1001 Albums Summary

Of its time but a good listen and will give it another go.

Neil evolving and good to hear an album from the period between the early CSNY years and the later sound.

Some good old time music with a great proper band behind him

Not enough quality for a single album put into a double album. Not my favourite you may guess.

Nicely understated and surprisingly enjoyable. Of it's time great vocals and musicianship.

Sorry not my cup of tea

Curate's egg. But production's good.

Doesn't do much for me, but nevertheless a half decent attempt at being a singer- songwriter. It lacks much in the way of edge and grit which you get with others you may want to compare against.

Nope. Not for me. I'll leave it to others to provide the plaudits. I guess this one is a matter of taste so not fair to review. I can sort of appreciate some of the later stuff but not this.

Sleepy jazz club stuff.

These days it’s refreshingly simple with good ol’ boy vocals and unadulterated honest guitar work. Some nice tunes and musical compared to most of the tripe produced today.

One good track, twelve not my type of stuff.

Wouldn’t be my choice but for a 1971 album this contains a surprising blend of influences and musicianship. Probably a good band to have seen live.

I wonder how many modern day soulless streaming stars will compare against this in another 58 years? Great voice, great songs and musicality to match. This is what music is about - songs you can sing and that stay with you. Just brilliant.

Some great tracks - makes you wonder what could have been. What hasn't been said. Ed Sheeran eat your heart out.

A couple of great tracks but for me the rest is struggling to meet Bruce’s high standards - better before and better to come.

A band in transition but some great tracks for 1970 and not what everyone expected.

If I keep getting albums like this I’ll give up.

Sounds like me doing bad screamy karaoke. Awful. I understand it is a genre, but nothing here for me.

Really? Can’t think even the band would think this was what they were put on this earth to do.

A difficult third album. I like Roxy Music but this recording is not them at their creative best.

Innovative but really everything leads up to the model and then goes downhill.

Awful. As my son would say - just awful.

Odd one. Not enough musicality in it for me.

Got to accept this is 1972 but it all feels like a jam session with little direction. Mediocrity defined - I guess they are all accomplished musicians but the total is less than the sum of the parts.

Great album that really works as a whole. Not listened to Radiohead much before as often put off by the vocals. But this is good stuff.

Awful

Excellent pop album with some great songs throughout. Of it’s type rarely beaten.

Offensive from the start. Plain terrible pretentious rubbish. -5

Not a great album but interesting to see a number of the tracks produced by Dave Gilmour. You can hear early PF but this has regressed rather than progressed. But nonetheless part of rock history.

Always wondered why I'd not listened to this all the way through before. Same this time. Sort of lacking.

I prefer Enigma who were similarly experimental. This was tedious but then again it’s not for serious listening - mainly wallpaper.

Headache stuff.

Great name for the album

Some great stuff and then some other stuff

Willie Nelson’s voice is distinctive and engaging. Love the pace of the album and the pared back nature.

Can ye be bothered - no!!!

Three or four well known great songs but for me the rest is a bloke singing and a choir in the background.

This all seems a bit limited and expressionless.

Maybe without Little Richard there wouldn’t have been the Beatles.

A bit ponderous but still great song writing and playing.

Not fair to rate in any objective way as it’s not a form of music I take to.

My sort of era and DB has produced some great stuff. Band is good but mostly it’s not something I would add to any playlist.

Utter tripe - how does this ever get into anyone’s top 1001. Shows how subjective this whole exercise is. Scraping the barrel.

Music sort of fine but the vocals annoy throughout. Sounds like a bunch of lads trying to be a bit indie different.

Sorry, this sounds like someone who got decks for Christmas and was working out how to annoy everyone. Not my thing - maybe I’m missing something, though whatever it is I can live without, thank you.

I like some DP but this too repetitive for me. Good in its day

Never an oasis fan but this is surprisingly good throughout with a few stand out tracks. Shame sibling rivalry caused it to end as the sum of the parts is definitely (maybe) greater than the individual components.

Not an album I would listen to. More a collection of short punky songs. Still learning their trade.

Great performer but tedious album.

Nice background.

Great opener but for me downhill from there.

Not for me

Just a great album. Clapton found his voice and musicianship is superb.

Some decent songs but a fair bit of filler for my taste

Excellent album. What’s not to like about the writing, the melodies. Strong stuff and just compare it with the tripe produced today with no quality whatsoever.

Manufactured, repetitive and over-produced. These are the sorts of tracks that make me turn off the radio. Sadly fits in well with most current artificial producer pop.

Not great, no Boris the Spider, but signs of what they could produce and shows they were in a state of transition

Seeds of things to come. Of its time.

His Bobness. You either like him or you don’t. I do. Rating the albums serves little purpose as they all form part of a journey.

Give someone a keyboard for Christmas and this is what you get

Oh, for goodness sake.

Maybe I’m just getting old but this is when mediocrity became mainstream.

Easy listening

No thank you. Awful, but then again I’m a fifties child.

Bit whiny for my liking but production is good

Awful

Gave it another listen just to be sure. At that time I seem to remember Pete Townsend was one of the first to use the newly invented synthesiser and it wasn’t easy like with all the digital wizardry the producers have today and who are creating music soup.

Grim

Too much screamy stuff for my liking. But some decent playing hidden in between. My son likes it.

Maybe one for the teenagers amongst us

Ugh

Pretty awful - tedious monotonous voice. No saving graces that I can hear.

Great background - and that’s in a positive way

Lovely album with great production, brilliant songs, great voices. One of my favourites

A bit formulaic for my liking. Generic light country rock stuff.

Of it’s time with a couple of great tracks, but then …

Awful.

I like something quiet and melodic. 5 stars compared to the average rap album but overall best left to the perpetual teenagers.

Great anarchic album. Neil expressing his true self.

Excellent melancholic album. Some really lovely tuneful and melodic with great acoustic playing.

Well, sultans of swing is a great tune with outstanding lyrics. The rest sort of doesn’t measure up to that. But the boys had to start somewhere as a band.

Of it’s time and a cover of a Jim Reeves song says it all. My parents may have liked because there wasn’t’t much else around prior to the Beatles explosion.

No

You can hear how this was at the start of a bigger movement and whether they led or followed is probably irrelevant. Overall not my cup tea and glad similarly sounding bands moved on, some to become great. But not this lot.

Just limp for my liking and all one tempo. But given when it was ….

Difficult to rate as some very good songs and a few duds.

Classic album

Never a fan apart from odd bits - same here

Thoughtful, well produced, good musicianship and in their own way sticking to their guns and doing what they do best - avoiding the pitfalls of pop. Guy Garvey’s voice is full of real northern (UK) soul.

Just such an average album that seems to lack any real spark.

Sounds a bit like Jim Reeves doing Elvis impersonations. Never quite understood why he morphed into this sugary soppy ballad singer - the rest of the world moved on.

Oh dear. Nothing original here. A follow on band.

Utter tripe. Best bit is start to sergeant pepper then all downhill.

Great voice and musicianship. Thoughtful songs and a bit of a classic.

Great background

Excellent first groundbreaking album. One of the best beginnings to an album I know. And Ossie’s voice is great for someone of such tender years.

Great pop album with occasionally a bit more to it. Favourite tracks Hungry Like The Wolf and Hold Back The Rain. Great production.

Oh dear, really, rather not.

Not that smashing. Best track is the opener before any vocals. A generous 2.

Not my cup of tea I’m afraid.

Not sure what to make of this. It is what it is and sort of nothing special. Why is it even here?

Took me back a few years to a time before crude and non-musical music took over the world. A joy to behold.

Not his finest hour. Tedious to the extreme. Why did he think anyone would want to listen to this.

Not really a doors fan but love the bluesy feel of this album.

Excellent album that I’d not heard before. Got me listening to more of their work. Don’t know how I missed them.

Er no.

Of it’s time, not my cup of tea and repetitive. But ok if you like that sort of thing.

Er no.

Not a great album and too many short poppy songs and a lack of rock credentials.

For it’s time this was an excellent album. A much underrated band

A difficult listen. Not interested I’m sorry to say. Sort of thing that makes me turn off the radio.

A bit dismal for my liking and all trying to sound like Lou Reed while being a bit punky.

Classic album with some great songs, good tunes and some fine playing.

Nope. No depth to it and the generic vocalisations drive me bonkers. Bit embarrassing really for grown men.

French avant-garde. Too avant-garde for me though.

Can’t think of anything interesting to say about this mess of noise. Jumps around into all sorts, none of which I like. School kids will like it because it’s dares to be different - but that’s it.

Saw Dr John not long before he passed and what an excellent show. The groundwork is here in this album which at times is just great.

One of a kind and a bit of a laugh

Surprisingly entertaining. Not a particular country fan but this live feel album was a great listen.

I think I’d turn the lights out before the end of the second track. Not my cup of cocoa.

Never properly listened to this album all the way through before. It is really a complete pleasure to listen to. Some great stuff.

Always waiting for another True Faith but it never happened.

Her fans like it.

Nope. Just screaming nonsense mostly. Given 2 as it’s slightly better than most rap.

Excellent thoughtful and intelligently entertaining. One of my all time favourites. Tangled up in blue and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts are great in every respect.

Some nice stuff but dire straits do get a bit samey after a while. Always think they should do better.

Something my son would like.

One long track with gaps. Couple of songs rise above the rest but overall, for me, just missing spark.

Great music for an art gallery or son et lumiere experience. Meditative.

Pitched at 13 year olds who like jumping up and down. Really awful.

I preferred the early original bands and surprised at the change of direction. But listenable back in the 70s and still ok today. Strangely they seem to lack energy and excitement.

Ugh.

Excellent album that holds together throughout. A proper listening experience compared to modern day pop rubbish. One of the best albums ever.

I did buy this album when it came out going a bit on Mr Frampton’s previous life with Humble Pie. Unfortunately he had gone all US soft rock and overall the album is something of a let down. I still have the album and truth to say it hasn’t been played much.

Oh God please help me …

Oh dear …

Give them their due, at least they try to make music and introduce some melody - and it’s all sweary like so much tripe around.

Of it’s time. Maybe a reason they were new to me.

For such a global megastar I found this album really weak. Not much beyond the singles and not much more than a cobbled together collection of songs.

Too indie for my taste.

Wallpaper music in my view. Not objectionable like a lot of stuff on here but not memorable on any way. The music just doesn’t engage.

Teenage rock - not for me.

Great album to have on in the background - good to hum along to. Different end of the spectrum to some stuff that pops up too often on here.

Passes the time

Not great. Should be much better

Awful. When did music die.

It’s better if you play it twice the speed. But it’s Leonard Cohen, and he does what he does.

Tedious drivel - never did get it and still don’t.

Let’s stay together and 8 fillers. Not my cuppa I’m afraid. At least he wrote his own stuff.

Of it’s time. Great to hear Keith Moon giving it his best. I think you have to have been there. I think the digital versions lose a bit of the magic.

In its time this would have been good darkened room stuff and a way to get down with your friends who knew the world was changing. It must have led somewhere in an age before the music industry went off the rails with an ever increasing range of genres and unlistenable or mediocre noise.

Couple of nice songs and a bit of jamming to fill the time. Like Proud Mary though but wouldn’t have bought an album just for that even in 1969.

Just one of the great albums. Coherent and tells some wonderful stories. One of my all time favourites.

A collection of songs, a couple of which I know . I like more from an album.

Not a fan. Never understood the plaudits.

Dismal

Better if they edited out the vocals - personally can’t understand the overall high scoring for this. Really tedious in my books. 📚

Great album and Ray Davies shows himself to be a writer of some excellent enduring songs.

Classy artist

John Martin takes some adjustment to appreciate his work but overall he’s fine by me. This album rewards concentration.

No thank you.

Not heard of them before but a great album. Kept getting ‘Red’ phase King Crimson. Drumming was excellent and controlled.

Would have been a 3 but any album with a track as good as Bad Moon gets an extra point straight away

Great album. Right for any time of day. I listened while eating my cornflakes.

Ugh!!

Great album. Particularly like Mary’s Place.

I guess the musicianship is good but I find it tedious.

Oh dear. What makes people think this is good. Just a grungy noise.

Super album. Just love it.

Repetitive awfulness, but at least no foul language. So an extra 0.5 for that. This album demonstrates how art and creativity is missing from music so maybe they were ahead of the game on that.

Hard going is what Mrs P said and I have to agree.

I realise the list is only one person’s view, but really this is rather off the mark for me. Ultimately nobody could have listened to every album produced and as a result there are many out there that could replace this one. Mediocrity at best.

Or really music in my view but I guess it is an album which years ago you could have melted and made into a flower pot.

Why have I not heard this before. Great album and the matured voice is a revelation.

Authentic sounds. Started really well but for me tailed off a bit.

Headache stuff - but better than rap.

At least it’s not rap. 1.5 in that case, rounded up.

Surprisingly sort of ok.

Weird and wonderful. You can hear the Norman Smith influence. Really enjoyed the journey.

Keep going back to this lovely understated album. Quintessentially English and a breath of fresh air.

Mmmm.

Can’t hear the music for the whining voice of Thom Yorke. Not nice.

Lacks irony for me and I don’t like screamy kid vocals. Prefer the melody of UK punk - much more digestible.

A disembodied David Bowie - who influenced who, that is the question? Enjoyable from that perspective alone.

Excellent album that is much more than just a collection of songs. The songs and soundscape are written to be part of a whole without the too obvious need to produce them for single release. Dua Lippa eat your heart out.

Couldn’t be bothered with that I’m afraid

Love the eccentricity and it will surely annoy a lot people. But great work.

I do prefer other Pink Floyd albums but then again they are all worthy of a 5. Brilliant at the time and still is.

The album that made Stanley Unwin a star

Proper bluesmen must hold their heads in their hands when they hear this. At least the British blues explosion of the 60s was true to the soul of the art.

Seems rather hollow to me. I think Roxy Music demonstrate the power of collaboration as a unit which Eno lacks even though some of the collaborators are common.

Lovely

Don’t need to hear this sort of stuff in my own home thank you.

I feel I should try harder to get something from this band as they are From just down the road. But ultimately I find it homogenous.

Wondered why I’ve always avoided Captain Beefheart and now I know.

There’s nothing wrong with it but also nothing right about it. Completely lacks any real feel. I think I fell asleep and then woke up to find the same track still playing. Sad indictment of modern day stuff that purports to be music. And Lana is one of the better ones.

F this f that. Don’t need this in my living room than you.

Please no.

Couldn’t get access to it

You gotta start somewhere

Funny thing that the Who were better before and then peaked with Who’s Next. So this for me, though epic and led to some great covers is in between. But no, I’ll give it a “foive” as Pete was so young and deserves nothing less.

Great album for its time - it’s just not quite for me.

Well, it’s better than rap so must be a 2.

Unfortunately my music system seemed to play this backwards. Tea of cup my not. Or maybe the band forgot to turn up. But still better than rap and hip hop so a 2 for that as there is no foul language invading my living space.

A little to bland for my liking.

I wanted to like this, but not quite up there with the best if I’m being honest.

No thank you

Not my wife’s favourite album. She thought it was awful. Oddly I have to agree.

Well, if this is often voted one of the best albums of the 90s this perhaps shows that by this time music was on its last legs. I’ve probably heard better. A lot of nothingness. Sad really. 🤔

Lovely beautifully produced album and shows what they can do beyond singles.

My wife says it’s not even worth commenting on. I think she’s right.

Rather like Pink Floyd fill in bits. The Rothko of modern music, so maybe great as a backdrop for a modernist art exhibition. Annoying after a while when it penetrates the consciousness.

Of it’s time

King Crimson do Easy listening

Can’t stand this stuff …