1001 Albums Summary

I don't know why I didn't listen to this before. So many good grooves.

Harder than I thought it would be, but also more like Train than I thought it would be. Hallelujah is still great, every other song sucks for a unique reason.

Wow so much Flava Flav! Pretty good shit though. High energy!

The hits are pretty good, the rest is kind of repetitive. Great musicians, though.

So cheesy! Music was okay as long as that dork kept his mouth shut.

Maybe a grower? A little slow for my taste and too many songs in minor key, but the good songs really stand out.

Not too interruptive, fine background music.

Man this is really jammy. Too jammy. I lost interest during the three reaaaaaaaaalllly long blues jams. Bassist ripped, though.

It still sounds huge, and every song except Across the River is great. Five fucking stars.

71 minutes of the most edgelord bullshit. I can hear the collective mouthbreathing in between the tracks.

Corny and full of cheese, but also kind of brilliant. I was never bored and they definitely won me over by the end.

I recognize that he's very talented but I am very bored and don't like most of his artistic choices. Superstition is cool.

The proggy stuff on side one is great, and Geddy Lee can really wail. The back half left me cold, though.

Cool.

Too much piano, no guitar! It wasn't bad, though.

Maybe if I was twelve I would have thought this was cool, but I'm not so I don't.

My what a forward young man you are. Can you try playing a different song, though? I think we've heard this one before.

I don't really like the way she sings.

Some gnarly stuff, but I just don't think I'll listen to it again

A little goofy, surprisingly beautiful. Good stuff!

Some songs were nice.

Wow, what a ride!

It's fine for background music, very consistent, no goofy shit. I was really happy when the hidden track hit.

Ugh jazz.

It is awful, but there is a certain baggy, cargo-shorted charm about Fred and the gang not seen in their sterner contemporaries (looking at you Messrs Manson and Davis). So, one star, but without prejudice or hate.

Hits after hits. I have no idea what he is saying but I feel it.

These beats are pretty great, especially funky horns. But I don't really vibe with the old school rapper lyrics.

A lot more traditional 60s pop than I expected. The seeds are there, but they really don't have their voice yet.

No.

Palpable sexual tension.

Some nice folk songs and then some meandering slop.

Great production and some really nice hooks and general sounds throughout.

Shockingly undercooked cheese. I gave U2 too much credit.

They me in the first half, NGL. Second half ripped. Maybe a bad master at first?

Pretty okay, some standouts here but didn't really have enough consistency of voice.

Solid listen when high! Or sober!

Ugh slow and cheesy. Not good! Even the hits are not good!

Far out, man

Okay, it's not so bad for one dude sitting at a piano for an hour. He sustains some interesting shit, I guess.

Came in hot, but lost some steam in the saggy middle. Still great atmospheric shit!

Still hits a hard as it did 20 years ago. Classic.

My god this is so cheesy. The song about heaven being a bar and the one about money are especially egregious. I couldn't wait for it to end.

Jazz.

By a hair, maybe on reputation alone?

Not the biggest JC fan, but this one was cool. Great stage banter.

This is pretty fun. Do do do looking out my back door.

It's fine. Kind of campy 70s rock.

My aesthetic inclinations do not align with Madam Lang.

Yawn. It's a nice song. But they all kind of blend together.

This is one of my favorite albums. Sue me!

Carnival music sung by a clown.

What I have learned from this is there are so many unique ways to make bad music.

Pretty far out, man.

Loud!

I accidentally listened to Disintegration. This one wasn't as good.

I will not believe this is the same band that made Loveless.

Oof.

My stars that's brassy.

Lou Reed was right this guy is an absolute hack.

I contain multitudes. I can recognize this is a cool album while also praying for it to end every second I'm listening. Two stars.

What is this, a Ray Lamontagne album?

Perhaps the most British album on a list full of British albums.

This is cornball shit.

Can it still be a brilliant technical achievement if 2/3rds of the songs suck?

Not as bad as it could have been, considering how much I hate the Doors

I wonder how many people have stopped this project after hearing another middling Elvis Costello album. And I like Elvis Costello!