1001 Albums Summary

voodoo chile 14+ min song fuck yes; lo was floored I haven’t listened before apparently I only had one jimi song saved pre listen (watchtower) learned jimi was only really active for 4 years before he died I know v little about guitar but this really is insane “That’s a fucking great record but it’s a double record” - Lo’s dad

Not a single song previously saved from this album! They may all be new to me. I don’t listen to Queen much but I have a soft spot via Crowley in the Bentley Nevermore v good More mellow than I expected?

HA whereas prior albums were entirely new to me, I have almost this whole album saved. I want to listen to it in the absence of anything else. Song exploder for Our House is what brought me to this album back in October (‘25) and the song has been in my head ever since. Just lovely vibes all around

Blues is definitely one of my blind spots hi Sinners) and I have absolutely never heard of Muddy Waters (or have I? Perhaps in passing or as a lyric or poem). Thrilled to be introduced. Opening song is music that became bad to the bone? (Mannish Boy; per wiki re Black manhood)

Not the slightest idea who this is. I’m buckling in at 11pm. Love! Mellow a lot of times in a way that removes the barrier to entry I usually feel with electronic music. Look at where we are. Will watch the tiny desk.

I think I’ll always struggle with a live album- it’s so overstimulating and hearing an audience can take me out of what I’m looking for when I’m listening to music. I think it’s also maybe not my genre. But Dancing in the Moonlight is always lovely. I’m committing to trying again in a different atmosphere, perhaps driving tomorrow. Wow especially because I’ve learned their lead, Phil Lynott, was Black which is wild for an Irish rock band.

I don’t think I know any of his songs? Immediately here for the vibe. … learning some lore where he worked closely with Sam Cooke then married his widow months after he died 😂 jfc Stand Up. If you think you’re lonely now. Where do we go from here? Great vibes all around.

Wowowowowow nostalgia. What a gift to see this album included. And the first that I’ve seen performed live :) Seattle, 2017, with Jordan and Steven. Her cover of frank ocean destroyed us all. Anyway time to listen. Green Light / I can imagine seeing her dancing for the first time like it was yesterday The mfin Louvre Every single song is so good fuck Liability jfc What a time capsule too. Jack Antonoff wasn’t quite as ubiquitous yet… and Lorde was still such a genuine freak. She’s so FUNNY. “I’m psycho high” Writer in the mfin dark? Jfc. Do I give this a 5/5? It seems wrong when I think I still prefer Pure Heroine. Or do I? Why not both 5/5? “In my headddd” jfc literally zero skips all bangers that concert was so good

“Drown in my own tears” iconic to follow Respect. D r a m a Imagining the first time people heard respect when this came out jfc Rude but sometimes I feel I’m being yelled at in an unpleasant way. Other times I want to be yelled at. Not an example of that: a change is gonna come. v iconic Overall, not exactly my vibe but felt very important to listen to start to finish. Wild that she had so many unsuccessful albums prior to this release, 10 years into her career.

I only know enjoy the silence. Which I feel has been everywhere since it appeared at Rhea’s karaoke birthday party in Feb 2025. Intrigued to learn more. A song said “brings out the thug in me” They really are a vibe though. Learning they debuted via the second British Invasion via MTV in 1981. Want to learn. Girl stop learning and just listen to the album. Waiting for the night - entranced a bit. And a good transition to enjoy the silence

Oh my god it’s been ages. Have I ever listened to the full album? Charlie’s mfin Angels (Independent Women). What a time to be alive. Unbelievable start really. IWpt1 followed by Survivor and bootylicious? Apple pie à la mode comedy. Realizing Emotion has been in my head since middle school Outro friendship prayers are wild??

this is simply not my genre 😂

Perhaps a bit too soundy for me but I’d like to try again in a different context. Frontier Psychiatrist is pretty fun though. I learned the term “plunderphonics” which is comedy and the album itself is all sampling - which i still feel I don’t quite understand despite a year plus of song exploder

not the slightest clue. I think “post-punk” is perhaps also not my genre? Love like anthrax was a good vibe though

Oh! I’ve definitely never listened to a complete Radiohead album on my own volition (no offense I don’t dislike them just a realization). Let’s go. I only know bodysnatchers from this one. Wild this came out during my freshman year at Vass. I was too busy with Brand New and being bleak my first semester. Woah learning they released this as a pay what you want download! Iconic? Weird fishes/arpeggi HA. V good title (“I get eaten by the worms and weird fishes”). “Words are sawed off shotguns” okay I like this album. Nude fucked me up on relistening.

My rap blind spot is glaring. Women especially. Why do I always love British rap? I suppose because I love British humor. She’s so cool omg “I'm Jay-Z on a bad day, Shakespeare on my worst days”💀 Wounds. Wow. “The fuckery” in lyric is good. Wiki says this is about her friend who was murdered. Pressure. Fuck. She said fuckery again. Sherbert Sunset. She’s so real jfc “Allow me to be human and be in my feels Chill, I'm good, I got it, I never lost it Or am I just lying to myself to skip the topic? La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la, la-la” HA omg this 27 club song. Voodoo child shoutout! Two weeks in and have my first identified reference to another album on the list. Lauryn Hill influence cited.

Wow. Chain of Fools and You Make Me Feel on one album jfc (I still sometimes feel like I’m being yelled at but in a good way usually 😂)

oh my god? v Babylon Berlin get this on stage at the moka efti Need to listen with the lyrics up like I am floored this is t h e a t r e Released the year before the Berlin Wall fell, and 1920s/Cabaret vibes by a badass woman from Hamburg like okay sign me up

omg okay album art. I still don’t know what to make of this album and I’m nearly done with it! The songs surprise me and the order surprises me, even if it’s not quite for me Cool voice cool vibe Flute on locomotive breath 🙌🏼

Not a clue! Short little guy and nothing has really stood out to me. Final song is genuinely endless. Sometimes in a good way sometimes with annoying sounds

no idea. Realizing how British rock this list leans. Not necessarily opposed. Though this is definitely not just a British rock album? Genre bendy music wise I think I’ve felt nothing then suddenly bobs yer uncle vocals assault me?! The lyrics though 💀 Learning about the British second summer of love in 1988 with MDMA and the smiley logo and giggling that I was born during the extended British summer of love

Where is Stevie in my life! Just such a good vibe at all times.

I’ve never listened to this album. Or possibly any complete album. I remember my intro - Do You Realize? In that movie with Mandy Moore when I was in… middle school? Recently fell back in love with the song since song exploder. Learned they’re from Oklahoma and Andrew talked through the whole episode on the drive to skiing. Entirely irrelevant to this album. Enjoying it.

I only know Sexy Boy. Iconic. This album casually preceded the virgin suicides score. I can’t believe sexy boy is ONLY ft in 10 things is that possible? Truly so good. Ce matin-la. How is this song so lovely? Is this a needle drop somewhere? It feels like it’s engrained in me and yet. I’m loving this album. Do I 5 star it? Lemme listen to the song exploder episode. So French. They talk about writing music at the same piano 😭

Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall on one album? This album is featuring v heavily in my media as of late. Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova in fan fiction; Champagne Supernova in the Project Hail Mary trailer causing FEELINGS Jfc Looking forward to listening :) Also kind of wild this was 1995, I always imagined earlier. I always forget the so Sally song. (Don’t look back in Anger. So good) I want to bump this up just for the gift of one of my favorite songs but the album overall is less my vibe

how many people is Neil young doing albums with A concern is that I simply do not enjoy his voice. Since dad would play that war album I just find it so grating but I’ll try I do love the hey hey song and the word thrasher but generally nothing wild

Superstition! Does that alone warrant a 4 minimum? Yes but also the rest I think. Ultimately went with a 3 because I don’t think I’ll necessarily re-listen anytime soon

Very immediately delighted by the sounds. Listening the day after seeing Kishi Bashi. I wonder if related. Given folky jazzy vibes. Sort of wandering through the Scottish highlands energy. All acoustic, lovely. I don’t love her voice though? Read some interesting drums facts I don’t understand and will investigate further re time signatures.

unfortunate reality is I constantly confuse this man with Lynard Skynyrd Went in only knowing Suzanne. I’m enjoying this, mellow easy, likely never to be listened to again 😂 Oh he's canadian! Omg he went to McGill 💀 Okay English major poet king becoming a musician in his 30s! I was handsome l was strong I knew the words of every song "Did my singing please you?" "No, the words you sang were wrong" HA folk music is funny Listening to some later songs and sir where did this deep af voice come from

what! Got this album the day after Lo got it as theirs! Fuck. Realizing the first time I heard America was likely the first time I watched Almost Famous. 20+ years ago? Now I just associated it with Bernie’s 2016 campaign and the last time I felt hope. God this album is fucking good. Old Friends. Bookends Theme Reprise. Fakin’ It! Mrs. Robinson! Wowowow Omg “wish I was an English muffin” Is it rude if I drop this from 5 to 4 stars because the voices of old people is too jarring and I’ll be annoyed every time I listen or skip? Remembering I missed seeing them at MSG in 2013(?) because I went to my first conference in New Orleans.

Floored that they’re just “Ramones” no “the” Approaching this with reverence. Quick and nostalgic even if I don’t have something to be nostalgic about. Reminds me of my 6th grade best friend who became punk and drifted apart. Not my genre but Blitzkrieg Bop is iconic. Learning they were sort of the start of punk in the city? Wikipedia says the album cover cost $125 and was shot by a woman.

no idea and tiny ass Wikipedia intro gives me nothing! But New York! I admittedly didn’t feel pulled in until Eli’s Coming and then I’m grinning. Really lovely. Insane voice. Poems. This rating may go up when I listen to the album in one sitting.

one of my all time faves, fucking hell the nostalgia, and fitting for the day before Francesca’s birthday, who introduced me to him all those years ago 🧡 I often think of 2012 as one of my favorite years - the year after graduating college, constantly in the city for John Jay (that alone is a pretty wild revelation, that my so much of my favorite year was spent in the city when the thought of moving there terrifies me)… it’s nice to know that Frank was part of it Flashback to singing Bad Religion at a taxi driver (“be my shrink for an hour”) What if the sky and the stars are for show and the aliens are watching live! (rage bait) They mosh for enlightenment! Frank is just incredible. I remember watching his Grammy’s performance of Forest Gump live and mom not getting it and me trying to explain his magic. I remember reading what was ultimately his coming out essay and I wonder how much his queerness being celebrated informed me slowly over time celebrating my own. A gift to essentially listen to this album all day.

what’s better than drums Would like to learn more about this man. I wish I hadn’t listened while stuck in traffic on the LIE But it helped me not lose my mind? Which speaks volumes really. Will re-listen under better circumstances because I imagine it’s magic. Sir seems like a badass too. Listening months after completing the Fela Kuti pod, I’m thinking about how music and politics and revolution intersect. And generally what a shame to know so few African artists. Read a bit more; badass to refuse to come to the US after we invaded Iraq

Have never listened to a Bruce album before… have never wanted to either and this is an odd one to start with perhaps. This made me feel almost unbearably sad? Or it was just amplifying an already unbearable sadness that I’m unable to articulate? About death and aging and my parents and my friends’ parents and also vaguely about never having driven cross country. I don’t want to give it too much credit since evoking despair shouldn’t be too hard when opening with a mass murderer’s death sentence, and the next is “everything dies,” poverty, and gambling Listened while driving home from the city; good weather, minimal traffic

Who is THIS crew! Wow I had no idea. So many iconic songs here what! That Lady! Listen to the music! Summer Breeze!

No idea but pleased to know what an 808 is (vaguely) Oh released a few months after I was born! Wild that there was a world within the last decade that I claimed to categorically dislike electronic music? That said… this isn’t my vibe. I did quite like the first song and are those birds on pacific 202? Jury’s out re “acid house” and I imagine I’d feel differently if I listened in a trancey dancey vibe rather than driving home from the beach I’m reading this was wildly ahead of its time and that’s always impressive

HA what is this intro. Sir! Thrilled for a second Jimi album after he kicked off the project for me. Did I know Jimi existed before across the universe? I hope so. Spanish Castle Magic! Traveling by his dragonfly! WAIT WHAT THE FUCK it’s about a club in DesMoines?! Where he played in high school. Wait wtf is he from Seattle?? How. Did I not know this. Little Wing! If 6 was 9… badass behavior. I wish I understood more to really grasp his impact on guitar. Loved overall. Will never get over how tragically short his career was fuck.

so whatever the fuck this is, I think, is exactly the sweet spot of my genre. Immediately enthralled and hardly dipped. Funny vibe for a golden hour drive to the beach for some bird watching. like… Bjork throat singing Kate bush? More give me more give me more! Magpies laughing behind their back! Lay down for a while! Recollect! Morning, Keep the streets empty for me! haunting wowowow definitely one of my favorite discoveries so far!

Oh fuck yes let’s go! Incredible: how have I only known Fast Car!? I remember the first time it made its way to one of my CDs, freshman year of college I think? Driving to Vass, windows down, probably getting one of 100 speeding tickets because I didn’t know I had adhd yet, singing about driving fast and unknown futures and fucking hell. Across the Lines, Behind the Wall, this whole opening to the album is perfect. Devastating, I hate that this was written the year before I was born and I haven’t gotten to see a world where every song doesn’t still hit. Also. Her VOICE. Magic.

Beautiful and also theatre.

Fun first impression!

well. We know how I feel about vaguely monotoned funny talky vibes. Andy’s mfin Chest? Sir. By her feet smelling they mean her NOSE! Which grew down to her toes. Also he loves singing about toes yes?

This will be a journey. Have never listened to a Miles Davis album. Loving it. I remain a human who knows little to nothing about jazz from a “how it works” and “what is good” standpoint and generally okay with that. But this is like… good right?

Lovely at times, a bit of a snore at times. My past exposure was song exploder for patient zero that I only vaguely remember so I’ll revisit. Nice for a sort of dreary post rain walk with Augie, but I think it would hit better on a drive to the beach or when I’m feeling less bleak

Wow album cover! Not a clue. Okay wow, Wikipedia says this is known as one of the first rock operas to exist, so I’m essentially presold. And reading that this wasn’t properly marketed as a rock opera has me livid.

Have never listened! Is there a genre of hip hop called “cutie?” Will need to relisten and dive into the lyrics. I think I read at least some of this was written when Q Tip was in 10th grade? What. Incredible. Fun breezy vibe for my drive to the beach. Can I Kick It the same week as Lou Reed is funny. Woah reading they didn’t clear the sample so Lou Reed got all the royalties? What.

Amazing album art. What. Will this be. Was not expecting this! Fun little jazzy instrumental vibe. Will likely forget its existence soon.

No idea! Scottish psychedelic rock: Primed to love. Though I think it may be too dancey for me. Certainly for a crammed af flight to Austin. Perhaps I wait. HA are they rapping too? I should really probably wait but this is cute. Somehow I’m writing a ptsd evaluation on a packed flight while listening to this album and I don’t hate it. And yet I didn’t like it?

Lovely and a lot more mellow than I expected.

I spend a truly unbelievable amount of time singing Maps, and have done since… when did that come out? Wow 2003. Middle school Shar salivating over the music video after school. Anyway. I’ve never listened to this album! And only know heads will roll. Thrilled to see them included. Karen O has one of my favorite… auras? Oh hell yes seeing she went to Oberlin. Solidarity. Good Wikipedia excerpt: “Karen O accidentally danced off the stage and was reluctantly taken to the hospital. A few days later, at the Sydney leg of the Livid Festival, she appeared in a wheelchair pushed onstage by Andrew.”

Nice, and good to hear fake plastic trees in context. That said. I still don’t quite understand why this band is held in such disproportionately high esteem compared to other similar bands. I keep expecting to be blown away! Deathcab was my top artist of 2025! They can’t be that far off right? Maybe they are. I’ll investigate. Still, I loved a few especially high and dry and Just.

Okay! Never listened but thrilled to.

Combatting the urge to 5 star for Heroes alone.

OH MY LITERAL GOD HOW ARE THESE SONGS ALL HERE? Perfection. Magic. Silly fun wild freak! Driving to and from the botanic garden with Greta so we got to really cackle as needed. I’ll Kiss You and She Bop biggest fun little surprises.

No idea! Accent had me literally grinning on the drive home from the beach on Ideology “And her husband was one of those blokes The sort that only laughs at his own jokes The sort that war takes away And when there wasn't a war he left her anyway” … brutal. Would definitely like to learn more about him. Folk singer with punk(?) influence and political af. (Irrelevantly to this album: 💀 at “milkman of human kindness” as song title)

Lovely! So many nostalgic songs and covers that aren’t quite nostalgic to me, but I recognize the instrumentals from (already nostalgic) movies. Most importantly the guitar on Rinky Dink in Dirty Dancing. Right? Yes, same riff in the “come here lover boy!” song (Love is Strange). Unhinged album cover? A nice album I listened to while making dinner on a Monday evening.

Am I about to listen to 2 hours of proper country? Is it leaning bluegrass? Please. I think I’m more open to this after a) listening to Dolly Parton’s America, b) my dad’s recent weekend in Nashville and seeing a bunch of live music at the Opry, and c) watching the History of Sound and reflecting on the history of folk songs. This is quite amusing writing PTSD evaluations to this album. I keep picturing meeting the bluegrass Irish folky vampires in Sinners because my current vibes are trauma and devastation. An unexpected delight of a background listen. Long as fuck, yes, but I still enjoyed it.

Come on Eileen! Immediate warmth for scream-singing in Ireland at various points throughout my 20s, Molly, and that manic pixie dream girl af dance scene in perks of being a wallflower. His voice is doing it for me. Giggling; per Wikipedia, “Rowland thought it was "important to have a vocal style", he later recalled, "and I had the idea of putting that 'crying' voice on"…”

Loving this, like, poetry on Ravensport. Why is this presumably Black man not credited on this white lady’s folk music. Let’s see. Malcolm Moony, vocalist of German band Can. Breezy vibes.

Lovely for a Friday morning drive to Brooklyn, windows down, reveling in the sunshine

Such a pleasant surprise! Love this introduction to a band and album I’ve never heard of. Perfect for a drive to my new favorite brunch spot by Prospect Park with Greta and Lo on the best weather weekend the city has seen all year

I’m a somewhat recent convert! I’ve been listening to him more since an interview with… Sophie thatcher from Yellowjackets about one of his songs on song exploder (key change). And saw Mae perform at least one of his songs. His voice is hypnotizing. No skips. I think I may love his other albums a bit more, but I’ll be relistening. This album came out on New Year’s Day 2000, which is wild because I remember ringing in that new year; journaling, watching waiting for tonight by Jennifer Lopez at Times Square (?)… probably having mini hotdogs and watching Twister, who knows. Meanwhile this melancholy boy was out there and I had no idea

Love! I hadn’t heard of this and the album title killed me and the cover intrigued me and it’s been lovely. Hot AF day, depression has set in at overdrive after an overstimulating somewhat disappointing weekend, and this was much needed. Lovely for walking Augie. Would probably love it even more if it wasn’t the day I was prescribed lexapro for the first time since grad school.

Immediately feels historic, even without knowing. Historic or not, it’s not my vibe for hip hop. But I grinned several times hearing iconic lyrics I finally know the origin of.

Album cover reminds of a collaborate art I’d make with the demons (highest compliment really). The The is also comedy. Love the opening track, Infected! I need an 80s movie marathon I think. Listened to and from the beach, drove through a thunderstorm. Really strong start and maybe fizzled a bit for me after the first few songs, but I’ll keep listening to them for sure.

I’m sorry to say I’ve never been terribly interested in Paul McCartney. He rubs me the wrong way. Whatever. I wasn’t wildly invested and then I’m smacked in the face with Maybe I’m Amazed so that was fun! Fucking hell. So good. (HA upon further examination, I wonder if I internalized a narrative that he broke up the Beatles while in high school and forgot… which, who cares, it’s not like I was ever a giant Beatles fan? Perhaps I was after Across the Universe (lol) and because Molly was (lolol)) Also. Reading about the influence of this album on lo-fi (which, I am only now learning is low fidelity)

One thing I internalized from my one day attending Kiese Laymon’s class before I dropped it for fear of being one of the white girls rapping… is that Common is a mfin poet. Excited to listen! // 2004. What a time. Kanye’s presence is distracting me. Closing out with his dad’s spoken word on the last track is perfect.

This is unhinged (not complimentary, I think)

Perfect vibe for a rainy drive home back to Long Island from BK. Reading that he recorded surrounded by the live instrumentals and that sounds lovely. I think I got this album right when it was needed. Maybe it could have felt more tedious or repetitive or sad on a sunnier Memorial Day weekend but the soundtrack to a bleary drive and rainy walk was perfect. River Man, plan for lilac time 💛

Okay, this was a pleasant surprise. I only recognized the one song from the collab with Gwen Stefani, and it was lovely to hear this version. I enjoyed my nostalgic journey through Moby calling Eminem out for his racism and homophobia, just to be called a slur in Without You. Thrilled to be the same age Moby was when Eminem called him old.

wowowow love at first sight perhaps? Or… second or millionth sight for a couple of these songs, but I never remember this is who Jack White is! What a thrill to hear fell in love with a girl and we are going to be friends in context. This album is good. I had to pause midway and express my risk of obsession to Allison via unhinged typo ridden indecipherable text while driving home from the city. Corrected via voice note. Truly a perfect listen for a no traffic drive down the LIE. This may be a close to zero skip addition to my drives. I found myself beaming and giggling so many times! Little Room is comedy, I Think I Smell a Rat is theatre… What was I doing in middle and high school not listening to them! Can I time travel? Learning… Jack and Meg White divorced the year before the album but kept working together? Classic. (Also love that he took her last name) HA Jack effectively said this album is less bluesey bc of white guilt. Union Forever is just… Citizen Kane dialogue? HAHA Oh yes! The Silver Lining’s dance! Can’t wait to five star the fuck out of this.

Love River Song! … wow Manson Family spiral. Devastating. “when I met [Charlie] I found he had great musical ideas. We're writing together now. He's dumb, in some ways, but I accept his approach and have [learned] from him“ Update: the day after getting this album, I rewatched project Hail Mary, which features Rainbows. Timing!

First impression (visual): sir is somehow giving Benjamin (mfin Coach) Wade This is good album cover. Fun. I don't usually love an album of mostly samples but love the percussion and it sounds like this was an early sampling endeavor.

Yay! I’ve always loved black hole sun but I’ve never listened to a soundgarden album! Which always felt sacrilegious living in Tacoma and spending so much time in Seattle. I remember when Chris died. There were so many losses that year. This album was perfect blasting on a dreary morning drive to grab coffee in Maine. Which has such PNW vibes. Though decidedly not grunge. Also Love Spoonman.

I really wish I spoke French because I’m reading that MC Solaar loves a pun. And his song is full of wordplay which is a dream. It’s an easy listen and fun and I’m sure I’d love it even more if I had it in me to translate.

I’m floored by this.

Love. Her. Voice. Always. They’re not quite my genre but a few of these songs are just so iconic and I love her. I need to relisten on a drive, rather than as a soundtrack to packing up in Maine.

He has a lovely voice and I didn’t realize Season of the Witch was a cover. Overall, the album felt a bit repetitive if I’m honest. Though I may have been having post vacation blues.

No clue! I’m reading that the album is about the relationship between the two frontmen, and my immediate thought was a giddy “gay?!” (and they were roommates). Doubtful but will investigate. v good nostalgic time capsule of a cover. I’m becoming truly immune to the somewhat indistinguishable British indie rock which is a function of this list, not my otherwise love for British anything or indie rock anything

Thrilled. They have one of my favorite song exploders for take on me but I’ve never listened to anything else! Very good album cover energy. Also a good example of a the category of band names I never knew despite knowing the song so well (eg who sings What’s Up?). Quintessential 80s vibe I think. Fun little listen for a drive to the airport to fetch Allison

GOOD! Voice. Nonsense. Way he ends words. Perfect listen for drive to Vass for reunion, because a drive to Vass is where I first listened to Bob.

immaculate vibe for college reunion; have never listened to an album before and a real pleasant surprise

LOVE! I think I love a sitar. Especially since seeing so many cool ones at the Met instruments exhibit. This was a lovely vibe for a drive back from Vass with Allison. The covers were fun, the electronic was fun, I didn’t even realize we started the album again and I would have kept listening.

This one is probably the one I know best? Let’s see. Oh wait no it’s Highway 61. Regardless. It’s been a while. Let’s see! Yes. I love this one. Fuck it.

Had never heard of this! Allison recommended and it’s been a thrill for a drive back to LI from a wonderful visit in the city.

Truly couldn’t name a song by The Who. Let’s see! Okay, My Generation and the kids are alright were fun little reminders. Cute vibe but not terribly memorable overall. Perhaps a function of returning to work after two weeks off but who can say.

This feels like very important lore and I know truly nothing. Just vague names and titles like Sid Viscous and anarchy in the UK. “The album title added to that controversy, with some people finding the word "bollocks" offensive. Many record stores refused to carry it and some record charts refused to list its title, showing just a blank space instead.“ HA Jfc.

I think if prompted I couldn’t name a single Van Morrison song without clues and yet I’m like oh! This cutie song! And this one! Over and over. (Oh I just checked and forgot brown eyed girl exists so I stand by my claim.) Lovely for a drive, may never listen to again.

Good album cover. Good year. 1983 is *the* year. Flashdance, etc. Anyway. Okay why is this theatre. The Police - well no, Sting - will forever remind me of my dad and the Corolla and the English man in New York. I want that nostalgia. But this was fun! Sting must be a total freak. I want to rate higher just for the note on “aaaaches” - it has ALWAYS hit. Fuck. Why not.

this is a very good cover but I do not feel like listening to a country album today. I started while driving to the Mets game and it felt like simply too many things I wouldn’t want to do with a typical day. Perhaps on my drive home. It’s just not for me but not unpleasant

okay! Will never complain about having to listen to Eddie Vedder’s voice. Love. wait holy fuck this is their debut? Imagine?? “He wrote lyrics for three of the songs in what he later described as a "mini-opera" entitled Momma-Son. The songs tell the story of a young man who, like Vedder, learns that he had been lied to about his paternity and that his real father is dead, grows up to become a serial killer, and is eventually imprisoned and sentenced to death.” Pearl Jam is so Seattle but I’m learning Eddie is Midwest to Southern California, and someone else is Montana; love that narrative for those who romanticize Seattle as only recently inundated by transplants who killed the 90s grunge vibes. But like, fuck Amazon etc. Cutie friendship with Chris Cornell. Omg they tried to sue ticket master for their monopoly fuckery in 1994 and boycotted for 3 years! I wonder if this is part of why they’re so big in the UK. (Are they?) HA cute they debuted at The Moore (before they were Pearl Jam). Which is where I saw Fortune Feimster in 2023 and somehow nothing else? I don’t buy it. WAIT OMFG was I first introduced to Eddie via the fucking into the wild soundtrack?? Mortifying? Also: is this grunge? I need to better understand what differentiates grunge. Maybe I need to watch their performances and videos.

Enjoyed! I want to relisten on a drive i think. And during a less stressful day of work. This is my first real intro to the Doors and had a devastating thrill of a deep dive on Morrison. “Morrison's senior year English teacher later said, "Jim read as much and probably more than any student in class, but everything he read was so offbeat I had another teacher (who was going to the Library of Congress) check to see if the books Jim was reporting on actually existed. I suspected he was making them up, as they were English books on sixteenth-and seventeenth-century demonology. I'd never heard of them, but they existed, and I'm convinced from the paper he wrote that he read them, and the Library of Congress would've been the only source."”

Kind of iconic? This feels so so so of its era. I can imagine myself in high school feeling mind blown in a post-9/11 world. 100 genres and cultures that all vibe, protest lyrics that I can imagine felt revolutionary and inspiring AF at the time and still resonate. v much enjoying. Also Chali 2na is g o o d. This is one of my “what a thrill to discover something entirely new and should I 5 this based on instinct and vibes alone?” moments.

Thank god. This is good. A much needed palate cleanser after feeling gross reading about Axl Rose. Did I know Shirley Manson was from Edinburgh? Perhaps at some point. Loved her Key Change episode. She talks about Garbage forming the day Kurt Cobain died, and connecting with the others over Siouxsie and the Banshees. “Pour your misery down on me” 💀

Omg! “Drew” (not this album) was my introduction - on the drive through Banff to Jasper. I don’t know this album so I’m v much looking forward to it. I love this Every song is a vibe wow Little Bird has Kate Bush energy Happiness! Caravan Girl! Lovely drive to Brooklyn with these two.

Who is this man. Supposedly I know Buzzin Fly? Snore

!!! Basket Case alone could warrant five stars but I’ll control myself.

Oh one of my absolute faves for my 100th album! Truly no skips and I don’t know if it’s even my favorite of theirs, is it? No it probably is, I just love wading in waist-high water. Anyway. What a debut album! So many of these songs are on my driving playlist (and frankly, all other playlists bc I love redundancy). They feel tailor made for driving through the mountains so I spent some time pouting about Washington. Unexpected delights: Ragged Wood, Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

This generator is making me appreciate the power of headphones in jazzy vibes for wild productivity.

v good vibe, fun, will listen again on a drive in the sun I think

An album that isn’t my genre and I embarrassingly couldn’t think of a single song by Led Zeppelin off the top of my head but I grinned throughout. Bumped up for having a song named Moby Dick

This was lovely to work to, and I forgot it was a live album which is a high compliment since they usually cause me to despair

Eh

Kind of lovely, though I’m not the biggest fan and I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s not an album for getting ready and a shower. Why do I think basically every album will be loved if only I listened on a drive to the beach? I think I like their other work more? HA I really must not be the biggest fan, I forgot I had another album so recently and had the same thought re listening on a drive. Or maybe I really would like them more on a drive?

Enjoying. Immediate take is they have to be good people if Sinead OConnor is performing with them. But also why are these vocalists not credited?? Maybe a function of spotify? Her song, the first on the album, is great. Natacha Atlas v good. I like that I don’t know what to expect with each song but there’s still a clear line with the instrumentals somehow? Maybe. It’s different and I needed that during a bit of a lul. But also is this appropriative af? Everyone’s an island is killing me. I need to read about these people. Update: Of fucking course this is a white man in a fedora. Who was squatting as the Sex Pistols formed nearby And was accused of setting a drummer on fire? Amongst other drunken nonsense and “brawls” before sobriety and working for the London Underground. Also I’m sorry how the fuck is “world music” a genre? That is insane. I didn’t realize this was such an accepted term for just… music that isn’t Western and white?

What is this about to be! Also thought that was Gillian mfin Anderson. Oh. This is a German woman who starred in cabaret and played Velma in Chicago so I’m immediately primed for obsession…. And the Viennese production Cats. Jfc. Now I need to hear Cats in German. AND tours an homage to Marlene Dietrich based on their chats?! Anyway settle down and listen. // God I fucking love theatre.

Streaming really did ruin music. Because I listen to silent all these years at least once a week and have for… years… but have never listened to this album In its entirety?? What a loss. Wow some of these fucked me UP. This feels groundbreaking and I can’t believe this is her debut. I also cackled several times (so you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus💀), and was devastated other times (the entirety of me and a gun) Incredible listen driving home from seeing St. Vincent with the philharmonic (late on a Thursday night, so Me and a Gun had me even more transfixed and horrified). I imagine Tori must be an influence for St. Vincent. Badasses. Update, 24 hours later: The B-Sides are SO GOOD as well. Wowowowow. This was already a 5, but this is an extra 5 knowing those exist.

Omg okay Bad Bunny Superbowl roll call!!

Apparently I don’t know a single steely Dan song or who steely Dan is beyond the abstract. Is he a Dan? A band? A stage name? (Okay update: sounds like besties who met while the one was studying English at Bard, so I’m hooked) // Nothing terribly standout but pleasantly surprised by the jazzy vibes and giggled at “lost wages” / “las Vegas”

Historically the idea of an album entirely of samples would have me up in arms but…

I’m so sorry but this felt endless? How is this only 35 minutes? Is it the day? Perhaps this is not meant for the rain. Love Time of the Season, of course.

I don’t think I needed to listen to this before I died.

the is definitely suffering from the fact I’ve been mesmerized by Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex all day 🥱