1001 Albums Summary

Seminal ‘90s hip-hop. It’s low budget, gritty, and incredibly creative.

I hate pretty much everything about this album and the whole concept behind Gorillaz. Even with that, I was set to give this album 2 stars until I got to Man Research.

I did not particularly enjoy this. Pretty mumbly and incoherent at times. Like a cross between the Juno soundtrack and Bon Iver. It’s not horrible, it’s just not for me.

The 5 minute song about the fruit tree was a high point.

Self indulgent and boring.

It’s a perfectly cromulent album.

Nas is lyrically brilliant. This album is so good. It’s so close to a 5 for me, but the production is a bit inconsistent and it hurts the album. But it really is so good.

Fulfillingness’ First Finale, frankly, falls flat.

Short (which counts for a lot) and perfectly fine, but not particularly good.

Better than I expected, but overly long.

This is an unpleasant listening experience.

This album is front to back bangers.

Just whiny, incoherent noise.

Great voice, great songs. Just all around enjoyable to listen to.

It has moments I enjoyed, but they’re few and far between.

Double albums are a slog a lot of the time. The lows are low here, with intermittent ok songs.

This album doesn’t have anything particularly interesting to say, and it could have used an editor to get it down to a tight 40 minutes. A lot of filler, not enough killer.

Alt-rock is Schrödinger’s genre of music. Sometimes it’s great! Sometimes it’s terrible. But you never know until you listen. Having listened, this was bad.

I didn’t hate this. Didn’t love it. It’s fine.

Prog metal (if that’s what this should be classified as) is insufferable. Endless, meandering solos from every instrument, screeching vocals about nothing. It’s a short album, but a difficult listen.

The big band half of this album isn’t great, but the back half is solid.