1001 Albums Summary

The name-your-price download album. Certainly one of their best and most consistent albums. House of Cards is arguably the only weak track on it. 4.5/5

An almost perfect album where the sum of its parts is greater than the individual songs - but a real fun listen from start to finish. Funk & Jazz Fusion greatness! 4.5/5.

Wah-wah, chacka-chaka, wah-wah... Sounds like a blaxploitation soundtrack made by Osibisa, Santana and Chicago. 3.5/5

I don't smoke dope...

Fun explorative album, but lacking the song quality of Purple Rain. Excessive use of drum machine and synthesizers doesn't make this a great sounding album either, but it's overall sound grows on you. The length of the album is it's biggest flaw in my opinion. 3.5/5

Totally unique sound combined with great songwriting. 4/5

Their viscous branch of rock 'n' roll is like no other, and this is arguably The Stones at their peak. While the album is grooving like hell throughout, the really great songs are few and far between. 3.5/5.

No way this is an album you ever need to hear, unless it's to illustrate how terrible music can get. Utter garbage... 1/5

Sound and musicianship isn't very good. This is the sound of teenage angst and probably irrelevant for anyone beyond that age or who wasn't a teenager when Dinosaur Jr hit the scene. Noisy rock not far from contemporaries My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth, but perhaps a bit more melodic. 2/5.

Walk This Way is the best track on the album, and that says something...

Influential, but not essential. Great riffin' on "Down on The Street". "Loose" sounds like an MC5 rip-off. Overall groovy album, but the songs are somewhat meandering and lack great hooks and original melodies. 3/5

Better riffin' and better songwriting than previous albums. An early hard rockin' classic, even though the production is dreadful. 3/5.

If you're in the mood for Bluegrass I'm sure this is great, but considering how many genres of music that isn't represented in the 1001, I find it hard to justify this as an essential listen.

Despite it's influence and torrents of accolades from music critics, this is one of my least favorite Miles Davis albums (and I've got them all). Side 1 is groovy, but meandering. Side 2 is more interesting musically, but still meandering. 3/5.

The title track and "Vincent" are good, but like most troubadour albums, it gets old fast.

Great album!

Maybe the definitive Grunge album if there is such a thing.

Warner Bros. Records doesn't want me to listen to this album as my CD player doesn't like their copy protection. 1/5.

Influential Tropicália album. Interesting, but not much more...

The hits are great, the rest mediocre - especially the covers of The Beatles, David Bowie and The Animals. The Al Green and Ann Peebles tunes were tastefully done though.

One of the very best pop albums of the 1960s.

Unessential background music with no stand-out tracks.

One might question why this is included in the 1001 Albums list that hardly include any album with traditional, folk or classical music. Heck, there is hardly any jazz in the 1001-list which makes up most of the great albums released before the late 1960s. Arguably the album had some influence on the psychedelic movement, but it feels out of place, especially considering all the "world music" that should then have been included. It seems quite pointless to even rank this album alongside Elvis Presley and The Beatles...

Bruce Springsteen meets Andrew Lloyd Webber. It's a good album, but it hasn't aged well. The artwork seems out of place and unconnected to the music, but it proved influential as a template for 80s heavy metal cover art.

Mushy fusion of reggae, power pop and punk. The hits are alright, but radio has played them to death. No thanks.

Sounds like a high school band. Dreadful.

Jolly good!

It's got a certain vibe suitable for teenage angst...

OK for what it is, but also highly overrated.

Essential, but bloated.

Southern Rock in alternative rock dressing. Yikes!

11 year old me would love this...

Influential to say the least...

Good songs, but Young's guitar tone has to be the worst in the history of the guitar!