1001 Albums Summary

thank you mom for being a sound of silence head. also thank you paul simon.

genuinely insane just how much these rock guys cribbed from black music of the time. some of these are James brown songs. the rest make me think pitchfork critics are fake dorks. cause I hear a lot more the who in those king of the beach songs than beach boys (god forbid mfs have some harmonic lalalas). nonetheless lowk fire. i completely understand the keith moon dick sucking. wish i could give it a 3.5 but it's closer to a 3.

if i have to listen to white exuberance i can just go to arcade fire. if i wanna hear white agony i have sufjan. i'm coming around on it but. damn. unfortunately the second half rips. if bookends was a 4.1 this might be 3.9-4.2. can't believe someone outweezered Weezer. there will be more of his music if i were a betting woman.

let's GOOOOOOOOO. a classic in every sense. too bad most of the people involved lowk suck but tonite we're letting the #separating the #art from the #artist talk. everyone always talks about Lauryn hill's singing. we forget just how good she is at rapping. pras singlehandedly deciding to stop #stopasianhate makes it more 4.2-4.5. tis a great conundrum but we're gonna give it the full amount.

we are so UP these past two days. that one classic joke about white women doing r&b. but subverted. cause. it's amy fucking winehouse (jack harlow genuinely kys). i Was gonna say the lyrics are toxic as hell but remembered the influence is Right there. 4.2-4.4.

apologies generator i was not familiar with your game. good footy. i'm coming to find that it's not that i hate her music, rather i hate the production techniques on most post outlaw pre garth brooks country. too 80s AOR. however. COMMA. the songs transcend the form. i hope i get a living color album so i can make the same complaint. 3.3-4.1.

generator i was not familiar with your GAME 🤧. rip to a young 🐐. don't let the bastards get you down. that said. late stage holiday has a nina simone timbre thing goigng on that just. Works. ray ellis gives her a lush sonic bed to just be. so fucking MELANCHOLIC. cried genuine tears when "you've changed" finished #bisexuallimerencewave. there's a old man bond movie concept (make it like the day of the doctor it'd be 👩‍🍳) that you could use this album and build a davinci timeline around. ending your last album on this earth with "the end of a love affair" it's just. 💋🤌. i'll defend the beach boys love you for similarly insane reasons. 4-4.3.

we so UP. it's stevie. it's miracle run stevie. 4.7-5. let's keep it pushing. (related but unrelated) it's crazy how much Michael and quincy took the motown blueprint to its logical extreme. (actually related) i activate like drake in the sprite commercial the second stevie starts ripping on the harmonica. plus the groove that he locks in on living for the city + higher ground >>>>>>>>>>. genuinely batshit drums're technically his 3rd best instrument. and the lyrics (oh my god the lyrics). absolute gem: "to see the heaven in your eyes is not so far, 'cause I'm not afraid to try and go it." anyway. good album. looking forward to being annoying about "evil" when music of my mind comes up. if it doesn't i riot.

SIX SEVEN. SIX SEVEN. SIX SEVEN. SIX SEVEN. SIX SEVEN. SIX SEVEN. SIX SEVEN. ----------- unfortunately a classic. 4.4-5. thanks skate 3. fuck you francis (unfortunately teenager of the year is a banger). this m- [REDACTED]'s going t- (nvm not finishing that one) (related but unrelated) if there's one thing i'll give butch vig credit for on nevermind {i give him credit for a lot actually. he's had to spend years being yelled at by just. the worst kinds of music guy™️.} he got to the dynamic heart of the loud quiet loud song structure. steve albini's too anal to have committed to that. rip him tho. (actually related) gouge away top 100 album closers of all time

motherfucker. generator. what. dumb assholes fail to realize meg white adds angularity to jack white's black keys² impulses. i have no need for blues revival when i can just. listen to the blues. idk. he's always had late stage Eminem levels of aura to me. which makes anytime he tries to do hard rock stuff silly. unlike a qotsa. who're dorks. but cool. or john mayer. who's an actual asshole. im shakin'. that's the statement. an addendum: this nigga is a CORNBALL. track 3 cool. track 5-6. tracks 9-12. why'd he put the good songs (ballady stuff. he can write a ballad i can't lie.) at the end he's just maybe. Maybe. fought his way out of a 2. first review is so right though. fuck it. 2.5-3.8

thank you generator (i'm still mad over blunderbuss). the crashout would've been immeasurable if i had to listen to alt j or some shit. now pj harvey? def an artist to listen to B4 you die. --------- (actually related) for me she's never really had any comparison. like i hear her influences. ultimately she's her own thing. there's no one out there making pj harvey type beats (soccer mommy lowk 👁️). anyways. dry. i'd describe it as a straightforward (as "straightforward" as you could describe a pj harvey project) rid of me. lyrics are as cutting (tracks 5-7 {as a formerly repressed depressed SBC attending queer lady} Activated me) as always. guitar work nice and grimy. drums are grungy as needed. it's good rock. not gonna say kurt bit plants and rags but he's clearly inspired. (related but unrelated) i also appreciate her following the maxim of all great british singers: cutting out that fuckass fucking fake accent. 3.5-4.4

........i mean sure man i guess. ------------ me personally i wouldn't have checked for the solo stuff of the 4th most famous CSNY member but. that's what this is for. anyways. lowk overproduced paul simon (paul simon always manages to be the right amount of produced) flow. i like it tho. stills is a high work rate (one of the things i was gonna say about jack white {i forgor 💀}) musician. the songs take their one idea and wring out as much as they can (do for the others, church, old times good times, to a flame). unfortunately the lyrics are letting him down a bit. a real "folk" (scrappy, plays guitar the right way) man writes songs about the same topic matter as mick jagger. and i'm supposed to care? unfortunately i do. jimi hendrix and eric clapton on guitar back2back are brilliant pulls. ironic. these licks hit like a baby on manhattan pavement. "it's like saying goodbye to paris for the first time" is a great line. a whole song of poker metaphors for evil woman™️? less so. a song has never been less about its stated topic (emo boys copied this bar for bar). --------- 2.8-4.1. (did need to hear some of this before i kicked bucket). yada yada meridian white guy guitar bathroom graffiti. a testament to what was possible when all the best session guys lived near each other.

FINALLY. SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD. thanks mom for taking me to scarborough fair. all timer. less so for the other stuff. cloudy, dangling conversation, that one song bon iver bit for the emma album title - great 59th street, flowers never bend, homeward bound (chorus), parts of silent night - good the bar for satire is profoundly low. green pleasure machine is just ticket to ride (god(s) almighty i'm not ready for justbhow much beatles im gonna have to listen to doing ts 😃) but even more mid. simple desultory belongs in one of those "non rap song diss tracks" vids. i'm not gonna say don't let these guys cook social commentary but. america has to be the fluke of all time. also the songs don't develop all that much. limitations of the technology of the time but. mrs robinson's 4 minutes. take a little time to flesh them out. guess this former was a step to the latter. 3.1 - 5 (entirely scarborough fair, take it out it's like 4.4?)

my nigga. whom? yt music put big star in the recs; i assume that's a good barometer. streets calling this the first alt-country album. streets also saying he was on some unrequited love shit w/ emmylou. nonetheless we move. cook stove chef (based god): 1, 4 (decent but boring), 5 (standout) redeeming traits: 2 (harmonies), 3(instrumental), 6 (instrumental/harmonies/FX), 7 (harmonies {reoccurring gag [i've had that one before]}; how many times will i have to hear "love hurts" before this is through?), 8 (instrumental {harmonies are wasted on this one. you can't do "countryman depraved gambling rolling stone" songs with emmylou streisanding it. that said. mf do you HEAR this solo‽}) eh: 9 (harmonies are nice yada yada). if i have to hear people harmonize christ related lyricism i'm Just listening to boney m. putting the lyric "oh lord grant me speed" before singing a eulogy to your dealer (among other things) is p funny. considering. y'know. the circumstances. lowk bores me. even the songs with redeeming traits are kinda boring. rolling stone Def racist cause you can't tell me there's isn't at least a hundred albums better OAT. astaghfirullah if another song ends on a resolving chord reverbing out with steel pedal 🫥. that said the harmonies are fueg. al perkins' Tearing it up on the steel. another testament to the power of having insane studio guys making nice sounding mid. 3.2-3.8.

"executive produced by brian eno" oh i'm sure 3.8. we'll give him the 4. or will we? there's a lot of jazzy ambient shit you could listen to B4 death.

ok shordy ok shordy ok shordy ok shordy ok shordy ok shordy ok shordy ok generator shordy the thing about the new wave™️ is that (to bungle a todd in the shadows paraphrase) although they were dorks they were massive hitmakers (related but unrelated but also related {listen to flock of seagulls' first two albums to get me}) with heavily underrated guitar work and (band dependent) intermittently underrated rhythm section work. that said it's a classic for a reason. properly rated vocals. the 7 track run from 11:59 to i'm gonna love you too🫀🫪. (related but unrelated) the bassist throwing a synth at the producer's kinda baller (actually related) fade away is an elo type beat. thank you mike chapman for "bullying" them into this heat (and functionally sidechaining the synths to the cr78 on heart of glass {that's genius}) but can we turn down the organ solina thing like 2db? 4.5-5

fair enough i guess. undoubted proof that the first 1001 book was published in 2005. some nme bogroll. charmin, but still bogroll. i could've gotten away with listening to (at least) 5 better bands from the coveted uk classes of 2000-2004. most indie rags were at peak annoying/lowk racial. in the same way the strokes made overly bounced on velvet songs most of these are overly dick sucked beatles flow. i want to live in the world where baggy/shoegaze won over the gallaghers. nothing wrong with the gallaghers (apart from the obvious) it just portends a conservatism for "the greater good" that's overtaken just. everything. anyways i'm colonized (how could u tell?); i appreciate the shout at "white kids talking black," singles are decent, go listen to dfa1979 if you wanna hear a two piece that might Actually kill each other 2.5-3.4

LET'S FUCKING (the 1995 cult classic united artists film hackers starring jonny lee miller angelina jolie matthew lillard fisher stevens and its accompanying soundtrack {+ a healthy dose of the 2001 cult classic introversion software game uplink} irreparably damaged my brain as a child; along with the other things) GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🥳🫪👁️ liam howlett's a genius. underrated sampler and quite possibly the only man to make big beat seem like something meant to happen instead of EDM "fetch" circa 1998 (fuck you moby {fatboy/the chemical brothers/"big transgender fan" hideki naganuma occasionally get a shout at it}). we already s/o keith moon but let's shoutout another keith (RIP). and the other keith (the kool one). narayan earns every second of those 9 minutes. L7 cover is peak. 3.6-4.5. i'm willing to argue jilted generation's better (+ underworld does cooler things with the rock vocalist rave tunes concept). "coincidentally" both of these things are on the hackers soundtrack. also serial thriller is lowk a young gods song. that's all.

oh i'm sure everyone's (except me scout and marlon) gonna give this a 2. godforbid the pop songs fucking Pop. could use some variety though. 80s fleetwood gets away with it because they have 3 vocalists (among other reasons). 3.4-4.2. this album probably would've meant a lot to me as a post studio 54 pre basquiat nyc young hoe™️.

aw fuck. shit and fuck. fuck shit shit fuck. shittity fuck. fuckity fuck Fuck. right then. let's see why brian wilson #locked in for pet sounds. but before that, an anecdote: i took a songwriting class in college and our 2nd assignment was to write a cover of a beatles song we'd never heard. i ended up making (to quote my group members/classmates) some charli xcx lcd soundsystem berghain eurotrash type beat with a jersey club breakdown in the middle. the song? drive my car. nonetheless i'm a little underwhelmed. as for the rest, white washed temptations songs (they're not bad but it must be said) and some mad alright to decent rock. nowhere man + michelle + in my life would do it for the wilson level up but. i'm leaning 80-20 on the spector of it all (pun intended). he didn't think ringo tapped the phones, did he? the "i'm fucking your cat" cover pretty fuego tho. 3.4-4.1. no homo jann wenner smoking MANDINGO if he thinks this is the 5th greatest album of all time. like yeah. baby(whitey? that feels mean. i mean that shit tho)'s first exposure to various genres due to racism + payola + the economics of owning records but i mean. FIFTH?

reasonable. let's do it to it. the thing about these nineties/noughties albums is that #they love using the CD format to make these shits 50+ minutes. oh well. guess i'll make lunch. who the fuck processed the drums like the matrix (the canadian production duo for avril lavigne and/or liz phair). why. i rate "could've been anyone"/"say anything" though. stupid thing has a chorus. jon brion??????? this might be the least jon brion sounding jon brion project i've heard in my life. "jacob marley's chain" does get a shout at his usual trappings (one metaphor song ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯). "mr harris" + "i know there's a word" + "i've had it" do them. standouts. album ending's a good bit. (related but unrelated) she's from richmond??? berklee???? right then. 1.8-3.2. overglorified kelly clarkson music. hell. overglorified shania. that's a pro shania/kelly statement. picks up in the second half (thank god). wikipedia says it's geffen's fault. i'll take her at her word. it'd be a 3+ without all the radio malarkey.

billy corgan (like kurt) failed to realize there was a third option beyond burning out/fading away: transitioning. anyway let's boogie. it's a classic for a reason. despite all my misgivings (i will say butch vig Knows how to get massive guitar sounds; ur always good in my book gng) about the recording process and the man behind the name. and the instruments. it's basically all just him. everyone else seems like a chiller at the time (despite the struggles). d'arcy i love you. please (can someone take a flash photo of james so he gets out the infinite sadness place) enjoy life and money away from this plonker. speaking of: (related but unrelated) the thing about the fact that we have to listen to the feature length entirety of mellon collie is that like many a 90s double album (or oasis not saving the good b sides) you could've just kept the 10-15 great songs. (actually related) 4-4.5. incredible track runs. geek usa is a stonker. luna Might be an all timer. i'm not gonna argue james' guitar ability is overrated but. clearly you guys aren't listening to those vernon reid solos.

i mean. why not. my lowk nonce libertarian washington [REDACTED]s fan high school music teacher loved (the fucking cover version of) wild world. yeah you fucking look it m8. the thing about some of these folk artists is that. y'know. all the figurative language work they put in can't compete with the (downright clinical) efficiency of kid a era yorke (along with other artists etc. yada). you're not outworking "there are two colors in my head." cat stevens ain't half bad at it though. i did need to hear this. but i'm only moved sometimes. predominantly instrumentally. lyrically by the album cuts. "father and son" is an all timer. 3.1-3.6

god. Fucking. DAMMIT. as a proud u2 defender i'm sorry to all my friends in advance. see the stuff i said about the gallaghers and the conservatism for "the greater good" in the libertines review. to genuinely go from trying to push the electronica rock envelope but (with classic u2 hubris) pre booking the tour and (after functionally fixing it in mexico city) not making a live album to then biting the melody from A-ha's second biggest hit. fucks sake. they're lucky the edge is an all time guitarist (along with the always mint rhythm section) and eno/lanois is just about as close to a scratch production winner as you can get. atomic bomb was when the real downturn began but. as aforementioned. it portends. it just portends. first two songs are near all timers. although finding out "stuck in a moment" is meant to be about the INXS guy is. y'know. a bit shitty. what's that one joke about god and Bono? elevation is probably their worst soundtrack based song. makes me want to listen to the batman forever one (let alone miss sarajevo). if madonna's die another day had an (aidan says i can't use any CENSORED irish slurs 🥲) 'RA based twin. "walk on" is underrated. coldplay would copy this word for word but change the bars up writing x&y half a decade later. kite would be fine if it didn't end with big Bonissmo going "erm ackshually u guys didn't get the postmodern² of the kmart lemon disco ball". we know. you're having a normal one about it. pillock. everything else is john mayer lite and ballad treacle that mj wouldn't even touch. that's a lie. mj would try a ballad written by himmler if it had enough kiddie mentions. "when i look at the world" + "grace" are nice enough. not peak. but nice enough. 2.2-2.5. re j diddla: "massive massive indicator that the list was first published in ‘05 today"

barrett's gonna be really annoying™️. baller pick though. they'll be playing this once they get the trans people coventry-witz trains up and running. that said. thank you guys for walking so i could run to put OTT on the master. even along with the progenitor "primitivism" thing the songs are peak. gary numan and you lot share melodic sensibilities. and i like having electric friends. hall of mirrors is an all timer. i never realized kraftwerk could get so no wave-y. big fan of the lead filter/pitch knob getting turned all ways about when they get to the "distorted" line. i love how every song has a point where i realize the lyrics are satirical/symbolic. hi planet rock sample + that one missy elliot song (not really it just reminded me of it). in the same way the human league's atari to the rest of the 80s' super nintendo (to paraphrase/bungle another todd in the shadows quote) this would be the pdp-11. i like how the second half is all variations on melodies from the album track. all in all. coo. 4.2-4.5.

barrett's gonna be even more annoying™️ but we move. baby driver music (derogatory). hendrix bar for fucking bar. the first line of the album (whole song actually) is a little richard reference. at some point we have to question if racism affects everything 😨. oh wait. bloodsucker work rates its way into being decent. the line "Got a black breast Chinese eyes" tells me i should stop looking at the lyrics. good sabbath impression. child in time Might be it (despite that goofy fucking ending). if i lived in 1970 and bought this i'd genuinely be pissed 85% of the a-side wasted my time. ritchie has the juice (along with most of the band) but the song structure and lyrics let them down terribly. "flight of the rat" made my good songs from the generator playlist but. what was the point of restarting the song after 5 minutes. i'll use the drum breaks for something. might be useful then. 1.2-2.3. proto berklee. guitar wasn't invented until buckethead.

i mean. sure. whatever. "right here" (and its music vid {and the various advertisements it scored [it cannot be understated just how much this fucking genre was propped up by the choices of temp writers and their "4 quadrant + racial taxonomy hitting" music choices |was there ever an ethical way to make big beat? i couldn't tell you. prodigy were actual rockers. handsome boy modeling school were actual beatmakers. <a lot of it feels like Mostly overglorified exercises in racially dubious plunderphonics that "happened" cause of the post-nirvana/oasis beating madchester into the dirt + post-britpop bubble burst + pre-strokes + trance era tiesto EDM interregnum l;dr the thing that gave ok computer a leg up/> maybe it's like being a pop rapper. hard to win respect. another quick fuck you to moby|]}), "praise you," and "rockafeller" (just fine imo) are classics. like i said. despite my big beat misgivings he makes it happen on occasion. SOME of the album cuts ("fucking in heaven", "you're not from brighton", "are we having fun yet") are nice. good in the "fun yet" case. the drums take a lot out of the rest; it's failure to iterate. personally i need futuristic skater graffiti (jungle always sounds like the future ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯) for this stuff to click. looking forward to chopping the kalifornia samples into a MASSIVE™️ (please. god. tell me there's remixes. i'm so tired of those fucking drums {remixes were mid}) rave tune. also. letting you guys know his government name's NORMAN COOK. norman cook? intermittently. 2.4-3.2. quick shoutout to whosampled; best of luck with the IDF funding.

YES! YES!!! YES!!!!!! FUCK YES!!!!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! unfortunately to the hood bitches i do like bjoink. unfortunately to the alt bitches i also like the other sugarcubes. im slut for dream pop. first three tracks are an all time run. tracks 6-8 get p damn close. 4.1-4.5. (related but unrelated) blue eyed pop (to quote that one kenan joke during the high school theater sketch) sounds like bragging. (actually related) i unfortunately do love a "this is the hook - bsod" ass track. cowboy isn't technically on the original tracklist but i'm having so much fucking fun i Have to highlight it.

on this Super sunday™️ i'm feeling SUPAFLY SUPAHOTFIRE BABYYYYY (but im not a #dapper). i really should listen to more curtis mayfield. and/or the impressions for that matter. nonetheless let's get active. the best soul records always have a way of making me feel like i'm in the liminal kitchen/living room (not calling it open concept, go die in a fire) of some relative's place. i'm on a warm beige leather couch with a tv island stuffed to the gills with physical media directly across from it. there's a coffee table with various accoutrements and a kitchen with *insert one of many blood/non blood older relatives here* cheffing meat pies, bofrot, and various nibbles. we're in the go between state of a multi hour mealathon holiday and some form of football's on telly. i'm surrounded by people who don't know me and yet understand. maybe some brown liquor. maybe a dark guinness. maybe a heineken to mix it up. it's homely in a way. despite the horrors seeping in there's still love. and if it's ever too much i can always go play jeopardy on the basement wii. anyways i liked the album. the line "you didn't have to love for me" hit me in a place i probably have to mention to a HIPAA bound professional. freddie's dead is a top 300 song of all time. lmao hi snoop. every fuckfake crackerzoid on this website who understands what "bitches in the bed" means here but make it so TPAB and later glory run kanye albums happen to be "most controversial" can kick fucking rocks. 4.4-4.7.