1001 Albums Summary

I gave it a whirl, but it's not for me.

Not bad. Would I listen to it again? Unlikely. As prog rock goes, it wasn't unbearable.

Started out as a rollicking mosh pit of fun but quickly started to wear on me. More suited for live club experience than a listening session .

Amazing album, forever associated with Woodstock. Made for summer afternoons and outside listening. Love Mother's Daughter.

Not for me. The same droning, dirge guitar on every track. Depressing. Didn't like her in the 90s, still don't.

The production on this is so specific to 1989/1990. It's a great, joyful album full of clever samples. Lots of fun, back when rap could be fun.

What an amazing album. This is fantastic fantastic fantastic. Another great road trip album, too, along with Graham Nash's.

There are some good songs on this, and I appreciate his experimental, slightly less accessible ones.

This was such a new sound when she first came on the scene, so I have to give credit for that, and her voice. It all gets a little samey for me after a few songs, though.

Yawn.

Old school dance music, pretty low energy by today's standards.

Loved this. It was over too soon! If I were at a live show it would've been awesome. "You had us pegged all along. Damn."

No. It's just impossible for me to get past how bored I was with the whole grunge scene in the 90s. Despite a kickass drummer.

It gets a little samey. But a classic for sure

I feel like the production on this could have improved the overall experience. Needed more depth of sound.

There's only so much Jack White I can take in one sitting, but if this were playing in a bar I wouldn't complain.

I really enjoyed this. He did a good job capturing the noir feeling. Would definitely listen to it again.

I didn't like this at all. Didn't like the vocals, music didn't have enough variation within the songs, each song just went on too long.

Dullsville. Seriously boring and uninspired.

I like the guitar and bass work, pretty boppy in places. But I don't care for the lyrics or vocalese.

Excellent songwriting. Chrissie Hynde is a badass musician.

Exactly what you want from a French pop crooner.

Apart from a couple of songs that were too straight-ahead metal for me, the rocking bass lines had me hooked. I appreciate that they use their music for political activism and not just general rage; this is exactly the kind of music you want to listen to after a bad day at work to get your frustrations out. I forgot this was The Matrix closing music.

I hate this so much. It's too miserable to enjoy at all. And don't ever make me sit through the film again!

It's a little too country-ish for me to take in one sitting, but I appreciate the music.

Hmm. I feel like the vocals let this down in many of the songs. But I really love the layered instrumentals and depth of sound.

I think I like the production on this album more than I like the songs, if that makes any sense. Having said that, most of the songs seem to be a little too slow and long. I did really like Guilt. It's too bad she wrecked her voice.

Ok, I didn't hate it. If you put this on in the car, I could listen to it. Some songs were better than others.

Come out and Play and Self Esteem were their big radio hits. That's about all I can take of this style of music.

I didn't like the first two songs, but then the album just got better and better.

This album epitomizes my issues with The Smiths. As always, I love the guitar work and riffs. I also think Morrissey writes a good lyric. However, it seems like he writes his lyrics, and then comes in and just makes up a tune that has no relation to what the band is doing, like a five year old making up a tune. And it doesn't really work for me most of the time. I think The Headmaster Ritual and Well I Wonder are the strongest songs all around.

Ok, it's a good album for the kind of music it is. I think I'm just bored of the music since it was on such heavy rotation (and still is). It's very well produced

Some of this is too honky-tonk, a little boring. Trying too hard to be American gospel or blues. But I do like a few songs. Somewhere in between a 3 and 4 for me

Maybe it's because everything sounds better through my headphones, but I kinda liked this. Better than the other Echo album.

This is the second time I've listened to this. There's nothing on this album that stands out to me or makes me want to listen to it again. But I really enjoyed Viv's memoir, and I get what they were trying to do.

I mean, the lyrics are terrible and the screaming gets tired, but if you're looking for hard driving guitar rock, this is classic.

What a voice. These are all classics and still sound relevant.

Pretty boring overall. Mainline Florida had a little kick, plus one more was vaguely interesting. Meh.

I couldn't listen to this. It was too depressing and monotone

This was like Beach Boys light, or Motown songs that needed more production. There were catchy songs here, but very boring sounds.

More subpar Beatles/Beach Boys

You know, I didn't mind this. It's not something I would listen to on my own, but if it were a road trip and someone put it on, I would listen.

I can't say that I enjoyed any of this.

Great concept album. I just found the subject matter hard to stomach.

This really takes me back! I love how in touch with their feelings they are. Some really great songs that still hold up.

I liked two songs: Damaged Goods and At Home He's a Tourist. The rest wasn't my cup of tea, but I bet Daddy loved it!

Give up the Funk is good; the rest gets a little boring after awhile. I'm not that into funk in general.

Hate it

Perfectly pleasant.

Not my thing

I like it. Reminded me of Saturday mornings at my dad's house. He'd get up and make coffee and it'd be cowboy music hour on public radio.

This is amazing. When you get a great songwriter, tight band and it all works. But I have the feeling this is the only full Springsteen album I like.

A few beautiful songs, but I didn't love it.

Overall this was pretty boring and slow. I thought it was under produced.

There were a couple songs I liked, but a lot of it was just the same song.

Ok, a lot of the tracks sound the same, and it's needing better production, but it's very catchy and was very influential.

Has that mid 80s production groove that screams summertime in France. Pretty easy listening.

Good blues. I couldn't listen to this on its own, too much blues for one sitting, but in the background it was fine

Started out strong, but I quickly got tired of it.

Super boring. Were they really under the impression these were different songs? I couldn't finish it.

Of all the grunge bands this is the most palatable to me, but really less than half of the album.

Nope. Didn't get past first track.

Didn't enjoy this as much as the other Waits album.

I enjoyed the first half more than the second, but it was all very modern sounding. Not what I was expecting from 1977 Bowie.

Solid 4, maybe 5, but Freedom is an absolute 5. Such a good voice.

Not bad.

Decidedly mediocre. Why is this on the list?

Not a fan of the reggae, but this was fairly inoffensive.

Too depressing for me, but I thought it was good quality.

There are a several songs that are absolute masterpieces, but I also find a lot of it boring. So tough call on rating.

I actually enjoyed about the first half of this album, and then did not enjoy the rest very much at all.

Easy listening. I'm not sure it was super exciting

I didn't mind this. It would make good movie soundtrack music.

Boring. Not even some fun guitar work. He's such a misery guts

Okay for a soundtrack, but I wouldn't listen to it on its own.

This got a little samey for me, and could've used an editor.

I started this on the plane, and was actually enjoying it, but then it started to just feel like the same song over and over...Dylan lyrics + harmonica. But then the last two songs were soooo Dylan and so nonsensical. JFK asks him how to grow the country and he says Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren, and he's got a woman who works all the time so he doesn't...yeah.

So annoying

That went really fast. Easy to listen to, but not great.

I tried. I can't.

I thought On the Beach was a beautiful song. The rest of it isn't my cup of tea, but I think a lot of it is his voice. They'd be different songs with a different vocal. Five stars for the album cover, though.

Too prog for me, really. I didn't enjoy this.

This was difficult to get through.

It started out as easy listening road trip music, but I got pretty sick of it halfway through and didn't make it all the way to the end. Too country ish.

I liked, or rather, didn't object, to some of it.

There's a lot going on musically in these songs, so I appreciated some of the musicality. But overall, not a fan.

Really not my thing

Um, pretty Dylanesque. Sounded very samey.

I don't know how I've gone through life not really knowing what meatloaf sounds like, but this was not what I was expecting. Very theatrical, not at all what the cover would suggest. It did get a little much for me after a couple of songs, but it's fun.

First of all, no album needs to be this long. Having said that it's quite ambitious and not terrible. It was just far too much.

This was much like sitting through a reggae album.

Solid 4. Driftwood is now stuck in my head.

Better as a soundtrack.

I loved this, which was unexpected.

Weird mix

I can't listen to much of this. But if I liked thrash metal, this seems like it would be good.

I love the full instrumental, but get tired of his voice, so there's only so much I can take. I didn't love this

Mixed bag. I'm not that crazy about the slow bluesy ones.

Kind of inoffensive background music

I got really tired of the rock opera/musical theater sound. Didn't finish with two songs left.

I can't take this much Siouxsie in one sitting. It's too discordant.

Musically I thought this was kind of boring. The lyrics seemed more interesting.

Very 90s.

I guess this is Southern rock? It gets a little tiresome after awhile, and I've never been a Freebird fan.

Now that I'm thoroughly depressed ...

So boring. I feel like everyone who was influenced by Dion maybe improved the sound with their own music.

I don't know how to rate this.

Rating this on its own merits and not based on it sounding like other britpop bands.

It just feels like every song is the same and Bruce is straining his vocal chords on every one of them. Not a fan

Sorry, but I love this album.

Awful.

I found this pretty boring. Background cafe music.

Dreadful. I hate this hippie music.

Since this is a live album there's the inevitable noodling that was ok in some songs and interminable in others. I didn't mind it on the whole. I do quite like In memory of Elizabeth Reed.

I don't like reggae, but I'll give it the stars.

A few songs got a little depressing for me, but there were other winners.

Ugh. Hated it, and that twee Mother's Lament at the end was the icing on the turd cake.

Didn't hate it.

Impressive, but I can't say I enjoyed it.

I tried, but I couldn't take more of it after three songs

Ugh

Can't say anything bad about the songwriting. But it's not my favorite style of music.

No.

No.

Pretty bland stuff

Got tired of it especially when the pussy references started. Why waste my time.

Seems pretty good as far as rap albums go. But I don't need to listen to it again.

I don't have the patience to get through this.

I can't deal with the tremulous voice.

So many classics. Easy 5.

Too depressing

Am I the only person on earth who doesn't like Joni Mitchell? She and Morrissey should do an album together since they both sound like children making up melodies as they go along.

Yeah, ok.

It's all kind of the same. But a good same if that's what you like.

Meh.

I can see why this would've been a commercial failure. It's more of a spoken word concept album. I found it a little tiresome, but I suspect it might grow on me.

Note to Dylan: Hearts is not a two syllable word, last I checked.

This is very boring and the lyrics don't scan well. I have no idea why it's on the list.

Prog rock takes itself way too seriously.

Great classics

Perfect soundtrack to a sad dance in a Western bar with Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange

Every song sounds the same to me.

I have no idea how to rate rap artists, but I enjoyed this.

Felt like entering a time machine to 1970s hard streets of New York. Not a place I want to be. Points for atmosphere.

Yeah, it's too long, but there was enough on here to keep me interested.

It's funny how there are certain production techniques and sounds and rhythms that are so specific to a time period. This had a few that I find annoying, like the whole underwater fuzzy sound, but I did enjoy a good portion. I felt the last three tracks were unnecessary.

I can't tell you how many times I've listened to this. It was on constant rotation in my Walkman in high school. I forgive their Christian, pre-Good Friday earnestness and still love most of the songs.

Like Loretta Lynn, I just picture folks on a Friday or Saturday night at the local dance hall. I didn't mind it until it got too religious. Seems pretty obvious Satan would be a big fat liar, based on his reputation.

Nope. Not my thing.

Didn't love it. Her voice affectations annoyed me, got tired of the album halfway through.

I can't listen to this whole thing. Why is it so long? I've had my fill of late 60s early 79s blues rock.

Hmm. One point for cow bell. But demerits for way too much noodling.

I just don't like reggae. No offense.

Solid

Meh

I don't consider this a very strong album, and wouldn't even include it in U2s top albums.

Dreadful

Yawn

I'm not going to listen to this while thing, let's be honest. It didn't catch me

I don't like the guys voice, and it sounds very 90s

Sounds like a fantastic concert!

Wow, I enjoyed that far more than I anticipated. I didn't realize all those classics were from one album; the harmonizing is terrific.

What a crazy crowd! Pretty sure this was in my dad's CD collection on heavy rotation.

Too long without enough variation. I would've enjoyed a better curated experience.

Impressive speed. I just can't take this much headbanging in one sitting.

I could only take so much.

I was tired of this after one song. They all sound the same.

Lyrics are awful but beats are good

I really don't like her voice.

Nope

Boring

I do like how polite they are in the promo voiceovers. But it's a lot of the same.

Another album where songs are good individually but too much to listen to for an entire album.

Not my thing

Pretty dull stadium rock

Pretty boring

I did not enjoy this. If I never have to listen to late 60s/early 70s blues rock again, it will be too soon.

Couldn't take it.

Meh.

Not my style of jazz.

Boring, repetitive, gave up on it.

Honestly, there are a couple of good songs, but I thought this was a bit lackluster.

Wasn't much fun to listen to.

Mostly depressing folk. Wouldn't listen again.

Very Violent Femmes sound

I didn't much enjoy this.

I didn't like this at all

Didn't listen. Hate Pink Floyd.

Actually enjoyed this

Started out not minding it, but it was depressing in places, and enough trumpet to please Phoebe Bridgers. I started to feel like I was trapped in a never ending Broadway show.

Oh, no. Just no. Music to spiral into neverending depression, if that's your bag.

Classic

Too depressing.

Some of the rough cuts were preferable to the album cuts. I can't get past some of the lyrics and noodling, but the bass is ten stars.

When REM were cool and interesting

Dreadful

Rated against other grunge in general.

I mean, if you like big voices and power ballads, but I can only take so much.

I didn't really like this

Cannot stand this guy's affected vocals, and every song was the same

Got tired of the extended version. Type of music you'd hear in hip cafes in Scotland.

Not my cup of tea

Dreadful

Dylan lite, with a lot of stereotypical themes and rhymes

These Waits albums are starting to all sound the same

Meh. I don't think I would ever choose to listen to this again.

Unenjoyable trip back to 90s sound.

Kind of did my head in in one listen, but I guess that's partly the point. I didn't hate this as much as I expected to, and enjoyed the time signature changes. The Iron Maiden t-shirt was standard issue for half the males in my high school.

Too slow, depressing, didn't enjoy voices

I thought this was pretty dull.

Radiohead lite.

This grew on me the second time around.

Pretty intolerable

The voice on this guy.

I thought it would never end. I liked bits of it.

Radio friendly Radiohead

The Wonton Song was actually interesting. The rest of it was very meh, and don't make me listen to Kashmir one more f'ing time!

With a couple of tracks trimmed, this would've been a 5.

So early 90s. Got bored.

No, I cannot listen to an entire album of this. One song is interesting, but that's enough.

Hate this style of electronica

That was soooooo boring. I skipped through every song.

This grew on me the longer I listened to it, but I didn't like the first track

Yeah, a begrudging thumbs up.

I don't really have an issue with the music. It's depressing, but some of it sounded like it would've fit right in with early 2000s electronica. I just have an issue with her singing. Every song sounds exactly the same.

This did nothing for me.

Such earnest pop music

I couldn't get through this. Dreary dreary and dreary.