1001 Albums Summary

I knew more than I expected to. May This Be Love was my favourite.

I had no idea what to expect and this blew me away. Excellent music for my morning commute.

Not quite right for my commute, need to be enjoyed while unwinding with a scotch.

I liked this way more than I expected. I think I’m a Dylan unplugged fan. Masters of War is a little too timely.

I didn’t love this. I thought the covers didn’t stand up to the originals and Respect definitely feels different coming from a man.

One oh your albums where guy can hear the skill and understand the importance but it’s not for you. As a middle aged white woman I’m not the intended audience and that’s okay, I did like The Chronic Outro, The Day the Niggaz Took Over, and Lyrical Gangbang.

A great album to wake up on your commute to. Weather Storm is a perfect “staring out the window of a train song”

This was great. I’d give it 9 out of 10 if I could.

Pretty good but samey. I had no idea that Love Hurts was a cover.

I know it’s a strone cold classic but it just didn’t speak to me.

I really like this, especially Atlantic City.

I loved it. It stood up to the hype.

Great, as expected but didn’t grab me all the way. Idiotique and The National Anthem were great.

Still great.

One of my favourites so far.

I loved the first album butt the second one not as much

A great album. I can see why they’re your favourite band’s favourite band.

It didn’t click with me.

Fun and outside my usual musical type.

Still great

Much more listenable then I expected

Really great

Not really for me

Nice background music.

Great album, especially the title track.

Did not like.

A classic for a reason.

I can see the roots of a lot of things I love but I don’t love this,

A lot funkier/jazzier than I expected. Really great

Excellent

Good but didn’t stay with me

The singles were great but the rest were pretty similar

Very cool to listen to two albums by the same artist almost 50 years apart. This one was good but I liked You Want It Darker a little more.

Better than expected but still so long.

Great. Some of my favourite White Stripes songs.

I thought it was going to be impossible to keep the energy of More Than a Feeling to for the entire album but they did it.

Wonderful

Boring

Really terrible. I thought nostalgia of my youth would kick in but no such luck.

I’m not a jam band fan and this was too close to that.

A lovely way to commute on a beautiful morning

A lot of fun. I need to listen again to see if there’s a story line

Comfortably Numb is a great song

Good but too long

Great but didn’t capture me.

Immediately forgettable

Holy fuck. Amazing

Smooth and charming

Meh

Great. I am definitely the target audience 😆

It really grew on me

An unrelenting wall of noise. I liked it.

Good but didn’t grab me.

Never is a Promise is a perfect song.

Good, but I’ve already forgotten it.

Some really beautiful songs

Wonderful, especially the first half

Good but not my favourite.

So smooth

Kind of boring though Piece of My Heart is always amazing.

Defined my expectations

Deserved to be listened to lying down and appreciating the nuance. I’ll definitely revisit it.

Spectacular

Good to hear what all the hype is about

Great. I’d like to take more time to listen to the lyrics

Great. So much variety.

Now I understand

The Look of Love wasn’t enough to save this album

I was surprised by how many songs I knew. I especially liked Jump Into the Fire.

Unlike anything I’ve listened to before

A couple of nice songs but boring

Strung all the way through but it’s hard to beat Enjoy the Silence.

Good but a little boring. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t listening in the right environment.

Stands up

I love the scale and ambition of the first song but found the rest kind of underwhelming.

Wonderful

Not as scary as that video led me to believe.

The last couple a songs were great but overall it just felt kind of boring.

I can see why he’s a legend

I understand the importance but it was WAY to abrasive for me.

So good

Been Caught Stealing is so overplayed I thought I wouldn’t like this. Better than expected.

So much tuba! I loved it.

As good as I knew would be.

A few really good songs but nothing earth shattering.

This album and I did not gel. It sounded like it could have been later Beatles.

What a voice!

Lovely orchestration. I should have listened to it lying on my bed with my eyes closed

Did not disappoint

Decent musically but his voice has been over played to the point I can’t stand it.

War Pigs and Paranoid. What a way to start an album.

Simply beautiful. I’ve heard this one before and I was so glad to revisit it.

Wonderfully unique. I especially like Private Idaho.

I love a live album.

I was burned by a million fart boys playing Jamming over and over in university so it was so nice to hear this much less overplayed album.

The harmonies are out of this world. I love the wall of sound production.

Highway Star is ridiculously good but the rest was kind of forgettable.

The beards made me think they were more of a novelty band, but this was fantastic.

Some wonderful surprises in style.

Showstopper.

Beautiful voices but it didn't really capture me. It was strange to hear Rosewood Casket just days after Dolly's death.

Beautiful anthemic songs. Best songs: Lonesome Day and My City of Ruins. Worst song: Let’s Be Friends.

The highs are high but it was mostly just fine. Some of it was much bluesier than expected, especially Ice Cream Man. Best song: Runnin’ with the Devil. Worst song: Jamie’s Crying.

There are no bad song on this album but Respect is an all timer. I also really like Do Right Woman, Do Right Man. I feel like you could feel the connective tissue between country and R&B.

Ethereal. I especially like the soaring background chorus on Undo, the tinkling on Frosti. Union was an amazing ending.

It was all so wonderful it’s hard to pick a favourite. I think Four Women will stay with me the most.

I don't love Everybody Want to Rule the World so it was a pleasent surprise hear the rest of this ablum. I especially like The Working Hour, Head Over Heels/Broken, and Listen.

I love Bowie so I was surprised by how meh I felt about this. Nothing stood out either as very good or very bad. It was fine.

Psycho Killer is an absolute banger. I also really liked Don’t Worry About the Government.

I liked Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) a lot. I did not care for Farmer John. Overall I appreciate the skill but it didn't blow me away.

I had very high expectations for this ablum and I was not disappointed. Obiviously Hurt is a master piece but When the Man Comes Around and I Hung My Head. I know In my Life but I heard it differently this time. It was exactly how I fell about my partner. Probably my least favourite was Tear Stained Letter, though "It'll be about the darkest news, That ever did arrive in your hometown. It'll be about the saddest thing, Your mailman ever did bring around." really made me laugh.

I was all set to give this a 4 but Sweetest Devotion pushed it up to a 5. Some of these songs were so over saturated in clutter when they came out that I wasn't sure if they'd still have any power. I was wrong. Water Under the Bridge and River Lea were the standouts but Love In The Dark was close behind. I was surprised Million Years Ago wasn't a cover of an older song, and I mean that as a compliment. This album came out the year my marriage fell apart and a lot of these songs felt like the conversations about the end of a relationship that I wish we could have had.

I didn’t care for this album. It was far too jam band-y for me. Having said that I did enjoy Poem 58 and Free Form Guitar.

The longer I listened the less I enjoyed this. I found the soporific pace dull, though I can imagine for other people it might feel mellow. I was surprised by how much crossover there is between her music and Taylor Swift’s. I enjoyed Tulsa Jesus Freak but Not All Who Wander are Lost, and Yosemite were where they lost me.

It was interesting to hear the influence of bands like the Beach Boys and The Beatles. I found the first half of the album pleasent if forgetable. It got more interesting the further it got. I'll Be Your Mirror has special significance for me, and I really liked The Black Angel's Death Song.

I was expecting to hate this album. I dislike the singles and think Wake Me Up When September Ends is one of my least favourite songs of all time. So I was shocked by how much I enjoyed it. Songs that feel bombastic or sappy on the radio make sonic sense in context. Don’t get me wrong, Wake Me Up When September Ends still isn’t great but other songs made up for it. I especially liked Are We the Waiting and the glockenspiel on Homecoming.

A wonderful, soft album for a beautiful fall morning. I mostly know they Grateful Dead’s jam band reputation so I was pleasantly surprised by the relative tightness of the tracks. I really liked Box of Rain and Friend of the Devil was a song I loved in my early 20s that I hadn’t heard in decades. It was such a lovely gift to rediscover it.

Obviously Go West is a masterpiece and I also enjoyed Yesterday When I Was Mad and The Theatre. Overall though it just didn’t grab me.

It’s Led Zeppelin so of course the album is solid. Kashmir is an all timer, but I also really liked the quieter moments like Bron-Yr-Aur.

I was a little nervous about a krautrock album but I really enjoyed this. I found Aumgn especially interesting and lovely. The beginning of the album was good, but I found the second, more experimental half even better.

Joan Armatrading's voice is unbelievable. I didn't love Join the Boys but I was taken with the rest right from the beginning of Down to Zero. The harmonies on Love and Affection are like nothing else in the best possible way.

It was good to remember what Coldplay sounded like before they were making music designed to fill huge arena. Don't Panic was nostaglic (I grew up in the Garden State years) and I really liked Shiver. There were moments when it sounded like Chris Martin was channeling Jeff Buckley. Having send that Yellow is terrible.

The cover of Iron Man was cool and I really, really liked Losers. Lovefool is a classic. There were some wonderful surprises that bumped this up to a 4.

I knew that I really liked The Power of Love but the whole album was great. Welcome to the Pleasuredom was an amazing surprise of a track and I really liked the Born to Run cover. I didn't care for San Jose (The Way) but not enough that it distracted from the album as a whole.

I really liked this ablum. I was surprised by the amount of humour in the lyrics, especially Bob Dylan's 115th Dream. I thought I'd miss The Byrds version of Mr. Tambourine Man, but the original is just lovely.

This album was stunning. I wish I had a CD insert so I could dive into the lyrics. I wanted to listen to All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast immediately.

I can tell how influential this album is because I kept hearing snatches of other songs that were inspired by it. Unfortunately I like those other songs better. There were no bad songs and the one I liked best was Bold as Love.

I hated this album. It was a plodding slog. Riders on the Storm was probably enough to get it a one.

This was such a contrast with The Doors. It felt like a joyful hang out album. I especially liked “Push It Along”, “Luck of Lucien”, and “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo”.

A completely charming album. There are no bad songs, but I particularly enjoyed “Rabbit Fighter” and “Chariot Choogle”.

I don’t know what I expected from Brian Eno, but it wasn’t this slice of pop perfection. Even the songs I didn’t think I was going to like, such as "On Some Faraway Beach" won me over by their end. My favourite were the harmonies and repetition of “Some of Them Are Old” and "Here Come the Warm Jets". “Here Come the Warm Jets” felt like it could have been recorded this year instead of 52 years ago.

This is a good solid album but it really didn’t move me (literally or figuratively). Bellamy’s vocal control is truly exceptional and I did like “Invincible” and “City of Delusion”, especially the horn on the latter. “I didn’t care for “Hoodoo” or “Supermassive Black Hole”.

The album was great but I think it suffered from the fact that it's highs where too high in my own personal catalogue. Debaser is one of my favourite songs, so even the best songs have a hard time measuring up.

I started out enjoying this album but it got old quickly. I especially didn't like the falsetto. That being said I liked the switch into The Butcher Boy which was a darker kind of moodeness.

Soft shock has a great build. Skeletons is beautiful with great percussion and synths. Beautiful lightness of Hysteric. Grandure of Little Shadow.

A lovely, smoky saxophone but overall pretty forgettable.

I really enjoyed this album. "Walk On” immediately put me in a good mood. The protest songs were as relevant as ever and I especially liked "Revolution Blues". The simple harmonies and steel guitar of "For the Turnstiles“ was lovely, but everything paled compared to "Ambulance Blues". It was so achingly beautiful and took the album from a four to a five for me.

I know it's a classic, but I don't really like this album. I know that the sludgy, unpleasent sound was part of the point but it takes most of what I like about Nirvana away. My favourite was probably "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter". The irony is not lost on me. It wasn't terrible, but I'm not going out of my way to listen to it again.

What a beautiful album. This is what I imagine Stevie Wonder sounds like to people who like Stevie Wonder. I liked all of it, but looking at it today I realize my favourites were bonus tracks. "Aht Uh Mi Hed", "Strawberry Letter 23", and "Freedom Flight" are top of the list.

This was fantastic. She has such amazing control. Every song was so different and surprising, but every one of them was amazing. I especially liked the stretch from "Mbube" to "Where Does It Lead", and the hilarity "One More Dance".