1001 Albums Summary

+Hard Headed Woman

+ Thrasher, Powderfinger, Welfare Mothers, Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

+Our Lips Are Sealed, How Much More, We Got The Beat

Boooo!

lol

Blur albums are rubbish

unlistenable garbage

BOOOOO

LMFAO

Hated this a lot

it was fine

garbage

jesus this sucked lol. the gangbang song made me lol though.

This has been a regular listen since my early high school years. An absolute classic that I'm more than happy to revisit for the sake of the 1001 list. I'll keep my review short and to the point. Where "Loveless" is the feeling of being under soft warm blankets on a cold winter night, Isn't anything" is laying on the cold floor of that same cold winter night. There's a true darkness to this record.

fun stuff

You know, it really had its moments I enjoyed, but I really felt most of this was pretty bad. Looking into the group, it seems that it's some sort of anonymous collective. I think I just like some of the musicians involved significantly more than the other ones. I'm just not the target audience for this record. Also, those ASMR interludes were borderline unlistenable lol.

Enjoyable but not mindblowing.

Bumper sticker that says "I'd Rather Be Listening To Fleetwood Mac's 1979 Double LP "Tusk""

We live in a society

Well I still don't like this band, but I didn't hate this. Mostly just thought it was boring.

Pretty good starting out, falls off hard on the B side. Solid rock and roll music.

My least favorite Neil Young record I've heard so far, but still great!

Leave it to Damon to make incredibly boring shit I can't even try to care about. Only reason why Gorillaz are occasionally good is because of outside influence from artists they collaborate with, this man is just terrible.

Solid record from a legend, some classic tracks on here.

As a record, it's not that exciting to me, but the singles are classics.

What a nice surprise! Was wondering why her voice sounded so familiar, turns out she was in Slapp Happy. I used to listen to their record "Slapp Happy or Slapp Happy" a ton many years ago so this was a nice way to revisit a record that I had forgotten about. I can see a lot of people absolutely hating this, but I personally love it. Music itself is quite different than what is present in her other projects. What I understand is that this is Dagmar performing a bunch of standards by Hanns Eisler. Entertaining album but very dark, and just like everything else associated with the cantterbury scene, outspokenly leftist. Reminded me a lot of the Jun Togawa and Koji Ueno project Guernica. Need to revisit that sometime.

YEEEEEOW I’m the man who roooocks!

Other than the track "Joy", I definitely didn't hate it, but this did absolutely nothing for me. I'm not the target audience for this, and that's ok. Definitely competent for what it is.

Can't tell if this actually impressed me or if I was just in the perfect mood to listen to it today. Either way, loved it.

I've known about the title track for many years, but this is my first time actually listening to the record. What a fucking shame. This is pretty much exactly what I want to hear when I listen to psych. Perfect record.

I don't know, doesn't really do it for me. Don't hate it, just found it to be alright. None of my favorite Stones tracks are on it either. All I could think about was eating at Bill Wyman's mediocre restaurant of the same name which I guess is now closed. I should get some BBQ soon. Puilled pork sandwiches are my favorite food tbh.

Pretty forgettable, first track was cool though. They've got much better in their discography.

Well this is the first radiohead record I've heard that I don't know a single song off of, so that's funny. It has its moments, but like any other radiohead record, it becomes nauseatingly british and I end up disliking it.

Not overtly offensive in any way but it bored me to fucking tears

What can I really say that hasn't already been said? Not my favorite Slayer record (that title goes to [Album6129]), but that doesn't change the fact that it is a perfect album. So incredibly influential to essentially everything I love in the more extreme fringes of music. Absolute classick. Listen at the volume of 10,000 armageddons or F.O.A.D.!!!!!!!!!!

Smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooth. Enjoyed a lot.

I enjoyed it but it didn't quite reach the potential I felt it had.

I mean, it's important I guess.

Really wanted to not like this, but what can you do?

Dangerously close to veering into bad territory, but stays firmly planted in boring/not for me territory instead.

Really hated this. Musically it wasn't my thing in the slightest, but the factors that made this a giant pile of shit were the vocal performance/lyrical content. A concept album about a pedophile and a vocal performance that was quite literally the sonic equivalent to getting molested by an ugly as fuck french freak. There were a couple of interesting moments musically, but not nearly enough to soften my opinion on it. Garbage.

Continuing with the pedophile bullshit from this list, we get arguably the most important record in the peppers discography. As fucking stupid and corny this shit is, I can never hate it. Growing up in SoCal with two gen x parents who both loved this band quite a bit made their music a big part of my life. Listening to any of it takes me back to being a little kid. I don't fault anyone for not liking it, and I know I'd hate it too if I had a different upbringing, but it's just too entwined into my life.

Competent but very boring

The fucking french pedophile Serge Gainsbourg strikes again! For real though, I feel like the bot is fucking with me, I hope I never have to think of this fucker again. You know what was terrible? I saw that one video of him a few years ago and I thought it was hilarious, the one where a chorus of like 50 kids comes out on stage dressed as him to sing one of his songs? Without context that video is AWESOME, but with context of who this guy was it's insane. Like "hey guys remember that fucking incestuous pedophile we love for some reason? Let's surprise him with a bunch of kids singing to him!" Like LOL. Who thought this was a good idea? French people are fucking weird man, I don't know Oh yeah the David Holmes record sucked.

haha funny beard. TV dinners sounds like a Tim & Eric song.

I fall for slacker rock pretty easily and this is no exception, enjoyed this one a lot.

Total classic, Sick shit. Love this one. I was at band practice the other night and while we were chilling, we found out that they were playing a secret LA show right at that moment. How fucked up is that?

Had some very strong moments but overall pretty boring to me. Had no idea the lime in the coconut song was gonna be on here lmao.

I've known of this movie forever, but I still haven't checked it out yet. Gotta change that immediately. Gave this one a listen during a night drive down PCH and felt like a pimp the entire time.

Used to listen to this one quite a bit back in high school but it eventually fell through the cracks, well due for a revisit. I think I like it even more than I did back in the day. What a great record.

Competent performance but a total snoozefest

Well, I don't think this here album was all that great, uh-huh! But then again, I ain't never been too keen on his records, so what does it matter, baby? I'm gonna keep on gettin' 'em made, and I gotta give 'em a look-see. I catch myself talkin' like the King in my car when I'm ridin' solo, complete with the 'whoa mama's' and 'thank you very much'es.' It's a whole lotta fun, try it out sometime baby!

What a nice surprise! The middle section of this record kinda brings things down a bit, but the front and back ends are ridiculous. Super catchy, well written, everything I want out of this style of music. I will be revisiting this one again soon.

Look, I know I'm far from the first person to complain about this, but the amount of 60s/70s white british guy rock on the 1001 is starting to get to me. There's too much of it. Anyway this was pretty boring.

Something on this list that while I have not actually checked out, I have been aware of for a decent chunk of my life and would have inevitably checked out. Honestly? Pretty decent! Not entirely my thing but it was nice actually listening to it after hearing about it all these years. RIP Poly Styrene!

Well here's another Common album. This is only the second record I've heard from him, the other being Like Water for Chocolate (which I hated), and I was expecting to hate this too. Honestly? A lot better than that one. This made a lot of sense when I realized Kanye was deeply involved with this record. Makes sense! Still not for me though.

Been a very long time since I've listened to this one, so it was well due for a revisit. What a beautiful record. One of those records that really makes me feel. Gonna have to get a copy sometime, don't own this one.

Was excited to revisit this one and see how I felt, but unfortunately it was pretty much exactly how I remembered it. Not bad, but definitely not for me.

Good stuff! Had a fun time with this one. Unfortunately, it reminded me of the fact that there is 100% a band I know that does a cover of Teenage Kicks and I cannot fucking find out who it is. I've been searching the internet for like an hour to no avail. What the fuck!

Complete garbage

The beach boys but worse

It's a classic, what can you say? I might not like it as much as other people, but I gotta admit it rocks.

Enjoyed this, but nothing stuck with me. I feel like there may be other things in this band's discography I'd like more. Oh also, fucking hate their Mrs. Robinson cover. It's on the same level as that Alien Ant Farm Smooth Criminal cover. Not even kidding.

This was a difficult one for me in a few different ways. First: this would be my first time ever listening to a full Cash album, which is a very awkward point to start within his discography (list didn't even give me At Folsom Prison first? Not even At San Quentin?? C'mon list!). I just feel very weird starting on this record despite being very familiar with the concept of the record and as well as a few of the songs contained within it (which actually leads me to my second point). Second: The Nine Inch Nails cover is impossible for me to take seriously. I think it's one of the funniest things ever. Like look, it's objectively a GREAT cover, to the point where I'm convinced many people who aren't into music would think it's an original. That being said, this song is the basis of an incredibly juvenile ytp video that I've loved for many many years. I cannot hear this song and not laugh about it. Every time I hear this song I have "and you could have it all/my empire of dick, everyone I fuck cums in my ass yeah, I focus on the asshole/the only thing that's real" stuck in my head for the rest of the day. This cover being track 2 really set the mood for the rest of the listening experience. Third: I don't know many of the covers on here! While I might recognize many of the artists featured to help record these songs (John Frusciante, Fiona Apple, Nick Cave, etc.), the only real covers I instantly recognized while looking at the tracklist were the Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Hank Williams, and The Beatles covers. None of these covers necessarily had any deep impact on me (other than the Hurt cover for purely comedic reasons), which sucks because In My Life is an incredibly emotional song for me, and for reasons that are somewhat similar to the circumstances leading to this record! (a dying old person). The covers just do nothing for me. Maybe it's because I wasn't raised on country music. I have no deep connection with Cash. The only country artist I can say I actually truly enjoy is Hank Williams, and Cash's cover didn't necessarily impress me. That being said, I didn't hate it. I'm completely broke and drank my final two beers while listening to this, so I kinda felt it harder than I would have otherwise. RIP

The highs on this are SO high... but the rest is pretty whatever. Always loved Stepping Stone. The OG, Monkees version, Minor Threat version... all great.

Went into this one blind. I have heard the name XTC, but had no idea what they sounded like. Definitely expected some very, VERY, 80s shit a la The Human League or something, but this is some kind of (very 80s) psychedelia. Liked this way more than I expected. If you ignore the eyeroll inducing lyrics it's pretty fun.

There's people among us who listen to this and think it's really good. Chilling.

Pretty great! Liked this one a lot.

While I've always kind of been averse to the east coast boom bap style hip hop, this is truly the gold standard in my book. I don't think I've heard this record in full since high school, so it was very nice to revisit. I don't think my opinion has changed all that much even with time and perspective. It just really is a classic, great record.

Live album of very well performed cool jazz. Cool.

One of the really prominent grunge bands I've never given any time to until now. Influential? Sure. Enjoyable? Not really. I can appreciate its legacy but I will almost certainly never revisit this.

Don't think I've actually ever listened to this record in full which is funny. I remember having [Album4577] on CD as a kid, don't really know why. The standout tracks on this record (Jump, Panama, Hot For Teacher) are undeniable classics that I enjoy quite a bit, but I can't really imagine going back to the record in full ever again in my life. Still cool to finally listen to it though.

Nah

Forgettable madchester garbage.

I enjoyed this a lot, don't get me wrong, but it's absolutely one of those cases where its legacy and what it inspired is more important to me than the record itself. Many moments on this I loved a lot, and it's truly a fantastic record, but it just isn't fully for me. Just one of those things. A record I absolutely agree should be in the canon that I won't revisit frequently apart from a select number of songs.

I love the early smiths, quite a bit actually. More than I'd probably let on. I don't like this at all. The only song on here I like (love actually) is last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. The rest varies between complete shit and boring. Don't get people who love this record.

There's two songs on this album you know. There's a reason why they're the only two you know.

Weirdly, at least to the best of my knowledge, the first time I have ever listened to a Led Zeppelin album in full. Fairly familiar with almost every single song on here, so it's not like there were any surprises for me, but anyway my thoughts on this as a cohesive album... As far as "classic rock" goes, pretty much as good as it gets. I get everything on here and click with it immediately, it's immensely influential to so much of the music I listen to on a daily basis, and contains some genuinely great performances from every member. That being said, I can't really ever see myself listening to this as an album listening experience again. Makes it very hard to rate. Cause it's "good", I just don't really like it that much! I don't know what to say. It is what it is. Whatever. Also stairway to heaven is probably the single most overplayed and overrated rock song of all time alongside free bird (which I actually like a lot for the record lol). Would gladly never listen to stairway to heaven again.

Great record. I never loved this band as much as others though. I really love certain songs from them across their discography, but I have to be in a really specific mood to actually throw a whole record on.

I know a lot of people consider this one his masterpiece, but not me. It's been a while since I've heard this one (like over 10 years at least), but my opinion has not really changed. It's good, but I don't really see myself relistening again anytime soon. Some great tracks, some ok tracks. Not what I really want from Bowie. The history/story behind this record is much more interesting than the music itself.

I'm very familiar with the singles/famous songs throughout Bowie's career, as well as many of the deeper cuts on his 70s material, but for whatever reason I think this the first time I've actually listened to this record full. Probably my least favorite of his acclaimed records, but still good. I kind of dislike the really piano rock heavy side of 70's Bowie like Hunky Dory (ironic considering life on mars is my favorite Bowie song). All things considered, nice to finally give the whole thing a listen.

Ever have a childhood friend you didn't really like but you just hung out with anyway? I did and his name was Austin. One time we took what little money we had as a kid to best buy to buy some CDs. I bought Metallica's ...And Justice for All, and what did this motherfucker buy? This. I remember making fun of him for it relentlessly, calling him all kinds of rude things that boys call eachother. We were in boy scouts together at the time (this must have been 6th grade or so) and not too long after this CD buying incident we went to a summer camp retreat. This guy loaded this CD into his mom's Ford Windstar with no AC in the 100+ degree summer heat. The soundtrack to the 5 hour drive to and from this fucking camp was this CD over, and over, and over again. Sweating my ass off, trying not to throw up from being carsick as hell on my way to some fucking camp I don't even want to go to with this bullshit playing the entire time. This is the soundtrack to hell, and not in a cool slayer way.

Just made me want to listen to any of the other million other bands that do this exact same style but better. It was fine though I guess.

Really expected to like this a lot more considering "Only Happy When It Rains" is a 90's alt rock classic. That being said, pretty much everything on here other than a couple songs here and there was very forgettable. Most of it wasn't "bad", just boring and made me feel nothing. Oh well.

Great record! Right out of the gate with probably my favorite Cure track which is always nice. I've always enjoyed their darker material, but the later stuff is amazing too of course! Feels a bit weird listening to this in the middle of a July heatwave, definitely a Fall/Winter record, but I can't complain! Always great to hear a record I already know I enjoy. Been a very long time since I've sat down with this one.

This did absolutely nothing for me. I did dislike it, but it could have been a lot worse. Not the absolute bottom of the barrel british shit this list sometimes has.

People ride for this album HARD. Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I don't see what others do in this. I get its importance and musical proficiency sure, but it did not move me at all. I can appreciate it it, but it purely just did not resonate with me. Sometimes that happens with art. Oh well. Definitely glad I finally listened though.

Couple of good tracks, but mostly did nothing for me. Could go my whole life without ever hearing Le Freak again.

Always enjoyed TLC singles from the radio and whatnot but this is my first time ever listening to a full record from them. Absolutely love this era of R&B/Hip-Hop fusion. Don't listen to it nearly as much as I should. Really enjoyed this one.

This album is not "Bad". Diddling be damned, this man had tracks. Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Man in the Mirror, Just Can't Stop Loving You, Smooth Criminal. All bangers.

Blondie's great! Don't think I've ever heard this one in full actually. Heart of Glass is one of my favorite pop songs of all time, so it was a treat finally hearing the whole record. Unfortunately, the record as a whole didn't completely connect with me, but there's some absolutely fantastic tracks on here.

So this is my first time listening to a taylor swift record, and the first one it gave me was her covid record I guess. Absolutely nothing about this surprised me, it sounded exactly how I expected it to sound before listening to it (which I mean I already knew what she sounded like given her permanence in the top 40 for like nearly 20 years now). What about her has such a fucking stronghold on white women? I don't get it. This music is not made for me, and that's ok. Anyway way I could have hated this a lot more. It sucks really bad but I will not remember a single moment of this record so I guess it gets a point for not making me want to die. It's just really, really boring.

Boring and bad.

I'm a total sucker for this kind of shit. Never really done a huge deep dive into Husker Du or really any of Bob Mould's projects, but I guess it's time.

Very familiar with Just Like Honey, but that's pretty much it. First time listening after hearing this name forever. Honestly? Not bad. Not exactly what I was expecting honestly. Was expecting more B grade The Cure and less noisy Beat Happening. Enjoyed this one.

Truth is, I'm really just not as into these guys as most people are. I enjoy them, and deeply respect them, but nothing about their LPs really connect with me as a whole. This one however, is probably my favorite of theirs (brave choice, I know). Has my favorite song by them which is a plus. It's a good album. Don't really have much else to say.