1001 Albums Summary

first tape i ever wore out. millions of listens to this record.

I'm a bit disappointed with all the fade outs on guitar solos. This record feels like a shot at Elvis, leave the C&W to the pros. - i hear this especially in the way Waylon is singing the ballads. Maybe this is a chicken egg situation where producers in Nashville had been heavily influenced by Elvis in the decade before this came out. "got an education paid for by the law"

what a bore. I'm sure there is genius in here somewhere, but most of the time i just can not even figure out what he is thinking about. I get zero emotional resonance. Mostly I feel like Rufus thinks he's so much cooler than the rest of us cause he lives in NYC. (or something... how do you like them apples?) The melodies and themes mostly sound the same.

"whatever happened to humanity?" I better stop with the pull quotes now before it gets out of control. this record is really good. such funk. Right as grunge is hitting big and everyone is slam dancing or mosh pitting this is probably the only caucasian record that came out in 1991 that you could actually dance to. Sir Psycho Sexy is my favorite track. the bubble bass is outstanding

This record is entirely too short. As a contemporary of Paul Simon I wonder what Nick would have got up to in the 80s and beyond. similar to Rufus I sometimes dont know what Nick's talking about, but i feel more curious instead of talked over.

this record is a head scratcher. There's at least 3 other Nick Cave records I would pick over this one. Its too slow, too samey and rather boring. Its not bad, just boring. Listen to Dig Lazarus Dig instead.

Just a solid record. I guess so far I mostly like the funk records.

Straight forward rock and roll from a time when everyone played everyone else's songs and used everyone else's band members.

Straight rock and roll. Awesome guitar solos with a driving beat all the way through. In contrast to Rod Stewart playing someone else's music using someone else's band these guys are going their own way, doing their own thing. It feels like a sea change from the 60s to modern music. I feel like these guys hadn't quite found their groove yet. I think this record is them just showing off their amazing technical skills.

I didn't get into TV until a few years after this record, but this record could have come out in 1991. It is pure alternative. In fact they probably wrote a poem about Madonna. Wear You Out is the perfect end to the record, the bonus tracks spoil that a tiny bit.

Yee haw, this album is great. Traveling Man is down right scandalous. I can't believe how much innuendo is on a record with gospel songs. And does the mother end up eloping with the traveling Man at the end? Wild

If I was a girl 16-24 this would be my favorite record. It's got fall in love songs, breakup songs and even a dance anthem. I do like the middle bit of the record better than the rest: Love you like a Woman, wild at heart and dark but just a game. But since I'm a 50yo man it only gets 2 stars.

another record I missed. I probably wouldnt have appreciated it at 11 and I never really got into the band when they were more popular in the 90s. But I would have loved this record if i found it in the 90s. Great sound scapes. Love the jangly guitars and the vocals.

hard to believe this came out a year before the Dolly Parton record we just listened to. this is it for punk and glam all rolled into one.

in 2001 I was 25 and very serious. I guess I was perfect for Ryan Adams. I wouldn't say this was anything groundbreaking but it is top notch coffee shop rock.

good stuff. feel like im at the Warsaw restaurant on jazz night.

I actually loved the guitar

This is very different from what I thought Paul Revere was. I love old rock songs about cars. My SS 396 wants to jump off the line.

My previous self apologizes profusely for writing this record off. This is a god damned masterpiece. I need to get some LSD and trip out with this.

I have always loved this record. When this came out we were a couple years into grunge being everything. Liz really flipped grunge on it's head for a second. They writing is so clever and the hooks ands grooves are infectious. This is basically a female Matthew Sweet.

this record jams. Love 'can you get to that' since Sleigh Bells covered it.

not my favorite bowie, pretty good though.

This album was just okay as it was released. It was definitely a rookie album by a band trying to find their footing. There is a lot of talent for sure. With the inclusion of The Bronze i would add another star as that is my favorite QotSA song of all time.

what a masterpiece. To this day I still can not fathom that this record came out in 1967. Easily 10 years ahead of its time.

oh man, I really dont know what to think about this. I think firstly I dont appreciate the implication of southern = dumb, so this feels a little like punching down to me. Similar to short people honestly. I suppose the music sounds very Newman if you're into his vibe.

some say it was a crime that Stevie did win a grammy for this record as well as every other record he made in the 70s. This is 100% pure gold, but maybe I'm a simp for the man. I love the funk, the organs, the backup singing. Its all so effing good.

I honestly didnt know Queen rocked like this. This is some top notch heavy metal.

meh. this sounds so 60s.

3/4 of this band blows the roof off. While I admire the singers bravado and moxie its pretty hard to listen to his screaming for 45 minutes. I do think this record does belong on the list.

This is one of Zappas most approachable records and it still is way out there. I think its genius.

somewhere way in the back there is a drunken stupor giggling about fun loving criminals and taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy.

at first i made the mistake of listening to this on the phone. This record really needs to be listened to in stereo at least, if not surround sound. At the same time though it does follow the 'car radio' rule of being recognizable played on a tin can. Just look at a song like Breathe. The first few chords of...its not really a bass line or a melody line. I would call it a blue man tube noise. Everything in that song is played in service to that one phrase so the song can basically be boiled down to one measure easily recognized even through humming. Maybe its just a Chicago thing, but I feel like after the disco demolition of 1979 the radio stations didn't really have an appetite for dance music for a long long time. Sure we played music we danced too and we did play Groove is in the Heart, but mostly that stuff is more pop than dance. the Prodigy was specifically dance music and they were a huge success for a few years in a row. Many people think dance is what Prodigy is all about, but those people are all wrong. The Prodigy is about one thing only and always: DIESEL POWER! ...after the record ended autoplay went to Songs for the Deaf and it was a perfectly seamless transition.

The guitar sound of the early B52s was simply out of this world. The guitar player, Ricky Wilson used some unheard of tunings and would often play with a couple different strings missing. Supposedly he said the guitar was too hard to play with 6 strings, but take that with a grain of salt. In any case this record is really good and you can see it's influence in new wave and post-punk for the next decade and beyond.

I really appreciate that this record was kind of groundbreaking. Having a major country star do a crossover record of all cover songs was a novel thing at the time, and it led to more instances like Johnny Cash and someone else major i cant remember in the 90s. Obviously there is nothing groundbreaking or innovative about this record, and it's not a good example of Willie Nelson. I do like his version of Georgia on my Mind though.

this is the first record I was unable to finish. I dont even want to waste my breath on it.

this was decent, but not great. The style was all over the place. very unfocused.

I could listen to this record all day long. I am super biased, but this has a couple of the best GD songs in ripple and box of rain.

This record is okay. I do love Young Americans and Fame. I really hated Across the Universe, it made me cringe. The real star of this record is David Sanborn on Sax who rises above a crew of legends to really put his stamp on this whole record.

i did like the song for Lenny Bruce and Chelsea girl

This is one of the most important bands to my teenage years. These guys directly inspired every band I loved from 89-95. They created industrial music and were influential in house music and edm. That being said its not something i would put on at a party. I haven't personally listened to one of their records since 1995, but still rightly deserve a place on this list.

Even more than Kollaps this is _the_ most important album that no one ever heard. Just like Kollaps invented industrial music, Murmur invented college radio. Rem is one of those bands where there is a clear progression of quality in their music over each record they put out. By the end of the 80's they were the kings and everything they touched was gold. Unfortunately the 90s happened and I'm still not sure what happened to REM. I assume they are still touring and making tons of money. i was a huge fan of REM in the late 80s. I never owned murmur so I only heard it a few times before today. My best friend's older brother had it on tape, but we could only listen to his tapes when he wasn't around or he would beat us. Talk about the passion is still one of my favorite song by REM. Side note, i think its a bit ironic that spotify has all the lyrics. As i remember Stipe really didnt like people dissecting his lyrics to the point that they never had lyrics in the liner notes until 98's Up album. Of course by 98 i no longer cared about REM.

I really like this record. I love how hard it rocks. This is pretty metal, just listen to those guitars.

this is good stuff, but i dont have time/will to listen to a two hour record today.

What a gorgeous record. I've never listened to it before and I'm so happy to listen to it now. Yesterday I complained about listening to a 2-hour DNB record but I listened to Horses three times.

i was going to write a book here about Tommy, but i've run out of time. bottom line is i think this record is yugely overrated. I will say that it is one of the the most opera of the rock operas. eg refrains, callbacks, codas etc that many other rock operas forgo. Also it has a story that is mostly coherent. Really the entire record revolves around pinball wizard and nothing else really stands out.

This is interesting, but not really for me

I feel like I am saying this too much across this whole project.: this is pretty good stuff. I love prog rock, but i dont think this is the best effort, even just within Yes' catalog.

Surprise to me but I've actually never heard this record. I thought it was absolutely great the first track is a real banger.

Is this the first pre-Beatles record we listened to? It definitely sounds like it. I love when an artist gets big enough to do whatever the fuck they want, and this record is great. It's not held up well to time though so only a mid rank.

Dude, I really really wish we had half star ratings. This is not technically a 5 star record, but its also not a 4 star record. It is the third best record by Nirvana and really highlighted the lyrical songwriting. By this time grunge was in full swing and everyone was on board.

This was classic 90s raver music. I cant say I would know which band this was, let alone name a song, but it is instantly recognizable. Also my wife is a big fan.

if you couldn't get laid with this CD on in 2002 you probably soon turned to roofies. The first half of this record is fire, but the second half is such a snooze fest. never tall anyone i like this record or there will be blood.

This is the best nepo-baby record since Nelson hit the scene. But seriously this is a really good record. again i wish there was half stars i would go 3.5

i didn't know they punked like this in Ireland. pretty good stuff, but I've never been that big on classic punk.

the start of this record caught me a bit off guard. The first couple tracks I thought we were in for more straight forward punk rock, but after the third song the whole record took a sharp left turn. I loved everything after track 3.

I was today years old when i found out I love french rap. I listened to it all day long. So glad i was exposed to this.

This is obviously a fantastic album. Speaerboxxx alone would be one of the best rap records of the 2000s and the love below is truly one of a kind. I do feel a little bad for Big Boi though. "his" part of the combo is full of everyone else rapping verses including Andre, but Big Boi has almost no presence on the love below. It's like OutKast put out a record and 3stacks added his own record to the same package.

HAIL SATAN!!!!!

i am not a big punk fan anyway, but you got to be either "behead the queen" like the Clash or super clever like the Dead Kennedys for me to not fall asleep.

Biggie melded the gangster style of NWA with the grimy NYC style of KRS-ONE and put that on top of some of the slickest production to date (F*ck Puffy though) He brought a real life feel to gangster rap and a sincerity that a lot of the OG west coast rappers never seemed to capture until 2Pac came along. I never really got into the whole Beef thing and its a sad state of affairs that only brought sorrow, but who cares wtf a stupid white boy from the midwest thinks. This is Biggies best record. I feel like after he blew up, and puffy got his god complex, they turned into more Hip-pop.

This was pretty cool, but I think it would take a long time to really unpack everything here. It feels unfair to give something like this a rating because of that, but i guess i will just cop out and give it 3 stars.

at first i didnt think much of this, but i had spotify on repeat and after three listens i really like it. Maybe its just Stockholm syndrome, but maybe this is just a really unique band with a really fresh sound?

what's to say. absolute smash

i never listened to this record before even though i am a huge Neil Young fan. This is pretty good. especially love the my my hey hey and hey hey my my bookends. It reminds me of the wilco songs outta sight outta mind and outta mind outta sight from being there. The other track that really stands out is powderfinger. such great writing. I really felt like i was on the dock for that one.

gatorjuice: was it the review about the 70s orgies? i think we should bring that back like Justin brings sexy back. Anyway, this website once again shows its love for bands second best record. This is still a very good record. It is one of the most DaDa records we've listened to. It's like the Pixies were trying to one up REM for the most cryptic lyrics. I dont think the Pixies lryics are about anything for most of this record.

Story time: During Jazz week in NOLA we went to a show that was G.Love and Cory Glover. the show was supposed to start at 1 or 2 am, but it didn't start until 4 or something. (it was light out on the walk back to the AirBnB.) They called the show The Glove Love and they were throwing condoms off the stage into the crowd the whole time. It was the perfect epitome of late night jazz fest and one of the most memorable shows ive ever been to. This record is important, but unfortunately its not the best. the cult of personality would get 5 stars as a single.

LL was a real pioneer, but the production on this record is ass

meh

DJ shadow was a big influence on a lot of the music i loved late 90s and i'm happy for his continued success. In the 90s I had no idea who made any of the music i heard at raves, but i loved it. What this record in particular made me think about was the lost art of scratching. There really were only a few DJs who ever got to a master level: Terminator X and DJ Jazzy Jeff being the top ones of my youth. People that could make random noises come together to make a whole new sound is really wild to me. Anyway, I personally find it hard to really get into instrumental music without the help of some stimulant / dopamine drugs and dancing my ass into a myocardial infarction so i cant give this more than 3 stars.

wow, this was amazing. I listened to grindcore all day. (With some dj jazzy jeff mixed in. a juxtaposition for the ages.)

decent, not my favorite new wave, but they did have some hits.

This record saved Dre's life, and Snoop Dog is 100% responsible. I cant think of a more acrimonious band breakup than NWA. Even the shit Fleetwood Mac got up to paled in comparison. Dre was definitely the runt of the litter coming out of NWA. He was so much less charismatic then Ice Cube or easy-E and generally didnt have the street cred either. His career was basically over until he got snoop, nate and warren G to help him. Dre did make great beats and everybody loves the Funky Worm, but even here his rap is not fluego, but this record put him on top of the entire west coast rap world for a decade. Much respect, but i'll listen to some Tupac or Chronic 2000 before I come back here.

never heard of this. pretty good. i have questions though.

Really great voice. I could listen to this on any sunday morning.

decent record. i really like doorbell and denial twist, most of the rest is filler to me.

mostly a snooze for me. i prefered the beth orton record from a couple days ago.

i'm so glad this came to us so close to the chronic. These two records couldnt be further from each other (except for the funky worm again.) It's hard looking back to say which is a better record. I think Predator is a way better record than mama said knock em out.

if you were digging music in the 80s you owed a lot of it to this man.

This was really interesting. I really like how almost every song is based on a riff or phrase / line(s) from a famous songs by other artists. Unfortunately i dont have the time to really sit with and experience this record. I think it would be good on a great stereo.

Now this is the best white stripes' record. This was easily the best record of 2001. Grunge/alternative had slid all the way over to Nu Metal (;｀0´)═゜。 Jack black got us all back on track, just a beat up old drum kit and one kick ass guitar. I love this record.

80s metal is so hokey. I think in retrospect the best thing that came from it was the album covers. I am glad to get a chance to listen to this one final time though. ( listened to it a lot in jr high.)

I love this record, second only to back in black. So much innuendo i was here for this as a pre-teen. I will say that i believe ac/dc is just a well disguised pop band. they played very familiar and basic keys and cord progressions. You could make an entire axis of awesome song using just ac/dc songs. If you made a band today with billy eilish singing and (insert todays hot producer) playing the same sheet music it would be 100% mainstream pop music. They were basically the Nicki Menaj of the late 70s - mid 80s. (90s ac/dc was a completely different band.)

i was surprised at how melodic this was. I was also very surprised to find out how old this was. i thought kraftwerk was more in the 80s.

This must have been England's response to Genesis

As much as i liked PJ in 1993 i never heard this record. I heard it was good, just never got around to it. This doesn't sound like the PJ i remember, This is a beautiful and brutal record. i love it.

all the hits!

Perry is a grade A jackass, but that Navarro sure has a pretty mouth.

this album is good, but just not their best.

This must have been Mexico's response to Pentangle

unbelievably i managed to listen to this whole record today and it was beautiful. Did i zone out occasionally? yes, but i was tight with the vibe the whole time. I know and appreciate that this was groundbreaking when it was released but it's hard to conceptualize. It is amazing to me how in the year of our lord 2024 i am listening to this and it sounds exactly the way vocal jazz is supposed to sound, but that is how Ella has warped out understanding of vocal jazz.

I love the fact that there is a whole band built around one song so hard that they make an entire record of that one song over and over and it makes the 1001 best list. Dont get me wrong i love that song

this was a good solid rock and roll

this was a good solid rock and roll

can we get to Moondance already?

meh, i can see the talent for sure, just not into cabaret

This is a great record. I didnt know about meat puppets until nirvana unplugged, but 10 years later this record was still good.

another one i'm surprised ive never heard in whole. I think this is a great record. In a similar way to Ella Fitzgerald listening to this sound like a record someone made to mimic Fall Out Boy when really this record is what created the impression.

obviously the drunk tank song slaps

I love the Wu. that being said i dont think this record has held up as well as the biggie record we had a couple weeks ago. The beats are a bit repetitive and stale at this point 30 years later. A 5 star record through the 90s but probably only 3 stars in the world where Donald Trump is president.

what a fresh of breath air. never heard or even heard of this guy before. he does look a little familiar, so maybe in some fever dream in the 90s, or maybe i'm just an unmitigated racist.

pretty cool, chillaxing

love this record. I think this was the absolute peak for metallica.

i know this is foundational, but i find it kinda boring.

i wish i had more time to listen to this. i think there's something really good here, i just haven't found it yet.

this record is really good. The second half in particular was awesome. such style and i really dig the feminist themes.

the poetry is good, but even the band said this record was trash and I have to agree with them.

this is the record which every other record on this list is measured against.

pretty groovy, i could dance to this.

This kind of history lesson is exactly why I am doing this thing. It's so wild to me that back around this time is was normal, and even expected, that artists would put out 3 or 4 records in a year. We saw that with willie, dolly, ella and now nina

I think it's awesome how a record that is basically multiple takes on a single song can resonate so broadly.

One of the most important records of my life. I had never experienced a double length record unless you count Use Your Illusion, and i thought it was the absolute peak of artistry. Sadly it also pretty much marked the death of the pumpkins and so much of the hope of the 90s with it. But none of that impacts my score of 4 on the empirical scale of awesome musicness.

this is a much better pick for The Bad Seeds. straight up murder ballads wall to wall. love it.

this is real good. not sure what to say about it thought.

not a fan of punk, but this was pretty decent.

ah the 90s strike again.

either i didnt really listen or this was a snooze fest.

this got me going over 90mph today.

I can hear a lot fo influence here for post punk. I've never heard this band, but obviously there were important and the music is not bad either.

this is just boring daft punk. next please.

what a great record

so many hits

young romantic me loved loved this record.

absolute banger end to end.

another classic record ive never heard. the hits here are good. i love the down home feel and think this is overall really good record.

consummate pros at work here.

pretty cool shit. would have never know this was from the 60s.

Sometimes I absolutely hate the way Tom Yorke sings. This is one of his worst performances ever which is a real shame cause the music is really really fucking awesome. I'd rather listen to Tiny Tim than this.

easily the best ZZ top record and one of the top blues rock records

Meh, this feels a bit whitewashed

This was interesting. I felt like the combination of metal, reggae and lounge singing was a bit too much. I like what they're saying and the guitar playing is amazing.

i love that with slayer i can hear all the lyrics,

i got that dogg in me

decnt punk.

I wish I could less than one star

maybe you had to be there? It not bad, just boring?

just listened to this record the day before

best pop record since like a virgin

Decent metal, but not superior

this was fresh and funky for me

so gorgeous

Maybe the worst Beatles record?

I had to go back and check this record out because I missed Elliott Smith when he was active and I've always been intrigued. Listening to this it almost sounds like a parody of Elliott Smith to me. I guess I permanently missed the train on this one

Tricky isn't exactly my bag of tea, but this record is undeniably unique

never heard the whole record, its pretty cool

if it wasnt for reality bites no one would have ever heard of this record.

so weird it has to get 3 stars

Omallys bar is one hell of a ride. Epic, but the last couple minutes are too much for me with the moaning and stuff Still the best nick cave so far

You can really hear how ?primitive? Production was back in the day

boo spotify

i thought this was a great soundscape. I was expecting something much more brutal and was pleasantly surprised.

i know Janis sings with heart and all that, but to me she sounds like a thrown rod.

this is exactly the type of low energy boring ass tripe that was emblematic of the late 80s which bands like nirvana came along and smashed out of existence

decent. red white and blue was a bit wanky

classic.

classic.

second best country album of 1985

If this is what hard core is, then I'm a huge fan of hard core.

used to love this record. i can still see a tiny bit of that, but mostly its cringe a la cringe.

pretty out there. i like the groove, but a lot of it started to sound the same after a while. probably one of your favorite rock stars favorite records.

i think i need to spend some more time with this record. Definitely good, but some of it was harsh to me.

pure hits

is this a joke? this album isnt terrible, but on a scale of buckingham to mic fleetwood this is a christine mcvie

Fun loving goodness

i wish i could give this 1.5 stars

this is a groundbreaking album, but its not a perfect 5

another groundbreaking record

Good vibes

i hvent listened to thi record all the way through in so long. Its still a banger. Lots of parts I forgot about are better than some stuff coming out now.

I LOVED THIS

I LOVED THIS

I LOVED THIS

I remember this record as the very end of MTV. Musically it's not all that though.

meh

really love the pumpkins.

the beach boys this was not. I can see why he only made one record. He probably single handedly put Messina out of business.

this is the second nirvana record that changed my life.

I first heard black planet so that was my favorite PE, but this one is really good too.

top 10 record.it feels so real, and it is.

This was pretty interesting. I enjoyed it like I would looking at a painting/

supa dupa poopa skupa

This was a tough one. To me this obviously art, but it doesn't seem to ring my bell. I hate to resign to the "she has an abrasive voice" trope, but I am having a hard time putting my finger on something more substantial.

exactly what i expected, except the Bruce Springsteen cover.

i like their style with the two singers.

its no yeasayer

fantastic

okay. revolutionary i'm sure

this is a jam

One decent song and a bunch of snooze

At first I was mad at 1001 generator for picking another second third or fourth best record from an artist, but this record is actually pretty fucking good.

good stuff, but not as good as i remember. dear god is still the standout

the middle 3 songs are my favorite of all of the Pink catalog.

I like soundgarden, but between spoonman and black hole sun i can only give this record as a whole 1 star.

no notes

this is good stuff, but it felt a little more formulaic than her previous work

Peak coldplay

interesting. not my jam but thats probably jsut cause i missed the bus.

i love all the 90s trip hop, conscious rap, etc.

Pure New Wave. Stuff is great. I also like that she's not afraid to do cover songs on a record.

what a ride. This is very different from maad and it's awesome.

I used to put this CD on and sit and stare at those eyes. What a relief. The record does trail off a bit for the last couple songs, but overall really great.

duane allman steals the show

love this as a teenager, still really good opera

I want to rate this higher. It is a really good album, but it is so much white bread you won't be pooping for a week.

this was pretty good. got a little weird in the middle but finished strong.

Fresh to me

amazing talent

booooring

ugh. I wish johnny marr was in a different band

seminole

one of my top 10 records. i love this band

Pretty good. Dome real smashes, but also some stinkers