1001 Albums Summary

Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Synchronicity by The Police

The Next Day by David Bowie

Amazing, Classic Bowie. It’s like an up tempo Blackstar

The Specials by The Specials

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill

Solid, perfect on a cold winter morning

Reggatta De Blanc by The Police

Parachutes by Coldplay

The Slider by T. Rex

Basket of Light by Pentangle

Alien Lanes by Guided By Voices

Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis

21 by Adele

If you enjoy listening to the same song for 48 minutes then this album is for you!

Vauxhall And I by Morrissey

The Cars by The Cars

Ill Communication by Beastie Boys

In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson

Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin

Millions Now Living Will Never Die by Tortoise

Rio by Duran Duran

Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

“I heard the The Smiths before you”

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm by A Tribe Called Quest

Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Stankonia by OutKast

I Against I by Bad Brains

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector by Various Artists

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac

Some great, but mostly meh

What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

A Walk Across The Rooftops by The Blue Nile

The Renaissance by Q-Tip

Ramones by Ramones

Strangeways, Here We Come by The Smiths

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles

Fifth Dimension by The Byrds

System Of A Down by System Of A Down

Night Life by Ray Price

Guero by Beck

From Elvis In Memphis by Elvis Presley

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

The Good, The Bad & The Queen by The Good, The Bad & The Queen

At Newport 1960 by Muddy Waters

Live At The Harlem Square Club by Sam Cooke

Off The Wall by Michael Jackson

Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Somewhere between The Cure and Pixies and my experience of this album is entirely coloured by hearing the others before this.

Buena Vista Social Club by Buena Vista Social Club

Wild Gift by X

Definitely Maybe by Oasis

At San Quentin by Johnny Cash

Before And After Science by Brian Eno

Electric Prunes by The Electric Prunes

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by Small Faces

This had so much promise until the 2nd half Monty Python’athon

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West

Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan

Gasoline Alley by Rod Stewart

After 5 minutes his voice is so grating

Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel

The Rising by Bruce Springsteen

The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses

Sublime

1999 by Prince

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit

Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder

Kenza by Khaled

Vibes

At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash

25 by Adele

The final boss of mid discographies

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul by Otis Redding

Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian

I Should Coco by Supergrass

Licensed To Ill by Beastie Boys

Ten by Pearl Jam

Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C.

Almost certainly influential at the time but averages out at the lower end for Hip Hop these days

Follow The Leader by Korn

2112 by Rush

One Nation Under A Groove by Funkadelic

Arrival by ABBA

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis

There’s a truly brilliant album here somewhere but the entire project feels bloated

Disraeli Gears by Cream

Machine Head by Deep Purple

Be by Common

Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company

A Love Supreme by John Coltrane

LP1 by FKA twigs

Certainly one to revisit but impressed with what I heard

The Libertines by The Libertines

Criminally underrated, the precursor band to an entire movement

Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Should really be 4.5* if some of the highs were higher it would be 5*

Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears

Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath

Honky Tonk Heroes by Waylon Jennings

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Fragile by Yes

The Atomic Mr Basie by Count Basie & His Orchestra

23 Skidoo!

Sex Packets by Digital Underground

What a terrible day to have ears.

Crocodiles by Echo And The Bunnymen

Oracular Spectacular by MGMT

The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett

Entertainment by Gang Of Four

Exile In Guyville by Liz Phair

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno

This is the result of two musical geniuses, Logic Pro and far too many yes men

Kid A by Radiohead

Abraxas by Santana

Henry's Dream by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes

Classic

Urban Hymns by The Verve

Discount Stone Roses

Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin

Their Magnum Opus

To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

One of the most important albums of all time. This album is so good that Kendrick is still doing victory laps over ten years later!

It's A Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads

Kenya by Machito

Debut by Björk

Difficult to rate honestly, I enjoyed it but it will need time to grow on me after one listen

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones

Gimme shelter and Monkey man are incredible but the deep cuts on this are so disappointing. Also as a side note adding a children’s choir to a rock song will always make it infinitely worse, I’m looking at you You can’t always get what you want. See also: War is over and Schools out.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay

Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes

Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & The Dominos

Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane

Fear Of Music by Talking Heads

Phaedra by Tangerine Dream

Like Water For Chocolate by Common

The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Dookie by Green Day

A Girl Called Dusty by Dusty Springfield

Scum by Napalm Death

Logical Progression by LTJ Bukem

It may well have been seminal but it’s still a drum machine loop for over 1 1/2 hours. Drum n Bass is not bad but it’s clearly not best enjoyed in album format.

Hard Again by Muddy Waters

Live! by Fela Kuti

Brothers by The Black Keys

Parallel Lines by Blondie

Something Else By The Kinks by The Kinks

I for one would’ve preferred Something Else by The Kinks

Who Killed...... The Zutons? by The Zutons

Different Class by Pulp

Sea Change by Beck

En-Tact by The Shamen

Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets

Finally something interesting to listen to! Worthy of the list, but not a masterpiece.

Virgin Suicides by Air

The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald

Zombie by Fela Kuti

Heartattack And Vine by Tom Waits

Fever Ray by Fever Ray

I can’t believe it’s not Björk

When I Was Born For The 7th Time by Cornershop

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith

His best

On The Beach by Neil Young

One of the Neil Young albums of all time

You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr.

The New Tango by Astor Piazzolla

Never giving the elevator the aux again

Mott by Mott The Hoople

Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf

Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones

Medúlla by Björk

I like Björk but I got no enjoyment from this one, I think it actively made me anxious. Challenging the listener does not always equal good

Liquid Swords by GZA

Pyromania by Def Leppard

Ready To Die by The Notorious B.I.G.

Paranoid by Black Sabbath