1001 Albums Summary

Very early 90s rap.

An unexpected pleasure.

Wilco complete their transition from alt-country to art rock. Some good songs but overall it leaves me a bit cold.

Bleh.

Biggest hits but not the best Prodigy album; that is Music for the jilted generation. Not really an album band

Stodgy dad rock

Bland, aural wallpaper. Electronic shoegaze with sub cocteau twins vocals.

Sweat Loaf and Human Cannonball are good, the rest of the album is a mix of sludge rock and art noise experiement.

Good. Does not sound like anybody else.

Disappointing. I expected to love this record but a lot of it sounds like filler. Part of the problem is the ubiquity of the Beatles, i must have heard every song on here hundreds of times without trying, but part of it is that some of the songs are really not good.

Well machined blue-eyed soul/pop record. Boy Georges voice is excellent, but the material does not support it. Overall bland, except for Church of the Poison Mind 2?

No, just no. Culture Club yesterday and Duran Duran today. How is this in the top 1001 albums? Lightweight 80s pop. There are better New Romantic/synth albums out there.

MOR rock.

Definitely jazz. A bit like listening to an Austin Powers film. I have no idea if this is good jazz but i quite enjoyed it.

Bland. A couple of ok songs but nothing special.

Some good song writing but his voice and the musical arrangements do not work for me.

Commodified discontent for suburban punks. I had forgotten how tedious nu-metal was. Incohate rage for the man - 1 star

I like the Smiths, I do not like this album. Not sure why this is here ahead of The Smiths or The Queen Is Dead.

I can see why thus is loved by critics and people in the know, but it has too much whimsy for me.

I was looking forward to this album but it was a bit underwhelming. Couple ofbgood songs (Only Love... and Southern Man) but few other stand outs.

Efficient machine made pop music.

Self indulgent LA muso cosplaying as a sexy person. 1 star sex funk

Immigrant Song is the blueprint for the album. Killer guitar riffs, pretentious lyrics and no proper ending, it just tapers off. 2 stars ooh yeah, ooh yeah.

I do not know if this is a good album or not. Mainly it seems to be a chronicle of Georges troubled love life. It is almost a parody of country songs. 2 stars, he has been done wrong.

Average album, but gets an extra star for Another Girl, Another Planet.

A couple of stand our tracks, especially Fame, but the rest tends to the bland.

This album is the template for British heavy metal. Yowling vocals, pretentious lyrics, chugging guitar riffs with occasional outbreaks of wanky solos. All taken very seriously.

Awesome. 5 stars, adore me.

Pleasant. The good tracks are memorable ( The Boxer, Bridge ..., Cecilia) but the rest sound like the soundtrack to a 1973 movie about an architects failing marriage. 2 stars, la la la

An over correction to the sound that made them famous. The problem is other bands made this type of music earlier and better.

Becomes less interesting the longer it goes on. It sounds very much like a Beck album, not sure why this is included ahead of others.

Some memorable songs which you probably already know (Jeepster, Get it on) but the rest is quite forgettable.

I know Willie Nelson more from his image than his music so i was looking forward to some Outlaw Country to see if his reputation held up. This album does not do anything for me.

Dull, formulaic and over long.

Weakest of the 'classic' Bowie albums so far. Jean Genie is still an absolute banger.

Excellent album. Alluring and mysterious vocals set to glacial beats. 5 stars for the theremin.

Bland, plods when it should soar. What is the point of making anthemic, grandiose music if you have nothing grand to say? It feels like they take the safe option everytime. Middle management music for middle managers

This project has given me the chance to listen to genres outside my comfort zone. Country (Dolly Parton - good), prog rock(Jethro Tull - not good). Indie is a genre I am familar with and Suede are a poor example. Beloved by the NME and men with Hoxton fins, but tedious and overblown. You can get away being dramatic if you have the talent (see The Smiths), but a good guitarest on there own cannot carry the weight pretentions of this album

Sometimes an album captures a place and a time perfectly, for better or worse. The Specials sums up the early 80s in Britain for me. The energy and excitement. The vuolence and casual misogyny. Interesting album, but not one i eill be returning to often.

This album should not be as good as it is. It has a xylophone solo. A snotty blast of teen angst. At least i hope it is snot. Frenetic and percussive. Stripped down acoustic punk.

Mid-tempo rockers. Always makes the safe decision. Production has filed off all the rough edges.

Good album, with some excellent tracks (Sledgehammer, Don't Give Up, Big Time, We Do What We Are Told). The album gives me a post-war feel (one truth, one voice, one dream). Second album in a row produced by Daniel Lanois. The previous was U2, which sounded over produced, like all the interesting rough edges & idiosynchonies had been removed. Here the production is much more in the service of the music. Has the most 80s possible bass sound.

Excellent. I wentbinto this knowing nothong about the band or the album. The qlbum rocks along effortlessly.

An album to be danced to, not listened to.

Good early Dylan. Surrealist, scene jumbled over guitar.

I want to likenthis album more than i do. Too much of it is bland

Over long, baggy and uneven

Sometimes Neil Young is execellent, sometimes he is self indulgent. This album has both, more good than bad.

Fine, but not something i will revisit.

4* for Speakerboxx, 2* for the Love Below