1001 Albums Summary

Super funky and casual in a way that isn't really my jam. A song about getting into Japanese culture from DBZ is both a wonderful affirmation of how things can matter to people, and not something I really want to listen to.

The best moments, when it grooves, are fantastic (and where all the hits are). She of the other tracks come off as Jack White trying to explain why he loves a genre of music and not always succeeding.

Funky in a way I actually dig. I think I like funk more when it can fade into the background. Lyrics more as tone than statement.

I might like jazz? There's a flow to this that's so hard to describe it's basically zen. The music just washes over you like its always been there.

Maybe it's just listening to this not long after Grandpa passed, but this feels old in a way that not even other albums I've listened to as part of this felt old. It really has a sense of when I'd think to hear it. I think that's an impressive kind of good on its own.

Really interesting album. It sounds like a soundtrack, and I could like it as one. Or a concept album (which I guess maybe it is, but it didn't feel like it and that structure). Without that form to fit all these stories into, it felt rambling. Not bad, but not well-formed.

This is a better album than I knew. It's got a laid back big rock swagger that totally hits.

Given how much I listened to Flogging Molly, and that they've been covered by Titus Andronicus, you'd think I'd have heard The Pogues before this. But I hadn't. I have now, and my life is better for it.

Too rock opera for me. It all feels like a soundtrack to a movie, but the soundtrack is trying to take over.

I wasn't thinking I'd like this much, but it surprised me. Moe Dylan than honky-tonk, with a lyricism that I could see getting embedded in my brain.

I'd always felt the Stones were less bluesy than advertised, but I think that's just the hits. This is a lazy Sunday blues rock I can get behind.

Not sure I'd ever heard Ray Charles before. More swingy than I'd really like, but I can see where it would have been a big deal.

I just cannot get into the carnival barker thing, and that's most of this. DNF.

Can't really get behind the singer, and this overstays its welcome by roughly a whole album.

Oddly my opinion hasn't changed much in the decade+ since this came out: some amazing moments but too ornate most of the time.

Impressive lyricism.

I know it's not cool to like this, but it kind of slaps in an old white dude kind of way

I just don't like the funky thing the Chili Peppers do :/

Oh, now I see why people don't like Pink Floyd

It's fine? My biggest dig is probably just that I didn't care much one way or another.

Oh, this is why that guy on Top Gear hates Genesis

The Swedes are all right

Oh, this is why that guy on Top Gear hates Genesis

I'm just not a jam-band kind of person

Amazing voice, interesting songs, but not my style

Wow, this _is_ better than the Stones.

Still don't like the skits, but damn do the tracks slap.

Still don't like the skits, but damn do the tracks slap.

Oh hey, I know that groove.

I still don't have an ear for jazz, so this was just fine but didn't stand out.

Weirdly before its time.

Not my kind of metal

There's more here than the hits, but it also seems a little rote. Every track is kind of same-y.

The bangers really bang, but the others fall really flat.

If I'd had this during dramatic college breakups this would have been on repeat.

Never thought much of Thin Lizzy, but this actually rocked

This whole thing sounds like the 90s. But aside from the bangers, everything else sounded like covers of their own songs.

1,001 albums and I get three Leonard Cohen in a week. Not bad, but not his best.

The hits are real bangers, the rest is mumbly wordplay I can't stand.