1001 Albums Summary

Have on vinyl: Yes. Rating: 8.15 Fav Song: hard not to pick the title track, but going with If You Want Blood (you've got it)

Have on vinyl: No Rating: 7.9 Fav Song: My Doorbell Notes: Like a lot of White Stripes, I want to like it more than I do.

Have on vinyl: No Rating: 8 Fav Song: Tiny Dancer Notes: Indian Sunset...did not age well

Have on vinyl: Yes Rating: 9.2 Fav Song: Mardy Bum Notes: Fucking great. Pre-Hanna when this came out. A lot of Blackout (pinball), beer, and this with Kruz

Have on vinyl: YesX2 Rating: 7.5 Fav Song: Castles Made of Sand Notes: 1st track is annoying. Overall it's OK but pretty meh. Would go 2.5 stars if that were an option

Have on vinyl: No Rating: 7.5 Fav Song: Son of a Preacher Man Notes: Harder to like an album when the singer wrote none of the songs.

Have on vinyl: No Rating: 7.7 Fav song: The League of Bald-Headed Men Note: James Murphy called this band "his Beatles" and you can hear the influence; this increases my rating as a lot of it is rambling.

Have on vinyl: As of today, Yes. Rating: 8.4 Fav Song: Smoke on the Water is iconic, but I'm digging Lazy today. Notes: Bangers

Fav Song: Isn't She Lovely Notes: Waaay too long (and somewhat boring) but out of respect for its legacy and influence, going with a 3. RIP Coolio.

Have on vinyl: No Fav Song: The Hardest Walk Notes: Early Shoegaze

Have on vinyl: Yesx2 Fav Song: Lost in the Supermarket Notes: All timer

Have on vinyl: Yes Fav Song: Hot Burritos Notes: I love Gram Parsons. Was at 4.5 stars but rounding up. Big time influence on the 70's soft/country rock scene.

Have on vinyl: No Fav Track: Big Time Sensuality Notes: The cover song is unnecessary.

Vinyl: Yes Fav Song: Strangelove Notes: I want it to be better than it is. Violator is 5 stars.

Have on vinyl: Yes. Yellow colored Fav Track: Like picking your favorite kid...but going with Underwear. Notes: Top 5 album

Have on Vinyl: No Fav Song: All I Ask Notes: Great voice just not my style

Have on Vinyl: No Fav Song: Bussing Note: Interesting; had not heard this before

Have on Vinyl: No Fav Song: Get it Together w/Q-Tip Notes: Falls off towards the end

Have on vinyl: No Fav song: Modern Dance Notes: Takes some getting used to. I was at one point at a 1, then a 2, ended with a 3 after more listens.

Vinyl: No Fav Song: Weep Themselves to Sleep

Vinyl: No Fav Song: The Healer Notes: Good but a bit disjointed.

Fav Song: Elvis Blues. Notes: Great story telling but a bit sleepy.

Vinyl: No Fav Song: Freedom Notes: There is some downtime on it but nostalgia clicks this over to a 4 for me. Chali 2na is great

Vinyl: Yes Fav Song: All of it

Vinyl: Want Fav: Blues Had a Baby

Vinyl: No Fav: Voodoo People

Fav: Lost Notes: Some bangers. Takes some getting used to

Vinyl: Want Fav Song: So Cruel

Fav: What I Don't Know

Fav: Fall Notes: Not for me.

Fav: You Want It Darker Notes: Powerful shit. Released just before his death. If I Didn't Have Your Love is a tear jerker for me.

Fav: Take Me Out

Fav: Fuck Wit Dre Day Notes: Nostalgia runs high with this one. Relistening, this seems a bit too long and as a kid I didn't realize how much he was sampling from P-Funk. Main songs still hold up for me.

Fav: Blue Monday Notes: It's good. Would do 3.5 if that were an option

Fav: Just What I Needed Notes: Some bangers, some down tracks for me.

Fav: Trainspotting Notes: Some good grooves

Vinyl: Yes Fav: Jeepster Notes: This is a top 10, maybe top 5 album for me

Vinyl: Yes Fav: Little Red Corvette Notes: Cut some this shit down and it's probably 4 stars.

Fav: Meh...Freak Scene Notes: Nah, at least it's relatively short. "Don't" kicks it down to a 1 star

Fav: Wall Street Shuffle

Fav: Whatsername Notes: A lot of good/great tracks.

Fav: Tiro Ao Alvaro Note: Good lounge singer vibes. Who knows, might even be a 4 if I could speak Portuguese

Fav: You Oughta Know Notes: High school flashbacks with this one...scared to talk to girls who were Alanis-heads. Shame really. Some good tracks but not one I'll likely come back to.

Fav: I'm Goin Down Notes: Holy hits. Classic. 4.5 = rounding 5

Fav: California Dreamin' Notes: Lots of nostalgia on this one. Good but not great. Vinyl: Yes, but not the cover actually showing the toilet. Those are rare and worth hundreds; it was apparently a big scandal at the time to show a toilet on an album cover. After the first run, the subsequent releases had it covered up.

Fav: Fast Car..gotta be Vinyl: Yes Notes: Mountains O' Things sounds a helluva lot like an Ed Sheeran arrangement...I always knew that guy was a fraud 😄

Fav: The One You Really Love Notes: This one takes some getting used to. Clocking in at nearly 3 hours, it's hard to do that in one day as this exercise demands. Def could have been cut down but then you wouldn't have 69 songs I guess. Good bit of song writing nonetheless.

Fav: Mr. Magic Notes: Great voice. Good vibe on this previously unheard album for me.

Credited as the first hard punk album and produced by Joan Jett. I can appreciate what it's doing but I don't really dig it. 2.5 stars but rounding up today

Fav: Why Did It Have To Be Me? Notes: Ups and downs.

Notes: Interesting and unheard until today.

Fav: Barbarism Begins at Home Notes: Probably my least favorite Smiths album but still pretty, pretty good.

Fav: ayeyaiyai, they all seem so pretentious. Praise You is probably the most listenable.

Fav: The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter Notes: I surprisingly enjoyed this 70's classical shit. Played on repeat yesterday on the disc golf course and it was quite right.

Fav: He Won't Go Notes: Some really good songs. Cure cover is unnecessary.

I like Who Do You Love...but an entire album of it? It's too much. Jam-bandy. Not bad but not that interesting to me.

Some bangers. Got a bit too long IMO.

25 years ago I was all in on this. 25 years later...it feels more awkward than anything.

Hot Mess.

Not my thing.

Some daft funky vibes but the title track I can't stomach anymore

On the first 5 listens, this one is OK. On 10, it's even better and by now my ranking is a 4.5. Which puts me over to a 5.

It's a lot.

Tight. Really listenable.

Will for sure be back to this one for more. Good shit

Close to a 4, but this doesn't quite hold up to their other albums Surfa Rosa and Doolittle

Good rhymes, full of funk

Pretty down on my list of fav AF albums

Woof

A solid 3

Bye Bye Love sticks out like the cheap cover it is but otherwise a very good album.

Fun, but boring at times.

Classic

Lots of pickin' and old tymey shit but it has its place

It's serviceable.

Classic album.

woof

Started off hot but cooled off

Nothing that blew me away. Solid album nonetheless.

Solid track after track

2.5

not very enjoyable.

It's fine.

Solid track after track

3.5.

Smokey, nightclub sound. Good stuff.

Noisy. A bit of a slog.

It's fine.

6 discs?? Exhausting

Good voice but ayyaiyai this one is rough

Pretty solid. I like the gospel vibes

Not unlistenable but yikes

It's a trip

Contains probably my fav Bowie song

some good shit, some not great covers.

Sunday is a tough listening day for me and this needs more listens to make a final call, but digging it quite a bit. Rating based on the OG album => ending on Engineers.

Chooglin' to a 3.5 but I'll give it 4 since they created a new word

REM has better albums but there's some bangers on here.

Some good. Some forgettable.

Fun and quick

Woof

Will come back to this one for sure.

Facking love this one.

Fun one

Sleepy bunch of tired ass old country songs

Not my fav Lou material; much bigger fan of VU-era stuff.

Need to spend more time with this one

Not my thing but can see why it was popular

It's fine. It has good lyrics. It's too long.

It's pretty one note but the sound kicked off some garage sound in rock I guess so that is something.

Legend shit

I hesitate to give it a 2 star but man some of it annoys me.

Kraut-rock!

All covers, save for 1 song...OK.

Surprising. I had only heard a few of these before this.

1st track is a classic but it's downhill fast from there.

Is it over yet? Long and similar

Solid Air

Influential maybe but not my thing.

Fun and totallllly 80's

Odd album. I have listened to this probably 20+ times in the last year or two and still doesn't quite click for me.

Some good tracks. Some boring tracks.

Fun

Diggin it. Never heard this before, but I'll be back

Fun one

I want to like it more than I do.

Solid

meh

lotta noise

Love the horns

Solid 3 - 3.5

Solid 4

yikes

Fun one. Big Star for the 90's

It's good; just played out for me.

Classic

SOLID 3

Solid short & sweet album. A couple mainstream songs, but a lot unfamiliar late 60's tracks

Kinks-y

Funky bass lines

Fun one to get to know!

Good stuff; had to pull out the vinyl and hear it on that as well

It's good but not my thing

Quirky. Good riffs.

Good is great but some of this is too meandering and jazzy at times.

Takes some getting into but the noise does turn to music eventually.

Woof. Some lounge singer bullshit

Funky and horny

Solid album

Unexpected. Big fan

I'm at a 3.5 so wavering between 3 & 4 stars.

Pretty meh, but good musicianship

OG Jam album

It's fine. Here is my note from10/4/2022 on this album: blah

Hyper and somewhat disjointed

Perhaps the lowest rated Beatles album IMO. Too many covers

It's tough.

It's fine

It's fine

good album, better story https://molivam42.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/the-story-behind-the-song-here-my-dear/

not great

Droll

The Message is an all timer but the rest is pretty meh

Not my thing

Driving across NE, nearly fell asleep to this. Uber chill

Not bad

Fuck this album and Fuck Birdland

A classic, albeit quite misogynistic upon relistening, middle school album

Solid and unexpected

For a XMas album it's solid AF. Played this on repeat while cooking yesterday

Solid 3. Some good tracks for sure.

Need to give it some more listening. Saturdays are tough to rate a record on but there is some fun guitar work on this one.

Epitome of 92.9 The Eagle presents : CLASSIC ROCK

Will come back to this.

Decent tracks but some real obsure shit keeps it from anything but a 3 for me.

It's fine; good story

disjointed

It's fine. Some good high school memories on this one.

Spotify 40th anniversary release has previously unused horns and other bullshit that detracts from the original release.

Nearly a 4

Would be great to see live I suppose but his antics and general feel of this one didn't hit for me.

Incredible voice ticks it up for me

boring

Fine. Hidden track is dumb

For a hot jazz album, I liked it much more than expected.

Good stuff. Listened about 8 times yesterday on a loop

Solid

Classic

Really good. And unexpected. Will add it to my main rotation for sure.

Thin White Duke

Probably a 3 - 3.5. Going 4 for this band's general influence on some of my favorite music growing up

I just could not get this one to click. Probably a 3 but I've been handing out too many stars lately.

Ups and downs but mostly meh

Big fan of this band. They had 3 albums, I like the other 2 better, but this one is pretty fun as well.

For having no words, not bad..

Ups...and downs on this one

Toonerville Trolley? pfffft

Fun shit. This band takes some getting used to IMO. They were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of Records.

Gram is the best part about this one

Solid 3

Holy shit boys, 2 hr 15 min…interesting Andre did 1 album (Love Below), Big Boi did another (Speakerboxx) and they just issued it as 1 album. I like Big Boi's side better. Tighter

It's fine

Good beats and lyrics. Thick to get through

Somewhat off-putting at times with his voice. Not my favorite RH album

Solid 3.5. Rounding to 4 considering how iconic and great To Be Young is.

This is markedly better than yesterday's Ryan Adams album which also got a 4. Such is the issue with just 5 stars to give out. While Heartbreaker is a 3.5+, this is a 4.5 for me but can't get to the full 5.

woof

Boring, but nothing offensive

Solid

Not my thing but listenable.

Talky lyrics are not great but this is OK. Avg rating.

Enjoyed this much more than I thought I would; damn near 10 spins in a day. Some Oingo Boingo vibes on Yeah Yeah. This sound reminds me of The Goonies

I think this is the first Supertramp album I have went front to back, which I did many times yesterday. Liked it. ELO vibes at times. Pink Floyd others. Cool shit, will come back to this one

The 99 minute Legacy album is better than the 33 minute vinyl release from 1969. You actually understand what they are talking about but the Legacy version is rambling, rehashes songs from the Folsom album, and is fine.

Unexpectedly good. I like the interludes a lot, especially from Master P. Love that guy, well used to high school anyway. Sitting at 3.5 solid stars..going to tip it over after another listen on day #2.

Comes in hot. Fades out a bit at the end.

I mean...yeah. Fine.

Horny. 3.49

Something held over from the 80's that sounds like a knockoff 90's version of Stevie Wonder. Not for me.

It's fine. The guy really goes hard in the paint with Bob Dylan voice on a couple tracks.

It is solid. Want to like it more than I do, despite many listens over the years.

Fuggin classic.

4.49 stars. Not ticking to 5 based on the ending of album

3 for creating one of the most influential and funky bass lines ever

OK. Likely influential?

Fun

Duchess is on my play list of liked songs but some of this gets a bit wonky

it's fine. too long and did not hold my interest throughout

Banger

This is great. Will go back and spin. Missed me when it came out, but with Dre on beats...solid.

Solid 3

yikes

it's fine

She's good but this is some dippy ass shit. Coloring books straight into Mockingbird...edgy

Ups and mehs

some good, some annoying. pretty OK

Tried to find something redeemable with this. Couldn't finish the 2nd listen

Title track is a certified Banger but I'm over it since my teens. Rest is OK.

It's good but some of the sharp horn bleating is off-putting for me

Some classics

It's good. These guys sound like Oasis; or does Oasis sound like them?

not for me.

Solid album. I had not heard this before yesterday

I need a couple more listens. Weekends are tough to get a full review but I'm at a 3.5 right now. May change to 4 later but using 3 for now.

Good voice. Album drones on for too long IMO

I don't count myself as a Boston fan and I don't think I have heard this album before. But I knew every song. Classic rock.

Great debut album. I'm way over Free Bird, but it's still an anthem

Not for me. Proggy

Interesting enough.

Good and jammy. Boomery

Basic but this one mostly missed me until now

No notes.

First listen I was at an annoying 2. More spins, it gets better.

Love it

Solid. Big fan of final track but does lag at times.

Soul-full

Some bangers

Good tracks but the cover and couple end songs lost me a bit

ooof

slightly annoying at times but has some good horns

mostly OK but some tracks pretty enjoyable

Most of this was new to me aside from the hit single. Pretty, pretty good.

some interesting lyrics

brute.

It's fine. Bored

I want to like it more than I do. Love Cube, but this mostly missed in growing up; a little out of place in 2026

Better than expected. Pretty in your face

Good songs + meh songs

Solid 2.5

Some fun stuff buried in there

It's front half is good but falls off hard.

Solid