1001 Albums Summary

Classic jazz album between big band and bebop.

Great lyrics, but all the songs sound the same.

One album you mustn't listen to. Absolute crap.

Two solo albums as a double album. The second disc is the better one.

Good psychedelic rock, heavy on the Hammond.

Great album without any of the over-rotated hits.

Meh, if you're not angry.

Some live albums are legendary. This is one of them.

Jazzy folk or folksy jazz, doesn't matter. Great tunes.

She shines in the uptempo songs, of which there are too few

Summer of Love Blues. Can't imagine any album being more 1967.

Sounds like a bongo overloaded sample collection in a good way.

Master indeed.

Probably classic, but just ok.

I'm sure it's fine, just not my kind of fine.

Some screaming bangers, some screaming fillers.

Overindulgent, but in a good way.

Some Steely Dan songs are good, but none of them are on this album.

Two hitless, yachty Steely Dan albums in a row.

An absolute masterpiece.

The music of the album makes it a masterpiece. The skits, not so much.

No melodies, no message, no heart, just soulless noise.

Banging beats and truthful lyrics. One of the last (?) hip hop masterpieces.

Meh...

From the best rhythm section comes an instrumental masterpiece.

"What's that noise?" the 11yo asked, and that is a review as good as any.

A bit too experimental, but you can still hear the Waits.

Vague.

Christmas is perfect for the Wall of Sound

Nope

Partly electrical, partly traditional, all masterful.

Great hits, better fillers than I remembered.

Just ok, for Stevie Wonder.

Apart from a couple of good songs, the album is mostly bland noise.

Summer of Love on an album.

Anonymous songs, but consistent.

Ok live album.

Too conceptual, but some great songs.

Meh.

Classic Cubano.

Even the happy songs are gloomy.

You hear the greatness, but it doesn't do anything for me.

Sounds like sophomore Beatles. Oh, look, it is!

Before Love Shack they were better.

Purple perfection

Did NOT sound like 1977, sounded a lot more modern, in a good way.

Too brief, too good.

A one-hit-album is not an album.

Organized noise. Groovy at times, but mostly unpleasant.

Great songs, but a bit too 80s sleek.

No songs. No voice. No good.

Surprisingly good as albums go.

Soul-Bowie is better than the other ones.

Good late-80s-pre-grunge.

The best songs, the best artist, the best cover, the best album.

Difficult for me, probably great for others.

The original songs are good 80s. The covers are bad 80s.

If this was my kind of music, this would be one of best albums.

Blues Cave is better than Lyre Cave, still a good double album.

Born 50 years too late, died 50 years too early.

Good songs when he sings. The instrumentals are more demanding.

Icelandic folksy Enigma is not my kind of groove.

Solid.

A few good songs, but not much more.

Meh.

More soul than disco, not bad, but not for dancing.

Between the noise and maracas there are some good songs.

A good mix between dancefloor fillers and album fillers.

Difficult to listen to someone who has become a Nazi.

Great at the time, did not age well.

Wu Tang Monotonous with an occasional banger.

14 songs of American West Coast Hardcore Punk in 15 minutes is just about enough.

Three hours of great songs by a great singer.

A bit boring.

One great song does not make a great album.

The greatness is there, but only for the first half.

The black metal songs are bad, and the melodious songs are too few.

Cultural appropriation at its worst.

Not bad. Not bad, at all.

Really good electronic album.

One good song, a couple of decent fillers, that's it.

Noisy

Ok, but not more than that.

There might be greatness here, but apart from a couple of songs, I can't hear it.

Felt too brief.

Blusey Stones is good Stones.

Good folksy, almost medieval, album.

A bit too medieval on my ears.

Searching for a sound recquires quite a bit of noise.

Solid.

Are all British progressive rock bands required to make a medieval album? Barely bearable.

Musically accomplished, I'm sure, but without melodies and rhythm there are no real songs.

A collection of songs does not make an album, but who cares.

Nothing left of good Bowie here.

Wish-Björk.

Ok 80s album.

The lyrics are great, the beats are ok.

Progressive soprano rock, but average.

The best songs are not ballads, but the album is mostly ballads.

More like Blues Implosion, amirite?

Average Costello.

One of the best albums ever.

Heartbreakingly good.

A great controversy.

Wish Green Day, but without any melodies.

Good folksy folk music.

Frail, but still the greatest.

Vintage Beastie Boys with some of their best beats.

Two hits doesn't make an album.

Two drummers making crap without drums.

Good album, not great.

Doowop medium.

Acoustic synth? Sure! Could've lost a couple of songs toward the end, though.

Noise with occasional greatness.

Not groundbreaking, but not bad.

I wish that great voice could hit the right notes more often.

The Big Band Great.

Sad pop does nothing for me.

Groovy, but get to the fucking point already.

It says absolutely nothing.

Cheap Psychedelic Electronica from bargain Joni Mitchell.

Genius, indeed.

Willie's voice on these jazz standards is perfect, although his own songs usually are better.

Dylan is better when Dylan is not being sung by Dylan. A 60s classic.

A jazz giant playing with synthesizers, sure! Early jazz-funk-fusion at its best.

Meh 70s pop from a band that would blossom in the 80s.

Pink Jehovah's Floyd Witnesses accidentally programs a Commodore 64

The sound of bawling drunks in a studio with out of tune instruments they cannot play.

Swingin' Sinatra is the best Sinatra.

Sad Reed is bad Reed.

Medium punk.

He can't sing. His songs are too long. But it still clicks.

Generic, whining and boring. In other words: BritPop.

Great songs, but most of them are better with other artists, especially those who wrote them.

The first CD in any Boomer's collection has an occasional underrated gem.

Muscle Shoals was good for the Stones. A masterpiece.

80s in the most 80s way of the 80s.

A hundred monkeys with a hundred instruments worked for about 5 minutes on this.

The 60s was not a good decade for jazz or ballet and this is a 60s jazz ballet.

Punk, but not too much, not too little.

An ok 70s album from 1990.

If I hear another medieval troubadour wannabe, I'll get ready for a joust and a melee.

Classic trip hop album.

Nope. These folksy medieval albums by British progressive bands are awful.

The missing link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan makes a decent album.

Not my generation, but ok.

When it's good it's great. But those are a lot of fillers and not the dancefloor kind.

Britpop after the fact.

Not garbage, but not not garbage either.

Good jams on a classic album.

Guess you had to be there

Classic, but not always my kind of jam.

Still good, but still a bit uneven.

Incomprehensible album, just like the band name.

Great classics and other greats.

Sad, bordering on suicidal. Possibly great, but boring.

Cheap Casio B52:s.

Mid folksinger in the era of great folksingers.

Weirdly accessible and off-putting at the same time.

I hear the greatness, but it does nothing for me.

Unique voice that died too early.

Their distinct sound sounds awful.

Jazz at its worst.

Still not a fan of this kind of jazz.

All classics.

Nope.

One of his best, says this man in his 50s.

Eyerollingly bland.

Nirvana was better unplugged.

Stuck between SkaPunk and BritPop in a bland way.

Great club anthems, but with a few low points.

Bland in every way music, albums or songs can be bland.

Sad crap

Great album from start to finish.

80s synth masterpiece with surprises (Morricone!) and monster hits.

Costello is not my jam. There is no jam whatsoever.

Tired of singing? Just let the gloomy instrumentals drone on.

More no no nos, amirite?

Can't rap. Can't sing. Good beats.

Now That's What I Call Crap!

Lovely covers, lovely voice.

Should've taught you better.

Not Hillbilly Deluxe, but it's still Dwight Yoakam.

Experimental, but not in a good way.

Whiny, boring and ZZZzzz...

You don't get more 80s than Def Leppard 80s.

Never heard of this, surprisingly good.

Meh

Unlike Carey herself, this did not age well.

Good, but not great.

Classic Electronica masterpiece.

Surprisingly funky at times. Ok songs that haven't been played to death.

The first song is masterful, but it's downhill from there.

Original, funky, soulful masterpiece.

Not a fan of Scottish Cardigans.

Ordinary Bowie

Does the Tom Tom Club have tom toms? Indeed they do. Also a couple of good hits.

To make something original from the Beach Boys sound takes a genius.

An album full of greatness, but then one day, music died.

It has nothing that makes music great.

Ok, for a live album

Successful, perhaps, but not a very good album.

Great music from Senegal.

Bland, anonymous and says nothing.

Probably great. Definitely boring.

Whiny crap

The point did indeed vanish.

Because it's Beatles it's good, but it's not great Beatles.

Crimson Crap.

The singing makes the music worse. Boring.

Another whiny and pretentious man.

Sounds like Steely Dan, but with more elevator.

Prima, indeed!

Great reinvention of the band.

Not punk enough, not pop enough, not rock enough.

Angry and, well, raw.

Great? No. Good? No. So, so? No. Bad? Yes.

Not a lot of jam on this one. The sound doesn't affect either.

Class act all the way.

A real comeback/revival of the best Stones, the blues Stones.

This album has aged a bit, but it's still good.

Absolutely not.

Great album, but I like their first and third a lot better.

Easy listening, in a good way.

Has not aged a second, for some weird reason.

Adequate electronic music.

A true masterpiece.

Who's that? Good Who, that's Who.

The Motown sound is strong with this one.

Medium Fleetwood

Bad music, too.

Not bad, not good.

What happens if you have no rhythm or talet.

An amazing voice. Too slow, at times.

Some classic triphop songs, some not so classic.

Really good blues rock.

Some good blues songs, but a singer he ain't

Apart from a couple of songs, the album is close to perfect.

Mid-Grunge

Good ABBA, but still not great ABBA.

Good 70s Middle Eastern music, but with some unnecessary covers.

Just like its cover, the album has its ups and downs.

Mid

Slow and sleepy, even when it tries to be upbeat.

Atlantic's rawer sound is my kind of soul.

Well, if he can't remember, how can we?

Folk singer on speed.

Very much a Sunday album.

I'm all for a good beat, but then what?

One good hit, several average songs.

Disco punk at its best.

Ok operatic 70s rock.

Part groovy, part noisy.

Lower average among the whiny British bands.

What flaming pile of garbage is this?

As always with live albums, I guess you had to be there.

Nah...

Not a good album. Not even a decent X-Mas album.

Amazing for a debut

Not enough pop, not enough folk.

A very bland Band.

Not one of his good albums.

Good zombie.

Good 50s country from the 80s.

Ok latin grooves.

Never heard before. Ok.

A couple of good songs, but not one of his best albums.

They never made a bad album.

Punk, but with someone who can sing. Not angry enough.

Sophisticated elevator music to be used in an 80s erotic thriller.

Probably speaks to someone, but not to me.

Take perfectly good country songs, and make them slower and all sound the same.

The classic album of all classic albums.

Quite ok

Not the best, not even good

Masterpiece

Bob's best album.

Original in a good way

Good EDM at times.

The best of the best

Just like its name, wtf

One of my first albums. Still good.

A few good songs does not make a good album

Certified F.R.E.S.H

One of the greatest comeback albums ever.

Good ska

Not a bad debut

Some good, some bad.

"Hello, is this the suicidal hotline?"

Concept albums are not always weird. Not always great either.

Good at worst, great as best.

You bleed? My ears bleed.

Shoegazing is literally just as fun as gazing at your shoes.

Not that hard.

The 60s, I know, but wtf.

Ok 80s

Good elevator music

Bland Joni

Mostly banger classics.

Bebop noise

No, not rejoicing at all.

East Coast at its best

Iconic cover on crap music

Mid Buddha Bar music

The pre-disco BeeGees are not very good.

Is this album broken?

Classic

Not punk enough.

Folksy skåpmat

Great, but not his greatest.

Nah.

Not atomized, more like a solid turd.

Good disco, but the slow songs are drags

A few great songs does not make a great album, but at least it's good.

The Ark, but from Temu and with more cowbell

Varied, but consistent. Really good.

Good for U2

Expected Sugarbabes, got Sugarcubes.

Some of their best work.

So good.

East Coast Surf Rock, the good kind.

Isn't it legal yet?

Great old Bob.

The first try at a rock opera, is more of an error.

Groundbreaking, but not great.

Who cares?

Surprisingly bland

Average yacht rock.

Mali blues at its best.

Quite good.

Sounds like a demo tape, and whaddaya know, it is a demo tape. A fairly good one.

Greatness.

One good song does not make an album..

I confess, it's not good.

As uplifting as two wrists, slit to the bone.

Creedence sounding like Creedence.

Ill as hell.

Absolute crap.

Why skits?

Some of it is really good. Some of it is crap.

Not speaking, not singing, not good.

Average band name. Average Band album.

Starts good, but then, no.

A flaming hot pile of...

Groundbreaking, but not breathtaking

Ok.

Trying not to gaze at my shoes

Lots of drama.

BritBros

Some good songs, but not really my cup of tea.

Great fighting songs.

Recognizable songs, still average.

Quite happy before listening to this. Now, no.

The What?

Too much drugs, too little talent.

Great comeback

Sad because of what could have been. Happy because of what we have.

Rock, but not hard.

Bland and average

No.

A couple of good songs. The rest a drugfuelled search for a melody.

My ears are Damaged.

Perfect.

Ok

Has not aged well.

Highly sampleable.

Not brilliant at all

Crap

Not quite the end of the world.

The cover is better than the music.

Does nothing for me specifically or for music generally.

Like coming down from a bad shrooms trip in the late 90s. Probably a true story.

Bland

Gets better and better

Supercrap Bigshit.

Meh

Some classics, some not.

Average indie

Not too much country, is it?

Crap punk

Strong debut

A couple of great songs does not make a great album.

Suicidal

Not bad.

Averageication.

Mid Queen

Temu Depeche with a Casio knockoff.

Fantastic Collaboration!

Never heard, never will again.

Never heard a good album by Radiohead before. Still haven't.

Nope.

Good Elephant.

Not as classic as Baduizm, but ok.

Everything sounds like theme songs for 70s sitcoms.

Great Latin album.

Nope

Good operatic metal

A couple of groundbreaking songs does not make for a bloated album.

Nah

Failed gimmick

Apart from a couple of duds, this is a masterpiece.

Wristslittingly depressive.

Respect

Why does "experimental" always mean "crap"?

Pulp, indeed.

Dated. So very dated.

An album of its time, which is not now.

Elevator yacht pop

Duck Rock, indeed.

Nix

Not so jagged

Not trip hop, but experimental. That explains it.

I thought she could sing

Some classic songs, some not.

Aged terribly.

Can't get around it, it's a masterpiece.

Krap

Great debut album.

Ok.

Really good live album.

Kings of nothing

No, no, no

Cannot see the greatness of this

Too many crap punk albums right now