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.

It makes me want to frolic around but it also scares me. It makes me want to be mischievous but like, in child way. It makes me want to buy the most expensive Lego set ever and then say damn it to hell and not follow the directions. It’s in different shades of pink. It’s lovely and it’s breaking my heart while also giving me hope. I liked this more than I thought I would when it first started.

Great live album. Never been huge on them but I had a lot of fun listening to it.

It was alright. Felt no butterflies for it but the song Princess of the Streets was great!

Musically colorful and beautiful. Glad I got to finally listen to it in its entirety.

Never heard this before. Never heard of them, actually. I don’t know if I love or hate this album. At some points it felt hollow. Like it was holding back. At some other points it felt magical and full. I don’t know.

Loved it!!!

I’ve always thought that PULP is criminally underrated. At least here in the U.S. Musically, PULP, explodes with heartbreaking and joyful tunes. Guitar riffs that’ll make you grow hair on your chest and melodies that will bring you back to your first schoolboy-heartbreak. Jarvis Cocker is guilty of loving too much. He’s guilty of feeling and experiencing too much. At least that’s the way he writes. Different Class blends everything that’s great and terrible about life and human emotion and simplifies it all into pub ballads that we can sing at the top of our lungs, or cry to with the people that we love most. Different Class is a beautiful, perfect, album.

Let me preface this by saying that I hate the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Everyone loves them, I know. I don’t. I hate them. I went into this album with an open mind and still came away disappointed. That said, there are moments that showcase undeniable musicianship and skill. I’m happy I can say I’ve listened to it in its entirety. I’m not happy that I had to.

I don’t care for this. I Will Wait was a solid track but I don’t care for this record.

It’s alright. I’ve never been huge on them but it was a fun listen. I can say that I’ve listened to a full ZZ Top album now instead of just a greatest hits comp so that’s cool.

I hated this. Drums were excellent though.

This is beautiful. Always loved them.

I’ve always thought that, even though they’re regarded as one of the greatest rock bands of all time, The Who are still incredibly underrated. I think they’re often overlooked because of who their contemporaries were: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, and Pink Floyd. As strange as it sounds, I do believe The Who get swept under the rug when they’re compared to those titans of rock. Simplistic, chaotic, melodic, and raw—no one sounds like The Who. This album is phenomenal. It’s been years since I revisited much of their discography, and I’m so glad I did today. All bow down to Keith Moon.

I don’t like Green Day. I never have. I’ve given them plenty of chances over the years, but their sound just isn’t for me. There are a few exceptions, though. I was 14 in 2004 when American Idiot came out, and it was everywhere. At school, my classmates would play it between classes. Every “skater boy” (shouts out to Avril!) with a guitar would try to cover songs from the album during lunch. I say “try” because they sounded terrible—but their enthusiasm was genuine, and all the girls would swoon over their attempts at Wake Me Up When September Ends. Songs like Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams were on constant rotation everywhere my friends and I went. It was impossible to escape American Idiot. Because of that, I ended up growing attached to several of its songs. Despite my overall dislike of Green Day, there’s no denying this album has some genuinely great moments. More than anything, though, American Idiot is tied to some wonderful memories of my teenage years. It’ll always have a special place in my heart.

I remember the first time I heard the Arctic Monkeys. I was just a kid, and my grasp of English was nowhere near what it is today. English has always been my second language. Even then, I was blown away by the raw power of their music. I was captivated by Alex Turner’s voice and, of course, his lyrics. The way that man commands words is something to be studied. Even at such a young age, Turner could articulate ideas better than most of his older contemporaries. I wanted to speak like Alex Turner. I wanted that command of language—that effortless precision he possesses. I’ll never quite reach it, but I’d like to think I’ve gotten fairly close. I also remember meeting a beautiful British girl in school named Shayda. The first time I met her, she was wearing an Arctic Monkeys shirt. I had a slight crush on her—and on her taste in music. Meeting someone who knew the Arctic Monkeys was rare back then. AM hadn’t been released yet, so they hadn’t exploded in America the way they already had in Europe. Knowing that band felt special, and she knew them too. My friends, Shayda, and I became part of this small club of Arctic Monkeys devotees who found solace in one another through music. Revisiting this album didn’t just remind me why I fell in love with the Arctic Monkeys. It reminded me of the kid who did. For forty minutes, everything felt familiar again. It felt safe. To this day, the Arctic Monkeys have always felt like home. They always will.

Great album. Jennifer made me cry.