1001 Albums Summary

Very calming music. Reminds me of Billie Holiday

This is the first solo album released in the U.S. after Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's breakup. It's definitely different from their duet stuff. I've never been a huge fan of Paul Simon, but have always had some appreciation for S&G. Their harmonizing works well together and feels missing in Simon's solo work. I still love Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard though. Paranoia Blues is pretty fun, too.

Not bad, but it's not really my thing. I get a bit of a low-rent Amy Winehouse vibe from her voice. It is aggressively boring.

Oh, the memories that churn up while listening to this album. When I was 14 I hadn't yet found a personal musical identity. Being a farm boy in rural Indiana who at that point was mostly friends with other rural boys, I listened to Country music by default, mostly Garth Brooks. As my friend group expanded to people with different music tastes, I made the type of affirmative decision that only a close to pubescent boy would make. I decided I hated country music now and would dive into new music that some of my new friends listened to. My first new purchase was this album and Smash by Offspring. My parents had no issues with me listening to new music, but it felt like a rebellion to me. It was a rebellion that continued through to more concrete aspects of life as I abandoned country life and eventually the religion and politics of my family. The purchase of this album could be considered the nucleation point of my eventual transformation, but it was probably just a symptom of the transformation I was likely going through either way. The album still feels important to me though. I haven't listened to this album for decades, but find I can still sing along to almost all of it. Nostalgia aside, this album is still pretty great and my favorite by Green Day. I'm not sure if I'm falling victim to the classic pitfall of thinking that a band sold out or went downhill immediately after your impressionable window closed, or if they actually changed.

I've listened to Arctic Monkeys off and on for a while. Their style is a fun and they are a good diversion when you are listening to a large collection on shuffle, but I believe this is the first time I've sat down and listened to a full album and all the songs end up just blurring together, with the exception of Riot Van, which thankfully breaks up the album a bit. I enjoy their aggressively cockney accent and how much it comes through.

It's not my genre by a long shot. I don't necessarily dislike country, but I'm picky about it, and this style is absolutely in the dislike category. I don't like the twanginess of this particular subset of country. That said, I find I'm pretty entertained by the lyrics and themes in this album. There is a fun rebelliousness to this music that is rather infectious. It's really REALLY not my music style though.

I had never heard of this album or band before. The minimalistic cover combined with the title made me expect a classical album, but that is clearly not what it is. This album is quintessential 80's synth-pop, which is not my favorite genre, but this album felt very experimental. I actually enjoyed it more than I had expected.

I have always been very vocal about my assertion that The Rolling Stones are overrated. I've said that they only have two good songs: Sympathy for the Devil and Paint it Black. That said, I think most of this album is fairly new to me. Some of it is far more Blues-inspired than their more mainstream music. I like the Blues stuff, but if I'm going to experience Blues I will go to the source and listen to some authentic delta blues from the likes of Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. There's nothing wrong with the Stones' rendition, it's just not where I go for that style. Their more conventional rock songs on this album do the same thing that most of Rolling Stones songs do for me... not much. They just don't inspire me. And whoa boy.. the runtime of this double album certainly makes it overstay any welcome it started with.

I've always enjoyed Prodigy, and this album has quite a few of their hits on it, so they were clearly running on all cylinders with this record. Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, and Firestarter are all great jams.

I've never been into Hip-Hop, though I can appreciate a well done example when I hear it. Raising Hell is a pretty great example of old-school 80's Hip-Hop. The songs are a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed the titular song with its heavy guitar riffs between verses.

Alright.. this one is bizarre. Now, I usually like somewhat out-there music, but this one is a bit much for me. The voice is a bit odd, and I can't tell what genre he is going for. It's not weird enough to be fun in a Ween or Syd Barrett way, but it isn't good enough to be good in a mainstream way. It just doesn't fit anywhere for me. I'm judging the album harshly, and then I get to "Plaistow Patricia", which is a great proto-punk song that foreshadows the genre well... this album perplexes me.

Just solid, relaxing Jazz.

AC/DC is always a fun listen, and there are some real bangers on here. However, it does get pretty repetitive when you listen to a full album. I still loved it though.

I've only been vaguely aware of Steely Dan but have always been amused by the anecdote that the band is named after the steam-powered dildo in Naked Lunch. "Do It Again" is pretty good, but the rest of this album is mostly forgettable. This type of soft rock isn't my thing.

Goddamn, do I love Funkadelic. I heard them for the first time watching the underrated and prescient movie "PCU" and fell instantly in love. I rarely go out of my way to listen to George Clinton or Parlament Funkadelic, but I always have the best time when I do. I'm listening to this album in my office at work at a standing desk and I have to stop myself from doing a little dance to the music. And I don't LIKE dancing. This music always puts me in a great mood no matter how I feel, and that is the best compliment I can give any artist. I'm so glad I could finally see George live last year. As I go through this project, even albums I like, I am done with by the time I get to the end. When this album ended, I wanted more. I pledge allegiance to the United Funk of Funkadelica.

First impression.. weird fucking cover, it is very Tolkienesque. Listening to the music I'm noticing that Tenacious D's ballads sound quite a lot like this and I never would have expected that. I didn't expect to, but I am loving this album. The folk-rock mix is pretty good. Then I get to "Father and Son" and that song always makes me fucking cry. I'm sitting it work crying my eyes out and trying to hide it. I didn't realize it was from this album.... goddamnit.

I'm not quite sure what I think of this album. It's not bad, but it isn't really grabbing me either. I'm going to listen to it again before submitting my rating. I don't have to listen to it again. I just don't like it.

I'm not normally a fan of pop music, but I have to say Blondie does it for me. I tend to be a sucker for female lead singers, and Debbie Harry has a great voice. There is enough experimental stuff and variety in here to keep things interesting.

I've never listened to Kendrick Lamar before. Although this is very much not my style, it is very well done.

This music is simply not for me, in every sense of that phrase.

I had never heard of Bad Brains before. It seems to be a very prescient album and seems to anticipate the Punk styles to come. I enjoyed it, but it didn't wow me.

Very fun high tempo swing. I'm not sure what it was about the 90's that Swing and Big Band music suddenly became popular again, but I always enjoyed it.

I've never really understood The Police or Sting. They have mostly just been the boring soundtrack to 80's movies in my mind. I will say, though, that I liked some of the less overplayed songs on this album. "Mother," in particular, was fun.

I've never hated the Beatles, but I'm not a big fan, either. They are good, but I don't quite understand Beatlemania. Revolver feels very transitional. They still have a lot of their boy-band roots, but there are hints of what they will become when they transition to Sgt. Pepper, which is especially evident with Tomorrow Never Knows. I will always hate Yellow Submarine. I don't care what anyone else thinks.

I truly feel for Nick Cave and his loss. However, I do not enjoy wallowing with him in his grief. This album is not for me.

I've always loved Beck, and I don't dislike this album, but it is not my favorite. His high-energy hip-hop-inspired music from previous albums appeals to me more. That said, the melancholy tone of this album is still enjoyable.

I've never listened to The Replacements before. There is a lot of variety to this album, something you don't get from most punk albums. Some songs have more of a hard rock or metal influence, while others are more distinctly punk. All around, it is a well-balanced album that doesn't overstay its welcome.

I've never been much of a fan of U2, but you cannot deny the quality of this album.

I feel like I'm saying this for many of these albums, but this album just isn't for me. I don't judge anyone for loving Bob Marley and Reggae, but it's just not my thing.

I've only ever been tangentially aware of Bowie, more from his excellent movie career than his music (Outside of Space Oddity, of course, because who doesn't know that song by heart). Every time I've tried to delve into his catalog, I would go in expecting something like Space Oddity and just couldn't get into it when it differed so much. Bowie's talent and charisma are undeniable, and while I enjoyed this album, there is better Bowie out there.

I have never listened to Pantera much. I bought one of their albums (Far Beyond Driven) in high school, but my mom found it and was disturbed by the lyrics. She made me get rid of it before I could listen to it more than once. I got into Metallica after the above incident, and my mom didn't have the same issue with them for some reason. This is probably the first time I've listened to Pantera since then, and I really missed out on not listening to them during the years when a teenage boy would REALLY enjoy this style of music. If you like metal at all, you'll love this album. If you don't.. you won't.

This is far more fun than the first Miles Davis album I listened to in this project, which was "Birth of the Cool", which I found solid but uninteresting. This is some out-there experimental jazz that I am here for. The cover art is fucking fantastic, too.

I've never listened to War before, and I quite enjoyed it. It's no Parliament, but it was enjoyable.

Sorry, I just don't like Joni Mitchell. Nothing wrong with her music, it's just not my style.

When I'm in the right mood, I enjoy hardcore punk. It's never my go-to genre, but I appreciate it. I've never listened to or heard of Circle Jerks before, but this was a fun (and very quick) listen.

I've never been into The Smiths, and I'm still not into The Smiths. Their music is as generic as their name.

They aren't all bangers, but Season of the Witch and Sunshine Superman are both pretty great. I enjoyed this album more than I had expected.

I've always loved Johnny Cash. I marginally prefer the albums he did later in life, when his voice had an aged, gravelly note, but his earlier stuff is still fantastic. Since this album is performed live in a prison, it is not any technical marvel, but the fun that Cash is having on stage with his back-and-forth with the audience is amazing.

I've heard of Sade, and of course I've heard Smooth Operator before. This album is not bad, but it isn't my style.

I can absolutely see how this album influenced the psychedelic 60's music that came after this music's popularization. The instruments are unique and the album good for light background music, but the remastered edition overstays its welcome by quite a bit.

This album was a lot of fun. I had never heard of PiL before, but I love the experimental nature of Johnny Rotten's post Sex Pistols group. It's not always great, but it is always interesting.

I loved every moment of this. It is just the type of weird and off-putting that is right down my alley. This is the type of out-there shit I want to discover from this project. I'm not understanding all of the hate in the reviews, though, after reading them, I can't help but hear Cookie Monster.

Hip-Hop isn't really my style, and this album doesn't change my opinion of it. It wasn't as bad as I had expected, but it still isn't my thing. I definitely could have gone without the slurpy blowjob in the middle of the album.

I enjoyed this album, it was fun and upbeat. However, I prefer my Funk a little weirder.

Meh, this sucks. It is a weird juvenile hip-hop rock fusion that does no favors to either genre.

I find Erykah Badu's voice a little nasally and flat, but the instrumentation almost comes close to making up for it. Almost. The stereo effects on some of the songs are annoying on headphones.

Interesting throwback style considering it was made in 1988. I can see the femme fatale singing many of these songs in a nightclub of a noir movie. Not my style, but enjoyable.

What can I say that have already been said about Jimi Hendrix? He was a once in a generation talent who died too young. This album is one banger after another.

Jeff Buckley's melancholy music is great. His reinvention of Hallelujah turned it into a legitimate hit for both him and Leonard Cohen.

I was not a fan of this album. It was too discordant, too arhythmic, just annoying to listen to.

Portishead is one of the first bands that my now-wife introduced me to when we first started dating. I love the airy weirdness of them and their mixture of traditional instruments with well-integrated electronic music.

I am baffled by this album. I love some of the songs, and am really annoyed by others. Sometimes I hear some hints of Velvet Underground, sometimes a little Floyd influence, and other times it sounds like whiney Indie bullshit.

So.. I'm biased on this one. I'm sitting in my home office with a Pink Floyd poster behind my monitors and I'm wearing one of my many Pink Floyd shirts, so feel free to take my review with a block of salt. I first got into Pink Floyd right as I started college in '98. I had of course heard of them and had picked up on the occasional song from the radio, but never got deep into their music. My college dorms had an internal cable channel that would play whatever movies the AV club or whomever controlled it wanted to. One night they played The Wall, and I was expecting a rock opera along the lines of Tommy. What I didn't expect was the mind fuck journey that I was taken on. I remember wondering when Pink Floyd's music would start. It wasn't until Young Lust came on that I thought the music finally started. It was the first song that I associated with the musical style that I anticipated to be on a popular rock band's music video. Clearly, I had no idea what Pink Floyd's style was, and once it clicked I fell in love. I voraciously consumed any and all Pink Floyd I could find from then on. I spend an entire summer playing Dark Side of the Moon on repeat in my truck. I love the entire catalog up to and including The Final Cut (sorry.. once Roger left the band, it was not the same band). I've tried to chase the high of discovering my favorite music for the last 27 years and nothing has hit the same way. Maybe I discovered them when I was particularly susceptible to being influenced by novel experiences, but I don't think I'll ever find anything like it again. I know it's not for everyone. I know it is extremely long. Some say it is overwrought. But it is, by a wide margin, my favorite album of all time. I've listened to it innumerable times, but still get goosebumps when I listen to it. I will always love it.

I've never been into Foo Fighters, and I'm still not. Their music is fine, but not particularly interesting to me.

Never really listened to Morrissey before. I liked this album, especially the first song, more than The Smiths.

As far as garage punk goes, it's fine. I can respect their commitment to low-fidelity recording methods, but the result ends up being a tinny and shallow sound to my ears. Album art is fun, though.

I never knew the name of the band that did Come On Eileen, and now I know why. Outside that song, they suck.

It's hard to believe that Little Richard was making this music in the 50's. It seems old fashioned from today's standard, but for the time it was incredibly prescent.

Not familiar with Joan Armatrading at all, but I enjoyed several of the songs, especially the ones that had a good groove going.

The Doors has never been my favorite band, but L.A. Woman and Riders on the storm are still great.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. It's weird, fun, chaotic, and unpredictable.

Lots of recognizable songs on here, but this is not my style of music. It's way too boy-band for me, even if it is well done. RIP Brian Wilson

Adele has a great voice, and there are a couple of standout songs on here, but most of the others are middling.

Being a late Gen X'er, this album was very much the soundtrack to my teenage years. I always loved Nirvana, but they were never at the top of my list; that was reserved for Metallica during the height of both bands' power. Most of the songs on Nevermind are great, but I would say "Territorial Pissings" and "Endless, Nameless" are some low points. I wouldn't kick this album out of bed for eating crackers, though.

Aretha Franklin was a once in a century talent.

Noise Rock is exactly what I thought it would be...

I'm not sure what this was, but I know it's not for me.

I loved this album in high school, but have since fallen out of Metallica fandom. I haven't listened to them for a few decades, so when this album came up, I was afraid I would cringe at what teenage me loved. I am happy to say that I still feel like Master of Puppets holds up.

Meh, not my thing

This album is surprisingly good. I have no idea why it wasn't given the credit it deserved when it came out.

Boy, is this not my thing...

Psycho Killer is great, but he rest of this album is good, but not great for Talking Heads.

This is terrible.

Meh, it's not my thing.

The song Imagine is beautiful, if naive. The rest is largely forgettable.

Boy, I hated this a lot.

It was fine, not great, not my thing. It was a bit repetitive.

Man, I love some good Funk.

The music was pleasant and relaxing, but way too vanilla for my Jazz tastes.

Nope, still don't like The Rolling Stones

Paranoid deserves five stars for War Pigs and Iron Man alone, but every single song on it is a legit banger.

I've always loved Violent Femmes

McCartney without Lennon sucks, and Lennon without McCartney sucks. They needed each other.

I don't believe I've ever listened to Black Sabbath's debut album. The only song I recognized was "The Wizard," and it is very similar to later Sabbath material, which is, of course, great. What pleasantly surprised me is that the other music on here was more blues-inspired than their later music. RIP Ozzy

Three of Guns N' Roses big hits are on here, but I'm still not a huge fan. I don't hate them, but they aren't my kind of metal. After listening to two different Black Sabbath albums over the last week, I consider this an inferior product.

Probably one of the best live albums of all time.

So... when I opened the app yesterday I thought "Oh good, I like Tom Petty, this one will be an easy one." But... I guess I don't? This album just sucks outside of American Girl, which I don't believe is in the top 10 Tom Petty songs. I like a few of Tom Petty's hits well enough.. Free Fallin', You Don't Know How It Feels, Mary Jane's Last Dance, etc... but I really don't like this album.

This is not at all my thing...

I don't hate country music, but I am very picky about it. Dolly Parton easily falls into the great column for me She brings an authenticity that cannot be faked. Dolly is a national treasure and by all accounts a great human being.

I wanted to like this more than I did. Of course I've heard Smoke on the Water and Space Truckin', but two good songs do not make an album. Everything else was just meh.

I'm not an Elton John fan, but I enjoyed this album far more than I had expected.

Meh.. this is very much not my thing...

I normally day that a single good song does not make a good album, but the titular song of this album is half the album's length, and is a great song.

Never really been into Santana. They are good, but not my thing.

I've never knowingly listened to Kanye before, so I was going into this completely blind. It was much better than I had expected, but it still is not my thing. Monster was a lot of fun, especially the Nicki Minaj section.

I mostly hated this album, with the notable exception of "Flipside", which gave me Beck vibes.

I've never heard Fairport Convention, or of their terrible name. Given their description, I was prepared to completely hate it, but once I started listening, I suprisingly enjoyed it.

This is extraordinarily boring and vanilla punk. This seems like the type of music someone like my sister would listen to and proudly announce that they are still cool.

Alice In Chains is decent, but not great. There is better Metal and there is better Grunge from the era.

Never heard of Hawkwind, but I enjoyed this way more than I had expected.

Meh, not my thing.

I'm very conflicted about this album. I love Cohen's voice, I love the backup singers, I love the lyrics, I love the music... but I hate the instrumentation. If the exact same album was made using traditional instruments instead of keyboards and drum machines, I would love this album. With the synthetic sound of the almost entirely electronic instruments, I come close to hating it.

I've always loved Jack White and his various bands, and this is no exception.

I've discovered through this project that I like hippy music much more than I thought I did. However this album is a bit much, even for me...

This is absolutely not my thing.... It's excruciatingly boring to me.

Bah, I just don't like Elivs Costello.

I know I'm in the minority, but I cannot stand Radiohead. Thom Yorke's voice grates on my nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard.

I mean.. 5 obviously..

Meh, not my thing...

I loved this album. I recognized the titular song and Frontier Psychiatry, but I have no idea from where. It was just a fun, upbeat album.

Def Leppard has just never been my style of metal.

Album was repetitive and WAY too long.

Elliott Smith still isn't my thing...

I've always loved Fraz Ferdinand, and this was one hell of a debut.

I've never gone out of my way to listen to Taylor Swift before. I'm aware of her popularity and brand (who isn't?), but I've never taken the time to sit down and listen to an album. While this music is definitely not to my taste, I can see why she is so popular.

How is every bad pixie song on the same album?

There is better Beatles

I've never been a fan of Springsteen, and still am not.

RAtM is loud, angry, repetitive, and not particularly talented.

Nope.. still don't care for The Rolling Stones. The answer to the eternal question of "Beatles or Stones?" will always be "Led Zeppelin" for me.

I mean.... I love Johnny Cash, and this album. However.. does this list really need two separate live Johnny Cash albums performed at a prison?

I'm giving this an extra point for nostalgia. This is one of the two albums I bought for myself when I decided to venture out to newer and edgier music. The other one was Green Day's Dookie, which has already been on this list.

I just don't like Neil Young's voice....

No, 1001, it doesn't matter how many times you make me listen to The Rolling Stones, I still do not like them. This does have one of the two good Stones songs on it, so I'll boost it a star.

I normally love The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed... But not this album.

Very much not my thing.

I don't care for reggae at all, and this is the third Bob Marley album we've encountered on this list, plus a Peter Tosh album. Of all of them, this one is the best, but I still do not care for it

Over indulgent and over long. If one were to take the 8 or so best songs from this and make a normal length album, it might be decent, but most of this 3 hours was boring.

Ok.. THIS is much better Cohen than our first round with him in this list.

This album should not have been a double album. There are some great songs on here, but a lot of mediocre songs that aren't up to par with Led Zeppelin's normal output. Only docking it a single start because mediocre Zepp is still Zepp.

So.. I guess Meatloaf is what you get when a musical theater kid decides to try to become a rock star? I mean, the music is good, but not my thing.

So.. I guess Meatloaf is what you get when a musical theater kid decides to try to become a rock star? I mean, the music is good, but not my thing.

Writing these lyrics must have been easy.