1001 Albums Summary

Nice start, enjoyed this

Solid but not outstanding

Loved this, haven't heard it all the way through for quite some time. Still good.

Ok but not great, apart from the big hits obviously

Enjoyed the great range of styles, never really listened to the whole album before and it was well worth it

Great album, shame Morrissey turned out to be such a bell-end

Seems the legend is better than the reality

Heroes is great, the rest somewhat less so

Dull, didn't find much to excite or challenge me.

Not sure I need another T-Rex album in my life

Not heard this before, nice background sounds though didn't stick in the memory

This is what finding new albums should be like, great stuff

Consistently good

Worth a listen but not really anything that sticks in my mind.

Ambient ambivalence

One of my favourite albums, five stars all day long

Perfect pop not pop

Loved this, still evokes many happy memories of schooltime mayhem. Shame Morrissey turned out to be such a prick though.

More enjoyable than I had expected.

I tried, I really did. I tried to overcome my preconceptions, I tried to listen to it all the way through, I tried to ignore my loathing for this lame and loathsome nonsense. I was right all along. Hated it.

Bring it! Bonafide classic, still sounds fresh and relevant

Surprised me. In a good way

Just didn't sit right for me

Nothing special

Enjoyed this, every now and then a turn of phase caught my attention, be it jarringly or just beautifully crafted - compelling stuff and definitely one to keep returning to

Merely serves to remind me how much I dislike ABBA

Four songs, 45 minutes, felt nicely unhurried and easy to get into.

Enough of this experimental noodling, its' ok is small doses but an album is too much.

Consistently good throughout

No thanks, not one for me.

So me good tunes but not enough to save it from the duff ones

Nirvana's equal?

Not a fan of country, even if the lyrics are better than most country drivel.

Disappointingly not as good as I remembered/expected.

Easy, relaxing, chilled. What's not to like?

There's something about REM that just gets on my nerves, though I can't pinpoint it. This was everywhere when I was studying, maybe that's it?

An absolute classic. Rage on my friends, rage on.

Having a gaslighting nonce front your band doesn't help, but the album itself is ok-ish I suppose.

Nothing wrong with this but equally nothing great either. The very definition of three stars

Never quite managed to get the Beach Boys.

Familiar sounds even though I don't often choose to listen to lcd soundsystem - perhaps I should?

Travis are shit

Love this, psychedelic Floyd at their best.

The sound of happy nostalgia

Overly long but there's some true gems buried within

No, not today thanks. I've had more than enough mediocrity already

Great album, very easy going and mellow vibe

Awesome! Loved this, still do.

What the actual fuck is going on here then? It has to be one of the worst records, I can only hope that everyone involved was completely off their heads when it was recorded. Wonder what they thought of it when the drugs wore off?

Hard not to like, always find the Stones a mixed bag, but when they do it well they really do it well

Awesome voice, truly the queen of soul. Even manages to carry some of the less good tracks with ease

Hits all the right spots, including nostalgia.

A veritable tour de force. Superb.

Not bad but not anything special, the very essence of a '3'

Love this! Proper punk chaos with a dose of fun on top

Classic Cash, loved the live banter between tracks.

Some great tracks but a whole load more generic ones that aren't

Great album, doesn't quite warrant the endless adulation it garnered at the time but comes pretty close

Bit dull, far from their finest work

Think I'll pass thanks.

Quality stuff, engaging live too

Mostly rather good, some duff tracks but they're a minority

didn't really get what this was all about, ultimately just bored me after the initial intrigue.

Right ideas I suppose but all a bit too earnest and well, Springsteen-y. Hard no from me.

Listenable but not outstanding

Ho ho ho

Pretty much the ultimate blues album. Superb

Hilariously shit

Classy , easy, smooth vibe. Liked this.

Enjoyable enough but the remix of Brimful of Asha was better

Didn't do much for me

Ooh lovely. Great album, very happy to listen to this again and again

Fizzing with energy and fun, would've been great to see them live

Love the lyrics but the music doesn't really let them shine

A long way from my favourite Beatles album

Classic doors, no more no less than expected

I've been lucky enough to see James Brown twice, this comes close to capturing the energy and charisma of the man and the band. A healthy and heady dose of nostalgia is the icing on the cake for me

I do like a bit of industrial thrashy nonsense every now and then but this was just shouty shite

Nice half-arsed noisy chaos

Loved this, teh covers were great and the whole vibe just sits well. A genuinely great album

Good but not their best

Outstanding, still sounds fresh all these years later. An absolute belter of an album

Warm and rich and lovely. A great discovery

Nervous about listening to this straight and sober on my way to work. Turns out it's still awesome.

Loved this when it came out. Wonder what they're up to now?

Insipid 80's nonsense for people who don't/didn't care.

It's ok but it's not Back to Black is it?

A bit bland, but an extra star from me purely for nostalgia

Quite fun, new to me and I will give it another listen for sure

Orbital soundtracked a fum part of my life, they were at pretty much every festival for a while.

Fantastic energy, carries the flawed bits. Would've loved to see this live

Super smooth and funky, great all round.

Funking Brilliant!

Soundtrack to a shit western. A really shit one.

After the first couple of tracks it all went a bit downhill

Familiar 80s pop. Dreadful in so many ways

Liked this a lot, a darker diversion from the pop-Cure and all the better for it.

Didn't really gel for me, might've been better at a summer festival chilling before the headline acts

Disappointing, there's better SW albums

Not what I was expecting, and not all that memorable

Derivative nonsense.

I liked early U2 stuff but this marks the turning point. Bongo/Bonio bollocks

This is the distillation of rock to it's purest essence

Unexpected fun

Engaging & nostalgic

Peak Pogues, superbly showcases the whole band's talents

The Who were so much better than this

Always interesting, not always easy to listen to but great nonetheles

Sadly rather dull, pleasant enough background sounds but never really excited

Crp

One of the best albums ever, still a relevant soundtrack to my life

Loved this, reminds me of lots of happy times

Nope

No idea what they're on about, but I liked listening to this

I get the message but it gets a bit tiresome after a while.

Basket case is great but the rest just fades into sub-par same-sounding filler

Bohemian Rhapsody is truly majestic, the rest rather less so.

New for me, quite liked.it

Some good stuff going on here

Laid back grooves, takes me back to happy messy times

And so the rise to greatness begins

Great lyrics and arrangements, there's evidently much talent at work here

Raw & innovative & exciting.stuff

Painful to listen to this.

Great album

Rather dull, competent.ploddimg

Classic but inconsistent

Seminal metal

Funktastic

Rather dull, generic sounding but inoffensively so

Perfect showcase for such a powerful voice

Great album, always uplifting and smile-inducing

OK background music, mothing special though

Moving, reflective stuff from a man who lived a hell of a life

Not bad, not great and not my new favourite band.

Classic rock album, some great tracks and some dodgy ones

Possibly the best album ever made by a pair of absolute bell-ends

Hmm. Not all that great but OK in parts I suppose.

Not great, he's done better.

Great lyrics, grating delivery.

Hard to get excited by prog rock noodling nonsense.

Could it get any funkier?

Classic bluesy rock but somehow not everything it should be

What the hell? Who let this guy into the list?

I rather enjoyed revisiting this, I probably wouldn't have done so without the prompt from this project so nice one

Dreadful stereotype

Archetypal rock but better than I had anticipated

Whilst I love Iggy Pop this falls rather short.

She's not a great singer but it doesn't really matter, the whole package is OK. Just not great or particularly memorable.

Sorry, I really don't like the Eagles. At all. Awful.

Classic metal, just not my thing

Enjoyably funky jazzy protest. I rather enjoyed this one

Jesus. What a load of utter bollocks. Started off shit and just got worse

Never gonna set my world on fire but it was ok, something a bit different

Elvis was a bit shit really wasn't he?

Hair metal? Cock rock? Whatever subgenre this is i don't like it at all

Nothing terrible but not that good either

Odd and tedious

Pants. With skid marks.

Better than expected, my expectations having been set by all the later shit that they came out with. I had forgotten how good this is

No. Thank you but no.

Strangely compelling at times, just not all the time

Seriously? I gave it a listen to make sure I hadn't missed anything. I hadn't, it's awful.

Energetic but samey.

Bit like Dylan - great songwriting but not good to listen to. No harmonica though, so that's a bonus

Pogues were better so why bother with this?

Predictable and really a bit shite, but fun enough at the time I suppose

Who thought this was a good idea?

Great beats, great album

Great album, pretty much peak Bowie

Too much of a good thing, not an albums' worth

This whole album is a crime

Unsurpassable greatness

Outstanding album, the lyrics are just sublime and Nick Cave and the band deliver them so powerfully. Finally, a double album that truly justifies it's existence.

Oh dear.

Chaotic. Noisy. Angry. Messy. Courney Love ticks all the boxes. The album's not bad either.

Great voice, bit too much of a similar thing going on to make it a stand out album though

Mixed bag for me. By the end I was coming to appreciate it a bit more but mostly it just seemed a bit of a mess

One good single and a load of inconsequential fluff. Not a great recipe for an album.

Scathing, ranting, hypnotic brilliance.

I know there's gonna be a lot more Dylan to come, but I just don't think I'll every be able to move on from the terrible whiney voice and the harmonica, no matter how good the songwriting

Loved the noisy guitar/understated vocal combo.

Easy enough to listen to, but there's a quality that lifts it beyond easy listening.

How can you mess up blues rock so much? (Admittedly, Rod Stewart doesn't help much but Ronnie Wood should've been able to drag things back into line)

Properly funky and well worthy of it's place on the list

Intelligent hip hop evolution.

Classic sample-heavy stuff, full of nostalgia for me

Not quite as good or as articulate as it should have been. Body count did better

Loved this far more than I remembered

Liked the experimental edge but didn't always land for me

All a bit lacklustre, I'd rather listen to something else

Sabbath had collapsed under the weight of their own legend by the time they released this. And their enormous drug and alcohol intake probably didn't help much either

Classic album, much to enjoy.

Fuck off. Art school wankery.

Tedious nonsense. Even his well-known stuff was dreadful, and this is somehow worse, truly terrible

Still struggle with whiney old Neil. Was better when diluted by C S & N

Soft rock nonsense. Consigned to 1970s & 80s Radio2 where it belongs.

Alright, but just sounds a little bland and stereotypical to me

Not a huge Byrds fan. But the Byrds doing country? Absolute seals the deal, utter shite.

A very credible alternative to Nirvana in my opinion, there's a whole lot of stuff going on that is right up my street

I struggled to maintain interest to be honest.

Absolute belter of an album. still works after all these years. Iconic classic

Fuck off Bongo

Can't go wrong with a bit of Talking Heads. Not their best but still great

This was everywhere and hyped to the max. It's just not vey good though is it?

Love this, really works for me

Lots going on here, enjoyed all of it. Great new discovery

Great album, witty lyrics and sharp delivery.

A socialist voice has never felt more important or relevant than now

Started off intriguing and different but quickly collapsed into irritating self-indulgent nonsense

All a bit samey and dated sounding to these uneducated ears, though it wasn't unpleasant by any means

Far too floaty and ethereal. Nothing landed for me.

Just not very exciting, is it? Far too safe and dull

Poor. Just cut to the chase and listen to Hendrix or Prince instead, not a poor pastiche.

Overrated but pretty good nonetheless, accessible with a bit of interest and depth to the songwriting

Can't say that I found this enthralling, inoffensive is probably about as kind as I can be.

S'ok I suppose, if you're in the right mood. Bit too much as a whole album of crooning though

Pixies were better.

Dull, nothing challenging here. Move on.

Lyrics make it worth it, but there's not much else to commend it. Typical Dylan then

Liked this more than I had expected, given what I know of the Byrds

Dull, no real passion in it

This is truly a waste of time. Totally devoid of merit or interest.

Is this actually real or some AI generated nonsense?

Not a country fan, but this wasn't as bad as some

Somehow the art school prog-pop vibe plagued this ablum, there are better Roxy Music albums out there

More plodding rock by numbers. Dull.

Impressive in ambition and delivery, and well worth a listen

Loved revisiting this, the retro guitar and vocal sounds and the understated lyrics. Very proto-gothrock shoegaze-y

Is there anyone alive who isn't worn out by this album? it was just everywhere and all the time, but it's still a good album it you can fight the urge to switch it off and actually give it an objective listen.

Not really a Police fan and this didn't do much to change my view

Full of the swagger and grandiosity of a young new band who knew they were gonna be big

Witty songwriting and great music. But then I am an Elvis Costello fan so I would say that wouldn't I?

This was terrible when it came out, and the years since haven't been kind. Awful.

How funky do you want your pop perfection?

Just not as impressive as its reputation.

I think i prefer this to the other one

Awesome abrasive noise

Relentless perfection, so many happy memories...

This one's just not working for me.

Solid album, energetic and fun, love the nods to glam and psychedelic and pop and punk all mixed up

Full bore bonafide classic album, and I'll fight anyone who wants to argue

Redneck metal is not a thing. This is shit.

Pleasant enough in the background, occasionally something will lift it into my consciousness but it's never sustained

Classic MA album, captures the moment and the feeling of the early/mid 90s perfectly for me.

Absolute belter of an album, good fun all round

Rock solid Zeppelin

Not really too sure about this. Kinda ok, kinda cool, but mostly not really for me.

Love this album, all ticks all the post punk goth boxes and does it very well all round

Miserable pointless pop

Loved this in the 80s. Less so now, (thanks Morrissey, you bellend) but nostalgia triumphs so all good

Iconic band, iconic cover, iconic sound. Loved this and still do

Raw and shouty hardcore, just like it should be

Pretty generic sounding, they never seemed to hit the spot for me, not sure why?

Is this genius? or utter shite? (both?) It's brilliantly bonkers, without doubt one of the highlights of this list so far.

What a disappointment. Not nearly as good as I remembered, I loved this but it just doesn't seem to have aged well for me at least

Great album, full of punky anger and eloquence

More batshit crazy warbling from the queen of batshit crazy warbling (hat is a good thing, just to clarify)

Weird funky psychedelic vibes with a whiff of exotic menace. What's not to like?

It wasn't what I remembered, but I remembered it being awful so that's a bit of a bonus

Prog rock yawn

Didn't light up. Bit of a dud.

Really, really awful.

Bonkers, but joyously so. I'm so glad I found this!

I'm not a county fan but there's something strangely compelling about his interaction with his audience

Electrifying energy from a damaged and damaging character

Really rather terrible all round

Pretty good, though a bit too much filler for my liking, not as much wit as Something Else

Rather a nice surprise. Hadn't realised that Dennis Wilson had done a solo album, and it wasn't bad at all

Awful

Seriously? Is this on the list for the comedy value?

This seemed to pass me by when it came out, did the same this time round too

It wasn't awful

It would be a stretch to say I liked it, but it was mostly interesting

Well that was pretty poor. Who thought this was worthy of a place in the book?

Awesome lyricist, the delivery is a bit of an acquired taste but at least it's not nasal and there's no harmonica

Epic greatness

First time I've actively listened to a Jeff Buckley album, I rather enjoyed the expereince

It was all going okish until someone thought an 18 minute unstructured mess of a track was a good idea. It wan't.

Not really as good as it should've been

A modern classic

Solid but largely forgettable pop

Oh fuck off. You are having a laugh, right?

Careful what you ask for. He didn't exactly make the happiest albums before this one you know.

Fun at the time but that was a long, long time ago.

Not a fan

A great single doesn't make a great album

Fun post Daft Punk kinda sounds but heavier. Some tracks outstayed their welcome though

Refreshing alternative to gangsta

One of my favourite albums, love it

Great opening track but then I was put on hold for half an hour

Disappointing, I was expecting better than this

Enjoyed this, Solsbury Hill reminded me of happy school times

Rather generic and empty-sounding 80's nonsense

New to me but yeah, enjoyed it. Pretty chilled

Of all his prolific output this is near the top

Hard to see what all the fuss was about really

Not heard this before, didn't wow me but it wasn't unpleasant

Not for me. Even the singles at the time annoyed me, and the rest of the album is the same

Totally shit.

Too whiney and too much harmonica. Like Dylan but not.

Nothing special, didn't really interest me to be honest

An album of 'my turn next' solos is an album of too many solos for me.

Nostalgic fun

Enjoyable background noodling

Disappointingly dull

Refreshing, enjoyed the beats and grooves, this is the sort of new stuff I signed up for.

Punky fun

Bonus star for evoking happy memories of the indie-goth-rock night at the Escape club in Southampton in the late 80s. Getting a wave of nostalgia (or nausea?) for snakebite and black and the ever-present stench of patchouli oil

Pointless. I didn't need an album's-worth to confirm that this is not for me

Nothing special, probably ok in it's day

Cheesy easy listening

Surprised me, confounded my (rather low) expectations

One of my favourite Fall albums (I think I might say this everytime I listen to a Fall album?). Nicely evokes happy memories with it's Madchester vibe, even if it does sound a little dated. I'm always surprised and impressed at how MES always stepped close to but rarely strayed into ruining great performances from his band members.

Disorganised mess

The rest of the album couldn't quite match up to the awesome opening track, but pleasant enough nonetheless

Ticks all the boxes for classic American rock, and does it very well. Ok in small doses but the whole thing is a bit much for me, it's just not my thing

One of the better Neil Young albums

Interesting, influential, ground-breaking. But somehow disappointing too.

New band to me, I liked this but something held me back from a fourth star and nothing grabbed me enough to make me want to go back to find out why.

Liked this a lot, from a time before the hipster crown jumped in and ruined it.

Joyous post-punky pop fun

Pleasantly surprised by this, some parts jarred a bit but overall it was interesting and enjoyable. A good example of why I signed up to this project

Still not a fan

Quality disco-funk, rest of the album inevitably struggles to match up to the big hitters

For all the whining and harmonica nonsense that Dylan does my head in with, this is a great album.