1001 Albums Summary

Live At The Harlem Square Club by Sam Cooke

Automatic For The People by R.E.M.

Superfly by Curtis Mayfield

Great bassline on Freddie’s Dead, hadn’t remembered No Thing on Me and enjoyed that.

Dirt by Alice In Chains

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

Tres Hombres by ZZ Top

Come Find Yourself by Fun Lovin' Criminals

Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J

Band On The Run by Paul McCartney and Wings

Wild Is The Wind by Nina Simone

Scream, Dracula, Scream by Rocket From The Crypt

The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks

Songs Of Love And Hate by Leonard Cohen

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels by Dexys Midnight Runners

Starts slowly but gets stronger

Femi Kuti by Femi Kuti

Plenty Nonsense a highlight. Could have been 30 mins shorter though.

Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder

My Generation by The Who

There's No Place Like America Today by Curtis Mayfield

So In Love the highlight and a strong finish but doesn’t reach Superfly levels.

Grace by Jeff Buckley

Woodface by Crowded House

Started ok, got worse, ended up bored

Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris

Enjoyed, except for rhyming monkey and funky

Green Onions by Booker T. & The MG's

In A Silent Way by Miles Davis

Murder Ballads by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4 star if it ended with Crow Jane

Tommy by The Who

Abject.

Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens

A nice album. Good with a biscuit on a Sunday afternoon.

Fragile by Yes

Better than Tommy

Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Music for the Masses by Depeche Mode

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) by Bob Dylan

Possibly the greatest live album ever recorded.

Clube Da Esquina by Milton Nascimento

A nice discovery.

American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash

A few too many inessential covers to give it five, but there are three absolute classics here.

The Wildest! by Louis Prima

Wild

The Good, The Bad & The Queen by The Good, The Bad & The Queen

Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service

Enjoyed the first half

Madman Across The Water by Elton John

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman by John Zorn

Nonsense

Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne

Fine but a bit flimsy

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

Was on the line with this but after repeat listens it’s a 4

Drunk by Thundercat

Extra star for artwork and being a bit mad

Bayou Country by Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem

Definitely Maybe by Oasis

In Utero by Nirvana

Floodland by Sisters Of Mercy

Bumped up by Lucretia (especially long version) and This Corrosion.

The Band by The Band

The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd

Fine but enormously overrated

The New Tango by Astor Piazzolla

The Next Day by David Bowie

A Night At The Opera by Queen

One all-timer, another very good song (‘39), and quite a bit of filler. But creative and weird enough to warrant a 4.

Haunted Dancehall by The Sabres Of Paradise

D by White Denim

Zombie by Fela Kuti

Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies

Risque by CHIC

Arise by Sepultura

Green by R.E.M.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen

Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

A fun album but pretty disposable and tails off a bit

London Calling by The Clash

Sing Michael sing!

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson

To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme by Simon & Garfunkel

Homework by Daft Punk

Tellin’ Stories by The Charlatans

A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay

Get Rich Or Die Tryin' by 50 Cent

Blue Lines by Massive Attack

Back To Black by Amy Winehouse

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison

The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden

Surf's Up by The Beach Boys

Queen II by Queen

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche by Koffi Olomide

A great background listen

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby by Terence Trent D'Arby

Pink Moon by Nick Drake

xx by The xx

Reggatta De Blanc by The Police

Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin

Honky Tonk Heroes by Waylon Jennings

Suzanne Vega by Suzanne Vega

Scrapes a low three with a couple of good songs near the end

3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul

Diamond Life by Sade

Heroes by David Bowie

Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3

High 3 - v good background

Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush

If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues

Harvest by Neil Young

The Sounds Of India by Ravi Shankar

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath

If I Could Only Remember My Name by David Crosby

Trio by Dolly Parton

Parklife by Blur

The Last Broadcast by Doves

La Revancha Del Tango by Gotan Project

A Seat at the Table by Solange

Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes

The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan

Midnight Ride by Paul Revere & The Raiders

The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald

Not sure it’s an album, but it’s a 5⭐️ few hours.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Paul Simon by Paul Simon

Nighthawks At The Diner by Tom Waits

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan

The Poet by Bobby Womack

This Year's Model by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

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

Justified by Justin Timberlake

The Man Machine by Kraftwerk

Beach Samba by Astrud Gilberto

Van Halen by Van Halen

Club Classics Vol. One by Soul II Soul

Sex Packets by Digital Underground

Transformer by Lou Reed

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse by Faces

Be by Common

Blue by Joni Mitchell

Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan

Praise be to Nero’s Neptune.

Gentlemen by The Afghan Whigs

Live Through This by Hole

Celebrity Skin by Hole

Birth Of The Cool by Miles Davis

GREY Area by Little Simz

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

Back In Black by AC/DC

Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys

I See You by The xx

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire

The Contino Sessions by Death In Vegas

Seventh Tree by Goldfrapp

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins

On The Beach by Neil Young

More Specials by The Specials

Music in Exile by Songhoy Blues

Different Class by Pulp

The high points justify a 4. Inconsistent but when it’s great it’s great.

Dub Housing by Pere Ubu

Felt almost deliberately terrible.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell

Throwing Muses by Throwing Muses

C'est Chic by CHIC

Arular by M.I.A.

Palo Congo by Sabu

The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground

New Boots And Panties by Ian Dury

Murmur by R.E.M.

Closer by Joy Division

Come Away With Me by Norah Jones

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd

Tanto Tempo by Bebel Gilberto

Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park

Something/Anything? by Todd Rundgren

L'Eau Rouge by The Young Gods

LP1 by FKA twigs

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone

All Directions by The Temptations

Live At The Regal by B.B. King

Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones

Supa Dupa Fly by Missy Elliott

Ananda Shankar by Ananda Shankar

Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden

The Yes Album by Yes

Moving Pictures by Rush

Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.

The College Dropout by Kanye West

Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Leftism by Leftfield

Think this caught me grumpy after a World Cup game, but I didn’t need 70 mins of inessential 90s dance.

Exile In Guyville by Liz Phair

Violator by Depeche Mode

Blur by Blur

Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin

Lust For Life by Iggy Pop