1001 Albums Summary

Fine? Never been a U2 fan. Some songs I saved to playlists. “No Exit” was the highlight. Cher’s cover of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” eclipsed the original for me.

Almost every electronic dance dj is influenced by Daft Punk, but very few can curate or craft an album even an ounce as good as their worst one. (Which to be clear is not this. Idk what is right now, but you know. Hyperbole)

Not for me. Blending funk and alt rock is fun, but I’ve heard a lot of much better versions.

Okay this is my first time listening to any Radiohead album in full and I get it. After resisting all these years (for whatever reason), I have to admit this slaps.

One of the quintessential albums for a reason. Endlessly listenable and timely. An album that changed the course of music history.

Sounds like the kind of music I’d pretend to like to try and get a boyfriend in college.

More like 3.25. A lot of good here. Didn’t quite connect fully with me. The title track and Tunic were my faves.

Happy for the noise music community. Not for me. I don’t want to get on a pedestal and say it’s bad, but it’s certainly lacking something I like when I listen to music - and I listen to some unconventional stuff. I listened to this album all the way through though!

I am an Elton fan and I’m perplexed by this album’s inclusion. For an artist to have multiple entries, they should all be exceptional works and this one doesn’t have the qualities of a Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for me. It’s not a bad album, just not a transcendent one. Tiny Dancer and Levon are incredible songs that anybody would make lifelong careers if those were the only hit songs they had.

I appreciate Sonic Youth more than I enjoy Sonic Youth. My second SY album on the list. (Which is wild because this is only my tenth album.) I much preferred Goo.

No real gripes, but also doesn’t feel incredible. Of course I knew the song “The One I Love”, but I don’t think it ever hit me quite like during this album listen. That is an all timer song.

I always found The Doors to be overrated, but listenable. This isn’t tear my ears off bad, but wow it is so reductive. This is the twelfth album I’ve listened through this project and I’ve only heard one album by a black artist and at least three white bands blatantly using black music (in a far less effective way than their predecessors)

There’s one thing to make a fine album, but why is it on a list of albums I have to listen to? I quite disagree with that sentiment.

I agree with folks on the production of this album. It does hold back some of the songs. However, there’s a lot of great pop R&B tunes here so I won’t complain. Closer to a 3.25

Better than I would have thought 🤷‍♀️

One of my favorite genre of live album where it’s someone who sounds incredible in studio and then we hear them live with rawer vocals and less clean instrumental and it’s suddenly transcendent. Very very few pop acts these days could ever hope to make a live album like this these days.

Great rapping skills and production. The misogyny and skits make it so juvenile. Some songs were saved. But this is mostly not for me

I was born the year this album came out and I didn’t listen to it in full until I was 16. It was transformative for me then and I still love it today. I’ve seen Alanis live twice and she’s an incredible live act.

Incredible you can have a five star album that might not even be in your top three.

I’m an adult. I don’t have time for people who don’t like Sade.

Funny this was back to back with Sade’s Diamond Life. Two different takes on smooth jazz. But I like this! Maybe more of a 3.5 but I’ll round up

* Off the Wall * Bad * Thriller

Aside from Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, no woman has more than four albums on this list. No black artist has more than four albums on this list. Somehow, The Byrds have five? Let’s be fucking for real. Also I love that Wikipedia says this is their first album without Dylan material and the first song is a Dylan knock off.

Mercifully short

Like a 3.5

A good example of why this project is good for me. I don’t think this album was anywhere near my radar. (I was in fifth grade, smalltown Indiana when it came out) Good stuff!

Generic. Just had to be there I guess

Stevie is one of few artists that has truly earned multiple slots in this list

I am unfortunately the audience for this one

This birthed an obsessive listening session of his three albums. Wow

I had never heard this album in full before so I wanted to listen from a “this album was important, but clearly the legacy has been tarnished” lens. I didn’t love it, but it did make me sad to think of this man who used to make music with purpose and how it quickly became another money making scheme for Kanye on top of him using his platform to either be an actual Nazi or to make the worst social experiment of all time. Time will tell? 3.25 star album. One star man.

Seems way too on the nose for this to be a coincidence, but I guess I’ll see if a number of other people got this album today. Or maybe multiple Beach Boys albums were sent out today. (The day after Brian Wilson’s death if someone reads this in the future for some reason) I never heard this one in its entirety and it’s so good. I saw Brian Wilson live in 2016 and he did the entirety of Pet Sounds. It was a great show and I did not take for granted I was in the presence of such an important figure.

One of those where I don’t know if it’s a great album, but it’s culturally significant so its placement is apt. Not for me, but I can’t deny Mr. Halen’s talents.

I don’t understand the music these kids are listening to nowadays.

Someone referring to this album as “cheesy” sounds like a two-time Reagan voter

An album so of its own breed that you wonder how every album can’t be this kind of unique listening experience.

One of those albums where I wish I had been listening to it all my life and not just the last six years. Truly in my top 10 of all time.

The best thing this project has done so far is introduce me to Nick Drake

One of my favorite memories is when I went to a concert that was Garbage and Noel Gallagher’s solo project. Metric opened for them. After Garbage played, I turned to my partner and said “I got my money’s worth.” They agreed and we left. It may have been the minority, but there were still a significant number of people returning to their cars that evening before he ever stepped foot on stage.

Two Oasis albums in a row… why would you do that to me

I like Springsteen, but his vocals on “Backstreets” is one of the most grating vocal performances I’ve EVER experienced

One of the best albums? Doubtful. One of the best album covers? Absolutely. Just wish it was used on something way more cerebral or flamboyant.

When you search “Garbage” in the keywords, naturally this is the biggest hit. Kid Rock being the second one is great, but also makes wonder why the hell that album is even on this list

I like doing this project because I find out that Rush is actually a really fun band despite some weird bias I had in my brain they’d just be some other rock group on the list.

To find out there are THREE Kings of Leon albums on this list?? Sure won’t think about all of the albums missing from this list whose spots are being filled by KINGS OF LEON

This reminded me of working at Goodwill and Wednesdays would be senior Wednesdays where senior citizens could get a discount that day. They’d play a segregated sock hop radio that consisted of the same 50 songs every Wednesday and sometimes they’d loop if you worked long enough of a shift. One or two Little Richard songs would be my breath of relief. That being said, at least three songs from this album were a part of that playlist and therefore I cannot objectively rate this without the bias of retail trauma.

I like the two big hits on here, but you’d do much better with Volunteers or even The Worst of Jefferson Airplane

Reading these reviews… Some music needs to be listened with your heart and not with your brain.

Well this certainly made my work commute worse

This isn’t for me, but I will say I’m happy to enjoy some music with some actual emotion and energy. The drummer is on fucking fire.

I actually really like their debut album. This one is just okay.

I didn’t like it exactly, but I was expecting something far more grating based on these reviews.

Did not realize I opened up the spin-off: 1001 Albums You Should Listen to Before You Turn 14

Three albums from these guys on this list??? Why. WHY.