1001 Albums Summary

Actually enjoyed it a lot, which I didn’t think I was going to.

Confirmed that I don’t enjoy the Beatles except maybe their first albums where the music was simpler. Listened to it twice and couldn’t get into it properly. A nice few songs though, blackbird specifically.

Really enjoyed this album. Nice production, very 80s but nice round sound. Loud but clear. As far as I can remember it’s the first time I’ve listened to a MJ album from top to bottom, took me back to the 80s!

Really did not do it for me. I loved elephant but didn’t like this album at all. Good production and Jack Black is a great player but felt quite soulless

As someone born in the early 80s, Ive been primed to like song 2. But the test of the album was pretty meh. Listened to the 2012 remaster and it sounded pretty flat with loads of distortion which didn’t amount to much

Some great classics. Great production, but starting to get tired of white boys with rocky guitars

Pretty chuffed for this album. Starts with SMBU followed by breathe wow. Good gym accompaniment! The rest has probably not aged too well but still a cracker. Took me back to London

Beautiful calm album. My boss introduced me to Sade 25 years ago and I remember thinking that it was ok for a lounge bar when it was quiet but no more than that. How wrong I was ! Cheers Stephanie you wackjob!

A break from rocky stuff. A bit weird in its instrumentation, some haunting tunes, not my cuppa but aye, gotta make it to 1001

I love how some albums can be defining of an era and a place, but at the same time enjoyed all over the place anytime. The start of trip hop. Hadn’t listened to it for years and was unaware that the vocals in multiple songs are from Horace Andy!

Beautiful and haunting. Hadn’t listened to any other tunes than Roads in a very long time. Second trip hop album, nice!

Another 60s rock folky album. Nothing offensive about it, just not my jam

Heaps fun. Loved it 20 years ago. It has certainly aged better than what Id have imagined

Nothing offensive about it. Nothing to hook me on either. Just pop rock with piano. It felt like the same song was playing on repeat.

Quite psychedelic, very 70s. Just not my favourite style

I had forgotten how cool this album is. Old school hip hop with bits of NYHC, even bossa! Really enjoyed it!

I like joy division, but feel that closer is nowhere close to unknown pleasures. Ok listen but not great

Actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Not my style but dark and moody and quite jarring. Would give it s 3.5 stars if I could

Not a bad album, again, I mostly associate rap with going to the gym because I can listen without paying attention

It sounds well produced, specially the drums, but feels like mainstream radio formula rock. Not one for me.

Just Bob Dylan being Bob Dylan. Nice for a change of pace.

Great samply album. Still remember the dancing miner!

This is what i was expecting this list to be, things Ive never heard but that are cool. Jazzy live album, maybe her voice is too prevalent and the music hard to hear clearly. Nice though

Just more radio friendly fillers. Next

Pretty weird new age. Interesting though. More like this!

No much to say. Just Aretha.

You can’t dislike an album with hells bells, back in black and you shook me all night long. Fun

Some beautifully crafted songs, but too 70s overall

Amazing. Never heard before. Wow

Listened while commuting. Nothing overly out of place, but absolutely nothing to remember either.

Nothing I can say that has not been said. I was wondering when this album was going to pop up

Couldn’t get into it.

Bloody awesome. They’ve played in tons of festivals Ive attended and never seen them. They remind me of the pixies on valium. What an album. Goddes on a hiway is a corker. Very dreamy and spacey in a good way

Can’t do another American dad rock band. Sorry

Frank Black mentioned that the Pixies were just trying to rip off Husker Du. Now I get it. I enjoyed the yuxtaposition of the melodic singing with the distorted guitars

I was surprised of the lack of electronica, and here we go with the grandfathers of electronic music. Great relisten!

Much better than what I thought, considering its glam rock

Pretty standard funk/souly album. That lady and summer breeze are pretty cool songs!

Well produced pop music. She’s got a great voice, but all songs are pretty similar. Hope she gets a good boyfriend and heals her heart soon

It was just normal 70s rocky, bluesy music, but then they added the sitars and lost me…

Exactly what I expected from a Bauhaus album. 3.5 but as it is out of 5…

I just can’t stand it. The type of hiphop that 14 year olds believe it’s edgy because of the cocking gun sound effects and white chicks love to wohoo in da club 🤮

Far out this is a boring album. All songs sound the same

Not their best album. Enjoyed it, but nothing special

Blueprints for early 90s hiphop

Nice calm album. The older I get, the more I enjoy these types of records

Stoner rock. Not so good, not so bad

Nothing I can say. Just great

Oasis’ quintet album, it’s actually aged better than what I thought it would.

One of the bands I think defines britpop for me. This album has a time and a place.

Really weird album. Not unpleasant, but doesn’t make sense to me. Really liked the song with Nick Cave.

It just sounded too cafe del mar 2003.

Another britpop classic.

Great album. Fantastic early punk, and you can hear how they influenced so many other bands

The best thing to come out of an industrial accident!

Not for me

Still the best 2tone album for me!

I didnt know that Jonathan Richmand was the front man. Sounds like a bored velvet underground though

Mumble rap. Just can’t get into it

Too 80s and not even the good 80s. All the vocal play lost me from the same song

If I would have not known that it was justin timberlake I might have more lenient. Good production, but it’s just poppy r&b

I always feel like I’m missing most of what is going on when I listen to jazz, but I found it quite enjoyable

It takes me back to the 2010s indy wave. Very enjoyable album!

Nice bluesy album. Not my favourite album of his, but not bad

What i expected from a Doors album

Too 80s hard rock for me. I can appreciate the mastery at the guitar and drums but…

Not bad, but nowhere near Pixies material

To me it sounds like the definition of west coast hip hop. All the talk of bitches ends up being a bit repetitive, but i liked the overall production

It’s the first time that I feel like an album released during my adult life is dated. Will resurface in 20 years like a masterpiece though

It sounds like something from the 70s! Can recognise the mastery with the guitar, but not my favourite style

I just really struggle with country music…

It’s a nice little album, but Norah’s voice is a bit too subdued for my liking, and all songs are pretty similar

Would have loved it while at high school, not so much now…

Beautiful polished production, not a bad song in the whole album

Pretty weird post punk. Deceiving title, no dub sadly

It end up being a bit repetitive. But not too bad.

Easy listening, good background music, but wouldn’t be able to pick up a single track

Nice jazzy album, although a couple of tunes are more blues. Like most jazz, nice background music

Not bad, but a whole album felt way too long

I’m just not a fan of heavy metal, better than i thought though

Actually, the first album of the stones that I have listened to from head to toe

Seminal album. Had never listened to Tearz, what a cracker!

Very early 2000s but it has aged well. Maps and rich are corkers

Sounds like early 2000s indie, surprisingly from the 80s

Wasn’t expecting to enjoy it so much!

Can i please have some distortion in my distortion?? Certainly not to listen to on your way to work

Never before had listened to a full bee gees album, more complex than what i thought, nice harmonies, but not my jam

Beautiful album swinging between pop and rock

Just couldn’t get into it.

I have nothing against this album or radiohead, but just couldn’t get into it

Well produced, but country is just not for me…

Clean sounding hip hop, could not get into it