1001 Albums Summary

Solid, the hits are hits and the album tracks are similar but less memorable.

It's...fine I guess? I think if it had been either a little more or a little less twee I'd have liked it a lot more, but it's not played straight enough to be good or broad enough to be fun.

Fleetwood Mac at their pop-rock blandest. None of the soul of the early years and not even any of the catchy tunes of Rumours. Occasionally feels like it might go somewhere experimental and interesting but always backs of and heads to safety. Basically forgettable start to finish.

Good album that's a little too restrained to be great and at times feels inherently constrained by it's concept. Uncritical and unexamined nostalgia that lacks any kind of edge. An occasional album that's well balanced but lacks any standout songs you'll remember half an hour later.

Easy to forget with where they later went that in the early days Queen were a terrific rock band. Quality, start to finish.

Everything that was wrong with prog. Self-indulgent, uninteresting toss.

Fine. Good songs, nothing groundbreaking.

Weirdly had QotSA grouped with a bunch of forgettable post-grunge bands without really having listened to much. Turns out this is a actually a really good lo-fi garage rock album. Pleasantly surprising.

Laid back and confident soul album that plays around with hip-hop, funk and world-music without feeling like it's trying to hard. Really good stuff.

Better than I thought it would be, although it's clearly not for me. There's some accomplished musicianship in there, along with the angst and anger people come here for.

Never even heard of this bunch before. Nice fun glam mental album.

It does what it does well, but my patience with that level of unashamed misogyny these days is pretty much non-existent. Good delivery, sickening content.

Good but lacking in variety. A bit Tom Waits by numbers.

Pleasant enough bit of country rock.

As good as you'd expect. Nice selection of tracks too. The hits are great and the album tracks often go to interesting and unexpected places. Rock solid start to finish.

Flawless.

It's OK. Doesn't have the standout songs of Urban Hymns, so feels a bit too much of an uninterrupted Verve drone.

Nothing ground-breaking but good solid southern rock start to finish.

I don't think there's such a thing as a bad Beach Boys song, but this is an album that stocks to their formula with no risks and no innovation. There's nothing wrong with it, but there's also no reason to ever play it when Pet Sounds is right there.

Never heard of the album, the band or even the genre before. Not often that happens. Fascinating, but will need a few more listens to really get a handle on it.

Beth Orton doing what Beth Orton does. Polished folk pop.

When it’s good it’s good, but it’s too often bogged down in some of the most pointlessly self-indulgent experimental toss I’veever heard. And I say that as a King Crimson fan, just to put things in perspective.

Love it. Jane’s Addiction in their pomp, all snarling attitude and screaming guitars. Fantastic album.

Nice to fall asleep to, so it’s not entirely without merit, but I can’t imagine another time where I’d want to listen to it. If this is really your thing, Aphex Twin does it better.

If you like this sort of thing this is probably good. I really don’t.

Inoffensive but nothing ground-breaking. A few good songs.

A little bland but not unpleasant.

Music for a sexy lift.

Cracking bit of synth-pop, good, catchy tunes start to finish.

Some of the content has dated, some really hasn't, but you can't fault the delivery.

Cracking bit of space-rock.

Not their best, but there's not a bad Zep album.

That was not what I was expecting. A bit of prog, a bit of country, a bit of folk-rock and no disco in sight. Surprisingly enjoyable.

Bragg rates occasionally, but this odd collaboration with Wilco to record unreleased Woodie Guthrie songs works surprisingly well.

Easy to get lost in the lifestyle bullshit, but jesus, what a voice. Fantastic album.

The Shaman were actually pretty good at one point, when Will Sinnott was still around and Mr C wasn't talking over the top of every track. This is probably their peak, when they were still mixing some of their psychedelic roots into a house sound, and before they lapsed into one dimensional rave party anthems.

More American folk-rock influenced than I thought they were going to be, but none-the-worse for it. Good album.

Amazing voice and simple but powerful lyrics. Bonus points for being just over 35 minutes long. Says what she has to say and leaves. Great album.

Basically harmless. Bland, but at a level where I'd turn them off if I had the ability within reach, but probably wouldn't bother if I had to get up to do so.

The Clash as 'just' a punk band, before they spread their wings. It's much more limited in it's scope than their later output, but it does simple, 3-chord working class anger as well as any of their contemporaries did.

Fine.

More interesting instrumentally than earlier Stevie Wonder, and the sons are, of course, great.

That was a pleasant surprise. For some reason I was expecting forgettable 90's Country Radio country, what I got was some mellow and occasionally soulful folky Americana. Really rather pleasant.

Classic synth pop. Not really my bag but they are very good at it.

Largely forgettable last gaps of britpop. Seems to be composed almost entirely of Elbow filler album tracks.

It's a 60's/70's Aretha Franklin album. You don't need to listen to it to know it will be a 5. But I did, and it is.

Classic, uncomplicated blues.

The Beatles at their midway point. Moving away from pure pop but not yet as self-consciously experimental as they would become. The best word to describe this would probably be playful.

Psychedelic folk invariably leaves me wishing it were either more psychedelic and less folk or more folk and less psychedelic. Rarely a combination that works.

A few good songs but honestly feels more historically important than actually good a lot of the time.

Could not be less my thing, but it's a decent example of what it is.

One for the historically important rather than good pile. I get why it's an album that matters, but in and of itself it's a pretty poorly performed metal album with very little to recommend it, and it lays the satanic imagery on so thickly that to modern ears it sounds comedic.

It's no IV, but then again, what is?