1001 Albums Summary

liked this overall but I thought the most well known songs from it were the best, not a ton here for me in terms of deeper cuts worth going back to

britslop. i liked what became of the likely lads

Now That’s What I’m Fucking Talking About!

liked this more than i expected. particularly skidmarks on my heart. not sure i see myself going back to it though. would give like a 3.5 if there were halves on here.

About two years ago a gay guy i was pretending not to have a crush on in my Beatles class who would later sour on me as a friend once i started wearing a Jewish voice for peace button around made fun of me for liking Michelle. Immediately following this we watched a documentary as a class which opened with some self-described Beatles expert spending a good 2-3 minutes ranting about how much he fucking hated Michelle. You would think Michelle was a real person who had personally slighted him. This guy fucking hated Michelle and by extension Paul McCartney, he said it revealed his weaknesses as a writer or some stupid shit like that. It was maybe the hardest I have ever laughed at anything. I don’t care if it’s slop I still like Michelle. I feel kind of silly “reviewing” this album having not experienced what popular music sounded like before it existed. But from my limited perspective I feel like a little most than half of it is like the best shit around at its time (DRIVE MY CAR!!!!!!!) and the other half-ish is them still figuring stuff out with mixed results, some of which I still enjoy. I love this album overall but it’s not a fave Beatles album for me. Definitely worth going back to though.

I LOVE AIMEE MANN!!!!!!!

I liked this :D

The best part of this album is the cover. How is this guy a classic singer songwriter he can’t write for shit. I enjoyed Miles From Nowhere musically more than the other songs but was “I can make my own rules” not already a cliche in the seventies, and is there really a need to clarify that extremely trite lyric by immediately following it with “the ones I choose?” You think we didn’t understand what you meant by “make my own rules?” Do you think I’m stupid? Look at me. Do you think I’m fucking stupid? Not every line of a singer songwriter album has to be trying for something new but this is how almost every line feels, across the entire album. Nothing individually sounds interesting and nothing works together to sound interesting. “I don’t want to work away, doing what they all say.” Come up with one original or interesting lyric you are a singer songwriter that is your job. The instrumentals are nice but not good enough to make up for any of this. What’s with Sad Lisa using the most generic imagery ever to describe a sad woman and then coming in with violins to re-emphasize the core and only idea of the song which is that Lisa is, in case you forgot, sad. I guess Longer Boats is alright, Into White is fine too. This album feels like a random Guy who had never written a song was locked in a room and forced to write it. This album feels like it was written from a 101 Songwriting Prompts listicle you get by googling “songwriting prompts.”“Look at me, I am old, but I’m happy / and all the times I’ve cried keeping things inside.” KEEPING THINGS INSIDE HUH. “THINGS.” CRIED/INSIDE. REALLY. WOW FASCINATING INSIGHTS YUSUF/CAT STEVENS. THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING THESE NEW IDEAS TO THE WORLD. I liked Peace Train.

ass

🤩🤩🤩

weak sauce

One of my faves yet

Hadnt ever listened to a Michael Jackson album all the way through before. Wow

Hadn’t heard of this before! Liked it more than expected! Faron Young was a cool opener!

I like beastie boys generally but they have better albums than this

sorry guys I think I might just not be an R.E.M. person. On first listen at least (which is all I got in yesterday) this was nice enough but nothing stood out to me.

In another life, I am born a cis boy in 1985 and this album comes out and makes me profoundly annoying. My parents come in while it’s on and I explain to them why it is amazing and they say “that’s nice, honey.” They’re a little worried that the people I hang around are getting me into drugs. I outgrow it and get into better music but look back on it with nostalgia as an adult. I did not grow up with this album and harbor no such nostalgic feelings toward it. But I cannot help but recognize some aspect of myself that would have fucked with this to an annoying extent had I discovered it earlier. Listening to this now, however, I have to recognize that it is ass. The production sounds really bad to me? Like everything sounds hollow and I feel like the vocals are too loud? And of course it is profoundly corny but I feel like harping on that too much isn’t taking this album for what it is. Coming in with the “allthetimeI turnaroundbrothersgatherroundalwayslookingatmeupanddownlookinhatmy(uh)” flow on spit it out made me laugh. Would give a 2.5 if halvsies were allowed.

Glad we got this on a rainy day it made me feel very cool

Lameeeeee

Question: can you get me to like something I wouldn’t otherwise like by telling me that it is trans a little (ik drag ≠ trans but you know with it being from the seventies the lines were blurrier) Answer: yeah kinda

Can’t believe I hadn’t listened to this before. Great stuff

You’re so right king the world IS sound.

Idk I liked this

Nice tunes, cripple creek mogs everything else, I think I just don’t like the band

Boooo

Finally some good stuff. What a lovely collection of songs. Not too long not too short. Great fucking MELODIES. Listened to this on 2 separate drives today and it made me feel like i was in a movie

I liked a few songs on this but not most of it

Idk I liked this!

no

So good

I need to listen to more Iggy Pop this was a really fun listen

Had not listened to Jurassic 5 before. This was great!

This is obviously good it’s just too old for me to really care about it

I’m a sucker for a Nirvana Melody: (see verses of Dumb, All Apologies). They’re always doing it and I never get tired of it. I could listen to like a thousand songs that do this and I would get them mixed up and like all of them.

I sometimes find Dylan a little tough to get into. This is my favorite album I’ve listened to from him so far, at least on first listen. I really like Bob Dylan over louder and more chaotic instrumentals, and there’s a lot of those on here.

Wow. I wasn’t into all of this (private dancer did not need to be 7 minutes long imo, some of the instrumentals don’t hold up for me, maybe that’s not the right way to word it they’re just very of their time to an extent that is almost distracting for me lol) but god damn Tina Turner is fucking incredible. Better Be Good To Me and Let’s Stay Together blew me away

(the rotting zombified corpse of 2017-2018 voice) did you (cough) did you uh (an eye falls out of a socket) did you (wheeze) did you know tame impala is just one guy

really one note for me idk it all blended together. What was going on with the robot one. Robots don’t sound like that. That’s not a sound robots stereotypically make

Ok yeah I get it

hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah

wow yet another band I should have checked out ages ago. Can he say that

nah

(Paul McCartney trying to think of a second good song): uh…. bluebird Actually liked this a lot more than I thought I would. The riff on Let Me Roll It might be the worst I’ve ever heard or I might like it I’m not sure honestly. What the fuck was the drummer doing after the chorus. It must be intentional he does it both choruses. And on Picasso’s Last Words in the first verse. It straight up sounds bad. Really what is going on with that whole song.

I don’t know if I can do this anymore

Pretty good

nah

It’s prince

I think I need to confront something within myself which is that I actually enjoyed this. I liked love in an elevator. Steven Tyler is a really fun vocalist. I sincerely apologize.

More Aerosmith. Feels like punishment for my previous review. It’s still good, not great but good.

In Rainbows is top 3 Radiohead albums for me. Here is my ranking: Kid A is #1 and this is tied for 2 with The Bends. I know it is a bad ranking but it is what I feel in my soul and heart and pussy/dick. “But where is OK Computer?” you ask. You’re shaking. Sobbing. “I never got into that one,” I say, enlightened, ascending to heaven, trying to get Andrew from Barcode Karaoke to add “Just.” Is the Bends even on here? It’s a British list I bet they’re all on here. Those fucking freaks. Anyway Weird Fishes rips, Bodysnatchers rips, Reckoner rips, it all rips. Incredible.

This was alright

Aw I loved Come On Eileen growing u- ONE HOUR AND SEVENTEEN MINUTES?

I’m not sure who is harmonizing on “If I Fell” but there’s this part on I think the second “in vein” where he sounds like he’s gonna fucking pass out. Always bugged me. Awesome to start an album off with a made up chord. Lame to write a sequel to your biggest hit. Best of theirs up to this point in their career but no one would give a shit about this in retrospect if it weren’t for their later stuff

cool!

Liked this a lot!

pretty good

how does a band with this much energy have 0 personality

nah

It’s Muddy Waters

I know that this is an extremely important album but I just do not have the literacy around experimental jazz to really get this, at least not on first listen, which took almost 2 full hours lol. Part of me was tempted to give this a 5 just to pretend I had taste. Obviously Miles Davis is incredible this just isn’t a super enjoyable album for me, not unenjoyable though. I sincerely apologize

Heard lots of good things about this, it did not disappoint. Didn’t love the whole album but there were a lot of highlights for me, my favorites were the title track, Concrete And Barbed Wire, and Joy. I really like Lucinda Williams as a singer, she’s not super polished and has a lot of personality. Really enjoyed these arrangements.

First time listening to this one, really enjoyed it!

This was fun you guys are mean

and he meant all of that

Was not blown away but liked this. Love song is a classic

“go get some toilet paper cause your lyrics is butt” LMAO Such a fun album, feels like summer to me.

Adding points for the lines about it already being hard to watch the news let alone explain it to a child. Subtracting points because they’re British saying that line about not wanting to worry about their kid being born in the UK lmao. Overall pretty but boring

Every day i log onto this fucking website, and i am one of the last active people in my group because i am a real music fan, and I am rewarded with some British BULLSHIT like this. “Happy Day 55 it’s time to listen to The Crumpets and their album that wasn’t even critically acclaimed at the time.” Surely this is one of the greatest 1000 contributions to music ever. Out of ALL POSSIBLE MUSIC this made the list. Further proof the British do not deserve to live. I don’t care if the violins sounding off is intentional they sound like shit. I appreciate the energy i guess but these guys are ass.

Now here’s a beastie boys album I like. Really fun samples! They’ve straight up got a punk song on here!

Never listened to a Bob Marley album before. Liked this more than I expected!

It’s fucking are you experienced by Jimi fucking Hendrix

ill be honest this was long and i was working so i didnt pick up a ton lyrically except “in a circle of faggots your name is mentioned” which is all ill be thinking about for the next 48 hours

YES! YES! YESSS! FUCK! FUCK! YES!

Life, it never die Women are my favorite guy

Oh yes absolutely!

Liked this!

Not for me

Idk this was kind of bad but it was bad in an interesting way so it was kind of good

corny but fun

Idk I liked

Ok so I’ve never listened to public enemy before (maybe I’ve heard them but I wouldn’t have known it was them) and so on the intro track I was like wait have they been British this whole time. Certainly I would know they were British. That doesn’t seem right… anyway fun stuff love 90s rap

delightful

Expected to love this but didn’t love any of it as much as I love the singles

Undeniable vocalist over some more exciting arrangements than I was expecting. You couldn’t pay me to listen to this a second time

Can she say that

It’s fucking ok computer

Fully rating this off nostalgia

Oh wow this guy can’t sing at all. Was going to say I liked money for nothing but then you know the lyrics of the song happened. Why do people like this

Wait this is awesome

epic