1001 Albums Summary

Very strong opener, very strong closer. The rest of it is completely forgettable saxophone noodling with a crap beatles cover.

I really like this. It's catchy and silly. Wish No Words was longer. I liked how weird they got with Picassos last words, I thought it was cool how they kept bringing back leitmotifs in some of the songs. Jet is a banger.

The worst song on this album is only good. The first 8 songs on this album are some of the best songs of the 90s. It's like a best of compilation.

Both albums are great. Massive songs on both. Would have made one amazing album, but suffers from some filler.

Beforehand: not really looking forward to this, don't particularly like country and western. But respect all 3 artists. Everyone of them are amazing vocalists. Four songs in and wishing it was over. It's the most boring yet amazingly performed album. I'm getting nothing from this. I quit with two songs to go, on the appropriately named "I've had enough."

Starts very strong. Going home has no business being this long. After that a lot of very samey material. Lot of filler in the second half. Strong first half, bland pedestrian second half.

Has some brilliant songs. Way too long and padded.

Ugh. I don't particularly want to listen to the world's most arrogant self declared nazi, but okay. It sounds like every other rap song. I guess it's like how Seinfeld isn't groundbreaking in hindsight because so many other shows copied it. This album is FINE. Maybe if I was listening in 2004 I'd have been blown away but this is very pedestrian, very samey. Good production, good writing and performance. I just feel nothing. I don't get the hype around him, but I don't have to, since he believes his own hype way too much. Also oh my god why is it so long, it has no need to be this long, it's all the same. I get he's doing the whole "what if I mixed hip hop with soul music and gospel" thing but I just don't believe him, it seems like he's trying too hard to force something and it comes off as inauthentic. I feel nothing from this album.

It's a servicable Hendrix album. The 1st album had the pop hooks and the 3rd album had the experimental godliness. This album has little of either. A lot of middling, stumbling, thrown together at the last minute bits of filler. If you ditched the filler, this would make an amazing transitional EP between Are you experienced and Electric Ladyland.

More 80s country. Please no. First song is actually not too bad, very average but not offensive. The vocal thing they do in country where they kind of yodel the words is very contrived and annoying but lets see if I get used to it. Five songs in and absolutely nothing has grabbed me, it's been very forgetful country-by-numbers. How do people listen to this genre for pleasure? It's so insipid. I'm getting nothing from this. It's so boring. Is that his voice or is he being a character? Final thoughts: very well performed and engineered. I gained nothing from this save from mild irritation and bemusement that this asinine genre is so popular. The album ended and I only realised the album was over and had been playing due to the sudden silence, it was like realising that someone in the adjoining room had finally finished vacuuming the carpet. I had completely zoned out and mentally blocked the album about halfway through.

Most of it still holds up. A bit samey in some parts.

This is really really really really good. The last song is a bit mid but literally everything else is great. The title track is amazing.

It's fine I guess, it has some nice songs but nothing memorable

It's okay. Didn't get a lot from it. Like generic 80s post punk mixed with ska. Even though they deal with deep, kind of grim subject matter, the ska makes it sound like kids party music. No songs stick in mind.

It's fine

This was fun, but very samey. Got a bit fatigued by the end as the songs all blended into each other. Didn't hate it, could have done with more variety as an album to break up the relentless gunfighter ballads and trail songs, but when all the songs are supposed to be gunfighter ballads and trail songs then I guess that's on me. If you're in the mood to listen to nothing but well performed gunfighter ballads and trail songs then this is the best you could ask for.

She's really good at singing but this album is boring as all hell

We have Pavement at home. Landfill shite.

It's fine, it's just kinda bland. Maybe when it came out it was fresh and new. The songs are okay, they're upbeat and performed well, they just seem kind of.. throw away. Every song is a 6/10.

Meh. Very forgettable album. Sounds nice enough I guess.

It's a pretty good, fun listen. A very listenable album. Has some big hits. I particularly enjoy the tracks with hard rock influences which isn't very common in rap nowadays. Party vibe. A lot of cool lyrics and a good mix of silly and important subject matter. Only criticism is that, while the backing tracks and lyrics change with each song, their flow and style of rapping stays the exact same which makes the tracks sound interchangeable. I guess that's just a sign of the time period where rap was still new and they didn't have a lot of diversity in style yet. Still good though.

It's okay, it has some brilliant songs like No cars go but the majority of it is filler. Nowhere near as good as their debut.

It's nothing amazing, it's perfectly servicable 90s post grunge. I'm not blown away by any of the songs bar the opener. It's not bad by any means, just nothing special.

I just can't be arsed with this one, I love his politics but his voice is just... he tilts his head back and opens his mouth wide and SINGS EVERYFINK IN THA SAAAME WAAAAY. The backing music is nothing special, the lyrics are amazing on paper. They're just not songs, they're poems bellowed tunelessly over sparce uninteresting jangly music. I just can't be arsed.

I know this album like the back of my hand. Still holds up. Solid album. It's really good. Elephant is only slightly better as it's a more cohesive and fully realised project, whereas this album is more sprawling and eclectic. Elephant is the better album, while this is more a collection of really good tunes. A few like The Union Forever, Little Room, and Aluminum are almost avant-garde (as much as garage rock can be) which can be an understandable turn off for some, but I dig it all the same.

Probably fresh and exciting at the time, now just generic punk band number 43. It's fine for what it is but I didn't get a lot from it.

This blows. Basic as all hell butt rock done better by everyone else. They have no style of their own. Their fast exciting songs sound slow and boring. Oh hold on, wait.. okay Nobody's fault is actually good. But that was the only one that was interesting. Why is this album on the list? Very underwhelming and uninteresting save for literally ONE song.

In an alternate universe, this is one of his more "okay" albums compared to his amazing later work in the late 70s. I want to live in that reality. I'll have to make do with this perfect album.

A lovely, poetic album. Tragically short like the life of the artist. Each song a small, fragile-but-beautiful, perfectly formed gem. The instrumentation is sparce, but that adds to the songs. It's just lovely, comforting, hopeful. A good companion for miserable days.

Really cool

It's alright, there's some good-but-not-memorable tracks, and some boring shite. Nothing stands out particularly. It's not bad by any means. Some fun songs. Didn't dislike it but wouldn't listen again. Solid 5/10.

Its cool, I like the whole psychedelic soul vibes. Nothing immediately stands out though, and it does outstay it's welcome by the end. But a more concentrated, more focused, shorter album of this? That would be awesome.

Its not the best Smiths album, quite a lot of it sounded very dull but it had some classic songs

It was well made, not really my style.

Not feeling it really. I'm not a fan of early 80s post punk production, the guitars are too trebly, too weak, and mixed too low. All the of reverb you can muster, makes every song sparce but still somehow cluttered? The songs feel stretched out and not very interesting, plodding but performed as if they're energetic. I found I couldn't get into it, like when a child is annoying you by singing a song they made up and you have to listen to them to be polite and they just keep going and going and you really want to get up and do something else. Like, I get it, you're being all spooky and enigmatic, well done, can I go yet? The only good part is, above all the image and fashion that so many people latch onto in the scene above all else, Siouxie is a brilliant vocalist and performer. I feel like you have to suspend a lot of belief to get into certain genres of music, you have to let the theatrical and contrived songs do their thing and accept it for what it is in order to "get" it. With post punk, I just don't get it.

I kind of expected more. It's fine. I don't know, something just isn't hitting. I love the Beatles, but their solo albums just don't do it for me. They suffer from not having the input and criticism from the other Beatles, and this album is no different. Title track is a classic. The next few songs are fine, a bit bland but fine. I like Gimme some truth. How do you sleep is kind of offputting. It's a very mean spirited and bitter song and way longer than it needs to be without developing further to warrant it's length. A lot of these songs sound like first drafts, notes put to music that the record company accepted because of who wrote them. Very underwhelmed.

It's just very good. Doesn't outstay It's welcome. Yeah. Solid.

This has some absolute classics. However, it's a very front loaded album. Changes is a classic, Oh you pretty things, Life on Mars are both brilliant. Eight line poem is fine, nothing special. Kooks is fun and cute. After Kooks, you have a meandering procession of pretty "meh" songs. Quicksand is very nothing. Fill your heart is pretty forgettable. Andy Warhol is alright, it's catchy but has very little meat on it's bones. Song for Bob Dylan is fine, it has some nice guitar work. Queen Bitch is very good late album highlight, like a proto version of glam rock. The Bewlay Brothers starts out promising but goes nowhere and ends in a really offputting theatrical way. A very good album with some dross. A transition point between folk 60s Bowie and 70s glam Bowie with some classics thrown in for good measure.

Amazing vocals and harmonies. About 3 classics and the rest are forgettable.

Yeah it's not bad. It's not amazing but I enjoyed it. Fun little record. The instrumentation is cool, very surf rock with some surreal keyboard thrown in. Good production, good musicianship, good satirical lyrics. A lot of cool ideas going on here, not all of them hit (Satisfaction, Sloppy), but the overall majority do. They own the weirdness and it works most of the time. Sometimes it's a bit irritating but maybe it's intentional, you know what these artsy types are like when they want to labour a point. It's like they go so far to the weird side that the weirdometer ticks over and goes back to cool again. It's like if Talking Heads had ADHD as well as autism, and then went surfing.

🤷‍♂️ I find it incredibly difficult to have an opinion on this background music, it's very well performed? My brain is actively filtering it out while I listen to it.

Highway star is awesome, it's cool as fuck. Best version. Amazing organ, amazing guitar. Best song on the album. Child in time is fine musically, if not for it plodding on for a bit too long. However the vocals, specifically his wailing AAAAAAAAAAAAAs for a chorus are a pain in the arse to listen to, they're grating and I actively hate them. Smoke on the water, also awesome and cool as fuck. It's Smoke on the water. The Mule starts off cool then the drum fill becomes a solo... and it just keeps going... I was like nah mate, so I skipped through like 5 whole minutes until the rest of the band kicked back in. Easy skip unless you're really into drums, in which case it's probably the best track. It's a good drum solo, it's just not worth 5 minutes of my time. Strange kind of woman is fine, nothing special at all, a by-the-numbers early 70s hard rock song. About 6 minutes in the singer starts trading licks with the guitar but I don't know, it just sounds annoying, like when someone mocks you by saying your words back to you in a high pitched voice. Led Zeppelin manage to do the same shtick but don't make it irritating. I think I just find Ian Gillan annoying. Sometimes he sounds like a seagull with its nuts in a vise. Lazy is a fun little piece you can boogie to. Doesn't really go anywhere though. Some fun but unimportant filler, gives the impression they used up their actual songs before the gig was over so they spunked this out to pad out the runtime. Edit; For some reason the version I was listening to didn't have Space Truckin on the end. Looking at the runtime I'm thinking this had better be worth it. Starts off pretty cool, not as good as Highway Star but probably in the top 3 of the album so far. I'm halfway through, and while it sounds pretty spacey and far out, it's not really worth it yet. About 11 minutes in it sounds cool. Maybe I'm too sober for it. This isn't in the top 3 anymore haha. There's no need for it to be this long without it developing further as a song, so much meandering noodling and unnecessary padding. There's about 2 minutes where literally nothing happens. About 16 minutes in, Blackmore is back from taking a shit and plays some cool stuff. Oh and it just ends? Okay I guess. Yeah that wasn't worth it. --- The album is cobbled together from 2 dates, one in Osaka and one in Tokyo. Everything on the LP is from Osaka except for The Mule and Lazy. The Tokyo show must have sucked. Overall one or two really high highs and the rest is some average stuff tainted by some annoying choices they didn't have to make. The Organ and Guitar are consistently world class, but you already knew that. About half the songs are guff, and when each song is like 10 minutes and there's only 7 songs, that's not very good value for money.

This came out when I was 16 but I never listened to it at the time, so as a millenial with no nostalgia goggles.. I am completely and utterly indifferent to this. It feels like what you'd play at an indie rave. But I'm not at an indie rave, I'm at home listening to an album. I never understand dance music albums, it's a genre specifically made for a live audience to dance to. Putting it on a cd or album is just like, okay this is what you'd be listening to if you were there but you're not, you're in your car. The drawn out repetition works in a club because you're off your face and you want to dance, but at home not so much. That being said, it's okay, nothing special. Bang average repetetive 80s nostalgic indie electronica. Talking Heads, Kraftwerk, and Bowie inspired bleep bloop music for rich kids on pills. It kind of bored me halfway through because every song is kind of the same and longer than they need to be. I was thoroughly unimpressed.

I don't know why but I wasn't anticipating that I'd enjoy this album, but it's really cool. It's very hypnotic, I feel like I'm going into some sort of trance listening to this. It's very soulful and passionate but also calming. This reduced my cortisol levels and reset my vagus nerve. It's like an hour of musical medicine. Your enjoyment of it will be very situational but I'm chilling out to it and having a nice time. As an experience it's cool, but I don't know when I'd choose to listen to it again.

Good Beatles songs, but a lot of filler.

Never actually heard a Queen album all the way through, just their best-of compilations, so this'll be interesting. Death on two legs is cool, kind of average hard rock song. Sunday afternoon is a bit of an odd, campy vaudeville little follow up, but cute. Oh okay we're back to hard rock... I'm in love with my car blows, its so lame. You're my best friend is brilliant, a classic. 39 is interesting, it's an interesting story but nothing special. I'm wondering what their rationale was here regarding sequencing this album because we're going from one genre to another wildly. Sweet lady is kind of okay, it's nothing amazing, its like the bare minimum of good. Forgettable. Seaside rendezvous we're back to campy vaudeville, it's fine... okay it's annoying never mind. It's fun at least but wtf is this album it's got multiple personality disorder. The Prophet's song is interesting, we're in prog territory now apparently. It's not bad so far... An now a know an now a know an now a know an now a know and now an know an now a know an now a know an now a know an now a know and now an know an now a know an now a know an now a know an now a know and now an know. La lalalala la lalalala la lalalala la lalalalala. What the fuck is this even? The Prophet's Song wasn't worth its artificially inflated runtime, haha, what an annoying drag. Love of my life next.. this is quite lovely. What a nice song. Very tasteful and sweet. Good company now. Back to vaudeville it appears. It's annoying and goes nowhere. Bohemian Rhapsody. Classic. No notes. Next. And we're ending with the national anthem? That's a.. uh.. choice. Sounds like too triumphant a capstone for such a mid and muddled album. Now I see why I've only heard the singles. Yeah on the whole that kind of sucked. It sacrificed consistency for variety which is a bold strategy when most songs are average or just plain bad. I generally like Queen, I used to be a big fan growing up, but this just isn't it.

So. First song. It starts off annoying. Like a broken musical box where everyone's noodling away at their own thing and it doesn't work. Then the guitar line is really nice. Not a fan of the vocals much, too reedy and airy, sounds weak. It seems like everyone is playing a different intricate-for-the-sake-of-showing-off instrumental line and it only works half of the time. Not much to really grab hold of so far. The song progresses (ha) but doesn't really develop, since there's no consistent part to develop from, just independent bits playing simultaneously. There's a bit where everything cuts out and he gets up and he gets down a lot, interspersed with big classical church organ passages as if the song deserves it. Now we're back to the whole band doing some proggy stuff. It doesn't like, lead up to them dropping back in very much, just gives me the impression they decided to start playing again instead of it being a big build up. It ends and it's instantly left my mind. I am thoroughly unimpressed by this song and a bit annoyed because you can tell they really thought they did something with this. Second song, I'm halfway through it and I'm struggling to think of anything to say about it. It sounds.. pretty? It's very boring. Nothing happens in it. God I hate his grating little voice. And it just ends? Okay. What a pointless boring song. NEXT. SONG. Okay this actually has some substance. It actually feels like a SONG. Like an actual thought out piece of music instead of some annoying, pretentious noodling with an asthmatic seagull bleating over it. This feels like an actual band doing actual band shit. It's actually good! It's cool! It's interesting and enjoyable! It develops, it sticks in my mind, it's fun. It's probably the only thing on this album that's worth it. So due to the fact there's only one interesting and enjoyable song on this album of three.. I'm rating the album 1/3. Or rather 5 divided by 3. 1.6666. Lets round it up to two stars.

It's okay, not really my thing

It's objectively a mess, but it's rad so I don't care.