1001 Albums Summary

I've been meaning to listen to this album for a while now, and I'm glad to have gotten it as my first album in this long journey. I very much enjoyed this one. Musically the album is excellent, with some of the band's best work on it, and while Morrissey's lyrics and vocal style are definitely not to everyone's liking, I'm quite partial to them (though I feel the need to point out that I find his personal beliefs as of recent reprehensible and a massive disappointment). All in all, I think this is a really solid album. I wouldn't call it the best album of all time as some have, but it's a very good one regardless and worthy of its status as a classic. A solid 4.5/5. RIP Andy Rourke

This was amazing. I’m just kind of blown away by this after the first listen. I don’t really know what else to write here, other than that I really, really, really liked this. This was certainly one hell of an introduction to Charles Mingus, and to a degree, jazz in general. 5/5

Queen were my favourite band in my teenage years, and I still like them a lot, but I haven’t listened to this album in full in what must be a decade. It was really fun to revisit this one, and I’m glad to say this holds up great. It’s not my favourite album of theirs, nor is it without flaws, but it’s still very good, and I can’t tell if it’s just the nostalgia or my tastes changing as I’ve grown older, but I think I like this even more than I did when I was younger. 4.5/5

This is a very good album and definitely worthy of its status as a classic of its genre, but for some reason I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would, despite liking this kind of music. I liked it a lot, but for whatever reason it just didn't resonate with me the way my favourites in this genre do. Maybe it'll grow with me over time, but I don't know. Still very good, though. 4/5

I enjoyed this. It's not exactly my usual genre, but I found myself really intrigued by most of the songs on this album. I'll definitely be relistening to this one, and I wouldn't be surprised if it will winds up growing on me. 4/5