1001 Albums Summary

Eh. I'm sure there's another life where I would have felt this more.

Timeless. Little repetitive, but short and sweet and timeless.

I fell asleep

Ages well over the course of the album

Would give 3.5 stars if possible

Favorite one so far

Easy

Surprised I enjoyed this more than I thought I would

You know what? This rocks

This music fucks

I didn't think I'd ever actually reach for the one star button doing this

Feels like asking someone to eat Oregon Trail food and rate it

Surprisingly underwhelmed

M m m m miiiiid

Wish I could 4.5 this but who cares! Life is too short to hate

Me when I fw Limp Bizkit now

First song bangs but tbh the rest struck me as a bunch of whiny screeching. Maybe I'm missing something #imightbeabitch

Way groovier than anticipated

They thought "experimental music" meant experimenting with being ass lol Actually really enjoyed a song or two, but a broken clock is right twice a day and we can’t give it credit for that

2.5 stars really, but it’s cool to think that this is what they’re sound was at the very beginning

Short, to the point. Feels hard for me to be too critical

Is it mean of me to think his voice sucks?

Long but exceptional at every turn

Dangerously lit

Thank goodness music evolves

Sneaky goat

Mildly pleasantly surprised

I usually award threes as a result of distance from/apathy for the work, but this is an involved rating for me. I love the flow. I love the narrative arc, the persona, the feelings he’s tapping into. But I can’t help feeling like some of the music itself is just bad—scraping at my ears or something. I wish the star system better reflected how invested I am in the ratings I give.

Hate to hate but … (jk I love to hate)

Really down for whatever that was

Really not my speed, but something undeniably enchanting about the whole thing. Feel like I just spent a couple hours with a stranger I met at a gas station of the 210 divining insights from lines in the desert sand.

The streak of perfectly okay albums is alive and well

What the hell, sure

Capital p Pipes

Utterly soulless. So devoid of soul that listening evokes a mild terror, even

Ohhhhhh how my heart has been stolen

Feels like a couple of my recent albums have toed the line between 3 and 4 stars for me, and every time I’ve ultimately leaned toward 4. I think my hesitation has to do with re-listen value; save for homesick alien there’s very little I’d sample from this album a la carte. But I have also an unequivocal sense I’m listening to something really deliberate and polished, a project more expansive than mere metrics like re-listen value can grasp. Maybe I’m talking about production, or maybe I’m talking about soul—whatever it is, it pushes this inexplicably into higher-star territory.

Sympathetic to this brand of strange

Just not my thing

In a bad mood rn

Think it's just perfectly pleasant

Felt very inspired then very critical and now I am here

No notes

Maybe I was just in a wistful mood but this got me feeling some kinda way

I get the comments about its overly silky smooth feel, but this really is quite enjoyable to listen to

I’m skeptical of anyone who calls this album a masterpiece, but so too am I skeptical of anyone who decries it as pointless whining. It sits very powerfully in between (although leaning masterpiece) and perfectly epitomizes what I love about Radiohead—fleeting pockets of brilliance, tucked in the folds of a much larger and more distressing sound. Uncomfortable that may be, is it not the truest reflection of our daily toils and rarer triumphs?

Fuck it what the hell this is great it’s all great it’s good feed me more mmhmm

I don't know if it was a coincidence this album arrived the day after Brian Wilson's death, or maybe 1001 pulled some strings. Either way, after listening to this and learning more about Wilson I felt I saw The Beach Boys as they are for the very first time--not just a golden, saccharine vision of California but the oh so complex people elegizing it. This album is strangely intense, wistful; it lands on the ears as good vibes and simultaneously betrays a much deeper current of feeling. Thanks, Brian, for everything you did.

This is so fucking good

I thought all of the songs here were beautiful, but this is still a really generous 3 - the timbre of Cohen's voice just doesn't sit right with me

good background music

Since Odelay I’ve been dreading the next Beck album, but I must say I was pleasantly surprised by this. Obviously a little wonky but not in the grating, inaccessible way I was expecting

Never knew about his prison tour. The fact alone he’s at San Quentin makes this at least 4 stars, and his humor doesn’t hurt either

The fact this is a 3 despite its length is meant to be a compliment. Really do think it came alive in the back half

I know and can feel how important this album is as I listen, but the deadpan voice doesn’t quite do it for me. Feels like discount Jim Morrison

I think my open-mindedness is wearing thin. I don’t doubt this is a good album for people who like country, and the lyrics are indeed sharp, but it’s just not for me

As charming as I find the concept here, this 3 still feels like a stretch. Something about these songs feels ever so slightly cloying, or maybe unfinished and over-polished at the same time. That said, they certainly put a smile on my face

This was gorgeous. Perfectly pleasant without being excessively sentimental; King's voice is a blessing to the ears.

I feel like this was good but not particularly memorable, although I also feel somehow that’s my fault

Feels like it’s kind of off limits for a 1 because I don’t speak French But know that I was close

This feels like a caricature of music

Not typically my jam but there’s some magic at work here

I think, in general, trip hop has catastrophic flop potential for me - only because so much of it is trying to emulate something only Massive Attack has. Not my fav album of theirs but lightning in a bottle no less

Daft punk pigeonholed into Fortnite lobby

Something small-town and nostalgic about this; sounds are weird but welcome

Holy pipes

Strong 3. Obviously iconic, landing nicely on the ears

Good flow but not much head-bopping production

I think this is good but for some reason I was really annoyed it didn’t end sooner than it did

I think I liked this

I can’t really say that Queen is my sound but I’m not sure Queen isn’t my sound either

Not really my jam. But I listened to this while in a lonely room in Guatemala, and for this it gets a 3.

Very Doors-y. I thought both lyrics and tune were pretty milquetoast - until the last song, and then I became about this album

Heard some songs off this before but wasn't familiar with the album. Fucking banggggggs

Pretty down for whatever tf is happening

Fine if not enjoyable

Gorgeous

Solid beats + solid flow = solid ranking

Feeling HATEFUL lfg!!

perfectly funday for monday. thank you sufjan

funkable

I usually like them I’m sorry but I was cooking while listening and cracked a rotten egg and my whole place smelled weird and this music was compounding the strangeness and I felt like I was in an ad for a punk horror movie and it was so weird and I’m so sorry Siouxsie

Love Depeche Mode. Feel like a supervillain in an aerobics leotard just challenged me to a dance off for the fate of the world

I really do fw these guys. Is that weird? Who else fw these guys?

Dude. i thought george harrison won the post-breakup solo album war, but this was insance

Erm he's right behind me isn't he ahh album

Lovely but rather forgetful after the first song

oh brother this guy stinks

Bruce really isn’t my generation. But he’s my mom’s, and she’d be upset if I gave him anything less than a 3

Bang bang bang bang BANG

You know, I kinda fuck with "thrift shop aesthetic"

Mesmerizing voice, lyricism

I want to start paying more attention to these albums because my head's in the gutter - I think this was good? Maybe? Starting to blend together a bit with every album on either side, and I think that's maybe a reflection of the music but mostly one of me

Classic, obvs. Not really sure how I feel about the actual sound - kind of caricature-y, although I'm not entirely sure of what. Glad I heard it regardless

Quiet, a little indistinct but good

jesus christ i love these guys. super fun to go off spotify - feels like im really digging into sound when i do so and not deferring to routine. and what a sound to dig into. it's just groovy!

oh yes

“Oh that’s where that’s from” experience. Not bad

rockslop

Pretty voice. Not my thing

This is so, so awesome. First heard this in January and it was probably a favorite find of the year. Not a full five - there are moments I zone out or think to myself "what's happening?" - but otherwise every track here is just so poetic, so fluid, a boon to the soul

Cracked some code. It just sounds fire

im pregnant

Sneaky gem? Who are these guys? Title track is a masterpiece

Sometimes I think my ratings of these albums are entirely circumstantial, or based solely on how much each jibed with what I was doing when I decided to listen - a system that makes this more of a journaling project than one of musical expansion. Whatever. I'm not a huge reggae fan, but for some reason it's a pretty good soundtrack to waking up at 5am and washing the pile of dishes you left in your sink

I'm probably being a little harsh here. But to me this lead singer's voice overlaps with that of the guy from the flaming lips in an ugly venn diagram

This, to me, feels like the epitome of 1001 albums for someone (like me) without an entirely proper musical education. You learn about the bangahs!

I liked this, and his voice, more than I was expecting

Fiery smooth, all at once

So much excellence in so few tracks

Gonna use this box to say that "any color you like" is among the most underrated songs of the century

Kind of annoying but also not bad?

I have no memory of ever listening

loud

This was really really good. Lunging for a 5 to feel something

did not know Madonna had game like this

it's never this dramatic

Grimy. In your face. Great

Groovyyy

One of those albums that feels difficult to relate to others. It's Ray Charles!

My GOATS as always

Never really think of swing seriously, but this was banging. Might even come back

Rock and fuckin ROLL

This was fun at first abut about an hour too long

Just kinda tough to get into man

This made me quite happy

They’ve cornered this one sound but man is it delicious

Meh

Such a sucker for groove like this. Hard not to love

Not usually a rem guy but I really enjoyed this. Soft, wandering

Such an awesome concept

gwoovy

even when an album sounds like 5 stars to me, i have a tendency to get cold feet - i'm looking for an opus - but this kind of shit just breaks through for some reason. it was 38 minutes of perfect idea, perfect exectuion; no, there WAS a depth of feeling; no, i DONT care about how this album is positioned in its genre or how it changed everything that came after. fuck you. i liked this. 5 stars.

texture - great word

Wonderful

At first I thought this was merely mediocre, but no, no; this, in fact, is asswipe

i'm probably influenced by other reviews, but this one doesn't feel particularly distinct - good, yes; memorable, no

i'm hungover and don't remember how this was. wait, no, this was mediocre

I enjoyed

tom pretty okay

Actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Bono appetit

I might have only given this a 2 but it's a pretty sad sack of an album

Fuck yeah

Bangahhh

sue me

started strong but outstayed its welcome tbh

come stay at the spotted ox hostel and eat four or five sausages

maybe, deep down, i am unc and chopped and washed

this got my rats hot for sure

call me really fucking stupid but i thought this was perfectly good fun

no strong thoughts. felt alternative but in a kind of commercial way, although i still enjoyed

This was whiny and weird and I like it a lot less than Flaming Lips stuff, which I already generally dislike. I suppose I’ve found my hater niche

perhaps this is repetitive, but at least what's getting repeated is straight gasoline.

I like Morrissey. I like The Smiths. I liked this album

I AM GEN Z!!!!

hell yeah

this was beautiful. weird, far-off sadness in realizing i had never heard of this group and will likely plug on in life without a memory of them. but they made for a nice thursday.

I always love LCD for the first half of the song, and then the game becomes figuring out just how patient I am. Ran out of it more often while listening to this album, although of course it still bangs

gasoline. i just went and listened to a bunch of their stuff - all great

voice is killing me man

Lots of beauty here, just dragged on

I have a pretty instant aversion to Beck but this one grew on me with time. Whiny gave way to sincere

Cute

huh

yuck!

I love tribe so much but I struggled to find this one as revolutionary as everyone else calls it. Fun listen still but wasn't home run

i bet it smells soooo stinky in that recording studio

womp womp womp womp womp

so looooong :(((

A little nondescript but still fun and easy on the ears

punmemorable and punmemorable by hunmemorable 1unmemorable

Brilliant smooth brilliantly smooth

Lullaby

COME BACK TO THIS

Ok

live album better

This was fun

hot fuck mike!!!

Beautiful, long. I probably have a tendency to stop paying close attention after a certain number of tracks, as well as one to stop reflecting critically. But I was buoyed by good feeling from start to finish and that's not my default. Kudos, bugmen.

pack it up grandpa

easily one of the more complete albums i've encountered on this list - wall to wall classics, fun transitions, coherent concept. at times armstrong's voice is just a little annoying, and there's definitely something corporate/sanitized about this punk, but for some reason that's working in their favor here. at the end of the day it's just a great listen. (sentiments absolutely colored by the fact i saw them live while high as tits on molly. this album just exploded off the stage - straight air guitar and headbang fuel. won't ever forget it.)

could put you on any time

surprised this wasn't cowboy slop. doesn't every word in the band name imply cowboy slop?

popslop

some guy on here said slimmy jimi lol

not their most memorable? but still pleasureable

A 2 for me likely means the album was a guest that outstayed its welcome - grateful I met it, a little annoyed I had to listen as long as I did, and beyond happy to move on

Burn the heretic! Burn the heretic! Unfortunately, I can’t locate myself in a musical context when hearing this would be revolutionary. So I’m left instead thinking this was discombobulated, meek in its experimentation, etc. Shoulda kept strawberry fields on here

this was pretty undeniably insane. not to be so self-important/cutesy but im giving this a 4 because my library of 5s is MY library of 5s; i felt the gravity and the impact of this album but i think that fifth star almost has to come by surprise

caricature of bad music

not at all related to this album but i just wanted to say that i don't really get the appeal of lana del rey. been too afraid to say that anywhere else. elliott smith sucks

paul McMeLikey

fell in love with a girl is diesel. rest kind of flopped but i appreciate that they tried

sample city oh my

epic sauce dave

smoothie stop

now we're GETTING somewhere with these blokes

some shit brian from family guy would sing

good jams, kinda long

oh yeah. licking the sticky right of my fingers

groaned when i saw the date, but to my surprise this was not derivative rock-pop slop. it was peaceful. it was groovy. thank you byrds

thank you 1001

there are two wolves inside you: one thinks thom yorke is a musical genius and one wants it to end, end, end, end, end,

this one toes the line between 4 and 5 for me. but i look at the cover art and just can't stop smiling myself

discovering i love live albums. this one's long as hell though

reviews on this were so hateful and so fun to read. to be honest, i don't despise this as much as others apparently do. there were enough interesting musical turns of phrase to elevate this to 2-3 territory, but something about it all does just make you a little angry

how did people survive the early 2000s

rare to go beneath the hood and see what makes each artist in a duo so special to the duo without detracting from quality. love the distinctness of each side. first time, maybe, i was excited about listening to something this long

my only real exposure to blur is their self-titled album, which is one of my favorites all time - some real grit and melancholy layered into what's otherwise boring britpop. this is just the boring britpop. get edgier!!

i like to imagine him speaking in a permanent falsetto

i'm pretty sure goth rock doesn't have to be this boring

bow wow wow i find something about this incredibly grating

listen, i want to love this more than i do, really. but it just blends into the same monotonous shredding way faster than i'd hoped for. 3 because it's sick af but not transcendent

are you a bad person if you like this kind of music? probably not. nonetheless, do i find this kind of music utterly, excessively offensive to the senses? with every ounce of my being, yes

compelled, but not yet convinced...

whole thing felt sarcastic? but i liked it. or am i being sarcastic? what was in that 60s milk

first listen: magnetic, hypnotic, proggy froggy space jam. second listen: worst parts of hard rock masquerading as experiment. 3 stars.

sigh. this was great but probably gets washed away in my hazy memories of a couple hundred other albums

cool nice very good buttcheeks very nice

oh ...hello ......

OATMEAL

wtf cleanest smiths album ever? this is clear, concise, and brimming with a great energy. happy five star friday

this was cool. comments on this are mad charged. im not sure i listened to the lyrics very carefully. im not sure whats happening most times with regards to most things

calmy balmy smooth

el swag

Nick Caved

mildly interesting. i listened to this while realizing i left a lithium battery in my checked luggage after moving through security for an international flight, and i wasn't not sure how big of a deal that is. same can be said of this album. rip jeff

had to do a double take because i've listened to this guy's son before lol. sure it's repetitive but damn is it groovy. could listen for a while

note to self: come back to this (i'm not sure if it's good/great)

wow. not usually my thing, in the sense im not usually dark feelings for darkness' sake. with the exception of the 'hurt' cover, though, this was just an impeccable listen from start to finish. peak industrial sound?

won't pretend there aren't some bangers in here, but i won't pretend folk as a genre is justified either

slop (i didn't listen carefully)

SLOP (i liked this more bust still didn't listen carefully)

now at first glance i'd call this okay. but it's just so close to being okay it actually ends up triggering a profound sense of uncanny valley. nothing but soul-annihilating sound slop on here. fuck this album. fuck u2. fuck 1001 for subjecting me to an hour of this. also im drunk

nice soundtrack for road trip through lonely sierra caldera. not my fav tracks actually - little discombobulated - but no one does eerie 3d render for album art like these blokes

booooo album carried entirely by one song booooooo

not bad. but i might give a collection of fart recordings a higher rating

groundbreaking

zoo wee mama

serendipity... (down to 4 stars on a second listen, carried entirely by the odyssey of the 9th track)

i don't think it sucks too bad :(

mewo meow meow meow meow too smooth

quarter chub

Whoa…

Stuffed to the brim with classics

i like punk and i think it's amusing and has some stuff to say

blah britslop. fun memories i suppose - and the unexpected last 90 seconds of the hidden track are almost enough to earn this album another star - but im fine without it tbh

fuck.

bonus points for being 30 minutes

i mean, like, sure, but there's just zero passion here. sounds like they're performing with guns to their heads

can't stand this dawg. i feel at least sympathetic to country music with heart but this is completely devoid of it. wheels on gravel, nails on chalkboard

this is a great example of why i wanted to embark on 1001: matching faces to names. i wouldn't say this is exactly my kinda old school pop (more of a madonna slut myself) but there a couple bangers in here to be sure and im grateful to become better acquainted with an icon about whom i knew so little. tgif everyone