1001 Albums Summary

Surprisingly great crunchy guitars!

All timer. So much slapback! Love it. The hits are great, the sleepers are also freat

Surprising amount of Black Sabbath references?? Great bright clean mix.

Classic! Some great tunes and some hit or miss sketchy performances.

All timer. The classics, the weirdos.

Heck yeah. Middle school gym class dodgeball

Innovative doesn’t always mean great? The hits still hit, but lots of the rest is ridiculous

Great, weird, spooky. Fun to hear her yell hard. Love it!

Honestly pretty sweet! Great loud guitars, wild singing.

Ok, not really my cup of tea. Sort of compressed sounding or something? Squashed or muddled

Solid! Some iconic songs

Pretty good. “I have a lil leather jacket but I’m sad I live in the big dirty city”, à la the Strokes

A master at work, with the band locked right in. Effortless but still clear how skilled she is

Not bad! New to me. Some cool moments and some indulgent spacey strings etc

Pretty great! Love a riff. “Jailbait” aged like milk, but Love Me Like A Reptile is my new fav 🤘.

He’s obviously a genius, but a lot of this is just not really my scene. Harsh 80’s synths, and so many sex noises Jesus Christ. I feel like I need someone to explain more context. Obv inspired lots of other greats, esp the singing

Some great tunes that forecast what was to come. Some less focused or youthful stuff that doesn’t hold up as well.

So heavy. Sad to have gotten into some of these bands so long after my teens

Who is this for? Or who, in a vacuum, would be psyched about this ratio of tension and release?

Some all time bars, great beats and unfortunate 90’s misogyny.

Lots of pretty good? Do you like Smashing Pumpkins but wish they sounded ever so slightly happier? This could be the record for you

Time capsule! I guess in tandem with Indie Sleaze (tm) there was also what I didn’t recognize at the time as a siouxie and the banshees 80’s dark girl revival? Maps is still an all timer.

Some great new wave/DEVO riffs, Mellow Biafra vocals. Ripped straight from the Revenge of the Needs soundtrack.

Oh to be a candy-coated potato chip. An auspicious album for the week Rifflandia announced it was done. Lots of fond memories of the confetti blizzard of 2012. Objectively is a myth, context is all that matters in making you love the art you love. Sorry!

I guess obviously a huge influence on things that followed. But might go in the one-and-done pile for me.

Pretty diverse? Some super 90’s indie rock, some straight up Rolling Stones, a pinch of Uk industrial reggae or something? Not bad, not a revelation either.

Some nice crunchy 70’s guitars, but overall pretty disjointed, too much Mike and not enough Brian?

“Wide reaching and innovative” or “all over the place”? Who can say. Definitely DOES sound like they are all learning their instruments, so that’s authentic.

4 discs is “too much chocolate cake”. The performer and artist are both among the greatest ever, but consuming too much of the same thing, the dense puns and wordplay and the same harmonic vibe, it’s hard to keep paying attention.

Shockingly good sounding! Esp drums and guitar. Au naturel. Heck yeah!

Couple zingers for sure.

Even if this was just What’s Love Fot To Do With It and 9 other tracks of fart noises, it would still be a stone cold hit. And it ain’t. Great weird covers and all

Tell you what, it ain’t Iowa!

In muscle shoals they love the swampers. All timer

Quite a bit more straight up 80’s DEVO esque weirdo pop, on top of the insanely catchy novelty songs. Pretty fun!

Virtuosity at an overwhelming level. Pretty potent, best absorbed in bite sized chunks. Makes me want to see it live.

One of the great roots records. Deep.

Major flashbacks to the minidisc player, much sadder in context of Layne’s death. Great big rock sounds!

Not the biggest Stones fan, but the sounds and tones on this are undeniable. Heck yeah