1001 Albums Summary

4 stars for Personal Jesus - the album overall is not my thing, but a jam.

Some great vibes. Coincidentally a friend had just played this in response to the prompt: "Put on something you were listening to in college" and that gave me a bigger context for thinking about the vibes.

Some of it isn't my thing, but some of it hits hard. Almost went to 4 stars just for "heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack"

Really starts to jam starting with “ya gotta keep em separated” and continues to do so after that

Funky!

I really hovered between 4 and 5. The harmonies on these songs are so incredible, and the poetry is so imaginative…some of these songs are definitely 5s for me, especially the ones that are a little less laid back. Judy Blue Eyes alone almost pushed me there, but the majority of the songs on these album are not really my taste, so I stuck with 4.

Triad.

Appalachian folk heaven - Joan’s voice is spooky in a way that I really enjoy.

This album kills starting at Loaded through to the end

Too much Jesus for my taste - all Jesus and faux-respectful ogling of women. Also just not sonically for me - too smooth or something.

This was very cool! Another great one for chill beats. Velvet Underground connection!

This one was an excellent find for me. Much of this is 5 stars, but it gets a bit too sappy and, again, Jesusy from time to time for me to get to 5. But I love the mournful quality of a lot of this, and the poetry is really interesting, and Nick Cave has my kind of voice.

I am not the biggest ABBA guy, but “money money money” is so important to me.

I really loved this - the vocal sound is so aggressively nineties that I couldn’t get all the way there, but the sounds are often gorgeous.

Instant classic for me.

I love Willie and somehow this is the first time I realized he came up in my part of Texas. I also didn't know people call him an "outlaw country" artist - I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I love it.

Fun!

I really love this - I'm such a lyrics person that something so instrumental will never be a 5 from me, but I am a big fan.

7 stars - also rude to list this as by Dolly Parton and not by the group Trio which includes Linda and Emmy Lou.

Bangers on bangers

I want to like this - I like the attitude - but the vocal style is somehow doing both way too much and not near enough. It’s both overly affected and boring to me because it’s trying so hard to be cool and disengaged. I need more feels, personally. Cool name tho.

I really enjoyed this - not earth shattering, but very in my wheelhouse of sounds, and I enjoyed so many songs from a mid century all male band that were concerned with female pleasure. I also thought the way they were playing with sounds from youth centered, square music, while not that pleasant to listen to at all times, and a real promo-punk edge.

I'm just not that into listening to musical soundtracks - this was fun, but the purposes the songs serve in the storytelling just don't translate for me into an album like this, especially if I don't konw the film.

How could there be so many iconic songs with so much varied impact across time on one album called Nilsson Schmilsson?

I don't want to listen to white men screaming if they can't even be funny about it. They could be funny but if they are I don't know because I can't understand what they're saying. What they would like to communicate to me sonically is not funny. 1 point for being from Arlington. I can hold space for the nerdy men of my childhood who thought they were so hardcore in this particular way. Some sick riffs.

This is my kind of thing but it made no impression on me.