of the songs to boot.

I hate everything about this album. The title is rage-inducing, "live laugh love" ass bullshit. They want to be "punk" but there's barely two songs on this album under 3 minutes. The songs are all plodding, low-energy slogs and a poor attempt at post-punk. The dumb, performative, sloganistic lyrics are annoying too, but at least they're ignorable for the most part. Unlike the singer's voice and talk-singing. Actually, going deeper into the album, I take that back. Samaritans and Television are so cringe I had to skip them. And Great sounds like a campaign song for a milquetoast political candidate. I guess the first half of the album benefited from me not paying a lot of attention to it. This sucks so much and I think they might be the most reddit band ever.

I hate that this bland corporate alt/pop rock is associated with the term "pop punk" in a lot of people's minds even though it has absolutely nothing to do with real pop punk.

These guys just try too hard to be quirky.

This is not as good as their early stuff and I'm a bit annoyed since they already have three albums on the original list. It's a bit of a mixed bag, but there's some good songs here that I enjoyed more than most things in the user list.

I don't really like NOFX but I do think they should be on the list. This probably isn't the best choice of album, though.

Enjoyable when they speed it up but it doesn't happen often enough to justify a higher score.

I mean, it's better than all the boring indie/folk rock that makes up at least 70% of the user list.

Pretty amusing to get this right after Motley Crue. This was fun at times but there's a limit to how good a rock opera can be.