1001 Albums Summary

So for my first album, I get Neil Young, an artist I've never really seen the appeal of, despite many people I enjoy listening to holding him in high esteem. After listening to the album, my opinion hasn't changed. It's the voice, which is in full effect on the first couple of tracks. Too high for his range. Once this is toned down, it's a little more palatable. Favourite Tracks - Till The Morning Comes - Great Trumpets, Birds - Lovely harmonies with the band. Least favourites - Only Love Can Break Your Heart - The St Etienne version is so much better, in all it's 90s dance pop. Tell Me Why. Cripple Creek Ferry really annoyed me for some reason, but it's less than two minutes, so it's gone before I turned it off.

Initial thoughts - Some pretty good Southern blues rock. Fairly generic, but I suppose that's more to do with the amount of people who were trying to be CCR in the years afterwards. Best avoid the longer tracks though as they do drag a little.

After the years, after the memification of Wonderwall, after the cocaine albums that followed, this remains my favourite Oasis album. Opener Hello is probably the most awkward track on here, due to the borrowing of the Gary Glitter song. The wall of sound effect is to the fore here, with the three guitars giving the songs a huge sense of space and scale, and the production is able to capture a band going into the stratosphere. Wonderwall is a cliche nowadays, but there's a reason everyone knows how to play it - Simple, straightforward, and full of emotion. A great song ruined by over exposure. My friend asked me if this is Oasis' best album. I said "Maybe..."

A festive reminder that great art can be made by terrible people.

Enjoyed this a lot more than I expected, having had a resistance to "dad-rock" my whole life. I think because it holds it's influences on it's sleeve? "This one sounds like the Beatles, this one sounds like the Stones, this is definitely Who-inspired". Either way, not a bad listen, would probably listen again.

Used to listen to this a lot when it first came out, but drifted away from them when the music started getting "stadium-sized". Listening again now reminds me why I liked the first two albums so much. Heavily indebted to southern rock bands that have inspired them, but with much more of an indie-rock thrash to it. Lyrics utterly indecipherable. Love it.

Not really listened to Costello much outside of the bigger singles (and Shipbuilding, which I love). Quite surprised by this - Definitely not punk, not really new wave. But too spiky in both music and lyrics to be really "mainstream" fare. Pretty good.

Still remains a pretty vital debut. Whilst there's nothing particularly original going on, it's done with humour and heart to make it feel great.

Great opener and not one I expected, hypnotic and massive sounding. Vocally a lot more Thom Yorke than I expected. I only had familiarity with a couple of Wainwright's songs previously (one of which, The Art Teacher is on this album, but stylistically quite different to the rest of it). Really enjoyed this on first listen, I'll be listening again.

I've never really got Springsteen at the best of times, so an album from past his height that threatens to veer into Christian rock on several occasions was never going to swing it for me. Sorry Bruce, I'm sure this has it's fans but it just did not connect with me in any way.

Liked this more than expected. Country rock, great guitar sound in places. Dark End of the Street remains a brilliant song no matter who is singing it. A few riffs and a solo that have definitely been incorporated by other artists later on.

Great album. I downloaded a dodgy copy when it first came out that had Intervention as the first track, which I still maintain is the correct place for it, but the album holds up. Big songs, delicate songs, great production. First five star.

Bowie coming back sounding energised. My favourite of the final two albums, this one has a real bounce to it, and a boozy sax running through the album.

Never liked Weller at the time, but listening to this now, it's nice enough. Solid blues-rock. Never going to change the world, but if you have it on in the background while doing other things, you'll definitely find yourself humming along to a couple of the tracks.

I dislike two types of music: Country _and_ Western. That said, this wasn't _bad_, just nowhere near my comfort zone. Might put it on again semi-ironically.