1001 Albums Summary

More experimental than I thought it would be. I kinda assumed Simon and Garfunkel only wrote only mellow, folky stuff (....maybe because that's the most popular stuff?). Enjoyed

I really liked that version of Sunnyside of the Street

heavy influence from 70s but so iconically late 90s it felt like college. not my favorite tho… i feel like it’s roughly Sterolab but a bit sleepier. i wonder who came first? took me until Ce Matin-la before i remembered hearing this album before

that’s gotta be the best trio of songs to open an album with ever. so much energy and so much fun. 9th grade carpool friend demanded that i “turn it up” on the drive in to school

i don’t love every song on this album but the ones i love, i really love. and it’s such a landmark 90s album. i liked their “melancholy and the infinite sadness” double album better

i don’t know if i’ve ever listened to this straight through before. fun music. sad she’s gone—i bet she’d be doing interesting things.

solid from start to finish—there’s not a bad song on the album. love

oh! it’s the Time of the Season band. i missed it because everything about that track feels very different from the others—lyrically, musically, everything. when it came on i thought spotify had fininshed the album and was generating other artists for me

pop music standard. the prince cover is one of my all time favs

this is probably the album that convinced christina to go to school in athens. thanks REM!

i couldn’t shake the feeling that this album was inspired and was recorded by the Muppets Electric Mayhem band. i can really hear it when the second vocalist comes in—sounds just like Floyd!

oh man this band is going to be bigger than the beatles!

good not great? when i saw U2 popping up i immediately assumed it would be a different album… this one doesn’t feel landmark-y enough to me

this album is like eating a bunch of candy corn. in the moment it’s great, but you regret it and kind of feel sick after you’re done. also, 2 coldplay albums this week??!

arcade Fire has some amazing songs, but this is not my favorite album of theirs

I don’t think I have ever listened to a whole Joan Baez album before. But I really enjoyed this one.

starts bad but gets great in the second 2/3

i was intrigued by the idea, but the symphony seems artificially added on top of the music and i’m not sure adds to the experience. if i want to totally thrash out to Master of Puppets, i’m going to go to the og recording, not this version

of all the bands that kinda sounded like this from this era, steely dan is pretty decent. yacht rock is not my fav genre tho

never heard of this band but i like!

i’m predicting 5 stars from Dad :)

love it. didn’t know this was 1976!

2nd album out of… 20? that features non-white people. this list needs to do better

sounds like local bands trying to make it. i appreciate these bands exist, but meh

solid album. it is fun to listen straight through it and see how it flows. Lots of different styles, but they all sort of molded together.

wow i would have thought this was Winehouse. i haven’t really listened to Springfield before and didn’t realize how much Winehouse channeled her. (edit: i officially claim that i wrote that before getting to the song on the album that Winehouse covered!)

Brighten the Corners is one of my favorite albums and i wore it out on my cd player. this album is not that one, but i love it

there was a different arcade fire album in this list and i remember thinking why that one and not Funeral. glad to see it here

Yasssssssss so good :)

was never a big fan, but Dan Judy LOVES them so i’ve had quite the earfull over the years…

This is the day that Shane MacGowan died, so i have to admit i only made it through 3 of these Oxygene tracks before needing to bail out and listen to the Pogues for the rest of the day at full volume.

nice and funky—good gettin ready for school music

i could have sworn it was Cee-Lo on back up vocals on Heaven is 10 Zillion… Don’t know how I wasn’t familiar with this album but I loved it.

5/5 one of my favorite albums

christina is going to fight me on not eating this higher

i love anyone who mixes a hundred samples into a single track in a nice sounding way, and the avalanches do a great job at it. their other album has the bangers on it tho!

classic. first time i heard consciously heard non standard time signatures when i was a teen. great stuff

good Van is really good Van. this seems more jazzy than what i know him for, but i enjoyed it

always thought these guys were hard rock in the style of metallica or something and never listened to them. pleasantly surprised to discover that theyre much more grounded in punk and they did the “Ace of Spaee-ds” song. consider me educated on motörhead

our friend says there are only two kinds of tom waits songs: (1) it’s raining and i’m sad or (2) we’ve got to stop these monkeys and their fashioning of tin cups!

this album reminds me that all PSB albums are basically the same. some good stuff, for sure, but is one any more stand-out than any other?

meh

much more engaging than i thought it would be!

murders notwithstanding, i liked this collection. we alternated between this and the sufjan stevens xmas playlist on youtube for our family get-together

they sound like they’re really happy to be playing. it’s interesting how that can come through in a recording

kinda fun to listen to early Rod Stewart, but I got pretty bored of this album

this is another one that i wore out my speakers on when it came out. complex layering of sounds, vocals… and so different from their earlier albums (i’m pretty sure on purpose). love it

that one hit song sounds entirely different than the rest of the album… and is also their only hit. what’s up with that?

haha YES!! not only do I love the dirty south and particularly an Atlanta artist who put southern rap on the map—but this is *also* the album that my father-in-law bought when CeeLo’s “fuck you“ song was really big. Father-in-law liked CeeLo‘s pop sound, and decided to research him, discovering that he had some earlier solo records (not Goode mob). This was the album that he bought—imagine his surprise to hear what CeeLo really sounds like. It is so NOT like his pop stuff that he hated it and gave me the album after one listen. It still cracks me up to this day. Props for wanting to explore music he doesn’t know about tho! (…he also did this with Aphex Twin so i have 2 copies of the Richard James album)

had a great time listening / weird-dancing to Watermelon Man with the girls before school. It starts out so goofy and strange, they were mesmerized… but then the bass and drums kick in and all of a sudden it’s a jam. i can absolutely hear HHs influence on modern hip-hop.

christina sang every word

lol wut

it was playing and i kept forgetting it was on. not very engaging to me

this one did not pass the “getting ready in the morning with the family” test lol then evie accused me of failing to expand my musical horizons (“isn’t that what the project is for??”) so i made them listen to it on the way into school. +1 bonus star for the drama

this was my first metallica. still remember hearing it on Hal Frediani’s floor in middle school (closely followed by Hal’s other new purchase, Parents Just Don’t Understand)

poppy goodness

when gen z asks what music in the 80s sounded like, i’ll play them this album

wait—this is the most recent one we’ve seen yet. book was out in 2005 but this album dropped in 2019? does the list of 1001 albums change over time or are there more than 1001 now? i like the album

when kids wear megadeath tees (still), i wonder if they listen to the band…

kindof like if Elliot Smith and The Shins had a baby. but a good baby

so i don’t love this album, but Running Up That Hill is top 10, all-time best songs ever written. it’s perfect.

get a bass player, white stripes! jk they’re all right

not for us

loved it. witty and thought provoking. need to listen to more of him

prog rock meh

i remember listening to this on broken headphones, plugged into my walkman, in the garage, when i was 16, trying to cut weight for a high school wrestling meet weigh-in the next morning. it’s amazing how particular music instantly bonds to memories like that.

the songs are so similar to me, i actually thought the song Rio was being played a second time when was actually Hungry Like the Wolf

too schmaltzy—it tied in well with my dentist office visit today. although street life is definitely a sample on a hip hop album somewhere. it was driving me crazy trying to figure it out where i knew it, and i never figured it out :(

i feel like this is the 4th metallica album we’ve been given. it’s most likely an album to hear before you die but not my fav genre

‘twas the perfect vibe to be in the zone, writing a geometry test on circle relationships

“Tennessee” still slaps!

man isnt this like the 4th neil young album? …and because he isnt on spotify, i had to listen on youtube… and ever since the last time i did that, the algorithm keeps thinking im a huge neil young fan and keeps serving me up neil young news every time i search ANYTHING. im not going to listen to this one, lest google thinks im a super fan

had a hard time getting into this one

ok now they’re just trolling us. this is the 4th metallica album. are 5% of the songs you have to hear before you die from one band?

one of the best bands i've never heard of so far

100% yeeeeeaaaah-uh

ugh i couldn’t get Money, Money, Mon-ay out of my head after it came on yesterday. driving to work: “…Money, Money, Mon-ay.” teaching 3rd period: “…Money, Money, Mon-ay.” grading papers before going to sleep: “…Money, Money, Mon-ay.”

hmm what if we combined punk yelling with some reggae beats? yeah we could make that happen! guys, IT WOULDNT EVEN HAVE TO BE LISTENABLE!! omg people would love it!!

this album is when i first started appreciating kendrick and his storytelling albums.

good stuff. they sure do love that don henley “boys of summer” drum beat

giving nick drake

“ain’t nothing like a gang bang,” indeed

i know they’re a ridiculous band, but f-it, i’m going 4 stars

hands down one of best albums ever recorded.

it’s funny when you can HEAR the year in a record. idk if it’s the particular style at the time or the production quality at the time, but this particular sound zeros me right onto a particular range of years

was expecting something harder given the armadillo tank on the cover

i can’t wait to stop getting these prog-rock, soundtrack-to-the-Hobbit, 10min flute solo albums randomly assigned to us. most interesting thing about this album is that i had no idea genesis was around in the early 70s, and this was already their 5th album!!?!

interesting to hear how different the Folsom Prison performance was from this one. Need to look up the year difference—is it popularity and confidence or just a different kind of jail? Also, contemporary artists are missing out on this. More live jail performances!!

Not always super listenable (looking at you albums from 2020s), but I love a lot of her stuff (stories from the city) and am very glad she makes music.

One time growing up in Roswell, I was watching an episode of the monkeys on TV in an empty house, and all the windows are open. They were playing some kind of musical number that involved a lot of electronic beeps at some point, I looked out the window and there were suddenly probably 50 little birds on the porch, all looking at me in the window. it was weird. my brain settled on the idea that the music of the Monkeys called them to me

solid pop album

this was my gateway dylan album. mom and dad had it on vinyl and i played it about a billion times

answering the question “what if thomas dolby was 11 years old and got a keyboard for christmas”

i only really knew a couple of ELO songs before, but this was a delightful listen

he had me with Jackie” but kinda devolved into martinis con queso

it’s about time wu-tang showed up in this list…

would rate it 6 if i could!

would rate it 6 if i could!

read this at first as Feist and was like “oh i didn’t know she had an album with this name!”

i’ll give anything she makes 5 stars; yes even the super weird stuff ❤️

i always love singing along in an exaggerated style of morrisey so my family looks at me weird

i just read a story today about how a romance scammer got $200k out of a woman by pretending to be Willie Nelson and claiming they were going to live happily everafter together. Decent album but i like some of his others better.

i miss hip hop like this

such an interesting juxtaposition between funk and elevator music. funk parts are soooo good

100% best hop hop album of the 90s. fight me.

always makes me think of The Dude and how his creedence tapes were stolen lol

good music to make a brunch with

set the bar for electronic music

beautiful

meh

a bit too “soundtrack to the hobbit” for me, but i know people who love this album

this was my first cassette tape!

love this album

it’s like some reasonably talented high schoolers and an 808 machine

haha every time i hear steely dan specifically, im like “oh no here comes some prog-rock nonsense.” but then i kinda enjoy some of it. i cannot say that about other bands like this.

i think you can successfully argue that without this album, Snoop wouldn’t be commentating at the Olympics right now

soundtrack to the 90s and introduced me to julianna hatfield. 5/5

wait—either this has been reviewed by the group already or I’m in the San Andreas movie

best make-out album in the list so far!

#OtisReddingWhistle

this album is why I keep listening to other PJ Harvey albums and get excited when she releases new stuff… but it’s never this album

I lol’ed at the youtube video of the crowd moshing around and crowd surfing while the band passionately flopped down on the stage with their guitars for extreme, hardcore, guitar shredding… for a song that was definitely NOT that vibe.

how do you give this anything but 5 stars

liked, but a whole album of them is a bit much

this was the first album i ever ripped onto a computer and copied for a friend #limewire

landmark

ok but instantly made me want to listen to Fela.

the hits are hits, but the rest of the album feels pretty much like the same song

what a standard

too bad kanye is such a terrible person. reluctant 4 stars

5/5 and it’s not even her best album

good album, but the title track? 🔥

very different sound for them. i wasn’t familiar with this album and was trying to guess whether it different bc it was super early in their career or super later

i was confused bc this is not the sound that i thought The Byrds had, but wikipedia explained it for me. interesting to think that the “long-haired hippies attempting to subvert country music” might have launched the genre of alt-country/americana

i need to look up the hip hop artists who have all sampled this album

not my fave album of theirs but i always appreciate the effort

1. i like willie nelson 2. i didn’t know he had an album of covers. 3. sounds like the muppets a little bit

son of a preacher man 5/5 rest of the album 3/5

“Hmmm, well, Stereolab made a lot of good music. Let’s do that!”

haven’t listened to much of these guys. enjoyed it

no notes. so good

i always think i’m excited about The Smiths, but three songs in and it was already way too much Smiths for the day.

instantly flashes back to a movie where a bunch of cool teens are synchronized line dancing to Funk Soul Brother at a prom or something?

opening track is a banger (… except Christina says it’s the same six note over and over the entire song)

i bet the baby who grew up and sued Nirvana for the cover pic is super mad that this album made the list lol

they’re like that weather joke that people tell no matter where they live: if you don’t like the song, just wait 100 seconds

important album but hasn’t aged very well. guilty conscience is still pretty funny tho

held up better than i was expecting

pfffft

this album preceded by massive attack—it’s sexy album week!

things heard in my house this morning: “no wonder they’re a 1-hit-wonder” “how is this so bad?” “did he just say sex dwarf?” “…i guess tainted love brings it up to a 2”

no notes. may be a perfect album

shout out to Daniel L, who played this album for me in a walkman at a cross country meet in high school. This was my gateway album to hip-hop as a 14-year-old, who only listened to commercial radio at the time.

not what i’d usually queue up, but i enjoyed it. makes me realize tho, where has the country been on this list? I think we got some Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson… But that’s it?

to be in that audience 🔥

it was a synthesizer time

while playing this album, christina was quietly singing along to one of the songs. i was surprised that she knew the lyrics to more than just the Babylon song and commented on it. she said, “oh, no, i was still singing the words to Babylon.” i think that’s a pretty good review of this album.

C tells me this album was seared into her brain because it’s what Coach Cortez used to teach her PE class the Square Dancing unit in 6th grade

somewhere between 80s sitcom opening credits and Mario Kart

what a wonderful album

ooh this was great!

i adore this album. it inspired me to listen to other Jarrett albums, but nothing is quite as passionate or emotional as this one; it’s the best live album i’ve ever heard

I know I should like this album more than I do, but I don’t.

even less-good tom waits albums aren’t that bad.

this sounds like something you would play as a joke when you pull up to a stop light

when this album dropped, i saw the video for Bombs Over Baghdad and it was the coolest thing i’d ever seen

this era of hip hop had to have been the maximum amount of fun a group could have: the Pharcyde, Tribe, de la Soul, etc. you can hear how much fun everyone is having in the music

needs more siren whistle