1001 Albums Summary

Not musically obvious + totally my vibe. Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes kind of feel. “The Dark of the Matinee” fav! I think I’ll be listening.

A very long album, with a few nice little touches. Worth listening to again, I guess.

There’s a lot of experimentation and contrast here. It didn’t quite captivate me - it’s a bit too intense for my taste - but I think it’s worth taking a closer look at.

You can really feel Bowie’s strong influence. I wish I had heard it for the first time. “Perfect Day” is just perfect.

Good old rock.

How should I look at this album objectively? I have this memory from a Polish countryside wedding in the early 2000s - I was a child, and somewhere in the background a band was singing ‘All My Loving.’

Hip hop has never been my first choice, but here you have to admit it really slaps.

Girl, what a great piece of music!

It was drawn for me after Bowie and unfortunately it disappointed me. I expected something less pop and less monotonous, although Purple Rain is iconic.

I discovered A Tribe Called Quest a few months ago, and I’m curious how I would perceive the album if I didn’t already know it. It’s a bit too monotonous, but it grooves a lot.

I appreciate the craftsmanship and the cultural identity, but for some reason I can’t sit down with this album and say, “this is really good!” Maybe it’s my ethnocentrism, maybe I’ll come around to it someday. But for now, it just doesn’t captivate me.