1001 Albums Summary

Album 1/1001 Favourite song: If Not for you 💑 Honourable Mention: Run of the Mill🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ Out of the Blue 🟦➡️ Hear Me Lord👂🙏 What is Love❤️❓️ Wah-Wah😒🤫

Album 2/1001 Brilliantly captures the mood of life in mid 90s Britain - positive and hopeful about life in spite of its hardships. “I remember Nirvana had a tune called ‘I Hate Myself and Want to Die’, and I was like … ‘Well, I’m not fucking having that.’ … We had fuck-all, and I still thought that getting up in the morning was the greatest fuckin’ thing ever...Everything’s gonna be fine. Stay optimistic. If there’s dark clouds coming, they’ll leave again. They always do. The world is round... No matter how big a pile of shite you’ve gotten yourself into... you will get over it. It will go away just like the weather.” ~Noel Gallagher Favourite lyrics: LIVE FOREVER: "Maybe I just wanna fly Wanna live, I don't wanna die Maybe I just wanna breathe Maybe I just don't believe Maybe you're the same as me We see things they'll never see You and I are gonna live forever." SUPERSONIC: "I need to be myself I can't be no one else I'm feeling supersonic, give me gin and tonic You can have it all, but how much do you want it? You make me laugh Give me your autograph Can I ride with you in your BMW? You can sail with me in my yellow submarine" " ...I know a girl called Elsa, she's into Alka-Seltzer She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train And she makes me laugh I got her autograph She done it with a doctor on a helicopter She's sniffin' in a tissue, sellin' the Big Issue" Also a big fan of Liam's pronunciation/intonation on C&A - especially of "Sunsheeeeiiinnne" Iconic. Favourite song: Supersonic 🚄 Honourable Mention: Live Forever (perhaps THE anthem of the 90s) ♾️ Cigarettes & Alcohol🚬🍺 Slide Away 👋 Rock 'n' Roll Star😎🤘

Album 3/1001 Big fan of the hindewhu technique (had to look this up) on Watermelon Man - achieved in this case by Bill Summers blowing into a beer bottle - but the baseline on Chameleon is the star of the show. Didn't vibe so much with the other 2 songs on the album. Favourite song: Chameleon 🦎 Honourable mention: Watermelon Man 🍉

Album 4/1001 Can't say my interest in VM has ever extended beyond Brown Eyed Girl but there were a few songs on here I did enjoy. Found it a bit shouty and repetitive after a while, and have a strong dislike of the title track, but really enjoyed Crazy Love - perhaps because it's the least shouty? And I know all British artists were trying to sound American during this era so I don't know if it's because he leans into it too much or something, but for me his sound comes across as inauthentic and derivative. Favourite song: Crazy Love🤪💖 Honourable mention: Brand New Day 🌄 Into the Mystic ➡️🌌 2 ½ / 5

Album 5/1001 Some of their most interesting work on here including my current favourite song of theirs, Happiness is a Warm Gun, which I'm embarrassed to say I only recently discovered a few months ago. So refreshing to hear a great Beatles track which hasn't been played to death already. ⬜️ Favourite song: Happiness is a Warm Gun 😊 ♨️🔫 Honourable mention: While My Guitar Gently Weeps 🎸😢 Helter Skelter (not for the same reasons as Charles Manson) 🧔 Dear Prudence ✍️ Long, Long, Long⏳️⏳️⏳️ 4½ / 5

Album 6/1001 Was really pleasantly surprised by this. I mainly just knew Dennis as Charles Manson's best mate (and tbh I think that will still be the case) but he was clearly quite the musician too. Could have seen him going on to have had a very successful solo career if he hadn't sadly lost his battle with addiction only a few years later. Favourite song: Rainbows 🌈 Honourable mention: Moonshine 🌙 River Song 🏞🎵 Pacific Ocean Blues 🌊 Time ⏳️

Album 7/1001 Favourite (and only enjoyable) song: Chicago 🌃 1½ / 5

Album 8/1001 The year was 1990: Nelson Mandela was freed from prison, Margaret Thatcher resigned as PM, Goodfellas was gracing the big screen, Twin Peaks the small screen, and Italia 90 was bringing feel good vibes to the nation. And on top of all of this, the golden age of hip hop was about to become even golder with The Tribe's emergence onto the scene with this instant classic of a debut album. The 90s were off to a good start. Now, I'm not old enough to remember any of this stuff happening at the time but still, what a time to be alive! Favourite song: I Left My Wallet in El Segundo 💰 Honourable mention: Can I Kick It? ⚽️ Bonita Applebum 🍎 After Hours ⏰️ Luck of Lucien 🤞

Album 9/1001 This is one of those albums that I respect more than I enjoy. The fact that it was the first album to be entirely made up of samples is an impressive feat and you can hear the influence it's had on all different kinds of music to this day. Unfortunately, one of those kinds is low-fi which I'm not so grateful to it for, and has actually tarnished it for me since I last heard it. Still, can't deny it's importance and it's one of the few purely instrumental records that I would choose to listen to - more for the hip-hop and cinematic vibes than the electronic ones. Favourite song: Building Steam with a Grain of Salt ♨️🧂 Honourable mention: Organ Donor 🫁 Mutual Slump😞😞 Midnight in a Perfect World 🎑 What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt.1 - Blue Sky Revisit 🏙

Album 10/1001 Not one of my favourite of Miles but apparently a hugely important and influential record which marked the beginning of jazz fusion. Much prefer the second track to the first. Favourite song: In A Silent Way 🤫

Album 11/1001 A bit too classical country for my tastes but enjoyed listening to some female vocals again at last - each of the three women has a beautiful, distinctive voice, yet they blend together perfectly. Favourite song: Telling Me Lies 😾 Honourable mention: To Know Him Is to Love Him 😻 ...Those Memories of You 😿 2½ / 5

Album 12/1001 Perhaps the most atmospheric album ever made. Absolute perfection. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Favourite song: Pictures of You 📸👧 Honourable mention: every other track 👌

Album 13/1001 Saying I'd prefer this album without the concept part probably takes away what is supposed to be so groundbreaking about it, and means I didn't "get" it - but, it would be so much better without all the amateur dramatics like the irritating voice acting and sound effects that, for me, only serve to detract from some genuinely great songs and Gilmour's incredible guitar work. Favourite song: Comfortably Numb (one of the greatest ever songs) 👌 Honourable mention: Hey You 👋 Another Brick in the Wall 🧱 Young Lust ❤️‍🔥 Mother 👩‍🍼

Album 14/1001 Listening to this superb album on a cloudy London afternoon has me Americana dreamin' - not of the America of today though sadly... The Weight is one of the greatest songs ever...like, top 10 great. The fact that RR was influenced by Buñuel in the writing of it only adds to it's allure... "Buñuel did so many films on the impossibility of sainthood. People trying to be good in ‘Viridiana’ and ‘Nazarin’, people trying to do their thing. In ‘The Weight’ it’s the same thing. People like Buñuel would make films that had these religious connotations to them but it wasn’t necessarily a religious meaning. In Buñuel there were these people trying to be good and it’s impossible to be good. In ‘The Weight’ it was this very simple thing. Someone says, ‘Listen, would you do me this favour? When you get there will you say “hello” to somebody or will you give somebody this or will you pick up one of these for me? Oh? You’re going to Nazareth, that’s where the Martin guitar factory is. Do me a favour when you’re there.’ This is what it’s all about. So the guy goes and one thing leads to another and it’s like ‘Holy Shit, what’s this turned into? I’ve only come here to say “hello” for somebody and I’ve got myself in this incredible predicament.’ It was very Buñuelish to me at the time. ~ Robbie Robertson Favourite lyrics: THE WEIGHT "I pulled into Nazareth Was feelin’ about half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head ‘Hey, Mister can you tell me where a man might find a bed?’ He just grinned and shook my hand And ‘no’ was all he said." "I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide" CHEST FEVER ""She's stoned" said the Swede, and the moon calf agreed" Favourite song: The Weight 🏋‍♂️ Honourable mention: Tears of Rage 💧😡 This Wheel's on Fire ⚙️🔥 Chest Fever🩺🌡 Long Black Veil 👰 🖤⚰️ I Shall Be Released 🛐

Album 15/1001 This is Bruce at a time where he was struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts...and you don't need to be a doctor to recognise that when you listen to this album. These songs are all beautifully writen, bleak stories about the struggles of life. Don't know about you, but sometimes I just want to wallow...and for me, there's no better companion in those times than The Boss, armed with just his guitar, his harmonica and his sad weary voice. Favourite lyrics: ATLANTIC CITY "Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade And the gambling commission's hanging on by the skin of its teeth" "Well, I got a job and tried to put my money away But I got debts that no honest man can pay" "Now I've been looking for a job, but it's hard to find Down here, it's just winners and losers And don't get caught on the wrong side of that line Well, I'm tired of coming out on the losing end So, honey, last night I met this guy And I'm gonna do a little favour for him Well, I guess everything dies, baby, that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back So fix your hair up nice and set up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City" OPEN ALL NIGHT "Radio's jammed up with Gospel stations Lost souls callin' long distance salvation Hey Mr. DJ, won't you hear my last prayer? Hey ho, rock 'n' roll, deliver me from nowhere" REASON TO BELIEVE "Struck me kinda funny Funny yeah indeed How at the end of every hard earned day People find some reason to believe" Favourite song: Atlantic City 🌊🏙 Honourable mention: Nebraska 👫🔫 Mansion on the Hill 🏠🌄 Highway Patrolman 🛣 👮‍♂️ Reason to Believe ✝️

Album 16/1001 Reminded me of early Black Eyed Peas (pre Fergie). A bit corny, yes, but the flow and production are really on point. Favourite song: What's Golden 🪙❓️ Honourable mention: Thin Line 📉 A Day At The Races 🐎 High Fidelity 💿 Remember His Name 💀

Album 17/1001 Decided to listen while washing the dishes, and it somehow managed to make that task even less enjoyable than normal. 👎

Album 18/1001 Daft, yes. Punk? No. Favourite song: Da Funk 🕺 Honourable mention; Rock'n Roll 🎸 Rollin' & Scratchin" 👇💽 Alive 🙌

Album 19/1001 This well and truly funked me the funk up! Ya dig? 🛸

Album 20/1001 This might be my old age speaking, but that was more relaxing than drifting off with a cat kneading softly on your lap, purring in time with the crackle of a warm open fire, petrichor drifting through the window, while the patter of rain and the growls of thunder fill the room with tranquil warmth. Utterly delightful. 😌 3 ½ / 5

Album 21/1001 *SpiritualiSed 🌌👨‍🚀

Album 22/1001 Classic Rain Rock. 🌧 🎸

Album 23/1001 "The ammunition's being passed, and the lord's been praised But the wars on the televisions will never be explained All the bankers gettin sweaty, beneath their white collars As the pound in our pocket turns into a dollar This is the 51st state of the USA" Doesn't get more Thatcher-era 1980s Britain than this, and yet, listening to Heartland in 2025, you get the impression that not a lot has changed in the last 40yrs. 😕

Album 24/1001 You know a band must be taking themselves too seriously when they think producing a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind kid is a good idea. 🤦 1 ½ / 5

Album 25/1001 Nicely soundtracked a very autumnal October day. 🍂 🍂 🍂

Album 26/1001 This album is the dog's bollocks, the bee's knees, the mutt's nuts. Proper London through and through. Favourite lyrics: DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT "Whispers in the shadows Gruff blazing voices Hating, waiting "Hey boy" they shout "Have you got any money?" And I said "I've a little money and a take away curry I'm on my way home to my wife" "They smelt of pubs And Wormwood Scrubs And too many right wing meetings My life swam around me It took a look and drowned me in its own existence The smell of brown leather It blended in with the weather It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth It blocked all my senses Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer" BILLY HUNT "Billy Hunt is a magical world Full of strippers and long-legged girls Clark Kent's got nothing on me I'll spy like James Bond and die like King Kong" Favourite song: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight 🚉 🌙 Honourable mention: English Rose 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street 🅰️💣 In the Crowd 👤👥 Billy Hunt 🤪🖕 (Cockney rhyming slang for 'silly c___')

Album 27/1001 Eddie's insane guitar skills add depth and artistry to what could otherwise be considered just a collection of fun but superficial hard rock songs. Also, these guys were clearly ahead of their time, as the fact that this album was NOT produced in the 80s is genuinely shocking. Favourite song: Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love 🗣💖🚫 Honourable mention: Eruption🌋 Runnin' with the Devil 🏃‍♂️😈

Album 28 /1001 Apart from Outside Myself and the Johnny Marr esque guitar twang on Constant Craving, this really didn't do it for me. Sorry k.d. 🤷‍♂️ Though, you have inspired me to change my name. From this moment forth I shall be known as ed.d coppin (all lower case). Cheers, folks. 😎

Album 29/1001 Never heard any 70s stuff from the Beach Boys before. While not hitting the heights of Dennis' solo work later in the decade, this still has some interesting stuff on here. Favourite song: Feel Flows 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️ Honourable mention: Long Promised Road 🛣 Disney Girls 🐭👧 'Til I Die 💀🪦 Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) 🔎🗓 Surf's Up 🏄‍♂️⬆️

Album 30/1001 Led Zeppelin at the absolute peak of their powers, demonstrating here that they were masters of pretty much all forms of rock: hard, blues, mythic, folk, celtic, progressive, epic. Kudos, lads. 👏 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Favourite song: When the Levee Breaks 🌊 (best drum work and song intro ever?) Honourable mention: Stairway to Heaven 📶☁️ (best guitar solo ever?) Black Dog ◼️🐶 Rock and Roll 🎸🥁 Misty Mountain Hop 🌫🏔🤾‍♂️ Going to California 🛫🏖🌴

Album 31/1001 Not in the mood for 2hrs of space rock right now so will return at a later... ⚠️No score yet ⚠️

Album 32/1001 Nothing more needs to be said about this album. 🧔🏻‍♀️ 🧑🏻 🧔‍♂️ 🧔‍♀️ 👟👟 🦶🏻🦶🏻 👞👞 👟👟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Favourite song: I Want You (She's So Heavy) 🧔‍♀️🖤🙎‍♀️ Honourable mention: Something ✨️💕 Here Comes the Sun 🌤🌞 Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight 🪙🛌🏋‍♂️ Oh! Darling 💔 Because 🌌 The End 🔚

Album 33/1001 Wow, this actually blew me away. A flawless work of art from the OG Progfather, PG. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Favourite song: I Don't Remember 🤔

Album 34/1001 The Who at their peak - their best album featuring their best song, also one of the greatest in rock history, 'Baba O'Riley'. Favourite lyrics: MY WIFE "Give me a bodyguard, A black belt judo expert with a machiiiine gun" GOING MOBILE "I don't care about pollution I'm an air conditioned gypsy That's my solution Watch the police and the taxman miss me! I'm mobile!" Favourite song: Baba O'Riley 🕉🎶 * *The song title is a mashup of Meher Baba, a spiritual guide, and Terry Riley, the musical inspiration for the song's iconic opening synth riff. Honourable mention: Won't Get Fooled Again 🙅‍♂️🤡🔁 Behind Blue Eyes ↩️🟦👁 Bargain 💸🤝 The Song is Over 🎵⏹️ 3½ / 5

Album 35/1001 Listening to Muddy's vocals, combined with some fine slide guitar and blues harp playing, is like eating a warm delicious bowl of soul food in musical form. Favourite lyrics: THE BLUES HAD A BABY AND THEY NAMED IT ROCK AND ROLL "Otis Redding said it, you know the blues got a soul Queen Victoria said it, you know the blues got a soul Well the blues had a baby and they named the baby Rock & Roll" BUS DRIVER "My baby run off with a bus driver And you know that don't seem right He used to give her rides in the daytime Now she gives him rides at night" Favourite song: Mannish Boy 💪🧒 Honourable mention: Bus Driver 🚌👨‍✈️ Deep Down in Florida ⬇️🐊 The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll 🪕🎺👶🎸🥁 3½ / 5

Album 36/1001 I enjoyed this way more than i was expecting. Maybe it's being in my 40s now and thinking about death all the time, but I found Nick's preoccupation with all things morbid a lot more relatable this time than I did in my more carefree younger years. 🚣‍♂️ 🗣 Favourite lyrics: PEOPLE AIN'T NO GOOD "It ain't that in their hearts they're bad They can comfort you, some even try They nurse you when you're ill of health They bury you when you go and die It ain't that in their hearts they're bad They'd stick by you if they could But that's just bullshit baby People just ain't no good" Favourite song: People Ain't no Good 👥👎 (Morrissey has got to be jealous that he didn't write this misanthropic anthem) Honourable mention: Into My Arms ➡️🫂 (Are You) the One I've been Waiting For? 👉👰☝️🤵‍♂👈⌚️ Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? 🗺🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🤷‍♂️🚷🚷 There is a Kingdom 🤴🏰

Album 37/1001 Feels wrong listening to this on a cold and wet day in October...and without any gummies either, because they're not allowed in this country with its' archaic legal system. In the words of the great PT: "Judges smoke it, even the lawyer too So you've got to legalize it And don't criticize it" 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 Favourite song: No Sympathy 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Honourable mention: Legalise It 🚭🚫 🌿 Brand New Second Hand 🆕️🖐🖐👈 WHY MUST I CRY?😭 Burial ⚰️

Album 38/1001 This is the Killers before they turned all Springsteeny, when their main influences mostly consisted of UK bands from the 80s. There's nothing sad bastardy about this music though. I guess growing up under the eternal sunshine and neon lights of Las Vegas as opposed to the rain soaked streets of some grim northern town in England will do that. This is British melancholy fused with American optimism and showmanship. More cathartic and epic than reflective and understated. More Caesars Palace than Ladbrokes. More The Office US than The Office UK. But like this last example, it still works. It shouldn't, but it really does. Favourite song: Mr Brightside🎩🌞 (perhaps the song of the noughties?) Honourable mention: Somebody Told Me 🗣👨🏻‍🦱 Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine 👩💔 All These Things That I've Done 💖✅️🪖❌️ Change Your Mind ↪️🧠

Album 39/1001 The break-up album of all break-up albums (sorry, Taylor). 💔 🩸🛤 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Favourite lyrics: SHELTER FROM THE STORM "In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm Come in, she said I'll give ya shelter from the storm" IF YOU SEE HER, SAY HELLO "Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast If she's passin' back this way, I'm not that hard to find Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time" IDIOT WIND "Idiot wind Blowing every time you move your teeth You're an idiot, babe It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe" Favourite song: Idiot Wind 🤡💨 Honourable mention: Tangled up in Blue 🪢🟦 Shelter from the Storm 🏠⛈️ You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go 😢👋 You're a Big Girl Now 😢 👈 👉😅 Simple Twist of Fate 🔀🔮

Album 40/1001 With Hot Fuss still fresh in my head, I've just noticed how much of a rip-off Mr Brightside is of Queen Bitch. They call themselves The Killers? The Thieves, more like. 👨‍🎤 Favourite lyrics: THE BEWLAY BROTHERS "Lay me place and bake me pie I'm starving for me gravy" Favourite song: Life on Mars? 🔭🌌 Honourable mention: Changes 🔄🔁 Queen Bitch 👑🐩 Quicksand ⏳️⌛️ Oh! You Pretty Things 🙀😻 The Bewlay Brothers 👨‍🎤🙇‍♂️

Album 41/1001 "Every addict should just get locked in a private movie theatre with Q.T. and P.T.A. on coke, and they’ll never want to do it again" ~ Fiona Apple 🍎 🍏 Favourite song: Shadowboxer 👥🥊 Honourable mention: Criminal 🥷 Sleep to Dream 🛌💭 Sullen Girl  😔👧 The Child Is Gone 👧🧳 Pale September ⬜️🗓

Album 44/1001 Chrissie Hynde is the queen of cool and a total badass. 👸🤘 Favourite lyrics: BRASS IN POCKET "Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs Gonna use my style, gonna use my sidestep Gonna use my fingers, gonna use my, my, my Imagination 'Cause I gonna make you see There's nobody else here, no one like me I'm special (special) So special (special) I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me" "I got rhythm, I can't miss a beat, I got new skank, so reet" PRIVATE LIFE "J'ai les glandes with your theatrics" "I'm very superficial I hate anything official" PRECIOUS "But not me, baby, I'm too precious, you had to fuck off" Favourite song: Brass In Pocket 💵🤑 Honourable mention: Lovers of Today 💑📅 Stop Your Sobbing 🛑😭 Tattooed Love Boys ⚓️💘👬 Up the Neck ⬆️👔 Precious 💎 Kid 🐐 Private Life 🤫

Album 45/1001 Live albums rarely do justice to the energy of a live show . This is most definitely not the case here. The cultural significance of this record, coming when it did in 1963, can't be overestimated, nor fully grasped by a modern audience. But listening to it in 2025, it's more than understandable why this man was known as the godfather of both soul and funk, and one of the greatest ever live performers. Perhaps the most important and influential live album, by one of the most important and influential artists to ever do it. 🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Favourite song: Try Me 🕺🏿👈🏿 Honourable mention: I Don't Mind 🤷🏿‍♂️ I'll Go Crazy 🤪 Think 🤔💭 Lost Someone 🧐 Night Train 🌃🚂 Medley: Please, Please, Please/You've Got the Power/I Found Someone/Why Do You Do Me/I Want You So Bad/I Love You, Yes I Do/Strange Things Happen/Bewildered/Please, Please, Please 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿👉🏿✊🏿💪🏿👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏿👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏿❔️⁉️🧍🏿‍♂️❤️🧍🏿‍♀️👌🏿🧟‍♂️🧙🏿‍♂️🧙🏿🤔🥴😵‍💫 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Album 48/1001 Corny lyrics, but plenty of funky jams nevertheless. 🌶🌶🌶 Favourite song: Under the Bridge ↘️🌉 Honourable mention: Breaking the Girl 💔👩🏼‍🦲 Suck My Kiss😚💋 Give It Away 🎁 I Could Have Lied 🗣👩🏼‍🦲🤭 Blood Sugar Sex Magik 🩸🍬👉👌🎩🪄

Album 49/1001 Ah, a voice that makes me miss the days of the £2.50 pint in the pre-smoking-ban pubs I used to haunt around the times when Amy was in her pomp. Despite not being a smoker myself, I must have second hand smoked a pack of Marlboro Reds a day and walked around permanently smelling like a human ash tray marinated in stale beer. But those pubs changed for the worse when that ban kicked in. The beer might taste cleaner now, and I might live an extra ten years, but the atmosphere, the characters, and the conversation, are all now relics, resting in peace alongside the woman, who with that soulful, nicotine stained voice, and offbeat, 100% real, personality of hers, was the perfect embodiment of those seedy, yet sacred, places. 🚬 🍺💔🎙🎷 Favourite song: In My Bed ➡️🛌 Honourable mention: Intro / Stronger Than Me 😫🙄 You Sent Me Flying / Cherry ✈️🍒 Fuck Me Pumps 👠👠 Take the Box 📦 October Song 🍂 🎵 🐦 (There Is) No Greater Love 🎷❤️ 3½ / 5

Album 50/1001 I hate that I can't help thinking of Ian Rubbish & The Bizzaros every time I hear Joe Strummer now. 🖕🏻🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿 Favourite lyrics: REMOTE CONTROL 🖕 Repression, gonna start on Tuesday Repression, gonna be a Dalek Repression, I am a robot Repression, I obey DENY 🖕 I'm a fool, I can't be cool I've read one too many books I believe everything I read When it's written in the slush-filled paper Deny You're such a liar. I'M SO BORED WITH THE USA 🖕 Yankee detectives are always on the TV Because killers in America work seven days a week I'm so bored with the USA But what can I do? Move up, for the CIA Suck on Kojak for the USA WHITE RIOT 🖕 Black man gotta lot a problems But they don't mind throwing a brick White people go to school Where they teach you how to be thick White riot - I wanna riot White riot - a riot of my own LONDON'S BURNING 🖕 London's burnin' with boredom now London's burnin' Dial 99999 CHEAT 🖕 You wanna survive, you better learn how to lie You better cheat, cheat, no reason to play fair Cheat, cheat, or don't get anywhere Cheat, cheat, if you can't win Don't use the rules They're not for you, they're for the fools And you're a fool, if you don't know that So use the rule, you stupid fool HATE AND WAR 🖕 Hate and war, I hate all the English, man Hate and war, they're just as bad as wops Hate and war, I hate all the politeness Hate and war, I hate all the cops Hate and war, I want to walk down any street Hate and war, looking like a creep Hate and war, I don't care if I get beat up Hate and war, by any rotten Greek Favourite song: White Riot 👨🏻‍🦲✊🏻🖕🏻🪧 Honourable mention: Remote Control 🎮🐑 I'm So Bored with the USA 🇺🇸 🥱 London's Burning 🇬🇧🌆🔥 Hate and War 🖕🪖 Deny 🚫⛔️ Police & Theives 👮‍♂️🥷 Career Opportunities 👨‍⚖️👨‍🍳👨‍🔧👨‍🔬👨‍💻👨‍✈️👨‍🚒👮‍♂️💂‍♂️👷‍♂️ 4½ / 5

Album 51/1001 Was unaware of The Temptations' foray into funky music, but I sho' nuff like it. 🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿 Favourite song: Papa Was A Rolling Stone👴🏿🪨 Honourable mention: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On 🕺🏿😛🍆 Love Woke Me Up This Morning 🥰🛌🙆🏿‍♂️ Run Charlie Run 🏃🏿‍♂️ Mother Nature 🤰🏿🌳🌎 Do Your Thing 👉🏿

Album 52/1001 Damn, death is scary. 💀😬 👨‍🎤💀👨‍🎤💀👨‍🎤💀👨‍🎤💀 Favourite lyrics: GIRL LOVES ME* "Cheena so sound, so titty up this Malchick, say Party up moodge, nanti vellocet round on Tuesday Real bad dizzy snatch, making all the omies mad, Thursday Popo blind to the polly in the hole by Friday Where the fuck did Monday go?" "You viddy at the cheena Choodesny with the red rot Libbilubbing litso-fitso Devotchka watch her garbles Spatchko at the rozz-shop Split a ded from his deng, deng Viddy, viddy at the cheena" *The lyrics to this song are a mix of: • Nadsat (a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English) & • Polari -(a secret slang language with a history as a coded form of communication primarily used by gay men in the UK when homosexuality was illegal. It draws from a mix of sources, including Italian, Romany, Yiddish, and Cockney rhyming slang, and was used for secrecy, social bonding, and as a form of humor) Favourite song: Lazarus ☁️🗽🐦⚰️ (also one of the greatest, and eeriest, videos of all time) Honourable mention: Dollar Days 💲🗓 Blackstar ⬛️⭐️ Girl Loves Me 👩‍🎤❤️👨‍🎤 I Can't Give Everything Away 💀👞 4½ / 5

Album 54/1001 The first truly unlistenable album on this list so far. I'm well aware of Moby's music but in the sake of this challenge I thought I'd try to brave it. Got half way through the first song on the album and I'd had enough. Sorry, but no. 👨🏻‍🦲

Album 55/1001 My one criticism of this double album would be that I think Outkast are better when they're working collaboratively than apart like this. It's the juxtaposition of their 2 very different styles on the same record that makes them such a special and unique band. Still, 2 excellent albums that bring back some great memories. Back then I much preferred The Love Below, but listening to them back now, Speakerboxx is a lot better than I remembered. Favourite lyrics: HEY YA! If what they say is "Nothing is forever" Then what makes, then what makes Then what makes, then what makes (what makes, what makes) Love the exception? So why, oh, why, oh Why, oh, why, oh, why, oh Are we so in denial when we know we're not happy here? ROSES Caroline, (Caroline), see She's the reason for the word 'bitch' (bitch) I hope she's speedin' on the way to the club Tryna hurry up to get to a baller or singer or somebody like that And try to put on her make up in the mirror and crash, crash Crash into a ditch (Just playin') (Bitch) Crazy bitch (Stupid-ass bitch) Crazy bitch (Old punk-ass bitch) Crazy bitch (Old dumb-ass bitch) Crazy bitch (A bitch's bitch) Crazy bitch (Just a bitch) Crazy bitch (Stupid-ass bitch) Crazy bitch (Old punk-ass bitch) Crazy bitch (Old dumb-ass bitch) Crazy bitch (A bitch's bitch) Crazy bitch (Just a bitch) Speakerboxx 🔊📦 Favourite song: The Way You Move 💃 Honourable mention: Unhappy ☹️ Reset 🔄 Knowing 🧠 War 🪖 Bowtie 🎀 3½ / 5 The Love Below ❤️⬇️ Favourite song: Hey Ya! 👋 Honourable mention: Roses 🌹🌹 Prototype 💘 Pink & Blue 🌸💠 Take Off Your Cool 😎🤓 Vibrate 📳 3½ / 5

Album 57/1001 "I think the Clifton Suspension Bridge was built for people like you. The fact you can drive cars across it is a bonus, so do the decent thing...and leave the keys in your car so someone can shift it after...and please don't call in complaining I'm encouraging people to kill themselves (again). I'm suggesting that one person throws themself off Clifton Suspension bridge because he is, and hopefully soon to be was, a very unpleasant individual...a bit like Jamiroquai!" 🎩