1001 Albums Summary

Shit sandwich - 3 bangers, 3 duds, 3 bangers.

Some annoying bits (start of Official, ManWomanBoogie abrupt ending). Beat switch on Move is mental. D'Angelo <3

Great in a vacuum, but some tracks sound dull compared to the versions on The Last Waltz (Dixie, Cripple Creek). Jemima Surrender only being 9th for Spotify plays is criminal. Should have been called 'The Album' for an extra star.

Medium-butterfly-chicken-and-peri-chips vibes

Bit too much country/acoustic, but some fantastic tracks on the second side - Stray Cat Blues and Salt of the Earth especially. There are at least 3 Stones albums better than this but still great overall.

Amazing unique album that gets better with every listen - drumming is unbelievable.

Brilliant production and some classic singles, but so repetitive it makes me want to smash my head through a wall, especially in the second half. 7 minutes of Rockafeller Skank?!

ATTENTION ALL PARENTS

Self-indulgent tripe, carried by Joe Walsh. Would happily never hear anything by the fucking Eagles ever again.

Should have been called "The Best of Bob Dylan" - flawless.

Inoffensive background music for supermarkets, airports and post offices. All I Wanna Do is more annoying than I remember, Leaving Las Vegas is quite good though. Crow winning the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance over Mariah Carey ('Hero') and Celine Dion ('The Power of Love') is hilarious.

More of a grower than Moondance, but great in its own right. Perfect music for wine-and-cheese parties if you want to give the impression that you're a pretentious cunt.

Just like some good old Kentucky Fried Chicken And all of it was good enough to be finger lickin' Smooth shit.

Way before its time and I really fancy Chrissie Hynde.

J-Len goes from stinky king of hippies yelling “Peace, man!” to wanting to scrap McCartney for the crime of writing wank granny tunes, then churns out a Spectory ballad that sounds exactly like it could be the cousin of Long and Winding Road. Shameless behaviour. Middle drags a bit and the title track is excruciating, but some great tunes here, including Oh Yoko which slaps almost as hard as Johnny Boy slapped her.

Puerile pop punk in which you can actually hear Billie Joe’s god complex. More Radio 1 than rebellion, but some catchy tunes here and there.

Trippy ambient goodness that I would have liked more if I was listening through headphones while off me box on mushrooms.

5 meows out of 5

Masterpiece, even if Shakermaker is a bit wank and the production is ghastly.

Old but gold - let down by the duller doo-wop tracks.

Seminal major-label indie. Still don't understand why they didn't choose DLZ as the closer.

Fuzzy groovy proto-punk goodness.

Moody synth-pop goes brrrrrr. Good album to make your whole personality for a few weeks.

Like being in Nandos for an hour or an episode of Narcos. Enjoyed it at first but dragged on for too long. Better than expected.

Contains a lot of the Dead's greatest tracks. Pales in comparison to their live recordings, but their best studio effort is still very good.

Art rock for weirdos. 5 stars.

Chill, futuristic space-rap in the same vein as Deltron 3030, Funcrusher Plus, or A Better Tomorrow (all of which have criminally been missed off this list). Instrumentally great, but a lot of tracks drag on longer than they should.

Afrobeat bangers - not usually my bag but still pretty good.

Thrash-terpiece.

With so much drama in the LBC, it’s kinda hard to give this album less than hundi P 💯

Pretty dated golden age hip-hop. Ladies First is a classic, but Black Reign is the better album.

Lovely Sunday morning album

Childhood and adulthood all rolled up into one shouty rappy ball of brilliance.

Music and performance is incred but the screaming is really annoying. Loses another star for not including 'Living in America' despite it not being written when this was recorded.

Punk classic, but the UK version here sadly misses some great tracks from the US version - Clash City Rockers, Complete Control, Hammersmith Palais and I Fought the Law to name the big ones.

A good opener followed by 25 mins of 90s porn muzak, conjuring images of Peter North doing willy windmills. Unsettling.

One of Bob's best, even if the acme siren is a bit shit.

Sexy spaghetti western strings and nonsensical lyrics - like a soundtrack for a James Bond film if he wore Doc Martens and skinny jeans.

Good chill 80s vibes coupled with some of the best 'WOO's in the game.

Instrumental brilliance marred by vocals that have aged like milk. Minimal mentions of California.

Peak hoe-scaring music.

Pretty inoffensive jangly Britpop - could do with a trim, but some good tracks here amongst the dross.

Poetry

Proto garage rock, if Japandroids were fronted by an old pained Canadian woman. Classic.

Funky rap classic, would be a 4.5 if possible, if only because it sounds a bit more dated than Black Sunday.

Background music for a log flume, wasn't feeling it at all

A little bit Invasion of Poland, a little bit Eurovision. Hilarious in parts but the schtick wears a bit thin after about 30 mins, so fucked off the bonus tracks.

https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-21-2018/cERVyd.gif Flashbacks to riding a dirtbike through Flint County with K-DST blasting.

Goth GOAT

Perfection

Really wish they put the the single version of Honky Tonk Women instead of the country version on here, but a flawless record nonetheless, bookended by two absolute monsters.

Pretty okay background music

"Uni: The Album" for me. Front-loaded with classics.

Pretty nice hippie-dippie nonsense

Probably the second-best Doors album after their self-titled. You'll love this if you think drinking beer for brekkie and acting like a dickhead is cool.

Experimental, progressive, jazzy Joni. Lots of high points though a couple of misses too.

Really liked the first few tracks, tuned out in the middle, then liked the last one. Some bits reminded me of the tripe you see on Britain's Got Talent.

ROOOOOOOTS BLOODY ROOOOOOTS

Underrated Britpop classic

Some great tracks (the famous ones) with some unreal soloing, but too many hillbilly moments (man's playing a fucking fiddle at one point) to give this 5 stars.

Super sexy shoegaze

First record I ever bought. Nothing they've done since has touched this.

30 mins of variations of the same song with a few covers chucked in.

Just mint isn't he

Bookended by 2 of Bowie's biggest tracks with a few gems in between. Still a pretty attempt at white man funk/soul at the end of the day.

The 🐐 doing 🐐 things

The album The Doors would have made if they did (even more) mountains of cocaine instead of acid

The Wall for nihilists - beautiful and angsty.

Could do with a bit of a trim as with most double albums but still packed with bangers. Would be 4.5 if possible because Isn’t She Lovely makes me feel ill.

Take my 5 stars and throw them in the lake

Not my favourite from BH but still a very good album just before they went on a 5-star run.

Very 80s dated gothic rock from a bitter vampire man. In a good way.

This bloke is so desperate to come across as a shagger, it's quite tragic. Instrumentals are pretty decent, but I'm sure the best thing to come out of this fella is probably his son.

Normie as fuck for a reason

Top-heavy album with a few duds in the second half - would have stopped listening at Indian Summer if I wasn't waiting for the Ghetto Gospel bit.

Ambient 5: Music for Public Toilets

Punk classic - docked a star for the wank clown song

Literally half the tracks are iconic

This should be played at high volume, preferably in a residential area.

Everyone mentions Start nicking the bass riff from Taxman, but no one ever talks about how Scrape Away is basically The Time Is Now by Moloko if it never dropped.

My man is on some Greensleeves shit here, medieval hippy rubbish

Sehr gut, Herr Reed

Poor Bjork, just want to give her a cuddle and a cup of tea.

Nice coffee shop background music, but couldn't help feel like a Big Daddy was going to come out and chin me.

FREEEEEEEEE BIIIIIIIRDDDDDD

Could have very happily dropped dead without hearing this Kronenberg advert dross.

Used to think this was the deepest shit ever when I first heard it. Still do, love it.

Iconic drumbeat intro to start off what is probably Bono's best. Great tracks throughout if you can cope with the 'whoooaaaa's and effects pedal spam.

Wakeman-less, but still slaps. The first of their classic trilogy, but not without its tripey moments (why is the second track a live instrumental?)

Timeless

Great voice, crap tunes

Plays like a greatest hits album. Docked a star for including tracks like Hey Now and the random Swamp Song excerpts over Acquiesce, The Masterplan, Rockin' Chair, etc.

Southern blues rock bangers - goes hard in the pickup truck or at the whiskey bar

New wave classic, 99% hits

Bit too 80s at times, and falls well below the quality of his first 3 self-titled efforts, but a good listen nonetheless.

Trent snapped on this one. Perfect soundtrack for riding a 45 minute bus to your miserable job in Leigh.

The skits, Poetic Justice and Real are annoying, but Sing About Me is the best song he's ever done, so swings and roundabouts innit. Would be 4.5 if possible.

Pretty generic 'classic' rock outside of the big songs. Don't Let Me Down is especially tedious. Bad Company (the track) earns an extra star for completing the 'song name/band name/album name' hat-trick. Not as good as Talk Talk by Talk Talk from Talk Talk but better than Living in a Box by Living in a Box from Living in a Box.

Makes me happy cos it's great but also makes me sad cos they're shit now.

Protect Karen O at all costs.

Toy Story man got real racist on this one - good tunes though.

The Wall for people who watch Wes Anderson films and flog CBD beard oil.

Some good Sticky Fingers-esque jams on here, but a lot of dross and a shite Elvis impression. Noncey title too.

To knock out four 5-star albums in 18 months and end on this absolute banger is stuff of legend. Packed with hits, music to get fucked on moonshine to.

Beautiful acoustic tunes for sadboy hours

Judging by the reviews here, the majority of users on this website get precisely zero bitches.

"I still cannot listen to it, because everything I wanted for that record, they took it away. I asked for drums, they said no. I asked for more guitars, they said no. And I asked for simplicity, and they covered it in flutes! ... They added strings and – I didn't like them, but I could live with them. But the flute! The first time I heard the album, I cried and it was all because of the flute."

Aptly-named band because this sent my head absolutely west - enjoyed most of it but HATED the nightmare-fuel clown music bits.

Makes me wanna holler with joy

Some funky shit on here, but 10 tracks over 70 mins is a big ask.

Bit of a piss-take, like a poppier Steel Panther, but some good tunes if you can stomach the falsetto. Cut a couple of tracks from the second half and it'd be a classic.

As moody as the cover suggests

I get the concept but the adverts are really fucking annoying and having them tacked onto the front/back of every single song is proper nonce behaviour. Shame because the songs are actually decent.

Lovely indie weirdness.

Most underrated Smiths album and potentially their best

Pretty boring outside of the singles, but some decent tracks on here.

When it's good it's good, but when it's bad it's painfully annoying.

"Steely Dan"? More like "Steely Man, This Album Is Good!"

Decent - singles and trippy bits are good

Smooth shit which spawned a million hip-hop samples. Would get top marks if not for the boring 9-minute spoken word segment on the last track.

Very solid album - gets really good in the middle with the Thom Yorke sandwich.

I don't know why I'm crying in the Shady Belle campsite right now

When it's good it's good, when it's bad it's fucking awful.

Could do with trimming about 15 mins of noodling off, but still a hippie classic which ends with one of the best 1-2 punches in music history.

Mixed bag of bangers, boring acoustics and annoying parts. One of the most overrated albums ever.

All CHORE No ENCHANTMENT

Who is this doing this synthetic type of alpha beta psychedelic funking?

This album would absolutely send your head to the moon if you were stoned

Arguably the best hip-hop album of all time. Deserves points knocked off for the minging shagging skits though.

Good rock and/or roll from Joe Perry and his paedo pal

Pretty good first half but trails off

Sail on, silver girl x

3.2 average rating for this absolute masterpiece is criminal. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Supernaut is the hardest shit ever

Flawless

Kommen sie bitte und listen to Kraftwerk

Stupid sexy hoover noises

Upon initial contact with Ice-T's music, I had envisioned him to be an ill-mannered and psychologically unstable man with an extremely uneducated and barbaric frame of mind, whose raps displayed nothing but ridiculous jargon, shocking sexual audacity, and repulsive images of the ghetto. However, after further analysis of his music I can deduce that he is the epitome of antidisestablishmentarianism who embodies the entire spectrum of the urban experience and struggle. But to make things more plain and simple to the layman, I find Ice-T to be the dopest, flyest, O.G., pimp, hustler, gangster, player, hardcore motherfucker living today. To be honest, I'm totally and completely on his dick.

Like eating a birthday cake without the icing

Good overall but not something I'd go back to outside of the 4 biggest tracks

First Homer Simpson wrecks my pig, then Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth's in my Spotify! Amazing.

Some decent tunes, but too much random West Side Story musical theatre shit.

Brill

As it is written henceforth…that on the Eighth Day, the Cosmic Strumpet of MOTHER NATURE was spawned to envelop this Third Planet in FUNKACIDAL VIBRATIONS. And She birthed Apostles Ra, Hendrix, Stone & Clinton to preserve all funkiness of man unto eternity…

Juicy prog sandwich

Pretty dull but decent background music. Manc Coldplay.

Blues bangers that were ripped off by a load of filthy hippies

Those Casio drum loops kill the vibe completely. Padding out the tracklist with 4 songs off his last album is lazy as hell too.

Missing a lot of the wackiness that Cale brought to the group, but some of VU's best and most beautiful tracks are on here.

Half killer, half filler. Every time you listen to La Grange, your chest hair density increases by 15%

Gabriel goes full prog here - amazing album, but difficult in parts, especially towards the back-end

Interesting to listen to - a proper mixed bag of some fantastisch parts and some pure dross, but probably not something I'd ever revisit.

If this isn't playing in Heaven, I'm not going.

It's better to make bangers like this than to fade away

The man shreds

Pretty overrated because of Paper Planes and Come Around - some goodies here, but Arular is clear

Good album, incred vocals and shredding

Street Spirit is a 5* track in itself.

Lovely little folk album but a couple of duds (especially Longer Boats which is fucking SHIT)

Liked the jazzy bits, hated the flamenco nonsense that seemed to go on forever

Good but nothing compared to Ladies & Gentlemen...

Basically one good song and a load of shite

Sounds like whenever they go to Mexico on Breaking Bad. Nando's-core. Shite.

GOAT Harrison

Masterpiece - some of Joni's best ballads and upbeat bangers (she has a fucking hoedown on Raised on a Robbery ffs)

Prefer Stooges Pop to Bowie Pop, but this is still good.

Always have time for a hippie-bashing but Frank gets too annoying in parts.

Bleak as fuck, amazing.

Probably his best album - second half of the record especially is incred

Really Enjoyable Music

Proper relic of the early 2000s. Remember liking it at the time (I'll Be Around still goes) but it falls off a cliff towards the end and CeeLo is a massive piece of shit so nah.

Classic, but still a step below Aquemini / ATLiens. Could do with some trimming (Call Before I Come, all the skits) but there's loads of OutKast's best work on here.

Sounds amazing despite being nearly 60 years old - adding the singles (bonus tracks) would make it better though.

La la love this album, don't mean maybe

All killer, no filler

Great album - shame he's such a wrong'un

Perfect soundtrack for glazing over while making spreadsheets

Like listening to Unbelievable by EMF on repeat for an hour. Probably could have died without hearing this but still pretty good in a cheesy 90s whiteboy hip-hop kind of way.

<3

My least favourite of Drake's 3 but still very good - strings are a bit much in parts.

Was like the same sad country song for what seemed like forever

Nice, but pretty dull towards the end

Started off well before turning into call centre hold music

Heartwarming in a cheesy way topped off with a Tony Blundetto banger, what's not to love

90s Britpop in a nutshell - some absolute anthems surrounded by too much self-indulgent wank

Shit marriage + slide guitar = country music

The funk/soul brother, check it out now

These dungaree dons don't miss

Nice indie pop for the sadboy hours

Some absolutely undeniable bangers on here, but a bit too much crooning

Classic case of the post-success coke-fuelled follow-up album. Bloated, but brilliant at times.

Declan and the bois cook on this one

When I say I'm in love with this album, you best believe I'm in love! L-U-V!

Chill acoustic rock for mums

I was not offended

Be-ay-yoo-tee-ful

Boy that racist paedo sure can play

Good but so unnecessarily long

If he's the Yank McCartney, Coconut must be his Frog Chorus. Jump Into the Fire is the soundtrack to sauce-stirring which slaps.

A hip-hop clinic 🐐

Wouldn't have been crying in Heaven if I'd missed this one ngl

Better than expected (because it wasn't complete honky-tonk) but a lot of samey stuff that dragged

Perfect soundtrack to eat a gluten free muffin to

Flawless

Me - "Poor predictable Bob, always takes harmonica." Dylan - "Good old harmonica, nothing beats that!"

Poisonous paragraphs smash your phonograph in half

Mad how leftovers can be this good

Enjoyed the start then lost interest by the end. Title track is a new wave classic.

Sad boi classic

Every Xmas banger you know is on here

Slaps front to back

Dreamy and intelligable, just how I like it

Trippy

Stupid (racist)skits aside, this is flawless

Ridiculous

Cultural Appropriation: The Album

Sad boi hours masterpiece

Pretty good but not list-worthy, especially when there's 3 other fucking Byrds albums on the list and no Carly Rae Jepsen

Nirvana makes this album out and it's in every fucking Rolling Stone list

Classic but like my 5th favourite PF album

Some jams but it's all just all a bit twatty, isn't it?

Great in parts, but not arsed about the slow ones - vocals are really bad

I wish all vacuum cleaners sounded this sexy

One smooth motherlover

First few songs are good, but gets a bit annoying-background-noisey after that

Slaps front to back

Some hits (Malibu, Awful, title track) but the slower tracks really aren't it

Not what I expected from an album with penguin pubes on the front cover

Some duds here and there, but iconic on the whole

This sounds like rock and / or roll

Like Dido, but actually worth listening to

Gay Triangle is always a welcome listen

Weaker than anything from the '66-'69 run, but contains some of their best bops (Norwegian Wood, In My Life, I'm Looking Through You)

Vibealicious

Groovy - pretty underrated Marley album

This makes me want to palm somebody's face repeatedly like a bongo

35 mins in Nandos

Bit rougher than their peak albums, but still great

Growing up is realising that 3 Stacks fucking carries this project.

LIFE OF A DRUG DEALER

Grunge greatness

She's a queen, can't you see what I mean She's a queen See, (see) see, she's a queen And I know she's alright, alright, alright, alright I say you're so young, you're so young I say you're so young, you're so young I say you're so young, you're so young Yikes

Like a shit version of The Lion King soundtrack

Genuinely thought Africano was going to be the I'm a Celebrity theme song at first.

This band really were better when it was just solo Grohl-o

Felt like I was in a speakeasy with a pack of Newports and an Old Fashioned

Gets a bit samey towards the end, and not as polished as Darklands, but an absolute classic

Crazy how Marty was able to make the perfect RDR2 soundtrack 60 years before it came out

Get fucking tanked. Shag loads of women. Twat your rivals. Shred tasty licks. Masterpiece.

Spread the word around, the boys are BACK.

Beth Gibbons is mother

Most notable thing to drop on 9/11

Like a shit early Beck

Ridiculously cheesy but infectious

PIPES

Mad how they did 3 great albums in 3 years, but then wouldn't have another for 10+ years.

Arcade Fire used to be so good didn't they

Mellow George

Your mum's favourite Bowie album

Brilliant songs smothered by drug-fuelled self-indulgence. Can't imagine how busy the bogs were during The Mule.

Iconic cover

Bangs

Synthpop r00lz

Weakest of the 4 imo, but still brilliant

Incred

The greatest thing ever conceived by human mind.

Biggest waste of talent since Ravel Morrison

False advertising

Stop Making Sense made too many of these versions inferior

Arguably the best album ever.

This bloke needs therapy

Unhinged greatness

Lemmy is god

Arguably Bowie's best

Not as bad as I feared but low points are painful

More like Paul Well-boring, am I right

Trés Reznor

2112 / 5

Tracks range from "iconic" to "annoying" - these boys need an editor

Sounds like No Vacancy from School of Rock, but more cringe

The whole thing I think is (sic)

Replace the singles with the bonus tracks and this is an easy 5

Reminder that the following albums are not on this list: - Donuts - The Idler Wheel / When the Pawn - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Blonde - Stop Making Sense - ANTI - De La Soul Is Dead - The Infamous - Lemonade - Diana - Currents - Sketches of Spain - Reasonable Doubt / The Black Album - New Day Rising - Discovery - Pretty Hate Machine - Ram - Black Messiah - Dictionary of Soul - Aquemini - Baduizm - Just As I Am - Criminal Minded - One in a Million - Ege Bamyasi - Post - Fucking MADVILLAINY

Big lady sing song good

Good golden age rap but dated in places

That Banjo-Kazooie ahh xylophone solo in Gone Daddy Gone

Pretty good when he's not trying to do a Liam Gallagher impression

Average rating of 2.45 is proof that 1001 users don't get pu$$y like me and Fred

Music to eat a chicken butterfly or sell copious amounts of cocaine to

Pretty fucking annoying doctor's office muzak

Not sure it was necessary to list every single album Paul and co spaffed out but okay

AI-generated 'garage rock'

50s style "get back in the kitchen" white boy blues

This 5 has been purified in the waters of Lake Minnetonka