1001 Albums Summary

Phenomenal album made by a bunch of wankers. Soundtrack to my youth.

Solid BritPop debut album. Helped define the sound and genre. Fun listen but not one I would come back to regularly any more.

Led Zep announce themselves with a mix of hard rock, blues and folk. The musicianship is next level. The tunes are bangers. What a band.

New album to me. Couple of listens and it’s quite creative and has a nice overall vibe but nothing really stood out to me and I wont be adding it to my collection

Bass driven sparseness, like Hank Marvin in the 2000’s. Bonus points for creating a unique sound.

It was decent. Top 1000? Probably, 1000 is quite a lot.

Well yeah I guess he was

Stone cold classic full of great tracks

I'm the biggest Dylan fan but this album is classic

Paved the way for metal

Great debut

Never heard of them before. Amazing for their time.

one of the greatest live albums

Bollocks to "cultural appropriation", wrong-headed, anti-culture nonsense. You aren't really offended by this, you're just made to think you should be but really, this is how art works. It's all derivative to some degree. If it's not done to lampoon or mock then it's fine. Stevie Wonder himself was influenced by jazz greats and people like Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, James Brown etc. Is it just because Jay Kay is white? Fuck that. Let's write off the Beatles and the Stones then as they plumbed RnB decades ago. It's just creativity, you take stuff you like and you channel it into your own art. Nobody should be offended by that. It's a great compliment. Just get over yourself. Anyway, the band are very much of their time in terms of 90's sound but they were stand-out for what they were doing. Some great tracks on here but I probably prefer Return of the Space Cowboy

A handful of classic tracks and epic in scope but not in the top tier of Floyd albums

I was a 90’s grunge head and this album completely passed me by. Aside from Self Esteem this was pretty much new to me yet thirty years on I completely dig it. If I’d listened to this when I was a teen it would no doubt have been a firm favourite. Great album.

yeah not bad - contains Love & Affection which is one of my favourite tracks of all time. I might give this one another go in a couple of weeks to see if more of it stands out to me. 3 stars for now though

The lyrics are the usual Oasis bollocks but some cracking tunes, soundtrack to the mid-nineties in the UK

Pretty rock

Drops a star only because I get a bit bored of the interludes and skits but it is the style of this kind of album and is made up for by the absolute gems on here, the production is insane. Ye's mad, but that's why he's a genius.

Pretty groovy

It's alright. A bit bland. Whole album revolves around Halcyon really. Probably great on a comedown back in the day but some of it is just annoying.

amaze

I absolutely loved this album as a kid. GnR were huge for me and got me into rock, playing guitar etc. Dated now but still some absolute bangers. 5 stars for impact and longevity.

Cool

Quirky, much more inventive and camp than I thought they were. I liked it though

Novel but I didn't really want to listen to it

proper hip-hop

Classic sound. Jamie XX owes a lot to Ian Curtis

actually really good

There is no question that Thriller is one of the greatest albums ever made, containing songs that have entered the collective consciousness of the entire planet. Jackson and Jones created a masterpiece. Some probably feel uncomfortable with it because of Michael Jackson but I have two things to say to that: 1. You have to separate the art from the artist, otherwise you'll never watch a Hitchcock movie, look at a Picasso, read H.P. Lovecraft or listen to Wagner. All horrible, problematic people but people tend to be less bothered once enough time has passed and MJ is too recent but forget it, move on, who knows what your favourite artist really got up to in their private life and what objectionable views they held? Their creativity doesn't have to be part of that, just enjoy it for what it is. 2. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that what happened to MJ was one of the worst acts of collective bullying we've ever seen. Was he weird? Of course he was weird. He was fucking Michael Jackson, a star from childhood and more famous than God. Was he a paedophile? I sincerely doubt it. He was childlike and probably acted and behaved in a way around kids that we view very differently from today but I strongly suspect he never sexually abused anyone. So much money-grabbing, false memory, opportunistic law suits that led to irreversible reputational damage and no doubt contributed to his drug use and ultimately his death. The way the world treated MJ was like a modern-day witch burning. MJ should be remembered positively for what he created. The only thing that should be reviled is the way he was treated by the world on rumours and hearsay. Too bad the real "Human Nature" was shown at its worst.

there's a track on here that's an album in itself! worth a listen