1001 Albums Summary

Day 1. There is a lot to love about this album. There's a lot that makes me very uncomfortable. "Kim" is a horrible track.

Some good tunes, but really not my jam. It was a job getting through this album. 1*.

This was a surprisingly decent album. Cat Stephens is one of those singer/songwriters that should have left the singing to someone else. 'Mad World', 'Miles From Nowhere' and 'Father and Son' all soar high as wonderfully crafted tales. 'Sad Lisa', 'Longer Boats' and 'Into White' are proper shit.

Absolute dogshit.

If Michael Owen was a 90s brit-pop kinda band, he'd be Teenage Fanclub. This might be the most inoffensive record I've ever heard but the caveat to this is that it's just not very interesting, although 'The Concept', and 'Star Sign' provide brief but welcome distractions. It's better than Leonard Cohen, so there's that.

Weird.