1001 Albums Summary

Good

I’ve never been a massive fan of the late 80s new wave since pop. And Depeche Mode is unique. It’s defining trait is a more avant-garde artistic version of the style of music. The dark voice, while cool, tends to fade in the background and I have a hard time discerning songs from one another. However, as an example of the style of music, this album was pretty Correct.

I split Beatles into two camps - 50s/60s pop music and odd, experimental 60s/70s music. I think this one splits the difference. Songs with substance but also easy to listen to

Good

Not my "Jam" but it's clean and well orchestrated

Meh

I honestly loved this one. You can hear a lot of Elliott Smith influences, especially a great example of a more sophisticated version of 60s pop

Nope

I can appreciate it but I had to turn it off because I found it unlistenable while trying to do work. It's too experimental, and half the songs end up in a carcaphony of cymbals an noise.

Classic

Great sounds, great songs. I think this was the first time I was exposed to the concept of "low-fi". I marked this as 4 since I don't think I love listening to the whole album. The basic drum beats get repetitive.

Pretty good find, and good story. I like the references back to the postpunk era that I like a lot.

I went from “oh wow, they put an arbitrary hardcore punk album in this list and it’s nothing special” to “this might be one of the most beautiful punk albums I’ve ever heard.” Orchestrations of horns and strings, musical genres woven in you wouldn’t expect, anthemic punk choruses. This was 5 years after social distortion’s breakout album and the same year of Rancid’s album. I’d put this up there with both.

Great artist great album

Meh

Holy Guitar!

Definitely sounds like early 90s alternative, but this came interestingly early in 1989. Reminds me of a British REM. I like it for a certain type of mood.

Definitely as described.

The Who are good but you can have too much Who

Great guitar but a great performer. Rea rock and roll

Sonic garbage. I remember the feel of this era, but there were bands that could feel anti-vanity and anti-establishment and still be melodic. This feels like they’re making fun of music, not evolving it

Good early 80s punk

This album I’m pretty sure would be amazing at any point in time in the past or in the future. I saw Fatboy Slim perform at the 930 club in Washington DC and it was electric. I had always previously passed off mixing and DJing as less creative as live music creation but oh man, what a show.

Great unique album to have in the background. Makes happy

I didn’t realize how old this album was. I guess because I didn’t know about it until the 90s. Definitely set the stage and tone for what happened with 90s alternative.

I liked the next album better, but this is good-mood ambient techno

This is between the two greatest Radiohead albums, and in retrospect you can hear them bridging their identity from one to the other. This still has the 90s alt-rock snarl of Pablo Honey but they play with rhythms and instruaments that will ultimately get them to Ok Computer, one of my favorite, most innovate albums of all time. I truly love this album and reminds me of my early college year dorms.

Timeless.

Good album but there are better Elvis Costello albums.

English folk ? I guess it’s a thing

I never heard the rest of this album other than the really popular songs. Although I probably won’t listen to this a lot, I understand the talent of Aretha Franklin.

All this English folk makes it feel like I’m living in a Wes Anderson movie

Not sure I need to hear this before I die. I think at the time it was innovative? But hasn’t aged well

Classic

Don’t understand why I needed to listen to this before I die

Really couldn’t get into this. Delicate and emotional soft rock.

Definitely defines an era and genre. If I was to tell someone what good melodic thrash metal was, I’d point to this album and a couple metalloca albums

folk with a snarl

Big No. Is ambient whining a genre now?

Interesting sound coming from 1969. I get that this was the start of a movement. However, the album itself wasn't great. I bet it was awesome to be at the show, but not that great to listen to with only audio.

I can’t not love this album. It summed up our mini generation and a sensibilities we had as 8/9 gradesrs.

One of my personal tops

Great later album. He incorporates more instruments and cleans things up but still remains Dylan

Great jazz singer never heard of her until now

I can’t listen to this album and not get psyched up

Pretty great album. I had heard the arctic monkeys before but never took the time to listen a full album. Grit, angst, with some swaggering vocals and good rhythms.

Love the doors. This isn’t their first album though which I think is more essential

I’m embarrassed to admit this is the first time I’ve ever listened to this full album. I’ve always had a reverence for R.E.M. as the father of something that I loved musically. But couldn’t get past shiny happy people. This is a wonderful album. I’ll listen to it a lot. Aside from the big songs There’s a couple gems that I’ll probably play on Repeat before I put this down.

Janis Joplin was amazing.

Good, but didn’t blow my mind

One of my all time favorite albums.

Not worth listening to

Underappreciated, timeless album. I think this would get significant airtime today and feel just as progressive.

Really liked his. Clean listenable blues

Not for me

Their most mature and best album

Not my thing

Great era, great songwriting, unique voice

Open your mouth and sing. Stop trying to sound cool

Not sure why I needed to hear that

Beatles are pretty good

I think I like Elvis

Not for me

I get it. There’s super passion here.

Don’t hate it but not my favorite era of music

The story of this album in this band is really interesting, but I don’t think the album itself is very good

Love the band but not this slbum

Why

There was a time that I’d be really into this. I think a part of me still is, but I’d have to be in the right mood.

If I ever wanted to play a Bollywood album, I might choose this one, but I probably won’t ever want to play a Bollywood album

Solid jazz album, the songs at the end, though get a little off for me. But I wouldn’t mind listening to one side of this.

2 stars because of the drummer and guitarist. They both sounded amazing, only to be bizarrely interrupted and marginalized by an odd sounding meandering nonsensical wind instrument(sax?) and vocalist. Another example on this list of a promising, but unfinished project

This is why people hate music critics

Nope

This is a great album, the only reason I didn’t read it a five is I’m not personally going to listen to it very much. I’ve known Blondie, but after listening closely to the illustration of the guitar work, it’s really really good. I also can see her influence on newer female rock stars. A couple of the songs could have been Gwen Stefani/no doubt songs.

One of my favorite albums ever

YES

The worst

Perfect background album for a 1980s party