1001 Albums Summary

Honestly, I’ve not been the biggest hip-hop / rap fan, but this album was a pleasant surprise. It wasn’t something I’d choose to listen to again, but I didn’t hate listening to it.

I love the unique idea of “each band member gets his own song for the album”. It’s a super fun concept that gives the album flavor, though there are better Yes albums out there

Not as bad as I had expected, still not super great.

Stanford said this was the best album ever. It wasn’t, but it gets just a bit better every time I listen to it. Always slightly better than I imagine, still didn’t like the explicit nature of it

Why did they even do this?

Not as memorable as their first album nor as edgy as it could’ve been for it’s time

What the h*ck is even this?

Less memorable early Bowie???

Rock Lobser

Some songs are a lot weaker than I remember, it’s probably why I’d forget those tracks, but the good songs are fun, and feel good

Why is this even here?

Holy nineties indie. You can hear it all in here. Clearly influenced it’s next decade

You caught me at a very punk time in my life

For my actual interest in the songs on the album, four stars, but for the history it’s created and it’s innovation and musical revolution, five stars

It was fun and full of confidence, an anomaly of what kind of musicians make this in the first place. And every girl crazy about a sharp dressed man

“Trust me guys, I know more than just western music, see?”

Teenage girls in 1991 when they realized all these songs were probably about other men:

It was good. Safe, nothing wrong with it. Not the masterpiece everyone says it is.

Good songs bad songs, this album has its share

Wire reference?

This guy should respect women more

Sounds the same by sounding different than anything from the 50s. Thank Crickets for Beatles

Cocaine Nazis 😍🥰

Brilliant

This album does a bad job at hiding that they wrote the same song a handful of times, and mixes it with other songs

Ysjdcsksbuscs gs

Does this exist?

I do not care for the White Stripes.

I’m not a teenage girl from 1999.

Memorable songs, it isn’t bad if you ignore all the lyrics. I do like Stan though

Of all Beck albums, why this one?

Reminds me of Aphex Twin. I will not elaborate any further.

I didn’t even notice as it went by

Tried to be hard rock and electronic at the same time, but didn’t do either stellarly

There’s better jazz albums, but that recording quality is unreal for 1957

I imagine Jett Probably likes this

Dog in hot car music

Only giving it a four, because I think it’s a solid 3.5 and I am estimating Jett’s score will be lower

Pleasant surprise 👍

Thank you Steve Albini, you changed the world

Too much electric, not enough Ladyland

White boys of the world unite

Back in ‘22, I decided to listen to every XTC album, because I enjoyed the hits. I stopped that challenge at Oranges & Lemons, I couldn’t bring myself to go further, regardless the total length of any XTC album, it’s always 20 minutes too long. Remembering what I do from XTC, this album was nothing like what I expected, it was pleasant, but it dragged for like 20 minutes. It still might be a top 3 XTC album (After the Black Sea and English Settlement), but that doesn’t mean anything coming from me.

I don’t even know where to begin with this or how to judge it. I’m at a complete loss of words, not positively or negatively.

Too cliche and dated. Not an 80’s pop fan, and this is just excessively 80’s. It feels more like a product of its time than a real album experience. “Time After Time” isn’t bad though

This is just mediocre butt rock. Actually, Mediocre is putting it nicely, I didn’t enjoy very much of this at all. It was too much of a “look at how well I can play this guitar” as much as it was genuinely compelling music.

This is NOT punk vro

It’s crazy how I enjoy several songs longer than this whole album.

It’s good, but uber overrated. I haven’t listened to this album since the breakup. That certainly tainted my experience. I would give it 3.5 stars, so we’ll go for 3 instead. He is better than his dad though.

I enjoy it but it isn’t uber impressive

Not the worst of the 11 albums I chose to listen to today

Does he know about the D-O-R-E?

How is this one of the best selling studio albums of all time? The album cover does not match its music, and none of the songs feel like worth buying the record over. I don’t know, guess I’ll never understand being a dad on a boat in the late 70’s

This is a Jett five for me. Leads me to believe that there actually is something to Neil Young that maybe I haven’t noticed before

I feel uncomfortably numb after hearing this one. Those vocals are not it.

I think I prefer Madness. (This and One Step Beyond came out on the same day in 1979)

I don’t see this the same as everyone else. It’s a fine album. There’s nothing wrong with it, but Bowie’s peak was the run of Station to Station, Low, Heroes This is just a handful of good tracks and another handful of slightly less good tracks. I would never hate this album, but I must be missing why even thinks it’s *so* good

It really asks me to try listening to it again

That was pleasant.

There are quite a few good songs, and plenty of ones I wouldn’t care for. I am glad I listened to it all in one sitting, without getting up from my chair.

I love Lou Reed, but I think Bowie did too much here. Still good though