1001 Albums Summary

Pretty good album to start this whole thing with. It's a little loaded, maybe a song or two could have been cut but overall I like. Favourite song was definitely the opener "Re-Hash" that shit hypes me up.

phone bad >:(

How can a person listen to this and not rate it at least a 4? I haven't actually heard a Stevie Wonder album coming into this... I was a bit sceptical going in, noting the length and the fact that this was like his eighteenth album or something. But luckily, this is just solid from beginning to end, and it was over before I knew it.

Never heard of these guys before, so was very curious to get into it. Unfortunately, it didn't really work at all. It was a brief album, excluding the strange 10+ minute gap of silence to fit in the underwhelming secret track on the last song... it just didn't hook me at all, and I found it a tad dull.

My dad loves Johnny Cash and therefore I must also love Johnny Cash. Thems the rules.

This was pleasant, something a little lighter and more energetic after some heavier albums. Nothing I would revisit personally, though. I would have given it a 3 had it not been a bit too repetitive and lengthy - but it's very close.

Sure, I like this. It's pretty good. Can't say much else, honestly.

It's like a short but underwhelming yacht ride. Trite.

The algorithm is good to me, blessing me with this album after yesterday's flop. This is really just stellar - it doesn't quite hit the 5 star mark, but only because I have very specific standards for an album to reach that calibre, but this is definitely a 5 star album in general.

I haven't actually listened to a Kate Bush album, for the reason that I resented her legendary status that Netflix Show helped popularise, and I deemed "Running Up That Hill" overrated. Thing is... I accidentally loved it. Stranger Things have happened, I suppose.

This is a really difficult one to rate because the first half is really good, but it drops quite a bit in quality during the latter half. I decided to be gracious, because there is some excellent music in this album.

I'm disappointed, but I suspect I might need to revisit this one eventually. I feel as if I missed a lot of the nuance.

Another Pink Floyd, so soon after the last album? You're too good to me. This is a definite 5 stars through and through.

Every song sounds the same. I need to be in a very specific mood to enjoy this type of music and it was just not hitting today.

This is pretty good, it does all sound a little bit samey but I think it's short and sweet enough to not bring the quality down too much. It doesn't get higher than 3 stars however, as the only standout song was "The Bucket"... and my dad would kill me if I scored this album lower, he loves these guys.

Corny, Stale, Naff, and Yawn

It's just some standard reggae, man. It's not even particularly good reggae...

I almost resent Green Day being good, but goddamnnit, this is great.

My 50th album! A pretty minor milestone when looking at the long road ahead, but it's still satisfying. ...oh, the album? It's pretty great - OK, even. Massively overrated if we're really saying this is one of the best of all time, though.

This Zappa fellow has incredible aura.

This whole album is basically the brilliant "Sympathy for the Devil" stacked on top of nine turds.

All filler, no killer.

The album is almost perfect, save for that 11 minute long blight that completely kills the pacing.

This is good! Classic! I feel like once I get older I can appreciate this a lot more.

It's really painful listening to these classic albums for the first time, only to come out extremely underwhelmed by something so critically acclaimed. Like I really want to love Led Zeppelin, and this album, but I can't dig it at all.

Look at the album cover. Complete apathy coming from all those lads, you can tell they didnae put their heart into it at all.

It definitely was Fats Domino. He's good, but has been massively outclassed in every respect afterwards.

This album lulls you into a false sense of security with some solid music, and then suddenly Frank Zappa comes out of nowhere to barrage you with like 35 minutes of feeling like you're losing your mind.

You're watching Adventure Call! My name is Falconhoof, and I will be your guide on your quest!

That godforsaken song has popped up in my life like half a dozen times for the past week. Please make it stop.

No combination of words strike more fear into the heart of a man than "English Indie Pop".

For the greatest album of all time that was pretty shit.

I genuinely got pissed when I arrived at the last track to find out that's it's 20 bleeding minutes long.

This is my 100th album. Thank you for the headache and also recommending me 99 albums before I had to suffer through this one.

It's alright. It's adequate. I hate to be rating all these albums 3 out of 5 - 4 is a bit much for an album I just kind of thought was okay, and 2 would make it out like I disliked the album. Ah well.

For me, this was the "Holy shit. I get it." moment for post-rock.

As far as overly long live albums go, this is pretty much the best it can get.

Country is so polarising for me, and unfortunately this ended up on the wrong side of it. Not feeling this at all. It sounds like any other country music I've heard.

That harmonica lives rent-free in my head after listening to this album, it's strangely brilliant yet extremely irritating at the same time. Anyhow, I can't in good conscience rate this anywhere above or below the average of 3 stars, it has the problem of every song being basically indistinguishable - but it's pleasant, Bob Dylan's voice doesn't grate on me.

This is like the 5th best Electric Light Orchestra album, and yet it's still getting the maximum rating. I know why this one is on here though, it obviously has the "Concerto For a Rainy Day" suite, you can't really argue with "Mr Blue Sky". I do think something like "A New World Record" or "Time" are better albums all around though, because this one is a little overlong and some songs are a bit forgettable, in comparison to the all killer, no filler albums I rank above it. You have an impure soul if you're rating this under 3 stars. I'm sorry, I don't make up the rules.

Eh, I really vibe with the actual music, but I can't get behind Miss Fever Ray's grating vocals. There is something about the vocal delivery that genuinely pisses me off a little, it's like she's preventing me from actually enjoying the music. It reminds me of a coherent Yoko Ono.

It just sounds like reggae, man. Clearly my ears aren't sonically refined enough to appreciate much more about it other than being pretty good reggae.

I will not respect your concept album if the concept doesn't have enough substance to constitute a full album, so you have to have this awkward second side to justify it even being an album in the first place. That said, I like Mrs. Robinson doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

My dad likes this one a lot, and I do too :)

My head really didn't need this today.

Respect to Gaye for putting a sequel to his song within the same goddamn album. He must really like gettin' it on.

This is a very good album but I struggle to fully enjoy it sometimes because of the weird fuzzy sound it has... it's off, but not too intrusive to make it not an amazing listening experience.

Morrissey sounds like an insufferable human being, to such a ridiculous extent that I sort of respect him in a way that transcends understanding. I think this album is superior to any The Smiths outing, so I can definitely say he's at least a good artist with confidence.

It's like a bad Adult Swim show.

Good music for when you go on a scenic boat trip with your FBI-informing mafia associate (after he appears to you as a talking fish in a dream).

Posh twat university student core.

This is just... how do I rate this?! It feels like it transcends rating.

I feel like these songs have lost their flavour due to the passage of time.

What even is 'world' music? Would this be considered world in its country of origin? I don't know. What I do know is this album is an odd duck, and I don't really want anything to do with it.

I praise the production team for making every song sound like the one that came before it, and making me question my ears.

Probably the most mediocre thing I've listened to on this list so far.

Finally, an album that respects my time!

I always love exploring a-ha, because you would never expect truly quality music out of the "Take on Me" band. Not that "Take on Me" isn't one of the finest one hit wonders out there, but you know what I mean?

Pretty amazing at the start, although it fizzles out into mii maker music near the end.

I was vibing with this for a little bit... but it's just so one note and my opinion on it dropped dramatically as it went further on. I was begging for it to be over by the end. A real shame.

The scariest thing about listening to this album is that I know they have another entry on the list... lurking in the shadows... waiting to strike the moment I let my guard down... and I'm going to force myself to listen to it all the way through.

Phair enough.

Falling asleep just by looking at the cover... and listening to it put me in a coma shortly after. Snoozefest. Nothing interesting to note.

do i fucking look like i have time to listen to an hour and a half long album on christmas eve ;-;

This really isn't *that* bad, although it does sound like music that'd play during the credits of a Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil movie... For a gutter-tier rated album I expected much, much worse.

Just too fucking British. Calm it down, mate. I hate quirky British music... except Madness, they can stay.

Pretty solid honestly, I enjoyed this a bit more than the other Dylan albums I've heard so far.

The Brits do it again by needlessly slaughtering another beloved genre.

Petrifying album art, but some of the best britpop has to offer.

Even the album knows it's a Ten.

This is much better than "Nevermind", honestly. I love the dumb pink cover to death. I'm afraid the top reviews are on the wrong side with this one.

It's fine - as an overstimulated zoomer who was born decades after this I probably miss out on a lot of the appeal and innovation of The Doors.

It's really good until she starts singing and then it just sort of goes downhill from there unfortunately. This could've been a vibe, and that's the biggest tragedy of them all.

That one review stayed in my head longer than a single second from this album.

This has the problem with a lot of other albums, in that when the big hit song comes on it completely takes me out of the album purely based on the notoriety of the song (and also Black Hole Sun being like twice as good as any other song on this). Still, it's very good.

About on par for what I'd expect to be coming out of a butthole.

Whatever Gillian is awkwardly glancing at off-screen on the album cover is probably infinitely more interesting than a single note of music on this dreary, booooring album.

>The Modern Lovers >actually very dated and not that loving What did they mean by this?

All I can think of is Chrissy laid out on that park bench, drugged out of his mind...

I can picture the type of person to enjoy this and it fills me with such a visceral, irrational hatred. Seething. I have issues. You can listen to this album by looking at the cover and the genre list. Just look at it. That's what it sounds like, and it's as bad as it sounds.

Artificial soul.

It's a little too scatter-brained sometimes, and the over-exposure to this music in the past probably influences my judgement, but this is truly great stuff.

Not necessarily bad but it's just so middling and I'm a little sick of Adele's vocal performance due to being overexposed to it around when this album came out, as impressive as it is. I wish I could rate it a 2.5 (hehe) but I'll be nice and round it up to a 3.

Not entirely sure what he was going for but I dig it about as much as I enjoy other Bowie albums. It's strange how diverse his material can be but it all ends up at the same rating for me, which I guess is a testament to his consistency? I don't know. This comes across as a very polarising album, that's for sure, I can definitely see why some people would love it and why some would find it self indulgent.

Through listening to this pretty decent album I realised that Fiona Apple is absolutely capable of producing something I love, because this is the kind of music that really appeals to me. However, as of yet that potentially 4/5 star album is unrealised. Maybe the next Fiona Apple album will be kino?

It's a good album, don't get me wrong, but it's coated in a thick, sticky layer of 70s excess and heavy guitars. Sometimes, it leaves me feeling a little sick by the end. With that said, I can see myself enjoying a lot of these songs individually in the future.

Why does she get two mentions on this list, exactly? This one is arguably worse than the last because it doesn't have paper planes which is her sole banger - the rest is mash.

Something about this hits so much harder after weeks of milquetoast guitar and jazz albums.

...so this is what us Scottish people sound like to outsiders?

Chad move putting an interview at the end of your studio album, gotta respect that.

I wish I didn't have to rate all of these modern inclusions so low, but this album has nothing going on. It's musically uninteresting, and it veers into being obnoxious a couple of times. Never been a hip-hop fan, honestly.

This is just magic, to me. I can't really justify giving it the maximum rating, but it's so damn catchy and enchanting!

This is an unexpected surprise, I was going in thinking that I would hate this album because of all the individual elements - but it's incredibly well done. It's the closest thing to metal that I'll truly enjoy, I believe.

This is so relaxing and pleasant. I visualise all the songs I listen to in my head, and none have produced more joyous imagery than this album.

...wait a minute, these girls did that awful "I'm With Her" video back in 2016, right? I like the instrumentation on this album a fair bit, but the tedious vocal delivery and awful mix kills it completely.

Punk music but they actually know how to write real music and real lyrics instead of sperging out on the microphone for 2 minutes.

A live Thin Lizzy album is probably amongst the things I want to listen to the least on this current day.

This dude acting like he's this influential prophetical lyricist when half of the songs are just about fucking bitches and killing gangstas, and then using snippets of speeches and interviews with no context, then calling that riveting social commentary. I do kind of like it, though.

Makes me feel sophisticated and classy whilst also having major alcoholism and domestic issues.

I love this so much, every song is a delight to listen to. Pure joy from beginning to end, the production is excellent and makes every instrument sound immaculate.

I couldn't help but compare this vocalist to Grandaddy because the similarities are almost uncanny. I really did like this album, though, I have a weakness for these comfy 60s inspired bands. I do sorta wish that Jellyfish or The Lemon Twigs were on here, though. I'd even take more XTC or ELO.

This is one of these "Fuck you, I liked it." albums. I was in a damn good mood.

It's okay. I prefer his later albums where he finds his footing and his balls droop down a little lower.

Is that the fucking meet the engineer song?

This album should have the 'rock' genre stricken off of it, because this does not rock in any way, shape, or form. Just depressing.

This sounds EXACTLY like those Suno AI songs - the resemblance is uncanny. That's probably the only area in which this album has been 'influential' in any capacity.

I'm a third of the way through the list! I've already listened to this album, so it's a nice little checkpoint where I don't have to fully lock in. Love The Cardigans. Those silky sweet vocals always put me at ease.

Are people here really getting filtered by Elvis Costello? This is perfectly solid music, and I'd take it over any of the endless Bowie slop this list loves.

You know, I thought I would enjoy this. I do have a weakness for "basic bitch pop music", despite it being poisonous hollow slop, but unfortunately this is just not doing it for me. Just incredibly dreary - where's the energy? Production is ass too, there's something up with the guitars and the vocals that just makes this genuinely unlistenable.

Much like Elton Johns career, it starts off with a bang, and then just progressively peters out...

I dig this, it's a unique sound which is a treat on this list, and it maintains its consistent quality throughout the duration of the album.

This is too stock for me. Too nothing. I'm sure its significance and innovation is lost on me, but on its own it's just not that great.

Disappointing. I always thought, with how prestigious this album is, that it would genuinely be something more than just another hip-hop album. The skits in this one are particularly outdated and embarrassing to listen to.

I've now discovered the reason that nobody talks about Radiohead's later albums... this is utter shit. I could stand Thom Yorke's whiny vocals in his earlier work, but he sounds like he's about to climax in this one, I can't take it anymore!

Pleasant Randy session today, very laid back. It's a little too "sing-songy", I would never revisit the full album, but I'll get some mileage out of a couple songs here.

Had to haul ass over to SoulSeek for this one, not exactly a worthwhile venture. It's acceptable enough, I guess? It does sound ahead of its time, which is impressive, but the sound is bland, and if it did come out in the 1990s, it'd fall into obscurity.

There was something unique about listening to this album, but not the good kind. This is perfectly acceptable music, and I genuinely enjoy a number of the compositions and instrumentation... but it's missing something, and it feels like it would have been dated even way back in '99. Everything done here has been done better, before and since.

Holy shit, this is the most obnoxious thing I've ever heard... and the worst part is, that's the point?!

Disappointing 400th album. The songs just don't go anywhere - there's no progression, no structure. It just repeats a short sequence of notes with some inane mumbling layered over it until the 'song' is over.

This kind of music reminds me of the transitionary period of life that I'm currently in. It's a kind of purgatory that I find comfort in, oddly. If there was a soundtrack to my life, it would realistically sound something like this.

This sounds like my cousin. I was yearning for something with adrenaline, but the production on this is noticeably poor. It's so muddy, and it feels as if there's a layer of Vaseline separating myself and the music.

PAHKLOIFE Blur was never as good as Oasis, plain and simple. Oasis had a knack for creating catchy tunes that whisper sweet nothings in your ear with its ambiguous lyricism. Blur is just fun! I like Blur.

RIBENA 🗣🗣🗣

I like The Jam, I can appreciate this kind of music. In and out. "That's Entertainment" is the highlight, but I also liked "Monday". This isn't something I'm going to be spreading often, but it's tastes good!

I've already experienced the mediocrity of Arcade Fire on this list, like a year ago. This revisit didn't shift my opinion much. The songs are good, but the album as a package is not. The sound is just very overbearing, and loud. It's like the album is on its knees, begging you to get into their sound... and I admittedly feel some pity for them. I like some of this music, and it brings me back to my childhood, when this slop alt rock was running rampant on the radio.

Called Ms. Dynamite... but not a single banger. In all seriousness, this isn't a horrible album, but it burns out very quickly because it feels like it loses energy after the first couple tracks. The beats are lethargic, and the lyrics are generic. No defusing this bomb of an LP.

Waiter! Waiter! More Britpop, please! I sincerely don't know why people complain about British New Wave so much, as opposed to the countless rock albums about banging underage girls, or literally anything added to this list post-2010. This album slaps, just pure energy and passion coming from these lads. Highlights are "Sleeping Gas" and "Reward".

This is a hard one to rate. It's definitely a unique listening experience, and doesn't overstay its welcome, but did I really like any of it? Not that much. It's good music, still. French is a lovely language and this dude's voice is certainly pleasant, but there's obviously a barrier since I imagine that this music is very lyrically driven!

Dime a dozen (or in this case, baker's dozen) psychedelic rock music. Too vanilla to be innovative, too indistinguishable to be unique, and too boring to get more than a 2 star rating from me.

Hey, I dig this. I know that these guys only really do one specific sound well, but it's a damn good sound - I ain't complaining. Highlights would be "There Goes Norman" and "Wednesday Week", just really captivating.

This album reinvigorates my will to live, but simultaneously makes me want to lie down and die.

Kind of bored by this one, much like the last Sonic Youth album I received not that long ago. It's just a load of noise to me, nothing musically interesting or memorable.

Always happy to see some neo-psychedelic rock, I didn't listen to any of the bonus tracks but I'm sure they're just as solid and catchy. The sound is oddly warm and comforting to me, and I'm not sure why that is -- but who am I to complain?

Banger alert!!! God bless the Buzzcocks, this whole album had me pumped from beginning to end while I was walking about town. The vocals were a little irritating at first but I came back around on them in the end.

This is what constitutes as dream pop nowadays? I love that genre, and I hear it very little; I just hear generic early 2010s pop music. I might as well have skipped this one, because I heard nothing new, memorable or interesting.

Not gonna lie, I liked this one. This is surprising given my last experience with ol' Barry was his autistic little movie soundtrack that unimpressed me, but I think the noir sound works a lot better in this instalment - and having your music in a Lynch movie certainly helps.

Notably does not go as hard as the other Mudhoney album featured on the list, but goes hard nonetheless. Nothing truly stuck out, unfortunately, but I had a fun rockin' time.

Another banger alert by X, much better than the xx. Super polished punk music that actually sounds like music, and all the songs are catchy.

This doesn't belong on the list -- but this was kind of a bop, it's a massive guilty pleasure. It was so breezy to listen to, I honestly can't even complain. Shout out to "The Art of Noise" and "Evening News" specifically, those tracks did the most for me.

Oh, this album has some beautiful music in it. I've always felt that electronic music is the only music to actually elicit emotion out of my autistic ass for some reason. It does sort of lose me in the middle, when things slow down and get a little more offbeat, but it picks itself up and I love where it goes. Shout out to "Paper Bag" and "Utopia".

It's like if the Bee Gees took estrogen

Never been a prog-rock person, too much meandering and weird breathing in this one. I also really do not enjoy whatever the vocals are trying to accomplish.

I really enjoy the instrumentation in this album, the guitar and bass work is very infectious. It retains this quality throughout the album, which is a major positive. However, I really dislike Marianne Faithful's weird voice in this -- not to be rude, but if this were sung by any other major vocalist around at the time, this album would be a point or two higher.

This just makes me sad about Kevin Gilbert -- any of his albums deserve to be here over this trite, Sheryl Crow is nothing without the people she actively screwed over. She's more of a vulture than a crow.

This is the cutest thing I've ever had the pleasure of hearing :3 I love The Monkees.

Surprisingly incredibly pleasant, likely due to the lack of Ono screeching. I guess being in The Beatles makes you a good lyricist and musician, who knew?

I really got into this one, which is great seeing as I never got into Scott 4 as much -- that's something I need to revisit. I never expected such bangers from the album cover.

I was really bracing myself to give a 1 to this album -- this absolute titan runs at over 2 hours long, and I didn't think too fondly of the OutKast album I heard roughly a month ago... but this one was actually good. Breezy, even. It helps that I listened to each side a couple hours from each other, I found this one a lot more soulful and less embarrassing than their previous entry. Big Boi absolutely carries this one, though. He had the better side by a country mile.

I can stomach Britpop, but this indie landfill straight from the UK is far too much. It exists and then ceases to exist once you finish "listening" to it. It simply is.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sounds like any other soul album, it made me feel a bit sleepy honestly -- boring.

I was expecting something far worse when I saw the reviews absolutely tearing into this... but for what its worth, this is one of the best 1990s British rock albums on the list so far, reminds me of Radiohead (specifically "The Bends") as well as Inspiral Carpets' discography. I like this one quite a bit. I sang "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" in primary school, and I've heard my Dad put on quite a lot of music from this album throughout the years -- so there is likely bias here, but I find the vocals and guitarwork very easy to wallow in and enjoy.

I really don't see how this is significant in any way -- sure, "Karma Chameleon" is a one hit wonder, but it's a mediocre one at that, and the rest of the album is just incredibly dated tosh.

Genuinely repulsive. Probably the worst lyricism I've seen on the list so far.

This is good. I'm not into overly guitar-y music, but this is very solid, and it did periodically excite me.

You'd think Punk of all genres would be less formulaic, but no, every single song sounds basically identical. Meh.

I don't really see the purpose of having every MBV album on the list, especially this one, which is just a bit of a slog to get through. I guess it's to make me appreciate that they went on to actually make GOOD music.

Some chill psychedelic tunes, I dig it!

End credit music from a movie released in the nineties type beat.

It's long, and it's bad, and it made my head hurt. It barely escapes a 1, honestly. I wasn't alive in that decade, so some of the cultural significance is lost on me, but I'd probably like it less anyway hehe.

This undeniably sucks, but it's sort of charming. You can tell they had fun making this! I appreciate that -- but at the end of the day, it still sucks.

Okay, this is an inclusion that I just do not understand whatsoever. It's pretty standard fare country music from the late '80s... is Bonnie Raitt particularly influential or special or innovative in any way? No? That's what I thought.

I vibed to this quite a bit, it's not bad. I would even call it considerably funky! Great music for strutting.

R.E.M. is always a hit, there's something beautiful about those jangly guitars with Stipe's vocals. He might be one of my favourite male vocalists, it has such a unique texture and feeling.

Really good, both quality and quantity are present here. Bonus points for the Mongolian throat singing.

I vibe to Morrison's voice, especially when he hits those highs, but some of these songs run a little too long for me to save in a playlist unfortunately.

Cock and ball torture soundtrack.

I have learned to tolerate boomer rock, this was a very solid album. Just enough variety to be engaging all the way through -- shout out to "Pearly Queen" and "Cryin' to be Heard".

I really love this, it reminds me of Nick Drake with less guitar. Really pleasant listening experience.

Solid stuff here, lots of interesting elements which made for a good time. Lots of variety in the instrumentation :)

This is so cool! Certain parts reminded me of Beck and Air, albums I'd already listened to on this list. It's definitely interesting finding the original influences when progressing through this thing.

It is R.E.M. but worse... but R.E.M. is one of my favourite bands, so it really isn't that much worse -- it's a little long, but it's very catchy!

40 straight minutes of boring jeetslop. Do not redeem.

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