1001 Albums Summary

It’s so good. Like if the Minutemen were a classic rock band. And I say that with all sincerity and positivity.

This crew understood the importance of extremes in rock and roll. For this album, they cranked everything- song lengths, instrumentation, emotion, and lyrics up to 11. And never let up for a second.

The hits are amazing, all time classics. Vienna and Scenes are fan favorite deep cuts for a reason. The other songs, and it’s just two songs really, are almost filler tracks that drop it to less than five stars.

Good, not great? I enjoy it, but it isn’t my favorite from them.

This album is weighted so heavily to “Don’t Know Why” that one forgets the rest of the album is great too.

Stan Getz is a fantastic blower. Not a great guy. But this album is quite good, almost in par with his greatest works.

It’s… fine? I never got into the Sugarcubes the way I got into Bjork.

The first four Sabbath albums are perfection.

Lots of good Elvis albums, only a handful of truly great ones. This album is great.

Seminal Jazz fusion.

Classic. I wish Snoop kept caring instead phoning it in basically for the rest of his career after this one.

It’s their best album. Except for the other three (not counting Squeeze, though that’s great too…), which are also their best album.

It’s very good. Her relaxed confidence in her art oozes throughout.

It’s okay. I want to like it. I’m told by influencers, critics and gatekeepers that I should like it. And the beats slap. But I never long to return to it.