1001 Albums Summary

This was one of my favourite albums of all time before I began this. I'm a George Harrison girlie. A STAN. But you've got to admit this album, whilst arguably one of the most influential of all time and one of the best, is quite front-loaded, and Apple Jam, a collection of instrumentals which takes up the entirety of Sides five and six should have been a seperate album. I'm very much here for the Dylan love and the McCartney slander.

Very quintessentially English and self consciously so. I suppose it's to be expected from the band that gave us Waterloo Sunset which may as well be a theme song for London. Completely uncool and out of step with the time - it connects to a sense of Englishness that was already gone whilst satirising psychedelia. This would be done later and worse by bands like Blur who were similarly trying to capture this but with considerably less humour (at least not intentional humour). If you're going to do Vaudeville, at least be funny about it, which these guys do. Phenomenal Cat maybe leans too strongly into whimsy for my taste though this is obviously deliberate, but I can't hate a song about a cat. Favourite Tracks: Do You Remember Walter? Picture Book Village Green

Loved this. So beautiful. THIS is how you structure an album. There's no places to skip, not that you'd want to. It's social realism in music form which is so important - political music should always focus on personal impacts and it's sad really how little has changed.

This was...fine. Okay at first but it really began to grate on me by the halfway mark.