1001 Albums Summary

Increibly strong debut album. Less consistently solid that the two albums to follow, but still packed with strong pop-rock compositions. I bought this the first time I saw it in a record store almost 45 years ago and never regretted it.

The pivot point for the entire rock movement, a whole catalog of prototypes for a new way to make music.

The synth music sounds very mechanical at first, but the delivery and the messaging are all human. And of course Cars is a legend of the dance floor.

It's an acquired taste, I guess. There are very long slow passages. This is not mainstream listening.

An important pioneering album in getting some lasting good out of the violent eruption of punk, this album (unlike works like Patti Smith's Horses) stands as a jangly artifact and not a timeless artwork.

Same old schlock from rock and roll pretenders.

Personally I think Hendrix is overrated, but the album is historically important.

A very well crafted album -- maybe too much so. This album, containing only seven songs, was released right at the cusp of a new age in music, where shorter songs were valued over eight-minute ego trips. Case in point: Their next album was Gaucho, another seven songs, a full three years later. Aja was released about the same time as Elvis Costello's My Aim is True. By the time Gaucho was released, Costello had released around forty songs, each a mini-masterpiece. TL/dr: Aja was well-crafted, but that's about all.

One of the most solid rock albums of the Eighties. Contains the wonderful Walk of Life and the title track, plus the mega-hit Money for Nothing..

One of the three best classic rock albums ever. Solid high quality all the way through, not a speck of cereal.

Historically important, empirically crap.

Jazz

The finest distillation of laste 60s rock moving into a new decade.

The worst kind of 70s pop-slop from someone with shallow rock cred.

The height of commercially accessible 70s rock.

Dylan returns to form after a 10 year slump.

I expected better from Dave Grohl. Such lifeless yacht-rock pap.

A nice album that doesn't quite stand the test of time. The love-as-war shtick gets a little bogged down -- but Accidents Will Happen remains a gem, and the original album including a bonus single with a slower, piano-backed version of the song. One of the band's influences was Abba's Arrival album, as you can tell from the brightness of the sound, and the impeccable melodies.