1001 Albums Summary

Not a fan! Can't even sing...

Good guitar

It's the Beatles. Enough said.

Outstanding

She's got some game.

I'm not sure why it got so many accolades.

Like a bag of cats being swung around a room. That's just Tom Yorke's voice.

Let's not kid around, these guys have some serious game. But in the main not for me.

Don't get it.

I have experienced Jimi Hendrix. Genius.

Easy listening but not very exciting.

May be a grower.

Interesting

Awesome. These guys know how to rock.

Bit like REM. I approve.

This guy can play the trumpet.

A bit depressing and pretentious.

It's indie rock and roll for me.

Odd

These guys can rock but strange choices designed to be very annoying.

Gotta love the Stones

Brilliant album.

Very enjoyable

Nothing special.

I'm not sure how Paul became so pedestrian without John.

Brilliant

Great fun.

It's fine but not very exciting.

I enjoyed it.

Bloody excellent.

Decent indie album

This takes me back to my teens. Love REM.

Excellent

Rock Lobster!

Utter garbage. This isn't music. If I could give it zero I would.

A safe Beatles / Beach Boys clone.

Nice music

Amazing talent.

10 on 10.

Serious rock

Bland

One of the top albums of my teens from the noughties indie scene. Absolutely banging

Nice bit of jazz

This is an album one endures rather than listens to. And it feels like the same 20 seconds on loop, with occasional repeated references to Whitecastle. Not for me.

These guys are the best.

Bit typical of the early Coldplay era in music.

It's like someone was playing musical telephone, and someone explained REM and was told to write their music with a red crayon on the wall of a moving elevator while bouncing on a trampoline.

Not very tuneful.

A strange concept album.

I feel like I missed the joke by 60 years but it's so bonkers I kind of respect it.

Rock and roll confirmed.

Did all bands sound like this in the 60s?

How did I not know about this band. Banging.

Nothing to write home about.

I've had want one for years, can't believe I never got around to this. Lovely.

Nice jazz.

It was a bit boring, up until If It's In You, where it sounded like a bad X Factor audition. That took it from 2 to 1 stars.

That was long but enjoyable.

Good fun

Genius to the end.

Inoffensive. In a bad way. 90s blandness.

Where has this band been all my life? I thought they were some edgy heavy metal band but no they are just an awesome semi blues rock band. Very good stuff.

How did I get two albums of this bland tat twice in three days? Why is it even on here? Like Dido without the edge.

Track 1: "We've got R.E.M. at home!" From there it felt like this was a band that still hadn't figured out its own style, and should have spent more time in the garage before going to the studio.

It's not Songs In the Key of Life - but that's probably an unfair comparison. This is a solid album from one of the greatest of all time.

Maybe childhood nostalgia plays a part but this may be in my top 10 of all time. Outstanding.

It's fine. Last song dragged a bit...

Fun album with lots of personality. 4.

I feel like this album is just making up the numbers. 2.

I felt at times like I was at a fairground. Not in a good way. A creepy one. And some other eclectic stuff. But not excited. 2.

4

Who knew the Pogues sang sea shanties.

An all time banger. In my Top Ten of all time, and a serious contender for Number One. Absolute perfection from the master of pop folk.

We've got Oasis at home.

4

Lovely voice and the go to for mid 2000s dinner parties.

This album came out in 1998. And I don't think I've ever heard anything so 1998-core in my entire life. So is it derivative or just part of a trend? Either way it's as bland as Dido eating a bowl of vanilla ice cream in a beige room. Ok the track Ray of Light actually has some bounce but it can't save the album.

This is without a doubt the second worst album I have ever heard.

Not enjoyable. 2.

Good tunes

Good. Elevated by Every Breath You Take and Murder By Numbers.

All hail King Bob.

Great to clean your kitchen to.

Immediate thought. Oh so this is where Brandon Flowers got his ideas. Brilliant discovery.

Good lyrics. Sad how we're still here 60 years later. And Watergate sounds trivial by comparison to the current corruption.

Offensively tedious. 2.

Fine.

Just for that bass in You Can Call Me Al.

That Safesurfer song makes me want to rip off my ears.

4

Iconic songs.

It's incredible that this was banged out by a bunch of kids. The lyrics are killer. The intelligence of the arrangement of instruments. Talent beyond their years. 'But his bird said it's amazing so all that's left is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf.'

This album slaps so damn hard. Oh my God. What even is it? Pop, R&B, rap, EDM, jazz, rock, metal, soul, classical? Answer: YES. It's like Janelle listened to all of music history and said "hold my beer". Where has this been all my life. Genius. 6/5.

Dull and repetitive.

Inoffensive but unambitious.

King.

Yawn.

As brilliant as ever.

It's fine.

Compared to the later Pornography, which is the only other album I have heard, this one doesn't really hold up.

This feels somewhat typical of its time but in some places ahead of its time.

No no no. Repetetive rubbish.

A middling album elevated by having a few all time bangers. The man gets zero stars but the music gets four.

A poor man's Coldplay. Typical of the sad boy guitar of the era with no excitement. Yawn.

By the skin of its teeth a 5 for the all time bangers. Otherwise very good 4 level. He is the boss for a reason.

5/5. Absolute bangers.

They have a distinctive sound but it's a bit one trick pony. Nothing about it makes me want to listen to it twice. Or even once really, except that I have to.

Judas Priest!

Not my thing but man does this deserve its spot on the list. Anything that keeps me moving around the kitchen like this. And it's amazing to hear these big names before they were big solo artists.

This chap may be Dylan in his language and culture for all I know. However since I can't speak his language it's lost on me. And subjectively didn't really enjoy it. It's not actively bad or anything though. 2/5

Really lovely songs. It's not often that I immediately go back for a second listen. Oddly puts me in mind of Coldplay's Parachutes album in some tracks. 5/5

Nothing exciting.

This album smacks you in the face then let's you chill then smacks you in the face again. A heavy emo mystery tour. I think I have Stockholm syndrome because I like it. 4/5.

Didn't excite.

That's not music, that's just bloodeh noise!

Nothing too interesting.

I love blues rock and as one of the godfathers of the genre, the king you might say, I wanted this to be a 5. But I think it's just a 4 for me.

Hello fellow kids. Sorry, just no. I'm not sure what cultural relevancy Madonna was aspiring to in 2000 but it was over. She can't even sing. I will say she was working with a talented producer who deserved a better vocalist.

Bit of Travis, bit of early Coldplay. Very much of its time.

Edgelords making noises.

And that's meant to be good is it? 2/5.

Never listened to them back in the day despite mid 2000s indie being my jam. Takes me back.

Inoffensive

Obviously this has some classics and maybe it's a grower but didn't excite me.

I get Bowie's meant to be a genius or whatever but. If I didn't know that. I wouldn't have guessed that. What's with the discordant nonsense at the end. Sorry David. 2.

Why the hell is this on this list? Just noise. Some tunes are not wholly awful though so it scrapes a 2.

They're having fun.

Quite impressive that one band can make a whole career around variations on the same one song.

Yawn

It was very daring rather than to release an album of songs to instead release a recording of their warm up jams. At first I thought they at least sounded like they had a technical knowledge of the blues although that turned out to be just one riff on repeat. And was this recorded in an abbatoir wtf? At least it's only 32 minutes.

Always brilliant.

Boring.

Mixed bag.

It was going ok until they murdered Light My Fire.

Talented guy. Album a bit overlong. 4

Someone bought this for me many moons ago. Would not have bought myself. But through many listens really came to appreciate it. Objectively don't think I can give it a 5 but it's a great bit of art to me. 4.

Not my thing but I recognise the talent.

It's fine. Not exciting.

Gets a 4 because of Tiny Dancer and Indian Sunset.

Ok you played all the instruments well done. This is just... Generic and derivative. Where is the personal signature. Boring. 2

Very proggy. Well made but not for me.

These guys came to rock and they understood the assignment.

Well. That was long. And they can play. But it should have been a third of the length and focused on their best ideas. I'm sure for some this is top stuff. Not for me.

Nice enough tunes.

Fun and inventive.

Elevated at the end by Free Bird.

The guitar work is outstanding but the vocalist is terrible, like they dragged in the first guy they saw on the street. That averages out at a 3.

I am surprised that this dross was put out by a label, that it was purchased by punters, and that someone saw fit to put it on this list. Whiny, discordant, uninventive rubbish.

Credit where it's due, that was good.

Can confirm this is a rock album.

Ahead of it's time. Serious guitar.

Wanted not to like this but fair play.

I'm not entirely sure what's going on. But you know what I'm so glad it's not another obscure 70s rock band I'm giving it four stars.

Any list of Britain's top 10 singers of all time could credibly include Adele, and I'm sure more than a few would put her at number 1. As a young woman stil she still has a huge career ahead. But here in 25 we already see the raw talent of 19 now maturing. Hello is so powerful and soulful. When We Were Young doubly so.

Bono is fine. The Edge is fine. The drummer is fine. 2/5.

The song Taj Mahal has a riff that seems to be the precursor of Rod Stewart's "If you want my body, and you think I'm sexy, Come on, sugar, tell me so". Turns out yeah, and Jorge successfully sued Rod. Good on him. Anyway this album is a lot of fun. 4/5.

Fine.

These edgelords have constructed a series of noises that starts weak and goes downhill from there. They managed to work themselves down from a 3 to a 2 to a 1. An album to be endured and nothing more. Jagerspiel might be one of the worst creative works ever devised by the hand of man like a toddler was set loose on a soundboard of the most irritating noises imaginable. I never thought I would prefer to be listening to the tinny noises of other people's phone calls and Tiktoks on public transport. I need some Tay Tay now to cleanse my brain.

It's technically music but definitely just here to make up the numbers.

More fun than the endless 80s rock bands.

I was going to allow 3 stars for being a fine version of what it is. But then I was forced to enjoy almost 7 minutes of Percy's Song. FML. 2 stars.

It's pretty chill.

Is it over yet? Boring.

This might be harsh but it's just more of the same in this genre. If this came out today no one would listen.

In. 30 minutes of banging blues rock. Out. Respect.

The man can play.

Decent enough rock.

Chill enough.

Aggressively not pleasant.

I guess it's the style but this sounds like one song with 15 different versions of the lyrics. 3/5

No thank you. But respect for being short. 2/5.

It was so far so competent until Channel Zero. Ugh. Headache inducing. And what is that sound effect on some tracks that sounds like a mouse being strangled?

Did not excite.

This was fun and respect to Johnny for doing this in a prison.

Yeehaw! I like that it's short and sweet.

A good album with soulful tracks. But totally elevated to a 5 by the inclusion of Superstition.

No greater lyricist. And that voice.

Starts strong but the instrumental tracks are so so.

Can you believe the title track is the first track rather than the closer. They didn't even know what they had, did they? One of the greatest songs of all time. I had the privilege to hear Mr Simon play it on his 'farewell' tour some years ago. Anyway. 5/5 absolutely legendary.

Mid.

Perfect catchy pop rock.

The album finished and rolled onto the next Dylan tracks on Spotify but I couldn't tell. That says it all. Every song is the same. If he didn't have the famous name I'd be wondering what this whiny voice was doing here. Sorry Bob. Overrated.

Atmospheric, grand in scope, sounds like a musical soundtrack. Big ideas mostly landed. Can't say it's my jam but credit for the effort.

It was ok.

Wonderful artist. Sublime. Sadly the recording is a bit wobbly.

They should write a second or third song

Started strong but I forgot I was listening to it.

This sort of whiny voice and busy guitar was popular back in 2004. Cannot think why.

Utterly insipid. And repeating a line over and over is not lyrics. At track 2 I really wished I could 'bail out'. If you're going to have the temerity to call yourself the Auters you better bring more than this.

Mysoginistic edgelords. Who is impressed with this?

Opening: You know music? Yeah. Do the opposite of that. It does however improve. Then someone starts "singing" and oh my god why. Then more atonal noise and finally some actual good jazz. This is a mess.

How can people learn to become proficient in music and then write such bland shlock. Where's the sauce boys? The opening chord is an Oasis style gambit and then it just becomes proto Snow Patrol. Sad. Which makes it the more surprising to learn they signed with Noel's label. 2/5.

Amazing opening gambit. Then I hear a voice like Alex Turner. And I'm like wait is this an Arctic Monkeys ripoff? No. Wait. That is actual Alex Turner. How didn't I know about this supergroup? I had this at a 5 after track 2. Amazing. This is why I do this challenge.

No explanation necessary.

Should this be assessed in its sad context or not? I've never been a huge fan but I respect Bowie's influence. As an album alone I can only give this album a mid score.

If I had a Cuban restaurant this would definitely be on the playlist. Can't say more than that.

I have never heard of Liz Phair and with good reason. This is awful and does not deserve to be on this list.

Meh. Points for the line used by Jez in Peep Show.

:/

Some good songs and I am impressed with their environmental messaging in 1971.

Utterly mediocre. How have I got to listen to this but not yet a single Taylor Swift album? Oh well Taylor isn't quality music. And this is? Oh well Taylor hasn't affected the music scene enough? And this has? Compared to the biggest star in the world? Forget this I'm listening to 1989 to cleanse my soul.

Takes me back.

It's fine but he's a work in progress here. A bit too Dylan.

Don't normally go for Bowie but parts of this album slap.

Was going to give a 3 for the nice music but the commentary on the Black experience and history elevates it.

Rest in power queen.

Peak Bowie.

Banging.

Running up that Hill is great, and there is some creativity here. But it's not exciting to me. 3/5.

A band still a work in progress. Their later work is better. 2/5.

Sorry Bob. Still not a fan.

Starts strong but drops off.

Blues rock perfected. Jack White is the best.

Why is this on here?

I don't get old Bowie.

4

3

Sounds like a Disney soundtrack. In a good way. 4

People actually listen to this for enjoyment?

My younger brother listened to this when we were teens. Didn't like it much then but nostalgic now.

Sally go round the ******* roses.

I applaud it for being different.

This is a time capsule.

Can't believe I've never listened to this in full before. Damn. 30 minutes of consummate blues rock.

I don't know how to judge something as competent but also meandering as this.

It's ok. 3.

Baby One More Time is a banger but the rest is a bit generic. Also Email My Heart probably sounded so modern in 1999 but is now so cringe. 3.

Surprised not to have heard of this before.

Vision. Execution.

3

It's fine but reminds me too much of the pretentious people that would enjoy it.

Boring boring boring

When your mum says you've got Bowie at home. I don't care for this.

Is this what people had to listen to before Taylor Swift?

It's hard to understand why people listen to this on purpose. For one hour and 17 of our Earth minutes. Fml. 2

My Generation and the Ox are good. Rest is ok.

Not sure what category Rod falls in but he's a good version of himself.

Some interesting ideas but would have been better to make the point in half the time.

Love me some Jack White. Was not disappointed. 5.

Sometimes I give experimental stuff points for being different but this is just fresh bull****.

Full marks for effort.

We've got the Beatles at home! The Beatles at home:

Not for me.

I had never heard of Fiona Apple but full marks. 10 years ahead of her time considering where similar artists were in the 2000s. Gorgeous voice, moody song writing, full marks.

Not sure how something so technically proficient can still fail to excite me.

Mind numbingly repetitive. Every song is about 75% too long. I really don't understand who is supposed to enjoy this but I presume some form of drugs are supposed to be involved. Damn you 1001.

This album is peak and if you disagree I will fight you. With my words. I'm not even a diehard Oasis fan but I had this album as a teen and listened to it a lot. It bangs from start to finish. Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger, She's Electric, Champagne Supernova, they're all here. Bless the gods of Rock they are touring again, not that I'll ever get a chance to see them. 5/5. Superlative. No notes.

Why is this here. Just generic country.

Yawn.

This is actively unpleasant.

Meh.

Some really great tunes on here balanced out by some really uninventive rap.