1001 Albums Summary

Shocked that I really like the back half of this album more than the first three songs that are all really famous singles

Excellent and inventive

So fun and silly, wish I had this as a kid (even better, we got it when we’re 40)

Tears Dry On Their Own bangs

Richard Thompson is a great arranger

Razor Face 🥰

Awful

“Dirty Work” and “Reelin’ in the Years” are both great, classic pop songs. Hope there is more Dan in this book as this is probably the least interesting album!

One of my favorites

“No More No More” is right

This is another 3.5 to me. Glad I re-listened, some great songs on here!

Never heard this before, it was fun!

Not for me but I can appreciate some good thrash metal drumming

This was dope. Name a spookier song than “Good Morning, Captain”!!!

“Duncan”, “Peace Like a River” and “Congratulations” are so beautiful that this gets four stars from me even though I actively dislike a lot of the lyrical content

Perfect album, with perfect sequencing. Bonus assignment: listen to the Neil Young tracks from CSNY’s 4 Way Street

Like for the general soundscape they cultivated here, don’t love bc the songwriting is a bit too same-y for me

Gotta appreciate these guys

This calmed me down while commuting through Union square so it really is transportative. Yes I paused it on the train to watch several Lonely Island videos but that’s really none of your business.

Did I need to hear this again? Probably not. It’s fine though.

Unsurprisingly I liked the super long ambient track at the end better than anything else, kind of loved that. Everything else meh.

I think this is what’s meant by “caterwauling”

Liked this a lot!

Nice music, for the nice people

When the vibes player really went off that was pretty cool

I respect the energy with which Janis Joplin threw herself into singing but this music is not really for me

I love this band for their sincere mishmash of hardcore and southwestern Americana, aggressive rhythm playing and surprisingly elegant harmonics…if you listen to Up on the Sun you also realize they are huge nerds, a fact that makes me love them even more. Maybe an acquired taste but endeared to me. “New Gods” slays.

Important context for The Muppets

Who am I to rate Miles Davis 4/5. Oh well, it’s a 4/5.

Really didn’t like the bluesy stuff much at all, but I like Questions 67 and 68 a lot

The Lennon/McCartney songs are like pre-TikTok dopamine factories

We have to trick the moms into letting the kids bop with us

Fun!

There are 4 or 5 songs on this that I think are great and then there’s a lot of cacophany. In general I like what this is throwing down though

Would give this a 6/5 if possible

Never heard this before and pleased that I liked it so much, it’s cool that Dave Grohl did this all himself. The exuberance behind it is very Dewey Finn but I’m not mad at it.

The title is truly exactly what it is and it’s awesome

Was going to give this credit because I like “Scar Tissue” and “Otherside” but the new lows that it reaches on the back half are literally like a -2.

Extremely solid house album

Impressively technical but also incredibly lush and alive. Amazing.

Perhaps suffered from my having heard it so many times so it was missing the excitement factor

Definitely a vibe

Solid album, “Heart of Glass” is a 5

Entirely juiceless man

An obvious 5 star classic. Probably the best thing I ever bought at Borders Books

This just washed over me and left almost nothing behind

First time hearing this aside from “Sulky Girl.” Not my favorite album of his, but what a creative songwriter, there’s a lot to enjoy here as there always is with Elvis Costello

Go off, Max Roach. Loved “Pannonia,” also “I Surrender Dear” with just Monk on piano…lovely

Still sounds fantastic

Excellent front to back. “Thinking of You” is pure bliss.

Great energy but they lost me on the last two tracks

Love Sunshine of your Love, otherwise no thank you

Maybe their best IMO

I like “Tom Sawyer,” this was not equally interesting to me throughout

Would like to be the guy yelling in the background, I think I’d be good at that

Having all these tracks on the same album is objectively wild

And that’s the story, of the key change baby

Any songwriter should aspire to the high highs of “Sweet Life”

So potent and beautiful

I respect it but I don’t like it

Misty Mountain and Four Sticks is an awesome b2b

“River of Orchids” is incredible

Nothing special

Forgettable

This is really a 2.5 but I have to be true to myself as a Metallica hater and round down

Y’all need to stop right now

Not my bag style wise but pretty good

Noisy and pretty fun

A classic

For some reason I couldn’t stop thinking about these two guys who were at the open mic night at my favorite college bar literally every week and seemed really old to me at the time

I like “Come On, Come On”

Is she weird? Is she white? Is she promised to the night?

Dismayed that I know almost every song here. I guess my people do come from Boston

I feel like this is just before they really started being a band that I love, but the seeds are there

Not surprised this holds up but surprised it’s so good throughout. Great songwriting!

A slog

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B.B. King really sings the shit out of this material

Incredible. I particularly liked II b but this is beautiful throughout and it’s simply wild that a human can do this.

Still great at 36

Definitely my favorite Dylan

The exact opposite of “leave them wanting more”

Pretty good but pales in comparison to the best Smiths stuff

Obviously a millennial touchstone, great production and Missy’s flow still sounds fresh, inventive, and very funny. She really earned our love!!!!

Paul Simon phoning it in

Sinatra sings this material well but I’d rather just hear these songs in Portuguese

Never heard this before, really liked it

Generally pleasant, but still proud of myself for listening to the whole boxed set

“Electricity” was cool

Profoundly irritating

Absolutely rips

I have a real soft spot for this album & find it affecting in a very specific way. 5/5

I can’t liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive

Garth Hudson go off

John Bonham’s playing Moby Dick for real

One of a kind

I get why this resonated with pre-teens

*Jim Morrison voice* It’s time to give this one a 2

Dave was right, it’s giving Bathroom Break

I respect this album but it’s too peppy to love

Kind of interesting but definitely not for me

Goes hard

Mostly boring, Neil Young was right to leave

Let’s be real, he’s got the goods

Not many live albums generate so much electricity from their exact location and interaction with the audience, but this one definitely does

Honestly still pretty good, but the content is pretty hard to get past

Good music interspersed with some terrible David Crosby originals

An easy 5 star, by far the most intimate thing Beck has ever done

Sounds cool, didn’t like the overtly blues second track, but otherwise thought this was texturally good

Was going to give this 2 stars because the can play their instruments but they wore me down

My de. Tt hasn’t

Now this is boat music

A classic

Metal goes Off-Broadway

Turn, turn to the rain and the wind

Listening to this really underlines what a pale mutation stuff like Kings of Leon is

Never heard this before, I enjoyed it!

They should’ve called it Long-la

This was better than Urban Hymns, which is ironic because Urban Hymns was in rotation in my house during the cd era

I liked this

A talented woman whose falsetto I do not enjoy

Not very distinguished in my opinion but fine for what it is

Boring tbh

Worth re-listening

Really enjoyed this one

Didn’t necessarily think I would but I still really like Tommy!

Prob the coolest U2 album to me

Never listened to Goldfrapp, this was more Portishead-ish than I expected. Turns out I knew the song “Utopia.” More like a 3.5 for me but rounding up bc that one is great

So lovely

No

The one-two of “If It’s Magic” and “As” really gets me

Beautiful work Kate

Endlessly relistenable. Big Brother ❤️

Boring

One of the best ever. “Colorbars”—>”Can’t Make a Sound” is pure emotional destruction

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes ❤️

If I have to listen to these songs, I would probably always choose these versions

Nice

Very “woman, wo-man, whoaaaaaaaaaaa MAN!” energy

The promise fulfilled by When I Get Home

I liked the piano stuff

Awesome

RIP Jim Steinman, you brought the drama

There is just no appealing part of this music

Pretty good but (impatient Pirates of the Caribbean Guy voice) TOO LONG

Among other things they gave us some reggae

Nothing but bangers

One of my favorite voices

Why

Top 5 albums of all time

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If it was the 60s and I only had access to like five bands I would probably be into this

“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” is one of the best album openers of all time

Feels like the label made a mess of this

A hero of East New York

A classic. The consistency in songwriting here is unreal

Easy 5, great album

Overall I liked this

Like the Michelin man

The Beatles’ Charmeleon evolution

Bumping this up majorly for L.A. Woman, because the rest of it really kind of blows

Glad to discover this!

One of my faves

You can’t say they didn’t nail this

Immaculate vibes

A real Me classic

Not my favorite mode of Bee Gees but still pretty good