1001 Albums Summary

(listened feb 5 2024) its fine i guess highlights: all i want, california

3.5 rounded down highlights: young americans, fame (aug 3 2024)

i put off listening to this one for a rlly long time but fine. coldplay has some good albums. whatever. highlights: politik, the scientist, clocks, a rush of blood to the head (apr 15 2026)

pretty dang good but not my fav neil highlights: walk on, revolution blues, vampire blues (may 5 2024)

almost on par with ziggy stardust! highlights: watch that man, aladdin sane, time (aug 4 2024)

3.5 rounded up short n sweet. #bring back the 30 minute album. listening to this was rlly difficult for 0 reason highlights: blueberry hill, what’s the reason i’m not pleasing you, the fat man’s hop (aug 4 2024)

3.5 rounded down it’s fun! not rlly clicking for me tho… highlights: question of life, subliminal fascism (aug 6 2024)

think i’d actually like this more if there weren’t vocals….. may try to rec some of these songs to my brother. might be too out there for him tho highlights: keeping pigs together, don’t go nowhere (aug 7 2024)

(3.5 rounded up) feel weird giving this a star rating as idk that much abt hip hop but i generally enjoyed myself ! highlights: step in the arena, what you want this time?, as i read my s-a (aug 8 2024)

(4.5 rounded up) bro the intros to these songs r WAY too long. we must acknowledge this highlights: lovesong, lullaby, prayers for rain, untitled (feb 6 2024)

4.5 rounded up absolutely fantastic debut highlights: jigsaw feeling, carcass, mirage (aug 10 2024)

4.5 rounded down i’d prob place it among the lower ranks of the vu discography, but its still pretty got dam good ! highlights: candy says, what goes on, after hours (aug 11 2024)

groovy baybay ! #billburroughs highlights: black cow, aja, deacon blues (aug 12 2024)

3.5 rounded up a wee bit bland, but overall fun! highlights: desafindo, e luxo so, bahia (aug 8 2024)

kinda one-note but undeniably influential. the sex pistols r such a funny band if u think abt it highlights: bodies, god save the queen, anarchy in the uk (july 9 2024)

3.5 rounded down just didn’t connect w this one idk highlights: queer, only happy when it rains, stupid girl (aug 16 2024)

a bit too consistently . erm. irish for me i think…. highlights: bottle of smoke, thousands are sailing, sketches of spain (aug 17 2024)

highlights: if they move, kill ‘em; medication (nov 26 2024)

has nothing on william shatner tbh highlights: i’ll feel a whole lot better, spanish harlem incident (aug 18 2024)

it’s like. adjacent to things i like highlights: i ain’t gone, things goin’ on, free bird (aug 19 2024)

3.5 rounded up really interesting and definitely something i see myself revisiting! a lot to take in tho highlights: enfant, c&d, ecars (feb 13 2026)

4.5 rounded down this surprised me in a rlly good way!! highlights: earthquake, don’t cry, helicopter (aug 22 2024)

3.5 rounded up i understand why this is on here and it’s certainly quite good, but it’s also way longer than it needs to be highlights: me against the world, so many tears, dear mama, it ain’t easy (feb 23 2026)

boring highlights: take it easy, nightingale, earlybird (aug 23 2024)

2.5 rounded down bland as all hell. idk maybe i’m just in a hater mood highlights: moondance (aug 24 2024)

YIPPY highlights: hidden place, it’s not up to you, pagan poetry, aurora (jun 11 2024)

4.5 rounded up pussyslay!!!!!!!!! highlights: hanging on the telephone, sunday girl, heart of glass (aug 12 2024)

they just dont make em like they used to……. highlights: just a little lovin’, the windmills of your mind, in the land of make believe (aug 28 2024)

3.5 rounded down i can’t really see myself revisiting this a whole lot but it’s fun ! highlights: concrete jungle, slave driver, no more trouble (aug 28 2024)

idk i tuned out highlights: neighborhood #1 (tunnels), wake up (sep 11 2024)

4.5 rounded down FIONAAAAAA far from her best but its ok. she was a child basically highlights: shadowboxer, criminal, the first taste (aug 29 2024)

quite plasnt! highlights: do you remember walter?, johnny thunder, sitting by the riverside (sep 1 2024)

this was honestly not at all like what i expected it to be highlights: ghost rider, johnny (sep 3 2024)

3.5 rounded down now why is this over two hours long….. docking points bc there was literally 0 reason for that whatsoever. get over urself highlights: zero, here is no why, cupid de locke, 1979, tales of a scorched earth (nov 1 2024)

2.5 rounded up not bad, especially compared to the other country albums i’ve listened to off this list, but also just not for me. groovy as hell album cover tho—i’ll give it a slight bump for that highlights: silver raven, no other, strength of strings (apr 7 2026)

2.5 rounded down i think this is just a different brand of weird than me highlights: tanz debil, spionagedub, lünebest (feb 13 2026)

pretty goddamn good and definitely in the running for my favorite pavement album highlights: silence kid, cut your hair, gold soundz (dec 9 2023)

iggy mix > bowie mix tbh highlights: search and destroy, gimme danger, penetration (aug 19 2024)

3.5 rounded down there’s something about paul simon which is very larry numb3rs coded i think highlights: hearts and bones, when numbers get serious, train in the distance (sep 7 2024)

3.5 rounded down a bit too wandering and bluesy for me i think. album cover goes hard tho highlights: combination of the two, piece of my heart (sep 8 2024)

not a fan to the multiple references to being “like a schizo” but other than that this is very good. drags a bit tbh highlights: locked inside, sir greendown, oh maker, neon valley street (sep 9 2024)

they could’ve cut the weird intros to these songs and made this album like 10 minutes shorter highlights: yes, faster, this is yesterday, p.c.p (oct 3 2024)

not my thing highlights: lovers in the backseat, tits on the radio, music is the victim (sep 23 2024)

3.5 rounded down why are these guys called living coloUr if they’re american.. highlights: cult of personality, desperate people, funny vibe, which way to america? (feb 26 2026)

highlights: jacqueline, take me out, cheating on you, 40’ (oct 3 2024)

very long…. very long. but good ! absolutely gnarly guitar work highlights: lose control, goldfinger, girl from mars (sep 16 2024)

3.5 rounded up i think i kinda hate handsome dick manitoba but this was pretty solid tbh highlights: master race rock, (i live for) cars and girls (aug 19 2024)

2.5 rounded up soooo fucking long and for what reason. neither of these albums needed to be an hour long…. and while i get the reason it was packaged this way, i think it could’ve been interesting to see what it was like if they had actually tried combining these into a single album. idk. album too long my brain is melting highlights: ghettomusick, unhappy, the rooster, church, prototype, hey ya!, my favorite things (feb 25 2026)

3.5 rounded down almost impossible for me to rate; the lyricism and themes of this album are undeniably beautiful and illuminating, but the sonic elements were seriously lacking for me. i’m really glad this was put on this list (even though it was nixed from later editions). this album will certainly stick with me for a long time highlights: hope there’s someone, for today i am a boy, fistful of love (apr 22 2026)

listen, i love music that gets freaky with it as much as the next guy, but this is just poorly made. the mixing is bad, most of the songs wander aimlessly for entirely too long, and i was bored, despite the impression that this record is weird just for weirdness’ sake. not great highlights: danse kalinda ba boom, mama roux, croker courtbullion (mar 16 2026)

makes u wanna bust a motherfuckin move highlights: dance for me, ladies first, the evil that men do, inside out (feb 18 2026)

3.5 rounded down i can definitely see the influence but i also can’t rlly see myself relistening to this as a full unit a whole lot highlights: tutti frutti, ready teddy, rip it up (sep 25 2024)

3.5 rounded up lenny kravitz is one of the coolest mfers on the planet but this didnt need to be this long. still rlly fucking good for a debut tho highlights: sitting on top of the world, i build this garden for us, empty hands, flower child (sep 25 2024)

4.5 rounded down yea this is rlly fucking good. the interludes are a bit much for me tho…. highlights: cranes in the sky, don’t touch my hair, borderline (an ode to self care), junie (sep 24 2024)

absolutely groovy to the max but that last song is just unforgivably long highlight: walk on by (sep 25 2025)

3.5 rounded down why is this an hour long highlights: here it comes, rise, the cedar room (oct 3 2024)

not that bad or anything but also definitely not for me…. highlights: stay with me, that’s all you need (oct 1 2024)

3.5 rounded down this could be right up my alley but i think i’m gonna have to sit with this one a bit highlights: chivalry, darkness and doubt (oct 1 2024)

the best beatles album tbh. argue with a wall highlights: she’s leaving home, within you without you, a day in the life

literally all of these songs sounded exactly the same to me highlights: could i’ve been so blind, hard to handle (mar 17 2026)

2.5 rounded up a lot better than i was expecting white british hip hop would be, but still just generally middling. rambles on far too long for my tastes highlights: connected, fade away, playing with fire (feb 18 2026)

YES DUDE!!!!!! YEEHAW!!!!! highlights: a hundred and sixty acres, they’re hanging me tonight, billy the kid, el paso (dec 19 2024)

undeniably iconic, but does blend together at times highlights: in the wee small hours of the morning, mood indigo, ill wind (apr 25 2026)

WOOHOO!!!!!! honestly tied w five leaves left for me, but this one is definitely more of a banger highlights: hazey jane ii, at the chime of a city clock, one of these things first, northern sky (feb 16 2024)

i’ve always held a bit of a grudge against u2 ever since they downloaded that shitty song onto everyone’s itunes, but this was actually quite good. u win this round bono…… highlights: sunday bloody sunday, new year’s day, like a song…, surrender (apr 10 2026)

3.5 rounded up right up my alley! highlights: sometimes, london lady, peaches (mar 8 2026)

its giving nick drake and also carole king. and yet despite this, its boring highlights: don’t interrupt the sorrow, shades of scarlett conquering, harry’s house/centerpiece (oct 8 2024)

3.5 rounded down lowkey boring i’m afraid….. its ok they have better stuff on the horizon highlights: play for today, a forest, seventeen seconds (oct 30 2024)

4.5 rounded up hell fuckin yes!!!?!?!??!!!!??!?!!! highlights: freedom, if you only knew, remember his name (feb 19 2026)

3.5 rounded up they invented a whole new genre with this shit tbh…… Quirked Up highlights: delicious demon, deus, cowboy (aug 13 2024)

3.5 rounded up fast and hard! just the way i like it! highlights: high school confidential; great balls of fire; long, tall sally (nov 19 2024)

3.5 rounded down on paper this is like. exactly my thing, but unfortunately her vocals are super grating to me :-( highlights: maps, y control, modern romance (mar 23 2026)

2.5 rounded down well. ok highlights: it’s on!, got the life, pretty (oct 23 2024)

feels like playing rockband on the wii highlights: you give love a bad name, livin’ on a prayer, social disease (mar 18 2026)

4.5 rounded up very plasnt:-) very fall highlights: suzanne, master song, stories of the street, one of us cannot be wrong (oct 14 2024)

yim yum ! probably deserves a relisten from me tho highlights: here comes your man, dead, monkey gone to heaven, hey (sep 12 2024)

4.5 rounded down very nice! a little meandering but its ok cuz they were apparently zonked out of their gourds highlights: a new decade, this is music, a northern soul, drive you home (nov 1 2024)

2.5 rounded down not bad or anything but also not necessarily a great album experience.. in fact i don’t think i ever would’ve listened to a full aerosmith album if it weren’t for this list highlights: last child, combination, lick and a promise (mar 17 2026)

mhm yap!!! highlights: uh-oh, love comes to town; the book i read; don’t worry about the government; first week / last week… carefree; psycho killer (aug 12 2024)

this is a good album and all but i dont rlly get what makes this a standout live album specifically ….. maybe im just not familiar enough with the studio versions of these songs highlights: jailbreak, still in love with you, suicide, rocker (nov 19 2024)

jello biafra is kinda my perfect man if u think abt it…….. highlights: kill the poor, let’s lynch the landlord, california über alles, stealing people’s mail, holiday in cambodia (sep 2 2024)

3.5 rounded down honestly a lot more fun than i was anticipating.. i think i’m just burnt out on snoop. interesting to compare this to his more recent tv appearances at the olympics and whatnot highlights: gin and juice, the shiznit, who am i (what’s my name)?, ain’t no fun (if the homies can’t have none) (feb 23 2026)

this is so distinctly not for me i’m so sorry ….. what the fuck highlights: n/a (nov 12 2024)

i think if this album were about half as long it would be perfect to me highlights: among the living, caught in a mosh, one world (oct 23 2024)

3.5 rounded up i see the vision but idk i just think its overrated….. highlights: hounds of love, the big sky, watching you without me (sep 6 2024)

is it illegal to say this is arguably my favorite metallica album highlights: enter sandman, holier than thou, wherever i may roam, the struggle within (oct 26 2024)

fucking LOOONG….. country liz phair (and too country for me). honk shoo highlights: car wheels on a gravel road, can’t let go, jackson (jan 11 2025)

wish this was the yoko one tbh she outsold highlights: isolation, god (sep 8 2024)

4.5 rounded down could be a bit overhyped, or could be that i just need to give it a few more listens highlights: mr. self destruct, march of the pigs, closer (aug 21 2024)

highlights: who needs the peace corps?, concentration moon, what’s the ugliest part of your body?, absolutely free (jun 10 2024)

3.5 rounded down quite groovy and all but also a little. bleh highlights: 5d (fifth dimension), wild mountain thyme, eight miles high (dec 3 2024)

2.5 rounded up boooooo!!you boring highlights: to kingdom come, the weight, this wheel’s on fire (dec 3 2024)

an enjoyable listen in the moment, but also incredibly forgettable. i couldn’t hum a single one of these songs now that i’m a couple days removed highlights: some day one day, the fairy feller’s master-stroke, the march of the black queen, seven seas of rhye (mar 18 2026)

this guy is lowkey me asf. like i feel like i should be giving him 5 stars just because we’re kinda the same person highlights: tc & honeybear, where dreams go to die, queen of denmark (jan 22 2025)

2.5 rounded up i really wanted to like this, as everything i’ve learned about missy elliott has made really like her, but unfortunately it just let me down. kinda boring :-( highlights: work it, nothing out there for me (feat. beyoncé), play that beat (feb 25 2026)

2.5 rounded up her voice is nice and all but in no way is this an essential listen. like be serious. highlights: feelin’ the same way, come away with me, nightingale (apr 28 2026)

like nick drake but for people who’ve never experienced depression. fire album cover tho highlights: solid air, over the hill, the man in the station (jan 10 2025)

pleasant enough. would probably be really nice to fall asleep to. can’t imagine myself ever playing this in an airport tbh highlights: 1/1 (feb 13 2026)

2.5 rounded down well. i’ll give credit where it’s due for being unique and getting me out of my music comfort zone. but unfortunately, that’s kinda all this album has going for it highlights: little water song, passionate flight, punishing kiss (apr 23 2026)

3.5 rounded up quite good but like what’s up with the ambient section highlights: joe the lion, heroes, sons of the silent age (nov 26 2024)

3.5 rounded up could be right up my alley but i feel like it just drags a bit. either way ….. does a gay little jig that pisses you off highlights: navvy, (pa) ubu dance party (jan 15 2025)

3.5 rounded up quite good but also. as always. quite long. i also wish there were more songs in portuguese highlights: attitude, ratamahatta, ambush, canyon jam (july 15 2025)

curecore highlights: the new stone age, souvenir, georgia (jan 15 2025)

3.5 rounded down how much of what makes this so good to people is just nostalgia…. be honest highlights: red barchetta, limelight (oct 27 2024)

i can see why taylor hawkins liked these guys so much! lots of fun highlights: in it for the money, richard iii, sun hits the sky (apr 14 2026)

1.5 rounded down incredibly funny to me that my highlights from this album ended up being the first and last tracks. i truly do not gaf highlights: across the great divide, king harvest (has surely come) (apr 7 2026)

i love it when music is bad <3 highlights: we’re here; new gods; oh, me; lake of fire (dec 10 2023)

3.5 rounded down i think this one might be a bit too electronic for me …. beep boop! highlights: nightclubbing, china girl (sep 25 2024)

iconic! no other word for it highlights: maggot brain, can you get to that, hit it and quit it (jun 28 2023)

ok highlights: breaking the girl, under the bridge (feb 26 2026)

some smiths songs are just so visceral for me they can be like genuinely difficult to listen to …. highlights: cemetery gates, bigmouth strikes again, the boy with the thorn in his side, there is a light that never goes out (nov 25 2025)

2.5 rounded down his voice is very nice, but otherwise this was unremarkable highlights: on your own again, the world’s strongest man, rhymes of goodbye (mar 27 2026)

3.5 rounded up groovy as hell but unfortunately nothing else he does will ever live up to what’s going on highlights: let’s get it on, if i should die tonight, come get to this (nov 27 2024)

4.5 rounded up got me popping my pussy and shit highlights: green onions, rinky dink, one who really loves you (nov 27 2024)

3.5 rounded up very beautiful and enjoyable overall, but i’m not sure if i’ll revisit this one often on account of the length. i definitely see why this was so impactful for so many other musicians though, and i’m glad i listened ! highlights: bhoop, des (feb 16 2026)

not sure i’d call this timeless, but it is a good time capsule of sorts. i also appreciate that it deviates from the norm of this collection. alas, probably won’t be returning to this one highlights: le freak, i want your love, sometimes you win (apr 30 2026)

definitely fun but also definitely lacking highlights: one more chance, rent, it’s a sin (sep 23 2024)

freaking it sensitive style ….. ooh quiet down ….. quiet down …… highlights: no one receiving, king’s lead hat, here he comes (jan 8 2025)

so incredibly fun highlights: wild jungle, kenya, holiday (feb 12 2026)

3.5 rounded down groovy as hell but i don’t think blues will ever click for me tbh ….. i like these live takes a lot tho! highlights: baby please don’t go, i’m your hoochie coochie man, i’ve got my mojo working (dec 19 2024)

3.5 rounded down ROCKIN NUUUUUUUTTZZZZ highlights: speed king, child in time, flight of the rat (mar 18 2026)

definitely good but idk if it would even crack top 3 r.e.m. for me.. a bit too mellow highlights: try not to breathe, ignoreland, man on the moon, find the river (mar 13 2026)

4.5 rounded up YEAH BABEY YEAH!!!!!! highlights: funky music sho nuff turns me on, papa was a rollin’ stone, love woke me up this morning (jan 10 2025)

2.5 rounded up while i did enjoy this more than liege and lief, i’m still not fully sold on traditional folk highlights: light flight, lyke-wake dirge, train song (mar 27 2026)

1.5 rounded up not my thing highlights: visions of you, bomba (feb 17 2026)

very chill highlights: the girl from ipanema, desafinado, vivo sónhando (feb 12 2026)

KILL

idk it’s just not rlly my thing.. i also feel like it’s aggressively y2k. just didn’t age super great imo highlights: with you, crawling, pushing me away (feb 26 2026)

yeum….. highlights: little fury things, the lung, raisans, just like heaven (nov 28 2023)

4.5 rounded up highlights: speed trials, ballad of big nothing, rose parade, cupid’s trick, 2:45am (feb 17 2025)

enjoyable enough, but i think if i’m gonna go back to this i’ll seek out the full recording of this show.. this version is noticeably missing something highlights: amsterdam, le plat pays, la dernier repas (apr 23 2026)

not bad compared to some of the other electronic albums i’ve listened to on this list, but still not my thing. and sooooo unnecessarily long, did that last song seriously need that extra minute and a half of silence at the end???? highlights: melt, original (feb 17 2026)

3.5 rounded down groovy bay bay! highlights: lay your lovin’ on me, stand up (sep 9 2024)

1.5 rounded up ughhhhhhh highlights: in the flesh?, young lust, nobody home, comfortably numb (mar 19 2026)

3.5 rounded down not bad by any means, but also didn’t really click with me.. maybe i would’ve enjoyed this more if i were more familiar with the artists’ other bands. ah well highlights: standing next to me, the chamber, the meeting place (apr 21 2026)

4.5 rounded up fire highlights: darklands, down on me, april skies (jan 15 2024)

3.5 rounded down consistent ! but maybe that’s not always the best thing …. too much of a good thing or something like that highlights: last nite, hard to explain, take it or leave it (sep 11 2024)

i can definitely see the strengths here, but i also don’t think this is my thing highlights: the shining hour, america snoring, grace (feb 10, 2026)

3.5 rounded up it’s good but idk i think i need to give it some time to grow on me. gotta let it marinate highlights: master of puppets; welcome home (sanitarium); damage, inc. (july 26 2024)

plasnt :-) highlights: carry on, woodstock, our house, everybody i love you (aug 19 2024)

1.5 rounded up im sorry but i was bored to tears highlights: treaty, if i didn’t have your love (mar 13 2026)

no surprises probably my favorite radiohead song ever and idc if that’s the basic choice! it’s fucking good! highlights: paranoid android, exit music (for a film), no surprises (april 26 2025)

3.5 rounded up starts to blend together at certain points, but also an undeniable classic highlights: message in a bottle, bring on the night, no time this time (apr 12 2026)

such a good debut highlights: radio free europe, pilgrimage (aug 14 2024)

i like that this one has a bit of variety! also rest in peace ozzy :-( highlights: wheels of confusion/the straightener, changes, snowblind (aug 6 2024)

their 2nd best, which isn’t an unpopular opinion—my real hot take is that i think bleach is #1 highlights: serve the servants, heart shaped box, dumb, all apologies (jul 14 2025)

didn’t pay nearly as much attention to this one as i should’ve when i was a kid.. it’s just so freaking good. also in their top 3 album covers for me i think highlights: taxman; eleanor rigby; here, there and everywhere; for no one

a lot of fun! highlights: tough guy, root down, sabotage, heart attack man (feb 26 2026)

4.5 rounded up spongebob levitating dot gif highlights: halo of ashes, all i know, make my mind, traveler (mar 12 2026)

4.5 rounded up always challenging for me to pick favorites from instrumental records, especially when the tracks are longer.. this whole thing is simply exquisite highlights: ba-lue bolivar ba-lues-are, pannonica (feb 12 2026)

3.5 rounded up fun!! long tho ….. shoutout to psych for putting this one on my radar. shawn spencer u will always be famous highlights: misunderstood, outtasite (outta mind), red-eyed and blue, sunken treasure, dreamer in my dreams (sep 4 2024)

quite good ! but perhaps just a bit too gloomy for my tastes….. oh well highlights: one hundred years, the hanging garden, the figurehead, a strange day (aug 5 2024)

2.5 rounded up it’s pretty good, but way too long and just lacking a certain something. overrated highlights: bell bottom blues, i am yours, little wing, layla (mar 16 2026)

4.5 rounded up :-) highlights: stardust, all of me, moonlight in vermont (mar 14 2026)

2.5 rounded up probably my favorite of the electronic albums on this list thus far, but still a bit too homogenous for my taste. hard to pick a favorite when they all blend together like that highlights: phaedra (feb 13 2026)

BOOOO!!!!!!

2.5 rounded down it’s cute and all, but that’s kinda all it has going for it highlights: freeze tag, small blue thing, undertow (mar 28 2026)

like capturing lightning in a bottle highlights: communist eyes, richie dagger’s crime, lexicon devil, media blitz (aug 15 2024)

1.5 rounded up did this list really need multiple zz top albums highlights: waitin’ for the bus, la grange (mar 16 2026)

4.5 rounded down absolutely insane debut. honestly hard for me to say if this or bryter layter is better.. they both have their own distinct strengths for me highlights: time has told me, fruit tree, saturday sun (apr 4 2024)

3.5 rounded down it’s like. fine but there’s just something a bit off about it …. maybe it feels like they’re trying too hard. idk. don’t really see myself revisiting this one highlights: save the life of my child, old friends, mrs. robinson, at the zoo (mar 13 2026)

3.5 rounded down pretty solid overall, but there’s a certain quality to his vocals that i’m not a fan of highlights: garbageman, sunglasses after dark, tear it up (mar 3 2026)

3.5 rounded up undeniably compelling, and something i sort of feel bad rating right now, because i think i’ll need to spend more time with this record to fully appreciate it.. but it also didn’t quite grab me highlights: atlantic city, state trooper, reason to believe (mar 14 2026)

3.5 rounded up really enjoyed this until the last few songs, when it got a bit too honky tonk for me. still, something i see myself revisiting! highlights: coles corner, hotel room, the ocean, born under a bad sign (apr 22 2026)

impeccable…. might even go so far as to say.. flawless?? highlights: vibes and stuff, check the rhime, jazz (we’ve got) (feb 19 2026)

no.

i said i’m in love.. with that song…. i’m in love….. what’s that song……. highlights: feel, thirteen, watch the sunrise (may 5 2024)

i have nothing quippy to say abt this album bc it’s simply too important to me.. legitimately life changing. thank you, mr drake highlights: pink moon, place to be, things behind the sun (dec 2 2023)