1001 Albums Summary

One of my favorite albums of all time, don't need to go listen to it as I've listened to it countless times

Funeral for a Friend/Loves Lies Bleeding is a great opening song, probably my favorite Elton John song(s) After that it quickly dissolves into the overproduced, saccharine shlock that he's known for.

Over produced, pretentious and boring. The fact that this album is 7x platinum says more about the lack of musical taste of of 7 million people than anything else. If I could give this a negative rating it would still be too high

The title track and Frozen are solid songs, the rest of the album is filler of varying quality. Maybe pared down to a 40 minute album this would be better.

I won this CD from a radio call in show two weeks before it was released and loved it from the first listen. It's a brilliant debut and honestly the only Pearl Jam album I like in its entirety

While I prefer Mould's work with Husker Du Copper Blue is a solid album that brings things full circle, you can hear the influence of bands that he influenced.

I have tried repeatedly to enjoy this album. The title track is really good. It's not bad in any way but as an album it is more important for being influential than it is good

Fun album, wonderful to tune out or have in while reading.

Radio Free Europe is one of my favorite REM songs but the rest of the album kind of blurs together. Not a bad album by any stretch but I prefer Document and Fables of the Reconstruction to Murmur

I remember when this came out and I hated it. I figured 30 years of expanding my musical tastes might change that. Nope! This is unlistenable, I like some of Bjork's music, she has an incredible vocal range but this is the vocal equivalent of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, just layers of sound for the sake of it. Honestly this sounds like something an artist makes to fulfill a contract with a label and not something that should be taken seriously

Peter Gabriel clearly hasn't found his post Genesis musical direction on this album. Solsbury Hill is a nice pop rock song, everyone knows it for a reason, but the rest of the album is him trying desperately not to make the same music he made with Genesis and the result is kind of bland

Weird vocals over sometimes minimalist other times overdone keyboards and sequencers can work when done right. This is not done right. Sounds like two theater kids trying way too hard to be weird and popular at the same time

It's amazing how something so full of energy and musical talent turns into something repetitive and dull so quickly

Fun and upbeat. I have listened to Fela Kuti but wasn't familiar with this album

First album and artist I was 100% unfamiliar with. The entire album sounds like it's half finished or they laid down the backing tracks and forgot to include the leads. Weird but not in an interesting way

Starts off great with Cherub Rock followed by a few songs that try to capture the same energy and the goddawful Today. Then we get to Disarm which is another wonderful song then some more mediocrity. Overall the music is overall good, lyrics and vocals are meh

Proof that a beautiful singing voice is not enough. Uninspired and uninspiring but at least she's courteous enough to pause after the first "hello" so we can change to another album

Lyrically? brilliant Musically? Borderline elevator music Write up says this is jazzy and experimental but it's Muzak with good lyrics

I'm not a big hip hop listener but A Tribe Called Quest never disappointed and this album is brilliant. From the lyrics to the instrumentas and samples the flow and feel of this album is amazing.

Tina's voice is timeless and the lyrics are solid and work with her vocals but the music and production are incredibly dated. As a teenage metal head/punk rock kid I hated this album. As an adult I can appreciate it for what it is but it is so incredibly dated. 5 for Tina and 1 for the rest equals a generous 3

I generally like morose music and Beck is talented but this is boring disguised as depressing. Too long, too monotonous and really nothing to delineate one song from another. If I am suffering from insomnia I will remember this album though

Always enjoyed parts of this album and skipped others Cult of Personality, Open Letter to a Landlord and Funny Vibe are great Glamour Boys is a weird but fun song. The rest is fair to middling at best

It's not that there's anything bad about each song it's that aside from "There She Goes" nothing stands out and honestly they just blue together

Dad rock meets Stone Temple Pilots and it makes for a nondescript, generic 90s but album

Not my favorite Bowie album but still a solid effort, more important than good

The Forever 21 of bands and albums. Not bad but not meant to last. By the time I reached the end of the album I had forgotten what the first half sounded like

I'm huge Tim Wait's fan and like this album a lot. It's like someone unleashed a crazy person in a cabaret. There are other Waits albums I like more so it gets a 4

There's days when I love this album and there's days where I'm less than enthusiastic about it and it's all about Perry Farrell's vocals. Some days his voice just grates on my brain.

I'd heard of MGMT but don't remember listening to them before. Now that I have I hope to never have to again. There are no redeeming qualities to this album. Boring and uniquely grating

This album is polarizing, few people think "it's okay" most either love it or hate it. I love it From the cacophonous music mixed with the calm, cold Eurotrash vocals to the minimalism. John Cale and Lou Reed were incredible compliments in song writing

Moody, feels like the score to a surrealist film noir.

Not bad but only listenable for a couple songs before it started to grate on my nerves

Hated this in the 80s, upon relistening to it I hate it now. Safe has a wonderful voice but beautiful vocals over Muzak is still Muzak Someone wasted this woman's talent

I preface this by saying I don't dislike prog as a genre but I get why some people do. This album is the perfect example of everything that's wrong with late 60s and early 70s prog rock. It's over blown, pretentious, self indulgent music that borders on masturbation by the band.

Amy Winehouse made some wonderful music, this album is not an example of it

Never been a fan of Garbage. I like "Only Happy When It Rains" but the album is dated at best and generic pop rock even in its time at the worst.

If I could give this partial stars it would be a 2.5 The good songs are really good but the rest is just filler. It gets a bump up because of the memories I have of sitting up late at night listening to this with friends when Eliminator came out and we discovered ZZTop wasn't a new band

I prefer Elvis's early work but Suspicious Minds and I'm the Ghetto pulls this up to a 3

While I love TuTone ska in general I've never been able to get into Madness, the well known songs (Our House, One Step Beyond, It Must Be Love etc) are solid as are a few other songs on this album but honestly? Madness basically makes the same song over and over again. They aren't as "ska" as bands like the Selector or the Specials. They have always felt like the sterilized "safe" version of ska. This album is no different, not bad but not all that good either.

I wish I could give this horrid proto bro country garbage a zero and erase it from history

I didn't like this album or band in 1990, I'm happy to have had the opportunity to relisten to it 35 years later with a greatly expanded music taste

Genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this album

Boring when it was released now it's dated and bieing

Bad, I mean really really bad. I'm guessing her agent snuck this on this list so it would get some listens on Spotify.

This album is hit or miss. The opening and closing songs, Powderfinger, and Pocahontas are classic Neil Young but the rest of the album wanders between mediocre and bad

Unlistenable but at least there's a lot of it

The good songs (Smoke in the Water, Highway Star, Space Trucking) are really good. The rest of the album is meh at best. Deep Purple is one of those bands that had one or two good songs per album but we're never an album band. Their greatest hits collection is great tho

This is a perfect example of what's wrong with shoegaze. The music is pretty, sometimes very good then there's distorted, whispered vocals that are buried under the music somewhere. If this was just an alternative pop/rock album with traditional production it might be good but it isn't so it isn't And it just keeps going like that

This is bad, just unashamedly bad. It's boring, redundant, and self indulgent crap I could not finish this mess

It's like someone perpetually changing radio stations and calling it music

Prog disco, dated but Mr Blue Sky is a great song

If wet white bread were an album it would be Music Not necessarily bad but certainly not good and no flavor at all.

Boring music, bad lyrics. Virtually unlistenable

Discovering this album is like waking up to find your cat had diarrhea by stepping in it

I know this is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time but it's never done it for me. It's a weird mish mash of non rock elements and given it was created at a time of innovation is a strange longing for a time that considered "The Music Man" to be cutting edge. It's an odd lament for the times of carousel music and Sousa Marches

I like The Who but I do not like this album

Not a big fan of the Doors and this album is my least favorite of their work. The lyrics are ludicrous,Jim Morrison was not some guru genius poet and as a singer he is far better singing softer, more psychedelic songs than the horrible attempt at blues singing he does on most of this Boring, uninspired and uninspiring

Boring yet pretentious

I was in high school when this came out and don't remember it but maybe I blocked it out because it's not good. There's some positive elements but it is extremely dated Sounds like a couple guys who want to be New Order playing The Beat's music poorly

It's not live at Folsom Prison but it's good

If wet Wonder Bread were music this is what if would sound like

Better than the other Adele album I already listened to for this because the first 2 songs are pretty good. Overall it's the musical equivalent of "white people think mayonnaise is spicy"

Beck makes another musical run on sentence While there's some good things going on it just blurs together with nothing about the album to make anything stand out in any way

Prefer his later albums but this is fine

Hit and mostly miss yacht rock

Doing this I have found, to my surprise, that I enjoyed most of the rap and hip-hop on the list. This album not so much The production is weird, his rapping is monotonous and lacks variety and his lyrics are generic. It sounds like everything else from this era.

I forgot Badly Drawn Boy existed and that may be for the best I always thought this was boring and pretentiously unoriginal and now you can add dated and aged like milk

Bruce's albums have always been hit or miss for me. This one is huge miss It's over produced, mixed and arranged like a pop album while Bruce does his usual yell sing vocals over music that does not work with those vocals

U2's first three albums (this being the third of those) are much simpler than the albums that followed. Of the three this is by far the best and after Achtung Baby my second favorite U2 album. The Edge's simple guitar complements the bass and drums rather than the opposite being true for most rock albums. U2's strength has always been their rhythm section of Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr and this album shows that wonderfully

Everyone knows "Come in Eileen" for a reason. After that it's the same thing, occasionally slower. Not bad but not memorable either

Horrible horrible album Boring is an understatement

Scott Walker is considered "avant garde" but this was dated when it was released. Crooner vocals with mediocre non nondescript music but at least it's over produced

Soulless

You can only trust yourself and the first four Sabbath albums Half an hour that changed music

Really like the vocals and lyrics but this loses a point for over reliance on samples

I like the Specials and I like Two Tine ska. This album is not a great example of either. There's some highlights but there's too much other genres thrown in and it becomes dull and lacking continuity

Techno is not my thing and this a perfect example of why. Making disco with a Casio keyboard, a drum machine, and a few samples is not interesting This album goes beyond not interesting to flat out boring

Never heard of Lambchop and I'm perfectly content to never hear them or of them ever again. This is boring, unlistenable crap.

Sound like Frank Zappa made a disco album while singing in a falsetto but somehow still made it uninteresting to the point that none of the songs were distinguishable from each other only worse

Ugh, generic Coldplay like sound. I don't like Coldplay and I like cheap imitations of Coldplay even less

I'm a big Nick Cave fan but this is far from his best work. While he's none for darker, morbid themes. This album lacks the energy and cleverness of his better albums

This album is like a huge box filled with packing peanuts and somewhere in there are some really nice pieces of jewelry. It's too big with too much filler to have to root through to find the few good songs Check out St Julian or his singles collection

Jumps back and forth between jangly alt pop rock and crunchy, sort of grunge sound, while occasionally mixing the two. It's not bad but there's nothing that stands out or it memorable either

Boring

A musical run on sentence. This is bad and redundant

This is an album I really want to like and have tried many times to enjoy, the title track is really good, the production and feel of the album are great but the songs themselves leave me flat.

This is the second album in the past week that I've really tried to like and just cannot get into. The music is dull, his voice is grating and lyrically he is not the genius he's painted to be.

Proof that going back is rare, if ever, a good thing. U2 tries to recapture the glory days of Joshua Tree and end up with an overproduced mess.

Garbage music by a garbage human being

Dull, lifeless, soulless music. Sounds like the singer bored himself.

Why is this an album I must listen to? Having listened to it I couldn't identify one of these songs as a Solange song if you put a gun to a puppy's head

I was a senior in high school when this came out and even after listening to it I don't remember it. Utterly forgettable

Well, it's not their usual glorified barbershop quartet stuff but still not great. I give them credit for trying to stay relevant moving into the 70s but this is incredibly dated, honestly feels like they were just screwing with fans

The good songs are really good but the slow songs are bad

Certainly not their best effort and the change in song writing shows The Byrds always emulated Dylan, it's especially true and less successful on this album. Certainly not bad as there's some good songs, including and especially Mr Spaceman but their first two albums were far better

Don't think Jah Wobble knew what he was trying to accomplish with this album. There's too much going on with none of it focused enough to make sense

Music for people who think JoJo Siwa is too edgy and mayonnaise is too spicy

I was expecting an hour of songs that sound like "In da Club" a song so annoying it stopped me from listening to this album for over 20 years. Instead I found an album full of inconsistent music, a few of the songs are solid but others are just more mediocre nonsense

I really like The Who, they were a predecessor to what would become hard rock but aside from the title track you'd never know it from this album. A lot of this is a band still finding itself, a cover or two and a lot of generic early British Invasion pop. My Generation and The Kids Are Alright are the absolute highlights of this album but much of the rest is more an insight to the development of The Who than necessary listening

Iggy Sunbeam and the Mosquitos from Venus

Most people will tell you that David Lee Roth leaving and Sammy Hagar replacing him is when Van Halen "lost it." That's not entirely true, 1984 is a huge drop off from VH's previous work. It's a mishmash of pop and rock with very little of the harder music they had been known for. I was in high school came out so nostalgia wants to score it higher but in actually listening to it again, it's just not that good.

Kanye West-My Dark Twisted Fantasy Incredibly underwhelming album. Wonderful production and technical aspects but the lyrics are trite and often insipid and Kanye is an incredibly monotonous rapper.

Second Elliott Smith album I've gotten and same reaction. I want to like his music, he's clearly talented but it's so f'ing boring. Every song is the same thing. By about the fifth or sixth song even he seems bored of it.

In the 1700s the king of Sweden had a lion and when it died he sent the pelt to a taxidermist who had never seen a lion so the taxidermied animal was comically bad. This is the best analogy I have for this album. I would have happily gone the rest of my life not being reminded that this existed

My favorite Anthrax album and probably my favorite non Metallica album from the Big 4 although Reign in Blood may be ahead of it. Anthrax makes thrash fun

Not their best but still solid

The music is good. The vocals and lyrics are bad. I've never been a fan of Radiohead. I always thought it was just their pretentiousness but after suffering through 53 minutes of whiny vocals singing lyrics that sound like a 12 year old with his first crush wrote them I understand why I dislike them

Not my thing but it's fun

The bass line and guitar squeal get a bit redundant but that's early post punk. This is good album, I hadn't listened to Gang of Four in probably 15 years and after listening to this album again I don't know why

Willie Nelson has so many great albums and so many great songs why do we get an embarrassing collection of soft jazz covers?

This album is good but has received iconic status because of the timing of its release. It is often sloppy and overproduced but still enjoyable because even mid tier Bowie is still solid

A couple classics and a bunch of meh

Of the big Seattle bands Soundgarden is the least interesting. By the time they were known they were .asking .id tier, generic hard rock. They are only considered "grunge" because they're from Seattle and this album is the epitome of their mid tier hard rock. It owes more to Boston or Journey than to the punk and metal that inspired grunge.

Fun

This is horrible

This is the third Radiohead album I've gotten and I will say the same thing as I did with the first two. They're talented but I don't like their music and this is borderline white noise

If the guy who always drags his acoustic guitar to a party made an album where he combined the worst elements of Oasis with Mazzy Star it would be more interesting than this

falls into the more important than good category It's always called "one of the first punk albums" but it's really a mix of 60s garage with glam rock sound. Definitely a big influence on what came later. The music is good but a lot of the lyrics are sophomoric and haven't aged all that well.

Music for people who think Jack Ass is high arr

Deep Purple is one of those bands where the albums tend to be up and down, a classic or two and then several duds. This album is the exception, Speed King and Child in Time are definitely classics but there's no real duds on this album.

Some absolutely incredible songs mixed with some really bad songs.

Hair metal meets arena rock. I was about to start college when this album was released. I was into heavier metal and punk but also liked some of the hair metal but never liked bands like Journey so this album was meh for me at the time. When I got to college I realized that the girls liked Bon Jovi way more than Iron Maiden, Metallica or Discharge so I had this on heavy rotation. Listening to it again now there are some fun songs and there is some trash. Too much arena rock at times, especially with the over the top production.

This is awful, the same drum track for every song. This is the epitome of culturally irrelevant disposable music. No idea why this is even on the list.

A perfectly okay album

Overproduced, generic pop that sounds like it was made by AI

Sounds like a parody of Barry White's music. I'd rather hear Don "No Soul" Simmons Not good and not to be taken seriously

For over 30 years I've tried to appreciate this album or at least understand why so many people love. Still don't see it, it's boring

It's 1973 and your mom orders the new Zappa album for you through TEMU and you get the next Todd Rungren instead. His last album was pop rock this is not quite pop rock but not Zappa either. There's points in this album where Rungren really seems out of his element but he seems to be enjoying making music. It has some high points

Soulless album with the best songs being basic Clapton covering more skilled song writers. The guy was a great technical guitarist but he lacks depth and emotion.

Very dated, I get the importance of this album but didn't find it particularly enjoyable

This album is everything thing that's wrong with early 70s prog rock. Technically brilliant musicianship but all head and no heart.

This is fun

Probably the only Springsteen album I like. Instead of his normal overly dramatic yell singing he just sings. It allows his lyrics to be the focus.

Not as bad as the other albums I've heard from them

I remember when this came out to a decent amount of fanfare and critical acclaim. It was boring and crappy then and nothing about it has changed in 25 years

According to the Wikipedia article Spence wanted this to be mixed, mastered. Perhaps if that happened this would be a good album. It just feels like a very rough first draft

Not a fan of shoegaze and this album is no different If it were mixed and produced like a regular rock song where the vocals are not washed out this would probably be a good album

Solid, weird psychedelic blues, folk. More accessible than Trout Mask Replica. Other bands did similar better but this is still pretty good

Not bad, not good, not sure why it's on the list

VU really missed John Cale

Not the best Bauhaus album but pretty good

It's okay, but not memorable in any way

Pretty good wrapping over some incredibly dated and amateurish "music" it sounds like a demo made with a 1980s Casio keyboard

For those looking for this. While album is on YouTube

Garbage when it was released, dated garbage now. I can't fathom why this would be among the 1001 albums anyone would need to hear

A couple good songs but most of it sounds incomplete

Another case of more important than good

Generic girl pop playing bad New Order covers on a cheap keyboard.

Interesting concept, not interesting music

I understand why this is important and I understand why someone who likes this kind of music would like this a lot but by the time the next note or the next beat is audible I've already forgotten the previous one. It's not tedious to listen to, it's tedious to remember.

Yuck

Listening to this it's easy to see why the first couple albums used session musicians and ghost writers