1001 Albums Summary

Look, you can work really hard and earn a C+. It’ll be the hardest C+ you ever earned and you can be proud of that. And this album is trying so, so hard.

Music for cavemen. I loved it

The sheer GOATedness of this album for me reminded me why it’s important to not hand out my 5s. It’s melodically varied and rich. It’s fun. It would kick ass played at full blast with the windows down. S-tier for me.

Shoegaze is background music to me.

Warming up to metal

I didn’t utterly hate it. A couple of the tracks have overly repetitious lyrics (and then the final track on disc 2 ends abruptly because they’re edgy) but it was fine background music. I just wouldn’t have it as an album you listen to expecting to get anything more tangible out of it.

I give The Score by Fugees a 5. So much fun. The instrumental harmonies uplift each track in a major way. I had heard “Ready or Not” before but I can’t believe I hadn’t heard anything else from this. The transitions between songs like “The Beast” and “Fu-Gee-La” are also incredible. The album rules and belongs in a cultural studies course about the 90s in America.

Sounded punk to me at first listen but upon further inspection it is technically Britpop. I just let Modern Life is Rubbish play after this and got through like most of that because I couldn’t get away from Blur’s sound. Parklkfe is an awesome album with attitude.

A little confused by the country influence that sort of creeps in during Old Friends New Lovers and becomes full force in Say it Ain’t So and Hollywood Kids. I loved Deckchairs and Cigarettes though. Conor Deasy’s voice is hit or miss, though it has hits!

I thought it was Irish but I guess everything is British. Scratched a folk itch and felt really good to listen to while driving by horse farms on the way to work.

Beautiful. Emotional. Irish. Powerful

The album’s namesake is iconic if a bit melodically repetitious. However the rest of the album isn’t nearly as strong

Loved it!

Good for D&D! I don’t know how exactly to score this one.

1/5. Did not like the lyrics. Melodically and rhythmically uninspired. Though I did like the audio sample in Shutdown - “Black men dancing aggressively on TV, I’m so intimidated, I just don’t expect this on daytime television.” But overall I felt annoyed throughout. One more thought scares me; someone out there listens to this and thinks they’re a badass for it. And that scares me

Insane cooking in this album. I don’t know how I can knock anything for it.

Love these guys, the Heads that Talk.

3/5 and I mean that in the way a professor says a C or a B is still not bad. It was nice to hear the full album where It’s The End of the World as we Know It (and I feel fine) comes from. I also think a lot of the album is caveman music. It just has a certain unga-bunga to it.

Classy! You like jazz?

Yeah…it’s GOATed

Like, I want to score these albums in an objective way but I just don’t know how to vibe with what was going on here.

Love it. Essential.

It’s night driving. It’s intellectual. It’s soothing. I like it!

As the album progressed, it just compelled me les. Still not bad though.

This album feels like it’s from the future. It’s got range and attitude. I had a review written and saved but somehow I lost it, but after the first few chords of Peaches en Regalia I knew this was the business.

Essential, pretty good

I love the energy and lyrics behind everything here. “Kim” felt a bit long for my taste but I think it was just meant to be challenging. “Criminal” is such an awesome end to the album. 4/5 only because I know (vaguely) that Eminem grows and changes a lot as an artist after this.

I’m really strugglin’ with this one. Some songs on this album start off as if they could be neat but they just kind of devolve immediately. I don’t know what state of mind this album could be good to connect with. True 1 star.

I love this! With this album club I’ve had a lot of “oh, that’s where that song comes from!” Rocking Horse Road was that moment for me. Excited for the next album to be different in terms of genre and style though.

Not bad, still fun

At a few points their sound didn’t seem super original, but still good.

I love the stylistic range. I am in a chill bar when I listen to this.

Not bad but not particularly memorable

My girlfriend said she needs a cigarette after listening to this album and goddammit I may start smoking too. It’s so cool how music gets you into new things, like drugs. Drugs are cool. Anyway, great album with a lotta attitude.

I'm into the second song and I'm gonna make a leap of faith: I love it.

Pueblo Nuevo my beloved…

Very cool! Very 60s!

I love David Byrne. I love Talking Heads. But this was a foray into something different, which I usually appreciate, but I just didn't connect with it sadly.

“Don’t fight it - we’re gonna FEEL it tonight.” The album begins with those words and it just lives up to them throughout. Also, another “so that’s where that song comes from” moment occurred for me with Bring It On Home to Me. 5 stars because I had a goddamn blast.

Not bad, idk

Made me feel things! I don’t listen to enough of this style and genre either.

This certainly was an album on the list

This album has presence. It’s unforgettable

I’m not a rap expert but I get the sense that this is a very important album for the genre. Lyrics were a lot of fun.

I have to give it a strong score. I wish I could give it a 4.5/5. It was just too influential. Also every track was legitimately good, so the album is strong as a whole.

Couldn’t finish both discs.

I think on more objective level I’d give this a 4 as a piece of art but it was just not fun to listen to. I appreciate some of the protest angles but they’re really buried among a mostly cacophonous sound. I understand how that’s the point but again it just wasn’t fun.

I love her voice and the album has good attitude to it. Also the transition between There is no Greater Love and In my Bed was crazy.

Just beautiful

You know, it felt like last year there was about a month where my Spotify weekly recommendations were just “oops, all tropical.” This album stood out among others I’ve listened to in the genre

Fucking awesome. As a lover of The Avalanches this really scratched an itch for me. You know the episode of SpongeBob where they have that “When worlds collide” song? This album is also like if World Clique by Dee Lite was doin tricks on that

It was okay backgrounds music on my drive. I wouldn’t call it hard to listen to though

Great example of an album where one song is incredibly famous but the rest of the tracklist is just as good. As a whole I didn't find any tracks skippable. Very happy to add this one to my library.

I listened to this while working remotely today after being stuck inside for 3 days due to the weather. The vibe of the album is a little too real.

Some good soulful, thoughtful country tunes

I’m country maxing. I’m feelin’ that Honky Tonk. I year for the land of Texas. This album caught me at a very yeehaw time in my life.

I enjoyed this a lot. Tracks like “Their Law” make me think that this style is what would happen if dubstep turned to the light side of the force.

Iconic

What in the name of soul?

I did not finish this

I don’t consider myself a music buff. But I really got the sense that you could listen to the Beatles or David Byrne and you’d miss none of the experience that this is going for. Also Syd Barrett’s voice is not that great. If It’s In You was kind of hard to listen to at a couple of points.

This album saved me.

Beautiful…

I think this is a case where objectively it’s pretty good, I just didn’t connect with it.

Self-insistent, mopey

“Taxman” was not the absolute best starter of all time for me even if it wasn’t bad. The rest of the album is incredible of course

I like how “Flesh and Blood” stood out with its Reggae style. Fun albim

Objectively this is very good and has a huge influence. But I just don’t connect with the style and genre very much.

Sad cowboy tunes…

The first seconds of Skunk had me real worried. Then it turned around in a very real way. Beast mode I fear.

Objectively 5/5, but I’m not on this album’s level. So 3/5.

The first song means a lot to me personally and the whole album is just goated overall. I love the tonal journey you go through with each track.

This album walks in and everyone is floored. The damn music has sex appeal. I was astonished.

God-tier experience.

Nearly a 3 but just not my thing

I didn’t need to listen to this because I’ve listened to it several times before thanks to my Apple Music somehow always playing it when shuffling from my library.

Masterpiece

I respect what it’s putting down, but no

Objectively cool just not my thing

I hear the pre-Cambrian iterations of a lot of recent genres I really like in here. But it’s so all over the place it loses cohesion.

The musical equivalent of a van with a wizard air-brushed onto it. It just screams “Hell yeah brother” and it rocks for that.

Inspired, fun

GOATed I fear

Not every single song is a banger but, come on…