1001 Albums Summary

only listened to discs 1+2. Was wonderful!! Definitely a Christmas pick

Sounds like if the moody blues was a radiohead. Will put it on if i get my heart broken :'B

Very fun 60s pre-psychedelick. The melodies are there, creative drums, a lotta surf rock. Little more ambitious than the other projects of this type, it feels like. Would definitely listen again.

Thought this album sounded terrible and wooden at first. It wasn't until listen 3 that i realized the equalizer settings were just weird and had washed out all the sparkle from the guitar and any edge from the voice. PSA for the Spotify listeners: make sure the equalizer is NOT set to 'rock'! >:(

I appreciate the spirit of this album even though its perhaps not my cup of tea. The songs sound kind of samey and the songwriting isnt my favorite. The guitar rips, though; loud sounds, cool riffs and those planet-shattering, laconic solos.

Was busy and only got to give it one listen. I loved it! Excited to relisten and discover more.

I really thought I'd had my fill of alt rock but this one I really loved. It makes sense I suppose. Later alt acts were trying to capture some of what they heard here, where Stipe and co. were drinking straight from the creative wellspring. It really took me a sec to warm up to Stipe's vocals and the songwriting. My morning listen left me feeling lukewarm and was ready to slap on the 3 participation stars come tomorrow. Fortune had it that I had nothing to read for the commute home so I spun it again. When 'hairshirt' hit I realized just how much I dig this album. I listened to it twice more after that. Good shit.

Great album but bound with so many teenage emotions and memories that I would rather leave in the past

Revolutionary camp. What a wonderful surprise.

I had never listened to Hejira before but I feel somehow that it has been there my whole life. It fills me with nostalgia.

thank you elliott 🌹🌸🌻

Used to love sonic youth as a teenager but this album just sounds like a collection of terrible melodies over sonic experiments that hardly feel experimental. My favorite sonic youth tunes have a sense of narrative; im thinking of the hooks of their 90s stuff and the soundscapes of daydream nation. This has none of that. Just dry pentatonic warbling and ironic yelling on a lame art school project.

Sounded like a samey fuzzy mush on first listen, with songs that ran way too short. Appreciated it much more on the second listen. The songwriting is lovely and goes down nicely. It lives and dies by that distorted 90s jangle, though. It is something you just have be in the mood for, like truffle mayo.

Its hard to judge this album on its own merits when its stylistic elements currently sit at the bottom of the cultural depreciation curve; the reverbed yammering guitars, the 80s nostalgia, the overly earnest millenial sentimentality. I didnt connect with it at all, to say the least.