1001 Albums Summary

There were more songs on here I liked than I feared there would be, but it’s still not an album I’d feel the need to revisit.

Great music for mourning a relationship at Barnes and Noble.

Not my favorite Talking Heads album, but there were some bops on here for sure.

Bob Dylan doesn’t do much for me as a singer or lyricist but the instrumentals here really carried the experience.

The performances were solid and consistent, and the album overall had a really cool sound. I’m just not sure it was for me or something I’m going to seek out in the future.

Excellent.

It’s amazing how many of the tracks on here are played on the classic rock stations daily. They’re good but not my cup of tea.

I appreciate how this may have inspired a lot of music I listen to now, but by the mid-point, I said out loud, “we get it!!”

Perfectly fine.

The title is audacious, but it was a really excellent album.

Enjoyed this one thoroughly, and it was added to my regular rotation.

I liked some of these tracks for being goofy and the nice instrumentation. Can’t stand that album cover, though.

Solid reggae but not my cup of tea.

I didn’t realize how much I like Black Sabbath until now. It’s fun that on some of the tracks, Ozzy sounds like he’s on the other side of the room from the mic. RIP Ozzy.

Good, still just not for me.

I suspect that if I discovered them as a teenager, I’d love this band. This just isn’t the right time, and there isn’t anything exceptional here for me.

This album was the epitome of cool when I was a kid, so I still get a kick out of it. It does lose steam a bit in the second half, though.

Some of these tracks felt delightfully edgy for the overall teeny-bopper sound, so I can see how this influenced later rock groups.

Wow, wow, wow. This is one of those albums I’ve seen everywhere but never heard. I’m glad I have now- this has heart, is cohesive, and gorgeous. In the musical Hadestown, the mythical Orpheus has a singing voice so beautiful it can sway the God of the Dead, and is written to sound a lot like the vocal performances here. I have to assume that’s intentional.

This one is so influential and I have a lot of great memories listening to it in 8th grade German class, but it’s still a decently challenging album to just sit down and listen to.

It’s fine, too bad it’s so hard to locate right now.

I’ve already been a fan of this album and Kate Bush’s brand of dreamy, literature-inspired pop. It was nice to give this one a listen again.

It’s pretty enough but really could only be good background music for me.

There’s some really great lyrics on this one with a lot of very important social issues to this day.

RIP Bowie, this one was short and to the point with a great sound.

A lot of particularly great tracks on this one, and they could never make me hate arena rock. Some of the garbled samples weren’t my favorite thing to listen to, though.

Some perfectly pleasant love ballads here, but it felt pretty one note.

I liked this one better than the last Bob Marley album that came up. I am struck by how much I enjoy his lyrics and composition, though it’s still not something I’m going to seek out regularly.

I pretty deeply did not enjoy this one, though there’s nothing innately wrong with it. It’s possible Paul Simon’s voice and lyrics just rub me the wrong way.

There were a lot of cool experimental sounds on this, but I don’t expect to revisit it often.

This album had a very pleasant sound, just didn’t blow me away with anything.

Of the albums I’ve listened to so far, I think Kendrick’s the performer I’d most consider an artist. He has such a clear vision and point of view, and this was a really intriguing listen. I particularly enjoyed some of the references he made, like the interpolation of “Jump Around” about suicidal ideation.

They could never make me hate you, The White Stripes, but this album probably could have had several tracks removed. It is an excellent garage rock record overall, though, and it does experiment with a range of sounds I enjoyed.

Although I don't detest this era of the Beatles the way I do later albums, I would still rather be listening to the Monkees or, frankly, The Beach Boys. Has a band ever used more annoying repetition?

This felt like a perfectly enjoyable rock album, but I’m unsure on what about it necessitated its placement on this list. I’d consider it a cool find if I discovered it organically, but there’s nothing on here that Kiss or a similar band weren’t doing a good decade prior.

Easily one of the better live albums I’ve ever heard- they sounded great here and the entire recording had excellent energy.

My favorite music genre is ordinarily the type of alt rock that serves as the soundtrack of craft breweries. For an album with such an audacious title, this was incredibly mid and the vocals were grating.