1001 Albums Summary

unfortunately it is 5/5

Very good but not my favorite.

Lots of great fun songs

good background music but not something I would listen to on its own

Excellent vocals, interesting melodies and competent arrangement. Sometimes it gets a bit cloying (meaning annoying,) but strikes a good balance for the most part.

No bad songs here but nothing transcendent. Packt like Sardines and I might be wrong are both fun listens.

Dad music, fun but gonna be background music for me.

Vocals are unnaturally loud sometimes. Its kind of the same song seven times in a row with "we are family" sticking out in the middle. Its not bad but it didn't really click with me.I’m looking forward to listening to more disco/rnb stuff though.

pretty much perfect which is uniquely impressive since its so goddamn long

More dad music. Its a good hard rock album, but never becomes great. Dave Grohl is a great musician but he doesn't really have the "sauce" that Nirvana did. I don't dislike any of the songs on here so it gets a 4.

its glooby

Maybe R&B/Soul stuff just isn’t my genre. Mostly just sparse instrumentals while she sings about how she hates/doesn’t respect/cheated on her romantic partners. Cherry is a great song but it’s really only half of a song. DNF

Brilliant stuff, chill R&B/blues. For me it’s kind of background music but in the best possible way, I can enjoy this while doing just about anything or nothing at all. Lyrics bite. Torn between giving this a 4 or a 5. Still not exactly my genre. Basslines clinch it. The Bottle is a great single.

it’s jazz music

Lyrics are generic, arrangements are a step above generic. There’s still some soul in it. Spotify says this is glam rock? Seems a little low-key for that. Jeepster might be the most generic song I’ve ever heard. I do think the vocals are good.

A classic bossa nova album. I find it very difficult to rate these types of albums, to be honest. Its obviously extremely good, but I'm not a huge bossa nova guy. Its a lot of similar sounding songs which are all good.

I like 80s goth music a lot and this is that. Drums are very 80s, love it. The lyrics are a little too bombastic for me. It doesn't quite strike the balance that Depeche Mode, the Cure, or Japan do. Its a genre I like but didn't really click with me.

good, 4.5

Had absolutely no impact on me at all aside from being slightly annoying

One of my favorite albums, every single song is creative and experimental. Somehow its all cohesive and every song is enjoyable without being formulaic. No notes, thank you Björk

She’s an amazing vocalist, I’d never heard this album before but I immediately recognized her from Getz/Gilberto’s The Girl from Ipanema. This album is better than that though. Really well written stuff all the way through. Some bizarre inclusions like the literal circus music in the middle of the album bring it down a bit but hey some people probably like it.

Really shocked by how much I loved this album. Guess I just like it when women yell at me.

It sounds like the album cover looks. Love Janice Joplin's vocals. There are some problems, maybe its just baked in from the original studio recordings or maybe spotify fucked something up, but some of the songs on here sound almost digitally distorted, and it doesn't really sound intentional. I thought my headphones were broken at points. The songs still have this great bluesy energy though.

Can't think of any music that is more dad music than this. Its technically impressive, completely vapid though. Guitar solos are great. I couldn't tell when the album started looping because all of the songs sound the same.

Not really getting anything from this. Its ahead of its time, but not really in a good way. Predicted some of the trends that would make music more boring in the future. Maybe I'm being too harsh but I'm just not a fan. Spotify says that REM marked the point where post-punk became alternative rock and I agree. One or two good songs on here.

I like all of the songs on this but I’m not sure if I love any of them, its about as good as all of their albums are

some of these songs are genuinely very interesting and fun to listen to but its mostly just pretentious and annoying

2/5 dnf

Is van halen the greatest band of all time? Yes

It is a bit too much for me but my gf would love this one. Saw one of the other reviews call this the rocky horror picture show of albums and that’s pretty accurate.

If I was a producer, I would sample so many things off of this album, but as a listener its too repetitive. I’d like it more if there were no lyrics at all and it fully leaned into being background music which can be ignored.

It ok kind of pretentious though

Really great samples, I hear this album everywhere even though I've never listened to it before. Kind of corny sometimes, some parts of it don't really hold up imo but lots of it is really good.

Really good jazz album. 5/5 in its category, 4 - 4.5 for me.

I enjoyed it but don’t really feel like listening again. Proto-insane-clown-posse vocals make it kind of grating but the beats are great and would be worth revisiting or sampling.