1001 Albums Summary

… Tipton and I were talking about Charlie Kirk when “Daddy?” filled the car. Welcome back, Chuck! Will I ever listen again? Maybe to The O-Men or K*untz if I’m feeling like a little freak. The last song was kinda cool but also… 😭 It’s weird how the album sometimes sounds like real music before deciding again that it doesn’t wanna be that

i don’t want to get kicked out of this group on my second day so i’ll give it a five but sometimes his voice makes me mad </3 love King Kunta and These Walls tho it’s an iconic album you cannot deny it

the kind of music that kinda blends into the background like i’m at a nice coffee shop. Dirty Work is such a fun song though

listened to this one as it was intended: my car was playing it on the inside while i spent a half hour getting all the snow and stuff off. on my second listen, though, i was just a little lost, like, why is this album on this list? but The Rough And The Quick is hilarious and Belladonna is a great vibe, "They're Hanging Me Tonight" is a great title too lmao 2.5?

once it set in that the entire melody of the first song was a straight A, i knew i was gonna be tired by the end of this <3 Some of the lyrics are very entertaining, like "Minnesoter" and the "Junkie" one, but i'm getting worried that i'm gonna ask "why is this on this list" every time i listen to one of these albums... like who is litening to "Green" and is like 'this is life-changing...' maybe this just isn't my scene i mean, really, the last song is the same thing for 9 minutes straight idk

okay frank! fuck 'em up! half sick video game music, half extremely obnoxious saxophone that made me almost skip "The Gumbo Variations"

one of the happiest albums of all time (minus Homeless, maybe)??? just so full of joy and so well done and so cultural? or something? reminds me of my (and Tipton’s) dad, Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes went platinum in the car

He just says every thing he can think of that would make someone go "oh my god! did he just say that?" Stan is a good song until i remember the only reason it's good is the sample </3 idk i obviously wasn't there for this album like you edgelords were... in fact, i wouldn't be born for another four years. it's just not for me, and i know that... i am aware of that fact... and i am sorry. i'm sure some of these songs could be really good if i listened without any clouded judgement, but my judgement of Eminem is swathed with smog

say what you want to say but i want you guys to relisten to Overcome and tell me it's not perfect </3 (i'm sure u guys know of his history with Massive Attack and i think this album is better than lots of their stuff)... i don't know. this album is much more memorable than that damn Red Snapper shish! some songs go on a little too long or are super monotonous (Aftermath, You Don't, Strugglin', etc.) and i also think Martina Topley-Bird and the other female vocalists make this album, without her it would be boring as hell. but with songs like Overcome, Ponderosa, and Suffocated Love, this album is AT LEAST a 3... this album's play with samples and major-minor switches is so entertaining to me... i'm not trying to glaze i swear. </3 and you all can't act like this album isn't sexy as hell... wtf... the first half is better than the second half but the second half makes up for it with sexiness and ASMR

This was such a roller coaster for me, and not in a good way. I was stuck in Lexington traffic when I listened to the majority of this, and some of the songs were so frustrating that I considered aiming for the trees. Here and there one would get my feet tapping, but I found a few songs here to be shockingly bad. Best I can do is a 1.5.

i don’t know why we hate Morrissey but i’m okay with it, i guess. this album had some good vibes, and the song titles kept getting funnier but i kept getting bored, and im sorry.

have never listened to TRS actively, and i think it's better that way... this album is great to mindlessly drive to while not paying too much attention to it if that makes sense

lol Tip was right, this sounds like I'm in an empty warehouse being taunted by some jazzy clowns, Today was the most warehouse song I've ever heard, I swear they recorded the drums on the opposite side of an airplane hangar from the mic I was shocked to hear female vocals, I liked her presence in these songs the most. the whole album is a little too "wild west-y" for me, if that makes sense? but it had a nice vibe. I wish more of the songs were based in the Major realm overall, like I said about Steely Dan, this is good background coffee shop music (well, some of it. some of it is really violent, like if 3/5 of a Mile was playing I'd be a little unmoored) most of these songs kinda flew under the radar for me, but I liked them all more than the Morrissey and The Rolling Stones so I'll give it a higher score... I'm still trying to figure out my system for this guys I'm stressed. 3.5/5??

go and die! go and kill! go and quench! yay! yea i had to read about it after reading your reviews and this is so awesome. really sad that so much awful shit happened but the message and encompassing situation is awesome as f. Zombie itself is an awesome song, especially the go and die go and quench go and kill put am for reverse part lmfao. Mr. Follow Follow is a great vibe as well, the backing vocals are my favorite part (g'boing-boing-boing please) I just know being at the Berlin Jazz Festival for that performance was probably the height of many people's lives. that organ is sick as hell. Overall, with the history and the message and everything surrounding this album, I'm going to have to give it a 5, even if I won't be saving these songs and listening all the time. the vibe that would require listening to this album again is extremely specific, but Inshallah it finds me

yeah, I enjoyed it, it was nice to have on in the background, nothing stuck out but I mean that in multiple ways. nothing was awful but nothing was amazing. i liked it! Laughing was probably my favorite.

I just couldn't really get myself to care about this one. Nice vibes sometimes, some Jesus Christ Superstar style scream-vocals, I'm just like oh okay

really great vibes, would fit great in a movie soundtrack of some kind. Halo really stood out to me. as a whole, I wish some of the songs played with modulating to major keys more. also, the end of Enjoy the Silence flopped 3.5?

very fun, great vibes, my only qualm is that most of the songs are extremely similar... and I'm not just saying that because of their genre, they like actually really blended together for me... and that started to make me mad so what could've been a 4 will become a 3...

real nice vibes. similar to the Steely Dan, this album is a "King's Classic," meaning it would fade perfectly into the background of a nice homework session at The King's Cafe.

yeah it was cool, all of the samples were creative and used really well, I just wasn’t that obsessed with it while I was listening idk

it’s a wonderful album and is extremely culturally significant, the Ronettes are amazing and it’s all such a fun time! getting a 4 tho bc a few of these songs were real duds

this dude is a huge simp like omg.. it was gonna get a 5 for Feel It (Don’t Fight It) alone, but it got knocked down to a 4.5 because a few of the songs lost me a bit. but the fact that this was a live performance definitely saved it, I was in love the whole time and couldn’t stop smiling, I love when the crowd got to sing. But for real, almost every song was like “idc if you cheat on me or try to kill me or have another husband, I will always love u…” and it was super funny

I hate to say it, I don't wanna sound ridiculous, I just cannot make myself care. some of the songs sound really nice, I just really don't care. Sorry to this man.

I loved this! the vibe was excellent, and oddly country at times? Born Under a Bad Sign was my fav, but goddd that outro track is heavenly. would be a 5 if a few of the songs didn't kinda tire me, like Tonight

I think I have heard this exact album 550,000 times (I have never heard this album before) and that tells me a lot, but it's probably good music

Opener and closer are amazing, Getting in Tune was funny, nothing stuck out to me but I can tell it's good. None of these songs were any Pinball Wizards tho.

absolutely wonderful. I just love that sixties vibe, and this album is exactly what every period piece about the '60s tries to emulate. Mama Said alone is just the perfect time capsule. Her cover of You Don't Own Me is amazing, My Colouring Book is silly but powerful, and Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa, while another cover, was my favorite by far. she just sounds so good. got bored with a few tracks but the impact and the vibe are an instant 4.5/5

awesome stuff going on here but I don't feel smart enough to remark on any of it. wondering why the only version I could find was "explicit" but every curse word was censored

I cannot lie, I've been getting over a breakup kinda recently, and for some reason I sobbed a bunch while listening to this again. I haven't listened to this album in full in years, and as a recovering Taylor Swift fan (2020-2024), it's extremely nostalgic for me lmao... it is NOT the perfect album, most will probably say it's not even good, but there's something about it... she knows how to write a catchy song, and this is her best example of that hypnotizing ear-worminess. Jack Antonoff also put his all into it, and the result is an album that feels so extremely dated that it's almost a period piece of the early 2010s... I almost went song by song to talk about each one but quickly realized you guys do NOT gaf...... all I'll say is Style is sexy as hell, Out of the Woods is a classic, Wildest Dreams is perfect (one of the ones that made me cry), and This Love is a masterpiece (the song that made me sob harder than I have in maybe a year. I don't know why. It's probably more personal than musical)... Clean was my favorite Taylor song for a long time, I love Imogen Heap sooooo much So yeah. Most of it is laughably cringe but that doesn't mean it's not great in its own way. Even the horrible songs are so funny to listen to (oh bad Blood.... oh baby)

I just don’t really

why are we doing this can someone with the book tell me wtf we're doing here

just like the last R.E.M. album, nothing stood out as horrible or amazing to me. except for the song that ben Wyatt tries to use for a stop-motion animation when he is terribly depressed and he thinks it's gonna be really long but he just keeps replaying it and it keeps going "stand in the place where you-"

she was just perfect and any time I think about her it kinda makes me wanna cry.. this entire album is just perfect she was so talented her voice was perfect and the instrumentals are all so strong, whether it's the soft piano and jazzy drums and flute and sax of No Greater Love or the awesome early-2000s beat of In My Bed, it's just all so good idk

it's wonderful. very cozy and perfect to have listened to while walking to the library this morning in the 30-degree weather. White Winter Hymnal is a classic, none of the other songs stood out as amazing but the entire album as a piece of art is great and so cohesive

this was very fun! I think that, as a white and uncultured boy, I cannot unlock the full potential of this album, but the instrumentals are so fun and the backing vocals are wonderful

I didn't hate it, it's just not my type of music... I'm sure it's good? I kinda liked "Shadow of a Doubt" and parts of "Secret Girl" but nothing else really stood out? I was just a little bored and I am sorry

honestly pretty lovely. the way they play with meter and emphasis is fun sometimes. I'd heard Layla before, of course, and it's wonderful. the switch halfway through the song is soooo good. most of the songs blended into the background of my day but in a very enjoyable fashion. the last five songs are a solid run, Thorn Tree in The Garden was so beautiful in a way that was just completely unexpected The first two songs were highlights (I love the "I'm such a loooonely man" in I Looked Away, and the "I don't wanna faaade awayyy" in Bell Bottom Blues), but a lot of the songs in the middle were forgettable (not bad, just forgettable) so I'd say a 4/5? writing this part monday morning to say i’ve been listening to a few of these songs over and over and over again

I listen to this album and remind myself that I like Prince and that I listen to a lot of his stuff and that When Doves Cry is perfect and yet I keep remembering his like major schizophrenic religious break and how much he sucked and then I can no longer ignore all of the parts of this album that are way too loud or annoying and there's so much screaming and it's like okay let's calm down but it's still really good I guess... I think it's a 3 in my mind but for the culture I have to at least raise it to a 4 lol

from the little research I did on this album, two things become clear to me: 1. People Hold On is obviously the outlier here because it's perfect and everyone loves it 2. it's very weird that this isn't on streaming, like Lisa Stansfield, Queen Latifah?? what's happening nothing is perfect about this album, but everything is so FUN! it's so clear that they just had the stupidest fun time throwing random samples around and it's very entertaining. highlights: People Hold On, My Telephone, Smoke Dis One minor flops: Which Doctor?, Not Paid Enough (cool but just wayyy too long and repetitive), and, sadly, What's That Noise? just didn't really engage me but the album as a whole is silly and sick

so obviously this is not my type of music but sometimes it got kinda lit... lots of shock-factor vibes with the slurs and the song about incest but done a lot better than Eminem!

my main question: why the live version? what’s so special about this album? idk but a few of the songs were super fun like I Want You to Want Me and Surrender, they had some fun

I didn’t care for it that much but then noticed myself listening to it in the background the whole weekend so I have to give it some credit

never listened extremely closely but it was pleasant for multiple rotations in the background! thank you NY

it was fun! nothing stood out to me but it was a fun time