1001 Albums Summary

As 80s as it gets. Worth a listen but probably not a second.

Very Bowie-ish, just not as good

I would never call myself a fan, but it’s hard to deny how good this album is

Probably would have liked it if all the songs weren’t 90 seconds or less

A bit too show-tuney for my taste

The whole was much bette than the sum of its parts

Maybe if I had been in the right mood this could have been better, but as it was this was mediocre at best

The nadir of generic 50s music.

I was expecting to like this more than I did. It was generally unremarkable.

Undeniably the best Cure album

Very 80s pop

A solid album all the way through with a couple of hits to lift it above the noise.

A sort of cross between the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, but not in a good way.

Not available but also doesn’t sound like something I’d like.

Not their best album, but still enjoyed it

Early Beatles is not good.

Fine but very forgettable. If I heard one of the songs again I would not recognize it.

It’s no Violator, but still a very good album

Not a big Wu-Tang fan, but once every 20 years it’s enjoyable.

Very mellow background music

I like a few songs, but overall not a big fan

A cross between the Cure and Bob Dylan. Very mellow, but not very memorable.

Perfectly fine for what it is- I just don’t really like country

More a loose collection of singles than an album. Either way, not my style.

Very ahead of its time, but still not very good.

Effectively the girl from Ipanema as a 45 minute long song.

Maybe if they just picked the top 10 it would have had a chance.

It has potential but I just can’t get into French rap

A sci-fi movie with no dialogue.

Groove is in the heart and a bunch of songs just like it

The extreme misogyny was bad even in the 90s. As an adult it definitely taints an album I once loved.

I have never liked the Who. This album did nothing to change that.

Coldplay has definitely grown on me over the years

It was good, but as a purely instrumental album it’s missing something

Certainly not my favorite Beastie Boys album, but still good

A nice change of pace for a hot summer day

Fine but completely forgettable.

Decent, but not very memorable. The songs all last about a minute longer than they should.

It seemed like it had potential at the start but it got worse, not better

Mellow hip hop- a good driving album

An obvious 5 if there ever was one

British 70s punk. Better than expected.

I’m not seeing the genius of this album

I have never liked the who. This album does nothing to change that.

A few very good songs, but the rest was underwhelming

It was fine, but no songs stood out.

Five seems like a stretch, but I love AC/DC

Not their best album, but they’re all great.

Started strong, but ended weak

It was fine, but not sure what made it list-worthy

Surprisingly good for a genre I don’t like

I like some Neil Young, but this album was a bit sleepy for my tastes.

Not sure how this made the list. Obvious White Stripes and similar copycat just not nearly as good.

Would have been better with fewer slow songs

Do you like Jazz? Sometimes, and this was a solid entry in the genre.

All his best songs on one album

Sort of a big band version of bob marley? Maybe not for every day, but as a once off it was very good.

The intro was the best song. After that it was just mediocre 00’s fare.

I get why people love it (and it’s definitely his best album), but just not my jam.

Very mellow, but it works if you’re in the right mood for it.

The gold standard for jazz. I just don’t like any jazz enough to give it a five.

Borderline 5.

One of their best albums

Just plain awful from start to finish.

The instrumentals had potential but the vocals were beyond terrible

Feels like the soundtrack to a Bond film. Decent, but nothing to keep me coming back.

It had potential, but was much too slow for me

It was fine, just not very memorable

Meh. It wasn’t terrible, but it definitely didn’t hook me at all.

Very dated.

Not a country fan, but this was kind of good.

A cross between Radiohead and Sting? A few good songs but a few weak ones too.

Just a classic album.

Probably wouldn’t have liked it if I weren’t already a fan, but it was a fun concept. Just a little too heavy on the Load/Reload albums.

One of the greatest albums of all time

He has a few songs I like, but a whole album is too much

If you like one song you like them all because they all sound the same

Good for what it is; it’s just not my genre of choice

Pretty good, though it probably would have been more impressive in its day before lots of imitators

I was holding out hope but the moment they started signing it was over

It has been a while since I’ve listened to this, but it mostly holds up

A fantastic album from start to finish

Very underwhelming 90 rock. Not bad enough to warrant a 1- just unremarkably bad.

Better than I expected.

Surprisingly enjoyable on the first listen. Not sure how it will hold up over time, but for now I enjoyed it a lot.

I’d really like it if they stopped pushing the Who on me- they’re not good. Also, live albums don’t really belong.

I would either start to really like this or really hate it after a few listens- just not sure which. But on the first pass it was certainly not terrible.

This was just bad.

A bit too much Metallica on this list, but this is my favorite album of theirs, so no complaints here.

A good album for when you want to feel like a bad ass while mowing the lawn

Trying too hard at something but I don’t know what

Good, but not particularly memorable

This was very enjoyable

Surprised I had never heard this. Overall pretty good.

Chuck D sure has a lot of grievances.

Good background music for a dinner party?

I like Johnny Cash but I don’t think live albums generally belong on the list

Zeppelin. Enough said.

Expecting Red Red Wine but instead got a surprisingly good 2-tone/reggae album

Far too much 70s/80s British punk albums on this list. They all sound pretty much the same.

A sleepier version of Sheryl Crow? Definitely a miss for me.

Better as an album than as individual songs. Decent but not great.

A solid 70s rock album

Decent, but a bit too sleepy and experimental for my taste

Not sure if it’s a criticism or compliment, but for an album I’d never heard, I felt like I recognized a lot of the songs.

The gold standard for dad rock

Good as background techno but nothing to lift it up beyond that

Undeniably a Queen album, but clearly not their strongest

A slow Peter Gabriel-ish 80s album.

I’m not qualified to differentiate between good and bad jazz, but I liked this.

Ok, but not particularly catchy or memorable.

The soundtrack for the villain in a New Orleans-themed musical.

Decent overall, though so songs drag on longer than they should

Neil Young has many songs I like; none of them are on this album

This is a weird one, but an enjoyable deviation from the usual.

Not their best album to me, but it’s still great

I forgot how much I enjoyed this kind of music.

A bit too 50s pop for me

Certainly not their best album

Based on the description I was expecting to like this album- I most definitely did not.

Very 90s sound- it grew on me over the course of the album

Better than expected for an early Beatles album

I enjoyed it more now than when it first came out.

Decent instrumentals; terrible lead singer

An ace pitcher who lost his fastball- good, but not what he once was.

I get the vibe they’re going for, but it’s a miss for me

More country than I expected; it didn’t help.

I was optimistic early on, but it just never got there

Now that is a proper Bowie album.

The title track is a good song- the rest is largely Beatles filler- ok, but not memorable.

A quick 10 songs in 30 minutes, but solid all the way through

I remember being so excited when this album came out only to be wildly disappointed because it wasn’t nearly as good as the first two. It has aged ok, but still a distant third.

It grew on me and I made it through the whole album with no skips, so that’s clearly a win, though not something I’d ever listen to again.

Sooooo slow and sleepy

Just terrible

Not as good as his non-solo work, but still good. Not super different than late White Stripes, but not quite to that level.

Standard reggae- good but nothing elevating it above the crowd

Just an hour long 60s jam session.

Much better than the other Common album on this list.

A good chill vibes album, though it does get a little monotonous by the end

This was not good. Not specifically bad enough to warrant a 1- just generally unenjoyable.

An odd, very mood setting orchestral album. Enjoyed it but probably just the once.

I knew the hits but had never heard the full album.

The title track is decent; the rest of the album is similar but worse.

Much more of an 80s ska band than I had expected

A great album with several hits to put it over the top

I have never disliked Elvis Costello- it’s just not something I would listen to on purpose.

It was just a bit too much to get into.

I can appreciate it for what it is, but it wasn’t a particularly enjoyable listen.

If it were a score to a movie it could be good- as a stand alone album less so.

There’s a reason she’s as big of a star as she is, but the style gets a bit repetitive for me over the course of a full album.

As a longtime ska fan I feel like I’m supposed to love this, but I just couldn’t

A solid album with a few standout hits.

Son of a preacher man is a great song; the rest is very sleepy

An all time classic

Decent ‘world music’

Bland.

Classic soft rock. I recognized a lot more than I expected, but not in a good way.

Complete and utter garbage- just noise that makes you ask if the CD is skipping only to realize it’s not a CD.

Then it’s are fine but not my jam; the rest does little to elevate it to something I’d want to listen to

Couldn’t find the whole album anywhere, but what I could find was decent but not great.

I was optimistic, but this is a bridge too far for me.

I remember this being all the rage back in the day. It still holds up well, though more as a change of pace than anything else.

Overall not great, but the hits are enough to pull it up to a 3

Pleasant but not very memorable

Jazz. Not all that distinctive to me, but good.

Not sure how great this album is, but it well encapsulates the sound of that genre/era

The hits are great, but some low end filler too.

60 psychedelic / like old Pink Floyd, but not as good

I enjoyed the fast paced dance tunes- the slow ones weren’t my jam

Not an old timey country music fan, but a lot of very recognizable songs

If anyone was ever born to sign the theme song for a Bond movie, it was Amy Winehouse

Inoffensive but not very exciting. I don’t mind listening to it, but I would never do so by choice.

A bit too all over the place for me.

Kind of just one long song, but an enjoyable one

The musical equivalent of Radiohead fan fiction. Good, but not as good as the real thing.

I can’t imagine not liking this album

Far and away the moodiest Springsteen album, but in a good way

It was fine, but it blends in with ever other album from this genre

This is a weird one. Definitely some similarities to very early Pink Floyd, but in Portuguese. Still, I enjoyed it (at least for a one off drive to work).

Not available though Apple Music and I’m not killing myself to track it down .

I’m sure this album would speak to me if I were a 15 girl growing up in Oklahoma. For me it’s just plain awful.

I was never a fan to begin with but this has aged very poorly. The lyrics just seem juvenile and very misogynistic to the point of being unlistenable.

Any sleepier and I might have passed out behind the wheel.

Listen to the whole album without skipping but probably couldn’t recall a single song I hear because nothing stood out.

I was whelmed.

I like U2 but this isn’t even top 5 for them. The hits are decent but the rest is weak

A little too unpolished- too close to people actually screwing around with recording equipment in their garage for me.

Decent, but like a lot of these albums unmemorable.

I was wary at first but it grew on me. Some Nirvana-ish vibes.

A solid bluesy 70s rock album

Surprisingly familiar disco album

Decent, but it would be better as a solo album than the stream of celebrity cameos

Not bad, but a whole album was a bit much

Annoying that it isn’t available on normal platforms, but still worth the effort to track down because it’s a classic.

I agree that this belongs on the list but boy is this an enormous swing and a miss for me

It had potential but the guttural scream vocals aren’t working for me

A very weird mellow psychedelic album. It grew on me as it went on.

Anything less than 100 seconds isn’t a song. It was ok, but there is just too much mediocre punk on this list and none of it stands out.

How is this on the list? It’s neither culturally or artistically important in any way- just a crappy R&B album.

Very 90s dance club background music.

Pleasant, if uninspiring. That said, I made it all the way through without skipping so that’s worth at least a 3.

Some distinct Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead-like songs, though not on that level

Two stars, all on the back of a single aong. The rest had nothing to offer me.

I’m very much a fan, but this is not one of their best albums in my opinion.

Underwhelming 60s fare

This was just consistently terrible all the way through

Good for what it is- it’s just not my thing

From the same band the wrote low rider? Very surprised but very enjoyable

Am I a Bjork fan? That might be going too far but this was far more approachable and enjoyable than expected.

Not a live album fan, and this isn’t his best stuff, but I still enjoy James Brown

Low end 80s synthesizer music

Like going to a children’s music recital and the band is much better, but your kid isn’t playing.

A few hits with some uneven 80s fare in between

The slow, mellow vibe was fine- it was the length of the songs that killed it.

I used to own this album but it’s been a long time. Still a very enjoyable thrash album after all these years.

One pretty good song followed by a very different rest of the album.

Very early Dropkick Murphys-esque which makes sense because it’s from essentially the same time.

A good upbeat driving album.

Started the fed better than expected, but it was too much of the same thing all the way through which lost my interest

A funky jam all the way through

Reasonably enjoyable, but not all that inspiring. That said, it certainly doesn’t deserve much of the hate it gets in the reviews.

I don’t think I’d want to listen to any of these songs as a standalone single, but as an album it works.

A little too out there for a 5 but still a fun album

This is only on the list because of what they became- on its own it’s a mediocre album with a bunch of covers

Very 80s with a lead singer very reminiscent of a lot of others from that era.

Surprisingly more folk rock than hard rock

Jazz- it’s fine.

That Isaac Hayes sure can cook. The songs are insanely long, but after a bit you really settle into them. Could have been a 5 without the 8.5 minute spoken word intro to the last song.

The comments suggest in really supposed to hate the lead singer, but with no external context it was pretty good.

A decent cover band, but not really bringing much in their own

OK, but definitely not as good as the other album on this list

Varied and able to swing between pleasant background music and grabbing my attention back

Good to start when it’s a bit more bluesy, but a whole album wears on as it gets to too druggy and political.

Boxcars was a decent song- the rest is too country and I don’t really like country

A lot of familiar songs, but very dated and not my jam.