1001 Albums Summary

When you think of the best album you've ever heard a few albums come to mind, and when that happens it becomes very hard to pick just one. You have mind bending experiences and pure emotions going against each other and putting one over another becomes a huge decision. I do not have one singular favorite album because each grand album permits its own greatness. When you're dealing with something so creative and so inspirational it becomes hard to let go of your past feelings in exchange for a ranking among the best. Alas, after all of this, if someone asked me what the best album is today, I'd say All Things Must Pass. This is the first album where George Harrison showed how much of a serious musician he could be. With meaningful songs like Isn't It a Pity, to electric masterpieces of music like Wah-Wah, and both in one like Art of Dying. This is a long album built out of old songs from the latter years of the Beatles yet despite the length, there is not a bad song on this album, and there are more masterpieces than decent songs. This is one of the albums that I will always come back to at one point and at least as of now I have never heard anything better, albeit close, but none as iconic, inspirational, and as beautiful as All Things Must Pass. I'd give this a 6 if I could but 5/5 The Art of Dying is top 3 songs ever btw.

I can't cross the road without thinking of this album, everything from all 4 band members contributions (in which is one of only 2 albums) to the medley to the production is soooooo good. This is the album that's actually listenable too cuz it was originally in stereo and the 2009 remasters didn't fuck it all up. Something, I want You (Shes So Heavy), Octopus's Garden, the medley, are some of the best songs not just by the Beatles but ever made. This is a very climactic end to the bands career together and so important to music in general. 5/5

This album changed my fucking life Late 6th grade like around may I don't know why or how but I heard the song Mr. Blue Sky and I loved it, I listened to it on repeat, that was the 1st song that changed my life, went from shit music taste to the expansion to rock and pop rock that would come, after finding a couple more of the extremely popular pop rock songs I listened to the whole album (this being the first full album I heard) I liked the whole thing, from the instrumentation of Across the Border, to the chaos of the jungle, to the build up in Big Wheels, to grand ending of wild west hero. This is easily my most relistened to album of my whole life, ELO was the first band I got into, shortly after I heard Time and Discovery and Face the Music, eventually I got into other bands like the Beatles or Pink Floyd, grand works so phenomenal that it almost brushes everything off. From the great early 70s prog era to the mid to late 70s prog pop era to the 80s synth era and even the random bullshit Jeff Lynne did afterwards, ELO proved its place to me, a place that I will never forget. Music makes up much of me as a person now, and if it weren't for Out of the Blue I truly don't know where'd I end up. This list needs more ELO representation

After listening I truly do understand why this made the list Because it defined the point where music becomes just noise. And for those of you who quit early note that it does get better... Because by the halfway point you are quite literally deaf. 1/5 please spare me

Why did the universe give me this album today of all days RIP Dolly Parton Refreshed my album 4 hours after I found out