1001 Albums Summary

Was not expecting absence of rapping until Clint Eastwood and have a renewed perspective of this song in context of the whole album. Very surprising how little Del there is outside the singles. I guess I knew the Gorillaz hits but hadn’t listened much outside of Plastic Beach. This album sounds more like trip hop Blur than what I expected. Standouts like “Double Bass” are more Dan the Automator focused than I knew the band got to.

The transitions on this album are sick. Great album to listen to walking around the city.

Iconic

the musical equivalent of clapping when a plane lands

I really like that west coast screechy synth sound he always uses that kind of sounds like a dentist’s drill.

🤘🏻🎸⚡️🍆🤘🏻

Think I’d rather go back to the day before.

A lil more antsy than I recall but loved it all the same.

Every time they blast into a song with a rippin harmonica, I recoil, but Bruce wins me back every time. Go, Bruce, go. You’ll bust outta that dusty old town one of these nights.

Felt like huffing nitrous in an airport security line - rad moments involved but largely tense, loud, disorienting, and in a foreign language.

Hadn’t listened to this album. Pretty good! Definitely like the hits more in the context of the album as a whole.

Energy

Personal classic. Two white horses in a line……

Smooth sailing, Carole. Side B kinda stalled the boat, though….

Yo. Wtf? Yes.

Cohesion. A masterpiece.

Change Partners is a pretty fucked up song. Relax Frankie. The rest of this is alright I suppose. Swanky stuff. Whatever

✨🤘🏻✨

Big album for me when it came out. Incredible marriage of songwriting and production.

Groovy

driving the ladies WILD

......they got better.

🌞

RIPS.

would’ve been fun in 1994 on ecstasy in Europe.

“If fashion is your trade, then when you’re naked I guess you must be unemployed” Some ups, some downs, some hanky panky

😭

frustrated by your apathy

I do like an occasional gong.

🙄

immaculate

HOT FUZZZZZ

Seminal. Love listening to the UK version w New York City Cops included.

Awwwww shit

One or two all timers but the rest is a fucking slog

yee haw?

🥴

Baby, baby, baby

I think you had to be there

lady, enough already

🫨

I think I’m officially not a KISS guy

my brain hurts a lot

uneven. when it’s good, it’s great.

Who knew!

ok boomer

wtf fam

Nice discovery. Always assumed this band was dogshit.

Okay!

yeeeeeee

Nope

‼️SEX DWARF‼️ half of this album is a 5 but the clunkers really clunk

Jah

that voice!

I saw Cheap Trick at a music festival in 2007. The guitar player was wearing a Cheap Trick hat AND a Cheap Trick shirt. Didn’t like that. Surrender is a good song.

(snarl)

If they had put up a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Musical” on Broadway in the early 90’s, it probably would’ve sounded just like this.

Ok I’m standing

🧿🧿 👄

stiiiiillllllllllll waiting

You sound like you’re from London

Not sure how this is as boring as it is but here we are

so fucking chill

not very chill

spooooooooky season

I sometimes wonder if this list of albums is just fucking with me

for shizzle

⛓️🤘🏻⛓️

Always heard about Roxy Music. Never listened to Roxy Music. I really like Roxy Music!

I owned this CD in 6th grade and it was my favorite album, haven’t listened to it since. Holds up!

Peter Gabriel has always been one of those guys that I’ve felt like I’m supposed to like. I get why he’s good, his rhythm section is impressive, it’s prog royalty, I get it. but I’m never sold. Also he sounds a LOT like Dave Matthew’s.

British rock critics will slurp up any sludge that Damon Albarn pisses out in front of them.

i really like the song without Michael Stipe

Wild Horses is in the running for best song of all time. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is in the running for best guitar riff of all time. Moonlight Mile - pretty sure it’s the best album closer of all time. I dunno if I’ve ever listened to this record front to back but it might be my favorite Stones album now that I have.

Repeatedly smashing the fifth star

wooaaahhKAY

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Inspirations include 1980’s “acid house”, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and “a single Le Corbusier lamp”. I love this album.

fookin shite

yeezus looking inward

Another one that I owned on cd in middle school

“My presence is a present - kiss my ass” Monster is a baroque masterpiece.

25% music video nostalgia bliss 25% pump me the fuck up dance music 50% “hey, want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?”

One minute into this album, I thought the list had illuminated a new hidden gem….. Then came the vocals. Can’t I just mute the vocals? late 00’s freak folk indie rock, Animal Collective on one side of the spectrum and….whatever this is on the other - it had its moments. Not this one. Gets a bonus point for when I could imagine it without any of the vocals.

Trippy. Songs just aren’t nearly as strong as his other two albums, at least on first listen. Hall of fame cover art.

Reminded again that I don’t really like skits on albums.

Fun fact: the monster on the cover is named Eddie

bout damn time

I’d rather not hear another word about the whizz kids

the transition between root down and sabotage was a tectonic shift, the burning bush, my Rosetta Stone

couldn’t understand a word of this but at least everyone had a good time

Bonkers tone. Very psychedelic. Love old Santana.

I absolutely hate songwriting like this.

really oscillating between annoying chaos and incredibly chill vibes. reading that this is one of the main guys from CAN helped me understand this a bit more.....def prefer CAN tho.

I’ve never been a U2 fan, aside from a few months in like second grade when my sister and I became obsessed with the song Mysterious Ways (not on this album). U2 is serious in a way that I can’t be, or at least doesn’t align with the kind of seriousness I respect. Just look at this fucking cover art. U2 is leather pants serious. U2 is “we have our own signature iPod” serious. U2 is a guitar player earnestly referring to himself as “The Edge” and wearing a stupid fucking skull cap every day serious. I’ll give this album its due, even found myself singing along to I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For; but no, I do not like U2

hot take: Beatles are great

Bewilderingly good songwriting. I think Dana and I listened to this in it’s entirety 400 times in March/April 2020.

they sure did kick them out

I got more stories than JD’s got Salinger - Definitely the album where they changed the game in terms of sampling with almost collage-like backing instrumentals. they’re still one album away from refining their vocal rhythm out of the 80’s; these songs aren’t quite as cohesive and diverse as what’s to come but we’ve got some bangers here nonetheless.

….“too ridiculous to take seriously and too serious to be ridiculous”…. I love some of these songs, clearly a work of mastered craft - but there are too many divergent attitudes and ideas going on here to love this as a whole. The back half really saved it for me.

😴

¡que rápido!

Didn’t grow up with this, has always been something I knew of but didn’t really know. Knew about the production, the sound, etc and put on good headphones and listened carefully; it definitely sounds great. They got the best session players and it’s immaculately arranged, produced, recorded. I just don’t really like the songs. Some great moments, have had Deacon Blues stuck in my head and love the song Peg. the most important element of any music that’s new to me, though, is how it hits me, viscerally - this just didn’t do shit.

Can’t believe it buuut…I liked this album a lot. I’ve always been a hater of the title track. Always. Was prepared w a Big Lebowski joke etc etc. But with good headphones on a plane with my eyes closed, the production sounds so dense and chill and inventive……I like the Eagles?

I like listening to this but 90 minutes is just too much devotion for one sitting.

I mean, pretty fun!

this album is all over the place

woah. really wish he’d left that last song on the cutting room floor.

Wow. I really did not like that. Lou Reed seems to speak to a subset of a generation that I am definitively not a part of and I find his smugness boring, annoying, and dated all at once. Giving it a courtesy point for the ripping guitar solo at the end of “How Do You Think It Feels”

so good, never gets old, will have this on repeat for the rest of my life

I have a couple of Duran Duran songs on my “Death Scene Music” playlist. I guess outside of that context I think this blows.

what a title.

well bleach my jeans and call me Dando

love that this list keeps surprising me with artists I’ve never come across before

I give it a foi outta foive

this is just one of those albums that hit me at the exact right time and place. the suburbs came out the day that i moved into a new house in austin and i listened to it on repeat while i painted the walls. aside from being the right age at the time for the album's themes to hit me like a freight train, it just feels like a texas record. there's so much melancholy, nostalgia, big open space within. aimlessly driving around a hot, texan august - this represents my time there in my memories. as a coda, the movie that ended up representing my time in Austin to me, Boyhood, which i briefly worked on, ends with Deep Blue. "here are my place and time, and here in my own skin i can finally begin"

EEEEOOOOOEEEAAAYYYYOOOO

v chill

no, I don’t think so. bonus point for some SLICK guitar

I’m a dirty boy I guess

I really hate listening to skits. the songs are by and large incredible,though.

holy shit that voice. I’m curious if he hadn’t died so young how his style would have evolved as time went on, this albums weakness to me really lies in its dated early 90’s pseudo-prog songs. I liked incubus a lot for a period of time, so I understand Jeff Buckley’s heavy influence on late 90’s rock vocals. glad I finally listened to him with more context than just “hallelujah”

track 1: undeniable classic all other tracks: boring knockoff oasis dreck

✌🏻

Dustin’ off ma fuck me pumps

really grew on me as it went on. tbh it sounds like mr dion is really phoning it in most of the time but you know what - i kinda respect that. deducting a point for being absolutely too fucking long.

Found the exception to my “no skits” crusade and it’s Andre 3000’s “I stank I can, I stank I can” bit

Fun but not my favorite funkadelic

definitely some highlights but nowhere near the best from Marvin Gaye

It’s really good for what it is; I just don’t understand what it is.

This is my favorite Beatles album, it lived in my car’s cd player for months in high school. To me the Beatles are simply the GOAT when it comes to recording in the studio and this one means the most to me.

“Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty, bring a smile to your face. Sixty, shit…damn near barbecuing on that motherfucker. Go down to 20…get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a fuck about 40.”

https://youtu.be/uzidMPMhYiA

while it displays one of the greatest album covers of all time, it contains one of the worst bob dylan covers of all time. I also guess I like pj Harvey in theory more than reality.

cool look they’re in an airport

my dad bought me this cd the day it came out when we were on a trip to chicago. i never turned it off. 1000 stars. 30 years in and still in awe every time I listen to this album.

more like very BAD (high fives, high fives)

More hit and miss than some of favorite TH albums but just an overall ripping experience laced with all time classics. Member of the cover art hall of fame.

i’d love to join the throngs of loud whistling fans of bb king

not sure how much room I have in my life for 90’s nü metal that is nü to me. That said, the percussion is excellent, the guitar tones are sick, and this generally holds up a whole lot better than say, Limp Bizkit.

😚

ONETWOTHREEFOUR

this is not spinal tap

Steely Dan meets David Bowie or Yes in all the wrong ways. Not for me.

pretty sick as far as hokey concept albums go

mehhh I guess Metallica and Megadeth on their own weren’t enough to sustain the genre. Anthrax is very clearly only for the heads.

big time college album for me. with some distance, realize it's a little uneven - the lows are almost parodies of themselves, not sure if this is because of time and a bigger catalogue or if they were reductive to begin with. that said, songs like windowsill, keep the car running, no cars go - bangers.

Foundational text

possibly the coolest album of all time.

as I’ve gotten older, i've begun to understand the desire that aging artists have to round up all their famous friends and make these cameo orgies - unfortunately they're almost always lame ass snoozefests like this fuckin thing

🫤

First time listening to Rush. I really appreciate the musical trio and their technical progginess - I just can’t help but hate the vocals. Kept thinking of this lyric from Pavement: What about the voice of Geddy Lee How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?

Some transcendent moments keep this at a 3 for me but I’m all Rush’d out

i suppose

knicks, pizza, illmatic

markedly better than their second album, which is markedly better than the next and so on and so forth. I still think Chris Martin is the reason people started using the word “cuck”

lovely

proto-arcade fire vibes. i prefer the crispy cold braggadocio of oasis when it comes to 90s britpop but this, though uneven and overdramatic - it doesn’t suck

🌒

having a hard time figuring out why I had to hear this album before I die. whole thing sounds like it could’ve been in goldeneye n64 if the game had a porno level

found myself focusing more on quincy jones’ incredible production than mj this time around. mostly in it for the hits here, which luckily make up 3/4 of the record.

Goddamn Running Up That Hill is such a good opener wtf this whole album fucking rips EDIT: wait wait wait I wrote that after 4 songs and the back half of this sucks

I’m insulted

very sweet of them to dedicate a whole album to their best friend who went insane

Cool name, cool band, cool album - always hits

a classic for some, and of them i am one.

Incredible. I think it might be a 5 but probably need to listen to it more to appreciate this record to its fullest.

I assumed I would hate this. First off, I always confuse Depeche Mode with Duran Duran. Depeche Mode is significantly better, but they definitely occupy a similar space. There are a slew of bangers on this album, all of which already live on my Death Scene Music playlist. There are definitely some clunkers, but it’s a pretty cohesive vision with some all time classics. Violator - good album!

can’t help but respect the forebears of many of my favorite 90’s bands

we have Daft Punk at home

Some fine songs, some pretty moments; largely felt like homework.

Their most popular album is clearly the best in Pink Floyd’s catalogue. The daily album project has given me more Pink Floyd to chew on than I’d ever been interested enough to previously get into - I don’t love all of it but there’s no question this album kicks ass front to back.

I feel like there’s an insurmountable amount of context necessary for this to have any impact on me.

not always the most enjoyable listen from head to toe but at the end of the day, put on any misc moment from this record and it’ll wash over you like a tidal wave.

At times Wilco. At times Pink Floyd. At times Panda Bear. At times Flaming Lips. I guess this is my issue w beta band - I like it just fine, but I can’t discern any cohesive identity to the music. It kind of just leaves me feeling like I just listened to a succession of trailers for music I’d rather listen to.

Definitely in the running for best opening track of all time.

beer drinkers and hell raisers is right

cover art hall of fame top 5 candidate

a perfect opening track - anthemic drums, incredible riff, transcendent first verse lyrics - hits me in a way that’s impossible to describe. the rest of the album basically repeats itself (like, literally in “sowing seeds”), but tjamc could’ve just recorded fart sounds after “just like honey” and I’d still like this record.

good music to listen to while working on the horror script I’m writing, bad music to listen to in literally any other environment

wow. can’t think of a swan song like this that both encapsulates an artists career while adding something entirely new to it. very impressed, but not surprised mister bowie

perfect soundtrack for a sunny Memorial Day in NYC

🤩

wuh oh

rock and rolllll

sags a bit in the middle but just the most chill

“the end” is mostly a pretty bad song. there, i said it.

This album has some good songs and melodies but the arrangements are so drably dated that it really dulled the effect it had on me. I’ve learned through listening to all these albums that while the 80’s sound and style helped cement the legacy of certain bands, it brutally shortened other artists’ shelf life.

beauty

ngl this is pretty good - definitely helping me understand where u2 came from. still a little overly serious for me but who am I kidding, I like Radiohead - this u2 album can stay.

incredible voice. not for me.

unruly and fun as hell

came to the realization today that maybe the who was its generation’s blink-182. half their songs are all timer ear worms while the other half are annoying and dated. their collective persona leans towards goofiness and their drummer is arguably the best musician in the band. really learning that I could go either way with this band.

RIPBW

Pretty good! Really well constructed, it flows between the hits thoughtfully and I didn’t feel like skipping much aside from the 6 minute saxophone solo in the second track.

with all due respect, cream has never really never done it for me. i can appreciate what it is and could imagine being obsessed with this if i were around in 1967, but today always feels like im in a museum, placing my finger on my chin and nodding to appear deferential. really more of a 3 for me but rounding up due to how influential it’s been on nearly every band I like.

this is one click away from an Ali G bit

More like yasss

🤷🏻‍♂️

oddly enough I think I prefer later Elvis when he’s real zonked out on pills, but the blend of country and soul with his voice here is so smooth.

patti the poet is a genius, patti live is electric, patti's albums...just don’t quite do it for me

the non-hits really did not hit

Might be my new favorite SY

epic squirming coil

while acknowledging this album is damn near perfect - impeccable production, quintessential 70s beachwood canyon vibes… I just don’t like Fleetwood Mac songs. the chain and dreams are the tunes that do it for me.

far out

my achey breaky heart

ngl didn’t see that arabic “imagine” cover coming

I want to tell her that I love her a lot but I gotta get a belly full of wine

i think i like this even more than pink moon

come on Eileen is a certified all time BANGER

half hour of power

a gem out of left field. never heard of these guys before and it’s extremely my shit. what this is all about!

Been a minute! All killer, no filler.

pretty one note but it’s a pretty one note

some stronger than others; goosebumps throughout

every black sabbath album I listen to in its entirety gets better and better. RIP ozzy

I have a growing suspicion that anyone under the age of 50 who says they like the velvet underground is lying.

“walking in the wild west end, walking with your wild best friend” beautiful stuff

when I was like 14, I had a sick Rage Against the Machine t-shirt. One day, I wore it to the dentist and he asked me “what machine are they raging against.” I think I responded with something along the lines of “uh you know like the political machine? Like the government and, uh, violence?” Anywho, 5 stars.

hate cops✅ love butts✅

i want so badly to like randy newman but i think the best i can say is that this is less annoying than billy joel.

the swagger

sense memories of college activated. tougher and tougher to rank these Kanye records in lieu of recent events but in all subjective objectivity- this still throws down.

every song is spectacular. aretha's voice is just so incredible - in the running for the best ever. teetering on a 5 but i think i like the songs as singles, or listening to one side at a time, as opposed to the entire collection at once. incredible songs - not necessarily a compelling album imo.

Nevermind holds its place as their best, but I probably listened to this more. RIP Kurt, RIP Albini, this record fucking bashes bricks.

I can’t exactly explain why but this album reminds me of what it feels like to waddle around the house after overeating on thanksgiving

a perfect album - it keeps growing and growing - sum exceeds its parts

millennial!

a huge album for me but nowhere near their best. wolf at the door still gives me the willies every time

❄️

mad fer it

solid lou

so much power, some real bangers too. just don’t see myself spinning this whole thing again.

ngl that last track really chilled me out. other than that this was a drugged out fart bomb.

first time listen for me. wow. i think this the first time im bumping an album to a 5 solely because its prestige is greater than the parts. the acoustic versions of many great blonde on blonde songs, the primitive live versions of studio bangers, the sheer weight of it all. very cool

always heard about dr octagon but never knew the music. kind of like hip hop weird al? or ween? or some sort of rick and morty thing? funny enough, as well as some slick dj shadow beats, but not reaching back for it.

i used to hate Metallica but started coming around a few years ago. this album has some real sledgehammers but i still hate songs like unforgiven and nothing else matters. at the end of the day, my growing appreciation mostly leans toward their earlier, faster metal.

some great tunes for sure but relatively mid as far as Neil goes

let’s just say that’s not what I was expecting

(continuous head bobbing to funky rhythms)

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I like that rhythm nation sounds like we’re in a wet basement bangin on pipes and trash cans

Can really hear the moment they enter their old man era during a song about getting indigestion from eating tv dinners

good god does The Band fucking rule. i do think 'music from big pink' is their only true 5 star album but how can you not love this.

I’d like to buy the world a coke

yeah it's long and twee and peak millenial self-seriousness...but that was what was up! all 74 minutes still hit so hard for me, bringing me back to so many different moments in my young adult life. i'm glad he didn't actually devote his career to 50 different state albums, but would have loved to hear his take on Torrington, Connecticut.

he was the king of the tuck-tuck sound!

Feel Flows is such an evocative song, one of my favorites. this album, like many brian wilson joints, is pretty uneven.

It hurt my brain trying to parse “Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy”

this is something my fourth grade music teacher probably made us listen to while she loudly clapped along and attempted to sing in Pulaar

this, to me, is the best album ever recorded. even how they released it changed the music industry as we knew it. this is like 2001: a space odyssey, like ulysses, like the wire - dense, brilliant, altering the form forever. energizing to realize at the time it was released, a miracle to revisit over and over through the years.

hell yeah dude

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for the tape deck, though. Or the Creedence.

it's not over til the tremulant sings

love B&S, this was nice, not gonna crack the repeat rotation though

finally an answer to the age old question: what if limp bizkit sounded more like dave matthew’s band?

like im always sayin - wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom

🤨

really crazy to listen to this album with some distance. certain tracks are staggering - intensely wry lyrics spat out with that snide voice of his over earworm beat after earworm beat. 'stan', 'the real slim shady', 'drug ballad' - these and a few others have staying power I wouldn't have acknowledged without giving this a good relisten. that said, about half the album taps the well way past dry. the boy band bashing gets old, the self reflexive gay jokes annoyingly front and center, and holy fuck the song 'kim' should not have made it onto the release. jesus dude. all said though, a seminal album in which the quality sustains its influence.

love it but might be a lil TOO MUCH prog

🤘😈🤘

Busta Rhymes coming outta left field to just torch the end of the album

lotta hits. lotta skips.

as much as I want to love The Who, i still feel like you had to be there with most of their output.

heater! never heard this before - in fact really only know stephen stills by name and csny, not at all familiar with his solo work. the first few and then the last few songs hit the hardest, almost abbey road-esque in the sense that they are flowing sequences more than individual songs. definitely sags a bit in the middle but it’s a double album that shouldn’t be. manassas - yes!

maybe

rootin tootin

it’s 1998 and I fell asleep w the main menu of 1080 snowboarding on a loop

this is what I want all of these other 80’s post-punk bands on this list to be. some real moments on this album - “this is the day” is an all time classic and ending with “giant” - the whole thing is cool as fuck. also, clearly a top-5 in the band name hall of fame.

music for girls to put on makeup to

i guess I really hate Morrissey

Not just one hit! Im with this

some of these hit harder than others

at its best im all about it, i just had a hard time with the vocals, especially in the early tracks

height of their powers. I’m not a big enough fan of the cure to give it five stars but it’s close; this record is really evocative and a bolded, capital E Emo. gloomy stuff!

not my favorite in the capt beef catalogue

that one familiar song is good but i dunno, not too fond of echo or the bunnymen

🥁🪇🥁🥁🪇 WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH 🥴 😭 😫 🥁🥁 WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH

the first album I remember liking - as in, i owned the cd and realized this was a collection of songs by one band with a purpose. Kinda sunk in my bones I guess. Hadn’t listened to it through in awhile. Maybe it’s just the deep tissue muscle memory but this album is nearly perfect.