I didn't feel very strongly about this album.

I wasn't jiving with this one. It was interesting, but not something I'd listen to regularly.

I'm not a rap guy, but this is pretty good.

It's one of The Beatles best albums, containing some of their most iconic tracks. At the risk of sounding like every other 5 star review, it really marked a new era that had started to peak out during Rubber Soul, but really hit hard by Revolver. I honestly can't gush about it enough.

This is classic mid 70s metal. Kashmir is the best track but the rest still get you were you're going.

Not my go to, but not bad rock. I'd listen again.

This album was way chiller than I expected. I hadn't listened to much radio head before, so I was surprised at the said back tones of the music. Not bad.

If you're curious about how music shifted from the late 80s to early 90s this is pretty much it.

Look, it's Stevie Wonder. Superstition, Sunshine of my Life, I Believe. This album just gets it done.

While I wouldn't call this bad by any stretch of the margin, it didn't really click with me. I didn't even notice when the album looped back around to the first tracks.

Some good mid 90s grunge.

Some pretty heavy listening for my Monday morning. It definitely sets an energy level though. Solid guitar and pounding drums really elevate this album.

I'm almost too relaxed right now.

I dont like hiphop and yet im still giving this album 5 stars. If you don't know, now you know.

It's not bad, but I wasn't hooked.

This unironically is one of the best rock albums of the 2000s and problem the best protest album of that decade.

This is some solid hard protest metal. I dig it.

"Time to Pretend" made me kind of nostalgic, for that reason 3 stars.

You know, I really like classic rock. I like the tone, I like the musical instrumentation, I like the general vibes. I also like that the albums tend towards 36 minutes long so during say, a project to listen to 1001 albums, I'm not stuck on the same one for an hour and a half. About this album in particular, it rocks. What else is there to say. It's Alice Cooper.

When I started listening to this my buddy told me about how one of the band members burnt down her cheating boyfriends house then got away without criminal prosecution. "Waterfalls" was the only song in this album I could've picked out from a lineup.

During the mid 70s Bowie was moving away from his earlier glam rock work and found himself enthralled with the r&b scene in New York city. This is the point when he stopped dressing in spandex and started wearing loose fitting suits to emulate the culture around that music. It represented one of several major shifts he made in both visual, and more strikingly, audio style over his career. Cue running into John Lennon and a team up on the song "Fame" and you've got a strong album in what was Bowie's in a decade of strong albums.

Look, this album is just good. Like really, genuinely good. Listen to the whole with nothing but a neat glass of bourbon keeping you company and be enthralled the entire time good.

This is an example of one of those albums that lulls you into a sense of tranquility until you realize how dark the lyrics are. Pretty good all things considered.

It was some nice easy listening. The only reason it doesn't stand out more to me is probably because the influences this album had on contemporary western artists at the time has resulted in the sound feeling less revolutionary to modern ears than it would've back then.

Alllllll that jazz

I mean, it was pretty good mid 2000s rock. I don't have a super strong opinion on it though.

Some pretty good smooth listening

I was going to say this is an example of music from Bob Dylan's best era, but he had a lot of best eras so that's hard to narrow down. The only reason this is getting 4 stars instead of 5 is because I like the studio version of these songs better. Well, that and the electric half of the album being a bit weaker than the acoustic.

It's got a groove that I can dig.

I'm not feeling this one. If I wanted to listen to something inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd I'd listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd. One star awarded back for some good political commentary

This is some feel good music. My moods lifting just listening to it.

This has got a nice soul sound and some complete classic tracks. 4 stars

This feels like a prime example of skatepark rock.

This album was described as giving the feeling of a night in a jazz club and delivered that excellently

I like this album quite a bit, it's one I listened to semi frequently before I started the 1001 albums thing and it's one I'm going to continue listening to after. It's fascinating to listen to music from a birth of a genre and that's exactly what you get from 5th dimension with psychedelic rock. Tropes that would become staples are first taking shape here.

Not my cup of tea

One of my favorite albums and possibly the first punk rock album I listened to on repeat, which is ironic considering its much more than just a punk album. London Calling achieves what few albums can, it makes you want to check out the rest of the bands works based on this one experience.

You know, it was a pretty good listen.

I mentioned to my coworker that Rubber Soul was today's album and he asked me where I'd rank that among beatles albums. I told him that's tricky. I love the rolling stones, but there are some really bad rolling stones albums. I love David Bowie, but there are really bad David Bowie albums. There aren't bad Beatles albums. Rubber Soul came when the Beatles were transitioning from the earlier pop rock style to a more experimental kind of music. Let's just say it came out after they met Bob Dylan.

I kind of liked, "Lover l, you should've come over". Other than that I didn't click much with this album.

I mean, this is a classic. There are some songs that can stop feeling special because you've heard them a million times. This album reminds me that they got played a million times because they are special.

Not much to say, Californication is just good.

I mean, it's Abba. The soundtrack of my family roadtrips growing up when my mom had control of the radio.

I'll often say I don't like country, but I like old country. This is old country.

I usually like folk music, but this one doing it for me in a major way. Very middle of the road.

Alot of soul, some jazz sensibilities, and excellent vocals. This is a solid album.

One of my favorite albums a reason why the zombies have a spot in my top ten favorite bands of all time. It's honestly tragic to me that the zombies didn't get more financial success in the 60s and ended up spending much of the subsequent decades not officially together. This was a the album they left on, an album absolutely full of creativity and a sound uniquely there's.

For a British rock album, it feels pretty American, which of course there's constant cultural overlap in music but it still struck me as interesting.

I never get tired of Miles Davis.

An absolute banger of an album and possibly the best by any beatle in their post career. George Harrison's pent up creativity from his later beatle years is finally let out in a truly memorable double album.

I wasn't sure I was going to know anything off this album, then the first song started.

I'm not feeling this one

I mean, I love 7 Nation army if only because of the fact that it's one of the 5 five songs I ever learned on guitar, so points there.

This is a strange album that circled all the way to being engaging to me.

I didn't feel very strongly about this album.

This album feels ahead of it's time, which for an album that came out in 1969 means it feels about mid 70s. It's got some groove and some soul that I can get down with.

It's Exile on main Street, I mean, do I even need to justify giving this album 5 stars. It's one of the rolling stones best works and at double the length of a standard LP there's even more to love.

Honestly. A pretty weird album. I liked it.

Generally a very good listening experience. Good energy, a heavy sound that isn't too intense as to be off-putting. Bonus points for the David Bowie cover.

I love this album. I love its theatrical style, I love the songs themselves, I love how disjointed they can be from one to the other. I could bring up Freddy's vocals, but you already know.

Seven Seas of Rye is my favorite song off this album. It's generally quite good.

Some generally solid indy rock.

This gives "doctors waiting room".

This was a bit strange. I think I'll stick with punk over post punk.

No real strong feelings here on this one.

One of the Berlin Trilogy albums, Heroes displays a Bowie doing what he does best, experimenting. The titular song of the album is the most well known and arguably the best, but that shouldn't discount the creativity on display throughout the rest of the tracks. While the first half of songs are more typical to what you might expect from Bowie in this era, the second half opens up to some atmospheric instrumental tracks that I really enjoy. All in all, a solid listen.

What can I say about Taylor Swift that hasn't already been said. She's good at what she does and unlike many artist who perform the same genres of music, she has only gotten progressively better as her career has gone on. 1989 is a great pop album. The tracks when from new to iconic on a dime and several of them are going to be in the popular consciousness for years.

This album rocks, there's not much else to say.

I hadn't heard any Brian Eno before this. It's pretty good, I might check out some more.

I have no complaints about this album. A couple songs stood out I remember hearing a million times on the radio.

A classic album by Marvin Gaye

A fantastic album. No notes

I could say alotbabout how much I love this album, but instead I'm just going to give the hot take the "How Do You Sleep At Night" is rhe greatest dis track of all time.

I wasn't jiving with this one. It was interesting, but not something I'd listen to regularly.

In general this was a pretty decent album.

I waited to write my review until the Monday after the Friday I listened to the album now I can't remember anything about it. That means it wasn't bad enough to get two stars but wasn't good enough to get four.

I love the mama's and the papas so there's no way this was going to get less than four stars from me and with songs as iconic as "California Dreaming", there's no reason it should.

Nothing about this album really popped out at me.

I'm not a rap guy, but this is pretty good.

A bit generic to be honest.

Not particularly memorable

This album absolutely shreds. It did the best thing an album can do, it left me thinking I need to listen to more Metallica.

I always love to hear some bob marely, and No Woman No Cry is an absolutely fantastic song.

I don't typically find this style of music very engaging and this wasn't an exception.

Some reasonably good late 80s rock.

Arguably Billy Joel's best album. "The Stranger" really strikes alot of chords with me. The thematic elements, the inclusion of some of his finest songs from "Anthony's Song (moving out)" to "Vienna", the fact that the rollicking story of a song that is "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" was his attempt to emulate the beatles, there's a lot here I like.

While Duran Duran isn't my first choice to listen to, this album is full of absolute classics.

Generally enjoyable, not mind blowing.

I didn't find this one particularly memorable.

It's "Rumours", I can't say much about this album that hasn't been said. It's one of the best selling records in history and it deserves it.

Love some Janis Joplin.

This is the album that began my obsession with David Bowie's music. I bought it at a book store because I recognized the song "Starman" and figured if that was on there the rest ofnthe tracks had to be pretty good too. Ironically, it wasn't love at first listen. I played it once or twice right after getting it, but didn't immediately feel the magic. Cue a couple months later when something clicked in my brain and all of a sudden I had it playing daily. Then I began a deep dive of Bowie's discography that lasted the rest of that year and catapulted him to a firm spot in my top five artists. Needless to say after all that, I dig it.

I'd never heard Joy Division before this, so it was a novel experience for me. All in all not terrible.

There's some really iconic music in here. You really get a sense that the 60s were starting to come grow up out of the 50s musical origins in these tracks

I've often said I don't like country. But I do like old country.

Non offensive not memorable though.

A couple memorable songs effectively lure a listener into hearing more Coldplay than whatever the radio decides to put on.

This is an absolutely classic piece of rock and roll. A couple of hits, a couple or tracks I haven't heard before, all good.

I've never much listened to Jethro Tull, I may listen to more after hearing this album.

Not my flavor, but I recognize good when I hear it.

I do genuinely like Otis Redding, so this rating was a forgone conclusion.

A couple of really solid songs make for an enjoyable listen even if alot of the tracks didn't resonate with me.

I mean, it's got "Sultans of Swing", who could ask for anything more?

This album does a pretty good job telling stories through its songs and in-between bits, which I always appreciate.

I'm not even going to deny I'm a bit biased when giving this album 4 stars. There are some genuinely good tracks here, Paul was fresh of the beatles and looking to experiment a little bit. That meant there were also some ok tracks. I really like the album though, so four stars it is.

An enjoyable listen.

Nothing was really popping out for me on this one.

Some reasonably good 90s rock.

An interesting sound.

The velvet underground feels like something I should like more than I do, but I always feel just kind of meh when listening to it.

This album gets you from the first note on the titular song.

There were some good, recognizable songs here and some equally good ones I'd never heard before.

I genuinely like paul simon, so no surprise I enjoyed this album.

Honestly, I found this one to be a bit too generic to be memorable.

A generally enjoyable album with some versions of songs I like.

No strong opinions on this one.

I can dig it.

I liked it more than I thought I would.

An all time classic album.

It's alright, it didn't jump out at me that much though.

Oh. So that's where the soundtrack from every movie I grew up with came from.

It's alright

I don't like country music, but I love this album. I can't really give a higher compliment.

Genuinely well written rap. Rap will never be my favorite genre, but I recognize good when I hear it.

I like it, not much more complicated than that.

It's something I can listen to, but not something I'd pick out of a line up to listen to.

I'll never say no to some B. B. King

I mean, if I wanted to listen to german influenced experimental music from the late 70s I'd put on Bowie's Berlin trilogy

I solid album that led to even greater ones down the line.

There are a lot of all time classics on this album. Even if the lyrics for "brown sugar" haven't aged well, the sound has.

Let me share something with you. I'd purposefully avoided listening to this album for a couple years now, not because I didn't think I'd enjoy it, but rather because I know I would. A few years ago I received a copy of Paul McCartney's RAM on vinyl for Christmas, an album I'd never heard before, and proceeded to pull my record player into the bathroom so I could drink beer in the shower while listening to it for the first time. Christmas of course being one of the two days a year I indulge in that most tantalizing of vices known as shower beer. I've been chasing the high of that morning ever since. I'd planned on not listening to The Wall in a similar fashion, which brings me back to my avoiding it for years. That said, engaging in the challenge of this app isn't about some personal goal of musically shangri-la, it's about hearing new music you otherwise might not have been exposed to due to your own biases. So, instead of listening to the wall for the first time on my terms, I listened at my desk at work at 7am before anyone else is usually in the office. It was spectacular.

That's all folk

I mean, it's exactly as advertised. If I could give it 2.5 stars I would, because it's neither exceptionally wonderful or dreadfully bad. It is what it is.

A certified classic if I'd ever heard one, the only problem with this album is how short it is.

I do really like this album, it's one of the three that first got me into punk rock.

Well, it was something I'd never heard before, but I can't say it made a tremendous impression in the sea of albums on this list.

Alot of people might get annoyed if I call the sound of this album nostalgic, but it came out when I was five, so sue me.

A bit of good hip hop, no complaints here.

Look, I properly love the doors. Having this album pop up basically prompted me to listen to three others by them right after. That's definitely worth 4 stars.

It's alright, my only complaint has nothing to do with the music, just that I couldn't listen to it on spotify

You know, it's amazing how many albums on this list I'm just kind of mid on

I was pleasantly surprised by this album. I'd never heard of it, had no expectations walking in, and found it a pretty good listen. It's got this nice hard rock feel that borders on grunge before grunge was a thing that just kind of works.

I always love some johny cash and this album is no exception. Not quite as strong as Folsom, but still fantastic.

Now is probably a good time to confess to the class that I don't like Mr. Brightside

This is from that era after punk had hit the scene, but they weren't really sure what the next big wave of music was going to be and it shows.

It's weird and I'm here for it.

Three stars for just the great dichotomy of the album jame and band name. Also because while I don't like modern country, I'll mess around with some old school country that hasn't forgotten it's blues roots yet.

Is three stars too high for albums I feel indifferent to? Because I give a lot of albums I feel indifferent to three stars

OK, but this kind of slays. No expectations going in, and absolutely chuffed.

Slayed? Is a question. The answer is yes.

Look, this could be pretty much any elvis content and it's getting high marks. He's the king.

A guy I know was so excited to hear I had hit this album. He said it was one of his all time favorites. I didn't have the heart to tell him I don't like techno.

For an album called garbage by a group called garbage, it isn't garbage.

The question: should you listen to this album? The answer: Yes

It's some pop music, that's all I've got to say really.

There's nothing inherently spooky about this album, and yet, it feels like it'd fit in well on a Halloween Playlist

This is one of my favorite Bowie albums, possibly my number 1 favorite. He didn't have his big break until Ziggy Stardust, but I can only imagine how thrilled his new fans were after discovering that album to realize he already had this gem in his backlog.

Another one of those albums that I more or less enjoyed listening to, but didn't get a strong impression from.

This was different in a good way

This one didn't speak to me.

What can I say about this album? It starts out strong with "mothers little helper" then doesn't lose pace from there. It's got some of the earlier stones best tracks on it and it's probably what I'd play for someone if they hadn't ever heard much of the stones and I wanted to intro them to their work. Enough said.

Is alright

I was a pretty good listen, but falls into that category of I probably won't go out of my way to seek it out again.

I keep forgetting I like the yardbirds and then every once in a while get something like this to remind me.

This was an enjoyable listen. I might come back to Fiona Apple at some point.

Another one of those, I can take it or leave it albums.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for jazz

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young hit just right every now and then. This was every now and then.

Not bad listening, but it almost felt a bit like waiting room music.

I mean, it was as weird as the name suggested. Not my kind of weird though.

I'm always here for the kinks, every day of the week

I mean come on, it's Elvis. Who doesn't like Elvis?

So this is how I find out I don't like the Beastie Boys. Well, it was bound to happen eventually.

That was the best album named after a small island off the coast of Massachusetts I've ever heard.

Not bad, not mind blowingly amazing either.

This album is one of the all time greats. Everytime it comes across my path I have a great listen.

Rush isn't my favorite band on the planet but by god they are good at what they attempt to acomplish.

This was short but sweet. I always like some Ray Charles

Sort of mid, but that's not always a bad thing.

The algorithm fed me two Ray Carles albums in one week, and I've got absolutely no problem with this.

Turns out I don't like early 2000s pop style Madonna, who'd have guessed?

This is a classic in all the right ways. Now if only the majority of the listening public could realize the song "born in the USA" is a protest song and not a patriotic anthem, it'd be perfect.

Earth, Wind, & Fire is one of those groups that really does hit just right on occasion, but only on occasion.

Kick out the jams was alright, but not really my jam. Still good enough for 3 stars though.

You know, not my favorite.

I mean, it certainly was black metal.

Not exactly my favorite album on the list so far.

Another fine album from Springsteen. Not my favorite of his discography, but a good listen nonetheless.

I always like a bit of punk in my day.

I kind of like this one, maybe it's because I'm listening to it in October so it just felt thematically right, but it's had a solid sound and we'll developed themes.

Some 60s music I hadn't heard before, pretty good.

Generally unmemorable.

This album hits just right. Some really smooth listening.

It's one of The Beatles best albums, containing some of their most iconic tracks. At the risk of sounding like every other 5 star review, it really marked a new era that had started to peak out during Rubber Soul, but really hit hard by Revolver. I honestly can't gush about it enough.

I really have developed a love for Bob Dylan's music recently and this album is a fine example of some of his better work.

I think this was my first experience with nine inch nails and, pretty solid

I took a rare day off work in late October just for myself, went from a long run, came back tired as a dog and collapsed on my couch. I opened this app and this album popped up. It's hard to really describe if you weren't here with me, but it fit this moment in time so well.

Another day, another album that I wouldn't object to if it came on the radio but probably wouldn't specifically seek out when trying to decide on what to listen to that day.

Now this is what I'm after. Something completely different than what I hear on the day to day. It's a pretty interesting combination of jazz with a unique flair from the more traditional Indian sounds included.

This album did prompt me having to explain to somebody what phrenology was and why that's a cleverly ironic title for a hip hop album, so I got a free pass to be a know it all.

This just felt kind of nostalgic for what my mom would have playing in the car during ling road trips.

What can be said about this album that hasn't been said. It has some all time great tracks that have more than stood the test of time.

It was good, but in a nothing particularly stands out kind of way.

I'm still not the biggest rap guy, but I recognize good when I hear it.

Nothing to write home about, but still an enjoyable listen.

I always like when jazz pops up on this list and this was no exception.

I really do like guns n' roses and this album has always been a little special to me.

Stevie Wonder always makes me smile.

I mean, it's Mariah. It been in the public space for so long it makes me feel like I'm wandering a mall listening. That isn't exactly a bad thing.

This was an enjoyable kind of weird.

An enjoyable listen. It really feels like a solid representation of a mid 60s music

This is one of those albums you hear about and think, "surely it can't live up to the hype". Then it does.

This one was a surprise. I'd never heard of it before, but the creativity involved got my interest right from the start.

Not my cup of tea

Pretty smooth listening.

A very enjoyable listen that I wish had been longer.

Curtis Mayfield did not have to go as hard as he did for a movie soundtrack, but we're all lucky he did.

It's always a good day with Dolly

I wasn't really feeling this. It may have felt novel when it came out, but came off as a bit generic to my ears on this listen.

I listened to this album through a busy morning, it didn't hit me too hard one way or the other, but kept me going, so that's worth 3 stars.