1001 Albums Summary

I don’t like Bruce Springsteen and think he is the lesser of NJ’s 2 Native Sons who made it big in 80s rock. After listening, I respect him a little more and get more where he’s coming from, but I’m still no fan.

It’s extremely instrumentally interesting, drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences. It’s a cool bridge between 80s/90s hip hop, and I can hear stuff here that artists are still doing now. Lyrics are vapid af tho. 73/100

I’ve never actually listened to Pink Floyd before this. It is practically instrumentally perfect. The arrangements and performance are incredible. The lyrics left me wanting in spots and weren’t as cohesive as I’d like.

The only remarkable thing about this record is the release date. In context, I’m sure it was a wildly revolutionary sound, but 41 years later it sounds like any other 90s alt record.

Instrumentally and vocally gorgeous. Marvin Gaye’s version of Grapevine is far superior though. The title track blows the rest out of the water.

This album is so much fun. I’m honestly upset that I’d never heard of this band before, it’s some of the best early punk I’ve ever heard.

I liked this a lot more than I expected, as someone who doesn’t often enjoy hip hop. Maybe it’s the Britishness of it that presents some novelty.

It combines all of my least favorite things about indie/alt music from the late 2000s: overreliance on poorly produced electronic elements, bad vocals, and a faux self-effacing pretentiousness. Last track is good tho

Tom Sawyer is classic Red Barchetta is adventurous YYZ is virtuosic Limelight is challenging Camera Eye is expansive Witch Hunt is thought provoking Vital Signs

This sounds a lot like most other late 90s-early 00s rap that I’m familiar with. The beats are extremely well produced, but the most notable thing about Missy’s lyrics is the career they precede

There’s a certain crassness that comes with the territory of what he’s trying to go with here, but he pushes it past its limits at certain points for a shock value that, as a contemporary of Eminem and RATM, just isn’t there.

So wonderfully captures that carefree neo-boho moment of the mid teens, but low energy pop has never been my jam.

After reading up on The KLF, I feel like listening to this album in a relative vacuum takes a lot of the punch out of it. Interesting and eclectic genre mix that, when it works, works well, but when it doesn’t, kinda sucks.

Nearly 60 years after this album came out, it sounds like cliché crying cowboy country, but I can’t help but think that it wasn’t yet a cliché in its time. The last 3 tracks are great, too.

This is the kind of music I hoped I’d hear when getting into this project. It’s high energy, thoughtful, poignant, and the instrumentation and sampling are so creative and interesting without coming off as experimental.

I get what they’re going for, I just don’t really like it that much. The frequent dissonance and long instrumental sections perfectly set that moody, mopey tone you expect from the cure, I’m just not crazy about it.

Bored to tears, tbh. It was musically very nice, but the genre just didn’t do it for me at all.

Really pleasant country pop that doesn’t pretend to be something it’s not. The lyricism is excellent even if there isn’t much variation musically.

Beautifully crafted, raw, honest examination of the central themes of relationships within the context of addiction and economic difficulty.

Too experimental and artsy for my taste. The high energy sections often worked very well, the guitar solos were great, but I just don’t feel like it worked as a cohesive piece.

I’m a sucker for southern rock and good storytelling. The killer guitar solos don’t hurt either. I’m definitely coming back to this one.

I’m already vaguely familiar with this record, but I confess that it’s better than I remember. Pop-leaning IDM that retains a lot of the charm of their earlier successes while not settling or sounding stale.

The highs were extremely high—excellent lyricism and messaging. The lows came off as corny and gauche.

A solid 90s alt-rock offering. Hard to beat it, but can’t call it perfect either.

It’s Ella Fitzgerald and George Gershwin, how do you miss? That being said, it’s also 3 hours long so I’ll cop to not listening to all of it.

If this had been released 10 years later, it would be significantly less remarkable. But to so flawlessly capture the best parts of 80s rock in the 70s makes this exceptional.

Peaceful, emotional, raw but not unpolished. This was nice.

The instrumentals were exceptional and exciting, but Morrissey just seemed vocally bored the entire time. I get how some people might be drawn to this, but it’s not for me.

90s hip hop sensibilities at its core but with a lot of interesting variations. On the edges. Still not really my thing but I can respect creativity.

Jazz instrumentation and general positivity make it stand out, but there are lots of pretty mainstream early 2000s hip hop elements that just don’t land with me.

This was way more pleasant than I anticipated it would be. Actively calming without being sonically boring.

Tbh, I feel like they did the whole Beatles-esque folky rock minstrel show better than the Beatles. A little derivative but really pleasant.

I expected something fully unserious and got some decent groovy tunes. The guitars were especially nice

I can’t tell if it’s hackneyed or influential but I know it sounds like songs I’ve heard a thousand times before in the corniest way.

Bruce’s storytelling skills are without parallel, but here he decides to couch them within the most boring music you could possibly imagine.

I hate that I’m starting to enjoy these late 60s/early 70s folk-based rock albums. Still a little too woo-woo for me, and I still can’t get into the airy vocals over acoustic guitars, but the more uptempo sections hit just right.

Side A is better storytelling, side B is catchier. All in all, a solid solid album.

He tries to blend rock, pop, country, and even a little folk, to the detriment of most of those genres.

The worst of early teens indie sleaze without what made genre standouts good. It actively irritated me.

The wordplay and lyricism and instrumentation and arrangement are mindblowing, but it does feel like a bit of a relic that doesn’t sound very 2002

I love punk, but man this is exceptionally mid.

The title track is exceptional. The rest of it, with the reggae schtick and Caribbean vocal affectation, gets old really quick.

Birdland is a certified classic but the rest just sounds like elevator music.

I can’t stand his voice and it seems like he took all of the least pleasant aspects of experimental rock at the time and smushed them together.

So much respect for minor threat but their later stuff just hits better.

Perfectly pleasant jazz. The bass player is incredible.

The instrumental sections were especially nice. Groovy, interesting, dynamic.

Hell yeah slipknot

There is practically nothing remarkable about the instrumentation, the lyrics are so-so, and her voice is downright annoying. I’m not surprised that I’ve never heard of PJ Harvey; there’s not much of not to have heard.

Ridiculous Halloween circus music

Really pleasant, sounded like a jazzier Phil Collins

It was hard to divorce what I know of the Foos from my listening experience. It’s not as good as what came later, but on its own isn’t a bad album.

It would’ve been better as a concert film, but regardless, it’s wonderful. Groovy, dynamic, artistic, I’ll definitely come back to this.

Regardless of any issues I take with their premises (though only a few), it’s damn fine rock and roll. The in ovation and technicality, paired with the passion and emotion, make this an incredible album.

I appreciate the artistry, but there was too much chaos and dissonance for me to actually enjoy it as a whole.

Post punk but more on the punk side. I liked this way more than I expected to, despite the popular song being one of the worst on the album.

Drony whiny indie garbage

Just a touch too old school for my tastes, but I appreciate that they were innovative for the time.

The instrumentals were excellent—raw, but passionate and well executed. The vocals sounded like a drunk Sylvester Stallone recorded them from outside the booth, and tbh did a disservice to the thoughtful lyrics.

It’s really just Taylor poppifying 2010s indie sleaze. Doesn’t mean it’s not good, but it’s neither the best TSwift album nor the best downtempo pop album of its era.

It’s wonderfully pleasant, but I can’t imagine how it’s possibly influential enough to be included on this list.

Groovy, pleasant, I kept saying to myself “hey I know that song from a movie”

Truly the best of 2010s indie pop. It’s energetic and dynamic without losing its depth.

The storytelling and ability to stay around the central theme of the shock of fame are excellent. Beats don’t quite do it for me tho.

It’s so dynamic and exciting and creative. I’m honestly mad at myself that I’d never heard of Machito before this.

Perfectly fine folk based Beatles style rock, but absolutely not my jam.

I wanted so badly to like it. It’s high energy alternative rock. What’s not to like? But the mixing job was absolutely atrocious and was so distracting that I couldn’t focus on anything else.

It’s just diet Beatles. Fine for others. Nor for me.

Divorcing it from what I know of Aerosmith, it’s satisfyingly bluesy and more interesting than their later stuff to be sure.

So preposterously corny

Innovative, a great blend of punk and outside influences. I just don’t love those outside influences lol

The high energy stuff is some of the best pop I’ve ever heard but she loses me on the ballads.

Not one of the best jam bands I’ve ever heard but their energy is undeniable.

Not quite country, not quite rock, not quite pop, not quite anything enough to be worth listening to.

Not quite as sharp as its contemporaries. It was fine but didn’t quite hit the soulful spot as other similar notable albums.

The fact that the whole Beatles-esque minstrel sound was ever popular is an enduring mystery to me.

It’s really only redeemed by its blues influences. The whole Beatles style minstrel folk rock movement doesn’t hit with me, and it’s hard for me to be objective about how it could hit with others.

I really dug the bluesy instrumentals but the vocals would’ve been bad even if I spoke the language.

I really wanted to like this more than I did. The softer rock songs are significantly better than the fast paced or hip hop stuff, and the lyrics are straight nonsense across the board.

I get that it was influential, but it doesn’t even sound innovative for its time. I can hear the bits and pieces of the music that followed, the just don’t quite understand why this album was the one everyone keyed in on.

I really like Isaac Hayes but omg why do the songs need to be 11 minutes long

That first track did not age well omg

He’s not the king for nothing.

Maybe it’s just because I had such low expectations but I adored this. The fusion of high energy post punk with afro and latin jazz influence is so insane and so fun.

If Bob Dylan’s voice didn’t sound like the sonic equivalent of floppy pizza, this album would be incredible.

It’s like a drug fueled Beach Boys children’s album. Unsettling.

I could see where their future greatness came from, but this album was bland by comparison.

The hits weren’t even the best tracks. Especially compared with their earlier stuff, it’s much more engaging and dynamic.

I get that Cohen is a master storyteller and lyricist, but the monotony of his music is a not insignificant barrier to the appreciation of his message.

The higher energy, harder parts were nice, but the rest sounded pretty run of the mill. Somebody to Love a classic nonetheless

I like most of this better than The Beatles; it seems a litter deeper and more in an artistic vein that I appreciate. That said, the sound got repetitive after the whole ass 2 hours omg

So insanely effective at creating that haunting grating angsty sound paired with the dynamism of Reznor’s vocals. It’s truly an experience.

High energy, catchy, musically risky, decent lyrics, I mean, what’s not to like?

I listened to this one more than any other album in recent memory. I couldn’t stop coming back to it. The sound is piercing and raw without sounding cheap, the vocals are the perfect mix of clarity and emotion, and the lyrics are gorgeous.

To hear the influences of artists down the line is really cool, even if this comes off as unpolished and juvenile at times.

I’m not much for indie, but it was pleasant and well put together for what it was.

Manly rock for men about manly things. Rock and roll with chest hair but no depth. So fun.

Miles Davis and John Coltrane collaborated on an album and I’m expected to rate it anything less than perfect? I am not so presumptuous.

They don’t do anything that their contemporaries didn’t do better. I can hear how they might’ve been influential but there are many influential bands, especially in the sonic space that The Monks seemed to occupy, that have been rightfully overshadowed by their successors.

I can hear strains of bands I like in there, and it’s cool to hear where they got their sound, but it’s a little too artsy for me.

Soulful and lively without sounding dated

After listening to her far more critically acclaimed 2000 album, I expected to hate this. I still think her voice isn’t good, but it lends itself better to this style of grunge tinged angsty alt rock than the downtempo singer/songwriter stuff she did later on.

Really good, groovy, like if all those Beatles sounding bands took the good drugs. Too damn long tho.

I continue my inability to see why people lose their minds over Bruce. The instrumentation is creative and novel here but everything else is just kinda meh.

Perfectly pleasant. I recognized a few songs that I didn’t know that I knew, which was a nice, albeit slight jarring experience.

Perfectly fine enjoyable music, but I can’t imagine this being that influential tbh.

I get why it’s influential, I get why it’s noteworthy, I just think it sucks.

Seemed like they couldn’t quite agree what kind of music to make well, so they did an okay job or 4 or 5 genres.

Groovy spacey wildly interesting arrangements and production techniques. Maybe it’s just because I didn’t know what to expect but I loved this album.

Dreamt and thoughtful without being pretentious. Some of the best of what 21st century indie can be.

It’s hard to put this in any specific genre, but it was pleasant for what it was.

For what it is, it’s excellent. Angsty, moody, dynamic, meshing that 90s alt sound with goth rock sensibilities.

Knowing only Hallelujah, I was pleasantly surprised by how dynamic and energetic the rest of the album is. The title track literally had me hooting and hollering In My car.

Lacks the edge and energy of REM at their best, it’s giving alt-goes-grunge in the worst way.

Extremely fun, great jammy backbone with enough country sensibilities to give it some flavor. The hits hit hard but the misses miss hard.

I was only vaguely familiar with Lou Reed beforehand. Looked him up and Wikipedia said he was known for his experimental guitar playing and poetic lyrics. I waited 36 minutes for either of those to appear on this album and finished it disappointed that I had heard neither.

I have so little precedent for this type of music. I genuinely didn’t k ow what I was supposed to be listening for and what he did well or poorly. A thoroughly confusing experience.

The angst was there, the guitar solos were so there, I just couldn’t quite give it a 5.

It was okay, and I’m sure for its time it was great, but it’s hard not to listen to it with 2025 ears.

High energy, dynamic music with incisive but barely intelligible incisive and insightful lyrics. What more could you want from early punk?

This would be so much better if Liz Phair could carry a tune

Excellent on a Dylan scale. God knew if he gave Bob Dylan vocal talent, he’d be too powerful.

The vast majority of these are really bad. I imagine the influence here is in the concept, but I’ll take quality over quantity.

I wanted to think this was corny and square but it frustratingly isn’t. Karen Carpenter’s voice is practically perfect, the arrangements are so pleasant, and the inclusion of orchestra instruments is so interesting yet natural. This was genuinely enjoyable.

I liked this way more than I expected to. Beck doesn’t take himself seriously but still manages to expertly weave together folk, alternative, and even hip hop on a way that feels authentic and organic and has aged exceptionally.

It was okay for what it was. Super gothy and droney, fine for background music but not one I’d come back to.

How can I rate it anything but 5? Groovy, funky, virtuosic, seminal, amazing.

I liked this more than London Calling, whoops.

Like if Metallica listened to Nirvana and SoaD. Not bad as it is, but also one of my least favorite parts of 90s rock.

I really enjoyed this. A blues rock backbone with folk flavoring and some country and bluegrass elements on the fringes doesn’t sound like something I would enjoy until I listened to it. I heard traces of some of my favorite acts and wouldn’t be surprised if they listed The Youngbloods as an influence.

I get why The Smiths appeal to some people, but the consistently downtempo instrumentals, Morrissey’s whiny pitchy vocals, and their inane, often seemingly pointless lyrics, make me not one of them.

The lows were meh but the highs were so so good

Flawless 21st century pop. The perfect balance of excited high energy and introspective low energy, of earnestness and snark, of wide eyed innocence and winking experience. This is Taylor Swift announcing to the world that she’s coming for the top spot.

It’s so weird and dynamic and angsty and cathartic and I cannot believe I’ve never heard of this band.

The highlights were excellent but there were definitely times that seemed like they were just banging on the keyboard.

Great way to start off St. Paddy’s weekend. It was fun, lively, interesting.

There are some albums that immediately mentally transport you back to when you first (or most prolifically) listened to them. Other albums make you wish you could listen to them again for the first time. Back in Black is the latter for me. It rips every time.

Groovy, and the solos are incredible. Doesn’t have the same raw aggression as their self titled.

I wanted to enjoy it. I know it’s a classic, a legendary hip hop album of the 90s. The beats are so solid. But the lyrics are corny as all hell! A whole ass song about your nuts, Dre? Flexin badass bc you smoke weed? Sayin “I’m big bad and powerful bc I have a gun” brother that’s corny as hell!

Soulful and Bluey without getting too twangy. Excellent country album.

I find Courtney Love to be one of the most insufferable human beings on the planet, but unfortunately this is pretty solid rock and roll.

I couldn’t stop listening. It seems to transcend its time. Definitely not one that you put on to show somebody, but the arrangements are beautiful, intricate, and dynamic.

Sad Sinatra is still Sinatra.

It was fine but trip hop doesn’t really do it for me.

Relaxing, smooth, charming

Side B is so much better than side A. The groove is immaculate. The lyrics are practically nonsense.

Solid hip hop album with generally cohesive lyrical themes, incredibly well produced and creative beats, and interesting/engaging flow with the occasional pleasant hook break.

The highs were high: dynamic, exciting, intense. The lows were boring and navel-gazey.

Bono is a pretentious turd but this album is incredible. Lyrically thoughtful, musically tight, emotionally engaging, very well produced.

Overdubs notwithstanding, this still sounds like a kickass show.

I genuinely enjoyed it, but I couldn’t help but feel like this album is to more prominent 90s hip hop what Olive Garden is to Italian food.

I liked more of this than I wanted to. The jammy sections were excellent, the strict baroque pop sections were solid. It was really just the proto punk that didn’t hit.

Such an absolute time capsule. This screams early 2000s in a way few other things do. I was meh on that t then and I’m meh in it now but it brought back good memories at least.

The way that they incorporate various contemporary elements was interesting for the first half of the first song, but got really old really quickly.

Angsty, but with that reall Nice 90s chill alternative vibe that few bands walk well.

Solid for what it is, and I’ve always enjoyed the inclusion of the movie clips by members of Wu Tang, but 90s-early 00s mainstream hip hop just isn’t really my thing

With the exception of the interlude, it sounded like someone trying to make the most generic 90s-alt album possible. Not bad, not remarkable.

Respectful of the inspiration but innovative in the approach, so much fun to listen to this fusion album.

Perfectly fine 80s pop rock, but there didn’t seem much in there that stood out as outstanding.

It’s blues! It’s just the blues! Led Zeppelin is a blues band! Just really loud blues! I feel like I’m going crazy!

I don’t know what it is about British rappers that just hits better with me. Maybe they sound smarter than American rappers.

Soulful, groovy, respectful of the past while insistent on her own way. Really good.

May be the finest side A in rock history

I didn’t want to like this alt-euro dance aggressively 90s album but it grew on me. It’s groovy and honestly really nice to have on in the background.

Pretty good 90s alt. Mrs. Robinson cover is a classic.

Badass rock and roll, hell yeah.

Hell yeah borther

I didn’t think I liked art rock before I listened to this album. Lyrically fantastic, could be better mixed/mastered

Haunting beauty in the lyricism and ballads but man those upbeat songs miss hard

Groovy, nice background music. I agree with the guardian reviewer that called it “revved up Massive Attack” but it’s albums like this that really show how anglocentric this list is. No way would Red Snapper be on a list made in any other country, pleasant as this album is.

Like if the lumineers enlisted bob dylan to sing the country songs they tried to write with lyrics poorly imitating him. Bad even for 00s indie.

Not all the sonic risks they take pay off fully, but when it hits it HITS.

Actually much more pleasant than I was expecting. Steven’s’ voice is really soothing and the instrumentals aren’t especially challenging but are well arranged and nice. The lyrics are largely excellent. But it’s just not really my thing.

I thought the list avoided compilation albums. Either way, the first 4 tracks are some of the most hollow 21st century modern rock out there. After that, when they lean more into the punk side, it gets really good.

Any album that ends with Free Bird cannot conceivably be rated fewer than five stars.

The jazz heavy tracks are so insanely good but the more pop forward tracks seem like relics of their time.

Terrible unserious clown music. I know he’s influential, I just cannot for the life of me understand why.

I didn’t want to like this album. I don’t like folk, I don’t really like adult contemporary or whatever Paul Simon identifies/d as. But his exploration of various genres here is so genuine and authentic and well done, even someone not in love with the genre(s) itself can appreciate the craft.

I know I’m confirming to the stereotype of believing that the best pop music came out whenever I, the listener, was in college, but dammit if it ain’t true. The B sides would be lead singles on lesser albums, Adele takes the listener through an emotional roller coaster of longing and heartbreak and ends on such a poignant note of bittersweet progress, that sometimes growth isn’t how you’d like it to be.

It was like 35 minutes of the same crappy song over and over again.

I know I’m supposed to like Radiohead, and tbh nothing that I heard on this album was bad or objectionable or in any way outside of my taste, but I just feel like I didn’t discover Radiohead at the right time to be able to love their music.

I don’t know if it’s because I came in with no expectations or simply because my mood was conducive to receiving something like it but this was amazing. Raw, punchy, energetic, a ton of fun.

Hell yeah

While it lacks the cohesion necessary to really solidify it as a 5, the sheer amount of bangers on this double album make it impossible to ignore.

I love this stuff, but I recognize it’s not for everyone. Hell of a good time though.

Fun, but I don’t see how it’s influential enough to be included on this list. A couple songs I’d come back to but most was just forgettable garage rock.

Not her best, but still so so good.

Hell yeah dad rock

I remember liking this a lot more in high school. Some songs have aged exceptionally well. Others….

I usually don’t like Nick Cave, and he still had a few on here that just sounded like Tom Waits discovered how to plug in his guitar, but there were some excellent moments too, especially on Hide It All Away and There She Goes, My Beautiful Girl

Not bad, and honestly what I prefer from the hip hop I do like, I just don’t like much hip hop.

What if Tom Waits and Metallica had a secret French love child? It would still likely sound better than this.

The crooner songs were nice. The baroque pop was annoying.

Can’t give a 3.5 but that’s where it is for me. I understand that the Beatles are, were, and will continue to be influential, but this album just sounds like vapid 60s pop to me.

The hits still hit so hard, but the b-sides haven’t aged well. Email My Heart? Lol

Groovy, dynamic, interesting, but so aggressively 80s

Title track aside, it’s mid tier yacht rock.

Dancing Queen is unrivaled but the rest of it is your standard pop fare imo

The lyrics are wonderful and she has a unique voice that fits them well, but it does get a little repetitive.

Hell yeah

As far as singer songwriters go, one of the GOATs

Idk, Courtney Love is a turd. Good for what it is, but what it is ain’t good.

Indulgent, silly, a sonic snooze fest.

Not as tightly composed as other Yes albums, but still a great time.

Hell yeah. This is some of the finest metal I ever did hear.

RIP Brian Wilson. It’s a masterpiece.

I knew she was popular, was cherished, was missed when she passed. But wow. This is incredible.

Really solid at parts but too ambient for me to reeeeally get into at any given point.

Title track is iconic, the rest was fun.

Clint Eastwood still bangs but the majority of these songs kinda Blur together

It’s no Fat of the Land but you can’t deny the influence it had.

My appreciation for this album grew as I listened. I’m a sucker for a good 15 minute song, and the breadth of musical exploration was so interesting on this album. It was fun.

God knew Bob Dylan would be too powerful with a decent voice.

Like Beck before Beck. Aggressively 90s.

Not as good as Are You Experienced but I can’t justify not giving it a 5

Interesting concept but it didn’t really hold my attention.

An interesting combination of funk/soul and rock. Probably just my bias talking, but I feel like it would have been better at times to lean more into the rock side.

I loathe Tom Waits, but this is seemingly the only setting and gentle in which he feels natural and not like a pox on the entire concept of musical expression. The studio audience really added to the whole conceit. I very nearly liked it.

An interesting combination of funk/soul and rock. Probably just my bias talking, but I feel like it would have been better at times to lean more into the rock side.

There were parts that hit so hard but they were overshadowed by the general incongruity of the songs, even internally.

Every conceivable 90s genre you can think of, which means that there’s something for everyone but it’s very much a time capsule. Loaded is excellent.

Can’t help but appreciate the artistry in the sample use, but it does get repetitive at times.

This is so much fun.

Steely Dan is the only yacht rock worth listening to. Not their best tho.

I don’t like adult contemporary, but this was such a pleasant listen, I couldn’t help but enjoy myself on more than one track.

Gorgeous soundscapes and really cool experimental vibes. Bowie was the worst part.

This was really cool, not something I’ve listened to much in the past.

I’m genuinely not sure how this album hit number one on the billboard charts, it is one of the most soulless boring soft pop rock albums I’ve ever heard.

RIP Jim. Ray Manzarek the real genius here though.

This kind of music is so much fun if you don’t take it seriously.

Really groovy and spacey. I feel like the horns section (or that setting on the keyboard) was underutilized.

My disdain for 00s indie knows no bounds. Dischordant, whiny, boring, and at times just plain dumb, this album was honestly made all the worse by the couple of songs that showed promise just to become crapfests before moving onto the next audio misadventure.

Hell yeah

I love this Jungle/DnB type stuff but I recognize it’s not for everyone. Some songs definitely dragged a bit too.

I don’t like Radiohead, but I can respect the interesting and innovative things they do. This wasn’t one of those things. Boring and weird from start to finish, like they got bored with making rock, tried electrónica, but didn’t bother learning how to make it first. Terrible.

I recognize that it’s influential and a landmark album and all that, but the progressive and innovative qualities get lost when encountering something like this almost 60 years after it was progressive and innovative. It’s like someone showing you the first ATM in 2025 and being like “WOW ISNT THAT AMAZING” when you’ve regularly used products directly inspired by it for the past 15 years of your life. It’s like…cool, I guess?

I’m such a sucker for good jazz, and this has such impressive performances across the board.

Groovy, high energy, but not EWF at their best.

Insert throat clear about Kanye qua Kanye blah blah blah this slaps idc

Absolutely electric performance

It’s like they realized they sucked as a punk band and decided to also suck as a country band. Like if Dexy’s Midnight Runners decided to be worse somehow.

A 3.5 I’ll round up to a 4. It was quirky and airy and weird and pleasant and dancy at times and just a very strange but generally enjoyable experience.

A lyrical masterclass over elevator music. Gotta be in the right mood for it, but it’s great for what it is.

RIP Ozzy

Really pleasant, even with the few moments that came off as a little weird.

I felt like this album couldn’t decide what it wanted to be and suffered dearly for it.

Liked it more as it went along but still didn’t like it much

Is the difference between art rock and progressive rock just the sexual orientation of the artist?

Storytelling and beats are dope

Funky and punky, a fun listen

This is so good. Hits hard, riffs are killer, Henry Rollins inspires so much passion. I already liked this album. Love it now.

The only song on this album that isn’t aping the Beatles, Beach Boys, Byrds, or Bob is paint it black. Doesn’t sound like the stones to me.

So good, so cool

Eh. It was fine.

If this is new wave, maybe I don’t hate new wave as much as I thought.

This was really good, but would’ve been really REALLY good while high.

I just can’t stand 60s baroque pop

This is the second Ali Farka Touré album I’ve listened to from this project and I liked this one better. Felt like there was more to grasp onto from a western lens. I could hear the blues influence especially. Really nice.

A little bluesy, a little folky, a little country. Very nice.

Meh. Pretty average 60s pop.

I think I missed the part of my 20s where I was supposed to start liking indie rock. I hated this.

The good songs are excellent, but a solid third of the album is just baffling in its mediocrity compared to the rest of the songs.

Disc 1 is incredible, maybe the best album I’ve listened to so far. Disc 2 gets a bit tedious though.

Really nice, though I can’t imagine myself coming back to it.

Hell yeah

Funky, groovy, fun.

Seemingly aimless noise, mixed by someone without ears.

Not every risk they took paid off. Still pretty good though.

I just really don’t like post punk. Vocals are garbage, mixing is pedestrian, all the energy and passion from punk is ripped away and replaced with 80s cheese.

Really pleasant. Loved the harmonies and recording quality

What the hell was that

In this house we respect every wave of ska

Funky and interesting

Very 90s, very groovy. Does get old eventually though.

Man I wish I understood French

Starts to wear a bit by the end but the raw emotion, as annoying as the vocals are, works so well either way the edgy production and arrangement.

Relaxing, bluesy, much more enjoyable than I anticipated.

It varies between awesome rock and pretty good 2000s country tinged singer songwriter. Didn’t hate it.

I hate 21st century indie so much. He doesn’t seem to care about what he’s singing about, why should I? I blame Morrissey, that turd.

Lots of good rock and roll, with just a little bit of country. Got a little weird toward the end but mostly a banger

Why does bro sound like a geriatric jimmy stewart

The epitome of nerdy cool

Really nice combo of country and old rock and roll. RIP Gram.

Sounds like REM. They may have been one of the first to do this sound but they certainly weren’t the best.

Really cool concept and some pretty enjoyable tunes, but like some critics (who were quoted in the Wikipedia article) mentioned, just because they did it first doesn’t mean they did it best.

Not poppy enough to be pop, not edgy enough to be rock, not folky enough to be folk. Aggressively mid, with maybe one song worth coming back to.

A classic

So much fun, and you can tell he doesn’t take himself too seriously.

Groovy, fun. 90s dance is often excellent

Shallow indulgent tripe that sounds like it was recorded in the middle of a warehouse.

Pretty average 90s Brit pop rock.

Very weird in a very good way. I feel rather smart that I figured out it was satire without having to look at the Wikipedia page.

Man rock. Fun. Shallow. Beth is such a bad song.

Fun and interesting, very groovy.

They don’t make em like this anymore

Reggae has a ceiling with me. This is good reggae, but it’s still reggae.