1001 Albums Summary

I like. Sometimes corny ("who's that guy again?... DEATH") but mostly jazzy and soulful early 2000s hip-hop.

Interesting to hear more of the Bowie discography, it's clearly mid career but was an enjoyable listen.

I like this album. I like Springsteen more when he's not doing his trademark mumble, and several of these songs were enjoyable.

We float is definitely a standout. It sounds different from the others and I like it the most. Very spacey and soft sounding. I went back and looked at the most popular songs from the album and was surprised that wasn't it lol.

Classic and an enjoyable listen.

That was a nice change of pace. I like the classic blues sound and that life experience can be heard in muddy Waters' voice.

This was an interesting listen- I felt that I could sonically hear it travel from the 60's to the 70's track by track. "Astral plane" had a sort of Doors influence in the keyboards, but I could hear the proto-punk as it got to "she cracked" and "someone to care about" and sounded like Velvet Underground influence. Among mentions of so many sound influences, I wish the album sounded more like it's *own thing* and less an amalgamation of other things.

Starting out strong with a song about fucking to get your day started. I enjoy her smoky deeper voice. The tone reminds me of Carole King. Surprised to learn she's English but the timing makes sense for blue eyed soul to break in the UK. The song structure reminds me of the temptations which again makes sense.

I enjoyed it as a whole album and experience, though no particular songs jumped out at me as stars. But it was fun and groovy and boppy.

This album is clearly in my bag, in that it is in the window of music time I love. I listened to the version with the alternate track "glamorous indie rock and roll," and that about covers it; that kind of music is MY SHIT. It's a great album. If there is any point of contention, it's that I feel that it's heavy with amazingness on the front end. It's *good* on the other end of the album but it's hard when the first several tracks are a murderers row.

This was a surprising listen. I really enjoyed the lyrics, which did hit in the gut when they hit. I can see this as a return to form for Bob Dylan.

I can appreciate this as a work of art in its own right that was important in it's genre of music. That said, it's not my personal cup of tea. I've never been a fan of thrash music, or any music where the instrumentation (while impressive) overpowers or drowns out the lyrics. It is also a product of its time and comes across SO 80's.

This album is a bit of a ride- it's different at the back than it is at the front. I'm not surprised that Maps became the wider known hit because it's the song that is the most radio ready and least thorny. My personal preference is the lighter, singer-songwritery side of the album. I'm glad to have said I finally listened to this entire album though I'm not sure I'll be spinning anything but Maps on the regular.

It was an enjoyable listen, but I'm not the correct audience. It sounds like a chill evening in a smoky jazz club in the 1960s, but I don't have much to compare it to because I don't have a lot of experience in this genre. I'm happy I know about it but would be interested to know how or why this is better than other albums of its ilk, would would take more time and effort to achieve.

This was a fun listen. It was an interesting mix of cultures and languages. Despite not understanding the various languages, I got the references and enjoyed hearing more about the rest of the world.

This is the last of MJs imperial phase where he could not do wrong musically and he was at the top of his game. Arguments can be made about splitting the criminal and their crimes until the cows come home. This is the last album where the disparate sides of the artist are still somewhat balanced- he's still the popstar du jour and a bonafide hit maker, but even within the album we can see him becoming increasingly lonely, suspicious and (one positive) a bit more world-minded. Unfortunately his darker sides and odder musical instincts start to win as time goes on. Or perhaps the world moves on? Hard to say. This is a foundational album of my childhood so it admittedly has a warm glow of nostalgia, but removing that, I think it's difficult for ANY album to have an unskippable tracklist; this album has that for me. I don't blame MJ for trying different sounds and producers later in his career, but I think he was at his best collaborating with Quincy Jones.

I liked listening. It was indeed a product of the time it was made but I enjoy the ensemble element and what each person brought to the mix of the sound.

I really enjoyed this album and it was one of the first I've listened to in this project where I felt that I would listen to it again myself.

This was some real acid rock hippie bullshit lol. There was a definite time and place for it, but it seems better to be playing in the background, not something in the foreground that you're focusing deeply on.

I enjoyed this specifically because it didn't feel like a "best of" album, as I've heard most of Bob Marley. It felt like a whole album. It was a good, fast listen, and feels like a cornerstone of the genre.

I like that this has a sound that isn't stuck in 1983. It has a freshness that isn't caught just in that decade. If I can offer a negative, it sounds a bit samey in the middle, before there are some tonal/tempo changes around "Gone Daddy Gone" (killer xylophone solo!) and the slower-paced "Good Feeling." This is an album that I always should have listened to, and now I'm glad I did.

I've already known that I like Roxy music. My first blush impression from re-make/re-model is that it sounds like the velvet underground mixed with the Talking heads (but maybe it's Bryan Ferry's voice that reminds me of the latter). Side thought- makes sense that Eno and Byrne collaborated later.

Love this album. Own it.

I really like this album. I know Siouxsie Sioux's look- I mean, it's iconic for the 80s- but I never took the chance to actually listen to the music behind the icon. It's thoughtful without being annoying, the lyrics and melodies are enjoyable, and it's not stuck sonically in the decade it was made (I prefer that and particularly for the 80's for some reason, because sometimes this decade can be PAINFULLY from it's time more than other eras).

Enjoyed this album. It sounds very of the 80s but not in a bad way. The electronic sounds actually seem pretty fresh for being as old as they are.

A classic. Glad I listened.

This was the first group recommended through this project that I had truly never heard of. It was good- sounds like a precursor and/or peer to Kraftwerk almost?

What a beautiful album.

Yazz flute! Ya, it's fine, if not my personal cup of tea.

It's like stomp before there was stomp. It was weird and not enjoyable, though I am sure it means something important in some corner of music.

It was only fine.

Culture vulture Beatles. Neat.

I mean it's the motherfucking White Album

It's 80s as hell, but it's a good fuckin time.

I really liked this!

Good album though I'm not sure I'll return to it a lot.

Had a bit of sameness.

Two Megadeth albums on this list is too many lol

This is in my wheelhouse of music I like. A minor quibble is that the lead singers voice lends a sameness to a lot of the songs.

You can almost hear all the white people stealing his style in the decades following this release!

Is it a perfect album? Nah. But it's nearly perfect pop music when it does hit the mark. This is Max Martin at the moment even he starts to begin to understand he's... Max Martin (do I hate I have to mention him first? Yes- perhaps admits to the power of the pop machine, though); when that meets a girl so clear in purpose, dream, and talent at the perfect time, it's kinda explosive. This is one of the last albums I remember being EVERYWHERE at the time, perhaps before music stopped being that exactly. Granted, I was a 12 year old girl at the time this was released so it's hard to find a more perfect test audience for this. The holier-than-thou judgement and condescendsion was harsh on this at the time- and persists. Call me a poptimist, but well crafted music is well-crafted music- even if pop music. Admittedly, the second half isn't as strong as the first (the corn of email my heart, anyone?) but when it's hitting on all cylinders.... Phew.

A fun lil romp. He's still making music too! I appreciate learning more about other country/other languages music.

I appreciated it as an experience and experiment. How does art move forward without pushing boundaries? However, not sure if I would return very readily.

Damn this album has a lot of his bangers. I was never a #1 Billy J fan but you can't deny the talent.

I feel strongly about listening to everything with an open mind- call it the poptimist in me. I appreciate the time when rock and rap intermingled, and I like the having two lead vocalists (did that happen all that often?) I never bought or went out looking for this album back in the day but somehow know every song, which objectively makes it a pretty good d debut album even if I wouldn't consider it my favorite "type" of music.

Never heard of any of these people. Enjoyed the album. The bluesier parts felt more timeless than the of-its-time psychedelic stuff. If I had a gripe, it was a little too long.

It's objectively a lil bop of an album of yacht rock but it kinda dragged for me a lil bit

Quite beautiful

Jazzy!

Got some bangers on the front end and peters out a bit at the end. The slow jams beg for comparisons to her brother (I'd call them 'Jacksonian') but she tended to emphasize the different approach from her brother later in her discography. However the ones that go, go pretty hard.

Breezy 60s fun.

I kinda loved this lol. It's an album that sounds like my dad but I don't recall him listening to (though I think I've heard la grange enough on the classic rock stations he frequented). It's a pretty great 70s Rick album that maybe doesn't get as much love as other big hitters.

I don't think it holds up as well as other who albums

I like this album. Now that I listen to it, I can understand why everyone was so angry with her mainstream swing. The differences are night and day, and she's so much more interesting this way.

The standouts are indeed standouts, but the rest of the album fades into the background.

Great and sexy album but it tends to have some 'sameness' after a while.

I can deny local heroes Devo.

This is some real hippie shit.

I think The Weight is a high point that isn't met by the rest of the album.

It is unfortunately really good lol

Real "we have the strokes at home" energy.

A great 70s rock record I was somehow unaware of until now.

I hate the French lol