1001 Albums Summary

I can imagine it sounding revolutionary when it was released, and the singles, when heard on the radio, still pack a punch.

A slick and shiny pop skyscraper.

A deeply beautiful record.

A great debut; still sounds fresh 46 years later.

A patchy album, but enjoyable.

Some great tracks.

Fantastic record!

Great album to chill out to.

Well, I enjoyed this album a lot more than I expected to!

Hard to believe this was recorded in 1971 and 1972. It still sounds so fresh, and provided the template for the punk, new wave, and indie guitar bands for the next 40 years.

A patchy album; a couple of strong songs, but a lot of filler.

It made me long for the days when albums were approximately 35 minutes long.

This album undoubtedly has some amazing tracks, it still sounds ground-breaking thirty years on.

Never heard of these before, really enjoyed the album!

I did not expect to like this album, but I really enjoyed it!

Some great tracks. I can only imagine the reaction of parents when teenagers brought this record home, and played it loudly in their bedroom!

I loved this album when I first heard it, back in 1979, because all of my favourite artists; OMD, Human League, Ultravox, Gary Numan, cited Kraftwerk as a major influence. I still love this album.

I enjoyed this slightly more than I expected to, especially as Genesis were reviled by the punks and post-punks I grew up with.

As far from ‘my thing’ as it’s possible to be, yet I enjoyed a few of the tracks.

Some great tracks, but the ‘music-hall’ style songs really set my teeth on edge.

Never heard of this band, but the album was a pleasant surprise. Very enjoyable

Joy Division were one of the bands me and my friends loved whilst growing up. This still sounds fantastic, but I always rated their second album, ‘Closer’, as their masterpiece.

When I first heard the ‘Planet Rock’ single, in 1982 or ‘83, I couldn’t believe my ears. I was a proper post-punk, futurist kid. My modern world revolved around the synthesiser’s song, to quote Ultravox, and Kraftwerk were the Godfathers of this sound. Then I heard this… hey, this is Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans Europe Express’ with people talking over it? Talking in a ridiculous rhythmic and rhyming fashion, with more drums and bass added?! What the fuck, how DARE they!? Hang on…..it’s…..quite good….it’s actually brilliant!! ‘Planet Rock’ led me down a new path. Hip-hop, or ‘Electro’, as we knew it back then, opened up a new world of music for me; funk, go-go, techno, and house. Music in technicolour! Returning to this album; released in ‘86, it was four years after the original release of the ‘Planet Rock’ single, and it’s a bit of a catch-up. Still fabulous though.

Absolutely fantastic record. I thought I preferred their later albums, when they’d gone all electronic, but this guitar album is a banger.

A couple of enjoyable songs, but really not my sort of thing. The Stanley Unwin tracks were just excruciatingly bad.

‘..I’m a dirty great big Five Nations fan, I’ve got Cheap Trick Live At The Budokan..’

Some good tracks, I enjoyed this record.

Not a bad debut album.

Great singles, and some reasonably good album tracks.

Fabulous record.

I’m not great lover of Latin music, but I really enjoyed this, and inexplicably I recognised a couple of the tracks.

Not bad. Some good tracks. An enjoyable listen, but not one I’d revisit.

I enjoyed this record far more than I thought I would. I prefer the slower, more melodic sections, but some of the foot to the pedal stuff is highly engaging. I don’t know if I’d listen to it again, but the generator has given me Metallica and Megadeth in my first 30 selections, both albums I would never have listened to by choice, and I’ve enjoyed both.

The well-known songs on this album are just magnificent. It’s not a perfect album, but it’s pretty good.

Some incredible stuff on this record, massively innovative and influential.

Imagine hearing this when it was first released, if all you’d heard was crooners and saccharine-sweet pop. It must’ve been incendiary. It’s easy listen to this record almost fifty years later, and question whether it’s all that good, and whether Elvis was all that good. But you’re hearing it through the prism of all the music that’s been recorded in the meantime. Some of this still sounds remarkable to me.

I really wanted to like this album, but it was too similar all the way through, and the tinny, trebly production didn’t do it any favours.

Some memorable tracks, but too long at 63 minutes.