1001 Albums Summary

Love the Jam. Down in the Tube Station feels like late 70s London. Its like punk, but with the edges sanded down, but in a good way.

So excited to see this album pop up.I’ve loved most of the songs on this record for years, but I never sat down and listened to it as one piece of music. What a Marvelous experience. A nearly perfect record, and definitely on my top ten.

Great album. This would get 5 stars, but there are a couple better Talking Heads records, so I have to make a little room.

The first six songs on this record are a real murderer's row, and this is easily one of the best albums of the 90s. It's easy to forget how incredible they sounded in 1991, now that they've been imitated by decades of bands with less talent.

I haven’t listened to a lot of Black Sabbath. I know the hits. Listening to the whole album was a pleasantly surprising experience.

I love the Smiths, but I've never really been able to love Meat is Murder. Headmaster Ritual is great, but the rest of the album was a let down. There was one exception, however; Andy Rourke's playing thoughout the record was inspired. I don't think I'd really noticed the bass part much in other Smiths songs, but I was consistently blown away by Rourke on Meat is Murder.

It’s performed well enough, but it sounds like the forgettable adult contemporary that was all over the place in the 80s and early 90s.

The record is fine. Nothing that I think I’ll ever listen to again.

Albums like this are why I started doing 1001 Albums. I never would have picked this up on my own, but I’m so glad I did.

Rise & Fall isn’t available on Amazon Music

I love this album.

I generally like Leonard Cohen, but beyond Suzanne, this album didn't really do anything for me.

Surprisingly good. I particularly enjoyed the cover of Just my Imagination.

Lovely record. Carlos Santana is one of my favorites guitarists, and the percussion on this album is fantastic.

What a great album. I had no idea this band even existed, but they’re a new favorite.

Great album. Completely filled with favorites.

Great album. A real departure from his usual work at the time. All of Me is a stand out.

Fun record, but beyond the singles there’s not a lot there

I enjoyed it, but not a repeat listen.

Enjoyable listen, but not among my favorites.

Love this record!

It sounds like it was well done, but all the songs sound the same and blend together.

Love this record! There have been better punk bands since the Sex Pistols, but to me, almost 50 years later, no band has embodied the punk ethos like they did. God Save the Queen is an absolutely perfect punk song.

Love Blondie, but I think they have better albums.

This is one of my favorite albums. It’s almost 40 years old now, but still manages to sound as fresh as it did in 1988.

What a great record. I think it was the first CD I ever bought. Haven’t listened to it in probably 30 years. It was good to revisit an old favorite.

Fun record. I really enjoyed the sleazy sound.

Beautiful record.

Lovely. I’ve only gotten in to them recently, and I enjoyed this thoroughly.

I really like the Who, and love a few of the songs on this record, but they could have cut out about half of the tracks. The blues covers, in particular, were really cringey.

Fun record. Not really my thing, but I enjoyed it.

This album was fine. I imagine they’re fun in concert, but this isn’t an album I’ll reach for again.

Great album. A couple of familiar hits, and some lesser known stuff that were a pleasant surprise.

Fun record. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I enjoy the Specials, but I feel like a lot of the songs on this album run together.

Great record. I don’t know how I missed it all this time.

Didn’t love this album. I checked how much was left several times.

I know that they’re an important part of music history, and have had a large influence on modern music, EDM in particular, but I just can’t make myself like Kraftwerk.

Amazon Music did not have this album available.

This is a good record. Whenever I listen to the Black Keys, I think I should listen to them more, but I never do.

Fun album. I knew his radio songs, but just about all these songs were new to me.

Interesting record. Probably not one I will listen to a lot, but I’m glad I’ve heard it.

It’s ok. Probably not something I would register to.

Fun record. You can hear how much influence he had on later performers.

Great record. Several old favorites and a few new ones.

A couple songs that I recognized. Overall, a good solid soul record.

Fun record. I’ve always liked La Grange, but there are some other great tracks on here too.

Fun record.

Great record.

I just could not get into this record. Paradise by the Dashboard Light is fun enough, but even that song is pretty ridiculous.

Enjoyable. I miss this kind of country music.

It has a few memorable, cheesy songs that I enjoyed singing along to, but the rest is forgettable. Pump marks the beginning of Aerosmith’s slide into smarmy, cookie-cutter ballads.

Good album. Some of Green Day’s best songs are here, but there’s a lot of filler too.

I like this record. Nowhere close to a favorite, but a nice trip down memory lane.

Great record. Somehow I missed them when they came out, even though I was definitely the target audience.

Love this record. In the running for best hop record of all time. Hit after hit, the only issue I have is the skits between the songs. They were a staple of 90s hip hop, but not one I loved.

Not for me. With exception of the title track, the songs all bled together into an hour long trance-y adult contemporary blur.

Great record. A classic.

This was really fun. Not a favorite, but one I might revisit from time to time.

The album is well made. The performances are good. But it didn’t really do anything for me.

Fun record. I’m not sure why it’s on the list of 1001 albums, but it wasn’t bad.

This was a fun listen, and one of the great things about this project.

Great record. A real mix of sounds, but Zeppelin has better records, and I want to leave room to differentiate.

Not a Cure record I knew very well. But I enjoyed its Moody and atmospheric sound.

Lovely. I don’t think I knew any of the songs, but it was an enjoyable listen.

Best Christmas record ever.

I’ve never been able to get onboard with Eminem. He is undeniably talented, but he applies his talents in a direction that makes it difficult/impossible to enjoy his work.

It’s interesting that there are still bands from the 60s that I haven’t heard of. This was a fun listen.

I don’t love Aerosmith, but I like them. This is the second Aerosmith album I’ve run into on this platform, and neither was one that I would pick.

Great record. Front to back quality.

Good record. I haven’t listened to anything other than Closer or Hurt in years. I’m glad I had to today.

I love Velvet Underground, but I just can’t get into Lou Reed’s solo work.

I enjoyed this record. Much more approachable thank some of their other work.

Good record. I don’t think there’s any such thing as a bad Jimmy Hendrix record.

If you had told me that this was your friend’s pub band, I would easily believe you. Nothing about this album sounds like something I have to listen to before I die.

It was ok. Most of it wasn’t available, but liked what I heard enough.

Great record. Filled with hit songs

I can’t believe this album is one I have to listen to before I die. Dull and soporific, I almost drove the car into a ditch.

I’m not sure I ‘get’ Tom Waits. People love him, but I side from a couple songs, I really don’t understand.

He is a talented rapper, but I don’t think any songs really stand out as being great on this album, with the possible exception of Method Man, which was already on Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers).

My favorite Zeppelin album. Love every track.

This is ok. I didn’t dislike listening to this record, but it didn’t really do anything for me either.

So many favorites here. And others I didn’t know well before.

I’ve never really listened to anything by Arcade Fire. It was good, but it’s not really for me.

Love this record. I think most REM albums would be a 4 or 5 star record.

This is another one that I don’t really understand how it got on a list like this.

Great record from another band that I had never heard of until today.

One of the best albums to come out of the 90s alternative scene, if not THE best. Two hours long, but it still manages to maintain a cohesive sound and vibe that makes the longer run time fly past.

John Lydon is the worst, but this record isn’t. I fully expected to hate it, and I did hate Religion I. But the rest of the album was kind of good.

Not great. Every song sounds the same.

Fun album. I’m familiar with the Kinks, but not with most of the songs on this album.

Nice record, but it’s missing one or two great songs. The songs on the record are all pretty similar.

I liked this record. I knew “There She Goes”, but the rest of the album was great too.

I miss this kind of hip hop.

It’s incredible that this can be the fourth or fifth best Dylan album and still be this good. It has all-time great songs like Subterranean Homesick Blues and Maggie’s Farm.

One of my favorites. There are no bad songs here.

I was prepared to hate this. I’m not a fan of this kind of scream-singing. But the music, incorporating sounds and rhythms that aren’t common in metal, is outstanding.

I like this album a lot, but not as much I feel like I’m supposed to.

I’ve never loved Dinosaur Jr. I’ve seen them in concert 35 years ago, and I enjoyed it, I think, but I never bought the albums or sought them out. Listening to this record doesn’t feel like something that will change that.

It’s fine. It doesn’t stand out at all from the rest of the late nineties alternative pretenders.

This is pretty fun. I don’t know how re-listenable it is, but I could really appreciate what they were doing.

This album, like most Coldplay albums, was inoffensive, but not especially interesting.

Really fun. I love Pavement’s slackery ironic sound.

This was fun. I’m not sure if it’s one I’ll listen to very often, but this listen was certainly worthwhile.

Great record. You can hear how much Nirvana had matured since Nevermind.

It was kinda fun, but not really my thing.

Fun trip down memory lane. Almost every song was good, if maybe not great.

Great songs on this record. But beyond the 3-5 legendary songs, the rest is mostly filler.

Repetitive, like most EDM I guess. There were interesting things here, but nothing that I wanted to hear repeated as nauseam.

Lovely record. It’s nice to run into some country, real country, music here.

Surprisingly good, especially for a Besch Boys album I’d never heard of before. Several songs took on political themes, as far as I know a new development for them, even if the lyrics were a little more simplistic than their norm.

Last gasp of 80s hair metal, but a really great gasp.

Maybe the greatest American punk band.

I do not enjoy the sitar, but I enjoyed it as much as could be expected.

The pieces of what will make ‘Loveless’ in a few years are here, but they’re not there yet.

Kanye’s a piece of shit, but he is talented, but not as talented as people say.

Great album, as ambient music goes. Not really my kind of thing, but you can tell it’s done really well.

I’m honestly not sure if this album is fantastic or terrible. There are elements of both here, I think 3/5 is a decent compromise.

Pretty generic 80s synth pop

Normally not a fan of the sitar, but the educational bits before the songs were really great

Great record. Reminiscent of the old 60s Specter sound, but fresh too.

This was too much of the same. The component parts are interesting enough, but somehow the whole is less.

Great record. There are still a few Prince albums I like better, so this one is only getting a four.

Clasdic 80s New Wave. Killing Moon is a highlight.

Love it. The vocals on ‘One More Hour’ can be a little rough when listened to on headphones, but still a near perfect punk/alternative/indie album.

Fun listen

Beyond the two hits, there’s not a lot to love on this record, but nothing to hate either.

I love sonic youth, but I prefer the other SY albums on this list. This will get a 3

Late Elvis definitely lost a step. I wouldn’t complain if this was on, but I doubt that I would choose it.

You can hear the potential in this album, but, for the most part, this sounds a lot like generic early 2000s RnB/Pop

No bad songs on this record. I was never into ‘Ironic’ but it wasn’t a bad song at all. A great 90s time capsule.

After reading some of the public reviews of this record, I really wanted to like it, but I couldn’t. It just isn’t that good.

Fantastic record. Wall to wall hits; no misses

I’ve always had a soft spot for the Psychedelic Furs. Really enjoyed this album.

Good songs on this record, but a lot of filler.

Not bad. I thought the other Black Sabbath album, Vol. 4, was better though

Like this album quite a bit. Some of my favorite Smiths songs are here.

Some good songs here, but mostly filler

Pretty great, like most REM

Fun record. I’m not sure how I missed them before.

CCR is great. Solid record of favorites and new discoveries.

Easy 5 star. One of my favorites.

I wore this tape out in middle school. I really like this album.

Classic. Some really great songs on here.

I love ‘It’s a Sin’, and ‘Rent’ was a fun discovery, but overall I didn’t love the record.

I saw Iron Butterfly in concert in 1995. They saved In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida until the end, but I couldn’t make it that long. They were awful. The album was better than the live performance, but not by a lot.

Not as good as his work with the Smiths, but not bad.

They’d probably be fun to see live, but the songs themselves aren’t really anything special.

I love the Velvet Underground and David Bowie, but I can’t make myself love Lou Reed.

I’m bumping this one up one point, because I’m told it’s an influential album.

Pretty great. Excellent example of 90s alternative, on its way to what would eventually be emo.

Great record. I’m beginning to worry that I’m being too generous, so I’m tempted to give fewer 5s. This one still deserves a 5 though. A great band’s peak; everyone here is at the height of their powers.

Beyond ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’, they are a fairly generic late-sixties band.

A couple great songs here, and the rest of the album is pretty good too.

I like ‘Wish You Were Here’ and ‘the Wall’ better, but this album is still a 5.

The title track was familiar to me from the Jackie Brown soundtrack, but the rest of the album wasn’t very memorable.

I’m bumping this up to 2 stars for the big swing, but this was a miss. Too much ambient noise, and not enough music.

Not really my style, but a few great songs here.

Not bad for a live album.

This album really brings back a particular time/place for me. The title track was everywhere in 1992. Not a great album but good enough.

One of my favorites; an easy 5*. This album has absolutely no skips.

Hysteria is the last vinyl LP I ever bought, and it still holds a warm place in my heart. It’s a perfect example of late 80s metal-ish rock, but it feels a little weird listening to it today. It feels too of-it’s-time.

I’m the perfect age/race/gender demographic to be a huge Radiohead fanatic, but they never really did anything for me. I can recognize that there is musical talent, but there isn’t any there there. There’s no blood going to it.

This is ok.

Aside from ‘We are Family’ and ‘He’s the Greatest Dancer’, the album is mostly forgettable.

Lovely, well-crafted record. Over the last 27 years I think it’s aged down to a 4*, but still good.

Generic Brit Pop. Nothing to really hold on to. It’s been a few hours since I listened to the album, and I’ve largely forgotten it.

Great, great record. It’s almost hard to believe that this was from 1967

This album, with the exception of the dirge-like ‘Hand Jive’, is really fantastic. Eric Clapton is a piece of shit, so there’s no way he gets 5 stars.

5 Stars. Noisy. Buzzy. But still with a pop sensibility. ‘100 Percent’ and ‘Sugar Kane’ are standouts, as was a off-kilter cover of the New York Doll’s ‘Personality Crisis’.

Strong record.

I’m afraid I have too many 5 star albums, and I don’t want to give this 5, but it’s a great fucking live record.

A somewhat forgotten 60s band. There wasn’t anything I really disliked about the album, but there wasn’t much I loved either. No songs that really stood out, either way. Just a nice album.

Dusty has a beautiful voice, and ‘Son of a Preacherman’ is fantastic, but the rest of the album all kind of blends together. Still a beautiful record though.

It sounds well produced, and she has a nice voice, but I couldn’t really connect to any of them until.

The worst David Bowie record I’ve ever heard. It’s still… pretty good, but pretty good is real step down.

Dad Rock, but not bad. Just not that great either.

I loved this album when it came out, but it got over shadowed pretty quickly by newer artists whose delivery was a little smoother and conversational, eg. Rakim. Still, it is an incredibly important record that those later artists stood on the shoulders of to make ‘better’ records afterward.

Nice songs. Many artists of the sixties and seventies were inspired by the Everly Brothers, namely Paul Simon. Not an amazing record, but a nice listen, with recognizable songs that are hard to resist.

Great record. An easy 4*. But Michael Jackson is a child rapist, so he gets a one star penalty.

Interesting album. It is like a pop singer and a crooner fell in love.

I kind of liked this album.

Not my type of thing most of the time, but I enjoyed this.

I can’t really get into Kraftwerk. At least this album is better than Autobahn.

Fantastic record. Easily top 5 all time.

Fantastic record. Holds up brilliantly.

There are some 4-5* songs on this album, but not enough of them.

The movie quotes probably go on a little too long, but otherwise the production here is impressive. Dense and layered. One of the stronger Wu-Tang solo albums

Pleasantly surprised. Nice chill vibe, but interesting too.

Great record.

Good record, but not his best.

Fantastic record. Definitely in my top ten, possibly top five. Everything works here, and each member contributes work that is among the very best of their careers.

Surprising good album. I knew their big radio songs, but that was about it. Maybe not the most emotionally compelling music, but technical proficiency for technical proficiency’s sake has its place.

Lovely voice. It’s a shame that country and western music has drifted so far from the true faith.

Not my kind of thing, but not terrible.

Easy 5*. One of my favorite records.

5*. I was 8 in 1984 when I first heard this record, and I fell in love instantly. It’s definitely a product of its time, and it sounds pretty 80s to this day, but it’s still held up remarkably well. A true classic.

The music is great but transitory, somehow; none of the songs, save ‘Secretly’, have stuck with me at all. I remember enjoying the album, but I couldn’t tell you a second song. Still pretty great though.

Some really great songs here, but it’s too bloated with filler to get 5 stars.