1001 Albums Summary

Title track is lovely. Album is very very 1966 sounding. I'm surprised I've never heard Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall before.

That'll Be The Day is the highlight still. Oh Boy! Also remains a classic.

Rainy Day Women is super, and a great opener. It just jumps right in. Although I'm guessing most people know it as the Every Body Must Get Stoned song. Rest of the album is meh. Also didn't anyone ever like women? The song Just Like A Woman is terrible.

I love funk. Maybe didn't have any major radio hits I'd know decades later. But solid the whole way thru & got the sound

Not for me.

Of course it's a great album.

Great guitar & drums. Meh lyrics & singer.

Listened to the whole thing and can't recall a single note. It's not for me.

I can see why it's an ultimate Metallica album. And i admire the driving guitar. What they do, they do very well. And i just don't care for it at all.

Memphis! Such a good song. Solid album all the way.

I like punk's style, message, existence, whole thing way more than i like punk's music, alas. For an album under 30 minutes it sure has a lot of songs that sound similar.

Blur sounds like it should be for me but it just isn't.

Somehow reminds me of a 90s version of John Lennon's later Beatles songs. The ones i don't like, unfortunately.

The Teams That Meet In Caffs, an instrumental, is excellent. Whole album is enjoyable!

Two great songs. The whole album sounds very epically psychedelic but the lyrics are not great. It's maybe too much of its time to relate to. Also Eric Clapton, blech.

There is nothing like the feeling you get when listening to this album late at night with headphones and just letting it permeate.

The best kind of jazz. deep, rich.

I accidentally like Dexy's now

What a distinctive voice! Respect, of course, is a classic. Her voice just shines and it feels life she lived every moment. I can't believe she was 25.

I do like his flow. And his video in the boxing ring.

Wow. Just straight wow. Feels like nighttime.

A good album with two classics, but it's all cowboy songs. All of it. I'd rather just listen to El Paso on repeat

Meh.

Of course Brass in Pocket is amazing. I also like Private Life, it is immediately recognizable as Pretenders yet I've never heard it before. A solid album.

Sounds good, and i can see connections to The Who etc. But 5 minutes after i stopped listening, i couldn't recall a single note.

Oh the 90s.

Another review said that you'll probably rate this the same as Bob Dylan. And boy i can see what they mean.

I thought, hey great, I like Arcade Fire. Turns out no, I don't.

3 - because the album is alright but Cult Of Personality is amazing & brings up the whole rating.

I respect the work & the skill. It's not for me though.

Smooth. Interesting concept, good rhymes. This is a case of "if i liked this, this would be exactly the kind I'd like" but it's not for me.

This is exactly the type of electronica that I love. Would listen any time

Such a relaxing album. Atmospheric.

Best song is Teach Your Children , and their harmonies are tight.

Went thru a big Doors phase when I was in college. And I'm still a fan of the lush, dark sound.

One of my favorites, and my first real concert. "One" is still a beautiful classic.

Boy did i dislike that first song, thought at first it would be a 1-star album. Then the beats with the unplanned feel of the vocals started to grow on me. Relay was more catchy than it should have been. Newspaper was exactly what I've felt before too. Heavy Balloon gives me the great line of "i spread like strawberries, i climb like peas and beans" what great imagery! The whole album feels like old front porch blues except made now. I ended up enjoying the whole thing.

I always feel like i ought to like folk but mostly i just don't.

Very country and very folk, which is not for me. But the lyrics are amazing. Especially Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven.

The way it opens with the slowly building guitar & melody. A classic album that always sounds perfect for a summer night.

Freedom 90 is one of my all time favorite songs, hands down. And i love George Michael's beautiful voice. But the rest of the album just doesn't soak to me. 3/5 mostly due to Freedom 90, it's video, and all it's meant to me.

I can hear how it's got more of a raw rock sound than the prior album, which is an interesting development. And i immediately knew Jean Genie yet had absolutely no idea of the words in any way. (Unless there's another version same melody but about a 70s flower child lady? ) so this is a 3 star for me. It's fine, i didn't dislike it.

3 great, great songs. The whole album is clever and interesting, although I'm over skits & interludes forever. B.O.B., So Fresh So Clean, and Ms Jackson are classics.

I enjoyed this more than expected. Perfect for a quiet day with a cozy blanket & a good book. Maybe some rain.

The saying "If you're going to go, go all the way" was invented for this album. When you know every word of an 8 minute song (Paradise) that came out when you were 3, you know it's good! The magic of Meatloaf's dramatic vocals with Jim Steinman's over the top songs can't be recreated, only enjoyed. My brother had this in 8 track, i have it on CD, it's a classic.

A classic. Willie's voice sounds like home to me.

I wish i liked them. But i don't. It's like background jazz.

I don't like John Lennon. And this album is very very John Lennon. It's vulnerable, and pretentious, and well put together. 3 stars because it didn't make my ears hurt like a 2, i didn't hate it like a 1, but i could never hear it again and that would be fine by me.

Somehow I'd never really listened to them before. And i enjoyed every moment of this album. 4/5 will listen again.

No.

It's very ambient and pleasing to the ear for alt-country-rock music but i can't recall a song. Didn't hate it. Don't ever want to hear it again.

What a wonderful voice! I knew the two famous songs of course, Mercy Mercy Me and What's Going On, but hadn't ever listened to the album before.

Musically it sounds good. But it is not my taste at all. Can it be pretentious if he's very sincere about it and really lives the life? It's like Andy Warhol for me - I see what he's trying to say n and he's interesting about it, but none of it connects to me or engenders any feelings.

Ew. It's so disjointed. There's a fine line between deep and pretentious and this is on the wrong side of it.

Sliver Lining was my favorite. I wasn't expecting much of this album but i liked it more than i thought i would. Babylon was immediately familiar.

It started at a 3, went up to a 4, but then started to drag. 52 minutes is to long, it would be perfect at about 38.

I'd never heard of this band before and i kinda wish i still hadn't

Talking Heads makes me wish i liked art music more as a genre, but alas it is only Talking Heads that I like. Solid album, good music.

I'd like to like it. A lot of bands i like were inspired by them. And i don't even a little.

Every Beatles album is sone new direction. Eleanor Rigby is the best one off this set, I think. This album is only 2 years after Eight Days A Week and feels like a new decade.

Lovely, interesting piano.

2 and that's only because Genesis is musically gifted so it's of course well done. But boring. And i don't like prog rock, it is so pretentious & long winded. I'll stick with my 80s Genesis & Oeter Gabriel instead.

Perfection. I've always loved Son of a Preacher Man but this whole album is lovely. Such an amazing voice! Perfect any time of day, but really calls for a comfy chair after a good meal, with a good book and a nice drink in hand.

I'd never listened to this album in it's entirety before and boy it's just a perfect mood. Love Drive, Everybody Hurts, Man on the Moon. I first heard Nightswimming I think in 2020 and it reverberated thru me. The album is so sad and so reassuring at the same time. I listened to the whole album twice today. And this one is going in the regular rotation

I don't hate this and now i question everything. 4 stars, I'm listening again.

There's nothing to object to. But nothing i want to hear, either.

I remember when this album came out and it was the darling of critics. It's aged pretty well. Heavy Metal Drummer is my favorite here.

Love Lou Reed. And this is a very very Lou Reed kind of album.

Simple Man is one of their best.

I don't hate this, and i thought i would. And i think i would have been really into it at the time. If it was now the late 60s, it'd be a 5 star. Now though we're 60 years down the road. It's still a nice solid 3 though, for the social commentary and the interesting way it's said.

Imagine is a perfect song, if you forget that the person saying "imagine no possessions" had a separate apartment in NYC for just clothes. The rest of the album is mid at best, and the singer is a git, so, overall, 2.

Music is a 4 but the lyrics are forgettable, so that's a 2. Or less, really. Would have been better with no lyrics at all.

Groundbreaking, classic, so catchy. A little repetitive maybe at this point, but you can hear how this would have rang out like a clarion call when it was released. Also, 13 songs in 33 minutes, this album moves it right along. As of today this album is 67 years old and yet we still know & instantly recognize songs, that's a hell of an accomplishment

Paul Simon is a great musician who does his best work in collaboration. Otherwise he gets a little pretentious & in his own head. This one's a 3 - lovely to hear, nothing great. Best song is The Late Great Johnny Acen it's the only one I'll listen to again.

Punk with saxophone. At last a punk album that I like. Usually i love punk's message & style but not the music. Apparently a mostly in tune sax can change that.

Probably the first Swift album I've listened to as a whole. Actively disliked Coney Island but loved both Marjorie and also No Body No Crime. So this is getting a 4 - I'll listen again.

The harmonies! So amazing. Cecilia is one of my favorite songs.

Live shows are great, live albums generally not. Especially a band like this - long jams are wonderful when you're in the moment. Maybe not so great when you can't see them & aren't there Also do we need that many covers of the same song on side 2?

Second album by them that's been on this list and boy i hope it's the last

What a voice!

So much droning. Ugh.

Amazing singer! I know every word, ihad this album on dubbed cassette, bought cassette, CD, minidisk. The opening of Faith gives me the shivers every time. Have spent hours and hours listening to this; it always takes me back to the hot summer days doing chores & dreaming of growing up.

I always think I like Elvis Costello & then realize i don't.

Some is very good, some is meh. Thought provoking & difficult. And it's hard to tell if the militarism is ironic or real, which means I suppose that it's very good irony indeed.

Dylan is one of my favorite songwriters. But I've liked very few of his albums or songs as a performer. Until now. This album is so good. The sound so intimate, like you're right in the room with the band. It's probably a dark bar that serves fried foods and cheap drinks, in a small Midwestern lake town. Most everyone feels a little cynical yet nostalgic tonight, winter is in the air.

Lovely & lilting.

Maps is a great song. The rest of the album is alright. Not great, not terrible. Which makes it a 3.

I was pleasantly surprised. If "pleasantly " can be used to describe this style of music

A good solid live album for listening. I do like jazz and blues and rock so this is right for me. A great live album.

Bad Company and Ready For Love are standout tracks. The rest of the album wasn't.

Half of the album is one song but that song is amazing

Very 80s.

How did the voice and the guitar work so insanely well together??

The type of jazz I like with just a bit of cacophony perfectly thrown in

Rating this one feels like cheating since it's perfection.

Listened to the whole thing, can't recall a single word.

Musically this really isn't great. It's jangly and her voice goes all over the scale. It sounds like some pretty talented but young girls playing in the garage across the street. And I love it. It's so appealing and real and passionate. Best song: Ping Pong Affair. 4 stars

I Shot The Sheriff is the best song on here. Willy and The Hand Jive is the worst, sounds like he's on Ambian. Most of these are covers, so I listened to the originals too. And wow did the originals make the covers sound lackluster! (Lucinda Williams cover of Motherless Child, BTW, is what this one wishes it was.) Also we all agree that it's hard to separate the art from the artist. Especially when the artist is so tied up into the music - every Clapton song is indisputably Clapton all the way thru, very distinct.

Closer and Hurt are amazing. And I admire Trent Raznor's abilities - this album does exactly what he wants it to do and how he wants it to do it. A great concept album. And the video for Closer is one of the best I've ever seen, a perfect match. But in terms of listening? Not for me. I'm not & was not ever a sad angry young man nor a mid 30s angry quiet woman, the two groups of people who are the biggest fans I know. It's a 3 for the artistry & the ability of Closer to suddenly pop up in my head decades later. Complete with Trent spinning in midair.

A quiet album for quiet days.

Every song sounded the same. Bombastic. This is a band you're either into or not, and I'm not.

Solid album, easy on the ears. Standouts: the piano in Weep Themselves To Sleep, amazing the way it thunks. The light funk & blues of I'm Shaking.

It's fine.

It's not for me, am hour of this is way too much. I can see & agree with their huge influence & groundbreaking style. But to me it brings nothing. Also I just despise Fairy Tale of New York.

Dreamy. Quiet. Listen to it while wrapped in a blanket reading a book & falling asleep to the rain.

Good songs, great writing. And country as can be.

A 3 Hour Album that lives up to the title, but shouldn't. It's an interesting concept but it would have been better to have written all these songs & edited down to 10 good ones.

That Miles Davis is something. Perfection. 5/5.

I never listened to this album because the cover gives me the heebie jeebies. Which is a shame because the music is solid 3 maybe even a 4.

I love me some Christina, she really does have such a great voice. Her songs are so intimate & painful, she can really emote & you know she's right there in the trenches of heartbreak & loss with you. This album would be a 4.5 if it was half the length - as long as they kept Ain't No Other Man, Candy Man, Mercy On Me. He voice is so overwhelming that she needs strong songs and a shorter album to showcase it.

I do love a pretentious band but only if it's rock. I'd go so far as to say that rock REQUIRES a certain grandiose viewpoint. And this one delivers. I'm sure many won't like this, but Muse's lyrics & feel are very Led Zep. Driving beats and lyrics-wise, especially.

I'm no longer really into this, but dang the album remains an almost perfect encapsulation of a certain 60s rock. Makes me want to go smoke a cigarette out in the dark night while listening to it on headphones after a party.

It's like seeing a baby picture of your husband, you can see what they'll become but the features are still a little blurred, puberty hasn't quite hit. And the further you go into the album the more it sounds like Queen. Nevermore and Seven Seas of Rhye, especially. Enjoyed this more then I thought I would. The songs sound great together, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

I like it more than I thought I would. But it's not that good.

Solid middle score. More listens might take it higher but also might go lower, hard to tell. Starts out slow but gets better.

Like how every space is filled with sound, but it does drone.

I like two songs by YES. Neither is on this album. But if you've ever heard Roundabout and thought, I wish this song was longer, 10 minutes longer, and more pointless - this may be the album for you. Not for me though.

4 great songs, and a solid rest of the album. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the Black Crowes because they introduced a teen me to blues rock, a great love of my musical life.

Yeah, the lyrics could be deeper, but dang this is still a perfect encapsulation of the moment.

If the album ended after track 4, it would be an amazing album. Unfortunately it doesn't. I'll always love you, U2, but I'll never listen to this again.

This album is so unremarkable that I still can't tell you what the words are even though I read the lyrics.

Perfectly pleasant, but nothing more.

A good solid album new to me. A couple weird moments I'm not into, (what's up with the laugh? ) but overall good and I'll listen again

Lives up to its name for sure. The bingos are incredible. Probably a little better in smaller doses though. And that cover of In-a-Gadda-da-vida is perfect.

One of my favorite albums ever. It's perfect.

This is an album that I wish I would have found sooner, when it was new. But I wasn'teven old enough for kindergarten when it was released. Over all, enjoyed this; can really see their lasting influence especially on Duran Duran & that era.

The sound of my childhood, so smooth. Not any outstanding songs or great classics, but I do like She'll Love The One She's With.

I love early Beatles and this is a good album. Somehow I've never listened to this album and it was an excellent surprise. Not as many favorite songs as on, for example, Revolver, yet over all this is a more solid album with a consistent sound. Swear I've never heard Things We Said Today and yet it just went straight into me and might be a new favorite.

Perfect and distinctive.

Excellent for listening to when getting things done. Studying, working, cleaning. Not a huge fan of the genre as I prefer music I can sing along with, but it's pleasant & energetic.

Take Me Out - classic. The rest is perfectly ok.

The title track is alright but it's just Canon in D with repetitive words. So of course it's lovely, but low effort, really. Other than that, it's boring.

Some classics, and I know the talent is there. I've just never been that tortured of a soul.

So good. Still sounds futuristic, but it's a lot quieter than I thought it would be.

Great voice. Mediocre songs. Love "The way you do the things you do" but this version is too slow. Overall, a perfectly pleasant album.

Love the song Tangled Up In Blue. Also added a few more favorites from this album, I'll listen to it again.

Amazing album, what a show that would be. That piano! It's a 5 star for the music. 1 star for the terrible person who made it, but he's gone now.

They are much more skilled musically than most punk. But it's not meant for me and I don't like it.

It's baby Beatles! You can see the promise, and the originals are almost all good with a couple greats. But the covers sound too much like the Beatles to be good covers, oddly enough. Some are too slow or too measured or too smooth.

It's not terrible. It's not catchy either.

This was exactly what I needed today. It's dark & gloomy with off & on rain. Which is exactly the mood of this album, too.

Turns out repetition can be good.

There's no reason I should like this at all. And yet I do. Immensely.

Love Up On Cripple Creek. The rest of it, meh.

They're good at what they do. I just don't like it. Will listen to Thing Called Love but hopefully never hear the rest of the album again.

Not even good for going to sleep to

I'm getting older. 4 out of 5

Now this is what I'm here for! I've never heard this band and didn't know this genre at all. And I'm into it. It's energizing yet peaceful, like dusk at the end of a good day. 5 stars. Best song: Sour Times. It sounds like bossa nova by way of Morphine.

Most Unexpected song is Planet Caravan.

2 amazing songs. When Elton and Bernie are great, they're really really great. But the rest of the album just... isn't. Let's never mention Indian Summer again.

No.

Voice like a bell. Way too long for anyone to listen to in one sitting, but every song is perfectly sung.

Weird. 4 stars.

It's fine. Too long, too meandering, extremely listenable and beautiful. Listen, I love the Beatles and much of their solo or later works. But I think they all really need to come into a studio with a bunch of songs and then whittle them down to a sub-hour length with the best songs, rather than dragging it out. Every song is good, yeah, but the good songs weigh the album down so that you don't even notice the great ones.

I liked this more than I thought I would

This album was the end of the good stuff. I didn't like it when it came out, for some reason, i think the hype was too much and it just didn't live up to it. Only one song is worth relistening to, and it's only good due to the background vocals.

I'm very divided on Dylan albums, but boy I love his voice. It's objectivity not a good voice, rarely in tune and randomly whiney. And it is so evocative, the way it soars, the way he can't catch his breath cause he's singing with all he has. And I think the band members are each playing different songs. I love it. Like A Rolling Stone is one of the best songs out there, timeless.

I don't dislike it, and I can see why it's liked, so this is a solid 3. I'm neutral on it.

I've come to accept that at least part of me had the musical taste of a middle aged midwest sorts. guy. In jorts.

Great songwriter. Voice? If you're in the mood it's superb but otherwise it's grating.

I don't like PJ Harvey as much as she deserves.

Good album. I always thought Talking Heads was pretentious, and they are a little, but it's sincere & heartfelt. I like the looping rhythm echoed by the looping words. It's an experience to sit with.

I like electronica/tech/beats in general and dislike this specifically. Whole album just blurs into one, the kind of background music at a bar/club in a vampire movie.

The speaker was just playing meaningless static and terrible noises, so I checked the connections. Album was still playing, it's just that terrible.

Had this on a dubbed cassette when it came out, listened all summer on my generic Walkman while doing farm chores in the sun. And dreamed of a different life.

I can see her allure and why her music connects with so many. But it does nothing for me.

I like it more than I thought I would but not a much as it deserves

Meh. Again. Not my thing even as background music.

This album reminds me of the song the punk listens to on the bus in Star Trek IV Voyage Home. I don't hate it.

The music is good, great even, but it's Grace Slick's voice that makes it iconic

It's a genre I like and it's fine, it's a 3 or 4 for listenability. But there's not a single memorable song and once it's over it vanishes, that brings it down to a 2.

I hope to never hear it again

How can am album with Superstition on it fail? Well. There is also You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, which is equally corny and sweet. The rest I'd never heard of before and I kinda wish I could still say that.

I didn't hate it and I expected to. It's a solid 3. I'll listen again but won't seek it out.

King Louis for sure! This whole album is tremendous.

How does such an voice match so well with the music? It's dirty, greasy, & raw. Love it.

Had a girl friend who was obsessed with this album when it came out, enjoyed being edgy. Now had several children & a good husband & works in a cookie shop. Idk, man, life comes at you pretty fast.

Is it supposed to feel real, or like a play? An interesting concept. But I just don't feel it. The crowd seems scripted. The occasional bits of crassness seems pretentious.

And to think I only got into Coldplay, really, because my children were obsessed with Minecraft music videos.

Some great songs and some meh songs. Great drums perfectly matched to the songs, I really think he's one of the best drummers in rock today, gives the song exactly what it needs.

9 songs on the album and 6 were already on my favorites list before I even listened to this classic album. I had forgotten how lovely Moving In Stereo sounds in a good pair of headphones.

Ugh a poser with sexist lyrics who really wants to pretend he grew up atruggling. Two songs that are catchy, one lifts the chorus from Busy Bee the rapper, the other sure does sound similar to I Want To Be A Cowboy.

Much better than I remember it being.

It's got some banners and is a solid album. Some great turns of phrase, too. I really don't like this style of music, not a fan of singer-songwriter confessional tunes, but it's still a 4 out of 5.

Covers that don't even have the sound of the Stones.

I know I was too young for this when it came out and so i missed it, but I feel a little cheated of all the years I could have enjoyed it

I'm not sure how something so loud can also be boring.

Love Dusty, and this is a good album of covers by a 17 year old. But not great, yet.

You Can Call Me Al was my first love but the older I get, the more I feel Graceland in my soul.

This is just a good, fun, classic album.

Never heard of them, somehow I doubt that this album is really essential. And oh no I kinda enjoyed it. Great atmosphere.

It's well done and melodic. I am not the audience for this, not by time or place or gender or age, but these are passionate & skilled rhymes.

Even if you've never listened to this album on purpose, you probably know every song.