1001 Albums Summary

It’s okay

I dearly appreciate the smoothness of Joni Mitchells vocals and how they intimately intertwine with the guitar and piano, but singing lines like "if you want me, I'll be in the bar" regarding the love interest of the author, then comparing him to a cocktail is so painfully uninteresting, stereotypical and boring that I can't help and roll my eyes on quite a substantial number of lyrics in this LP. Most of the songs are also quite literal, which does make it feel like that you're living through Joni Mitchell's experiences, but it, once again, lacks any rawness and depth. I get that it's tough to be a popular musician and it has it's fair amount of being "on a lonely road ... traveling, traveling, traveling, traveling", but I'm too unprivileged for it to resonate it with me or even to be viewed as a real barrier in terms of finding true love, so opening the album with this line didn't do any favours for me. Perhaps I'm too desensitised as a person, so I'm unable to experience such trivial feelings in the grandeur she describes, or I simply feel a jarring lack of subtlety that makes listening and engaging experience for me.

Really liked this one, it has a noticeably diverse range with great mixing and exciting cuts all around, though I find opening and closing couple of tracks to play a lot better than the middle part of the album. Beck is always a pleasure to listen and experience, but as much I I would like to love it, Guero left me wanting more.

Short, sweet, full of bangers

Not a fan of live albums… I feel that going to a show cannot be replicated, especially when it’s live jazz performances. But musically it’s basically flawless, yeah.

Classic, iconic riffs incredibly influential, what not to love? Well, Kashmir ruined a special moment for me, so there’s that…

I would honestly like to love this album, but it sounds so so so boring to me. While TVOTR remains one of my all-time favourites, I simply cannot fathom going through their albums due to simply how mentally exhausting it is to listen to. I recognise that at their time it was, allegedly, an innovative blend of sounds from all genres and so on, but is it one of the all-time greats? For me, absolutely not. The problem, as it often happens, is that at their best TVOTR would be second to none in their own experimental-noisy-dance-pop-rap-indie rock mix of genres, but they are rarely at their best.

Fucking hell it’s so good.

Don’t like live albums… this one is fine, though. Audience cheers is a great pointer if a song was a banger 👍

Even on the million’s listen, it’s still as excited, creative, timeless and jaw-dropping, as it was on the first one.

Surprisingly didn’t find this one that interesting. Obviously the masterpiece that is “running up the hill”, but the rest is really bland…

No. Can’t separate art from the artist.

Pedophile and groomer

Great album, liked the inclusion of wide range of motifs and inspirations, which luckily doesn’t make it redundant or feel unoriginal.

Incredible

Their best!

Deeply melancholic and depressing, wonderfully it makes you feel things that you wouldn’t have felt while listening to such a dreary nightmarish sounds, but the discovery of such emotion brings unparalleled peace inside your soul.

It’s a classic, listening to it after all these years made me think that there’s greatness in simplicity. Angst-filled lyrics combined with catchy riffs still bang “just like before”. Formulaic at times, yet short enough to not get repetitive.

It’s pompous, grandiose, incredible vocalisation and instrumentals. Unfortunately I’m very susceptible to overstimulation and this record overwhelmed me already over the first two tracks. Thoroughly enjoyed blues-y track in the middle of the album, though. As much as I would’ve liked to love it, listening Queen just isn’t for me (I have another I can listen to tirelessly ☺️)

40 year old white woman tries yoga once and makes it her entire personality. Coincidentally, it also makes her album very good.

It’s so fixing good, but then they start singing about having intimate relations with underage girls. Uhhh

Beats are good, flow is fire, but Eminem’s entire roleplaying trauma-dumping schtick is so cringe, especially on tracks like “Kim”.

Pretty cool, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

They deliver on being super fuzzy and having a big muff big time. Great grunge record!

A very good psychedelic record, liked the range and orchestral instrumental on basically every song. Unfortunately, it didn’t have anything standing out aside from a very consistent quality throughout.

Nothing memorable or really interesting

Absolutely masterful