1001 Albums Summary

What a great album to start off with

A mix of songs you’d hear in a coffee shop or played live in a fancy restaurant. Easy listening.

This album is a treasure in the same way that a colonoscopy is a pleasant experience

Wow this was great! Feels like a clear winter night where the stars and moon are super bright. Wonderful album

The Ramones are one of those bands that influenced everyone else to make better music than them

This is like elevator music. I can’t wait to reach my floor and get off.

Yeah this was written by some horny dudes alright. The beats and melody generally remind me of what I think a cheap strip club would be like. On this album you’ll enjoy brilliantly written lyrics such as: “I was born, one day I’ll die” and “sex dwarf (sex dwarf), mmmmm sex dwarf.” The post-nut clarity will go crazy

Destroy boring electronica

Generally not a rap fan, but honestly a pretty solid album. Simz brings a unique perspective to the genre that I enjoyed. I also just listened to Kiwanuka’s album before this so it was fun hearing him again on the last track

I understand that Mathers is a rap god, but I just cant divorce the bangers in this album from the absolutely disgusting and disturbing content interwoven in all the other lyrics. Genuinely some of the most vile and sophomoric stuff I’ve ever heard.

Really enjoyed this one! Solid album from a group I’ve never heard before. I kind of agree with the general consensus that it doesn’t belong on this list, but I enjoyed listening nonetheless

Some of Ye’s best. Sad to see where he’s at now

There’s something funny about one of the lowest rated albums on here being called “Rock Bottom”

There’s something so epic about singing outlaw country live in a prison. Good stuff Johnny Cash

I’m normally a metal fan, but good grief this is an atrocious album. I felt like I was listening to my goth neighbor’s band play demos for their songs through our shared apartment wall while her toddler-mauling pit-bull with Down syndrome occasionally barked in the background. Where to begin? It’s poorly mixed, 90% of what you can hear are the drums (especially the cymbals, which they like to beat relentlessly). The lyrics are unintelligible for most songs - even with the lyrics next to me I couldn’t make some of them out. The lyrics were also misspelled a couple of times, which I think is indicative of the average IQ of someone who cares enough to listen to this slop. And yeah, they sound like a dog with Down syndrome. Even though this album is only 30 minutes long, the number of songs (and how bad they are) makes it feel like it’s 3 hours.

A calm, peaceful album that was very relaxing to listen to. It does a great job of being subdued without compromising on melody or vocal quality, which is often my issue with artists who try to capture a similar vibe.

Musically, this is undeniably a good album, but the gall Harrison had to make this OVER TWO HOURS LONG is crazy, especially when the last three tracks are all instrumental with an average length of 8 minutes each, and several tracks are different versions of songs already on the record. All that prevents me from giving it a 5 out of self-respect.

“We have Weezer at home” Weezer at home:

Note to self: listen to this again after Sgt Pepper

It’s a huge day to be a white boy

What a little hoe

This whole album sounds like the royalty-free electronic music that plays over those clickbait “top 10 [fill in the blank] of all time” YouTube videos that your mom shares on facebook. That is to say, it sucks.

With this album, Bruce Springsteen’s butt delivers the crushing death blow to all britpop forever. Total American victory 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This is the third REM album I’ve had. Funny enough, I’ve had them all in chronological order. This is also the first of their albums that really deserves to be on this list. By 1988, they’ve finally figured out how to write meaningful lyrics without repeating the song title over and over and over and over and over and over and over and calling that a chorus. However, I’m still ticked that this is called Green when the album cover is piss yellow

Listened to this on the way to an interview and I got the job. I think Billy Joel soothed my nerves and got my head in the game

Nirvana is one of those bands that I’ve always been meaning to listen to, so I’ve been excited to get their albums on here so that I had to listen to it. As expected, they’re pretty great. This sounds exceptionally good for a live performance. I only knew one or two songs on here so it was a good exposure to their other stuff. Excited to hear them on the original albums soon!

My dad used to play this album while he was working in his office when I was a kid. Reminds me of warm Saturdays at home. As an adult, I think I have a much deeper appreciation for Davis’ talent. Great stuff

My high hopes for this album from the opening track were dashed as I listened more. The whole album bounces between really good 80s rock and really annoying 80s rock

Everything terrible about electronica in one album

This guy talks big smack for someone whose country is still governed by an all white monarchy

I definitely did not need to listen to 28 90-second demos of some trashy rock band before I died. The ten dollar recording cost is very evident

Here’s an album that (1) I had not listened to before today and (2) definitely needed to listen to before I died! I tried to keep as open and unbiased of a mind towards it as possible. I knew this one is a cultural monument, but I didn’t want to let that sway my rating. After listening, I totally understand the hype. Each song is beautiful, unique, and flows together so well such that the album is much greater than the sum of its parts (although each part is pretty great as well) Favorites: Time, Money, Us and Them, Brain Damage, Eclipse

This album would go crazy if I was eating at Cracker Barrel

“one of the greatest French-language albums in popular music” is an extended story about pedophilia. Great. Music isn’t awful, but that doesn’t matter. The French deserve to be invaded again

I’ve been looking forward to getting this one! Easily Metallica’s best album, it’s angry, punchy, and deep. Each track sounds similar enough to belong with the others, yet each one is unique and memorable in its own way. I love the strong guitar melodies that just run continuously throughout this album, that’s one of my favorite features in metal. One of my easiest 5s yet

How to write a Bob Dylan song: 1): Write some genuinely good lyrics to ruin 2): Clip a clothespin over your nose to replicate his nasally weasel voice as you sing 3): Once you’ve run out of lyrics, practice eating out your wife on your harmonica for 45-90 seconds to conclude the song 4): Repeat for the first half of this album Can you believe that some in the audience heckled him for using a band in the second half of the concert?? His band actually knows how to play music and their presence redeems what little there is to redeem about this album

Gonna rate this based on the incorrectly linked Spotify album and hopefully come back cone day and piece together the real thing

Around 10 years ago I was deeply addicted to Geometry Dash. This album really took me back to those days. It embodies about 90% of the generic electronica you’ve heard over the last decade. That being said, I was really vibing with this on the first half. After “Under the Tide” though, it really started to drag, bringing me down from a 4 to a 3

Wonderfully pleasant classical music. I don’t think I have a refined enough taste to give a more detailed review but I liked it. Very impressed that this is all improv, which bumped my 4 to a 5

I got married today so I was hoping for a really good album. Initially, I was a little disappointed when I opened the site and saw this, as I’m not normally a big country music guy, but boy was this a surprise! I genuinely liked several songs on this and I’m struggling to figure out which one to add to my 1001 playlist. Given the occasion, I’m thinking “You Ask Me To”

An album so influential that Coldcut couldn’t be bothered to put it on their Spotify account

No wonder this is the top rated album, it’s amazing, easy to listen to, and appeals to such a wide audience

So intensely corny I can hardly take it

Please take him off of the floor, thanks

According to the laws of supply in demand, if no one is buying peace, then peace does not sell. Economic discrepancies aside, it’s a solid metal album

My first introduction to RHCP was through a kid at a summer camp in the early 2010s who was obsessed with them. Now that I’ve listened to both of their albums on this list, I’d like to say that Keenan, if you’re reading this, I hope your music taste improved a little

In my opinion, the mark of a good metal band is the ability to play fast music while also sounding controlled. This just sounds all over the place when they wanna be “intense.” Also not really a fan of the being edgy for the sake of being edgy either. That being said, I do just kinda like metal

The best part of this album is that the cover vaguely suggests that Crazy Horse is the name of the dog. If that were true, I’d be a lot more impressed

This is a hard one to rate for me. Although I found it very interesting and funny to listen to, I realized on my second listen that I think the noises just hit an autistic vibe in my brain. Thus, I can’t really say I like it for the music, which is kind of the whole point

Iggy Pop’s self-titled album

Wow, this band is so influential that they have only 33k monthly listeners on Spotify. AND THEY HAVE TWO ALBUMS ON THE LIST. I’m pretty sure this site is the main thing boosting those numbers because this is genuinely one of the worst albums I’ve had to date and I have a hard time believing anyone would willfully listen to this. The most insulting part about it is the two bands that didn’t make the list because we just HAD to include Pere Ubu from Cleveland, Ohio twice

Nahhhhhhh boiiiiiii

I was very excited to get this one. Obviously I’ve heard Mr. Blue Sky as much as the average guy, but I had no idea what to expect from the rest of the album. Needless to say, I was floored. Definitely will be enjoying again and again after today

Isn’t it shocking how artists who write gross, disgusting music with no deeper message other than hate and filth often turn out to be bad people? And isn’t it also funny how the people who enjoy gross, disgusting music turn out to also be bad people who do bad things? Crazy stuff.

I was first introduced to this album by one of my engineering professors in my 3rd year of college. On the back of the original vinyl, Scholz (himself an engineer) repeatedly tells you, the listener, to “Just listen to the record.” In the same way, our professor told us that the key to this class was to “Just read the textbook,” before blasting “Peace of Mind” for the entire class over the awful projector sound system. Although I didn’t ever read the textbook (he was a really good teacher), I did fall in love with this album over the course of what was one of the most hellish semesters of my academic career. Every song is beautiful, melodic, and the album as a whole is far from bloated (something that a lot of other albums on this list could stand to learn from). Anyways, thanks for the early exposure to one of the easiest 5-Star albums on this list, Dr Dewhurst. Hope you’re doing well

1001 Albums listeners when they have to listen to dated, cheesy music by random British men: 👏🤯😄❤️ 1001 Albums listeners when they have to listen to dated, cheesy music by black women: 🤬👎😴🥱

The employed, white-collar, 401k me says this album is 3 stars at best. However, the metal-loving wannabe skater-boy inside me wins today.

Rest in peace, Dolly