1001 Albums Summary

I like Dylan's writing, but that harmonica noodling is just too much sometimes.

Lyrics didn't age well. Dang, those guitar tones. Just some good-ass rock and roll.

Not something I have ever heard before, and I'm not sure I'd seek it out in the future, but it's fun and cool.

I've played "Irish Rover" at least 500 times, and I still love it; great to dig in deeper to the Pogues canon. PS: What the hell is "Worms"?

Quite a bit more butt rocky than I remembered (esp. "Rock & Roll Band"), but such a great album—very fun to be taken back to that first batch of CDs my dad got from Columbia House.

Classic, legendary voice, and a sad story about her dying during production—but ultimately this is not really for me. PS: Some great guitar leads tucked in there!

4.5 songs was enough. Not for me.

Great to hear some of the non-hits, and also the extended version of "Living for the City."

I pretty much missed this when it was new, but it feels absolutely right to the time, and I dig it.

Wow this sounds a lot like college, even though I never consciously sought it out.

No thank you.

So chill

I probably would love this if I had encountered it in 1993, but I didn't.

Very dreamy

Super fun and cool! Wish I'd known of this at the time.

what if the beach boys were moody?

Never listened before, and I think Spinal Tap ruined stuff like this for me; I just can't take it seriously.

So many classic funk phrases that I didn't know originated here—and great to hear Maceo working his magic.

Killer guitar tones and classic rock sensibility right in the middle of the '90s—how have I never heard of this guy?

I prefer the later Henry Rollins stuff that was a little less rough around the edges, but this was cool to hear for sure.

Again, sounds kinda like college—respect, but not really on my radar, not really for me.

Pretty cool rock and roll (classified in its day as heavy metal, haha), but I don't think I'd go back and listen.

Recognizable Marley sound, but with a harder political/social commentary edge—I like it.

This is some wacky shit—fun! but wacky.

I really do not think this was made for me, so I stopped after three songs.

See note on Black Sabbath: I think I was just exposed to jokes about this kind of music before hearing the music itself, and I can't un-hear those when I listen.

Classic Stevie, what is there to say?

Now we're talking

No thank you

Such cool, classic sounds; it still sounds fresh and new today.

Pretty cool sound, and the one big radio hit is fun, but not really anything to write home about IMO.

Wild stuff, can hear the influence on Trey for sure.

Definitely sounds of my time, but it's too far on the melodramatic side of alternative (yet without the sonic charm of The Cure) for me to enjoy very much.

It's just so silly

Top 10 album of the '90s for me

It's fine, but I felt nothing

Sounds like 6th grade, baby

Didn't finish and probably would like the later tracks better than the opening "Dark Star," which I found atonal and too meandering.

Didn't finish, but sure did like the sonic landscape

Not really for me, as far as I could tell

Pretty cool sonically, very familiar songs that I wouldn't have IDed as this artist.

Had never listened beyond the hits on this record—pretty solid rock and roll, if a little bit same-y.

All time fave

Peak CD era rock and roll (but, um... I do not remember this as the album art)

Pretty cool

Not really my type of jazz, just seems like it doesn't go anywhere or move me

"The" classic oldies sound. Not my music, but definitely important.

Classic. Iconic. So good.

Weirdly have never heard this, and it's not quite what I expected: ostentatiously British, noisy, and unfocused... I didn't finish listening.