1001 Albums Summary

Quintessential British invasion/punk fusion. Definitely war time. Fun but I didn't like it.

As an alternate to gangster rap I love it. Clear Haitian and reggae influences while still being clearly American cultural experiences. Seems stylistically an inspiration for Eminem, but that's just me. B side kinda bad.

Classic slow American rock. Springsteen is always one of the best. Unfortunately, this speaks to an America I don't experience; slow country life with nothing to look forward to other than tomorrow. Not for me but still good.

Classic Americana rock. Sounds familiar and foreign, almost run of the mill. Unsure why it's special, but it's definitely special to someone.

Despite not being an America I am familiar with, it manages to make me nostalgic. The perfect blend of looking back to a simpler, almost happier time while embracing the problems with it. Wartime is the time to reminisce while still striking back.

Wish I knew what he was singing about, can't understand anything. Vocals sound nice though, and the guitar and drums are classic decent Metallica. One goes crazy, the rest go mild at best.

A classic in instrumental jazz, but unfortunately it's still instrumental jazz. Only so long I can listen to drums so the same thing over and over again before I give up. Not for me.

Excellent guitar and overall sound. Some of the music isn't perfectly sold on me, but it still sounds great.

Not the flashiest of Billy Joel albums, but that is not to its detriment. Feels good songs about growing old and growing in love. Some of these were already on my phone, and some will be joining it. Glad I own this album.

This is the kind of metal I like. Clear lyrics, impactful message, timeless ideas; and a little bit of rage to tie it all together. The sound is wonderful to top it all off, I don't know what I would change other than a more consistent sound throughout the album.

Neon Bible is what I call "approximately". It is approximately pop, it is approximately rock, it is approximately indie. I can approximately understand what they're saying. It approximately sounds okay. I didn't know what to expect from Arcade Fire and they delivered nothing. The Well and the Lighthouse was nails on a chalkboard.

Uninteresting but very good sounding. I can't imagine that someone doesn't like how Willie Nelson sounds, but that doesn't mean their fun to listen to. I'm sleepy now.

It was a mixed bag of sounds. Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was acoustically designed to pierce my eardrums with no warning. I liked the vibe that this music was going for, and there were standout songs. Overall a disappointing album and confusing addition to the list.

Heart and soul of the frontier country sound. Rich vocals, warm instrumentation, "manly" messaging. Unfortunately, I don't like country.

Perhaps one of the most nostalgic sounding voices on an album with some of the greatest range of messaging. You'll go from a religious God smiles song to a political statement of modern American imperialism while your heart dreams of the days of Toy Story.

A classic in hard rock that has earned it's place in music history. I wish I could understand the vocals a bit more, but overall still great to listen to.

Like mother like son, I just can't stand his voice. Excellent lyrical writing and song design, I wish anybody else would perform it.

I feel like I am watching a cold war era musical in the worst way possible. I am unsure of why this is the way it is.

Fantastic sounding heavy metal way earlier than most. It's a little before Black Sabbath found it's voice, such that I like their later stuff but it's still great.

Don't know what this is going for, but I don't like the final product. Seems like a collection of sounds loosely going for some interpretive music statement. Not good.

Instrumental jazz makes it tough to give anything above two stars, but this sure was groovy. I just wish there was something more than a standardized tempo for 40 minutes of instrumentation to keep me engaged, but then it wouldn't be instrumental jazz and that's really just my problem.

Felt a little generic and bland. Did not stand out as an amazing alt rock from the early 2000s, unsure why on the list. Not bad, not good, feels a little like an industry plant.

We love the origins of Weird-core, but this is one of their less inspired albums. Some of the songs were standouts for their clear social/political sentiments paired with groovy music, but the album as a whole is not my favorite.

Normally I don't like live recorded albums, this is a notable exception to that rule. Peter Frampton and his supporting musicians were made for live music, and the mixing of the audience coming in and out at borderline cinematic moments make this album a masterpiece. Some of the songs fall a little short, but it's still overall great.

Deeply meaningful hip hop in a generation that was defining a new sound. Deserves it's spot on the list, but not exactly to my tastes.

Fun to listen to, but didn't feel like an album and more just a collection of singles. Still jammed out a bit

Crunchy in a bad way. All the laziness of post grunge with all the sound tuning of nu metal. Unfortunate.

Sounds like a compilation of songs about people in love but coming apart, which is exactly what it is. A flawless execution of emotional vision in a fusion of folk rock and pop. There is a sensation that can only be described as the feeling you get when driving around and listening to Fleetwood Mac, and this album is the epitome of that. Perfection.

Seems like a blend of rockabilly and punk, and coming at the end of the 80s it seems like the last shout of that style of music. I like the idea of this music, I don't like this music.

This album was failing to grab my attention for almost the whole thing, then the last three songs came on. It was an entirely different musical experience as a blend of pop and spoken word romantic poetry, it was crazy.

I'm normally a huge fan of David Bowie, and I think the idea of the biography/autobiography album is rather neat. The music just isn't what I love from them though, good but not great

This album surprised me. Listening to the single I thought this was going to be generic pop/punk music through and through, but the next handful of songs were great. A mix of goth rock and post punk rhythms made the album a lot more interesting, and more enjoyable, than the first two songs let on.

Groovy music to dance to, not so much sit down and listening music. Fantastic instrumentation though, that guitar almost has a voice.

This album made the list simply because of Smoke on the Water. The rest of the album feels like generic GTA garage music.

Folk/country with some ok instrumentation. As mid as that genre can get.

Kinda felt like generic alt rock without a clear soul. Maybe it's just me though.

Sounds like you just popped an ecstasy during the encore of an electronika show and are now wandering the city going through the sights and sounds. Almost a little too weird, but the beautiful audio brings me back in.

"Singing softly, going nowhere, four syllables, I just don't care." This is the best that the 2000s era of indie/pop/folk/rock has to offer, but it's still not good. It certainly doesn't sound unpleasant, but it has the musical depth of potato salad from Jewel Osco; is good enough to bring to a get together but I'm not enjoying it at home.

It's rare that music stands out to me in the particular way that this album did. Funky pop/rock with fun lyrics and good style. A solid hidden gem.

Lost me pretty quick, just doesn't seem written for me.

The peak of gospel country being performed prison will never not be fun. Certainly not my favorite genre of music, but this album rightly deserves this place on the list.

Great to follow along with the story of a recovery from prison but back into the criminal world. Then the rest of the album comes and it's tough lyrically. The flow is top tier.

Album feels a little disconnected between the bookend tracks and everything in the middle. It is all good music, but it feels like he wanted to make his americana superstar song and the record label forced a whole album out of it, so he went with a bunch of love and loss songs. Still a good listen, but I imagine I never would have heard any of those middle 8 tracks without listening to the album as a whole.

Literally just noise that is vaguely cool for about 5 seconds per 5 minute song. Sucks megacockalis.

Great to vibe out and enjoy the flow. Some of their best work from a great band.

Just some mediocre electronic music from a group not known for this genre, which I suppose is the point but that doesn't make it good.

Unbelievably groovy. The very heart and soul of early r and b. A little long for its own good.

Similar to how I feel about Bob Dylan: excellently designed music with fantastic lyrics. I just wish it was sung by someone else.

This one was a surprise. Indie rock with big band/orchestral elements to fill in the sound profile. I really enjoyed a lot of this album, and it seemed to consistently evoke memories of other songs I hadn't heard in a while.

This is a hard album to rate based on pure musical analysis because the context of these songs is so much a part of how it sounds. An album put together by a man keenly aware of his coming death that is singing about all the aspects of his life worth singing. It was almost difficult to listen to all the way through because of how it makes one feel.

The interesting sounds you expect out of talking heads in a more traditional pop flow. The whole album goes by quite fast.

Lacking the character that other early British invasion has and the technical skill that comes with later British invasion music. Not terrible, but not fantastic. Pretty unobtrusive, but that's not a good thing all the time.

Sometimes you need to know the history behind an album for it to be at all interesting in concept, and maybe gain some appreciation for it. An album being written and developed while both the band and individual members are falling apart is an interesting idea. Unfortunately the music shows this; discordant, unbalanced, barely melodic.

I'm just not a psychedelic rock fan. Not the worst in genre though.

Wildly unpleasant to listen to, as it's just noise for 40 minutes. But some of those sounds are interesting from an audio generation perspective for how old this album is.

I was wondering why this album made the list as it was some fairly mediocre early era electronic pop, certainly not as good as the giants like Tears for Fears. Then Personal Jesus came on and memories of San Andreas instantly came to mind. Still not a great album.

A lot more 90s punk sounding than I was expecting, which is not a bad thing. Definitely just political statements with a backing track to justify it as music. The bass went crazy so I can't say I don't like it, but I certainly don't love it.

Big band jazz, not much else to say about it. I feel like I turned out most of it, but that's what happens when there are no vocals.

No

Not a fan of the vocalist here, I couldn't really understand much. The instrumentations certainly carry this band to at least a decent sound. I feel as if the album could have been condensed so it wasn't as grating by the end.

Hearing Bowie return to his gospel roots to tell the story of a dying American dream is a magical experience that makes the album a clear vessel to deliver the title track. That being said, the rest of the album still holds water with gospel/soul/pop blended together in a very grounded version of David Bowie.

Very clearly just continuing the sound from Simon and Garfunkel, which is to be expected. Great music to drive to while vaguely listening, paying more attention does not add much to the experience.

Blending folk and electronica in a sometimes fun and interesting, sometimes clowny and ridiculous, fusion. The songs that gave dimly lit club with James Bond love interest vibes are great, the ones that felt like baby's first FL Studio session are not.

Diet Phil Collins in his own way. Was groovy enough to enjoy the album, but no songs stood out.

Like watching a chimpanzee paint with shit and being able to appreciate the brush strokes. This album was Eminem wiring for his troubled middle school self and it is apparent. I wish it was 15 minutes instead of an hour.

Exactly my expectations of The Clash. Nothing really stood out to me in either direction.

Certainly not the greatest hits of Queen, but that doesn't make it bad at all. It was nice listening through a whole album of songs I didn't recognize but could still enjoy the sound of. Would need several more listens to appreciate the lyrics.

I am a big fan of This is The Day, but the rest of the album doesn't pull me in. It feels like an entirely different musical identity.

If somebody wrote an album by querying ChatGPT with "make a glam/punk rock album but make it incredibly, unnecessarily about my personal sex stories that my friends are tired of hearing about." Take this off the list.

A pleasant blend of electronic and modern r and b. Usually this ethereal sounding music about the woes of being a woman doesn't impress upon me, but this was a good listen.

For a self titled album this certainly hits all the marks. Distinctive sound the set up a future of politically/historically charged metal. This is the Metallica people know and love, and it has good reason to be remembered the way it is.

Better than most Beatles, I actually enjoyed listening through it. Some of these songs deserve their spot as a classic.

Not the type of music I generally listen to, but it was a great listen. Rich vocals and upbeat rhythms made it a good time.

God damn industrial music makes me want to stop listening to music. At least this one was a little musical in nature, but I'm still not listening to this for 40 minutes.

The individual songs are great to listen to, the album felt a little samey though. Other Foo Fighters will certainly rate better, but this is a solid listen anyways.

Instrumental jazz just bores me to tears. Good instrumentation though.

Alright. A few hits here and there but the others blend into nothing.

I'm not sure why people are surprised with Kanye's modern public opinion giving he was an egomaniac racial supremacist the whole time. Some of these were ok to listen to, the rest were just annoying.

Americana folk, nothing else really to say.

Groovy tunes to fuck to. Couldn't imagine another use case.

I've never been a fan of comedy rap.

Sounds like the worst music on a 2002 Need for Speed playlist.

DNF. This was a drag just to get through a minute of each song before I allowed myself to skip. I think I just don't like hip hop.

Like a conglomeration of classic rock. But somehow all bad.

British punk rock. Kinda samey throughout without a whole lot of depth. Good to jam to a bit.

An instrumental experience of the fusion between club jazz, bossa nova, and hard rock guitar. The occasional lyrical section is more of an additional instrument to add to the melody of it all. This is music to smoke and think to.

This one is a hard album to rate. On one hand the songs are upbeat and catchy with fantastic vocals, on the other hand every song sounds the same and it overall gives the impression of rock/pop/stompclap amalgamation.

The hits go so hard. The misses just drag the hype to a halt. Pop icons for a good reason though, and I doubt their success will fade for a very long time.

Mostly jazz with a little bit of the gruesomeness.

Mom can we get Talking Heads. We have Talking Heads at home.

I liked her work better as a part of the Fugees. This certainly wasn't bad, just wasn't the spirit of the music I liked from her before.

I didn't think it was possible to make folk music even more sleepy. I was wrong.

Boring.

Muddled vocals and poor audio mixing made this just a bunch of noise.