1001 Albums Summary

Hot damn! A stone cold classic front-to-back. Don’t Cha Stop is my least favorite but it’s still really fun! And the seamless run of the last 4 tracks is INSANE work

It’s pretty damn good! Other than the classics, there’s a lot of really good stuff here. Loudmouth kinda sucks but WHAT CAN YA DOO-HOO

It’s okay! Obviously very good guitar playing, GREAT riffs, and some fantastic drumming but the vocals don’t quite do it for me here. Phantom of the Opera and Transylvania are pretty dope though.

Not bad, just pretty fucking boring. Not a COMPLETE dud but for most of it i was waiting for it to end. Back half was better than the front

Unfortunately this is very good

It might just be the mood i’m in today or the fact that this album has been “music bro”’d to death but while i can admit this is well-done and would probably hit me differently on another day, it’s not my favorite!

As good as a Morrissey album would be, which is pretty good! Loved all the different styles on this one.

About what you’d expect! Have you heard Elvis before? This is that! Pretty good but obviously i was concerned that if i listened to more i’d start worshipping the devil and rioting, but other than that, something like this always helps me connect with my grandmother who passed a few years ago. She loved him and i get it.

What a wild album (pun not intended) that could have both an incredible song like Perfect Day and then whatever the hell New York Telephone Conversation is

I mostly REALLY enjoyed this, you can hear the influence on their sound The Beatles made already, and the influence they’d have on bands like The White Stripes.

Very good! Glad i finally had an excuse to listen to this for the first time! HOLY FUCK we do not need the outro. You know you can just put all that in the lyric booklet my guy? Or at least don’t play the same goddamn 4 bars on loop for TWELVE FUCKING MINUTES.

Still jjust as incredible front to back as it ever was. Still sounds as dope as it did when i was 20 when it came out. Still an amazing story.

Pretty much all of this was good to great, didn’t care for Black Queen though

Another case of an albums back half being better than the front! The big songs still great and the deep tracks are pretty cool too

Could’ve just been Part I and it would’ve been fantasic already but then Part II some walking out of the forest and sounds like a Tenacious D song in the middle?! Really cool experience!

First 3 tracks were TOTALLY meh for me, then immediately after it got REALLY good for a bit? I obviously didn’t love this, but what i liked, i really liked. What a strange thing! At times pretty plodding British rock, at other times a Spiritualized-esque super-freak-out!

How perfect of a coincidence i get this album the day i see Al Jardine make a quick guest appearance on one of my favorite podcasts and he talks a TINY bit about this! This is as Tim Heidecker calls it “the reccord all the hipsters like” and i’d be right with them i guess.

I gotta say, i’m still a little fatigued from the “BIG” ones (Rolling in the Deep and OH GOD Someone Like You) but there are some SOLID deep tracks here! Like, o completely understand the absolute chokehold she had on so many caucasians a decade ago! Set Fire to the Rain is still a huge banger. THE STREAK OF 4S CONTINUES!!

Another 4! Bravo Common! His performance leaves a little to be desired on Silo but this is a pretty solid record! CLASSIC Dilla (RIP) and Kanye (RIP) production.

Peed my pants to this and i would do it again!

Damn, 2005 was a great music year. One of Becks best hands down.

WAY TO GO PAUL

Was this good? Yeah! Did i need 61 minutes of it? Maybe not! There were some really cool parts throughout this one but overall it’s pretty samey. I just wish there was more variety.

Really liked this! Groovy as hell and charmingly early 80s flavored new wave that I had no idea existed until this was generated for me! Definitely one i’m going to dig deeper into in the future!

SORRY GUYS I LIKE THE DOORS :(

Can’t rate this one considering this Cosmo guy apparently made this in his factory and not CCR

STILL a (mostly) perfect front to back barn burner

Didn’t pay CRAZY attention to the lyrics so they might be VERY 2002 but as far as everything else at least it’s like riiiight up my street

I was really into this! Mike Patton is forever a legend and this is a super fun record.

Connection is such a classic and classically cool song. If it were just that for 40 minutes this album would be a 10/10 but…it’s not so it’s this which IS great but there are one or two misses.

Didn’t even know It Was a Good Day was on this! What a nice surprise. Anyway, this really hit for me right out of the gate and didn’t really let up. I realized with this i’m a sucker for when rappers write respond to the reaction to their previous work. The production here is GREAT and the sample work is incredible too. But after all that, definitely gets a ding for early 90s casual misogyny and homophobia, WHOOPS CUBE.

Boy those guys plagiarized some good stuff! Nah for real though. They’re obviously talented but you can tell this is their first record, the much more interesting stuff comes later.

This is decidedly not for me dog. The vocals are an acquired taste to be sure, and worked for me on a couple of occasions but overall a slog.

OH DAMN I LOVE TORTOISE NOW

Hey i think this is really good i love how this list has some really totally not well known at all stuff on here THIS IS SARCASM

The Gilded Palace of Sin AKA your mother’s house AYYYYY For real though, this was pretty good! Almost great even! It did lose me a little toward the end though.

It’s fine! This doesn’t go a long way to convince me that Bob Marley and a select few other tracks aren’t the only reggae i need. Overall inoffensive, wouldn’t try to tune it out if it came on at a record shop.

WOW. Been meaning to listen to this one forever. From the very beginning i was locked in.

Bitter Sweet Symphony is an all timer. Some good songs, some okay songs, then the last two songs kick fucking ass

LOVE Gil, don’t get me wrong. And there were absolutely parts here that i also loved, but not enough unfortch😥

Very slick album! The slickness levels are through the roof on this one. Some stuff gets a LITTLE samey but the big songs here are the big ones for a reason for sure. You can hear the influence this record had on bands like St. Lucia.

Born to Run is betta

Gotta tell ya, i was REALLY close to giving this one a 2 based on the stuff i liked about this but there truly wasn’t enough for me there. Only one song i could see myself listening to again out of 15, most of the rest left me pretty annoyed. The excitement after pressing play on track 1 quickly faded and by track 10, checking to see how many tracks were left felt like some kind of karmic punishment. The non-screamt vocal deliveries were all well done but there’s only a couple of those and the rest is exhausting. I was SO relieved when it was over. Thinking of them rapping in those goofy masks makes me giggle though.

Always wanted to fully get into them and this is a nice place to start!

Pretty much the epitome of “i can acknowledge this is good but does almost nothing for me” some of the solos bordered on tacky for me.

Loved this since i was a kid. Porcelain is one of my favorite songs and imo one of the BEST songs. The soul samples and string arrangements still go really hard. GIVE THAT GUY HIS CDS.

Was never a fan of Mike Shinoda’s delivery. Still not. It just doesn’t work at all for me. Chester is an incredibly strong vocalist but Mike is not a very good rapper. The big singles are still fine. I actually enjoy In the End now in a “i will go a little bit in if it’s on with friends” kind of way.

I’ve only known Gloria for years so good to finally do this one!

Not my thing but not bad also! Definitely one of the more tolerable flavors in the genre for me.

It’s 80s U2 So i think it’s some good stuff Not the very best

Obligatory fuck Eric Clapton but this is pretty good

This being 10 songs and 74 minutes was a LITTLE daunting but ended up being mostly pretty rewarding!

FUN STUFF, and to hear Fairytale of New York in a regular album, non-Christmas context was pretty rad!

It’s fine! I think i would enjoy it a lot more without vocals honestly? Okay after finishing it, it got A LOT better as it went on and started getting weird lol.

It’s cool i guess! Vocals are an acquired taste for sure. I like it but i don’t know if i’d come back to it.

Y’all…this is purely stupid trash. Axl Rose’s voice is truly grating and i could not imagine listening to even just this record on a regular basis let alone the bands whole repertoire. If this were just the instrumentals it would still be just okay but definitely a whole lot better. This gets a 2 though for the big singles being at least tolerable and the entertainment value of all of Axl’s weird vocal affectations.

Definitely some jams here, but i thought it was just okay! It could be the volume i was listening at and i may have to go back in and do it louder but this didn’t exactly hit me in the way i feel like it should’ve.

I don’t think the Across the Universe cover is anything special really (is that a hot take?) but good lord the rest is FANTASTIC.

Good playing no doubt, and WONDERFUL for putting in a commercial about long-distance phone service in the 90s, and absolutely perfect if you want to listen to exactly that for 45 straight minutes. Like, once you’ve heard a bit you’ve heard it all. I thought the rendition of Sunny Side of the Street would give the record a nice pop at the end but was just more of the same basically. Not my favorite.

Pretty good! Most of this really worked for me! Enough to where I’m thinking of getting in deeper.

A telltale sign of just exactly how British this list is. Some of the beats are cool and i really enjoy Skeptas vocal tone and accent but still, i don’t really buy it? Like, people in the UK might think this is really hard but it’s honestly pretty boring to me? This is completely fine and i am completely unmoved. WAIT HOLD ON IT GETS A LOT MORE FUN AND A LOT BETTER IN THE SECOND HALF. Honestly holy hell once Numbers hit i was like “oh that one was kind of cool” then the momentum just kept going. I completely forgot about Shutdown, what a track. So yeah if this thing was like 7-8 tracks it would be absolutely fire. BUT-

So endlessly tragic. So much she could’ve done, just based off of this alone.

One of the easiest 5s ever given. Was a favorite of mine on a recent deep dive into their discography and it still is.

I have no idea if the big-beat sound is considered dated now but it’s still the coolest shit to me and RIGHT up my street. I was locked in from beginning to end and this stuff makes literally any activity feel like the most badass thing you’ve ever done.

Been a B&S fan for about 2 decades now but somehow never did this one! DAMN IT’S GREAT. Could’ve been because i put this on on a Saturday morning and it was the PERFECT vibe for the time, but DAMN.

Obviously a classic, but i don’t love all of it

YET ANOTHER 5/5. It’d been a while since i’ve done this one front to back and wow it still BANGS. The nearly hour runtime goes by so quickly.

There’s some stuff on this list so far that i kinda struggle to see it’s place for and this is one of those. No doubt passable but nothing came off too groundbreaking to me, and a lot of this record kind of blends together.

I guess i’d heard this record in passing before? A handful of these tracks were pretty familiar to me! ANYWAY, WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME. Maybe i’m just a 34-year-old white male music nerd but this HITS. ADD ANOTHER 5 TO THE LIST.

Do i like this better than Paranoid? Yeah.

I like the ones where other people are singing too

Years ago when listening to Bang a Gong i came to the realization that…i didn’t really care for it. That is, after the first 90 or so seconds. Once you hear the verse/chorus cycle a couple times, you’re like “okay i get it, and then what?” But it JUST. KEEPS. GOING. Other than that, most every other song didn’t really do it for me. There were a couple toward the end that i would consider going back to but most of it left me kind of bored.

I’ve been aware of Badly Drawn Boy for the longest time, going back to my “staying up later than i’m allowed to watch Conan” days and i’ve always known i’d like them if i dug more and HERE I AM 20+ YEARS LATER TO SAY… Yep. Good record.

This was a DELIGHTFUL and breezy live album. The band and BB are ALIVE and the crowd is having so much fun. Plus us type 1 diabetics gotta stick together.

The second dynamite live album in a row! Have always really enjoyed The Who so this was definitely one i looked forward to, however every version of this on streaming now is what i presume to be the “full set” (which is 84+ minutes) so what i listened to today was the condensed, original, 6-track, ~37-minute version, which still absolutely kicks ass.

Listening to this on a Saturday morning, my head laid on the bartop in my sisters apartment, the coffee maker chugging away for its life while it’s finishing brewing was the exact right vibe for this. Fantastic. I enjoyed this immensely and was immediately transported to a smokey club, a steamy back alley, and the offices of Sterling Cooper. Worth the 5 stars for Blue in Green alone.

Hell yeah! Mostly pretty cool!

Please understand this is not an endorsement of this man, but it can’t be denied how impactful he was for a long time and especially on this record, his artistic peak imo.

This is pretty peak “this”. It makes me laugh that basically every song has a fake out ending. The drumming pattern in the title track is a little awkward even though the song itself is admittedly an all timer.

Actually, pretty good! Enjoyed this a lot more than the previous Neil i’ve had. A lot more going on in this one and it sounded nice and went by quickly!

I knew i would really like this record when i finally sat down and listened to the whole thing and like it’s actually nearly perfect?!

Well for starters, Albatross definitely didn’t have to go first. It was kind of daunting right out of the gate for a first timer. Most of the rest was pretty groovy though! Idk man. Swan Lake is cool, Radio 4 is cool, Chant and some of the other stuff kind of drove me bananas. Not quite my favorite! I might go back to PIL at some point but maybe not this record.

All these years later and i’m still not CRAZY about Tell Her Tonight and it’s kind of a dip after Jacqueline but at least the really heavy hitters are immediately after! I heard this album a lot in passing as an early teen so i knew every song here but just not too deeply. It’s such a solid and fun debut that comes just shy of being great, apart from a few tracks.

Really sucks this website doesn’t have like a 5+ stars option because this would absolutely be one to get it. I have loved this album since i was 11-12 so this is a huge one for me. Still a gorgeous, trippy and cool banger through and through.

Bigmouth Strikes Again is one of my fave Smiths songs! This was nice! Not perfect but very nice!

This is really good. REALLY good. Great even. But i think Leonard is also a genius for knowing how long to make an album. I don’t know if i’d be up for doing this for double the length. #2harrowed

It’s good! Still not too well-versed in early Cure (Cure-ly) so the more raw sound might take some getting used to, but there’s just a good amount of this band i like more.

I think Levon finally clicked with me this listen!

When like at least 4/9 of the tracks are ALL TIMERS, this record more than earns its place in this list.

All of this is good, not all of it is great. But god damn the good stuff is absolute essential hip hop.

I can absolutely say that this is good, but is just mostly hitting me on the wrong day. It definitely has its place (as everything does i guess) but on first listen it’s CRAZY overstimulating. I’m realizing through this project that i might not be AS into grime as i thought i was.

Some really cool moments on this one! Not quite long enough to leave more of an impression on me though? Before i knew it, it was done. The hook on Fingernails is kinda gross?

I mean this is definitely good stuff, although a good bit soured by the poster-hanging, “just smoked weed for the first time and now this is who i am” college kids of yore. Some of his most iconic music is on this record but other than that i don’t see myself coming back to this much.

Mick with the extra twang in his voice is fine but a lot better in smaller doses. As such, it took me a minute to get into Moonlight Mile. Other than that and the ever-furrowed brow over Brown Sugar (even though without the lyrical content it’s a super solid song) this is a pretty nice one.

Second Curtis record! It’s pretty dang good! The potential for me to buy this LP to just put on when i have no better idea is through the roof.

It’s the wildest thing on Earth that this band completely disappeared after this record and you can’t find ANY information as to why 😮🤔🤨

There’s probably other people who do this better, right? Dancing and one other were cool but a lot of this felt like an extra chore on top of the room cleaning i was doing.

Nick of Time absolutely RULES as a song but only a few more rose above “good” for me! Still very listenable though.

First off, there’s a 19 minute version of Smiling Phases on the expanded edition that I’m excited to hear. Second, the first thing should tip you off as to how much i enjoyed this. So pleasant, funky, jazzy and brassy all the way through. Cool shit.

I remember a good amount of this record from childhood, as i was 4 when it came out and my mom became a huge Foos fan for a while. This is my first time listening to it in full as an adult! Pretty solid stuff!

I, uh…i dunno. I don’t think it’s talking too much out of school to say the title track just sounds like a bunch of aimless keyboard plonking? And for a track that makes a note to have (seven) distinct sections, none of them sound very different from each other, if really at all. I liked the second side better; shorter tracks and somg different ideas. Bitches Crystal is pretty cool.

The two tentpole songs are great (title track and Riders On the Storm) even though LA Woman is goofy as hell and also kinda stupid? I’ve been “LA Woman is stupid-pilled” since the episode of Punch Up the Jam years ago. Other than that, this is okay! Doesn’t move the needle too much for me either! The Doors are still a pretty musically (MUSICALLY) talented band that also kinda sucks.

Early Cure surely has its allure but you’re gonna infer i prefer the later stuff!

Just riffs, hooks and energy for 40 minutes! Flashes of The Kinks and The Rolling Stones and others all over it! HELL yeah.

Trying to figure out EXACTLY why but i liked this IMMENSELY more than 2112. Maybe it’s just a little more shine on the production? Maybe it’s the fact there were multiple tentpole songs i already knew, but i’m not sure. This one really worked for me.

It’s surely competent but like, so heavy-handed? And he is most definitely trying to imitate Prince on a lot of this but it just comes out as screeching instead. And like, the “YEAH YEAH YE-YE-YEAH” like he does on Fly Away was i guess just a signature move of his? You’ve got better stuff in ya Lenny. You’ll get there soon.

Not bad! A pretty fun experience the whole way. The Born to Run cover was okay but unnecessary. Sort of loses steam near the end.

Shortly after George Michael passed i watched a documentary on him that really focused on this album. I got the impression that i’d probably be very into it, and i am a HUGE fan of Faith, his previous record. I just never got around to listening to this?? It’s such a shame that a lot of people nowadays just associate George Michael with the songs he’s made which have become memefied (Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Careless Whisper, although those 2 are pretty much pop perfection) Anyway, fucking great.

One of the best records to come out in my lifetime, hands down. This is one that came out at the exact right moment in time and in its own way helped make me the person i am today.

Aracde Fire were a very important band to me for a long time. Saw them on SNL then on Austin City Limits and i thought i’d be a BIG FAN™️ for life. Then Everything Now happened, although that one had a couple of tracks i actually enjoyed. Then WE came out and it was fine! Actually got my eyes on them for a little bit again. Then all the information about Win surfaced and like many, all the magic went away like that. Like magic. I told myself at the time that i’d be able to go back to the stuff before they hit it huge and he still had “things to say”, but i haven’t touched any of it since. I’m rating this album for what it was, and what i still wish it was for me.

I’ll be honest fam, i didn’t do this one as Ms. Arulpragasam’s antics are still very fresh and still happening, i’d JUST gotten a Kanye and an Arcade Fire album (which i also didn’t listen to when they came up but i know both those records backwards and front) and when this one generated for me i had a visceral reaction of disgust. I only knew a couple tracks off of this one but i can’t see myself being able to not think about anything other than how this is all coming from a whacked-out moron who this person would have despised if i were to try and play the whole thing. I have to admit i’m kinda coming at this one differently than those other two but again, the wound is still pretty new. You really let us down, Mathangi.

Really enjoyed this! A nice 5-track 62-minute record to put on and get lost in. Felas band and Ginger really work together well and every track is like an adventure.

If you truly know me you know just how much i can’t stand these guys and i’ve called them the most aggressively mediocre band of all time.

Not a very consistent listen but it’s at least interesting and the good parts are pretty cool.

Did i like this more than Pink Moon? …yeah

The little vocal twitches that sound like bird calls aren’t my FAVORITE thing but…you know what, i’ll allow it. Very cool, very weird record. Points for how unique it is alone.

I really like Elvis Costello but kindly: what the hell is this one? It’s mixed terribly. Like why are his vocals SO forward? Especially with a lot of these songs being kind of vocally demanding, leading to Elvis stretching for notes he shouldn’t be? It got better as it went on but overall, a little too long. Honestly could cut like 4-5 tracks.

I’ve struggled with PJ Harvey over the years but i’ve never quite given her an honest shake til now. I didn’t LOVE it but i definitely want to know more now!

Fuck these goddamn Zionist bitches. Anyway, this is my favorite Radiohead record still.