1001 Albums Summary

Starting with jazz is interesting. I used to listen to jazz while studying in high school often, there was a station on the radio I would tune to and especially at night to wind down. Might bring that back. Some of those licks were insane, ngl, I just don’t listen to a lot of jazz so I don’t have much to compare it to!

I fear that I put this on to read to at the end of the night and got through about half before the repetition of it all lulled me to sleep. Don’t have a real opinion, not sure I care enough to listen to the other hour or so.

Admittedly this is my first real experience with The White Stripes outside of the obvious one. I think I need to listen to something else to get a real feel for the band. I like Meg’s drumming, and as other reviews note, the marimba usage was choice.

Not gonna lie, I wasn’t expecting Phil Spector the Murderer to show up on here. Music, classic and iconic. Guy, terrible and evil. The fact that it’s here on December 25th? Silly and goofy.

Not dad rock in general but MY dad rock specifically. Brings me back to rocking out to whatever CD he had in the car driving to school, or whatever he was vibing to on his iPod Classic once he got one of those (he uses it every day!) A fun 45 minutes, not something that I would go back to personally, there’s other prog that I like better.

I love that the best songs on this album aren’t the singles. The Stranger has made its way onto my main playlist, and then the theme coming back in the last song? A vibe. Gotta listen to more of Billy Joel.

I listened at work and maybe that was my first mistake because it kinda became background noise pretty quickly. I mostly listen to rock and rock-adjacent music so it didn’t particularly stand out either way. Not unwilling to give it another try or another album though.

I would put on something like this in the background while I read in the evening.

Impeccable timing that my gummy was kicking in as I generated this one.

This is one of those albums that I think if I liked the Beach Boys at all I would have cared so much more but as it stands it just really didn’t make an impression on me.

I honestly think I just don’t care about britpop. The entire time listening to Champagne Supernova I could only think of Red Wine Supernova and the references Chappel Roan made to this song. This is my second Oasis album in the 13 albums I’ve rated and both times I just kinda went “eh” both times.

Iconic from beginning to end!

I’ve been listening to The Beatles since I was in the womb, considering they are my dad’s favorite band and one of his special interests. I’ve always felt that a lot of the first five or so albums sound relatively the same and I kind of get lost when I listen to a whole album at a time, but once you get to Rubber Soul and beyond, that’s when I feel like things get interesting. It was a fun look back at some of the music that made me who I am, and I think I’ll always be a fan in some ways. Sgt Peppers is an album I think everyone should listen to all the way through at least once, and I’ll be coming back to it as I get older I’m sure. Fave track, When I’m Sixty Four (I love clarinet so much)

It certainly is an album by Led Zeppelin!

This felt like going back to my roots metaphorically. A vibe, and an album I’ll come back to over time.

Not sure I’m the right audience for a 6-song 42 minute album but the first song is 21 of those minutes. Definitely some interesting background music for my book, but not something I’m gonna go back to.

My only real note is that the beginning piano portion in “Something in the Night” is EXTREMELY similar to “Don’t Tell Me It’s Over” by Gym Class Heroes, and I spent almost 45 minutes trying to figure out which GCH song it was because it’s not listed as a sample anywhere I could find online. Solid album, I never mind some dad rock.

Proto-punk is my jam.

Not my yum, but not gonna knock anyone else’s. It’s good music, just not my jam.

I really gotta get back to my roots more often, it’s a vibe, it makes me get up and exercise because a fascist got up and exercised today and if they can they I for sure can. Thanks, punks from before my time, for being relevant every new decade.