1001 Albums Summary

A bit maudlin for my tastes, even when I'm feeling maudlin myself. Still, quite pleasant and listenable.

Not really my thing. Songs generally landed somewhere between "dollar store Beatles" and "basically OK."

Completely listenable. Good instrumentals, unremarkable lyrics.

A lot better than "My Generation". Surprising amount of covers. Maybe that was just how things were done back in the day?

Not a huge fan of mumbling acoustic guitar guy in general, but I really liked the imagery in A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, and the Abraham Lincoln joke in Talkin World War III Blues.

Cool sounds, but it's amazing that Bob Dylan gets so much shit for being incomprehensible when Radiohead exists. I think I parsed 1% of the lyrics at most.

DNF. I trudged through half an hour of Iggy Pop mumble-screaming while his guitarist played over him before deciding I respect myself too much to suffer through another two hours of this, and I don't respect myself very much. I don't understand how this album is on a list of "albums you must hear before you die" except as a cautionary tale.

Pleasant but unexciting. Mostly, the music just faded into the background. People's Parties and Twisted were the standouts for me and the reason this is getting a 3 rather than a 2.

Yeah, it's the Rolling Stones.

I can't tell whether this album sounds like all other Black Metal, or if all other Black Metal sounds like this album. Either way, not really my thing. I prefer singing to screaming/growling. Teacher's Pet is a pretty funny track, though.

Pretty good.

I started out hating it and was seriously considering DNFing during the first song, but it grew on me. It feels like it could be the soundtrack to an Earthbound-like game. Wilmot was the standout track and the one I saved to put in regular rotation.

Solidly OK.

OK/10

I thought I knew the Beach Boys, but this album showed me a whole new side of them. I liked the slower, more thoughtful songs and lyrics.

I continue to be impressed by Dylan as a lyricist but not so much as a singer or musician.

Good background beats.

Solid listen. I feel like I'm writing this a lot, but 3/5 in my scale basically means "happy to listen to the album, but wouldn't explicitly seek it out to play" and that covers a lot of the spectrum.

My first 4! I'm not exactly sure I'd call it music, but it was a lot of pleasing noises in my ears.

Must... separate... art... from... artist... Ugh, fine, it was good.

Led Zeppelin would be a top tier band if that annoying guy would stop singing and just let the sick guitar riffs flow.

Bittersweet Symphony carries this album, *hard*.