1001 Albums Summary

Some nice funky baselines and soothing falsetto

Two fantastic separate double albums bundled up as one. Club banger after banger on Speakerbox with drum and bass influence and the more laid back sexy, jazzy, lovey dovey Love Below. Both are easy 4/5 albums individually only let down by some annoying skits

Time After Time and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun are absolute classic standout tracks on this decent but otherwise uninspiring album

Some nice slide guitar and interesting lyrics but didn't really catch my attention.

Solid 3. Nice sound and feel and I really liked No Tears and Pretty in Pink. Let down by being too samey all the way through, little to differentiate between the tracks.

Fantastic album, so many great tracks. I love White Rabbit in particular and the epic crescendo it builds to. Can really see how they must have influenced bands like Fleetwood Mac.

Repetitive, boring and long. That was a tough slog.

Better than I thought it would be. I'm really not a fan of Bono or his singing but quite enjoyed this.

Fast, fun, simple and catchy. 14 songs in 29 minutes to create an album that would inspire a movement.

The lyrics are very cringe shouty teen angst, but luckily you can barely make them out. The drumming is fantastic and overall I quite enjoyed it.

Shouldn't be in this list. Might have been on in the 90s but has not agreed well.

Quite fun, gothic, camp rockabilly. I can see how this really influenced 80s Matchbox B-Line disaster who then improved on the formula.

Great singing, great blues guitar playing, great recording. Love it

Acoustic first half of the album before the electric raw protogrunge second half.

I really liked Just What I Needed and I can see how they must be pretty ahead of their time as they sound so 80s for 1978. But it's just not for me.

I would have been happy to have waited until I died for this one.

Beautiful stuff

Not my favourite Beatles album, but still a 5. The best two songs are probably the two George songs, Come Together and Oh! Darling also great. It could have done without Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Solid 4, top tier britpop. Great tunes with dry humour

Clint Eastwood and 19-2000 are great but overall it's not that exciting. Gorillazs improve with later albums

Boring, saccharin sweet, middle of the road pop with a hint of country.

90s nostalgia from my childhood couldn't make me like this. Early britpop which feels pretty boring now and hasn't aged that well

Got respect them for calling their debut album Club Classics Vol. One. But it lives up to its name, this album is club banger after banger. Great beats, crisp production and smooth vocals.

Needs more bongo

Great highlights like Thought the wire, all falls down, we don't care and slow jams. But too much filler and too many annoying skits about degrees. Could have been a 4 or 5 just by cutting the run time in half

Pretty middle of the road

They're very good instrumentally but the singing and lyrics are awful. If they got themselves a decent singer I could see them making it big.

I liked this a lot less than Achtun bsby

Not Bowie's greatest but still very good. Time is the standout track. Some great guitar playing.

I didn't like it at first but it did grow on me by the end of the first listen. Rooster is a great track.

Classic 90s hits

These Days is a great track and a few other good ones too. Overall I'll give a high three

One of those albums that I feel I should really like but just don't do anything for me. Decent folky singer songwriter stuff and sounds much more modern than 70s, but quite boring really.

Decent albums. A bit hit and miss. They were clearly trying to follow up on the success of Rumours but could catch lightning in a bottle this time

I would like it more with a different singing style I think. But overall still very enjoyable

Would be a 5 if there was less misogyny

Don't listen to the album linked in this website, that is a remastered extended edition which is over 2h long. The original was only 43 mins long. Search for the original and you won't be disappointed, great stuff and without all the filler and introductions that are in the extended version. Someone has made a Spotify playlist with only the tracks from the original, listen to that one. Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue is a fantastic album closer.

Better than I was expecting, I like Madonna but thought she had lost it by this point in her career. Great production

Found this hard to go rate, I wanted to like it but it's just quite joyous and takes itself too seriously

Amazing again from Neil Young

So ahead of it's time. Chemical Brothers had a whole career sounding exactly like Tomorrow Never Knows

I like the guitar sound but overall this didn't click for me. Just a bit too cheesy

Lovely live performance, but why did he play Mojo Working twice in a row?

The band the Beatles could have been

Some lovely jangly guitar playing. Without this the Strokes would not exist

Some beautiful songs like Nightswimming and Everybody hurts. But overall just a bit unexciting.

Make sure you listen to the right album! The Spotify link takes you to their 8th album of the same name (which is still decent). Find their compilation album "In the doghouse". The first 10 tracks are the right one. Great album and one that makes doing this list worthwhile. I particularly like the use of cowbell on Rabbits Dying.

Samey all the way through. Very boring

Fun album

Sounds like a cross between My Bloody Valentine and The Stone Roses. And I love both those bands. This is a great find I may never have heard without this list.

This was the first album I ever bought so quite a bit of nostalgia for me. I hadn't listened to it since the 90s and wasn't expecting much but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

Some nice songwriting and a great voice. Banks of the Pontchartrain is a great tune

Some very cringe sing songy ad libs singing things like "I've forgotten the words to this song" and "Ella Fitzgerald sings it like this, I'm gonna sing it like that too". The sound quality is great for a 50s live recording but I found it to just sound so similar all the way through and just bored

I enjoyed this. Lots of emotional expression in his voice, I just wish I could understand french to better appreciate it.

The crowd are really hyped up for this. Great performance

I prefer Ray Charles when he's more bluesy

Beautiful evocative storytelling accompanied by a big wall of sound from the band. Springsteen has a knack for saying so much with very few words. The album opens with some of the best opening lines of all time in Thunder Road, one of the best opening tracks of all time. "The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely Hey, that's me and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again"

Yeah boiiiiii! You know what time it is

Some high points like Around the World and Da Funk but overall just too repetitive for me. I found it a slog to get through.

This Will Be Our Year and Time Of The Season were the standout tracks for me

It's cheesy but I can't dislike it. The first five tracks are all bangers worthy of 4 stars at least but then the quality takes a nosedive ending in the god awful "Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll".

Boring lounge/lift music

RIP Dolly

Great album, clearly highly influential

Much better than the other album of theirs on here, Crocodiles. Killing Moon is brilliant

I really liked this. Much less upbeat than I'm used to with the Beach Boys. Favourite track Feel Flows .

Such an amazing voice. So much emotional depth

Just not a fan of the singing style

Great stuff. Crazy to think she was only 19 when this came out, so much depth from someone so young

Quite a mess of an album, but still with some great tracks. The first half is a cohesive mini concept album, but then they clearly needed to fill the other half of the record so just put a mish mash of songs on there. America, Mrs Robinson, Fakin it and Bookends Theme - Reprise were highlights for me. Not such a fan of Voices of Old People, which does exactly what it says on the tin.

This list has a real lack of reggae

That was a struggle to get through, too in your face and jarring. This kind of music is only enjoyable in a club or field off your face on pills.

Overall quite dull background music for me. But Take Five is an iconic track

Some classic crowd pleasing bangers, from a British perspective

It's nice that they brought in their pet dog to sing for them. This list has a major lack of canine singers

This album is great, at least 4 stars. I might have only given 4 stars though but I realised Earth Wind and Fire don't have any other albums in this list. I can think of two albums of theirs even better than this one! So I felt they deserve 5 as a kind of career achievement award.

Making love with his eeeeaaagle!

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy

Radiohead's best album. Paranoid Android is incredible

Good fun. My lips are sealed, we are the beat and this town are bangers

I never thought I liked Portishead but this was great. Really atmospheric and brooding. I'm not a massive fan of the drumming style though and a few of the songs ended too abruptly for me though.

Sounds like it would have been great to be there but this long jam session doesn't really translate well to the album format for me.

Great album. Would have been 5 but Jagger's fake American country accent annoys me. High 4

Much better than Brothers in Arms

I'm a Costello fan but he shouldn't have so many albums on this list and this isn't his best. Having said that, there are still quite a few good tunes. I really like ...And in Every Home in particular as well as the Loved Ones and Human Hands

I feel like I'm meant to like this but just didn't really connect with it. Lovely background music but nothing drawing me in to actually listen to it more deeply.

Blue Orchid is great, and I also love Forever for her is over for me and Red Rain

Great album cover illustration and I really enjoyed the opening 20 min track. Instantly goes down hill with the bizarre and vaguely transphobic Jeremy Bender and ends with a terrible rockabilly style track.

Nice but pretty boring