Reviews by dcspool

I’ve never been a fan of Santana, probably because of that terrible 2000s pop song with Rob Thomas. However, this album was awesome. I liked it all a lot.

Fave Tracks: Oye Como Va, Se a Cabo, Mothers Daughter

4.9/5

Some really iconic tracks here. Great blues rock album.

4.6/5

Another Chemical Brothers album? I’m not vibing this one either. The first 7 or so tracks are all tuneless and frantic in an unpleasant way. I cant really imagine a scenario they’d be appealing apart from a very specific mood of rave.

The last 3 songs do tickle something within me though, particularly the private psychedelic reel.

Fave Tracks: Lost in the K-Hole, Where Do I Begin, The Private Psychedelic Reel

2.6/5

Quite medium. Technically solid but feels like it’s missing some sort of x factor. I prefer the second half of the album. Acetate Prophets a wild song at the end.

Fave Tracks: Thin Line, After School Special, Hey, Acetate Prophets

2.9/5

So far live albums have been a major source of disappointment for me on this list. This is better - jazz gets a lot more from a live performance than rock imo. Still my favourite track here is probably Take the A Train - always a bop.

Fave Tracks: Take the A Train

3.2/5

For an artist called "Nightmares on Wax" this was incessantly pleasant. Good genre representation, thanks.

Fave Tracks: Nights Interlude, Bless My Soul, Cruise (Don't Stop)

4.1/5

Really quite bored of Wu-Tang. 3 maybe 4 albums in? Hardly anything has grabbed my attention. Its not bad, but it all feels quite samey. The albums are always bloated.

Fave Track: Glaciers of Ice (maybe)

2.3/5

I actually quite like this album... always have. Axl Rose's voice is annoying for sure, and its all way over the top, but its over the top in an impressive way. The singles are really well crafted pop songs with a stadium rock veneer. Think About You's chorus almost sounds like a new wave song.

Fave Tracks: Welcome to the Jungle, Nighttrain, Paradise City, Think About You, Sweet Child O Mine.

3.7/5

Blues music is too basic. You have to do something way more interesting to the genre to capture my attention. Were people really vibing to this in 1977 (let alone 2024)? Hard to imagine for me.

1.8/5

solid marv
4/5

Another pretty decent CCR album, but it’s not particularly inspiring a selection

Fave Track: Born on the Bayou

3.5/5

Some heavy hitters here, and I do think the singles are the standouts. Heart of Glass another example for me of a song that I don't actively listen to because I think I've heard it a million times, but it sounds so good hearing it with a keener ear. Most of all the other tracks just filler for me, but I think the singles carry this one quite a long way.

Fave Tracks: Hanging on the Telephone, One Way or Another, Heart of Glass

3.5/5

I'm most definitely a Talking Heads fan, but I'm actually quite indifferent about this album. It's one where I feel like every track is 3 or 4 stars, no standouts, no real flaws.

Fave Tracks: Warning Sign, The Girls Want to Be With the Girls, Stay Hungry, The Big Country

3.6/5

Sounds like a Led Zep sample off the bat to me.

I have two problems with this album, its boring and annoying.

The only songs I enjoyed were Fight For Your Right and Time to Get Ill.

2.1/5

A lot of these songs are offensively bad: Life Thru a Lens, Ego Agogo, Killing Me, Clean. The lyrics are mostly embarrassing, and Robbie's voice has never been a strength.

Angels is ok, else I don't have much anything nice to say about this.

1.8/5

Gotta love a bit of Jimi, not my favourite album though, some songs feel a bit rough and ready, unfinished.

Fave tracks: Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand, One Rainy Wish

3.6/5

YAYAYAYAYYA
I LOVED IT

5/5

Fave Tracks: all of them

Poor man’s CHVRCHES.

I love this album, this is maybe the most essential to the list so far for me, this is what it’s all about.

The value here is in more than the music. The concept is executed like a classical music suite, it’s so unique and unlike other electronic music despite being a massive influence on basically all electronic music that followed. Would there be LCD Soundsystem or Daft Punk without Kraftwerk? It’s so disciplined and German, it’s about a train and it sounds exactly like a train.

I don’t much like the second and third tracks. If this went straight from Europe Endless to the TEE suite then this would be a near perfect album for me.

4.4/5

Fave Tracks: Europe Endless, Trans-Europe Express, Franz Schubert, Endless Endless

This is maybe the best Foo Fighters record, and possibly their least Foo Fighters-y record. Easily their rawest record and for sure the coolest one to like. Definitely their least pretentious record and most laid back record. Big Me is so unlike any other Foo Fighters song. It’s weird.

Tbh I liked this even more than I remembered.

Fave Tracks: This is a Call, I’ll Stick Around, Big Me, Good Grief, Floaty

4.6/5

This album is very nostalgic for me, I listened to a lot of CHVRCHES around 2013. There are some phenomenal remixes of some of these songs. I thought I would find it dated and cheesy, but actually I still really liked this. That being said it’s another one where I don’t really understand why it’s on the 1001.

Fave Tracks: The Mother We Share, Gun, Lies, Recover

3.8/5