1001 Albums Summary

Just a cracking album

Oh hell yes. Good for bopping about and hoovering

Perfect for sitting in the park in the sunshine reading and having a solo picnic lunch. Some of the songs felt a tad samey, but I like them. Didn't realise how similar CCR and ZZ Top feel.

Fine for background noise but just not my jam

Honestly, it was fine but I wasn't in the mood for 60s bopping. I feel like a lot of other bands can and have done these songs better

Biased, I'm a know who listened on vinyl

2.5

Loved this when I was 13, not so much now

Enjoyable change of pace from the last few albums, but mostly covers that don't enhance or deviate from the originals

Samey in the best way. Ideal soundtrack for packing up a flat on a sunny day. Love the change if pace from the last few albums, love the drums

Honestly, forgot how great this album is. Musically, but also emotionally. First 5 of the project

Good sad girl country, very similar voice to Dolly Parton, so their collaboration makes sense. I recon if you're not in a sad country mood this album is very samey and grating

Look, the first two CDs I ever bought were Gorillaz and Demon Dayz, so I will never hear slander or write libel. It's not the best album but it brings me the joy of my "edgy" tween years and is a good background album for putting up shelves

At first I was into it and didn't get scathing reviews...then it just kept going. Look, I enjoyed it, but back to back felt like a bit of a slog. Could totally see this mixed in with some Goat, Kasabian, and maybe Flaming Lips

There's nothing more I can say that hasn't already been said by m'colleagues. Enjoyed it, would listen again, made me actually stop my DIY task of putting bolts on a door to listen. Clearly I'll have to go back to one of the previous albums to get the task done because the gosh darn musical gifts from The Pixies were too good for to focus on otherwise. 4/5 for the album 1/5 for the back door lock. I've stripped a screw and buggered it all

All the components feels like something I would really love but somehow it isn't geling together for me. Some tracks are great, some not so much. I bet with the right atmosphere though I would love the whole thing. Only Happens When It Rains and Stupid Girlfeels like they belong in the soundtrack of a 90s film that would have regular cult showings at the Prince Charles Cinema, and I would eat it up

A clusterfuck of sounds and not in a fun way

I'm sorry. Good album but not 5/5 for me. I have other beatles albums I prefer. Its the beatles. Of course they're good. Of course this is a good album. But I'm holding my 5 back for something I can play on a loop and sit and listen and be endlessly happy and have no "oh I wish this song was also on here" moments

Another case of listening in the wrong mood and environment.

A good album, some classic hits, but every now and then there'd be a song I just wanted to skip

Leonard Cohen maybe isn't for everyone, but when you're feeling really sad on the tube this album just hits

It turns out I can only enjoy elvis if it's played in a film soundtrack, ideally lilo and stitch or charlie's angels. Just such a bland album. Middle of the road and boring to listen to. It's the music equivalent of those toasties you can get on trains: it'll fill you and technically the cheese is melt but you're not happy and you didn't enjoy it and you know that it could have been made so much better. I've lost the plot of this metaphor, but this album was so uninspiring I couldn't think of anything better. 1.5

I really wanted to like this but I just didn't. It was subpar, like nothing felt special or particularly talented. Sort of like the Elvis of country in a very bad way

Sad but in a summery sort of way. Very enjoyable after a few days of slog. Some songs making it on to my big ass playlist

I was really looking forward to this album. "I love the scissor sisters" I thought. "This album has some cracking songs". And then I played it. Hit, hit, hit...until it got slow. And a little dull. Don't get me wrong, still a good band, but maybe there's a reason only some of the songs are still regularly played today and some are forgotten. Or maybe I'm just being super critical and it's a fine album and I have the memory of a sieve. Who knows.

3.5 if that were an option

Not necessarily a ground breaking album but enjoyable start to finish. A cohesive soundscape with enough variation between tracks that I didn't get bored. Due to a lot of overplay (through gilmore girls rewatches and my own teenage obsession) "there she goes" felt really out of place on an album that otherwise had a very 70s vibe, but that's my own fault and I stand by teenage me

Yes. Because I want my commute to feel like a montage from a low budget 1992 romcom/heist film set in New York. Move any mountain will make it onto my running playlist though and I hate that for everyone. It's so cringe I've gone full circle and may have enjoyed it. But the full album is too much like GCSE music experimentation

I had it in my head that I liked Fiona Apple but this album has proved me wrong. I completely get the appeal and the reason why it's on the list but the whole listening experience painful. Just because you're lyrically talented and profound doesn't mean I should bugger through noise garbage that makes my skin itch. I can handle experimentation but I draw the line at arty. Call me a curmudgeon, but I like my music to be musical. God. I feel like an old grumpy person. Fiona Apple you made me an old grumpy person.

I'd listen again

Perfect for a Sad Girl Walk. My mood has almost definitely impacted the rating

I've always struggled with offspring full album playthroughs

I have a soft spot for country, especially sad cowboys. But this is no later years Chip Taylor

Known fan of 70s rock enjoys 70s rock album. In other news fork found in kitchen. I just think this album is endlessly listenable, no skips, interesting variations between songs but still cohesive

Great opening track and then it all started to blend

4.5, I dunno. Maybe I'm just not in a Jeff mood. But I still know this slaps

This was the first bootleg album I bought in camden market as a tweenager. It had all the fuzz and scratch of a poorly ripped album. Listening without that I can finally enjoy the full sound. It's good, nostalgia makes me want to give this a 5 but sensible adult ears thinks 3.5/4

A 20 minute experimental opening track was a choice and a chore. Every now and then there would be a track I really enjoyed. Mostly I was confused and overwhelmed by all the sounds. Listening in tk maxx on a hot day was by far not the best environment. But hey, I'm glad I gave it a go and now I don't have to listen again

I feel like I've let Dom down but it's just not as good as I remember

I'm a fan of the boss, what can I say

Not my favourite talking heads album but still a great listen

Straight middle of the road. Fun but not special

YAY SAMBA

Honestly, some of my favourite beach boys songs so I can't rate this below a 4. That being said, not all of them hold up. 100% nostalgia and sunshine fueled rating

I dunno. I just liked it

I enjoyed it but it started to all blend after a few songs. 3.5

3.5 tbh

After a slog of albums to catch up, every track on this one slaps. The guitar licks are just gorgeous

It was like cafe jazz in the wrong way. Perfectly pleasant but also bland and repetitive

11/10

Enjoyable but not groundbreaking. I could see this gating grating if I hadn't broken the album up across the day

I think I will have to come back to this but Portishead is not heat wave music. Going straight middle of the road in the full knowledge it's not honest

Honestly fine. Once you notice it's repetitive it's hard to keep going. He's still a good musician and songwriter but to compare to his other albums we've had, this is the weakest

This is the first time I've sat and really intentionally listened to Rumours, rather than having it in the background or individual tracks mixed in with other things. I forgot how much I love second hand news as a track and as an opener. I feel like I've done this album a disservice by deciding it was overplayed without actually concentrating before. The album is so meticulously put together and technically brilliant and I promise not to split it up again (for a while). It's a 5. It's still a 5. It was always going to be a 5. May this kind of intense in-band love/hate never find me. I may have to rethink all ratings from now on.

Surprised this is the Foo Fighters album that made the cut. It's decent rock but not ground breaking or particularly memorable. Just straight middle of the road. Kind of like of like the ITV comedy of music. It's there.

I like beck, where it's at is a great song. But this album felt a little all over the place and I had to take breaks. I'll come back to this when I'm not sitting in the attic

3.5, not doing it for me today and that's the problem with a highly subjective rating system

Not my favourite album, but stull enjoyable if ruined by a friend highlighting commonalities with someone we know. Also Easter theatre sounds like they're creepily whispering "esther" in my ear

Ugg. I enjoy this. 4.5

This album was my bedtime album for an entire year. Nothing but love

I just. They're just. Isn't it so great

I see why Van Morrison makes it on to every musician's Desert Island Discs. Such a beautiful album to listen to

A nice safe middle of the road ease back in to album listening. 2.5