1001 Albums Summary

i was excited to listen to this one but the further i got into it the more i just wanted it to end. ugh. maybe i just dont like the smashing pumpkins that much.

3.5

meh

no idea how to rate this one. its kinda brilliant but also i definitely didnt enjoy listening to it again

snorkkkkkkkkk mimimimimi

why the hell is this on this list

groan

3.5

not a fan

mostly percussion, wish there was more melody

2.5

PAHK LIFE 3.5 A little bloated

still the best jazz album ever...nothing quite like it

3.5 Way better than I thought it would be

The Smiths have a reputation for being a quite miserable band, which they definitely are at times, but it's easy to forget how funny they can be. That said, even in the funny or sentimental tracks on this record there's an unshakable feeling of bitterness that stays with the listener. I think this is why it's resonated with people for so long - or, in Morrissey's own words, "behind the hatred there lies a plunderous desire for love". Also, very funny album to get on Valentine's Day .

im not sure why this is here but damn the torpedoes isnt

"im robbing a bank tomorrow and when the cops come for me imma tell them it was my alter ego countess boochie flagrante" - tumblr user hoebutmadefashion, 2014 eminem is a talented rapper but this is an album made for 13 year old boys in 1999. its so cringe

Awesome album cover. Pretty good album.

It's kind of like seeing where all my favorite bands came from. Not everything on this album hit but I still respect it a lot. 3.5

I liked it less than I remember, though that might be because I listened to it in the car while my parents talked about god knows what the whole time

It's a photograph of four friends going their own ways, some more willingly than others. It's also an album, a damn good one, the first Beatles album I fell in love with and the first record I bought on my own. It's a total mess. I love it.

I think my mom said something in her review comparing the offensive lyrics to Motley Crue, which I agree with (though I definitely prefer this to Crue any day) in that both are exaggerated performances of masculinity in music. The main difference is in how NWA influenced the popular image of gangsters despite most members not having any actual gang ties and how that lead to a specific type of masculinity being played up in a lot of the mainstream rap of the time...but that's its own conversation. This still stands as one of hip-hop's most important and influential records, whether you think that's a good thing or not. 3.5

Nice and short. Reminded me of Scott Walker - in fact, he covered "Amsterdam" (so did Bowie!)

I'm not even joking I had a migraine this morning and this made it better

Eh. It's pleasant

Let the record show that I tried to listen to this album!! I just didnt want to finish it. I thought I had a high prog tolerance. Guess I was wrong!

3.5 i dont think it needs to be on this list but it has some bangers

Disc one was good. Disc two felt like filler. All these songs would be better if they were half as long, but I feel that way about 90% of zeppelin songs

If I were a teenager in 1978, Id probably love this. Either way, it's pretty good.

dream pop perfection

still not entirely my thing but also its just undeniable

2.5

Fantastic first half. Not as good second half. I think it deserves to be here, though. It's like a time capsule

3.5

it's kind of shameful to say, but i've never been a huge fan of amy winehouse...but i admit that i liked this album. 3.5

It's fine, but I feel like I'm missing something here...I don't know. Sorry, mom. Why is this here but zen arcade isn't?

is this the most important record of the early 2000s? it's possible! it spawned so many imitators that it's hard to listen without hearing those (everybody talks by neon trees, a truly terrible song that i completely forgot existed until i heard it on the radio a few days ago, is such a blatant ripoff of the modern age that it's crazy) I hate most of those bands and yet I still love this album. It's just a bunch of unbelievably solid tunes. so good

https://youtu.be/at2BufPf6bo?feature=shared

The amount of people I went to high school with who were obsessed with this album put me off of listening to it for years. It's good. It's best parts are REALLY good. A bit excessive, but that's prog for you.

Certified Divorce Classic

IDM is such a funny genre name. Intelligent Dance Music. Yeah im dancing...in a smart way. Are they dancing to this at the book club or something? Sorry got a little distracted. Yeah it's okay. I don't really understand the hype though

Sorry I haven't listened to one of the albums in a while I've been busy. But I listened to this one! Id already heard it but I liked it a lot more this time around. Dare I say this is top 5 Bowie? Maybe even top 3?

it really doesnt get much worse than this. is he doing a jamaican accent?

I'm guessing mom's review is gonna say something similar, but the music here isn't as good as his later work, but the lyrics are really incredible.

probably not gonna be a very popular album among the people in this group, but i really liked this

I don't really get it 2.5

Too much Paul. It needs balance. A day in the life is maybe the best song they ever did though. I'm giving it four stars but it's a very high four stars

Imagine nos feratu...its scary if you try...

3.5 I really liked twigs' album from earlier this year, but I had never heard anything else from her. This was good! She's definitely improved since though

This is blur's "post-success" album. Their previous record, 1995's The Great Escape, was a huge hit, but it really wasn't that great. The band members, particularly Graham Coxon, were miserable with the direction they had taken, and that shows in this album. Coxon's love for American indie rock like Sonic Youth and Pavement is apparent in his guitar work, while you can hear the outline of what would someday become Gorillaz in tracks like On Your Own, I'm Just a Killer for Your Love, and Death of a Party. I would say this is Blur's most cohesive record, thematically messy and miserable, with hints of their past and future mixed together. Unfortunately, it does suffer from the bloat that all blur albums seem to have, but the good tracks are absolutely killer. My favorites are beetlebum (possibly their best song), song 2, death of a party, and you're so great. (Side note that I will expand upon when Modern Life is Rubbish comes up: Graham Coxon is, in my opinion, one of the all time great guitarists and he really doesn't get the appreciation he deserves. But, like I said, I'll come back to it. This review is long enough already. Also, 13 should probably be on this list.)

Genuinely flawless record. Not a single bad song. In my top 10 of all time.

pretty good, though not as good as dusty in memphis

Reminded me more of an art museum than an airport. It succeeds as a work of ambient music, but I didn't really enjoy it.

its difficult to average the scores of these two pretty different albums

hall of fame nap album dad says it falls apart in the second half but i wouldnt know on account the aforementioned napping

I like my bloody valentine but this really shouldn't be here. considering both loveless and m b v are on the list, i have no clue why this is here too. 2.5

i dont really get it. sorry mom

You'd think that by 1990 white blues rock musicians would have figured out how to do something new instead of sounding like malformed led zeppelin homunculi

Nirvana successfully sanded down the edges of noise/punk rock enough to be widely popular but still sharp enough to be edgy. I can see why this had such a following. But I really prefer the more raw and ugly sound of In Utero. 3.5

Eh, it's alright. Standard hippie music.

paul should be in jail for the girl is mine

as much as I enjoy insane sci-fi prog that makes rush look like the carpenters, I'd take At The Drive-In over it any day. Why Relationship of Command isn't on this list is beyond me. Also, does anyone else think Cedric Bixler-Zavala kinda sounds like Gerard Way or is it just me?

I don't even like the good Rolling Stones albums. I just really hate Mick Jagger's voice.

pretty cool that this album exists, but i doubt ill ever come back to it. except maybe that first track

best beatles album* *depending on what day you ask me. its this or revolver

2.5

Title track + It's Nasty are pretty good. The rest are fine.

aside from the dreadful "student demonstration time", this is pretty great. the best songs are the brian ones of course, plus disney girls (1957).

I'll probably revisit it some day

this is probably the best album ever if you're like 14

Sister, along with their previous album EVOL, shows Sonic Youth starting to make actual songs (seriously, if you think this is abrasive and tuneless, check out their early stuff). The first half is great. The second half, not as much. 4.5

3.5

i feel bad not giving this a 5, but its really not his best. his guitar is incredible of course but the songs arent really there

One of the all time great nap albums. The LeBron of nap albums. The Abbey Road of shutting your eyes for 30-40 minutes.

this guys voice pisses me off

it's fine. not his best. i can only handle so much jesus talk

2.5 i liked the other album of theirs i heard more

didnt make it all the way through. i thought it would be a little better than the slim shady lp, but it wasnt. same issue - it's edgy rap for 13 year old boys.

why so many people are so fond of this band, I'll never know. I can't help but find them tedious and self-obsessed. groan.

2.5

3.5

i remembered this as the weakest of stevie's big three albums, but it's really killer. just hit after hit after hit

Not their best, but pretty solid. A Forest is great.

what a drag

cant fully give it a 5 but its great if youre miserable

3.5

not the best smiths album, but it's got some great tunes. unsure why it's on this list but whatever i like it fine

like the smiths without johnny marr. I have a pretty high morrissey tolerance but this wore on me

jesus fucking christ this thing is long. It's pretty good but it just keeps going.

kind of like Loveless, but if it was only the songs i don't like. surprisingly dull.

I feel like I'd be betraying my younger self if I didn't give this a 5. It was a really foundational album for me (and for my dad, apparently). It's pop art!

3.5

2.5 its fine

it wasn't non-stop, wasn't particularly erotic, and was only kind of cabaret.

What is there to say that hasn't been said? It's pretty much perfect.

they just didn't really have it yet

hell yeah

Some of the reviews for this album are completely insane. How can you not love this? 4.5

hell yeah

its tough to come up with a rating for this one, cause I think upon relisten it would probably become a 5. I dunno. 4.5

First 4 songs are killer. The rest are fine. 3.5

fugazi better 3.5

To be honest everything that wasnt a hit on this album sucks. The hits are good enough to bring it up to 3 stars tho

3.5

I love The Killing Moon, but the rest of the album wasn't my thing. A bit of a letdown.

i love sonic youth. i dont think this a 5 star record. ill give it 4.5. I can't justify giving it anything lower.

2.5

3.5

IM NOT A BIG FAN OF THE GOVERNMENT wreeeoweoworwowwowoawoaaow

of all the radiohead albums I think this is the one you need to hear the least before you die. kid a but less good

not my thing, but im glad i listened to it.

Id like this more if the tunes were less repetitive.

fuck off

Inspired pretty much all the music that I like so I have to give it 4 stars for that alone

yeah ok this is great

certified kitchen music

best MJ album

sick album cover

The banger-to-stinker ratio here is very clean. The good songs are very good. I'm still a blur loyal though

obligatory oasis mention

the first time I listened to this album I thought it was kind of irritating. Upon relisten I have no idea what the fuck I was thinking because this thing rules. I bet hearing this in 1978 was fucking crazy.

best smiths album (not really but it's still great)

yet another Pretty Good Simon & Garfunkel Record. I'm not as sick of these guys as my parents are, so I think I'm a bit less hard on them. And it's short. That's always good. 3.5

its fine. its a dance album. i get it. 2.5

4.5 but im rounding up this time. so good. why isnt midnight marauders on this list though? that one's also great. go listen to it.

mom is going to use this to spread the gospel of saint bongiovi. he seems lovely. i just wish he made better music. it's mass market radio rock. its fine. 2.5

good shit

the second best band to ever come out of sheffield

I am so tired of british people

Dylan at his most Dylan. I've always been more of a Highway 61 guy myself. 4.5

it gets to a point

2.5

that damn harmonica

I'm not usually a big zeppelin guy but I can't deny that this one rules

extremely three star album. the fact that this is on the list is amusing to me. this is one of those albums I remember liking in high school but seemingly forgot all about the moment that I graduated. standing next to me is still a tune though

IF YOU DONT EAT YER MEAT YOU CANT HAVE ANY PUDDING I feel kinda bad giving this a 3 because I'm very much influenced by my parents and their anti-pink floyd biases and also I didn't pay a ton of attention to the lyrics or story or whatnot but I just don't really like rock operas. sorry. 3.5 cause I can appreciate how objectively important it is

3.5

electric

Undeniably dated, and a bit ridiculous, but I kind of love it. And Buffalo Stance is a 10/10 song.

the unlistenable string band

Started strong but petered out near the end. 3.5

sure. whatever

A few years ago I took this class on American pop music & jazz, where the professor would take us through the history of American music each week. I remember when we got to this stuff, swing and big band, I loved it in class because it was such an exciting departure from the lame, stuffy, boring music hall stuff we had heard before. When I got home and listened to it again, it wasn't as good, because I was listening to it in between listening to more modern music. All of this is to say, context is important here - records that were mind-blowing then aren't always mind-blowing now. Or something like that.

much twangier than I expected. also, I'm issuing an apology to my mother for that one time she couldn't go to a meat puppets concert because my sister and I were fighting. sorry, mom. I'm sure she started it.

I would have assumed you needed to be high to understand this, but I was stoned out of my mind when I listened to it and I found it annoying, and it wasn't much better when I revisited it sober. Once again applying what I said in my Basie review that you have to take into account that nothing sounded like this at the time...but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

Despite a few duds, this album rules. I think I have to give it a 5 on principle because those first 5 tracks are so good

I know a couple of these songs from when Claire forced us to watch the eras tour movie. I liked this album. Ive listened to her last two albums when they came out and they were truly dreadful, so this was a pleasant surprise. It's nice to hear her sing songs that actually work for her voice. A lot of the time it sounds like she's trying too hard, but here she sounds like she's in her element. Shame it didn't stick. 3.5

3.5...or, 3.6 I guess, cause I liked it slightly more than the last album

It has its moments, but it's very long, especially for an album from 1955

it's always fun to see an album with the post-hardcore tag, even though this wasn't really my bag. A little too jaunty for my tastes.

Maybe it's because the culture I grew up in was much more accepting of "inauthentic" music artists than they were in the 60s, but I never saw the fact that The Monkees were manufactured as that big of a deal. Of course it's manufactured! It's pop music! In fact, if anything, it made them even more interesting: a group put together in a cynical attempt to capture the attention of young people, made up of genuine artists (Well, three artists. My apologies to Davy Jones, but he was pretty undeniably the "cute one" and the weakest link musically.) who fought for creative control of their music. That said, I don't know if this is the best showcase of them as a band. It's a lot of songs that sound like The Beatles. I would have put The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees (the one with Daydream Believer) or the soundtrack from HEAD...but I'm not the one writing the list. This record is a 3.5.

what can you say

a personal favorite of mine

not my favorite talking heads record, but still pretty damn good.

Unfortunately, as good as the good songs on this record are, I think the level of absolute stinkers on it bring it down from a 4 to a 3.

I don't feel...wait, that isn't on this one

I would take less offense to this if Ram (the infinitely superior Paul solo album) was on the list

one of the best to ever do it. an absolute tour de force of songwriting from front to back. a tribute to nostalgia and how you can look back as much as you want, but you can never go back to the past. The Kinks knew how to write a good pop song and no album of theirs showcases this better.

Not their best, not their worst. Shadow of a doubt has a special place in my heart, though.

2.5. i get the appeal i guess. maybe ill fully get it one day

stars are a concept by which we measure our pain

2.5. i liked a few of the songs but most of them were way too sappy for me

3.5

Swedish band SHOCKS Japanese public by making perfect shibuya-kei album

2.5 i get it