1001 Albums Summary

I loved this album and give it five stars. He mixes so many disparate influences deftly and I feel like we lost him way too soon.

This is musically great tho some of the lyrics are facile. I feel like it is maybe slightly over rated.

This is peak AC/DC. A masterful return to form. Hard rock and heavy metal is hit or miss for me but its tough to deny this albums peaks.

Seminal early Young. Evocative of a loss of innocence and the instrumental embellishments of horn and piano thru out are very tasteful. Perfect.

Depeche Modes break thru. No filler, and an artistic and commercial peak. Love it.

A great live album. Exceeded my low expectations.

A propulsively funky and fantastic house album. Great use of samples.

Home spun , organic and totally singular. Weaving disparate sources together beautifully. Perfection.

Like a combo of van Morrison astral weeks and early Tim Buckley tho more British.

A prog psych masterpiece that is as great as it is ubiquitous.

An electrifying come back album with great accompiament.

The essence of cool jazz. Little swing and yet miles had many more creative cycles left.

Tight classic early 2000s hip hop. Great band dynamic with brilliant lyrics.

Lush baroque pop produced by Phil Spector. A little schlocky but not bad.

A perfect rock opera. Great production.

A tight album of fusion with a light humor touch on songs like Willie The Pimp. I have a mixed relationship with zappa much past this point but this one works.

A more ballad heavy offering then her other stuff. I liked most of it a lot tho preferred Norman fucking Rockwell.

A prog magnum opus.

Peak pfunk. Love the opener

Probably them at there commercial apex. Very pleasant.

Really rootsy jangle pop tho the production dates it a bit

A mesmerizing mix of post rock, electronic, and modern classical with there pop sensibilities in tact. A high water mark of 21st century art.

Its yom Kippur and I have listened to half this tripe and already I feel like I've atoned for my sins. Just total wannabe eccentric trash.

A great garage rock set that moves quickly.

A total masterpiece. Encompassing the whole of humanity. Amazing vocals and keys playing thru our.

A proto post punk masterpiece. One of the great guitar albums.

A sparse and haunting album that is the prettiest suicide note ever. Great guitar playing

A barn burner of a soul album and a highlight of Stax. Electrifying covers and originals. I love the guitar playing and horns thru out.

A pretty ace pop album loaded with hits. Outside of just the way you are which is pure calculated schmaltz fairly on point.

Atonal caterwauling I like. Where free jazz meets electric delta blues.

A great swan song. Its great to see him confront the end so bravely.

A pretty good pop rock album about California. If I could I'd give it a 3.5 tho I prefer Live Through This.

Post grunge at it's most elemental and raw. Grohl is a hell of a one man band.

As gothic post punk masterpiece. I love the guitar.

An Australian rock and roll album with loose punk ties and rowdy production. Love the horns.

A multi faceted and sprawling masterpiece where they do it all, I esp like the country and folk touches.

A very good trip hop album tho no massive attack.

A band about to take over the world that doesn't quite reach it's full potential here tho the singles and some album tracks slap, the back half drags a bit.

A great organic alternative rnb pop album with live instrumentation.

A great socially conscious concept album that is a musical melting pot. Great grooves and fantastically played.

Pretty solid for what it is. Slightly left field mainstream metal. Not really for me. Prefer the screaming to the earnest singing.

A sprawling , varied and hilarious tour de force.

Less sparse then the earlier American recordings but either mode works great. I especially like his huge cover of Hurt.

Highly groundbreaking and influential synth pop release that helped change mainstream pop music at the time and it's easy to see why with synth sounds as warm as this.

Tom and the boys debut finds them in perfect stones meets byrds meets rockabilly form. I especially love the spacious organ driven Luna.

A solid debut with smooth g funk backing. I like when he gets vulnerable.

Rootsy and organic perfection. I especially love the country influence

Rootsy and bluesy compared to the debut. Love the piano and winds playing.

Angular and sharp post punk and goth. Great guitar and vocals thru out.

A forceful and assured debut that out rocks it's source material.

An electrifying early release with great vocals lyrics and guitars.

I love Paul Wellers early work with The Jam and Style Council but this is seemingly replete with old fart blooze rockisms that young him would have fought against. A huge disappointment tho the playing is tight.

Solid and musically varied. Dumb, dumb lyrics

Grey and dreary. Not for me.

Great disco with wonderful riffs and hooks.

A classic of his pre Kathleen Brennan years. The ballads are heart breakers. Tight playing and composing but with some dirt.

A new wavey progressive rock gem. Stupid lyrics aside, highly enjoyable.

Great chamber and orchestral pop masterpiece

Heavy glam boogie stomp goodness

Melodic sonic squall.

A sprawling and eclectic catalog of a band falling apart that I love and Geoff Emerick hates.

Smooth and beautifully produced and arranged.

The most 1989 album ever. Still a fun and vibrant set.

It's easy to forget how good these guys were at there peak. A bracing punk pop set.

A bracing screamer of an album. Not my normal wheelhouse but quality.

When Waits discovered Beefheart and made it signify. His most cohesive work and maybe my favorite album of 1983.

A rootsy mix of covers and originals deftly mixing folk, blues and even soul into a nice stew.

His magnum opus encompassing all moods and sonics. I esp love the Cross

The first super solid stones album with wonderful Brian Jones contributions.

Fun and spooky mostly instrumental progressive album that still holds up today.

A great trip hop release with a log of dub tho not there peak.

Spooky film noir music for a film that was never released.

Peak early rock Neil and crazy horse. Strong emotive lyricism and playing thru out.

Great east coast hip hop with wonderful music beds that reminds me of the best of Wu Tang.

Musically and in some cases lyrically revolutionary however there are some embarrassing missteps with anti semitism and homophobia.

The best early album. They all shine

Dylan at his most love lorn. Merging the acoustic and the electric.

Bruce getting famous. My favorite part is the trumpet on meet me across the river.

Great peak 90s fall with electronic touches and studio trickery. The band slaps.

An ok melding of synth pop and rnb that doesnt fully hit for me.

A rip roaring set of punk blues that presaged bands like the white stripes

A perfect deep avant soul album that ends with one of the best covers ever.

A great meeting of the minds and fine bossa nova album. And the end of Sinatras golden age.

Majesty hard prog rock with dopey lyrics.

A really tight set of jams with spiritual lyrics.

A primal scream neo psych masterpiece with a hint of sophisti pop

Peak Eno where he balances ambient with his subversion of pop .

An epic art and prog rock opus. Peak kc.

A top tier new wave of British heavy metal album.

Not her best. Uneven and over produced. Not all horrid but prob not worthy.

A perfect and lyrically brilliant neo soul album.

Great late night thinking and reflecting music. Them at there most sweet.

Prophetic. Rowdy. Sloppy. Bubblegum. Life.

Among the better late period Doors albums. Peak lizard king and co. Varied too.

Where Stevie does everything. It also has innovative use of synths.

Fun clubby and dubby big beat release. Great vocals too.

A release that sounds like what Can would have sounded like in 1979 at there best taking in more disco and fusion elements. I loved it.

Indie prog folk at its best. Southern Point is a journey especially.

The end of a beautiful career that could have been a great new beginning.

Frenetic African inspired samba and mbp Brazilian set. I loved it.

Brilliant orchestral avant psych music that is uncompromising in its vision and still sounds fresh today.

A great piece of neo psych post punk. Murky and dirgelike enough for the whole family

Great and anthemic chamber pop.

A musically and lyrically stark and desolate portrait of Reagan era small town America

A perfect slice of baroque pop roots rock.

Sensational folk pop and rock swan song with killer arrangements.

Great 90s garage punk from a female perspective.

A soulful and funky tour de force.

Post punk revolutionaries with lots of funk and dub too.

A swinging set of dance tunes from everyones favorite Italiano.

A banger of a synth pop album beyond the hit

Perfect roots rock and Dylan cosplay.

Great early wall of sound document and perfect Christmas album.

An in my view over rated Lou Reed glam rock document with nonetheless amazing peaks and lazy valleys.

Peak aging Cohen. Synthetic and schmaltzy but with deep meaning.

An early Elton favorite. I love the pretty arrangements and rootsy themes

Pissy early Cohen with great backing arrangements.

My favorite zz top mode tho I am not a blooze rock purist. Great synth and bass work through out

A fine prog album with lots of organ.

One of his last great albums. Great lyrics still.

I am now the guy Credence warned you about. A fantastic set of older country tunes.

A folk pop classic with lyrics ranging from the profound to the questionable.

Great tear in your beer country.

Great reggae that helped make Marley and his crew icons.

Great albeit over played hard rock. Could do without the drum solo tho.

Pretty solid post modern roots rock.

Great heavy psych grunge with insane vocals.

Peak early Kendrick with fantastic lyrics and music beds.

Absolutely brilliant album about grief and loss. Love the sonics too.

A great start to a brilliant career that would only improve c

A pioneering cowpunk album that may well be the birth of alt country and I love the synth drums.

Peak fiery mid 70s Marley.

Proto the end of brit pop and Radioheads rise. Glammy

Great Jesus loving bluegrass country gospel.

Peak latter day genre hopping beasties that foreshadowed what was ahead on hello nasty.

Transcendent mastery of a genre.

Great psych tropicalia. I love the arrangements. Especially the strings on Clarice.

Great singles but a bit of a slog otherwise.

Pitch perfect social satire set to great avant garage psych and rnb grooves.

Scuzzy Brit pop that I dug a lot.

Great forward thinking kraut rock that is way ahead of the curve of what Bowie and eno would do later on in the decade.

Peak Aerosmith. With an almost punk intensity at times.

An overly long and samey progressive jazz rock slog.

Great trip hop folktronica. I especially love Beth's voice thru out.

Perfect and succinct boogie music.

Great early post gram Parsons weepy country.

Pretty collection of tunes with great guitar.

Great compositionally inventive thrash.

A fiery energetic foray into the mainstream. Still jangly but a little harder.

Horny punk revival that is very hit or miss.

Cool organ led soul jazz.

Horses. Horses. Horses. An important and timeless proto punk tome with kickass playing thru our.

Vibrant and incentive British folk rock and a young Richard Thompson.

A fine psych soul release led by perfect singles.

Varied and distinct. With great guitar lines too.

Honky tonk country politan weepers.

Like a more ambient modern Dire Straits. Love it.

Peak iron maiden and maybe the peak of the new wave of British heavy metal

Bracingly fast, cathartic and non pretentious early hardcore punk. I personally enjoy this more then black flag.

Mediocre folk relic tho it's cool to see the original everybody's talking.

Pure ear candy that doesn't matter.

Peak early Creedence. Rootsy and reflective.

Poppy yet still scuzzy

Accessible and not overly glitchy. Enjoyed it.

A pretty solid heavy rock set that can ever into prog.

Distinct soul album with wonderful arrangements.

Great chansons sung with much vigor.

Rather faceless and adequate British post punk revival . Boring song named after a Thomas Pynchon classic.

A smooth and funky set. Some of the covers outshine the originals.

A pitch perfect debut. Tho the smooth sound can undercut the dark lyrics but isn't that the point.

Organ dominated psych pop and proto punk brilliance.

Pure post punk catharsis for the ironically detached and meta set. Goo goo ga ga ga indeed.

Interesting electro pop. Slow and glacial.

Malian desert blues rock. Cool albeit repetitive for my ears.

Raw and ragged live early electric Dylan

Nearing the peak of the atonal squonk powers. Love it.

Sparse and elemental. A bit dated in how hard it tries to appeal to hard rock fans, still fairly important as a document.

Great whimsical British psych rock.

These are great songs and every part serves the album and I am not a big prog guy.

For the spicy avant garde squonkers.

A fun disco party.

Peak Berlin Iggy Bowie cosplay. Great playing thru our.

A fine art pop release that is a tad glitchy for my ears.

A perfect blend of dylan, soundtrack music and sophisti pop.

Great early and influential DC hardcore. The cries of my people.

A pretty solid folktronica release.

Smoky atmospheric and overly long trip hop.

A brilliant slice of jazzy funky Afro beat.

A fantastic mix of Brian Eno and talking heads. They are especially spacey and atmospheric here.

Great early psych rock with some baroque and garage elements.

A perfect live document of pre arena Who.

Although not as baroque or original as No Other , a fine and early post Byrds document.

Beautiful atonal caterwauling atop avant dub post punk. Fearless.

A tight collection of folk and country rock songs with great lyrics

I go up and down with this album but I think I like it although it's a bit of a slog in the end

A transition album between the plastic soul of Young Americans and the harsh and glacial experimentations of his Berlin trilogy. Perfection.

Somewhere between hindustani classical and psych pop, Ravis nephew leads a fun set.

A beautiful downcast debut.

A great early punk thrash crossover

A perfect early Bee Gees release with great singing.

A really great world pop album with what I imagine are political lyrics.

A great baroque pop effort.

A perfect brit pop album that combined the links, the jam and XTC in a modern context with killer guitar.

A beautiful and mournful album that is a precursor to his more electric experiments in the immediate years to come.

A perfect genre bending eclectic post modern masterpiece.

The beginning of the beach boys musical revolution. I love it

Perfect hip hop album sonically and lyrically. Imaginatively boastful with great music beds

A baroque folk sad boi masterpiece.

A great pioneering alternative rock album that evokes memories for me of sweltering summer walks down route one from college Park to Brentwood MD in 2010. I love the guitar tone too.

An over rated of it's time epic. The hits are fun but this one's hard to connect with for me

Real dumb and fun new yawk proto punk.

A soul funk stomper every bit as great as sly and pfunk.

A perfect alt country album with lots of sonic variation.

A psych folk trip thru the cosmos.

Great psych alt metal that works better on repeated listens

Their tightest ensemble effort, instrumentally . Rocking indie pop.

Peak smiths. Varied music and brilliant funny and poignant lyrics.

Perhaps the first heavy metal album albeit bluesier then what came after by them.

The best instrumental hip hop album ever.

Great grunge psych Neil with long rambles at the farm.

A great reggae workout.

Really amazingly produced sparse and spacious trip hop c

A beguiling tho brilliant listen where she dives deep into jazz vocals.

Peak Eno collaboration. I love the electronic and kraut rock influence here.

The missing link between Randy Newman/Harry Nilsson and Father John Misty, which I love tho there is some pathos missing.

A great early piece of Creedence. Perfect roots rock.

Great guitar playing and fantastic songwriting.

A pointed avant garde effort from Shreveports finest pop combo.

A brilliant synth post punk masterpiece that has the centerpieces ominous and terrifying Frankie Teardrop.

A cheeky hard rock masterpiece.

A transitional album between his folk beginnings and later free jazz and funk leanings.

A slight and silly listen of alternative rap.

A great new wave and synth pop revival album with killer synth and bass parts.

A perfect synth pop album with excellent lyrics and playing.

A dour piece of greatly arranged and lyrical commercial suicide. I love it.

A great and short country masterpiece.

Autumnal crestfallen masterpiece.

Prob waits most jazz and bluesy beatnik and least song oriented effort from his early days. It's not peak Waits but I still love it.

A really fun meeting of new romantic and sophisti pop.

A joyful take on new Orleans rnb.

Live peak "early" James.

A perfect brit pop debut with some punk and glam mixed in.

A magnum opus life cycle concept album with no stinkers.

Early and great bluesy proto metal.

A great combo of early Genesis and pre disco Bee Gees and Beatles.

A sloppy and feral roots rock masterpiece.

A folk rock super group debut that is super.

A folk rock supergroup debut that is super.

A pioneering indie and alternative release with many copycats but few betters. Love the guitar tone.

One of the best album oriented rock new wave debuts. Gorgeous synthesizer use.

A great hip hop and rnb album with a lush organic and live sound.

Majestic beautiful baroque and chamber pop and folk.

A pioneering alternative hip hop release that still slaps front to back.

A perfect feminist hip hop manifesto with brilliant music beds.

Solid eclectic set of Latin rock and trip hop.

One of the best live albums ever. Life affirming romp.

A great debut

A great and influential nu metal release that combines thrash , punk and world music.

A genre blurring shoegazey neo psych Brit pop masterpiece.

A very early Beatles classic that shows how distinct and new they were at the time.

A solid and more atmospheric album from the pop soul maven.

Martial German industrial music with some neo classical elements that isn't exactly up my alley but is fine.

A German cabaret album with a Brecht/Weill undertone.

Baroque roots psych I love.

A beautifully arranged batch of baroque folk pop tunes.

Fragmented and ominous and I loved it.

A fine swan song. Very baroque and keyboard driven but maintains lovely indie pop and great melodies

Bill Evans and his band especially Scott Lafaro his bassist are on fire.

A very pretty though quite fragmented folks psych affair.

A perfect sophomore release. Dancey and prophetic.

One of the if not the best brit pop albums. Eclectic with brilliant guitar work.

This was a revolutionary mix of black roots and electronica music that still holds up today.

Prince at one of his eclectic pop peaks. From power balladry to be post new wave pop rock psych and funk. He does it all.

Great synergy between the old codgers and Ry Cooder on Latin music.

A great baroque Brit pop album with wonderful arrangements.

A perfect slice of chamber pop with show tune qualities.

An amazing slice of avant pop.

A visionary debut that mixes rap, world music and indie.

A pitch perfect slice of clattering and industrial early synth pop.

Art pop brilliance.

A singular talent at her peak. Mixing shades of soul , jazz, tin pan alley and baroque pop into a unique stew.

A soft folk rock album that may be peak James.

Sophisti pop genius.

A psych funk rock short opus

A little more left field and minimalist then there more successful later works. Still golden.

Stunning and raw new America country album.

Pitch perfect sunshine pop with themes of indoor fireworks.

Pitch perfect art rock and proto punk debut.

A great and sparse piece of live vocal jazz.

A really solid tho a tad synthetic piece of chamber pop, though the highs make it worth it.

A dynamic bit of early prog. I dig the slower numbers most.

A great homage to the rock, soul and reggae that came before that still moves rock forward.

A lovely slice of baroque pop full of reflexive nostalgia and whimsy.

A shimmering plate of psych dance pop.

A killer debut with great lines and wonderful production and sonics.

An adequate yet over rated piece of Latin world pop rock and hip hop.

A buoyant and jubilant slice of afro pop and traditional music.

The second and last album of his prematurely ended 50 State project. Lovely and earnest baroque and chamber pop. Lots of spiritual themes throughout.

A pitch perfect debut from a musical genius and huge asshole. The beats and production are second to none.

Gorgeous Cheese.

Great tho some of the rave ups are conceptually jack white schticky still solid and varied effort.

The debut. Sounds fresh still and love it's reverb laden haunted ambience.

Amazingly produced and lyrical folk rock with great synth usage.

Perfectly produced pop metal. Not my thing normally, but really well done.

A rootsy country album by an outlaw. Great stuff.

Killer plastic soul.

A beautifully orchestrated masterpiece with brilliant and sharp lyricism thru out.

A great lushly produced masterpiece.

A great brit and chamber pop inspired effort.

A perfect jazzy and chamber pop production. Great lyrics and production.

Perfect post Brit pop. Sappy and tuneful.

An amazing Texas funk blues and comedy rock tour de force.

A scorching live soul set.

A seminal early native tongues release. Loved it.

A perfect slice of minimalist art and proto post punk.

Brilliant orchestral neo psych post punk with a big Beatles and Doors influence.

A perfect pop punk rock opera inspired by the who and the jam that's still relevant in the trump era.

A dry run for the magnum opus and while I think I like much of it, especially the back half, it lacks an urgency in the vocals I enjoy and yeah I know that's the point.

A great early documentation of their budding early sonic squall.

A tad less sparse than his pre army work but it still rocks.

Psych and Latin tinged blue eyed soul from the masters.

Hard to quantify how he knocked it out of the park right out the gate. Pub and punk rock at there elemental forms couldn't contain his musical and lyrical depths and forward looking aesthetic.

An interesting live document of a tumultuous time that roars.

One of Dylan's best albums of this era. The lyrics of lost love always get me and the band sounds sweet, especially the organ backing.

A mediocre sounding French rap release that sounds stuck in 91 tho given I can't understand the lyrics my analysis is faulty.

This is very mid tier wannabe Radiohead with a dash of Queen. It's mehh at best.

A great and anthemic sounding indie album with great orchestrations.

A beautiful take on chansons with a real baroque edge. The string swells are gorgeous.

Truly lush and breezy UK hip hop. I loved it.

An album of contrasts from mournful dirges to sprightly pop. It's to me not as cohesive and rather transitional, but a weaker REM is still better then most shit out there.

Wry and danceable social satire from the Reagan 80s. Perfect.

A great pioneering plunderphonics album that takes sampling to the next level and coheres perfectly.

A lush and homey solo outing post Simon and Garfunkel.