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

What is even the point? Every song is the same. Find a three chord riff, find one phrase to be repeated as a chorus, then write substance-less verses based on said phrase, then put that together sounding like a screaming Marge Simpson. Ridiculous

Wow, for an album that was hardly produced and hardly prepared for, that is stellar. If only they put more time into it or cut a few of the songs though

Babe are you ok? You hardly touched your mediocre Brit Pop ruined by some of the lyrics

Probably Leonard Cohen’s best album probably

Probably the easiest five star so far. Gave my copy a spin and let it run as I played Pokemon White. I still remember listening to it for the first time. His folk approach into making what is now “rock music” changed the idea of songwriting, and has really influenced my own lately. Plus, “Ballad of a Thin Man” has gotta be one of my favorite songs out there. Though the album could’ve excelled even further had he chosen to put on “Positively 4th Street” in place of something else, it’s still easily one of my favorite albums of the decade and possibly of all time.

Once you learn that the author of ‘1001 albums’ hasn’t listened to the albums, sometimes one generates, and you wonder, in this case “I bet he only put this album here to counter claims he doesn’t include music from around the world” and so I come into this album with low expectations, as my research for the album felt uber limited. So I end up surprised when I end up really enjoying the sounds on this album, it really is something nice that I never would’ve even discovered if not for this list. As oddball of an inclusion it is, and whatever reason its inclusion may be, I am here for it

This music is like if you mixed the 2000’s indie rock I like with the 2010’s indie rock I don’t like.

Must’ve been the wind

I usually hate live albums. I feel like the appeal to live music is being there, and the sound on any live album format isn’t super worth it. That being said, this was a very good listening experience. I enjoyed the talking a bit more than the music. As a listening experience it was five stars. Though, as an album musically, it felts something subpar of such a high rating. I’ll meet those in the middle and give it a four. Loved the experience, but probably won’t be revisiting it any time soon.

If it were any other album by the band…

Who would win? This album or a small Victorian child?

“Oh look at me swinging my balls around.” Even when I used to listen to Get a Grip, I knew the late 80’s wasn’t a good time for them.

The albums name describes how I feel about it already. Though I came in with an open mind, and my feelings shifted from one star to two, because it sucks, and I don’t like it, but it’s good at what it sets out to do.

This album is dated (Just listen to the percussion) and pseudo-edgy. She clearly still sounds like the pop music made both before and after this, no amount of guitars can’t cloak that from me. It’s definitely a snapshot of post grunge history, and the beginning of the reason why eventually The Strokes will get the praise they did

Thank you for being enjoyed by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan, so they could convert it into better music

Watch out! Pictures at an Exhibition Jumpscare!

The title track here is one of the greatest songs out there, and the contributions from Eno & Fripp really sell this record to me. I do feel a couple of the songs are weaker when compared to Low. Which, unfortunately is going to overshadow this album for me. I give it “would be five star, if Low wasn’t outshining this classic”

I kinda enjoyed the sound. It is VERY 90’s sounding in some way though, which is not my favorite. It also had a couple songs a little too reminiscent of Oasis.

I don't know what to make of this album. It sounds nice, but it doesn't feel like something I would listen to again. I love the musical style, but It's been 'background music-ized' into oblivion, that's all I hear out of this.

I remember reading a book about Bob Dylan’s going electric. In the book, it referred to Baez a lot. It talked about how she help him get his footing in the music world, and things went sour by the mid sixties. Listening to this, I can hear how Baez definitely set the scene for Dylan to arrive a couple years later, same early Dylan sound with a better than Dylan voice. She did these folk tunes a good service.

I feel disappointed. I’ve listened to over a thousand albums in my life, and today was the first time I got this one. For so long I was told it was one of the greatest albums, and I always was excited to listen to it. Now that I have, I can say it’s a very good album, but not as good as I have heard it hyped to be. I guess that’s what I get for going in with too high expectations. I might have to give this a few more listens

I feel like there was something redeeming about this album saving it from one star, but I can’t remember what it was. Two stars regardless. But it was close. The random Body Count advertisement was very strange to say the least.

Having prior only listened to Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, and finding those albums boring, I didn’t have high hopes. I was pleasantly surprised by the first few tracks, and really enjoying the album. As it went, it started to feel more and more dull. Ending with the Dullest of them all in “40”. Some listen it was

This is a really well constructed album. The way it slowly reveals more in the “I remember you was conflicted” monologue and that the tracks move with the story. There were a handful of songs I did find instrumentally or lyrically not my speed. But those were also countered by some really innovative instruments vocals and sounds. This album goes on and doesn’t feel like it would end any time soon. It makes it hard to want to revisit. This is the second time I’ve listened, and this time I enjoyed it more, but really don’t want to listen to it another time. This album is definitely a 3.5, but since we can’t do half stars here, we’ll round up

While listening to “Heart of Gold” the car in front of me had its turn signal blinking to the tempo of the song. That was a 5/5 experience on a 4/5 album.

He should’ve staggered it.

I am not living it up in Hotel California