1001 Albums Summary

jimi is cool and talented but these songs don't do anything for me. the hits are the hits but I don't think anything of the album tracks

it is an elvis presley album. he is talented but i don't really care for it

this is a cool beck album. not as weird as i wanted it to be but i think it's quite nice anyways

just one of those endlessly relistenable albums. i think i would eventually upgrade this to a perfect score but right now it's just one of those albums that's packed full of great tunes

goated stuff

this is a goated one from me from my teenage years. i think it's closer to a 9 than a 10 if i'm speaking objectively but i love this album full heartedly so

it's alright. i think there are interesting parts on it but i wouldn't really think of this as mindblowing or standout music from the early rock period

i'm sure it's good if you're more familiar with brazilian/tropicalia music but without a reference point, it's kinda just okay

these songs don't really take me places, but goddamn those basslines

it's mid

something haunting and quite beautiful about it

obv the weakest smiths album but that's still pretty good

definitely in the relisten pile. it doesn't obviously grab me from the start but i think that it's one of those albums that will grow on you. very spacey and cool

thank you phil spector for the christmas gift. no thank you to murdering that person

sounds insanely cool

i tend to be put off by the doors but this album was alright

i dont think i connect to this album at all, not my sort of music, but you really can't deny how great it is. absolutely flawless

is it greedy to want more funk from the "we want the funk" album?

i have a hard time getting into the beatles but this album has the best songs of all the ones i have heard

this has the early feel of an album that sticks in your head and eventually you come round to realize its brilliance

pretty straightforward punk, no complaints here

i don’t think i was ever going to give this a truly fair listen as a phoebe bridgers fan, but i was willing to at least give him a chance and holy shit this was the most annoying album i’ve listened to. it’s an old joke but it really does sound like starbuckscore. i think that all the criticism directed towards male singer songwriter for being vain crybabies can be forwarded to ryan adams.

it's nice with it, what more can you say

songs so good that you forget bono is a twat

i didnt know these songs were covers because i've never heard the originals but they're definitely willie's songs to me now

presumably before they released the album, they sat down and heard that it was maps (truly amazing song, one of the best in the genre) and then 10 of the most garbage my-first-punk-song ass tracks of all time and said "yeah, let's drop this one"

this sounded like the in-between of dino jr and emo which i both enjoy but it never really grabbed me like those two do

i mean cmon

was always west coast but i'm mature now and have put long dead (no pun intented) rap beefs behind me. i still don't care for this album. yes, biggie is talented and it carries such an aura that you have to respect, but there's so much fat to be cut (pun intended) and i have a hard time finding standout songs that aren't the hits. the skits sucked too

i'm usually a slut for 80s pop but this is unfortunately just pretty mid to me. not annoying, not bad, but not great. solidly mid

plenty of good songs but no great ones

its dumb fun, what more do you need

i just cant get into abba but this album made me smile because it made me think of alan partridge

kinda beatles-y, i dig it

b tier thrash. good headbanging stuff but not transcendental

a perfect album minus a few songs

i really want to give the dead a chance and see why everyone likes them but holy shit this album goes nowhere but goes on forever

yup its a ramones album 👍

i liked crazy ska madness a bit more. whats up with the racist stuff?

mid

the most normal talking heads album, which is to say that it is not their best and not their most interesting, but still is tasty and has a banger or two

merely alright

i don't know if this is one of the 1001 albums i need to listen to before i die but it's pretty fun, i'll give it that

fun stuff

a little bob dylan, a little bruce springsteen, honestly not good enough to be either, but hard to fuck up when you’re primarily drawing from two influences like that

reading all the reviews and they remind me of youtube comments a 13 year old who's really into nirvana might leave, but some of them are written by people in their 30s. the album is good

pretty funky and vibey, have to like that

minor threat rocks

i don't think i could ever fully get into this from a vibes perspective but you have to appreciate how talented of a musician he is

nice and funky, gotta love it

why is the minecraft villager noise on the first couple songs

i dunno. this is exactly what i expected fats domino to sound like. what do you want from me

first listen it sounded like a bunch of bridge songs. like songs bridging to a different one, never quite reaching the emotional high promised. second listen i kinda got it more

cool electronica sounds

you gotta love blowing in the wind but i don't know about a whole album full of songs like that

look i think the music is nice and sweet but i just can't get into it

lou really needs j mascis unfortunately

i think i burned myself out on all the bad psychadelic rock in this book/series that i was elated at first listen because this album doesn't suck, but on second listen i came back down to earth

black sabbath rocks

morrissey they could never make me hate you

just too long man

my mood swings on this album a lot

he cooks what can you say

if i had to have an electric dylan opinion, it's that i prefer when he's actually going somewhere with the music (blood on the tracks ex) instead of just playing folk but electric. cool songs though

really hated the guy's voice. otherwise great album

it's pretty cool. not much else to say

one of those albums where i'm not sure if it's good because it influenced everything that came after it or if it's bad because all the stuff it influenced was so much better. also dude was a pedophile

didnt vibe with the first few songs but the last few i could probably get back into

i've listened to it three times and it hasn't moved me yet sadly

sounds like the soundtrack to a decent procedural

loved the bleep bloops on it

didnt quite care for it

cool space stuff

cancon gotta love it

wished it was a bit more sun kil moon-y but overall good

i mean cmon

nick cave + the ambient half of david bowie's low, so great start already even if it doesn't quite work. but quite beautiful and moving

cmon

tranceful and hypnotic

awesome

i don't really like fiona apple but i really liked this. mostly cause it got a lil bjorky

incredible album cover to actual music disparity on display

it has a vibe

i think a step backwards from siamese dream. great guitar work but the songs aren't as good

all over the place stylistically but somehow still coherent. loved all the fart sounds

i love punk, and i love pop punk. green day never clicked for me for some reason. it's good, but i don't recognize it as amazing

sounds like late era radiohead

i was enamored on my first listen and completely forgot why on second listen

awesome

i just have a hard time understanding why he needs to put something racist on every album

its alright

rush rocks

i think the talking heads have a lot of sick songs, but not on this album. but it's still good, but not weird like talking heads albums should be

the hits are awesome but the rest is wanky

this guy needed to jack off before recording this

ive listened to it a handful of times and i think the paul mccartney song will make me commit a crime

i enjoy it but get nothing from it

chill

good

lot of toe tappers on here but doesnt push past that into special

one of their most meh albums tbh

its alright

fun sounds, but cant rate it as one of the goats

i love this album solely because you can hear new order popping out

fun dance rock but gets boring after a while

it's chill, i like it, but it doesn't do all that much for me

he's so cool

dont fully get the magic behind them but not a bad album at all

funky

i dont think i will ever get the magic behind jimi hendrix. he's fine

i remember being blown away the first time i listened to this and not so much the second time. but there is a stroke of genius here i will say

one of the top reviews is complaining about 80s synth music and i want to ask that guy why he has problems with things that rock

man this rocks

i think this is one of the weaker bowie albums during the peak era and it's still four stars

i get super whatever vibes from this. like i think there are neat elements but my overall vibe is whatever

it's very cool + cancon. i think i will warm up to this more listening to it

look. i'm tired of pretending coldplay sucks

as close as they can get to industrial dream pop... love the drum sound on here

maybe 1001 albums was a little too ambitious for the writers because i don' think this is one i needed to hear before i die. it's okay, but necessary, no

it's alright but i dont ever want to listen to it again

why is the spotify version of this so fucked

this album is so goated

one of those albums where you know one day it will absolutely click for you

it's alright but i spent most of the time wishing i was listening to better rap songs

yeah it rocks

it ain't bad but i think if you like it you are a theatre kid

like most jazz i like it but i don't know why

look it's good but it is hella corny

i read the previous reviews and lol at how people don't get dinosaur jr

yes a lil wanky but it is rush and rush rules

i think it's nice but i cannot get the hype

cool

there's about eight al green albums on this list and i think they're all the same but at least they're nice with it

a good jazz album to me is when people are going crazy and buddy they're going crazy on this one

if you hate this album then fuck you

i like it because the who rock but the concept falls flat for me

you have to love the energy, the tight playing, and the showmanship. unfortunately i just don't really care all that much for the songs

rip the goat

bruce is the fuckin man baby

i don't know if it's ironic or sincere scott walker worship but it's quite good

fun and jammy. what’s not to like

i think a few more listens and it will click for me but i love her voice

really weird on first listen but it does warm up to you... i'm sorry i ever doubted you queen

sounds like every slow sad radiohead song but with annoying romantic alcoholism and a voice that is annoying but not in the thom yorke way where you eventually like it

a bit haunting

love reading the reviews from people who took on this challenge but expected to find nothing challenging on the list. if you can't appreciate insane post punk i don't know what to tell you

no disrespect to billie but i just can't get into it

not his best but tom petty does indeed rock

the tier below the stone roses and radiohead for me on british alt rock

i feel like a bad canadian cause i've never really gotten into neil young and this album is certainly not a good point to start because it's just him doing good but boring alt rock

love rem but this one honestly aint their best

obviously very good but not the high highs of post rock that i like from gy!be and such

theres too much psychadelic rock on this but this was okay even if it felt like it was a lute away from annoying ren fair music

this sounds like a movie soundtrack where the characters have to leave america to meet a drug dealer who does all his business out in the open at some bar

it's van halen. turn the brain off and rock out. hell yeah

i will never get this band or why there's 300 of their albums on this list

eh

i get that tim buckley is not everyone's bag and he definitely doesn't try to be but man if you really get past the initial shock there's so much good stuff here. he is so captivating and unique as an artist

all the comments are like "wow the best goth rock album!!" but really it's genuinely one of the best albums of all time. don't limit yourself

it's nice but i dont get the magic.

weird. voice is somewhere between jim morrison and nick cave while hitting neither vibe. music is the worst and best of 90s alt rock simultaneously. all averages out to uhh average

they're goated what can you say

damn thisbis good as fuck

really an album i wanted to be over quickly

i think the problem with a lot of early hip hop is that the genre advanced so fast and moved in such different directions that even five years between albums feels like the difference between the bronze age and the space age. so with that in mind, early stuff just sounds ancient and way behind everything else. however this doesn't even sound good compared to other albums released in 1990. how is this a classic when it sounds like ass compared to like straight outta compton which was released a full year earlier

funky as hell but the rap aint nothing to write home about

nodding disapprovingly when they use the slur to let people know that i don't approve of it

enjoyable

it rocks

i will never understand my peers’ hype for this album. good but not a goat

u2 is pretty fuckin good even if bono sucks

i will never fully get jimi. im sure this sounded mind blowing in the 60s but i dunno about today and i can’t quite put myself in that mindset. best song is a bob dylan song so

nice and sweet, a little jazzy and crazy with it, what more do you really want

pretty good. what else needs to be said

im sure this blew minds in the 60s but today it feels like a wanky prog album that has interesting moments here and there but fails to dwell on them

i think i would probably give it five if i gave it one more listen. how can you hate something that sounds this good

rest easy, goat

made no impact on me but it's alright

the chinese restaurant skit was bad but the rest of it is pretty good

pretty good

pretty goated sounding for a record from the 70s

it was truly c'est chic

it's muddy waters at newpory in 1960. what more do you want

she's a good singer but an unfortunate product of the culture that a good voice is the only thing that makes music good

certainly their weakest album

fun

moz they could never make me hate you but this album kinda sucked (its still good but not really)

not for me

this is what airports should sound like

this white boy got soul!

its alright

nice and chill but it doesn't connect with me

the production was nice but i thought the rapping was kinda lame

it's alright. it starts off so interesting but floats into the background

i like the who when they're more rocking

its alright but red house painters basicslly perfected the slowcore/acousticish alt rock sound so what’s the point

he cooked

so so so close to a five to me if it didn't fall off on the back half

its thin lizzy live

sad but nice

kind of a banger

some good tunes

i didnt care for it the first time i listened to it but i guess i kinda calmed down now and think it's nice and sweet

i wish i could fulfill my patriotic duty and find the neil young album that makes him the undisputed goat of canadian music

i think you can break down the 1001 albums like this - obvious classics that would be weird if they weren't on the list - influential but not big albums - significant artists' entire discographies - small samplings of significant genres/subgenres - genuine oddball/left field shit that you would never possibly stumble across no matter how hard you tried this album is obviously in the final category, and one of only three or four on this list that falls into that category. through reading other people's reviews, i find a lot of people who really thought this list was only going to be things that fell into the first category and turn their nose up whenever they get outside of that comfort zone. i think it kind of defeats the whole purpose of this exercise, why bother committing yourself to listen to 1001+ albums if you're just expecting to find more of things you already know and like all this to say that this music is like a 7/10 for me. not my bag, not the best thing i ever heard, but not bad at all. however i would take it over the inexplicable 300 byrds or neil young albums on this list

insanely damn good

FOUR WALLS AND ADOBE SLATS FOR MY GIRLS

kind of a cool movie soundtrack type of album but not much more than that

a rare 80s maiden album that doesn't fully slap. but it still fuckin slaps

whatevs

found this quite annoying

kinda neat but not my style

hell yeah

country music sucks sorry

yup these are some little richard songs

david bowie fuckin rocks what else needs to be said

hauntingly beautiful album. if you don’t like it i’m sorry but you’re stupid

rip ozzy but not one of my fave black sabbath albums

it's alright i mean. nice folk, nice guitar. not for me however

sounds cool

alright noise rock/no wave stuff but not the kind i like

pretty dope fun metal

kinda fun but nothin special

stinks

these bells sure were tubular! just kidding it wasn't that interesting

it's good

some of the songs are bangers but when they start singing about lord of the rings sorry i just kinda tune out

fun little dance pop record but not enough insane bangers

kinda only significant for the song that nirvana covered

funky and cool and lodges in brain

too much led zep recently

his thom yorke voice is awesome

damn that's cool but i don't understand jazz enough to figure out just how good this is

cmon

fun

never a dull moment with frank

didn't quite connect with me

air has the magical quality of sounding so familiar but like nothing you've heard before

its okay

damn that monkey from the movie was a real guy????

pretty funky

it’s james brown live at the apollo

there are some songs on here where i remember why tom waits rules: a strangely emotive and flexible voice that somehow hits the part of your brain responsible for empathy or relating to stuff and you feel every word of his. and there’s some songs on here that remind me why he’s so fuckin annoying

ive listened to this 3 times and it still doenst connect with me

kinda boring

i genuinely think you are either racist or stupid if you don't like this album

very british but very catchy and fun

overproduced, but catchy tunes, but also just nothing really standoutish?

not bad, not great

i have to compare it to discovery which is a little unfair but this just sounds so basic

i wish i liked it more because i want to get what's so loved about it but it hovers in the great zone.not ground breaking, but great

i love city pop and this has hints of that sprinkled in. but it's pretty damn good separated from that too

man when that first note hits you just know you're in for a great one

crazy sounds and a lot of poop jokes in here. gotta love it

two good songs and a lot of boring ones

fun and brit poppy i'll say

did anyone else think this album was about 9/11

soulful and sweet but i still don't get the hype behind david crosby

moz is the goat what can you say

god i wish i understood jazz enough to have my mind blown on this

i usually love slutty synth pop but this was a lil too slutty

fun

yeah ac/dc writes the same song every time but they all rock

there's better trip hop out there

look they have three absolutely perfect songs on here and most bands on this list don't even have one

neat

i see the influence on modern day sad girl indie but i have no real liking for it other than alberta

this guy needs to jack off before recording next time

funky

good cowboy music

two legends of the game doing some experimental shit but man i just dont connect with it

this is some good ass shit!

interesting

my main elvis costello opinion is why does he say the n word on like every single album. good music though

my first listen to this album a while ago, i saw it described as synth pop/punk, and it was not that, it's more bruce springsteen nebraska with weird synth sounds. enjoyable but still a lil weird to me

i will never fully grasp the magic of neil young

good ass blues

not quite sophisticated enough for sophistipop

fun

who doesnt love slutty overproduced 80s pop

long and overstuffed but pretty good

yup

haunting and beautiful

i think live albums should be banned from this list. nothing against the artists, but a lot of them are just the artist but live

i had my bohemian rhapsody phase too but i outgrew it and now queen just sounds like a bunch of bad bull shit to me

weird earlyish new wave but pretty decent gotta say

its quaint and funny that this was considered shock rock. loved how jazzy it got

sad and reflective but goddamn it rocks

the only revelation from this album is that love hurts isnt by some shitty metal band or whoever

there's two bangers and a bunch a bullshit

every song on here is good

pretty damn good

tom waits oscillates between brilliant and annoying for me. thankfully this album js mostly brilliant

besides message in a bottle, who cares

blondie can sing but she can't always write interesting songs

lot of catchy songs on here but i don't get the hype honestly

it's the fuckin goat of all time baby

i dont like hippies or jam stuff and i've never been particularly fascinated with janis joplin so i was not looking forward to this but it was quite good

i feel like a good 60% of albums on this list are on here because one writer was really annoying about them until the panel decided to include them

it's elvis presley

pretty good

grindcore isnt for everyone and that's okay

good stuff

only one good song on here

ill forgive the goofy lyrics on here because 1. bangers 2. swedish

now that i dont hear these songs in every car commercial i think it's alright

funky

classic rock songs i guess

soft and sweet but a little boring

it sounded like the soundtrack of friends

ac/dc rocks

an album okay only in bits and bites. halfway between white man blues and cool noise punk and never quite figuring out when to be which

reminded me of 19 year old britpop sensation jim e. brown

i've never quite gotten the hype with this album and unfortunately still not on this album

california dreaming is goat stuff and the rest is whatever

whatever

the album art reminds me of christmas 😀

tony hawk pro skater core

yup thats honky tonk

its no loveless but honestly nothing else is

look, all due respect to common. but kanye's production on this takes it next level

there are such good parts on here but it feels forgettable... i will have to listen ten or eleven more times

i know song 2 is a parody of the harder alt rock songs but it's also the only good song on the album so idk maybe the other guys are right

my personal experience with this album is putting it on for the first time when it came out and having my mind and soul absolutely rocked by wesley's theory to the point where i listened to it 15 times before even listening to track 2

never understood the love for lana del rey and her boring music

this did not sound like what i expected it to sound like based off the title and artist name

they're smooth i guess

the goat

long but damn he showed the beatles who the boss is

whatevs

of all the psychadelic stuff on this list this stuck with me the most

cool

theres one million elvis costellos albums on here and they're all the same. some of them he says the n word on

sexy kind lf

hrll yeah

beautiful powerful voice unfortunately singing some corny songs

he needs an editor

weird but not in an interesting way

fuck this rocks

i dont want to be a beatles contrarian but kind of meh on this one to be honest

copy and paste punk

they have better ones

simple man and free bird can only carry this so far

look if you can't go full anglophile and imagine singing don't look back in anger absolutely pissed at the pub with the lads and then going back to your loft on the chube with wonderwall playing in your head, you just hate life plain and simple

fuck yes

some sick stuff but so much filler

you have to be stupid to not like this album lol

not her best

i honestly didnt hate it but it's also a ryan adams album so i do actually hate it

linkin park rocks

the one guy i knew who really liked gnr turned out to be a scumbag, so that really clouded my initial thoughts on the album, but to give it a fair listen: three or four very good songs and the rest are definite scumbag music

tony soprano mode

yay jackass

you listen to this and wonder whether all those old people were right about his music

it drags but man is it a sick album

ive finally started to get sufjan after like three listens

baseline good with all husker du albums but i think this is one of their least essentials

one heater and a bunch of alright songs

now these are some fly white guys seriously loling at the guy who wants nofx on the list over them. okay bud

cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool! cool in the pool!

the last song pissed me off but otherwise a good album

beautiful

i thought it would be some dumb fun but god it got annoying

i will never get the big star hype

one song on it

originally my least favourite bjork but now ive warmed up to it

maybe you just had to be there when it came out but goddamn

another girl another planet all time banger rest is okay

it's a country so there's a ceiling on quality but damn i loved the newish sounds on here

prog rock that doesnt fully suck

bring tha noize

coat of many colours more like album of shitty songs lol

some cool parts, some that sounded like shitty prog roxk

fuck this is smooth

sweet and chill

they rock

one absolute heater and a couple pretty good songs

like if public enemy had sicker beats but worse bars

if you cut out all the bull shit it's only 32 minutes long

beautiful in every single aspect

sounds like the david lynch country music

beautiful

insane

suck riffs but 90s alt band voice

the zilch song made me want to kill them

this is an album that shows how far i've grown musically. i thought this was the best thing i ever heard in 2012 and it's alright in 2025. also goddamn you could only listen to this through the default apple headphones

spotify bio says he brought country back to nashville and for that he is one of history's great villains

i enjoyed the goblin man singing his song about getting molested

well produced but the songs are not good

i forwarded everyone's one star reviews to mr west and he felt very sad great job guys 👍

if the guy from primal scream likes it that's enough to convince me