1001 Albums Summary

Speaks to me of a time and place and brings me back to being that again and in that place again every time I turn it on. It’s also, not afraid to turn the lens back on that culture and to me it’s both involved in and way more self consciously critical of elements of it than I think is often reflected in commentary.

Fun album. Fun band. So far ahead of the curve that 3 songs into an early punk album they’re already bored and off somewhere else pioneering post punk.

This album is a pure affirmation of joy. They first two thirds is perfection but it does tail off towards the end.

Elton’s sprawling masterpiece. The album where, more than any other, he maintains the quality beyond the singles. The opener is an absolute monster of an 11 minute song.

My favourite album of here’s. Frighteningly precocious and mature way beyond her years on this debut album.

So this album is perfect. Every track could have been a single. It’s my 4th favourite of theirs because, well, they’re Radiohead and they did a lot right. Street Spirit is the best closing track by a band that specialises in closing tracks. This whole album is a happy place. 10/5 Immerse your soul in love.

1 for Jump being such a big hit. I’m being very generous here.

I was never a huge Jackson fan and of his catalogue this always felt like the slightly less deserving massive hit that followed a much better album. The best thing about this is the video to the title single. In a bubble this would be a 3. He loses a point for being who he was.

Perfect

Cracking album, one of the best of 2019. I probably marginally prefer his second album, Love & Hate, but that doesn’t detract from this one in any way, shape or form.

A bit slick for me and the singles didn’t have the impact I seemed to remember them having. Kinda average, not an album someone must hear.

Beautiful, cool, minimal.

A force of nature.

Decidedly average.

It’s ok. Rebellion (Lies) is great. It’s a 2.5 that I’ll round up because it really like that one song.

It the Beatles. It’s one of their best. Run for your life is a stain that should lose it a half point but there aren’t half points and it’s nearer a 5 than a 4.

One of Joni’s wonderful 5/5 albums.

Individual tracks are kinda ok in the right humour but it doesn’t work as a whole and some of it is poor.

I like sonic youth and I appreciate what they did but lots of their stuff doesn’t so much leave me cold as much as I don’t really feel the need to listen to it all that often This album is the exception. Could listen to it on a loop. Sprawling magnificent masterpiece.

Hmmm. So The Boxer is very good and The Only Living Boy In New York is outstanding. The rest of the album isn’t great and the title track is a schmaltzy ott dirge that feels genetically designed to be covered by desperate contestants in those exploitative tv talent shows.

Singles band. This is their best album but I’m still not convinced outside the singles.

The Doors! One of the most overrated bands of all time. Boring never ending music as a backdrop to pathetic junkie cod philosophy that’s got undeserved kudos because music journalists are generally not that clever.

Buffalo Springfield. Pleasant non essential fare. Only album of theirs that should be on this list is that other one with that song we all know. 2.5/5 rounded down.

Not Petty’s best, that was still to come, but this is just so much fun. A pure unadulterated adrenaline rush. I can’t listen to this without humming along with a big smile on my face. 3.5/5 rounded up.

Who wants a Volvo estate? A Renault Scenic? Maybe a Volkswagen Passat diesel? Shit cars. Shit adverts. Shit music. Shit man. 0/5

So this album is perfect. Every track could have been a single. It’s my 4th favourite of theirs because, well, they’re Radiohead and they did a lot right. Street Spirit is the best closing track by a band that specialises in closing tracks. This whole album is a happy place. 10/5 Immerse Your Soul In Love

This is really, really good. A little overlong and laboured in places, perhaps, but it is very good. Apocalypse is probably a more focused and realised album. 3.5/5 rounded down.

Is this original? Nope. Is it clever? Nope. Is it just a whole load of fun? Fuck Yeah!

I love solo Peter Gabriel. I am contemptuous to solo Phil Collins. I’d previously only heard latter day Genesis that was reductive boring FM pop. This is worse. It’s actually worse than the Brian Eno record which is really a new low charted for this list.

Fuuuuuuuuuun!

Really good album but not their pinnacle which came prior.

One of only two Sufjan albums I enjoy. Carrie and Lowell is the other. It’s good but it’s kinda over long. 2.5 rounded up.

Seriously? This is just shit.

My all time favourite album. Perfect from start to finish.

I liked it a lot more than I remembered liking it. Still not a very top tier Joni for me, I like at least 4 other albums more, but much better than I had remembered. 3.5/5 rounded up.

Favourite blur album. Full of quality hook laden tunes. Love Blue Jeans

Fun! Makes you want to dance. My second favourite release of theirs.

Brilliant. Strongest post Beatles album where all the songs that he’d built up over the previous few years were released in one glorious go.

Sketches of where they were going to go. A few real iconic songs.

Beautiful tragic influential

Fun silly childish but in places inspired

Enjoyable pastiche Walker along side project. It’s not as good as I remember it being.

Overlong, bloated, boring and just utterly devoid of approachability. The single most overacted artists in the history of any art form. Not quite the most overrated abli, that will come. Contains musical sleeping tablets in Comfortably Numb. This would be a zero if it could be. Listening feels like putting pins in my eyes.