1001 Albums Summary

Awesome vibes. Great guitar effects. Amazing covers

Iconic garage proto-punk. Wasn’t expecting a 10 min, drone-y, meditative chant but still cool. Year 0.1 for Indie/ Alternative Music

Year zero for ‘back to mine’ chill out vibes or recovering from a lagger lad Brit Pop piss up. Iconic.

The sound that launched a thousand synth bands.

The glimmers of mainstream polish shine through the cracks in their leather and stud armour.

A psychedelic chill wave of Beck by way of Prince grooves

Possibly the greatest sample driven hip hop record of the era. Plus psychedelic grooves that are unmatched.

Those harmonies. Amazing.

A beautiful expression of a genre I was unfamiliar works. The sound of the happiest man in Senegal

Heroin and honky-tonks. I got the replacing all my blood blues.

Smooth jazz that soundtracked countless dinner parties

Kate at her mode creative and experimental is running up that hill with some problems.

The riffs, the rage, the remedial class clowning.

I miss the boat on this one when it was released because of my own Alanis-Alterna Cash In bias. Boy was I wrong. I did a deep dive before seeing them on a tour with Noel Gallagher. The hooks and the riffs and the licks just keep comin’.

Soulful and powerfu

Is there a sound more evocative of the 60s era than this? Hard to say.

The only thing more compelling then the riffs on this album is the musicians’s story.

Relentless Proto-Industrial, Electro-Funk, Dalek Rock

Classic. There are no other word.

The missing link in the evolution of Rock from The New York Dolls to Poison. Some times evolution goes too far.

And you might ask yourself why are there no hits? And you may ask yourself couldn’t they have written some hits?

So atmospheric. Year zero for Goth, Shoegaze and Indie Sleaze (hate that term though)

If just makingi had the knees to do it I’d be pogo-ing along to this like I did in the 90’s

The first side sounds timeless, the second side sounds ahead of its time.

Pipers at the gates of yawn.

Glorious Neon-soaked Outer Space Xanadu Melodies and Drive-In Restaurant Musical arrangements

A fitting monument to a colossal talent and an epic career.

Prog at its noodle-I-est

Bjork at her Bjork-I-est

A windswept, lost highway of melodic imagery.

Wish there were far more leaves left. Tragic brilliance.

Day 2 of Tragic brilliance.

Classic hip hop sound with lyrics that could have been written about last week.

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to listen to one of the foundational pillars of alt and indie rock. Way more accessible than I’d imagined. Blues, garage, surf, psych and so much more all woven together with incredible hooks.

God only knows what we’d do without this album. And Sloop John B is won of my favourite songs of all time.

Amazing live recording of icon blues man.

What a venture into the slipstream. Thanks you Cyprus Avenue for induce beauty.

Equal parts sweepingly majestic and utterly pretentious.

Metal from the Motherland hammered out at the Hammer! What a moment in history to be apart of. Amazing recoding to boot.

Chill out room vibes pop

Seminal, foundational and virtually unlistenable link in the evolution of alt and indie rock

Rollin’, rollin’ rollin’ on the bayou!

Efficient, Teutonic pop.

Foundational alt/indie rock that had so many more hooks than I expected from them.

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you have to let it bleed.

Unparalleled harmonies and melodies but the lyrics haven’t aged well and it didn’t need to be a double album.

The moment everything changed in Hardcore. No Helmet or Turnstile if this record never came out.

The Ken Burns of Rock’n’Roll