1001 Albums Summary

Quite like the typography on the sleeve cover...

Shite

This gave me a stroke...

Absolute classic!

I love this! I love Brian Wilson. It's like Pet Sounds lost prodigal sibling.

Scum.

Wonderfully evocative album. Reminiscent of after club "back to mine's" in the early to mid 90s. Absolute classic.

Hmmm!!! This was the commercial 'concept' album sandwiched between the classic debut 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels' and the criminally underrated and long forgotten masterpiece 'Don't Stand Me Down' A couple of Christmas party or wedding reception classics does not a classic album make...

Very much of it's time but has aged surprisingly well because many albums from that era really haven't. A couple of great tunes.

I'm a Smiths fan, and I don't think they ever did a bad album. This is amongst their most lauded, but not one of my favourites, but it has grown on me over the years. Oddly for an 80s album is breaks the accepted formula that groups had at the time - 11-12 songs. 45-50 minutes, 3 singles. This I think was under 40 minutes, 9 tracks and no obvious single amongst them, and I still feel like that. Some good tracks on there. Some beautiful guitar playing by Johnny Marr (the real sound of The Smiths) but not one track which you could see having the ingredients to be a single in their own right.