1001 Albums Summary

Liked it a lot more when I was younger. Some great stuff that I'd pick out to listen to on occasion and I think there isn't much that can knock this album down, but it isn't to my personal taste

Phenomenal all the way through. Not much else to say except it's wonderful.

I hate this style of music. Great when I was younger but now it bores me to death or makes me feel sick.

Has got some decent tracks, Layla itself is good but I skip as soon as the piano hits and I prefer the Unplugged version of it anyway. People think he's a knob but I think he's a great guitar player and separate his personal life from his songs. I doubt I'll listen to much off of here again but it's a classic.

I love this record from front to back it's so special and was absolutely game-changing at the time and whilst others are held in higher regard these days it can't be denied how wonderful it is. Easily one of the most important albums of all time.

The songs are all phenomenal but I've decided I don't like Ian Brown's voice a great deal and it ruins some of the songs on here, others though it passes and I don't mind it. I'd go 3.5 in all honesty but because we don't have that luxury I'll round to a 4 because some of the songs are good.

Makes me want to deck the halls with boughs of holly. It's alright.

Listen. Ozzy is a legend and Tony is a phenomenal guitar player who made great impressions on me but as my tastes have matured I've fallen out of love with this hard and don't see myself revisiting it any time in the near future.

Might be my favourite Bowie album in all honesty. It's like Ziggy Stardust but with more of a heavy edge.

I like this all the way through, it's got the energy of the first record and isn't afraid to show the band's soft side with lighter songs. Yes they're joked about for their attitude and people find the songs a little corny but I like this album a lot, it's consistently great throughout and each song having it's own merits.

Got a lot of respect for them as a band and for Rob Halford as a singer and individual but a lot of this is samey and I find the songs boring and dull for the most part. Some are ok though but to be honest I've overdone a lot of the songs in the past.

Pretty damn good at parts. Some tracks drag it out though. Ultimately I like it but some are skips for me and I think better albums came before and after by both Led Zeppelin themselves and other artists. Despite that I do give credit where credit counts and I do enjoy this record.

It's a masterpiece. Emotionally beautiful. I can't think of any flaws. Everybody Hurts is always poignant and will forever carry importance to me. Nightswimming also haunts me for reasons I don't even know why. I think that shows the magic of this record. Try Not To Breathe and Sweetness Follows are two great deep cuts too. I recommend this wholeheartedly.

Aisde I guess the title track and Jailbait despite the lyrics, the music is pretty dull and crap but Lemmy is probably the only famous metal musician I could stomach if I met them in real life, Rest in peace to a legend. Unfortunately his music is shit to me but more power to you if you like it.

I honestly think this is really fun to listen to. Elvis has such a great singing voice and his swagger comes out of the speakers with each track. Considering how ancient the album is, it goes beyond just its hits. Pretty good overall.

Some good tracks but it's mainly Killer Queen that stands out. I think Queen have talent and are great to listen to and watch their performances but I find them overrated purely because their back catalogue is so dull and this album is no exception. They're the most glorified singles band of all time.

God this is pretty rancid bar N.I.B. and The Wizard and even then I'm not putting them on any playlist or going out of my way to listen to them. This has aged like piss and the only thing it has going for it is its front cover. I did used to like this but I've grown to dislike it.

The most underrated band of all time. This is the start of glam rock and it's brilliant.

Just fun really. Feels very care-free and kiddish, I think anyone can enjoy the hits on here really. Generally pretty good.

I've moved on and find this quite tiresome as I've gotten older. Can't deny their impact though.

Basically perfect and wonderful in every way, everything that can be said has been said so I'm not gonna kick a dead horse. Let me just immediately contradict that though and tell you that God Only Knows is a perfect song and one of the best things I've ever heard.

Some stone cold classics on here but stalls at some points for me, a legendary album and important for not just music but the band themselves. Some great guitar work on here especially.

Saved by the hits. Also Boy George is one of my favourite vocalists of all time.

I’m going to put more effort into this review than I typically do. We all know why we got given this or one of the other 3 Sabbath albums on this list and that’s because we lost perhaps the greatest rockstar to ever live. I’d listened to this yesterday anyway along with Master of Reality, Vol. 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and then Blizzard of Ozz as well. I put them on as soon as I heard the news. Metal, and this band in particular, was my introduction to music on a wider scale. Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Queen were all responsible for getting me to actually go out of my way and listen to music as a kid but hearing the song Paranoid for the first time is what really sent me spiralling and got me and inspired me to learn about musicians and more about the history of music. It’s why I play guitar and it’s why I favour SGs due to the legendary Tony Iommi, my thoughts are with him at the moment I can’t imagine his pain. I started listening to metal everyday, every hour, every minute. I loved Sabbath the most and plenty of the other classic legends of the genre. I couldn’t get enough until I eventually did get sick of it. It wouldn’t be the first time and it wouldn’t be the last. I remained a rock music fan but all the metal faded away including Sabbath, the one that started me on my musical journey. I looked back in embarrassment of being a metalhead and jettisoned my status as one completely and desperately trying to move on. Now I sit here pondering the life of the man I once idolised as being like a God and listening to the music he left us and reading all the stories that made me laugh so hard. I’d begin to come to this realisation in the buildup to his comeback gig but it really hits now the man is no longer here. That realisation is “What was I thinking?”. I don’t regret my change in taste, it was for the best and it’s taken me places musically, artistically and professionally that I’d never have anticipated when sitting in my room that fateful night when I was 13 rocking out to Paranoid in awe of this sound that I’d never been introduced to before. But what I do regret is how I rejected Black Sabbath afterwards, and I guess Iron Maiden too but that’s for another time. These guys were great and among the most influential and creative bands of all time. I take back everything. I’m falling in love all over again, and it feels fantastic. I send my love to Ozzy’s family, friends and anyone that had the luxury of meeting/working with the Prince of Darkness. R.I.P Ozzy Osbourne, we love you

I think the fact it has less tracks makes it easier for it to be a better record because of how compact it is but also more difficult to decide what the best part of it is. Just a really great sounding record all around packed with classics. I love it.

Don't like them at all

I'm maybe being unfair because it's well made but I'm just not much for them anymore. It's alright and that's that.

Well I really like this, I like every song though some are better than others, I wish there was a 4.5 purely just for this. Walking In Your Footsteps is underrated and Synchronicity II is the best track on here.

This will always be brilliant. Wham bam thank you ma'am!

Hate this band. Hate Damon Albarn. Hate this album. Simple as.

A couple of duds but it’s a great listen and it’s full of classics like All My Loving and underrated ones like You Really Got A Hold On Me (a cover) and Not A Second Time. I enjoy it.

It's got Bohemian Rhapsody and You're My Best Friend but also a bunch of filler, '39 is underrated though. I'm not a fan of Queen's albums that much.

Quite the classic and deserves its reputation. Each track is as good as the last.

I think some of the songs on here are hauntingly beautiful and profound, I love his songwriting to death. It slogs in some places though, apart from that no serious complaints.

I've loved this since I was about 7. I don't care how popular it is, it's at the core of my music taste.

Got a lot of time for this album, love his guitar playing and it's got so many great tunes, it's unbelievable how talented he was.

To be completely honest I don't like this band one bit. However I will say learning the Californication solo for the first time made me feel pretty badass, I'm not even a fan of that song but boy is that solo fun to play.

It's overall quite good. I enjoy some songs more than others but it's high energy and never lets up, very straight-ahead. I don't choose to listen to it all the time but it's always fun when I do it is enjoyable.

Some stone cold classics but I find it weak in certain places. Certainly not a bad effort though and was a sign of what to expect from him in his next few albums.

Such a great album. So haunting and mysterious I love it.

Something of a masterpiece really.