1001 Albums Summary

Really silky voice, gorgeous instrumentation, at one point during the title track I saw the moon, big and gold, on my walk, and had a bit of a moment. Speaking of Glastonbury, I imagined lying in the sun early on a Sunday afternoon, as these sweet sounds floated over me from the Pyramid Stage, and it was pleasant. But, yeah, pleasant, sweet, silky, but nothing that really hit me for six. As the album went on I started thinking more about my potential scoring system than the music, which wasn't a good sign. I then started thinking the album was mostly parts that sound like music from The Sims, with parts that would fit the background to a middle class garden party. If I was planning to hand out 3s like social media references to Big Jet TV, then I would to this, but instead it gets a...

Insipid. Dynamically flat, everything sounds so lifeless. Sylvian's voice rubs me the wrong way. The songwriting has no charm. The beginning of Despair and the end of The Other Side Of Life could have had a bit of widescreen, big vista, movie soundtrack cool, if the production wasn't flickery black-and-white TV quality. Piss-weak album.

This is not for me. I do love lap steel though.

I'd heard good things so I was expecting something a bit more than middling fun country pop

As godfathers of the alternative rock sound, I've been meaning to delve beyond the singles forever. And while there aren't really absolute bangers beyond the well known ones here, there's enough going on in each song that meant I was into this all the way through. I wasn't about all the clamour over listening to thematic songs when the pandemic started, but listening to It's The End Of The World... at this point, with all we've been through, and still are, was a bit of a moment. With it being the pre-CD age, it has a typical structure of a particularly strong first half, and I think I'll return to that regularly, with The One I Love added on for good measure. Shout out to the sound of the drums, majorly satisfying to my ears. Every member of the band's sound is iconic actually.

It still sounds so good, despite its age! And great to hear how much its influence can still be heard in so much rock n roll. That chug, in particular, is timeless. A bit basic by today's standards, but that doesn't completely hurt it. Having praised it, I still don't really love it, personally. tempted to '4' it, for historical significance and deference to still being good despite 50+ years old, but...

Wow, he really did come from outer space didn't he? Had a lot of fun listening to this, the sound manages to feel "vintage" rather than "dated", and while the songs stick to a formula, it's a great formula! 5/5 contextually, but still a 4 now

So good! Got to be one of the most perfectly formed bands ever, nobody can talk shit about The Clash. There's something that appeals to me about it being mostly punk rock, that laser focus bands can only have on their first album. But then they signal the sort of future branching our with that awesome Police & Thieves cover later on. That said, it isn't all killer no filler like London Calling, some of the songs just aren't as good, albeit still THE CLASH, so

There's been a bit of a reevaluation of Steely Dan, once maligned for being incredibly uncool, now have younger music fans into them. And I can see why, this is a really good listen. Really slick sounding, listenable pop sensibility, gorgeous vocals, not really any songs I wasn't too keen on. Sunglasses emoji as a band. :cool:

Gave me a good boost 6 miles into my walk, and as a lover of Toejam & Earl, I was on the wavelength to enjoy this. Some of it meandered a bit without keeping my attention, but enjoyable and kept me smiling. Appreciate them curing my arthritis, rheumatism and migraines through the sheer power of P-funk, as promised.

While country still isn't for me, there's much more charm to Cash's stuff, and the iconic nature of the show was fun. Don't want to list things I personally don't like about such a legendary figure, so I'll leave it there.

I thought it might be a bit of a difficult 2 star listen at first, but it quickly got into its stride. Then I just got more and more into it, with that 90s rock sound that I think holds up well, and Polly's voice really hitting the mark with me. If it had a couple more real bangers I'd be tempted to give this 4, but overall it's just a pretty good album that has me keen to listen to more Peej.

This has one of those great songs that I've heard before, but never knew the name of, and that was very satisfying. And while a lot of this is lacking enough structure to make it a really enjoyable listen, there's some stuff here that I really dug, and it being so ahead of it's time jumps it to a 7/10 for me, which in my system translates to 3 stars

Clearly not 'bad'... but the music didn't do it for me

I love a bit of wiggy nonsense, so this was good fun. The song 2112 itself is not too interminable as it goes through different parts, but perhaps lacks a bit of cohesion, and doesn't absolutely soar for me like prog can. There were a couple on side two that I really liked, and overall I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say there is anything on here that shows how good Rush can really be like Tom Sawyer and The Spirit of Radio.

Yeah, this grooves along and flows really well, especially for a 50-year-old double album

Pleasant melodies by a band known for them, without being terribly exciting. Raised from a 2 to a 3 by the presence of some absolute dream tracks.

This started off great, classic style hip hop with strong beats and driving flow, but soon showed its age, with middling at best songs with poor lyrics.

I love an album that carries its energy all the way through, this is what separates a great album from a great collection of songs. And while it's far from uplifting, the peak songs on this come at moments which make them feel sublime.

Not Bowie's best. Side 1 has some interminable neo-soul meanderings alongside the title track, which is a right jam. Then side 2 takes the storytelling folk style of what Bowie did near the start of his career, and applies this modern, for the mid-70s, sheen to it, before finishing with another jam in Fame.

There's a fine line between an album carrying in its energy from start to finish, and becoming a bit one-note. If it wasn't for songs like Can't Stop, with a different pace tot them this would be the latter for me. Psych-scuzzy nonsense, this should be right up my alley, but it didn't grip me, maybe it needed a couple of out and out bangers, maybe I'll like it better if I hear it on my normal set of headphones. Plenty of fun though.

Hell yeah.

Great example of an album that is very good music of a style I'm not interested in. Having said that, there were a couple I'd love to hear on a bar's roof terrace on a sunny day, not a care in the world, specifically August Day Song and Samba E Amor. Pleasant.

Didn't feel like prime Aerosmith. Apart from Last Child, I found it a bit tedious tbh. Like they just slapped together an album in a few weeks, decided, "Yeah, that's good enough," and got back on the partying. A lot of this some of rock also hasn't aged well imo. Feels almost like a parody.

I think this one has aged well. Classic hip hop beats will never really go out of fashion, and the overall style falls just the right side of being too cheesy, although I'm sure for some hip-hop heads this style just the wrong side, Good variety, doesn't feel samey all the way through, and good range of features for that matter. Overall, while lacking in straight bangers, this is enjoyable all the way through, and fits nicely into my love of feel-good hip hop

While the first song or two were very nice, it soon descended into schmaltzy, Eurovision-y boringness for me. 

Really good! Never felt like it had too many dips, I quite liked the feeling of nation-hopping, and it made me want to listen to more Pgues.