1001 Albums Summary

This album was a surprise. Very happy to be introduced to this artist and I will 100% listen to more of his stuff. I love how he doesn’t stick to one style. Started very strong with You Ain’t the Problem and Rolling, but the album dragged after Final Days. But a very solid album over with songs I will listen to over and over.

Ugh. This started out okay, but it got more and more painful as the album continued. I no longer wonder why I never heard any of this album except for Song 2. If I want to listen to Hüsker Dü or Pavement, I would just put them on and actually enjoy what I was listening to.

Hands down my favorite Beck album and one of my favorite albums in general. Haunting and beautiful, I could listen to this all day. Not a single song I would skip. Just like Quebec by Ween, I am a sucker for breakup albums. Pain and heartbreak makes the best music. Mourning Phase won the Grammy and this album should have won.

This album has me so conflicted. I knew this version of Papa was a Rolling Stone and I really like it. The first two songs into Papa was amazing! I was so excited that I hopped on Discogs and added it to my want list. Then we get to the second half. Meh. A lot less funk. It is like they used up all the funk they had and were riding on fumes for the second half. I would have rated this 5 if the album was only three songs long.

Such a powerful album. I remember wishing they would just release the CD already after the Unplugged aired. I always felt that Kurt was on the verge of doing a reverse Dylan, making folk music more popular. What would have that next album been? So happy that this album was mostly covers a less popular songs from Nirvana’s catalog. A must live album!

Only 38 minutes? Felt like 90 minutes. Ugh. I had to look up when this came out, 2009. Then I looked up what came out that year and now I know why this is so liked. 2009 was a shit year for music. It was a bunch of American Idol and Xfactor crap. My favorite albums from 2009 was Baroness’s Blue Album and Cuban Linx II by Raekwon. While I love those albums, they don’t scratch a top 200 list on mine. Also, what a waste of a cool name line The XX. Like Elon, these guys ruined the letter ‘x’.

Great album continuing what Workingman’s Dead started. The pain you hear in Brokedown Palace that was influenced by Jerry’s mother passing is perfection. I should listen to this album more, but with all the live material, I rarely get a chance. Peak studio dead.

I get it. I can hear how influential this album is, but the vocals fall short for me. Maybe if listened to Dinosaur Jr growing up or I had more time to digest it, I would rate it higher, but it just doesn’t hit for me. The cover Just Like Heaven was great. I would give it a 2.5, but since I can’t, I will round up for being so influential?

And so it begins…amazing!

I prefer earlier ZZ Top, but still a decent album.

This sounds like someone took left-over scraps from Steely Dan and Pink Floyd and squished it together to make a sad creation meant for people that hate music.

This speaks to me. The first half has that IDM feel and the second half a punk rock electronic sound. Amazing. I cannot wait to explore and experience the rest of NEU!

Am I a BB King fan now? Maybe, I loved half the songs and appreciate the marital advice! Hopefully there are more of his albums in the list.

One of my favorite artists growing up. This album and Disco Volante by Mr Bungle introduced me to jazz. Maybe not her best, but an amazing debut building a solid foundation on what was to come.

How can anyone follow up an album like Thriller? After listening to this, front to back, I realize, you can’t follow up Thriller. Every time I hear Bad, I think of what could have been with Prince and Micheal singing that song as a duet. Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal, and Man in the Mirror are some of my favorite Micheal songs, but as an album, nothing flows or feels cohesive. Overall, I like a few of the songs, but the album as a whole is mid. Not Bad, but not good either.

Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream. Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void. I am a sucker microtonal instruments and tape manipulation. Front to back perfection.

Smiled when I saw this was the next album and knew I was in for a fun time. I have not listened to this album in at least 2 decades. I had to immediately skip to Peace Sells because I needed to hear that opening baseline…amazing. Song is still shreds after all these years. Chills listening to My Last Words. I feel like I am 12 again. This is such a Thrash classic. Amazing riff after amazing riff all packed into a 35 minute album.

This seems like a more chill Beyonce to me. If you described this album to me, I would think it was right up my alley. Nothing here makes me think this is a must listen album. Confused as to why it is in the list. Not groundbreaking and not influential, rather it is influenced by others. I really like the themes discussed on the album, but it still does not make me want to re-listen. Even lil Wayne and Q-Tip doesn’t save it for me.

Peak Dylan. Nothing more needs to be said.