1001 Albums Summary

As solid as I remembered it being.

Still rocks

Everyone knows the tracks America, Mrs Robinson, and Hazy Shade of Winter from this album, but Save the Life of My Child was the surprise favorite on the album for me, especially having never heard it before. Voices of Old People felt a little out of place with the rest of the album, especially being in the middle of it.

First time I heard this when it came out and wasnt a fan, but over time I've grown to like this mellower side of Beck. Listening to it today, I still do.

Didn't think I knew who this was, and then I heard Coconut and realized I did. I also recognized his covers of Let the Good Times Roll and Without You having heard them at some point in the past I guess. Most of the rest of the tracks were just okay to me. Jump Into the Fire was an easy standout as the best on the album for me.

It kinda blended into the background on my first listen through, so I had to listen through again. I dug the instrumentals more than the rest of the tracks.

I've heard almost all the songs on this album here or there, but I don't think I've ever listened to this album all the way through until now. They all fit together quite well and this album as a whole sounds like peak CCR to me.

I'm guessing Untitled was meant as the end of side one of a cassette, but I wish it was a full track because I dug its sound. The standout track for me was Mutual Slump. The rest had good samples but were overall just okay.

Really? This made the list? Well here it goes... I'm not sure if he's trying to diss Nine Inch Nails or if he's a fan of them based on Hot Dog. And then he copies Roger Daltrey's purposeful stuttering on The Who's My Generation? I completely forgot how Take a Look Around was used in Mission Impossible 2 and then I heard the opening riff. Pretty fitting that I think that movie is the worst one in the franchise. I did have a good laugh hearing DMX barking in Rollin (Urban Assault Vehicle). Including him and RedMan and Method Man makes the track less bad. I will admit when this album came out I listened to it a few times after being introduced to it by a friend, but I feel like this album is meant to only appeal to a teenager. I can't see how a grown adult would actually enjoy this.

This was a good palette cleanser after the album I got yesterday (Limp Bizkit's CSatHFW). This album includes one of my fave if not the fave song from The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps. That opening bass gets me every time. So many great songs on this, and a Beatles record I think I could listen to anytime, anywhere.

A band I had never heard of. But from the first track I could dig the sound. Baked Beans is my fave track (despite no singing about baked beans!) with Fantastic Day a close second. A number of the songs, like Baked Beans and Love's Got Me In Triangles give me some early Talking Heads vibes and I like it.

Never have listened to this album fully. Only heard a few of the tracks before giving this a full listen through. Not a bad album but not a lot of great tracks to me. Synchronicity II is the only song on the album I really liked. Every Breath You Take still sounds real stalkery. The chorus of Murder By Numbers is just silly. "Murder by numbers ,one, two three. It's as easy to learn as your A,B,C,D,E".

A Pink Floyd album with way less posters hung up in college dorms compared to Dark Side of The Moon, but I'd say its just as good of album. It has some similar ethereal sounds and build up in each song, just maybe a little less trippy.

The general fuzz noise from this album is great from start to finish. I can definitely hear how this might have influenced early NIN, Nirvana, and a few other bands (that I know of). Shame I never heard this band until now.

Never listened to this whole album, but have heard Monday Monday and California Dreamin of course. I like those two songs but the remainder of the songs on the album were meh to me.

It's okay. Not my normal jam. Seems like it would be good elevator or mediation music.

I know most of his work is on the softer side usually, but on this album the loudest songs are my fave. Pictures of Me and Cupids Trick. But Say Yes is also great.

This album has to have one of the most if not the most recognizable sounds for an album to kick off with. Neal's drums are the throughline of this album for me. They elevate every song to another level. Geddy's bass groove that he lays down on YYZ is just stellar. Alex's opening guitar riff on Limelight is just as iconic as Neal's drum opening on Tom Sawyer to me. I guess I've never listened to this album all the way through before since I don't recall ever hearing Witch Hunt or Vital Signs before but I've heard every other song on the album. As a kid I ignored Rush and would change the radio station every time it came on the classic rock station. What the heck was wrong with me?? Now I gotta go get this on vinyl.

I've never listened to TLC despite them being an always popular band when I was growing up, and only heard the hits from this album, like Waterfalls and Creep. This album gives me middle school dance vibes, but I guess that's just because it's a product of that time for me. I liked Diggin on You. It's beat kind of reminded me of the one in Geto Boys Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta. The guitar on Red Light Special gave me some real Prince vibes that I dug. You can also add Switch to the list of good songs that have sampled Mr Good Stuff.

The song with Santana to start the album sounded like more Santana, featuring John Lee Hooker instead of the other way around, which made me question what this album was going to be like. Luckily, the rest of the album was more in the style of John Lee Hooker I had listened to before. Overall a decent album. Not sure how much I'd listen to it again though.

Peak raw 90s. The lyrics, the sound, all of it. Somehow (misogyny) this didn't reach the levels of popularity and radio play as other musicians of the same time but it should have.

I honestly didn't realize this came out in 1990. I've heard most of the songs before but I guess I just assumed it came out in the late 90s and not at the start of the decade. I went in thinking that I would probably not like this album as much as I did back in the 90s, but I actually still did. "Seeing Things" gave me some real Joe Cocker "With A Little Help From My Friends" vibes. "Struttin Blues" was a song I hadn't heard before and I think I like it better than the albums hits. That might just be because I'm a sucker for when a band features an organ prominently on a track in just in the right way.

Good album, but some songs kind of do blend together with each other. Why didn't I ever listen to this whole thing when it first came out and settled for only knowing Criminal and Never Is a Promise this whole time? Those two are great songs and all, but I just might like Shadowboxer even more.

Very ambient. So much so it just kinda blended into the background and I forgot what I was listening to, and then the album was over so I had to listen to it again to try and get a better idea about it. I dug the the funky bass on Big Muff. If you told me that Explosions in the Sky was a big fan of his or at least the song Small Hours, it would not surprise me. It's long, its ethereal, its got guitar fading in and out, it changes to a slightly different song in the middle to come back around to how it started. Outside of Small Hours, I can't pinpoint any other influences but I definitely hear how this could have influenced artists/songs that came after it.

I can hear the influences while also hearing what this could have influenced on quite a few tracks , like Tom Petty on Kingdom of Love, Rolling Stones on Alien, and Franz Ferdinand on Insanely Jealous and Leave Me Alone. Unrelated to reviewing this album, this is an example of how I wish Spotify and other streaming services would split out re-issues. What shows up there now isn't the original release and is some sort of combination of the original album plus the two re-issues of it. 3 stars.

Eh. Not sure what to say. Had two listens through and nothing was imparted on me.

Another album on this list where I only ever listened to the hits and am glad to have finally listened to this full thing. This is one of those albums that necessitates listening to on a true sound system or high quality headphones that can handle the highest highs and lowest lows. If you listen to this on earbuds are are missing out on so much. All the singles are still just as good as they were before. Of all the new to me tracks, Clean might be a new standout. Or maybe its Dangerous. Or maybe its just all of them. Revisiting the original Personal Jesus has me thinking about Johnny's Cash's cover that everyone has talked about a lot. His version is good, but the original is still better. 5 stars.

Barely ever listened to anything from her before, and I feel like what I have listened to outside of this was better. Some of the lyrics were very personal and autobiographical (and not ridiculous like Drunk In Love), but the rest of the aspects of the album/songs I couldn't really get into. XO was the only song that stood out to me in a good way.

This was okay. Decent house music but I'm not sure I could distinguish it from most other house music of the time or that followed it.

When listening to this, I keep thinking about how it reminds me a lot of Andrew Bird, just without the whistling and also much less captivating sounds overall.

What a debut album for a band. I don't think I had ever heard anything from it until 10 years after it came out. Boy what I was missing. Love the sound you get from all the different Moog's, synthesizers, and keyboards they used to make this album. I think it would be impossible to find a time when I would not want to listen to this album at this point. Fave track: Kelly Watch The Stars Least fave track: You Make It Easy. It's still good, but just not as good as the rest.

Of course I knew the hits Black Magic Woman and Oye Como Va before listening to the rest of this, but there were some other good songs on here I've been missing out on, like Mothers Daughter and Hope You're Feeling Better. This had less guitar solos than I was expecting, but the percussion section was on point for the whole album.

Some real simple punk songs. By keeping all their songs so short they were able to cram so many onto a single record and they are all mostly solid, but there were some I occasionally wished were longer. With them being so short, none of them really stuck with me past the first listen through. I liked it, but it just wasn't memorable due to the quick pace. Couldn't find anything to really confirm it, but I assume The Toadies named themselves after the song on this album? Heard the start of Corona and had to think really hard about where I recognize it from and finally remembered.

I managed to know who Tom Waits was, but never really listen to his music at all until this point. The first two songs immediately made me think of The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack for some reason. Otherwise the rest of the album was just okay to me. Nothing much to write about it.

An album everyone says you should listen to, but I never have. Good but not great. Kinda just fell into the background while I was listening.

Starting out covering the great Ennio Morricone? I guess to show off the symphony and not Metallica itself? Not a big Metallica fan, but I do usually like symphony covers of popular songs. This wasn't quite that, but I did like classical spin on the songs, but it was just okay overall to me. Not sure I would choose to listen to it again.

I forgot I had heard of them before, just with their one hit of There She Goes. I like most everything else on the album more than that song now that I've heard the whole thing. Also hearing the album as a whole, it almost sounded like they were going for being a newer version of Tommy era The Who, in a good way.

Sounds like Bjork to me. Not in a good or bad way. Not sure what else to say about it.

Not bad. Not sure how much I want to listen to it again, but I can appreciate the lyrical masterwork of the songs at least. Water is quite out there though.. Gave me some free form jazz vibes.

What an energy from this album. The guitars, the drums, the ridiculously fun lyrics. It's what makes Van Halen well...Van Halen. Those drums on Hot For Teacher. So good. Listening more to the guitar on it now, I pick up some ZZ Top sounds that I don't think I noticed before.

I usually shy away from live albums, but this one is pretty decent. But for being a live album, it doesn't have much in the way of interaction with the crowd besides being able to hear them cheer. Not a negative, but just kind of odd. Unrelated, but I've only ever heard the live version of I Want You to Want me from this album and never the studio recording, and listening to the studio recording, I'm okay only ever hearing this live one again. The studio one isn't bad, but the live one is just so much better.

It's fine. I can listen to it and not cringe like I did with Limp Bizkit, but I don't think I'll ever pick it up to listen to again.

Ah yes, the first album so many teenagers listened to while high. Or listened to it when it was synced up The Wizard of Oz...while high. Not as mind blowing now as I thought it was when I was a kid, compared to newer psych rock I've heard in the last 10 years. But I appreciate the great sound engineering done for the album, where you can hear each distinct instrument on their own and hear how they all combine so well in every track.

Angry teenage me loved this album. Sorry to everyone else on the road when I was listening to this. It still holds up some for me, but probably not for everyone else.

Never even heard of this band before, despite one of their songs being in one of my favorite movies. It simultaneously sounds like something that could have come out in the garage rock era with The Vines and White Stripes while also being something that came out in the 60s alongside The Doors or The Kinks.

This is great. Sad I missed hearing them in the 90s when this came out.

Sufjan is someone I've heard of plenty but barely ever listened to. This album shows me I should have listened more. I feel like I can just say the album is "beautiful" and leave it at that. I don't know what else to say about it as a whole. Just wow to Chicago. Such a good song. Best on the album. But The Man of Metropolis Steals our Hearts is a real close second.

Side one starts out strong with Come Together and mostly keeps it going except for Maxwells Silver Hammer and Because. But the medley of side two is just vastly superior. No duds, all hits to me. To top all that off we get alternating guitar solos from John and Paul and a drum solo from Ringo on The End? Pretty great

Semi-comedic rambling to a good bass and drum back beat in a jazz club atmosphere. No thanks. Didn't even listen to the whole album.

Forgot how good that solo in That Lady is. Same with the solo in Summer Breeze.

A Talking Heads album full of songs I mostly didn't know. Except I swear I've heard a cover of I'm Not In Love but I can't remember now by who.

A quick half hour album of solid punk hits, one right after the other.

Some good classic soul and funk.

Not a bad album, considering I assumed I wouldn't like this album and I've heard very little of her work outside of "What's Love Got to Do with It". The album has a decent cover of Al Green's Let's Stay Together. Not sure what else to say about it. My fave track is Show Some Respect.

Some jazz I think I could actually listen to on repeat for once. I dig it.

A flute in a rock and roll album? Sure, why not.

Fuzzy noisy rock at its best.

So smooth. Would only be smoother if it had some saxophone.

Man why was I not listening to Kraftwerk sooner. This is great.

Classic Willie. Not sure what else to say.

Another solid Talking Heads album I hadn't heard. I swear at 1:30 into Drugs it sounds like Homer saying "doh" but its obviously not.

The songs from this I had heard before are still good, but all the rest of the tracks on the album are better than them to me. I'm sad that I slept on this album when it came out.

Lot's of Stevie songs I had never heard before and all were good. All in Love is Fair sounds like it should have been a theme song to a James Bond movie.

I discounted this album when it came out because of the constant radio play the hits got, but there's other good songs on this album besides what made the radio. Politik is a great opener to the album and a better song than the hits Clocks and The Scientist. A Whisper gives some early Radiohead vibes that I dig.

Hadn't heard the songs on this album besides the hits before this listen through. I was hoping I'd like more of the other songs but they were just okay.

A quick half hour lesson on punk

Dig the funk

Some okay beats and wild lyrics

Started out liking the album, but it seemed to trail off in the last few tracks of the album and I was less a fan of that part. I like the inclusion of the theremin in a few of the tracks too. I'm a sucker for any band that uses one.

eh

So many samples of so many good songs.

I'm a fan of TV On the Radio but somehow never listened to this whole album. It's good. Very them.

Pass

Haven't listened to much of Elvis Costello before, but the little I had already heard I liked more than this. This wasn't bad, but just not as good as some of his other stuff I've heard.

Less revolutionary listening to it now compared to when I listened to it the first time when I was 16 or 17. Still some good Dylan at least. Couldn't decide between 2 and 3 stars. Settled on a 2 since I felt like I probably wont listen to this again for another 20ish years.

Sorry Leonard, you're just not for me.

Not my kind of country music. They should have stuck with the sound of their previous albums instead.

Never had listened to an album of hers before. Only what I heard on the radio at the time. Not bad but not really my jam either.

Hadn't heard anything from this beyond the hits. The rest of the tracks are just as good to me. The "Broken" part of Head over Heels is great and a shame radios never play that part of the track.

There are parts I liked, and parts I didn't like. Not sure how else to expand on it beyond that.

Since the day I first heard it, Brimful of Asha still ends up stuck in my head for hours on end. It's a catchy song. The rest of the album however will not get stuck in my head the same way. It seems to go between multiple genres, with two of the more obvious ones being Beatles post-India visit and general late 90s Britpop/rock. The post-India Beatles is super obvious on the closing track of them covering Norwegian Wood. I wish I liked the rest of the album as much as the one song from it that will forever be stuck in my head.

What? Beta Band made it on this list but not for The Three EP's with "Dry The Rain", the song that gets everyone to buy the album when they hear that song for the first time? The opening song, Assessment, was a good intro to convince me to listen to more. The rest of the tracks were equally good in different ways. Happy to have listened to this one now for the first time too.

Oh boy. The album with his cover of Hurt. Lemme go get a kleenex real quick. His voice hits differently on this compared to his first albums. He's still got most of the deep bass baritone of his youth, but mixed in with it is some scratches and scuffs of a much older man. The makes it so the album comes across as someone who has seen a lot and done a lot and is telling you the stories of their life. This album, like Bowie's Blackstar, will always have a strong association with Cash due to it being the last album before he died. But even outside of that fact its still great, with its mix of covers and originals. I think the only cover I didn't like as much as the rest was In My Life, but that's mostly because him singing it brings a more somber tone to the song compared to how John and Paul sang the original.

Typical U2.

Just makes me think of Junior High. Not something I ever listened to on my own, but ended up hearing it plenty somehow. Still no interest in it now.

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Great album. This line from Freddies Dead hits hard now just as it did when it came out. "We can deal with rockets and dreams, but reality, what does it mean?"

Great album by The Kinks I had never heard before, outside of Victoria. Shangri-La is my favorite song on the album easily.

Not liking this one any more than the first Leonard album presented on this.

The alt/rock/dance vibes of this album are great. I can definitely hear how this could have influenced 90s bands like Blur and The Eels namely.

I've barely listened to this one up until now compared to Whats the Story Morning Glory, and I think I might prefer this one. And I guess T-Rex was okay with them straight ripping Get It On?

All the hallmarks of a Radiohead album that you come to expect, with no filler or fluff.

I liked the music, but the singing was just hard to get past on the first listen. On the second listen I was more okay with it, but still not past it.

Best three opening songs on an album, ever? Yeah I think so.

Something I had never heard before, and I liked it. Very silly song names like many other punk bands do, even if some might see it as being immature. But that to me is quintessential punk.

Can honestly say I haven't ever listened to much of Allman Brothers, but this wasnt bad. Might have to give them a listen beyond their song that used to be the Top Gear theme.

Heard many people talk up this album but I ended up just thinking it was okay. Wanted to like it more though.

Eh.

I will never tire of hearing Eruption. Nor will I tire of the random interjections from David Lee Roth in Running With the Devil. I still wish that soundboard I found in 2010 existed that was just clips of him from that song. Hell of a debut album for a band.

Not as perfect as classic Bowie, but still good with some of the usual Bowie charm. I'd Rather Be High sounds like something that could have come out in the late 90s or early 2000s from The Verve or similar bands. The backing vocals on How Does the Grass Grow remind me of some other band/song but I can't think of what though.

Didn't realize Bonnie Prince Billy had been around this long. Had first heard of him back in 2009 and barely listened to him back then, but this older album sounded exactly like I expected. Real melancholy and simple.

Sounded like a British mix of Frank Sinatra crooning and 50s country/americana/rock. I'd probably rather listen to this than the Frank Sinatra that made it into this list, but not much else I can say about it.

I'm surprised how much I liked this.

Dad music through and through. In a good way.

Wow. Never had heard of this before and its great. Psych, space, fuzz rock in all its goodness.

Better than other Christmas albums/songs that are out there, but still just okay to me.

I don't really listen to country music, but I remember this a little from hearing it as a kid and to me, this is what county music should sound like.

A bunch of Lou Reed songs I had never heard before. All decent, but not ones I would go back and listen to many more times.

Sounds almost like a mix of U2 and Oasis. Not in a bad way.

Some of the finest from Beck. To this day it still sounds completely different from most other rock that was coming out at this time, in a good way. And the album has some solid songs on it besides the hits that got radio play, like Lord Only Knows (which almost sounds like it could have been on Sea Change) and Sissyneck.

More of Beck being Beck and making his own music in whatever style he wants to do, with each track being different from the previous. It's better than some of his other works, but not as good as Guero or Sea Change.

A band I had barely listened to before, and now I'm not sure why. This album was great. I had only heard Holiday in Cambodia before this listen, but all the other tracks on the album are just a good to me. A perfect punk album.

Good. Not great, but good. Good background music for a party that wont interfere with conversations but might have people ask you who it is.

No thanks.

A great pop/new wave rock album. Good from start to finish, even beyond the hits.

This felt a little all over the place, but I dug some of it. Soweto sounds like a Dave Matthews Band song. The biggest wtf is the last track turning into a hoe down though.

Some Mile's I can get behind.

Never had listened to this album. Not my cup of tea mostly, but better than some other albums on this list I have had to give 1 stars to since I can't give zero stars.

I had only heard the title track before this listen through, after seeing it in a VW commercial a long time ago. But the song has stuck with me since then. Finally listening to the rest of the album, and the other tracks are nearly just as good, making this a really solid album all around.

Less into it now than I first was. Almost seems to angry, but also it seems right.

First few tracks are real meh, but then once you get to Planet D, it gets better

Such an energy from this album. Nothing else quite like it.

It's good. Not great though. But probably seen as even more popular after Stranger Things.

Flavor Flav sounds the same in this as he does in modern day to me, which is impressive. Listening to this on headphones got a little disorienting on some of the tracks that alternate quickly between the left and right channel, especially the last minute of Power To The People.

Great album for anyone to ease their way into shoegaze. And you can hear the inspiration for so many other bands in the tracks, to the point where I thought I was hearing the other bands songs and not the JAMC song.

Oh boy. Lemme go grab a box of tissues before hitting play. I didn't end up hearing this until probably 2004 or somewhere there about, and I definitely didn't like it all that much. But it's grown on me a lot. At least most of it has. I do prefer the more bombastic songs over the quieter ones, outside of Hallelujah. Not sure if I like his version of it or Rufus Wainrights version more.

Never even heard of this band before but the album is great. It's got some good ambient, progressive, layered post rock sound. Definitely going to have to listen to their whole catalog now.

Only ever heard Killer Queen from this album. But I dig all the remaining tracks I had never heard before. The opener, Brighton Rock, might be my fave newly heard track on the album.

Lots of good tracks on this. Some of which I never realized were them until now. Kind of like how I never realized they originally did This Will Be Our Year. I've heard so many covers of this without realizing this was the original.

That's some jazz.

So very 90s. The album starts out a lot with a lot of energy and then peters out halfway through or so. On Gettaway did they really reference Hale Bopp comet and say its "comatose"?

The album is great overall, but then in the middle it goes from a higher energy Neighborhood #3 to a mid album slump of Neighborhood #7 and the first two thirds of Crown of Love back to back. I feel like the next track after those slow sad songs being called Wake Up is addressed at the listener to wake up after probably falling asleep on the previous two songs. The rest of the songs after that wake up keep things going until the end to finish out strong.

Always good revisiting this album. Not a single bad track. But I'm sure some wont like Moby Dick being so drum solo heavy, but whatever. Let John Bonham have it. You can't let Jimmy Page have all the fun with his guitar solos.

Some good synth pop with an 80s sound to it at times. Forgot how this came out over 10 years ago too.

Honestly, I like this better than her other now more popular album on this list.

Good. Not sure I'd listen to it many more times, but it was still good.

It's between this and MCATIS as to which is my fave Smashing Pumpkins album. I heard MCATIS first, but I think Siamese Dream is a more condensed and better album to showcase 90s Smashing Pumpkins without any fluff. To me this album is one of the albums to point to the sound of the 90s.

Never heard this Kinks album before now. Man I was missing out. It gets a little out there, but in a good way. Still very approachable, so not sure how it didn't turn out to be full of hits like the albums that preceded it. Vastly different from the other British Invasion's happening at the time.

Shortest album ever that has 15 tracks. Of course its punk.

Mambo Sun, The Motivator, and Bang a Gong all sound like variations on the same song, and sound like what I expect from T-Rex. But the rest of the songs on the album sound different, in a good way.

Such dad rock. I do like some Steely Dan, but this album I don't like as much as the others.

If you don't listen to the words you'd think its a really upbeat album. Esp if you can find the MIDI version of Born in the USA. But then you listen to the lyrics and realize its not. Kind of impressive that Bruce can pull that off.

Not my kind of 80s that I like a lot. Had a few good songs but otherwise it was okay.

I didn't realize just how many of their hits I knew were on this one album. One Tree Hill might have been the weak point on the album for me. When someone brings up U2, its the songs on this album that I think about first. And then maybe unfortunately I also think about "uno, dos, tres, catorce". Why did you write that Bono. So dumb.

Their fourth album, but the first of theirs that I ever heard. And probably my favorite of their albums. Having said that, the horns near the tail end of City of Delusion feels very random when they come up. It reminded me of Led Zeppelins Fool in the Rain with the samba break in the middle of it. But then once you get Knights of Cydonia it seems like they were starting to go for a spaghetti western theme, but only for the last quarter of the album? Not entirely sure. Still a solid album.

I know I'm supposed to say this is a masterpiece and easily 5 stars, but it just isn't for me. I do like some of The Beach Boys work so its not like I don't like their music. But this just isn't a perfect album. Having said that, the layering of horns elevates many of the tracks on the album, like Wouldn't It Be Nice and Sloop John B. But maybe that's just because I'm a sucker for a band including horns in just the right way. And was that a theremin I heard in I Just Wasn't Made For These Times?

For me the album goes back and forth between good songs and just okay songs. You get a strong start with Cinnamon Girl and Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, but then it slows things down with Round & Round and thats where I start zoning out, but come right back with Down by the River. And then this just repeats for the rest of the album. If it was all the better songs, I'd rate this higher.

I get how some might rate this highly. The lyrics paint it as a very personal album so I can appreciate that and the music of it I can sometimes get behind. But her voice just goes places that I don't really like. So all that combined its just okay to me.

A Supertramp album full of Supertramp songs I had never heard. And it was good! Rudy was a surprise fave with its funk driven guitar riffs and horns in the middle of the track.

Lenny Kravitz was making music in 1989? Did you know? Because I sure didn't. I had heard Let Love Rule and Mr Cab Driver before, but I def didn't realize it came out before Are You Gonna Go My Way. I had discounted listening to much of Lenny's work since I had assumed it was all mostly like AYGGMW, but this album shows he has a broader sound. So maybe I'll check out some of his other stuff. Maybe. My Previous Love might be my fave song on the album, of course due to its ample use of horns and organ.

Like some other albums on here, I know this is supposed to be up there as one of the greatest, but it was just okay.

Another "classic" but one I liked a bit more than two I got in the la-a-a-a-st week.

How did I never notice how Bruce sounds like he's mumbling through parts of Born To Run until now? Guess maybe I never listened to it on a good enough system to really hear it. And that guitar 3 minutes into Jungleland sure sounds like it belongs in a song from The Knack. The aforementioned song also feels like the most Bruce song on the album because even if you don't listen to the lyrics, the way the music changes through its 9 minutes it just comes across like he's telling you a story.

An REM album I had never listened to all of until now. But man I played a lot of Orange Crush on Rock Band. Great song. On a great album.

I've listened to some of his work before and liked it, but I was surprised at how much I liked this.

Not a bad oldie album. Some songs I had heard before thanks to my parents playing stuff from this era. Didn't know Love Hurts was originally by them. But I still like Nazareths cover better. Joan Jett has a good cover of it too.

Didn't expect a reference to Kurt, Jimi, and the whole Forever 27 club in a track on a rap album, but here we are. Guess it fits with her only being a few years away from that consequential age when writing this album.

Why don't more bands do shows or make albums with instrumental bridges between songs? That was a tight half hour album. So much so I had to listen to it two more times.

Very Bruce. Less mumbly than Born To Run.

The first double disc I ever listened to and then owned. Before that I never realized a band could release something spanning more than a single CD. The surprise song I liked a lot back then and still do is/was Galapagos. Listening to the album now though, I think the album is a little long in the tooth and why I prefer Siamese Dream over this one nowadays.

I can't help but think that Tool was inspired by some of this record. There is a direct line between The Real Thing and the sound of early Tool albums. This also has a hell of a cover for War Pigs too.

I had only heard Tiny Dancer from this album before and nothing else. And it's now no longer my fave track from the album. That honor now goes to the title track. Rotten Peaches was another standout too.

Solid 90s grunge album through and through, except for Half. That song was just out of nowhere.

After listening to this album a few times in a row I definitely feel like my soul has been buttered.

Totally forgot about this band. Only remembered ever hearing their song Dirt.

First time I think I heard Queen songs where Freddie wasn't singing. And they were good!

🤘

A+ on the inclusion of those mariachi players on Across the Border. The Whale feels like they were trying to channel some Pink Floyd from the Dark Side of the Moon era.

I saw this and honestly didn't think I knew who they were. And then I heard Relax and remembered. How about all these covers that are actually pretty good?? And then Ballad of 32 was...porn?

Yeah no thanks. Sorry Tom.

Such a good palette cleanser after the Tom Waits album I had before this. Before this listen through I had only heard the hits, but the rest of this album is just as good.

Didnt hate it like I expected I would. 3 stars.

Such a shame that I wasn't introduced to this band until hearing them in Lost in Translation.

After everything I've heard about him, I assumed I would hate this album. And I didn't.

Listening to this in high school and college I thought it was great. Now, less so.

Not a bad album. He knows how to write some bummer songs. But also wtf is A Man Needs a Maid? C'mon Neil.

Meh. Sounds like the music that might play in a hotel elevator or anywhere else where music fades into the background.

Listening to this now just makes me depressed thinking of how far the Foo have drifted from this. I had to listen to Color and the Shape after this just to see, and yeah its good, but it loses some of the fuzz and grunginess that's in this album and you can start to hear hints of the arena rock future of the band. Maybe a new Foo album that is just Dave could sound like this one again? Or perhaps everything he felt at the time and put into this album is gone, so its magic can never be recreated?

Sampling the Halloween theme in The Tower? I'm here for it. First Impression is hilarious. Hell of an ending track too. A true mic drop.

I have no clue how I first heard of them, but I do remember thinking about just how different this album was, with its mix of ethereal, rock and classical sounds and singing in a language I didn't understand. Still just as great today as it was then.

It's Prince. Not sure what else there is to say. Thanks to the sounds used it It, I now wanna play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Listening to this I can hear how much one of my favorites bands (The Octopus Project) was influenced by Jean Michel Jarre. How are the French just so good at electronica?

The hits on this album still hit. But why is there a song where Paul McCartney and Michael fight over a girl? Ew. Eddie's guitar solo in Beat It is still so great.

I assumed I had heard more of her songs and just not realized it, but nope. Only song on this album I recognized was Rehab. I can see the potential of this being something I might like more with my love as of late of anything from Daptone, but this isn't quite up there for me.

Eh. Maybe I'd like it more if I paid attention to the songwriting, but I just couldn't be bothered.

Oof. Yeah not my thing.

I have heard Take Five so many times, but I honestly would not have been able to tell you who it was. And now maybe I'll remember. Also, am I the only one thinking about Severance when hearing some of these songs now?

The sound all kind of blends together a bit. But it's a good sound

Okay how many Bruce albums are on here? This is the fifth I've listened to and I've only listened to 1/4th of the list. This is not one I would have thought to include on this list.

Peak classic rock. Although listening to the album as a whole, there is definitely some blending of songs that happens.

Second Elliot Smith album on this list, and second time that I am saddened I didnt listen to him sooner. Top Track on this album: Can't Make a Sound.

21 minute intro song. Jeeze.

Such a great album even if you exclude the hits. I always discounted The Pretenders, but now I see I was wrong to do that.

Totally forgot how this came out in 2001. I always associated it with a few years later. All solid tracks on the album, even outside of the hits.

A little too all over the place at times for me. And its my own fault, but it was a terrible album to listen to when you have a thousand tasks at hand and already feel frazzled.

Had never heard of this band, but I can dig it. I can def hear some of the influences on bands from the last 10 years in their music. Will need to check out more of their albums.

Only ever heard Connection before from its heavy rotation on 90s FM radio, but the rest of the album is similarly good.

Not bad, but their other stuff is better.

Accidentally got this record in a vinyl subscription, but then after listening to it I wasn't mad I got it.

So random that I just heard this band for the first time a few months ago and now they show up on here. Rightly so.

A really solid mix of jazz and blues

A hip hop album with a track that includes Kraftwerk? And finally hearing the original version of Renegades of Funk? I'm in.

An album that definitely does not have that sophomore slump that so many other bands have with their second album. Love that constant drum beat on No Cars Go.

Had heard so many of the songs on here as covers. Was good to finally hear the original. Also a cat on the album cover? That gets a thumbs up from me.

What an opener to an album. This album doesn't even have most of my fave Pixies songs and its still great.

The kind of country I can bear to listen to.

Came out in 2018 but its got some real 80s vibes. But also kinda similar vibes to earlier Charli XCX.

I dig most desert blues, and this one is no exception. Gonna have to dig into more of their albums and give them a listen too.

Never heard this Country Honk version of Honky Tonk Women. But the album at least starts and ends with the two best songs.

Solid metal album through and through. Except for Changes. It sticks out like a sore thumb to me. It's a good song, but it just sticks out. And that's not just because Charles Bradley's cover of it is better than the original.

Spotify had me worried when it showed it as 4 discs and I was thinking that was 3 discs too many. But the one actual disc by itself isn't bad. But it kinda all blends together into a general new wave sound.

The Kinks doing their own thing, and being good at it. The opening rif of Waterloo Sunset really makes me think The Strokes were trying to channel The Kinks in some of their work.

Some tracks, like Venus and Marquee Moon, easily like it could have come out this year by some indie rock band.

I wanted to give it more stars but for some reason I just wasn't feeling it. It's good, but not great. I did like Right On better than the hits on the album.

This was his TWELFTH album? Jeeze. The title track is the best track on the album and was my fave Bowie track for a long time. Sense of Doubt through Neukoln almost sound like they could have been included in a Daft Punk or ambient lyric-less Radiohead album.

Sounds almost like a newer Pretenders album.

I got two albums of hers in a row. Random right? This one is def not as good as the other (Stories From The City). Some tracks seems a little Feist-like.

Supposed to be an important album. I'd like to like it more. But I don't. Sorry Bob.

Hadn't actually heard the original title track, just the Presidents of the USA cover. And the original hits harder and better for sure.

Kinda generic white boy blues. It all started to blend together making me think I already heard some of the tracks.

Man how did I live my life without ever having listened to this album in full before now and only hearing songs from it here or there? What a shame.

They really do sound like an Oasis clone. For a long time all I knew was Bittersweet Symphony, and then a friend played Lucky Man and I realized that they managed to have two good songs. The rest of this album? Eh.

Definitely would not have guessed this to end up on this list. I know it had some hits and it was pretty popular at the time it came out, but still. Kind of want to read the book to see the reasoning behind its inclusion.

An entire track where the chorus is how they are dreaming of Stevie Wonder? Not at all what I expected to hear today but I'm here for it. And so many samples in "The Adventures" all mixed in so well.

The title of track 5 is definitely what I'd say if I discovered my best friend and my wife.

A local station here in town started playing some Pulp songs recently for some reason. So I had heard a little before listening to this album after never having heard them before. They sound like another more recent band but I can't put my finger on it...

Not a huge fan of live albums but this one was pretty good. Reminded me a bit of the James Brown Live at The Apollo record also on this list. RCA being worried about releasing it and hurting his image seems so paranoid compared to what is released nowadays.

Never heard of them before, not sure I'll listen to them much more again.

I swear you could have put David Bowie in place of Lou here and it would sound like it was a Bowie album.

Not bad but also not great. Another one I'm not sure why it made the list.

Had only ever heard Thats Entertainment before, but the rest of the album is pretty good too. Has some sounds like The Clash and a little bit of The Kinks, and you can even hear how Morrissey was influenced by this.

If The Smiths and The Cure had a band baby this could be it.

Not too bad. I like the album as a whole as much as I liked that one hit song of theirs. Might give them more of a listen.

Actual first time for me to listen to any Zappa on purpose. All these years I never listened to him, thinking that I wouldn't like any of his music. But it seems I've been missing out.

Really interesting to listen to this and see how far The Who drifted from this sound into their later work with the harder/feedback-driven/louder aesthetic they embraced.

Eh. Not bad but not great. Poppy techno adjacent U2 sounding brit band. The singer even sounds like he's trying to channel Bono on quite a number of the tracks.

Wow this was a good surprise. I like Midlake and BNQT but somehow hadn't gotten around to listening to John Grant yet.

Pass.

Solid album through and through. The guitars, the beats, the lyrics. All of it just blends together so well.

One of the albums that started the resurgence of garage rock. Still sounding just as good now as it did when it came out.

As per usual, another great Bowie record. Never had listened to the whole album, which is a shame since this is great through and through.

Opening track got me hooked thinking this album would be great, and some subsequent tracks kept it going for me, but then I slowly got bored and was really bored by the time Maesha was on.

It had only a few good songs, namely Firth of Fifth, The Battle of Epping Forest, and The Cinema Snow, but the rest of the album was just okay.

I know its a classic, but its just okay to me.

I know some of his songs but not a lot. Thought I might like this album more than I did. But I didn't. Oh well.

I pledge allegiance, to the funk

So very unique

I can appreciate some old country like this at times but its generally not music I gravitate towards. The standout to me was the ending guitar solo in Boxcar.

Hadn't heard most of the tracks on this except for the hits. Some were just okay, like Why Worry which was 4 minutes too long. Could have also done without the 7 minutes of Ride Across the River.

Not sure why I never really listened to Elvis Costello until recently. Everything I've heard of his has been great.

Never actually listened to this album before. Can say I definitely prefer The Wall or Dark Side to this, but this isn't bad either. Just not as good as the others. But hey its their debut album.

Started out liking the album, but as it went on I liked it less and less. Ended up being just okay to me.

It starts out strong and I was liking it, but then in the middle it kinda loses steam for me but then circles back at the end to being good again.

Sorry Ella, but this is not the kind of music I want to listen to 3 and a half hours of in one go.

Not their best work, but still some of the best music ever made.

meh

Kinda sound like mash up of a bunch of other Monkees-esque bands of the 60s.

I will never tire of listening to Rock and Roll. Kicking things off with the drums and then the guitars sweeping in. Just perfection. Same goes for When the Levee Breaks. I think either of these songs could have been a better start to the album. The rest of the tracks are all solid don't get me wrong, but those two really stand out. And Stairway is... Stairway.

Knew of this album and had heard parts of it but never all of it. And now I know June was there with him for the recording.

Way out there

A bunch of Police songs I had never heard of, except the two hits. Mostly not bad, but some duds, and nothing remarkable.

A overall good synth pop album with a number of really catchy hooks in a few songs.

5 hours? Ummm yeah I stopped after like 1 hours. Wasnt bad for that hour but I am def not listening to 5 hours of this.

The beats, the atmospheric sounds, all of it I love.

Not a big fan of live albums usually, but The Who sounded pretty good with a real tight sound from all members.

It's okay. Def very 90s.

Good ol Willie. Not sure how else to really describe his work besides that it uniquely him and that I always manage to like it to some degree.

Not quite good as his other albums on this list, but still good.

Only ever heard No More Mr Nice Guy from this. But I kinda liked this whole album more than most of the popular stuff Alice Cooper has put out.

Generally hadn't listened to much of her work and assumed I wouldn't like it, but was pleasantly surprised.

Generic dad rock. Not bad, but much better stuff out there.

Not my fave Beatles album, but still good nonetheless.

For a long time I would never remember between Alan Parsons and Gram Parsons which I didnt really like. And its Gram. For sure Gram.

A less electronic and more indie sounding Radiohead. No thanks.

I already heard his other live prison album, Folsom Prison. Didnt realize both that and this one would end up on the list. Not sure I'd say both need to be.

Like a lot of people, I'd only ever heard Blister in the Sun before hearing the album in full now. Everything else on the album is good, but not nearly as catchy. Except for maybe Gone Daddy Gone despite its repetitiveness.

I will forever associate Tutti Frutti with Brave Little Toaster. So that song is going to live in my head forever with as much as I watched that movie as a kid. I know I listened to other songs of his growing up thanks to my parents, but I honestly couldn't tell you any of them. But listening to the rest of them now and there are a few other good ones, but there's also some that sound reaaaallly similar and sound almost like the same song with just one slight change. Like how similar Ready Teddy and Tutti Frutti sound.

I can dig it. Real good chill music to listen to.

I get the reason for its importance, but eh.

I always assumed the track Green Onions was not the first track on their debut album. But wow. Heck of a way to start things off. Rest of the tracks prove just how great of a house band they were that they could have their own album of solid tracks like this.

Sounds like if Dan Bejar/Destroyer traveled back in time and made a record in the early 90s.

Wasn't sure about this after not really feeling the last two Leonard Cohen albums I've heard from here. But this one was way better. It still had some duds to me, but it also had some good tracks. Had some Bob Dylan vibes. The standout track to me was "A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes".

Some good old fashioned classic rock. With a song that will live in my head forever thanks to Guitar Hero.

Dont think I ever noticed until now just how present the bass and drums are on this album. In a good way. The songs where they are less present I like a little bit less than the rest.

Thanks to when this came out I unfortunately remember a few of the songs from this due to its play on the radio and MTV. Started listening to it track by track and then skipped around because I didn't want to listen to all of this. Teenage me sure loved the Dirty music video. Regardless, still not my jam.

I'm sure I'm not the only person, but I first heard Bongo Bongo in a college class when a professor played it. At that point I had heard nothing like it and was hooked. Then I tried to listen to the rest of the album at the time and didn't really appreciate it like I do now. Is this what music in a hostel sounds like all the time?

Havent ever listened to much of Neil Young solo, or with Crazy Horse or part of CSNY. I can dig this album, but his voice is a little too whiney when he's solo singing and no one is backing him. Maybe I'll check out some of his other stuff. Mother Earth's lyrics are still so fitting today, cuz its message is ignored by too many

I've heard a lot of Tom Petty, but somehow hadn't heard this whole album front to back. Before I had only heard the hits from it, Breakdown and American Girl. The rest of the tracks are good, but not as good.

I previously said I thought this one was better than Definitely Maybe since it was already on here. And I think that's right now that I listened to this again. It's not a lot better. But a little better at least. Still giving it the same star rating since its not a full star better.

Her voice really made me think of Bjork the whole time. The musical arrangements accompanying her singing were orchestral while also feeling like they belonged at a Ren Faire. Guess the album cover makes sense for that then.

I thought I had only ever heard Low Rider from them, but I actually had listened to The Cisco Kid before somewhere. I like the album enough, with its slow funk, but not sure I see the appeal of it being in the list.

Title track sounded like a Muse song to me. The rest sounded like early Arctic Monkeys. Def not something that needed to be on this list though.

Only ever heard the title track on this and nothing else before today. Not sure I need to revisit it. The stuff that sounded very Beatles like, such as "Gimme Some Truth" and "Oh My Love" were good, but the rest were just okay.

Sounds like Depeche Mode. In a good way, not a bad way. But Pimpf stuck out like a sore thumb from the rest of the tracks.

Had only heard the hits, but the rest of the album is just as good as the hits if you ask me.

The OG album to listen to while high. Can definitely hear the influences it had on later psych music in some parts of it still. Billy Shear was Pauls replacement right?

Dig the hits still, but the rest is just okay

If this GreenDay album is on the list I hope it means that either Dookie, Kerplunk, or Insomniac is on the list. Not saying all four need to be, but I'd easily pick any of those three over this one to be on the list. Despite listening to them in the 90s I haven't really listened to them since then. This sounds like Green Day of the 90s, but a bit more polished and less raw and a little less angry. Also, the middle part of Jesus of Suburbia is totally a copy of Summer of 69.

I'm usually terrible about reviewing rap albums. So all I'll say here is that listening to the lyrics of it, it sounds like it was written this decade and not 30 years ago.

Vastly different from everything else I've seen on here so far. Just beautifully done.

A soulful collection of covers with a few originals mixed in. Good job Otis.

This album feels like its at the intersection of so many bands I like and listen to. I hear a little My Morning Jacket, Khruangbin, and a good bit of Boogarins.

That's some pretty crazy noodling on the guitar and fast sick beats on the drums. But not something I want to listen to a bunch of times.

Listened to this in high school and liked it then, but now for some reason I don't like it nearly as much. It's still good don't get me wrong, but maybe because I've heard so much more worldly music since then I don't find it as compelling. Having said that, I can see how this opened the door for many others in the 30 years since then.

Never heard of these guys before. Sounds like The Rolling Stones mixed with some rockabilly, some Credence, and maybe some CSNY.

Wasn't bad but wasn't great. For sure sounds like its from the 90s with its mix of low key house music with pop sensibilities of the 50s and 60s. Not sure I think I had to hear this before I died though.

I get that people think Thom Yorke sounds kinda whiney, but all the other aspects of the songs on this album overshadow that aspect to me and make it a great listen.

A little bit all over the place, but in a good way

I go back and forth on liking Bob Dylan and also back and forth on liking live albums. But in this instance, I like this for both reasons.

It kinda faded into the background at times, but I still enjoyed it.

I liked this album as a teenager, but then branched out and heard much better music. And then even later I started playing the game Burnout: Paradise City which used Paradise City as the theme song, and I got to the point and am still at that point where I cannot listen to that song anymore. I also don't really want to hear any of the hits on the album anymore either. The rest of the tracks aren't bad, but maybe that's only because I've heard them so few times?

I can still remember catching the music video for Paranoid Android for the first time and loving the video and not really paying that much attention to the music itself. But then later listening to it and the rest of the album and loving it. Still loving the album 30 years later.

Tales of Brave Ulysses sure sounds a lot like Sunshine of Your Love. Is that on purpose? Also, Mothers Lament sounded like it should have been a Monty Python song.

I can appreciate all the mixing and sampling that went into this, but also still not think its that great.

Didn't dislike it as much as I thought I might. Think I like some of the non hits better than the hits, like Spies.

So much dick.

big ol bucket of meh.

Eh. Not my thing.

Thought I'd hate it but I didnt. Some of the music combined with her voice makes me wonder how she has never done a song for a Bond movie. Seems perfect for it.

how is it so good and so bad (in a bad way) at the same time?

ambient, spacey, moody, new-wayey. I dig it as much now as I did when it came out.

The album everyone has the shirt of! Gloomy punk at its best.

The first two songs stick out from the rest a lot to me. The cover to start the album off feels kinda poppy and then the second song is rather bluesy, but then the rest sound like some early heavy metal sounding Black Sabbath.

Never actually listened to this Genesis before. Not sure what else to say besides I can dig it.

Best Beatles album? Maybe? Maybe not?

Good album, but not sure I see it being top 1001 of all time though.

Good debut album, but not the music of theirs I'd put on this list.

Not a bad concept album, but not my fave of The Who's work.

So many betters songs on this album from the radio hit Song 2.

If I had heard of this band before, I forgot I had. Some decent 80s glam rock.

Wow. Just wow.

Only knew the one hit. The others sounded about what I would expect from them, not in a bad or good way. Just in how similar it sounded.

What a pleasant surprise. I forgot this is who wrote the wrong "Love The One Your With" and based on the album cover I incorrectly assumed it was going to be some country or folk album and it wasnt.

20 Dollars was an interesting rendition of Pixies Where is My Mind.

Never heard of these guys until now. But man I love the use of the organ in so many of the songs.

Standard fare Kinks. Which is a good thing.

Started out liking it but then as it went on I felt like it was just more of the same over and over and not that sonically different between each track.