1001 Albums Summary

Adolescent pop music pretending to be awfully grown up rock n roll.

What David Bowie sounds like in front of a great rock band, The Spiders from Mars. Particularly enjoy Mick Robson’s guitar and Mike Garson’s barking mad piano on the title track .

It's good. But is it great? I'm not sure.

I’m not the target demographic to be fair

First time I've ever heard a complete Eminem album and I'm not sure I will ever do so again. At least, not in my own home.

Noisy!

Wonderful sound

Quite entertaining

I'm supposed to like Zeppelin, but, to be honest, they set my teeth on edge

Yeah, it’s good

Good songs

I’m afraid this very quickly became background. I was listening to it while working and it was easy to ignore. Didn’t finish it.

Odd to listen to this at 2 in the afternoon. Great songs and a great feel.

I must have known this album from back in the day.

I can see where many of the bands I listened to in the 70s got it from, but this does all seem rather self-indulgent. It’s some far out ideas set to numbers.

It’s never been cool to like Dire Straits. “It ain’t what they call rock n roll.” But Mark Knopfler’s guitar is peerless. Sultans is the outstanding track, of course, with some vocals to set up the guitar solos.

Interesting. I enjoyed it. It’s a bit sprawling and eccentric but there’s some good stuff there.

Imagine loving the single ‘Street Life’ and thinking, ‘I wonder what The Crusaders sound like without Randy Crawford? I’d definitely listen to an album of their stuff!’ Because that’s what you get. The rest of the album sounds like the muzak you get when your favourite corporation puts you on hold. No offence. These are 10,000 hours jazzers. It’s sophisticated. But there’s nothing beyond the silky groove. As each track fades you know they could have just kept playing it until someone at the studio switched the lights off.

This is what a Rock ‘n’ Roll band sounds like - a bit of blues, a bit of soul, a bit of gospel, a bit of country. The recording sessions were legendary and it’s all a bit of a mess, but glorious.

Great guitar work and some great songs, including ‘Summer Breeze’, which must be on everyone’s summer playlist.

Almost the perfect AOR album. Every song’s a banger and it still sounds great after all these years.

They didn’t make this album for me. I was interested to hear it but it won’t be in my regular rotation. I quite enjoyed listening to it but can’t get my head around rapping gritty lyrics over a jolly backing track.

You see the title and think, great! An album of sun-kissed Beach Boys classics! But none of these songs made it on to their greatest hits album. Instead, it’s the Beach Boys entering the 1970s with a social conscience. Some good things here - ‘Disney Girls (1957)’ is sweet and poignant - but some - ‘Student Demonstration Time’ - leave you cringing.

I like Elvis Costello, but only really know the first few albums and ‘Painted from Memory’. So, I enjoyed this, hearing some EC songs that I didn’t know. Great songwriter, but I have to admit, I do get tired of his singing after a while.

Good songwriting and no-nonse rock ‘n’ roll.

Great album. Some great songs, including Suzanne and others that he was still performing to the end.

Interesting listen. It sounds great and there’s plenty of surprises. Not really my taste but I enjoyed listening to it.

Not my thing, really. I’m not the right age. I don’t like the sound they make - guitars or vocals. Some good riffs and good songs though

I wanted to love this album, really I did, but they seem to have taken ‘inoffensive’ to another level. It sounds like it was recorded in a bedroom. Softly strummed acoustic guitar so as not to disturb the neighbours. Well, neighbour, I was undisturbed.

Proper rock album with great songs. American influences to the fore - blues and country.

Good songwriting. It turns out, that’s what I like. An enjoyable listen.

I’m sure there’s a time and a place for this album. Sunday morning in my kitchen is not it. I never want to listen to this again. Never.

I’ve known this album for 50 years. It’s still a great listen, but sounds a little bland to e today,

I hate the Beastie Boys. I don’t care if they are celebrating or sending up the ‘fight for your right to pa-a-a-a-rdy’ attitudes, but I don’t want to hear about it.

Some good tracks - songs you can identify from the bass line alone, even if you’re not in the room where it’s playing.

This album had completely passed me by. To be fair, I probably only really know the Kinks as a singles band. Ray Davies, of course, is the great English songwriter.