1001 Albums Summary

Quintessential soul album. Aretha's voice is powerful yet comforting. It is a shame she has since passed. Her legacy lives on through her music and this album is a perfect representation of her power, warmth, and love.

Hard to beat the M-A-N himself. I have listened to this album plenty of times and it is a foundation of not only blues guitar, but blues bass as well. Most of my bass playing on blues songs is just ripping off the incredible Charles Calmese.

Funny it suggests this as I believe yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Bowie's passing. I respect any artist, creator, musician, etc. that is courageous enough to put their art out there and obviously, David Bowie was an incredibly talented person. However. This art is not for me and that is okay.

I own this album and mostly only ever listen to the singles. Going back through some of the deeper cuts was fun. Had I been alive when this came out, I'm sure I would've complained about the synth, but now I quite enjoy it. If only DLR could still sing like this.

My college roommate owned this album and maybe Jazz (is that a Queen album?) and I may have listened to it in full once before. I am not the biggest fan of Queen. I appreciate them and what they did for rock and music as a whole. That Live Aid deal was rad. Outside of the singles of this album that I have heard plenty of times before, not much else piqued my interest. Some great tunes, just not for me.

Great album. Very raw and inspiring. However, I think I enjoy Luke Combs cover of Fast Car and Reel Big Fish's cover of Talkin' Bout a Revolution more than the originals. The rest of the album is what I imagine to be standard Tracy Chapman as this is the only full album of hers I have listened to. I will now have to check out more.

It is a quality album with a great cover at the end. Drugs must've been good back then, man.

I mean, c'mon, man. Start to finish, 10/10. Not a single note. Fucking brilliant, this.

I have PTSD when listening to Intro as we used it for a dance warm up every morning of high school marching band. Never listened to the rest of the album because of that. So it is like an indie thing. Not my speed, but I am sure someone out there likes it.

I found this on youtube as I do not own Spotify. Hopefully I listened to the right thing. Decent record. If it is gonna just be a dude and his guitar, I'd prefer Robert Johnson. I also see why they call him Ramblin'.

I'll admit I got excited when I saw Exodus as I thought I'd be getting some thrash metal, but this is okay too. I never really listened to a lot of reggae or Bob Marley. I am a metal and punk guy so I gravitate more toward ska punk when I do feel like listening to something reggae adjacent. This is a powerful record that millions love. I do not fall into millions, but it has its moments. Jamming is probably my favorite.

First CD I ever owned. I will always have fond memories of blasting this on my shitty 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 stereo. No bad songs on this record.

Odd album. New wave is not necessarily my thing, but I dug a few tracks on this one. I listened to the deluxe edition that had a live show on it. That was better than the studio tracks.

The Beach Boys always take me back to summers in Wimberley at my Uncle's house. He had a Rock-Ola jukebox in his pool house and the Beach Boys, Beatles, or Marty Robbins were always on. Fantastic stuff.

I am vaguely aware of Charles Mingus as I was a bass player in a jazz band. I can't say I ever really did a deep dive into him. The album was a bit more out there than I prefer but hey that's jazz baby. I like the use of tuba as I think it is an underrated jazz instrument and I am also biased as I played tuba before I picked up the bass.

Never heard of this band or album before it was suggested by the generator. It says it came out in 1968 and I sure believe that. I feel I was not properly inebriated enough for this album. It had it's moments, my favorite being Old Man Going. This is something one of my more free spirited uncles would probably have been listening to at UT in the late 60s.

Bangers. Higher Ground remains my favorite. What a dope artist.

As a child of 1998, I know Corona because of Jackass. I did not know the album it came from was 43 tracks long and just chock full of jams. Pretty good record.

I own this bad boy. Seeing them live for the first time in April! This shit right here got me through the back half of my senior year of high school. Loved it then, love it still, will love it forever.

Knew the singles, never listened to the album. Now that I have, I think I'll just stick to the singles when they come on the radio. Not for me.

I have heard Like A Prayer the song but never listened to the album. Not really a fan of the song and now that I have heard the album, I am not a fan of it either.