1001 Albums Summary

Very good.

yes. all of this.

Great winter listen

Felt like I was living in an episode of smallville

The soundtrack to any 80s movie with a cop

Probably over-indexing because it's the first listenable album this week.

Just fine background music while cooking dinner

I didn’t know Neil young couldn’t sing

Notes as I listen: Songs 1-5: This is so boring I’m considering switching over to Megadeth Song 6: Is the concept "gregorian chants over 80s techno"? Song 8: Put in my other earbud to see if that helped at all. Song 8: It didn't. Song 8: This is like when the most boring person you know starts telling a story about the children of people you don't know. Song 10: wtf is this Song 10: very upset that this is 14 songs long. Song 11: Was this album meant to be the background scoring for a movie? Summary: This is a fucking slog. Started as a gentleman's 3, but the more I listened the more I hated it.

super sympa. hyper cool. tres chouette. 5 etoiles.

Nailed the concept. Also, I cant fully grasp my own logic here— but I’m fairly certain Pure Moods would have never happened without this album.

This is chill. I think I might like Pink Floyd.

Thought I’d like this more.

I liked this album, but what I like more was when Spotify kept it rolling with old timey cowboy music. I like cowboy music.

Is Sameeda the NPR news theme?

Decent background noise while taking down Xmas decor. But not engaging in anyway. Would maybe use it as the music search prompt if I needed background music for a 60s themed cocktail party. In conclusion, this is background noise.

Too distracted by the cover

Someone shoulda told him to stop singing.

5/5 on my music to cook dinner to.

Brian Eno’s music for an alien abduction. “If we’re going to listen to artists from 80s horror soundtracks, I’d prefer Goblin” -John

Gimme gimme gimme. I am apparently a goober for bluesy rock.

Maybe it's because I was raised on early Beatles... but it just feels like music for kids.

I recently re-started using the gym at my office, and was reminded of the phenomenon wherein, the music in a predominantly "macho" environment is never what I expect. The 2010s weight rooms were always playing pseudo country era T-Swift. The high school football team would be bumping Nelly Furtado's first album. And now the weight room at work is playing slow K-Pop or something equally sleepy. Why is this? Why is it not Judas Priest? This is not my cup of tea, but god damn I'd rather have Judas Priest than anymore bubblegum ballads.

tolerable. barely.

living for the city? more like living for this album.

Rounding up for the cows

I was not looking forward to giving this a 5. Luckily, it's a 3.5. Rounding down for pedo-factor.

Elevated Love Is Blind filler music. A modern Depeche Mode.

Can anyone listen to Groove is in the Heart nowadays and NOT be transported to the twink's apartment recreation in Search Party?

Don’t ask me to explain this because I can’t: Fiona Apple, but as a space robot?

Honesty, could be worse. 3.5

Listened to it twice in a row. Good stuff.

The first song is in a foreign language. Every song sounds the same except their cover of Police & Thieves.

5 seconds in: 5 stars. Final verdict: Rolling Stones good.

Not for me. This is a demo. Who decided this record was ok to sell to people in exchange for money? Did they throw in 5-4=Unity just to remind the listener that music doesn’t have to be painful? Or did Spotify glitch and what I heard was actually by a different band.

Billy Cougan is not a pleasant listen.

Carol King wannabe without the likeability. This miiiight have been a gentlemen's 3 if not for the fact that Don McLean is a huge piece of shit, undeserving of gentlemanly grace.

When did I become a goober for this stuff? Who am I? This started strong but I got pretty bored real quick.

SOS- I’m drowning in nostalgia.

nope.

If Randy Newman was a wedding band

a nice groove. but every song is the same groove.

I’ll keep it in mind as background dinner party music. But honestly our favorite song turned out to be a Spotify ad.

10 Stars.

Hello darkness, my old friend

Another lead singer who only knows one note.

Chan Chan is easily top 100 song. And the rest of the album brings me back to the trip Liz and I took to Cuba in 2017 in that brief window when it was legal.

Had me from the opening riff

Some hits. Some duds.

Now I just wanna listen to the Seu Jeorge covers from life aquatic. Knocking down for pedo factor.

Like being in a dive bar that’s trying too hard.

If this album was just "The Chain" and then 45 minutes of Depeche Mode, it would still only drop to a 4.

The talking in the first song .... this is much cringier than I anticipated. As far as 90s NY coffee house goes... is this better or worse than Smelly Cat?

Once again, I’m learning I like led zeppelin

Hello high school me!

Not the most horrible thing on this list

think special, but not painful. solid 3.

Smooth. Narrative. Perfection.

It’s no “Hot August Night”

Not for me

It all sounded the same.

Shouty

I only learned of party lines a few years ago. I was excited for the Kinks. But ultimately disappointed there was no Lola or Apeman on this album.

Couldn’t finish

Didn’t know what this was going into it. Liked it.

Made it halfway through the first song and had to bail

Listened to this twice in a row

Pretty engaging for what it is. The moans were… unwelcome.

Stranger Things font. ... i do appreciate the pettiness of an entire song of "hope your birthday sucks because i dont like you"

You're telling me I can't enjoy All of the Lights or Runaway because this man stopped taking his pills 6 years later? Let me finish -- It is difficult to separate the art from the artist. But if Kanye had died before he stopped treating his mental issues, we would listen to this guilt-free. Tons of "acclaimed" men were was a huge piece of wife-beating shit (or worse) their whole lives. At least Kanye was within the bounds of acceptable when he made good music. Let me enjoy "george bush doesn't care about black people" Kanye. Let me enjoy "balding donald trump taking money from y'all" Kanye. (However, any music he made after he turned is fully unethical.)

So of its time and still so relevant.

Pre listen notes: Excited to listen. I don't recognize any of these songs by name, but I'm sure I know them. Post listen notes: I was wrong. I didn't know any of that. 3.5?

Snore

Is this our first jazz flute album? I wish the singer could be a little more in tune. The last song go really annoying in parts.

I didn’t know Hard Times by the Roots was a cover! This album far exceeded expectations.

Mother - no. I see what they were going for. but no. Working Class Hero - i like the song, but i can't take it seriously coming from john lennon.

The power ballads … he truly is the Beyoncé for middle america white men.

Wow!

This is music’s answer to Look Who’s Talking Too John thought two of the songs were actually adds on Spotify.

Good, but liked the straight bossa nova that auto played after better

Beautiful.

The beats were actually kind of decent, but completely wasted on this group. So repetitive, uncreative, and droning.

lady incubus. but realer. succubus. very good.

The coconut song!

Truly peak coffee shop era. As I listened, I realized my favorite songs of hers are actually on her next album, Feels Like Home. All in all, a delightful winter album that had the misfortune of showing up on the solstice in a heatwave.

2.5

Not as good as I remember. 3

I'm a cool guy hacker in the 90s. Started fine. turned into torture. Not gonna move to France anytime soon.

Holy shit. Casimir Pulaski Day made my cry within 20 seconds.

Fun. Point deduction for just being an album of covers

almost too consistent

Played the whole album on a road trip and did not notice.

Kinda boring

Generic 80s.

With small tweaks, I would be thrilled to hear this in a bar.

All bangers. Great crowd work.

My de. Tt hasn’t

Chill background music, but there’s nothing compelling. No reason it needs to be on the list

At least the audience seemed to like it

Works equally well in a country dive bar or a funky church.

Obviously they’re great. It’s just not something I can listen to to for hours

was not expecting honkey tonk.

snooze and no thank you.

Yikes.

I did not like this, but giving it a 3 instead of a 2 to avoid being banned from the chat.

Really good music to work to.

Why? This album is so mid, it annoys me.

The most Gentleman's 3 to ever 3. 2.5 Editing window update: This is a 2. I got to bored to finish it.

If fedoras were music.

What.

fart

Echo Dave - this started fine but dragged. It feels amateur.

As someone with no nostalgia for the talking heads... i dont really get it.

iPod nostalgia

very pretty.

surprising myself with this one. sounds like it should have been made in the 70s

Bored. But whatever.

This could be better

Do you think this is what he actually sounds like? Or is this a bit?

Good. Yes. Thanks.

You know when you go to karaoke and there's someone there who really really wants to prove their musical chops? Anyway, this album is not meant for me, it's meant for people who like Dear Evan Hanson. p.s. Why would you close your album with a song that's out of your range?

the "Waiting for You" hidden track really fucks up the vibe.

It’s all they do, and they do it well.

Many years ago, my dad and I drove 9 hours to drop my brother off at college. Then we turned around and started to drive home. To stay awake, I suggested my dad drink a can of Monster. I found this CD in the console and put it on. It promptly lulled me to sleep. I woke up several hours later to my dad white-knuckling the steering wheel tweaked out on energy drinks, listening to Tapestry on repeat. I offered to take over driving but he was “GOOD“. So we drove the rest of the way home still listening to this on repeat. Core memory. Five stars.