1001 Albums Summary

Long time since I listened to this album. A good album to start this journey. Billy Corgan sounds like a squealing pig.

I always get happy when I hear the first few songs on this album but I never reach the end. It’s just to long.

Used to have this on cd, got it on vinyl a year ago. Which adds to the feeling of nostalgia. There was a time you heard this album in every Mexican or Tapas restaurant, at the doctors office and in the supermarket. That was to much. I’m glad I only hear it now when I want to, like yesterday evening.

A few good songs but overall too long to keep attention. Too much sounds the same.

This music is too old fashioned. Not bad but the David Lee Roth cover of the first song is more lively than this original.

Not my cup of tea.

After listening I really got no idea why this album got in the book. Very mediocre, nothing new under the sun. A band that exists 25 years but only made 3 albums, the last one almost 20 years ago. This is their debut album. There's an album deleted from the book to make space for this album, I wonder why. I'm not thrilled at all.

Thelonious Monk is always good and Sonny Rollins on sax is a nice bonus.

Made up band by a producer, a good looking woman as frontperson and songs in different styles to harvest as many hits as possible. Again, I wonder why this album is chosen for this book, there are better and more important albums from the 90ties

I’m to old for this. I skipped the first song after a minute because it kept repeating, after the second song I skipped the whole album. Lousy singer.

The moment I was waiting for, the most overrated band in the world. Boring as fart.

And another album that you can easily miss before you die. There are better songwriters and better singers than Adele. After 21 came 25 and 30, and I guess this will go on until we have 72 or 83.

Not as bad as expected, not so essential as should be.

And another album that makes me wonder: why this album? It’s a debut album and she made better ones. It’s not the first female rap album. She’s not the best rapper. The song writing is good but not that great. The production is good but not that great. So why this album?

Great album. Still wondering why I didn’t own this on vinyl

A name I have heard before, but no idea how it sounded. A Steve Albini production, which is a pro, and a Bob Dylan cover as a bonus. Positively surprised.

If I want to hear Kate Bush I rather listen to Kate Bush. Not bad but not very original either.

Yesterday I wrote after listening to Little Earthquake by Tori Amos: “if I want to listen to Kate Bush, I listen to Kate Bush.” And I did. This is so much better and far more original. Such great album. And still urgent.

Not much wrong with this classic album, although I prefer to listen to Animals.

Interesting album with guest appearance by Eric Clapton. Enjoyed it more than expected.

I only know XTC from their song Making Plans For Nigel, a great song but they could be a one hit wonder in my opinion. This album don't change that opinion, it's decent, it's okay but in the end it’s more of the same.

A few good songs, some nice guitar playing but to play the blues is to live the blues.

Hey ya! is an okay song but 40 tracks, over two hours is way too long.

Roadhouse!

It got everything you need for a classic album: great songs, originality, godd musicianship.

A few really great songs, but all those skits, what are you? A comedian?

If the best song is a Rolling Stones cover, and even that one not really satisfying, you can easily die without ever hearing this album.

This is more my kind of music. Great classic Rush album!

This album tried to let me die of boredom, so I put it off.

Used to love The Smiths but Morrissey’s behavior cooled that down. Still enjoyable though.

Such a great album, not their best but outstanding for a debut.

Good album but not his best.

Something more like the Beatles. Nough said.

How was this ever shocking?

A mix of rock, avant-garde and art. Got this on vinyl and although I listen to it 3, 4 times a year I’m glad that I own it.

Sounds like a lot of other bands, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks. If Slade was first they could be called influential, but I guess it’s poor imitation.

I actually liked this album although it’s never essential, there are literally hundreds of albums from this era that sound similar.

They’re definitely not the Aas.

A promising debut but essential?

I never understood Patty Smith, overrated.

Highlight of this album is Jaco’s bass playing but I will never be a fan of Joni’s lamentations.

Standard rock, don’t like her voice.

Her only real fame is being the sister of Michael. It’s more a Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis album than anything else, and they aren’t that good either.

Another nice but not essential record.

You can’t go wrong with the Beastie Boys.

Very exciting music when this came out. Later in life when I heard the original songs whereupon The Prodigy based their songs I learned that there was hardly any originality. Still 3 stars for sentimental reasons.

I’m no expert on Covid but this is the cure.

Why?

Played this a lot when it just came out, wouldn’t listen anymore, what a clown. 3 stars for sentimental reasons. “In a French-ass restaurant Hurry up with my damn croissants”

Bloodless, sour, unsexy cheap trick.

52 albums in and the second by The Kinks. Before I only knew 2 songs, Lola and I'm Not Like Everybody Else. This album sounds like they are like everybody else.

I read it’s not exactly live, and what I heard was not exactly dangerous. So what makes this album essential above any other Thin Lizzy album?

Not bad, but nothing special either.

It’s good from the first 15 step on, etcetera, etcetera

I always thought that Violent Femmes was something like Throwing Muses, or maybe even the same band. But it’s more like an episode of Monthy Pythons Flying Circus: “and now for something completely different”. Not really my liking but I can understand why this album is part of the 1001. And that’s something that can’t be said about every album in the book.

Great music, a blueprint for a whole lot of bands.

Well, they didn’t succeed.

A nice pop album,but necessary?

I once had an interview with Frank Black, such a great guy. A bit shy. We talked about getting divorced and favourite Bob Dylan albums. How can you not like the man and his albums?

In 1970 played Miles Davis as support act for Laura Nyro at the Fillmore. Miles played music from Bitches Brew (my all time favourite album), which wasn’t even out on record yet. Must have been a culture shock, the electric jazz rock experiment of Miles Davis while waiting for the poppy jazz, or is it jazzy pop?, of Laura Nyro.

Blues, long jams, guitar solos and two drummers. What’s not to like?