1001 Albums Summary

Every song is incredible. I think the one I liked the least is Four Sticks. There’s something about it that doesn’t hit me like the others do but it’s still a masterful piece of music. Great album. Great band.

EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT. Freaking classic.

Love Dylan. Great album but there are a few songs I can’t really get into though. Still, great work of art.

Loved this album. Really freaking great.

Elvis Costello rules.

This is a perfect album. 10/10

This album was incredible. I’d never heard it before. I loved every song. I listened to it twice. It was so so so so good. Ugh. More!

Great album. Wish they still made music like this or like the first four albums.

This was so much! Would’ve loved to have been there. He is so charming and energetic. Great album.

I couldn’t get into it. I see the talent and artistry of it but I couldn’t. I tried.

Couldn’t get into it but some of the songs were pretty good.

Fantastic album. It was so much fun walking around and listening to this. I’d heard the songs but never the album in full.

This album is one of my favorites and I’m glad to see it’s on this list. Always happy to listen to it again. And again. And again. There’s such childlike innocence in the sound of the music. The way that it’s interwoven with lyrics only experienced old-age wisdom can attain makes this album so damn wonderful and pure. Genius. Absolutely genius.

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. In Rainbows knows you better than you know yourself. It sounds old and it sounds new. It longs for company and solitude. It’ll cuddle you and punch you at the same time. It’s journey. Every song in this album is perfect. It describes everything I feel into the simplest rawest terms with such care and beautiful precision. I love this album.

Solid album. Not something I’m used to listening to much when it comes to genres but some of the songs were undeniably great! I’m glad I got to listen to this. I would’ve never known of it before.

I felt incredibly powerful listening to this while walking about the streets of Las Vegas during my lunch hour. I don’t think I’d ever listened to a whole album of hers. Only greatest hits compilations. This is stunning. This is great. This is music.

I really loved this a lot. Can’t wait to get it on vinyl.

I love The Beatles. Always have and always will. I’ve listened to this a million times and I was super happy to listen to it again while I went for a walk in the middle of the night. I probably looked odd to people driving by because I was singing out loud to every song into the night. Brilliance. Absolute magic. Euphoria. What an album. What a band. A billion out of ten!

Great album! Not my favorite by them but it’s nice to see how phenomenal they’ve always been. New music excluded.

The amount of power in this album is incredible. My god, that voice! It’s a dance party with my broken heart. It’s having a drink with my tears. It’s laughing with someone who’s no longer here. This album is like having a great week in the 30 minutes it takes to listen to it. Amazing.

James Murphy is one of my favorite lyricists of all time. Number one being Nick Cave. But James Murphy knows how to write about the human psyche in a way that bites you and then licks your wounds without relying on overly verbose prose. Very unlike my thoughts of this album. Sound of Silver is devastating. And fun. It’s incredibly personal. It speaks like a page in a diary entry and it moves like wildfire. I am a much better person because of the existence of this album. I think we all are.

I love this album. Always loved Lou Reed. I remember I was on my way to pick up my friend Katie from her dorm room for a night of debauchery when she called to tell me that he’d moved on. October 27, 2013 was terrible for us Velvet Underground/Lou Reed fans. I cried and she cried also. I was gonna use the word “gritty” when I was going to write my thoughts about Transformer but then I read about the production of the album and the word was used several times in the various articles (Wikipedia) I found. I may not be original but at least I’m not wrong. I love this album. The theatricality and the intimacy of it. It’s perfect poetry and storytelling. It feels like a switchblade in between your fingers.

I’d never heard this album. I liked it quite a lot but I didn’t love it. However, Hymn For The Dudes is an extraordinary song. That song is absolute fire. I will definitely be listening to this album more. I know there’s something not clicking in just yet. I hope it does because it is beautifully crafted.

Nick Cave is my favorite lyricist, and this particular album couldn’t have been chosen as the record of the day at a more perfect time. It is apocalyptic and drowned in grief, yet whimsical and hopeful—the peak of springtime during an exaggeratedly dark and stormy day. The juxtaposition between the two halves of the double album is brilliantly crafted. The church-like gospel of the first side and the elegant menace of the second complement each other beautifully. I’ve laughed and cried to this record more times than I can count. I’m so thankful for its existence.

What an incredible album this is. I’m on my last break at work listening to this in its entirety for the first time and I’m in awe. The ingenuity of this masterpiece is incredible. Hours later now. Can’t stop thinking about this album. Truly made me realize how much music I’ve missed out on and I get to discover. I love this.

Leonard Cohen raised me. His music, his poetry, his voice, his soul. Everything he’s written is to be studied and absorbed. My heart is full because it devoured everything this man ever recorded. This album is so beautiful and wise. Always happy to revisit it.

I appreciate the talent and the artistry behind it. The significance of this album cannot be disputed. But I really hate it.