1001 Albums Summary

Adolescent pop music pretending to be awfully grown up rock n roll.

What David Bowie sounds like in front of a great rock band, The Spiders from Mars. Particularly enjoy Mick Robson’s guitar and Mike Garson’s barking mad piano on the title track .

It's good. But is it great? I'm not sure.

I’m not the target demographic to be fair

First time I've ever heard a complete Eminem album and I'm not sure I will ever do so again. At least, not in my own home.

Noisy!

Wonderful sound

Quite entertaining

I'm supposed to like Zeppelin, but, to be honest, they set my teeth on edge

Yeah, it’s good

Good songs

I’m afraid this very quickly became background. I was listening to it while working and it was easy to ignore. Didn’t finish it.

Odd to listen to this at 2 in the afternoon. Great songs and a great feel.

I must have known this album from back in the day.

I can see where many of the bands I listened to in the 70s got it from, but this does all seem rather self-indulgent. It’s some far out ideas set to numbers.

It’s never been cool to like Dire Straits. “It ain’t what they call rock n roll.” But Mark Knopfler’s guitar is peerless. Sultans is the outstanding track, of course, with some vocals to set up the guitar solos.

Interesting. I enjoyed it. It’s a bit sprawling and eccentric but there’s some good stuff there.

Imagine loving the single ‘Street Life’ and thinking, ‘I wonder what The Crusaders sound like without Randy Crawford? I’d definitely listen to an album of their stuff!’ Because that’s what you get. The rest of the album sounds like the muzak you get when your favourite corporation puts you on hold. No offence. These are 10,000 hours jazzers. It’s sophisticated. But there’s nothing beyond the silky groove. As each track fades you know they could have just kept playing it until someone at the studio switched the lights off.

This is what a Rock ‘n’ Roll band sounds like - a bit of blues, a bit of soul, a bit of gospel, a bit of country. The recording sessions were legendary and it’s all a bit of a mess, but glorious.

Great guitar work and some great songs, including ‘Summer Breeze’, which must be on everyone’s summer playlist.

Almost the perfect AOR album. Every song’s a banger and it still sounds great after all these years.