1001 Albums Summary

Artistically wanting. A rough album to start my journey on. Favourite track is 4. Confusion. 1/5

Easy listening. 2/5

The bass is fun on this one. 2.5/5

English chaps pretending to be black. Decent effort. 3.25/5

Not an fan. Marks for a consistent and cohesive sound. 1.25 /5

The first track is an absolute mess. “I wrote 62 riffs this year. I am going to put them all into the same key (or thereabouts) and play one after another - people will confuse my mediocrity for genius and both Richard Branson and I will become millionaires” 1/5

Simple yet interesting. Paul simons stream of consciousness lyrics get a bit annoying. They are the only blemish on the album. 4/5

80s stadium rock at its finest. 3.5/5

Solid combo of Punk, glam rock, and more ambient tracks.

Exceedingly bland. 2/5

Never liked ELP - and this album isn't helping. 2.5/5

Britpop should have never left the Home Nations. 0.5/5

When the thrash metal drumming, whiny vocals, and slushy overdriven guitars come together in a certain way The Offspring offer can a great song. But this hardly happened. 2/5

As an exploration into the banality and neuroticisms of modernity Albion’s lyrics sound like they were composed by a classroom of 7th graders playing the game of what-word-comes-next?. Paranoid android sound like poetry next to this. Coxon’s mixture of catchy chord progressions and arbitrary key changes in the middle of a phrase (made popular by the Beatles and others) are mildly redemptive. 2.5/5

Can the imitation be more real than the thing itself? Bowie’s “plastic soul” has the touch and taste of flesh and blood. 4.25/5

Being groundbreaking for it’s time isn’t necessary condition for being a good album. 2/5