1001 Albums Summary

Sounds like an album from the band that did “West End Girls”.

This was fine?

Songs about killing girls that cheat them? These guys are going to be huge.

Pretty good singer.

Remember Rio, and get down.

Technically only a year out, but would have sworn this album came out in the early 90’s… “Epic” is still alright.

Kül.

One song reminded me of Nirvana. Others reminded me of The B-52’s. Those aren’t comparison I’d have expected on the same album… that was before the song that sounded like The Aquabats.

So this is what Canadian rock music sounds like... I like it.

I bet these guys are a big hit at Renaissance Fairs.

1919 seems like it’d have been a weird year to be in Paris.

I never would have claimed to enjoy jazz. I don’t know if this classifies as jazz, but, if it does, I was right. I don’t enjoy jazz.

Girl drummer!?!? Now I’ve heard it all.

They really Mars Volta-ed this one.

Four people in one bathtub? These fuckers are crazy.

I dig your groovy tunes, man.

Nope.

I have to assume this won’t be the only album of his on the list. If it is, they picked the wrong one.

Would have liked stories from at least one more location.

Sounds like another album from the band that did West End Girls.

Stop. Clap. Stomp, stomp, clap.

Weird urge to worship Satan all of a sudden. Probably unrelated.

If they didn’t sell concert t-shirts that read “Elastica Makes Me Ecstatica”, then what was point of any of it?

Prior to listening, had I been asked if this album had saxophone on it, I’d have been wrong.

No, thank you.

More like Zed Leppelin, am I right?

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say these guys were upset with the political climate in the early 90’s. Fortunately for them, things have improved drastically since then…

Probably would have been five, but this album didn’t quite reach out and touch me.

God damn you, Buck Owens. You’ve done it again, you son of a bitch.

It would seem pretty insensitive to comment about his skills as a musician clearly being superior to his skills as a swimmer.

A “spoiler alert” for those that haven’t seen the movie would have been handy. No point getting invested in Freddie’s storyline now.

Also not great in a digital format.

I don’t get the impression that she’d have been a fun hang.

I wonder if there will be other colors that combine to make a Voltron-like, ultimate Monk album.

Still not quite grasping what the big deal was.

As a fun bit of trivia, they should consider listing the drugs the artists were using when they made the albums.

Based on their name I was expecting something a little more aggressive sounding. They should consider changing their name… and their sound.

Someone should check-in on their singer. He seems sad.

Couple of these I didn’t mind. More of them, however, that I minded a great deal.

Pretty sure there’s a comma missing in “Boogie On Reggae Woman”. I also wonder if anyone ever told Stevie it wasn’t there?

This should serve as a lesson to aspiring musicians. Put out an album like this, and one day you might get to play high school reunion bartenders on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Is the list trying to bum me out on a Friday morning, or subliminally suggesting I should stop and buy red lipstick on my way home?

One song made me think of the Gin Blossoms. It was kind of downhill in either direction from there.

I knew these guys were generally considered a reggae band (as one would expect from a bunch of British guys), but, armed with that information, this was still surprising.

This is an album rating by me. The star value of that rating is four.

I think my hair feathered itself while listening to this.

Bet some babies have been made after people listened to some of the songs on this album.

Had they know print media would be dying in a few decades time, do you think they’d have chosen a different name?

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but some of these songs are pretty dumb.

Were I to ever meet someone claiming this was their favorite album, there could be no guarantee that it wouldn’t provoke a violent response.

Better than expected, but I’d set a pretty low bar going in.

I heard the style, and did not miss the point.

Guess they covered their bases by adding “As We Know It”. That way that song can be relevant every few years when shit gets worse.

If they were going for a shittier version of The Cure, I guess they kind of nailed it.

Probably not a frequent addition to very many party playlists.

The cover photo would suggest that one member was a bigger deal than the rest of the band. Hope that doesn’t create any tension between bandmates at any point moving from this point.

Turns out I’m familiar with more Lou Reed songs, that I didn’t realize were Lou Reed, than I was aware of… could have done without the new familiarization with most of the others.

Through no fault of his own, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear his music is New Jersey.

A few of these kind of sounded Sleater-Kinney-ish, which I wasn’t expecting.

If I were keeping track of band’s albums from this list that featured the Confederate flag in the cover, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band would be up by one. Guess we’ll see if any Lynyrd Skynyrd albums make the list to give them some competition (I’m just assuming it’s featured in most of theirs).

Not saying I’d want to, but, even if I did, I don’t feel I was given enough information to successfully “do the strand”.

I’m not sure this is the right soundtrack for what the three on the cover were looking to get up to.

Nah. I’m good.

Seems reasonably safe to assume that Davey Havok was listening to this pretty regularly while working on AFI’s latest album.

Mon frère. That means brother in French. I don’t know why I know that, I took four years of Spanish… granted this is Portuguese, but the point stands.

Feel like the album cover does a pretty good job summing-up the overall vibe of this one.

Sounds like a cross between Tina Turner and Faith No More. Which oddly seems to work better than I’d have anticipated.

Not sure anyone has mentioned it before, but she’s a pretty good singer.

Probably a good call to just go by Frank.

Probably ought to say something about these guys knowing how to wail.

With a name like this, these guys should have waited a couple decades and come out as a late 90’s ska band.

Not an introduction I was seeking-out.

Sometimes you can see a picture of somebody and be completely surprised to learn they have a drug problem. Other times, less so.

My guess is that this will be the last of their albums (chronologically) that makes this list.

Felt like I was listening to Blue Ark radio while I had this on durning my drive to work. Could explain why I felt inspired to run a few people over and steal someone else’s car.

Unexpected, considering dude looks like a substitute teacher.

Maybe if I was on the right psychedelics… but that’s a strong “maybe”.

I wonder if I should create some rap music, because I’ve also never done disco.

I had a rough night, and I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!

This was easily recognizable as a Led Zeppelin album.

Hate to call her a liar, but the Bouncing Souls would lead me to believe she was not the last of the true believers.

The real question is who will have more solo albums on the list between Simon and Garfunkel?… smart money is on Simon.

Let’s just say that I feel differently about this album than Ben.

I’m no expert, but I’d call this a jazz album.

Those jeans would be a bit uncomfortable. Looks like a prize hog, though.

I don’t know, Lloyd. The French are assholes.

Wasn’t expecting Of Montreal to feature on one of these songs.

Why revisit 61 when everyone knows that you get your kicks on Route 66? Just seems like poor trip planning.

Gui-TAR!

Seems like a nice, wholesome Christmas album by a nice, wholesome dude.

Well that’s just good timing to have this following a Phil Spector album.

I was not appropriately prepared, on a Saturday morning, for how wild of a ride this was.

Pass.

These Swedes might be onto something.

Am I the only person that has no idea who Stiills and Nash are?

Apparently this proves that Doves sound better while crying.

Still maintain that if they’d shave like 20 minutes of unnecessary sound effects off, and this’d be a pretty excellent album. Also, is this makes the list and Relationship of Command doesn’t, I will riot in the streets.

Not what I’d expect based on the cover art. There should be a saying about not making those sorts of snap judgements.

Had enough on this list in the early goings to clearly indicate that it’s a “separate the art from the artist” situation, so, I shall continue to rate in the same spirit.

Was going to say these guys have some songs that remind me of Arctic Monkeys, but I guess the other way around would be more appropriate.

Having only previously been familiar with Paranoid, this seemed surprisingly mellow.

I think we can all agree a Wayne’s World gif is all that’s really required for a review of this.

No way to sugar coat it, I do not care for The Boss.

I wouldn’t consider this album to be either of the things it claims to be.

Please refer to previous Nick Drake review.

I’ll be damned I’d this didn’t take me back to the days of yes y’all-in’.

Pass.

Less exciting than the cigarette, bracelets and hair had me ready for.

Not bad. You know, aside from all that Jesus bullshit.

Someone should make a movie about this guy, but use an actor that doesn’t look or sound like him.

I don’t know what just happened.

Some of these songs could be easily construed as being a bit sexual in nature.

Don’t know what the record is for “most interludes on an album”, but eight has place this pretty high in the rankings.

Tougher sounding name than this band probably needs.

Speakerboxxx is doing most of the heavy lifting for this rating.

Nah.

I still feel roughly the same about jazz as I did before hearing this.

This was not Ultra Stimulating.

If given two words to describe this album, I think I’d go with “Relentlessly Boring”.

Took a city like New Orleans To kill a man like Johnny Thunders.

Should I Coco?

This is basically asking for a poop joke…

Note to self: I should press my space face close to more things.

Everybody in the world has 'Frampton Comes Alive'. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide.

If I were rating based purely on how weird I thought the album art was, this would be much higher.

Scott 4 < 3

Seeing that this album was released a year before the game, I’m going to go ahead and say the creators of Simon were big fans of this album.

I’m beginning to think that one of the Pet Shop Boys may be responsible for making this list.

Did you guys know one of these songs is about Uncle Joey from Full House?

Could have been 5, but “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is just an objectively bad song.