1001 Albums Summary

Absolutely incredible vibes for checking your email first thing in the morning... I feel cured.

Not my favourite of theirs, but still better than most

This is a great example of how one can recognize important, ground-breaking, and/or impressive art but not actually enjoy it as consumer of art.

Christ Almighty you can't be serious. This album should only be considered important because it's a lesson in why you don't want to make art without limits. One star for the one good song ("Tusks").

Not for me.

It's funky, it's groovy.

There should be an exception to the "no greatest hits complications" rule in album rankings for ABBA. Not than any of their good songs were on this one...

There's certainly good stuff here but a lot of it sounds like a demo. Doesn't hit the same highs as PARKLIFE.

Panera: Vulgar Display of Flour

C'mon now.

No.

What I imagine chronic anxiety feels like.

XTC is the subject of the only Trash Theory video I came out of with LESS of an appreciation for a band. Absolutely no surprise that their only good song was written by the bass player and not the nonce who started this whole pointless endeavor.

Please be serious. One of the most dated albums I've heard in a very long time.

Great voice. Definitely look up all the original songs, though.

This one's really front-loaded, eh?

shut up.

Hey man, maybe don't call children "delicious".

I thought there'd be, y'know, more than this.

Further proof that hippies are bad people.

One day in high school we were running track. I had stopped for a rest and an acquaintance begged for my DiscMan so she could had something to take her mind off the boredom of laps. I had the Odelay CD inside and warned it might not be to her taste; she said she didn't care, she just needed "anything". Anyway after one lap she practically threw the DiscMan back at me lol.

Queen's problem is that their good songs are overplayed and their deep cuts are an embarrassment to music.

Not as bad as feared, but still mystifying why it's on this list. It doesn't even have "Fuck You"!

\"Straight Shooter\" is a bop but the rest of this album blends into one big cheery samesong.

I prefer the soulful, singer-songwriter Laura Nyro to the "funky", Mamas and the Papa's style tracks that make up too much of this album. Diminishes the timeless effect her voice can have.

Listening to this album is the closest I can get to meeting my husband as a teenager.

I really struggle to hear past Stipe's voice.

Doesn't come close to the heights of "Losing You".

Wildly dated clown show

"If sex was an Olympic sport / We'd have won the gold" is where I noped out.

(Gordon Ramsey voice) finally some good fucking food "Criminal" is the only song to which I have the lyrics memorized. Not through effort, but through the osmosis of how iconic it is.

Can't even imagine how people thought these clowns were ever a match for Blur.

I remember finding Monae's sound fresh when this album came out, but have struggled with her failure to evolve in the decade+ since. Some of her worst instincts on this record - that make it less consistent and way less fun than it should be - are now most of her output. Ideas are everywhere all at once, underdeveloped and pounded into hooklessness by overstuffed and cringey production. Imagine if everyone song on this album was as tight as "Cold War"?

Imagine what these guys could have done on a second record.

First track gave me the wrong impression that this album was gonna be a good time.

I wanna sit in the Big Chair

The weak vocal melody of the opener had me wondering about the hype surrounding The The, but the rest of the album allayed any concerns. A classic.

Justice for Taylor <3

OK, wow, I had a good impression of this album going into it but I didn't realize that it's wall-to-wall bops. A worthy addition to the canon.

This makes me want to throw a dinner party in the best way.

Goddamn this makes me want to get drunk.

Unnnffffffffffffffff

Fun, but doesn't quite hold together enough to be a classic.