1001 Albums Summary

steely dan meets mr. tumnus 6.8 turkish delights out of 10

3.9/10 2 listens, decent vibe but ain't it for me, nothing that makes me want to come back to it

Kinda sucks kinda boring but Perfect Day is great in Trainspotting soooo 4.1/10

4.6 boring but decent

iconic, pretty solid, a few classics sprinkled in, YEP must be the police 6.8/10

not an attentive listen-through 6.2/10

solid ass piece of HISTORY this is some good shit. the hits are great and the rest of it is decent 7.3/10

meh 4.5/10

not bad but not for me 5/10

i liked the part where the trumpet went like BRRRrrrrRRRrrr and the guitar went BWwwwAAaaanggGggg and the drums were all badumtssbmtsss tsstsstsskchkch tss tss kch and the dawg was all ccrreeaakkkk🐕🗣🐕🗣 5.7/10

Overhype + beatles legacy aside, what a great fuckin album 9.5/10

I weirdly really like it 6.9/10

I almost like it, this dude has like 29 studio albums so Im sure we let him cook and he's bound to release some bangers in his future, but for this one spoken epics to the strums of a citar weren't doing it for me Season of the witch went kinda hard though 5.6/10

Classic jam, fun listen 6.8/10

Just very fine. New Year's Day fuckin bumps but overall its pretty lax and inoffensive and easy 6.1/10

Great sound, fun listening, style variety, havana gang brawl gets the people going, it's only left me trying to figure out who tf killed..... the zutons? 7/10

Cool sound cool vibe good groove 6.5/10

Nah bro this guy stinks. Meandering and boring 4/10

Kinda fun, Eli's Comin' favorite song, but the random tempo changes were jarring every single time and sometimes made it feel more like a broadway show than an album 4.4/10

NO clue what the album was about but interesting sound 4.4/10

fine but not my thing 5/10

Started kinda cool and chill but maintained snoozefest status until the end. Didn't bring in enough fresh and memorable sound or ideas, likely won't listen to it again 5.2/10

Pretty good album, interesting and a little strange, would listen to again 7/10

I think it's fine but also I sadly (irrationally) haaate the vocals and just dislike the sound. Droning and mushed together (probably on purpose) and not for me 4/10

Immigrant Song goes hard but the rest is a chill banjo sesh as I phase in and out of consciousness to the sound of incomprehensible wailing vocals somewhere off in the distance 6/10

1. Why is every single one of these songs nostalgically familiar 2. I went in ready to hate but I'm getting why these are kinda """influential""" 3. The Model best on the album 4. Not THAT bad 4.3/10

Very awful It's got it all: - These vocals annoy me - Yo dude let's put this really funny loud song in the middle - Blues - I didn't think it could get any worse but then he goes and covers Downtown Train the boomer anthem Both a bad album and also hits most of the things I don't like in music 1.3/10

Good ass album, just an enjoyable listen whole way through. What Is Life gets the catchy award, Hear Me Lord favorite song award 7/10

Me listening to tres hombres: 🛌🛌🛌🛌😃🛌🛌🛌😃(live) I'm sure there's stuff to chew on here but not on my first and only listen 3.9/10

Honestly I don't hate it, kind of a nice mix up to listen to 6.1/10

Hard to come up with things I like about this album, which is surely part of the bit in this satirical take on music in the 60s. Counterpoint: pitched up voices aren't funny 1.5/10

Fine, jangly, decent 5/10

Not even the worst thing ever, catch me on a good day and I could listen to this again for fun. Weird but not in an annoying way 6/10

Neat but a little forgettable. It has layers, like an onion, but I also don't want to listen to it twice, also much like an onion. If I had to really dig for essential, I COULD SEE how it might be a vertebra in the backbone of all space rock made in the last 20 years, but yeah 5.8/10

Total banger in every single way, best song In My Bed 9/10

Boring and unessential 3.9/10

Something about these wispy backing vocals really gets me dude. I'm clearly missing something about the "best album ever created by mankind" but nah we're just pretty boring and a little annoying out here. I think I could actually fall asleep to this album 3.2/10

No thank you not vibing with this much. At random I couldn't tell you where each song lays in the album 3.4/10

Listen to that tambourine work good lord. Fun folksy jammers that are maybe a little too similar to each other 6/10

I used to listen to this mf a lot a few years ago so coming back felt pretty good. Someone Somewhere is a fucking siiiiick way to start an album, and Promised You A Miracle still bumps. Meshes together well but it's a lot more vibey and drawn out than I remember 6.7/10

I like an hour of jazz as much as the next guy and big ups to my boy duke but this was just an ok little unstructured jamfest 5/10

Decent listen, love the hits + tolerate the rest. The sound is pretty iconic while also being a little meandering, very likely won't listen to it again 4.8/10

Pleasant + chill listen. The spotify autoplay that took over after this album ended was more fun 5.3/10

I really didn't love the opening track and was ready for 2 hours of RnB, but then Have A Talk With God had some character, and Contusion was just cool af for no reason, and then the rest of the album just a solid fun rich varied listening experience. This steve guy is talented 7.4/10

Just fine, probably a pillar of music from the 60s or something but as far as a 2025 listening experience it's ok 5.2/10

Fun listen but a little forgettable 5.1/10

Decent listen, I always wonder if the meaning of morrissey's music is way more shallow than I assume or way more deep 6.8/10

Quality. Top rated 1001 album of all time, I'm not too sure about, but I like it a lot 8.2/10

Great album. Dirty Diana is 🔥 8.1/10

Cool sound but too chill for me 6.1/10

I definitely liked this more than I should have - just a good sound, tight focus, nothing extravagant but also nothing offensive to my ears 6/10

I love Christmas music more than most, but these were just nice little small classics from the 60s. Just decent 4.8/10

Great album, a little whispy sometimes which isn't my favorite but otherwise super solid 7.8/10

Vibey and kinda cool, Jennifer was so sick for no reason but otherwise Experimental Rock to Chill and Space Out To 5/10

Not great, an hour and a half of the same thing, until Fire Engine came along which was especially quite bad 3.2/10

Radiohead might be the #1 artist I've tried many times to get into but I just can't love, BUT this album was pretty sick even if it doesn't 100% crunch with me 8.4/10

Really not bad at all, has some stuff to chew on 6.3/10

BIASED REVIEW ALERT: I like this album a lot, it's pretty good 7.4/10

Yes, very annoying, but also, not that bad at the same time. Our melodic frontman Tom died at the ripe old age of 73 in 2023 4.5/10

Pleasant 50s noise. I like sinatra but I don't love sinatra 5.7/10

Decent, doesn't evoke any more emotion than that 5.7/10

Simple but not even bad at all 6.2/10

Hey chatgpt please turn these popular songs into elevator music except knowing 1001albums these guys probably invented elevator music before elevators even existed YO BUT THE KEYBOARD SOLO HALFWAY THROUGH LONELY AVENUE? still a 3.5/10

Not terrible but also not something I ever want to listen to again, annoying vocals 3.8/10

"finally some good fuckin food" after the last few 6.5/10

Fun jazz with lots of personality 7.1/10

Decent but not the most enjoyable Talkings Heads I've ever listened to. Kinda abrasive 5.9/10

Super cool weird album that's a great listen. The band knows they're cookin up some cool shit. WAY DOWN ... to HEAVEN 7.7/10

As cheesy as Kanye is, great album. Not being jazz elevates it slightly as well 8.3/10

Take a trumpet mix in a drum set bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes you get a neat but mostly forgettable 39 minutes of jazz 6.0/10

I thought I knew The White Stripes, but I realized I only know Seven Nation Army. It's like half kinda decent, half these guys accidentally made a song thirteen times in a row 4.6/10

Weird and not in the good way, but I kinda respect Kate Bush for that. Sadly, respect doesn't earn you album rating score 3.6/10

Pretty good, I Would Die 4 U favorite song, Purple Rain is such a sick closer 7.7/10

I absolutely haaaaaate the Pretenders when they play on Shaw's radio, but honestly this album was very solid. The vocals are still a little annoying but now it's a cool type of annoying when they're not playing on a grocery store speaker. Private Life fav song 7.0/10

Great album. Pretty hard to peel away from the Beatles bias because I'm sure everyone (except for Kirill apparently) has heard all of these 8000 times, but even after all of that it's just a strong collection of songs that mesh together into a solid brick of music 9.0/10

Felt a lot more musical and easier to follow and enjoy than the previous Bee Gees album. Damn I might almost say I kind of liked it. Pretty enjoyable 6.3/10

Insane whiplash listening to a very mid 60s album ready to hand out a 3/10, and then Time of the Season comes walking through the door 4.1/10

Sick nasty album. The vocals are sick, the beats are sick, the whole thing is just creative and varied but consistently so solid and fun to listen to. The production is great, the CLASSICS coming out of nowhere have me feeling like that gif of vince mcmahon falling backwards in the chair, what I'm saying is 9.4/10

It was kinda weird to start tbh but I really enjoyed it as it went on. Kinda feels like indie Peter Gabriel but in the 2000s 8.2/10

Good listen. I sadly like the hits and Quicksand a lot more than most of the rest of album, but it was good 7.1/10

I fuck with Dusty at an alarmingly high level. I get she's jangly and chorusy, STRAIGHT out of the 60s, but the songs are actually weirdly really fun to listen to. Classics like Wishin and Hopin, I Only Want To Be With You an absolute STAPLE of a song. Yeah I liked this a lot more than I expected 7.5/10

I've been traveling through dimensions, phasing in and out of reality. Some might call me a time traveler, others would describe me as a temporal vigilante. I sit up, in a cold sweat - I'm in the 90s. My vision is blurry, my head is throbbing, but I can hear quiet industrial beats coming from my CD player. Farts, bubbles popping, a rainstick, all in rhythm to a tasty percussive beat; the original humans must have believed this album to be influential. How long have I been here? Hours? Days? Neither - I'm only at the beginning of fourth song on the album. I lay back down, and let Science Friction take me. I don't know where or when I'll end up, but I know the journey won't be a gentle one. 7.0/10

Low effort generipunk jam sesh 3.8/10

I Respect the album, it's pretty decent, but the vocals and general sound wasn't totally for me. A Change Is Gonna Come great song and great closer 5.8/10

Solid album, I liked it but it was too chiiillll and ghostly and draggy to love it. I felt like I needed to be looking out a window and feeling melancholic the whole time listening to it. Overall though, pretty focused and balanced and well made 7.0/10

Enjoyable but pretty simple. Makes you tap your foot and snap your fingers but doesn't make me want to revisit any specific song 5.7/10

This album was a joy - interesting and great and a fun time. Interesting in a "lets all be creative and produce a banger of an album" kind of way 8.1/10

GOT MY MOJO WORKIN' GOT MY MMRRBBGGLGLG WORKIN' Good energy pretty fun but not totally my thing. BUT as far as Newport music festivals in the 60s albums that I'm not totally into, I kinda liked it 5.5/10

Thoroughly chill and great. Interesting little elements thrown in with backing vocals and little instrument bits and stuff like that that made it kinda great tbh. And I don't think I've ever fully appreciated Bobby's vocals enough either - they're great too 8.1/10

I think this album gave me ADHD. Also who actually thought there was this much jazz produced in the last 60 years. Forget what I think, did Nick like jazz today? I can't wait to find out. I'll cut this album some slack as it was made in the 50s before music was really invented and it was pretty decent, but also almost stressful to listen to and I'm not itching for a second round with it 4.5/10

I listened to this piece of art like 5 times on speakers, on headphones, in my car, looking for any reasons why it shouldn't 5 star. I've found 1.5 things: 1. The Prisoner is the weakest song on the album, I can't descibe it other than having "Bon Jovi vibes". 0.5. Invaders is only kinda good as a song, but is an amazing opener as far as setting the tone + expectations + energy, and it's kinda silly. OTHERWISE, every other song that plays is juicy as hell, creative, fits together to fill my album style variety quota perfectly while still staying focused. Just extremely strong the whole way through, Hallowed Be Thy Name which is an insane closer as well, absolutely sick album 9.3/10

Pretty fun actually, pretty different from everything we've got and from what I would normally listen to. Not like a slapper I'm about to be stealing the AUX for, but pleasantly enjoyable beats + vibes + vocals + a e s t h e t i c 6.2/10

Really nice. Builds a great mood and sticks with it the whole way through. It was wispy and vibey, not too much to get boring but also enough to build the ambience. Sprinkle in some classics (felt like Kirill going "damn these are all on the same album huh") and you've got a great album 7.9/10

A little more musical but still the same Junior. Maybe the vocals are just growing on me, but I swear they were like 10% more melodic this time around and 10% less noisegrunge. Either way I think I liked this one a little more than the first alb we got. I'm also so lukewarm on the Just Like Heaven cover that I have no comments on it 5.4/10

Fuzzy and expressive and stylish, but ultimately doesn't totally click with me. I think it's a total jam but maybe to unstructured for me to love listening the whole way through, who knows 5.9/10

Took 2 listens to "get it" but yeah it's interesting and pretty cool. I'm not cultured enough to dig into it and start loving the subtleties, but after 2 listens I do enjoy it and wouldn't mind listening to more of their stuff 6.5/10

Absolutely mediocre. Artist could have saved a bunch of time and just not made this album. Maybe not a single interesting sequence of notes happened in this entire thing. Like FOR EXAMPLE Scott 2 was bad/weird but at least it made me think thoughts, this one was just straight nothing at all. I can see how they're a direct influence of many other supermarket mid rock artists still around to this day, so I can at least respect that a little 2.4/10

⚠️Biased review alert, prob in my top 3⚠️ Strong creative vision, varying style and awesome tone shifts that are either wack ass fun or total creative curveballs. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me is fuckin legendary both as a standalone song, and especially as it fits into the album. I'm also a sucker from the "chill decompress as the last song" trope. Overall just great 9.5/10

Decent cowbell jangle, even better when putting it in the "released in the 60s" category. Good enough sound to have me like it, but not deep enough to get me to listen to it again 5.3/10

Weird and confusing but almost interesting and not that bad. Even though it's kind of pleasant, I'm glad fiddle rock didn't stick around in the mainstream 4.7/10

Classic dude, classic sound, not a lot for me to dive into. Pretty much what it says on the tin (it says "Elton John"). Favorite song Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 7.2/10

Strong album, maybe not artsy and beautiful and deep but still creative and focused and dare I say kind of iconic. Praise You easy pick best song, Kalifornia sneaky second best song 8.3/10

Kind of cool with good energy, also never going to listen to it again 3.9/10

Kinda cool for a first album and definitely **INFLUENTIAL** and enjoyable to space out to and enjoy the beats, but all of that aside it's honestly not that sick 5.0/10

Awesome album. I thought it would be a situation where the hits are amazing but the rest of the album mushes into the same samey thing, but nah this whole thing was actually great and distinct. Blue Ridge Mountains great song 8.6/10

Slightly enjoyable, a little interesting, but nothing that makes me hungry for more. I would listen to it again but I'm thinking I'll forget this album ever existed pretty quickly 6.5/10

Not bad, packed with Shaw's classics and overall nice to listen through. Lonely in Your Nightmare sneaky good song. Strong opener, decent closer, overall decent 6.6/10

Chunky and fun and fuckin hype and creative. Just a full body experience (sorry, cliche) to listen to and offers a lot to chew on and enjoy. I looped this thing like 5 or 6 times to put off writing the review and I just liked it more every single time I listened to it 8.4/10

Comparable to Frank Sinatra but missing the voice and clout. Simple and pleasant and some of the rhymes really hit you over the head with how easy they are, but again guys it's like the 50s, we're still figuring out this whole "music" thing. It really is hard to find anything "bad" about it, but it also didn't exactly stimuate my neurons 5.0/10

I kind of like it. Pretty interesting and unconventional. The Seventh Seal best song 5.9/10

Damn son I lowkey really like this. The vocals are strong while allllllmost verging on cheesy, the instrumentation is pretty great (I love the booming drums and bongos and random other little stuff), the songs went in random directions while simultaneously keeping the album pretty solid. It was so fun and interesting that it squeaked out a 4 star, well done 7.6/10

Pleasant and cool vibe, but super simple 3.8/10

Interesting album. I've heard his name a thousand times, and I've heard the hits a thousand times, but I've never attached the name to the songs. On first listen I didn't love the vocals but I looped it a bunch of times and I don't really hate it anymore. Just normal 70s poppy jangly music 6.4/10

Reminds me of U2 but maybe 10% more interesting to listen to. The whole album had a few cool moments where songs really meshed well or included interesting ideas, but it was pretty chill and vanilla otherwise 5.8/10

So this album was very varied, and kind of fun, pretty random, and instead of annoying me it mostly just confused me. I don't know what it's supposed to be and I'm not looking that up either, instead I'll just say it was an interesting little collection of hip hop country ambient tribal gospel "songs". The opposite of a great closer, Duck For The Oyster was dumb 4.6/10

Has some great ones but overall isn't very cohesive (no I don't know if that's on purpose), and has some real bad ones as well (I also don't know if that's on purpose). However the great ones still pull the rating up to a 6.3/10

Very much some of the most forgettable fuzz rock I've ever come in contact with my ear drums. This is going in the bucket of albums that I don't remember a single thing about when I read this review later 4.3/10

Pleasant, cozy, somehow a little more interesting than Marty Robbins - felt like there was maybe 10% more variety from song to song 6.1/10

Really nice, kind of a lot to casually put on and listen to, but great if you're sitting down and ready to give your full attention to an album 7.0/10

I like the instruments and sound a lot, but honestly the songs felt a little simple. It's like I wanted them to turn into Rush but they never did. Still very good, but not the banger of an album I waited for it to be 7.1/10

Very much one of the sleepiest albums ever without much going on for me to have opinions on 3.9/10

Super sick. Another success story of the full album living up to the one or two hits I've heard before. Checks most of my "great album" boxes, sets a great tone and really just knows what it's going for 8.2/10

A little more listenable than the others but still is the same droning meandering borderline irritating Robert Dylan I know and love. Patiently waited for this one to be over - LESS SO than the others but still hoping it's the last Dylan on here 4.0/10

Kinda cool actually. Didn't change my life but it was fun to listen along to and was weird and creative enough to win me over eventually. The funny little kazoos are weird but also fun to see how modern bands still love to throw em into songs even now 5.8/10

It's fine, I'm not a fan of the "formula" and vocals in general, even if the album is a little interesting song-to-song with almost interesting ideas. In short, I almost like it 5.1/10

Funky long-form and groovy. Lost me a few times with how loose it was sometimes, but overall an enjoyable listen that I would consider listening to again. I also enjoy how addicting the title track is 6.6/10

Probably influential to countless punk rock bands over the next 40 years, but this album specifically was very annoying. The vocals were annoying, and the weird sax horn stuff was somehow even more annoying 3.5/10

Short and weird, but somehow very listenable and kinda enjoyable. Notes of certain songs sounded Interpol-y, and others were just interesting without being grating. Not the BEST wack unknown album ever but beats about 60% of them 6.0/10

Pretty nice, probably iconic, not my type of music to put on and chill to 5.2/10

Feels like I've acquired ADHD halfway through this last song. Kind of a decent jam sesh and is almost charming in how strummy and scattered it is, but ultimately it's decent at best and not something I'm itching to go back and listen to again 4.7/10

Fun and flows well, felt a little shallow but not a bad album 5.7

I totally fuck with this album for no reason. It's just sick and pretty creative - just cool people not afraid to make weird great music that's very much its own style. I've listened to it a bunch and while there might be a miss here and there, for the most part the songs are varied as hell while also being memorable and really solid. Lowkey refreshing getting some interesting stuff out of 1001albs 8.2/10

Shaw's playlist except it's in my ears and not on a grocery store speaker. This album was a mild vibe but still overshadowed by being mellow U2core. It does its job well in a "king of the mid" kind of way, and the closing song was nice too 6.5/10

I think I needed a few more albums in between the Costellos we got. He still sounds the same - I can still hear the costello cadence with a tambourine and snare all on beat in my head. Hard to critique, hard to compliment 4.7/10

Inherently a cool genre so it's hard to dislike, but as an album it didn't do anything unique or exceptionally cool for me. It's a nice listen but I can't pick out specifics I liked about it 6.3/10

AI music made for bots to enjoy. Like if you're on a rooftop bar and the sun is setting and there's a warm breeze and this is on in the background, I could see how these songs are engineered to be enjoyed in that moment, but as songs made to be listened to, the album pretty bad. Additional points off for lame ass basic themes in the few lines of lyrics that I caught 3.8/10

A nice complete package of an album. I went in expecting total boomerbait but it was honestly quality the whole way through. Enough hits sprinkled in, songs mesh well while having enough variety, no complaints. I'm On Fire fuckin kills it as well 6.7/10

Pretty nice. Nice vocals, good vibe throughout 6.4/10

I looped this album maybe 15-20 times while farming items because I was too lazy to change it, so I claim to be the expert on it. My verdict is: it's pretty good. It makes me feel like I'm hacking a mainframe at 1am. It makes me nostalgic for the 90s even though I was born in 96, and it didn't come out until 2001 (two days after 9/11). It has a great mix of ambience while also being interesting and meshy enough to stand as an album. The metal clank sesh of Poor Leno fuckin hits. No, I don't know wtf the frequencies are all about at the end of So Easy, but I do know that if you find Remind Me familiar like I do, it's possibly because it was in a 2006 GEICO commercial. This album isn't a groundbreaking defining musical arrangement, but it bumps and captures a vibe well, and for that I think it's a solid 7.4/10

YUP sounds like the Ramones - Iconic sound but makes me want a little bit more musically. On second loop, the songs somehow got even more similar to each other 4.5/10

I thought this was one of those "60s funny music" type of albums a la Scott 4. It was kind of fun and kind of decent and I didn't hate it 6.1/10

Yes it's pretty bippity boppity bad, but not as bad as music can be. Some originality and experimentation that I have to respect, but not much more than that 2.9/10

Not bad, a few (Shaw's) classics sprinkled in, far from the worst that 1001albs has served up so far 5.3/10

Pretty sick. Great characteristic sound, just a solid album that MIGHT have went on a little too long. All rise for the radio alt rock anthem: Black Hole Sun after half an album of thematic prep really hit, and the rest of the album was also pretty good 7.2/10

60s jangle, not bad, not memorable 5.2/10

I'm right on the line between the voice being corny and propping the whole album up, and also totally liking the voice and liking the whole album. The songs have a cool sound, but it's a Ramones-y where every song just hits the same hook and they're not super varied. You Want It Darker is a great song. Overall decent, a little same-y but sounds cool 6.6/10

Groovy and enjoyable. Feels great for a 60s album 6.4/10

Pretty nice 60s rock with enough original ideas to keep me happy. I liked the first half of the album a little more in general, but overall a good 6.6/10

Really not that bad. Bullet The Blue Sky cool song - reminds me of Deftones. I won't willingly listen to this again but I didn't hate my time with it 6.5/10

Pretty awesome instrumentation, weirdly I didn't recognize any hits, big fan of the brass 6.4/10

A little annoying at the beginning, pretty grating by the end. Wasn't vibing with this one 3.7/10

(genre bias) Great album. Beats are sick and the lyricism and flow are pretty fun. Also weird thing to praise but the album cover goes so fuckin hard. Best song has to be Passin Me By, runner up Ya Mama. I will say it fizzles out a bit towards the end but still an album I would be happy to listen to any time 7.5/10

Pretty fine - Good energy but nothing groundbreaking and doesn't have the Fatboy Hits to have me rate this any higher 5.8/10

Really cool album, not my favorite type of rap but it's definitely packed with style. Gin and Juice is a classic but I like Who Am I and Ain't No Fun a lot as well. It feels like a lot of these songs are almost comical exaggerations, except they're the OG (I think, who knows, '93 was a long time ago) and everything else copied its homework, which goes to show how influential this album is 7.2/10

Almost interesting album that was fine to listen through once. Decent vocals + backing band combo, but nothing that sparked joy 5.0/10

Pretty fun and enjoyable. A collection of repetitive-by-design groovy jammers (and another hard album cover). A little shallow but still pretty fresh and even has a Q-Tip feature !?!?! 6.7/10

Ok so I do kind of dislike Sheryl Crow but listening to a whole album gave me enough context to look past the hits I've heard a thousand times. I still don't like her voice and her (purposely?) janky crappy singing style, but the album as a whole was pretty stylish and at least stuck to a theme, which I can respect. We Do What We Can was also cool af. Better than I expected 6.2/10

Pretty cool. Creative and weird and fun to listen to. Tapers off into a bit of a snooze but still a 7.1/10

The hits were decent, the rest of the 1hr14min album was offensively annoying. Pretty shallow, while also jumpy and hyper. ADHD in musical form, in a bad way 4.3/10

*distant Even Flow plays on the Guitar Hero 2 main menu* Yeah this album is super awesome. Every hit is on there and they're all great, and the non-hits are just as awesome and thematic despite not having the "hits bias". Everything just fits together so well - the songs don't melt together into a blob and instead they're all defined and interesting and keep you engaged the whole time. Once into Even Flow is a sick intro into the album. Master/Slave is a cool little cooldown and the looping back into Once is 🔥 as well. The drums are sick, the bass is sick, Vedder bless his heart I can't understand the fella half the time but he brings the energy and is awesome as well. Really just checks my boxes of "defined + creative + varied songs" and "album has a clear creative vision" 9.4/10

On the lowks I kinda loved it. Weird and cool sounding, a sprinkle of pretentious, overall just a bunch of pretty cool, enjoyable songs with some thought behind them. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1 (Blue Sky Revisit) best song 7.2/10

It's fine. Unexciting for the most part but still had a few fun songs (Cold War and Tightrope are decent) 5.9/10

Relaxing but not super chunky and deep - for some reason I swear I've listened to bossa nova that I've liked way more. Overall pleasant for what it is 5.3/10

The album teetered between cheesy and cool af the whole time for me. It almost won me over by the end, and I don't think a single listen is enough to appreciate the artsy depth of it. I'm down to listen to this one again in the future, but for now it was a decent 6.7/10

Really good. Confident and interesting without dragging on. *that* part in Smooth Operator is still killer, but Sally is second fav 7.0

Great album, lives up to the hype. Also felt more varied from the last Garfunkel & Simon album. Meandered a little but not too much, still felt solid. Bridge is an awesome song and kind of a bomb to start an album with, the hits were hitting, banger non-hit mention is The Only Living Boy in New York. Overall yeah strong stuff 7.8/10