1001 Albums Summary

So, so lovely.

I Got the Beat and especially Our Lips Are Sealed are so, so good. The rest of the album is good enough, but just didn’t grab me like those two tracks.

Where Is My Mind seems like it comes from an entirely different album. Not necessarily a different band, but a band that has gone through big changes and sounds nothing like their old selves. I think it might be because I came late to the party, and spent so much time listening to Pixies descendants (Nirvana), but the rest of the album didn’t hugely grab me. Gigantic was pretty cool.

I only know The Beach Boys from their very best, which is transcendently good. Combined with my previous 1001 albums pick being The Who’s “Who’s Next”, also released in 1971, the album suffered greatly in comparison and my main impression was “corny”. Still had some nice harmonies, though.

The first band in the project that I had absolutely never heard of, and, damn, these ladies rock!

Solid. Favorite song: In the Mood For Love with Bonnie Raitt

Loved it. Listened to it all weekend, and then went for Iggy’s other solo stuff, too.

“I’ll see what I can do”

Eh, I guess Morrissey just isn’t my bag.

I thought Bohemian Rhapsody would be the oddest thing on here, but this is odd all the way through. Loved it!

Meh. Nothing grabbed me. My kid said VM sings like he’s missing five teeth.

Even I’ll admit the Beatles were pretty good.

Growly, blues mess. Couldn’t understand a word. Loved it.

Only as funky as your last cut.

Moody, unique, and out-of-time.

Deeply silly. “Genius of Love” is a banger.

Grooving, vibing.

Smooth, but maybe just not for me.

I feel like In Rainbows gets overshadowed in the critical consensus by several other Radiohead albums, but it’s definitely my favorite. One of my top 10 albums.

Sarah Vaughn is so damn cool on this album. Listen to it 70 years after the recording and you’ll get 1% cooler just through osmosis. It’s great.

The most not-for-me thing I’ve heard on 1,001 so far. Hated it.

I was very excited 85 strongly on this place

I like it more than I thought, but I was coming in with very low expectations. Psychoanalyzing pop culture figures is dicey, but mostly what I heard was an untreated bipolar manic episode.

Favorites: Criminal, Shadowboxer, Sleep to Dream

Moody. I liked it well enough, but I don’t think it’s one I’ll revisit.

I’m not old enough to have been there at the time. Any time I hear Bob Dylan, the music seems good, but then he sings and it sounds like a bit, like a Saturday Night Live skit, and I just can’t take it seriously.

I just listened to this album in my driveway in Florida’s mid-day August heat while plugging a hole in my flat tire. If that’s not the perfect context to enjoy this, then I don’t know what perfection is. Five stars.

I like the music better, but it’s still Dylan singing. Ugh.

Le Freak is still a banger. The rest is ok, but doesn’t grab me like that.

Earnest and well-made. I didn’t feel like I was really connecting to it, but it did put me in a state of melancholic reflection, so that’s something.

On the strength of Immigrant Song, I think. Goddamn, I love that song.

“Artificial” seems like a weird criticism for an electronic album, but this whole thing just felt too glossy for its own good.

Pleasant enough, but nothing that really left an impression on me.

I was really not enjoying this at first, but the retro vibes of the second half really won me over.

As I was listening, I felt like I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it. Eventually, that lack of reaction kind of made me hate it, though.

Earlier in the project, Astral Weeks from 1968 grated on me, but 1970’s Moondance had me grooving’ along. Did VM change in two years, or did I change in two months?

Not a classic to me, but pretty solid.

I couldn’t find this actual album or even info on it; it seems to be kind of an obscure release. But, I found a YouTube playlist that might be right. I put it on repeat while I did laundry and cleaned the house, and it was grooving and very fun.

The day after Dolly died, this comes up in the supposedly random project? Well, it’s great regardless. “Wildflowers” became one of my top ten Dolly songs on my first listen.

I did not think of myself as a Billy Joel guy, but this album was a vibe and it sucked me in.

I did not now know there was going to be so much murder.

I wasn’t into Linkin Park at the height of their popularity, but somehow retroactively my opinion of them seemed to rise somewhat. After listening to this album frobt to back though, woof, I was right not to be a fan.

Freedom 90 was cool. The rest was OK, but not really my thing. I could see how this might’ve influenced Robbie Williams/boy bands later on. And I heard a surprising amount of Michael Jackson influence on George Michael.

Couldn’t get into it.

Wow. I was not prepared for how Cooke just rips through this set.

Clint Eastwood in 19 2000 I’ve been on my playlist for 25 years, but I’ve never actually listen to this whole album. It’s OK.

Harmonize, strum, harmonize, strum. Zzzzzzz.

Way twangier than my normal listening, but had some good songs. I’d never heard of Joe Ely before the project, but I might check out some stuff now.

I think I would’ve thought higher listening in a more country music context. I say 3.5 stars, so I’ll round it to 4.

I can see where people would dig it, but maybe I’m just not that kind of people.

I like to several of the early songs, ”fall at your feet”, especially. But then it just kept going on and on it felt like.

I don’t know a huge amount about N.E.R.D, but based on the singles I would’ve thought “In Search Of…” would be the album here. “Fly Or Die” kind of left me underwhelmed.

“Cry To Me” being about a man crying on another man’s shoulder would feel progressive and surparising to me today, much less being from 60 years ago.

I was not feeling this the first time at all, but I’m glad I gave it a second listen the next day. It grew on me, but it still seems more like vibes than songs.

“Everybody Wants To Rule the World” is an all-timer when you’re in the mood for that specific sound, but the rest just blended together for me.

This is my comfort food. I’ve listened to some of these songs hundreds of times, and I’ll probably listen hundreds more before I die.

At the beginning of the album, I thought I could picture someone that enjoyed this, but it just wasn’t going to be me. As it just kept going and going, that hypothetical enjoyer got harder and harder to imagine. Ys didn’t make me actively angry like a few of the albums in the project, but that’s as positive as I could frame my reaction. I made it all the way through, but never want to hear this again.

Hell yeah!

The three songs that start the album, “Good Times Roll”, “My Best Friend’s Girl”, “Just What I Needed”, I was vaguely aware of as 80’s cheese. But, A) they’re actually from 1978, and B) within the context of this project they were pretty rocking driving fast with the windows down.

Zzzzz

Great “driving down the highway with the windows down and the radio cranked up” music.