1001 Albums Summary

Objectively good music that I would never seek out of my own accord.

Ah yes such smooth jams. Point deduction for Scientology. https://youtu.be/ouy54KdNe2c?si=bvscziu0j2rDL97k

I listened to this while I was cleaning the kitchen and it was perfect background music, tickled the right spots in my ADHD brain to keep me focused. Very cool to see what has and hasn't changed in the genre for the proceeding decades.

Generally a bop if a little repetitive but not so repetitive that I had to wonder why certain tracks are familiar and others are forgettable.

DNF The first track was basically unlistenable and the rest that I heard just made me wish I were listening to a different band? Could be worse.

This is fine. Another album where it's really clear why the song(s) that I recognize is well-known (RadioShack ad campaign notwithstanding) and the others are mostly forgotten. My rating is definitely colored by the previous THREE I listened to in that I never had to stop because a track was so off-putting. Vanilla new wave is inoffensive easy listening, I'll take it.

I cannot explain why I was so into this album. Not 5 star into it, but into it.

I definitely listened to this album in its entirety yesterday morning but I could not tell you a single thing about it. 3/5 by default because if it had left a good or a bad impression I'd remember it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

4.5 rounding to 5 Just to repeat what I said in discord, I hadn't heard almost any of these recordings but am familiar with most of the songs from campfire jams at music festivals. I don't know if nostalgia is the right word since it triggers recent memories as well as childhood ones, definitely warm fuzzy feelings. As my spouse would say "this is the kind of shit [kcm] would like" XD

Why are these songs so long??? I'm playing catch-up because I didn't listen yesterday so they feel that much longer that I'm wanting to rush through. This is similar to music I'd like, generally, but it's not grabbing me at all. The elusive one star because it also has these tracks with weird uncomfortable binaural effects.

Do I have amnesia? Definitely listened to this album, definitely don't remember it at all. My brain is mush.

I liked this even better than I expected. Immaculate.

I did not expect to like this album and I did not. I think maybe if a different band were playing the same songs I could get into it?

Saving grace of this album a) some on the tracks are unobjectionable background jams and b) just a hint of nostalgia.

One of my favorite Joni Mitchell albums

My mom loves Steely Dan so this album permeates my childhood memories. I like it a lot more now than I did then, is it just the nostalgia?

I'm not saying it's a bad album, I'm just saying I could only ever listen to Comfortably Numb again and not feel like I was missing out (and I'm going to pick the dar Williams cover of comfortably numb nine times out of 10). It definitely doesn't help that the only other time I've listened to this album all the way through was while making out with my high school boyfriend so......"listen" is generous.

This is definitely an album I need to be in a specific mood to enjoy, and I wasn't in that mood but I can appreciate its merits. It was nice to revisit some songs that I don't hear often, I especially love Not the Doctor.

I don't know what I thought an Eagles album sounded like but.. It wasn't this? The atmospheric noodling tracks felt very modern.

I would never seek out and listen to The Beach Boys of my own accord. Nothing about this album really stuck out as bad, just not my speed.

Overall this is my kind of music though I struggled with the vocals. That mandolin hit just right on the instrumental of There Is Power in a Union.

The first track really set me up to dislike this one. Most of the tracks dragged, I didn't hate Hero of the War but it was a slog otherwise.

I mean, it's Elvis, c'mon.

Honestly surprised I hadn't heard their version of Take Me to the River before.