1001 Albums Summary

I've never been much of a Beatles fan so there's no way it could have lived up to the hype for me, but I did vibe with the first six or so tracks

Wispy forgettable lo-fi indie nonsense

Music to be put on hold to (complimentary)

Woman's got a set of pipes on her!!! A lot of dynamite singles, especially the opening and closing tracks.

Didn't like The Eagles BEFORE I knew they were responsible for Life in the Fast Lane, now I truly hate them.

Controversial opinion but this would've flopped if Bowie hadn't died like immediately after releasing it

Grooved with the instrumentals, but would not listen again.

Melancholy folk, not really my thing.

Easy listening, no standout tracks.

🕺

Meh

Dug the guitar in Don't Die Just Yet, but otherwise didn't care for it

Music that my mom likes

Worst album so far 😬

THELONIOUS MONK THE MAN THAT YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!

An all-time favourite!!!

Meh

Some decent beats but WHAT are these lyrics

Decent enough punk, really dug Mannequin

Mediocre at best. Actively hate Jump.

Bro why are you screaming 😭

I never did care for 80s synth pop 😑

I liked it, but it was pretty forgettable.

This was so much fun!!! Loved the second track especially :)

Not much of a rap guy but I liked B.O.B., and Ms. Jackson is of course one of the songs of all time

Meh

Some great tracks, but a mid album overall. Going Home did not need to be 11 minutes long.

Boring

Back to Black song of all time

THEEEEEEEEEE psychedelic rock album, not one bad track

Voice of an angel

Really well-constructed, a great listen

Good but no standouts

16 minute long drum solo HELL yeah

When the chorus on the title track hits... hoo boy...

Love it. Supremely.

Kinda dug the beats, mostly wasn't feeling it.

It's not Saturday Night Fever but it's okay. Really liked Walking Back to Waterloo.

Not a Radiohead guy personally but I do understand the hype this was very well-constructed

Come on Eileen song of all time. Otherwise mid.

Uneven noise rock, more good than bad

Love love LOVE this one, easily my favourite Stones album. Wait I just remembered Let It Bleed, in strong competition with Let It Bleed for my favourite Stones album.

It's giving 007 title theme

HATE the synths, those things shouldn't be anywhere near jazz. Sweet sax but I couldn't enjoy it because of the synths. Great cover art though I'll give them that.

Forgot every song as I listened to it.

The songs would be great to listen to individually as Burke's got a GREAT voice, but as an album it got a little too repetitive

Boring electronica I immediately delegated to background noise. HATED Aisha, kinda dug Aladdin's Story though.

No frame of reference to say if this is good devotional music or not but I vibed with it.

Have come to the realization I hate electronic music

Smells Like Teen Spirit riff >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It's not bad actually, I think some of you just hate women.

Bob Marley I love you

Kind of a nothingburger, just run-of-the-mill singer/songwriter to play in corporate cafes. Title track was the only one of note.

This is what I imagine people who own houseboats listen to

GOOD TIMES 🕺 THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES 🕺 LEAVE YOUR CARES BEHIND 🕺

Kind of a weak second half but like when Girls Just Want to Have Fun is track 2 that's to be expected

I hate you synths I hate you electronic music I hate you Depeche Mode I hate you Waiting for the Night

They are called Primal Scream because that is what you are compelled to do when you hear Stuka

Easy listen, nothing to write home about

All these Beatles albums sound exactly the same to me

This guy would've killed it as a medieval bard

Cold Irons Bound was good, rest was Not. Bob REALLY can't sing.

I'm a Yellow apologist but this was boooooooring

This is what would be playing in the background if I ever got mugged in an alleyway outside a pool hall

Great beats, great lyricism, waaaay too long though

Almost impressive how average this one is, it's like stock 60s rock

Really dug this one, especially loved the goth surf rock vibe of Cecilia Ann. Rock Music is the only miss, the singer was a little too growly for me there.

More atonal noise than I generally prefer in a punk record. Like I'll take SOME atonal noise but this is just excessive.

Incredible voice, terrible production. Why do 80s instrumentals always sound so bad???

A little too sad indie girl for me to really get into it, though Supercut is excellent

Another day, another mid Beatles album

A little one-note, but then it's one really good note

Probably my least favourite Sly Stone album but I can respect it

Gotta listen to Pink Floyd more often, their albums are all so good

The singer was so bad I had to quit halfway through, I just couldn't take it anymore

On my hands and knees begging this list to stop giving me 80s rock albums

Sadly I'm too much of a weenie to really enjoy heavy metal. The instrumentals were good I think? Vocalist guy please drink some water that growling can't be good for your throat.

I'm more of a classic jazz guy myself but respect where it's due

The German edition is WAY better... the songs lose all their oomph when translated, they sound like a bad Dietrich impression instead of legit Weimar cabaret

Really liked this one!! Blue Turk was pure dynamite, and MAD respect for the West Side Story cover.

Meh

Can't go wrong with British post punk

The best thing to come out of this album is the 1993 Vanity Fair photoshoot with Cindy Crawford. The second best thing is Miss Chatelaine.

Sometimes it feels like they're only including albums on the basis of one good song, in this case Solsbury Hill

Dancing Queen, Knowing Me Knowing You, Money Money Money, AND Fernando are you KIDDING me

Working Class Hero is great (though I prefer covers to the original), the rest is mid

Easily my least favourite Velvet Underground

Another one of those albums where the title track is the only really good one

This was so fun I love you golden age of hip hop

Tries too hard to be off-beat, lands on annoying

The sweet sound of distortion and tinnitus

Instrumental rock ily

Dime a dozen soft rock, I was over it by track 5. Long, repetitive, uninspired. Above all booooooooooring.

Shrug. It's fine. Longer than I would've preferred + didn't like the intro/outro, but otherwise inoffensive.

Audio equivalent of sucking on a lemon

Cohen can’t really sing + the instrumental arrangements are a little same-y but the album still has a certain je ne sais quoi, likely due to Cohen’s ever incomparable lyrics

THIS RIPS!!!! I LOVE YOU LATIN MUSIC I LOVE YOU HIPPIE MUSIC I LOVE YOU CARLOS SANTANA!!!!

We already had Moondance why are you tossing in Astral Weeks too 😭 one Van Morrison album is enough, thanks

Wayyyyy too much patter in this live album but you cannot argue with that jazz

Didn't do anything for me

Yes more like No Thank You

Supremely mid

Let's hear it for lesbianism hooray lesbianism

The epic highs (Bohemian Rhapsody) and lows (I'm In Love With My Car) of Queen

Can't listen to Björk without being filled with rage because of that travesty of a musical Dancer in the Dark. Such is the power of Lars von Trier.

EXCELLENT soul album, listened to it twice today

Wasn't feeling the beats on this one

Second half kinda blows but the first half is perfection

These jazz albums never miss

Hm. Didn't care for this one.

Well I can't say I didn't groove

Songs range from vaguely sinister to end credits music. Ngl I dug it though.

They need to release a version of this that's half the Bowie mix and half the Iggy Pop mix, I can't listen to either without thinking about what the other one does better

Not a ska guy I'm afraid, why would you do that to Freddie's Dead. They went off with Ma and Pa + Pouring Rain though I'll give them that.

The torment is unending

Saxophone!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A little on the boring side but I was feeling it??? A good background noise album.

Too many songs that aren't Superstition

Album to blast at full volume while speeding down the highway

Top tier soul album, the transition from God is Love to Mercy Mercy Me is transcendent

Albums I would hear playing at Zara (derogatory). Didn't have it in me to listen all the way through.

*shakes fist at sky* THE FRENCH

Sadly I am an Oasis apologist, Liam Gallagher they could never make me hate you

Not something I would ever listen to again but I can respect it

Brown and his band were on FIRE here

Insane getting a Beach Boys album the day after Brian Wilson died, did the algorithm do that on purpose or is it a crazy coincidence??? Anyways it's not Pet Sounds. It's okay but it's not Pet Sounds.

Platonic ideal of a 90s soft rock album

Car commercial music

Enjoyed it as I was listening to it but came back an hour later to make a note and couldn't remember a single track

Everything that sucks about 70s music distilled into one album

Great beats and lyricism but the sex skits ruined it for me, I simply do not want to listen to that

Incredibly mid car commercial music. Though I'll admit I am not immune to Use Somebody.

Man I always forget how good the b side is too, it's so overshadowed by the Overture especially but like damn these are some really good tracks

Two Canadian classics in a row hell yeah!!! I love this one in theory more than I do in practice though... 35 minutes straight of Neil Young is a bit much for me, like the album is cohesive and the songs are all great but his voice wears on you after a while, y'know? You have to be in a very specific mood to listen to it.

Yes Stop Making Sense is one of my favourite documentaries. No I don't really like Talking Heads. I contain multitudes.

I continue to hate 80s music

Easy on the ears, a very good listen. Not as memorable or well-executed as Exodus, and only one Really Good Track (kinda… that one live version of No Woman No Cry is MUCH better than the album version) but I did still enjoy myself.

We as a society never should've let disco die

I truly cannot stand this guy

I think I could've died without having listened to this one actually

No misses yet from the Pixies, this album's just one banger after another

The Latin sections were fun but the rap fusion bits didn't fuse all that well imo, the sound wasn't very cohesive

Sometimes all you can do is laugh

Solid jazz/pop record, wouldn't listen to it again but I can respect it

I vibed with the instrumentals but I found Newman's voice soooooo annoying that I just couldn't get into it. Also, very disconcerting to hear You Can Leave Your Hat On in this context, what do you MEAN the Tom Jones version is a cover??

Seven Nation Army is an all timer but tbh I was underwhelmed by the rest of it, instrumentals were mid and White's voice wasn't doing it for me... weird because I like quite a few Raconteurs songs.

Platonic ideal of a country album

NOT THE CARS 😭 genuinely who is selecting these things 😭

Can't give any album with Jailbait on it more than two stars

Some interesting things going on instrumentally but it was altogether it was just Too Much for me to enjoy. Walked away from it really wanting to listen to Sketches of Spain???

You've gotta get into a cruise ship state of mind before tossing this one on

Excellent opener and closer but Bowie’s putting the mid in middle

Was over it about halfway through disc one, and disc two did nothing to reel me back in

As someone who hates electronica I have particular beef with this one for helping to kick off the genre

AMAZING voice

Soooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooring, gave up by track 7

Heavy metal is not for me. Jesus Built My Hotrod is kind of a bop though.

Well I'm not a 13 year old boy so this one did nothing for me

Too lo-fi for my tastes but I can respect it

Have never actually listened to a Madonna album before, just greatest hits compilations. Sad to say it kind of blows :(

Enough with the lousy electronica please for the love of god

Surprisingly boring??? Only track I actually liked was All Apologies

Goth rock hooray yippee!!! More of a Bauhaus guy myself but respect where it's due

SO much fun, those strings are incredible

Oh THAT's why people love Neil Young

Took me a minute to get into it but I was won over by the time the title track rolled around, + Whiskey Woman is an all-timer

Throwback to when my uncle saw my Black Sabbath tshirt and told me to name 10 tracks to prove I actually liked Black Sabbath??? Literally who does that??? Anyways RIP Ozzy Osbourne thank you for inventing metal 😔🤘

I get why they'd include AM but this one is just kind of average to me

Okay yeah this was sexy, almost cartoonishly so at some points

GREAT guitar, great energy, not something I'm gonna add to my collection but I did enjoy this quick jaunt down to metal-land

Background noise

Fun, easy listen. I especially liked Blueberry Hill :)

This would've been craaaazy to hear in concert, could not get into it because I can very rarely get into live albums + it's too long, but kudos to whoever came up with this collab. Kudos ESPECIALLY to whoever decided to do the Ecstasy of Gold cover that was bonkers.

Life During Wartime is the only thing that made this tolerable

Yeah… It WOULD be nice…

Good vibes, good guitar, not something I'll add to my collection but you can never really go wrong with CCR. Also Keep on Chooglin is such a funny name for a song.

The Weight. Hough.

I HATE YOU MOBY STOP SAMPLING SONGS THAT ARE GOOD AND MAKING THEM BAD!!!!!

Mid

Free Bird is an all-timer I'll give them that

Didn't like Speakerboxxx at all, but The Love Below SLAPS

What do you MEAN this came out in '66, how do you invent post-punk before anybody has even invented punk

The title track and Like a Rolling Stone are the only two that are like actually genuinely great when Dylan does them, the rest are great when sung by literally anyone other than Dylan

Knock-off Bjork. The only way it could be worse is if it was actual Bjork.

Decent enough Britpop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lauryn Hill... Waow....

I really like Running Up That Hill so I'm sad to say every other track blows 😔 though I could see Jig of Life growing on me. Two stars because I believe in women's wrongs.

Mid

Bad

One of those concerts I desperately wish I could've been at...

I'm pretty sure this qualifies as torture under the Geneva convention

Voice of an angel!!!!!!!

Weeping and wailing and rending my garments

Oh joy, another indie rock guy with a strained voice and nothing interesting to say

Stop with the live albums jfc

😵😵😵

Atlantic City is the only stand-out

GREAT guitar

Not another live album 😭 bro just give me the studio version this BLOWS

Damn why didn't I like this last time I listened to it what was teen!me's problem

Controversial opinion but I thought Parsons and Harris sounded bad together, I would've enjoyed this more if it was just one or the other singing

Impeccable vibes, loved Angie especially

That one track which was literally just random old people talking was. So bad. And the rest of the album was mid. Bonus star because I really like The Graduate.

Mid

Terminal boredom indeed

How are there TWO Dexys Midnight Runners albums on here, who allowed this

These stars are all for Orion

Just an average Cure album, nothing to write home about

I'm not much for grunge but the guitar work was great

HATE the sound design on this one, sounds terrible

Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding is the greatest song ever written and you can quote me on that

Music I would hear at the good Indian restaurant (complimentary)

What do you MEAN this band is from California, the singer sounds like he's Scandinavian 😭 anyways the album was decent enough, I liked the last three tracks

Great beats, great samples, a whole lot of fun :)

A lot of fun!!! Very funky beats throughout, though the lyrics could be a little cornball. LOVED People Everyday, Dawn of the Dreads, and Tennessee.

Wasn't feeling it

Meh

Does this rock or do I just watch too many singing cowboy movies 🤔

It was Fine but it didn't feel particularly noteworthy. Kind of generic really.

Oh I didn't care for that at ALL

I LOVE YOU JAZZ!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never understood the appeal of Brian Eno

Booooooooooring

Excellent sampling, decent rapping. Won't add to my library, but I'm glad I gave it a listen.

MULTIPLE White Stripes albums??? Are you kidding me???

Oh absolutely not

Easy listen, nothing to write home about

Decent enough background noise

Mid

Took me a while to get into it as it's not my scene but I yeah I get it now I Understand

GRACE BY JEFF BUCKLEY!!!!!!! I actually tossed this one on a few days ago after the generator tossed me a total dud, to remind myself that albums can be good. Happy to listen to it again so soon lol.

It's always fun getting these wildly influential albums and having everything make so much more sense in hindsight. Also, Fight the Power hell yeah.

Okay I liked this one MUCH more than the last Roxy Music album, fun and funky without overstaying its welcome

Decent indie background noise

Beautiful melancholy splendour. Probably the strongest concept album I've gotten so far.

Another one of those zero impression background noise albums

Boooooooooooring and also sexist

King of Soul indeed

Mid

Cool idea + a couple great tracks, should be right up my alley as I am all about film noir but alas. The 80s.

Expected to hate it but it was fine. I will never listen to it again. But it was Fine.

Expected to hate this one but it was actually very cool, I can respect it

Mid

I am not immune to Foreplay/Long Time

This was so bad wtf, how did Buckley go from Goodbye and Hello to THIS raunchy disaster of a funk record

Let's hear it for women hooray women

Mostly just bland, but WHAT was going on with CTA 102??? My Back Pages is an all-timer though.

Smooth, sexy, easy listen

Yeah okay

The jazz albums never miss

There's a fine line between catchy and irritating and Genius of Love is walking it

Weak second half but still a pretty fun album

Impeccable lyrics, nothing to write home about instrumentally but it gets the job done

Did not think it could get worse than Sail Away. But alas.

It was Fine until it took a sharp turn into haunted house sound effects in track 5, and somehow only got worse from there

Def the best Dylan album so far, some really great tracks + his voice isn't as annoying as usual

Solid rock record 👍

Mid

Really dug this one!! I love a good female rocker.

VERY cool hip hop record, LOVE the jazz instrumentals

My favourite tracks were the ones that Youtube muted for copyright violations

Always crazy hearing the original versions of songs I didn't even know were covers (Everybody's Talkin')

Really impressed by this one, probably the best modern album I've gotten to date

Not really my thing but I can respect it

Lyrics are goofy but you cannot argue with that guitar 🤘

Solid but unexciting 00s rock

Surprised to see this one rated so highly, I thought it was just okay. Stay is a banger though.

The highs are high, the lows are low, but it's mostly just okay

Punk NEEDS more saxophone X-Ray Spex was so real for that

If you think the saxophone solos are unnecessary you need to seek professional help

I kind of got the point after the last two Sonic Youth albums

Easy listen but not memorable

When I say ACAB I'm including these guys too

A couple of Really Good songs and a lot of mid ones

Indistinguishable from every other REM album. Felt like it lasted hours.

A lot of fun!!! A Minha Menina song of all time!!!

Dated but listenable

Too long + the heavily southern tracks sucked but otherwise inoffensive

Really dug the cover of Emotion + the title track but otherwise I'm sorry to say I didn't like this one, Beyonce please forgive me 😔

Not a fan

Kind of same-y but I have a real soft spot for old school crooners so I'm not complaining

Mid

Ik that one Kids in the Hall sketch ("Into The Doors") was making fun of Doors fans but that is unironically how I feel about Morrison Hotel.

Like a spy movie soundtrack if it sucked

More brass than I was expecting, what with the whole bongo gimmick

This blows

Not for me, though the title track rocks

Really dug this one, great pop rock album

Another day, another electronica album that I hate

Drags on a bit, though ironically the longest track (Old Whore's Diet) is my favourite by a mile

Hadn't heard the full album before!!! A couple duds but for the most part Cash OWNS those covers

Off-brand Stevie Wonder, very funky but nothing to write home about

😵😵😵

Mid

I am biased against Led Zeppelin bc they're my mom's favourite band which makes them inherently uncool in my mind but I must admit this rocks.

Not another Eno album 😭 it's better than the last one but that's not saying much

Not as good as Arrival but Abba is Abba

Was gonna complain that it was way too long but then I realized I was listening to the expanded edition lol. Looking at the original track list, yeah that's still a too long but not egregiously so, I won't add it to my collection but I am glad I listened to it.

NEED to listen to more bossa nova this rules

Best Bowie so far, I LOVE Life on Mars

A FOURTH Sonic Youth album are you kidding me??? It's like the list curators only know five bands

Not really my thing :/

Sucks

Add It Up alone is worth five stars

Wanted to like it more than I did... a little too same-y for me to get into, and doesn't have the same punch as Blue.

This BLOWS, I hate electronica

Kinda bland. I dug Cowboy Movie though.

Visions of Johanna carries this album

Mid

Lovefool + the Iron Man cover rule, and the other tracks are pleasant enough

Mid

Disappointingly mid

Gold standard for ska

😐

I love off-the-wall prog rock lyrics but unfortunately the instrumentals on this one did very little for me

Three songs that are Really Great and a lot that are mid

I dug a lot of the lyrics but the beats are SO BAD :(

Crazy lyrics but I was feeling it until that last track

Ngl the more Radiohead albums I hear the less impressed I am, not really seeing the hype here

Was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did, excellent hip hop

Mid. Would've been a 3 if not for Mother.

I like the wall-of-sound thing but ugh, Christmas music

Always happy to listen to Iggy Pop

Generic 90s alt-rock

Mid

Mid

Why would you make me listen to that

Baker's got a set of pipes on her but the album isn't really anything special

Hm. I dug this one the first time I heard it but thought it was forgettable this time around, actually it kinda sucked.

Gotta toss this one on in the bg next time I watch Metropolis

Some good stuff in there but it's just too long :/

A lot of fun!! Kinda hated the last track though, unfortunate that it had to end on a sour note

Decent enough. Looooved the guitar work in I'm Shakin'.

Background noise at an Adult Dinner Party(TM)

Couldn't make it past side 2, I'm a prog rock apologist but this was practically unlistenable

YESSSSSSSSSSSS I LOVE ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT!!!! SO many bangers on this one, such a great listen.

Two good songs and a lot of annoying ones

The title track is good enough to carry this to 2 stars, even though the rest blows

Doesn't hold a candle to their later work. I will say I'm charmed by The Gnome though.

THIS RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need another 50 swing albums STAT

Everybody say thank you Little Richard for inventing rock and roll

Fun fun fun!!!

It's like if Oasis and Primal Scream had a really boring baby

This was so cartoonishly violent wtf, why do you hate women. Still giving it two stars bc of Stan + Slim Shady though.

Nooooooooo not Pet Shop Boys 😭😭😭 disco if it SUCKED 😭😭😭

WHY IS THIS LIST OBSESSED WITH LOUSY BRITISH POP

Music you'd hear at the best dinner party of your life

Dropping Bombs on the Whitehouse kinda rules but the rest ranges from mediocre to insultingly bad

A little on the boring side, but pleasant enough

More of a Clash guy myself but respect where it's due

Mid

Mid

Major let down after hearing Dusty in Memphis, Ms. Springfield you're better than this

Booooooooooooriiiiiiiiiiiing

Two PSB albums in one month is cruel and unusual... genuinely what HAVE I done to deserve this??

This blooooooows, music I would hear playing at that cafe I hate

Instrumentals were okay (though not really my jam), but the vocalist was SO annoying

Okay yes it is essentially the same song 14 times in a row and yes it's best executed in the first track but! It's a really good song!

I almost liked some of it, but it was a little too out there for me...

Crazy how big Madonna got without ever actually putting out a good album

I always forget how great Venus in Furs is, song of all time tbh

Meh

Shrugs. It's fine.

Hm. Not great.

Great Blues album 👍

Mid

Meh

Strong debut from Winehouse, but it's no Back to Black

That singer's so pitchy he should've gone into baseball

THIS BLOOOOOOOOOOWS STOP MAKING ME LISTEN TO LOUSY BRITISH ELECTRONICA FFS

Really annoying how the best track has a verse full of homophobic slurs :-/

I'm a Canadian born in the 90s, of COURSE I love Funeral by Arcade Fire

Was lowkey dreading this one based on what I gleaned from Wikipedia but it rules actually

VERY groovy, love the guitar :)

Mid

David Ackles if he sucked

I've never cared for Aerosmith and there's nothing here to change my mind

Wait I thought the list didn't allow soundtrack albums??? Not complaining though, When Doves Cry song of all time

Okay this rules

Strong start but went downhill fast. Especially hated the covers.

Not all Bowie albums were created equal

Looooooooooove this one, my favourite Zappa by a mile