1001 Albums Summary

Love the singles

not good

maybe 5 stars but i’m loathe to give out 5 stars

i dig it

i think i get it. but it didn't really move me

probably better than I can tell, but it's not made for me

some great tunes but something about it just rubs me the wrong way

awful, really bad, plus...a fucking flute!

i like that they're taking chances, i just can't handle too much of that histrionic vocal style

not the worst but i have no idea why this is considered a classic

It's as if the Stones did a third disc of Exile On Main Street, like the Clash did with Sandinista. The one with all the songs you don't want to listen to on it.

Almost a 5, but there’s a bit of filler on Side 2. Still an astonishing debut

Hypnotic

good

Solid and weird

probably fine but it didn't move me

a couple of good tunes but not a good album

so many swears

a lot better than i expected

dug it more than i expected but that smooth jazzy sound is really not for me

a couple of good singles and a lot of filler, ambitious but I don't really respond to that ironic tone

chef's kiss

i can see why this is a classic and i almost hate to admit it but i just don't dig country that much

i did not like this

so many swears but i dug it plus it's nice to see he's a family man

not for me

pretty good, i dig it

didn't grab me but i wasn't really paying attention, also i'm generally opposed to rock flute

could be contemporary new age music, this is not a good thing

i think this record is probably better than i think it is but it just doesn't do it for me, too jokey and not enough heart

so many swears but hard to resist

lushly heartbreaking

okay i guess

i don't want to like it but it's not that bad

hard to argue with this

all killer

kind of a classic but the tunes just aren't that great

some good tracks but i don't think i'll be digging this out too often

probably 4.25 but fuck it, chrissie deserves the extra star for being so cool

pretty fuckin' catchy but it's really for kids

the stooges > iggy solo

hard to argue with this

some catchy riffs but it's basically one vulgar joke over an over

decent but lacking memorable tunes

so gross and vulgar, aping the worst of their influences

ugh that early 00s sound

i want to love it because of the singularity and ambition but they fuck it up with a lack of great tunes and too much irony

nice try

some 5 star tracks but some filler as well

it seemed okay

strong aversion

i wanted to like this but it just didn't do it for me, it might be the skits, the failure might be mine

some 5 star tracks but a few 3 star tracks

i dig it!

consistently astonishing

never thought much of hetfield's vocals or lyrics, but some pretty good riffs

it's nice but will i ever be crazy for it? i don't think so

cool psych but i can't hack that second side with the narration

I want to give it a sentimental 4 but really there's so much filler

hippies smell like boogers but i have to admit i enjoyed this far more than i expected to

Super likable but I’m not 17

i'm very glad to learn about this

i know this is great but most of it just doesn't move me, the lack is mine

some first-rate tracks but much is forgettable and the central idea is silly

catchy singles but much cringe

will get better with age

a couple of okay tracks but i don't dig this kind of quirky prog

sounds legit but it's not really for me

might deserve 5 stars just for the title track but there's a bit of filler here

dug some of it but it sounds like the source material is queen and i'm just not into queen or queen-like stuff

dig their dedication but it just ain’t my sound

starbucks music

curtis is a king

violent genius but oh, so sad

seemed okay but i didn’t listen very closely

who are we to judge john coltrane

it's good but Lost Souls is much stronger

seems okay, i dig the strings and the dreaminess, the vocals get old for me

a few great tracks - the late great johnny ace is a standout - but lots of filler and it's not helped by the early-80s production

i can't ever play it around my kids but it's cool

i would like to dislike CSN because they’re dirty hippies but i just can’t

it should be good but i just can’t countenance radiohead, except for the bends, the bends was cool

catchy but samey and a little smug

didn’t age well, there’s no life inside it

it’s cool but it doesn’t touch my heart

it’s curtis mayfield, back the fuck up

i dig it

i never liked ac/dc and i still don’t

i thought i wasn’t going to like this anymore but even though it’s completely satanic she’s a real talent

even when it doesn’t quite work, and sometimes it doesn’t quite work, the ambition and depth of spirit are astonishing

not bad for what it is but i’ll play sticky fingers 100 times before i’ll put this on

so slick and tight

devoid of hooks or melody

i would love to give this 4 but i just can’t give it more than 3 because i don’t like it that much

post syd pink floyd is trash, i’ve never understood what emotion they were trying to get across, maybe none?

Ghost Rider is quite possible the greatest rock and roll song of all time, the rest of the album is close behind

it’s cool and has some poetry but it’s too mannered to really move me

irremediably tainted

nah

there’s something repellent about tweedy but the dude writes a good tune

the title track is a stunner but despite his reputation for sincerity the boss seems forced and fakey on this one

better than i expected, he has a deep talent for melody and texture, his downfall is that he is over clever

i prefer mezzanine

so concentrated but also a total bummer

a perfect alloy of lyrical inventiveness and pop skills

marred only by some filler and 80s production

pleasantly inconsequential

haunting but not in a good way

so fragile

so dry but so suggestive

what can you say it’s hotel fucking california

not heavy, not catchy, not interesting

cars is great but the album gets monotonous quick

a bit vegas and those chicago blues leads just aren’t my thing but it’s a good punchy band

haunting and lyrical

flawless even in its flaws

some lovely melodies but some lamentable excursions as well

it sounds like something that’s good but just not for me

it’s like radiohead but not the irritating bleep blurp radiohead but also not the good radiohead it’s like the maudlin radiohead that turned into coldplay

bowie was one of the few to make consistently interesting rock music that pushed the edges musically and lyrically without being a massive bore

prog is shit

a few killer tracks but a lot of muzakey funk-jazz filler - then again it’s a film score

i dug it

it’s so lovely, there are so many hooks and it’s played so well, such great production - sad that this generation and people like these were responsible for the degradation and collapse of our civilization

a masterpiece - they were so terrified by what they achieved they’ve spent the rest of their careers running away from it

even if it doesn’t always work i respect the ambition

I thought PE didn't do anything good after Nation of Millions...man was I wrong

that one jingle-jangle thing they do is so fucking good it almost makes up for the ho-hum stuff but not quite

i really hate this kind of thing

this feels fake and superficial which is sad because i think they’re trying to be deep and sincere

i didn’t listen very hard but this seemed shallow and smug

classic muscular punk rock and roll

would be 5 but the production just doesn’t do justice to the music i know it’s live but still

slickly nihilistic

i’m not really in a position to judge this

it's cool but it's not that cool and it's pretty stupid, too, and not always in a good way

it's so stupid but you can't fuck with it

didn't sit right with me

probably groundbreaking or something. it it didn’t really move me

transmissions from a lost world

too smooth, i need more passion

those singles are fucking outstanding

i dug it but it's a bit of a pastiche just with more swears

i don't know it's pretty iconic but in all honesty most of the tunes don't really grab me, it's probably the best example of what it is

it's self-reflexive, derivative, and juvenile, but it's honest and it's got some hooks

the singles are bittersweet perfection, almost too much, but it’s not all the same quality

was this anything new, even at the time? nope is it a fairly accomplished and catchy version of something i already like? yep

i dug it, so much going on here it’s almost schizo

all killer and completely their own thing

layla’s pretty great but the rest of it makes me think of “blues” night at the pub

it’s actually pretty dense and textured but it’s hook-weak

i love punk and i love california but i don’t love this

i mean you're not going to put it on very often but sometimes it will be the only choice

more “blues” night at the pub

not the kind of bowie i really dig but bowie’s gold even when he’s not

i generally don’t dig this kind of shaggy blues pastiche

probably the best of whatever it is

brand new

i want to like it more than i actually do

hated it when it came out now i love it that’s what happens

she’s got a nice voice but that old time folky stuff just doesn’t move me that much

nice but i’m probably not going to slap it on too often

i wouldn’t presume to opine about this

i like the idea more than the experience but it’s still pretty great

i wish i’d heard this when it was released because it would’ve really rung my bell

some good tracks but this is not anyone's favourite album

this sounds like other things that i already like but i like those other things more than this

this kind of "metal" sucks there's nothing heavy about it and the lyrics are stupid and not in a good way

points for charm and authenticity but how often is this going to be the exact right thing to play?

i actually dig the US version better but what are you gonna do, not give this 5 stars?

egregiously overrated

super cool & ahead of its time

very good

i used to love the rolling stones so much now i don’t know a lot of this seems pretty weak

muddy’s never really done it for me but you can’t really fault him i don’t think

it’s okay but radiohead are best when they make tight crafted pop songs not depressive electro jams

i’m not ever going to listen to this i don’t care if it’s the greatest album ever made

not the best zeppelin but second tier zeppelin is far beyond the capacity of most mortals

solid, gritty, and inventive

the first two tracks are great but nothing thereafter is quite so engaging

close but not perfect

i mean i still have a fondness for unbridled creativity but in retrospect so much of the "avant-garde" is just one ugly thing after another

sacred music

nothing should be changed or added to this perfect recording

damn!

they seem like nice people but this doesn’t light my fire

so smooth but not so many stand out tracks

if this is the kind of thing you like it’s probably a really good example of it, but it’s not really the kind of thing i like

a bit proggy and a bit hipstery but some good tracks

by all rights creedence should be a 5 star band and this a 5 star album but something bugs me about them, i just can’t place it

masterpiece

at their best they’re pure fire but sometimes - too often - they come off half-baked

seems like they didn’t have anything written and then just f#@ked around on some very simple ideas until it was long enough to release

there’s something so intoxicating about the music of the 60s, the way the boomers really thought they were the vanguard of a revolution that was building a new world of freedom and delight the fact that they were actually destroying their own civilization just makes it more poignant

what a blast, sheer joy

so vile and profane, i know that’s why people like it, that’s why i would’ve liked it when i was 20, but it’s just gross, the beats & production are incredible though and he’s clearly a giant talent it’s just a sad commentary on just about everything

they can do atmosphere but they’re weak on tunes and the tone is just too faux-grave for me

it's a nice idea but you can't spin a whole album out of it

this seems really creative and unique and i imagine if i was 25 and getting high with a girl i was hoping to make out with it would be the perfect choice but that doesn’t come up so much anymore

one of a the highest achievements of human creativity

paul mccartney’s pretty great when he wanted to be but there are some tracks on here i’m just never going to play

i’m not really the right audience for this

the more i listen the more i dig elvis c, he’s consistently inventive and creative but he doesn’t lose the thread of hook and melody

the production is so good and i dig the chamber pop arrangements but there’s no getting around the fact the guy is a degenerate creep and this is the apogee of the degenerate 60s before the piper had to be paid

there’s something great about this record but there’s something i don’t like about it, i do t really get it, it seems fake even though i believe the band is sincere

creative and honestly moving

it’s pretty cool but there’s only so much i can take

i love and admire leonard cohen but the only thing i really like on this album is the title track

pretty cool but also pretty backgroundy, i bet it’s pretty fkn wkd when you’re really high in a giant club or something

i really dislike the sound of this record and i dislike mark knopfler’s voice but money for nothing is pretty good so 1 🌟

5 ⭐️ for effortless cool and a plenitude of hooks, minus 1 ⭐️ for everything sounding kind of the same

so huge, so powerful - it would be 5 ⭐️ except two or three tracks are filler - still this is a quibble - fuck it i’m giving it 5 ⭐️ anyway

not obviously his best but it reveals its depth with repeated listening

mostly silly but nice

even the weaker tracks are transformed by the Old Man’s depth of spirit and experience

i dug it well enough but it didn’t really move me

i love what i know of the music of india but i’m also a complete ignoramus about it, maybe this should be 5 ⭐️ i don’t want to pander though

i just can’t get into metallica, it’s supposed to be heavy but it’s not, some of the riffs are kind of cool but it’s just not enough plus the lyrics are not good

i’d like to give them points for trying but it just bugs me how they can’t help but fuck with a song to make it “original”

not into it

what is there to say? consistently unique and astonishing, a carelessly masterful poet

it’s probably okay, i don’t know, it didn’t really grab me

perfect in every way, somehow funky and spooky at the same time, bursting with hooks and energy

pretty wicked riffs and sweet shag carpet production but the decadent druggy vibe gets dull after a while

deeply inventive and moving

i love everything about classic country except listening to it

not my thing

it’s juvenile and there’s more than a whiff of hair metal but cantrell constructs the heaviest riffs, it’s not even close, and staley was a truly gifted vocalist with an incredible range

i like new order when they still had a line to joy division, all this euro disco shit just seems lame

you can almost hear them struggling to return to the pop greatness of which they’re capable but the miserablist bleep bloop shit drags the whole thing down

mm seems like a pussy, none of this is “scary” or challenging, i dig industrial guitars so some of that is cool but otherwise it’s for clowns

it’s probably better than i think but i don’t dig his voice and the production gives me the heebies

this might be 5 ⭐️ i don’t know, i avoided it for many years because i thought it was pretentious and overwrought but i see now i was wrong it’s pretentious in the good way

i’m not interested in this musically, spiritually, or ideologically

a few good tracks but overall a very weak effort

i dig the beats and the production and but the gangsta shit is just too juvenile i can’t get into it anymore

better than i expected but not really my bag

good but not that good, makes me miss the early 90s though, in retro what a time to be alive

clearly accomplished but not for me

more to be admired than adored

i didn’t listen to this because i’m confident it’s going to be shit

with the resources at her disposal she had to score a couple of cool tracks, but it just strikes me like gangsta rap: the expression of goals and desires that are fundamentally shallow and corrosive

nothing will ever again be so exciting

pretty good, they should probably strip it down a bit more, lose some of the filigree

ambitious which is good aggressively weird which is bad but beautifully produced which is good but self indulgent which is bad

can’t get into it

so great, should’ve lost the commercials though

pleasingly weird but so noodly

i keep returning to this album thinking there’s got to be more in it but maybe it’s just mildly diverting background music

pretty sweet arrangements but not an improvement over jobim on his own

it might need a closer listen, maybe the lyrics are great? but it just seems like very soft jazz rock which is not appealing to me

he’s clearly a talented songwriter fit for the mainstream - but is that really the highest goal?

i don’t give a shit, life’s too short to try the Grateful Dead again

catchy, creative, and offbeat, but occasionally a little hamfisted

great arrangements and she’s a mighty talent but it’s all such a histrionic drag

i know they mean well but this kind of thing was shit then and it’s shit now

this seems pretty creative but i’m not all that moved by tasty riffage of this sort

very tasteful, which is not entirely desirable

life’s too short and fragile to listen to death metal or gangsta rap

wow so much better than i remembered

it was fine, so tasteful though

powerful singer and good songs, suffers only slightly from some egregious early 80s flourishes

oh geez, should it be 5?

i admire everything about the Fall except that they are so aggressively unpleasant to listen to

probably great if you like this kind of thing but i don’t like this kind of thing

could be 5 but i get tired of the porn

the beach boys are pretty great but on the other hand should anyone really be spending this much time and effort on pop music? it’s never going to be bach no matter how much you tinker with it

so cringe now, the apogee of earnest “alternative” and the cheerful, smug harbinger of so much darkness to come

not a single hook on the record and i know they didn’t want any but i do, sorry

not their best but very far from their worst

engaging middlebrow bummer pop, maybe a bit too clever for his own good

otherworldly, the sound of angels come to earth

it’s not their fault this style of music became the definition of cringe but it did and so no matter how accomplished this can get no more than 3 stars

buzzcocks were a singles band, the albums have their thin bits

very nice if uneven, unsurprisingly, given the rule book of mainstream 60s pop, and what a voice

i just don’t care about guys going on like this anymore

cool

i will never play this again but it’s better than i expected and it makes me yearn for the world of the 1990s, the world we threw away

it’s tough because it’s so good and yet it’s also the portal through which so much evil entered the culture, still i don’t think you can blame the doors for all of that

the dumbest parts of the stooges turned up to 11

love knows a hook, gotta give her that, not a lot of air or space in here though, so radio

it’s just that indie singer-songwriter thing but he’s so good at it

prog is so bad

it’s cool, i dig the laid back positive vibe and it’s nice to hear people talking about loving God

nice and deep and he can craft an allusive phrase

this kind of jazz just isn’t for me, i don’t know what emotions it’s supposed to evoke, but it’s technically impressive and probably just the shit for some people

i wasn’t expecting much because of the title but this was a lot better than i expected

it’s only one trick but it’s a good one, their own tunes are thin but they did write Misguided Angel which is pretty fkn solid

old prog is shit but new prog can be pretty cool

still almost a post-punk band at this point but you can see how they could become the saviours of the world

life’s too fucking short for 80s metal sorry

it has its moments but quirkiness is almost always a fatal flaw

i guess it’s probably very well produced or something but this is really not for me

there’s something bittersweet about this sound but there’s also something shitty about it

it seems like a joke, it’s not punk and it’s not country and there are no tunes

this is a solid 3.5 rounded up to a 4, the main failing is that it thinks it is cleverer than it is

so fucking heavy and that dude was 65 years old

a few great tracks and a bunch of okay tracks

most country sounds fake even when it’s played by actual country musicians

there’s something gross about them

pretty cool, spooky and weird, i could never stand those interludes though

some nice epic flourishes but it’s so gay, morrisey is the avatar of bittersweet romanticism, straight guys should leave it alone, they sound obese

i can’t really rate this, it sounds quite accomplished for what it is but it is just not made for me

some pretty good beats & riffs, they don’t have to try too hard i’m a bit of a sucker for this kind of thing

it was fine but i’ll never reach for it again

i was quite prepared to dismiss this but it’s got solid heart and hooks and i’m man enough to admit i was wrong

i didn’t know i loved this album till today

not for mean

notwithstanding the fact sy are the most egregiously overrated band in an overrated genre, this album is less shitty than most of theirs

this steely dan is okay

it’s mostly whiny tom yorke that lets the air out of this band

pretty great especially if you’re a 13 year old in 1982

par for the course, coarse and overwrought

it’s flawless

it’s a singular vision but i don’t feel any heart in it

perfect day is a masterpiece and vicious is cool but there’s a lot of dreck and the degenerate vibe is just gross

to be perfectly honest this album drags a bit but i don’t care it still gets 5 stars

not impressive

it drags a bit but it creates its own world convincingly and bridges the gap between roxy & bauhaus

i guess it’s okay, my tolerance for prog is close to zero

manages to wring some more juice out of garage rock with exceptional hooks and good lyrics

i love the idea of shoegaze but then you get to it and there are no tunes, no tunes at all

if you were 14 and you’d never heard the buzzcocks you’d probably love this as much as i loved the buzzcocks but i don’t know if you’d still want to listen to this when you were 50 the way i still like to listen to the buzzcocks every now and then

i like tosh better than marley but either way it’s pretty hard to fuck with this record

there’s some real shit on here and even the best songs are fucked up by bad choices but it’s still a pretty impressive late Empire artifact

finely produced, maybe a little airless, so so sad

no

should get 10 stars

kind of stupid

so slack it almost falls off the edge of the table but the high points are high

i almost skipped this because i never thought metallica were half as heavy as they were supposed to be but this record kicks ass and i'm not afraid to say i was wrong

i want to like it more but really it's just a couple of cool riffs and some really cringe politics

massive, unique, as fresh as the day it was born

wow! didn't see this one coming, flawless for what it is, maybe it's an embarrassment of riches bit but wtf, it's bongos

whatever

better than i remembered, lovely late 70s sound

i thought this would seem better now but i was wrong it’s still not good

okay

noodly and not compelling

all killer, kind of hard to believe how accomplished this record is

no no no, i’m not trying to be a dick it’s just no good

not for I

sting seems like a goof but you can’t deny these tunes, there’s something airless about it but i like that