1001 Albums Summary

The funk is not in me.

A classic in so many ways. Beyond anything else, bunch of bangers tbh.

Can there be such a thing as too 80s and too much synth? This album proves that yes, yes there can.

The hits are hits - but this whole style is just not for me.

I enjoyed this - not peak Bowie but the frenetic energy at the beginning in particular is great.

I’m sorry but I hate U2.

Not entirely sure what this was all about, but it was fun and interesting and different. Can’t argue with that.

This is very silly hair metal and I kinda love it but also it’s dumb. Lol.

This was perhaps the most fun I had with an album that was new to me so far. However, why was it so LONG.

I can imagine loving this dude so much if you were 15 when you heard this for the first time, ya know?

God I do not care for ABBA.

Super interesting to list to this after Abbey Road and see the growth that happened. Bunch of these songs slap tho.

Fuck it, 5 stars. I was too young but I get it, ya know? This one, I get it.

This is everything I hate about rock and roll.

This was better and more interesting than I’d expected given, ya know, sledgehammer. An interesting piece of rock history.

The punk moments work for me, but alas, the jazz and rap do not so much. Still. Big points for being interesting and diverse and trying something new.

Unfortunately the good songs are the ones I have heard before and the songs I have not heard are not good. Alas.

This was an interesting one - a few excellent songs and a satisfactory folky vibe, but as a complete body of work, slightly lacking.

I was ready for low fi stoner beats and I got them. Then I remembered I don’t care for lofi stoner beats.

Do you like jazz! Sometimes, yes!

I hated this album.

I know cowboy is having a moment and objectively his voice is lovely - but I simply could not bring myself to engage with this.

This funk I can get behind.

I was 23 when this came out. Five stars.

A pleasant surprise - is The Boss kind of… emo? Reminded me of the gaslight anthem a bit, and the whole ‘gotta get out of this town’ mentality is familiar and enjoyable. Not bad.

This is probably more like a 4.5 for me - the great songs are truly great, plaintive and haunting and universal, but there are a few misses too. But I love Neil Young.

Goddamn this is a good time. I wanna be at that party.

So I love David Bowie. But this album just didn’t really catch me - too 70s?? To much synth?? It’s hard to say.

Annie Lennox is cool and has a good voice, and there are a few fun ideas. However unfortunately I hate synths when not used judiciously bad maybe just hate the 80s?? Overall found this pretty boring.

I accept this is good big band/swing. However I do not like big band/swing. The first few songs I thought were funky and then it just… kept… going. And no vocals!! I can’t.

Honestly I thought I would enjoy this but I didn’t expect how much. So many a classics and even the ones I didn’t know are classics. Songbird an unexpected delight.

This takes me to high school 2000s drunk in a paddock feelings that I believe the kids these days are calling indie sleaze.

I like heavy music, I do - but I didn’t like this. Really at all. Bummer.

This is the least offensive form of disco for me - the songs are funky but boring, the voices are beautiful but the melodies are repetitive. Firmly middle of the road.

I would never have listened to this album except for this project. It’s actually beautiful and sad - she is a storyteller and it’s all about working class struggles - and I enjoyed it quite a lot.

I enjoyed this! It felt remarkably current given how old it is. Vibes.

This surprised me for a Fooeys album - it’s more raw and more grunge and to be honest, more like nirvana than the shiny stuff that came later. A bit repetitive though and nothing reached out and grabbed me in the way that grunge can when done well.

Love that aesthetic, not that into the record.

You could feel the David Bowie in this. However it failed to rise to the heights of David Bowie. A couple of bangers but broadly, disappointingly, mid.

Ehhhhhh. Funk is just not for me I’m SORRY. Also my greatest moment of interest was when I spotted a Hamilton reference so that says it all.

This was pretty and fun but big band gets same-y to me after a while.

Not even sorry this really does rule.

Fella has a big and beautiful voice but overall just okay.

I liked this a lot, with Waterloo sunset the standout.

Moody dreamy kinda goth vibes. He’s a sad boy. I liked it (shocker).

This was more boring than anything else, to be honest. Bittersweet symphony is a pretty good song though.

I missed this at the time but it had an absolute chokehold on so many people I know. It’s pretty good and has some good emotional beats.

Gen x sad boi.