1001 Albums Summary

Enjoyed Changes, can take or leave the rest of the album. RIP Ozzy, but this was mostly forgettable to me.

I’m not destined to be a Talking Heads fan. Whatever it is, it doesn’t do it for me.

I only like this in the context of background noise for when I’m working. Otherwise what is this? Not for me.

Italian crooner meets rock and roll.

Why am I only getting punk albums 😩

Not for me.

Weird, but I don’t hate it.

No notes. 👩‍🍳😘

Solid album. Knew 2 songs

Solid funk album

Generic 70s Brit rock

Disco let’s gooooo 🪩

Thought I didn’t like grunge. Glad this album proved me wrong.

Banger

More Brit rock. Maybe some elvis Costello influence. Forgettable.

I like this album a lot more than the first king Crimson.

I mean…

Fine, kind of boring. But I was back after a long day of travel and it would’ve taken a lot more than rock ballads to peak my interest.

Solid. Ice Cube has great flow.

Only miss was Enjoy the Silence. I get what they were doing, but I didn’t like it.

Very smooth. Gorgeous vocals.

Proto alt-rock. Don’t really like this, but it isn’t bad bad as straight punk.

Despite coming out in 2018, this music sounds like the background of a Starbucks in 2008.

Good god yall! It’s James Brown. This was fine.

Not for me

Every song sounds like the backing track to a filler scene in Dawson’s Creek where the camera pans around to the characters in their various past times, separately.

Spotify recommended Oasis. This is like low rent Oasis.

Founding father of jazz for a reason. Infinitely listenable.

Bruce’s response to 9/11. That fact puts these songs into context and I suppose justifies picking this later album and not one of his seminal works. The Boss doesn’t miss here, I enjoyed these songs.

It’s Bob Dylan. Idk, it’s fine.

Banger, would listen to this again.

An album all about the sexy, seedy underbelly of London and the rejection of the uptight suburbs. A lot of synths. Idk, some of the songs are catchy and some are too new wave for me.

Great flow, love the horns. Common’s an OG for a reason. The lyrics are poetic and will improve upon another listen when I can really focus on them.

I find the talking heads to be boring.

The man was a hit factory.

Long and boring. No memorable songs.

Why? This was so boring I couldn’t get thru a single song without skipping to the next one. This might appeal as background music but I can sit around and pay attention to these songs.

Damn you Willie Nelson, you made me cry on a plane.

Very groovy.

Ah yes, the Twilight soundtrack. This is a very good album.

I had one Santana album growing up and it wasn’t this one. I liked that one a lot. This one is just as groovy.

Maybe they invented the hardcore punk scene in DC but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

Based on the first track, I thought I would hate this. But, I ended up liking it.

Another punk album, you say? What percent of this list is punk bands? The revolutionary aspect of this album is that they give up on songs when they run out of lyrics or get tired of a riff. What mavericks.

Can’t say I follow rap beef, but there were some good songs on here.

YEEEEEEOWWW!! Middle school me is rejoicing.

Got bored half way thru and didn’t finish.

He spent so much time asking for and then drinking a glass of water. Get to the songs already! When he was singing, it was good.

Smooth, gorgeous vocals.

All of Elvis Costello’s music sounds the same to me. I enjoyed it, though.

I really didn’t connect with this album.

Vibey. Good background music while I work.

An assault on my ears, but make it French

Album so good I didn’t even realize it was over and Spotify was playing random Bob Marley music.

Leather is a vibe. Tori Amos provided the soundtrack to the 90s.

Spotify; if you like Bob Dylan, you’ll like this album. Me: ok. Bob Dylan’s good. Proceeds to listen to yet another punk album. Of the 60 albums I’ve listened to, I think 25 have been punk. Pretty tired of it.

Long songs. Whatever.

Weird and every song sounded essentially the same. Maybe in a different mood I would like this but as it is, I can tolerate it.

Randy Newman is his own thing and I can get down with it.

I think this is the final sign that I need to sit down and watch this movie.

All hits, no whammies. Such a soulful voice.

Peak Bob Dylan. Some really fun songs on this album.

Ska is ska is ska. Idk it’s fine and not bad to listen to.

Krautrock should stay in its jar at the back of the fridge to be forgotten about.

The singer’s voice is a vibe. Every song sounds the same and he sounds like he’s falling asleep on every track, but I still liked it and would listen again.

I got an album by the Smiths 2 days ago and I think I prefer that to this, but some classics on here.

I feel transported into one of the better Dawson’s Creek episodes.

Lotta hits. Can’t go too wrong with the Stones.

No notes.

The 1001 albums book didn’t seem to know why it was recommending this album. It was fine, but it didn’t make me a Bee Gees fanatic.

I can’t do this.

He’s going to bring you lyrics every time.

I…I didn’t hate this. What’s happening to me??? *melts*

Maybe the band was angry at each other and the world, but that doesn’t mean I have to find the music interesting.

I’m more of a Wuthering Heights gal.

“Whatever” sums up my feelings toward this album.

Groovy

Finished the album and immediately had to restart and listen again.

So groovy I had to stop what I was doing so I could dance.

A little repetitive, but the songs are infectious and a great backdrop to keep me pumped during a sewing project.

Incredible vocals

Ok, so this guy tried to attack his band mates with an axe, was locked up for 6 months, then made this album. Honestly, I don’t know what to think. The tone of the album certainly reflects his state of mind.

Who needs intelligible lyrics? Overrated.

Wow, this was depressing in a way that only country music can be.

If we really were one nation under a groove, a lot of our problems would be solved.

Great dance music.

This is like the dictionary definition of 70s rock.

Cheeky

The music would be good, but it’s undercut by dissonance and noise.

Smooth but also kind of weird. Easy to lie down and chill with this album.

This guy is clearly really talented, but the album was lost on me.

Enjoyed Ambulance but this album was forgettable.

90s female singer songwriter but make it vaguely country. This was fine. The titular song was maybe the worst. Repetitive and boring.

Banger

Green Day got me through grad school and I will forever be grateful to them. This album is great.

According to 1001 albums you should listen to, this album single handedly showed up emo music for the “emotionally illiterate, self indulgent, angst ridden garbage” it is. Strong words about an entire genre of music. The blurb also mentions that Arcade Fire dabbled in Krautrock before landing on indie rock and boy am I glad they didn’t stick with their original plan.

Amazing soul album. Never heard of this guy, but isn’t that the point of this endeavor? He’s gained a fan in me.

This album had such a chokehold on the top 40 radio stations.

Solid addition to the 70s folk rock canon.

W in T actual F was this? There’s a genre of music I like to call “microwave music” because it sounds like a microwave made it. This sounds like all the kitchen appliances came together to form a band.

This is good, but I kept thinking of the Now You Has Jazz song from High Society every time Duke introduced a number.

Thrash is not for me.

Drum and bass 👎 Drum and bass with gorgeous vocals 👍

Blues rock meets psychedelic rock.

This sounded like he heard cars driving by honking their horns and he sampled the Doppler effect.

My God that was unpleasant

The songs alternate between powerful lyrics about his struggles and his prowess in bed. So. Much. Detail. (I’m looking at you One More Chance)

The first Taylor album I ever actually liked! Ah, summers on Cape Cod. Gotta love those Starbucks lovers.

Sounds like 90s rap. Solid flow, good beats.

New wave idk. Hurts my head

This was easy to listen to

It’s a vibe. Very mellow.

Going to see the movie 21 was the first time I stayed out past midnight in high school and what a wild time that was. I almost fell asleep in the movie.

I hesitate to give a Christmas album five stars just because it’s holiday music and I’m a curmudgeon. Also it’s Phil Spector. That being said, this album is Christmas classic after classic and it was very nice to listen to on a Christmas morning.

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. I would give it 6 stars if I could.

Bob Dylan doing his thing.

Thrash metal isn’t it for me. Sorry if I’m a poser, but I prefer Nu metal.

David Bowie is hit or miss for me and this was more of a miss.

This was fine but I’m not sure I’d ever revisit it.

Forgettable

Arcade Fire is so uninteresting. I don’t know why they merit more than one spot on this list.

After the first song I thought it would be like Black Sabbath and I was excited, but then it turned into generic 70s rock.

Every time I see a Bob Dylan album I think of Kevin Kline in French Kiss pronouncing his name as Bub Deelahn. Otherwise, all of his music sounds the same to me.

This was weird but I was into it

Seminal album. Loved it

Too many of the songs devolved into dissonant noise

I love Irish folk music and basically any fusion of folk music with another genre works for me.

Peaches is a clear standout but the rest of the album is good considering it is yet another punk band.

Sorry to my man Van Morrison but this don’t work for me

This was too long. After a promising start the songs petered out and I lost interest

Yes, of course, obviously.

The first song did not set me up to like this album, but it improved as it went along. Not sure that “Nirvana covered 3 songs” is a good reason to include it on the list.

Inoffensive but generic

Is this a joke? This is like the progenitor of Kyle Mooney’s album The Real Me. And yet, it worked for me.

I went to Graceland and it was fine. But this album is great!

I like psychedelic rock but this feels like the kind of album I’d pick up out of the $1 bin at a record shop. It begs the question, as so many of these do: why is it two volumes? Does it need to be this long when each song sounds basically like the one before it? It’s not bad, it’s just leaving me uninspired.

Give me weird 90s rap all day long.

Look, I like bongo drum based albums as much as the next girl, but sometimes you need Madonna in the morning.

When it wasn’t ambient drums this was quite pleasant. Unfortunately, it was ambient drums a lot of the time.

Love Dave Brubeck.

Had to listen on YouTube. Meh

Thrash metal is angry. Groundbreaking as florals for spring.

I let the vibes flow through and I was healed!! Praise Parliament! 🙌🙌

I completely lost interest in this.

Can’t be anything less

I like a band that isn’t afraid to rhyme home with home or sing about killing your friend’s girlfriend because he isn’t spending time with you anymore.

More country than expected

I’m mad at my husband right now, this is the energy I need.

Nope no way nuh uh

Boring music, repetitive sounds

Atmospheric and mellow. A lovely listen.

If there’s something to get, I didn’t. Too busy sucking on that ding dong.

This isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever heard and I typically hate black metal.

Yup, it’s jazz.

Refreshingly different entry for this list.

After a difficult weekend, I turned on my album of the day and this masterpiece was exactly what I needed. The powerful vocals, the unhinged lyrics, the lush string arrangements. I listened to it twice in a row. The song Next in particular had me wondering what this man was on when he made the album. Would I go back to this album? I don’t know, but it was just what I needed to offset a stressful couple of days and for that I can’t hate it.

My dad used to listen to this kind of music so I have a degree of fondness for it. That said, every song sounded basically the same.

Iconic

they invented 80s hair metal. This is enjoyable.

I’m guessing this made the list because of Slumdog Millionaire.

Radiohead’s music is so forgettable to me. Easy to listen to, not much to captivate.

Norah Jones has such an amazing voice. Very soothing.

Yeehaw! *clicks heels like an old time prospector* This is the kind of country music I like. Grounded in real life and emotion.

I struggled to care about this album. Nothing wrong with it per se, just sort of whatever.

Why so many 10 min long songs?

I watched the beginning of the movie and the cha cha cha sequence is incredible. A dance class is in full swing when a man playing cards in an adjoining room keels over. The dancers all rush over to see, then the dance teacher turns the music back on and they all start dancing and singing cha cha cha like nothing happened. Only Bollywood.

Lo-fi, sounds like they blew out the microphone, but fun songs.

Considering I’ve hated basically every other new wave album on this list so far, this is refreshing. High energy, fun.

Technically proficient, sounded like muppets sometimes. Generally failed to capture my attention.

Started off good with the first song then got progressively weirder and jazzier as it went along. Not for the better.

What about this band is worth listening to?

Good but not especially memorable.

Smooth vocals, didn’t capture my attention.

Besides The Weight, all the songs blended together.

Another blues rock album? You don’t say. Not bad, but I got bored.

Another album of ok music where I got bored half way through and stopped paying attention.

I’m sorry. I hate this band too much. Anything that could be good about the music is buried under layers of noise.

Finally! After a week of shoe-gazing drivel, something funky and fun.

I don’t know why Pavement was on this list once, let alone twice. Whatever-ness is right.

I don’t get all the hate for this album. I think it’s enjoyable and nice to listen to.

I forgot how long this album is. The Beatles take some big swings and not all of them hit.

This went way harder than I expected.

Not as bad as the other reviews made it out to be, but it was certainly boring. I enjoyed Dancing and that was about it.

Spotify doesn’t have the actual album, but somebody did recreate it as a playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Hvja1kxzYPMt1Y64zzK4I?si=2Z0SmqPHSam4Ll3khOjmZQ&pi=sHS56giiROy69

My first thought was: why Kings of Leon? And my second thought was: this is giving me a headache.

I’m a sucker for Don McLean’s particular brand of folk music.

Was the music bad? It was fine. Did this guy sleep with a 13 year old girl and eventually marry her? Yes, it would seem he did.

I am so neutral on this band

Anytime “sessions” is in the album title you, know you’re in for it. This was groovy at times but mostly felt repetitive.

Bed cot philly papers?! Red Hot Chili Peppers! https://youtu.be/QT48i51VUBM?si=vk9H4hpSYxJOr0bP I would’ve been excited about this when I was 12, but not anymore.

Smooth vocals but not sure what sets this apart from similar albums.

😴

Quickly became repetitive.

It’s like I’m being punished for taking 2 weeks off from this list.

Besides Freedom! 90, this was mostly forgettable.

I like psychedelic rock, what I don’t really like are jam sessions.

Forgettable.

Everybody’s talking is the best song, but not as good as Harry Nilsson’s version. When does *he* appear on this list?

Not going to revisit this one, but it wasn’t the worst rap album I’ve gotten. Can we talk about the album art though? Hilarious. Man with chainsaw cutting the gun barrel of a tank while a blimp with different currency symbols flies overhead. So much meaning.

Sophista-funk/aristocrat/distinguished dog, clean up your act/pull up your pants/ladies and gents/please, act like you got some sense. I was so obsessed with the delivery of these lines, I would restart the song over and over just to hear them. I got this album, along with Lindsay Lohan’s Speak, for my birthday one year from an aunt and uncle who I thought knew me better than that. At 12, I wasn’t a huge fan of Lohan and I don’t think I knew OutKast at all. But, I dutifully listened to all the albums and came away a fan of The Love Below. Over time, I came to appreciate Speakerboxxx. I never cared for Speak, sorry Lindsay. If you can get past the unnecessary number of interludes, both albums have a lot to offer and the cultural impact of Hey Ya cannot be doubted.

4 days of hip hop in a row. One of the better entries.

The single Sweet Gene Vincent failed to chart and I can see why. I wouldn’t want to hear it on the radio. Some of the funk songs had a great funky baseline but when you stop and listen to the lyrics or his voice, it’s rough.

My fave Beatles album. 10/5

You’re getting to be a rabbit, hippity hop I love you! You’re getting to be a rabbit with me.

Another album where each song starts off promising but then goes on too long, slowly devolving into dissonance.

Endless.

I love this album and I think the associated movie is one of the great, nonsensical movies of all time. What’s going on at any point? Who cares!

Good listenin’. Not sure I’ll go back to it, but it’s solid.

I cannot abide albums that start off with 5 min of ambient sound effects. *How* is that enticing the listener to continue? Who is sitting there going, “wow, I love how the music goes click click clack while a broken air conditioner runs in the background.” ???

My sister’s all time favorite band. I will never understand it. They’re fine.

Noise for the sake of noise.

Some groovy tracks but overly long

What if the Beatles had no charisma?

I actually really enjoyed this when he wasn’t rambling unintelligibly about mad John

This is aggressively 2010.

This guy deserves more than one spot on the list because…? Might I recommend So Runs the World Away by Josh Ritter?

Surely there were better Genesis albums to choose from. This was endless.

Boring. Not worth 2 hours of my life.

Wow, so edgy

*another* Jimi Hendrix album? Sure, fine, whatever.

Sexy songs, sexy man.

Between this and that Krautrock album, I think German avant garde music is not for me.

Ambient and that about all I can say.

Groundbreaking, another album of ambient noise

Not bad, but not a band I’ve ever been interested in nor will I revisit.

Not bad. Basic psychedelic rock without much to distinguish it from the rest of the genre.

Every song is the backing track to the post-break-up-sad-sack-montage in a 90s rom com. That moment when we pan between the love interests being sad walking the streets of NYC but not seeing the fall foliage because they're heartbroken.

80s synth done right.

Yup, it’s jazz.

More like a maybe for me

Voice like butter. Hooked from the first moment she started singing.

Kind of repetitive and I don’t think anyone really wants a 10 minute Metallica song, let alone several.

There were birds in the sky but I never sawr them winging. No I never sawrrr them at all. Some solid covers but not a Beatles album I find myself reaching for.

Whoever said the first two songs were the only goods ones was right. Steep falloff into boring indie.

This didn’t need to be a 2 disc set. Some good songs in here but a lot of uninteresting stuff as well.

Show me the way to the next little girl??

This is the kind of lo-fi music I put on to get work done, but not something I would sit and listen to on its own.

She’s a poet

The album cover is bizarre but the music is great.

David Bowie doesn’t do it for me.

Mixed feelings on this album after reading Britney’s memoir. It’s unfortunate that this album is so boring and the only good song is the one he wrote calling her a crybaby post-breakup. Rock Your Body is good, too.

I have a definite soft spot for this type of music and this band.

I thought it would be whiny and it was, but I also didn’t hate it

This is your sign to drop acid and sync this album up to Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

Just the kind of middle of the road Brit-pop album I expect from this list

Besides Blister in the Sun, it was mostly unmemorable. But I do like this band and their vibe.

This album is less than an hour long and somehow feels 3 hours long

If I never get another Bowie album, I’ll be happy.

Fine. Didn’t care for the spoken word segments.

The way I knew I would hate this from the first note, but at least it was only 15 min long. Now that’s punk.

Wow! Finally a German electronica album that doesn’t make me want to pull my ears off.

I don’t appreciate that this list always links to the double length deluxe album. This was good for an hour, but two hours was too much.

The next Nirvana? No. But did it succeed at being pretty good alt rock? Yes.

Certainly a tour de force. Thankfully, it provided a good background to a boring day of work and, of course, Ella’s voice is like butter. 4 stars only because it was so long and in the context of this list, I have to listen to it all at once.

Yesterday I got a 3 hour Ella Fitzgerald/Gershwin compilation and gave it 4 stars for its length and this is my penance. I’m sorry, Ella! If I could go back and give you 5 stars I would! Forgive me 😭😭😭

A potato flew around my room the other day… This was a good album! Some seminal songs of the 2010s.

I don’t understand the obsession with this guy. His music makes me want to listen to folk music but not listen to more of his music.

Why does this band have multiple albums on the list?

Yup, that’s 80s rock.

Ice-T was the emcee in Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo and that’s all that matters to me.

After Ace of spades, every song sounds like every other song

Based on the album art, I thought it would be jazz. I was wrong. This was cool.

Is it rap is it not rap? I kept checking Spotify thinking the album was over because every song felt like a different genre

I mean, it can’t not be 5 stars, right?

Why am I being punished like this??

I for one, rejoice when I get a 50s jazz album. This made a wonderful backdrop to time spent reading the novelization of the movie Ghost Rider, starring Nic Cage. But seriously folks, Billie had beautiful, sultry vocals. Many of the songs do blend together, I can’t disagree on that.

One of the best artists ever, but not every song on this album is memorable.

Exorcist the book: meh Exorcist the movie: meh Exorcist the theme song the album: moments where it was more than meh

Mid tier 60s rock. I know they were an important band but I can’t bring myself to care that much.