1001 Albums Summary

Significant album, you can hear its influence in so many bands that came after, especially in terms of production.

Compared to other Funkadelic albums I think this is a bit weak. Hit it and Quit It is a stand out. I don’t get the hype around the Maggot Brain guitar solo.

I'm not a big JC fan, but I enjoyed the between-song chat, captures the atmosphere so well.

Never listened to this as a full album before. A handful of absolute classics, but drops off in the middle, not feeling Quicksand / Feel your heart

Hard to fault this album, so I won't.

Big fan of this album, Dull Life / Soft Shock / Heads Will Roll are highlights for me

Really nice textures with the french horn and tuba, but this has never been a go-to Miles Davis album for me.

Not really my bag, enjoyed Traveling Man but the rest didn’t grab me

Top 1001? aside from Feelin’ and There She Goes i thought it was dross

Doesn't get much more 80s than this. A bit dull overall.

The first few bars of the album filled me with hope, but didn’t quite deliver. Percussion in City/country/city a highlight.

It was 7am on 8th November 2016 and I was sitting contemplating breakfast at a small table in the corner of a vast deserted restaurant at a hotel in county Meath, Ireland when I heard Born In The U.S.A blaring from a tiny phone speaker. Across the way, the only other guest, a mountain of a man with slicked back hair who was too large for the furniture, was celebrating the announcement of Donald Trump's election victory and boasting to the bewildered waitress about the large bet he'd placed on the result. This album takes me right back to that misty morning and watery porridge.

Some outstanding tracks like (I don’t want to go to) Chelsea, but I can only cope with Costello‘s vocals in small bursts.

Inoffensive but did nothing for me

Loved this, wasn’t expecting the melody on Taj Mahal! Stolen by Rod Stewart / N- Trance?

Many of these tracks are etched into my brain from hearing them a lot as a kid, so I don’t know how much is enjoyment on their own merit vs familiarly. Blame it on Cain / Watching the detectives highlights for me

Everyone is having a good time

Hard work, no discernible redeeming features.

To me the orchestra doesn’t add anything, the arrangements feel more like a film soundtrack

Distinctive but dull. The vocals are not for me.

Cheese? Bacon? Mayonnaise?!

This all felt a bit bland and repetitive, I think it stems from the drum machine, seems like the same beat all the way through each track with no variation

Enjoyed a few of these, like Big Iron and The Master’s Call

I’ve never been able to get past Pet Shop Boys vocals.

Not my go-to public enemy but some great tracks like Welcome to the Terrordome

I’m quite fond of some Neil Young, Harvest/After the Gold Rush are both on regular rotation…..but this isn’t on my the same level

I can see the appeal, but not for me.

One of my all time favourites

I’ve consciously avoided iron maiden, but the raw punkiness of this album was a pleasant surprise. Not sure what to think lyrically…looking at you..Charlotte the Harlot

Did not enjoy, felt like all of the worst things about 80s pop music rolled into one album

Nothing remotely memorable here. Strangely restrained vocals stuck on top of mediocre backing tracks which don’t go anywhere.

Pleasant but not spectacular

Meh. Could be any early 90s middle of the road band

I like the textures and sounds in a lot of Cure songs, but have never been on board with Robert Smith’s vocals. This album is too lumbering for me.

Great version of Desafinado, and no doubt an influential album in bringing bossa nova into the mainstream. Maybe not my favourite Stan Getz though.

I haven’t listened to this in years. It’s a solid album, but would I choose to put this on instead of the Pixies?

I can imagine this growing on me with concerted listening, jury’s out.

Nostalgia trip

Not entirely my bag, but it must have been quite something to hear this in 1956. Tutti Frutti a highlight

Not keen on the ballady stuff, but the upbeat tracks like rolling in the deep are exceptionally polished pop songs. I’d always assumed Rumour Has It was a cover of a 60’s Motown single!

Absence of cymbals gives it a distinctive vibe, vocals are a bit meh, overall too disjointed as an album.

All over the place stylistically, in a good way. Will give it some more spins

This did absolutely nothing for me. Perhaps if I could hear it without the baggage of being pub-rock influencers it would get another star

Any chance of me enjoying this album was destroyed by uni housemate blasting out Tiny Dancer 24/7 for several weeks.

Allison / Dig for Fire / Velouria are all top drawer

So good.

Mixed bag, a handful of bangers but otherwise unremarkable

Time after time is a pop classic, but it stands out more because a lot of the rest of this album is feeble

Maybe not as strong as their debut, but good fun

Meh. Sounds like the kind of band that would leave you disappointed and with ears ringing after seeing them live. So many murky guitar layers but no definition.

Can't escape the Rather Good "holding back the ears" image. I'm not a fan of Hucknall's voice.

Albarn at his most annoying. Despite many attempts I’ve just never enjoyed this album.

Solid but not spectacular

The difficult 7th album. I would have preferred a decent punk rock album to this ‘punk rock opera’

Maybe one day I will see what everyone else does in this album. But aside from some a handful of my favourite tunes (Helter Skelter, Savoy Truffle) this album is all over the place. More miss than hit

Even more boring than I remember it being

I can't imagine how mind blowing it must have been to stick this on your record player in 1970.

One of my all time favourite albums. Back to back pop classics.

Any album with Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers is going to contain classics.

The sound of Gang Of Four is right up my street. Twangy p-bass, spiky guitar, and uncomplicated songs with plenty of space. But because all the tracks are like this it’s a bit dull as an album.

This has grown on me. Lots of carefully constructed tracks with interesting guitar parts and a great warm sound. A bit like a more conventional Zappa, which makes sense as they’ve cited him as a big early influence.

Better than I was expecting, considering my disappointment when I saw it was Billy Joel being served up today, but I won’t be returning to this in a hurry.

A lot of noodling, probably best enjoyed high

Too long and self indulgent

I’d never properly listened to this album before, Portishead is a blind spot for me. Nicely atmospheric, will be returning.

Some good grooves, perhaps a touch long, and on a couple of tracks the lyrics/content is suspect

Did nothing for me, pretty dull, and i found the vocals annoying.

Fond memories, the first Stooges album I heard, and still my favourite Iggy

Makes me wish I didn’t have ears