1001 Albums Summary

ACK, ACK, ACK, ACK, ACK! 3/5. Super catchy songs all throughout. I don’t usually enjoy such piano heavy albums, but it’s to be expected here. Standout: Vienna

Corgan’s voice has always been a huge hindrance for me as I’ve attempted to enjoy this band. Despite this, 1979 has always been one of my favorite 90’s songs so I at least wanted to listen that far. It was rough. I give this one 2 out of 5 stars, and that’s solely because of 1979.

Not my cup of tea, but I can definitely understand why it was/is so influential for the genre. Had I been driving while listening to this album I would’ve easily gotten a speeding ticket.

Short and sweet with a nice mix of fun, upbeat songs and slower ballads. Let the Good Times Roll and Jump Into the Fire were my favorites. Coconut gets a ton of hate and has a reputation for being a bit of a meme. Is it repetitive? Absolutely, and on top of that there’s only a single chord in the whole song, but the way that it slowly builds as the song progresses is endlessly entertaining to me.

Smooth and sexy from start to finish, but it felt like there was really only one tempo. The bass lines are great, as well as the sax. Clear standouts to me are When Am I Going to Make a Living and Cherry Pie.

I narrowed the track list down to 12 songs because there’s no way I was gonna listen to this for three hours. I’d have difficulty doing that for my favorite bands. I chose songs based on how interesting the song titles were to me, and I enjoyed it! It goes without saying, her voice is amazing. The band was great too!

I’m in the tiny percentage of people who can’t stand Janis Joplin’s voice. It’s never impressed me, and more often than not it irritates me. The band on this album was exactly fine, nothing to write home about. My favorite on this one was Buried Alive In the Blues for obvious reasons. I’m giving it 3/5 because I’m positive there are albums on this list I’ll dislike more.

As a Gorillaz fan who knows next to nothing about Britpop outside of a handful of Oasis songs, I was excited to check this out. It didn’t disappoint! Catchy songs all over the place, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out I already knew a couple. Standouts: Bank Holiday, London Loves

Some great songs on this one, and Victoria is such an awesome way to begin an album. Yes Sir, No Sir is so damn catchy, I couldn’t get it out of my head for hours afterwards. Some Mother’s Son and Shangri-La are a couple others that really stood out to me. I’ve always been told that The Kinks were just as good if not better than The Beatles and while i cannot definitively say I believe that or not, I’m excited to dig deeper

I’m really familiar with the singles on this album, but I’ve been meaning to listen to the whole thing for seemingly decades, and I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. Everybody Wants to Rule the World just might be the best song of the 1980’s, but I particularly love the way the last four songs on the album fade into one another and share similar motifs. Of all the albums I’ve gotten up to this point this by far the one that excited me to get.

ZZ Top was created in a lab to write songs for your stepdad. When it comes to their albums it’s easy to predict what you’re gonna get: white people blues rock about having sex with beautiful women. All of the music is performed well, and occasionally the songs are good! I wasn’t psyched about this one, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected, and that might be because I found it so easy to tune out. Until one of them began singing about 69ing.

I expect someone paid big money to have this album included. I’ll give it one star because at least they knew how to play instruments, and I give myself five stars for finishing the whole thing.

I wasn’t in love with the instrumentation, a lot of it was very plain. However, I loved her voice, and each song was so well written. I feel like this is the kind of album I’ll love more upon release each listen. My favorites were California, This Flight Tonight, River, and The Last Time I Saw Richard.

This album has some excellent guitar parts, and Taylor’s voice was pleasing to listen to. The more blues focused songs were a little weird to me, but overall it wasn’t bad.

Of all the 80’s albums, this is definitely one of them. There really isn’t much to write home about here, it’s inoffensive, but I feel like it just misses the mark.

This isn’t the first time I’ve tried delving into The Smiths but unless they’ve got other albums on this list it’s likely my last. I wasn’t impressed by much here, but I guess it’s cool that so many people love it.

These boys sure do love reverb! I might’ve been in a poor headspace when I listened to this album, but I kept finding myself getting bored and distracted. If I had heard this album in high school I would’ve either loved it or pretended to in order to impress some hipster girl.

If we’re not counting the three hour Etta James album I narrowed down to roughly 41 minutes, this is the first album on the list I didn’t finish. I made all the way to track 8 before I tapped out because it’s all just the same format: One dude chooses a preset on his drum machine, the other dude finds 2 chords to strum, and the vocalist layers nonsense on top of nonsense. They add as much reverb as possible and boom, you’ve got this album. I could’ve vibes with 2-3 songs layering the vocals like this during the last chorus or something but every song? No thanks. Perhaps if one of the fellas took over background vocals just to add some tonal difference it would’ve worked better. I don’t know. I’m not sure who this is for, but I know it ain’t me.

I had a good time with this one! The music is pretty typical 90’s Americana, and the lyrics were just fine. I enjoyed the more political songs, you could’ve told me they were written yesterday and I would’ve believed you. My favorite song might be the one where he fucks a ghost.

This album is a bit long in my opinion, I think 3-5 songs could’ve easily been trimmed. It’s easy to forget how inspired by blues music the Stones are if your knowledge of them extend only to their radio hits. I enjoyed quite a few songs, but I kept finding myself tuning out from time to time.

This album has everything that I love about Prog, and none of the things I hate about Prog.

5/5 every song on this one is fantastic, any time someone tells me they don’t like country I point them in this direction.

I’ve always enjoyed Neil’s songwriting, though I’ve never listened to a full album before and I’m not sure a live album counts. I enjoyed this, and I'm aware he’s got other albums on this list so I look forward to listening when they come up.

I enjoyed only two tracks on this album and they sit pretty far apart in the sequence. They also happen to be the only two songs with any noticeable percussion. I feel like more percussion would have been a nice distraction from Rufus singing primarily in whole notes.

I had assumed this album would be similar to the Cocteau Twins I listened to previously, and in many ways it was, but I enjoyed this one much more. I feel like the songs here felt more intentional and while it also struggled to keep me fully engaged with its all-the-sameness, there were some songs I really enjoyed.

I’m in the minority of people who just aren’t impressed by Queen. It’s undeniable that Freddie is one of the best vocalists of all time, and the rest are decent players as well, and at one point I did consider myself a Queen fan. I don’t really know what happened, maybe I’ve just been inundated by their biggest hits for too long that I’m turned off by the rest of it. This album was exactly fine in my opinion. My favorite song of theirs has always been Killer Queen, so for me that was the peak of this album.

I’m a fan of quite a few REM songs but I’ve never listened to a whole album before, and what a great place to start. I really enjoyed this one, and it’s hard to believe it was their first album.

As far as songwriting goes, it doesn’t get much better than this.

This is the second Joni Mitchell album I’ve been given in the last month. I’m not complaining though, I just think it’s a strange coincidence. Her albums are pretty far away from what I’d choose to listen to normally, but they just seem to work for me. I had more fun with this one than Blue!

I wasn’t psyched to be getting an Interview Elvis album, especially one from so late in his career but I was pleasantly surprised by track one. Unfortunately, it was mostly downhill from there until In the Ghetto and Suspicious Minds. Overall I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it.

I was pretty underwhelmed with this one perhaps because I was given Bridge Over Troubled Water earlier this week.

Of all of the needless versions of Summertime Blues this one was the worst I’ve heard, and unfortunately it was the highlight of this one for me.

I had more fun with this one than Sheer Heart Attack, but I still just don’t like Queen. If I never hear Bohemian Rhapsody it’ll be too soon.

This is one of the first albums I discovered when I was in my early teens just getting into music, and it still holds up.

This was super listenable 60’s pop that didn’t immediately strike me as just a Beatles clone, but ultimately this album is mostly forgettable.

This is what Country music should sound like. I know that genres have to change and grow as time passes, but a majority of what we’ve got today simply isn’t Country. My only complaint is that it was too short.

One star for Michael, three stars for Quincy.

This was a great soundtrack while I washed dishes! I’m glad I listened to it, but ultimately it’s not for me.

I’m pretty familiar with Pretenders’ biggest singles, but this is the first time I’ve listened to a whole album and I really enjoyed it. Brass in Pocket is obviously a classic, but I also really enjoyed Precious, Space Invader, and Private Life. I’ve never enjoyed Tattooed Live Boys for some reason, but I like it more now than I did yesterday!

This is the most brown album I’ve heard on this list so far, and I mean that in the best way possible. IYKYK. Several of these tracks went straight to my playlist immediately, I was pleasantly surprised and I’ll be digging further into their whole discography soon.

This album was definitely better than Heart and Bone, but after Papa Hobo it starts to get a little boring. Run That Body Down, Me and Julio, and Peace Like a River were the highlights for me. I was about to give it three stars, but I’m giving it one more because I’m a sucker for well placed whistle solos.

This one was really cool, but it could’ve been shorter, and I feel like the beats could’ve been more varied.

This was not what I was expecting from a Beck album and it wasn’t bad, but from start to finish the vibes/sound didn’t change much. I feel like it’s a three for now, but it might grow on me with future listens.

I didn’t want to like this album because of the new Kanye, but unfortunately the old Kanye made a good album.

While i didn’t hate this album, none of these songs really held my attention. In fact, I forgot I had listened to it within two hours after the last track ended.

This album is definitely very dated, but it was upbeat and energetic so its age didn’t hinder my enjoyment. It’s not typically what I’d listen to, but that’s the entire reason I started this list in the first place.

I’m pretty familiar with U2 but despite that this is my first time listening to a full album. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.

I thought this was a really fun album, with a few weird moments. I’m a big Prince fan and I think he wrote incredible songs but I don’t think he ever released a truly flawless album. The highlights for me were the title track and It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

Boilerplate 60’s music. I feel like I would have liked it more if they had spent 10-15 more minutes working out the melodies for each song. I’d be giving it three stars if not for 2-4-2 Fox Trot, which might be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard.

A bit of a long album but it didn’t feel that way because it was so playful and fun. I love De La Soul and I love Tribe so this album is always a treat to listen to.

This is a foundational album for me and my taste in music. Easy 5/5.

This is another one that I don’t really feel belongs on the list, and the final track being 9 minutes long is a bit excessive. The only highlight for me was hearing the chorus to Babylon and thinking, “ Oh yeah, I remember hearing this all the time when I was eight.”

I was familiar with War before this, but only a few songs. I was not expecting to be blown away like I was! 10/10.

This album is great, and so is Blondie. I wish I had been around to see them live in this era!

This is my favorite album of all time. It always has been and it probably always will be. It’s album 55 for me so I’m hopeful this list hasn’t peaked for me so soon.

The Eagles are an interesting band to me because when I listen to them I oscillate between enjoyment and dissatisfaction, and it seems to happen every other track.

I didn’t hate any of it, but it all sounding like the exact same song kept me from liking any of it.

I distinctly remember when all of the hipsters in my high school discovered this album and deified Sufjan for about a week. He’s got a good voice and I definitely understand how some people really enjoy this album, but around track 10 I started to get the feeling I’ve heard all there was to hear with this one and I was ready to tap out. 1089 albums is such a huge undertaking, and I’m trying to keep my DNFs under 10. I got really close to skipping halfway through but I managed to finish.

Everyone else’s review for this one had me prepared for something truly awful, and this wasn’t that. I didn’t really like it and I don’t think it belongs on this list, but I was expecting worse.

Wow, what a weird album to be included. If you have me an afternoon I think I could get pretty close to naming 1001 other albums that should be on this list that aren’t. Also, I don’t pay for YouTube so getting an ad between every song is kind of a pain. That’s not Dagmar’s fault, but having 1:30 long songs all over this album is. If you can make it passed Mother Beimleim I salute you. DNF.

Four stars to the music for sure! -3 stars for the subject matter. Every time I went to check the translations I was reminded how gross it is. I might have let it slide if one track had been about a 15 year old girl, it was a different time, and he’s French. But the whole album? Too far.

I think I like this one more than The Queen is Dead, but not by much. I just don’t think I’ll ever be able to enjoy Morrissey’s voice.

This album is really fun 80’s pop, and definitely earns its place on this list as it is one of the best albums the decade had to offer.

I knew this would be a fun album and Missy didn’t disappoint.

I got really into the doors for about two weeks when I was 14 so I was alright with this one. My only complaint is that I wish it were sequenced better because the middle of the album really drags.

I’m a huge fan of the Police and Stewart Copeland in particular. I get the point behind the song Mother, and I like weird shit, but that song is just not good. One of my favorite live performances ever is the Police playing Wrapped Around Your Finger on their reunion tour. If you haven’t seen it you should definitely check it out.

This album exactly fine. The instrumentation was great and the vocals were good, but as a whole it was pretty forgettable.

Going into this album I was only aware of the singles, but I really love those songs so I knew it’d be an amazing album. It did not disappoint!

I only knew a couple of these songs before listening, but this whole album blew me away. If I’m being honest this album is probably a 4, but as someone who hates 98% of Skynyrd’s catalogue and general vibe, it’s a 5.

I love the grooves on this album, and the lyrics are still relevant today. Tom Morello is a fantastic and innovative guitar player, but sometimes his weird noises tend to irritate me.

The only review this album needs was written May 01 2021. I have nothing else to add!

AC/DC has always been a weird one for me. I’ve criticized them in the past, and I’ve also defended them from those same criticisms. Lyrically the songs aren’t great, and the music is pretty basic but the way they come together is undeniably badass. I’ll always prefer the Bon Scott era, but holy shit what a perfect album to release following that tremendous loss. I’ll never go out of my way to put this one on, and when songs from this album come on the radio I change the station 90% of the time, but I still recognize what an achievement this album is, not only for the band but for stepdads all over the world. I was gonna give it 3 stars, but Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution as a closer earns it 4.

Should’ve been called Bore. In a way it’s inspiring because as a musician sometime I wonder if my songs are dumb. This gives me the confidence to just hit record on some random bullshit I come up with and someone out there will think it’s genius. I feel like the only reason it’s on this list is because of the circumstances leading up to its recording, and not because it’s worth listening to.

I’ve always enjoyed Beastie Boys in small doses, and I always tend to lose patience with this one as soon as I hit Brass Monkey. It’d probably get 5/5 for me if it ended there.

I had never even heard of this band before today and I wasn’t excited to see a folk rock album from the 60’s. This album blew me away more than once. The vocalist was incredible, and the band was great too. I was not expecting this album to groove in any way and I’m so happy to have been proven wrong.

I’m not the biggest fan of folk music but I enjoy a handful of Dylan songs that came after this album. I found the first half of this album to be kind of boring, but I enjoyed the second half much better.

This album was fine, I feel like I would’ve loved it when I was younger, but ultimately I found it pretty forgettable.

This album is one of my wife’s favorites so I hear it around the house from time to time, but this is the first time I’ve actually listened from start to finish. From start to finish this is an incredible album, from the music to the lyrics. It’s flawless in my opinion.

My first Beatles album on the list! It’s a 4/5 for me, not my favorite of theirs but still great nonetheless.

I wasn’t excited for this one after reading other reviews, and after the first track of thought to myself, “Hey, that wasn’t that bad at all! A little weird, but I kinda like weird songs.” By the halfway mark I was checking Wikipedia to see if anything from this album was used at Guantanamo to torture prisoners.

Meh. I liked it better than Fifth Dimension at least.

It’s not a terrible album, but I wasn't really into it. I think Jagger is wrong on this one.

The music is undoubtedly amazing, but I’ve always grown tired of Gillan’s nearly constant wailing.

I was psyched to see the collaborations on this one, but i didn’t enjoy any of them nearly as much as the last three songs.

I didn’t mind this one at all, it’s got a cool vibe. I like this one much more than Idlewild.

I didn’t love or hate this, it’s a pretty forgettable 60’s cover album. I’m aware that Dusty has another album on the list, and I expect I’ll like that one better.

Lennon is my least favorite Beatle, and I was expecting something way more pretentious. The album was better than I had anticipated, and i can appreciate that he was being so honest and personal with this one.

I was a huge fan of Punk when I was as a teenager and I probably would have loved this album if I heard it at the time. These days I can appreciate the music, but Darby’s voice is a little annoying to me.

I liked the samples for the most part and LL has a good flow, but his lyrics either didn’t age well or weren’t good in the first place.

If this list has taught me anything it’s that I don’t like the 60’s nearly as much as I thought I did. The Beatles are an obvious outlier, but I’m kinda suprised by how much I’ve enjoyed the two Kinks albums I’ve gotten. My first Kinks album was Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, which I gave a 4/5, but I think I like this one more.

I knew these guys are incredibly talented before going into this, and I love bands who jam but this was almost too much jam for me.

My first Bowie album on the list, and it’s one of the few Bowie albums I haven’t listened to previously. This one was fine in my opinion, but far from my favorite of his.

I’ve never listened to a Leonard Cohen album before this, but I was aware of his general vibe beforehand. I probably won’t seek this one out for my own personal enjoyment, but I found it to be hauntingly beautiful and I’m looking forward to hearing his other albums on this list.

I wasn’t sure what to expect, and after having listened to it I’m not sure how I feel about it. It was cool to experience music wildly different from what I’m used to, but I kept getting lost in the repetition which isn’t uncommon, yet I can usually fall back on lyrics to keep me interested. That wasn’t the case for this particular album.

The songs were mostly fine, and luckily they’re all short so if you aren’t liking one just wait a minute and it’ll likely be over.

Call me crazy but I believe this guy wanted to fuck a porpoise. I wasn’t in love with this album, but it’s still better than anything I’ve heard from The Byrds so far.

I’ve successfully avoided becoming a Bob Dylan guy for nearly 34 years, and I think this album is changing me, so that’s pretty cool.

This was better than I expected to be, this was just a solid modern pop album.

I wish we could give half stars because this is a very strong 4.5 for me. I’m rounding up to 5 stars because I love a lot of these songs, but they could’ve trimmed the fat a little especially on disc two. I understand they probably wouldn’t have had enough material for a double album at that point, but I think the outcome would’ve been better.

I listen to most of these albums at work and this is the first one that noticeably increased my productivity. I’ll definitely listen to this again soon. 5/5.

I was immediately caught off guard by how different his voice sounds here compared to the other Cohen album I’ve listened to, and I think I prefer that one. Obviously the songwriting is great, but the sparse instrumentals and the repetitive strum patterns made it hard to discern one song from another.

I wasn’t a fan of the last Deep Purple album I got, I found Gillan’s shrieking unpleasant. Thankfully he kept it to a minimum on this album.

All in all this is a solid album, but I wish there were more songs with as much energy as Freedom.

I enjoy quite a few Springsteen songs, but I haven’t heard any from this album. It was just okay for me, but I imagine if I dug into his history a little bit I’d appreciate this one more.

I found this album super repetitive. I liked the first track, but it everything just sort of blended together after that.

I enjoyed this and it put me in the mood to move, but I don’t think I’ll end up listening to it again.

I heard these guys on NPR once in 2012 and thought what I had heard was pretty cool. This album had some good moments, but I was disappointed that it wasn’t as good as what would come later from the band.

I was gonna give this two stars simply because this is my dad’s favorite album, but after listening to it I feel like it would’ve earned two stars on its own. I’ve also found the title track cringy my entire life so that doesn’t help. I’m so happy this is Bad Company’s only album on the list.

This wasn’t bad, it was just a little too noodly for me.

When I started this I gave myself a ten skip limit, and I believe I’ve only used one so far. Well this year for Christmas I decided to gift myself one additional skip which I’ll be using right now! Seriously, it’s not even about Phil Spector being a murderer. That obviously sucks, I just really hate Christmas music. I’m still giving star ratings, based on how I think I’d like the albums I skip. I know there is a button to click specifically for albums we didn’t listen to, but I’m not using it.

This was a fun album from start to finish and I had no problem staying engaged despite the album’s length. I’d have to listen again to really know how it works as a concept album, but I have a feeling I’ll enjoy it more the second time. I worked at a Ruby Tuesday for 4 years in the early 2010’s and Tightrope was apart of the restaurant’s shuffling playlist the whole time. I’ve heard that song 100’s of times and always thought it was pretty cool though I never knew who/what it was. Hearing it again today after so long was unexpectedly wonderful!

I feel somewhat disappointed by this one, I liked The Killing Moon and Silver before today and I was hoping the rest of the album would be at least as good.

For me this album was just fine, I expected to enjoy it better than I did.

Every time I listen to this album I forget about Oh Daddy. I don’t enjoy that song, but the rest of this album more than make up for it. Easy 5/5.

I liked each of these songs up until the bass solos. They weren’t poorly played, I just feel like the upright bass sounds bad on its own.

I know ABBA to be a great band, but this album fell flat for me. None of these songs were bad, they none of them stood out to me.

I’m still not in love with her voice, but I actually enjoyed this more than Pearl.

I’ve been getting into Ween lately and this album sounds really similar to them and I wasn’t expecting it.

I’ve already listened to Kanye for this list once, but I hadn’t heard that one before. This one I’ve heard before so I can’t in good conscience give Ye any more money from streaming. This album deserves 5/5, Kanye deserves 1/5, so I’m gonna say 3/5.

First time listening to Mudhoney and it’s so clear how much Kurt loved these guys. Initially I only listened to the original 6 song tracklist, but after those I listened to the the rest of the deluxe edition.

Talking Heads is one of my favorite bands of all time, and I’m excited they’ve got some albums on this list. That being said, I’d swap this one with Speaking in Tongues. I like this album, it’s just a weaker one in their discography for me.

I’ve always heard of this band but I never knew what they sounded like until today. The first few songs really caught my attention, but that began to fade as the album went on.

I almost enjoyed the few moments of this album that sounded like music.

In high school I had a friend who was obsessed with this band, so after while I became really familiar with their first 3-4 albums. I think if I had heard this album for the first time today I wouldn’t have liked it, but the nostalgia makes it a solid 3/5.

I don’t know how many funk albums are on this list, but I do know that that number isn’t big enough. I knew this would be great and I wasn’t wrong, this is a solid 4/5 album.

This was better than I expected it to be, though I admit I only listened to the original tracks. I’ll definitely listen again soon.

This may be the best hip-hop album, and one of the best debut albums of all time. I’ve listened to this album so much in my life and it never gets old.

This is a super powerful album that I had only heard once before. This is an easy 5/5 despite the fact that I wasn’t crazy about any of the guest vocalists.

Out of curiosity I looked through the 1 and 2 star reviews and I was not surprised that I had stumbled upon a small collection of just the dumbest idiots on the internet. This is easily a 5 star album just for having I Wish and Sir Duke, but the rest of the songs are incredible too.

I’ve known and liked Stop! and Been Caught Stealing most of my life but I’ve never felt a strong urge to listen to this album. I was blown away particularly by the back half of this album, and I’m definitely going to revisit this one soon.

Albums like this are the reason why I started this project, I love as pleasantly surprised by this one.

I enjoy a handful of songs from Dire Straits, but it always surprises me how quickly this album loses steam after Walk of Life.

I’m torn on this album because on one hand there are some songs I really like, but everything else is just super forgettable. 3/5.

I definitely enjoyed Parklife more. This one had some great moments, but every song had something that was annoying to me. It’s hard to believe this is the same guy who’d go on to write Demon Days.

I’ve always been intrigued by the banana sticker, but I’ve never actually heard any of these songs. Anywhere. Ever. One of the most influential albums of all time and I’ve never heard any of these songs anywhere? I think this is because this music isn’t very good, but the banana sticker fucking rules. Great idea, Andy!

This is my second Stan Getz album in four days, and this one is just as pleasant. I think I liked Getz/Gilberto more simply because this one was purely instrumental and I liked having the vocals on G/G.

Thankfully this one was really short, and I’m so happy I only have to sit through one more of their albums for this list.

Of all the forgettable albums I’ll listen to for this list, I hope I forget this one the most.

Huh, turns out I’m a CSN&Y guy.

Why?

This wasn’t my favorite, but I enjoyed it more than quite a few 60’s albums I’ve gotten so far.

I was only familiar with a few of their hits after this point so I wasn’t sure what to expect from their first album. I was pleasantly surprised!

A solid 4/5. I’ve always liked this album, but it doesn’t work for me nearly as much as the others on this list.

As smooth as it is forgettable. I think Steve Winwood has written some good songs, but I think all of these missed the mark.

For as long as I can remember I’ve fucking hated Bittersweet Symphony, it’s quite possibly my least favorite song of all time. Based on this I just assumed I’d hate the rest of the album and I was absolutely correct. In fact, I hate these guys so much that tomorrow’s album is gonna be an automatic 5/5 simply because it’s not The Verve.

Yesterday’s album was Urban Hymns by The Verve, and I hated it so much that I decided that today’s album would automatically be a 5/5 no matter what. Fortunately, I would’ve given this one a 5/5 anyway because Tracy Chapman is incredible.

I’m not crazy about the song Jesus, but that’s not to say it’s a bad song, I just don’t love Jesus. Every other song here was great!

Of all of the albums released in 1998 this one sounds the most like 1998.

I first heard this album when I was 14 and it changed my life. I thank the Ramones, and I thank Hilly Kristal for giving them a place to play. Getting into this band got me into the rest of the CBGB regulars, and totally changed the way my brain processes music. People complain about how these songs all sound the same, but really, who else could take four power chords and make one of the most influential albums of all time? Nobody.

Overall this wasn’t a bad album, I just wish there was at least one song half as good as Lovefool.

I almost gave up several times during this needlessly long album, but I powered through because it feels good to finish an album as challenging as this. That unfortunately was not the case here. My heart is saying one star but I’m in a good mood this morning, so two it is!

This is objectively great, but it doesn’t really move me. I think I like Jazz for what it is, but I don’t think it’s a genre that’s gonna grow on me.

I might be exaggerating, but this is the coolest shit of all time.

A creepy, weird, awesome concept album. I’ve always been intrigued by Nick Cave, but this was my first time listening.

I love Neil and i had a good time with this one, but I don’t think it belongs on the list.

Much like the last Neil Young album I reviewed, I love this guy, but there are much better Bowie albums on this list.

I really enjoyed quite a few of these songs! It sounds like every other album from the 60’s but most of them don’t have songs as good as these.

This was fantastic. I’ve only got 3 Neil albums left after this and I’ll be sad once there aren’t any more to look forward to.

I mean, come on.

I liked this more than the Banana album, but I feel like the worst part of this Lou Reed album is actually Lou Reed.

This album is short and sweet, and I thought each song was great. 5/5

I used to be a big fan of Eminem, but yeah this one didn’t age well.

I’m not typically a fan of the genre, but this album was great! When I saw the album title I was worried that it’d be a long album, but in the end I kind of wish it had a few more tracks.

I understand having Bonnie Raitt on this list, I just don’t think this is the album.

Another rock album from the 60’s but this one didn’t bother me as much as most of the others. I had no idea what the fuck was making the weird sounds I kept hearing, and never in a million years would I have guessed that it was an electric jug. It was bothering me that I couldn’t figure it out but now that I know I think I like it more.

Moving’ on Up was the only Primal Scream song I was familiar with until today, and I really love that song. This album wasn’t like that at all, but I was pleasantly surprised nonetheless.

The may be the most horny, yet least sexy album of all time. I didn’t really care for it.

This album isn’t for me, and I’m not convinced that it’s for anyone else either.

Some killer, some filler. I love quite a few Zeppelin songs, scattered across their entire discography, but I don’t think I really enjoy listening to entire albums of theirs. This could’ve easily been a single LP and perhaps I’d be rating it higher.

I loved Attack and Release when it came out so I was psyched when they announced this album would be releasing on my birthday. My friends and I would listen to this constantly while we aimlessly drove around our quiet town. Later that year we saw the band live and it was an incredible show. Soon after that it seemed like these songs were inescapable. I got tired of it pretty quickly, and by the time El Camino came out I decided I had grown tired of these guys. Now that I’m older I’d probably give this album a 3 but listening to it again made me remember being a stupid kid. 5 stars.

I hated The Verve’s other album on this list, why would this one be any different?

This album was excellent. I’ve heard Black Magic Woman a million times, but I’d never heard the instrumental lead-in before and now I want to hear that every time BMW comes on.

Man, I was really not expecting to like this as much as I did. I knew the singles of course, but the other songs were also mostly good!

Queen doing what they do best, making music I don’t really care for.

80’s sad boy music, but not terrible 80’s sad boy music.

This band is brand new to me and I’m honestly surprised I enjoyed this album as much as I did. Perhaps a week ago I would’ve hated this and who knows, maybe tomorrow I’ll hate it. As for now though, I enjoyed it quite a bit!

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking remains one of the coolest songs ever written. The rest of the album was pretty good.

I’ve always enjoyed XTCs sound, but I’d never listened to a full album. This was fine.

What could I say that’s hasn’t already been said. 1 star.

I appreciate the energy but this album is for a very specific type of person that I am not.

Ive heard this album a few times, and every time I listen to it I’m amazed I don’t listen to more Sabbath.

This was much better than Want Two in my opinion. I kinda wish I had gotten this one first.

I watched the documentary having never heard of Sparks. I was absolutely fascinated by the idea that there was such an influential and prolific band that never gets recognition. I enjoyed the documentary but I never actually took the time to listen to an album until this list. With every single track I had an almost immediate feeling like, “Oh no, this song is gonna be terrible.” But every single time a song would end I’d think, “Goddamn that song was awesome.” Every time.

Most bands would kill to have a Greatest Hits album as good as this debut album.

I had high expectations for this one. I wasn’t disappointed; but I wasn’t blown away either.

Metallica reminds me of smoking resin from a gravity bong. Does it get the job done? Certainly. Do I enjoy it? Not particularly. I’m not really a Metal guy, but all my friends in school were. All of them who weren’t good people loved Metallica, and all of those who were good people hated them.

This was fine. Most of it faded into the background, but it had some parts that I thought were cool.

Yeah, this was great and I knew it would be.

Eh, this was fine.

Aside from The Clash I’m not much of an English punk fan.

I liked this more than the Black Album, but not by much.

Ehh this was fine. Sure he rambled a bunch, but I found it kind of endearing.

I’m not a fan of the sexism and homophobia, but ACAB all day.

I was expecting this to be such a bummer that I wasn’t looking forward to listening to it at all, but this was really, really great.

This is the first time I’ve attempted a Radiohead album, and I’m not sure I can stand Thom Yorke’s whole thing.

I knew I’d like it, but I didn’t know I’d love it.

There’s not much depth here, but there’s almost enough attitude and power to make up for it. I was gonna give it 3 stars, but Jailbait earned it 2.

I love The White Stripes, but this album is just okay.

This isn’t for me, and that’s okay!

Album #200. I was raised on country in the 90’s and I remember TLC were one of the first non-country artists I was exposed to. My nostalgia gives this a solid 4.

There’s a lot of weird choices all over this album, and not in a good way. TLDNF

I was expecting to give this a 3 or 4, but it’s actually a 5 for me.

Eh, some of this was cool.

It sounds as though they’re as bored by their music as I am.

This was my first time experience with Miles Davis and I loved it!

The second half was great! The first half was fine, and really enjoy a few of those songs but I’ve got a pretty low tolerance for harmonicas.

My friends in high school had a band that sounded like this but I’m positive none of them were aware of this band. Anyway, this made me weirdly nostalgic though I’ve never heard of them either.

I feel like this album is nearly perfect, my only complaint is that I feel like Q-Tip’s feature was wasted.

Funky as hell, with a good bit of jazz mixed in. This combo can occasionally become annoying.

Patti walked so that so many others could run. I appreciate this album, and I’m sure after a few more listens I’ll want to change my rating to a 5.

I had a rough week and wasn’t emotionally prepared for this one. The last time I heard it was when it was released, and it hits me just as hard now as it did then.

My only complaint is that I couldn’t follow along with translations as I was working at the time, but that’s 100% on me. Despite the language barrier I still really enjoyed this one and I’ll definitely listen to it again.

Damn, I bet their live shows produce such a bad headache. Overall it was just okay.

This whole album sounds definitively 80’s so I was surprised to learn it was recorded so early in that decade. Don’t You Want Me is one of those songs that I’m willing to bet at least 90% of the planet has heard before, and that’s a tremendous achievement, but I wish there was at least one other song on the record as good as that one.

I get the feeling that these guys are the only 80’s band that didn’t at least try doing coke before hitting record. The songs themselves weren’t bad, but they were all monotonous and some were simply too long.

The first time I did shrooms I watched a video of Jimi performing live and it was incredible. However the longer it went on the more frustrated I became because he made it seem so effortless to play guitar. Anyway yeah, this guy is good.

I was only familiar with the first two tracks until today. I really like this one.

I enjoyed this for the most part, but some of the samples got to be a bit irritating.

This sounded to me like four people trying to make a Fleetwood Mac album while Lindsey Buckingham was trying to make a Ween album. Christine was the VIP here in my opinion.

I’ve probably seen Korn live more than any other band despite never listening to an album. In high school all my scumbag friends loved Korn and I’ll never say no to live music. That being said I thought this album was bad. Freak on a Leash is undeniably badass, but All in the Family is where I had to tune out and just let the album exist in the background. Holy fuck what a bad song. I should’ve stopped at Children of the Korn because that was terrible too.

I’m not sure why but I get the vibe that this was made specifically to be listened to by cults.

I’ve got weird nostalgia about this band, but this one was never my favorite.

This one gets better with every listen.

There is something about this dude’s voice that I’ve always loved and I’ve never been able to pinpoint it, and his songs are great too. Overall this was a great album but I feel like a few songs could’ve been shorter.

This was fine, but forgettable.

I love this whole album but the song Marquee Moon is an all time favorite of mine.

I used to love Foo Fighters when I was younger and I’ve heard this album a thousand times, though it’s been awhile. I feel like now that I’m older this album feels so long, and it starts to drag after the first four songs. My favorite Foos song always used to be For All the Cows for some reason and I think that remains true.

I’ve always had a negative opinion on Arcade Fire but I couldn’t tell you why. This album didn’t change this.

I’m glad to see others making the Duran Duran comparisons so I don’t have to. Not a bad album, but mostly forgettable.

Not my favorite Bowie album, but I’m still psyched it’s what I got today.

This was better than I remembered it being.

There’s nothing wrong with this, but it gets a little tedious to listen to.

I’ve never been a fan of Garbage. I’m still not, but I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would.

Remember those “You Wouldn’t Download a Car” anti-piracy ads? This sounds just like that except it’s 49 minutes longer.

Blur album 3/3 for me and while I did enjoy this one the most, I’m glad I’m done listening to them.

I love me some Tom Waits, but I’ll admit some of this was hard to get through. I enjoyed the back half way more than the first half and I’m excited that Tom’s got so many albums on this list.

I enjoyed this way more than the first Cocteau Twins album I listened to.

First Nick Cave album and it’s as good as I thought it’d be. I’ve always liked this dudes vibe but I’ve never listened to a full album before.

Overall this was great, but they really front loaded this one

Goddamn this dude could write a song.

Before I hit play I had wondered why I had never heard of this band before, but I found out soon after I hit play.

This is my second of the three Madonna albums on this list and just based on these alone I don’t understand how she maintained her icon status so long.

I gotta stop reading the other reviews on albums I’ve never heard of because I was dreading this but it wasn’t half bad.

I don’t mind The Who but still I only felt like listening to the original track list and it was fine. I’ve definitely heard a few of the other songs recorded at Leeds and I’m sure eventually I’ll listen to the rest.

Hip Hop with live instruments? Yes please!

Right on the line between Punk and New Wave. I liked it!

I’ve listened to this album 100 times and it never gets old.

Beautiful harmonies for sure, but there isn’t much else here.

I was starting to think I just didn’t really like the Pixies, but this album was fantastic.

I’ll always love NWA because I’ll always hate cops. That being said, Ice Cube is clearly the weakest of the bunch.

Man I just don’t think this band is for me. I tried!

I had a good time with this. It’s a lot like De La Soul but with less interesting samples.

This was my first time listening to John Prine and I’ll definitely do it again soon. This is a really great debut album.

I would never choose to listen to Jazz recreationally but I always enjoy it when I listen to it for list. I don’t think I don’t understand Jazz and probably never will but I really appreciate its existence.

This was great and it made me realize that I need to listen to more reggae.

I feel like I heard Get Free all the time on shitty VH1 and MTV shows in 2002 but I’ve felt the desire to dig deeper. It was way more britpop than I expected so overall I thought it was pretty meh.

My first Stone Roses album. I really enjoyed track 1 but was bored by the rest until Shoot You Down. From there it got better until the end.

This was much more interesting than many of the English speaking albums on this list.

Aside from the hits this one was pretty lackluster.

Cool for two weeks when I was 14.

I’ve enjoyed every Bruce album I’ve gotten so far, but this one is the best so far.

I’ve listened to what feels like 30 different Britpop albums for this list and I finally get my first Oasis album. It was better than most of the others, but I know they’ve got better albums to come.

Goddamn it. I liked this.

This is the kind of shit that makes me wish I knew more music theory. Like, I know it’s genius but aside from sheer technical proficiency I couldn’t tell you why.

Interesting concept, but I didn’t love it.

3/4 Joni albums for me, I’ll be sad once I’m done with her part of this list. Of course the instrumentation was incredible, but it’s not my favorite of hers. I looked back and saw that I wrongfully gave Blue 4 stars so I’m correcting that here.

Obviously 5/5, and yes I’m quite experienced.

A perfectly fine Reggae album although the title track is the only one I’ll remember.

’m no closer to understanding how Jazz works but this is easily the best Jazz album I’ve heard so far.

Her voice isn’t bad I guess, but this was just boring.

A nearly perfect 80’s album, and I wasn’t aware this was their debut!

Brian Ferry is like if David Byrne sang slightly better, but wrote worse songs.

The good news about this album being too long is that you don’t really need to listen to anything after the first track in order to hear all this album has to offer. I understand this is foundational for the genre so I’ll be nice and give it a 3.

I enjoy a fair bit of Reggae and I know Bob is the quintessential artist in the genre but he’s never been my favorite.

This album was just fine though at times I felt as bored as Chilton must have been.

I’m surprised by how much I enjoyed this because I’ve not really been a fan of any Radiohead song I’ve ever heard.

This one blew me away. I usually get on here and bitch about albums with zero percussion, but I didn’t really notice with this one. Everything is Free made me regret every song I illegally downloaded in the early 2000’s.

I wasn’t psyched about The Pogues because I’m generally not a fan of other bands that sound like this, but I was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this album.

This is my first time listening to this album but I feel like I’ve heard 4-5 of these songs before. I enjoyed it!

Second Pogues album in three days. I much preferred the first one though this one has its moments. I’m glad I’ve got no more Pogues in my future!

Break on Through has to be the coolest opening track of a debut album ever. The Doors was the first band I got obsessed with when I began forming my own musical taste as a kid so this album is an automatic 5/5 and perhaps the first 5/5 album I’ve ever heard in my life.

This was great and I think Steve Winwood is pretty underrated as a musician.

For some reason I thought this would be weirder but overall it was just fine!

Overall it was okay though I started to get bored around halfway through.

Obligatory.

Perfect album for a rainy day at home. I feel like under different circumstances I might feel different but today it’s 5/5.

I feel like Britpop is super over-represented on this list.

In my opinion it’s alway 5/5 when Nike Rodgers is involved.

This is the third 5/5 album this week and this one may be the best of the three.

This is one of those albums that gets better every time I hear it.

I was only familiar with a couple Pet Shop Boys songs before this album and I like those songs, so I was expecting better from this one. Not bad, but just okay.

Holy shit this album hit so hard in 7th grade. I haven’t listened to it all the way through since then, but it definitely holds up for me.

I think I’ve given Kanye enough of my attention in this life.

My first experience with Björk and I’m not sure how to feel. I know I’ve got limited information but I’m certain she’s got better albums than this on the list.

There’s something so cool to me about Costello’s songwriting, and if that makes me uncool then so be it.

This was a fun album, I wish I knew understood any of the lyrics.

Hard to tell if I liked this or if I just love Burt Bacharach.

Good, not great. I’ve never really understood the hype.

A lot of great songs and I love Elton John, but this probably could’ve been a better single album.

I enjoyed moments of this album but it was almost too chill for me today. The Twin Peaks comparisons are pretty accurate.

I had never heard of Solomon Burke before today and that’s absolutely wild to me. This album was fantastic and I think he deserves to be more well known.

This is way darker than I’m used to from The Cure but I liked it overall.

If you’ve got a father-in-law then chances are they go crazy over this shit.

This was a well made album but I found it a little boring at times.

This is my first full Sonic Youth album and while I enjoyed it, I feel like they’ve gotta have better albums.

Sly & The Family Stone never fail to raise my spirits. I’ve always loved this album!

Rudimentary to say the least, but this album did so much for the genre.

This one is fine. I’m not the first to say it but these guys definitely get better later into their career.

This one oscillates between fine and great, but it’s got a charm to it that you don’t find on many other albums on this list. Any other day and I’d probably give the is a 3 but I’m feeling generous.

I honestly expected to like this more but it was just okay.

I didn’t know what to expect going into this one. I enjoyed it overall but by the middle of it the songs started to blend together.

Up until now I was only familiar with Collins Genesis and solo Gabriel. I knew these guys used to be prog but I was still surprised by how prog this album is.

Incredible hits, forgettable album tracks. Still a 4/5 for me because these guys were so fucking cool.

Parts of this album sounded like I was trying to play along with a boring punk band but my only instrument is my shitty Casio keyboard from 1999. Better than I was expecting but worse than it could have been.

Not bad, not great.

I used to love punk but I hated Sex Pistols as a teen. Now I love punk and I’m indifferent to Sex Pistols.

With a name like that I was expecting this album to be more interesting.

This shit is always cool for a song or two, then it drives me crazy.

There are some great songs here, but I can’t help that I hate Clapton.

Good shit right here, and proof that live albums can be spectacular.

I’m a relatively new Oasis fan so this was my first time hearing this album in its entirety. The hits are obviously great but the other songs are often just as good.

I’ve never believed Zappa didn’t do drugs.

This is one of my all time favorites.

This wasn’t bad but for me it pales in comparison to the more well known East Coast hip hop from this era.

This is a quirky little album and unfortunately I couldn’t hear much of the narration between each song because I was listening in a loud environment. Perhaps I’ll listen again some day but the songs weren’t good enough for that to happen any time soon.

These guys are undeniably cool as fuck and this album is too.

This would’ve been right up my alley when I was 16 and while I knew who these guys were it was never on my radar. This one blew me away.

If Purple Rain was the only good song on this album it’d still be a 5/5 album for me. Luckily that isn’t the case because this one is incredible.

Knights of Cydonia is one of those songs that’s always made my skin crawl and I’ve always been deterred from these guys because of that. I was prepared to give this a 1 or 2 because I fucking hate that song but I didn’t realize Starlight was these guys, and Supermassive Black Hole isn’t as annoying as I remember.

Not my favorite Bowie album, but Ziggy Stardust was the first song I learned on guitar. 5/5.

It’s been at least a decade since I’ve listened to this album start to finish because it’s easy enough to hear most of these songs on their own in the wild. This one is still as great as it ever was.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Megadeth despite not being in love with the genre and this album is why.

This shit is in my blood.

A lot of this band is just noise. I liked some of the noise this time at least.

If this album were half the length I would probably rate it a little higher.

There’s a few great songs on this album and some that are borderline irritating.

Gil Scott-Heron vibes for sure. I’d never heard of this group, but I’m familiar with Michael Franti. I really enjoyed this one!

I’ve come to believe that pretty much everything Wu-Tang and Wu-Tang affiliated is gonna be cool as fuck and this is no different.

This one was pretty fundamental to me in my youth but as I’ve gotten older I like Dexter’s voice less and less.

Not a fun album by any means, but I enjoy Cohen’s songwriting. Not my favorite album of his but it’s pretty solid.

By far my favorite post-Beatles album.

This wasn’t at all what I had expected. It wasn’t bad but I feel like I’d have to listen to it a few more times for it to really click with me.

Proof that you don’t have to have a good voice to make a great album.