1001 Albums Summary

Hey there children Hi Chef Couldn't quite get into it more than a few key moments in Walk On By and Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic

Finally have a band and song name to place with the song 'Le Freak'. This whole thing is going to be very helpful for music trivia, we can say things like "i know who sings this but I cannot think of the name right now". Highlight: the very chill 'At last I Am Free' into the fun 'Sometimes You Win'

We had a cd of Rumors in the house growing up but I didn't listen to this one closely until later. I always think I want to listen to it but really I just want to rock out to The Ledge and then move on with my day

Got into this and pink moon just a couple years ago, some other artist (i thought it was colin greenwood but couldnt find it) mentioned nick drake and this album in particular as a huge influence. This album drops my heartrate, i love it. You get these great straightforward seeming folk tracks but all of the sudden you're on these jazzy tangents and horns and keys show up. Plus breezily contemplative lyrics that invite you to just slow down your brain a bit.

Will always remember this album cycle very fondly, 4 years was a very long time between albums of a band you love when you are younger so it felt like they were coming back from the grave. Saw them play outdoors in montreal on this tour and out of ~300 concerts Ive been to it is #1. When they played fake plastic trees fireworks started going off in the background because it turns out there was a fireworks thing happening that same night in the city. Magic! Never liked Body Snatchers and think there are some songs on \"disk 2\" that are much better. Actually I would re sequence the whole thing using the best tracks from both tracks.

"Noone ever knows who the third member is" a friend once told me when I couldn't name him, and like all great shame, the memory has cemented it into the forefront of my brain: Pras.

Bob im bored

Couldn't get too into this (at least in a single day), felt like a no man's land somewhere near early 90s rock and shoegaze.

I am guessing this is one of the less accessible tom waits albums but '16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six' unlocked it for me somehat. What a jam.

Mellow funk, totally listenable. Make my funk the p-funk.

This came out when I worked at Music World and other employees played it plenty. It grew on me a bit but not really, this kind of aughts rock from strokes to jet to white stripes never did much for me, it was everywhere.

I only know 90s rock lenny so this was kind of suprising, funk meets.. the beatles?? Feels like a mix of several kinds of 60s and 70s rock sounds.

This was recorded in the church behind the Eaton Center. That's where they filmed The Silent Partner with Christopher Plummer and Elliott Gould. At least the Eaton Center has that.

Sonic Bliss. Easy contender for a desert island album, there is just so much happening across these tracks that it is hard to exhaust. All timer Kim songs, Thurston songs, and Lee songs. Probably not my fav sonic youth album, but it is the most sonic youth album.

Impressive how awful you can make guitars sound

Rocking out of glam with mixed results

Much more open to different kinds of county these days but this isnt hitting

Kind of THE transition album from boy bands to mid aughts top 40, with timbaland and pharrel starting to shape the sound that would define their biggest hits and the broader sound of pop radio in the following years. Dig the singles, but not quite as much as the ones from 20/20 a few years later. Just feels like this album has a few great sounds and they kind of run dry. A couple friends wrote and sang me a happy birthday parody of 'like i love you' in high school so it will always be a little special.

Study playlists have made me a bit tired of Take Five but dug. I think Sufjan may have gotten some riffs from these tracks.

Listening to this over the weekend opened me up to the stones a bit. Banger 3 song opener. There is killer Get Back style footage of them figuring out Sympathy for the Devil in Godard's film of the same name.

Sometimes fun.. always corny

Stoned and spiritual!

Too messy and too much. All things at one level the whole time.

No fresh water at this oasis

Stoned & sleepy

'Green Eyes' one of the first songs i learned to play on guitar and played it all the time like it was wonderwall

Some bands I was into in 2003ish loved Morrissey and the smiths so I tried hard to appreciate them.. alas I will never quite have the same enthusiasm as those emo bands.

A few all timer rage tracks and perhaps some lesser ones

Easiest way to consume Metallica for a square like moi

Does not work for my ears

Likely my last broadcast of the last broadcast

Like being waterboarded with glow stick liquid

Dad rock, specifically my Dad

Especially those ambient tracks at the end

Never realized just how thoroughly snoop dogg has explored the sexual implications of his stage name

Its the year of yeehaw so this hit well

Horny for harmony

I like that the bad guy from poltergeist 2 is on the cover

My favorite Radiohead album. A perfect collision of the rock songs of OK computer and the sonic experimentation of Kid A.

I really hate this one you guys. Its torture, with the most brutal of its tortures 'nightswimming' saved for the final stretch. Just when you think it can't get any more painful on your eardrums, you get bludgeoned with nightswimming.

Thom yorke jump scare(s)

Beatles before drugs.. eh

The crown jewel of their best stretch of making music.

Hit a bit harder as a christian youth

make it stop

3rd or 4th best fiona apple album for me and its a pretty big leap to the top 2. Since I'm pretty sure they're not on this list: Idler wheel is a 5 and fetch the boltcutters is a 4

Feels wrong to hear this outside of a massage

You know what? Not bad.

Nope but I would see michael shannon's rem cover band play this one if given the chance

Pretty cool that half the time this album just goes beep boop beep boop wuh wuh wuh wuh wuh and humans were like this will be the album we all own

I listened to pretty fly for a white guy 1 million times when it came out and only now decades later have the origin story of the intro sound clip. Does this come up in the Rock of Ages musical? How many other knowledge gaps in my brain could be filled simply by listening to more hair metal? Going to leave that a mystery, because of how bad this music sounds.

Horny for harmony (again)

I dunno about this list we have listened to 100 rem albums and 0 the offspring albums

Brings me back to my skateboarding days.. through the n64 controller of course.

Fun but the sound gets old pretty quick

I guess I can see enjoying this until 1994 came around

Suspect #1 in the awful direction rock took in the aughts

John cusak ruined it for me

Just dodged a 1 star rating because the sax goes pretty hard at times

The Guitar Solo That Wouldn't End

Still know most lyrics 💀

'Sugar' was the first song I heard from them, downloaded on napster after hearing another kid singing it obnoxiously. Also the first time I heard the word Kombucha. I listened to that song a lot as well as their version of the zelda theme song, which I just now googled to realize that wasn't actually them! Another napster thing. Nu metal is kind of starting to sound pleasant again right?

Expired

Really loved their album from 2023 but never was able to get into this one quite as much

Solid album but insane to have to follow up 'return to cookie mountain'. DLZ as good as those tracks though. I think I would dissolve whatever band I was on immediately once we did something good and then make a new band.