1001 Albums Summary

Was alright, don't mind a bit of something different but not sure I'd rush back to this.

Love it, have loved it for a loooong time.

One of my favourites, contains my wedding song Nightswimming.

What to say? Some say the greatest album ever. One of a handful on this list with a genuine claim.

I really only know Rumours that well, this has a similar split personality thing going on, but it doesn't feel like the sum of its parts adds up to quite as much. Hard going to be judged by that album I guess, but inevitable in hindsight.

I liked this when it first came out and listening again I remembered why.

Enjoyable. Surprisingly the lesser known songs in the second half of the album were the ones I enjoyed the most.

It somehow sounds both distinctively unique and all over the place at once.

Never listened to sabbath before, but I actually enjoyed this. Thought it would be "heavy metal" as i understood it, but it's more like prog/rock ala king crimson or similar.

After the first song I thought I would hate this. But I didn't in the end.

Better than I expected. I was into the Parquet Courts for a little bit without ever having listened to Sonic Youth, but now I know where they got that sound from.

Started off well, bit too much of that organ or whatever for my liking.

I've always considered this to be a tightly orchestrated masterpiece. My opinion has not changed.

Thought I'd like this more than I actually did.

1994 brit pop is an era I lived through and haven't spent much time revisiting. Some of the songs on this album are national consciousness level, which doesn't always bode well for a sit down album listening experience. In the end I'd say this is a mixed bag.

I was literally singing Dirty Work in my head when this came up! I think because of One Battle After Another. Not a hard album to love if you like this sort of thing, and my word do I like THIS sort of thing.

Enjoyable bit of prog on a Monday morning. As a child it seemed like Rick Wakeman was a formiddable presence on the TV. He seemed to be part of every panel show, quiz game on the box. And he was a bit annoying. For most of my early years I assumed that was his job. Only later on did I learn he was in a band called Yes, which I assumed based on his TV appearances, would be crap. So it was a pleasant surprised when I later learned that they were not crap at all.

Rock is the right expression for this. I'm not sure I understood who PJ Harvey was, but this is not really what I expected. Pearl Jam, Led Zepellin, quite heavy going in spots. Not in a bad way really just surprising.

Fantastic. Think I love 60s Psych.

Enjoyable.

Love it, bought it back in the day. Dreamy.

Enjoyable if a little samey.

Enjoyable.

Starts fast with the two big hits and then disappears into the early 90s at quite the pace. It makes me think of watching movies when I was a kid. When they sort of tried to bring rap to the mainstream via things like Turtle Power and Do the Bartman.

Loved it.

Didn't think i'd like any of this but I did.

Listened a couple of times. Enjoyed a couple of songs. Bit screechy? Is that sacrilege?

Solid, prefer this to the soft bulletin

I've already listened to this album thousands of times. It's five out of five.

Feels like being in an American Diner in the UK in the 90s. Very soulful in places. All this 50s rock and roll sounds approximately the same, but I guess it worked.

Bought this when it came out. I remember it being quite a big deal. On first listen it reminded me of all the songs I remembered, but actually the second side feels quite a lot more of my taste now. I thought this was going to be a dud but I found something i liked in the second half.

Sometimes this throws up an album you know and love and that's today.

Enjoyed. Very jazzy. Too jazzy for some.

Exactly what I’m here for, good stuff I’ve never heard of. Enjoyed it enough to go and listen to another of theirs.

Love REM. This isn't my absolute favourite, but it's in the era I love.

Didn't like this as much as I thought I would.

Surprised that I did not like this at all.

My experience of Quadrophenia colours this quite badly. I don't think this comes anywhere close to that. Some good tracks, a lot of pomp and bombast and some frankly weird stuff.

Never listened to this as a single album before. Though I know many of the big hitters of course.

I can see why this is important, but it doesn't mean I need to like it.