1001 Albums Summary

Either rock masterfully distilled to its bare essence or humerously remedial bullshit. Did your grandpa own a van? This is what he was playing when he got your grandma pregnant. In the van.

As Dennis told me, it’s not music, it’s propaganda. Should be required listening for every high schooler in the US. Whoever doesn’t like it must be deported.

asks the question: What if Led Zeppelin was even more gay? Answers the question: It would be fucking fabulous!

This album makes KISS completely unnecessary. One of the best album covers ever.

Sexless art school vomit. 3-0-1

R&B fulfilling its promise as some outer-space, face-melting sheeeet. 5-2-4

This ren faire fucks. 5-2-3

Eat your vegetables 3-4-4

Making disco safe for straight, white people.

Maybe a reasonable case for cultural appropriation. 3-4-3

Americans doing Brits doing Americans doing rock n roll. 2-2-6

The darkness is creeping. 2-7-1

The aliens have already landed, and they’re funkier than us. 6-1-3

Girl nerd beats pretentious British prog rockers at their own game.

The hipster soundtrack to the powerful and quickly faded BLM moment.

Honest hope for a nicer world. 1-7-0

3-5-6

Shit floating. Still better than Whitney. 0-1-0

Serge Gainsbourg and Bruce Springsteen stumble through a night in the 90s London club scene.

Best country album of 2002. 3-5-1

A difficult listen. 1-1-1

It’s not as important as the critics think it is, but it’s still a good time. 4-2-2

Good jazz is good. 5-4-2

“Low End Theory” makes “Empire State of Mind” sound like it’s about Schenectady. 6-3-4

The Dale Carnegie of hip-hop.

Variations on a musical theme. 3-3-3

Let me take my cute pixelated car for a jaunt at a reasonable speed STRAIGHT INTO DRACULA’S DUNGEON.

The four freshmen grow up a little.

A major leap forward for stiff-ass German computer nerd jamzzz.

Mopey folkie embraces his inner Beatles.

One of the last, great gasps of the boom-bap era.

Not as good as the real Elvis, but Brits can only do so much.

Elvis had to die so this glorious music could live on.

It’s fine

Drugs are bad but maybe also great?

Was this supposed to be a Talk Talk album instead?

Not weird enough yet.

Sad. Mostly in a bad way. This list is too British.

Proof there are not 1001 albums you must listen to.

Fucking beautiful

My god

Stones + muscle shoals = masterpiece.

Some great songs, and maybe my favorite Metallica, but the production is garbage