1001 Albums Summary

Radiohead’s less talented younger cousin.

Roger Waters is the man.

Kinda dentist officey.

Two relatively decent 60’s classics, the rest was surprisingly bad.

Fun 90s metal

Not bad, kind of like Gang of Four with slightly less interesting lyrics.

It seemed listenable until the “Spanish” number. Oof.

Classic

If there were half stars I’d give this a 2.5. Not my thing but I can see why people like it.

Lots of classics on here, very solid complete album.

Eh, except for Higher Ground

911 is still a joke 35 years later.

If somebody gave me a free ticket to a Black Crowes show and I didn’t have anything to do early the next morning, I’d go. But I wouldn’t go out of my way for it.

47 minutes and 8 seconds of my life, wasted.

3.5. A bit restrained by Björk standards, which actually makes it an easier one to listen all the way through.

2.5. It’s incredibly bland and forgettable, maybe it was designed to be?

Clever lyrics, made me laugh.

I expected it to be awful but it was more just sad, especially the song with Nicky Minaj and the one after. Some people really can’t handle getting famous.

Did you know Ruben Blades was Minister of Tourism in Panama?

This album made me think about the cringey tell-all novel Outline of My Lover and how much cooler it would have been if the 1990’s Athens GA indie Star had been Fred from B-52s.

I had never heard A Letter to the New York Post before and therefore incorrectly assumed that Lin Manuel Miranda was the first person to rap about Alexander Hamilton

Eh

Should have stayed in college.

Before this project I’d never used the phrase “boring punk album”, but here we are.

When I started this project a friend told me his theory that people mostly like music associated with happy memories. This album debunks that for me because it does remind me of it playing at a beloved former workplace but I still don’t really like it.

One of my all-time favorites.

3.5 really, this one is fun.

2.5 My husband says there’s no such thing as a bad prog rock band. Yes isn’t bad.

Musically I didn’t mind it but Fiona Apple sounds like a terrible dinner party companion.

I had a copy of this when it first came out and still only remember the first few songs, the end really drags.

What in the everloving fuck was this and why would anyone think it should be listened to before I die?

2.5. It’s Tighten Up and an hour or so of other stuff that sounds the same.

Neil Young and ketchup potato chips are the two best things Canada produced in the 20th century.

What’s not to love?

Prince was a genius, gone too soon.

Never heard of it but quite good 80s synth pop.

4.75 because even though I wore out this album back in high school, Land Ho is unforgivably stupid.

Surprised by how meh I thought this one was.

Like a tiki bar in my ears.

After reading that the Mekons went to school with Gang of Four I can only assume that this 1980’s art college had frequent battle of the bands contests and GofF needed a Washington Generals to their Harlem Globetrotters.

I thought I would like this more than I did.

This one has held up well.

Not bad but not very memorable.

3.5 good solid album.

Interesting story, boring music

With some of the albums in this project I don’t personally enjoy them, but I can see why other people would. This isn’t one of those albums.

Not my favorite Smiths album, most of the tracks sound like filler/B sides to me.

Sade is music for a PG-rated implied sex montage.

Calling this album shoegaze made me reflect on how boring it is to stare at your shoes, is that the point?

The best thing about this album was that it reminded me of the old Smoove B columns in the Onion. The worst thing was that I went to use Apple Pay in the Amtrak cafe car with the album visible on my Home Screen and the attendant looked judgey.

Bye bye indeed.

I hadn’t realized just how many classics there are on this album.

It’s always a roadtrip when CCR is on.

I admire Tay Tay as a businesswoman but wow is she a sad sack.

Pleasantly surprised by this one. The vocals were meh but overall the sound was pretty interesting.

Pretty good!

I don’t think anyone who was alive in the 80s could listen to this album without dancing like a fool.

Fun fact: Being John Malkovich was originally supposed to be Being Billy Corgan but he only wanted to film the scenes in the universe where every character was him.

I’d never actually listened to an Iggy Pop album all the way through before. Now I have.

There goes Norman, indeed.

Pretty good classic new wave.

This one has held up pretty well.

Only the Good Die Young is probably Matt Gaetz’s favorite karaoke song.

Dwight Yoakam is chicken fried Billy Joel.

Wonderful except for the Phil Spector monologue at the end, yikes.

So uh I guess this is one of Bono’s favorite albums. How bout that.

One of the great albums of the 20ty century.

3.5, in a cosmic way

Oh look a British rapper

DC punk royalty.

2.5. I admire that Christina Aguliera wrote her own songs for this album and included positive messages and topics important to her. But the music is really boring.

Can’t go wrong with Ziggy Stardust.

Hadn’t listened to the whole album before. Solid.

Not shuper, but not shhitty either.

Why have Homo sapiens prevailed on this planet over more intelligent species? This album will make you see to contemplate that.

Muddy Waters - full grown man!

3.5, not bad but wouldn’t put it on repeat.

2.5. I can see why occasionally they pop up on 90s compilations but otherwise I haven’t thought of them for thirty years.

This is how I imagine the pitch meeting for this album: Ray: Hey I got a pile of charming McCartneyish ditties about working class daily life. Record exec: You’re contractually obligated to include one sorta psychedelic mumble about the sun. Ray: (drag on a rollie; slurp of tea) Ok but it will suck.

Terrible.

4.5, lots of classics on this one.

Coltrane never disappoints.

3.5. I want to get a time machine to introduce the Ice Cube on this album to Ice Cube now and see what happens.

Ok if you like that sort of thing.

Like the message, the music could be better.

This was ok.

Ooooh baby

Que bueno!

3.5, atmospheric AF but I wouldn’t listen to it again.

Forgettable.

Excellent day for it.

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, assuming what you want is other good songs on the album. And you also can’t convince me Jagger ever stepped foot in a honky tonk.

Que onda indeed, Beck.

Surprisingly funny.

Oh yay, disco. Thanks.

I put the lime in the coconut but I didn’t feel good about it.

Dumb album name but I like it otherwise.

Where do bad folks go when they die?

Old Order was better.

He was thin. He was white.

Generic classic rock.

We all will be received.

The nation is in peril if this is its saving grace.

I would have appreciated some nice angry 80s punk today but this wasn’t it.

Oh lord, CCR again!

More timely tunes.

R E S P E C T.

🤘

Ugh

Better than unalive Dead.

I’ve heard worse.

Shoulda gone to rehab.

This sounds like a parody of a 60’d Brit rock album.

Go on take everything, I dare you to.

This was like a soundtrack to a movie I’d forget about as soon as I left the theater.

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

Fun.

A gas.

Solid 90’s.

Solid.

Just cause you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there.

Oh dear, this was dumb.

I enjoyed it but more as background music.

3.5, some classics on here but it dragged.

Boring Brooklyn hipster noise.

You’re a bore but in that you’re not charmless

Can’t go wrong with classic Metallica when the situation is right (and when isn’t it?)

A YouTube commenter said this album helped him detox from fentanyl so at least it did something worthwhile for someone.

Better than Incubus, which isn’t saying much.

Good job, Sir Elton

Where it’s at, indeed

More boring than I remembered.

Dull

4.5, not my favorite Beatles album but still a great one.

I see why they were a one hit wonder, too loo rye at.

Timely

My sweet George

I had never heard of this band and I can see why.

If “meh”was a person it would be Elvis Costello.

3.5. Solid, but they needed Neil.

I didn’t like this album in the 90s and I don’t like it now.

This was even worse than I thought it would be.

I didn’t like the Elvis Costello album I got two days ago and I don’t like this one either.

3.5. A few great songs, a bit of filler.

I forgot this album even while I was listening to it.

🎅🏼

You know the Fleetwood Mac album with all their songs that get stuck in your head? It isn’t this one.

It’s wild to me that Madonna used to be considered a bad influence on girls, I want every teenager I know to howl along to Express Yourself.

Not terrible, but not a hidden gem either.

They got around but that’s no reason to put them down.

Not their best.

Not bad, Syd.

Score is mostly for the cover art.

It’s no wonder Beyoncé became a cowboy because her husband has been one of America’s largest producers of beef for decades.

Mr. Brightside and songs that sound like Mr. Brightside. Not bad.

Never much of a Zeppelin fan but I see why this one is a classic.

The story of this album is inspirational but it also kind of sounds like someone singing 70s pop hits on karaoke night.

Weird, not in a charming way.

It wasn’t awful but the fact that Pour Some Sugar on Me wasn’t on here suggests that we have more Def Leppard coming and I’m not sure we need that.

I like Neil Young but I have no idea why this particular album made the list.

No notes.

Well, it is what it is.

I know, I know, it’s really serious.

2.5. No wonder America lost the War on Drugs when it’s this forgettable.

Can’t go wrong with Rubber Soul.

Three stars because I admire Queen Latifah as a celebrity, but this is pretty weak.

Not Neil’s finest.

And now he’s been on Law and Order for decades.

Solid, like all Miles Davis.

Here’s the thing about Joan Baez: a lot of her music is too warbly for me but I absolutely love her, she’s 84 and out there strumming her guitar at protests while Tay Tay sits on her private beach and feels sorry for herself and Beyoncé stuffs hats with hundred dollar bills or whatever she does for fun.

I forget about Charles Mingus sometimes and I shouldn’t.

A fun bop.

Oof.

I’m a kid again. A 90s grunge kid.

Solid.

U2 is kind of a joke now, it’s nice to remember when people took them seriously.

More fun than I thought it would be.

I’m never going to have time for this.

I wanted to like this but it’s really goofy.

I mean, who doesn’t wanna be your dog?

RIP Brian Wilson but this wasn’t their finest work.

Classic, too bad everyone expected more after that.

A little Joni can go a long way but this one is solid.

3.5. Good music, really stupid lyrics.

Sinatra made better.

“ He's rapping about big-screen TV's, blunts, 40's and bitches You're rapping about homosexuals and Vicodin.”

It improves it to picture the whole thing as a concept album - the wedding of two uninteresting people, all feathered hair and dancing the hustle slightly off beat, then the purchase of a split level with shag carpeting that always smells of cigarette smoke and mold, the birth of their lumpen offspring and a montage of school pictures with closed eyes and crooked teeth, the divorce, the awkward reunion in the Tab aisle of Safeway.

In a world full of unmemorable albums this one really doesn’t stand out.

You can’t always get what you want. For example, I thought this was the album with that song and I didn’t get it.

Eh

A mopey classic.

Willie Nelson seems like a cool guy in person but all I can think about this album is that he got really high and rode the elevator up and down singing along to the Muzak.

Böring

My body was in my office but my ears were on an unsatisfying long weekend in Ibiza.

Less. Banjo.

You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

So talented, gone too soon.

Good album for a very humid day.

I can’t believe it’s not better.

Store brand Lynard Skynard

I like the Cure but if this album made the list there are probably about sixteen others to come.

Frank Zappa as a public figure was interesting. This album, not so much.

I’m a teenager at the record store again whenever I hear this album.

I’m in love with Massachusetts.

Fun.

Not his finest.

This was barely UB30

RIP, Ozzy

More like the Darned, straight outta heck

One of those albums I’m never mad to see.

This is my third favorite Radiohead album which should say something about my opinion of Radiohead.

Now I’ve listened to Bert Jansch.

Yup that’s Brazilian!

Bang bang Maxwell’s urban hang suite came down.

The best Door album.

Two really good songs and a lot of filler.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Not even the one with All the Young Dudes, just twelve other songs that sound like it.

And still only the second greatest Radiohead album.

I wouldn’t call it good, but it’s fun

I love The Last Waltz but I didn’t need the extended studio album here.

Can’t beat Miles Davis

I heard that this is pretty decent, but where did I hear that? Somewhere involving fruit.

The bossas of nova.

Unfortunately I’ve only heard this album in Indian restaurants. That’s my fault, not the album’s.

I forgot about The Verve until this album came up and now I can go back to forgetting them.

Never heard of it.

Four stars for being a great dog walking album.

This is barely even the remedy, let alone the Cure.

Yeah ok I guess.

I saw this mashed up with a Buster Keaton movie once and now it’s all I can think of.

Wikipedia is really stretching by mentioning this guy in the same article as Wu Tang and Biggie.

I’ve got sunshine in a bag.

Yup, that’s Icelandic.

I’m trying to Imagine, John

This album only reinforced my opinion that Elvis Costello is the most boring of Elvii.

Their best album

Stevie was right to go her own way. Anything without her drags it down.

4.5. A little filler toward the end but solid classics on here.

I forgot about this album while I was listening to it.

They walked before they could run on several songs but still enjoyable.

Whatever club played this probably served watery drinks.

Listening to today’s album reminds me that the authors of the 1001 project owe the greats of 90’s East Coast rap an apology for that Jeru the Damaja album we got a few weeks ago.

Wilco is meh.

There was a bus barreling down the road at me and I found myself thinking, what if I got hit and they had to use my phone to try to find my next of kin and discovered that the last thing I listened to was The Toonerville Trolley by the Electric Prunes?

Rhode Island! ⚓️

Maybe I’d rate this higher if it came along at a better time but I can’t imagine when that time would come.

Classic

She never quite got there again but this album holds up.

Good thing the band name is misleading.

Three stars for the unwanted but powerful ear worms.

Karma karma karma karma karma chameleooooonnn/and other songs/and other soooooonghggggs

Everyone got the funk when this album is on.

Music to pick bellybutton lint to.

I don’t think the Stooges pictured themselves as making commuting music but it works pretty well.

I would never dream of stepping on his blue suede shoes.

Can’t beat Miles Davis

Not bad

I love Radiohead but this one is a bit too mumble for me.

3.5. Fun album

The famous Tears of Rage cover was more like Sniffles of Peevishness

What in the Spinal Tap is this nonsense?

Sorry Fatboy, no.

Ooh la la la.

Hey ya hey ya

If I saw this performed at a gallery I’d probably think it was fun and interesting. Not good as an album.

3.5. Solid.

Ooh yay Lynare Skynard has a boring younger cousin.

I did not expect the music to sound the way it did based on the title.

Inspiring this was Uncle Joey from Full House’s greatest achievement.

Decent

This was not for my pleasure.

Jam and more jam

Boys who like girls who oh whatever

I want to know who thinks this album is necessary to hear before you die. Why?

Nothing wrong with a little bossa nova.

Pink Floyd is ok but this album is stretching it as a must-listen.

Party for your right to fight!

So-so, more like it.

3.5, pretty good.

Ok Donovan

One of those albums where the one hit comes on and I say, ah, this one hit.

In the ghet-tooooooo

I can see why I’d forgotten about Sebadoh.

All White Stripes music sounds the same.

I thought these songs were MGMT but other than that it was ok.

I thought we’d already had this but no, we had a different Led Zeppelin album that sounded the same.

I always liked this one.

Why the gratuitous homophobia? Were they delusional enough to think they would develop an unwanted gay fan base? No, probably just an attempt to look tough, like a toddler screaming fuck.

Hadn’t heard this before. Liked it more than his son’s.

Oof

Like disco Tracy Chapman

It’s never a bad time for Queen

Grrrrl

This album was Nigel Tufnel’s foray into world music before he opened the cheese shop.

The songs that were inescapable in the 80s and some filler.

I’d never heard this whole album before and it was clever and not as repetitive as some similar albums from that era.

It really is time for all of us to do what Joe Strummer trained us to do.

Not my favorite album of his.

I’d never heard of the Vines, enjoyed this one.

Minus one for cringe from Social Disease, but this is still one of the great albums of the 80s.

Can’t go wrong with Beck

More 80s hair fun.

More girl punk.

I was surprised by how weak this was.

Wikipedia says Megadeth are one of the big four bands of American thrash metal. I guess yeah.

Ugh

Sweetness, I was only joking when I said you should be bludgeoned in your bed.

I can see why the only thing most people know about this band is that they wear long beards.

Here we are now replaying boring 90s club music.

I’d never heard this before and it was fun.

Not my favorite Bowie

Tiny Dancer and other stuff.

Desert island disc for sure.

Like the Clash without the political message.

I wish Johnny Cash had lived long enough to cover everything.

Not my usual favorite type of music but I liked this.

Well titled.

Interesting

Pretty much a whole album of slightly different versions of the same song, but decent.

I admire her activism. Her music, not as much.

Harsh but I just didn’t need to hear about her getting dumped again.

90s

I forgot about this album less than halfway through it.

I stopped when I got enough and not before

Might not be my new favorite but a band I’d listen to again.

Another album I forgot about while I was still listening to it.

I needed more than the feeling this gave me.

I’d go to this gallery show

Hey my hey my my hey hey my my.

Rodeo clown music

Music to commute to a suburban cubicle by.