1001 Albums Summary

Walking around London in a mood

TWENTY MINUTES

Very nice actually

Appreciated more than enjoyed

This actually bangs Oh actually way ballady-er than I expected. Kinda tails off.

Actually liked this a lot. Lovely voice.

Long

Restaurant music

Why is the production so bad

Ten ten no notes

Twee Elliot Smith

Bangs actually

Just associate him with TV

Very Broadway

Unlistenable

When Hey Ya -one of the best song ever - isn't even top 5

Better than I expected!

Inoffensive

Actually very good

The order of this album is insane

Has some nice songs but the lyrical style gets wearing and the African appropriation is cringe

What a weird album to be on this list

Obv Spector was a very bad man but boy oh boy could he produce an album

Love the Beatles but this is not top tier

this sounds like being in my mum's kitchen in 1988. like soul music played by a plastic bag.

Some bangers

Banger after banger

Just makes me want to watch freaks and geeks again. Losing a full star for this deranged blues song! Another star gone for Mother's Lament. Are we ok? WTF?

It slid off my brain like an eel coated in oil

Some nice melodies but mostly profoundly irksome

Incredibly strange. Loved it!

Some good tunes at the start made me wonder if I liked Dylan after all but several absolute dirges later and a loss of the will to love during the final track soon ended that

Perfect no notes

There is a smugness to Sinatra that I can't get over. It's incredibly easy listening but it's also cheesy and slimy in a way that I don't like at all.

I feel like this would be really fun to listen to live and dance to

Oh no The tunes are great and then Morrissey's voice is the worst thing I've ever heard

Gosh this takes me back to my 20s. Generally very bland apart from infinity which I still like.

My problem with Bob Dylan songs (other than his voice) is they just go on and on and on and on without changing. If they were 3 mins long I'd not have time to get bored.

I feel like Sonic Youth should be right up my alley but something about them is very unpleasant to listen to

Weird but I quite enjoyed it. Probably wouldn't listen again though.

Gosh this takes me right back to being 16. Love it.

Some bangers but a few too many guitar solos

Extremely easy listening.

Profoundly bland. 2008 is too recent so sounds dated.

This project has taught me that I genuinely hate the Rolling Stones. You Gotta Move is actually offensive.

meh

Enjoyed this more than I expected

Clearly a work of technical genius

boring

Her voice is good but every song sounds the same. Mid 2000s rnb inflected pop was boring then and is boring now

Perfectly fine

Delightful. What a voice!

Always wondered where the music for teen dramas came from and now I know

I am obsessed with this. Immediately bought it.

Perfectly fine but all the songs sound the same. The man starts at 11 and has nowhere to go.

What an odd album

This project is making me appreciate that this era of British working class eccentrics being allowed to make pop music existed. Half these songs are straight music hall ditties and most of them sound exactly the same. I don't like them very much but I do appreciate their existence.

Did not expect to enjoy this but I loved it

I feel like I should be smoking and drinking whiskey

Loved it

Nope

In 2000, the first boy I ever loved made me a mix cd with 2.45am was the first track. I cannot be even slightly impartial about this album or about Elliot Smith. I love it and I miss him.

Perfectly fine background music

Ah the 70s

Some nice orchestration but overall too ballady for me

I liked their songs very much but why did 60s producers insist that bands fill their albums with mediocre covers

That this was inspired by Dylan made me suddenly appreciate Dylan way more than I ever have

Five stars no notes

I have been underrating Dusty my whole life

Peak funk

A lot of songs on this album I'm very fond of (scar tissue, other side, californication), and a lot that I violently hate (around the world, I like dirt). Weird listening experience.

Her voice is pretty but I just hate this genre

Inoffensive but a lot of it sounds like pink being played in the house next door

Some interesting bits but not enough to make me want to listen to it

Pure nostalgia

Felt like listening to a panic attack

Astonishing that this album contains a song as perfect as Beat It and a song as appalling as the Girl is Mine.

Weird album but bits of this slap

Listened to this on a very pleasant train journey which absolutely made me like it more

Didn't expect to enjoy this but had an absolutely great time

Takes me right back to being 13. Can't really stand the a lot of these songs anymore but Live Forever triggers something in me that I will never be able to exorcise.

Loved this!

je telephone le police

I hate them I hate them I hate them

Some wild changes of tone here but the blues by/for white people thing that men were doing in the 1960s is so profoundly embarrassing

So joyful!

Boring

I don't hate the tunes but there is something profoundly irksome about Costello's voice. Like being an a work party with a man in a novelty tie.

All these songs sound the same

This project loves psychedelia way too much. This is strangely creepy.

I can already tell you that this is going to be too long but she has a helluva voice

Triggered about 8 forms of misphonia

Two bangers to start but every other song is appallingly shit with hideous production

Listening on a bus to Takayama

Fuck me this is great

Background music

Background music

I loved it on release and I love it still. I wish she made more music

Perfectly listenable but also the blandest second tier britpop imaginable. Baffling inclusion

Grew on me a lot as it passed. Also I listened to this while reading a new article about how odd Beck is

Apart from superstition this is actually very boring

Not for me

Vocals on five magic made me laugh out loud so worth it for the chuckles

Always preferred their hardcore days but listening to this I suddenly got what REM wanted to be. Some really cracking vocal melodies here.