1001 Albums Summary

Good classic Clearwater album with plenty of energy and angst. always reminds me of the makings of early punk but with the intricacies of that classic blues sound. The perfect embodiment of that bitter southern swamp blues that I'd say is only other album really come close to the level of this one is with lynard skynards eponymous album but even still that lacks the harshness. Clearwater really let the music do the talking and aren't afraid to have long songs with deep complex vocal-less moments to allow the band to meander and improvise but always with that intense purpose. 5/5

punk at its absolute purest, if perhaps not at its most musically complex. Then again isn't that the whole point of punk? Good music, bad musicians. The history surrounding the band and there sole album is almost better than the album itself and its a miracle it even really exists. Calling Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones bad musicians is probably unfair. Just because they couldn't play or sing Fidelio is like calling David Bowie a bad song writer because he didn't write Jurassic Park, it's just not really relevant. The Sex Pistols had a lasting impact on music and pop culture that is still felt in the western world even today and without this album punk probably would have never taken off. 4/5

An album best described as a house on fire. Absolutely insane from start to finish and utterly bonkers Muddy waters catapulted himself back into the picture of the late 70s blues scene after most people had believed he was past his sell by date. Muddy's energy is just ecstatic and latches itself onto anyone listening including the bad who are just killing it and never once letting there foot off the pedal. They provide the perfect backdrop to allow Muddy to ramble on and just keep on punching it. Bob Margolin just goes and never once stops, from lightning slide guitar to thumping hard classic blues riffs. This is probably the only album in the world where the harmonica feels worthy of being with the rest of the band. keeping with the violence of the rest of the band and accentuating it tenfold, James Colton is a true wizard. This album of course wouldn't be as good without Johnny Winter (and his screaming) but I don't know enough about the history to divulge. Overall this album doesn't reinvent the wheel but it makes it HARD AGAIN, an essential blues album and easily one of the best of all time.

Never been the biggest Joni Mitchell fan and while I can appreciate the skill and craft on display with this album and how important it was at shaping folk music it just really doesn't do anything for me.

Not even my favourite Metallica album. Master of Puppets to me just meanders and tries to live up to ride the lightning but just falls short of the mark and replaces the beating heart rhythm and thrilling solos with noice after noice with few stand out tracks. Not Metallicas worst album of course, I don't think theres much debate on what that is, but also far from there best. To me this is just a very whatever album that I can listen to in the background when doing something unimportant.

It is very easy to argue this is the greatest HipHop album of all time. It's also of course one of the greatest albums of all time and could comfortably be the greatest album of the 90s (I wouldn't say that lightly though, stiff competition). Genesis opening to N.Y state of mind is an album opening that every rapper ever has tried to replicate and none have ever succeeded. I could spend all day listing each track individually and saying why it's one of the best rap songs of all time but I won't bother because all you need to do is listen to this master piece and you'd agree. A perfect album in every sense of the word from beginning to end.

One of the best albums of all time by the best duo band of all time. Showing that less is more and how you can do so much with so little. Just a guitar and a drum kit and they make enough sound to fill a stadium. This album achieves with 2 instruments what many rock and metal bands can’t even come close to with 3 guitarists 2 bassists 3 drummers and 2 singers. Not a bad track on the album and it of course opens with the now very famous seven nation army known for its intense bass beat (played on Jack Whites classic red guitar just down an octave) which is one of those songs you here so much now on the tv and in adverts it’s almost annoying but that just speaks to the reach and effect this album has had.

Although not without its charm this weird genre of music that sounds out of tune and terrible has never interested me. This kind of music makes me feel like an idiot when I listen to it because if you ever look it up or talk to someone who loves music about this sort of music they say about how good this stuff is and it’s just really bad and I can’t convince myself otherwise