1001 Albums Summary

Surprised it was David Byrne's singing that held me back from loving this. Really loved the odd delivery and exaggerated emotion on some songs but it veered into silly too often. Love the groovy music and steel drums and chimes.

Just great vibes that set a chill mood but tons there to appreciate with more intentional listening.

Confirms my very odd preference for the two Beastie Boys instrumental albums. I just don't find their rapping/singing that fun to listen to, but the music is such a cool mix of funk and rock and hiphop.

How do you get voices and instruments to sound this clean and shimmering in the 70s? Just the coolest vibes.

Just didn't grab me like I hoped. I Shall Be Released is still one of my favorite songs ever, though.

He's pretty cool, really love the guitar and harmonica combo. He's a little too cute for me to ever love the way I love Leonard Cohen.

Immigrant Song is so cool but nothing else on this album is to me. I think it's mostly Robert Plant's vocal.

It would be cool to find some modern defense of this, but it's just way too artificial to find any interest in. Spears has a good voice and the hits are catchy (but in an annoying way). The worst era of pop?

Holy shit, this was cooking. I think I had a very wrong idea of what this album would be.

Cheeky, kinda funky and kinda funny, not my vibe

Stress is like the platonic ideal of a dance party vibe to me.

Feels lame to not like this but this era of hip-hop doesn't grab me.

Good voice, dorky production/ instrumentation

The British electronic scene of the late 90s/early 00s had the highest highs but also the lowest lows.

British Strokes... yuck

I really expected to hate this, but it was pretty tight. The organ is just a totally uncool instrument though.

She's pretty cool, could use a little more variety

Impossible voice

Not abrasively bad but left my brain two seconds after I listened to it

Love this, they're great

I liked it so much more than Freewheelin'. Great sound, playful but not silly, catchy, funny.

Dorky as hell, cool as hell

Dorky as hell, not cool at all

Sounds just like Steely Dan but somehow isn't Steely Dan... except for that one song about the radio station.

Rocks hard but didn't grab me

I wish the whole album was as good as Sultans of Swing

I dunno, didn't leave any impression

This book/list is too British

Great sounding guitars, but the vocals were weirdly mixed. Never had this critique before.

Cute, kind of catchy, didn't grab me

Kinda catchy, doesn't do it for me like The Beatles

Neat, a mixed bag like most Queen albums

Perfectly fine, just not for me

Good blues, I just don't like blues that much

Good, sad, a little simple, I like his following albums more

Cute, doesn't grab me

The extremely rare feeling that technological improvement has made a piece of music redundant.

It's got two of my favorite singles from the Stones ever but the rest didn't grab me that hard.

Silly to rate it like this because it clearly has ambitious, talent, and intelligence, but it felt like listening to a Monty Python/ Terry Gilliam skit for 40 minutes.

Vibed with this, fun album

Very cool but something about White's songwriting/ lyrics doesn't win me over fully

Quirked up Beatles

Cool and chill, will listen again

Fuller sound, like the tunes less than White Blood Cells