1001 Albums Summary

Like if Frank Sinatra and Randy Newman had a baby and that baby had depression. The whiplash from the first song into the second song is pretty crazy.

Look, I'm sure that this album was very big and influential in 1994, but it sounds like the background music in several different parts of an Austin Powers movie. Lot 105 is an obvious parody of Brak's "Don't Touch Me." Favorite Song: Bank Holiday

Imagine releasing your final album and people in 40 years are like "Oh yeah, The Police, they had that super popular song - Mother." Good thing Every Breath You Take was on here too. Overall, fine? Sting's voice is dope and carries some mediocre songs, but looking at the Spotify streaming numbers you can tell that basically the first half of the album is fairly forgettable. Honestly, everything other than Every Breath You Take and Wrapped Around Your Finger falls into that category.

Obviously starts strong with War Pigs and Paranoid - Planet Caravan feels like a super dope song that they did some really cool etheric background vocals for and then forgot to add in the actual song, and it upsets me. The lesser-known (for the general public, I'd say) back half of the album is still pretty good. Overall, a good listen. I got through it twice in the day.

It turns out that one Smashing Pumpkins song in a row is a good time, three in a row is a less good time, and twenty-eight in a row is a war crime.

Fuck Kanye.

I find that CCR is one of those bands whose songs are better off mixed in with other songs, but even when listening to an entire album, it's not bad, just a bit much.

A dope album full of dope songs with dope lyrics. If you've never listened to it, do yourself a favor and sit with it for a while.

I don't have any idea what he's saying, obviously, but the vibes are immaculate. Enough that I plan to do a deep dive and learn more.

Not everything is for everyone, and this isn't for me. It's not bad though.

All of the songs on this album are fine, but overall the album just kind of... runs together into one long semi-same-ish amalgam of a similar tune.

"Look up here, I'm in heaven I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen Everybody knows me now" Honestly, this album starts off rough. The title track is a ten-minute fever dream that meanders its way around being worth listening to, never quite getting there. "Tis' A Pity She Was A Whore" is actually awful. But then, something wonderful happens. Lazarus is wonderful. Sue is the kind of experimental that doesn't make me wish I was deaf. Girl Loves Me interrupts the good album that's hiding inside the album as a whole. It's like if someone told MGK to write a Bowie song. What the fuck is this. Dollar Days and I Can't Give Everything Away round out the four songs worth listening to. But honestly, those four songs make the whole thing worth listening to. I'll just skip the others.

Honestly, an excellent journey the whole way through. Beatles-esque in places, definitely not in other places. Same-y in the sense that all his songs are good, but different enough from track to track that it doesn't feel like you're listening to one long song. Five star albums for me make it into my everyday listening rotation, and this one does for sure.

Honestly, I'm not a big Nirvana fan. Like, I don't dislike them, but I never go out of my way to listen to their songs, and sometimes I'll change the station if I'm not in the right mood when one of their songs comes on the radio. I'd never even sat down and listened to Nevermind all the way through before. That being said, to rate this anything but five stars would be insane to me. Half of this 33 year old album is still being played on the radio today. And really, I could see any of the others getting airtime too. Well... not Endless, Nameless - but personally I love it as much as the other songs, just differently.

Eh. It's fine. Nothing I'll add to a playlist but it was a decent listen.

If I ever decide to go back in time and commit an elaborate heist, I know what album I'm bringing with me.

I've never wanted so much to like an album that I absolutely hated.

I'm not a huge Black Sabbath fan but I have to say, almost every song I hear from them just meets a baseline of "this is great" and even though it's not 100% my thing, if any one of the songs on this album came on in my general area, I'd be fine.

Background music for a movie that couldn't afford licensing for U2 songs.

By the end of the album, I found myself beginning to question if this gentleman was even a doctor!