1001 Albums Summary

Female led alt rock, very cool.

Weird but interesting

Rad guitar solos, love the musicality

Foundational pop punk, love

I think I get boomer nostalgia now

Just couldn't connect. Decent musical moments but they didn't gel with each other or with the lyrics in a way that I would've liked.

I really like the beats, don't love the vocals. Lyrics are super repetitive.

Ska is fun, idk what else to say

Janis's voice was killer! Like its own instrument.

I was getting into it and then Aumgn came on. 17 min of a Halloween atmospheric track. Peking O was only a little better. I could get into everything else but those two songs pissed me right off.

Rough and smooth in all the right places.

Would be a 4 but I just don't like most rap-rock.

Going in my jazz rotation.

Didn't like Iggy's vocals or most of his lyrics, the band was good though

Funky

Weird but I dig it. Need to give that one another listen.

Really, really disjointed. The faux radio transitions didn't age super well but I didn't hate them. Last song was bad. Wish McLaren 1) didn't sing/rap on any of these tracks and 2) credited the artists, all of whom did great work on the album.

Wonderfully weird and heartfelt

Big, bold, theatrical

Kinda meandering but I generally liked it

Super fun!

There were songs that I liked but the length of the record makes it hard to weigh as a full project. Lyrics were generally just fine. I didn't love the lead male vocals. The melodies and musical ideas were mostly good to great.

Pleasant. I liked the flute

Last two songs hit particularly well.

I had only heard Come Together, Here Comes The Sun, and Golden Slumbers (as a cover in Sing). That's a shame cause this album is full of great tunes! Oops all bangers!

Totally thought the chorus to the title track was "Man on the Run". Anyways it's a good album

I love dance tracks so I liked this album. It's definitely meant to be listened to at the club as the songs are a bit repetitive. Still overall fun!

Bit depressing, still good

Solid classic rock

The singer's voice got pretty annoying after a while. I'd probably like this more if I heard it live.

Deeply personal, a generational talent gone too soon

Wish I could hear this live, I bet it kills.

Definitely like the hip hop and funk leaning songs more than the rock leaning ones. Pretty fun, I see why they were the frat band of the time.

This style of music inspired the musical Cabaret, which I genuinely like. I couldn't get into this album though. I think it'd work better with more full instrumentation or if I heard it live in a small venue. I also bet the German version of this album sounds better. It's almost there.

Fine, kinda boring

I don't think I've ever connected to music with non-English lyrics like I have with this album. Just straight heat, so much funk and soul

Solid

Learning that I really like 70s rock

It's not bad, there are just better versions of all of these songs.

Again, I really like 70s rock

Wish he was a better singer. Great story telling though

Thom Yorke jumpscare. Decent album, good voice.

This would've gone triple platinum on my iPod touch when I was younger. I still like it but the pacing's a bit weird and the lyrics are a bit boring.

Rock made by a theater kid which is right up my alley. Totally get why he was in Rocky Horror now.

Fine, just fine.

Kanye's a great rapper, it's well produced, and it touches on some deeply personal issues that I can see being relatable. Totally get why the album and Kanye are so influential. I can't 100% connect to it because I'm clearly not the target demo. These songs are clearly geared towards guys with the way that sex/women/pussy is talked about. Wish that Kanye didn't lose his mind.

Probably the most British album I've ever heard. Some of these songs are so bleak in the best way possible.

The 2020 mention in Saturday Night freaked me out. Anyways this bangs. It's a nice break from all of the rock albums that I've gotten lately. The genre mixing is well done. The album as a whole is welcoming, I feel like it's music for anyone and everyone while still having a strong, specific perspective.

Very cool. The more avant-garde songs got weird but they didn't overstay their welcome.

Miles Davis has one of my favorite horn tones and So What is a classic

Lyrically very good, musically good but a touch repetitive

What on earth is going on with that mix. I could barely hear the vocals half of the time. Idk it was very disjointed but the guitar, bass, and drums were pretty good. Vocals were hit or miss.

Classic pop punk with good production.

Took me a little bit to acclimate. I appreciate the talent on display but I am just not a thrash metal person.

Fine, didn't leave much of an impression.

Mixed bag but nothing that was awful.

Most of the songs started with a great groove but then repeated that groove over and over and over again. By disc two it got a bit tedious. The rhythm section is killer the entire album though.

Perfect voice for country!

Messy production and messy playing makes a hard listen. I'm assuming that it must've sounded better in the room. Starship was interesting.

Great musically and very fun!

Half of the songs sound like a wasted guy singing karaoke, which I wouldn't mind as much if the band didn't sound so clean. It comes together (enough) for some of the songs though

I wanted to be in the room with them! Great live album.

Unsettling but I think that's what they were going for. I appreciate the musicianship! I never want to listen to this again.

Didn't do anything for me. Nothing bad, just no connection

I think each song individually is fine-ish but listening all of them back to back was rough. Same vocals with the same cadence and same drive from the rest of the band. I've heard punk that I've liked (mostly in my local scene), but I have not been able to get into most of the punk albums that the generator has given me.

Great groove throughout the album. I can hear how the Arctic Monkeys influenced alt rock.

Just so cool. I listened to a lot of hip hop from this era when I was a kid and it always sits right with me.

Liked it fine, it didn't leave a strong impression

Really lush orchestrations and fantastic production. I think I just have a hard time getting into psych rock because while this album was beautiful, it took me a bit to get into it. Consider this a very high 4. Maybe if I smoked weed it'd be a 5.

Timbaland is one of the best producers of all time. Missy's still developing as a rapper on this album, but it wasn't an unpleasant experience.

I was better prepared after listening to his last album but yeah his voice is still not great. Still great lyrics though.

Weirdly this album runs into the same problem of a lot of punk rock albums: some songs with great socio-political messages and a lot of songs about stuff that is wayyy less important (sex in particular). Production and flow is very strong though. A lot of this hasn't aged great. I will say that a lot of y'all's favorite rock/folk/country artists have said worse things about women in songs. Some of the pearl clutching in the reviews feels silly.

Really confused as to why this is considered a must-listen album. Besides the interludes it sounds like video game backing tracks.

Quite depressing for an album called "On the Beach"

It's at its best when the bassist settles into a groove. I liked the violin overall as well. A bit too much noodling around for my taste and I don't think we needed to raid the percussion drawer for every wacky instrument in there.

Got kinda boring after a while. I think all of these songs are fine to good in isolation but they're mostly slow and sad

I really love the production and I think the instrumentation is really smart. I'm not into super dreary music, and unfortunately the whole album is just dark and slow. Also, the singer really can't sing at all. It's a low 3.

Chill with important messaging

Lots of different types of pop represented here which I liked. A bit long though.

You can tell that these lyrics came from journals; they're super meandering without being particularly clever. Mitchell's a great vocalist per usual and the music is pretty tight.

The composition across the album is fantastic, but the vocal layering or reverb effect is a bit much.

Good, fun, not a ton of substance.

The guitar tone is fantastic throughout. Some of the songs could've been a touch shorter.

I think I've settled on the RHCP being a great band dragged down by a bad front man. Kiedis can't sing and he can't rap. The rest of the band holds it down the whole album.

I'd heard of Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound, but listening to this album while reading those Wikipedia pages helped me put both in perspective. Unfortunate that such an influential person did such awful things to the people around him. "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is an unimpeachable classic. The other songs on this album are also done well, particularly those done by Darlene Love and The Ronettes. When comparing to other Christmas albums it's a 5, when comparing to other albums generally I'll give it a 4.

Listening to this album makes me feel bad for Eminem (or at least the Eminem of 2000). This is music written by an troubled guy. It's also really hard to listen to because of how edgy and heavy it is. The constant f-slurs don't help either. I had to take a few breaks while listening. Eminem is a technically gifted rapper and Dre's production is clean, but I won't be returning to it anytime soon.

Super cool, the funkier songs were my favorite. If it was more of that it'd be a 5.

The mix of humorous songs with more serious songs/topics was a whiplash. Also the comedy wasn't funny enough.

Big fan of the Latin influences, not a big fan of the songs about murdering an ex-lover or cheating partner. Sad cowboys need break-up songs too I suppose.

My Lord, Buckley's voice on this is incredible. Some of the songs are 5s on here ("Lover, You Should've Come Over" is so so so good) but I wasn't rapt the entire album.

I did not expect to be bored by a metal album. Very repetitive lyrics and the screechy vocals throughout... ugh. "You Shook Me All Night Long" is the best song just because the vocals are better. The "Back in Black" riff just barely pulls this up to a 3.

Those cats are swinging! Loved the African infusion.

Whispery dialogue, repetitive beats and lyrics, groove you can't groove to. It's a no for me dawg.

Besides Imagine it's pretty whatever. Nothing captured me.

Bowie's older voice sounds great with some of the tracks but clashes with others.

I'm surprised that this one was included instead of 21. I love "Water Under the Bridge", and the rest were generally alright.

Always fun to find an album with a bunch of songs that I already know. Didnt know the Who made the "YEAHHHH" song.

This conjured no real emotion in me. It's fine.

This is the legendary Grateful Dead? The album is so sleepy. It feels very old, not "made several decades ago" old, more like "this is and has always been music for grandpas" old.

Wow, what a voice! Unfortunately the live recording elements take it down for me. The applause took me out of it and whatever happened in "Willow Weep for Me" was weird. Man, still what a great performance.

Very lovely, but a bit too vibe-y for my taste. Super lush.

It's Otis Redding so it's great, but while I like his covers I like the original tracks more.

Punk with some musicianship, hooray! A bite-sized good time.

Unfortunately I'm rarely in a mood to listen to this much electronica in one sitting. Well done music though.

The production is a bit hit or miss, but there's no denying that Sananda can sing. Very soulful.

The spoken word at the beginning of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" was gratuitous but overall a very good album. Maybe one of the most accurate album names ever.

Very fun!

I just... it wasn't supposed to be released? I can't get past the fact that these are demos. I feel bad for Skip since he thought these recordings were gonna be produced in some way. I can imagine a version of this album that's cleaner and better put together, but that's not what I listened to. Not everything that's raw from someone with mental health issues is genius.

Pleasant country. Parsons sounds rough on some of these tracks. Harris absolutely should've been credited.

Very chill and funky. I think it needs some denser instrumentation.

The slow tempos throughout really makes this album drag. Individually I think the songs are decent.

Pretty catchy at times. Some of the songs dragged a bit but overall good.

A bit disjointed in the rock genres that it emulates but Morrissey's voice is very same-y. Fine.

The latin-rock mix worked incredibly well and very clean production throughout.

Back to Black is definitely the better album, but this is not bad for a debut. Amy's voice is fantastic, but the lyrical content is lacking and her voice doesn't really fit some of the R&B tracks.

Solid folk. Bit of a bummer and some of the songs drag but overall pretty good.

Very in-line with my tastes. The album isn't stellar, but Take Me Out is a classic and Come On Home is surprisingly good.

Usually I'm a fan of genre mixing but some of the non-reggae elements on this record clash a bit. Still quite good.

Quirky but not bad. Rock Lobster is head and shoulders above the rest of the album.

I definitely appreciate this album, but I wish it was musically more interesting. If the strings were present in more than just the first and last song, I definitely would have liked it more. Lyrically very beautiful though.

I respect prog rock but I usually don't love it. This was decent.

It grew on me. I think some of the mixing was quite odd but it was fun and interesting.

Hmmm... I like indie rock, but this album was a lot more somber than what I normally listen to. It was still good, just not something I would wanna listen to often.

Weirder than I expected for a punk album. Very interesting, some of the songs weren't great but overall a good time.

Nina Simone just gets it man. She's got the voice, the attitude, and the musicality. The album jumps all over the place which is why I'm only giving it a four, but I will be listening to more of her albums.

Feels like they were just messing around the whole albums. When the singing was good the music was bad and when the singing was bad the music was good. The 18 min track was a bit overindulgent but got better towards the end. A very odd listening experience.

If I was ranking these songs individually, most would get a 3 out of 5. They're fine. Some are better than others, but none are incredible. Listening to all of them as an album bored me though. It's getting a 3, but it's a low one.

It's not bad, but there's a surprising lack of depth both musically and lyrically for a neo-soul album.

I love Eleanor Rigby and liked She Said She Said and For No One. I have mixed feelings about everything else.

I've liked Green Light for a while but I never got around to listening to this album until now. I don't mind Jack Antinoff, but I'm usually not a fan of his work with Taylor Swift and some iof these tracks dip into that sound unfortunately. There are still a lot of fun tracks, and I think it's a well constructed album.

Makes me want to go to the sock hop with my sweetheart. It wasn't thrilling but it was quite fun.

I read some of the reviews before starting the album so I was thankfully not as confused by the genre. Musically fine, but I really didn't get the concept of this concept album.

Started out as a 1, slowly got to 2 as I got used to this style. The mixing is a little weird in my earbuds, but I respect the effort put into these beats. Gonna file this under not for me.

Solid! I liked the mixed meter in some of the songs.

Damn good album. Biggie's lyrics and flow are incredible. "Mean and My Bitch" is a little... crude, but the sentiment is nice. Not a five because two different interludes of sex noises are too much for me.

Might be the most country-sounding country I've ever heard.

Very well orchestrated. Didn't change my life, but quite good.

It's so insanely pretentious that I can't co-sign this at all. Like what the hell are these people's problem. "Everyone is dumb and fake except for me har har har". I'd normally give it a 2 because there are some musically interesting ideas here, but I had such a miserable time listening to it.

Love how experimental this is. Kate's voice is so lovely and remains the center of most of these songs.

Love love love this Motown/funk sound. First half is banging, second half is fine.

Thrash is just not my thing. I appreciate the musicianship though.

Big fan of this indie and orchestrally dense sound.

I liked the bluesier tracks more than anything but didn't love his style of (lack of) enunciation. Felt kinda sluggish.

Lovely voice and musically very sweet.

Dancing Queen, Money Money Money, and Fernando are all certified bops, and I really enjoyed That's Me. I think ABBA production style feels a bit weird on the rock and country inspired tracks, but everything on the album is rock solid.

It's the best of the three Dylan albums I've listened to. Unfortunately he still can't sing. Also while some of these songs were more musically interesting, a few followed the exact same structure of one or two lines then repeating the title or theme of the song.

Very fun, those first four songs are an incredible stretch. Got a bit samey as the album went on.

The faux blues sound was pretty alright, but this vocalist was just not doing it for me. Not a fan of half rapping/half singing unless you can actually rap or sing.

Very good. CCR really helps me appreciate this type of rock.

It's alright, solid grunge but nothing groundbreaking

I was surprised by how much I liked this one! Callahan's voice is very soothing, and the whole album feels very honest.

So musically diverse while still feeling like one album. Just so full of funk and soul.

Production on this is crisp. This definitely helped me understand Elvis more than his debut album.

Fine. Similar to most of the other punk albums I've heard so far.

I don't mind the repetitive nature of EDM when I'm dancing, but when I'm just listening to an album straight through it gets a bit boring. Very danceable tracks for the most part, and "Damaged People" while not very lyrically deep, was oddly quite earnest.

Crescent Noon and Another Song are interesting but everything else is just sorta fine. Karen has a lovely voice though.

Well it's what I expect from a psych rock album.

All of the songs are very well constructed (which I guess makes sense since this is a supergroup) and the harmonies are done well.

Very interesting experience. It's definitely not tango but it was new. I appreciate the technical skill on display.

The fiddle interludes were odd. A lot of poppy songs in this album too.

I remember liking this album a lot more. It's till good, but Thom Yorke's lack of enunciation really made the whole thing drag. These compositions bang though.

Quite imaginative while still being pretty grounded most of the time. Not a fan of the sparser tracks since Bjork's voice can't sustain a song on its own.

They're very talented, but I was kinda out of it.

I got pretty bored with this one after a while. Acid rock just does not excite me. Very funny to hear a song dissing LBJ though lol.

Pretty cool honestly

S'alright

I love how weird it was while still feeling like jazz music.

It's good jazz, it just isn't that thrilling

Good, but way more downtempo than I typically like. I'm also not a fan of the mumbly vocals.

I've heard "Let's Stay Together" a million times and it still just absolutely warms my heart. I could live in this sound forever.

Smooth like butter

Pleasant but very samey

I'm usually not a big fan of psych rock but this was good! Very interesting and weird at time. Loved the keyboard throughout.

Very moody. Not my type of music but not awful.

Super interesting work.

Mellow and sweet

The lead singer's voice is unpleasant to listen to. Musically quite proggy. Not my vibe.

Got kinda weird as the album went on but it was a good kind of weird for the most part.

I love you weird British band.

I liked it but I didn't love it. I'm not a huge fan of vibey, sit-down-and-contemplate-life music and unfortunately that's a lot of Radiohead's songs. Great production though.

Sometimes I forget that The Beatles were the granddaddies of the boyband structure. This album reminded me.

Did "G**** Woman" need to be 11 min long? The groove was good but not that good. I appreciate the experimentation but in ended up in the uncanny valley of jazz. Points for the vibraphone.

I don't care if it's cheesy, it's fun! Movin' Out is an absolute banger

Really useful in informing my understanding of punk. The lyrics and vocal style show that the band isn't taking itself themselves too seriously but they still have something to say. Not a huge fan of the nasally singing but it does make sense in context. Fun to jam to!

It's very theatrical which I like, but it seems to take itself too seriously.

Very much danceable.

Not sure why this was classified as britpop. Very fun!

I mean it's fine. The beats were well constructed.

Listening to this album really helped me understand "Every Breath You Take". Like, the obsessive stalker song makes sense on an album with tracks like "Murder by Numbers" (which I liked) and "Mother" (which I didn't). "King of Pain" is fantastic. I enjoyed the whole thing a lot.

Very very good. I'm 99% sure that this album was a direct influence to other bands that I like.

Forgot how much I like Stairway to Heaven. The songs that hit hit hard, but the other ones are a little clunky. Very good time though.

I don't mind sweeter songs (and I outright like You Are the Sunshine of my Life), but the best song on here is Superstition and nothing else comes close.

Best live album I've gotten so far. BB King knows how to command a crowd and the audience was so lively throughout the whole thing. It's a high 4, but points taken off for the lackluster closer and how same-y the songs were in subject matter.

Solid. I liked the later tracks the most though that was probably because they were rock leaning. Down-tempo folk songs rarely do it for me. "Man Needs A Maid" gets a special shout out for being the song I have the most mixed feelings about. I think I get was he was going for (Young doesn't literally think that women belong in the kitchen, he's just sad that he's without his lady) but unfortunately the sentiment reminds me of my (not very capable) exes. Weird mixing in the back half of that track.

Absolutely incredible musical storytelling! I wish I spoke Hindi and I kinda want to watch the movie that this is from now. I wish there were more soundtracks in this list.

Just as weird and funky as I hoped. OutKast is great at being light and comedic as well as getting deeper emotionally. Bit too long for me and it's always awkward listening to male rappers describe sex for some reason.

It was pretty alright. The polished faux funk of it all made it fade into the background.

Weird. Points for emotional expression.

Mix of solid ambient and dance electronica. Pretty good.