1001 Albums Summary

Tommy!

I respect it but did not enjoy it even a little bit.

Better than expected. Very charismatic and catchy.

The singles are decent. Mostly filler. Later albums are much better.

Great album. Distinctly remember repeatedly listening to the cassette back in the early 90s and watching the Jeremy video on repeat at 9 years old, even though my mom denies that happening. I’d give it a 4.5 if I could so I’m rounding up.

My kind of jazz. Sounds like my life most days.

I used to frequent pool halls in my early 20s and the only stuff I liked even a little bit was Meat Loaf or The Doors. I’d stack my money on the long songs from both and one time this guy got in my face because he was upset his Disturbed and Papa Roach songs were taking too long to play.

Definitely better than I thought but good grief, needs an editor for sure. Should be 35 minutes max. Some good songs but a ton of filler.

This makes me feel incredibly old. When I was a kid I’d have called it dad rock. Now that I’m a dad I guess I’ll call it grandpa rock. Some good solos but way too long and boring.

It’s a 2, but a stronger 2 than Dire Straits. Sounds like If Murder by Death wasn’t very good.

Not bad. Would be better as an EP because it gets old about halfway through.

I have no idea what I just listened to but I liked it.

Great classic rock album. Love the guitar tone and the vocals.

I had never heard of this before and didn’t know what to expect. Really enjoyed it. Great voice and the music compliments it extremely well.

Afrobeat is a new genre to me and I really enjoyed this one, especially the drum solo.

I liked this. I did myself a disservice by looking up the genre before listening. Seeing it listed as ‘desert blues’ set up wild expectations that it was not able to meet. Maybe a future album will include Brant Bjork and John Garcia.

Why in the world did I need to hear this. This was bad.

I see Beasties, I give 5.

Neil Young rules.

Dreamgaze!

Way better than London Calling.

This is some of the whitest shit I’ve ever heard.

Had never heard a full album before, just the hits. Better than expected, though I much prefer The Doors if we’re talking rock of this era.

Not bad but was expecting something different from the word ‘tubular’ #TMNT

Always meant to listen but never did. Next level guitar leads here. Love it.

Jack White rules. One of the best guitar tones in popular music. It feels like a blanket on a cold winter night.

Post-rock royalty. Easy 5.

Way too long.

Hell yes. Love this album but if we’re being real it could be 20 minutes shorter. Would probably be a 5 then.

Rounding up to a 1.

I like a good drone.

Wow The Fugees. Who knew? Dig it but could be 20 minutes shorter.

I waited 58 minutes for some 🔥🔥🔥 and it never came.

Perhaps the best yet of the albums I don’t like. Very solid 1.

The hits are good (really good) but about half the album is average at best.

I liked about half of this.

Now this is jazz that I can get down to. Insane leads.

I am not old enough or white enough to like this.

Gargs just wanna have fun.

Pretty good, especially for the era.

First album from Sly. I liked it but didn’t love it. Interested in hearing more.

Had never heard this before. I liked it quite a bit. Good early 80s UK punk.

I like The Boss and his million dollar blue collar haircut. I’ve only heard this album and ‘Nebraska’ though, and Nebraska is much better.

I was excited when I thought this was going to be Gary Numan.

Better than expected, but the guitars could use some fuzz.

Had never heard them before. I dig it. You can definitely hear where they influenced bands that would come later.

I really enjoyed the first and last songs. It was like eating an Oreo with no stuff.

I like Stephen Stills. I do not like 72 minutes of Stephen Stills.

I like the songs individually but I do not enjoy as an album.

Just…no.

I am pretty skeptical of modern albums deemed ‘you need to hear before you die’ but I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Had never heard of Sault before but I’ll be looking into their other stuff.

One of the best ever. Easy 5.

No you’re crying.

I really liked this. Certainly one of the better albums of the era. Wish it had more originals and fewer covers, since I think they’re significantly better.

I like the title track. But the rest, woof.

Very talented player but I didn’t particularly enjoy it.

I liked this but if it were any longer I wouldn’t.

Hmmmm.

AND YOUNG.

This was awful and I was miserable listening to it.

Shadows cast loud and clear. Tell the world the New Order’s here.

Not quite at the level of Ride and Master, but Blackened and Dyers Eve are top 5 songs in their discography, so rounding up from a 4.5.

Hmmm. I guess I like Elvis.

I had never heard them before. I dig and will definitely be checking out more.

I had never heard them before. I dig and will definitely be checking out more.

I liked the songs that were mostly instrumental. And then Spotify auto played into Ill Communication, which was even cooler.

For a band with ‘war’ and ‘drugs’ in their name, this was some of the most vanilla shit I’ve ever heard.

I always saw Jeff Beck albums when looking for Jason Becker as a kid but never listened to him. Wish I would have, quite enjoyed this one.

This one was much better than the other English indie BS we’ve listened to so far.

What

One of the best ever.

I had never heard of this one before, it was fun!

This kind of country I can get behind.

I really dig it but it’s a bit long.

While I tend to prefer the barbed wire gargles of Swordfishtrombones and later, this one is absolutely a 5. No better storyteller in music.

Somehow have never heard these guys. Love it! Slacker rock rules.

Easy 5. The Needle and the Damage Done is an all timer.

Who knew there was more to The Pixies than Orange Cassidy’s entrance theme?

This is the first album I thought about skipping. I had a terrible time. Why doesn’t she stop singing and gurgling?

Good, but a couple steps down from their others. I would normally give it a 3 but it gets a 4 since it came the day after that Mariah Carey bullshit.

This was incredible. The minimal music and the way his delivery plays with it is excellent. And the lyrics are very thought provoking.

One of my favorite albums of all time. Cantrell and Staley were unbeatable. Such a heavy album for the mainstream attention it got.

It wasn’t bad. Pretty surprised honestly.

Love some Tribe.

What a voice.

I’d love to hear her sing over some RIFFS.

Meat does suck, but KD isn’t much better.

Hell yeah.

It wasn’t as bad as Mariah Carey but damn thus was bad.

Hell yes. Most important album of all time.

David Bowie is good. Who knew?

I liked it. Didnt love it.

It’s like if the first few Beatles albums were good.

Love some Dylan.

Best Purple album by a mile. Bonus points for Child in Time being a major influence for Rob Halford.

People out here giving this a 1 when I had to listen to that bullshit Mariah Carey album.

This was very boring but at least it wasn’t as bad as Mariah Carey or 50 Cent.

Yaaaaaassssss

GOAT album.

Three all beef patties

This album does not deserve that cover or that name. But it’s better than Mariah Carey.

Where are The Time?!

WAY too long.

Better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

Listened to this before going to see Sunn O)))

I listened to this on the way home from Sunn O))) and it was way better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

It was fine.

Dolla dolla

Wouldn’t it be nice to get good albums every day?

Generally not a live album guy, but if I want one this is one of the few I’ll reach for.

This one was much better than the self titled.

This was much better than I thought it would be. Would be a 4 if it were 20 minutes shorter.

At first I thought it was going to be pretty good. It got old quick though and wasn’t very into it after 3 songs. Still significantly better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

Bob Dylan rules. I think Abraham Lincoln said that.

Insane album. The guitar work is top notch.

Groovy.

This was not good but it was at least twice as good as that Mariah Carey bullshit.

I know someone who loves this band and I should have known it would be bad based on his other music taste. Still better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit though.

This made me want to listen to Akuma No Uta so I did.

At least it was better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

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I wasn’t so sure about this one to start but it was want had. Even kind of liked it.

Even if Stairway is overrated, this is still the best Zep album.

Top notch rap album.

This was very bad. It’s better than that Mariah Carey bullshit but not enough to get over a 1.

Even though Clutch’s Proud Mary cover is better, this album is still excellent.

Apparently I’m a pretty big Leonard Cohen fan.

Based on the band name that had no business being as good as it was.

This was not good. But unlike Mariah Carey’s bullshit, I would not leave it in the middle of our street.

5 star! 5 star! 5 star!

This was awful but it is still better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

Tom Waits gets 5s.

Great album. Love Crystal Ship and The End even though they made me almost get in a fight with a Disturbed fan at the bar.

David Bowie is more than just Ziggy Stardust - who knew?

Who gets 4 stars? The Who gets 4 stars!

Pretty good music to chill to. Halford’s Golgotha is much better though.

That was not good but it was significantly better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

Not bad but not quite as good as the other one.

Of every album ever recorded, did we really need 2 Randy Newman albums in the top 1001? Should have subbed one out for Gary at least.

This was bad. I liked the first one we listened to but this doesn’t do it for me. Still better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit though.

I had never heard of this before and it rules.

Smack my Garg up! Smack my Garg up!

That was much better than I thought it would be. Wish it was the one with the sweater song though.

Best Floyd? Best Floyd.

I gave Coldplay the same score, but if we’re talking rounding, Coldplay was a 1.75 and this was a 2.25.

I’d give it a solid 3.5. Not as good as the album with Sunn though.

Pretty good for background noise while relaxing.

Way different than I was expecting based on what I’d heard from them before. I like it but it could definitely be 20 minutes shorter.

Better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit but not by much. Woof. One of the most boring things I’ve ever heard.

That was fun. A few ear worms. Sigourney Weaver rules.

That was boring, but way better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

Pretty solid for chilling.

Whipping Post could have used another 10 minutes.

Corporate rock sucks but it’s still better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

I knew a lot of these songs but didn’t know they were all from the same band. This was fun.

Started off ok but got boring fast. Still better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit though.

I didn’t know what to expect but it wasn’t prog. This rules.

Yes.

I haven’t listened to Green Day on purpose since Dookie so I’d never heard this one. It was much better than I was expecting. And 7 minute songs?! Who knew.

I’d only heard Carrie and Lowell and some other tracks before, but nothing from this one. This was great. John Wayne Gacy Jr is one of the most unsettling songs I’ve heard.

That was pretty boring but significantly better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

This was way too long for how boring it was. Still significantly better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit though.

Not overly memorable but not bad.

I prefer old man Cash, but if I want younger cash the this is what I’d choose.

Some day we’ll get to one of the good ones.

I am shocked this was on the list, but I did like it.

That was pretty good but would have been better if it was half as long. Too much fluff.

Pretty good but definitely too long.

Leonard Cohen rules. Avalanche is an all timer.

I’d never listened to Ray Charles on purpose before. This was really good.

That was good for whatever it was.

Al Green rules.

I prefer their 70s work, but this one is still great.

This wasn’t quite Mariah Carey or 50 Cent bad but it was very very bad and I did not need to hear this before I die.

That’s a lot of flute. I mean A LOT ALOT.

I’m sorry what? I fell asleep.

That was nothing like I expected it to be and it ended up being pretty good.

Very vanilla.

There are a few good songs here but this was painfully long.

That was not very good. I liked the first song but it fell off hard after that.

That was definitely some bullshit, but at least it was marginally better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

Every single song is a legit banger. Easily Cash’s best work.

That was solid and I’ll likely revisit it at some point.

Not good but could have been worse.

That was one of the most incredib…ly boring things I’ve ever heard.

Putting aside the fact that he’s a shit bag of a person, his stupid voice and he he’s drive me insane. Beat It and Billie Jean are ok songs but the rest is bad. Still significantly better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit though.

That was decent chill background music.

Now that was some old man bullshit right there, but it least it had a few good guitar solos.

Mis pantalones es un fuego. Quien es tu papa? Donde esta la biblioteca?

This was really good. Nostalgia hit hard since my dad was a big fan of this style of music.

At least it was short.

That was not at all what I expected. It was pretty good but way too long.

Would have been a 6 if it was longer.

I didn’t know what this was going to be. It was ok. Nice and quick listen.

It was ok but I’m not sure I’ll revisit it.

Easiest 5 possible. Every song is 🔥🔥🔥. The beginning of the greatest band in the history of bands.

It’s no loveless, but still pushing great.

I was sure I knew what this was going to sound like and that I wouldn’t like it based on the cover. Wrong on both counts!

Mango Pickle Down River

Far from Maggot Brain but still a hell of a good time.

Reminds me a bit of Murder by Death.

This was certainly an album.

If this had 10 songs it would probably be a solid 3. Insanely too long. Still better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit though.

It’s no Stooges but still a lot of fun.

I liked it but definitely not as good as the other Bowie albums we’ve had on the list so far.

Nevermind the bullocks, this is pretty good.

See that Garg, watch that scene, he is the dancing queen.

Not bad. The instrumental tracks were the best part but I still enjoyed the whole thing.

So there’s a nostalgic spot for this album for me because it was the first metal album I ever heard. That said, it absolutely does not hold up. The first 4 songs rule, so does Nothing Else Matters. But the rest? Woof. I’ve long said if you took the best songs from this, Load, and Reload you could have a solid 45 minute album. Giving it the benefit of a round up since it was my first.

Not bad. Really like his version of Hallelujah.

This was weird and awesome

Not bad. I like her voice and the guitar parts were pleasing.

I really liked the first half of this. Not so much the second half.

Much better than the other album of theirs we listened too. Still way too long though.

I have a lot of nostalgia for the hits on this one, since I listened to their Best of album Big Ones a ton in elementary school. The hits definitely carry this one. The others aren’t bad but aren’t super memorable.

Love some Beach Boys.

This was not at all what I expected based on the album over. Still significantly better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

This would have been a decent 40 minute album, had absolutely no reason to be 65.

Pretty good but not super memorable.

That was some bullshit right there. But much better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit.

I had no idea what this was and when I saw it I was upset because I thought I knew exactly what it was going to sound like and that I wouldn’t like it. I was pleasantly surprised.

I thought I liked this album. Don’t know what I was thinking. It’s so insanely long and less than half the songs are good. Loses half a star for the length. Still significantly better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit though.

I had listened to this before because I have several friends who love it. I liked it but it didn’t really click with me. Today, it clicked with me. Great album.

EVH is an excellent player but not a good song writer. DLR sucks all around. Still significantly better than Mariah Carey’s bullshit though.

Was it really necessary to be that horny?

Who gets a 3? Who gets a 3.

Gross.

Can’t believe a deaf guy can make music like this.

Up and down but I liked more than I disliked.

Fuck Don Callis

Pretty pretty pretty good.

Extra star for feedback.

RIP but not for me.

I have no idea why this would be ok this list. Superfuzz Bigmuff is far superior.