1001 Albums Summary

4.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/paul-simon/graceland/

3.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/johnny-cash/at-folsom-prison/ Not my thing, but better than expected.

2.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/muddy-waters/muddy-waters-at-newport-1960/ Really not my thing. Truly believe it's very influential, but don't really care about this.

3/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/moby/play/ Some bangers, mostly boring. Product of its time I guess.

4.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sam-cooke/live-at-the-harlem-square-club-1963/ Fantastic!!!!

4/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/gorillaz/gorillaz/ Listened to this plenty before. While the album has its undoubtable highs (19-2000, Clint Eastwood, 5/4, and some others), it is not nearly as strong as the two Gorillaz classics that would follow.

5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/nirvana/nevermind/ Obvious classic

3/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-cardigans/first-band-on-the-moon/ Fine, I guess? Don't really understand why this would be in the 1001 best albums ever made. Lovefool is perhaps one of the best pop songs ever, but the rest of the album is just okay.

4.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/justice/%E2%80%A0-cross/ Still as much of a banger as when it was released, almost 20 years ago. Loved it then, love it now. All killer no filler (unlike their follow-up albums).

2/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/neneh-cherry/raw-like-sushi/ Holy fucking shit this album sounds like a product of its time and aged like fine milk. Especially the rapping parts are absolute ass. First song is kind of a banger tho.

3.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/nick-drake/five-leaves-left/ It's good, but just that, I guess? Listened to it twice today and still nothing really sticks. Not sure I like the lush instrumentals too much. It's no Pink Moon, that's for sure.

3/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-byrds/sweetheart-of-the-rodeo/ Bit too yee-hah for me, even though some of the more folky songs are quite nice.

3/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/le-tigre/le-tigre/ I get how this is an influential album (they did the listing of famous people year before James Murphy would in Losing My Edge), but it doesn’t scratch the same itch for me that its influenced artist do. Also never really like Deceptacon.

4.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-velvet-underground-nico/the-velvet-underground-and-nico/ Bunch of absolute bangers with a few minor misses (can’t enjoy the freaking in European Son and Run Run Run is an earworm, but not a very good one). Bonafide classic and inspiration for probably 90% of artist I listen to.

4/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dinosaur-jr/bug/ Banger solos, kinda awful singing, yet it works!

4.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/joy-division/closer/ Influential for so much I listen to and just amazing throughout. Overshadowed by Unknown Pleasures a bit, but should listen to this more as it might be the better album.