1001 Albums Summary

Had "Fuck Tha Police" stuck in my head all day. Overall decent album with some hip hop classics and a few gems that I wasn't aware of. Personal highlight "Parental Discretion Iz Advised"

Listened to this 5 times in a day, belter album. Órla asked me to skip to the next song during "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2" as the synths were making her anxious. I remember having this on my iPod 20 years ago as I was trying to smooch a girl called Eimear at the time, and this was her favourite album. Never did get to smooch Eimear, but young love is fleeting, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is forever.

Art Garfunkel was absolutely carried by Paul Simon throughout his career, Paul outshining him at every single opportunity. No wonder he went solo tbh. Not my favourite S&G album but definitely some bops on there

I had no idea Mariah Carey's "Without You" was a cover 🤯 Some recognisable tunes on this one, I remember Coconut from an old advertisement but don't think I'd ever listened to the full song until today. Is Coconut racist? Drum break in Jump Into The Fire makes me want to fight Will definitely listen to this again. Some of the demos sound like Brett from Flight Of The Conchords

Some next level 'separating the art from the artist's required today regarding Kanye, but oh my god the production quality of this album is unreal. Personal highlights were Chi-City and The Food. This has gave me an appetite for hip-hop again

I thought this was shit but maybe I'm just in a bad mood today. The Wikipedia article states "New Wave laid the groundwork for what would subsequently become Britpop", and that's a crime that should never be forgiven. I hate songs where the chorus is just the name of the song repeated, and this album is a serial offender (see Bailed Out, American Guitars). I normally give the daily album a few spins, but one will do for this guy. Maybe I'll come back to it.

Unreal, couldn't get enough of this. I knew some of the hits from this but never listened to the album in full and it really surprised me. Wasn't expecting the shredding on Broken. This will enter heavy rotation.

Whoever put a 3+ hour box set of jazz on this list needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror. I get it, Ella had an amazing voice and was a jazz pioneer, but there are a few tracks on this compilation that sum up my feelings about today's pull: Who Cares? I Can't Be Bothered Now Suffered through this in hopes the 1001 Albums Gods smile upon me tomorrow.

A breath of fresh air after yesterday's 3-hour jazzathon. Went for a big cycle up the Mournes and played this twice, brilliant stuff. Absolutely love the jangly guitars in this. The drums in the outro to Happy Death Men are unreal.

She's a good lad thon Bjork, not my favourite album of hers but there are some goodies on here, Play Dead is still a banger. Bjork has a different understanding of tonality than the rest of us, and she's right and we're all wrong.

Irresistible urge to boot Mothball in the head during this one 🦶 A few classics on here, No Sleep Til Brooklyn still a favourite.The sample flip on Slow Ride 🙌 RIP MCA

Bonkers that Coldplay used to make such good music, instead of pumping out shite stadium singalongs and uncovering CEO's doing the dirty. I audibly sighed when I seen today's album and I'm a big enough man to admit I was wrong. Lovely album, I forgot how good Shiver was, High Speed is also a bop. Chris Martin; If you're reading this (and I know you are) please have a conscious uncoupling from doodling on yerself whilst writing life-affirming stadium anthem bullshit and go back to this.

oh baby dem harmonies ❤️ there's a wee guitar harmonic in You Don't Have To Cry that tickles my brain, and the vocal harmonies in Helplessly Hoping are next level. Beaut album

The opening track 'Krautrock' really be testing a mothafucka patience at 8am this morning. The rest of the album was OKAY, it definitely doesn't sound like it was released in the 70's, it was definitely ahead of it's time but also I don't really care

U2 are the most overrated band on the planet and OH MY GOD THERE ARE 3 MORE U2 ALBUMS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKER 🤬 See if my algorithm now thinks I want to listen to U2, I'm gonna headbutt Bono

Don't think I'd ever listened to a full Supergrass album before this and it was great

I can't believe I used to think Black Sabbath were corny when I was a teenager. What an enormous knob I was. Vol 4 is a masterpiece, Snowblind and Cornucopia might be my 2 favourite Sabbath songs. RIP Ozzy 🤟🦇

As soon as Sound Of Silver appeared this morning I knew it was going to be a five star straight away, but I listened to it 4 times before lunchtime anyway just to be sure. This album gives me the energy of a 17 year old. My first 5-star rating, masterpiece.

Sighed out loud, stuck it on, enjoyed the singles more than I expected and the rest was fairly wank. Surprised myself by actually enjoying some of it, but it shan't be spun again today.

Definitely not the energy I needed today, a good album, loved the beats, but a bit snoozy in parts. Thought I would have loved this album from back to front but it just didn't really do it for me.

pretty forgettable start to the album, Balloon Burning is a banger and makes me want to move at high speed. I listened to the album and looked at the year it came out and thought "I bet this was recorded at Abbey Road" and it fuckin was. the crazy echoey drum break on Baron Saturday makes me want to play Donkey Kong Country and I'm not sure why

Thoroughly enjoyed this pumping throughout the house all morning, and YouTube Music kept playing bolero music and I kept listening. Great stuff, very easy to listen to, nothing majorly exciting but enjoyable nonetheless.

YES LAD

Really enjoyed this, Siouxie had some setta pipes on her sir

this album got me HORNED UP! slappa da beyass Short and sweet funk odyssey, hard de beat

This whole album felt like Kate Bush was trying to put Kate Bush herself, trying a bit hard to be kooky and experimental. Wasn't absolutely blown away by this, but it's an incredible feat of fuckery putting the best song on the album (Night Of The Swallow) directly after the worst song on the album (The Dreaming). Her vocals are crazy good throughout, songwriting suffered on a few tracks, but overall NAT TOO SHABBY

I liked lil bits of Autobahn but, just like the road, it's long bro. Rest was meh

Genuinely embarrassed that I used to listen to this as a ten year old with my parents within earshot. I begged for this album for Christmas, I think my parents actually might have taken it off me after hearing some of the lyrical content. Found myself cringing a bit at it today, I don't think you'd get away with writing an album like this these days. Am I woke? Some bangers on here right enough though, Stan still slaps, but there's so much filler too.

Fuck I love Pavement. I always preferred Crooked Rain but I think Slanted might have made it's way into the top spot.

I love Black Sabbath. Evil Woman is literally the only miss on this album, everything else is top notch. Fave track is N.I.B which apparently stands for Niggas In Barcelona

Fuck yes, so good, enormous amount of clinkers on this. Fills my body with the fury of a million suns.

I actually enjoyed this but I have no real urge to listen to it again. I like the bing, boing-boing bing bong song

wtf is a big sand anyway? a rock? this was pretty boring, we get it dude, you want to be Neil Young. wasn't an awful listen, but a swing and a moss nonetheless

Decent album, however a lot of the songs sound the same. Makes me want to play Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 on the PS2 even though there was no The Clash on the soundtrack. The punkier songs are very Ramones coded, thoroughly enjoyed the more stripped back songs like Hate & War, which felt very on-the-nose considering the current state of the world.

This most definitely fucks, absolutely loved this. Never listened to a full Steely Dan album before and this has turned me into a fan. Can't wait to hear more. I ordered this on vinyl, easy 4

not my thang

Knopfler can play the absolute shit out of a guitar. Sultans still bangs, and I discovered plenty of other bops on this album. Will defs listen to this again

I feel like Beck wrote most of the lyrics to this album as they were coming out of his mouth, and while not necessarily always a bad thing, may have resulted in some of the shittest lyrics I've ever heard in my life at times.Still, lots of cool in this album, some chunky delicious guitar tones and hip-hop style beats. vgvg (I'm just now noticing the album cover is one of those dreadlock dogs jumping over a post, I always thought it was a bale of hay getting fucked over a fence lol)

Every time I listen to the song American Pie, it has an extra verse added to it. Love when this comes on in a bar, everyone is singing along for the first 2 verses, then dead silence cause nobody knows verses 3 through 26. Great fuckin tune though. Never heard the rest of the album before, aul Don could write a song hi, Vincent is beautiful. Overall a very enjoyable listen

Q-Tip has a flow like no other, absolutely one of my favourite rappers. Good album, a few classics but also a couple of tracks that didn't really go anywhere which cost it a star

nice background music

Weird album, mad mix of like fake reggae and joke songs, some great guitar on this (Bring On The Night was a highlight), but the one constant was Stuart Copeland's drums. Man can make the most basic 4/4 drum beat super interesting. Probably won't listen to this again tbh, can't hear anything by Sting without thinking about him in the middle of one of his marathon shaggin sessions

A great album, Lauryn Hill is such a god damn talent

Great album, haven't listened to this in years, sudden urge to buy a MicroKorg now.

I didn't mind this as much as I thought it would tbh, could have done without that god save the queen shite at the end though. Breaking the law still has one of the thickest guitar riffs of all time

Didn't like it wan bit, such a chore to get through this

Ashamed to admit that I never listened to this album in full before yesterday, mostly due to the post-traumatic stress of having to play and sing Teenage Kicks at every family gathering from 1998-2007. I really enjoyed this album, lyrically it's a bit weak with the most predictable relentless rhyming couplets from start to finish. Music was great though

Wasn't bad but also wasn't anything to write home about

Used to love this back in the day and I was excited to listen to it, but hi, it did not do it for me. Some guitar riffs still hold up, but overall it feels a bit lazy and riff-dependant.

Thoroughly enjoyed, something very QOTSA about Neil Gannon's vocal style. Becoming More Like Alfie highlight of the album. Vgvg

I did not care for this

Great album, sent me on a bit of an REM sidequest, great band.

Prince was just unreasonably good at music. Fucking great

Never heard this before, great stuff!

This is very Steve Winwood-coded. Some good tunes on here, lots of slappa da bayaass, some shite too though.

Aul Miles sure could suck the fuck outta that trumpet

Perfection

Some unreal riffage but I cannot stand Mustaine's vocals

Decent, singles were great, rest of the album was very samey

Fair fucks to Johnny Cash for going into a prison and singing songs about being a prisoner despite never having been to prison except for to sing songs about being in a prison. Enjoyed this, great start and end, middle was a bit samey. Found myself wanting to go back in time just to tune his guitar

Good album, never listened to The Lemonheads before but I'm a fan. Rudderless is a banger

Bad Moon Rising is one of the wackest songs ever and that is a hill I am prepared to die on. Rest of the album was okay

Is this how I discover I've been a closeted R.E.M. fan this whole time? Great album, not as good as Green but very close. Highlights: Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Nightswimming

Meh

That was painful, didn't enjoy it for a single minute

Love a bit of Motown ❤️ Good album, very easy to listen to

I like a bit of Wu-Tang but this didn't do it for me. Some decent moments but mostly poo

Fuckin great stuff, made me want to punch the sky

Pretty forgettable, doesn't hold a candle to Massive Attack. Aftermath has one of the worst, most out of place samples I have ever heard in a song, so jarring every time it triggers

A good percentage of this album is on my buckin playlist, so listening to this had me at half mast most of the day. Good shit, real solid baby makin' music.

"We have Led Zeppelin at home"

Great stuff, I want to buy a synth now

Enjoyed this aye, some solid tunes

Pure pop perfection, loved this from the first time I heard it many moons ago, still love it now. Edit: I've come back 6 days later and changed this from a 4 to a 5, because I've listened to this album every day for the past week. Slipping Through My Fingers made me cry in the car yesterday.

Decent, I don't normally care all that much for Neil Young but I enjoyed the bluesyness of this.

I don't think I'd actually heard another Motorhead song beyond Ace Of Spades and it was actually decent, but very samey throughout. Maybe I'd heard the whole album before but I just thought Ace Of Spades played 12 times in a row?

Some bangers on here, we need a Fugees revival

Enjoyable but forgettable. Diet Glen Campbell

This was agonising. Rod Stewart seems cool but his music is utter wank

I hate the Rolling Stones

Another album that I feel is on this list because of a single song. Not a bad album like, just beige as fuck hi

This was pretty good aye

Not a bad album by any means, just a total snooze fest. Production can't be faulted though

Some good tunes but it's all blues baby

I'm just not a Kraftwerk fan I'm sorry Cathal

Kinda like a bad Pavement record, vibed with some songs and hated others

Fuckin great, an album that deserves to be listened to from start to finish. MIDNIGHT!

The title track is overrated, some goodies on here though but plenty of filler too

Little Simz is so good damn good. Great album

Production is great but M.I.A. is a bollix

Didn't hate this as much as I thought I would, although I'm 3 or 4 cans deep. Maybe I only like classic rock with a 0.09 BAC. Fell down a mad Wikipedia wormhole while listening to this. Go check out Brian Johnson's website if you want to be transported to a pre-javascript internet

not my favourite Bowie album but it's got my favourite singles. non-single tracks are a bit boring

Phenomenal

Didn't think I'd like this as much as I did, one of these days I'll learn not to judge a book by it's cover. Class stuff, dead cheesy, lyrics are both naff and genius at the same time.

delicious goo

This was good, only knew the single so I was pleasantly surprised with the rest of it.

Enjoyed this way more than I thought I would. Brought me back to my Fallout playing days

*insert gif of captain america ageing rapidly* FUCK I'M OLD Great album, Green Day's best

King Crimson jogged so The Mars Volta could run. Enjoyed all the psych proggy stuff, wasn't a major fan of the Pink Floydy bits, a good album overall but it's no In The Court

Not my thang, she had a great voice but some of her songs were pretty wack

Good fun, enjoyed this

Hot take: Queen have like 3 good songs and none of them are on Sheer Heart Attack. Not absolutely awful but there's nothing on here that'll bring me back. Imagine devoting your life to this and rabbits like. NEXT!

I feel like I should have enjoyed this more than I did

I felt like I was stuck in an aul tavern in the 1600s with some wench in the corner who didn't know when de fuck up. earned a star because 1 or 2 songs weren't utter wank. the rest was utter wank

great, delicious, exactly what I needed after being double parked with yesterday's shite

about as easy listening as it gets, just not very exciting

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, good fun

I don't care who I upset when I say this, the Rolling Stones are ass and the world needs to move on.

Fully great, maybe better than Yoshimi? I'll absolutely listen to this again no sweat

Sitting here patiently waiting for the boys to discover psychadelics... Some bops on here for sure, I just think I'm more a "The Best. Of The Beatles" fan

"Jimi! Jimi, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Hendrix. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!" Good shit

Franktastic. Such a good album, would have been 5 stars if it wasn't for some of the filler. I still remember hearing Pyramids being debuted on the Zane Lowe Radio 1 show and having my mind blown. Also, why didn't he put Novacaine on this album?

PJ Harvey doesn't miss

Muy bien, Take On Me still slaps, The Sun Always Shines On TV is a highlight. will listen again

BAD MUSIC. NOT AWFUL BUT STILL VERY BAD

Flashbacks to Guitar Hero 3 where Sunshine Of Your Love was my least favourite track. Okay album though, a bit flat by today's standards. What the fuck was that last song haha

Absolutely class, spun this multiple times, trying my best not to get obsessed lol

FØNK Gud The balls on Nile Rodgers making default guitar tone his signature sound lol

Man could write a ballad

Unfortunately for FKA Twigs I always get her confused with Grimes and I resent her for shagging that billionaire nazi guy. Anyway, this was great, will definitely listen to this again, thank you FKA Twigs, and sorry for the mix-up

Good stuff, very Pavement-esque

Daecent, like if The Doors and The Beach Boys had a lil baby and he cute

Not their best, but does contain Since I've Been Lovin You and Tangerine, two of their most underrated

the whiplash I experienced coming from Zeppelin 3 (good drums) to this (bad drums, and if you disagree, ya wrong). Singles were great and gave a good nostalgia buzz, the rest was fairly yite. 2.5

Phenomenal, never heard of this dude before, in a similar vein as Del/A Tribe Called Quest. Can't wait to circle back around to this

Graceland never fails to lift my mood. Uppa Paul Simon

Loved this more than I thought I would, neve really went for Neil Young in my early years but maybe we've all grown up a bit since then

Decent but a bit boring

Aye I still hate Oasis but this was very good

Excellent tunes but it felt like there was no link between the songs, still vg though

Some familiar tunes on here but euro house just isn't exciting. After 3 songs they all sounded the same

thoroughly regret falling behind and having to listen to this 5 days after Christmas, definitely would have hit better on the day itself!

Finally, the Beatles have been introduced to psychadelics

Phenomenal! Brought me back to being 13 years old, knew every song on the album. Only a few duds, the rest still holds up. Growing On Me is still one of my favourites

Alright aye

I feel sorry for cunts that don't like Radiohead. The Bends is a belter of an album, 4.7

Good, a lot weirder than Pet Sounds but very enjoyable

I enjoyed the bits of this album that didn't have any Alice Cooper i.e. all the instrumental bits.

Mostly ass.

Dang Willie could write a song

JB had some set of pipes but this lost shouldn't have live albums sorry

crud

Some classics, some new favourites and a couple of duds. While long but while good

Unbelievably meh, production was decent

Shamefully I haven't actually listened to much New Order before this, but this was great and I'll be going deeper

10/10 fuckin masterpiece. extra points for OKNOTOK

Aye it was decent, all a bit samey though

A time machine to Primavera 2018. Makes me want sewer beers

Some enjoyable tunes but nothing really stands out from the rest, an easy listen though

2 Stevie Wonder albums in a row! Thought he'd died or something, but glad he's still kickin it. This was great, better than yesterday's, Superstition is still a jam

banger after banger

I was going in to this expecting to hate it but I was pleasantly surprised, not bad for a classic rock album

It's difficult to not be in a good mood with Sinatra playing through the house. Fun fact: he wrote the song Makin' Whoopee about his year as an intern at the whoopee cushion factory

Prog masterpiece

It's aight, not exactly life changing.

One of the best grunge albums of all time, fucking loves every minute of this

This was way better than it had any right to be. I'd only heard Come On Eileen before this so I was expecting something similar, was pleasantly surprised by how good it was

Reggae is not for me

Good cookin' jams

Enormously good, holds up so well. I was obsessed with this as a teenager. Yesterday I tuned some guitars down to Eb and jammed along all day, fingers are sore today

the joy boys

I was expecting it to be shite but some of the tunes were a bop, mostly painful though

was never massively into the Offspring in my teenage years, I'm more familiar with their "Crazy Taxi" offerings. good shit tho, some bangers

Now we're talking! Some of this album is undoubtedly crap, but the good tunes are some of the best electronic pop music ever committed to record. Night and Day makes me yearn for my twenties, Flutes makes me want to consume enough MDMA to permanently alter the global economy

phenomenal album, haven't heard it in ages

Was only familiar with The Killing Moon, rest of the album slaps

American Girl carries this, and it's not even that good a song, and also it sticks out like a sore thumb at the end of One Battle After Another

This was good craic, a bit like if Elvis and Jack White made a record, but in a good way. Started to sound a bit samey after a while

About half the songs slap enormously, and the other half are guff. Lars is the world's worst drummer

the first half was fantastic and then there was the synth shit at the end. bro really wanted to fill the space on that record. not Bowie's best

Good Bowie, not sure what a TVC15 is but I fuckin want one right now

An enjoyable surprise, good psyche surf rock vibes

I shamefully have never listened to a The Band album despite having watched The Last Waltz no less than 10 times. This was sublime

Not bad but not great, way too horny for a Wednesday morning

I was excited to listen to this but the rest of the album just didn't live up to the title track

Class, chaotic and unpredictable, unbelievably ambitious for a debut album, hook it to my veins

Great pop bangers, no notes

Good ma music

Great stuff, absolutely steeped in Bowie

Enjoyable, his voice is like a really thick yoghurt. Sounded a bit like Liam Nelson in parts

unreal

This was alright, some bops, a lot of microphone clipping

I always thought I didn't like Spiritualized but that was great

nice and chilled, good lounging music

It was alright, singles were good, rest was meh

One of my faves, like visiting an old friend

Enjoyed this more than I thought I would, some pop bangers, some Kate Bush-esque moments. Can't not think of that video of her shooshing the audience for trying to sing along to Writer In The Dark. Good album, probably a 3.5 but I couldn't possibly give a shoosher more than a 3.

did not change my life in the slightest, even after removing all prejudices

a vibe indeed

Didn't like this at the start but it kinda grew on me. Not bad

Aye alright

Not bad for a cock rock album

Wasn't bad, just loooooong. some bops on it though, and some wank, if it was condensed down to a single disc we might talk

Brilliant, unbelievable songwriting, love the stripped back vibe of this

Love an occasional Bjorking

Good David

equal parts funk and soul, delightful

Very front heavy album, but some class tunes on here nonetheless. Nostalgia for my teenage years

Great but a bit repetitive

My favourite Bowie album, all the jams

boring and overrated

This was great, Florence Welch owes a lot to Fiona Apple

Great stuff, love me some fuzzy riffage

what the actual fuck were some of those lyrics? Fiddle About felt like I was reading Pete Townshend's personal diary. rotten. 1 star for the drumming and an extra for pinball wizard

Enjoyed this aye

got me all horned up at 8am, no need for that. alright I suppose, no massive substance to it. Issac certainly had a voice

Not bad but very samey

I love me some Floyd

Delicious, Pixies are so underrated

Nine Inch Nails Light ™️ Wasn't bad, music was decent, some of the lyrics were cringe as fuck though. Very glad I didn't discover this in my edgy emo teenage years or I might have made it my whole personality

not a classic rock guy but this was decent aye

didn't like it at the start but it grew on me, music was great, vocals I could take or leave

Undeniably a bop and a vibe

Good jams aye, not my favourite genre

was looking forward to this but I thought it was actually kinda poo

as far as Alan Wilders rock goes, this wasn't half bad

Didn't mind some of the jammy bits, rest wasn't for me

Absolutely love this album, maybe Stevie's best.