1001 Albums Summary

I didn't love this album at first but it substantially grew on me as I listened to tracks such as Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, Waiting for a Superman and A Spoonful Weighs a Ton. The first on the list especially moves me and I think that this album has great replay value.

The lyrics to the songs I read on this album appear to be atrociously stomach churning and repulsively vulgar. This album is completely distasteful and I'm skipping it.

While well made and I'm grateful that this album gave us the song Hurt that was covered even better by Johnny Cash, much of it is just far too vulgar, nihilistic etc. for its' own good. I regret hearing songs such as Closer and Big Man With A Gun and would warn people against listening to most of this album. The NIN album Fragile is a much better balanced reflection on darkness in my opinion.

Yeah I'm skipping this album, there's nothing empowering or artistically valuable about women embracing the degrading words that show up in the lyrics of many of these songs. One reviewer very astutely pointed out that it's incredibly hypocritical for women to object to being objectified and caricatured as sex objects and then to embrace presenting themselves this way. All this practice does is feed the cycle. I dislike modern hip hop's blandness and repetitive tempo progression anyway so I don't see what this album has to offer.

It's okay, it references Lynyrd Skynyrd too much for my taste to tell the coherent story it wants to tell but it does have some creative highlights and is fascinatingly ambitious. The Dirty South is a far better album in my opinion. I would prefer for the band to not use the gd slur in a few of their songs and I find this disappointing.

I'm not a big fan of rap and hip hop and wasn't expecting much from this recommended album when I first saw it but boy was I wrong. I wish that many of these tracks were more well known anthems, especially As Television the Drug of the Nation and Everyday Life As Become A Health Risk are more relevant now than ever and I couldn't word these societal issues any better myself than citing lyrics from these songs themselves. It's too bad that rap/hip hop has for the most part lost it's roots in this kind of social messaging and conscience. Why can't more rap/hip hop be like this?

I skipped the song For Free? because it was gratuitously vulgar in my opinion but the rest of this album is fantastic. It's a great blend of jazz, hip-hop, fusion, rap and soul that I was very impressed with. The social commentary on the album truly moved me and has sat in my head like coins dropped in a wishing well ever since, which is what socially conscious hip-hop was originally released to do. Though it's explicit and more so than what I would usually listen to it's a rough, honest and mature album without glorifying vulgarity or immorality for most of its entirety. My favorite songs are How Much A Dollar Cost, For Sale? and Hood Politics.

There's never an excuse for art to stoop to the level of misogyny and sexual deviancy that this album is centered around. I read some lyrics to some of the songs on this album and this album's misogyny and deviancy isn't at all in the bounds of just objective artistic exploration, documentation or raising social awareness of societal ills. Albums like these have produced nothing positive on existence. I won't be listening to this album as the lyrics say enough and gangsta rap is my least favorite music genre anyway. It to me is very hypocritical that Ice Cube rails against systemic racism and economic oppression in America while speaking of women so atrociously and encouraging violent, hardened personas to further alienate ghetto born and bound men from the rest of western culture.

I hate to sound too uptight but the album is too anti religious for my taste. I prefer Chaos AD as that album is much more of an attack on human institutions and corruption rather than divinity itself.

I'd recommend skipping the song Three Minute Rule because of its' vulgarity but the other full length songs on the album are great listens. Paul's Boutique is a great mix of hip hop, rap, soft rock, hard rock, blues sounds and electronic music with some truly hyper aware, non linear and precise production to carry this wide color palate selection. Many highlight songs such as The Sounds of Science and Shadrach show how these guys dimensions far deeper than the frat boy images their most well known for.I'd say that I haven't heard any rap/hip hop quite as flexibly eclectic as Paul's Boutique and it's a listen that pleasantly surprised me for the most part.

The album appears to be flat out vulgar and foolishly immature. I'm skipping this album.

There are some songs on here such as Custard Pie and Sick Again that are too sexually charged for my taste(I don't like these type of Zeppelin songs) but the rest of these songs are incredibly well written and have great, intricate creative storytelling that soars above and beyond what most rock bands have attempted.

The record could've done without the unnecessary vulgarity of the song Add It Up but it was fantastic other than that. I especially liked the songs Blister In the Sun, Confessions and Good Feeling.

There's never an excuse for art to stoop to the level of misogyny and sexual deviancy that this album is centered around. I read some lyrics to some of the songs on this album and this album's misogyny and deviancy isn't at all in the bounds of just objective artistic exploration, documentation or raising social awareness of societal ills. Albums like these have produced nothing positive on existence. I won't be listening to this album as the lyrics say enough and gangsta rap is my least favorite music genre anyway.

The only good songs on here in my opinion are Hell's Bells and You Shook Me All Night Long. Most of the other songs are essentially cheesy yelling and shrieking combined with overly dramatic guitar rifts.

It's a fun, if somewhat standard, bluesy, soft rock album. What I found strange was how the slight majority of the songs on this album are not available to listen to on Spotify and I hope that this changes soon. Many of the later song compilations on Spotify, however, have songs that hold up even better than their debut album so I'm glad that I could be pushed to discovering more of their catalog at least.

I'm skipping this album as it appears to be nauseatingly disgusting and created by people with twisted, depraved minds. I'm not listening to cheap shock value garbage like this.

I found Faith/Void to be a bit too repetitive, one sided, preachy and didactic in espousing a theistically skeptical worldview and I'd think a more heartfelt song like That's Why I Love Mankind by Randy Newman is a much better treatment of wrestling with God but the rest of the songs on this album are wonderful folk songs that range anywhere from relaxing countryside tunes to dark ballads on human nature.

The album is too erratic, disparate and unorderly as well as being unredeemngly dark for my taste. I appreciate Barry Adamson for trying to consistently break the mold with his music, which he did to an at least decently enjoyable degree in his album Moss Side Story, but there's little content that's even appreciable in this album as it's pretty much entirely either shock value or aimless drone noises.

This is one of my favorite musical throwbacks out there to an era of American idealism, spirit and bonds that seems to be truly long gone.

Bob Dylan's music is usually so poetically phrased and articulately spoken to the point where I wonder, how a human can even write some of these lines?

This is the kind of music that seems to assure its listeners that there are other intangible, ethereal wondrous worlds out there beyond our physical comprehension.

It's not the best The Red Hot Chili Peppers album in my opinion and I personally think that Stadium Arcadium and Californication are both better for the tonal variety that both feature but the grooviness and energy in this album is still great and I totally see why this is a more popular entry point to the RHCP to many listeners. I skipped If You Have to Ask and Sir Psycho Sexy due to their vulgarity but every other track is pretty enjoyable at least. The album also has the track Under the Bridge, either that or Snow would earn the spot of my favorite track by this band.

How in the world is this album on this list? I read some of the lyrics to some of the songs on this album and most of these songs have disgusting, braggadocious and completely unoriginal songwriting. Could this list's curators really have not added any better artists like Florence and the Machine, Toto, Mazzy Star, Explosions in the Sky, Interpol or countless others instead of stooping to endorsing appropriately widely panned trash that only stands out for breakout shock value?

There are some good guitar riffs in a handful of these songs but most of these songs are just a bit too repetitive and lyrically bland in my opinion. It's just a decent album at best in my opinion.

This is actually a better album than I thought it would be, my favorite song on here would be Pressure by far. I like how socially meaningful this album was and how it stands out above gangsta rap and pop rap albums of its kind. There are pretty creative moments of instrumentation of xylophones and keyboards, among other instruments, present in the album as well although I would call the album uneven between standard pop rap progression and instrumentation though. I also skipped the songs Venom and Boss for being overly braggadacious and I don't think that they contributed well to conscious themes in the rest of this album. Overall this is just a decent album in my opinion.

Eminem is a talented musician but he takes his talent to degrading and profane extremes here and it's concerning how Eminem normalized the level of explicitness now rampant in modern popular music. I'd prefer songs by him like Lose Yourself and Mockingbird compared to reading what's on this album and I'm skipping it.

Other than Fitter Happier, every track on this album is among the best that alternative rock has to offer in my opinion and the musical complexity of OK Computer is still unparalleled in my personal opinion.

Thank you generator for giving me this album on the day Dolly Parton went to be with the Lord.