1001 Albums Summary

Beastie Boys always makes me feel like I’m I a good cocktail bar circa 2016 and although it’s from 1994, those were really the days you know? Getting a martini for the first time and choking it down for the olive alone, I feel like that’s what the Beastie Boys are all about. It’s a fun time, it’ll make you wiggle and also, if you want, have a little headbang at your desk. Why not? Life is short and mundane. I like this album. 7/10

Those “Mexican maidens” are certainly doing…something to ol’ Marty Robbins and I’m starting to think the “big iron” he’s singing about is the one in his pants. It’s fun listening to crooning stories of a vague New Mexico or whatever he’s imagining of actual Mexico (old Mexico, if you will) but this does nothing for me. Pleasant, if boring, background music.

I don’t get the glick with Lorde. It feels very generic to me and just makes me think of that meme where she shushing everyone to sing out of tune but in pindrop silence. She seems great and I love the new song “what was that” (which isn’t on this album), not because it’s a good song, but it is a great vocal stim. This album doesn’t even have that :/

What a good time!! Doing the running man dance in my livingroom room rn, is that shuffle dance??? That was a fun time and I enjoyed it, lots of energy! 2 people doing synchronous twirly dances kinda vibe and I like that.

Finally some good fuckin songs!!!!! I forgot how much I liked this album and it's full of funky little 90s indie tunes. How nostalgic can you even get??? I DON'T LOVE ANYONE...WELL MAYBE MY SISTER. like yeah, that's exactly how you feel as a teen, like 100% spot on. Other than pure nostalgia, it's also just a decently interesting album with fun synthy twinkles and distortion... also lovely Scottish spoken word overlays - I think I skipped those bits as a teen but now I'm like.. nice one, SPEAK, GIRL. 10/10 (/4*s lol)

This album feels like the sound of the 90s in a really true way. Genuinely hits so hard, the beats are so strong and it feels like Lauren Hill at her prime and it’s just such a confident. Killing me softly! That’s the anthem of the 90s! It just is.

This is a classic and we all know it and love it. It feels very classic 60s, romantic and melancholy but reminds me most of journeys in the car with my parents. Big hauntology vibes on this on this one for me, casts a feeling of the 60s that I’ll never know.

I’m gonna be honest, this album wasn’t for me. We watched spinal tap before and it was similar enough to that but I think I would have preferred to listen to spinal tap.

I didn't get into Cocteau Twins until a bit later in life because honestly I think I just didn't quite get it, maybe my whimsy wasn't fully formed yet, my frontal-whimsy-lobe if you will. Post 25, brain nice and formed, I'm loving that shit. I don't need actual language to have a good time, go on girl, say whatever feels good. I love this album, it feels like a dream in a good way, a tiny bit Lynch (what the hell u sayin vibes), but mostly that nice warm feeling of a dream.

What do The Rolling Stones and Pink have in common? The both have a song called “Stupid Girl(s)” and they’re both atrocious. The album edged me with a riff that almost sounded like Satisfaction, but it wasn’t Satisfaction, it was some other shitty song. Bad music! Bad music!!

I liked this album, it's quintessentially 90s in a way I love, how could I not? It's chill, it's cheeky, it's fun, it's earnest and it's stylish too you know.

This could easily end up on my Spotify wrapped because it would have autoplayed in my “Aphex Twin Mix” that I have on in the background to work. This music does nothing for me really, I find some of the samples a bit cringe but it’s inoffensive (unless there are offensive bits in there, in which case it didn’t grab my attention above my locking in to data entry enough to notice). Nil pois! (2 stars)

This is solidly grandpa-core. Not necessarily my grandpa, though probably. It's smooth, classic, croony kinda soft swingy jazz. It's the exact kind of 1960s music that makes me think of blurry black and white pictures of my dad as a baby, and the stale smell of toast that permeated my grandpa's bungalow. By no means bad! Good, in fact! That kinda music that feels like it has always existed -vaguely- in the past. It's old-timey music if you will. It might have huge cultural significance, but I am simply too young to know it and I will not -nor should I- apologise for youth.

I assumed going in that this was one of those safe 3/5 albums that I knew because everyone knows and it’s a stone cold classic. But it’s not! I actually don’t like this album at all. The hits are fine, the rest is jarring and lyrics make me feel a bit ill. There is nothing exciting about this album.

Is it David Bowie? Is it T-Rex? Not quite! It’s Mott The Hoople! It’s an autoplay on your 70s mix you don’t skip because you’re locked in to your work and, you know, it’s inoffensive. I would never choose to listen to this album. Also the name of the band makes me think of those early Saturday morning alien puppet shows where they came to earth to learn about stuffs and those were good so bonus points there. They were called the Havakazoo - now there’s an album I want to hear.

All the songs sound the same. This is boring. I don’t have anything to say. Apparently the only song that stands out is the one that is parodyed in the Simpsons, but I had to be reminded.

Voice like honey, mad lines about a flea scratching your back - what an absolute balm to the batshit 2026 world we live in. This is the 1960s music I want to listen to; it sounds great, it's got good danceable beats and smooth vibes, it's got some man giggling about your dead husband (?). This is a great album, one I would not have come across otherwise (call me uncultured) - but one I am glad to have listened to now.

This album was a bit repetitive ://// idk if this is for me I’m sorry! I know he’s a big dawg of folk!!!

I really liked this one, it’s smooth and dreamy and 90s in a really fun way. Perfect music for eating a takeaway slightly tipsy!

I may be biased as this one of my all-time favourite albums ever (and let's face it, it's everyone else's too), but this really is one of the best albums ever made - an album to listen to before you die, perhaps?????? Kate Bush has a unique ability to take you through literary and Celtic myth, combined with her own fictions too, all to the tune of stone cold bangers. I'm Irish-jigging over here, I literally can't stop myself!!! Seriously, this hardcore, boundary pushing shit; a truly transformative piece of media. This is the canon of music!!!! This probably should be the only thing in the canon maybe?? Who can say?? We're two paragraphing it for our queen and saviour Ms Bush: I had been indoctrinated to the church of Bush from a young age having a mother who was a dedicated follower, but this album was a real leap into a new realm from her girlish genius on The Kick Inside (the album I was personally raised on). The first time I listened to this album properly with adult ears, I was completely taken aback by the ambitious production that felt really fresh and contemporary to electronic musicians of the 90s and 00s that I was listening to at the time. There is something magical about this album that is more than just the rapid genre chopping, the breathless extremity of Waking the Witch awash with samples and backwards/forwards cutting, and the fact she embodies a ghost on Watching You Without Me (imagine the satanic-icity of her- as a ghost- saying "don't ignore me" backwards) - all of these things are great, but the album as one, complete artistic piece remains something much more than the sum of its parts.

This isn't my favourite Radiohead album and I hadn't listened to it in full before, but it is bloody great, isn't it? Radiohead have always been, and will always be, catnip to alternative music lovers whether we like it or not. Ol' Thom might be a problematic fave, contemporary-dancing his way into some centrist-at-best opinions, by my oh my does he steam a good electronic music ham. Cudos Thom! Cudos!

I hadn't listened to this album before, but it is the exact type of dreamy, softly psychedelic, indie music nostalgia that I would have lapped up as a teen when I was big into The Shins, Grizzly Bear and the like. It's very that, and I mean that as a compliment. It's sunny day music without feeling too bland, and ultimately it is music from the before times that I do not feel could be made now. We can't feel that laid back about anything anymore, but I am glad in 2002, even in a post 9/11 world, we kinda could.

This is a fun album, the lyrics are fun and I enjoy the anti-establishment sentiment a lot. I'm not going to sit here and lie to your face, this kind of music just isn't for me. It's enjoyable background music, a nice bit of 60s rock and honestly, I'm not a total philistine, like I do find it pleasant, it just doesn't grab me.

Not my favourite Massive Attack album. Other than the main hit, I just felt it was a little repetitive and lacked the punch that I associate with them. But you know, they’re a solid band and it isn’t a bad album per se! Just not full of bangers /in my opinion/.

2 seconds in and I’m already chillin. It’s the smoothest of vibes, rid of all that smog angst, he’s reflecting now and it’s wonderful. The sun is shining, there’s a glint of memories from the darker before-times in his eyes, but he’s shrugged them off for now. Isn’t nature great? Isn’t being maybe a cowboy or something great? Masculine, but not in a bad way!!! And that’s important.

I love the album artwork for this, it gives a sense of passion that is obvs present in music but in a totally different way. And it really is an album about passion, the smoothest of listening experiences. Other than that, I’m not sure what I, a millennial white woman, can really add?

I found this album to be bad! All the songs sounded the same and they all sounded bad to me. I am no stranger to grunge, I enjoy grunge, some of my best friends are grunge! But this on ain’t it, sis. Sue me!!

Billie could sing the dictionary and it would sound beautiful. I just feel sad that all the songs towards the end of her life were about heartbreak. Maybe all her songs were about heartbreak the whole time?? Listening to this will give your day a softly sad romantic edge. This kind of music isn't how I personally take my melancholy, but I can appreciate the beauty of it.

I knew TT was a legend for a reason, but sometimes you don't take the time to stop and smell the hairspray; today I did, and what a glorious scent it is! Turner originated this quintessentially 80s sound, the gee-tars, the synth, the funk and obviously, she does it the best. I wouldn't say this is a genre I usually gravitate to, but there is such a sensuality and genuine-ness to this album that Tina has seduced - nay - private danced (!) me into a true fan. Too late, don't try and stop me, my hair is already teased nice and up! There's heart, there's heartbreak, there's danceability. WHO NEEDS A HEART WHEN A HEART CAN BROKEN (sashays sadly). Exactly.

The year is 2004 and, in my world, Bratz dolls are huge and so are Primark velour tracksuits with diamanté detailed pockets. My dad introduces me to a band he's heard on Radio 1 called "The Killers" and I think they're crap because their outfits do not match my Bratz dolls and boys are stinky. Fast-forward 5 more years and boys are no longer stinky, especially not Mormon, eyelinered ones with intriguing songs about sex, drugs and murder, not to mention this being the time of another Mormon classic I would also madly, deeply, irrevocably in love with. Now, I'm wearing my vampire-teeth necklace with a drop of blood, I'm spending all my money on Topshop skinny jeans, I'm spending weekends at a Hyde Park Tumblr meet-up and I am most definitely listening to The Killers!!! Teen me fucking loved this album, I thought it was genius, I thought it was art quite frankly. Listening to it now in full as an adult, perhaps it is an album of mostly clangers, perhaps the good songs are mostly about the murder of a women and I don't particularly think that is a good subject for an album written by men. But I don't know, they didn't end up being wronguns like so many indie men of the time, so maybe it's okay? The good songs are good! It's a time capsule, and I think some of the tunes do hold up in a fun, dancey, indie time. We liked it! I think there is a tenderness to some of the songs, I think the potential for them to move on to better things (and then move on to ballads only I guess) was right there and genuinely songs like Believe Me Natalie hold up for me. I will concede that the classic / overplayed ones are not great and there is some serious clumsiness with lyrics (or maybe all the lyrics low-key). But what you gonna do?

Huge minus points for album cover alone, and I have literally not listened to a single second yet.... Okay we're in! Hugely sceptical of an song called "1984" that is written in 1984, and also it's just vague synth noises which fair enough if that's all you have to say about the era. Doesn't quite hold up to, you know, the other famous 1984 - but if you can't compete, why even try? One rapid 30 min listen and I understand this is the exact sort of band that Spinal Tap was parodying, but also they were about 1000 times better than this? So what even is this? I'd take "Big Bottom" over "Drop Dead Legs" any day. This is the absolute dirge of rock music. It makes me want to hate all rock music, and I don't. In fact, I am appalled that when I was younger and I didn't quite have the music vocabulary that I do today, I would describe my taste as "rock" - to think people thought I was talking about this kind of band makes me want to throw up. Also the album cover!! I'm deducting points again because I looked at it again and it's so bad. We're in the minus stars now...

I couldn't listen to this properly because of my migraine, but it did sound like fairly pleasant early 00s rap fair to me. Like if Kanye hadn't gone wrong; a nice, solid early 00s rap. It does the job! And then apparently he went on to academia - good for him!! The world needs more thinkers ("where are all the thinkers?" - FKA Twigs).

Now there’s an album cover! This is fun and interesting jazz, pretty easy listening. I like it!

I’m a Millenial, I am genetically wired to enjoy this album, I literally have no choice. I’m not made of stone! You can really close your eyes and let the Woodstock 99 vibes soak in, it's good ol' grunge, they had something to say!! You know!! It was the go-go 90s and they were feeling things strongly, hell, we were all chanting. And it felt good! It still feels good. I'll say it, it's a real shame that they ended up being a little bit wet on the political front these days seeing as that was their literal whole thing. Low key, what is the point of Rage Against the Machine if they're not political, then it's just sounds and words, meaningless chanting for no reason. Hey ho, such is 2026. Seeing as we're talking about album covers, not sure about this one!

He’s got a lovely voice and he’s a lovely man and he’s done loads for music and it is good! It’s definitely good! Just maybe not for me. (Please don’t disown me my entire family)

This was a very comforting listen on the plane, super chill and pleasant. Nothing to write home about!

He smooth he’s singing! Baa ba boo ba ha ba boo boo! You know the vibe

This is a really masterful album, I won't beat around the bush. It's both experimental and accessible, it's heartfelt and powerful and just genuinely full of really great tunes. Alright serves as an anthem for mainstream conversations around police brutality towards Black people that would bubble in 2020, but the album really does go beyond political text. There is a playing with form, some songs stretching to 15 minutes and stitching in long spoken word pieces that surpass the traditional "skit" bit you might expect to find in a rap album (no offence to the skits in rap albums they have their place too), but honestly they feel more like sound pieces you might encounter at an art museum. I mean that in a good way obviously!! and it is important that these types of sound pieces exist on mainstream rap albums and aren't just confined to museum walls.. BRAVO!! (one tiny thing I would say is when the shit hits the fan, i.e. your favourite artist turns out to be a paedophile, you no longer are obligated to remain a fan.. in my opinion!!)

I thought this one would be one of those old classics I’ve never listened to but would be like, oh nice, this is great I can see why it’s a classic. Not at all!! This was pretty bad! Didn’t realise I had a higher opinion of Lenny kravitz than he deserved!

This was a very smooth and slightly trippy time, but maybe that's just because I was feeling over-tired. It felt very Ghost World-coded because I feel like those kooky teens would absolutely love this album. It's very that. I think on paper I wouldn't enjoy this album as much as I did, but there is something irresistibly jaunty about it - and literally who can resist a bit of jaunt?

Look, preconceived judgements of who he became in his later years and the rhetoric he succumbed to aside... I just don't think this is a good album. Yes, we can give him the benefit of the doubt that when he was writing songs The National Front Disco in 1992, he hadn't drunk the kool aid at that very disco, and he was actually kind of saying it was a bad thing that the lad is being swept up in it.. but honestly with a proper listen I think it's more ambiguous than that and I think maybe this was the start of his decline. I also genuinely do not think this is a good album, it doesn't slap at all like The Smiths stuff did - that I'll give a guilty listen to no problem. But with tracks like You're the One For Me, Fatty, this album is an absolute stinker and left me feeling a bit sick.

I didn’t like the album cover, no need for a racist cartoon Janis! Ended up googling her and it made me feel a bit sad :( solid women rock gotta love it

Very druggy idk! It is good but i felt like all the songs blended into each other. I don’t know if I’d listen again I’m sorry!!

I liked this it was smooth and powerful and the best at that hardcore, cuts deep, soul voice that James Brown obviously does best.

This is a truly brilliant portrait of early 00s Britain that gets across a damp and pathetic image of bleak youth culture in a painfully accurate way. Not all the songs slap sonically, but they are all really hilarious and I was giggling my way through the whole thing.

What an experience it is to watch this on YouTube in 2009 when you start to discover “good music”. Imagine hearing Man Who Sold the World for the very first time, ever! Imagine then listening to the David Bowie original and being like wow I literally am the first 14 year old who has ever discovered - and enjoyed- David Bowie. This is solid, this is quintessential teenage music. You gotta love a bit of Nirvana whether you grow out of it or not, you gotta give something to your inner teenage child and be like here’s one for you. So here’s one for you teen Sarah, you’re loving listening to this for the first time and then putting it through a YouTube to mp3 converter to listen to again and again on your little hand me down iPod.

I WANT YOUR LOVE ACTION. I love the confidence of 80s synth, they said things with power, you know, the synth is ripping and it's so good. I will say, this isn't an album of wall to wall bangers, but it is generally very very good. When you think of 80s synth pop, I personally think of this. Sure there are much cooler and more experimental offshoots, but this sent me on a very fun synth binge.

It feels harsh giving this a 3 but this kind of romantic crooning just kind of does nothing for me, Elvis in general does nothing for me. It’s not bad music by any stretch, I can totally see why people loved it at the time but I just don’t jam with this at all sorry (sue me).

FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING SONGS. Forget 80s Madonna, 00s Madonna was an artist truly in their prime, big time. This is the good fucking shit. Madonna knows, if nothing else, how to make a solid floor filler and you can’t tell me this isn’t an album full of them. Even the deep album tracks I don’t know, my hands are up and I’m going wooooooooooo - I’ve got blue sparkly eyeshadow on and butterfly hair clips in and I’m in da clurb for sure. And when I’m not doing that (girls contain multitudes) I’m crying at the perfect pop ballads. Do you know how it feels for a girl in this world, I’ll tell you what - it feels like this! So fucking good well done Madonna.

Pretty boring and repetitive, I don't think this was really pushing any boundaries. It's generic, background punk music, and not to be all Rule Britannia, but I think British punk did this kind of thing better.

This kind of thing sets my teeth on edge because it’s so bland. Not for me :/

When I was a kid I really loved this one, and senorita does slap I won’t lie, so does cry me a river even though I am obviously on Britney’s side. He is a bit smarmy but we can all enjoy this album

A very solid indie prog rock album and I enjoy it. Didn't get time to properly digest but it was enjoyable with some bangers that we all know and love :) a classique

Talk about Dire (hehe) this is truly an awful awful album, riddled with inexplicable homophobia. Feels dated even for its time. Really struggled to to trudge through it tbh.

This was an album I could swear I had already listened to back-to-front many times, but clearly I haven't. It is filled with an optimistic frustration at post 9/11 politics, but with 2026 ears you can't help but hear the naivety in it. Some of the songs are classic bangers, but there is quite a bit of bland filler. As is life!

This is a very enjoyable album, and very saucy!!

I'm sorry, sweet Bonnie (I haven't googled her so maybe she isn't sweet at all), but this is dross :(((( It's watered down Stevie Nicks not even to squash level, more of a tincture level of that kind of music. Not for me, but I'm certain there's some mums who eat this up.

These late 90s/early 00s Madonna albums are SO good and they slap SO hard. What a delight! Also, her voice sounds so good on this album?? What kind of trickery is that (no offence)? I love it, what a quintessential 1998 sound, dare I even say I can hear a hint of bjork? A tiniest bit? What a record of the time (and I should know, I was 3)!!

This one actually really slapped, you get the impression this went haaaaard in the 50s and they are going so hard. I wasn’t really expecting this going into it but it was a very rousing album. Yeah I said rousing!

I really enjoyed this! A lot of these tracks make it into my general moody/sad/indie autoplays but it was quite a joy to listen it to properly in full. This is truly a bit of me, base level me, a meloncholy indie listen that I think is fun for all.

What a fun time! This is very fancy cocktail bar trying to be cool vibes, except really really good with total bangers.

I did like this enough, and The Stooges are fairly fun, but when 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' autoplayed after, I thought "now we're getting to the good stuff" and then I realised it wasn't the same album. Good enough, but didn't wow me!

This is a solidly 90s album that absolutely does the job, but I don't fully get the "genius" of The KLF. It's just rave music, and because of that, listening to it sober whilst working it just kinda drags. About 20 minutes in I was like, great, I get it! Didn't even need the rest tbh. This is fine! Also don't burn money, it doesn't mean anything and it doesn't make you clever.

I liked this, 80s and melancholy and good.

I thought this was okay as background music but didn’t really do anything for me sorry :/

This was a totally fine rock album, nothing really stood out to me in particular but it wasn't grating or offensive.

I bet this went so hard in the 60s where rock n roll was really rolling!! I bet they were doing their own little "woooooo" noises in the crowd and everything. Maybe I am too tired to appreciate this fully, maybe this kind of music is always just evokes being in a slightly ropey 50s style american diner to me?? Just feels a little cheesy. He sings fast. He goes woooooo. It was the style at the time!

I'm sorry, I went in thinking I was going to enjoy this but I just didn't. The Snoop Doggy-doooggy doooog is cute and funny - but ultimately quite novelty and goofy. Then the rest is just...very sexist? Which I know isn't exactly a revelation, just it's not actually enjoyable to listen. The first skit made me gag and so I think it just turned me off for the rest of the album.

I feel like all the Joni Mitchell I hear is a great time, and this is no exception but it's just not my all-time fave and that's okay.

I discovered this album when I was a teenager and felt -very- smug that I actually really liked proper music that was a bit weird. And you know what, I still do. This album holds up, I love the discordant sounds (always did, always will) and there is something very enjoyable about them to this day. I also appreciate this album serving as a gateway into other, weirder shit - as I'm sure it did for others too. Well done lads, you smashed it! Also who doesn't love looking at that album cover!!

Brb, obviously I am sobbing. You can not possibly critique the work of a parent trying to process the loss of a child, I have written at length about this. Cave does what any person in his position would do (in the medium that they are most used to); he grieves and tries to make sense and writes songs about it because that truly is the only thing he could possibly do. This is obviously a haunting album, a brilliant one too, and probably the purest work he has ever made.

This was fine, this sort of music feels very like restaurant background music to me and maybe I am just not cultured enough to fully appreciate it - and that's fine!

This definitely does evoke drinking red wine in a bar in the and I’m wearing a really thin sparkly scarf and I work at a local newspaper - it pays well obviously it’s 2004 or something - and I’m on a date with a handsome man also wearing a thin scarf (stripy) and we’re having a nice indulgent laugh about something. This is bland early 00s bar music and also I was a child then so this is all fiction and if I was a an adult during those times I still wouldn’t like this music sorry Norah, I’d be seeing broadcast live.

This is perfectly pleasant 70s music with some Music FM bangers but it definitely drags a bit.

This is a good album, but maybe it's not as exciting as I remember it. It is really fun and The Prodigy have such a distinctive sound, of course - but it can get a bit samey :/

Look, I know the Beatles aren't my favourite band of all time but I am not made of stone. The countless docs I have now watched on them has given me more of a soft spot. But I gotta be honest, I thought this album would have the good tunes on it like Get Back etc... and it didn't!!!! It's fine! It's a fine album! If it wasn't The Beatles tm would we all go so crazy for it? Idk if we would??? Sue me??

Idk man, a fun ambient listen but all the horrible macho talk of guns and bitch etc. is very fatiguing and dated.

Albums like these do sound pretty nice, but they make me depressed. It's the absence of a little soul and thought that Dolly always provides in her country music of a similar genre. If your man comes home a drinkin with lovin on his mind and you don't want that - leave him! I know it was a different time but idk knowing her extreeeemely right wing views too it's all a bit depressing.

I know this album back to front, I don’t even think I realised how much I loved this album as a teen. It’s really good, so chill and folky in a way that wasn’t cringe when a lot of folk stuff from that era really was (I’m looking at you Mumford and sons). Harmonies 2 die for and if you listen really close you can hear Josh Tillman packing his bags to leave on to more fun things and that adds a decent tension too.

Considering I was raised on Queen, I very guiltily admit they are not really one of my favourite bands. I went into this with an open mind as it has been years since I'd listened to a Queen album in full but I fear this isn't one of the best ones?? Despite being one of the famous ones. It's camp and fun which you would expect with queen, but it's pretty meandering and there's quite a few duds. Obvs Bohemian Rhapsody isn't one of the duds - not a controversial opinion there.

You know what. It truly was a time and place, it truly was. You have to listen through the ears of a 6 year old girl, it low key has everything. It's got glamour, grit, a bit of emo dare I say, and a really really young woman being really sexualised to signify she's not a little disney girl anymore (when I was 6, Xtina may as well been 65 for all I understood of those dynamics) - and I LOVED it. Anna, grab your piano book let's do Beautiful from the top!

I found this to be really dull :/ idk if it's just how i'm feeling at the moment, but I just couldn't wait for this to be done. Just dirge pop rock I'm sorry. It was just one notch down from fine for me.

Nothing hugely special for me, nostalgic hits for sure but there's something a teeeny bit neither here nor there about this for me. Some fun bops to dance to, some slightly more boring stuff that feels like early 00s optimistic background dancey music.

I loved this album! Haven't listened to Patti Smith proper but always down for a 70s arty feminist musican a la Stevie Nicks x Lori Anderson.

Fairly decent 60s jangly rock album, can’t complain really!

Wow Macolm really shoved every single element of the 80s into one album and you know what, it works? not particularly controversial to say loool. It's really overstimulating but I do like it. Ol Malcom was a lot wasn't he, a busy busy boy. Why not release this album you know? Sex Pistols was old hat, you gotta REINVENT THE WHEEL. I wrote that like it was a reference to something and it isn't. But he was a visionary. Reinventing.... or maybe... a white guy a little bit borrowing from other cultures to make something cool WHO CAN SAY. but it is good. (not that he did that, but the sound of the album).

Starting off strong - I'll just say it, I'd also scream if you kissed the teacher. Absolutely don't do that. The 70s were so obsessed with noncery, even if it was from the perspective of the schoolgirl - I don't care, I don't want to hear it. It's an unpleasant thought, troubling and does not set the tone for the absolute banger of an album this is, but then again it simply has to be placed in the time it was and this song does that. It was the 70s, you're kissing your teacher and he is, let's face it, probably kissing you back. That aside, what an album absolutely full of bangers. I'll just say it, Abba can steam a mean ham / tune and all the songs (even the weird ones about obscure history or teachers and stuff) are such good tuunnes to sing and dance to. Go on girl, have a twirl - I know I did! 5 STARS

This is a bloody classic isn't it. Now here really is an album to listen to before you die! A cultural moment, recorded for us on tape. I've never really understood the appeal of live albums because I always felt either you're there and it's great, or you can listen on record and that's better than a slightly crunchy version with cheering in the background. Not the case for this, a historic document even!

Obviously there are really big hits on this album and I love David Bowie, but this record just grated on me idk??? I feel like the songs were endless and his voice was more abrasive and the cover of Across the Universe wasn't good? Idk am I on something? Wouldn't listen again no offence, there's better Bowie.

You know what, in terms of the 60s/70s rock mush that this on this list, I really enjoyed this one! Felt less generic and had a bit of something to it. I those Led Zeppelin's are gonna make it!

I love me some sad boy music, but this was duuuuuuuuullllllll. Kinda U2, kinda coldplay and honestly laying near the likes of Elliot Smith and Radiohead. Honestly nowhere close. Idk man, if you wanna make sad man music you're gonna have to go for it way sadder and more pained, this was an absolute slog to get through. The cheek that Smog autoplayed after. This is what you could have been Wilco!!

This was okay! Nothing a million special no offence.

This was great, easy to dismiss it as "trendy cocktail bar music" that I am quite guilty of doing. Aside from it being really nice and easy to listen to, it's a pretty important capsule of the time where people were rapping about important political issues too. Love to hear it.

I mean it really is what it is. Maybe Spinal Tap has ruined me, but honestly none of this slightly generic hair rock is better than that... I'm sorry! It's dull!

Enjoying these grungey, scratchy 70s sounds!! Now here's something a little interesting! I haven't googled the band so hopefully they haven't done something bad.

Don't have tooooo much to say about this one, pretty pleasant post-punk that I enjoyed in the background :)

Perfectly standard 70s psych album and there's so many of these on this list that they all kinda mush into one. It's pleasant background listening but I didn't notice when other music started to autoplay..

Don't have loads to say, was pleasant enough but didn't make a huge impression on me.

You know what, I quite enjoyed this! The grunge was really grunging but it hasn't dated in a cringe way and I thought it was good.

And what a name! Yeah this was enjoyably weird, not too weird but love a bit of textural recorded spoken word stitched in - who doesn't? Nice one lads!

I think I had unfair opinions on U2 because of their meme-y early 00s stuff that I was more familiar with, but you know what this album was pretty good and I enjoyed it. It was the right amount of sincere anti-war and anti-violence stuff that really worked, and honestly sounded better than the stuff I'm used to of them. Fair play!

An absolute all-time banger. I have listened to this so many times and feel like I will continue to my entire life. Debbie Harry is just the coolest, she always was and always will be! It's just so much ridiculous fun

Finally a 70s hair rock band I can enjoy as much as Spinal Tap!!!! I don't know what to say, this may be the overtiredness speaking but I am really enjoying this.

This was pleasant!

Obviously I am young and the Ozzy I know is the chaotic, burrito-obsessed MTV version. This version seems so removed from that, quite earnest and concerned with the actual world. And obvs a classic I know that I am not thaaaaaat young....

I'm sorry this is really bad!! I haven't thought about The White Stripes since about 2007 (who has no offence) and I thought that maybe with fresh ears I'd actually be into this but..... it's early 00s indie slop and not good. It's channel 4 core and with no Don't Tell the Bride or Dinner Date for visual stimulation it is not enjoyable at all...

Yeah sure I enjoyed this pleasant 60s music as much as all the other ones :) So many of these albums sound the same no offence, 1001 albums to listen to before you die or like 999 of the exact same rock album from the 60s amirite?

You know what, as ridiculous and sprawling and toooooooo long as this is, there is something quite enjoyable about the campness. It is so over the top, I love that it's about aliens in New York or something. It doesn't make any sense but I love that they did that.

Aw yeah, probs one of the best grunge albums there is tbh. I think grunge was really nothing without the women involved, Courtney Love gets a lot of stick and I think sometimes people overlook how talented she was in the midst of all the mess. Such well observed lyrics and songs that slap, just real good stuff!!

Keep On Chooglin' indeeeeeeed! And why wouldn't you? Well, I'll tell you why, because chooglin must be something so generics sounding I didn't even realise the album had ended for an HOUR of autoplay. This isn't for me. It all sounds the same and it all sounds bad.

I was expecting more. Much to my own distain, I think I do think John Lennon is the best Beatle - MUSICALLY- but.. this one not so much. Short and sweet, imagine is a good song but it's been so meme-ified that it's hard to take it on its own merit and at the end of the day - we should be imagining all that shit. The vibes were correct. But ultimately the album hasn't got the same edge as some of his other stuff idk sue me.

Now this is truly one of the teens! In a huuuuge way - and it doesn't feel dated for that reason? Like OH SHIT and WHAT DO I GET OOHH WHAT DO I GET is gonna slap for you if you're 14 in 1978 (like my dad), or 2009 for meeeeeee! It's just that feel angst but in a fun punky way that just goes so hard when you're young.

There we go! Finally some good 70s music (hehe). Really enjoyed this, I can really see the influence of a lot of indie bands now really emulating this so it is always fun to hear the funkier roots of this. Nice one lads!

What a time it was for a really specific brand of soft-boy sexism. The sound is fine, I would have enjoyed this a lot as a teen when -importantly- my brain hadn't developed properly and I just enjoyed vague indie sounds and pseudo-sexy vibes; but honestly now it repulses me.. Barely Legal? What the fuck is that, like honestly? This is what passed for okay music in 2001? Even the fact Last Nite is spelt Last Nite. Grow the fuck up, this isn't MSN. There are also evil little lyrics in here "pretend to be nice so I can be mean" - girl, that's gaslighting 101. This whole album feels like the diary of an (older) boy that my friend would have been in a horribly toxic relationship with and I'd be screaming DUMP HIM!!!! g2g - Nil pois. (p.s. my toe is INVOLUNTARILY tapping and that is because I was hard-wired to enjoy this music when I was younger and didn't know better music was out there, and obviously it is skins-core which obviously we were all obsessed with and I don't exist in a vacuum).

This music is great but I do think I was born too late to fully appreciate it to the full extent it deserves. I'm sure this slapped so hard to be in the crowd tho!

This is real real good 90s french pop that was totally top of its game when britpop was running rapant and we had real dirgey stuff over here. It's playful and fun and one of their best I reckon! I love booping about to this!

Finally some fucking tunes am i right???????? Call me a cliche, but I love riot grrrrl stuff from the 90s because it's just good and hits the spot. A lesbian break up album, are we having a LAUGH it is so good. It is absolutely dripping with angst, honestly all the songs are bangers too. Maybe this one is just for the girls and the cool non-misogynistic gays who enjoy a woman's perspective. It's just great.

I'm sorry this was unlistenable!!! I just struggled to even get through any of it. This aint it for me sorry

Okay I went into this thinking it would be an instant 5 stars because I really do love this album. Lowkey it does slap, of course it does, but maybe not quite as hard as I originally thought? I love the fun art-pop electronic 2007 vibes of it, truly like the best of quite a shaky era. I just don't think it is LCD Soundsystem at their bestttt.. sorry <3 NY I love you is always a tune x

Now we're really cooking with gas, 1001 albums generator. An unexpected gem! Really enjoying this, camp, a bit goth for no reason. Fucking great honestly. The thinking man's (or in this case, woman) Jane McDonald. Get me on the Ute Lemper cruise!

I enjoyed this! It was fun

WE'RE GOING THROUGGGH CHANGES! Speaking of, it's quite a gentle album which I wasn't really expecting because I haven't listened to Black Sabbath and I was always under the impression it was a bit heavier. Enjoyable, think that ozzy is going places (rip to a legend).

perfectly rousing instrumental album! Not super my thing but not horrible

It's like absolute smooth radio core but kinda is soooo 70s that it's almost contemporary-feeling. I don't think I would have chosen to listen to this normally but you know what, a really fun time! More than just the hits!

I am not (maybe a tiny bit) ashamed to say that I do have a soft spot for nu metal and maybe this hit a little harder than I was expecting it to. Is this a piece of genius, obviously not! Do the chords hit good, IDK yes! The song from BEEF slaps the most because I recognised it and that's the kind of smooth brain woman I am SUE ME

Enjoyable but it's not my favourite

I was hoping for more. There are the classic tunes (the title one, we all know her, we all love her) but generaaaaaaallly maybe this is a tiny bit of a cringe album?? A whole song about being groovy... dare I say feels like not that groovy? If you're telling us how groovy things are, idk, I feel like who are you convincing because it isn't me. Idk, I like my lads a little bit more melancholy so this one wasn't it for me.

All Bjork is an instant 5 stars let's face it, so it's more about what mood you're in. This is Bjork in a pretty happy sexy mood, stay tuned though because she won't always feel that way about the man she wrote about in this album !! I always love Heirloom because it's all soft and warm and fun about weird orbs that her mother and son baked for her - what does she mean?? I kinda do get what she means, it's warm!

Not what I was expecting!! I was expecting EDM but just from the artist name and because I am a complete philistine. Animal collective a lil bit mixed a little bit with the Shins and Magnetic Fields... though I will say it starts off strong and then goes a but Duran Duran cheesy towards the end? peters off. Easter Theatre is fun!

I love Fiona Apple, it's no secret. She's really one for the menty h girlies and she feels and sings things so deeply in such an important way!!! She's talented, her singing is great - OLD NEWS. But what is definitely nice and contemporary news (despite this being a 6 year old album at time of writing) is the expert writing, the content of this album and the progression of Fiona Apple's journey through talking about herself, how she views the world and how she navigates relationships.

I mean yep, bad is the word I would use!

The smoothest way to hear an important message and I'm not mad at it. I think we could do with more of this now tbh! For all those people who don't want to hear political messages from musicians because they think it's not their job... idk man.. I feel like it is? Are musicians not people? do they not bleed / think / feel etc. Honestly, what ///is/// going on? If you're used to your pop stars singing smooth sexy tracks and then all of a sudden they're like THE WORLD IS COMPLETELY FUCKED WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING! there's even more potency. idk. low key goosebumps with this album.

This is optimal sad boy music and I mean that in a complimentary way. I feel sad that Elliot was never able to get passed this in his personal life and I think that probably does cast a shadow over a lot of his music because you can't help but feel the heaviness of his death in all of his songs. That being said, I love me some Elliot Smith and he was really was that dude make the saddest tunes about and, in isolation, sad tunes are pretty cathartic and good to listen to and he was probably the best at making them.

Thoroughly 80s, bombastic, a bit goth, a bit weird, very very danceable. A good time all round!

The cool Knowles sister (no offence to Beyonce, I'm sure she'll wipe away her tears with a $100 note that she's the slightly less cool sister). I was really obsessed with this album when it came out and it does hold up. Expertly crafted and lots of bops - nice one!

Now here's one to remind ME (for once) of my precocious teenage years watching Harold and Maude - definitely understanding all the themes loads - and listening to 70s folk and dressing vaguely 90s does 60s. What a mix! Also base level - it's also the skins song and I knew that version first, so yet again actually outing myself as a through-and-through basic teen. I know Yusuf / Cat Stevens has had quite the life journey, but man does he steam a smooth and sweet folky ham, and I love it. We literally all love it, right? It sounds warm! It feels cosy. I will always love this I'm sorry I'm not made of stone.

Idk if this is really my thing. It's good enough rock and roooooowllllll but idk just doesn't do loads for me but maybe I was too hot when I was listening and didn't have the most open ears.

There's classics in here and i like when hes like CADILLAC AC AC AC because it's fun. I find Just the Way You ARe a biiiit insulting tbh. It's cheesy but honestly it gives 1D you don't know you're beautiful. Like maybe clever conversation /is/ just the way they are? You know? Is She's Always a Woman a sexist song?? Like what is his point???? It is mostly like maybe not a good album and, as it turns out, not the one we would listen to in the car on the way to Southend which I thought it was and have vaguely fond memories of.

This was alright, not super my thing but a perfectly smooth and nice background listen

I love SOAD, I love their sound and their lyrics and they're fun 90s, straightforward politics. It hits so hard tbh. What I don't love is their "can't we all get along, including our Trump-ite guitarist"... It doesn't make any sense that they still sing these lyrics with their chest now. But all that aside, this is the best of NU metal right? The not misogynistic, not white people with dreadlocks, actually (at that time) had a clear political message good shit. I think what sets them apart from the others of that era is the traditional Armenian influences through the harmonies and beats.

Fair play to them, I think they did alright in the end. I know this is a classic, I understand that people went wild for it and it formed pop music as we know it. I know all of this. But do I enjoy the sound of early Beatles? If I didn't know all this.. idk man.. idk

I do love this album, and of course I loved it as a teen!! When I discovered this CD at the back of my dad's car and was like waaait a minute let's get this on the old iPod! I think this is great, the right level of angry at the world and angry at computers - computers being "the man", but you know, literally anti computers too I think which is even more resonant now. Fitter / happier hit hard cos i was like whaaat's he doing there?? A text-to-speech, in those days! I think I shave off a star only because I've listened to this so much that it's almost memed itself to me and isn't my favourite Radiohead album, maybe a tad on the nose - THE COMPUTER NOSE!

mm yeah maybe this one isnt for me. i can see the man who loves this so clearly in my minds eye! It's a man in their 70s and maybe their hair is quite long and wispy around a nice little dome bald spot in the middle. They're def wearing old birkenstocks and a nice large tshirt they've had since the 90s that says "peace" on it around a globe. Maybe they've got a little j on, if not now, they certainly certainly did when they were listening to this. And you know what, that man is feeling the most peace anyone has ever felt. I'm not though, and that's okay!

I don't think this is good sorry. I love 90s girl indie rock but this isn't great.....It all feels very cheesy and impotent and the lyrics are really dreadful. Won't be investigating the rest of Aimee Mann's oeuvre..

Poignant and brilliant. A new one to me because I am uncultured, but I really enjoyed this and glad it was on the list for me to discover!!

This is the album cover my dad drew for my mum when they were first going out AS TEENS!!!! They still have it somewhere.. Other than that bit of nostalgia... I feel really guilty saying it but this just doesn't really slap for me. I'm sorry mum D:

I was a bit neutral on this, but maybe that's because I was distracted by a heavily panting cat. I did like the fun 70s jangly gothy rock, it was pleasant but not ground breaking to me.