1001 Albums Summary

Ran out of tracks much faster than I would've liked it to—immediate favorite

First track is merely very good before immediately churning out a series of tracks that have been looping in my head since listening (and relistening to them several times). This project is starting on a concerningly good foot…

Tapers off a good bit in the back half (a better way to put this is that it changes modes and I prefer the first mode), but pretty damn great all the same. Surely these have to get worse at some point, I’m not used to so much great music in such a short span.

First of these I've listened to before! Very grateful for the incentive to listen again since it didn't stick the first time. I still think this is quite a ways below Innervisions since (almost by definition) it's a bit inconsistent, but found it a lot stronger this time around. Lovely stuff all around.

Not nearly as bad as I thought it’d be! More or less insufferable when Harrison is actually singing, but fortunately, that’s not all that frequently. Two hours is pretty ridiculous though.

Pretty funny that I picked up this project to experience a greater breadth of music and get hit with Adele in the first week. (She’s fine. This is fine.)

Barely feels like an album with how frequently it changes modes (perhaps that turned me off a touch a few months back), but that grew on me immensely this time around. Beautiful work start to finish.

Thought I would be annoyed by this, but actually found it quite pleasant (though it certainly overstayed its welcome)

Kind of annoyed this includes the recent edition of the book because these post-first-edition selections are rough. Not Bad bad, but sounds like nothing after a few tracks.

All over the place by design, but the quality is more inconsistent than I'd like. Still enjoyed it a lot.

Blends into itself very quickly

Love Little Simz! But this is probably her worst.

Lots of fun and exciting sounds but goddamn do I hate this motherfucker's voice

Not his best, but still so great. Could (and did) listen to this for hours.

Not a fan of the guy's voice, but I liked it! Love the Walls of Sound.

Crazy that this thing is even good, much less half as great as it is. Walls of Sound

I’ve always had a consistency issue with Cave, and it would be wrong to label this as consistent, but fuck me if this isn’t what music is made for. First five tracks on Abattoir Blues is as untouchable a run as you’ll find.

Maybe I’m overvaluing this a touch, but it’s just so much fun. “In Heaven” is an all-timer

Pretty surprised to see this on the list, but very happy it is included! A late-career peak from (maybe) the best to do it.

Quite enjoyable, if a touch longer than it should be

Thought I would hate this, but it’s just okay!

Warm & wonderful & enveloping...for half the album, then it loses all distinctiveness

First three tracks are pleasant enough, but the rest is quite grating. Cannot fucking stand the voice of a single person from England.

I had fun! An unusual selection.

Fun!

Quite surprised that I didn't hate it! I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it! Not really sure what I think of it!

God I hate the British (and will be using this exact review several more times)

Occasionally interesting, frequently not

Bleh. It’s fine

Annoying

Enjoyed it front to back which is pretty surprising for ostensibly conventional rock. Even the vocals were okay!

Let it play right through again after finishing and will probably let it play a few more times. The Good Stuff

My mode of listening is so sound/sensation-forward that I usually can’t make heads or tails of a song’s lyrics until five or so times through. This is usually more rewarding since I’ve found greater appreciation for mediums in considering their base elements (music is sounds, not words), but it does have its drawbacks—especially so with rock. Since I don’t tend to hear the words on the first go around, rock tends to blend together for me, so there wasn’t another layer of melancholy here as indicated by the entry in the book. It didn’t sound like much of anything, really.

Breezy

I mean, it's Back To Black by Amy Winehouse

Quite pleasant, if decidedly minor

Another puzzling selection in the post-05 crop

I’ve got a feeling this one is going to linger. So, I like it plenty now, but figure I’ll love it this time next year

Pretty remarkable, found this enrapturing. Not sure why it’s labeled “rock.”

Whole lot of nothing

Need one more listen to call this an out-and-out favorite (only had time for one today), but pretty damn great regardless. Glad one of the post-05 selections has hit

Impossible to truly love a British person’s voice, but quite fun otherwise

Would love to be a hater as I am with the other Radiohead I’ve listened to, but actually had a pretty good time here

Okay, but still has BVD (British Voice Disease)

Assumed this would piss me off and was pleasantly surprised by the contrary! Light and lovely.

I didn't hate it, which is a pleasant surprise in itself

Weak in relative terms (doesn’t hold a candle to Stand!(per the write-up: for obvious reasons)); strong in absolute terms (it’s good!)

Vaguely annoying

Came to the same conclusion I always do - that the back half is considerably weaker, dampening the experience quite a bit. Still, it's The College Dropout by Kanye West.

Funky

I cannot imagine how much better a place the world would be if these insufferable cunts never existed

Like the weirdness at the beginning, then it sounds like more of the same. Plus annoying British voice becomes more prominent at that point.

Pretty damn great! So cool to organically discover the origin of the Southland Tales dance song.

Rarely give a shit about country, but fell in love with this immediately

Same as the other I’ve heard from them, pleasant enough, but won’t think about it again

Loved reading the background and the first part had me convinced it was the all-timer the book claimed, but it fizzled out soon afterward. Still good!

Not much of anything

Annoying voice

I've realized that Renaissance being the first Beyoncé album I listened to (in full) massively inflated my opinion of her, and she's just pretty good outside of it (and then there's Cowboy Carter...*shudders*)

Great from front to back. Could listen to several more hours of this.

Very pleasant

I feel like if this was in a movie I loved I would be praising it to no end, but as it stands by itself, this woman’s voice is totally insufferable

Pleasant

So many of these are blending together, not in form or style or anything, just as "pretty good, not sure why it's on here"

I mean, it's alright

Pretty good! Sounds like bad Springsteen for some reason (bad Springsteen is still good music, of course)

Does sound a bit like elevator music, but it’s nice elevator music

Lovely

Radiohead

Whatever

I listened to this last night and have already forgotten everything about it

Yes!! Love it!! (Is this related to the Kenneth Anger?)

Nice!

Groovy

Apparently I've listened to this before! Groovy [2]

Groovy [3]

Not groovy [4], but good!

Ah,,, groovy [4]. Also, a perfect album.

Have mostly forgotten this and listened to Mothership Connection like three times today, but good! Always fun to stumble upon songs I've heard a billion times in movies.

Okay?

It’s country, so there’s a pretty set ceiling on how much I like it, but fairly enjoyable all things considered

Sure! Okay!

So much fun!

Yeezy got my pussy reupholstered

Jack off to lyrics by Leonard Cohen

Hell yeah

Fun!

Lovely

Pretty

Was concerned that I loved something by a British band then found out they were Scottish. No wonder I actually like their voices

No shot a rock album is this good. Definitely mislabeled

This sounds like every parody of country, had no idea it actually existed

Basically everything I could possibly ask for from a piece of music. Slightly torn up that this hasn’t been in my life since birth, but it’s here now which is what counts.

Annoying

Pretty much head-over-heels for "21st Century Schizoid Man," but pretty much don't give a shit about the rest

Don't even remember what this sounds like

It's alright

Fairly enjoyable

Way too damn long and gets progressively worse, but still pretty fun on the whole

Pleasant, if forgettable

Okay, sure

On the line between like and love and after listening to the first few tracks again, I'm leaning love, but I may forget this album entirely in three days. We Shall See

Was prepared to despise this, but found it very listenable

Lana Del Rey seems to get stronger for me with each passing day

Fun!

Maybe great, but this mostly played in the background so I can't feel all that strongly about it

Starts out bleh and only gets worse

Good I think? But can say I feel all that strongly about it

Not game-changing or anything, but I could listen to this indefinitely pretty much

Okay!

He's white?

Pleasant

Second half nice and wacky first half boring

What if this just ends up being my favorite band I mean come the fuck on

Fun!

Wtf how do I like Zeppelin this much

Sure man

Pleasant

Nice enough I suppose

Every bit as nothing as I'd remembered (it did win the Grammy for best album), but "Velvet Elvis" is a jam so there's that

Decent

Moving on

As forgettable as I had forgotten

Well it's different!

That's right

Not sure why I haven’t been listening to Oasis constantly for the past several years but we move

I love magnolia (1999)

I do not remember what this sounded like but I'm pretty sure I liked it

Hate when I have to listen to these on YouTube but very good

Cute!

Fun!

Why the hell is this in here

Glad to try it again but about the same as last time: nice to listen to, but all sounds the same and goes on forever

Almost listenable, but it is still Pink Floyd at the end of the day

Another odd choice

Neat

All it's cracked up to be

Shockingly not terrible

Hell yeah

Pretty fun and not at all annoying which is a massive plus

Absolutely hell yes

Groovy

Groovy [2]

Love

Entertaining! Why is this hated?

Fairly amusing

Fun

Neat!

Phil Spector I will shit on your rotting corpse

So fucking cool

Toddler music

I suppose the primary deficiency of listening like this is losing change and continuity over time. Anyhow, this is good! But it doesn't hold a candle to the first.

I find it hard to believe that this wasn't just selected entirely at random, but it's pleasant

lol

Grating

Neat!

Can't feel anything about this

Pretty fun

Funky

Surprisingly found this fairly enjoyable

Every time I think I'll finally fall head over heels for it, and every time, I'm blindsided by how inconsistent it is

Had a good time with this!

Pleasant, but not at all memorable

Loved it before, bowled over by it now

Nice enough

Had a good time!

Starts fairly strong and gets progressively more nothing

Yes!!

It’s alright!

So much fun!!

Can’t quite decide if I love it, but I sure do like it!

I mean, this is A Love Supreme we're talking about here

Pleasant for precisely two tracks

Yes!!!

All in on Zep I fear

Thought about doing a full relisten on principle then gave up after one track. Don't care!

Okay I Get It Now

Pretty top-heavy, but still quite good

Couldn't be assed to go back to the well on this one—whatever

Nice!

I might like it a teensy bit more, but still doesn't do much of anything for me

Fats Domino!!!!

Good, perhaps even great—pleasantly surprised by this

Yes!!

I could take it or leave it, but gun to my head? I'd leave it

OK

Remarkably not offensive at all

Music is nice, but the voice isn't

R.E.M. is growing on me. At a snail's pace, mind you, but growing nonetheless.

It's fine

Have no idea how anyone could feel anything about this

Not sure how I feel about the fact that I'm now extremely into a song with the chorus "Ain't nothin' like a gang bang / To blow away the blues," but life goes on

Sure!

Not the worst thing in the world which is a win!

Sure, fine by me

It is becoming apparent that I just don't give a shit about, like, 70% of music, but oh well, the point of living is experiencing new things as far as I can tell, so I'll keep on moving

First one in ages I've really dug, praise god

We are so back

Neato

OK

Yes!

I'll pass

Why would someone like this

It took 3 years, but I've finally bought in

Greatness cut short by a mopey final third

Nice!

Britain should not have been allowed to survive into the 20th century

Yes!!!

I was gonna chalk this up to another case of the non-english entries being randomly generated, but apparently people actually listen to this guy

Elevator music-adjacent, but still quite good

Huh

Huh [2]

Actually a lot of fun! Little more startling than fucking Ben Stiller showing up to deliver a monologue in an album.

Raw as fuck

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. True.

Do not remember listening to this

Sure, nice

I will never give a shit about ""The White Stripes""

I guess?

Literally nothing?

Slightly less bad than I remembered

A constant "hell yeah" from me. "This Corrosion" maybe an all-timer.

Nice enough

Raw as fuck

Pass

Only got about halfway through, but it's Bitches Brew by Miles Davis

Mulling over just *how* great this is, but it's pretty damn great

Can it ass whole

what ever

Moving on

Yes!!!!! Music!!!!!!!!!!!

Elevator music

A 1-hour album feels like a 2.5-hour movie

Nothing?

Fun!

God I fucking hate the British

Interesting. Not sure I'm into it, but I'm definitely not out of it!

Come the fuck on

Kind of fire?

Not too bad!

Pretty annoying!

Weirdly I'm not quite sold on this being the best thing ever even though I am sold on Prince being the best ever, but it's still Purple Rain at the end of the day

Long...so long...

First ~5 tracks are faultless. The rest is alright.

I listened to this 5 hours ago and do not remember a thing about it

Had a pretty good time with this but that may just be because I watched Wild at Heart recently

It has virtues, but I'm not sure why there's an insufferable version of "Where Is My Mind?" in the middle of it

Fine

What're the odds I get this two days after I make the "Where Is My Mind?" comment?

I'm actually very into this!

Neat

Pretty fun

I finally Get Nick Drake

Nothing at all

Pretty bad!

Sure

Sure

No idea

Neato

Ok

Ok

Ok

Ok

Decided not to relisten because I'm so behind but yass!!

Ok

Ok

Fuck!!! You!!! God!!!

Based on the title track, I was pretty baffled when this turned out to be so lowkey(?), but definitely a fan!

Finally some good ass fucking music! I think my appreciation for any given Nick Cave album is based entirely on how Big it is, so this is near the top.

A little less active(?) than I like my jazz to be, but still quite pleasant

Fun!

Fun!

Not fun!

Yes!!!!!!

Pleasant

Hozier if they were, like, 15% less annoying

What ever

Zzz

Fun

Bleh

No idea

Muzak

Definitely better than I remembered, but still weird in an uninteresting way

Fun!

Muzak

Would be lying if I said I loved it, but I do love the approach! Super cool

Fine

Pleasant!

Definitely grew on me as it went on, but not a huge fan of the guy's voice

Boring

Starting to learn to love the not-so-big Caves, and I do like this a lot! But I’m not quite there yet.

There’s no way a Real Human Being sounds like this

Neat! No strong feelings

Sure

what

Nothing

Didn’t get through it but it’s Innervisions so

Bleh

Nice!

Quite good!

Didn't feel like relistening but it's pretty good, though ultimately forgettable, like all Arcade Fire

Fairly pleasant

The goats, I guess

Like all Arctic Monkeys, it's pretty whatever, but I had a good time

Listened to in a YouTube playlist with incessant ads, so I have no idea if I actually liked it, but I think I did

Perhaps great, but too tied up in Song to Song for me to really know

The best ever, even moreso than I thought

Nice!

Eat shit and die

The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson tend to be insufferable, and much of this is, but some of it isn't! In fact, there are a few parts that are actually quite good!

Didn't feel like relistening because it's good (obviously) but ehhhh

Got me through a 40-minute drive in a monsoon, so I feel positively towards it, but even then it's not great

Starts out pretty strong before quickly dissolving into nothingness

Already forgotten

Forgettable unfortunately, but still good

Okay

Okayish

All-timer, obviously. Seems to have solidified itself above TPAB for me.

Okayish

Pretty good I think, don't really remember

I do not get the Talking Heads obsession people have

Got Genesis confused with Oasis and was confused why they were so terrible all of a sudden

I do not get the David Bowie thing

Okay I think (no memory)

Can't remember but boring I think

Good, not great from what I remember

bleh

whateva

Fucks pretty hard

How the fuck have I not listened to this before???

Not super my thing but fairly pleasant

Yes!!!!!!!!!

Perfectly alright

Sure

Alice Cooper? From Riverdale?

Never been the most enthusiastic about Smith (aside from “Needle in the Hay”), but he’s alright

Annoying

Nice!

I do not remember The Doors sounding like this, but then again, I do not really remember what The Doors sound like

Pretty alright

Fun!

First Hendrix I haven’t loved, but still enjoyed

Sublime

Actually pretty fun but good fucking god is this motherfucker interminable, both in track count AND track length, like there are 20 tracks AND they all run 6 minutes (where they basically sound the same for the duration of any given track)

Lovely

Liked before; now I love. Also feel like this shows up in a lot of movies I’ve seen but can’t remember which ones

Whatever man

Pretty neat

Ok

Unfortunately I only care about California Dreamin’

It is rather remarkable that Frank Sinatra make a career where every single song sounds the exact same

Pretty fun

Sure

Hell yeah