My 1001 Albums Journey

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Sounds like Ozzy's in a different room while they riff.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Powerful political commentary at the start. Gets distracted.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

A bit bitty.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Quite nice (Al)

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

Van Halen

1/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Better than expected! A thigh-slapping good time. He gave his plane seat up to Big Bopper and thank goodness he did.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

Pop synth energy! 3 for Jon, 3.5 for Al. Not quite a 4.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Tight debut - still not a massive Elvis fan - not sure why - JE

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

Funk off

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Baby noises from part time punks. I hated them then and I hate them more now. Good drummer mind you. JE

Vespertine

Björk

2/5

Mysterious foreign elf music - AL

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Beard approved - Americans are weird

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Flew by

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Old new new old skool

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

1/5

Lost the wilco to live

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Forgotten already

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Pick 'n mix bagatelle from the Watford Pixie

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

Scrapbook dog ends

Arise

Sepultura

1/5

Got to song 2 in the studio and had to retreat

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Self indulgent Tolkien nonsense

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

Fuck this shit

The Cars

2/5

Needs an MOT

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Fire resistant

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

2/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Kook 'n roll

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Jon Bontempi

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

Enoteric

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Aled made me listen. Fucking dogshite for non music listeners.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Jolly good show

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Limp

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Inoffensive Tex mex fodder

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

Bad brain stopped the album halfway through. Not their best. Too subpar metal.

1984

Van Halen

1/5

Turgid cockrock

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Samey samey but 4 popcorns from the Lewis

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Poor are even poorer Trace mate

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

Annoying

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

There's no way he was a criminal… oh wait. Cringeworthy country but I am not saying that to his face even if he is dead.

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

Send it into shallow orbit.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

2/5

Patchy but not bad

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

1/5

Meh meh meh wop

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Sleeping in Crossroads in the middle of the road

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