1001 Albums Summary

One of the best Beatles albums and therefore one of the best albums full stop. The only possible criticism that I can level at it is that it’s a set of utterly sublime songs sandwiched between a good but pretty throwaway pop song and a really weird, is-it-ironic-who-is-the-joke-on oddity (Drive My Car and Run for Your Life)

Yeah, liked it. Couple of classics omn there like Blueberry Hill and Blue Monday that I vaguely knew, and some other nice tracks on here.

Not sure why I've never listened to this all the way through before. It's such a hip-hop classic a lot of it has seeped into my awareness by a kind of osmosis, but really good to give it some attention. Great production, so enveloped in a fug of weed smoke you practically get high listening to it. Probably take a few more listens before I could tell you what they're on about, mind.

This album I have heard before, and of course it contains the famous Mr Blue Sky. I guess ELO picked up the baton dropped by the collapse of the Beatles, but leavened with mid-70s disco & prog rock (which, after all, is the continuation by other means of Abbey Road). Feelgood music for singalongs and driving. It'd be churlish to dislike, but overall it's a bit too much even for me - and I like pompous white rock music - a bit sickly sweet.

Extraordinary. Powerful and exciting. A classic live album.

Listened to the OG release and had a few criticisms about brevity, but then realised this is for the Legacy Edition which captures pretty much the whole gig! Straight off the bat, this is a much better edition. June comes across as a fierce performer in her own right, not just John's wife. The warm up tracks by Carl Perkins and the Statler brothers are a fantastic addition. Overall this pitches it up into "one of the greatest live albums ever" territory. Very atmospheric.

Couple of absolutely brilliant tracks - Pretty in Pink and She Is Mine - but overall I found it enjoyable but samey.

Didn’t know this album, but will repeat listen.

Didn’t know this album, but will repeat listen.

Really good album, and I've seen Kiwanuka live and enjoyed the show a lot as well. For some reason I don't _love_ it, but I do like it a lot.

I really like it, but there's something possibly a little to earnest about it even for me. Maybe just the mood I'm in.

It's not my favourite Nick Drake album. I will re-listen however.

I have this album on cassette. It's one of two I spent a _lot_ of time listening to back in the early 90s (the other one being Metallica's black album). As such, I can't disentangle this LP from my life at that time. Basically, listening to it again, it makes me very sad to think of how good we had it in the 90s compared with now. Not only was I between 15 and 25 years of age, but the cold war was over, environmental progress was on the radar, and the culture wars and jihads of the 20th century hadn't yet started. This album was one of the soundtracks to a golden age of peace, prosperity and culture. If you didn't dig this back then, I somehow doubt you'll dig it now, basically.

Never heard this before. Very jangly and lofi, but quite good.

Probably my favourite Nick Cave album

I could give it a 4* given it’s not my actual favourite Led Zep album, but seriously it’s amazing

A solid 3. Voice reminds me a bit of Garcia.

Pub metal. Probably love this if you get into it when you're 17 in 1979 or so.

I love listening to Abba albums properly. The production quality is so high, really amazing to dedicate listening time, even though many of these umbers - Dancing Queen for example - are so ubiquitous it's easy to just write them off as background music. Knowing Me, Knowing You is a triumph and for that plus Fernando alone I could give this a 4 but there are a couple of fillers on here, and it's not the best of the Abba albums. Still very enjoyable.

I don't remember having heard this before and I really enjoyed it a lot. Probably my favourite discovery so far from this site.

Didn't like this at all. It sounds like it's trying to emulate Beatles but without any actual soul. The musicianship is fine, but no, not for me.

Huge drum solos, excellent between-song patter "Everything louder than everything else", the prototype for Spinal Tap, surely.

I mean, you can't say things like the first line of this record anymore, but, apart from that, it's a prog rock album which I should like, but not having first heard it when I was 15 I only find it mildly appealing. Except for Cross-Eyed Mary, which appeared on a Gel-Sol Prog Rock Companion as part of a superlative mix so I love that one.