1001 Albums Summary

meh, made very little impression

Very awkward lyrics but I quite like the soundscape, a couple of standout tracks

Too long for me to fully grapple with, but lots of really good songs, interesting and distinctive sound. I'd like to listen to more!

Liked a couple of tracks but I don't have enough angst to connect with it

3.5, liked the instrumentation a lot

Wow. Her voice is incredible, and so full of emotion, it makes every song feel profound. Even the ones that were written for someone else - it's hard to imagine anyone doing them better than this. The first track was maybe my least favourite, and really didn't prepare me for what was coming - it was followed by Four Women, which pretty much made me stop what I was doing and pay attention. Fantastic.

Half hold music, and half the background music after you finish a race in F Zero and you're looking at the results. Didn't get anything out of this, but to be fair I'm listening in a context that doesn't suit it (eagerly awaiting a new Greatest Album every day). Dunno why it's on the list though. On the bright side it didn't distract me from my admin!

Yeah, didn't really speak to me. The whole thing just felt kinda milque. Probably not helped by me getting The Band yesterday, which was hella crunchy

On my first listen I was really enjoying the start, but eventually I started losing interest. It turned out I was accidentally listening to the deluxe edition with half a dozen demo tracks at the end sooo problem solved ✅ But on the flipside, the demo version of Aurora Borealis at the end was one of my favourite tracks 🤷‍♂️ Less flashy than its album counterpart, but just kinda groovy and chill. This was a great discovery! Full of ideas, nice short tracks, lots of energy but also kind of meandering about. Thanks 1001 albums generator ❤️

Didn't pay a ton of attention, and suspect this isn't really my genre, but I liked the organ and general operatic vibes

I want to listen to this more I think - I liked the start and end but it blurred together in the middle. But some of these tracks really evoke a whole world.

Loved the energy on this, lots of bangers

I'm kinda shocked this was such a big hit. I couldn't really grab on to anything - found it tepid and nothingy

4 for speakerboxxx, 2 for the love below. I wasn't expecting to like Big Boi's album so much more, but it was banging, funky, lots of highlights, not as esoteric as some Outkast albums but more energetic, and great lyrical flow. Andre's album...is coherent narratively, but often cynical, and musically kind of all over the place. It's ambitious, but the length is trying and I found a lot of the genre riffs hollow. I'll listen to it again some time, separate from speakerboxxx, but for now it didn't land with me.

Rough and interesting, but probably too much of a downer for me to come back to

Pretty flat for a live punk album

3.5

A lot of very weak lyrics but pretty good production, 2.5

Starts mid and gets worse from there, droning on and on and endlessly winding down. Gypsy woman is a bad kind of wtf moment. The exception is Buzzin' Fly, which actually transported me somewhere I wanted to stay - there's a time and place for the kind of constant breezy melancholy it conjures up, and it hit me in the right mood.

I respect this album and its dark spooky atmosphere, but I don't actually enjoy listening to it much.

Liked it a bit more than Nirvana

3.5

Interesting, but not sure I'll revisit it and I give too many 3s

Really liked 'Everybody wants to rule the world', otherwise liked the sound but the songs went on a bit

The songwriting on this is wild, every track has some super catchy hook and almost all of them are excellent. Goes down smooth after listening to the White Album - Revolver still has an interesting mix of styles, but it's really coherent as well, a great album listen. Also the average track length is really short (2.5 mins) - might be a product of the era? Either way it's great.

Highlight of this is definitely the drum fills

The rockers are fun, the ballads are bad

3.5+

Extra star for the very nice Neon Lights

Some great production but I don't like Common and his lyrics much

One of my favourites, Born Under Punches blew my mind the first time I heard it and still does

Music from Big Pink has gone up from 4 stars to 5 since I rated it on here - maybe this will too. King Harvest was a great ending!

Everyone has an ELP limit, mine is definitely before this

Like a better version of the Kiss album I got a while back. Enjoyed the first half more than the second, but I'll happily round up to 4⭐

My fave Queen album. I don't even like the first half very much, but the second half is SO GOOD and such a perfectly structured sequence of songs (I love how they all flow together, ending with Funny How Love Is, then having Seven Seas of Rhye as a palette cleanser). Totally packed with ideas and has the classic Queen sound. I'm also so used to albums giving you their best stuff early and then fizzling out, that having an album do the exact opposite is super refreshing. Love it!

Not listening to 70 minutes of this

Nice vibes, but didn't find it super memorable