1001 Albums Summary

weak, Immigrant song rules, nothing else stod out at all.

okay, nothing special

was a 4, had to change to a 5, easily my favourite album generated after a month

great album, i was surprised at how jaunty it was

this sucks and its too long and it sucks

Love it probably slightly below on the beach

There's nothing to see here. I'd be less annoyed if it weren't for the annoying lyrics as well. Too much name dropping, too many stilted, poorly flowing verses. "It stinks!" - Jon Lovitz, 1994

this sucks

2 long. I wanted to give it a 3 because I like Walk of Life until I was told it would be better as a Springsteen song and I can't agree more. Money for nothing is alright, just a pretty boring album.

i think you have to be at minimum 35 to like this

its alright, solid two and a half

solid singles hated everything else

I listened to this a lot when I was younger and figured it'd be a 3 before listening. The album is on the longer side compared to contemporaries, but being ~1 hour long isn't necessarily a detriment. As long as it is varied and consistent it should be good, but I don't think it quite achieves that, not like Enter The Wu-Tang or Black On Both Sides. I think it is worth a 4 though; there are some great beats on the first half of the album, second half slows down a little, but I think it flows well enough that its okay. The singles, though, are fantastic, so I think it needs to be better than a 3.

no redeeming qualities

so far the best 2/5

come on man

best left in 1990

this would either be my least favourite 3/5 or my favourite 2/5

oh my god thank you thank you i would hate to have died without listening to suicide by suicide thank you!!!

i dont rate many albums without listening to every song, but trust me, listen to track 1 and youll have it from there

it could be worse

I don't understand the poor mixing comments. She's certainly mixed low on many of the songs, but I can't see how it isn't intentional. I think the low mixing being intentional comes off clearest on 'Hook'

maybe 3 good songs, the rest were complete snoozers

I'm not unfamiliar with music from this era, this is just uniquely annoying. I can't listen to Grey Goose with a straight face

Too one-note to be almost an hour

prohibitively boring

you don't need to listen to this before you die

im trying to not give three 1/5's in a row

I was really not enjoying it, but the last two songs brought me back around a bit. Probably my least favourite 3/5

you'll know your rating within 8 seconds of listening

good, but the songs blend together a bit

if i could give this a 0 it would still be too generous. i hate this album so much. stop whispering you loser, this is just brit pop maroon 5. except at least maroon 5 doesn't put on airs. oh yeah we're so smart we dont need guns to change the world we'll use our minds isn't that cool anyways let me see your tits

i had something to say about the album but that was 1h40 of music ago. i really hate his voice. 1979 is a good song though

i dont really have any strong feelings one way or the other. what i do know is that ill never listen to this again. it can sit with all the other 2/5 albums that i dont hate but dont care about

quite liked this one, wish it wasn't in stereo though. official beatles album rankings so far: 1. with the beatles 2. rubber soul

not bad, not exactly compelling though. right on the edge of 2/3 some would call that 2.5

I don't like his voice. If these were sung by someone else it'd be pretty good

a little subdued for my tastes, but still a nice addition to the rotation

I love this album, have since the first listen. Going through this list has just reinforced how amazing a work it is. I think that it can be easy to fence in The Smiths (especially Morrissey) as whingy, goth, opposite-of-life-affirming, etc., but that requires a level of cynicism utterly absent from this album. It is a lyrical triumph, completely pithy, sarcastic; totally, perfectly witty. After listening to ~70 albums on this list I've come to adore the restraint shown in the writing, Morrissey without fail, nails the message in the fewest words possible (some girls really are just bigger than others). All this without mentioning how on point the instrumentals and production remains from the first second to last wail. I've listened to, maybe, a million albums in my life and I'm still amazed at how tight every melody remains. Like the writing, they literally never get old. 100/5 Frankly Mr. Shankly is still my fav on this album. (One last note, how refreshing is a 37min album from the list? I think there are more albums >75 mins than <45 mins so far)

yep thats definitely music

there's so much depth to this album, so many sounds and instruments at the same time. I could listen to this over and over. I would usually find some of the songs saccharine, don't know if its the nostalgia, but I have no problems, great album

truly so boring. bored to tears. then a song comes on that ive heard before and im tired and bored. 1 or 2 i dont care.

I enjoyed it, but I don't get why it is on the list.

how funny, just the other day i was saying, you know what this 1001 list needs more of? 90s british electronica thats 2 hours long

some complete stinkers on this album. it shouldnt be on the list. theres no reason this and stankonia are here over aquemini and atliens, absolutely ridiculous. maybe theres a reason people dont put out 2h15, 40 track albums all the time, there is so much fat to cut off this album. if this was a normal single album, there could be some gold here. im gonna go listen to a 6/5 album; aquemini

Doesn't do anything for me, don't think I'll listen again

probably the funniest album so far

😊

Strongest 3 without a doubt

Not bad, maybe a little samey, but too good to be a 2/5

if i'm being honest i probably won't listen to it again which means i'd usually give it a 2, but i think that undersells it

i really want to like this. the j dilla/mf doom songs are fantastic, but there is just too much inbetween to justify coming back regularly.

too much vibrato

way too long, has next to nothing going for it. bleh. beatles album rankings so far: 1. with the beatles 2. rubber soul 3. white album

just like iii it doesnt do anything for me

i dont really know what to rate this

I enjoyed the part where he stopped singing (not joking)

why not

I don't think I've ever had as much disconnect between hating an artist's singles but enjoying the album as much as this one. Not bad

I don't don't like it

So good!

Conjures intense memories of early 2000s weekend afternoons when mum was doing chores and had the 80kg CRT tv blasting the music channel

takes the place as least favourite 3/5

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Snore

Inoffensive and I'll never listen to it again

theres so much music from this era that i know so entirely despite never having conciously decided to listen to. most of it is much worse than this album, i dont know why santana isnt in that group of artists. whole album was a little long, otherwise great

i dont think he knows how to play the harmonica

i didnt hear the end or the start of any songs

I resent this album being on the list. It comes from one of the most explosive eras of music and this is the submission. No Aquemini, no Black On Both Sides, no Midnight Marauders, no Moment of Truth, no Things Fall Apart(!!), no Ironman, no ATLiens, no Black Star, no The Infamous(!!!!!!). Instead we get the dustiest, most forgettable rap album of the 90s.

higher side of 3

snooooooze

It shouldn't be this hard to figure out, just plug in an electric guitar guys. SNOOZE

not really a fan of this guy, but not bad. This is like the 5th bowie in 125 albums, this is the best thus far

what happened to calling things easy listening

a through and through snooze fest. the blues have me feeling blue

if this list has taught me anything its how much i love wanky double digit minute length noodling

when i read the endless screeds posted about the beatles or the rolling stones or led zeppelin i simply dont get it. the music is alright, i dont hate it, but they put out some incredibly samey music. im always surprised to read the really heartfelt and genuine responses to these classic 60s,70s rock albums, but im often left feeling the same way; there are a couple good songs, but the rest is quite one note. so when i see similar criticism levelled at an album like this, i can only realise that we were born in different generations and theres nothing that can change that. this album is fun, varied, energetic, so creative and lively. i will endeavour to spend less time reading negative reviews for albums that i enjoy

really bad but the novelty gives me something to laugh at at least. your dictionary may be the worst song on any of these albums so far.

fun one, doesn't overstay

a bit all over the place, nice singles though

not my least favourite, but certainly the least worthy of the list. who cares about this

nice listen

oh my god snooooze

if you think this is cool you suck

what a shit inclusion to the list

just barely a three

really good stuff

not bad not bad

im a sucker for instrumentals

another album i liked as a teen but forgot about for some reason. i do know that i never liked i talk to the wind, but its a standout now. lowest 4 thus far

my face when listening to this album: >:(

not in the mood for this today. dont think i'll ever be.

alright. doesn't move me at all though

i put it on and then it finished. i dont remember a single lick of this album. snore.

i dont get it at all. tough listen

They really play to their influences. It's alright

probably not the kind of album to just throw on and listen to with headphones. pretty annoying stuff.

thoroughly enjoyed this one

I think this one really speaks for itself. Favourite track is my old man.

i dont get it and i dont care to get it either

what a waste

its alriiiiight, low 3

pretty plain, but undeniably good

i've been good and listened to every album, but i draw the line here. i'mnot listening to a live unofficial bob dylan album. i refuse. instead i'm listening to by far the list's biggest snub, the infmaous by mobb deep. that gets a 5/5. drink away the pain is underrated.

against all my better judgement it gets a 3. im a sucker for instrumentals

leave rapping to the yanks tbh

dont have much to say about this one. everyone knows abba

very low 2

too many 80s rap albums

I was looking for reasons to not give it a 4, so I'm being generous

I would love to give this less than a three, but I cannot deny it

don't remember a single song from this album

this sucks man so much

really thought i'd hate this going in to it, but something about the instrumentation works

I like it, but there isn't quite enough to latch on to to love it. You had to be there I guess.

Puke. I have the lowest tolerance in the world for twee bullshit. I've said it before and I'll say it again, just plug in the electric guitar guys. Somewhere in here is Built to Spill's seventh best album and thus a 4/5 album

not the right tupac album, should've been all eyes on me. that being said, enjoyed this more than I thought I was going to, I don't remember enjoying this as much as I did

add it to the list

2 felt 2 harsh. It was alright, a bit woo-woo, but that is not the worst thing in the world

really boring stuff

too clever. its like dog shit mars volta

I like the ambling inbetween

thoroughly enjoyed this. I've had a glit of albums that I could not say I thoroughly enjoyed, so I'll give this a 4. beatles album rankings so far: 1. hard days night 2. with the beatles 3. rubber soul 4. white album

some 2/5 moments, some 4/5 moments, lets split the difference

enjoyed this a lot more than the other byrds album ive had. very high 3

i wanted to like it, but I really did not. the guys voice is annoying

its alright. i like metal, but heavy metal vocals like this aren't for me

had no idea about this album before listening. i love the idea of an evil beach boys album where they still go to the beach but this time its bad. helps that it was like 30 minutes and the music was decent too

my cursor is pixels away from giving it a 1/5 but i cant bring myself to do it

i have to be honest, i stopped this half way through.

hate this shit

such a good album; nice and jaunty. maybe the best bass guitar album ever.

so good, laid the groundwork for so many great albums. you can mark a pre-wu-tang hip hop and post-wu-tang hip hop with this release. its worth noting that midnight marauders by a tribe called quest released the exact same day as this one

really dont like this one. why is it here.

got such a soft spot for these guys

i dont think ive ever been so all over the place with my feelings about an artist as paul mccartney. cant quite put my finger on it. i liked this one for what its worth.

will i ever go back to this album? unlikely. i dont know what draws me back to an album, but whatever it is, it is absent here. must stress, its not bad

maybe if you were more well versed in the genre youd have bigger qualms with this, its got a low rating for the website. but not me, i enjoyed it.

definition of alright

the beatles have had some (personally) polarizing albums thus far. id put this cleanly next to rubber soul. right below rubber soul. im not as up on the bealtes compared to most, so i wonder if their later sounds have had, at the time at least, their 'novelty' (putting it lightly) wear off. ive probably listened to 100s of albums who would cite the later beatles albums as direct inspiration, so the ground-breaking-ness doesnt land. their older albums sound fresh and the clearly older stylings are in turn, much fresher to my ears. its all good music, except for the piece of shit white album. hows the actual music of revolver? good and easy, i cant really place any criticisms. rubber soul had better tunes i guess. beatles album rankings so far: 1. hard days night 2. with the beatles 3. rubber soul 4. revolver 5. white album

i like the sincerity of the lyrics. its a common staple for punk, especially the early stuff, but it shines through here. theres no hiding behind metaphors, its all brevity here.

ive listened to this one a lot, i assumed itd be a 5 going in to it, but it didn't mme tthe mark i think

nah

Don't know what it is about Eric Clapton that makes me feel like I should dislike the music. I don't think it's the racism, but it's not not the racism. He looks like his music should be dog shit, but I enjoy a concise album

surprisingly enjoyable. i can see why they are so influential

i dont know why ive found it so hard to put a ranking to this one. its really good, but just lacks something to really tip it over the edge for me to really enjoy it. second favourite beatles album. i'll give it a 4; if im spending all this time worrying over it, something must have stuck with me beatles album rankings so far: 1. hard days night 2. abbey road 3. with the beatles 4. rubber soul 5. revolver 6. white album

i dont like new wave. why are they going for that same annoying put on voice bleh

It's alright, not for me tho

You can see why they were a big deal. It holds up alright

far from the worst of the list, still does nothing for moi

really choppy, my opinion of it changed with every song. im happy to remember the good ones though

ont my favourite kind of music, but probably the best of the style ive heard at least (which is not much)

this is why i love this list. i thought i knew exactly what i was getting in to with van halen, shitty run of the mill hair metal band, but boy was i wrong. they are all that and have the audacity to scat as well! who knew

idk man in one ear out the other

longest 38 minutes of my life

i want there to be .5 scores. maybe we could just split the difference and keep it the way it is now but with a 4.5 rating as well. because this is a 4.5. ill give it the benfit of the doubt though

got bored and didnt finish it

i love fugazi, this is a surprisingly creative album

i dont know what psychedelic music is i guess, i thought i did. not feeling this one at all. there are lots of cool numbers lower than 1001 that the author could have chosen like 777 or 500 or 666.

i dont like being all cynical and reductive but theres only so many "da doo doo"s i can listen to in one sitting. i like to imagine them in the studio standing around being like "oh yeah need some more bleep boops here definitely, maybe axe the whee woo?"

utter crap. strips down music to its worst parts and builds it back up to complete garbage

too many hits

nearly a 4, a bit too woo woo for me

not so bad, you can see why he was so popular

easy peasy 3

i thought this was the coolest thing ever when i was 15

just too boring. nothing makes it stand out from the crowd, even a little bit

nhow ca you not love this. might be a top 5 album on the whole list

blew away my expectations, they were so low that it still is only a 3

white noise

pleasantly suprised by this. obviously i know the first track, and going off of this, i wasnt expecting to like it. but! it is so much better. like everyone else has said, it does not sound like its from the early 80s. i listened to so many crappy albums growing up that were knock offs of this, its like the other side of the coin to the meat puppets

i spose i can see why this was crazy to listen to 60 years ago, but it doesn't do anything for me

i suppose its not bad, just does nothing for me. and am i crazy or are the drums terrible on this

not really my cup of tea, but there are some good tunes on this. some crap ones too. great sounding drums

i hate this kind of stuff usually, but once starting the album, i feel like i got what it was going for, tweeness excepted. but it just went on and on and on, just one long, unchanging song, bleh

What a lovely album. I like jazz music, I listen to it often, but I don't think I'm some aficionado. But when I listen, I feel like I'm hearing the guy behind the sax or the bass so clearly and intimately. Obviously, the music has to be good, or any pangs of authenticity will fall on deaf ears, and it is good. The push and pull is mesmerising, great listen

not bad, high 3

he sounds like british blueface, sounds so shit but i cant stop listening

tough listen in feb, still i like most of the songs

this takes heavily from the flaming lips and daniel johnston. i dont like the flaming lips, and i dont like a fluffed up daniel johnston. ill just listen to the original. production budget was too high on this one

why is this on the list. the guy definitely heard of the roots second hand and just put their at the time latest album on. its genuinely their 6th best album. how the heck do you not put on things fall apart

im giving it a 3 for now but i think ill be back

its nicethat theres music for everyone and anyone

my first listen was on shuffle accidentally FUCK. fuck you spotify when i click on an album to play it i NEVER want it shuffled

this is album 261 for me and if by this point the importance of an album doesn't have any creedance on the rating, it never will. dont like this one, dont care about it either unfortunately

not my thing

ive read some reviews on this site that posture that if you dont like a certain album its because youre a simple minded pencil pusher and if you arent out there living life the album will fall flat. this album is for boring people. i was doing some mind numbingly menial work listening to this and the album paired perfectly. i felt like i was in a shitty david fincher film smacking away at the keyboard

not soooo bad. you really do have to buy in to listening to someone like lou reed, im not all the way there yet

thoroughly enjoyed. its a toothier tears for fears

very much had to be there

+1 for the album art

ive been giving out too many 1s, but i genuinely had to turn this off. so fucking annoying

i couldnt do it. made it 1.5 songs in

very nice listen. total whiplash from listening to aerosmith. like this is just infintely better, but thats a low bar. the last song vamping was great too

if youre gonna be shit at singing at least pretend to be good, good god. and i dont like this idea that just cos hes mopey and the subject itself is sad that it works together. like its just boring. it can be sad and not boring.

shouldn't be surprising, but the guitar tone is killer

i want to blow my fucking brains out

not bad i suppose

whatever

i actually got through the whole damn thing. the music is nice enough. i do struggle to imagine a sincere elvis singing some of these songs though, like in the ghetto and dont cry daddy are so eye rollingly unaware

not unlistenable which is high praise on this list

you cant call your album that man

too samey for how long it was. couldnt differentiate too much between songs. and then at the end i could and it sucked. still better than most

yeah why not

i listened to this once and wasnt sure that if i didnt know they were the cure if would i sitll like it. listened to it again and yeah its a great album

i was expecting worse i guess. i share his hippy sentiment

some nice sounding stuff, but i dont quite think it comes together as neatly as id want

im not so in to what theyre going for, but it kept me interested for the whole run time which is saying a lot for this list