1001 Albums Summary

I agree it was probably the Muse best album, that’s not saying a lot. I found it derivative and ponderous.

Probably the best collection of songs about the music industry and the toll it takes on artists.

Loaded with iconic tracks, though not all of them hit. I can see why it’s on the list.

One archetypal San Francisco sound track and two iconic Grace Slick songs surrounded by a ripoff rundown of all the best selling folk rock styles of the period. One star for being famous and a bonus star for Slick’s unmistakably genius contributions.

One of my favorites from my teenage years. Can’t go wrong. If I could give it 4.5 though, I’d dock it for a couple ponderous noise filler tracks. But they don’t seem worth a full point.

This one was new to me. I’m a post punk, no wave fan, so it was a good fit.

Wow. Very much not my thing.

Fantastic.

That was…interesting.

First two tracks are classics and there are one or two additional decent tracks on this. Most I found to be exceedingly ponderous.

Too high - DECENT Visions - ROUGH Living for the city - LIKE THAT Golden Lady - DECENT Higher Ground - STAMP Jesus Children of American - weird but DECENT All Love is Fair - ROUGH Don’t you worry bout a thing - ROUGH He’s misstra know it all - ROUGH

Absolute classic.

Kirkland brand Motown?

Classic

It was fine I guess.

This stinks.

Solid 6 out of 7 tracks. And that last one wasn’t half bad.

STAMP

Absolute classic

Meh.

I don’t like Kanye. It’s official.

It stinks

Classic

Much better than I expected.

Much better than I would have expected

One good song. Lots of meh ones

Two famous and boring songs surrounded by not at all famous and boring songs.

This stinks

3 good tracks out of 16, and more than half of those are so repetitive they could have been one or two long songs. Easily could have died without listening to most of it.

Absolute classic.

Great album. 7 five star songs out of 11 tracks. Not a bad score.

I get why this a classic, but I can’t not see teal headbands and leg warmers when I hear this kind of music.

This was a good one. I liked the feel (somewhere between Joy Division and U2) and the production quality was impressive. They could have cut down some of their songs though. The musicianship wasn’t quite enough to justify multiple 6 min + songs.

What’s not to love

One or two good tracks but ambient electronica just isn’t my idea of a good time.

Jazzy and bongorific

This was terrible.

Interesting as a piece of music history. It blends 70’s funk and hip hop. I didn’t like it but it’s interesting

Fun little record.

Nice if not my thing.

Ew. I couldn’t eat to this.

Wow.

Three out of ten songs forgettable filler, but the rest are essentially a best of record. I never realized how many of the Who songs I know from the radio came from this one record.

Contains at least 40% of the songs I know from the radio on one album. That’s worth something I’m sure.

Good for her.

Basically they found the market is for 7 minute MGMT songs, though I can’t fathom who that might be.

It’s thriller. What are you gonna do.

TL;DR

Some interesting tracks.

Never heard of them and it had some solid tracks.

First thing to say is that she was undeniably a generational talent. Having said that, while a couple of tracks managed to hit me in my jazz bone, in general it wasn’t to my tastes.

My god that was terrible.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAH!!!

Great Christmas album, if you like Phil Spector’s early 60’s groups. Which I do.

Pretty dull.

Probably one of my favorite albums ever.

This is funkin’ great! One track that wasn’t my thing but the rest of it was incredible

I don’t know much about hip hop but this is stupid.

It was alright

Meh

Classic.

I’d give it three and a half for containing that one song of theirs that everyone knows. Otherwise, a little too much 90’s post-punk Dadaism for my tastes.

Weird, but I liked it.

It’s Muddy Waters. Come on.

Nice piano.

Made me feel like I was browsing in Spencer’s Gifts all over again.

Not their best.

Boo.

Interesting start, but it kind of ended up all over the place stylistically.

Classic

Boring

All quality no filler

Nick Drake is an incredible song writer and there are a number of great iconic songs on this one. Not a huge fan of the musical numbers though.

Good for what it is.

Good band, bad singer.

It’s Willie Nelson, so how bad can it be?

Well that was…um…something.

I definitely like elements of this kind of post-punk new wave scene but the sound is, to my taste, far too clean.

I never gave PJ Harvey her dues. I regret that.

Decent. Nothing that stood out about it though.

Goofy af

It was good but 16 minute songs are not compatible with my attention span.

👌🏻 ….it stinks!

Not into it.

One of my personal favorites

I don’t get it.

Ought to be five stars but it always bugged me that these could have three separate, really good albums, or two incredible ones.

Super what now?

No.

I didn’t like it. That surprises me.

Started off promising but boy did that not last

Cwassic

Couple of decent songs but otherwise aggressively meh

I feel like I should like it, but I don’t.

I respect her achievements as a working artist but it doesn’t change the fact that this sound is 60% of what I hate about the 70’s

It may well be the only psychedelic pop album with Gregorian chanting. So there’s that.

Man, it must be hard to fill out a list this long.

What Dylan fan can complain

Pretentious, pondering, over-long tracks.

I mean, come on.

No.

Obviously

Not their best.

If he’d finished in 1969, this would have changed poo music forever. As it is, it’s a fascinating time capsule of what could have been.

Good but not really my thing.

It was a bold strategy to make an album that’s basically the same song recorded 17 times.

Aw, hell no

Pink pink pink pink pink moon.

Surprised to say, I liked it.

This surprised me.

This was a damned stupid album.

Better than I remembered.

It’s Prince but also, it’s Prince

Some decent psychedelic songs but mostly forgettable

Navel-gazing quaalude rock ain't my thing, even if it's Radiohead.

It’s just so not my thing.

It was fine.

I hate the E Street Band with a passion

Bonus point for all three of her hits coming off this album

👌… It STINKS!

It as fine.

Couple of good tunes mostly forgettable.

Couple of classics, but mostly meh.

The electro reggae sound no one asked for, delivered in a style no one wanted to hear. So bad, it's hard not to think it was on purpose. 2 stars for accidental self-parody, and an extra for Spanish Bjork.

I would have named this “Marvin Gaye’s Mixed Bag”

Leads off with one of the greatest heavy rock songs of the 80’s, but otherwise kind of forgettable. They get two stars out the gate just for Cult of Personality.

WTF was that?

Morrissey is what it would be like if all of my pet peeves assumed human form and started lecturing me about my diet

Great album but very depressing.

Did we need one whole albums’ side worth of squeaking noises? No. On the other hand, Frank Zappa.

It was fine in an excessively 90s sort of way.

Electro noodle cookie trash.

It was decent at the time.

Wow. This stinks.

It’s just too weird, even for me.

Not my favorite but it’s Jimmy, so 3 stars.

Two words; clap trap.

If it says anything about how interesting this album was, I set it up to play on my commute into work and drive for ten minutes before noticing I forgot to press play.

Um, nope.

You don’t have to tell me who’s bad.

They needed more funky and a lot less sh**.

No.

One famous does not a bucket list album Make.