1001 Albums Summary

Dire Straits by Dire Straits

A 2 star review said it was like Bob Dylan jamming out. That's the coolest thing ever. Sultans of swing was stuck in my head after listening

Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company

It's a very standard blues album. Joplin does an amazing job on vocals the writing is on par too and the instrumentation is decent AOTY rating: 83

Young Americans by David Bowie

David Brotha Bowie AOTY rating: 82

Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones

Just really not for me AOTY rating: 64

War by U2

Hot Fuss by The Killers

Sunshine Superman by Donovan

Is this the hippyslop that's apparently all over this list

Bright Flight by Silver Jews

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Music From Big Pink by The Band

Night Life by Ray Price

Picture this, you're in a bar and he's playing live because this is so boring it would force people to converse. However I decently don't hate this

Being There by Wilco

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic

Wild Is The Wind by Nina Simone

Catch A Fire by Bob Marley & The Wailers

MTV Unplugged In New York by Nirvana

Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane

Scott 4 by Scott Walker

Faust IV by Faust

Band On The Run by Paul McCartney and Wings

The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd

Frank by Amy Winehouse

Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins

Rock 'N Soul by Solomon Burke

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon

1999 by Prince

Aqualung by Jethro Tull

Sheer Heart Attack by Queen

Miriam Makeba by Miriam Makeba

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle by Bill Callahan

Madman Across The Water by Elton John

The White Room by The KLF

Gasoline Alley by Rod Stewart

There's No Place Like America Today by Curtis Mayfield

Bad Company by Bad Company

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned by Liars

Dusty In Memphis by Dusty Springfield

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West

Kenya by Machito

Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses

Boomers are gonna be mad that I don't give this 6/5

Treasure by Cocteau Twins

Chore of Enchantment by Giant Sand

Olympia 64 by Jacques Brel

Live At Leeds by The Who

Bossanova by Pixies

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen

I didn't really like songs of Leonard Cohen. I understand that's hot, I understand the greatness and the poetry but I didn't really like it, probably will give a 2 here. My critiques were: Too poetic - takes away from stuff; not enough instrumental bonus - a major key that I felt was lacking and finally... I want it darker So when the darker, less poetic, more instrumental driven Cohen album comes up I really enjoy it

Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz

Let England Shake by PJ Harvey

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka

Surfer Rosa by Pixies

In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra

Music in Exile by Songhoy Blues

The Bends by Radiohead

Dirt by Alice In Chains

Let's Stay Together by Al Green

Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco

Scream, Dracula, Scream by Rocket From The Crypt

Lust For Life by Iggy Pop

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Beatles

We Are Family by Sister Sledge

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes

Guero by Beck

Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg by Jerry Lee Lewis

Ill Communication by Beastie Boys

Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta

Buena Vista Social Club by Buena Vista Social Club

The White Room by The KLF

Crime Of The Century by Supertramp

Tidal by Fiona Apple

Lady In Satin by Billie Holiday

Cloud Nine by The Temptations

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

When my Grampa was talking about Zappa and he went: "his ability to just create instrumentation and write... He's just the greatest" I was thinking of this album. Sufjan is a musical God in man form and how he only gets one entry when he deserves at least 4 is criminal. He becomes a conductor making some of the greatest chamber pop on Come On! Feel The Illinoise (part 1) or They Are Zombies!!! They Are Neighbors!!! He then becomes an expert song writer on tear jerkers such as Casimir Polanski Day or John Wayne Gacy jr. He managed to do different styles on tracks like Jacksonville and it is all held down on a neat concept which we were robbed another 48 albums for Sufjan's voice deserves its own paragraph, it's really good. When I first discovered this album it had a cool cover and I was starting to listen through the AOTY top 100, I hated it, if this was the first time it'd be a 1 and I would be comfortable with that, if this was the second third or even fourth time, it'd be a 1, comfortably. The fifth time I began to appreciate the theatrics of it all and it pretty quickly became a 5 and then a perfect score

Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Sweet Baby James by James Taylor

The Joshua Tree by U2

Scissor Sisters by Scissor Sisters

The Lexicon Of Love by ABC

My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello

Tonight's The Night by Neil Young

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) by The Kinks

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys

Double Nickels On The Dime by Minutemen

Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden

The Man Machine by Kraftwerk

Superunknown by Soundgarden

Movies by Holger Czukay

Crazysexycool by TLC

OK Computer by Radiohead

Private Dancer by Tina Turner

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy

Live And Dangerous by Thin Lizzy

Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.

Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ten by Pearl Jam

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears by The Mamas & The Papas

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry by Billy Bragg

Da Capo by Love

Funeral by Arcade Fire

Broken English by Marianne Faithfull

The Real Thing by Faith No More

Don't Stand Me Down by Dexys Midnight Runners

Purple Rain by Prince

Hotel California by Eagles

Out of Step by Minor Threat

Disintegration by The Cure

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey

Cypress Hill by Cypress Hill

Pearl by Janis Joplin

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen

L'Eau Rouge by The Young Gods

Winter In America by Gil Scott-Heron

Innervisions by Stevie Wonder

Scott 2 by Scott Walker

For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

So by Peter Gabriel

Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers

Ingenue by k.d. lang

Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs

The Stooges by The Stooges

Back to Mystery City by Hanoi Rocks

This Is Hardcore by Pulp

Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees

California by American Music Club

American Pie by Don McLean

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette

Sex Packets by Digital Underground

Black Metal by Venom

In Rainbows by Radiohead

Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen

Bongo Rock by Incredible Bongo Band

Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine

Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin

Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69) by Ministry

Selling England By The Pound by Genesis

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith

The Slim Shady LP by Eminem

Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson

Stardust by Willie Nelson

Pyromania by Def Leppard

Lazer Guided Melodies by Spiritualized

Homework by Daft Punk

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

Closer by Joy Division

Elephant by The White Stripes

The Cars by The Cars

Arrival by ABBA

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret by Soft Cell

Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies

Transformer by Lou Reed

White Blood Cells by The White Stripes

Cut by The Slits

Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park

Maverick A Strike by Finley Quaye

Destroyer by KISS

Vento De Maio by Elis Regina

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie

Parklife by Blur

Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Beyond Skin by Nitin Sawhney

Fragile by Yes

Abraxas by Santana

Trio by Dolly Parton

Pieces Of The Sky by Emmylou Harris

If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues

Live Through This by Hole