1001 Albums Summary

Evocative of acid era Beatles. Loved the raining refrains making it feel like a complete piece and saving the single ("Watchtower") for the end was climatic in a satisfying way. Also enjoyed the snippets of conversation on the track. Lots of the tracks were just so long and I lost interest/the thread. Should maybe listen to again on LSD

She missed class the day they taught about love. Enjoyed the sketches, would have liked...I dunno, except for the singles I would have liked some melody. Beautiful harmonies, beautiful riffs, but it did not stick with me.

Really good beats, but man every song is like one or two clever lines on repeat. Still, always have to respect a breakup album. Starts strong, stays strong

Very sad and I know what I said about respecting breakup albums but I just can't get over the fact that Beck's an asshole

If you only listen to one Boston album make it this one because it may or may not be the only one! It has all the songs on it. Classic 70s Dad-Rock. Wicked rockin

These sweet soft boys, thinking they can end a war with harmonies

Jaunty and fun and a little grimy, like the gutterpunk art kid you knew in undergrad who turned out to be nice after all. Prominant bass riffs, and playful vocals.

I'm not trying to be a hater for the sake of hating Swifties but this album, even (taylor's version) doesn't feel written so much as engineered. The electric drum kits boom boom bat us through focus-grouped pop bangers. There's a ton of hits on this album, but they all just sound flat.

From the squealing feedback right off the bat this album announces it is going to be quick and dirty. "We Are Gonna Be Friends" feels so innocent it's nearly out of place but it is a nice grace from otherwise hard, fast tracks

It does have quite possibly the best Bowie single on it ("Sound and Vision") and I get it, bRiAn EnO tHo, but like...it's a lot of soundscapy bleepin and bloopin. Powerfully haunting at time but start-to-finish? Not the BEST of Bowie

Funk foundation! I love the lackadaisical friends-hanging-pit vibe and the iconic "We Want the Funk" was asked for and delivered. Some of the sounds just sounded like farts, but props to them for experimenting.

I prefer my Dylan freewheelin'. I feel like I need a highschool English teacher to give me "historical context" for why everyone loves this ambling poetry with some strumming behind it. But then I didn't care for CATS either

There's no denying "One" is a masterpiece but other than that this album is kind of just emo if they smoked PCP instead of cloves. I can only take ao much. Maybe it's the TikTok but I don't need these little symphonies with double kick drums.

Surprisingly political! Boy George, I had no idea. It's a little "Feed the World" as far as its message but hearts (and vocals) are in the right place.

FINALLY, something unfamiliar! French Afropop? More more more please

There's no denying The Smiths. Each song on this album belongs in the same family but they're not identical, like so many other bands' sounds tend to get. I just wish Morrisey wasn't such an asshole.

4 and a half hours? Christian-codes album cover? Ain't nobody got time for that. DidnMt listen.

On the hard rocks side of Bowie but with some Talking Heads weirdness thrown in which I, for one, really love. "TVC15" is both inscrutable and one of my favorite underrated trans anthems

One of my foundational bands and this is them at the height of their sound. Funny, angry, but still listenable

Are all of Bowie's albums gonna be here? Yay soul! Yay title track, tay Across the Universe cover, yay "Somebody Up There Likes Me". More sax if you can afford it.

Hell yeah, bud. Electric jazz? Music to make dinner to

Empire Records, huh? This album feels like it was made in a lab for the mall. "Put the Beach Boys in a blender with Alice in Chains". As trendy as frosted tips and doomed to be as short-lived.

Oh man, I love Phil Collins! Textbook 80s sound. Heavy bass, synth to replace horns. Big and swelly sound but such themes of self-doubt and disillusion with The Times

What fun, what bops. I imagine this would be an amazing live show

No thank you.

What a series of bops. I like the full orchestration bits, we need to bring those back. I also like the solo heartbreak songs. Those seems to be clinging around just fine tho

Eh. Not for me. Angry metal but in French.

Every part of this made me feel happy. Them mid-90s hip hop bits? No sketches? V. Good.

Honestly, if it weren't for the fans this would be a great show

They're very good at what they do.

WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT THIS AS A FORMATIVE ROCK BAND OF THE 90s OH RIGHT RACISM

Turns out I love 90s afro pop

So synth, so phaser

American folk revival without the hey ho? Heyll yeah. Some of these tracks make me sleepy

Those Brits sure could make some 80s alternative

It's no Rumours

The name turned me off but they were not nearly as hard as this would suggest. More Smash Mouthy and Ska

Classic rock: stinging riffs and sexually problematic lyrics

Love the way each track flows into the next. Imagine the first time you hear "BMW"?

Can't argue with a good Meatpuppets cover band

A whole-ass culture I know nothing about. Sorta fun but what a weird clash in tones, especially that ending

Could not find

I had never heard "For No One" before and found it beautiful! I truly felt the sadness of it in my heart. Yellow Submarine was a delight to listen to. Loved!

If you only take one album with you yo a desert island let it be this one because it will take all day. Still, what an undeniable voice

Hell yeah

This was such a treat, feels like perfect road trip tunes!

These harmonies tho. Introducing themselves with "Judy Blue Eyes" and echoing it with "Helplessly Hoping" it's so sweet and tender to hear these boys so worried they're losing their loves.

I would like fewer long songs please. If I saw them live I bet it would be a bop and I did like the moody distortion

It's albums like these that make you realize some people really just have the one trick repackaged over and over

I mean, sure. But at the end if the day it's very preachy, very quarter-Beatles

Bring out the angsty middle schooler in me

Wild hearing the birth of shoegaze emo like this

Solid blues piano on that one track but the Old Man River cover was embarrassing. Just another white dude playing blues guitar in the late 60s

Call me a basic boi in a college dorm if you must but there's a reason all them posters is there. Social commentary, tasty choirs, and every track runs into the next?? They really nailed it

Turns out I fuckin' live Waylon Jennings. Would recommend as a soundtrack when digging a hole

I preferred Celebrity Skin, it felt more polished than Live Through This but this was a step away from the unfiltered grit of that first album. Hard to separate the art from the artist

This album is damn near perfect and was played on repeat on this house damn near 15 years but f*ck Kanye

Foundational 90s EDM. It can kind of drag but on their own at a rave night, each track is its own bop

I don't really fuck with live albums. But, yeah, guy can play guitar. 2 stars for the casual domestic violence jokes #differenttime

Eh.

Boppy. If I throw a 90s ecstasy party I know where to go

Can't deny Good Vibrations and I do love a"No, this is how it should have sounded" release 40 years later. Weird animal bits tho

Very disco, but I do not need 8 minutes of title track like even the Birdcage faded that shit out

Did not expect that last track! Fun synth, groovy bass, dug it.

Took a walk and listened to this and it absolutely made my summer evenin'

The track titles suck but we can forgive a masterpiece for that

This dude rally has it all going on this album but I especially love the title

I dunno, man, it's fun but would this noncommital rambling be as popular if Massholes didn't de facto support everything MA?

This was surprisingly funny!

I mean, it's still Bono...but it wasn't not a vibe

Noise!

I mean, sure, Bohemian Rhapsody, but honestly? This album is all over the place.

The covers were not nearly as good as the originals and the whole album was kind of just a walk

I had no idea how political this *checks notes* woman who ripped up a picture of the pope was

I mean; it didn't feel like it was doing anything Arctic Monkeys wasn't already doing except lulling me to sleep

Shoulda done acid first

Well, boy, if that ain't some classic metal. I can never tell if a song like "Charlotte the Harlot" is meant to be ironic or not tho

Nothing really stood out for me

Sad songs for sad boy. ACAB

Honestly, sorry to your girl, but laregely forgettable

Unlike anything else...but that doesn't mean spectacular.

That voice is bonkers and he kind of reeks of "I have a Black friend"

This beast is all over the place but at the end of the day it's just a whispery guy with a guitar and some drums

Made me feel like groovin plus some lovely instrumental bits. Funk orchestra ftw

Classic new rock

Some solid singles and I love the layering of the vocalists making a more complex tapestry than your standard folk rock song on a couple of tracks. When he's referring to his Orange Crush does he mean literally the soda?

Starts out with a major back-to-back bang of course. Didn't realize McCartney was doing Hey Ho Folk in 73!. Lost points for writing a song for Picasso

I loved this French little piece of funk

It sure is the Rolling Stones innit

This sweet little boy can right some folk. You hear the roots of "Graceland" in this one and overall it's not so much of a departure from his duo work you'd think Art was weighing him down. "Me & Julio" is an all time bop.

I'm not sure I'll ever listen to it again unless someone needs a rec for a student film score but it was a nice break from well-known artists

If you're gonna have one ZZ Top album this is it but I won't know because I won't come over. Shame their most interesting (sexiest) songs weren't singles

Not to be that asshole but...how many songs can I hear that are "Da, duhna da DA. Nuh nuh, nuh nuh"

At times ethereal and spacy, at times just kinda whiny rock. Sounded like Khurangbin run through U2. Not for me.

I mean. It's metal.

It's a masterpiece and there ain't no doubt about it -- but holy crap, the Dave Culye thing still rocks my mind

Airy noisy, but I like the follow up better. Not sure I'd listen to this again

That 70s keyboard blues hits, but like most 70s bands I miss the variety and lyrcism that comes later on in the evolution

Please don't assassinate me: I just do not like the sound of this woman's voice.

THE definitive dance/disco album but a lot of these songs could have had a minute shaved off en

It's great to get a full plate of these irreverent post-surf kids bopping around and having a good time.

Fun vibes. Very Mad Men-ish. Especially lovely to play while driving through industrial districts on an overcast day

Never expected Willie Nelson to have a cover album, but this stoner's voice in the late 70s still had that campfire warmth. Lovely little "background music" for a night dancing with someone you love in the living room.

18 minutes of classic rock I'm astonished I've never heard before. Wonder why none of these tracks ever hit my local radio

I mean, I do hesitate to disrespect the Man from Minnesota. There are some legendary tracks on this album and you have to respect that it was all cut for a movie and "Darling Nikki" is a WILD thing to be singing about at the time. But there are skips and there are tracks that overstay their welcome. I'm giving 5 stars for "Let's Go Crazy" on its own.

What's with the meditation music on this list?

All over the place in a very dope way. It was like jazz but not annoying

I fuckin' loved this. I'm so happy this little British boy who couldn't connect to his modern world had synth to express himself

Lol, this boy so mad he got famous.

This album is all over the place. Not hear to speak ill of Mr. Gorillaz but I like that project a lot more than Blur. "Boys and Girls" is a fun bi anthem opener but with the Oom Pa Pa of "Debt Collector" and the homage to pub sings of "Clover Over Dover" and the post-mod shred of "Jubilee" this album suffers from identity crisis in a way that makes a sit&listen a little dischordant

Coldplay is a 3 of a band for me. They're harmless. They're non-confrontational. They're safe. They're the band you take home to your parents. They're not the band you remember after they're done.

Give me convenience or give me death. The problems of the 80s are still here, man.

Can't argue with the voice, and the album showcases the attitude as well as the talent, but the over it party girl admonishing herself and her cohort doesn't pull out the singles we'd learn later. I feel like this is a legacy inclusion and Back to Black is the superior effort from the late Ms. Winehouse

I loved this. Approachable, snap-inducing, and timeless.

Harmless, Elvis-without-the-hips. Reminded me of the Back to the Future interpretation of the 50s

Spooky poetry over a spooky choir makes me think this guy is trying to fuck an angel and I am medium here for it.

If I had to listen to a Bob Dylan record it would be this one. Thank goodness I don't have to. If I was alive in the 60s I think this man might have turned me pro-Vietnam

This is why people hate 60s folk. I can imagine being at the Gaslight cringing at this blender of acoustic sounds.

The definitive Boss. For the full experience, might I recommend listening in the turnpike with boys who grew up hearing screen doors slam

Harsh, discordant, era-defining. Someone get me what Karen O was taking

I feel like if I knew less about Mariah the diva I could appreciate Mariah the diva a but more. Take away my queer card but this was very "eh" for me

There was a before this album and there was an after

It's very Dido, very Cranberries...wonder why the fame never happened in yhe same way for her

I mean, the greats, but I can't pick out one tune I would listen to on its own. Still, I love how much of The Abstract's lyrics are "Yeah, I'll play your show if you pay us."

Sound-y. Right away you feel like this is the medium of a man who can't express himself otherwise. Into it.

I don't love The Smiths but they can make a hit. None of them are on this record, though. It seems like Morrisey said "I'm going to repeat the same line as the title as you pluck the guitar strings as lightly as possible" nine times.

FUN.

One of Bush's more approachable albums, which is not to say it's easy to digest. The whole thing builds to "This Woman's Work" of course but on the way you get the swelling memory orchestra of "The Fog"

The man asks people to have a party and he doesn't stop. The seamless transitions from tune to tune, old classics and originals, give the sense that this soul will keep going on its own momentum in perpetuity.

If you're gonna be grunge, be grunge. I could feel the flannel rubbing my nipples on this one.