1001 Albums Summary

Hardest album cover of all time. Fav track: If I Should Die Tonight

Really tight and pleasurable album; strong track after strong track! Maybe some of her backing tracks are a bit busy and obvious next to her performance and lyrics, but next to that awful Raye album you can't really complain. Fav track: You Know I'm No Good

Not for me. Feels too much directionless noodling to me. Fav track: Stormy Monday

Another artist who I only really knew as a symbol, so it's nice to see that there's a reason he's so iconic. Rock solid album, some really excellent tracks. Fav track: 400 Years

FUCKING CLASSIC! FAV TRACK: MY MY, HEY HEY & HEY HEY, MY MY

At best it's a pale reminder of better music, but usually it's just totally boring. His use of black voices in the intros and interludes for colour and, I don't know, a feeling of authenticity? Of grittiness? Either way it's pretty troubling. Also the James Bond remix, which is already an inherently bad idea for a song, with fart noise is totally laughable. WORST TRACK: Radio 7

I can obviously imagine why Grohl decided to record this album entirely by himself, but it does make every song sound like a demo; a sketch without any of the energy or chemistry between players that would go into a solid rock track. But to be fair the songs themselves, putting all that aside, are also lifeless and shit.

Not terrible by any means, but quite uninspiring to me at this point.

I've just listened to Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys and... nothing prepares you for this. I cheered. I shouted. I fist pumped the air. I cried. I stood and cheered. It's absolutely everything that you hoped it was gunna be.

Sublime!