1001 Albums Summary

A masterpiece, of course.

Great, a classic.

Has Sympathy for the Devil on it. Killer.

Fine I guess.

What has seven arms and sucks dick?

Not my style, I can see the marks of genius though.

Happy that I listened. Not sure if I ever will again.

Genuinely terrible. I have never listened to anything so unlike my own music taste.

Fine I guess. Lot of place names.

Very funky, very fresh.

Elevator music.

Happy I listened. Fascinating album. That said, I will probably never listen again.

Too sad.

Okay, nothing to write home about. Can't think there is better out there.

I can, of course, understand why it's here. That does not mean I should find it phonetically pleasing. It is much too plain, too dark and dismal.

Surprisingly pretty good.

Haunting

Nothing for me here.

This band, man. We just operate on different wave lengths I think

Very fun listen, glad this is on the list.

Eh. Fine

Great. Fun stuff.

Whatever. Another boring collection of samples.

A great lesson that talented musicians can throw everything they have into an album and write songs that suck.

Terrible, incredibly boring.

This was actually really good, I was very impressed.

Much more interesting than other purely electronic albums that have appeared here - still quite boring. 3/5.

Goddam, too many 3's on this list. What is this, my kill count?

Oh no. Not another Kraftwerk.

This was much more fun and enjoyable to listen to than so many of these supposedly genius albums which are, in fact, nothing but droning drivel.

Great stuff

Excellent songwriting.

Good, not great.

Yeah this was terrible.

I was expecting much better from this list. This is awful.

Just very boring.

Too bad half is on here.

Hey this guy's pretty good.

Too bad, it got interesting near the end, but it took a very long time to get there.

Disappointing.

One of the most pleasant surprises I've come across on this list. Phenomenal.

Fascinating, but long. Whenever I hear improvised music, I think "this could have really used some writing and refining."

When Doves Cry is one of the best songs of all time.

As a metalhead and punk fan, this was disappointing.

Maybe I don't like punk?

3/5

Listened to this after lunch on a relatively boring workday. Terrible idea. Nothing interesting at all going on here. 2/5.

Magical, almost religious - 4/5

DNF. I hate these guys. If there's another album from them on this list, it starts to fall apart.

I don't know if I'm doing this guy a disservice. I keep listening to his music and I feel there's something deeper there I just can't reach. My understanding of Sufjan remains superficial. Maybe I'm missing out. Maybe it's just pretentious postering.

Hell yeah.

Very interesting. Will probably never listen again.

The most British thing I've ever heard.

This list, man. It makes you wade through miles of shit and, just when you're about to give up, gives you such a pleasant surprise that it almost makes you forget you had to listen to three Kraftwerk albums to get here.

Good, way too long.

The world is so full of wonderful things, not least of which are people so different from me that they listened to this album and gave it five stars. Their reality is so different than mine that I can't really imagine it. That said, this fucking sucked.

Like every other Radiohead album - fine, I guess.

Ehh whatever. Disappointing. 2/5.

Should be higher than 3, but for the sake of consistency, this is what it has to be. 3.5/5

I just can't get into these guys.

Music is subjective.

Hell yeah dude \m/

This sure is an album. Very apposite for a list that should be called "1001 albums"

A pleasant surprise. The list should be more like this, rather than "albums you've never heard of because they absolutely suck."

Should be a bonus point for licking fly as fuck on the album cover.

Fascinating. 3.5.

Hell yeah. So fun.

How fascinating that this list is full of review criticizing the sonic qualities of this album when, so far, it's one of the only entries in the entire list with any melody at all. In terms of musicianship, which should be the entire analysis, these guys are worlds better than anything Bjork or Kraftwerk could ever dream of. I don't care at all how "avant grade" or "experimental" those other albums were, this stuff is raw, primal, music. The list should be more like this, and less improvised brit pop telling the story of some guy growing up in the projects in Gloucester. That's a long winded way of saying: "Lot of fucking nerds here. This shit bangs. 4/5 because there are much better metal bands, but beggars and choosers."

Goddam this is so boring.

DNF. Can't do more brit pop, I just can't do it, oh God make it stop, they all sound the same, they all sing about phalluses, please let it end.

I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I was that guy who said "everyone who thinks Coldplay is a shit band is a fucking idiot" and instantly blew my brains out. I am writing this review as a spectre to say that anyone who gets that defensive about this four chord piece of overhyped trash should listen to someone do a musical scale and have an out of body experience about how many notes exist. This is the epitome of "it's alright".

Didn't this guy canonically turn into a monkey?

Meh

Come on man, I'm at work.

Honestly the biggest head scratcher so far. I might have to buy this book to understand why in the world anyone would put this on the list. I sincerely don't get it.

Lord Almighty

Maybe it'll get to four. I have to listen to it again while I'm not working. I'm more of a melody man, but there is something here.

What an unbelievable run of songs. Guy was just a kid, but his music seems to reach some mystical place where the songs are discovered rather than written. Crazy. Voice sucks but hey man, so does mine.

What a snooze fest.

Meh

Man this is PUNK

Killer, would be high if it wasn't for that Bonita Applebum song

I might have to get the book so I can understand the rationale for some of these albums being included. Perhaps there was a category for best super market background album? Even then, it's hard to believe this was the best.

Couldn't do it, just couldn't do it today

Fun Lovin' indeed.

Impossibly long.

It's too bad. A select few of these songs are great. They're unfortunately surrounded by songs which are not so great.

Just write a damn song.

There are so many better metal albums out there, it's too bad thrash gets a place of prominence on this list.

This is a really long time to wait at the pharmacy

There are two versions of the same song on this album. Like all songs, it was so forgettable that I forgot anything about how it sounded when it came around the second time. Just awful.

So nice, I had to listen to it twice. What a voice.

This racist is really good at guitar.

Haunting

Meh

Good Lord

Incredibly fucking weird.