1001 Albums Summary

He can have the whole building, provided he doesn't inflict any more of this leech on me.

Meat Puppets? Muppets?

Generally garbage. YA is almost acceptable and Fame is original, but why? And why on earth did anyone think Across the Universe needed to be covered. And covered so badly. Couldn't even get the tune right.

More my kinda thing. The End of the World is a classic. The rest not up to the same standard but listenable.

Not my cup of tea.

I listened to this a Dylan's Time out of Mind at the same time. The contrast was amazing. One huge talent that had become boring and irrelevant, contrasting with largely unknown beginning to show the genius that bloom into Ziggy and Aladdin. Life on Mars by far the best track. And Rik Wakeman's keyboards are out of this world. A few bummers to, but the boy was still learning.

Brilliant

hm

G

1,000 albums to hear before you die, and a dud.

Not a patch on Wheels of Fire, but still brilliant.

Better than I thought it would be.

Pure magic

instantly forgettable crap.

Not impressed. So many people (well somebody) told me how great they are. so many people are wrong. One good track, some average stuff, and the padding. A Two just because I like Somebody Told Me!

Couldn't listen to this garbage

Why? Why would anyone buy this? Why would anyone listen to it? Why would anyone waste their time recording it? Why would anyone think people would want to listen to it? Why? Why?? Why???

Why Why Why?

OK

Very far from his best. And murders the covers!

The '74 reviews were right.

Deserves a slap.

Much preferred Free/Mott the Hoople/King Crimson before BC formed. Average rock, but never better than that.

Garbage!!!!

Sound quality not good, but music great.

OK

Stunning

Bit boring

What a load of c**p. The cover is the best thing about it.

Bland. In fact blander than that,

What a brilliant album. Great production, marvellous performances by Nick and the band, and v interesting songs/tales.

What a waste of time. There is nothing good about this album. My cat writes more interesting songs.

The sound track was awful. The film was better.

I'm glad I listened to this. Sorry meant I'm glad I'm not listening to it anymore.

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Brilliant

This isn't post punk. Its metacarp! More crap than crap could possibly be.

Weird, but interesting

Crap. Total crap. And bland AF.

A total and utter waste of time!

Garbage. One catchy riff. Whole album sounds like it was written over a quick breakfast while suffering from the night before.

Clapton on a beach holiday tired out after the excitement of cream. But a couple of good tracks.

Well that was a waste of time.

I thought this was going to be a load of s***. Its not. Not impressed on first playing. But better on second. And really growing on me with each playing.

On first play it was crap, but might be growing on me.

Not my kind of music, but some good tracks, Dangerous and I See You.

Easiest review ever! This is total s***e. S***e of the s****est quality. Don't waste your time listening to it.

Brilliant. One of the best albums ever. Yellow Submarine is the worst track - it's only a four. And it was very popular with the kids when I was growing up. Everything else is five star plus.

Shite. Tried the infinite number of monkeys trick - if you record enough tracks some of them must be good. They did not record enough!

Another total waste of time!

Brilliant. Only possible complaint is that at times too much is going on. All the band are brilliant, but they don't all have to show off their brilliance the same time.

Like this, particularly Personality Crisis. It sounds far too rough to be American.

The Stones break out from covers to become the best rock band ever.

Brilliant. His best.

Bland and boring. Shame. They obviously can play and "Ricki dont loose that number" (not on this album) is one of my favourite songs.

Crap

Not for me.

A Grammy?????

I used to like Van Morrison. I liked Them, and his early stuff. Moondance is an absolute classic. Brown Eyed Girl is great. But after a few superlative albums he seemed to go to seed, and just stop trying. Like on this album. Some great songs, and a really good band. But VM just detracts from that. He mumbles. I couldn't listen to Here Comes the Night again. He murders it. Can't even get the tune right. So a grudging 2.

Blues rock from the late sixties. This should be my kind of music. Beck has always been hailed as a guitarists guitarist. So many of my favourites list him as a major influence. And Ron Wood and Rob Stewart before Rod really found hoarse. But I hate it. I don't know if Beck is technically great, or innovative or what. But whatever his technical brilliance or innovations I wish he hadn't. They don't add anything for me. A grudging 2 as there are a couple of OK tracks.

Crap.

All sounds the same. There are much better Springsteen albums around!

All sounds the same. There are much better Springsteen albums around!

"a cohesive work with no filler tracks"?? Why's there so many duff fillers, then. This is below average tosh, and apart from a couple of tracks, not worth the time.

Kinda obvious why it failed when first released. A couple of good tracks and a pile of garbage.

Brilliant

Mostly crap. Sounds like they are still out of it from the night before.

Nice light wait rocky.

Brilliant. The power, the energy, the excitement.

I know this is one of the best ever, but..... I've always found it boring and depressing. Every song too long!

A few good tracks, but no classic.

He's right

Nope! You're wrong! Definitely did not need to hear this. Biggest load of sh 8te I've heard since I (accidentally) stood on the cat.

Pure crap

A couple of great tracks

Absolutely great first side and then they blow it!

Beautiful. Just brilliant.

Absolute crap. How can the nation the produced Dylan and Paul Simon produce this?

Way ahead of Dylan, and he can sing!

Not for me.

Nope. They're not.

Fan Tas Tic. The drive and excitement. The angst. Elvis loves music, and if you don't love this, you don't love music.

I really liked CCR in the 60/70s. Great tunes, usually with much more drive, more bite, more excitement than so much of the bland stuff that was around. Wasn't familiar with their albums - couldn't afford albums then. So familiar with a few tracks only. But what a disappointment. They attack each track like a dog savaging a slipper. The vocals are too intense. The guitar a sharp stabbing pain. And it's so short. 34 minutes! Only 7 tracks! Keep on Chooglin and Draveyard Train are for tooo long. They say what they want to say, then say it again, and again, and again, and again. Any how could anyone think the world need another cover of Good Golly Miss Molly? Proud Mary is a classic (I did know this was the original, and still the best).

What a disappointment. The greatest Rock n Roll Band ever! So should be great!! Opens with Sympathy for the Devil, one of the BEST tracks ever!!! Brilliant!!!! Follows that by bring us back down with the beautifully wistful No Expectations!!!!! Superlative!!!!!! But then goes downhill from there. Street Fighting Man has a bit of oomph! Salt of the Earth is good. But the rest. Beautifully played, great production, but just a collection of mediocre country blues. They sound as if they aren't really trying. Should add that if you want mediocre country blues then you want the Stones playing it!

Thank god it wasn't a double.

A poor mans X-Ray specs!

The Lord taught us? TheybLord prayed for you to stop!

Dated? Might be. But brilliant.

The master at his best.

Sheer brilliance!

Sings like he cat be bothered singing, so why should I be bothered listening?

A total waste of time.

Absolutely boring.

So laid back he was laid out?

Just not for me.

Superlative!

No. No! Just NO!!!!

An Australian Band? An Australian Rock Band? I don't believe it!

The most underrated gem of an album, ever!

Mostly boring.

TBS! AC! NWTT!

Never could understand how great musicians could sound so bland.

Brilliant stuff. Just one man and his guitar. No one else. No fancy production. Just brilliant. And if you wreathe Wiki article it shows what sh**s Led Zeppelin are!

And if you read Wiki article it shows what sh**s Led Zeppelin are!

Just beautiful

A couple of great songs, but not a patch on "The Lamb..." his last with Genesis.

Crap.

Not for me.

Sh*te

Not his best, but still bloody brilliant!!!!

Much better than expected. But they are nowhere nearStones or Led Zeppelin.

Never heard her, never heard of her. Wish I had.

Huh?

No.

Sheer crap. Over hyped at the tome. Overrated since. Frankie says relax. I say reject.

Again, I thought I liked the Cure. Now I'm not sure.

Had thought they had done some good stuff. Well none of it on this album.

Great stuff boys.

The Master. All that is good about music.

liked the title track. Truly spectacular!

The group that thought 6 random notes is a tune!

Not his best, but mother and working class hero are classics!!!!!

Never been a fan. They can create a bit of excitement and enthusiasm, but the music is very basic, and the slow numbers plod. And can't stand the screaming.

Not my kinda music.

Boring.

Crap. Tha crapest crap.

Great. The Jam turning from "Punk" to superb pop.

One OK hit and a load of packing.

Boring and meaningless without the film.

Bliss. Best live album ever. Packed with energy.

Bland and boring. But then there is Eight Miles High. Worth the cost of the album.

Loved the excitement and enthusiasm.

Sure sh*te. Personal Jesus the only track worth listening to.

Bliss. Soft jazzy rock. But brilliantly done. Love the flute.

Weird. like a cross between Bjork (on a good day), Enya, and Kate Bush. Not for me, but it was growing on me.

Urg!

Just proves you can fool a lot of people some of the time.

Just OK, no better.

No, def not their best

Pure s*ite. But on even pure.

Best live album ever!!!!

Crap. Boring crap.

Not my kinda music, but like this!

Crap. And shit crap at that.

The worst yet?

Crap. And shit crap at that.

A rating of 3.55? Would give it 0.355.

V Phil Spectorish.

The Boss? The egotistic fool. "Wall of sound"??? Wall of mush. he occasionally writes a good song (Like born to Run) but then over produces it death. Yea, might sound epic the first time, but after 2 or 3 listens its just a wall of tuneless mush. 6 months to record Born to Run? Bet it sounded better after 6 hours.

To be fair its not a bad song, but did they have to record it so many times?

Don't see what all the fuss is about. And hate the screeching. Only good track is Hallelujah, and its not a patch on the original.

Why? Just why?

Weird, but strangely enjoyable.

Not for me

Bliss. One of the best three albums ever. Probably the best concept album ever. Keyboards are amazing. The variations in speed, key, emotion are just wonderful. And each track fits so beautifully together to make a fantastic whole. Truely a Ten, out of five.

Huh.

Not even worthy of a name?

One great track.

Don't like southern rock. Hate most of it. But love this!

Noooooooo! One is bad enough, but three!

Great band at the top of their powers.

Great stuff

Pure brilliance.

Stupid name, but kinda like this.

Great voice, crap songs.

The title says it all. Nothing subtle here.

Great singles, but crap album. The single were innovative, energetic catchy and exciting. The rest, huh!

Rubbish

Great single, poor album.

Never heard of them, but they are great.

Great singles, but the rest suck.

Dont see what all the fuss is about.

Great stuff.

Hits good. Voice great. But rest boring.

Great post punk pop!.

Brilliant. Rock, folk blues. They could do it all. And with feeling!

Definitely different!

Not that bad, but why depart from what you are good at? And to many tracks are sooooo overproduced you can't be sure there is anything listenable under all the mush.

On first play, what boring pap, util you get to "Joy". What a great track. Brilliant five star. Shame the singer can't sing. If fact she sounds bored to death singing that boring pap. Def time for some singing lessons. And some enthusiasm. And mibbie a new songwriter. After a few more plays, some of it is growing on me, slightly. Still boring pap, but acceptable boring pap. And she still needs singing lessons.

What a disappointment. If this is America's answer to the Beatles, you guys didn't understand the question.

Over produced American sounding pap. Hits good. But rest boring.

Why?

No!

Unadulterated cr*p!

A couple of great/good tunes and the most annoying voice ever. He should only bellowed to sing on instrumentals.

Sh*t

Brilliant stuff, but its JLL.

Great voice, one great track

Some absolute beautes, some absolute crap.

What kind of hell is this? There's some good songs on the album, and good musicians in the band, but Mr Price must be the most bo-ring singer ever. He sucks the life out of every song, and leaves the bones behind. Wish I could give it zero, or minus marks.

Boring!

Wow! A C&W I actually like!

Some interesting ideas, and a lot of garbage!

Brilliant.

Brilliant stuff, I love it. And would never have listened to it but for 1001 albums.

Waste of time.

I've tried and tried real hard, but I can't find any reason why anyone would want to listen to this! Ever!

Certainly different. More interesting than Coldplay who just thieved 6 hours of my life. But not my kinda music.

The Stones best album? Its full of padding. Nothing worth listening to. How they miss Bryan Jones.

Glad I listen to this. I can now honestly say I have listened to the most godawful shite in the universe.

Great stuff guys.

Brilliant bouncy bop. Punk at its most musical.

Yuk

Not my favourite kind of music, but much of it is absolutely beautiful. This record shows why the world needs Canada more than it needs the USA.

Yawn.

Yup. Def one you should hear.

Typical sixties sound. Just beautiful. Like music to my ears!

Some nice guitar work, but that's all.

Not their best, a bit plodding at times, and some padding added to make it a double, but all blown away by Kashmir. What a song. WHAT a song.

The first and best ex Beatle album. (OK the live jam stuff is a bit of unnecessary padding, but...)

Do people actually listen to this pap? I mean listen. Not just put it on and ignore it because there is nothing worth listening to. It might be slightly more interesting than the street noise outside, but that's it. And people pay to listen to it? Lots of people? I worry for the human race.

I can see why these guys would want out of Talking Heads and away from David Byrne's shadow. But it was a mistake. Wordy Rappinghood the opened is brilliant, but its rapidly downhill from thereon.

No. They're wrong. I don't have to hear this, ever. FFS, this is absolute sh*te. Four fourteen year olds in their dads shed with instruments they hadn't seen til yesterday. The only reason to listen to this is to show how much better the Beatles and all the rest of the "British Invasion" band could play.

Yet more American cr*p.

No bad at all.

Strange but strangely listenable.

Strange but strangely listenable.

Great to get back to some decent music after too much American pap.

Factually accurate. Simplified as its a short answer.

Not a bundle of laughs, but beautiful. If only he could sing!

Argh! More mindless American pap! There is more to music than just playing notes. I can see the boardroom execs thinking this is so bland it will offend no-one, and be loved by middle aged bunnies every where as its so "safe". Someone said it was beatlesesque!? Dung Beatles.

Argh! More mindless American c*ap!

When they get it right they are brilliant. When they don't, it's a bit boring. Just buy the singles.

Brilliant. Queen when they were still a rock band before the camp theatricals took over. Fantastic stuff. Seven Seas is their best ever.

Beautiful, just beautiful.

Cr*p.

Some said this isn't elevator music. They were right. Its far far worse. This is music to take the stair to avoid.

Yet more boring pap.

Pure bliss. Old bliss admittedly, but bliss nevertheless.

Well at least its happy bouncy music, even if terribly shallow and same.

Disappointing. The UK singles, Misstra Know it all, Higher Ground, Living for the City, are great. The rest? boring pap.

Pure unadulterated boring sh*te! Was going to say great-great grandpapy music, but thought some would take that as approval, and not a comment about when it went out of date!

An absolute train wreck.

I like Tom Waits. I like his music. I like his lyrics. But I can't b hear them! Taking the P!

Brilliant. First album I ever bought.

Why?

I think my brain just died!

Couldn't stay awake!

Not really for me.

Talentless twat! And that backing vocalist sure can shriek.

I like SW, but couldn't get into this.

Biggest load of sh*te ever since the last biggest load of sh*te ever two days ago (yesterdays was just an average load of sh*te).

Not his best, but... Previous album was Prince, but listening to Marvin Gaye, I realised Gaye was doing everything Prince did, but SO much better, and doing it first.

As someone else said, it was nice of them to include an album that really showed everything that was wrong with 80s music.

What's not to like?

Brilliant stuff

Great stuff. Soo ahead of its time, any time!

PDB. Fantastic musicians playing fabulous music.

One decent song. Don't bother listen to fond out which.

Sheer bliss. Yes its non-electric. Yes a lot is traditional. But here you have 5 fantastic musicians at the height of their powers playing their hearts out.

Great stuff. Well ahead of its time. Still ahead of everyone else. A must listen. And that cover!

Wow! What a brilliant collection of eccentric, eclectic music. Sooo different. Bet all the Yanks on here don't get it and vote it down, as they understand music even less than tariffs.

Fanbloodytastic. Great exciting get of the floor and party music. But the Yanks won't understand it and vote it down.

Hate the voice, but like the songs. And the rough production.

Nah

The unhappy Tuesdays? Still great music..

The last Chicago album worth listening to. Interesting musically, and a bit of excitement! Then there is the guitar solo. Amazing that anyone can get those sounds out of a guitar. Even more amazing that anyone would want to listen to it.

An album that begins "I don't want to be an American Idiot..." What's not to like.

I could do that!

The Queens of the Stone Age, then this????? The singles are OK, but the rest just tooooooo sugary.

The Emperors New Soul?

Very early Stones, but features the GREAT "Tell Me!"

Shockingly bad.

What a tragedy. Not my type of music, but its bloody marvellous.

Yeah. Ragged indeed.

Great

Some brilliance, some boring.

Gino brill. Rest......

Is this it? Is this really it? America's answer to the Beatles? It's not even an answer to the Silver Beatles. Pack up, go home, your wasting you time. And a cover? Do you wanna Dance? The worst version ever. But the real laugh? It's still the best track on the album! Help them Rhonda, they need it!

Brilliant stuff. Best post Beatles Beatle album? Ironically his bass playing is pretty boring.

Hope he was good at waitering.

On the count of there - for god's sake go!

Why??????

Always thought of the Byrds as boring country/folky. But this is really good. A mixture of rocky stuff and pop. Always interesting. And "So you want to be .." is a blistering opening track.

The three singles are good, but what was all the fuss about? Rest is kinda boring.

Usually I like Tom Waits. But this is just taking the piss. Voice is worse than even. He might enjoying hitting things, but it doesn't make good music.

Two good singles, and the rest is pap.

If you can get over the endless epicness.......

Not for me.

My cat - when she hasn't been fed for five minutes!

Magic. So original.

If you produce this kinda stuff its as well to hide behind cartoons.

Fantastic. His second best. Just a shame he had to keep changing styles till he found crap ones.

Heard of them, but never heard them. They're OK.

Lust for life and The Passenger are worth listening to. Shame about the rest.

Great stuff boys!

Always considered JP second rate. This confirms it.

Take care of your health and don't listen to this!

A total kick in the googlies!

Why?????

A new low.

Just stop! Please just stop!

Some good songs, some crap, all massacred.

What a loss to music.

About all its worth.

The Yanks won't get this - brilliant, innovative, sometimes experimental, but always pure magic.

Great stuff

Undemanding american pap. And her singing really falls off in places.

Just goes to so you can fool a lot of the people some of the time.

I love The Fall. I hate Mark E Smith.

For crap american pap, some of its OK.