1001 Albums Summary

Pink Moon th song, yes. Pink Moon the album, no. I just wanted it to end.

Not my fave Sade

Too long. I live the musical and this isn't as compelling, but there's a lot of great stuff here. Definitely worth a listen and it's legend status

This sounds like the 70s in the worst ways. The piano on the second track made my ears cry.

Nice. Languid. 3 stars

Didn't change my mind about funk. 2 stars

The softest of jazz

More stomp, clamp, hey than I expected

Bloated. I feel like Speakerboxx is better with age and The Love Below is worse. The idea that we let Andre 3000 get away with those abysmal lyrics!

The hits are bangers but the rest feels samey and, honestly, pretty immature. I thought this might blow my mind as an overlooked germ, but I think I paid it the right amount of attention at the time.

Excited to get Canned Heat, but got disco Stevie Wonder instead.

This is great. Admittedly, it sounds dated in parts, but the non-singles don't feel like filler. I probably won't listen again, but I appreciate it

This doesn't feel interesting or important.

Mexican hip.hop jazz fusion. Ok.

Not for me

The more electronic it sounds, the better it is

Hoo boy. This sounds like high quality blues, but it didn't make me hate blues music any less. This probably deserves 5 stars for quality, but I really hate it

Maudlin

More musical than I expected

Great

If it want for motherfucker and motherfuckin' there would only be beats

Cool, but too much jam band energy

Smooth

4 stars for Maps, but I have to agree with Angie's take on this: "It's screamy"

I don't get the love for the Clash. Were they just the most pop punks at the time? I like some of the songs, but it's not for me overall.

Like Elvis if he were bad

I wish this was a different, better Goldfrapp album

Better than I expected. I like the horns

Sinatra goes bossa nova. Didn't make me like him any more.

Beautiful voice, but terrible songs

Some of these are songs

I'm no expert, but these were not the sounds of country and western music.

Ok

Nice 90s vibe, but top 1001? I'd listen again

I'm more of a Hello, Nasty fan

If Metallica had no haters, I'm dead

It's the Ramones. At least it's short

A really solid surprise.

This is a lot more honky tonk than I expected. Spotify Auto played some TRex after this was over and that was better, so I can only give this two stars - and those stars are all earned by Sympathy for the Devil.

Solid

Bob Dylan is as Bob Dylan does

This is what Dwayne Wayne and Whitley were listening to

I appreciate that he was trying to teach me about the music.

At its best when it sounds less like the Beatles

Still sounds great

Music expresses the range of human emotions. Sometimes the emotion is screaming.

Ok, but it all sounds like Bad Moon Rising

I'm supposed to get high and listen to THIS while I watch the Wizard of Oz? Crazy

Great Trip hop representation

It's a Neil Young album. No surprises here.

Ok, he likes king fu

Keeping high school jazz bands in business since 1957

More interesting than I expected. I'm most familiar with The Message (the song) which feels pretty dated in 2026. It's easy to see how it's foundational, but I expected it all to feel as dated as The Message (the song). It isn't. With some exceptions. There's a lot to like here and not just in a nostalgic way.

This is not a serious band. Now I'm older, I'm tattooed all over My wife is tattooed, too A-rooty-doot-toot, rooty-tooty-toot-toot Rooty-tootle-tootle tattoo, too

Way more marimba than you think

No, thank you.

PJ Harvey has better albums

This album sounds great with headphones on

The most dramatic new wave I've ever heard. This was a welcome surprise.

Classic, but loses a star because each song is juuuuust a bit too long

Shit innit

Crisp

Light and enjoyable

Of all the albums that make me feel nothing, this is one of them.

Started meh and just got worse until I turned it off. My first non-finish in my 1001 albums journey. I decided I don't have to listen to everything.

I debated skipping this album. I have a bias against Black Sabbath based on who I think their audience is and certain expectations of what this would sound like. I'm glad I listened. This is much more musical and stylistically diverse than I was prepared for. This is a great album and well worth the time. More guitar heavy than I would prefer, but honestly an enjoyable surprise.

...but if you can get past the misogyny, homophobia, and graphic violence...

"I've been working real hard tryin' to get my ass clean." - Bruce Springsteen in Prove it All Night as heard by me Turns out he's actually trying to get his HANDS clean. Good, because I was like it shouldn't be that hard, man.

I'm more of a post-Automatic for the People guy, but R.E.M. is undeniable

The problem with Sigur Ros isn't that the music isn't good, it's that I don't know when I would listen to it. I don't think I live a down tempo electronic atmospheric life. Maybe I'm more of a sad trombone instrumental

Purposefully ugly and unpleasant. An extra star for the undeniable influence on grunge.

The first half of this album is literally bad The second half of figuratively bad. If it wasn't a single, it's yeah (also Bad).

Ol' Sourpuss himself

This album confused me. I had to listen to it a few times, but I like it? The Beach Boy harmonies, but not the Beach Boy sound I've come to expect.

I think this is too early in the Pixies discography for me. Too raw.

After the album finished, Spotify played better later-era Psychedelic Furs songs. I say, skip this one and start later in the discography.

"Like most of his other albums, Greetings from L.A. did not sell well" Wow. Hard to imagine.

Not every album needs to be in this list. Speaking in Tongues, sure. Little Creatures, yes. Talking Heads 77, no, not really.

Meh

There's too much punk on this list. Maybe I've been worn down, but this isn't so bad. At least it's melodic.

This is fine.

Guaranteed this is the only album on the list with lyrics about having sex in a Burger King bathroom.

Give me Legs instead.

Yucky

So many of the albums I've listened to from the list have been punk or some form of rock, maybe a little rap. This felt like a breathe of fresh air. Deee-Lite are amazing

My brit pop awakening

No single song is terrible, but listening to them all together highlights how empty they sound

Never heard of the Brothers, but this is great early 70s country rock

Insufferable

Hot trash

All of her albums are 5 stars - except Solar Power which is, of course, trash

So smooth

Every song is a banger. Regnab a si gnos yreve

Vocalist Kurt Wagner has a song with Morcheeba called What New York Couples Fight About. If you like this, listen to that, too.

Timeless and so cool

Boo to this screaming

If I were w guitar guy, I guess this would be my Valhalla

This is probably how Boomers feel when they see a Led Zeppelin album on the list.

Exactly as advertised on the label

Better than I thought it would be. Accessible southern blues rock sort of business

The Boss is sad :-(

Deja vu indeed

If you like white men screaming, then you're in luck! And this time they're from Australia!

Some high highs (It's Tricky) and some low lows (Dumb Girl)

Son of a Preacher Man is the Running Up That Hill revival of the 90s.

Wait... is Radiohead a good band? This is the first I'm hearing about this...I should tell people.

This is the wrong Goldfrapp album

Another blues rock jam band from the '70s? Please, sir, I'd like some less

Obviously great, but I'm pretty basic. I just want to hear Sledgehammer.

Punk without the screaming

Every other song is classic

This has that end-of-the-millennium paranoid trip-hop sound.

This album makes me hate the Pixies

I'm waiting for you to be great

I think everyone loves this album, but it's just not for me. Sorry, Stevie

This is fine. I'm not sure I needed to hear it before I die, though.

This album is great. Punk with enough alt rock influence to be listenable and enjoyable

Bland and boring

This must be the album they added to get over 1,000.

The gold standard

I watched a YouTube video on this band which explained the significance of the album and the band, but I still can't decide if it's any good. There's something here, but I mostly hear noodling on a psychedelic organ

So many great songs on this album

I don't know what MIA is up to these days, but she was producing bangers back on the day

Not for me

I get why this is here, but I mostly wish I was listening to Back in Black

Didn't make me like jazz

I hated everything about this

They're not all Bennie and the Jets

Back in 2020, Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott made one episode of a podcast to discuss RHCP's discography before switching to a different band. They chose Talking Heads, but really any band would do.

Reminds me of emmet swimming. You should listen to emmet swimming.

Edit this down to a single album and I think you've got something. There's too much nonsense to sift through here.

90s U2 is peak U2. Or maybe I'm just giving my age away. 5 stars either way

Literal masterpiece from a genius

Solid

I've never heard of the Bees before now, but I listened all of their albums yesterday after being introduced to this one. Great!

Felt a little dated, but then I listened to the 2026 Role Model album and they're the same album, so I guess it's a contemporary sound after all.

This album is perfect

80s nerds must have exploded over that Kate Bush duet

Those Brown Sugar lyrics, though. Yikes

I am not a fan of guitar bands, it's just not for me, so I was surprised how good I thought this album was.

Nope, nope, nope

The opener is Hello and it's perfect

Love the harmonies, but it's dull

This is a new artist for me.A really great experience

I'm not a blues fan, but B.B. King's talent is undeniable on this album. It's a lot of fun

Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Time After Time are good, but the real standout is All Through the Night. This is a pretty good album, but can feel generic to the 80s at times.

It overstays it's welcome, but this is coming from someone who thinks Cream is Prince's best song, so...

I know why I've never heard of the Flamin Groovies

Did everybody have that one theater kid at their high school who wore a cape unironically? Because he made this album and he's very serious about it

Synth wave background music. I listened to this album 4 times front to back and I couldn't identify a single song if my life depended on it.

Somehow, I still think Adele is underrated.

Proto Duran Duran

This album is where I start to disengage from Bjork. I can see the genius, but I want to listen to it less and less with each subsequent album. I want more Post or Homogenic. That probably makes me basic, and I'm ok with that.

A great live album. The performance makes it a great repeat listen

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Well crafted and dull

This is so nerdy. Even the hits sound nerdier in context.

Not every album needs to be on the list

Sometimes it forgets to be acid jazz and is just regular jazz

Neil Young has great albums and terrible albums. This one's just a dull

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I feel like I've gotten a run of albums by artists who deserve to be on the list (and are) for better albums. This is the Amnesiac of Talking Heads albums

It's reggae

Is it a hot take to say that this is the only fully listenable Beatles album?