1001 Albums Summary

Not a huge fan of Billy Joel but still fantastic album of his. Everytime I listen to this album I enjoy it, but I don't understand why I never revisit it myself. An example of this is probably maybe The Stranger, a beautiful song but there are parts of the track that gets me out of the emotional landscape he creates.

CCR is more of a best-of band to me. I like 'Bad Moon Rising' here but the rest blend together in the same sort of feel, which IS good rock, but I'm the kind of person who it the album isn't surprising me with different tracks, even if they don't all succeed, my attention wanders.

I have always assumed to be the kind of person who'd really be into Bob Marley but no matter how many times I tried him, it never clicked. I tried to listen to this classic with more care, even reading the lyrics and reviews and background on the album to better appreciate it. I suppose I'll have to admit defeat with reggae and accept that I'll never fall in love with Bob Marley's music.

Maybe you had to be there. For someone like me how doesn't really have much nostalgia for the 80s, it's just too pop and 80s electronic drums and keyboards for me.

Coming right after Duran Duran's Rio, I initially wasn't excited to listen to another 80s electronic pop. However, the first track "Fine Time" came in hard, and it wasn't what I expected. Mainly unfamiliar with the band, didn't know the sound I was on the look out for, and the prog dance track was something I didn't even know I wanted. But once it fully got me ready for a full album of prog dance music, it suddenly starts into soft 80s pop. What happened? Shouldn't at least instrumental experimental tracks come at the end, if that's the only one?

What a gorgeous album. I hadn't heard this album before and really enjoyed it, every single song was beautiful. Will revisit this multiple times in the future.

Not one of my favorite Doors albums but honestly The Doors were my first favorite band as a teen, and it still sounds as great to me two decades later.

Supposed to be punk soul or something like that, according to some review I read online, but couldn't get into this mish mash of whatever it is.

Not bad I guess, but trip-hop is not really my jam. I think the interest part was a female vocal singing the song writer's lyrics which were generally from a male perspective.

Maybe if I has listened to this when I was much younger, I'd have been impressed, but at this particular stage of my life, I'm not really looking towards listening to a music that purposely goes out of it's way to add lots of noise and distortion.

Usually, when it comes to classic rock albums, the long, overdrawn solo instrumental songs in the middle of the shorter songs, usually are the weakest. Here, to me it is the opposite. The 14 minute "Sex Machine" is my favorite of the album and the strongest. Meaning to me, I guess, it was the vocals and lyrics that wasn't turning me on as other fans of the albums.

The title track is so good, but given that it's also the first track, I feel it's all downhill from there. By the third or fourth track, I forget I am even listening to it. I've tried listening to it several times, everytime I raise the volume on the first track and then lose focus halfway through.

I just like the track "Sunshine", it sounds cool, rest is too sappy sounding for me.

I like the first track, but rest sounds too sappy to me.

As much as I love classic rock, Queen has never been one of my favorites. The album is good enough I guess, but it's not something I had gone back to much when I first listened to it years ago. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a classic masterpiece, of course, but we've all heard it a billion times. The only other one I really like from the album is the first track "Death on Two Legs" which is less bombastic, although the lyrics seem a bit whiney.

I heard about Marvin Gaye way more than I ever listened to. He seems to mention in every joke about how to put Martin Gaye on to put your woman in the mood for some loving, but I doubt any of the people who write that actually do it. Anyway, the only mood it put me in was boredom.

Too 90s rock for my taste. Seems like something that would appeal to a bunch of middle aged white men.

Punkish with very positive feel to it, not much whining or anger or angst, just good fun.

More unique than I remembered her being. I think back when she was making music, she wasn't my thing so I was ignoring her and only her antics remained in my head, but now that j listen to her album, I realize that it's actually good. Title track is my favorite.