1001 Albums Summary

Feels very "safe" without much edge. Can't say most of the songs grabbed me. Modern Man was a stand-out though. Probably won't make it into a rotation for me, but found it inoffensive.

Tries a bit too hard at times to be edgy in what I call a "bloke pop" kind of way. A few good tunes.

Radio free europe a good opener, most of the others fall a bit short and unmemorable.

An album you must listen to 1000 times before you die.

Foundational. Pivitol. Revolutionary. Influential. Clinical & hyper-futuristic rendition of machines' impact on man through a Fritz Lang lens presaging Ray Kurzweil's vision of the singularity. You can see why John Foxx took these ideas and ran with them. Bathe in it with headphones.

Standout tracks: Baron Saturday Defecting Grey I See You Mr Evasion You can hear the influnce they had on Bowie. Their later stuff sounds more up my street so might check that out. I did like the Spoitify follow-on tracks more though... Groovy baby.

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Still prefer the original to this cover of Love in Vain & noone covers RJ quite like Clapton of course. Midnight Rambler - The stones really building a strong son on their blues influences. Love the tempo changes. Great harmonica work. Monkey Man - more blues. Good. Nice tip of the hat to Robert Johnson with the line about lemon squeezer. You Can't Always Get What You Want - a far better song than some of the things its been used for

American wallpaper. Probably needs to be played on an 8-Track or reel to reel. Ironic title considering the cover, showing sunset which due to the increased amount of atmosphere the light has to travel through contains less light of shorter blue wavelengths due to Raleigh Scattering. So, not white light.

Quite like it. Found myself humming some of the songs after a listening. Always a good sign! Probably inspired Jonathan Coulton?

I'd still consider Hounds Of Love her gratest album, but there is only one word. Genius. ❤️

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Sadly still as relevant today as when it came out.

oh yeah. PJH got a new fan

OK, some catchy choons

awesome

I made it up to track 12: Myxomatosis. Have you ever seen a rabbit with myxomatosis? I have and it looks exactly like this sounds

Not really something I'm put on by choice, but it's very romantic :) I'm more of a Nat King Cole fella

You know the budget B movie when the protagonist has to enter the dive club to meet a contact. Perfect for that.

Don't know how I didn't hear of this lot. Solid

chill

Wow - it's JB so yeah, but that band is TIGHT

1* for the dissapointment of no Manic Miner after the loading sound from track #1

it is what it is

Solid

took it on.

blues guitar guitar guitar blues.

pretty good, pretty, pretty prettygood

They were probably good live. Lots of energy, but its a mostly covers album so...

What you get when you combine cocaine, milk, peppers and genius.

Numanoids \o/

Not my go-to but I do like a bit of Afrobeat. Amazing backstory.

Not the best Iggy, but still the Godfather of Punk \m/

got velvet underground and beta band feels. Nice.

nope

middling bob

Great discovery

He really came back with this one.

Goth GOAT

Probably my most listened to album.

Normally up for this but didn't click somehow.

Made me smile

I don't think the title track can carry the album these days which is a shame. Very much of a "what do you do after punk?" album.

plays waaay different in the UK :)

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Found my attention wandering which can't be great. Prefer 18

ah simpler times.

ah Guitar Hero, I remember ye well

Groovy baby.

Yeah

only one track in the UK

Good find

Out of my usual genres but it would be amazing even if it wasn't improvised.

good but showing its age a bit. Japan's "All Tomorrow's Parties" cover is still better though ....

King of the blues! This is a great album. Captures his live performance well.

Great but I still like fun boy three's version of our lips are sealed

Lemme grab my Oxfam coat. 10/10 would 80s again.

boof. right in the feels

Just gold

Surprisingly good!

Saying this & other Cure albums are depressing is a surface level view and misses the point. They cathartic.

Banger! On hard rotate all weekend. Really catchy, raw post punk, not too self serious proper band music.

I'd rather play quake 3 arena

5 stars for the starman. In this digital age I do miss sleeve notes though. The LP had the city that each song was composed in against the track. discogs has the info but its not really the same ...

I know its satirical but I can't get over some of the lyrics.

damn good.

❤️JANIS