1001 Albums Summary

Not for me.

This is fun. Smooth and funky vibes. The Beatles doing ABBA. A bit of Pink Floyd abs Bowie, too. The track Jungle is great. And one of those ‘Oh, it’s them!” moments with Mr Blue Sky. Sweet is the Night also great.

Great album. Nice to be reminded of it, I remember listening to it a fair bit when it came out. Although I’m not sure I would ever quite get to the end - I still think it’s a bit too long.

It didn’t grab as much as I thought it would. It’s fine, of a time. Derivative of Dylan playing Springsteen to my ears, though contemporary to Bruce so maybe unfair. I reckon I’ll like his later stuff more - ‘Mary Jane’s Last Dance’ came on after and I really like that. From 1993, produced by Rick Rubin.

The Girl is Mine with McCartney has an arse-clenchingly cheesy interlude-argument between themselves 🤮.

A stunning post-punk album, especially considering it was released in the punk heyday and the same year as Never Mind the Bollocks. Wire were already thinking ahead on their first album. Brilliant.

Nice bit of ‘90s nostalgia, in terms of sound anyway. I had never heard of Aimee Mann but the sound of this album is very familiar. It didn’t hold my attention for the duration though.

I was thinking this sounds like The Beatles covering Dylan songs in places, then read that’s exactly what some people said at the time. Also, I didn’t realise they are American and the band where David Crosby (Crosby, Stills and Nash) came from! I really liked the jangly psychedelia on this album.

Exactly the sort of joyous music I wanted to find from doing this 1001 albums thing. Lovely vibes.

I really liked this album. Had never listened to it before. Pretty sure we had it in our CD collection at home when younger. Great country vibes, fantastic voice, Elvis-like flourishes.

I think this requires more listening. Sounds like early REM to me. I think I prefer the sound of stuff from Zen Arcade, but I think I’ll come back to this/them.

Need to give this more of listen. Really liked it.

Got to be honest, I didn’t listen to this. I’ve heard it a lot. Great album though.

Some absolute bangers!

Excellent. Another one I had listened to and heard about because of the book. Impossible to find the full album to stream apart from YouTube.

I juts don’t love Stevie’s music, even though he’s obviously brilliant, juts not for me.

Brilliant. Cocteau Twins are a group I’ve only listened to recently but their sound is amazing.

A brilliant album. Such a great sound and variety on this. Very evocative of that alt. rock sound just before the emergence of grunge. I could see this becoming a a favourite album a band. I was familiar with them because of the Nirvana covers but first time I’ve listened to an album of theirs all the way through.

Great, though like a lot of hip hop albums of the 90s, too long!

Incredible