1001 Albums Summary

This was so fun! Devin loves the stone roses and I was surprised I hadn’t given it a proper listen. I think I confused it with queens of the Stone Age. Anyway, good shoot and a great way to start the project!

This is a great Christmas album but tbh I’m over Christmas by Christmas Day lol. Would have been nice a week ago 0:)

I don't hate this, which is weird because historically I have hated every Bowie song I've heard. Every time my husband was playing music on his phone and there was a track I just COULDN'T STAND, it ended up being Bowie. Anyway. This is a pretty good album with reduced theatrics. Confusingly, I immediately want to give it another listen.

I want to like Radiohead but for some reason the bass is just overwhelming and everything sounds 30% funkier than it needs to.

Good shoot

boring, sorry

I really do not like blues

I hate this so much lol. Emo with no nostalgia for me, so I’m forced to confront what it actually is. Also funny how much I love post rock and hate prog rock.

I hate hair metal so much omg. I did TRY to listen to this but I’m losing hope that this list is gonna be anything other than dad rock

I suppose I enjoyed this more than Jeff Buckley but it’s fairly boring womanizing and wailing

Rocks Off is a really fun opener- big fan of the trumpets. Despite not being the last track, Shine a Light was an impressive closer. Overall, there were moments of greatness but I wasn’t a huge fan.

At least it’s not more Bowie. Fun for a little something different, but something you HAVE to listen to before you die? Nah. 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat is way more interesting. Weird choice to put a movie soundtrack on here, anyway.

Improbably, I really like this. If some songs weren’t so overplayed it would be a revelation.

Iconic.

A lot of music I listen to is pretty depressing- Devo is a perfect antidote.

I forgot this album as I was listening to it.

This album...was 2 1/2 hours long. I didn't hate it but man that's hard to review after one listen.

There was some cool postrock stuff going on, completely ruined when they started singing though. YYZ was surprisingly good.

THIS is Chicago???? There were some really cool moments on this album. I’d listen again.

this is my fave Zappa album, I love this era of freak jazz

This was surprisingly cool. Turns out the radio plays their worst songs, who knew!

I suffered through the first disk but I can't make myself listen to the second. It's not TERRIBLE just....terribly boring. The singer sounds a bit like Bob Dylan (derogatory).

I've always disliked Nick Drake, despite loving singer-songwriters in general. Maybe it was the unintelligible mumbling on Pink Moon. Maybe it was the Dave Matthews-style voice. In any case, I failed to find the genius. This album, however...was almost enjoyable. It could grow on me.

This is so...of its era. Not a fan of any of it. Homie has PIPES though

Whoa. This is fun. Super 90's. This covered a lot of musical ground/genres.

Devin loves this so it was super enjoyable for me.

This is not my favorite genre of punk

I really don't like blues. I typically hate live albums. This was the worst of both worlds...couldn't finish it.

deedledeeeeWAAAAAAAO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH baby mama Wyannnnowww. This was..not my jam.

This was truly wild. I don’t usually like synth-y 80’s stuff but this was fun, meandering, covered a lot of ground

hmmm I like old country but this is a lil too honky tonk for me.

Divorce music

Boooooo tomato tomato

No

eh I don't really like R&B. This almost went some cool places but I just didn't get it.

OOooooooOoooooooO

A little monotonous for me. Cool album but not really my style

Not my favorite Leonard cohen album but I like it

howeveh aega? woma ha ve ha ve hom ne to meeee. This is a fun classic album that I thought was in like French at first.

Unmemorable, sorry

This is the kind of stuff I love to see on this list- something I never would have discovered on my own!

this freakin rules

Not my favorite Beach Boys album, I guess they left their best work on the 16 records prior to this one

West of the Fields almost sounded like the Smiths so that was cool. The rest of the album….ehhh fairly boring as is often the case for “pioneering” bands and those that engineer a particular sound

Damn this was great.

Nice

This sounds like Christina Aguilera on benzodiazepines. This is the most boring and restrained shit I have heard in my life.

A perfect album.

What was this actually

Sometimes this tends towards the overly theatrical 80’s vocals but in general I like it, I was really only familiar with them through Elliott Smith’s covers

Morrissey

Dude every song sounds the same. I’m sure this is good? I just don’t get it

Teenage Head? I feel like these guys should be on a different list if you know what I mean. This is the first album I couldn’t finish.

Good album, I used to love it but it’s just alright these days

Ok surprising w? This is from 77?????

ok i like this but in a muzak way and not an active listening way?

This is some trite shit

Who among us does not love public enemy?

Criminal is just that. Each word seems to have like 40 syllables when she sings. All the songs also kinda sound the same...I found it boring. I wanted to like this! I just couldn't find anything that grabbed me.

This sucks lmao

More Brit pop from the 80’s, yay

I love Steely Dan but this isn’t my fave of theirs. Still more solid than 90% of this list

I’m sorry. I hate Queen. I know I’m wrong but I just cannot STAND them. It’s too theatrical and over-the-top in the same way hair metal is.

I have lost all faith in the list by this point. I’m starting to think the it’s a punishment and we’re misunderstanding the title. Only after listening to these 1001 albums may we be allowed the sweet kiss of death.

Huh. I happened to wake and bake in the morning before I listened to this, so maybe I was in the perfect headspace to appreciate this album. Kinda made me feel like I was in a Fast and Furious movie. Or a 90's programming montage. It was cool. I'd listen again.

I'm almost disappointed in how much I enjoyed this. And yet..I did.

this is like Bleach-era Nirvana, but completely unenjoyable.

yawn

STEELY DAN

hell yeah the Doors

I like the beach boys

oh no I really enjoyed this :/

Vibes. This was fun

Boring

The organ in this was kind of fun, but overall it was pretty generic stuff. Maybe more groundbreaking in 1970

Vibey. Good background music

This sounds like a band lab-grown to soundtrack a rodeo parking lot. Even in the most ideal setting: a multi-day bender, drunk in a dive bar, hearing them live…I’d still fucking hate it.

This was unusual- I would spin again as background music. Very evocative of the time it was released.

awful

Boring

This rules

Didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would, this went some cool places

I had some preconceived notions about the Who and you know what? they're not as bad as I thought they were. turns out you really can go places on ketamine.

this is so boring...it's like a slow motion car chase in the mall parking lot.

is it over yet?

Surprisingly fun. I enjoyed it

Fun

I hate this album so much