1001 Albums Summary

Pretty generic alt/indie record. Wouldn’t actively listen again but it’s good to put on for background vibes.

Cheesy European disco trash but I somehow loved every minute.

I’m not a big hip hop guy. I enjoy it, but couldn’t tell you what makes a good hip hop album. But I can tell you that I just knew that this one was good. Great grooves, amazing lyrics.

Lots of nostalgia. Liked the orchestral elements. Got a bit old after about 5 or 6 songs.

It wasn’t bad but would not listen to again.

I kept expecting it to pick up but it never did. Really enjoyed this album after the 2nd or 3rd listen.

It was fine. Some good grooves. After a while it sounded like the cd they had on repeat in the stereo equipment section of circuit city.

First couple of tracks the vocals kind of made me think of “the wall” but in French. I don’t know but a few words in French, so this may be a lyrical masterpiece I’m just too dumb to understand. The music didn’t do it for me on its own though.

Not a fan whatsoever. Boring, uninspiring.

Not a FM fan, but may put it on while crushing some garage crispy bois. Really bland background music.

If Ross Gellar got a record deal for “the sound” this would be the result.

I’m not sure if I liked this more because it was the first album in a week that wasn’t synth pop bullcrap, or because it was actually good. But I really enjoyed it nonetheless. Good straight up punk/rock.

The album for when you want to smoke some Marlboro reds and cruise Main Street in your Camaro on a hot summer night in the late 70’s. Sometimes you just have to stop sniffing your farts and enjoy stuff.

I have to go back and listen to it again.

Enjoyable early “pop punk”. Heard lots of Sex Pistols, cars, Ramones, television, clash, influences probably go both ways but can’t be bothered to remember the timelines.

I’m convinced U2 is a government psy-op. I don’t think anyone ACTUALLY really loves their music. I think it’s generally tolerable, and people pretend to love it because it’s not outright bad and they feel like they’re the weird one if they don’t like it. Bono is an insufferable douche. This album was everywhere when I was in like 5th grade. Was mildly bad then, is mildly bad now.

Metallica has never really done it for me. I enjoy them when they come on the radio or on my shuffle, but not something I generally seek out.

I wanted to like this one a lot more. There are some great songs on here. Something was just missing for me.

Not sure how I’ve never heard of these guys until now. Awesome grimy rock.

Good. But kind of crazy that this is my second PJ Harvey rec in the first 10 days of this project.

It was…fine. Meh. Sounded like every other singer songwriter (?) from that moment in time.

Great old hardcore album that I’d never really given too much time. Good mix of stupid and meaningful lyrics.

Easy 5. Bonham beating the drums like they owe him money. I have a hunch the lemon being squeezed is a penis.

I saw a (professional) review that described this bands previous album as NYU meets lynyrd skynyrd or something to that effect. I, like any red blooded American love lynyrd skynyrd, got excited and listened to said album. Imagine my disappointment when I learned that this professional music writer had obviously never heard lynyrd skynyrd. Double my disappointment when this album sounded exactly like that one. Not a bad listen. Just very uninspiring, and it has no business being on any bucket lists. At least not with a trio of battling guitars.

Starts out great. Then gets into talking about glee gloop and the flooktidoops. Then gets good for a few minutes. Classic but still.

Too much extra noise between some great songs. 3.5, rounded up.

I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would/wanted to. It wasn’t really my cup of tea though. 2.5 but rounding up because I feel like bjork gets a bad rap.

Ahh the era where bands were named something like “the vaguely retro sounding noun” or “the (word that tells you I read a book in 10th grade lit)”. Not bad but certainly not good.

Can’t believe this is from the Sex Pistols guy.

Meh. I love punk but it rarely rises to the 1001 GAOAT level. Good but probably will never intentionally re listen.

Fun and not what I expected, but yet again a good but not 1001 albums great.

I recognize the importance of this album to hip hop. I enjoyed it. But it got old fast.

I feel like talking heads is similar to U2 in that no one ACTUALLY really loves them…they just feel like they should because everyone else is also pretending and they want to fit in. Not a bad album just very meh.

Wrote this one off before even pressing play. So glad I decided to give it a chance. Didn’t understand a word (besides the small amount of English), but bopped along. Catchy songs.

Dry white toast. Unenthusiastic OTPHJ. Unlike many albums on this list that give you some hope that it will pick up, this one just didn’t.

Remember this one from when I was in middle and high school. I still don’t understand the hype. Was a pretty generic mid 00’s pop/hip hop album. Nothing stood out.

8% of my recommendations so far have been PJ Harvey. I enjoy her albums, but I’m not sure 3 (so far) deserve to be on this list.

Wanted to be like foo fighters and gin blossoms? Was fine but will not listen again. Also, why were the vocals so low?

Probably over rating this because of nostalgia. But man this just brings me back to my middle school summer breaks. Listening to this at a sleep over at a friends house, up way too late. Going to the pool the next day and having it stuck in my head all day. Maybe skate boarding or playing street hockey.

Fun. Sounded a lot like talking heads but less annoying.

I need to revisit this one. But it was a perfect Sunday album. Good hippie vibes, nice arrangements.

Not a fan. Boring.

Easy 5. Had honestly never listened to this album start to finish. Starts out with Hotel California…as expected…but then it’s just hit after hit. What a monster!

I was busy today and couldn’t give this one the attention I feel it probably deserves. Rating it 4 because it feels like one that will grow on me a lot after a single half assed listen.

Love Lenny.

Background noise. Boring.

Had to look to see if this was the same guy as father John misty. Didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would based on the reviews I read. Lyrics were stupid but I liked the music.

It’s like if REM had less annoying vocals, rocked a little harder, yet is at the same time somehow worse.

I listened to this one yesterday and slept overnight before doing this review. I remember absolutely nothing about this album besides that it wasn’t actively terrible.

All I could think about was the scene from the simpsons episode where Marge had a monkees lunch box and the other girl told her the monkees don’t even write their own songs. Great value Beatles but still pretty enjoyable.

It just wasn’t good.

Made me feel like cruising to the soda fountain to perve on the local broads.

I gave my last bjork album a 3 because I felt like maybe people judge her too harshly. But man, what the h-e-double fuck was this? Just because it’s experimental and weird doesn’t mean it’s good. I swear reviewers on here sniffing their own farts. That said I think bjork is a very talented musician, just really misses when it comes to deciding what to record.

Love this period of the stones history. I had just finished reading master and margarita the other day, so when sympathy for the devil came on I wondered if jagger and or Richard’s had read it, and yep. Never did a full listen through of beggars banquet till today, love it.

Fun power pop. Kinda like cheap trick?

Just really boring.

Is this 1001 crap British new wave albums you must hear before you die? Seriously, I’ve had a wildly disproportionate number of albums from this garbage genre. 2 stars only because it’s not unintelligible.

I’d never actually listened to this one all the way through. Great country/folk/rock.

Great grooves chill flow

Classic. Lots of reviews complaining about the language, but they just don’t understand the life of a g.

Bleh

Maybe it’s the juvenile lyrics delivered impeccably. Maybe it’s the fact that this wasn’t a crappy goth/new wave Brit album like 99% of the other albums I’ve gotten. But I really enjoyed this.

I enjoyed it but not as much as I wanted to.

Blegh

I know this comment doesn’t make chronological sense. But it sounds like a bunch of guys got together. One of them wanted to do a rhcp tribute band. Another, spin doctors. Another Lenny kravitz. And finally, extreme. When someone asked them which one they were going to do, they said “yes, but we’re not really gonna get the good parts right”

Just really boring. Blues gives big divorced dad vibes.

Made me feel like I was at a ren fair and that’s not a compliment. I swear I could smell the BO and Mountain Dew.

40 years before he murdered Lana Clarkson, he murdered with this absolute banger of a Christmas album. I hate Christmas music. But this is an easy 5 star album. The wall of sound is in full force here. Darlene Love is incredible. Masterpiece.

I swear this is just 1001 garbage new wave albums.

Basically the antithesis of rock and roll. Some good riffs and stuff. Overall just kinda meh

Wuss rock. Way too long.

I feel like I liked this but not for the right reasons? Loved the grooves. Felt like it was too instrumental to be the revolutionary lyrical powerhouse I was expecting? Maybe I downloaded the wrong release?

Not really sure how this made it to the list. It was fine, a little weird. Forgot I was listening to it at some point

It was fine I guess. Not really my style of music. But it seemed good for the style it is? Appreciate the social message and recognize I’m not the target demographic.

Masterpiece. It’s all (I think) covers, recorded not long before he died. Hurt is haunting.

Makes me feel like I’m sitting by a fire in the Smokey’s

I guess someone had to make the background music for “how it’s made”.

Meh. Boring but not annoying.

Sounds like that stupid song from love actually that the pop star sings a Christmas version of. Boring.

I grew up in a white mostly lower middle class area and this record was owned by every angsty kid. 20 plus years later it feels kinda try hard.

Borophyll

Wait this was an album of different songs? It all blended together.

Not bad just boring.

U2 gets a max of 2 stars and this is bad even by their standards. Boring, bland, and bono. Everyone says that Harambe getting shot (RIP, DOFH) in 2016 caused a split in the timeline and that’s why things are decidedly not great right now. But I honestly think it happened 2 years earlier in 2014 when U2 put that album on everyone’s phone.

It was fine. Standard British punk from the late 70’s

Unexpectedly good. Still not sure if it’s top 1001 of all time though.

Better than melon collie. Never really listened to these guys growing up yet somehow it made me feel like middle and high school summers.

Even with seaside rendezvous and lazing on a Sunday afternoon it’s an easy 5

Som absolute jams on here. Title track is one of the best of all time. But man, the rest of the album was just 80’s cheese

Boring. Cheesy. Wouldn’t be bad chilling on a yacht blitzed on cheap beer.

Metal for people who unironically watched the kid rock halftime show.

Honestly a pretty solid album. I’d give it a 3.5. I enjoyed it more than I’d like to admit. But 1) Bono is such an insufferable douche, and 2) I still haven’t forgotten when they put that album on everyone’s phone so every U2 release is an automatic 1.

We get it you smoke a lot of cigarettes

Don’t get jazz besides as background music for something else. Think this was good but can’t give it an honest rating.

Typical “nice guy” rock…you know, the guys who pretend to be deep and evolved but are actually kinda just pervy.

Take no prisoners! TAKE A SHIT! It’s a fine album. I love metal but always felt megadeth was a bit over rated. Way too many songs on this album I looked down at the screen and said “huh, this song is still going”.

I honestly don’t believe anyone actually likes this.

We get it you play bongos