1001 Albums Summary

Chaotic, magical, masterful. Part 1 is my favorite.

Tracks one and two are nothing special. This album feels like it’s gonna be a miss for me. Two more in - this barely qualifies as listenable. Who is this for? Jemima surrender - worst track so far. Jesus. Penultimate track - if i never listen to the band again, it will be too soon I don’t hate king harvest lyrically Okay real talk. Vocals and organ are insufferable on this album.

One recognizable song. Very consistent sound throughout. Nowhere as good as mellon.

Astounding. I am familiar with a lot of these tracks, and there’s a good reason for their popularity, but even the lesser tracks are still pretty good. A pleasure to listen to, with fantastic production and orchestration.

Astounding for the time euro electronica. Very slow. Very German.

I’m familiar with the title track, but not so much with the rest of this album. I can hear a lot of other artists in here. The doors, jethro Tull, king crimson, David Bowie. Acid rock and jam bands. Absolutely enjoy the variation on god rest ye merry gentlemen.

This is the brassiest brass to ever brass. Track c is my favorite. Chaotic and fast but great. The instruments sing in an almost human voice. Dagnabbit.

I love this album. So many songs I already know and never realized this was from the same album. Rightly recognized for the masterpiece it is.

Ambient indeed.

Early emo. Can see a lot how it develops. But not for me.

John Riley has some interesting parts. I like the byrds from other songs, but none of these strike that same chord.

Easy to see what evolved of this into punk. Seeing what musical styles they draw from is neat. This isn’t far removed from og rock n roll. I love the ska-esque tracks more than anything else. I am a sucker for horns. Mostly unimpressive. Drags on too long and the vocalist is not cut out for this. Until the last two tracks. I know train in vain, but revolution rock is a real standout on this.

The best to ever do it.

Not for me, nothing standout.

I would be able to tolerate the choir and string synths in an 80s album but it just feels stale here. There is potential, but nothing impressive

One star per good track

Race for the prize is great. Flaming lips are one of those artists that on paper I should love but just don’t.

Two good tracks. Funky though.

Best track: lil ghetto boy A few skips

Surprisingly modern album. Some very 80s sound, but grunge. And it really feels like indie dream pop.

This sucks.

Smooth

Hell of a pick for this on Election Day 2024. This album was released on Election Day 1992. Just neat.

Only one good song

A worse the cure

Fantastic

I like Dylan. His voice is for telling stories. But I never understood the production decision to leave in very messy accompaniment. With just acoustic, or live, it’s fine. But for me it detracts.

A complete waste of time. 10 skipped / 10

Why

I mean

Jazzy

Paper planes can’t save this from 1 star. Every other is a skip.

Blues to start. I’m not the biggest fan of this right off the bat. Listening to the mono version just because the panning is obnoxious. The rest of the album feels like this too. Very stones-like and the stones aren’t fantastic. They’re passable with a few good songs.

Fantastic voice, amazing music, very long

First 3 tracks: slow, comfortable, peaceful Hero: generic u2 sounding music with jaggers rotting corpse as the vocalist. Awful. E-musik: long psychedelic rock intro that has so much promise and build in tempo. And fails to deliver anything. If it had anything of interest this album would score higher. After eight: more like hero. Gross. Highway tune beat with what can best be described as moaning. No real progression. I listened to the whole thing, which should give this an extra half point versus some of this dreck.

Clear vocals and good lyrics. Artistic though often dissonant sampling. Opening for RATM makes perfect sense

Slow and sad

Such a classic, so many perfect tracks. Blues me please

Three memorable tracks, but the rest isn’t much

Some fantastic tracks

One all time great slim track and one sad Stan. The rest ranges from good to borderline.

I’m not actually a doors fan but this was nice

Toxicity is better but this is pretty great

Two great tracks, the finale is decent.

Love fool is amazing and the cover of iron man is great. Rest is slightly above average

One mediocre song

I’m not a boss man

Mostly skips.