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.