1001 Albums Summary

Heard 20+ times. Hits are essential, cuts cut. 104.3 can’t take this record away from me. Too cool of synth tones for ‘78. “I’m in Touch with Your World” is one of the best Devo songs. “Bye Bye Love” is one of my favorite songs. 9.3/10, probably a top 1000 and a top 10 new wave album.

Heard 10+ times. not as sexy as ST, not as depressed as queen is dead - just whiny. but god is headmaster’s ritual good. 8/10.

Heard ~5 times. Used to really like this one, realized john cale does it way better (in half the timeg. Sultans of swing is goated though. 7/10

My 5th favorite radiohead album. 10/10

AAYYYYEEYEYYE IIIIII I MMM SSTILL ALLICEE OOOOOOO YEAH IIIII OOOO IM STILL ALLLIVEE YEYEYAYWEUUWUAUEAU GEETAR SOLOOOO 10/10 probably my most listened to album oat

Heard 10+ times. Axe Moonchild's noodling and this is the best prog album of all time. Always wish it leaned more into folk instead of the symphonic shit. Greg Lake shouldn't have left to go do ELP wankery, he slaps that god damn bass. (Red is still better.) 10/10.

First listen. Stevie is at his best when he's pissed at the world, and he absolutely isn't here. Total lack of funk - he has a beautiful voice obviously but I've never been too into the prog soul stuff. Something about this just feel sterile compared to the rawness of Innervisions before or the sincerity of Songs after. Ok I pulled up the credits and the answer is he DOESNT PLAY ENOUGH MOOG BASS THATS WHAT IT IS. Maybe that's why I like Boogie on Reggae Woman so much. Probably will stick with going back to Innervisions. 7/10

My hot take is that this is by far the worst of the Station to Station/Low/This trilogy. I can't get myself to care about the Eno noodling back half when I could literally just listen to Eno do it 10x better on his own albums. The two singles and closer are peak Bowie, though - Heroes is a top 5 song OAT on every single day of the week. 8.5/10

I haven't listened to this in maybe 3/4 years after being a regular listener in HS and college. I'm specifically listening to the platinum edition, which I correctly remember being much worse than the standard edition. Even the standard track listing is more bloated than I remember. Pretty Hurts - Partition remains an elite run, and Haunted is probably still my favorite B song. But god, Jealous - XO just bounces me so hard, and XO has become one of my least favorite of her singles in recent years. Its highs remain high, and its lows remain low. God 7/11 is objectively an awful song but that shit goes HARD. 7/10

I'd die for Lord Donald's wife too. 9/10

I think I’ve reached the point where I enjoy jazz, but still don’t “get” it outside the clear classics. Got bored halfway through. Crazy this was recorded in the 40s

This is just Ween if they were foppish dandies

Nowhere near their best, but there’s some days where I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better is the greatest song ever written. I feel like REM doesn't exist without this

how did I miss this

Catching up on some of my missed albums - holy FUCK do I love 90s dance music. Perfect work background tunes, even if a bit generic. Also includes my favorite 90s trope of having a Q-Tip jump scare

I also am a deeply closeted schizophrenic gay man

Rio's a top 10 single of the 80s and the rest tries to match it (and only gets close)

first listen in a few years, almost always go back to the modern dance over this. One of the most insane relistens I’ve had in a long time, this thing is fucking incredible. It’s somehow weirder than TMD but also more laid back and playful. Even the throwaway experimental track kind of fuckin rocks. RIP

this was fun! a lot better when it’s trying to be White Prince instead of White Michael Jackson

this one’s good!

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eh, I don't love the Roots and this is definitely the least exciting thing I've heard from them band/production-wise, especially in the back half. Break You Off-Water is just, so insanely long. Black Thought is GOATed as always, though

Didn't listen, but have heard before. It ight.

It’s insane they allowed the first half of leper messiah to make the cut

just want someone to tell me what to do at this point

I mean, it's got Sympathy for the Devil on it! I haven't listened to this one in a decade - bluesey songs beat out the rootsy songs 110%. But, pretty consistently good songs all around (did I mention Sympathy for the Devil????)

we all know neil demanded the oriental riff

listened to this out if my blown out laptop speakers and it still sounded perfect

these white boys (and also Tricky) can RAP (check out Tricky’s debut)

The singles are all legendary, but back half of this is a slog. Cube is always operating at the same high level, but he really benefits from the super consistent production on most wanted and death certificate which just isn't here

what id we put Sting in a lake

For the 100th time, filtered by jazz - I apparently don't like big band, whatever that means! Blues to Be There was cool though - the Ellington-focused sections did it more for me than anything else.

It’s me. I’m the funk soul brother.

this shit changed high school tylore’s WORLD. agree with nelson that it drifts off in the back half, but beck’s still a killer with two turntables

I didn’t listen but fuck johnny rotton

how did I miss this one lmao RIP

licking envelopes rn

HEYBADBADBADBDABADBA SWING Agree with the usual take that this is too long, but think most of the deeper cuts still absolutely slap. If the album ended on Under the Bridge it's an easy 10. But, it just....keeps....going....Sir Psycho Sexy can fuck off

makes me feel worse than my parents' divorce

this was so Important to 16 yo tylore it’s unreal. I know it’s long, and there’s too many transitions, but every song has a moment where I go “this is the best thing ever written” and that’s enough for me! (chicago -> casimir palaski day is the best song of all time)

stand by two weeks being one of the best singles of the 2010s, but after not hearing this for a few years I was SLEEPY

I’ve realized this and beneath the remains are just the two best slayer albums

mfers never taken a drunk piss on a tree and it shows (top 25 OaT probably one of my most listened albums)

empirical evidence that we’d live longer with mid afternoon croissant breaks

three stars for three great songs and none for the rest

best B side ever

as an avid Jimi hater, this hit for the first time. I may never be right again

Pretty good! The generic stuff is generic, but the weird stuff works - opener and closer are incredible

2/2 with albums absolutely filtering me today

Get me whatever Dr. John's on. I hate that I universally dig dudes that sound like Beefheart (psychopaths) - the weird acid bayou-soul sound absolutely fuckin makes this, don't know if I've ever heard anything like it. Totally gonna listen again and this might get better with time

this filtered me insanely hard

this kills exodus every day of the week

tried this like 5 times in my life, absolutely can’t get into it

I’d marry gram so we could get drunk and die together

what is there even to say about this idk we should let more mordor fairies have instruments

willie has the greatest outlaw run of all time right before this and instead we get fuckin georgia on my mind

robert christgau has gaslit me into thinking this is the greatest album ever released (he might be right some days)

for sure the worst nick cave I’ve heard. his songs where he’s not on a broadway stage are incredible as usual

classic “why do I want to hear anything other than the hits”

arena rock ahhhhh album

somehow more chaotic but catchier than it takes a nation. I never have and never will hear something that sounds like this. also the chuck D cube BDK collab is one for the gd books

score inflated by two because my gma used to blast merle haggard while we’d bake together but also this FUCKS

this is what every 70s Capital R Rock band wishes they sounded like. It gets 4 because Elvis did it even better

FAHN

what kind of music does this site like if THIS is a 2.9????? somehow also his worst album

I too enjoy Tapestry by Carole King A Lot

girls

I have never once wondered “what if Fun House was indie sleeze” - it’s alright! I’ve rated albums lower but this is the first I’ve thought “there’s no way this is anyone’s favorite album” - no shot it deserves to be here

clapton guitar good but do nothing else good better music plz

Top 100 OAT, 10 of the 90s. Makes me want to kill myself but in a freaky way

best A side of all time????

my least fav of the good Blur albums, not disgustingly British enough

yeah this shit’s FUN

underrated as hell in the shoegaze canon

almost crashed my car listening to this auto 2 star

top 100 OAT top 10 of the 80s every day of the week - I think I’ve listened to this at least once a month since I was 14 lmao Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke put on matching GOAT performances, and even at his most punchable (which, Frankly, Mr. Shankly definitely is) Morissey has such an inescapable, sweaty charm

Tylore gets filtered by jazz - continued. Was going to make a joke about old man Bill Evans being a 30 year old on the cover, but then learned he was actually 30 there (kill me)

A staple of my 2000 Impala’s CD rack - doesn’t hold up great, but first half still rocks

It’s not as good as low end theory, but still perfect….how were tribe ever real???

insane they allowed I just cant stop loving you on this christ

Stooges worship at its finest - makes me want to kick someone in the head then kill myself. Lexicon Devil's the best song to come out of SoCal hardcore not written by DKs. I <3 u pat smear

the only cola I support is a cost of living allowance (the beats on this are fucking psychotic what is this thing)

I hate Billy Joel, but….this does happen to have every Billy Joel song I like

responsible for 50% of the music I love (also fuckin rocks)

don’t forget the buttsex

we have a new winner of the undeserving pitchforkcore award

I think it's aged the worst of the jazz rap classics, but is also responsible for like all of my favorite hip hop, so....

what the fuck even is this who hid beefheartcore from me

at least it’s got stone cold crazy! (queen blows)

eh, kinda soured on this one over the years, never really go back to it. not as fun as funeral, or as weird as neon bible, and the hits aren’t as good as reflektor

yo THIS is my shit right here. Never heard before, incredible sound quality for 1960.

no comment

It’s the least perfect in a perfect run of albums, I’ll survive

The absolute peak of “everyone individually is doing the coolest thing you’ve ever heard for 53 minutes straight but when you play it all together it sounds like it’s going to rob you with a screwdriver on the third floor of a parking garage in broad daylight”core

hear me out - what if we did the coolest thing, all the time, for 40 minutes

Marvin Gaye following up his bleak introspective opus with the 15 sexiest seconds in recorded music makes this record perfect by default (it’s also perfect anyways marvin gaye has the most beautiful voice of anyone to ever live)

why is elton into his sister and why is this so long

absolutely baffled by Cosmic Dancer [we have space oddity at home], otherwise shit GROOVES

absolute heater. gotta listen to more of this

My favorite Bowie, captures everything I like about him - cold and alien (what the fuck is that noise on Breaking Glass?) while also strangely relaxing (Sound and Vision gets replayed like 6 times on each listen).

This is alright, but definitely not made for me! having listened to one of his later, even more psych-indebted stuff, much prefer that

LP1 is perfect, for sure my favorite Prince album - LP2 is almost as good. I believe Prince when he tells me he wants to fuck me

The best country rock record not made by Neil Young

my favorite [fl]autist

the most “fine” songs out of their first five - I couldn’t give a shit about what is and what should never be, man. But, the hits are here and they hit. Bring it on home absolutely slept on

yeah this is what I’d tell my kids the 80s sounded like

It’s psychotic that priest has at least 6 albums better than this

elliot smith is not my favorite in the folk canon but this definitely makes me want to jump off a building, so does its job

I rarely listen to this full through, but the basically NIN cover opener is INSANE. The hits hit harder than most nu metal and at this point I really just love Durst’s goffiness. But god damn theres like 6 songs too many

an incredibly haunting record - that I just wish wasn’t made by Bruce

this shit is TIGHT and I’ve Seen All Good People might have the best vocal melodies ever

I haven’t listened to this full through in maybe a decade. Since then, I’ve learned to appreciate Genesis - their five album run in the early/mid 70s is five of the finest musicians to ever live locking into the most ridiculous prog opuses imaginable. Gabriel Genesis is the rare prog group that knows how silly the genre is and just leans into it with incredible showmanship - Tony Banks may be the greatest keyboardist of all time, and he runs this god damn thing. I’ll forgive them of their 80s mistakes. God damn do I love Peter Gabriel - he’s the soul here. I have zero idea what the concept behind this concept album is, and I couldn’t give a single shit, it’s perfect. All that said, this is still ONLY my fourth favorite Genesis - check out Foxtrot!

Highest number of ideas per second ratio of any Beck album, mostly for better

Forgot to rate this after I got to it in my catch up session a few weeks ago - slaps? yeah?

pretty, but also kinda sucks!

Haven't listened to this in forever - it's not great! California Dreamin is potentially the finest single of the 60s, though, and gets it an extra star.

I have no other place to admit I'll Wait is one of my 5 favorite Van Halen songs, so here it is. What if we made an album with 8 songs where they were all pretty good?

NILE RODGERS I LOVE YOU I WILL LISTEN TO ANYTHING YOU CREATE - non-disco tracks are skips

never heard before - incredible playing here, made for me

Absolutely unmatched in the charisma and catchiness department - his best.

fun shit!!!

WE’RE SO CLOSE TO BEST KRAFTWERK but every second of this is perfect anyways

Radiohead's best non-Kid A, their best guitar album, the best, the bestest, the best. Every riff drills into the depths of my god damn brain.

rockabilly songs go insanely hard but then there's the other ones - just made me listen to London Calling after

Eno's best non-fully ambient, the conversion from a glam freak to a Freak freak. I like how much this feels like Low, especially in comparison to here comes the warm jets (my second fav of his) - I really like Eno's weird vocals when they're used this sparingly. The Big Ship might be the best song ever recorded, Robert Fripp is a fucking god on st. elmo's fire, don't know what more I could possibly want

I finally get a hot take - I have zero idea why this is in the punk canon lmao

fuckin love ZZ Top - see them live while you still can. Perhaps the finest conversion of a 70s hard rock band to the stylings of the 80s; they still groove, but you can sing along too

I don't know how I can love Genesis and hate Queen, but here we are. This is probably their best.

who the fuck hid proto Sleater Kinney from me for my entire life this is incredible [the cowpunk songs in the back half also rock]

Contender for best bookends ever, also all the poetry in the middle

I saw them be really boring this summer - this was also really boring!

peak dad music I’m a dad now

Probably the worst deep cuts of any pre-Rubber Soul Beatles album not named Beatles for Sale. The hard day's night guitar solo tho!

My least favorite white stripes by quite a bit - still has blue orchid, the denial twist, and take, take, take!

I desperately need whatever drugs they were on at CBGB in the 70s

who is this even for

I listen to this at least once a week. Dave Mustaine was fuckin on one

Watched the whole special while bombed last night - upsetting!!! Watching a dead man perform such a somber set almost distracts from the fact that this is the height of an excellent live band playing a truly psychotic setlist so well it hurts. Lead Belly x Meat Puppets x Vasolines covers are just incredible, and the actual Nirvana songs they play work. Praise be to Kurt’s little hidden amp

good monopoly soundtrack

this was not made for me

This is one of the coolest things I've ever heard. I usually don't love "chamber" anything, but this has so much weirdness and creativity in the guitar work going along with the strings that it's got me by the balls. Second track should've been last, definitely the weakest. Will need a relisten to evaluate, could be a 5 in the future.

Desperately need to catch up, don't need a Nick Drake relisten to know I love this man so unbelievably deeply. Great album cover too