1001 Albums Summary

A top 25 album for me. Top 3 tracks: Endless, Nameless Stay away Breed

Liked the band, really great. Ray Charles playing and voice were very mid.

Tons of energy. R&B is not really my thing but this was great listen.

Better than the genius of Ray Charles but it’s just not good. Ray Charles is overrated.

Absolutely fantastic. Hendrix is a true master of his craft.

An interesting combination of electronic and indie style music. Not really good or bad.

A great Radiohead album. I enjoyed it a lot but like Kid A and Okay Computer more

This is a great album. I knew of Dire Straits, but didn’t realize Mark Knopfler was an absolute master of his craft. This album embodies my opinion that great music no matter the genre is that which makes you feel something.

For an album in a language I do not speak, this completely blew me away, as well as introduced me to several other world artists such as Boubacar Traore(Kele), Oumou Sangare(Ah Ndiya), The Touré-Raichel Collective(Azawade), and Vieux Farka Touré (Slow Jam). A really great into to African music.

The blues-y side of Zeppelin really comes out on this one. A great album.

Shoegaze. It’s ok but done better by so many others.

A very meh album sound like a shit version of Velvet underground.

A good listen enjoyed a lot of these tunes I generally skip over.

What a disappointment. I was familiar with some of XTC's work, but outside of the final track, this is an entirely forgettable album.

Really cool Hispanic inspired jazz.

I’ve been told how great Nick Drake is by many people. I don’t hear it. Mediocre “poor me” tunes.

First Jazz album from this project that I would say I actually like.

Seems like the kind of music for studying or yoga. Nice relaxing soundscape.

Except for a cool backing track on one of the tracks this was a pathetic album.

One of my favorite albums. Such a unique sound.

Really good loved it. Guitar playing fantastic.

Very Radiohead-esque. Not I might listen to more of their stuff. It's not as poppy and cliche as I thought it might be.

Good quite liked it.

Weird early electronic. Meh

This is a fantastic album. It does some really unique things sonically speaking.

Well done Brit pop.

Had a couple songs I recognized but a very sub par record.

Darker than I thought. Really hates Kim. Only the one banger.

An all time great. Neil You g is a master songwriter.

90s club/techno. Not bad for what it is. Not really my bag.

Brit hip hop. Not sure how this made the list. As they say in England : Total rubbish.

A very good album. the passion really comes through. She really belts it out.

How disappointing. Is this here solely as a comparison? Letting people know how dog shit a Springsteen album can sound so we appreciate the really good ones?

Absolute trash. I love punk and this is not good. Rides the line between hair metal riffs and the punk style untrained vocals. In not picking a lane the whole thing blows.

Who knew The Beach Boys could suck this bad? I was surprised when I saw this album pop up today because I’ve never heard of it. After listening, I know why.

I was familiar with about half of these songs, and was happy to find the ones I didn't already know were really good.

Very unique. Started out very Velvet Underground meets punk. The got really Avant-garde experimental. Not really bad or good. Odd to be to the point.

This is an album I’ve heard before. It’s a shame it only has one good track.

Good classi country western

Awesome. Great Sabbath album.

One of the best albums ever recorded.

Meh

I pretty much hate RHCP. This album did nothing to change that opinion. A couple decent song but there is nothing special here. I could definitely have died without ever hearing this one.

Very average. Down tempo atmospheric electronic. Not my vibe.

Early electronic/techno. A lot of experimenting with sounds. Interesting but not really listenable.

Bob is great this is a great reggae album.

Good album enjoyed it

I know this well. Classic Wilco. If you like what Wilco does then you like this one.

Awesome. Lots of great tracks for an album I don’t always consider when I’m in the mood for some Beatles.

Had some decent tracks but nothing incredibly "must listen". Still it's the Beatles so the good ones are still quite good.

This was total garbage. I didn’t need to listen to this before I died. If someone played this for me on my deathbed when it was over I would tell them I wish I had died an hour ago.

I guess this is considered an industrial music must listen. Seemed a bit subpar. Ok just not the hype I’ve heard for so long about it.

Interesting 80s hip hop. Different I guess.

Light funk. He talk- sings the whole thing. If you heard one track that’s enough they are all the same. No need to ever listen again.

Lou has a great voice. Really makes fantastic music. It’s not The Velvet Underground but really good.

Good Delta blues. It's no BB King but nothing is.

This is absolute dog shit. I yearned for deafness. No idea how anyone could listen to this whole thing at once. I had to break it up into 20 minute segments in an effort to give the whole thing a legitimate chance. All copies of this, physical and digital, should be burned in a fire. I'd rather listen to raccoons mate in the woods.

Really great voice. However none of these songs really spoke to me.

Decent. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a great song but if, like me you've ever heard the Roberta Flack version this pales in comparison to that. The rest of it is pretty good slow jams, but nothing to really write home about.

Pretty decent album. A unique sound. Nothing here to make me want to come back to it but interesting nonetheless.

I love the Clash. This is a great album. It’s 3rd in my ranking of Clash albums. Behind London Calling and Sandinista! . That doesn’t mean it’s bad I just like those other two more.

This was the first DM album I heard sometime around '91. I still really like this album all these years later. A great representation of the synth-pop sound of the time.

Ugh. Poorly done. I generally like this style of music but this just isn’t it.

Liked this quite a lot. R&B is not my go to but really liked the passion on this one. He was definitely into it.

Some decent songs here. Only one really sticks out above the rest.

If dog shit didn’t just have a smell but also a sound, this would be it.

You know all those great ABBA songs you like? This album has none of them. This is a wish.com version of ABBA. Hey ChatGPT make me an ABBA album but make it 65% less interesting so they don’t think we ripped them off.

This was absolutely fantastic. Really awesome groove driven funky jazz.

Interesting reggae sound just ok nothing particularly special about this.

I’ve only listened to this album about 1000 times before so…yeah this is a great one. Love to hear that blues influenced sound with Ozzy’s haunting lyrics.

Sad lyrics paired with surprisingly up beat music considering the lyrical content. This is a great Elliot Smith album. Loved to find that he was on the list.

Good enough not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

This is a fantastic album. Metallica before they sucked.

As dismissive I am of Metallica post ..And Justice for All, this album has some really fantastic tracks. I should put this album back into rotation.

The Cramps are great, love that voice vibrato. driving surf rock sound with a punk ambiance.

Greatness

Chrissie Hynde has a one of a kind voice and really makes this album work. Some great tracks on this album.

Just okay.

Terrific voice, music is meh.

Good stuff, not like some of the later more refined EAB stuff, still quite good.

A lot of it kind of has a gospel choir sound mixed with a Country/Bluegrass sound. Some other songs sound more like folk music. Pretty cool.

Has a lot in there, remnants of Joy Division, Bits that sound like The Cure, bits that sound like Depeche Mode, and the classic sound of what new order is.

I can't remember the last time I was this bored by music. It's like someone challenged him to write 21 versions of the same song. This is the white rice of music. Not good not bad, just boring AF.

I was there when this was released, I have a good understanding of it's cultural importance, but the music is just meh.

I’m not much for this type of music. Atmospheric. Chill. Just ok.

Why is this on here? There are Rod Stewart albums that are actually good.

ugh what have you done to my ears?

Good stuff

This was pathetic.

meh

Good ol groivy blues. BB is a master

Brit pop at its most mundane.

More Brit pop. I’m not sure any of it is very interesting.

Good solid Neil Young

Fantastic. Incredible playing. Loved it.

What a voice

Poo poo.

Good stuff. Love a punk band with a female vocalist.

I've long been a fan of Tom Waits and this is my favorite of his albums. Great song writing.

Fuck that!!!!

It’s good. It’s the who. Not anything special.

Pretty good for his 90s work.

Awesome. No skip album.

I love Radiohead. This is an absolutely fantastic album.

Weird sort of 60s vibe. Not particularly good or interesting.

Really cool. Loved it.

Meh. Brit pop bores me. Extra star just for the line “what is a wonderwall anyhow?”

Classic Hip Hop. Good fun stuff

Repetitive AF. I guess if you like techno/electronic it might be appealing, some of it has a nice groove.

Grand idea but execution was not there.

What a great album, I have always loved Sonic Youth and felt they were underappreciated in their time. Really started the whole shoegaze thing. What they do sonically is really unique. They aren't all winners but the ones that hit are so good.

Some pretty good tunes here. I was expecting less from what I assumed was thrash. Some great tracks here. Pleasantly surprised.

Interesting post punk adjacent type stuff. A little brighter in tone than some other things in this genre.

She has an amazing voice. A great classic country album.

Absolute dog shit. Fuck you for making me listen to this.

Interesting but it ultimately doesn’t do it for me.

Wow this was so good. I'm not sure what I was expecting but this was really cool.

Not a whole lot of interesting here. Another album on the list for a single song. Overall disappointing.

I’m coming to find I just don’t like jazz. It just doesn’t do it for me.

Yes is under-rated I feel like they have a ton of great music and aren't as well known as other groups with the same amount of good stuff.

Great voice from Debbie Harry. really liked this one.

This was so close to being fantastic. The tempo on some of these was so slowed down that it took away the enjoyment. It waws still a really good album, just not quite top tier.

Great voice just not my thing.

Just another non-descript brit-pop album. It's not bad, just indistinguishable from any other 90s Brit pop album from any other Brit pop group.

The meh-est of all mehs.

Really great and I'm really one for hip-hop/rap most of the time. A lot of diverse sounds with all the features in here.

Boring Indy rock. There is nothing special here.

Not great, electronic music is hard to make interesting. That is the case with this one.

This is horrible. Please make it stop!!!!!!

Booooo!!!!

This is average at best, would have been better to just have Skylarking on the list and call it good. This album is padding to get to 1001.

The king of whiners and pretentiousness still has it. He does have a pretty great voice.

I liked this quite a bit, just not enough to break the 3 star ceiling

An absolutely iconic rock album. Pretty much perfect.

What an incredible voice. Love the depth of the lyrics. A lot of very interesting things done musically as well.

Wow, I am very particular with what I like as far as hip hip and rap but this really did it.

Good. A real classic from my youth.

Wow this was really fun. You sometimes need to be reminded that rock and roll should be fun. Too many people taking themselves way too seriously.

Great Classic country, Some tracks seems to have some really cool sounding gospel influence.

40 minutes of ambient sleep noises. Why?

Soul/disco. Meh.

Before they decided to start sucking.

An alternative classic.

Dance. Not great. Bland and uninteresting even for dance.

This one surprised me it was like punk adjacent. Good stuff.

Not what I remember from when I was younger. Still some really great tunes

Hello this is Bruce Springsteen, I know you'll get this album based on who I am, I no longer have to make good music. I'm so popular I've been making money with mediocre tunes for over a decade now. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Meh.

Not bad for dance/electronic. Still just ok.

Fantastic

A classic. Great stuff

I hate electronica, this more than most.

A lot of the great ZZ Top songs you think of when you think of ZZ top in here.

I really like Blur but this one sort of misses the mark

Pretty interesting. Worth listening to at least once.

Holy shit this was bad. I hated almost every track on here. There was 1 song that was sort of ok. Tow Truck didn't totally suck.

Great stuff Janis has one of the best voices rock has ever heard.

An absolutely incredible album. Easy 5.

Absolute shit.

Better than I remember, but lacking some of the greatness of other albums by these guys.

A really great album. No bad songs.

Meh

A classic rock album. There is not a lot of changes from song to song they recycled a lot of what they had over and over. Still it's a good piece they are recycling.

Interesting concept but overall too high concept with little pay of music-wise

meh

Always have been a fan of Siouxsie's voice, it takes what might be a mediocre album to fantastic.

Okay, it's a Christmas album, so what what makes this any different from any of a thousand other Christmas albums?

Kind of a proto jam band or proto prog vibe. I feel if I'd been on drugs this would have been sick.

At least it's only 30 minutes long.

Fantastic, what a voice.

A lot of songs that bring back memories of Early HS years. As much as I want to hate on it because if Axl Rose i Can't its really good

Not bad for a genre I don't generally care for.

Typical SY. Lots of noise. Lots of societal commentary.

Decent. Not much for hip hop but not bad.

What a timeless voice.

Didn't realize this was a movie soundtrack before this. A really great album

Interesting. In places sounds like Zeppelin. Just not real good.

Some really emotionally and well written songs. Well done.

meh 80s hip hip

Very melancholy kind of same-y from song to song

Great voice but mostly didn't speak to me emotionally.

Why is Elvis popular? It's all very meh.

These guys were awesome before they added one of the best songwriters the world has ever known

Garbage.

Really not one of their best. It's just ok.

I now know why people burned disco records

Pretty good. Eclectic.

Quite good. Like that Cuban/Island sound.

Very eclectic. Really enjoyed.

This is a fantastic album. Great pop songwriting

Electronic pop. no good. Completely forgettable.

One of the pioneers of US punk rock this is an essential album for understanding that scene.

I am generally a fan of Frank Zappa but other than one track this was un-listenable.

A real classic before they sold out, they were making some great music

This is my second album by these guys. I really enjoy this guy's voice. The southern sound is pretty cool especially considering they are almost all Canadian.

It is unfathomable to me that this album has multiple 5 star reviews. Poorly written songs with the emotional depth a sidewalk puddle

Who cares? It's not interesting. Over an hour of music with 2 decent songs.

What a great album. 29 minutes of incredible Southern Rock. Bluesy rock and roll for the win.

An absolute masterpiece!!!

It's a decent album with exactly 1 good track. That doesn't really constitute an album worth listening to before I die. The longer I get into this project the more I realize there are way too many albums included in the 1001 that have a singular track worth hearing.

What uninspired trash. Incredible vocal range but this is garbage.

Wasn’t sure at first but his voice reeled me in I really liked this a lot.

What an incredible voice from Sandy Denny.

This is one of my favorite goth/post-punk albums.

Even the Beatles needed some time to really hit their stride.

Has some decent pop music, it's not my thing, also I don't see why TS is revered above any other pop artist it's all the same shit.

Decent album. Very funky. Summer Breeze cover was cool but nothing special.

"Bro, I'll just make it up as I go" is no way to make an album. It's truly uninspiring music. He is a talented piano player but it's so repetitive. No thank you.

Unfortunately, this was chosen over Songs for the Deaf. This is an okay album but SFtD is more representative of what QOTSA are.

For a 37 minute run time this was a solid record.

She has such a great voice

Good but not great.

Fantastic voice. Really interesting.

Great voice, nothing special musically

An incredibly powerful album.

This is horrible. Someone owes me money for the suffering I have endured.

It's Another Radiohead album. Good stuff not really different than any other RH album

This was not what I was expecting from a band with this name, I was pleasantly surprised.

Interesting sound.

This was a surprise. I generally don't care for rap, but this was fantastic.

Great soul music

Kinda funky but not interesting at all.

Stunningly average. He has a spectacular voice but the songwriting leaves a lot to be desired.

Uninspired shit. Not a single original thought here.

Good stuff a lot more soul to it than what I expected from the album cover.

Garbage disco.

This guys is not as great as he thinks he is. It's ok. If pretentious had a sound.

Fantastic, what a voice. beautiful songwriting. The cover of Lovesong was unexpected and very well done.

An angelic voice.

It’s the white stripes, Jack White is good at guitar. I don’t get the hero worship. It’s good enough but kinda meh except for the one song.

Run of the mill indie.

It's just noise. Guy's voice gets a 1 star bump.

Not bad but other than the first track it is just okay and very same-y

Decent, artsy, folky sounding. meh.

grew on me as listened.

This is garbage. Please God, make it stop!!!!!!

As much as I can stand Billy Corrigan as person his music is amazing.

Hated it. Possibly the worst album so far.

Quite interesting. That classic old school C&W sound.

A Classic. Cant go wrong with Velvet Underground.

Every time I encounter some soul I really like it.

Sounds like he's trying to do some sort of bullshit Tony Bennett/Neil Diamond impression.

Why all the hype? It's a okay album.

A great example of the transition from the punk era to post punk. Iconic band of the genre.

How much mindless brit pop do I have to endure on this list. My god.

Another album, that had a single track worth listening to. That one song was just ok not worth the "must listen to before you die" classification, and when you take the album as a whole it's pathetic and completely forgettable.

Incredible voice. There are 3 different genres of music here, showing her range.

Holy shit was this bad! Did I kill an innocent man in a previous life and this is my punishment? I am sorry. I believe after listening to this my penance has been paid in full plus some.

This album is great. Nearly a five. Came up just short.

This list is trying to get me to like Jazz. I liked this better than most, Jazz is just not my thing I guess.

it's fine. Meh

Subpar. Even when compared to other Smiths albums this one is boldly mediocre.

This was so much better than what I was expecting.

Grooving bass lines and great lyrics.

Absolutely incredible

It's son descript and boring.

Quite good

Very odd. I liked it. Like Zappa but good.

They wrote a synth pop anthem that defined the genre. Unfortunately the rest of the album is ass.

Ugh.

Sort of ambient chill techno.

Why would you make me listen to this? That's just mean.

Decent No comparison to Singles going steady but good enough

Meh

Remember when they had just one decent song? And some dickhead decided to include the whole-ass album that contained that song on a list of albums I should listen to before I die? That guy has wasted so much of my time. What a prick!

You can hear bits a pieces of al kinds of stuff in here but never really came together.

Really kind of a jam band feel to it. Nobody likes 8 min long drum solos. Keyboard solo, why? I have a guitar and bass If I want to listen to someone noodling mindlessly I can do it myself. Still some good musicianship.

It's Leonard Cohen, what did you expect?

The concept is pretty cool, but it 2+ hours was overkill. It could have been better as a shorter album.

Yawn.

This was awesome. I was unfamiliar with this group and this was great.

It's all just quite un-interesting. The concept of a soundtrack for a non-existent movie is an odd concept but most of it felt like filler.