1001 Albums Summary

can't wait for this album to finish

album is quite listenable and has some good cover songs. Nice guitar work too.

a great debut album with a nice mix of songs including the classic "The Weight." I recently visited Levon Helm's boyhood home in Marvell, Arkansas

a nice album with Willie's interpretations of classic songs

how have I never heard this before?

I had forgotten what a classic this was!

a groundbreaking concept album with several notable songs that made it onto the radio. I have seen the movie "Tommy" several times but had never listened to the entire soundtrack. Quite good!

Thankfully, YouTube only had half of this long double album so I was spared the pain of listening to the whole thing. A couple of the songs were OK, most were garbage. The 2 radio "hits" are mediocre at best. I always thought one of them was by Carole King. Sorry to disparage you Ms. King!

good album. Nothing really stands out about it

definitely 70's soul but nothing stands out about it

a brilliant songwriter and good guitarist. A few classics and some not so great tracks. His rendition of Hank Williams' "Oh Lonesome Me" was terrible.

I'd never listened to the entire album. A few songs saw heavy rotation on MTV and the radio back in the 80s. Very good mix of music and musicians

not sure why this was on the list. Not offensive but nothing really stands out either

The song "Moondance" has one of the best bass lines ever. The rest of the album is fair

Music for people with short attention spans

ok album. YouTube has a "deluxe" version that is nearly 3 hours long. No thanks. He should be smoking a blunt on the cover :-)

a good listen

why did I need to listen to this pos before I die? Some of the music is ok, but Barry Gibb's voice is grating and the songs get worse as you go. This is what would be playing non-stop in Beelzebub's domain

good early 70s funk

good debut album

a nice mix of tunes

Many classics

Great album

Pretty good album. It was pretty popular when it came out. Hadn't heard some of these in ages.

Great album I listened to many times as a teen. I have it on vinyl with the working zipper album cover. Awesome to listen to through headphones. Lyrics to Brown Sugar are terrible but the music rocks. Love the blues numbers and the country twang in Dead Flowers. A classic!

makes good background music

ok album. Not sure why it made the list of "must hear" music though

another turd that I definitely didn't need to hear before I die

an amphetamine fueled piece of garbage from some Dead Kennedy wannabes. The lyrics are completely unintelligible. It's fitting that this shite was released on Earache Records. The guitarist is ok and the drummer is well, fast. At least most of the 28 tracks are short (the album is just over 30 minutes long)

mid 90s flashback

I listened to this many times growing up. It was a great album to listen to through headphones after burning one. John Paul Jones doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Jimmy Page is one of the best guitarists ever. John Bonham was a wildman on the drums and percussion. I could do without Robert Plant's wank session vocalizations

an amazing debut album. I had forgotten what a classic this was

not stellar. They could have edited out a bunch of random noises and people talking but not saying shit

electronic noise with largely unintelligible lyrics, possibly created by parasitic nematodes on acid. The "musicians" wouldn't even put their names on this piece of shit

groundbreaking punk. i didn't realize they only put out one album. Amazing impact for a short lived band

I thought this may be good with a name like "Thundercat." How wrong I was!! I don't even know how to describe it. It's not even decent background noise as the music sucks and that castrato voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Couldn't wait for this piece of shit to end

strange instruments add unnecessary noise to otherwise ok songs. At least the album was short

not a fan a jazz but Mr. Davis is a talented trumpet player. Music was ok. Keyboard/synthesizer detracted from the sound.

a few good songs

Not bad. Nothing particularly stands out except for the ripoff of Hank Williams Jr's "A Country Boy Can Survive" in their song "Dying Days". I had to have heard this while I at university, but I don't remember. I can hear Beavis and Butthead ripping on this "this sounds like college music hehehe"

ok for background music. Album is nice and short

some good songs. "Fast Car" was really overplayed when it came out.

great mid 90s Britpop. A favorite album of mine for many years

I've never liked Frank Sinatra and this album did nothing to change my opinion of this over-rated hack. Five versions of "The Girl from Ipanema" is beyond excessive. Absolute shite!

Yes?...uh no

I don't know who Eli is but if this album was playing in the interrogation room, I would confess to stealing the Hope diamond, kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, setting the Reichstag fire or any other heinous accusation to make it stop.

Good psychedelic soul on side A with a more standard sound on side B

Excellent album from the Queen of Soul. I got to see her perform at the Opening Ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and she put on a great show

Another "why the hell is this album on the list?" selection. Decent guitar but this was tedious

Many classics on this album.

A couple of decent songs and some good guitar work. "Low" is an apt title for this album as I felt lower than a snake's belly in a ditch after listening to the second half of it.

Noise with repetitive "lyrics"; absolute shite.

I've never cared for Rush and listening to this album solidified my opinion. Geddy Lee's voice sounds like sheet metal being crammed into a woodchipper. Synthesizers were annoying as well.

The title of track 2 pretty much sums up my reaction to this album: "No"

Flashback to my university days. Love this album!

Pleasant enough but nothing really stands out

Not stellar

Most of the cuts were way too long. Extended solos were tedious

not my cup of tea

First track was not bad but the album got progressively less enjoyable after that. Sounds like the house band in the cocktail lounge at the Holiday Inn Hoboken circa 1960.

Some of the music is ok but it's not a great sign when the drums are the most notable part of many tracks. Lyrics are shite and the vocalist manages to make them even worse. Title track is awful.

Pioneers of the Seattle sound from the 80s and 90s. Hard, guitar driven rock

Another turd where my favorite song was the final track because the assault on my ears would soon be over. The strange noise coming from my refrigerator is equally as pleasurable to listen to

A couple of good songs but I wasn't overly impressed with the album. Two or 3 of these songs were hits in the 70s but I didn't realize this artist did them.

Sounds like the score of a Bugs Bunny cartoon

Was ok. I expected it to rock harder though

Ragged? Yes. Glory? None. Neil Young is a good guitarist but someone should have told him to leave the vocals to someone else loooong ago. His raggedy ass voice prompted me to fast forward through most of the songs

Enjoyable. I didn't even mind the 10 minute long final track

A couple of classic songs, a few turds, and a weird spoken track in the middle

Something good that came out of Texas. ZZ Top rocks! Some classics on this album

This quickly became tedious. Guitar is interesting though

I've loved The Stones since I was a wee lad

Another Neil Young album...meh. The final track is terrible and drones on for nearly 9 minutes. Thank goodness it's over

a prog rock slog

This was terrible. I utilized the "skip track" button several times. The drummer isn't too bad but the electronic noise is shite.

This gets my vote for most overrated album of all time. Most of the songs are absolute garbage and his castrato voice is cringe.

Noise

Smoke 'em if you got 'em

Unlistenable garbage, kind of like an eighth grader's diary read over shitty music

Elvis had definitely discovered pharmaceuticals by the time this album was recorded. He's slurring and mumbling on some of the songs. Cover of "I'm Movin' On" is mighty tired compared to the original by Hank Snow

Sounds like the house band at the Holiday Inn - East Peoria

A couple of classics and a few other suprisingly good songs

Not their best work

a couple of decent songs and a bunch of filler

never heard of this noise creation collective and I'm ok with that

music to battle insomnia

No

couldn't make it through this sad, mopey pile of shite

an interesting mid 60s time capsule

two overplayed hits and a bunch of filler

Boring and mopey

a classic

even the "hits" suck on this album

noise

was the woman on the cover forced to listen to this and is now about to slit her own throat with the scythe?

bitch killed my vibe with this garbage

shit-pop

a couple of good songs and a bunch of filler

would rather have listened to the goats for 38 minutes. highly over rated imo

this cover of the classic song "American Pie" should be a crime

this is the soundtrack playing in the waiting room at the Gates of Hell

sounds like a teenager's journal read over a beat from a 1990's era drum machine. Shite!

a classic!

amphetamine fueled noise

I can hear Monk's influence on Terry Adams of NRBQ, but still don't care much for jazz

a tedious slog through a dreary, dank dirt alley in a rainstorm

None of the Radiohead albums on this list have changed my view that this band is highly over-rated and most of their songs are barely listenable. I would give it one star, but I will reserve that rating for the even worse albums that made it onto this list

The cover of "Iron Man" included on this album is a crime against humanity.

The only song I could relate to was "Reclaim My Place" where the singer is screaming "What the fuck?" over and over. WTF indeed. I could feel brain cells dying as I listened to this noise.

How could you omit Champaign (Paris on the Prairie) from an album about Illinois? This snoozefest is barely worth 2 stars

This album had several songs that were better than the stuff that made it onto the radio

What a piece of crap

Loved this!

Meh

Boring af

meh

boring af

I thought I liked k.d. lang's music until listening to this. Must have mixed her up with another artist cause this was boring af

Meh. Generic sounding metal noise and an abysmal cover of "Born to be Wild"

2 stars only because there are worse albums on the list

"Infected Voice" indeed. Now my ears are infected after listening to this shite

This is the album where ZZ Top jumped the shark. Not the same band they were in the 1970s to be sure. The car on the album cover symbolizes the enshitification of music brought about by videos and MTV.

Sounds like something that sadistic German prison guards would play on an endless loop to drive inmates insane. This collection of noise is currently ranked second from the bottom on this list, just below Kid Rock. I can hardly wait to hear Throbbing Gristle

The soundtrack to someone's nervous breakdown