1001 Albums Summary

Some great songs at the start, a little too much The Wall/Irish Jig on the back end

Reminded me that Prog Rock does not do it for me

Nice, can see why it was popular.

Enjoyed it more than I thought: knew the hits (Pump it Up, Radio) but entire album was kind of satisfying.

Never got better

Cool song, nice drum solo . . . oh, the drum solo is still going

Still prefer Oasis:)

Great, but even better live: Machine Gun!

Delightful to hear all the potential, and her joy at singing.

a little too much shift to folk in the second half

Seems good, but not for me

Tambourine Man>Ma (I'm only Bleeding)>Gates of Eden>It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. That's one side of two albums he recorded in 1965 (Highway 61)

Great sounds, songs could be better

Softer than I remember, sounded good.

So quick, so tight, so good. Lost Someone is the peak: the crowd is in to it!

Sludgy sound, probably better if you were there

Stan and his fly, WTF? Good first half of psychedelia, not sure the second half attempt at a concept landed

Two Blur albums in 1001 is maybe a little too much

Nice work, Banksy! The songs are a little different but also work together: good album

Sounds so fresh, so clean

Good, bluesy rock. But a little repetitive.

Songs better heard in a playlist, a little too much harmonizing song after song

Good stuff as always, but doesn't quite capture the live sound

Well played, pushing Sabbath the day after Ozzy died. Recency bias in play, but this is a terrific album . . . would love to know the thought behind Electric Caravan, a jazzy five minute interlude between three of the most famous metal songs (War Pigs/Paranoid/Iron Man)

Very good: consistent sound, sounds like an album

I get it: he's very good . . . but it's just too much like a musical for me

Solid: cool sound and meaningful interludes (not Solange's fault that, by comparison, I was at the Cowboy Carter show yesterday)

Good sound, vocals aren’t great: maybe focus on ambient sound🤣

Cool to hear all these songs together

Not my favorite: already heard the best songs on radio lots of times.

It's groovy and all, more interesting as a historical artifact than an album I will return to.

Obviously very good, but that 60s London Blues gets a little repetitive

Quick & Breezy

Love the band, not my favorite album of theirs: more interesting as an "early" album

I get it, it's good. But not for me. Nice bass playing

Meh: some good songs, some filler, probably made them a lot of money

I liked it: short, focused, a groove.

So, only one Neil Young album gets a perfect five. But this is very good: turn on Neil Young, watch Inherent Vice, read Vineland, mourn the 60s

I know some people love it (I see you Allison Russell, and the other two people who chose their One by Willie from this album), but it's not my favorite.

Too slow, too sad.

So good, can an album be too personal?

Somehow, I never got into them listening to individual songs on the John Peel show. But this is good.

Played the Greatest Hits to death (literally, the tape broke) . . . and never heard song #2 until Jane's/Ice-T performed at Lollapalooza. What a weird album, in the best sense.

I admire Cale for being kicked out of the VU because he wanted to be less commercial (than, say Heroin?!?). But this is like listening to Wings knowing that McCartney wanted to do better than the Beatles

Best songs are great, others keep the vibe going

Interesting experience: do I just think some songs are better than other because I've heard. Good album

It's the Talking Heads. Fine, not for me.

Huh, made me realize I know about Zappa, but I don't know his music that well. Groovy guitars are more grounded in familiar pop song formats than I realized. Some of the songs & lyrics are embarrassingly current almost 60 years later (e.g. "Trouble Every Day")

Great funk, the bass, the guitar, the keyboard!

I can see the appeal, something a little too English for me

You can see why adolescent girls whose parents were listening to Glenn Miller might have been really, really interested in this band.

A pleasant surprise, I know a few hits but had never listened to a full album. Coherent sound, good groove, nice album!

Good stuff: not my personal favorite of theirs, but still solid

Great album, hearing Who Shot Ya? on the remaster is tough knowing what is to come for him and Tupac

Surprised at how many musical theater moments there are in this album: not what I think about when I think Grizzly Bear

The US is boring!! And so's London!

Great stuff, didn't realize it was kind of a theme album

I forgot how much I liked this album: exuberance! Not to go full Pitchfork, but there's not really a great song or three that makes this a 5-star album. Still, a terrific listen.

Hmm, I like it: solid mid-70s R&B. But there's no standout song, it's more of a vibe.

Quantity over quality: every GBV album sounds like a set of unfinished demos to me.

Good, more upbeat than his image and story suggests

Learned to teach, drove around the DMV the summer of 2001, listened to this CD: saw the future. For me, it might be the perfect album.

Good stuff, some classics. Wasn't until the extended album track Can I Get a Witness that I was able to name the attempt to bring a white voice to these songs.

Some great songs, this is the 70s album I remember: we need to fill out both sides of the album because 33s are profitable

Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang . . . Wu-Tang Ain't Nuthing ta F'Wit

Kinda better than I remembered: thought of them as one-hit wonder wannabe De La Soul.

Not the best Velvet album, but hey its the VU!

So, so good: and fuck the Rolling Stones for taking all the profits.

All Morrissey, no Johnny Marr

Meh, Destroyer did it better:)

Really good, just doesn't quite hit the spot for me. I prefer the slightly faster, chaotic songs like "This Flight Tonight."

Kind of a weird album, from Yellow Submarine to Good Day Sunshine to Tomorrow Never Knows

Well, only one song appears on Spotify. But I really like MBV, so four stars for their first few albums!

Typical 80s metal album, a couple of great singles and a lot lot of decent filler

Four, I guess. But only because it’s not quite as good as the 1965-66 masterpieces

I would expect better from Gramsci fans.

Great anthems, cool hints of their layer art pop

The best!

Never understood the love for this band?

Good stuff, somehow the Song of Joy sets the tone: grim content, but a joy in the making of it

Great psych blues rock to listen to driving to Chicago on a sunny afternoon

Sets a clear groove/vibe: stays in it

Glad to be exposed to something different, perhaps with more experience, I would appreciate it more. But, too many pop elements that don't work for me

Good pop album, with a couple of great songs "Girls Want to Have Fun," "Time after Time," and an interesting Prince cover "When You Were Mine."

Great cover, good album: consistently good songs (which is another way of saying they all kind of blend together for me: that must be my English bias)

Way too commercialized

Sorry, any album that doesn’t contain Bella Lugosi’s Dead can’t be a five. Also, Memorex…

Never my favorite, but still good. Have always disliked End of the World

White people stuff: Stax horns without the groove, although Suspicious Minds is a great song. Less said about In The Ghetto, the better.

Solid album, not quite The Plasticines:)

Eddie's guitar, Dave's screams, and a Barber-Shop Quartet (I'm the One)!!

The new Bakersfield sound gets a little old after a while but solid album

One of those bands: I get they are great, just doesn’t work for me

Clever wordplay but still a mid-60s British pop sound

The Class Warfare album. Lyrics are a little rough in places, but show the anger.

Merle sounds very smooth on this, with the twangy waltz behind him; I think I prefer outlaw Meelrle

The second one is a little better, but oddly a joy to listen to them working out their sound: from the wall of sound New Dawn Fades to almost pop sound of She's Lost Control (okay, Ian Curtis' voice means they could never be pop:)

None of his best songs, but still Tom Waits. No idea what genre this falls into

I might have been able to listen to the music, but then droning singer who is no Peter Murphy started.

Singles are good, the rest of the album feels a little bit like filler

As my trumpet-playing friend would say, so tight, so smooth. I'm not a huge fan of the strings and chorus, but the songs are so well done.

Sounds like a highly sensitive teenager who has the GarageBand skills to make an album, but nothing to say. Stopped my daily streak because I did not want to listen to any more albums like this.

Surprisingly interesting: Blackstar Bowie meets Glass Animals

Pretty easy to rate: 1, because I hate Pink Floyd . . . Oh wait, I'm not Johnny Rotten ca 1977. It's great.

Solid New Wave, with obligatory VU cover to establish credibility. So, not really my thing.

This seems like the origin album for GBV and that kind of thing. Not really my taste.

Solid Rod, not his greatest but I can always listen to that voice.

From Maggot Brain to Hit It and Quit It to the closer Wars of Armageddon: love how all over the place this album is.

First half is a little quirky, but the second half, starting from Here Comes the Sun, is so good

I know they are a classic band, perhaps the sound is just more familiar in 2025 that it doesn't resonate as much

Sounds really good, but I was thinking not that metal. Then I listened to Into the Fire, which seems like it might have influenced hundreds of bands.

Still one of the scariest albums I have ever heard, though the sound is fantastic. A distinct memory of seeing them live on Easter Sunday, and Tom Araya chuckling to himself as he introduced one of the Hail Satan! songs

Had never heard of this: buzzsaw guitars, raspy voice, very cool. Kind of like a rougher QOTSA.

Sure, Stibg is a little overblown and pretentious, but that’s good stuff

Cool, they were able to imitate the Beatles and the Byrds. But there was so much more interesting music in 1967. Feel like they always get the "well, they were made for TV, but their music is not that bad" excuse. Although Randy Scouse Git is a pretty funny song: jealous, much?

Music I'm unfamiliar with, but really enjoyable: great sound, great rhythm.

Huh, seems like standard 90s music. Pleasant enough, but nothing attention-grabbing

I liked it, the repetition IS the point. The Model is kinda creepy. I kinda like fewer words in their songs.

Groovy, sounds too much like Spinal Tap for me to not to be able to hear the parodies while listening.

It's good: just listening to the music, it's solid 90s alt rock and she has a great, raspy voice.

He's great, not a huge fan of some of the covers.

Avoided this forever, because who needs folk rock? My bad, it's pretty good. And Matty Groves is a banger!

Thought this might a good single + lots of filler album: aside from I Want Your Love, this was really good. Cool that Nile Rodgers' guitar could be equally effective as a five-second sample or a 10+ minute Kraftwerk-style jam.

Pleasant listen, with a little electronica in the background. Definitely in the "I don't know enough about this genre to make a judgement."

The Folk Album:) The rest of the album is a great follow up to The Immigrant Song

Slightly odd: felt a little like a concept album

Great electronic music to mow to. I’d imagine it’s good in the club, if I was that type

I was correct to never listen to this album. Although I wonder if music snobs hated the Sex Pistols as much as I dislike this punk/ska/pop nonsense?

I guess if I know all the words, I like it. Weakest song that almost tips it into a 4 is Attics of My Life…but then it ends with Truckin. Wonder if Robert Hunter knew the power of the “what a long strange trip it’s been” line?

I didn’t realize Heroes was that different than the rest of the album, really liked the ambience of the second half

Kinda interesting: sounds a little like a parody, a little like a tribute (Elvis Costello: Used, Springsteen: Young Livers). But most songs are punk!

Better than expected, just not a fan. Liked how the second half was a little moodier

Alright is a good single, but the rest odd kinda standard mid-tempo rock

Groovy

Great stuff, didn’t realize his voice could also be rough and scratchy

Not a fan of the Boss: too melodramatic for me

Hmm, couple of songs moved jazzily along but not great

So good, a few songs in the middle slow it down but just great

Just a great sound, rhythm, and pace

Such a smooth delivery, some really dark lyrics

Good, but more atmospheric than bangers e.g. American Dream sounds like an 80s soundtrack song.

Great singles, drags a little in other parts

A tribute act, but a great tribute act

Fuck you W! Love how Myxomatosis disrupts the quietness of the second half

I mean I liked it, but it kind of sounded like Wu-Tang, but missing some of the voices

Still sounds great, didn't realize the lyrics were kinda weird: "Well, you're built like a car, You've got a hubcap diamond star halo"

Maybe it's nostalgia, but he sounds great on this album: I can see why the white folks were intimidated.

Interesting to listen to electronic music like this as an album: seems like a band that would have appreciated the streaming model of releasing songs without the pressure of creaeting a coherent whole.

It’s a really good sound, the breathy spoken vocals get a little old for me

Don’t think I’ve heard this before, but can see how Bob got part of his early shtick

Sounds like a Spinal Tap bit: nice kazoo solo on the 13 minute epic.

You go, girl! Not my style

Liked it more than expected. What’s up with all the paired songs?

Not the most original and I can see why his voice annoys some people, but just a terrific rock album.

A bit slow for me, but a very nice soundtrack to a sunny, freezing winter day. Second half has some interesting songs: queens, soldiers, knights?

I guess in think some of the songs aren’t all-time greats, but some of them are.

Was Gram Parsons impressed by the country songs, was Dylan impressed with the Blonde on Blonde tribute? Weird to think they have five years of making good music left before the 40+ years of making good money. But Sympathy for the Devil is pretty much a perfect rock song. They should make a movie about it.

Liked the music more than I expected, but the voice is unlistenable.

One too many songs about the girl being mine, but Thriller>Beat It>Billie Jean is quite a run

So, that’s where Van Halen got their rock/showtunes approach

This is why I subscribed to this list: great stuff, brand new to me

Better than I expected, more adventurous than the singles indicate: Pimpf!

Taylor’s version of the two ghosts.

Enjoyable, though seemed designed to appeal to western ears

Wall of Sound Christmas! Above average for the genre, but still a Christmas album, kinda creepy to hear Phil Spector wish for a peaceful silent night

Dark and lovely, perfect for a winter afternoon drive

It was fine, standard late 60s blues rock

Terrific album, with a great cover of PE’s Black Steel

Lovely tribute + anger at industry.

Love the call out: Sam and Ray will tell you nice things, but I will love you more

I get the melodramatic critique, but the bass line on Last Goodbye is one of many great touches on this album

Nothing is quite as exciting as Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough, but rest of the album is solid

Sounds like a Zach Braff soundtrack

This grew on me: the darkness slowly comes forward, The Kids is horrific, and it ends with a Sad Song.

I’ve always hated this album: he can’t sing, his tunes are boring, and most so-called songs sound like a demo that he didn’t bother finishing

First song of the best, I get the spoken word appeal but didn’t quite do it for me

Well, somebody listened The Roses' second album + Oasis: they learned their lessons well, but not the most original sound

In hindsight, the singles contain a little sadness, much like the rest of the album

It’s fine, but standard late-90s indie rock

Slow, slow, fast.

If only for its influential sound, it’s up there. But yeah it’s the noise art that I love, especially the day after this supposedly randomized list gave me The Pixies

Singles are good, rest is filler

Honestly, I really like it: less goofy, better grooves.

Decent, no stand out singles, but good sound

From the opening riff to the closing noise, 37 glorious minutes of The Stooges!

Not bad, pleasantly dated … but also remember her sound and her look being so different, so cool

Great sound, including the impenetrable vocals

I’ve forgotten what a joyous, yet slightly melancholy, vibe this album was

A band that just never worked for me: too English?

Love this album: the exuberance of the samples is a maximalist experience.

Some good stuff. I remember when Common, Chapelle, and Kanye was a cool trio. Sigh

Substance is so great that I’m not sure I ever listened to a New Order album: my mistake.

Not my jam, perhaps one day Ska will work for me. But not so far

Yeah, he’s good and all but the “I’m just playing” doesn’t really excuse some of the lyrics. He sounds kinda incel.

Like his solo sound, though I don’t love it

Bring. The. Noise! For a 16 year-old British guy living in a country where the popular music was The Smiths and Wham!, this was glorious. For a 16-year-old British guy who is about to move to the US suburbs, this prompted me to ask serious questions about my new country: why would a black man never be a veteran, who was Adam Clayton Powell?

That 90s rock-pop sound, 20-year old’s lyrics. It’s not for me.

Chill Massive Attack, always a good sound

Sophisticated PJ, but she’s always great

Meh, never clicked for me

Some biggest hits, all southern music

Just as delightfully bonkers as it was almost 40 years ago(!?!)

It’s fine, good background music

Interesting breaks and switches during the pieces

Starts with a power ballad, never improves. Of course, I knew every song so part of my problem is the ubiquity of this album. One more year to Appetite!

Groovy: twangy guitars, swirling organs, and a creepy song to an unknown girl: classic 60’s pop-rock!

I enjoyed it: what’s interesting about this project is coming across genres that I am unfamiliar with. I find myself trying to relate to more familiar genres and struggle to simply listen to the album in front of me

Sad it came out right as I left Manchester, but I do love the US version that adds Fools Gold

Really good: just some solid grooves and nice flourishes

Never heard of them before, I can see why

Someone should make her the Queen of Soul

Country waltzes and warbling about their love of Kentucky doesn’t really do it for me

Was expecting to appreciate it, didn’t realize that I would really like it: lovely sound made powerful by knowing the singer’s symbolic importance

It was fine: 90s rap, good flow.

When a great band rock band visits the US (they’ll descend to parody almost immediately, but this is a great album)

I kinda think every Tom Waits album sounds like he’s singing in a nightclub, so this seems fitting

Just something about him that doesn’t work for me

What if Franz Ferdinand, an echo of Gang of Four, and Oasis had a night on the piss?

Devo are cool, but the songs kind of blend together.

A French version of If You Gotta Go + other Dylan covers, okay Hey, it gave Eva Cassidy a chance to cover How Does The Time Goes. But it seems like we could have heard more Sandy Denny songs (looking at you Led Zep et al)

Punk rock, right on

(Hey internet, why’d you tell the algorithm that I listened to this two nights earlier?) I always felt guilty liking this because I thought there was something a bit soft about them, turns out trying to process your feelings is okay.

A lovely 32 minutes: it’s a compliment that I thought the album was much longer.

Huh, the schtick can get a little tiresome, for me.

The pun is right there: it’s so … good

Accurate 50s pastiche, not for me

Dylan tribute band

Too much synth, too much sax, this sounds like the soundtrack to a 70s detective show

Americana is not my favorite sound, but I really appreciate this entire decade of Dylan and The Band: genuinely counter-cultural

Distinct cover, distinct sound, just not for me

Some rock opera, some art rock bangers, seems like it might have inspired Radiohead

Title says it all!

There has to be a German word to describe a band who you know are good and who are admired by people you respect, but whose sound does just not work for you

Had an interesting, upbeat sound; it was not particularly memorable for me

Always good, love that driving beat and synthy guitar

Slow/quick, quiet/loud: Pixies!!

Yeah, I didn’t get it

Good, but not quite Black Messiah

Hearing ol’ Neil sing about a few things is something I want around

I am happy for the millions of people who love this, an entire album of power ballads did not really work for me

I know it’s in the pantheon, but left me a little cold

One of my favorites: bluesy, trippy, great

A solid album by Led Zep is still pretty good. Although shouldn’t the song “Houses of the Holy” been on a different album?

Listened on headphones, really brought out the bass that drives the sound: good stuff.

Great sound, and Stay With Me

Solid: like most 80s metal albums I remember, great singles + solid filler

Similar to a number of albums, I enjoyed it but don't know enough about the genre to properly rate it

All good, not exactly what I want listen to for an entire album

My wife’s comment while driving to O’Hare in the middle of the night: “sounds like The Beatles and Phish.”

Liked it more than I thought I would, but some parts fell flat.

Nope, I really don't like Prog Rock

Well, that was interesting. The kind of thing I feel like I would normally like but just didn't work for me.

Ready for the 90s, ready for the new millennium, ready for some awkward wedding dances (how did any of those couples not listen to the actual lyrics before choosing this as their first dance?) 90s U2 didn’t really do it for me, but I appreciate the ambition to not just churn out The Joshua Tree for the rest of their career

This was such a great sound, second album was even better

First funky half is better than the slower second half

Not quite the masterpiece that is It Takes a Nation of Millions, but still . . . Fight the Power!

Technically, great. Still sounds like clay yacht rock to me

Reveal your middle school Id, cool I guess?

Sounds like Massive Attack trying to do a soundtrack for an Urban Outfitters store

Crazy Horse!

It’s fine. Just realized it gave Harry Styles his opening album template: power ballad + surprisingly rock album to distance himself from the boy band sound & image,

Lovely soundtrack to cleaning up first scorebook (Phillies/Rockies) of the ABS era in Denver airport on 4/5/26

I know that I’m partial to Lou Reed when I hear New York telephone conversation, which I suspect in other people I would think is a twee song, but find his version charming

Meh, seemed like some guy complaining about various things (though I listened distractedly while driving errands: I might like it more with a deeper, sustained listen)

The Mookie Blaylock album. Honestly, preferred the Smashing Pumpkins: they were always a little too earnest for me

Forgotten how good that album is … but I still don’t like the skits: amusing enough the first time, but after that I usually think they interfere with the flower of the music

Rap, groove, and Buddhist chants

Felt like many cool parts didn’t quite add up to what could’ve been an album that completely fucked shit up

Hey, some songs I’ve heard live 20+ times!

Nice groove, enjoyed the songs getting longer

Meh: it’s like sad Paul Simon was able to neuter the joy out of everything. And I would be okay if I never heard You Can Call Me Al again.

Spikier than their later stuff, really good

Add another to the Divorce Album pantheon. Terrific album, though some of the lyrics are (inevitably) mean

Great musicians, but no great songwriter

Real soundtrack for an imaginary movie: great stuff. I’m guessing Moss Side evokes different images for non-Mancs.

All his songs sound like the second half of a really good album to me

I knew the name, I didn’t know the voice: glorious. Also amusing how such a talented singer does not seem to pay attention to the lyrics.

A bit all over the place, but the beats, the sitars, the nuclear lyrics are all interesting

That one album from a synth pop/rock Adjective Noun band of the 2010s!

Somehow, I had not heard of this: it's kind of awesome, great beats, great samples, great lyrics.

Another Elvis Costello album that seems fine, but just doesn't do it for me

Solid drum and bass

Better sound than expected: big, clean 70s vinyl. Swap out a few lyrics and this sounds like a great toddler sing along album

Great album, love the lyrics and the guitar

More Goth than emo, I kinda liked it

I had seen the logo around town, but this was my first listen to Metallica: kinda hits a 14 year old perfectly and what an introduction to metal!

Good stuff: punk with melody

As my cello-playing professor said: nice guys, okay musicians. It's fine, songs kind of blur

I guess it's important, but I'd rather listen to Dylan and they would do better

Play those horns loud! Between listening to a band leader friend's views and my mum's friend's experience with Ray Charles' exacting practices, it's interesting to think about the discipline that goes into such a tight sound.

Not enough jams for me

College soccer teammate “wanna go see this band Nirvana and their new album?” Me “naw, going to check out Halloween parties” Oh well, whatever, nevermind

Seemed both exploitive of and enthusiastic about various NYC cultures. Nenah Cherry had a better Buffalo song

Because I don’t listen carefully to the lyrics and don’t like musicals, concept albums kinda go over my head: I’m assuming Sir Greenwood is importantly the story? But her voice is an ASMR experience for me. First half is better than the second half

Lol, you can just sense the seating animosity in this album. It really does lack the faithfulness and enthusiasm of earlier albums.

Some bangers, some filler

As always, this quirky punk rock leaves me a little cold

I always found them derivative, oooh country rock!, but some great songs and jams

Glad they exist, but ska always leaves me cold

Oh, I could try to be contrarian. But why bother?

Driving it was too mellow, reading in the sun it was perfet

More enjoyable than I remembered. Still very weird to think the Manson family listened to this

Released in 91, I can see why this didn’t cut through the grunge noise. But it’s still kind of good.

Great album: love the sound, love the grooves

Kinda rapey, but an absurd, great album

Very little filler: great stuff Also, I didn’t realize until listening to Touch Too Much how much Def Leppard’s early sound was borrowed from AC/DC

Meh, seemed like standard early 2000s alternative to me

Good mix of country and bluegrass

Solid psych rock

Solid rock/jam band outros

Still not for me. I kind of liked I’ll be Waiting, suggested she could have gone in an Amy Winehouse direction

Uh, fine. I guess: some beats, some samples

Rough sounding psych rock: I liked it

Sounds like the soundtrack to an imaginary detective movie

Great

Free of Byrne’s quirk, the rhythm section is kinda great

They have a song called Halloween: if I had heard that song, and the rest of the album, would I have gone to see them in 91?

Catchy songs, an album of them odd a little too much for me

Seemed like he swapped heroin for quaaludes, too sleepy for me

Focused, great

Huh, had no idea that this is a concept album: a musical about teenage shenanigans in the summer after School’s Out?

A lot of talking and the horns are a little too high pitched

Honestly, kinda enjoyed it. More grooves, less quirkiness

LOL the "power ballad" album! Becuase "Puppets" was my 14-year old's introduction to metal, I think I might like it more... But I also saw the Justice tour in both the UK and US as a 16-year old, so all the stars!

It was like the remembered the Pixies song but forgot to write songs

Classic country: the voice, the sound, the metaphors about love and heartbreak

Not for me