1001 Albums Summary

I know the album quite well having heard it a lot when it was released. Still sounds pretty good on re-listen. It's a bit emo but probably the best album I've heard that came out of the nu-metal thing in the early 2000's. Gets a higher score probably for the sheer nostalgia value.

One of my favourite ever albums. It's a timeless masterpiece.

There are parts of this album which are unbelievably good, especially when you consider how old it is. However there are bits that are dated and hearing Little miss strange kick in for the first time is jarring and in general the middle part of the album is a bit of meandering mess. The beginning and end though are outstanding.

No notes required, it's my favourite album and I listen to it multiple times a month.

Seemed okay - almost classic jazz (is that a thing?) Easy to appreciate the quality of the music but just not really my thing.

I quite like the alternative hip hop scene although I am fairly new to it and it wasn't something I grew up listening to when I generally formed most of my music taste. This album was very good, felt modern and quite old at the same time.

I think my musical tastes have changed a lot from when I first heard this album. The headline tracks (Jeremy, Alive, Even Flow and Black) are still really good and the rest of the album is much better than I remembered.

Fantastic album that still holds up really well. I was a huge fan of punk when I was younger and this album was the first that drew me into the hardcore scene over the pop-punk style that was popular at the time.

Not my cup of tea. I'm sure some people really enjoy this but it is not something I would listen to again. Honestly just felt a bit limp and I didnt think it was very good compared to similar bands/styles.

I actually liked this album a lot more than I thought I would. I probably wouldn't want to listen to it again though

Having spent my life having old heads tell me that the Clash are one of the best punk bands, and that London calling is one of the greatest punk albums ever, I have been socially shamed into nodding my head and agreeing. It's not true. The Clash are massively overrated and this album isn't even their best.

Enjoyable - and not what I would call a live album in terms of audio quality and crowd noise

Tastes like cheap cider and lambert and butler

Although a good album it does have the feel of a band that hasn't really hit their stride yet. The highlights of the albums all involve a deltron 3030 member who add a lot of stability to the album. Gorillaz follow up album, Demon Days, is a much better project.

Sounds really plain and I enjoyed it less and less as I went on

A greatest hits album? 'Veni Vidi Vicious' should have been picked instead. I like the Hives. It doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. I don't think they won many song writing awards and I don't think they give a fuck.

It was alright I suppose - I prefer his more uptempo stuff and some of the stuff he produced for other artists

A fantastic album I discovered way too late in my life.

I wasn't expecting this to be anywhere near a top 1000 albums list. Angels is a drunken karaoke banger but the rest of the album is flat and uninspiring. I wouldn't even say this is Robbie Williams best project.

Struggling to think of anything positive to put here.

I should like Muse. I am pretty much their target audience, but outside of a couple of singles they just dont click for me. It's like someone made a supergroup of all the bits I don't like from bands I love.

It was alright, don't think I would actively listen to this again but would be okay background music

Probably my 3rd favourite Zep album, which shows the strength of their discography

Pretty inoffensive early pop punk which kind of defeats the point. Really good vocals though

Really enjoyed this having not heard the album before

Bit all over the place, parts were okay but other tracks I really disliked

It wasn't bad, but not sure I would actively listen to this again. I preferred the more experimental stuff over the pop tracks

Not my favourite pixies album, but sounds good

A little gimmicky take on a greatest hits album. I would much rather listen to the originals but I expect this would be amazing to experience live.

A difficult and rewarding listen. This album is far out of what I would call my comfort zone and took me quite a few listens to really appreciate and has since become one of my favourite albums.

Art punk without the swagger

Kind of liked this one. Had a very strong sound and a sense of identity and you can see why they inspired so many big bands today

Buttery

Two massively overplayed pop songs, neither of which I care for surrounded by a collection of lifeless filler

Particularly enjoyed the version of heard it through the grapevine

I really try to avoid comparisons when listening to music as it leads your brain to thinking about things in a particular way but for this one the symmetry with deltron3000 is too close for me not to bring it up. It doens't have anywhere near the same tightness. Generally it all felt a bit underwhelming. The beats were good, but not great. The rapping was okay.

Not my favourite MJ album but still good.

Not really sure what to think of this, I think it definitely needed extra listens to get my head around it

The Talking Heads belong to a time I was never a part of. Honestly the whole thing feels dated and simple

I'm not a massive fan of any of the individual Smiths albums, and if I was in the mood to listen to the Smiths this isn't the album I would select. Not bad or anything, just very middle of the road.

Trying to be objective here but honestly this is just awful. Practically incomparable to anything I have listened to before which is a good thing and has a really strong theme running through it. However there is no 'music' to speak of. It doesn't evoke emotion or thought, it doesn't impart information or wisdom and it doesn't even make me feel uneasy or uncomfortable. It's more like a 6th form art project than an album.

I've just finished the last track (which was the best on the album) and I have instantly forgotten the entire album. Had it been an album of songs like the last track I would have enjoyed it more. It isn't bad, but there is nothing else there that gripped me at all.

In my opinion this is the best Pixies album. Has a darker unpolished sound but still keeps the pixies insane levels of weirdness. Also it has boobs on the cover.

Instant reaction is that drums and guitar work are ace and the vocals are rubbish but the album was really samey and kept up that hyper aggressive style throughout which I got tired of pretty quickly. If I was listening to a playlist and a single song came on I wouldn't mind at all but a whole album was too much. I struggled to finish the album if I am honest

Oh hey its the clash album they released before they went shit

It was good, i expected more bluesy style rock but this was more of an early MTV highlights reel

Opinion for this album would massively change depending on the mood you are in. Personally I thought it was okay but I don't think I was quite in the head-space to really appreciate it

David Bowie is consistently the most overrated musician (and person) to ever walk this planet. The best album he made was an Iggy pop album and the veneration he receives as a legend of music seemingly untarnished by his frankly unacceptable behavior puzzles me. In this phase takes huge inspiration from the American soul explosion at the time and manages to water it down to a thin white sound. Even if you are fan of Bowie I can't imagine enjoying this album outside of a misguided tribalism.

Very old school Jazzy

I think if I had listened to this album closer to when it originally came out I would have been a massive fan. Still it is a very good album and I would listen to again

Would have been a 5 if the album had Soul Limbo on it - but cant take away anything but the fact this is an incredible album

Insipid

The best led zep album? Maybe

Excellent album

My 72nd album and the first I couldn't finish.

A double album that really didnt need to be a double album, and the Maggie May cover was awful

First two tracks are great - then it kinda fades. Def not bad though

Really enjoyed this

A cold Monday morning was probably the worst time to listen to this album and may have cost it the extra star

I think of they leaned more into the St Jimmy rock opera bit and less of the generic fuck bush stuff it would have been much better

2nd PJ Harvey album for me and maybe not as good as the first. However I scored that one low and warmed to it on a few re listens so knocking this one up by a percentage point to compensate

Started off really enjoying the album but was getting a bit tired towards the end.

Very different sound to the last Doors album I reviewed. I prefer the lean into blues rock much more

Psychedelic rock really feels like a product of its time and I struggle to appreciate it

Dire unimaginative tripe

Really weird album but enjoyable. Glad I have listened to it but probably wont again

I hated out of time and put off listening to REM for a long time after that. Shiny Happy People being possibly the worst song ever written. This album is a different beast entirely.

Another Bowie album, but this time he is a whiny racist? Musically this album is much better than the others. The first track in particular started off really well before Bowie's vocals came in and ruined it for me.

Outstanding album but I think understanding the context behind the songs and the general hip-hop/rap landscape at its time of release is crucial to fully appreciating it.

Good album, but there are a lot better in the genre and think this mostly got on the list due to the name rather than the content itself. The cover of I shot the sheriff is pretty bad

Its like KLF and the Streets had a mad bastard baby. I quite liked it initially but got a bit bored towards the end

Instantly forgettable - not bad by any stretch but not something I am ever going to listen again, or recognise if it plays.

Banger after banger

This is pretty much the jazz album for me. On the surface really smooth and listenable and hides a technical complexity that you probably need a degree to understand fully

Look, look! The Emperor isn't wearing any clothes! This is by far the worst I have heard of his. Are we all just pretending this is great because he died shortly after? It's a hot mess. Honestly this is so bad.

Lots of similar sounding psych rock albums on this list. This one was probably the most enjoyable of the bunch with quite a clean sound despite the age

Very poppy and outside of the well known tracks pretty forgetful

The best Nirvana album by some distance

I expect this album is going to score relatively poorly on this site. Those people are wrong and this album is in fact 'mint'.

I found this really dull. I think it has aged a lot and just didn't hold me interest

Probably the best pop album ever made and worthy of all the praise it gets

This is probably one of the easier slam-dunk 5's on the list. The Easy Star All Stars version of Let Down clears

Dull

Let's be honest there are a lot of absolute duds on here. I think if they dropped the 5 tracks from the back half of this album and shaved 20 mins of the runtime it would have been much better. 4 stars seems a bit high and 3 stars seems a bit low.

A high 3 - think it definitely needs more than 1 listen to appreciate

Very 1980s production. I definitely wouldn't listen to this again

I like the idea of Siouxsie much more than I actually like the output

Actually a far better album then it is given credit for, usually relegated to a shock album and looked down on compared to some of the more fashionable bands of the time like the clash. The album is pure energy though. The music is rough and ready like you would expect from a punk band of the era but some of the riffs are really good.

Somewhere between a 3 and 4. Has the same problem that I felt Californication had where it has a handful of really excellent songs and a couple of really poor fillers. Bumping it up to four based on under the bridge

The title track is probably one of the greatest songs ever written but the remaining album fall a little flat

Just couldn't get into this at all.

Completely different from anything else I have been recommended as part of this process and one of few records that were completely unknown to me.

Needs another listen. Definitely doesn't have the range that back to black has but there were some really good tracks on there

Very close to a one star

Been lucky enough to see The Prodigy live at a festival and was probably the best live music experience I have ever had.

If it didn't say John Lennon on the cover I don't think I would have given it a glance

Couldn't finish it

Honestly not heard this album before despite knowing several Fleetwood Mac songs and I thought it felt a little disjointed. Compared to Rumours which is an absolute classic this left me feeling like it was a really good starting point for what should have been three different albums

Enjoyed it mostly but the pink Floyd cover was terrible

Tidy album

It's like all the shit bits of rock and all the shit bits of jazz had a retarded baby

Honestly banger after banger

Having only really listened to individual songs before and never a full album I was definitely impressed by this as a complete piece of work.

This album is an absolute fucking mess. Guitars are all over the place, drummer sounds like he has been on a seven day meth binge and the singer objectively couldn't hit a note if his life depended on it. 5/5 and going straight onto my heavy rotation list.

Early Beatles has a time and a place. The time being 60 years ago and the place being nowhere near me.

I really didn't enjoy this but I got the feeling that this is definitely someones favourite album.

Really wasn't my style

Teenage kicks is an amazing tune. The rest of the album is fine but unspectacular. High 3

Dad rock, but my dad isn't American so it's just some other dad's rock.

Great album - misses some of the thumping tracks that are on mez and blue lines but still really good

Why does the app link to the mono version? Super weird Anyway, this was alright. Please Please Please being my stand out

This is an excellent album. Nearly all of his albums are excellent. This is also my go to 'Recommend me an album' album when I know nothing about the persons musical taste. I think everyone will find something in this they like even if this isn't necessarily their cup of tea.

This feels like the longest hour and 14 mins I have ever experienced. Don't know if it is just me but I find a lot of American indie music really similar and bland. Needs more material about fights in taxi ranks, fruit machines and recreational drug use

Having only heard Jeff Buckley before I still found this oddly familiar. Really nice, probably needs a few more play throughs to appreciate fully

Oh yeah - this album holds up so well for something over 50 years old. Ended up listening to Sabbath all day

Never really liked Kate Bush based on the couple of singles I had heard but felt this album was okay.

This sounds like the sort of thing lads pretend to like to get laid, like James Joyce, or personal hygiene.

The album stopped playing about twenty minutes ago and I have already forgotten it.

One of the best pure rap albums I can think of

This is really cheesy early 2000's RnB pop, zero depth whatsoever. Beyonce in particular has to be the most overrated vocalist of the last twenty years Almost un-listenable and definitely not my kind of thing

Sad girl music. I like LDR but this isn't the album I would have chosen, probably by 4th favourite. High 3

I spent most of the album looking at the track list waiting for it to finish.

Oh wow - okay. Wasn't what I was expecting at all. Kind of hard to place this in terms of other music I have heard but I really like it. Very gloomy and atmospheric somewhere between The Cure and Type o Negative. Not a wasted track on the album too, great variation between songs so they don't blur into each other.

Exceptional album which turned hip hop on its head on release and understandably so

How do these David Bowie albums seem to be getting worse? This one actually starts off okay but the back half of the album is a weird Temu Brian Eno kind of things

One my favourite albums with Reckoner one of my favourite songs

I don't like Queen. This didn't really sound like a typical queen album though, more like a bad led zep album

There were bits of this album I really liked, but overall it felt quite confused

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It's an odd choice to include as honestly its an okay album compared to some of their others.

Really enjoyed this one

Too sweet for me

Actually far better than i remembered

I'm usually pretty harsh on American dad rock but this album is banger after banger.

I couldn't get through it all - but unless the last part radically differs from the first two my score probably holds up. Difficult to know what to think, Feels more like you have stumbled upon s secret notebook rather than an album. It pushes what I consider to be an album to the limits. Not just in it's length (which is insane) but each song feels like a new page in that notebook rather than a stepping stone to a wider piece

Even with Sweet Child O Mine being the most overplayed song of the last thirty years, this album is incredible

Horniest album so far - and I have listened to 2 Prince albums

Sounds like someone rounded some of the rougher edges off an early white stripes album. It's a good album but made my maybe appreciate those rough edges a little more than be convinced by this.

It really wasn't a drum and bass morning, and honestly this album is three times longer than it needed to be

Bruce Springsteen is 'Basically Fine: The Musical'. Nothing about his music stirs any kind of feeling in me. Even his biggest hits - both of which are on this album - leave me with a feeling of ambivalent indifference. I can't understand how anyone could dislike this music, and I can't understand why anyone could like it. It's magnolia dad rock which as a non-american has zero cultural meaning.

Eleanor Rigby is such a fantastic song

I understand why metal fans love Slayer. They are completely uncompromising in their approach compared to the other big metal bands. I think if you aren't a purest metal fan though this will be a challenging listen.

Turns out I actually quite like the doors

Does anyone outside of the US rate country? Folk music across is very cultural in the same way I wouldn't expect someone from Kentucky to understand the Wurzels

The only Pornography in the UK that isn't currently banned over the internet

Better than the previous KoL albums I have heard, I think the earlier bluesier stuff is a bit more listenable. Still I couldn't image anyone being particularly excited about this

Glam Rock is objectively the worst rock

The first few notes and I thought this could potentially be a one star album but it actually grew on me a little

Not heard this album before, although I have heard a couple of the songs including 'Alright' which is still a very popular song thirty years later.

This is very obviously not music. In it's defence I don't think it ever tries to be, instead it's more of an auditory art installation. I'm only going to give it more than one star because it technically fits the bill of this whole exercise. You should definitely listen to this at least once and make your own mind up.

I have no theory of mind for someone who considers this good music

It's probably very clever and innovative, but it got irritating after about 2 mins

Queen are the most overrated band that has ever played.

Much better than sign of the times, and I can see why some people would love this album but to me it's just a bit icky

Fantastic album. Bridges the gap between pop, dance, hip-hop and indie and creates a really tight piece that never takes itself too seriously.

I found this on youtube, but possibly it was an amalgamation of the English and German versions. Can't say I really enjoyed it but it was incredibly different to anything else on this list which I think warrants its inclusion.

Its a very up and down album. There are tracks that just burst with energy and grab you and others that just seem to meander along. Dizzee improved his sound over the years and this was such an early album both in terms of his style and UK rap in general.

I tapped out, came back and endured the rest

It puzzles me how much American indie bands sound alike.

The dreaded three stars - I'm not sure I liked it, but I wholly appreciate the attempt to create something new and unique

Let's start with an honest appraisal: Is this musically one of the best albums of all time? Honestly, no. However this is the perfect example of Lightning in a bottle. At this point in time there was a real shift of culture - music, fashion, and attitudes were dragged in a singular direction in a way that I have not experienced in my lifetime. Whether that shift was due to this album, or the album was riding the crest of that shift is impossible to know as the two are intertwined so deeply. This album is such a perfect embodiment of that specific time and mood that I'm unsure if anyone that wasn't a part of it can really understand the impact this had on music fans across the world. Twelve tracks with zero skips, with an incredible authenticity to them that even Nirvana couldn't replicate (Unplugged album aside but for different reasons). It took that Seattle grunge sound worldwide and gave a fresh breath of air to guitar music. The raw and unpolished sound may not be to everyone's tastes but if you were to recommend a batch of albums to an alien visitor to Earth to introduce them to music, this would undoubtedly be near the top of the list. Favourite track: Lounge Act

That was a fun listen

The first track was so abrasive I was worried that I was going to need to skip this, but I am glad a persevered as this turned out to be a fantastically innovative album

Queen are the most overrated band that has ever existed and I doubt anyone else will come close.

So incredibly bland

This is just awful

Yanks love to moan in the comment section about there being too many British bands but we have to listen to album after album of the most homogeneous twee shite recorded.

Old Kanye was so special.

I have a feeling this one had some depth to it and probably needs more than one listen to enjoy it fully.

Music is an exceptional blend of funk, rap, rock and punk that has a unique fingerprint. I don't care for their politics at all but that has very little to do with how I appreciate the music (see guys, it's easy!)

Probably my least favourite White Stripes album and I think a definite start of the end of the band. Meg isn't a great drummer and it shows on this album as they tried to move away from their signature power sound into something more subtle. Some of that clumsy charm that carried through the first few albums started to wear off a little.

I'l go to my grave saying that George Harrison was the best musician in the Beatles, and this album is two of the greatest songs ever written surrounded by a collection of mostly average songs. 'Something' probably has a strong claim to be one of the best songs I have ever heard. The rest of the album is pretty hit and miss. I'm honestly a little surprised this is as highly regarded as some of the other albums, it doesn't have the same cohesive feel that Rubber Soul. Sgt Peppers, or the white album has.

I don't really like this album. Much preferred Kayne's older stuff and for me anything after Watch the Throne had a very different sound. Makes sense that as an artist Kanye would want to evolve his sound and push boundaries, but some people are always going to be left behind and I guess I am one of those. New Slaves shows flashes, as does hold my liquor... but the rest of the album lacks any kind of warmth that can make you love it. 100% deserves a place on this list, even thought it wouldn't be on mine.

There are 4 kinks albums on this list... four!

Cuban elevator music

Couldn't finish it

I'm not against live albums being on the list, but this is an odd choice of a live album. Most of the songs are on other albums already on the list and there isn't anything particularly special with the live performance that makes this remarkable.

If you don't like this album I don't think we can be friends

Nope, not doing this.

I prefer rhythm and stealth

I just wanted to talk about one track because it captures what makes this album brilliant to me. Devil in a new dress is obviously about a breakdown in a relationship but its absolutely dripping in ego and braggadocio. Kanye is using all these religious metaphors to cast himself as this flawed hero but it is clear he is just hiding behind all of this because the whole thing feels like a defiant 'sorry not sorry'. The clever thing though is that haunting sample looping behind it. It's a sample of Smokey Robinson singing 'Will you still love me tomorrow' pitched up in the old school Kanye style. All the time Kanye is flexing and playing the joker there is the soulful plea in the background exploring Kanye's vulnerability and insecurity, never really knowing if the love (or lust) is real and desperately wondering if it will still be there when the lights come on. It's a great one-two that is easy to miss and this album is full of moments like this. Then Rick Ross shows up, gets his dick out and pisses on everything in the most glorious way possible. A perfect reminder to never take any of this seriously.

I was only going to give it 4, but I was really impressed by the variety and depth of the homophobia and misogyny. Connoisseur level of cartoonish hate.

Fetishising music for not being in English is just as droll as complaining about music not being in English. Language is not a proxy for quality. Album itself is okay. It has a cool unique flavour but its pretty uneven and comes across a bit hit and miss.

Holy shit guys you have to listen to this album. It's so bad.

Honestly don't know what to think of this. Music seems good but more as a collection of sounds then an album in the traditional sense. Something I would probably enjoy live but I wouldn't enjoy listening at home.

I think this review is going to hinge on whether the person likes ambient music or not. If you do this is probably one of the finest ambient music albums ever made.

It's a shame KoL decided to call it quits after making two really good albums.

Honestly could be half the length

"I don't like Country and Western" "What about Johnny Cash" "Obviously that doesn't include Johnny Cash"