1001 Albums Summary

Glitter specks of truth and humor shine through the moody, smokey noir. Definitely a guy whose been through things, and is in the middle of another hard thing; the end of his life. Reminded of Sam in the Lord of the Rings : "There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high

Love this album.

Can't believe I've never heard this before, and like that it clearly has 60s influences... but that is only a part of the sonic cornucopia, not the whole thing.

Short, angry, with moments of wtf humor while going after america's commercial culture juxtaposed with feelings of depression and loneliness.

Immediate love! I had heard Fela Kuti before, but not really listened ( which, like??). Fantastic.

Fantastic. Mellow, rich, full, timeless. The cover art completely mislead me into thinking this was more trendy, something that wasn't going to hold up. It's pretty awesome.

I wish I had heard of this earlier. Weird in a good way.

Always thought this was a 70s band.

had never listened to this whole album, but was happy with it.

it's talking heads. unmistakably.

So smooth.

wordsmith. recently saw the movie, so it's a little hard to not picture chalamet singing.

Very operatic, dramatic. RUUN FOR THE HILLLLLLLS RUUN FOR YOUR LI-I-IFE

obviously early Stones, showing they can do what was popular at the time while also adding grit and swagger.

a classic.

Good to listen to. Put this in my permanent collection.

some interesting social commentary with a lot of - maybe too much - sultry vocal fry. might try listening to it again later

GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS (also the first album in almost thirty recs by a woman artist......)

B-52s doing B-52 stuff.

Fantastic!

holy heck, ladies are talented....... BUT there's a whole lot of typical late 90s self-hating internal misogyny going on here.

Delightfully weird and funky jazzy surreal. Obviously lets a number of genres into his soul.

mix of classic rock and new.

great beats...... date rape song wtf

Songs for the working class..... joy, desperation.... trapped but with some glitter of magic

So, I kinda dug this when it came out..... but now when I listen to it, it's super repetitive in both themes (hey....did you know I'm a loud redneck pimp*???) and yelling. *if you have to keep saying it, you aren't. Also..........he was not a redneck, as his father owned auto dealerships, so this guy grew up privileged.

I can see how this influenced a lot of electronic music in the 90s.... bringing a light nature into things while still having a dance beat.

happy.

trange..... definitely felt like occupying someone else's head. Theatrical.

Absolutely outstanding. Listened to Gillian Welch radio for the rest of the day.

he liked horns. not just employing them in music, but also being poetic about them.

Smooooooth

Sounds like classic Aerosmith.....except for that one song that sounds like Led Zeppelin.

This is what 2003 alternative sounded like............... feelings. kinda hippy.

OMG ANOTHER DYLAN It turns out I like his earlier stuff better.

classic AC/DC...... being tough, having women, 3 chords.

Gritty nightlife with glitter fun rock.

Loved this when it came out... still love it. Jeremy - shocking to me at the time - seems to have foretold the rise of school violence/shootings.

beautiful, haunting.

masterfully weird.

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME

Sublime.

surprisingly not like the Beach boys I am used to. depressingly topical even after 50+ years.

Loud Soft dreamy we love this album, always have

he's at his best when he's rocking out joyfully. his softer, slower songs seem like wistful dirges, always accompanied by treacly strings and a disembodied choir who only seem to echo what he just sang.

Glassy joyful weird in a good way.

SO PEACEFUL REFLECTIVE

the first song and title of the album........................................oof Drop the big one is darkly funny

AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING THE SMOOTH JAZZ I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED.

sounds like he was influenced by Bob Dylan....and made it softer. also, "Where My Love Lies Asleep" sounds vaguely like Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' (Gene's was first)

Listening to this makes me feel a little braver about putting my art out into the world.

I was fooled by the schmaltzy music..... when I started actually paying attention to the lyrics, I was entertained. Sad. But entertained.

Goth dance I would have absolutely loved this when I was younger

Didn't realize how much stuff I liked was by Todd Rundgren

oh boy were they still trying to find their sound

I cannot imagine young Christina Aguilera doing anything - including such mundane things as addressing an envelope, jogging, ordering pizza, or getting dental work done - without flourishing and gilding it. Girl can turn a one syllable word into a whole opera. Lyrics were cool and fun and super supportive, so I dig that.

Music to light your body and mind.

Beautiful, it put me in a lovely breezy (ha!) mood.

I listened to this years ago and knew it was good. But now that I listen to it again, I know it is spectacular.

sounded very 90s

..............oh, holy hell Like, ok, so I was around during the 90s and am familiar with how normalized hateful words were........... and I know part of the idea of this album was trying to make a point about what we say vs what we actually do...... but my god this was a rough listen. The music itself was probably good, but all of the misogyny and homophobia and ableism were so much louder. *cue Disney's 'this piece of art was made at a different time with different cultural values' message *

So, I had heard the short Tubular Bells song in the Exorcist trailer, and then I heard the longer version (with key change to hopeful and glorious), and now I've heard the 26 (?) minute version. I figure in another ten years I'll hear the Tubular Bells opera I didn't know about (though, this gets close to being opera).

Got this on the day after it was announced Ozzy died. When I was young, I got the feeling that Black Sabbath was verboten in a 'how could you listen to that darkness'? kind of way. Honestly, I thought that perhaps Black Sabbath was sick and cruel (and the bat thing didn't really help). When I got older and listened (and was more media literate), I realized War Pigs was just a hardcore peace song. And I think that the people that didn't want us to listen were just telling on themselves. Anyway, this rocks. It's classic for a reason.

beautiful, gentle, everything perfect.

Beck's saddest album..... but it's super chill. Feels like you're floating down a river with sad Beck.

There are, like, 8700 songs on this album. They're all good. They all have their own character.

Whole album fantastic. boogy boogy boogy.

A journey

beats yes rhymes yes hard yes misogyny yes (it was common at the time... but gawd, I hated it even then)

Gotta get up ! New favorite album, a whole range of emotion.

Wonderful. Love the swaying beat.

A whole musical emotional journey, beautiful.

sometimes treacly, mostly rocks. can definitely hear the blues influence.

Phenomenal. Powerful, graceful.

A classic. Wry, beautiful, rocking, delightful.

Ok, so this isn't available on spotify where I live... I found it somewhere else, and then I wondered whether it was being played on 1.5x or 2x because it was what anxiety feels like..... sped up, a lot going on, seemingly unstoppable, and with moments of melody that you try to cling to. Found it somewhere else and it was actually the correct speed. So, yeah, this is what my anxiety would sound like. MoreMoreMoreMore.

I came for the Relax, and stayed for the rest of the opera that had quite a few re-makes (surprising, yet still decent).

dirty glam crooning..... love it.

Immediately felt classy listening to this, even while wearing scrubby clothing and working.

What was it like being the first person to try a mushroom? What was it like being the first person to figure out how to make wine? Dunno. But I do know what it's like being the (probable) first person to listen to this album while being totally sober. It's a trip. A sonic mindjourney.

fun harmonies, lively bops, a teeny bit demanding.

I'm trying to put it into context.........coming out of the synth-heavy pop 80s and the hair band rock, this stripped down garage band sound must have sounded absolutely revolutionary. But now......it's......... ok? I hear a little Kurt and Pearl Jam in it (osmosis by association?). I wish they dug a little deeper, got a little weirder.

While I had heard many of the songs on this album, I did not know they were from the same album. Each piece has its own distinct personality, and it felt a little like listening to a radio station.... here's a song by paul, here's a song by george... it was an interesting listen.

they were definitely trying to find their sound here.

*i love you* YOU CAN'T YOU WON'T AND YOU DON'T STOP (I got this when it came out, and have always loved it)

Sounds very familiar though I've never heard it before. It seems like a lot of bands were inspired by them.

I started this project about 6 months ago and I think this is the 43rd Bob Dylan album I've heard. babaddababbaddababba*random object* drawwwwwn ouuuut woooooooord (ad infinitum... but sometimes you get 5 notes from a harmonica to liven things up!)

It's called classic rock for a reason.

Oooh! Some new sound. Loved it.

How have I never heard this before??? These guys are good at many genres, but it's a cohesive album. Awesome.

Sublime. Perfect. Amazing.

THIS is what I've been wanting from this project. Never heard it before (that I know of), but such a unique sound. Fun, a little dramatic, sparkling madness in sunshine.

What a voice, what lyrics. Wish I had known about him sooner.

always beautiful.

Punk I've never heard. Awesome!

So refreshing to hear in this list. Truly fantastic.

Super fun. The Jets song caught me off-guard.

I was not aware of Megadeth's yelling about the greenhouse effect and the military industrial complex. I thought they just had kind of metal t-shirts and yelling. Today I learned.

listening to the first track, I thought.... oh, this is something new, something I've never heard of before, I like it, I wonder why there isn't more of this kind of sound? I wonder what the next track will sound like. Whispery guy, repeated synth... Whispery guy, repeated synth... Whispery guy, repeated synth... Whispery guy, repeated synth, SCREAMING, whispery guy, repeated synth. It feels like something that should be in a soundtrack for a surreal retro-inspired movie in Nevada where there's an undercurrent of anxiety.

fun glam rock

Beautiful. Honeyed. A couple of humorous moments. That audience was so lucky to be there.

They did a phenomenal job of being musical chameleons and humorously questioning the pop music at the time. It reminds me of how the James Bond movies all had saucy (and frankly insulting) women's names until Austin Powers' Alotta Fagina showed up. The Mothers of Invention showed up with a love/hate relationship of current music and practically dared everyone to do better, be more experimental.

The common sentiment I heard about Wings was 'ugh'. Those people don't know what they're talking about. (Or there's some resentment about Paul leaving the Beatles when they were getting more rock-y experimental and less of a 'boy band'.... and then he does Wings, which veers back into fun territory, not hard enough for the 'serious' listeners) This album is catchy fun with fantastic melodies and journeys. I will listen to more. Made my day.

I'm pretty sure that I've never listened to this album before, but it feels like I've loved it my whole life.

Dude therapy. Screaming about feeling betrayed and angry over sick beats. (also... hey there James Bond)

60s inspired upbeat

At first, I was thinking that this was from the late 60s. With its skilled sing-song melodies, wall of sound, slide-whistles, and subjects such as vegetables (and hell), I feel like I'm on an acid trip in a Little Golden Book world.... everything is bright and colorful and sinisterly beautiful, and I feel like the cartoons are closing in.

It's like listening to an electric crazy quilt.

Despite never having heard this before, it's familiar and at the same time I know it's nonpareil. A deep disorentation woven in with beautiful golden threads of harmony. Fairy tales pulled at through echoes of jazz. Something absolutely steeped in darkness, but there are ripples of watery light. This album is a forest pond in autumn....... its water too darkly tannic to gauge the actual bottom, but there are silhouettes of golden leaves. It is like finding out that another person can 'hear' flashing lights. You both sit there and marvel at each other then go on your separate ways knowing you're not actually crazy. Anyway, I followed him.

A classic. Rich and dreamy. It feels like a floating world.

Wall of Sound Wall of Christmas Wall of Joy

interesting acapella

Absolutely Phenomenal. A whole range of emotions intertwined (happy, defiant, sad, angry) weaving through an amazing tapestry of melodies. Everything. I've heard of The Pogues before, but had never listened to this album. A happy day.

Fuck the police and all..... but whoooooo do they hate women (sigh)

Very prog-rock weird with ribbons of glam and seeds of his future self.

This is different and wonderful, uplifted my day.

Phenomenal!!! You know when you listen to an album and then go see that artist and it sounds nothing like what you heard before? Thin Lizzy is definitely not in that category. Listening to this made me jealous that I wasn't at that concert, and this is coming from someone who before today couldn't particularly say that they're a Thin Lizzy fan (I knew maybe 2 songs???). Electric. A little bit of grit under that shine. Perfect.

She's lovely and talented, and I think she got paid by the note.

My dearest has this album.... so I've no idea why I hadn't heard it before. But I loved every minute.

Excellent album.

Lush in its soundscape with synths that sound dream-like and ancient. love this album

Another Dylan album. What a surprise. More focused than later albums, but his whimsical word salad lists start creeping in. A couple of jokes. I am so tired of Dylan here.

There are parts of this soundscape that still feel really futuristic. There are also parts that bring a kind of metaphysical sword and sorcery to mind.

She rocked. Also... every once in a while I heard the sax guy (Tim Cappello...the guy from The Lost Boys - 'I Still Believe') and that's always a treat.

Looking at the album art, I was expecting a different sound (latin influenced rock rap? West coast stoner surf punk rock?). I liked Calexico's sound, and found it refreshing and immersive.

Sweet punk

OMFG IS THIS BOB DYLAN AGAIN? HOW THE FUCK DID ALL OF HIS ALBUMS GET ON THIS LIST? ALL OF THEM??? HOW?? (I feel like I'm in a diner and John Mulaney is slowly driving me mad with 'What's Up Pussycat?')

Ripping fun. Instant mood lifter.

Play fast and loud and yell quickly about death..... this album is a pizza cutter; all edge, no point. (also........after listening to the first song I had a question about lyrics, so I did a quick dive into the band and found out that quite a few people think they might be Nazis..........and tbh, I agree that they might be.)

A great live performance with wit and charm, literal gallows humor songs.

A finely crafted journey that lives simultaneously on the asphalt and among the firmament. Beautiful funk.

If there was an option for 6 stars, this album would get it. An absolutely fantastic album, and once you've listened to it, you'll start hearing it in other places because it has (and deserves) that much influence.

I would have loved to see what else they would have done. Brilliant.

It's cool he figured out some therapy and introspection, but I don't get why I had to hear it.

Incredibly talented singer, seems to be a lovely human. But it's so boring. Probably great for people who are 'going through it'

Awesome. Superb listen.

this is what it feels like when the time changes

A classic

dorks who fantasize about being bible samurais

I appreciate Sinatra's wanting to get the Americans to listen to this feathery light music, but ..... something with his voice sounds like it's too brassy (?) and it doesn't quite mesh.

Fun, with playful rhymes and ridiculous beats (but I'm glad I wasn't a woman around them back then)

Awesome, loved Kerosene.

Cool. Like Thievery Corp.

I don't think there's a song on here where the singer doesn't wail falsetto. It's like breathing for him.

I've heard quite a few of these songs before and always attributed them to another band (or bands). Delighted to actually know who they are. A fun album.

Seemed super familiar without my having heard it before. A new fan.

Solid classic, reaches right into your heart.

the background music is pretty awesome. and I got a kick out of Margaret. but this is like being trapped in an elevator with someone who trauma dumps even though you just met.

OOOOOOOOH! Beautiful new (to me) music. Followed her instantly.

Fantastic!

An absolute banging classic

sooooo much misogyny

Musically lush. Lyrically..... like catching up with a friend who's never had a lover before and she's talking like she discovered passion and dirty words, and she *really* needs to make sure other people know. Also........... Jay-Z better thank all of the stars and stardust in firmament that Beyonce loves him. Like, the way he rapped about women....and he ends up with her?

Operatic

Every song a banger

I've never actually listened to the lyrics before, and am impressed by the incongruousness of the music (very aggressive, go get it) with the 'I can't peel myself off the wall to go say hello to a woman' lyrics. Social anxiety in musical form. Excellent.