1001 Albums Summary

lots of great tracks, including a couple of top tier songs. A keeper, minus the country tinged songs

Not a poor track to be found.excellent. quite a shift from the pink band they started off being

Amazingly infectious music. Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you can't help but enjoy the grooves,

lots of grade a tracks here!

Excellent listening, beging to end

it does set a standard....but do i like it?

Understandable lyrics, great grooves. Appreciate this as a great example of the art and style. If this is not your thing, it still deserves a listen

Distinct for its time, bud does not age well

African jazz brought to America. If you love jazz, this is a must hear

They managed to make both the perfect representation of a rock album of the era, while also sounding unique A pretty hard feat The bootleg sounds even better.

Not my favorite Who recording, but a good job of bridging the music they came from to where they went

Psychedelia, a kiss of prog, a slice of mid 60s life well done

A perfect combination of music, lyrics and vocals

Great alt pop, even better from a "girl band"

The best stones album? Even the non hits are well crafted. But just redo the country style tracks

Really 3.5 stars, just not quite there for 4. But a great intersection of pop, noise, end arrangements

Great compositions, hits, and the best tracks are the deep cuts. Five stars for an occasional listen.

Great if you like Christmas songs. Horrible otherwise

Just not for me. Musically, it hits a good note, but simply not good enough to carry an album

That is a lot of folk music in one place. It also packed lots of great writing, and timeless classics in one neat package.

Superb lyrics, music that matches, and timeless hits. What more could you ask for

Just not a fan of this vibe. I can't tell if it is "good" but I don't like it, or if it was a not good, or I just don't get it.

Any album that can have hits from Young Americans and Fame sure covers lots of ground

When elevators die and go to heaven, this is the music that gets played. A great singer, just not my style

Nothing poor, nothing great.

There are some angry people here. Not my usual groove, but great performances, and great music win me over. Linton Kwesi Johnson would be proud.

Lots of great little nuggets here. If this album dropped today, hits would still come off of it. Not quite 4 stars, but better than three...

hi. We are The Who. This is a damn fine album... Great tracks, emerging from ther British rnb scene, with distinctive character shining through

No denying the hits, but unless you are a fan of the style, the rest of the tracks are just filler. This would have been better as a single album

A soundtrack where the songs tell the story incredibly well. Great lyrics, fantastic musicians playing great soul/rnb, and excellent vocals.

Pot soul, rnb, and rock into as blender. Let Me. Clinton operate, and voila, a perfect representation of funk

Excellent from start to finish, an incredible diversity of styles and sounds

An entire movie on one great album

Good tracks with a few great ones, and a band that knew how to dress, and act to get noticed.

Could not stay awake long enough to enjoy any of this

Great music, excellent lyrics, fantastic voice.

Quite a diversity of sounds, a melting pot of jazz and prog, but does not stand out to my ears

A platform for an excellent guitarist, with a great band, diversity of music, and great lytics

just not in my wheelhouse

his lyrics tell a story in no uncertain terms and his voice is unique, but it is just not enough to make an album stand out

Only listen to this if you are having a horrible day but want someone else to sound unintelligibly angry for you

Excellent lyrics, fantastic voice, it just grabs you

While recognising great vocals, to my ears this is elevator music hell

The hits are there, but the rest of the album does not stand the test of time, though at the time it was standing out from the crowd

A demonstration that a guitar slinger can do far more

A master class in soul/R'n'B of the era

an excellent singer, with lyrics up front, and well written. but you better be a fan of that style of what was considered pop music of the time

any album that delivers one of the greatest songs, as well as other gems of the intersection of folk, pop and soft rock deserves all the stars it can get. a talented singer/songwriter

If Pete ubu was an artist, this album would be abstract, with attempts at bits of realism so you might want to listen. Two stars for trying

He can rhyme, and create an interesting soundscape. But I don't want to hear songs with caricatures of the worst tropes of segments of society. If this were a movie, I would not want to see it, even if critics rave about it

Great songwriting and harmonies, and stands the test of tine

Like listening to a sunset

Prog is not dead, just hiding,

Great to listen to musicians being musicians, not rock stars. This sounds nothing like any individual musician soulded like or played like, very refreshing. Hard to rate this without many listens, but it is at least a 3 leaning upwards,

fair to middling, nothing remarkable

Proof that the Beatles were a sum of parts. Never confuse this with a Beatles album, a great album in a style it's own

five stars...great song writing, great band,

The queen

five stars!

Three stars

Great bass player, some good guitar, andca big hit!

Spectacular rhythms, great arrangements. If it were recorded today, it would still be a tour de force

Perfect

Competent, but does not stand the test of time

Excellent musically, superb songs that still sound fresh

Nite quite ready for prime time, despite a couple of great tracks

Every track a pop hit. And the backstory makes it an even better story of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

Every song a hit, summertime on a record.

Excellent musicianship redefining what blues can sound like

Interesting piece of history, but far from a great album

Fantastic voice, but too many "modern soul/R'n'B tracks that I am not a fan of, but others will give it 5 stars for that exact reason

Not their best effort

I just can't latch on to this style...

Excellent vocals, well written songs, very good band, and this is just from one listen

a great voice, for sure, but the best tracks are the ones that ae not produced to the formula of modern rnb

media darlings at the time looking for the next big thing, but less interesting with the passage of time

Do denying that they captured the time, but great horn charts don't make up for disco

A poor version of what they are

Perfect end to end

nothing here remarkable

Masterpiece all the way through

Genius at work, excellent songs, arrangements, and musicians

Awful. Listen to VU and you will know what they are trying to sound like

One timeless track does not make this exceptional

Too much of a formula

The best generic rock / rock n roll album...if that is an accolade

More than songs, a conversation between a guitar, a band, an the singer

If AI existed back then, this is what synth pop dance would sound like

I missed this when it was released, bad on me. Great Britpop top to bottom

great musically, great vocals, you could see that prima, in any decade, would be top tier. Excellent pop music of the time