1001 Albums Summary

Shout is a great song

must have been incredible live 3/5

3/5 Hard to go back to old school rap lyrics Good beats

Solid all the way through

4.5/5

3/5 solely for I wanna be your dog, would have been substantially lower otherwise

Just a lot of clunkers - United, you don't have to be old to be wise, red white and blue etc Breaking the law is so much better than every other track it's notable. 3/5 for that alone otherwise would be lower

Such incredible bass lines...

Great guitarist but I never want to hear any of these songs again, possible exception for I'll wait which I wouldn't change the station on 3/5 if I could've stripped out the vocals

You only remember the hits, but the hits are good..

Oh it's good

Hey little rich girl a standout, just not a ska person I suppose

Ugh rod stewart isn't my bag Talented musicians playing music I don't really enjoy Wouldn't change the station on "stay with me" I guess?

I had heard the title song in isolation and didn't care for it (rhyming gangster with star??) In context it makes sense Great album

My god it's too long There are moments...the outro to we're not going to take it, pinball wizard...few and far between Much much better live but after more than an hour I don't have the will to go all the way through the live discs too Studio 2 live 3+

Legalize it is possibly my least favorite song on this album, rough start Some lovely moments 3

I should like this more than I do - 80s indie, intricate arrangements, nice voice - just nothing sticks with me. 3?

Might be my first 1 Ages poorly across the board

Songs run longer than needed Easy 4 tho

It's just fine I should probably be really impressed by the production esp. given the time I wouldn't change the station But nothing is moving me

Dark, interesting Probably could be a 5/5 if I gave it enough listens, but on first pass a solid 4

That'll be the day is a bop

Perfect for the background Wasn't an actively unpleasant experience Don't want to listen to again

Open up your fruit cage earbleach please But catchy in places

Incredibly consistent, fantastic, instant classic

Mixed bag, graham coxon is genius

Not smart enough for can Still enjoyed

Fantastic start to finish, great samples, smooth deliveries

Didn't think this would be so rough but I had to skip a few songs halfway through. Genuine moments of greatness (message in a bottle, the little chorus riff of walking on the moon) but everything else is all over the place, songs get repetitive internally, and just in general not my bag 3 but close to a 2

First listen I was at a five, relisten brought back to a strong four. Great drums, great guitar

Adult books is a bop! Like punkier Blondie at first but really all over the place..might improve on many relistens but first impressions are solid

Meat loaf always sounds like he's enjoying himself, but you don't always want to hear a rock musical?

It won't always be the vibe you're looking for but if it is...easy five, this album has been looping for a few hours and I haven't minded one bit

Solid most of the way through, some classic earworms, not really my genre but a good 4

Very very good

Too 80s for today 2 with regret

They're very good at their instruments I just don't like the genre they like to play But I didn't think i would ever give a Steely Dan or Steely Dan-adjacent album more than a two, and here it is at three?

Juvenile, grating, and I just don't enjoy the beastie boys triple-headed rap-every-other-word thing I'm glad they had more fun recording this than I had listening

What can I say, it's a classic for a reason

Whether you're in the market for blatant misogyny (stupid girl, under my thumb) or absolute snore-fests (going home, I am waiting), the Stones have you covered Fuck all the way off

A very long collection of very similar songs Not my bag Reflexively want to rate higher than I actually feel about it because I'm aware of my historical + genre biases But I don't want to hear anything from this album again Dnf after the first verse of Knoxville girl, what the actual fuck

Didn't know what to expect, loved it. Very funny too

Songs are about twice as long as needed But fine?

Always interesting, sometimes not my cup of tea, on balance v. good

She could sing the alphabet and it'd be five stars

Back half of the album hit better than the front half, but did we really need another version of papa was a rolling stone?

They had more fun recording than I had listening Ending with a Bowie cover puts the rest of the album in perspective unflatteringly Probably a lot of fun live

Some interesting sounds Some irritating sounds Mostly fine sounds 2

I got COVID for the first time at a Pulp show and it was undoubtedly worth it

The black keys on release were the saviors of rock and roll if I remember right That doesn't hold up so well, but it's an ok bluesy rock album

What's happening is a great song, eight miles high is an REM song 15 years ahead of its time. Great guitar tone! Rest of the album pretty scattershot, including some of the singles - the fourth measure of "why" just neuters all momentum, feels like self-sabotage 3 but good to hear the influences

We are family is a massive song - and with the incomparable Bernard Edwards of Chic on bass how couldn't it be! - but I have forgotten the rest of the album

The two 7+ minute songs (graveyard train, keep on "chooglin", together approx half the album by length!) keep it from a 5. Hit or miss but when they hit...

Just incredible!!

Ray of light, skin both bangers

Very generic 80s.

What drum speed!

Overly self-indulgent at 1h15? Absolutely. Is Jamaican jerk-off just a terrible song? Absolutely! Do some of the lyrics ("dirty little girl", "social disease") not age so well? Absolutely!! But it's also fantastic stuff, generally

Doesn't sound like anyone else, incredible

Bongos bad Sin good Not my bag

Some good stuff in here (chicken dog comes to mind) but I can't justify the length, it's an avalanche of improv and rambling

Five on the front, four on the back

A masterpiece, what else can be said!

Immigrant song and celebration day are pretty good but it's downhill from there for me. Robert Plant's upper register is a nails-on-chalkboard sound to me. Extremely talented musicians playing music I don't enjoy. Similar to Faces in that regard?

Always interesting

Good chamber pop, even better lyrics. Improves on relistens, worth checking out the rest of his work

Every once in a while there's a hint of a temperature above tepid — the intro to "Shiver", "High Speed" has some nice bits — but Coldplay is dedicated to stopping any momentum in its tracks. Do they punch it up when they play stadiums?

In addition to dolly being an excellent person, the second half of the album is particularly great - never met a man she didn't like, early morning breeze is like a smile made into a song, here I am is massive

I won't pretend to know a tenth of what's going on here, but I know good sounds when I hear them. Then I read the wiki entry and it's all improvised?! Jazz is wild man

What a self-assured debut album

Like Kate Bush with a harp singing cryptic fairy tales. Unlike anything else I've listened to, great stuff

A concept album from the 60s that doesn't suck! Probably my favorite kinks album too

Great music, tragic he passed in 2020

Lot of skips on this one, and even the hits...I wouldn't change the radio station but I wouldn't be singing along either

Feeling alright is great Most of this is fine, but you gotta be in the mood for it

I think crystalised and the intro hold up, but I had forgotten how sleepy most of the album is.

It kept looping and I kept not turning it off

I want to hear the saxophonists album instead

I think I agree with their politics but I can't agree with their music

Not all jazz is boring but this jazz is 2

Excellent stuff

Really enjoyed this! Incredible vocal range

It's not cool to like steely dan, but I'm finding it hard to actively dislike them? The arrangements are great, they come dangerously close to rocking out occasionally – it's just not quite my genre but clearly some talented folks

Breathy, inoffensive, middle of the road surprised this made a superlative list?

Some solid stuff, overly long and not so consistent for me

I'm with the priests of the temple of syranix on this one - "it's just a waste of time"

The hits are earworms and the non hits are still really interesting songs

One or two misses but everything else is so good it doesn't matter

Self esteem is such a great song The rest is ok

Not an all-hits no-filler like armed forces etc but some pretty great songs in here nonetheless

Feels ahead of its time but not did grab me. Did make me check out the rest of their catalog though! Recommend "sick of food"

I prefer unhinged maximalist nick cave but sad piano nick cave is still pretty great

RIP Brian Wilson

Some solid songs, some really long and uninteresting ones (shortest straw! Shortest strawww!)

I do not like the average LCD Soundsytem song. I find it repetitive, and annoying. Once I got stuck listening to "Yr city is a sucker" with no ability to change the song and it was possibly the worst thing I had ever heard. "New York I love you but you're bringing me down" is good

He can play but I don't like what he's playing and then it's also live?? Noo

It's just not catchy enough to be so preachy, and the chipmunk soul thing just ages less well every year

Some great songs on here (anyone who had a heart, I only want to be with you) but the for the most part I wished I was listening to Diana Ross instead

My God it's so long If it weren't for trampled under foot this would be an easy 2

Beautiful day is a good song, if overplayed. I still wouldn't put it on a playlist. The Edge is the redeeming factor here, even stinkers like New York have some really cool guitar bits.

It's not even in my top three REM albums and it's still phenomenal

Wild uncompromising music, incredible lyrics

It's not just come on Eileen and it never has been! Justice for dexys!

Hospital is a great tune

Just doesn't go anywhere. Maybe it didn't help I was already stressed out when listening to this album

It is guitar hero music, it does not move me

It's a 5, very easy, no doubt. Dre popping up awkwardly as is tradition is fine. ...except poetic justice kinda sucks, and I blame Drake for that

Another dexys album so soon after the first - also pretty solid! Come on Eileen is of course a bop, but you know what song is slept on? Plan B! Plan B is phenomenal, with the exception of the extremely radio unfriendly intros dexys seems fond of. Almost a willful refusal to get as popular as their talent deserved tbh

Sprawling, self-indulgent, full of character. Can any album this size be all bangers? Couldn't I just tell you is a power pop exemplar. I don't like "I saw the light" though, and unfortunately most of the album is more in that vein

The hits are great, the rest really aren't

I do love the dandys

I think of myself as someone who likes daft punk, but maybe I'm just someone who likes discovery and a few songs off RAM, because this was not a fun listen for me

I just can't stand the genre and I can't help it

I'd rather listen to the Band

It's an entire album of morning alarm sounds and ringtones. Saved from a one by heroic efforts of synchronicity II alone

I like the people they're compared to. I don't like them. Early in the album has intriguing jangle vibes, quickly dissipating into bloodlessness.

When it's good it's incredible, I just don't like nico that much

I wanted to like this more. Undeniably talented. I just wish he started recording 20 years later and we could have escaped the sheer 80s-ness. I don't like it, I don't want to hear it again

Great voice, probably not evolved enough to enjoy every song. Free will and testament a standout for me

Whiskey bar is godawful Flashes of brilliance, long stretches of boredom and jamming And I wrote the above before the 11+ minute closing track, with such lyrical insight as "ride the snake" and "the west is the best"

Great voice, just not my genre

The first song being great was offset by the second one being bad and that's kinda neutral in the end

One of my favorite finds so far, what a blend of genres! Very talented songwriter, turns out he wrote the good songs on the first Byrds album too

Such a disappointment, especially on the heels of Ziggy

Nice voice, maybe just too mellow for the day

Brilliant voice, entirely too long, listened to the best of and didn't feel deprived

Kids got overplayed, this album has no filler. Didn't appreciate it when it was current, sure do now

Dreary, meandering

I won't claim it's all bangers ("little ghost" followed by the timeless "denial twist" is a wild sequence) but when it's good it's incredible

The worst is they slip in some good parts, so you know they could have made an album you wanted to listen to

Good musicianship The songs don't stick with me

The visitors is so long to not have a catchy part Head over heels is great, one of us is great, two for the price of one is goofily catchy But the ballads are plentiful and interchangeable 3 despite some bright spots

It's fine

Somewhere between Andrew Bird and Beck? Oddly compelling stuff

Listened too easy I'm just not a jazz person yet

Like a prayer is great and the random chamber pop song in the middle was fun

It's really really good

Interesting sounds! With enough listens it would probably click

Very back-loaded, and it's because side B is mostly singles - disappointing, generally enjoy their music but maybe it's just their final album that I think of

Once the children's chorus comes in I'm done and Leonard Cohen did it to me TWICE

Incredible, you can hear their influence on so many later bands

WEFUNK

The riff on buffalo stance is an earworm, manchild is lovely - you can hear how some of this is absolutely ahead of its time, but there's so much that is very 80s rhyming and drums...

Better than studio Who but still not my bag

Interesting and different, sounds timeless. Just didn't stick with me

It's a fun listen if a wildly all-over-the-place one. He's having so much fun recording and producing!

Booming and zooming grew on me a lot, great song

Didn't like it on first listen, grew on me steadily. Lot going on here! Wonder what an associates album recorded in the '00s would have sounded like, the 80s instrumentation can get distracting

Why wouldn't I just listen to Stevie Wonder

Some gems in here - gotta get up has been my alarm for years - but a bit too slow generally for me

It's the most fun I've had with a Who album but that's a low bar for me

It's not unlistenable just annoying as fuck to listen to

All fine and straight ahead but 'jailbeat' is a dealbreaker holy shit

Even when axl rose is singing about doin' my sister it still kinda rocks

Cock rock for shlock jocks Little dreamer is alright

Broken arrow is a fun song

incredible album, one of my favorites I've gotten from this list. How did I sleep on Cocteau Twins??

I'm a big fan of the arctic monkeys but the strings just don't do it for me

I just don't like the sounds

Weird, fun

Blank space is as much of a bop as bad blood isn't, perfect symmetry. It all averages out

It's fine. Making whoopie is a mistake of a song.

One of the quirkier britpop entries, good fun

It can be influential and also not fun to listen to yes

Fell in love with a girl may be the perfect two minute song

Some of the sounds were very bad but mostly it was ok

New order is more fun to listen to, I said it

I didn't think I liked it that much but then I kept letting it loop so I must?

It's fine

Turgid, a star given for sympathy for the devil which I don't even like

One star awarded for maggie may

Inoffensive, not memorable

Cheesy 80s sounds still can't keep cohen down

I wanted there to be a hidden hit I had missed. There were just the two I already knew (our house, house of fun). Alas

Tedious, not even jarvis can save this

Too noodley

Big iron is a bop

I'll be damned there IS a rolling stones that I enjoy!!

really annoying psychedelic belle & sebastian

A three but a strong and interesting three - going to listen to more Japan for sure

You skip the two sitar songs and dr roberts but everything else is so good...

They're very good at their instruments but I don't like the sounds they're making

-1 for o'malleys bar

I can't give it a 5 because it's obviously all over the place but some of my favorite songs are on this - you could cut it to an incredible 12-15 song album no problem

Well I like who they influenced but I can't particularly say I like them

If it weren't for purple rain it would be a 2 for me

Eh

Too noodlely by the end

Thank you for bjork

Boring, fine?

Tiny dancer is so much better than the rest of the album

Not my speed

Herculean head and shoulders above the rest of the album, which is fine

Certainly ahead of its time, not consistently listenable, but some great tracks on here (lowlife especially)

Great storytelling, couldn't tell if I enjoyed musically

...and I like some Robert wyatt!

Lot of filler, the singles can't be written off

Coldplay-esque, in the worst of ways

Music to get put on hold to

Mainly for little red corvette and the incredible lyrics to international lover

If it weren't for American girl it'd be a 2

I'm twee for life and I won't pretend I'm not

Dum dum diddle most songs are in the middle but the hits you can hum and ABBA is fun

Fear fun is right

The middle bit in America was alright