1001 Albums Summary

Still not a fan of Elton john’s singing, but the instrumentals on this one surprised me. There’s some interesting and surprisingly heavy distorted guitars. Unlikely to relisten, but I’m glad to have checked out some songs beyond just tiny dancer.

Listening to this feels like looking at one of those pictures of a dog wearing sunglasses. I guess when hendrix was at his peak the guitars sounded revolutionary, but now I find all the noodling kind of exhausting. Jimi, I get it, you miss that electric woman and you drive your car at 90mph.

Like a discount version of queen where Freddie mercury has been replaced by a swarm of bees. Exhaustingly cheerful.

I haven't listened to this album since I was about 16, probably out of some snobbish attitude towards american punk that I still need to get over. But I'm so happy to come back to it. It's got that quality that all good punk music should have of filling you with energy and bitterness that just makes you want to scream. Can't stay sitting down listening to this album. Easy 5 stars.

Mostly pretty skippable 12 bar blues, but I really enjoyed the ramble tamble instrumentals once I got over the unbearable vocals.

I know there’s some classics here but man this just doesn’t do it for me. I think there’s something about the way Stevie wonder sings where it sounds as if he’s passionately articulating every single word and note, but so cleanly and consistently that the whole thing comes off as sterile. Obviously a hugely influential album, but it’s too shiny and too funky to convey much of a message to me.

Clown music

Enjoyed this more than I expected to. The vocals truly could not be cornier. It's like he didn't know what to sing about so he consulted a list of typical themes of song lyrics, noticed that "love" was somewhere near the top and then just decided he would beat the word to death so that he would have something to do with his mouth other than screech generic rock sounds (the christian theme also got pretty grating). I wish he wouldn't do the pushing-out-a-shit voice the whole time, but I'm glad it's there to provide some contrast to the vapid lyrics. Surprisingly though there's a lot of variety here, some fun instrumentals, and it kept me guessing. Still not really my thing though so it gets 3 stars.

Actually pretty listenable but it’s exactly what you’d expect

That's more like it. Knew absolutely zero about this going in, never heard of the artist before. The first two tracks were totally unexpected. Sometimes the classical thing gets a bit overbearing and gives me kind of a musical theatre feeling that I don't like ("little sister"). Very melodramatic but I enjoyed that in a gay way. Felt like actually discovering something new, which I haven't experienced much of on this list so far.

Really enjoyed that. A really complete album with lots of surprise twists and turns, finished leaving me wanting more.

This is just the epitome of the 90s, some really cheesy bits but fun nonetheless. Deserves 4 stars just for music makes you lose control

Better than the album cover would have you think. I listened on my bike so didn’t hear very clearly, it might be better than that.

Just add the heretic is worse than the heathen, (American) pop punk is worse than no punk at all.

Got sucked into this right from the first note. Kind of made me think of I’m in your mind fuzz by king gizzard with the wobbly guitars and how the tracks blend together. So good. I need to listen to more pyschadelic rock

Not bad

Already knew from the apostrophe in the title that this wasn’t going to blow me away. It’s discount oasis but I can only be so mad at a band that fills me with that good old new labour naive optimism.

Nice background romantic dinner music

I grew up listening to random chemical brothers tracks on my dad’s MP3 player, but this is my first time listening to this album in full. The squelchy guitar loops and cheesy record spins just do something nostalgic for me. Reminds me of hanging out at my extreme sports obsessed neighbours’ house.

Garden centre music. Gets a 2 instead of a 1 just because it's so inoffensive that it's impossible to feel anything about this album at all. Changed my mind, it’s a 1.

Doesn’t do much for me

This is just too rad for me bro

I’m not the kind of person to say everything Radiohead has ever done is a masterpiece, but this is as close to perfect as albums really get. It dips a bit in the middle from All I Need to Reckoner, but the rest is just brilliant. Best Radiohead album for sure

What this list is teaching me is that I like hip hop

I mean this is all the oasis bangers. They grate on me a bit sometimes, but maybe that’s because being from the north of England these are the kinds of songs you know the words to before you’re onto solid food. But I can’t deny that there are times ahead of me when I’ll be singing at least one of these songs loudly at some summer party.

Iconic and all but eh. A boring macho sodge

Numan is obviously doing something new here, and like anyone pushing boundaries he doesn't get it perfect first time. Some of the synths sound pretty quaint and unconfident by modern standards. But you can just feel that this is an album dripping with influencial power. Some of the tracks like M.E. have a shockingly modern feel, from the angle of both vocals and instrumentals (leaving aside the unignorable "where's your head at?" connection. Very deserving of being on this list, and a really fun listen.

A nice collection of heartfelt songs with a lot of personality. Felt like it got a little old towards the end, but I enjoyed it anyway.

Kind of fun. Got boring after a while though.

A bit too 70s for me

Never got along with classic rock, but led zeppelin somehow gets away with it. I’ve never understood why everyone gets so excited about stairway to heaven. I am also not a Tolkien guy. That said, I enjoyed listening through this, and I can appreciate why it’s considered one of the best of the genre.

This is the album that taught me music can be weird and changed my music taste completely. Can’t give it less than 5 stars.

In my mind Steely Dan belongs in whatever genre of music that is that makes up the guardians of the galaxy soundtracks, which makes me feel I shouldn’t like it, but somehow I kind of do