1001 Albums Summary

Fun drum and beat album which at the time was probably near the top of the game. It does start with a song repeating the phrase "smack my bitch up" which is not great.

Some fun songs including the classic "Passengers" but they do open the album up with a second song about lust for underage girls so that's weird but I guess it was the 70s. I don't think he has a good voice either

Classic hits with Changes and Life on Mars, three songs that are tributes or diss tracks to other artists, and overall weird vibes. Love it

Couldn't make it all the way through. I know it's an artsy jazz that is meant to be listened to in stereo, probably while smoking clove cigarettes in a dark backroom and discussing Faulkner's grand metaphors or some shit. But I couldn't think with this playing at a relatively low volume. Maybe that's the point? Don't think and just listen? Too high brow for me

Twang about love in a time of boozing.

I like REM in my mind but listening back to this, it's fine but not that exciting. But it did remind me of Chicken Little so that's good

What great grunge to gaze at your shoes to and think about the frustrations of society.

Spacey beats, v enjoyable

Afrobeat! Great album. Movie and groovy. The saxophone work is great

Middle school memories!! Also a good album still

Pretty good for classic-ish sounding rock

Ethereal and dreamy. Like a warm drive through a forest with the windows down. I like it but I dunno why it's on this list

What a voice! So breathy. So soft. Caressing your ears with sadness and bossa nova like chords

Already on my list of many listens, why not give it another spin?

Honestly I didn't want to like this because my little indie loving self told me the Smiths are better and he's bad for thinking he can do solo work. But honestly I love a lot of these songs so I guess Morrissey still had it in 2004

It was a fun country rock album that had yacht rock vibes somehow? It was foot tapping music

Great voice. I understand why she had so many hits with this album

Weird stuff but I like it. Scottish producers naming their band Canada though? Not for the geographically challenged American

Buttery voice singing about sex over a great backing with some horns to back it up? Good for me. The frog princess song was great.

Golden age of underground hip hop. I'd listened to Jurassic 5 before but hadn't put the time in to appreciate the linguistics. The socially conscious and progressive lyricism over well produced beats with scratchy samples makes my head nod. Nostalgia 5 stars but would still listen to it today

Not particularly impressive, but not outright bad. Just folk music. His voice is mid and the subjects are very depressing but it didn't hit me in a meaningful, poetic depressing way. Maybe I'm not from Nebraska and that's why. As someone who has never really listened to Springsteen, this has not turned me on to him

Good jazz rock. Started strong but my interest waned

Cognitively I know this was probably groundbreaking at the time but I cannot extract it from the thousands of electronica tracks I've listened to over the years, there doesn't seem to be anything special about this album to me. Apologies to the chemical brothers but their style has been copied so much it is no longer unique

Love this weird orchestral backed soft voiced chorusy album

Great intro song. Beautiful is a hit obviously. It's a very strong record

So intense and depressing and mysterious and weird. The story behind it is tragic. I want to understand it more but I don't think I'm plugged into the prog/art rock consciousness. Haunting and overall good

Talk about separating the art from the artist! What a great record. To quote Kendrick Lamar, Michael "gave us 'Billie Jean,' you say he touched those kids?" I do believe the accusers, to be clear. But does Jackson deserve sympathy for how his upbringing formed him into the broken human that committed those heinous acts? Is this the correct forum to pontificate on this? Imagine that it was the right place to talk about it, then what?

I like this quite a bit. The chopped up guitar and electrobeats with her dreamy voice selling me meaningless nothings. Way to stay relevant Madonna

This was fine, a little boring. English countryside music

It's a duo you never thought you wanted, David Bowie and Brian Eno. I'll refer to them as "Bono" for short. Based on the production I thought this was early Bowie. I guess the raw sound was what he was going for. They supposedly didn't have any lyrics written until he stepped to the mic either which is a cool detail when listening. But besides that I wasn't that impressed with the album. I appreciate his more formed, cohesive projects better.

Cool, jazz, man 😎🎺

Classic punk rock 🪨

Twangy guitar and harsh drums. He has such a unique sound and yet still married his sister?

Foot tapping music. Sounds like the beginning of a lot of genres

Quintessential pop punk

Good album, energetic, echoey vocals, los angeles mentioned a few times. Love it

Sweet and baby

Fine

Interesting, intense at times and dancy.

Some songs are alright. The story about the album is better than the album for me

Who knew Black Sabbath were good? I didn't know Ozzy was brought on as a vocalist, I thought the whole thing was his brain child

I really liked the 4-5 songs that had lyrics and form. They were very enjoyable and the lyrics inspired a sense of wonder and whimsy. But the other 14 or whatever tracks of ambient music were boring. For ambient music, they're fine compositions and remind me of movie montage music or video game credits music. I suppose I like Eno's earlier work before his genre switch

I really liked this. Never listened to them before but it's very enjoyable and the lyrics make me think

Good blues rock

Good stuff! The wiki said that this was meant to be a bigger or less insular project in comparison with their other albums. Tbh it sounds very similar to their first two albums. I love those albums so it's fine with me

Lovely countryish rock

I've read that this is Elton John's magnum opus. It's got the three songs I know. It's a fun piano led album

Sounds like an earlier Queen who are finding their unique sound. You can hear it on a lot of the tracks but it kind of drifts back into generic 70s classic rock.