1001 Albums Summary

Silly lyrics ('I'm all lost in the supermarket'), hardcore lyrics ('he who fucks nuns will later join the church') and noise making ('lalalalalal hurhr huhriuaeh rsafhjd') all just as rockin'.

Surprise Shrek track! Scary cover! Joyously moody throughout

2nd Talking Heads album on day 4??? I must have done something right in a past life. Poetry smashed over smooth funky beats, top tier

Jammin’

Improv jazz, super impressive but not riveting for me

Chilled and deep, probs would have meant a lot to me as a troubled young boy

Noisy

Moved into a flat to this

Loud, noise, rockin'

Knew Dan the Automator from the Booksmart soundtrack but no idea his background was this cooooooll. Jumpscare gynaecology exam halfway through

Catching up on last 3 days - Hendrix made me appreciate why people bang on about him so much (he's on another level), Hookworms transported me to a cool electronic plane of smooth, but damned if this isn't the album of the 3 that I'll be playing again and again on repeat. Banging.

Oh god my aloof uni peers were right

Deep Blue Sea! He’s real! Rapping about milk and cereal my fave

Reminds me of my dad’s pub band (compliment)

Yet another 'oh I get the fuss now' album

The kind of music that people who are really into music like (slightly vague, lots of loops, high pitched voice ‘woo’ing over it’s own modulated feedback) - am aspiring to the be the kind of person who can properly differentiate between tracks

Prefer their older stuff, still banging

Listened to this stuck at a train station

My instinct here was to get through it and move on, but surprise myself to totally vibing out to Slipknot. You live and learn.

Bought an old copy of The Magic Roundabout board game to this album. Pretty radical.

Recognised more of this than I expected - good one Police

Alright

Another place, another time - to be honest too tied up with work and business to really get the most out of Mariah’s beautiful whistling voice but undoubtedly she is God

Yet another one that I can't believe has passed me by until now given how iconic it is - worth the rep

Fun jingles

My favourite part was the bit where he screamed 'I'm a monkeeeeeyy' because I love monkeys

Secrets: Openly available to listen to Three: Track 5 The Final Sound: Followed by 4 more songs Seventeen Seconds: 4 minutes long This album is full of lies but really good

Cosmic Americana. Sick.

Rigged lights to this

Had a pub lunch to this

Sorted Pokemon cards to this

Did the dishes to this

Screwed in wooden stage floor to this

Lostened to this whilst washing loads of dishes

This was rad

Fuck this was so good - love his full accent thing going on

Yet another ‘I now understand the hype’ list

Sick

Really odd listening to this after knowing the film soundtrack so well. Still some banging tracks, don't see how anyone could possibly make sense of this version but fun nonetheless

Listened to this in my in-laws house just chilling on the sofa.

Long and jazzy

Incredible work, perhaps not the best one to sit and listen to whilst totally sedentary, very long and very mosh inducing

Alright, actually

Moody

Listened to this staring syraight ahead whilst moving backwards on a train. Sesame Street samples a highlight

Hello old faithful

Like riding in my parents car agaib

Catching up on several albums in a row it’s easy to get distracted but this hits you like a freight train

Surprise rage from Randy

Wikis on other albums often have things like 'they wrote too many verses and struggled knowing which ones to cut out.' Bob Dylan has avoided this problem by never ever cutting out a verse.

Wasn’t sure I liked this but then gnome

All covers, all good ones

Wacky

Never listened to the newer stuff before, good work Dave

Sounds super different to the last Beck album that came up on this (but I am no Beck expert), deffo coming back for more now

Rocked my world way harder than I expected soft electronic to ever do - after a couple of these types(ish) of albums I can confirm the only way to listen is to be stuck on a train with volume up and thoughts a-wanderin’

banging start to end

Classic

Good funky hour or so, can see why he's such a legend but not one that's FULLY hooked me yet. Can see it growing.

I never think I'm all that much into rap (I have several friends who know every detail of every rapper's lives and who has guested on whose albums and the whole infrastructure of it all) then occasionally one like this hits and it's going on loop for the next month

Took a while but then got into the overpowered electro-rock - listened to ‘Waiting for the Night’ whilst waiting at a trains station at night and woo howdy

Meh, then I was BOOORRRN TO RUUUUNNNN

Enjoyed, can’t remember any of it already

Sent me into a trance with it’s 27 minute track - not sure it’s for me but love the audacity and enjoyed it over a pint as I’m sure is best

There’s one funny lyric containing several slurs in a row (about girls being lesbians because they’re not interested and then seeing some people he’s not a fan of) that has me guffawing every listen. Otherwise goes hard love it

Nice walking jams, need to think about properly sitting down to listen to these as I’m sure it became background gumpf to just mulling over the day’s plans

Bag Lady

relaxing

Changes a surprise banger liked the rest loved that

Robots

Not Garbage

Incredible voice, yet another artist I mainly knew from general culture rather than their music until now. Lovely work

feel like this is another one of those albums I'm not 'supposed' to like, but it jammed and I get the appeal

Rockin'

Beautiful

A classic rock type of thing that I’m not always enamoured with, but tasty licks

Funky

Never heard this before, but if I had it would have been on a tape in my mum’s car

3 albums in one. Three while LPs. Reaally? Some good songs in there

I AM a shining star!!

Relaxing, forgettable but Julio is in the Muppets (2011) so….

Sex songs

He loves saying lyrics twice in a row

I DO want to rule the world! How did they know? Good tuneage xx

Lots of hate in the reviews here - not sure it warrants a best of all time placement, but nice and relaxing. More Byrds ahead it seems

Fine

Incredible, and live!! Not normally as big a fan of live albums, but this is great

Yeehaw

Orangutang man! my favourite was the one about a banana split

Sad, liked that he opens with a summary of the Seventh Seal

Loved certain bits of this, sure it would be amazing experience to space out to live, but for a novice Hawkwind listener it’s a hell of a lot to get through

Every song sounds fairly the same, lucky thing that song is banging

Sad, haunting voice- a but jarring hearing such recognisable songs as Cash covers but if you can get over it then it’s great

Listened up to where the original show ended (Mood Indigo, so longer than the first release but not the full 2 hour 1999 release either) and have to say it was incredible. For others unversed in jazz i can fully recommend this as an undeniably perfect intro

So…. Relaxing…

I give everything 5 but this deserves it

Love the music, some of the ‘liveness’ is great but I can’t help agreeing wanting either a polished studio version (which we have ofc for the songs) or an unedited, unfiltered recording with all the booing etc. Hard to feel significant when what makes it significant is edited away

Loved some bits, bored by most

Bluuuueeesss

He really can do whatever he wants, legend

wtf was with that creepy kid? Otherwise solid relaxing game music

electro-meh

Mmmm grungy - took me back to playing Rock Band on the wii

Found this whole thing very silly (I love) and good party nonsense (more love) - a good lesson in why it’s sometimes better to not have any contextual knowledge of the “artist”

Really wanted to like this in order to feel like I had a rogue opinion. Unfortunately everyone is right

I get it now

West Side Story jumpscare - good throughout, 1st track legendary

Chef makes 39 seconds of dialogue last 8 minutes

Love when he shouts 'ordeeeerrr!'

Man that guy can bellow

I liked the bit about hanging out with sheep in succulent pastures xx

cool

Goth

One of the best albums yet -

Maybe someone with a better knowledge of audio could explain to me, why this live album from 1963 sounded so damn clean and sweet to listen to compared to so much later recording studio stuff??? There's probably an explanation and better words to describe it, but this blew me away with sound quality. Also with the music.

To quote another review's quote of Angus Young: "I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

Cool, was on the tube so maybe need to go again but good fun

Fusion

Is it me or are most Ye albums about a variety of things? Including his penis, sure, but this feels like an exclusive topic on this album

Moody goth electric depression

Some of the songs felt extremely long, but I am EXTREMELY down for the fake band concept and there’s some major bangers in there

Grew up knowing Flava Flav as the television personality - glad this project can remind me that many reality tv stars were people once

ROCK LOVESTER

Monkey song, 10/10

As a fan of mental films which make outrageous choices I am a certified SUCKER for all things Tommy - rest of it also good fun, though the talking bits were so quiet I could not hear them all that well- glad they were having fun though xx

Started hating it, listened to second half waiting late at night for a no-show bus - very atmospheric would reccomend

Love it when the dads are right - also never forget when Ian Brown played a copper in the This Is England '86 fight scene

Gorgeous early morning listening

Bangin'

Jammin’

Aw, man, this slaps! Extra pints for the insane noises during Isn’t She Lovely and the sheer audacity of Coolio to be annoyed at Weird Al for Amish Paradise

Some remarkably great bits and some remarkably dull bits - the singles great, and overall enjoyed the energy it was giving, but dance music maybe you have to be in the right space

Behind on this project so listening on December 29th, baby! Still great - so many compilation albums that are essentially just all these songs. Thanks Phil for doing it first

Lots of reviews calling it the local improv theatre of music - jokes on you, I LIKE local improv theatre! Some hits and some misses, but overall really into the sad storytelling meanderings

Partway through he starts saying ‘nyum’ a lot - immense comeback of the phrase in the final track

Had a big REM phase when younger - lovely xx

Loved

Am sure very impressive, but experimental jazz just washes over me and I couldn’t say it did much for me

Slick licks! Tasty vocals! Rad! Enjoyed that it starts as rock and by the very end was this weird hypnotic electro stuff

Good vibes all round - making love til the cops knock a very funny concept

Yeeeeeeessssssss

Now behind on other albums this is so long, BUT bold move to basically do 2 solo albums, and full of corkers

Shelter From The Storm is the final track in Sam Steiner's excellent and moving play 'You Stupid Darkness!' so it's a win from me xx

Smoooooth

Bangin’

man this was full on - lots of songs that sound like they should be on tik tok with guys in Joker make-up lip syncing about their lack of gfs or something

I enjoyed myself

Good vibes, too uneducated to speak much to the genre fusion stuff but had a good time - weirdly got a big soft spot for ending on a massive drum solo that only comes through your left ear

Am I allowed to say I enjoyed this? Other reviewers all hate it lol Down with Clapton, up with noodling

Goes down easy, vibes vibes vibes

I AM THE LIZARD QUEEEN preservation society

Always down for the Beatles, this one I had on record back when I owned like 3 so is etched deeply into my brain - nice to come back to, like visiting home

I thought this was total rubbish, but then in the track 'Sometimes' he says 'Sometimes a rich man won't have a dollar/And all a poor man has is greed' and then pauses, and then says 'woah' at his own mind-blowing thought

Absolutely incredible - no notes

Oooooohhhhh eeeeee aaaaäǎeee

Feel very cool ambling down the street to this

Opening track was the credits music in the first Twilight film so obviously top tier

Glad I’m not the only one to immediately think of Tenacious D - weird growing up with and knowing deeply the parody of something, then only experiencing the real deal at age 29. Totally skews the experience - feel similarly about Flight of the Conchords and a lot of folk music

Rod loves to say ‘oh baby’

Fine - I’ve loved all Fleetwood Mac til this point, so will give another chance - one of the many that became kind of background noise Am starting to think one should actually sit and listen properly rather than just in commutes lol

Very tough listen. Loads of people at school were obsessed, but I’m starting to think they were more really into the idea of liking Slipknot than they were into Slipknot. I ate up System of a Down about the same time, so maybe that’s me sated for screaming nu-metal for a lifetime

Think I’m largely too happy for this

Disco-dancing down the street like a freeak

Unlistenable. 5 stars

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhmnnnnnnnnaaarchyyyyy xx uwu xxx ;)

Hypnotic

Once again prog rock stuff that I enjoy in the moment but don’t hold onto - maybe I’m just a pop boy

My own fault for getting behind, getting 4 albums in a row that are 80 minutes long - great vibes but really drags after a while

Big fan of the talking ‘Intro’ bit - rest of it good fun, change of pace just often enough to not ~totally~ blend together Undeniable craft throughout, liked the rougher end quarter best

Banging

FUCK YEEEEEAHHHHH Realising more and more that I don't love artists, I love albums - got so into this album as a teen that when on holiday in Rome with family, I went out and found a record shop and spent all my hard earned paper-delivery money on it. It was the English print!! Why did I get it in Italy?? Who knows!? Fucking loved this so much!! I couldnt' stop myself Then took me almost 15 years and this project to ever bother listening to a second Radiohead album. Weird.

I actually to my slight shame really enjoyed this - whole thing is like an old fashioned vaudeville act smashed over slow modern funk rhythms and a but of extra swearing - there’s a kind of humour that undoubtedly belongs in the past but can’t help but raise a smile to brits who grew up on the dregs of that vaudeville tradition, all slight winks and double entendres and ‘oooh aren’t we being a bit rude here hehe’ Never want to hear the first song again though - ‘I wake up in a horny morning mood’ was too much for my stomach to handle

Same song lots of times, overused by adverts, still epic

Love that 90% of songs start with a record scratch noise (scratch? Spin? Whatever you call it)

All fun - love Hippie Boy

Am too dumb to appreciate the artistry, but good vibing

Enjoyed the tunes I knew, surprised by those I didn’t (Blue Skinned Beast a hoghlight)

Absolutely banging from start to finish - guaranteed dancefloor time

A Few tracks that absolutely slapped my socks off - some less noticeable but all good

All I wanna dooooooo is have some fuuuuun and I did

Slaps

what a time to be alive - apparently this got taken off later editions of 1001 Albums, but I don't know what the problem is - EMAIL MY HEART??? gold.

force of nature

Best song about fingering I've ever heard

Obviously we all know that ABBA slaps - Dancing Queen an all time classic that only grumpy grumps (see: stupid teenage me) don't appreciate

What a voice - mesmerising

Noodley - using the stereo function to the absolute max

Deeply relaxing

Hard

Against all the boys wishes, Makes me wanna fight

yeah, cool, man

Literally invented pop

enchanting

Summer is here, kings

One of many many albums that I like way more having read some reviews and got insight into what I should be listening for - someone points out that most of the time there is no central beat, and 'everything dances around where the beat should be' - once my dumb ass knew to listen out for this, I was entranced

Gnarly

Bungalow Bill? Rocky Raccoon? Even Maxwell?* I love these funky guys. Album good for other reasons too. Cannot stand Revolution 9, even if I appreciate the skill involved. Bleh. *not this album but still true

Vibing

Really enjoyed MOST of this - when it was fast and pumping noise! Some lore experimental areas not my bag

Had a mate in uni who wrote a whole stage musical for this album - never went anywhere but good for him

Really enjoyed this song - enjoyed it less after round 10

Obviously

Yeah pretty coool

Wavey

Used to listen to ‘Peaches’ (presumably a radio edit?) on some crap cd compilation as a kid - always seemed a strange theme for a song to be playing around the otherwise very kid-friendly house - weird and satisfying to hear it in the context of its album. Peaches.

Well know I HAVE to watch the film. Particularly loved 19 mins of intermittently shouting ‘Do your thing!’ in between smooth smooth bars (nb: this is very sincere)

Fuccccckkkk yeeeaaahhhh muthafuckaaaaaaaa

Belting

Bumping

Rockin’

Glorious

Weedy

Transcendent - fave part where she ‘leaves the room’ for a few seconds in a weirdly engrossing but of in-song narrative