1001 Albums Summary

i liked the organ. fun jazz rock. i could do without the cheesy callouts to other tracks. also the satie themes.

really liked it. kind of boring in the middle though

sorry paul this isnt for me

short, inoffensive blues rock. not quite the direction i expected the band to take after the first two albums

bangers top to bottom

a real easy listen in 2025. nowhere near as challenging as bitches brew, but just as enjoyable.

I'd rather listen to Rio. middle and end of the album is a chore

i dont want to just hand out 5/5s but this is actually amazing

what can I say

easiest listen yet. not bad though

i think late 2010s - early 2020s music primed me to like 80s music more

loved this album since hearing it for the first time in college. crazy it came out in 91

honestly liked it more than morrison hotel. though it feels a lil weird bc it clearly sounds like a drugged up white woman trying to sound like a black woman

top heavy imo. cool

just makes me so happy

i just wish it was noisier

cool album. a bit too theatrical for me. reminded me of bowie

important but eh

eclectic. dont think its his best work tho

cool stuff. never had the chance to check them out but liked it much more than i expected to.

i dont think this aged all too well. sounds somewhere in between soundcloud and flight of the conchords.

it has money for nothing so it cant be a 1

nicely executed but id rather be listening to the beatles or simon and garfunkel

kids in williamsburg wish they sounded half as good as bert

super fun. 3.5

nice and progressive for its time. 3.5

kinda preachy but good. better than sex pistols but johnny rotten is still not my fav vocalist

cool stuff. punky and thrashy. aged infinitely better than the sex pistols

theater kids of the world unite!

it good but stories gooder

never a bad time to skank

there is no way a pop act today can pull off this side b

the noise is great. but turns out there is such a thing as too much lo-fi

easy. tried a bunch of genres but others have done those sounds much better

first half is banging. id rather be listening to bcnr tho. 3.5

aged surprisingly well. 3.5

75 minutes of fred durst that i cant get back

1001 albums dads must listen to feel validated about their music tastes. 1.5

title track is a bit overrated but overall this is beautiful work.

deserves a relisten. the kind of sound that wont feel dated for a long time. 3.5

as good as a full blues album can get

conflicted about this one. they can obviously all play, but it sounds to me like 30 minutes of ringo songs. somewhere between 2 and 4.

its no east coast. 3.5

dylan and cohen could not have prepared me for this mans voice.

pleasant, though i can hear the beginnings of future bands that i hate. 3.5

shouldve cut the fluff and kept it 45 mins

i thought the high paced songs up front were corny but the slower stuff later on are somehow even cornier

malkmus can have my firstborn child

slash is great! axl rose is great at times. really tight debut album. if im feeling particularly grumpy i could see this album slipping to a 2-2.5 due to axl being annoying. 3.5

fun stuff

im sure it's important. 2-

the album that convinced spongebob that mr krabs is a robot

rock opera can be good, actually

a bad free dessert doesnt make a bad meal. 4.5. it would be cool to listen to a rawer version, a la let it be naked

i like rhps. but the kitschy tongue in cheek fun of the film is lost without, well, the film.

please, robert, i dont need more inches of your love

this album could kill a small victorian child

love the guitar tone. too long for a genre that i admittedly dislike.

no many can stay schizoid after listening to this album

6 more beers should do it

i probably wouldve loved this in college

idt i can rate d&b but i thoroughly enjoyed it

lol why did i spend my 8th grade listening to Im the Man by Anthrax?

some good songs but there are better punk records from the era.

i mean yeah it's maggot brain

there is a great album underneath the mix. i wanna hear more of the guitar and the bass

funky, easy listen. 3.5

listens like a proto-thievery corporation, even though they are from the same era. enjoyable

bookends are great, but the slower songs are not doing it for me. 3.5

christmas is a good time for the wall of sound

it sure sounds like yes

competent playing, but the vocals and songwriting arent all too inspiring

sex music for 50 year old white men with 23 year old filipina wives

pretty but a lil boring

i apologize blur i was not familiar with your game

some passionate blues

long, but engaging. i should check out more wilco beyond schmilco

fun but nothing crazy

good album for a long road trip

cool, but dated. could do without the narration

yes, it's a cover album. yes, the production kinda sounds like a karaoke machine. but somehow everything comes together as a nice, warm package. 3.5

van halen gone pop. it's fine but id rather be listening to black sabbath or their debut

generic dad rock with ok vocals

tbh i started this project expecting to find more gems like this one. all the stars

it is blues. it is live.

diet mj

this is a noise rock album. the good: i love noise rock. the bad: the noise on this album is subpar. the ugly: the rock is bad.

5/5 side A and a 2/5 side B

catchy. i really dont mind his voice

less theatrical than their subsequent releases, and dare i say more approachable despite the harshness. 4.5

not crazy about the strings or the ballads. i prefer sail away or little criminals

fun, veers a bit too close to hair metal for me. 3.5

there are bangers but its just so long

rest in pieces asshole

great folk rock. harmonies are tight, and just sweet enough without verging into kitschy arena rock territory. i do find the head voice/falsetto thing a little grating from time to time

some cute songs, but syd needs the band i fear

banger intro into middling new wave.

cool weird folk album. wouldve liked it more if i liked his voice a bit more. reminds me of bombay bicycle club dude. 3.5

maybe im in a better mood today. liked it better than sheer heart attack, though my general vibes about the music stayed the same. 2.5

Mike Oldfield! Tubular Bells! 3!

man we shouldn't have ordered the appetizers

acoustic stuff is neat. hard rock of this era sounds more kitschy every day

some good songs, but veers too theatrical. a big eh. 2.5

man im sure itd be better if i had a boat. 3.5

loved this in hs/college. still a lot of fun. 3.5

sorry billy i wasnt familiar with your game (minus the saxophone. or everybody has a dream, which might be the worst song ive heard through this project)

somewhere between the beach boys and the beatles there lies an uncanny valley where the kinks reside

Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray!

funky, but too smooth for me. probably the lightest 4 i have given yet

great drums. albarn veers close to radiohead with little success.

the weird one. i know they wanted to be nice but they really shouldnt have given ringo a song

this album caught me during a pop rock kick. i was ready for a quick 4/5 after the first song. unfortunately there are duds on this album and they hit like a truck. the iron man cover rules though fuck the haters

Growing pains album for the Beatles. It sits awkwardly between the cutesy, if derivative Please Please Me and a much more defined sound of Hard Days Night. All My Loving is such a banger though

a few standout tracks, and a lil long. the genre doesnt do anything for me

cool debut that sounds part beach boys and part beatles. tough acts to be compared to. 2.5

strong. i still prefer their later work

fun psych punk

it sounds so good!!! wait, who's album is this? ice cube? the actor? the black israelite?? the racist whisperer???

standard new r&b. the paak feature was nice. 3.5

tight, but closer to elevator music than to any kind of statement

cool piano work. happy to have listened to another bowie

some cool songs, but even i have to admit that these post punk records are starting to sound samey. 3.5

free-range

gotta respect the scope. there are certainly good parts, but they are almost always followed up by inexplicable choices. they try so hard to sound like bowie; it's a shame that they sound the best when they sound nothing like bowie.

didnt think id like this this much. sultry done in the coolest way.

i can see why people think yorke and co. have their heads up their asses. mine just happens to be right in there with them.

one of the few i have on vinyl. a classic

one of the best ways to get any audio setup to sound like a Motorola RAZR

soundtrack to my middle school years. second half is a drag though. 3.5

they somehow picked all the good songs out of their "best of" compilation album and put it on their debut

cash sounds great. the live audience actively takes away from the experience. good thing future live recordings learned restraint.

did YOU know rock can ORCHESTRA? did you KNOW orchestra can ROCK?? they try so hard to be grand and flush but they just dont have the songwriting or arranging chops for it. actively grating for a lot of the 70 minute runtime. generous 2

it's kind of kickass, but only for so long. after 30 minutes it all jumbles into a kitschy blob akin to KISS. yuck. sides A and B are both 4 star EPs, that together make a 3. 3.5

it was a revelation when this dropped in (maybe just after?) college. he stepped up big with scope and managed to deliver. was an immediate AOTY contender for me. 4.5

imagine an album recorded by one of those summer camps for artsy high schoolers but the campers are actually all homeschooled by ren faire fanatics

mostly nice coding music, but it gets absolutely unbearable the moment a human being starts singing in a human language

turns out i wasnt missing out on much. millennial machismo

i had always assumed that they were a saccharine acoustic coffeeshop duet. delightfully surprised. easy listening in a pretty velvet underground kind of way

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Record

one of the prettiest albums on the list

actually hated the first 10 minutes. bog standard conscious hip hop that gets 6th graders going. but the project really sheds its cringe and gets pretty tight by the end

it sounds pretty good, but it doesnt move me

stupid hard to find. even the "version" i found was a spotify playlist with a song missing. anyway thanks for inventing rock mr domino

admittedly my favorite sufjan record. amazingly lush and pretty but hard to keep engaged for the entirety of 75 minutes.

really enjoyable. somewhere in between Talking Heads and the Poilce? I think I prefer this to the latter's work

more crude, less talented version of mf doom. 3.5

actually pretty fun.

johnny this is how you do a live album

sometimes fun, sometimes cringe, sometimes pleasant.

what vulfpeck could have sounded like if they didnt go for the safest sound imaginable. 4.5

incredible.

the joni mitchell that was promised. 4.5

this sounds like a multimillion dollar Hollywood production trying an art house film. or like an AI generated Bond soundtrack

this shits too long and the dude cant sing but somehow i find myself keep coming back to it

supposedly knowing the lyrics are critical to experience this album to its fullest. it feels unfair, but im not here for a reading exercise. the music is pleasant enough. this may be what radiohead sounds like to people who dislike radiohead

yet another album that make me question the popularity and endurance of sex pistols

pretty good singer songwriter record. weirdly reminded me of elton john and pj harvey. 3.5

it's cool. quintessential 80s sound without sounding too cheesy

the first song bangs. id rather be listening to sweet trip tbh. 3.5

artists I don't understand the love for: 1. elvis costello 2. nick cave 3. dire straits

the best of the old-man-with-deep-raspy-voice-sings-pseudo-philosophical-songs genre

not beating the singles band allegations

who is this new man and why is he screaming proto butt rock at me

coming into this blind, im relatively surprised to learn that it's a sin is the hit single off this album. sarcastic, introspective, danceable. whats not to like?

i unfairly overlooked bob marley for being "stoner music" but his notoriety is justified.

amazingly fresh. stylish. futuristic. clairvoyant.

better than i expected, but still a bit bland and too long. 2.5

ive heard funner and ive heard angrier, but still appeals to me

lol my fault for expecting grrl punk

interesting. unfolds like a thom yorke musical.

nile rogers is a magician. imo chic isnt having a city pop level revival bc orientalism and weeaboos

jack white and modest mouse sing sea shanties

cool psych rock. lacks an umph as a contemporary of pet sounds and revolver but it's interesting in its own way. 3.5

sensational. prophetic, even.

raw power

"sickly sweet" you comment as you go for another bite

really pretty. stronger than bridge over troubled water imo. less cheesy and more consistent

one of my hottest music takes is that the beach boys v. beatles rivalry was entirely fabricated by salty uncle sam fanboys. it is lush and pretty at times, though. 3.5

hard to think of a double album that's tighter. 4.5

there are good songs in here, but it's a pretty hard listen as a whole because 1) blown out mastering; really annoying and almost unlistenable on headphones 2) long runtime and 3) there are too many subpar songs to wait for the good songs to come

ok psych rock. pleasant enough but unsure if its place on the list is warranted

so much character. proto pj harvey

cheesy. dated. but somehow still refreshing

easy listening. the raga at the end bumps a half star

imagine the stuff they could be writing if they listened to more than just blues

it's ok. theres better sludge and better grunge out there.

sure the lyrics are overrated but this is still a great blues/pysch rock record

nothing to fault, but nothing to note either. i guess the synthy parts in the middle of the album were kinda cool

definition of mid

the band can play, and there are a couple good songs. but most of the album is such a drag

you have to admit that his arranging chops are top notch. his singing takes away from what is otherwise a great experience. 3.5

there are some weak tracks, but the stones are legit

time to go listen to pink moon ig. 4.5

itt: people rating deadheads instead of the album. the album isnt that much better though

REM did it better. 3.5

fun and catchy. much prefer this to american idiot

bro -1 star for that ray charles impression tf

beautiful for the most part. partially overcooked

i dont think this is much weaker than kid a. people got fatigued maybe?

why do these dudes insist on releasing hour long chorefests? you cannot tell me i needed to listen to this over weezer's debut or neutral milk hotel before i died. 1.5

it's fun. 3.5

better than his debut, but i think this might be the uncanny valley between pop and experimental music.

the black keys could never

a weird mix of art rock and butt rock that i didnt expect. pretty cool (?)

crazy that diet rubber soul can go #1 the same year sgt pepper came out

fun. music i dont mind hearing at a random restaurant. 3.5

amazing prelude to spaceman's spiritualized work

people when they get a britpop album that was stale the day it came out: 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 people when they get anything remotely novel: 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

the piano tunes kind of save this cheesy mess

i dont like his voice. american girl is great. the rest of the album comes off as proto butt rock. 2.5

why cant van halen copycats sound half as good as van halen? the world may never know. 4.5

took me back to my college indian music class

i do not understand why they felt the need to include 2 albums by peter gabriel, let alone 3. that said, this is clearly his best album on this list.

fun, good. 3.5

strong, trippy start to weaker finish. cant wait to listen to mezzanine

freak scen, budge, and dont are amazing.

never heard it before, despite the fact that it was released between sitkol and innervisions. wanted to like it more, but the ballads feel a lil weak for me. 3.5

great voice. a record id enjoy hearing at a record store, but probably not one that i would actively look for. 3.5

starts with that one meme song. it's aight

this thing gets better everytime i hear it

this one fell through the cracks while i was in school. familiar with a bunch of the songs. there is a world where i wouldve obsessed over fleet foxes over alt j. 4.5

nice singer-songwriter record. great $1 bin find

good coding music. pleasant

i was being a stubborn lil fuck skipping on this one back in HS

dated then, still dated now.

second album on this list that is almost unlistenable due to the awful mastering. shit compression + fake vintage production apparently doesnt sound so good.

refreshing & rocking. probably was a breath of fresh air with all the art rock head assery happening around the time.

worse than i remember

when people ask me "what kind of music do you like?", i used to say some corny shit like "i listen to everything, except for contemporary country." now i can confidently say some corny shit like "i listen to everything, except for country."

apparently im just a sucker for standards

amazingly dark and amazingly musical

energetic, powerful. a bit long?

just inoffensive sounds that blend into the background for me. cohen works better in writing than in music imo

he's really not all that bad at singing. 4.5

gonna tell my kids this is boygenius. 3.5

it's like a bowl of overcooked butter noodles

fun. but id rather pick up de la soul or digable planets tbh. 3.5

great. i think i prefer bowie's later stuff these days though.

how much ambien do you have to take to dance to this for an hour?

my review from Everything Must Go still stands. it sounds pretty good, until i get reminded of coldplay. 3.5

oh no beck is sad! anyway

banging post punk record

cows have awful taste

kitsch

pretty, but nondescript folk rock for me. not quite getting the hype

didnt think much of this when it initially released, but it really is a culmination of his life's work. on a side note, his most radioheadesque album

weirdly reminds me of morrissey. at times pretty, and at times bland. 2.5

never heard of Numan, and never heard Cars. neat songs. veers samey all too much.

miles davis before he was miles davis i guess.

their best work. no fluff, just 40 minutes of a band crashing down a flight of stairs. 4.5

just a collection of oasis side Bs

fun. great every other song, meh every other song. 3.5

it's jangle pop from '87.

peter gabriel with a sprinkle of david bowie that somehow doesnt really work

twilight zone music. abrasive, but coherent. really surprised to find out that throbbing gristle is a collective, and not a solo project.

crazy music by a crazy man. per npr: "With Fela's danceable, almost trance-like grooves and political lyrics, he started a youth movement that rebelled against the repressive postcolonial government and military. For that, he was jailed about 100 times. ... The military breached the electric fence that protected his compound, threw his mother out a second-story window and burned his home to the ground. He's also a problematic figure. ... He had 27 female backup singers and dancers and married all of them in one day. He didn't believe AIDS was real, advised men not to use condoms and even wrote a song about it. And when he contracted AIDS, he denied that was possible."

just get the Greatest Of CD

he funny asl

wasnt for me back in 2009, isnt for me now. downtempo apple adverts. some instrumentals sound alright (Fantasy, etc.), but they lose me again once they start singing

thrash, sounds like a natural evolution of what metallica was doing. i think i prefer roots?

another victim of the loudness war. not as bad as some rick rubin stuff on the list, but still noticeable. pretty nice r&b otherwise. 2.5

less fun than the debut. the band sounds more polished, but the singer somehow sounds more unbearable. there is no reason for kings of leon to have 3 albums on this list

good, but doesn't hit like the berlin trilogy. 3.5

rockabilly punk! pretty cool stuff. wish the recording quality was a bit better. 3.5

might be a tad bit overrated 3.5

not bad. first half kind of foreshadows his gorillaz work. too long tho

strong first half. forgettable rest of the way

motion picture americana, kind of in a kitschy way

fun & horny. too horny for far too long though lmao

pretty fun cuban rhythm album

sweet piece of vocal jazz. i could do with less scatting and less quips. 3.5

imagine being so racist that you think frank fucking ocean is the herald of the end of western civilization lmfao

surprisingly ok, given that i thought blood and chocolate was unbearable. i cant do much more than 30 minutes of his voice though