1001 Albums Summary

fine but a bit bland, morrissey's singing is subpar

great playing on all instruments, with a good mix of smoother and rougher jazz. overall an enjoyable listen, it kept my attention better than most other records similar to this.

energetic, great production, good vocals. i am not an avid metal/industrial rock listener, but i can still recognize and enjoy how good this is, when i'm in the mood for it.

outrageously outdated sounding; sorry, it's very hard for me to enjoy this. they have fun energy but, at least for today's standards, the flows, bars and cadences are extremely corny.

it's fun and enjoyable, though joe strummer's singing can sometimes be a bit too strange for my taste, under the more sparse instrumentation.

i always thought this album was pretty overrated, but these last couple relistens have made it even worse .. it's a mixed bag at best, some great tracks like "N.Y. State of Mind" and "Represent", but also some tracks i don't care for, such as "Life's a Bitch", "Halftime" and "Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park)", and even some tracks i'd straight up like to never listen to again like "One Love" and "One Time 4 Your Mind". overall a mediocre album with high highs and low lows, along with a lot of meh.

i'm not usually a big fan at all of country adjacent styles, but there were some very good standout songs here (notably, "California Stars"). even with the tracks that i wouldn't consider standouts, they were, for the most part, at least up to par.

many of these tracks are somehow both too basic, and messy to the point where they just sonically do not work. there are some fine moments, but i really don't get the overall appeal here ..

of course freddie mercury is a great singer here as always, and the instrumentation is good, but, perhaps not of their own fault, as everyone was taking from their style, it sounds a little basic.

thankfully a concise album, i am not a fan of country. despite this, it's actually not THAT bad, and i did enjoy a couple tracks. although, it wasn't anything all too special or unique for it's time, so i'm not quite sure why it was picked for this list.

a pretty powerful and all-around good record, i can definitely hear the influence this band had on one of my personal favorite albums, jeff buckley's grace. sometimes iggy's vocals are a bit out there, but overall this is a greatly enjoyable listen. (listened to the iggy mix)

this is an interesting album, but i feel it has TOO much pop appeal; it's on the verge of greatness, but it sounds so sanitized and washed down, with a very corporate feel, and honestly, i'm not really a fan at all of this 'tender' shaky style of singing she tends to frequently use in this album. many tracks here are also just very overplayed. i have heard many different versions of "fast car" a total of about 500 times, and it's really not my preferred type of song to be listening to for that long. there are still some good songs here that aren't overplayed, but there are a few that i completely can not enjoy due to how much i'd heard them before; every song here just gets a little more grating to me each listen i put in.

his singing voice is both a blessing and a curse at different times. sometimes it can perfectly compliment his lyricism, and other times it's a bit grating. but as a whole, this ends up a decently enjoyable album.

it's interesting to see his thoughts and predictions on what technology was like at the time and how it would progress, even though he was sonically very off, except for some of the 80s. the music itself has some pretty good moments, but it's quite repetitive. still, i'd say it's worth a listen, due to it's overall unique nature.

i was already well familiar with this album before starting the generator run, but i'd forgotten how good it is, due to how long it's been since i've listened to it !! pure, hot buttered soul, an absolute must-listen for enjoyers of this genre and a great choice for beginners to start getting into it, despite the lengths of each track. i'm glad i was given this today, truly a great album. 100% worth the revisit and 100% deserves a spot on this list.

a serviceable cool jazz live album, but i would have lost nothing if i hadn't listened to this before i died.

meh .. decently enjoyable, but inoffensive and unexciting. at least they don't have an overbearing country twang accent like a few other country artists on this list.

the biggest dad rock hits don't usually ever have much to offer for me, and this is no exception. the 80s is my least favorite decade in music since the 50s, and this is WAY too 80s. so cheesy and plastic, with mediocre vocal performances and poor instrumentation, it really feels like they were just fishing for fame and nothing more.

i'm surprised how much i enjoyed this, given that i was already well familiar with "rehab", and am pretty neutral to it. the rest of the album is much better though, in my opinion. but i shouldn't be surprised, because a jazz-soul-rnb singer sounds like an incredible combination, and she was great with it here.

despite this album having many, many of the 80s tropes i dislike, it's actually a fun album. likely thanks to the vocals, as they are much less stereotypical of the 80s.

great album. i love the horns on here, and the vocalist does a good job matching their level.

this album is just consistently very fun. despite it's bombastic nature, i didn't get tired of it by the end of the album.

pretty mediocre. the guitar playing is good, vocalist is fine, but the album lacks a certain something, making it sound plain and very uninteresting. it feels like there wasn't an ounce of passion put into the recording of this.

out of the two hair metal albums i've been given so far, i slightly prefer this over slippery when wet, but i still really don't enjoy this. still plastic, still cheesy, still meaningless. please stop giving me albums from these 80s pop-metal hitmaker bands 🙏

when i refreshed and this album appeared, i immediately jumped up in my seat. i'd been wanting to check out this record for a very long time, but i never got to actually listening until now. safe to say, it definitely lives up to the masterpiece title that many people give it. the energy on this thing is incredible, prince's vocals most definitely live up to the hype, and the instrumentation compliments them outstandingly. i really should've gotten to this sooner!!

already familiar with this one, it's a great album that is also a great entry point to their catalog, as their other albums are a little more experimental, but it's not my favorite from them. still though, as i said previously, it is a great album worth your time.

great album. don't have much to say about it, but it grew on me heavily after these last two listens.