1001 Albums Summary

Bad start taking the biscuit out of NIN, and it got worse! It's fun and maybe would've been more fun in 2000

Great album, I imagine a stunner for avid The Who fans. As a hobbiest, didn't blow me away

The greatest songwriter of all time with a stunning final album. Would be a 5 but need to save that for SOLAH

Good fun, not my cup of tea

He was good wasn't he

This is the second time I've ever listened to a Beatles album, which frankly is an embarrassingly low number for me and because of that I think The White album was a difficult place to kick off my Beatles journey. Mainly because the album sounds like a compilation album, it's a complete mess, it's twice as long as it should be and you could cut at least 40% of the tracks. It would be excusable if there was a through line throughout the tracks but they're all over the place. Do Helter Skelter and Blackbird need to be on the same record? (I know, I know, it's two different discs but it's still one album). That being said, the highs are phenomenally high. Dear Prudence, Julia, Cry Baby Cry and as already mentioned, Blackbird and Helter Skelter, are some of the most influential and best written songs ever there's no denying that and I think that is what gets it the plaudits. But if you are thinking of an album as a singular piece of work, not just 30(!) tracks it's just not doing it for me the same way it does for others. It feels like the emotion and feelings in the songs gets lost amongst some filler. I believe one day I will be a true Beatles fan and I read this back the same way you would read back a year 9 Facebook status but that day hasn't come yet. I assume Will will find this at some point so shout out to him, please don't take it too personally.

Good stuff. Bowie influence is distracting, I do prefer Pop's more unique style in the later works

RIP Keith Flint

My new favourite Stones album!

It's not my bag

Important but not incredible as an album 60 years on

If this has sold 800'000 copies at £30 (accounting for inflation) that means £2.2 million has been spent on listening to people talk about the band or the songs instead of the band actually playing the songs

Dance music and house music would not be the same without this

What a masterpiece, the aggression and emotion are perfectly balanced

I like fever Ray, they make good music, but I always feel like there is something missing that doesn't pull me in so much

This is a great album. I think the hysteria around Brit Pop clouds some opinions of some great music around that time. Saying that you can hear the Oasis influence slightly too much at parts

Books/websites need to stop promoting this man. If you grew up with him and have a nostalgic or emotional connection to his music then crack on. The rest of us need to move past him. Disco/soul/pop has better icons who didn't abuse minors

I find some of these difficult to rate. Clearly this is a fantastic album and deserves to be on this list. But I am so far removed from New York hip hop culture in the 80s that I can't really relate

Definitely better than her solo album. Can't say I was expecting Janice Joplin to be the first artist I have two albums from

Top 5 most influential albums ever made

Modern life is rubbish is rubbish

Post punk will struggle on these lists. This album sounds completely whack when it is out of context, but at the time hearing something as raw as this to counter what was being released must have been refreshing. But it was a difficult listen

It's just a guitar

This is one of the best stripped back live sessions recorded. But I do believe that the lore around it has inflated its quality slightly. I like the idea of one of the biggest bands in the world doing a show for the biggest tv channel in the world and not playing any of their hits and instead doing covers

Misogynistic man raps really quickly over Dr Dre's peak

Really happy to see this on the list. It hearing this in 2009 changed the way I listen to music. Still sounds fresh 16 years later. But is somewhat inferior to this mammoth list

This album changed what hip could be and they did it in a way that changed hip hop and music forever

This is how pop should sound, euphoric and emotional. Let down by a few duds in the middle but the hits so huge

Feels like an album was made because he wrote the single Imagine and needed to bulk it out. Forgettable and in need of a lot more influence when writing, something his previous three bandmates could've helped with.

Unfortunately all of these songs are better performed on Stop Making Sense

It's fun