1001 Albums Summary

Not bad, couple of classics, not really my kind of thing

I Just Can't Do It

An old favourite - nice to revisit and one track made it into the wedding playlist

In what world does an avowed Abba hater get 2 albums in the first five on this project? Didn't listen, couldn't do it to myself, even Partridge ironically

Better than I expected, not as bombastic

Not a lot of fun. Other Elvis albums are better

Way better than I thought it might be. A little bit cruise crooner in places, but also really beautiful in others

Duller than I thought it might be

Enjoyed it, groovy

Meh - whiny stuff about shagging gaidos

One legendary tune, several less impressive but not terrible

Interesting, some proper melt solos and stuff, but really quite odd

One of the first non-Beatles albums I ever bought. Still quite a lot of fun

Familiar in places and fun, but not one I'll go back to

Pretty good, pretty generic, nothing outstanding

Lots of Beatles and Who lifts, actually pretty good, would listen again

OK - little on the baggy and samey side - can't believe I've not listened to this before, I'm sure I had the CD!

What a banger - so many excellent samples from before when it was too expensive. Loved it

Some clear high points, lots of meh

Ugh, not for me - terrible low energy emo garbage

An old friend, not as good as I recalled

Not my lane at all. Musical muesli or wallpaper, just so bland. Didn't make it past track 3

Never really got these guys, and this hasn't helped explain how massive or important other people think they are

Better than most - where are the women who can sing like that today? Too many autotuned megastars, too few Darlene Love's or Aretha's

Pretty sure my dad had this on vinyl, not too bad, but quite proggy in parts. Won't listen again

Enjoyed it, didn't star any tracks though

Couple of excellent tracks, not as good as Harvest Moon though. Might listen again

An old favourite, not their best, but better than I remembered - starred at least one track I'd forgotten

Better than I expected - really pretty groovy

They were never my thing, still aren't my thing nearly 30 years later

As ever with Floyd, you need to be in a certain mindspace, but this was the first time I've listened to all of it - can see how it is so popular. Not quite Wish You Were Here, but pretty good nonetheless

Had this on tape when I was in sixth form, and listened quite a bit. Wasn't a Smith's fan, and didn't buy another Morrissey album, but there's a couple of serious tunes on here, and listening in 2021 revealed layers of instrumentation and production I'd not heard before. Suedehead is a proper banger

Just not interested anymore. Someone has forgotten about beats and melody and having a sense of humour

Really enjoyed it - always thought Sheriff was a bit gimmicky - but the rest of the album is good solid drug induced blues. Peak Clapton

my dad owned this for years and I never listened, now I don't understand why not - some weird stuff yes, but also some pretty excellent stuff, reminiscent of late beatles, which is never a bad thing

Better than I expected, very tuneful - will listen again. More hints at the Beatles than I expected

Fun vintage stuff from the world of sampling whatever you want to.

OK - nothing amazing, was never that bothered about them and this doesn't change things

Really can't bring myself to care. They might be seminal, but I think it lacks fundamental melody or sophistication to me - just a lot of stomping and shouting

Oh, now this was really good - smokey jazzy bluesy - right up my street - a couple of tracks added to the favourites list

Already has two stone cold classics, the rest of it was not so special. Wasn't that impressed

Audio wallpaper - a couple of classic tracks, the rest felt like much of a muchness, won't be going on the rotation

How is this on the list? Obscure Aussie Jangle pop from the 90's? I guess the author has a soft spot. I don't

So opens with an all time classic and then is just indulgent studio wankery with no great melodies? And this guy dissed the Beatles?!

I think i owned this - good grungey bluesey stuff

Duller than I expected - couple of hits, but the rest of it was a bit slow and with unexpectedly poor production

Had to download it - not on Spotify. Proper good stuff this - very funky, very groovy and politically on point all these years later

All time classic - owned it on vinyl, and I don't care if he's cancelled, there are some serious tunes on here especially if you go past the obvious ones

Some proper bangers from the old days - better than I remembered and holding up well after 20 years

Not bad, not amazing - won't listen again I don't think

Simply brilliant, as usual. will be listening again and crossing my fingers for a ticket to the return tour - one of the best live bands I've ever seen

Very odd - been in my life for 50 years because my muso dad was on the good drugs. Never listened. Might not listen again.

Really enjoyed it - i guess I'm getting used to Indian music, but the overall vibe was of a chic curry house - one I'd like to eat at!

Too heavy for me - even the famous tracks. I can only work with Black Album Metallica, everything else just feels a bit too aggressive

Tricky to listen now he's dropped off Spotify. Always like a bit of grumbling canadian - this is no different, no absolute bangers though, so just 3 stars

Fun - excellent moody atmospheric opener and then some pretty standard funk by numbers jobs

80's muso nonsense, with that one banger. The rest of it just doesn't have the funk of ABC or the melody of Tears for Fears. Won't be listening again

Familiar, never really been my lane, but not terrible by any means

Familiar, already know and love a couple of the best tracks - rest are a bit meh

Surprisingly good vs what I expected - almost similar to White Denim in the quality of musicianship and how tight the band are. Acceptable punk, but I don't think it really is punk

banger - so much excellent groovy bass happening. quite odd as a concept, but enjoyed the listen

Nice soundscapes - no idea what they're singing about and unlikely to listen again, but not inoffensive

Not as bad as Metallica's listing I had to listen to, but still well short of the melody I prefer in my music

Oh dear. not for me. at all. and I like country music

3rd Polly album in the list, can't be too many more? Supposed to be her best, I think I prefer the edgier stuff - couple of good tunes on here. Not likely to go into my listening rotation though

Had this on tape as a kid from my dad's collection. Weird and seems deliberately jokey and quirky - some interesting tracks in there but feels a bit tiresome generally

Not terrible, not amazing - some very 90's references and attitudes. Clearly very proud of Brooklyn. Will not be listening again

Nope - shouty unsophisticated crap - or at least the first track was. 2nd feels a bit more interesting into the two central massive tunes with more music and less screaming, much better glad I listened to this - I'm relistening already

An old friend, still sounds as good as it did when I was 18, perhaps a bit juvenile, but does that matter. Side 1 is streets ahead of side 2.

zzzzzz - what on earth is this? audio wallpaper, and not especially pretty stuff either

Erm - beats that take me back to being obsessed with Acid Jazz, but four tracks in and I've lost interest. Other people did this better, regardless of the language they rapped in

Does what it says on the tin. Think I owned this on CD, but never really listened because white boy metal rapping is just not good. They can be good when being melodic, but otherwise it isn't my lane. Was happy when Spotify started playing 'similar' music at the end of the album

Not my thing at all - they all sound remarkably similar

Not bad, not as good as the predecessor which I loved as a younger man

Not quite what I thought it would be. Some bangers from back in the day, but not as groovy and not quite as much fun as later albums would be

Loved it when I was a younger man - saw them play it live - not quite as magical through the lens of time, but still pretty good in places. Mad as lorries, and delightfully so

Must be good - except for the track with 41 million listens, as I've had it on repeat for a couple of days now and added one or two liked tracks

Odd - a couple of wonderful beach boys elements, but the rest is just fragments. It was never going to beat or be in the same league as Pepper

Knew more tracks than I thought I would. Never been a big Dylan fan, can't get past the lack of melody having been raised on McCartney. Not terrible though

Some familiar stuff, some batshit crazy stuff, but throughout there is a groove and some insane guitar work. Lots of fun when the songs go for it

Insane to think this was 1969, it is still more innovative and interesting than most of the stuff from the past 40 years - they clearly had much better drugs

An example of how a legacy can be ruined. I loved their first single and didn't even notice how much of a prat Chris Martin could be - he was just posh with some cracking tunes. On a relisten, some excellent standouts and a happy bit of nostalgia - shame subsequent events mean this album is effectively cancelled for people with good taste

Very good - lots of bangers and markers for the future of rock for 1965

Own this on vinyl, from my muso blues fan teenage years. Classic blues - not a lot of variety, I think I only ever really played Mannish Boy

Double listen - nearly perfect in places, almost too twee in others. Never listened before, couple of truly electric moments.

Ugh - never liked him, don't understand how he's held up as a legend

Meh thod man - fine, but far from exciting or interesting

Owned this, kinda liked it when it came out, but really not that good in retrospect. Pretentious

Not bad, bit long winded in places now. Was absolutely massive when it came out - carved out a new genre

Fun in it's own way - nothing ground breaking, but I guess it was 1978. Nothing tagged to be added as a favourite. Don't understand the hype around these guys except for Murica F Yeah

Weird but superb, a couple of spine tingling moments. Who knew that weird guitar jam with latin beats and a lunatic would be so compelling

Not interesting at all, why was this on the list?

One banger, lots of meh - not that interesting to hear disco as an album

An old favourite, but I am not sure I ever listened to it end to end - vinyl was a pain Still good - might prefer later stuff

What a load of nonsense. beats that go nowhere. can't tell the difference between tracks. Not a clue why this is on the list - I'm 100 days in and haven't had anything by the Beatles or Stones

Interesting mix of white boy groove and african stuff - must have been very interesting in the early 80s. Nothing to get too excited about though

Some good beats, clearly setting a template for a lot of what we're still hearing now. Big stars too. He's an angry dude though, lost his sense of humour when he got successful

Yes, all very good and fine, but really not my kind of thing. All sound very samey

More audio wallpaper - washed right over me and nothing annoyed or offended me, but neither did anything grab by attention

Fun samples, vintage beats, but again this is nothing earth or butt shaking. Never heard it before, won't be listening again

An old favourite, just as much fun as it used to be

Very good, top guitar work and not as arty or as wanky as I expected it to be!

Ugh - was never interested in these guys. If this is their best work, then good luck to their legions of fans. I need beat and a melody in order to elevate music above being wallpaper

Good stuff and bad stuff and amazing stuff. Very familiar having a father like mine

Fun for what it is. Was revolutionary, feels very vintage now, and quite misogynist. Again, nothing starred into my favourites

OK, nothing amazing. Much prefer other female singer songwriters

Yes, OK - apparently seminal, but not a patch on Zeppelin, who must have stolen their better tunes

Not bad, but nothing moved me extraordinarily

Absolute classic - with an arc in the middle that is simply peerless

Couldn't do it to myself

Not my thing at all, some well known classics, but I never bought into the whole thing. Music for nutters

I owned this as a student - an investment in a CD, I kind of liked it then but it wasn't a favourite. Listening again, 3 good songs, the rest are less interesting

Fine for what it is, which is something I don't enjoy

Not my lane, I'm sure it's OK for people who like a crooner, but simply too schmaltzy

Not as good as I expected it to be, nothing stood out

Twee twiddlee twaddlee - too lightweight for me

Good stuff, liked it originally, still does goes stuff for me

One great track, couple of other interesting ones, sounds like one foot in the 80s and one in a different time. Not bad, won't be listening again though

Not listened before, excellent stuff - some real classics

Noodly doodly, some familiar elements, but not really my bag

Not terrible. Quite Juvenile. Not likely to ever roll it with my homies ever again

Couldn't bring myself to listen, I can do without the diabetic shock. I liked it back in the day, but I'm as far from torch ballads as I can be at the moment

Not on Spotify - and yes, clearly very pretty, but she does get a bit wearing

Mad as a box of frogs, and about as much fun

Yee haw, not my thing - way too simple

Nah, not interested

Vintage banger, not quite as good as the earlier stuff - and way too popular with mouthbreathers for my elevated sense of musical taste. Cant deny some of the tunes though, however much of a prat he was

I can't do this to myself, the sniggering idiocy of the introduction was enough

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Never heard of it, listened to it, realise why I'd never heard of it.

Fun but not as much fun as Paul's Boutique

It's about time. 150 albums in before the GOAT arrive.

Meh, not bad, not amazing, didn't notice much

What is this? It isn't good

Pretty good - clearly enjoy a jam jazz rock folk album or two. One track added to the roster

An old friend, good but not great

I'm sure he is a genius, but not to me. Can't make it through any of this stuff

Not as good as I expected it to be

I loved this as a teenager - the soundtrack to many a ZX Spectrum gaming session - but listening now, it just feels a bit limp and odd and the opposite of what I find compelling in music

Not good

OK - not listened before, but it is a bit 'grunge by numbers' for my taste

Had this since I was 17 - only ever played 2 tracks. Listening back, I understand why. Lovely where it counts, not that interesting anywhere else

Better than I expected, but not life changing

Fun - couple of monsters, but nothing too earth shattering

Enjoyed it for what it was - surprised I'd missed it for all these years

I don't possess the relevant DNA to enjoy this hibernian folksy drunken Captain Pugwash nonsense. Never liked it - music for people who like you to know they get properly drunk

Excellent stuff - love this vein of southern rock

An album from 1967 that I haven't heard of? Impossible, unless it turns out to be this load of old tosh - what on earth am I supposed to take away from this? Derivative and irritating

Very fun, very funky - but mad as a bag of hammers and feels like I'm a bit too old to get excited about being funked up

zzzzz

Good, manufactured in places, quite samey throughout, but a couple of tracks made me sit up and take notice

Fine for what it is - and a banger is a banger, but not enough bangers here for me

Had this on tape as a kid. I suspect Q Magazine is responsible for me picking it up. Doesn't hold up

Some lovely old grooves, but it is a bit samey and just washes over you

Had this, loved it, but actually, loved just a couple of them. I seem to have gone past this kind of music now

Liked it as a kid, not as much as the predecessors, but feels surprisingly soulful compared to what I remember. Massive nonce or not, he had a rare groove to his music

They never really hit for me - always seemed to be style over substance

Oh.......my........god - dude, I hope these songs all got you laid. Definitely not my bag

A couple of songs missing, but I liked what I did hear

Ugh, nope

You know this - as good as it ever was

Possibly, or probably definitely, the best album of all time

Old school big bang swing jazz - perfectly fine, but not my lane at all

Love the man - tuneful and angry despite that reedy voice

I just can't. This includes one of the most evil songs ever concieved, and a cursory listen includes more of their jaunty irish fiddle and shout 'soul' music

Another band I don't get - their hits are hits for a reason, the rest of the albums add nothing at all, such is the case here. Weird noodly arty stuff, clearly too clever for someone like me

Fun - couple of old familiars. Nothing amazing though

They were never my favourites, too unhappy, but there are some great tunes here if you can look past the wanker out front

Nope, don't get it. Absolute art wank

More fun than I expected - will listen again, good noisy guitar grooves

Had this as a younger man, didn't really embrace it - not as good as their earlier stuff. Dull music for dull people

Ok - I can see why this is a classic and how radical it was for 1972, but the hits are the standouts and I already knew them

I guess it is interesting. It is also background music for a movie or a restaurant and not something I'd ever listen to again

Weird - sleazy lazy boogie that is good when it is one of the hits, and terrible otherwise

Not bad - a bit too whimsical and consistently similar for my taste

Yeah OK - fine - fun in a vintage movie kind of way, but not something I think I'd listen to out of choice on a sunny day

Wonderful stuff - so much better than I expected. How have I gone 50 years without knowing this was there?

Not my thing at all

Much funkier than I expected, quite a lot of fun. The 20 minute drum battle isn't really what you need

Apart from that one track, way too bedroom nerdy woe is me type stuff

The epitome of 90's shabby albums underpinning a couple of club bangers. 2 club classics, everything else is dreck - it was better owning the 12 inch, or CD single with the best tunes and a couple of remixes

Yep, it is amazing, but so covered in sugary instrumentation and sentiment that I nearly got diabetes listening to it

Good in its way, definitely not my lane

Fine, dull, won't listen again

Weird, not terrible and not what I expected at all

Fun bluesey jam marathons - some insane guitar chops, especially for a live album. Not sure I'll listen again though

Fine, a bit twee for me, and I love a bit of country. The tracks Spotify played after the album are more fun.

Not for me

Ugh - it's like a gor blimey guvnor musical. This is why you stick to the hits and not wander around the albums of anyone except the beatles and floyd

Never liked him. Don't like monotone acoustic miserablists. This is the perfect storm of stuff I don't like

Had this as a younger man - never really went into it in detail - preferred the weirdness of A Forest, but this is still pretty good and holds up well

Have listened before, didn't need to do it again. 2 x meltingly good bangers, the rest is just not in the same league. Do The Right Thing is the best way to listen to this music

Not good - dull droney boring

Pretty chilled, seems to be one long groove and some jokes I'm not really listening hard enough to get. Juvenile Funky but not my thing

Not as bad I thought it would be from my memory of their random crap when I was an NME reader, but still - who likes this stuff?

An old friend - at least 20 years now I've just had the two best (for me) tracks tagged. Listening to the rest of it, there's some good and some really not good. I'll be sticking to the two monsters - not Hallelujah though, that's overplayed massively

I should like this stuff, white boy soul, horns etc. Indeed a couple are quite fun, but his voice isn't great and I can still hear the insidious evil of Come On Eileen and too many ruined nights as a kid

Better than TransEurope Express, but the spotify radio shuffle after was much better

Had this for a while, love the killer track - not really listened to the rest of it. Good without being great

Yes, massive, also a couple of super catchy tunes, but also a bit too obvious and worn out. I don't think I'm the target audience for this kind of music

Her schtick has been overplayed to the point where it almost sounds like parody. But I did own this when it came out and loved the smokey jazz chanteuse style before the china white, fags and bad boyfriend ruined her talent

More odd inclusions in this list - there have to be 3001 albums better than this. it's fine, it's even got a funny song, but it doesn't feel like my life is better for having listened to it

Barking mad, almost unlistenable in places, but by far the best thing I've been pointed at in ages

Not good, didn't really notice it as I was working whilst listening

How many five star tracks does it take to get stars? There's 2, possibly 3, on here - and two of the best ever. Still a bit wanky outside those though

A couple of the best tunes ever, but also quite a lot of filler - still worth it

Pretty standard and unremarkable R&B from the sister of someone very talented

Don't need to listen to this one - it's been a part of my life all of my life. Some odd choices in there, but mostly just a wonderful nostalgic journey through some of the best melodies, riffs and harmonies we'll ever hear

Unusually unknown bluesy grooves - really enjoyed it. It is a very much a period piece but there are some tracks here that really groove

Just nonsense - interesting story, but really not worth a listen

Generally, and typically excellent, but gets an extra star for Run Christian Run, which is up there as one of my favourite tracks ever

Couldn't make it past the 4th track. Never liked Nu Metal, and these guys are at the apotheosis of that particular trashheap

Lots of fun - not what I expected, but was tapping my foot. Not entirely sure why this is afro Jazz, but whatever it was, I liked it

If anyone gets close to peak McCartney, is it Paul Simon in this period. Such a strange but wonderful album with some of the best songs they ever produced, and some very unusual other elements

OK - similar to their other stuff, but not as funky or immediate. Won't listen again

More fun than I expected. But then spotify played similar tracks and they were so much better

Clearly seminal stuff, but also it's Elvis, so it's a bit of cultural appropriation and never going to be as good as the Beatles

Meh then, meh now

Interesting band - feels like they'd have been insufferable art wankers at the time, but there's a few fun songs on here

Nope

Nope

Lightning in a bottle - so many familiar tunes from a great songwriter

Add Crazy Horse makes everything better - love these tracks on Arc Weld - love them here

Not my thing - I like a song, or a melody, rather than piano twiddling whilst a tramp menaces me

OK - not keeping any of it to come back to

First track - is nuts Second track - is also nuts

I've always liked the title track, but to be honest, the rest of it verges on unlistenable

I don't care what he did - this was a classic of my youth and still makes me smile thinking about the family just loving all the magic on this

So not my lane

It's Bowie, so it isn't crap, but it's also very much an album produced by a man who's muse left him a long time ago

Some wonderful stuff, some noodly stuff - worth an extra star just for those harmonies

Overplayed and over familiar, but that's for a reason - so many good memories of sitting on a bus on the way to work in Leeds and talking to my mates about how great the music was. Never my favourite band, but their Beatles schtick was better than most others

My spotify tells me I like 6 of the 9 tracks already, so I think this goes into the echelon. True genius at the peak of his powers.

OK - it's REM, and it's early, so not too douchey, but still it all sounds very much of a type

I couldn't in the past, and I can't now - I just don't get Bruce

Stone Cold Classic - introduced me, as an innocent british teen, to all kinds of exotic things. One or two of these songs would make my all time top ten

clearly very important, but it all sits in a very familiar lane and tone - two or three wonderful classics, the rest is just a bit indulgent

Um, not sure about this - one massive tune and a lot of random stuff

Never understood this stuff - despite hailing from the heart of dark gothic stuff. it's joyless miserable posturing

Owned it, loved it back in the day, seen them live a few times - always a party, but the music itself...not so good really - not quite appealing to the lowest common denominator, but close

Don't get it - feels like a token entry - but a lot of them do

It was on, didn't really notice it - how is it on the list?

Music for a bad Spanish restaurant

Seems OK - less challenging for me than the other stuff I've heard. Still not my lane by any distance

Nice moody lane - smooth jazz times

Yeh, meh - nothing stood out here

One absolute banger, and a whole bunch of meh

One or two of my top 20 songs on here, but also a few that are very prone to be skipped

An old familiar favourite

Fine for what it is, again not my kind of thing

Didn't like it when I was a kid. She's immense, yes, but this was poison to my ears back then

Another example of wallpaper music - washed right over me

Just not interested - was never my lane

Yeah, a legend - and a weird dude. Not terrible - it's a rollicking live set, but most of the tunes were done better by others

Household staple from my youth - love all of it, with extra cheese

Fine - not that interesting, and it constantly feels like it's about to kick into a Beatles tune or two

Meh, they weren't really musicians, although I did appreciate finding a tune I used to enjoy on the closing credits of the TV show when I was a kid

1 massive tune, the rest underwhelming, not like his other album on here

Belting - 3 or 4 total bangers here, and not much is better than Warpigs

Ok - nothing too exciting really, even the bangers are a bit dull by now

Enjoyed it - much chiller than I expected

Yeah, there's a reason he wasn't in Pink Floyd anymore

Never been my thing - I like a melody too much, or someone who can actually sing

Can't do this either - bloody lion king graceland nonsense. Yes it is beautiful music, so is throat singing and polka, but I cannot listen to any of it

Just terrible. Been something I've tried to avoid all my life - I simply cannot understand why this is so popular

Period piece - weird acoustic quality - a couple of interesting songs but mostly completely forgettable

All very lovely, but I feel quite sick - I'm only 52, not 95 - this is not my bag baby

Ugh, no. Just absolute no from me. Starting to get a bit sick of the project - too much world music not enough popular music

I don't understand ambient music, or why it needs to exist

Oh baby - five stars all the way

legend returns with...pan pipes...oh dear The rest of the album - nothing got me as excited as his proper blues

Nope, just can't do it. I am allergic to this bloke

Probably my favourite album as a teenager - on constant walkman action in the summer it came out

2 good tunes, the rest is noodly wank fodder

Held out for a long time - they were just too much in the 80s, but now seeing the genius of the early stuff

Harmless - couple of lovely tunes, lots of filler that I no doubt would love if I'd lived with this for 50 years

It's not Ziggy Stardust, is it?

One undeniable banger and a lot of pervy crap

Yeah, couple of good singles, lots of moody beats driven crap otherwise

Feels a bit tokenistic - and is it really worthy of an entry? I wonder what wonderful sixties or seventies album in the original book made way for this collection of meh?

yeah no yeah, it's OK - nothing wonderful in here though

File under Wankers, epic. Not interested in this copycat Gary Glitter

Better than I expected - it's early UB40, so quite moody and not popularist white boy reggae Plus, Food for Thought, immense

It's OK - nothing extraordinary

Ugh. Saccharine Shite

Batshit crazy - quite fun, made no sense

More fun than I expected, proper Bri'ish metal

Nice, fun, but nothing outstanding

Shite shouty deliberately quirky crap, it was always crap - remains crap 30 years later

It's a no from me

Face melting guitars, dripping with rage and energy, still sounds fresh 50 years later

Nothing too exciting here - lots of these now feel like filler rather than seminal

More reggie - simply not interested

Juvenile teenage wank rock - but not entirely terrible

Meh - it is what it is

Better than I expected, but still reggie, and pretty sleazy reggie at that. Louche

Enjoyed it again, like I did before, but still nothing really stands out

Preferred their debut - this is OK, wasn't interesting

An old friend, comfy without being too memorable or making me heart anything new

Was OK - couple of fun tunes, but mostly meh. The blues on the spotify shuffle afterwards were much more fun

Excellent - groovy and modern

Don't even want to listen. Yes, you're angry and you might have dope beats, but life is too short

Hmmmm - not very good, is it? Pretty but pointless

Includes one of my favourite ever tunes, so gets an extra star for that - and for generally being funky in a good white boy way

Clearly quite a show, but the music is a bit too 'gee shucks I'm an outlaw' simple country for me

Up there for GOAT

oh no darling, this is just terrible stuff

Ugh - starts bad and gets less interesting. I'm too young to have suffered this crap at dinner parties - what was wrong with just having Sade on all the time?!

A lot of fun, enjoyed the comparative lack of bombast - felt like a working band rocking hard

Lovely - a nice throwback to a CD that kept me company for quite a while

Couldn't get into it or understand why it is so seminal

Pretty sure i've heard this before, but I was always more of a Ray fan, in fact - I struggle to find much to love in the Dinosaur Jr catalogue these days

Nowhere near as much fun as most of his other stuff, all a bit meh

It was OK - not sure how I missed it, I loved Daft Punk, Cassius etc. - I suspect it was because this stuff is just a bit average really

OK - nothing special apart from the tracks I knew anyway

Loved it on vinyl when it came out. Lifelong acid jazz fan. Met Jay. He was cool.

Ding dang done, 10 four ol buddy - much as I love a Burt Reynolds smuggler chase movie, I'm not sure I want a full album of this stuff, no matter how much a pedal steel can melt my cold heart

Ha, one legend and a load of supermarket music

Pomposity to the fore, rather than songwriting or melody. Only the mighty James Murphy made them sound interesting rather than just another dull as ass American Indie band moaning about something. Cannot understand how high a regard this is held in

His big hits are hits for a reason - the other stuff is dark and odd

Fine, not offsensive, but didn't make me sit up and listen at any point either

Clearly legendary and seminal, but in actual fact, it is pretty dull and samey and not really in the groove that made him a legend

zzzzzz

Half of it missing - curse you Joe Rogan - but still enough wonderful harmonies, guitar virtuosity and songwriting to earn 4 stars. I'll even give Our House a pass, but not for long

Yep - know it, enjoyed it back then - a bit long but not terrible

Rod the God - some great, some meh

I tried to listen to this, but it just disappeared into the background. Deliberately quirky, or feels like it - no bangers and no beauty, won't listen again

Tried to get through it a couple of times, it just doesn't work for me. The calculating earnestness of their influences and output is very disingenuous, always has been. They're copyists rather than innovators - music for people without ambition or imagination. Some of their music is magical, but even that is lost in the face of the zealotry of their believers. The Manchester United of music

Nope

Holy jesus fuck, how bloody miserable is this stuff? His Toy Story schtick got old despite the magic, this is just miserable and all a bit samey

It was pretty ground breaking back in the day, but now just sounds repetitive and lacking imagination. Couple of bangers, but a massive amount of dreck

As good as it gets in modern music - I had a couple of these pinned already - top 100 lifetime streams. The rest of the album is just as good. Into the rotation

Better than I expected - the groove is undeniable, if somewhat repetitive. Odd that I missed this first time around.

Tepid background irrelevance. Clearly whatever particular blend of classic jazz this is, it isn't my lane baby

Better than I thought - not that much hair metal. The Maiden were prevalent on denim jackets when I was young, and I thought they were for thick people. This wasn't anywhere near as crap as some of the stuff coming up on this project

I loved this as a 19 year old - tortured my poor dad to listen to it on the drive to university. But listening now, the bulk of the album is pretty crappy raga type shit rock. The final 4 songs more than make up for it, as mad as they are

All a bit samey really - not that I was expecting prog-style landscapes of sonic magic, but I guess, as garage music goes, it's pretty good. Really dirty grooves with some wonderful touches of guitar magic

Fine - had this, or had Kool Thing, when it was released. It's sonic youth, it doesn't veer far from that course

This was fun, a couple of tunes I knew from elsewhere and popular culture, others I didn't. Ultimately, I will never listen again - but it made a friday afternoons work a little less dull

OK - one Killer tune, and one or two other bangers. The rest of it is pretty standard 70s hard rockin - not bad, not amaze

Never listened to Merle Haggard before - heard of him in movies and stuff, but here we are. 30 minutes of what seems to be the same song, or what sounds like the exact same song, just with slightly faster or slower parts. And boy, it is depressing. Maybe I want to do in jail for the wrongs I done, maybe I don't

Is there a 0 star option? Did not and will not listen to this, just about the opposite of what I consider music to be

OK - nothing special here, didn't even recognise the singles

So annoying that the legend isn't on my preferred streaming service, but youtube to the rescue. Proper this one - couple of timeless classics

Fine for what it is, but it's a no for me.

Interesting, but also not engaging - I was hooked by the Pimp Butterfly one, not by this

Massive - not much more to day. Some filler, but the killer is primo extra good killer

Never knew this existed - very pleased to find it, sleazy groovy fun

Not as brilliant as their moody magnum opus that followed. When they hit their muso peak, they lost their audience, but this has hints of the magic to come.

I like the pomposity of this - knowingly clever and clearly demonstrating prowess. At the same time, only Tom Sawyer has a hook, and that is a pretty proggy hook. Won't be putting the album in heavy rotation, but that mad jazzy rocker is in the 'liked songs' folder.

It was, OK - is also a shadow the magic of Melody Nelson from earlier this week, and for other similar sleaze lounge stuff that came on the shuffle afterwards

Ugh, so dull. Not sure I'd ever want to meet the Teens who have Dreams as anodyne as this whiny lo-fi crap

Oh dear. No thank you "if sex were an olympic sport we'd have won the gold" Yes, I'm sure that's both true and something anyone wants to happen

Nice, chill, moody. Loved finding Paper Tiger earlier this week, and very much a companion piece to Morning Phase, which I loved already

Seems to be missing what made their early stuff reasonably interesting. And that was a stretch

Untouchable, weird and wonderful

They're not what they were - but they're still OK

I was a Beatles kid - Elvis felt irrelevant despite their love for him. This is another collection of good but not great stuff

An Eno album that isn't the aural equivalent of a folding bicycle? (i.e. only for total smug wankers). Seems to be - but Robert Fripp provides the clear highlight - that track was tagged for repeat listening. The rest of it is mad as a lorry, but also quite entertaining

Nice - prefer Wilco going a bit mental with guitars, but this was one of the better recent offerings on this site

Actually and surprisingly really enjoyed this, some cracking tunes

Yes, I'd rather not. The riffing is OK, but the caterwauling really isn't helping

zzzzzzz

Soundtrack to the days in hip cafe's before they discovered charging a tenner for avocado on toast

Like the Muses, hadn't owned this. It's OK - nothing amazing

Hmm - not what I expected. Punk with musicians and instruments. Still not my lane though

OK - nothing to get too excited about. How do you have Rod in your band and decide to sing yourself?

my 16 year old self, discovering this on vinyl after reading about it, as a massive Prince and 60s fan - wow, blown away. Going back at 52 after too many years away, that opening groove - man - sensational. Can do without the odd sesame street vocal singalong moments, but otherwise...

His voice and groove is undeniable, but this is the purest form of divorce core I've ever heard. Not a happy listen

Not bad, made it past the desire to skip after 4 seconds. Will listen again

Enjoyable retro sheen across this - couple of very good pop songs

Amazing in 1994, feels a bit one-note now, the follow up was more interesting

Nope

Could get 5 just for that amazing centre piece, dropped to 4 because it isn't quite enough

Very good, if not outstanding 60s keyboard choral stuff, closing with an absolute worldie

Enjoyed it - won't be going back, but it is like REM without the whining overtones

Never listened, despite all the accolades. Turns out its ok, just not my lane really

It's Radiohead. 4 stars

Oh. So so dull

Legend, but just a couple of her most legendary tracks on this one, as is usually the case

An old friend - couple of serious hotspots, but also music made for people who look like me by people who look like me

Life is too short and there's too much good happy music out there to put myself through more than 2 tracks of this shit

Owned it, but only ever played the first 2 or 3 songs, which must mean something

Never listened to this legendary band, but even being in a huge Crosby, Stills and Nash phase, this just sounds dull and second rate. What a boring set of songs with less than stellar harmonies

A couple of serious nostalgic classics, with a load of less impressive euro synth pop schmaltz

A voice only a mother could love. One banger, all filler

Yee haw - apparently all about murderin a cheating lady, but it was just a bunch of yodelling and strumming. Not my thing

OK - nothing amazing on here. Nice and short though!

Good solid 70s tunes, couple of serious bangers, but also quite indulgent. Enjoying the spotify post album shuffle more

Not bad. Used to think they were the worst thing in the world, and now can see them as being better than most of what was around at the time. However, nothing stood out like Happy House, so moving on. 3 stars

Actually quite peaceful. Not something I'd ever choose to put on and listen to though

Noodly nurdly proper jazz - nice enough but aural wallpaper really

Never really got this stuff, too popular whilst also being too hipster

Oh hell no

Nice funky funny groove driven hip hop

I just don't get it. He sounds so grumpy, and the tunes lack subtelty

Opens strong, very strong. And then... leaves you feeling disappointed

Was a favourite when I was a student. Blatant throwback, even in the late 80s, to the golden age. Still holds some water, but mostly sounds cliche now

Banging, but I think i still prefer Oliver Reed and the tunes from the movie, which introduced me to the material. Thoroughly bizarre as a concept, but with some insanely evocative musical moments

Couple of serious bangers, lots of filler. Amazing suits

Not sure what these guys are, super nerdy, but also capable of moments that can move. Had the 1st track on my liked songs forever, but the rest of the album just washed over me

OK - had wondered about these guys, mentioned a few times by different things that were interesting. Nothing leapt from the listen, a nice solo here and there, but not enough to earn a 'like' on Spotify

Meh

Always a bit weedy and nerdy for me. And the last bloke you'd want to end up being stuck in the kitchen with at the end of a party, man.

Not my lane, but also not completely horrible

Didn't listen. Wouldn't listen. I'm not 12, I'm not American, this isn't for me.

Weird, and then 2 billion streams

2 or 3 good/great tunes. The rest is just dreck

Note quite as perfect as their later stuff, but still some amazing tracks here

Good, but oh so slow and moody. Not really my thing, feels completely devoid of any fun

Opens big. Then really struggles to follow on from that

Not bad, not interesting - 1977 too, quite nasal

Clearly quirky, and I loved Wordy Rappinghood when I was a kid. The rest is just a big pile of wank

Hated them - or more precisely his voice - since I was 12. Almost as bad as Erasure. Instant no

Not bad - but why is this here? There are hundreds of identikit female R&B albums over the years, this is just one more of the same

Oh, here's another world music box ticking one. I don't mind a bit of Tito, but these all sound very similar when on an album - and after 5 or 6 I've lost interest