1001 Albums Summary

its definitely good, but its boring.

i eventually got bored with it. if it didnt have such a heavy tone, it would basically be psychadelic rock. objectively good. but i am no metalhead

it gets so dark after hallelujah. everything before that is a banger

i went into this thinking it was some hard metal album. boy was i wrong.

this is so much different from The Suburbs. it actually has content in it. it still sucks ass

im tired of this shit by song 4. not real punk, fuck em

the songs are pretty good, but they’re not really cohesive.

Its soo fucking looong

very interesting album. very interesting to read about its themes and inspirations. musically, each song is unique while having distinct leitmotifs. it really helps that most of them flowed together, or else it would've been a jarbled mess. it wasn't *too* exciting, so it gets a 4.

this would've hit different if i knew arabic, or liked the way the words came out of his mouth. very interesting how something in another language was big in the anglosphere. dnf

nothing burger album

i mean, i liked TPAB, i like the lyrical complexity and meaning, but i just cant like the beats. Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe and Backseat Freestyling had good beats, but it just doesn’t make up for the lack of in the other places

crazy how they made 9 albums about being sad when they could've solved the problem by not being in england

made me pay attention to my job. better than nothing, objectively good musicians.

grating, croaking voice, some alright rock.

I really liked this album. and it was made within 30 minutes' driving distance! could definitely see where this was made. if any of you looking at this know who i am, don't dox me

Very nice towards the end. Not really a fan of the beginning. Personally, im into harder music.

some 5 moments, some 3 moments.

"oh wow! i expected this one to just be filler so there would be 1001, but this one has groove to it. Very mellow, down-to-earth rock. Pretty unique. I like it."

Love “Tiny Dancer”. Loved the piano. Elton John is a classic.

i feel nothing towards this.

no killer on it that’s worth a five

good synth work, but there just really isn't anything absolutely great on it.

Very, very strange and dark.

used to love this one when i was younger.

oooh thats where it came from

i really have to be around it a lot to really like it

Nothing inherently wrong with it. Doesn't really go hard. Pretty boring, honestly. It is good. I dont like it.

love the sound of an old compressed fender

takes a second to warm up but once its going its going. starts strong then doesnt return until Thriller.

what a visceral experience. it was honestly a relief that the first song was over. the production was great. 38 minutes feels too short for an album like this. love a good rock opera

songs are entirely too long

...ehh? I prefer my led to have a polished sound, thanks

i get that this launched the rock opera as a genre, and subsequently some of my favorite albums, but it just has too much of this… cartoony (?) sound.

Objectively good. I liked it. 3 for good. 0.5 for the first song. 0.5 for the last song (Gravity Falls). -1 for creative differences.

electronica… punk? that can happen?

dont get me wrong, but this album isn’t that great, compared to Pyromania. every song, there’s a different section that goes a little too long that’s just synthesizers going crazy. I love Pyromania, but i just can’t sit still long enough for this one.

"As a person who likes protest music, this is ok. If you're into sample-heavy stuff, you'll like this. The best songs on this one have chuck and flav rapping together (Fight The Power, for instance). Personal fan of Fight The Power. 6/10 Probably in my collection"

its a lot slower, but i still really liked it. very good songs.

very different from what i listen to. i like it.

so Document was just a fluke or something? i really want to like these guys more, but this album sucks.

Dark and strange. Launched the compact disc though

crazy to go from Paint It Black to nothing but road trip music

it sounds exactly how you’d think it would.

each musician is great in their own right. especially Copeland. i really likes the instrumental part of the album, like Walking on the Moon. it goes on a little too long, though. listened to at school. my discman died during song 10 :(

i liked this one. nice acoustic folk. little jazzy

Psycho Killer is really carrying this album.

I think it’s maybe a little overhyped. it’s definitely good, but i think Eagles spanned too many genres. they should’ve stuck to a classic sound. i love Don Henley.

Objectively good. Slightly boring. I want to strangle the bassist for "Sweet Emotion". I liked it.

"1984 wasn’t their best, but its the first Van Halen my dad ever heard. He got that album in 1984 when he was 9 years old. Today, I can still listen to that same record. uhh since i’ve listened to the rest of their discography, here’s a review of the rest: Van Halen II: ..eh? everyone says that this one is better than I, but i really just dont see it. Women And Children First: definitely my favorite. love the acoustic work on it. Fair Warning: probably the most consistent one. very bass heavy, which i love, but also Michael Anthony tuned to C# for it, so strangle. Diver Down: WHY are there SO MANY COVERS 5150: good intro album for Sammy Hagar OU812: most consistent Hagar album. a little too down low to be honest For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge: i also dont get the hype for this one to be honest. it should be on the list because it was the only VH album to win an award and got them on live television (VMAs). Balance: This one took a while and was very influenced by Kurt Cobain’s suicide. the band was kind of at the end of their musical ability and you can definitely hear it. Van Halen III: nope nope nope nope nope nope A Different Kind Of Truth: Loved to hear Wolfie on this one. they really turned the gain up to 11"

"It’s late at night. your parents think that you’re sleeping. you’ve listened to this one before, but can’t really remember all of it, so you decide to listen again. and every song, there is a different “holy shit this is so good” moment. lyrics that revel against the Iraq war, media polarization, and the bush administration. The band really matured with this one, too. They haven’t really gone back to their old sound. 11/10 the best album of the millennium"

I, III, and this one have a problem of being boring. if i were to describe what this sounds like, it would be “waiting for something that never arrives,” and I can’t tell if that something is the end of the album or some killer song. its pretty boring. there’s definitely some good songs on here (fav: trampled under foot) but they’re spaced too far apart. this album shouldn’t have been a double, in my opinion. would’ve saved me some time and been much better.

its a lot more meandering than AYE. i dont like it.

id heard most of these songs on the radio before. definitely should be in the list. not exactly 5 material, but very good.

Very consistently Queen. Absolutely nothing wrong with this album (except for prophet song). I’m not a fan of Prophet Song. Ultimately, Bohemian Rhapsody.

really the start of punk. i can hear where Green Day even took some of the sound.

very good punk album. strangle tim commerford. praise everybody else. music is a four, lyrics are a 5. You should rather listen to The Battle of Los Angeles, though. its more consistent and doesn’t have (what im coining) “dead spaces” where its just Tim and no one else, not even Brad. Evil Empire was their worst of the four, but was still fucking amazing. in Renegades, they somehow made every fucking song sound like their own writing. 10/10 band. 10/10 lyrics. fuck paul ryan

I think if you hear one you hear them all. classic sample-heavy public enemy.

amazing at best, mediocre at worst

some nice synth music. objectively good, not *exactly* my taste, doesn’t go hard.

a good classic. the best songs are the upbeat ones.

I very heavily dislike this album. I very much want to like what im listening to, but i disliked almost every song. was literally tortured by it

variatous!

"It’s 1978. The best guitar playing you’ve ever really heard is Jimmy Paige. You hear about this album and this awesome guitar playing. As you drop the needle (as was standard for the time), Eddie blasts off."

worth 9 dollars? maybe

fun

pretty good. the instrumentals were alright at worst. lets strangle the bassist for tuning so fucking low.

4.5

suxx axx

these songs are sooo fucking long dude. i cant stick around that long.

perfectly serviceable 80s rock album with all of the required bits, even the misogyny! really not my taste.

tries to be anti-sexist the immediately falls back on those stances. amazing, isnt it? completely forgettable. if you want an album like this, there’s always To Pimp a Butterfly.

the beats are fresh but overall it really doesn’t deliver like other songs for me. and it sounds really bad when you have an acoustic guitar and synthesized drums in this era. auto tune and that’s it.

ah yes, the “FUCK YEAAHHHH” to “life is pain” pipeline

the album sets up an expectation with “London Calling,” then it doesn’t deliver on that, instead giving songs that sound like a road trip in the rolling hills of Hertsfordshire or something i dont know im not british.

the rolling stones in general makes some really good background music.

i dont get it. Song 2 and nothing else.

goes on and on. its not like The Suburbs where the songs are all the same. it has variations here in there. gives off slow dance vibes.

this really sounds like some decent ambience music. can definitely hear that i’m not actually supposed to listen to it. i can also hear that it was specifically made for airports. i can’t really take 48 minutes of it though. 1/1 is a simple repeating bright piano melody that goes up, back down, then lands on the octave above. from the brightness to the reverb, it really does sound like an airport. has the smallest of flourishes, but nothing much. 2/1 is a synthesized chorus. no flourishes here. sounds less like an airport though. 1/2 is a mix of the two, having piano-dominant and synth-dominant sections. there is more flourish to this one than the previous two, but that’s much easier when you have more than one fucking instrument. 2/2 starts with synthesized horns. this immediately spoke to me, as i was a french horn player in middle/high school. its… beautiful. this immediately bumps up my review score, no questions asked. i want to congratulate mr eno here, because it all really does sound like an airport. there is a sense that i’m really not meant to listen to it, and i think its because its 48 minutes of uninteresting ambience. the keyword here is uninteresting. you can definitely make interesting ambient music, look at the portal 2 soundtrack. but interesting this is not.

Seems to go on with not that much change in the songs. pretty fucking boring.

very very ok. only worth listening to cult of personality.

I’m sorry to all the jazz heads, but this all sounds the same to me. plus, Take Five is waaaaaaaaaayyyyy overplayed for me to still like it. 2/10

Funky. Slight psych rock. i liked it.

decent singing against not even ok instrumental.

Immigrant Song and then blues. Not too boring, not too interesting. very repetitive when the songs sound the same. I, III, and Physical Graffiti have the problem of not having any good killer on them. After a second listening, perhaps I was too harsh on it.

each song keeps the album fresh. the Latin beat is nice

I just can't finish this album. its definitely very good, and I can't recommend it enough, but I always click off of it.

fun fact: synth rock has never been wrong

i enjoyed this album. its very good. but i did not like the banjo.

its exactly like The Suburbs. goes on. nothing notable. was bumpin in the first few songs.

Pretty good. Has my favorite Jackson song on it (“Man In The Mirror”). Would say its a four but with the bigger hits on it (“Man In The Mirror,” “Smooth Criminal”) its a 4.

"The best in men's clothing Call Paul's Boutique, ask for Janice The number is 718-498-1043 That's Paul's Boutique, and they're in Brooklyn"

nothing that was an absolute killer worth a 5. other than that I like tom petty

Ok so. i gave this one a try after peer pressured by my friends who have a slightly different taste than i. i did not like it. but it’s alright. im just simply not into nu metal.

Dead Kennedys have always been too hardcore for me. the riffs are too dissonant. the vocals too… whatever that is. its just scratchy noise rock to me.

French dance beat. it sounded pretty ok.

classic heads

my rating of this is heavily influenced by the fact that my parents would not leave me the fuck alone while i was trying to do my homework.

wow! very good! huge improvement from I. but then they dropped the ball with III.

I. love. synth rock. this isn't the best synth rock.

standard beck, but the slow bits. 3.5

i can hear a lot of talented musicians and producers. neither liked nor disliked per se. very objectively good

"man, Superfuzz Bigmuff was pretty good i wonder i-" the answer was no. Superfuzz Bigmuff had some quality to it that this does not. the albums sound the same except the apparent magic was absent ig. good for background noise in english class. 3.2

this is like a 4.5. definitely good, but it would be nice if he had forgone the random samples.

wow. just wow. that little man was REALLY horny.

Some standout tracks on here that aren't the ones everyone knows.

whatever the hell that was

Yes, Jimi, I am experienced. And it was fucking amazing. I got this LP during a vacation trip. Though remorseful the buyer felt, it was worth it. Favorite song: Waterfall or possible Are You Experienced?

this is the last of my Aerosmith. definitely the best out of the three, and I believe that Get a Grip should also be on the list. for this one, I can still regularly hear 3 of the songs on the radio, compared to Toys' 2 and Rocks' maybe 1. and I had an actual feeling with Pump as well. didn't have it with the other two.

ah yes, the 44 days albums. something i wasn’t around for. to be fair to my review, i listened to Californication long before i listened to this one, and that might be affecting my review. but probably not. i just dont think Kiedis, Frusciante, Flea, and Smith were writing songs to the best of their ability like Californication. at least not consistently. Give It Away and Under the Bridge are the best songs on the album.

i just plain did not enjoy this one. straight to the 1

i mean… its an album.

poetic genius, not that i could hear the words much anyway. good music. didn't expect to have the amount of fun with it that i ended up having.

good jazz exists!

R.E.M. never fails to disappoint. except here, which i guess is excusable as their first album. (seriously, that barely sounds like Michael Stipe)

did you listen to Blood Sugar Sex Magik? yes? forget about that. whatever notion you got from that can be disregarded. these are two very different albums. every song feels masterfully crafted, and, unlike its sibling of the same year Enema of the State, can cover a whole class period. unpopular opinion: best songs are Porcelain, Emit Remmus, and Around the World

do yourself a favor and dont waste your time. yes, its on Kurt Cobain's list of 50, but there's really only Back in the Saddle thats worth listening.

didn’t finish, found it derivitave.

the old adage is true. take Yes, make them canadian. 4.5

went into this one fully prepared to shit on it given the other, but they managed to actually make an ok album. still dont understand why they’re considered punk. they are clearly not.

pretty fun listen.

barely payed attention to it. became more noise to hear at some point.

a poem, by me: it's Led Zeppelin IV, need i say more?

remember: the original EP was only from Need to In ‘n’ Out of Grace.

pretty fun listen. i love that tone

i dont get it too much. even the lyrical content isn’t that great. “and then this happened and then this happened and he had some coochie and ate their corpses” most boring, one-dimensional rock opera.

Good beats

this is everything i want music to be. well-written, good music, not focusing on the lyrics. it barely even has lyrics! all around great.

this is a piece of genuine ass. fuck this shit.

boring album, but boring good. eh. will not listen again.

i was pissed off at this from the moment i saw that it made the official list along with brat. they do this every time, where they pack the new additions with recent albums without giving them any time to marinate. and about why this shouldn’t be in the list: the first reason is mentioned above. the second reason that it is known as a movie soundtrack. “but mr punk,” i hear you say, “you rated Purple Rain a 5! that was a movie soundtrack!” well, the key difference is that Purple Rain is not known and remembered as a movie soundtrack, it is known as its own album. its a vague difference, i know, but it does still exist, and if you dont like it, consider the definition “must hear before you die.” now on to the actual music. i was further annoyed at the horrid scraping sound of the whatever-that-is, and then brought to a fucking noise wall as i listened during my statistics class. mrs. charles xander commotion xavier uses autotune in *every* song in the album except for the last one. that’s how you know its a good singer /s. i’ve never listened to this album before, but i swear i heard it on the radio in my mom’s car last year. finally, lets look at what the book says for why this album must be heard before one’s death. i happened to buy the book. i bought it with a Toxicity CD, and it was half of my paycheck. the entry, this one written by Bruno MacDonald (so dont entirely blame Dimery for this one), just goes through the making of the album, giving no insight as to what makes it stand out after the first paragraph. and you can most definitely find those reasons in a lot of other albums in the list, like American Idiot, The Wall, and To Pimp a Butterfly. also in the first paragraph: “Without a… pair of sunglasses in sight,” even though xcx gets two pages just for brat and the back cover, both of which feature an image of her scantily-clad and wearing sunglasses. conclusion: as an album it has very little merit, much less one that i must hear before death.