1001 Albums Summary

Loved ‘The Gift’ Loud clashing guitars not for me, too chaotic and overstimulating, I lose concentration and it just sounds like noise to me.

Everyone was right. Was sure I wouldn’t like Joni Mitchell’s music that much, folk is not really my genre, but it really is beautiful. ‘River’ made me cry. ‘California’ ‘All I want’ really great. Amazing album.

Couldn’t finish it. Not the type of music I can listen to for very long at all. Really don’t like Big Band/Swing type stuff. If it had lyrics I might have been able to sort of distract myself from the sounds and stay locked in and keep listening maybe?? I tried!

I liked this one! I skipped the ones I already knew I really liked ‘The Song Is Over’, never heard that one before. It took me to the deluxe version and I didn’t listen to the repeats and live versions which I think is fair.

Pretty good! Haven’t listened to ‘Wake Up’ in years and was surprised that I was kind of over it by the end considering how much I loved it back in the day. Love a full orchestra/band, band.

Fun! Listening to a whole album really puts what I wrongly considered to be just gimmicky songs (Our Lips are Sealed, We Got The Beat) into context. A good morning walk album.

Fucking great album! Nostalgic and also surprising - not really any bad songs a few I hadn’t heard that were as good as the popular ones. Amazing voice it’s hard to believe they haven’t held onto the amount of success they had with this album.

Has my favourite Radiohead song on it. I can’t tell if I’ve heard more songs from this one than I thought or they’re kind of just the same 2 different vibes (lyrical melody composition(?), song/verse structure) over and over. But that’s just having an intentional musical style I guess? Either way there are only 2 of 11 songs I’m not really into - My Iron Lung and Just. Great album.

Never heard any of these songs before. Pretty corny sounding style of yacht rock/jazz rock but interesting lyrics and subjects. It was fine background music and catchy at times, not hard to listen to but easy to tune out of, for me. Nothing made it onto the playlist and I wouldn’t revisit it.

A good one! Always really liked “Into The Mystic”and am surprised I didn’t come to love any of the other ones on this album as much, I thought I would be more into this than I was. Still so great to hear an actual band playing music with much less digital input.

Really liked this one! Always hated ‘Blister in the Sun’ (still don’t like it) and always liked ‘Please Do Not Go’ and found that I really liked every other song. It felt nostalgic in a weird way like I had actually listened to the whole album from beginning to end like this at some point.

Wow! I had no idea this would be as enjoyable as it is. I skipped Cherish. Really interesting religious and family themes, pretty sad at times. Loved the bookending of Like A Prayer and Act of Contrition.

This was fine. I didn’t have any strong feelings about it either way and didn’t feel engaged with it at all (maybe bc It’s been a long work week?). It wasn’t bad and I was surprised i didn’t like any of the ones I hadn’t heard as much as Feel Alright. I wouldn’t turn it off if it came on but I probably wouldn’t choose to listen to it.

Really great! Super engaging, way easier to listen to than I thought it would be considering the musical style and overall length. They’re all very interesting songs this is another one I’m very late to!

I enjoyed this! I’ve never dedicated time to properly listening to jazz I’ve always thought I should try but never really have and i’m so happy I liked it. Sarah Vaughan is SO charming I loved all her unpolished unserious moments. It doesn’t lose anything from being a live album, it adds to it, the vibe is relaxed and warm. Really appreciate getting this one as my first real listen to jazz.

Listened to most of it, definitely not for me. A mix of meandering orchestral prog pop/rock and sea shanties? I appreciate its uniqueness and The Exorcist thing is sort of fun I guess.

Nothing really interesting to me. Tangerine was alright but I wouldn’t listen again. Also knowing when he sang about “girl/little girl” knowing that that’s probably exactly what he meant bc of how he was carrying on back then (still?) is fucking gross.

Not for me. Scrubbed through the last 10min song bc there was just no way. Still not into big band type music, and this one was also corny and boring. Kind of interesting lyrics/themes to some of the songs.

This was alright. Definitely got bored by the end of it and skipped through the final instrumental but stayed engaged with it pretty much the whole time. Interesting, sad/disturbing themes and lyrics in it, genuinely hope whoever this is about got away from this dude (permanently) he seemed like a dangerous arsehole/incel. I liked the musical style itself.

It’s christmas and this is a christmas album.

Really great! So good. Very touching hearing his age in his voice, not diminishing anything at all only adding to it. Really liked it.