1001 Albums Summary

One I actually knew pretty well, a big Neil Young fan though not a completist. Love the sound of this album, love Crazy Horse and the feel of a band in a room together. It's got really raw riffs and it takes its time, marking itself as the template for everything Neil Young and Crazy Horse did afterwards. Danny Whitten did a lot more than I remembered, plenty of important vocals etc. Great band. This comes just after Buffalo broke up and before CSNY really took off but obviously he came back to Crazy Horse as necessary. Just a brilliant indicator for starting this listening project to get to re listen to an album I know.

Another that I knew. One of my favourite Stones albums. Probably at their best for me

Brilliant listen, or at least the first half is. Absolute bangers of tunes, it's like a perfect half album

Not really my kind of thing. I get the importance and the influence but I'm too old for this kind of indie emo now

Love this album. Jack White slightly wandering outside the self-imposed White Stripes template but the bangers are still that loud sparse style. Blue Orchid, My Doorbell, Little Ghost all great

Brilliant, so much fun

Classic for a reason

Ha love this one. I'm very familiar with it, overdubs and all! I think that it's a great album no matter whether there are overdubs after the fact, which there are and it's never affected my listening. The epic drumming from Brian Downey is a particular highlight

My favourite of these American recordings. Obviously it has Hurt which is the best known track of this era but this is the top end of this concept of covering songs in the late Cash style. This album feels vulnerable and raw and is all the better for it. There are a few I'm not a fan of - Danny Boy and Desperado are songs I don't like no matter who is singing. I Hung My Head, The Man Comes Around and his reinterpretation of his own Give My Love to Rose are my favourites.

Fine, liked the opener, bit samey after that. Interesting to listen to rather than enjoyable

Pretty cool, hearing a lot of Tom Petty in it. I was expecting it to sound a little dated but the guitars and drums have that 70s feel that lend itself to a sort of timelessness, stays away from the overly jangly guitar of some of the 90s. Strong voice and really good songwriting, a confidence to the whole album really

A joy

Mediocre and messy

A remarkable piece of history. Even though from reading about it, this isn't the full recording, it's well put together and has a real feel of being in the room and a slight air of menace even all these years later. Playing San Quentin and then San Quentin again straight after and positioning it as improvised is a masterstroke

Yes

Really good, easy to listen to in the car

Sounds like the cover. You will run through a wall. I don't like it but my wife has strong feelings

Great production

Great stuff, hadn't listened to all of it before but a great jam

Not my favourite, not my least favourite. Some great tunes, some ok tunes.

Solid classic rock

Hits

Brilliant sounding as it was then

Ah the cool Beatles album of the moment. Used to be Sgt Peppers and then we all changed our minds. This album is great, with some absolute bombs. Yellow Submarine is unlistenable. Your Bird Can Sing is my favourite on the album, I wish Tomorrow Never Knows was about 12 minutes long.

One of the best

The singing seemed out of tune on a couple songs. Some nice little riffs but overall not great

Love Neil, just saw him live last night! Serendipity

One of the best on the list so far. Really eclectic mix from classic 90s loud singing with acoustic guitars to sweeping instrumentation, really showing off the Billy Corgan collaboration.

Tough going, some great songs, bit of a slog

I like a few songs, used to play them in a cover band. A bit overblown would be the kind version

One of my favourites

One of my favourite Sabbath albums and a day after Ozzy died. What a life

Banger

Surprisingly entertaining and funny clever lyrics

It's Abbey Road, you don't need another opinion on it

Another where another opinion on this one isn't going to make much difference. I like this album, I was later to it than other Pink Floyd big albums but now really love it

Impressive that all of these big songs are on one album. I'm just not a big fan

One of my all time favourite albums from my favourite band. I still have a track or two that I'm not fond of but I love the flow between some of the songs, the slightly concept album of it all and the still young ambition of the band. Brian May was coming back from serious illness and felt the need to prove himself again, coming up with the deceptively complex solo for Killer Queen and the bombast of Brighton Rock. It became a cornerstone of the live show, allowing him to show off his unique triple harmony delay with the Red Special and the wall of Vox amps that became his signature. This is a band still on the rise, pre Bohemian Rhapsody and it has all the swagger still of a more established band.

It is a relic of the era. Very grating and manic in parts but then has 6 really good songs

Probably second favourite led zep

The beginning of an era

The best of the Taytay albums for me. Pop perfection

Very strong start to an album with the first 6 tracks

I don't know what the highest rated album on here is but this is so far above the average. If I had to guess, I'd say the average rating is just below 2.5