1001 Albums Summary

Classic early Beatles. Mostly covers. Good but far from their best.

21st century folk. Cozy. Highlights: Ragged wood. He doesn't know why. Your protector. Blue ridge mountains.

Bluesy, hard rock. Heavy metal influence/ innovation. The title track has a motorhead feel but a few years earlier. Better than expected but nothing truly stand out. Adequate. Highlights: walk this way. Toys in the attic. You see me crying.

Great production. The tones all sound great. Very pleasant to listen to sonically. But it's boring. And monotonous. Okay second half and coffee. It's got some variety and soul. I wanna dislike it for bono but it's got some good tunes. First take highlights: so cruel. Love is blindness.

The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. An album to help put food on your family. Radiohead's love letter to the bush administration. Great sounds. Some of the bands best songs are here. A bit of filler that prevents it from being thought of with kid A or ok computer, but a strong album nonetheless. Highlights: 2+2=5. sit down stand up.

Damn really strong start. The first four tracks are all great. The Jay-Z song isn't as strong but still good. Pussycat is a song. Sounds like a Lauren hill love song but about pussy. Then a real love song with Beyonce. Heartbreaking final song. This was great. Highlights: gossip folks. Can you hear me

Instrumental trip hop. It's smooth after 3 tracks. Nothing stand out, but great ambiance. It's not bad. It's just there. Pleasant background music.

Channeling Cohen, some somber love songs to start. West country girl takes things a bit heavier traditional nick cave style. Highlights: into my arms.

This is great, but there are so many covers. Wait, they aren't covers? She's the original song writer? Holy smokes this might be a 5

Another album I wanted to hate that was actually surprisingly worthwhile. This probably deserves a second listen. Highlights: (I'm in heaven when you smile), come on Eileen, all in all.

Highly listenable black Sabbath. I need a less distracted relisten.

Aww yeeee. You know heart of glass. You know one way or another. That's all there is, right. That's all this has to offer. Wrong. False. This is solid start to finish. With diverse genres and fun everywhere. Picture this, hanging on the telephone and pretty baby deserve the airplay just as much as the ones that did get it.

Wilco's masterpiece. Beautiful tones on the instruments. Soulful solemn start: I am trying to break your heart and radio cure. Kamera and war on war lighten things up a little. And then comes Jesus, ect and youre trying not to cry. Might be their best song. Ashes of American flags finishes the first half with another tear jerk. The second half is much more upbeat. The trio of heavy metal drummer, I'm there man who loves you and pot kettle black builds up a lot of energy. Then poor places shatters it for the finale, reservations, a last heartfelt push. It's a great album

I don't know why I expected this to be 80s glam metal. This is legit metal. First four are a bit similar, expect breaking the law, which is actually more glammy pop metal, but I don't mind because it's fun anthem. United is also more glam pop metal ballad and is the only low point so far. Jarring to go from "breaking the law, breaking the law" to "united united united we stand". Lame, anyways. The second half gets more power arena metal but it's happening years before that style gets over done. And there's a couple last Surprisingly good. Some tracks don't hold up but I'm going to listen to this again.

Banger after banger after banger.

As you're going through the list of 1001 albums to hear before you die, remember to save this for last, preferably for while you're in hospice. Half way through you'll be ready to pull the plug.

Singer songwriter with electronic and psychedelia themes.

Chhyyeeaa boooiii

The title track is a legendary piece of pop history and still holds up decades later. The rest is pretty formulaic and stale.

There's a 99% chance you'll how this album starts. Pretty good too.

Its not bad. I kinda enjoyed it. But it's not really my cup of tea. Geddy lee's vocals don't do much for me.

Radiohead's transitional album. It has a couple of great songs (high and dry, fake plastic trees and street spirit) but they haven't quite put it all together at this point.

Out of the 100 albums on this list I've gotten so far, this is without a doubt the best one that was completely off my radar beforehand. I mean to reserve a 5 for albums that are legendary. Is this legendary? Maybe, probably not, but it's been so long since I've heard an album and immediately wanted to listen to it all over again that I have to give this a top score.

"Soft" has gotta be the hardest song about E.D. ever written.

Completely original. Totally unique sounds throughout. Full of absolutely beautiful songs. Plus it has sloop john b for some reason and despite being out of place that song is great. A Masterpiece.

I know the reputation, but it just doesn't totally do it for me. Too avant garde

Flawless

The covers range from good to exceptional, but it's a cover album

A couple songs with interesting sounds but this is skipable

The music isn't bad but I cannot do these vocals

What an odd album. It's got: Environmental songs that sound like they were written by someone who just learned about the issue impress some hippie girl. A heavy metal inspired blues song about protesting that asks the question, ”maybe don't?" And some left overs from pet sounds at the end to make wish you were listening to a better album. A curiosity but not much more.

I can't do it. I can't do another late 90s britpop album. How are there so many on this list?

Soulless generic trash

Honestly, think strawberry jam is the better album.

It's like the arcade fire but with the worst vocalist on the planet

This is music for exploring outer space. I am not exploring space. I have no desire to do so. This music isn't really for me. But if I was exploring space this music would be perfect.

Thought this was going to be another generic early 2000s indie folk album. Pleasantly surprised that it actually is channeling marc bolan's early tyrannosaurus rex era. Pretty good.

Not bad. Very late 90s alt but the vocals help it stand out. Some great moments and some filler

Finally a soundtrack for all my seances.

I hate everything about this. This is commercial sales-driven garbage. I don't know who could stand this for a second listen. There is no soul, no art, no message or no honest emotion. Just a wanna-be rock star and every line is a dead cliche. Except when he rhymed "hide in your ivory tower" with "cover me in your golden shower", no one else would ever write that combination or words. 0 stars

First, this links to logical progression level 1, not logical progression. Level 1 is the followup album, while the original is the one on the list. Not that it matters too much because they sound more the same than different. How does a complication of different artists sound so monotonous? The whole thing sounds like the soundtrack to a ps2 era game about snowboarding. Not for me.

This has some great moments but wow are these arrangements dated.

Kinda

Pleasant but it's a tease. There are a bunch unique sounds they start the songs with, only to abandon them after the intro and perform something more poppy. Not very experimental or brave or notable for art rock at the time it came out.

Donovan has enough good songs in his catalog to fill up a "best of" compilation, but any of his releases are bloated with so much inexcusable hippy bullshit. "The jingle jangle jester rides his stallion. Seagulls fly across my eyes forever." This is why you lost the culture war.

The singles are great songs, but the rest of the album is pretty weak.

I don't get it. It's music for people in high school, but also they aren't particularly good at school?

This is the best Pavement ever had to offer. Near perfect album. No idea what the songs are about.

I like iggy pop. I like fun house. I like I wanna be your dog. This is a flawed album We will fall takes up 1/3 of this album, and not only is it plain bad, it's the complete opposite of the high energy chaos of the rest of the album.