Chris

Este disco lo he escuchado pero recuerdo poco, excepto el "Follarse". Tengo muy buenos recuerdos de su otro trabajo, Chaleur Humaine que no sé si estará en la lista.

Boy, that went on forever. It has its moments but it's far too long and rarely very interesting.

I would give it 3. But it's just too long. It lost me through the second disk.

Decent pop album. Good vocals and music. Not really for me, but I enjoyed the listen. Goya Soda was my favorite.

Simple, clean dance pop. Héloïse Letissier's voice is so clear and effortless; at times vulnerable, at times strong. Plenty of phrases sound like either Michael or Janet Jackson. However, the songwriting is lacking. Aside from the great voice and DIY production, nothing sticks out as particularly innovative nor problematic. Safely middle of the road; easy to like, and just as easy to dismiss. "5 Dollars" has the best pop, "What's-Her-Face" has the confident seduction, and "Make Some Sense" has some of the softest tones of what this album has to offer.

This was an ok album for me with some cool 80s electro R and B sounds. The guy's voice is a similar high pitched tone to Michael Jackson or Geddy Lee I think. I'm not sure why it's on this list though. I would have put a Chromeo or a Holy Ghost! album on here instead.of this one, as those other two occupy the same sound space to me but have some better overall songs and albums than this guy.

Unremarkable and not for me.

Glossy-to-a-fault wanna-be 80s modern pop that I'll expect to hear at medium-to-low volume waiting for my mocha frappachino - please hold the whipped cream. Rarely if ever offensive-sounding but entirely unmemorable and vacuous. 4/10 2 stars.

no.

Deze mevrouw maakt lollige commerciële zuurstokmuziek, vraag is wat er zo bijzonder aan is dat het in de lijst moet. Toch niet haar persoonlijke omstandigheden, mag ik aannemen? Ook ik hoorde er een soort Michael Jackson-vibe in, gelukkig krijgen we hierna het echte werk.

Wie is deze Chris nou weer? In elk geval iemand met een liefde voor MJ. Dat steek je met zo'n albumintro niet onder stoelen of banken. Je haalt je wel heel wat op de hals. Want als je Jackson kwaliteit belooft, moet je dat nog waarmaken. Dat doe je niet zomaar. Want Michael was groot. Chris houdt MJ er ook na het eerste nummer in. De muzikale basis van het tweede nummer lijkt wel uit een copy-paste van de basis van een rustig MJ nummer. Nu heeft MJ niet alleen zijn uit duizenden te herkennen muziek, hij had daarboven op een unieke zang. Hij kreeg het voor elkaar om met veel valse lucht en veel kreten prima te klinken. En daar gaat het mis bij Chris. De zang heeft niets bijzonders. Het is veel te soepel. Het wordt daardoor snel een saai geheel. En dan los je de belofte van je MJ-intro simpelweg niet in.

Huismerk Celine Dion, die een soort Michael Jackson en Madonna nadoet. Op zich klinkt het allemaal wel catchy, electropop. Het is ook heel vergeetbaar, want dit doen 100000 bandjes of zangers/zangeressen/hun tegenwoordig. Het zal allemaal wel keurig diversiteitsverantwoord zijn, maar ik zie zo niet in waarom dit 1 vd 1001+ albums zou moeten zijn, die ik ooit in mijn leven gehoord zou moeten hebben. Dus ik luister het 1x en vergeet het daarna weer.

This shot got m… 😴 En verdad no ta malo pero está bien fucking mid

very plain, very okay album. 4/10.

Listened to the English half/version. Inoffensive, bland, with little (sonic, lyrical, tempo or tonal) variance throughout. A pop record that never pops, too constipated to dance or cry.

Sounds like late 80s pop...I enjoyed a couple songs. Didn't listen to them all in French. 2/5

The first time I saw this artist was reading a cbeebies bedtime story. The reading of that kids book was much more entertaining than this

Respectable tour de force, although doesn't feel special to me. Maybe it would feel more important if I was really deep in the LGBTQ community, but as is, it's kind of a shrug.

Pleasant enough electro pop from some dodgy looking French bird. It doesn't seem to go anywhere, with no highs or lows in any emotional sense. I prefer La Roux. She did this sort of thing better. 2

Listened to the English and French versions, which I'm counting as giving it two spins - did not enjoy. This is very polished, earnest pop. Archetypal. Generic, even. Really not my thing. If I was still exposed to general media and had to listen to these songs a couple of times per week against my will I think I might grow to really hate them, but minimal exposure is just about tolerable. Fave track - eh, "Machin-chose" was more about being atmospheric than poppy, so that one, I suppose...

I'll be honest, I was fully expecting to hate this a lot more than I did. It's still not anything close to appealing to me, but it's not nails on a chalkboard to me.

Don't get this one wither.

Tu n'es pas Kate Bush stop

interesting concept. i’m not a big 80s synth pop person so maybe this is why it fell flat for me.

Listened to the 11 song English version. Crappy, depressing sounding modern pop. Only enjoyed the nostalgia from hearing some of the throwback 80s sounds. The Stranger was the best song; it has a riff that sounds like Peter Gabriel's Shock the Monkey. Creepy album cover. Stay far away from anyone who looks at you like this.

Not as terrible as a lot of the comments here said, but not my thing.

Pretty unremarkable. I didn’t hate it, I guess, but I really got nothing out of it.

Rollazo de disco. Rollé de disqué.

Yeah nah.

JcPenny's ad music

Artsy pop. Sounds a bit like Weekend or MJ at times, but not as good.

It's a pop album. Production is good I guess. 2 stars

Not my kind of music

mid

Not my style of music

Also not my jam

Hi Chris

nice start a bit samey througout

I like the French inclusion, but this is pretty forgettable pop.

2+

There's a lot of fun sounds on this album, but I've just never been able to get into their sound for whatever reason. A little too poppy, and without any songs that really stand out to me.

I didn't mind listening to it, but it's not really my style

goooooooooood, its so long dude and its too french

Why not Chaluer Humaine?! Why is there two of every song 2

It's rare to find a band that is so rated creating an album with so much filler on it

Première et seconde chansons insupportables. Troisième ok. Globalement les textes s'écoutent parler mais c'est des formules creuses. J'avais bien aimé le premier album de Chris mais là je vois pas du tout l'intérêt, je retrouve pas la poésie, je trouve que les instrus électros sont très cheap. J'ai pas écouté jusqu'à la fin. Les versions en anglais me paraissent meilleures, mais du coup ça m'interroge surtout sur toutes les chansons que je trouve écoutables simplement parce que je comprends pas immédiatement le texte.

Je ne comprends pas trop l'intérêt, c'est de la pop électro tout ce qu'il y a de plus générique à mes oreilles. Je ne comprends pas comment ça se retrouve dans une liste des 1000 albums les plus quoi que ce soit

This record is too long, I can't do this, I'm sure it's fine pop music it's just not for me.

I guess this must be an artist that is popular due to performance/messaging/image/lyrics rather than due to quality of the music. That's all good and well if you know their background and attend their concert - but hearing about Christine for the first time and listening to the French album on Spotify, my judgement is based solely on the music, which is lackluster, to say the least. Sounds like it would have been at home in the late 80s rather than just a few years ago - but even back in the 80s a lot of the musicians doing the same thing were simply better at it.

Hmmm. 2010s French K.D. Lang vibes? Not for me.

Just repetitive. It has its moments, but it’s not great overall, doesn’t justify the length of most of the songs.

first album back after a while, and it was very underwhelming. although this is not necessarily a bad sounding electronic pop album, nothing really popped out to me. this as well as a lot of the songs dragging on a bit too long led to this one feeling quite saturated.

its not good. but its not offensively bad.

Unlikely to listen again. Has some 80s pop synth vibes

I actually enjoyed this album for the first half hour or so, but then it just wouldn't end. There must have been four or five times where I thought "this must be the last song, right?", only to find I had half a dozen or more tracks left.

Too much French

What if 80s but in 2018? It's okay but not good, it's very superficial. 2.

Chris is the second album by French singer Christine and the Queens. It is a pop / R&B album with themes surrounding sex and sexuality. It was a well produced, danceable, and an empowering album for the feminist and queer cultures. The music from Chris will engage your mind, heart, and body. Overall, I think the album was good. Can't complain about the music or lyrics, but the vibe I felt from listening to this album was too sticky-icky for me. The themes around sex were a little too on the nose for me and ended up turning me off to the album. However, if you are into overly-horny music, then this is the album for you.

nothing special, boring; french version is better

Kind of cool that the group recorded tracks in both English and French. That being said, I really didn't like this album. Very poppy, I sense some euro-pop influence as well as icons like Michael Jackson throughout, but it never clicked with me. Fave tracks: Girlfriend

Rollazo de disco. Rollé de disqué.

Ja ja

This was quite an interesting album. I was somewhat surprised that given the extraordinary critical acclaim of this artist that I was not aware of him. The music is catchy and of course interesting that it switches languages so readily. I can see why it would be very exciting to the French many of whom are facile in both languages. I found the language switching somewhat challenging from a listening standpoint because my French is fairly weak. Lots to like hear and lots of interesting sounds. It sounds both new and a little 80's.

Very average. 2018. This isn't old enough of an album to be considered for a list like this. There are so many brilliant albums that aren't on the list, and this one is? 2.5

Didn’t do much for me. Maybe I should have tried the English version, but I usually prefer a person’s first language (eg Ásgeir, Shakira)

Some ass

For me this is okay, but not special, just pleasant pop music. Possibly her lyrics or attitude to life make it special? She once was live at the Best Kept Secret Festival and her show was very diva like, with perfect dance moves and so on. Found that quite boring but would also never go to e.g. Madonna.

Rollazo de disco. Rollé de disqué.

S/He has a fairly good pop voice, but therein lies the rub, it's so smoothly inoffensive that it gets boring real fast. And the slickly produced backing synth/instruments are so generic every song basically melds into the other so you can't really distinguish them. For some reason I keep getting reminded of Michael Jackson, but at least MJ had a bit of edge to his music. This was just profoundly boring and Spotify even gave us two Discs of it, ugh.

As others have suggested, the French versions might be more palatable. Really not my thing but it’s very well produced. Essentially a double album, it runs for far too long. Can’t give it more than a 2…

I didn't love it. Didn't hate it. It was just kind of there. No desire to revisit it.

Ok was ok got a bit bored

Better in French, but only because my rusty O-level French couldn't keep up so the lyrics annoyed me less

It was enjoyable, but went on for far too long in the same style, until by the end I was angrily doing little Christine and The Queens impressions to myself.

Some of the synth beats were quite good, but on a whole I didn't like it, highly doubt I'm the target audience.

mediocre Bjork derivative with quasi-Daft Punk sensibilities. eminently missable.

Eh, just not my thing musically. But more power to Redcar!

Okay, but not my kind of music. Certainly doesn’t need a double album when much of it sounds the same. Had to pop on and out of this due to length and had trouble recalling what I had heard and what I hadn’t.

What it felt like to shop at a Banana Republic in 2018.

This artist may carry a cultural value and represent a significant breakthrough. But I don’t really give a damn because the music is boring as hell.

poppy, not catchy enough for me

Absolutely not the kind of stuff I listen to and really uninterested in this

Interesting.

Looks like Johnny Depp on the cover photo. No further notes.

I'm a sucker for well made pop music so I had high hopes for this but it's bland, very bland.

Superficially, this has many features I often love - European bubblegum pop/electronic with LGBTQ leanings. But I found it so boring and unmemorable. I liked the French part of the album better in large part bc the lyrics in English are terrible. Sadly, this was a "MEH" for me.

👎french

So sad to hear the first French album being this shit. So anyay here is a list of great french albums I recommend : Mika : Life in cartoon motion (in english but he's french) Stromae : Racine carré (he's Belgian but you get it) Orelsan : Civilisation I don't know which album you should hear from them, but give these artists a try : George Brassens Edith Piaf Alain Souchon

2.4ish, had some meta

Pretty good weird album. But too long for my liking

Bituka.

Beetje te saai allemaal voor mij! Ik mis toch een beetje die hoek eraf ofzo.

I like her voice, and there are a few interesting melodies, but most of the album doesn't do anything for me. 2.5

boring! 2/5

yea... no....

Bad 1980s pop stylings refreshed in French for the 21st century! 💩

Not the most boring thing I've ever heard, but it's up there.

Bit of a meh for me on this one. Nothing really grabbed in a general way on this. Most songs inoffensive a couple rise above that descriptor. 2.5 🌟

ok but not for me and too long

I respect but not for me

cvwec

Not a huge pop fan. Thought this had potential but felt it didn't build on it and fell a bit flat. Oddly, the French versions that followed the English were much more enjoyable so my star rating is for the French version. Don't bother with the English.

Ei kyllä uponnut edes vähää alusta. Tusinakamaa

Ei uponnu ja ihan liian pitkä

Pop genérico la verdad, no veo la novedad.

3/9/22 This album was fine. Nice enough for background, but only the French. The English version bothered me, probably because lyrics are such a big deal for me. Wouldn’t listen to again. Favorite song: Come Si (French version)

Bit of a meh for me on this one. Nothing really grabbed in a general way on this. Most songs inoffensive a couple rise above that descriptor. 2.5 🌟

That's weird. 2 days in a row of 2018 albums. Again, a weird choice for the list? French pop a la Tegan and Sara. It was fine.

Started well but kind of fell off

Middling.

Production is excellent - songs are not so special.

Niet mijn jam, beetje slap en saai

It's not as bad as you think - there are some interesting sounds layered in there. Need headphones to appreciate this one! Also, Let's hear it for the keytar!

It’s an ok pop album. Kinda cool how she did the songs in both French and English. It’s well produced and some of the songs are catchy. Nothing too exciting though. I can’t see myself listening to it much more. 3.6/10

Voreingenommen rangegangen: mir ist die ganze queere Kunst- und Diskursszenerie ja gern mal zu anstrengend. Dann aber positiv überrascht von den Sounds: Super gefälliger, wirklich satt produzierter 80er-Pop zum Einstieg (Frankreich, ey! Überrascht immer wieder ...), klare Referenzen an Janet und Paula und Scritti Politti und The Human League. Ich mag sowas ja wirklich ganz gern. Irgendwo bei ca. Goya Soda setzt erstmals freundliche Langeweile ein, ab What's-her-face dann leichter Wechsel der Soundscapes, aber weiterhin in gefälligen 80ern, no Diggity. So richtig meine Erwartung/Vorurteil trifft das Ding dann erst mit dem letzten Song auf CD1. Angestrengt anstrengend. Und dann geht die zweite auch schon wieder so weiter wie die erste angefangen hat. Deshalb auch der nächste, zur Abwertung führender Kritikpunkt: Warum more of the same? Warum diese Hybris? Wer braucht das? Niemand? Niemand. Als auf der zweiten Seite nochmal Goya Soda lief, nur diesmal mit Ausrufezeichen bin ich kurz erschrocken und dachte: oh nee, aus Versehen einfach nochmal die erste gehört. Aber ah, ok. Das sind dann Varianten der ersten Seite, English/Francais und so. Aber ist das notwendig? Really? Not really, pardonnez-moi. Bei mehr Kompaktheit wäre ne 3 durchaus drin gewesen, aber so ...

Yawn... Leave this sound in the 80's where it belongs... I just got so bored so quick with this one.

French is my main language. It' far from the best record you can find from that period. Even her first record is better than that. It's simply not good.

poppy synthy, sounds a little like jackos softer songs at times. Not my bag

No va

I just found nothing of note in this slog of a work. I started with French and was so disinterested by the time the English versions rolled around that I had trouble completing the album. Maybe if I stopped and just listened to the French which I think is the native tongue of the artist, I might have given it the benefit of the doubt at 2 stars but after forcing myself to slog through the English versions of the songs my opinion just kept going lower. Obviously not every album is going to be for everyone but this one was especially painful given the length.

Just bad. There are plenty of albums on here that aren't my personal preference...but I can still see why they're on here. For me, that's the interesting thing about this project, having to listen to stuff that I normally wouldn't seek out on my own and maybe getting surprised by it and ending up really enjoying it. Or maybe I don't like it, but I can understand why it's on this list. But this isn't one of those albums. It sucks. The production isn't great, the vocals aren't great and I'm not sure why it's here. First, I don't like her voice. And that's fine...this music doesn't require a great voice....I don't think Madonna has a great voice, for example...but at least Madonna is believable. Second, the production is just thin. This sounds like it was recorded with a midi-player and a Casio keyboard in a bedroom. Maybe that's being a little harsh, but there's nothing about the music itself that makes me think that any of this is interesting. I will admit that this album had a huge hole to crawl out of for me: 2018, dance music and French. But that doesn't doom this album, there have been plenty of things on here I've rolled my eyes at and been like "Oh, wow...not bad." However, this album just needed to give me something unmistakable to get me excited...an incredible voice, amazing grooves, undeniable hooks, SOMETHING and none of that is here. If the reason that this album is on this list is that late 2010s need to be represented along with electronic pop/dance music from Europe...okay, fine. But this is the best representation of that genre and that era? This is the best we can do? I really reserve a 1 ranking for something that's absolute dogshit. I think it's a lazy ranking, really, and I don't enjoy giving them out...but also, in this particular case there are a 1001 chances to convince me that all of these albums belong on this list in some way, shape or form and this just doesn't do that.

+: Girlfriend, Doesn't matter, 5 dollars, Feel so good, Make some sense +-: Goya Soda -: Comme si, The walker, Damn (what must a woman do), The stranger --: What's-her-face 3,2/10

Really awful

Pretty bog standard contemporary pop, such as you might hear piped over the speakers whilst wandering around Asda. Nothing remotely interesting or special about this album whatsoever.

meu veredito é que é RUIM puta merda cara tanto álbum bom por ai o cara me puxa esse vsf

not my thing at all also the album cover is ugly as hell reminds me of solo panic! at the disco :-/ didn't realise the two discs were the same songs but in diff languages until i was about halfway thru the english version of the album, at which point i switched to french.

I just did not connect with this one at all. Singer can sing but otherwise just a bore. Beats and music were not particularly interesting or danceable. I felt essentially nothing for the whole listen other than disinterest and slight frustration…not quite sure what it is to see here

What slick peckerness is this man talking about in the video of the guy who is the most popular in the world and who is the most famous in the world who is the most influential in the world in the world he is the most successful person in the world I don’t know what to say about him but I don’t know what to say to him I don’t know what to say to him but I don’t know what to say to him because I don’t know what to say to him and I don’t know what to say to him so I don’t know what to say to him he is a very good person and I don’t know how to say that he has a owiywuooowwb And he is overy good otwiwywo I am a petty and a little more intelligent person that he ooowooey

Gar-bage! Taylor swift wannabe that comes nowhere close. No understanding on this at all

1. comme - 0 2. girlfriend - 0 3. uualker - 0 4. matter - 0 5. dollarz - 0 6. zoda - 0 7. damn - 0 8. face - 0 9. feel - 0 10. zenze - 1 11. ztranger - 0 CD 1 - MERDE CD 2 - PLUZ MERDE

Great. We have conclusive proof that in 2018 the French could produce music just as bad as the Americans could in the 1980s.

Yeah this just isn't for me. 1/5

Music with no distinguishing elements.

Crap

this may be the worst album cover i’ve ever seen. this is a rough stretch of albums to start with idk my ears are clogged but it just kind of seems like soulless radio pop trying to pretend it’s not the rap drums/bass with elctronic production is a tough task and they failed they tried to be funky at times and it just felt out of place, sounds like someshit i’d overhear at sephora

ts is ass gang I'm sorry, and I'm not being homophobe 🥀💔

this is like pop but so underground that if you play this around other people they will just have 0 idea what they are listening to. Ruining the music by not hyping people up. Felt like I really didnt need to listen to this before I died.

Not For Me

Sorry couldn't make it through this one without having to stop and move on to another album. For me this is unlistenable.

Ahahahah nom d'un cul

Trash

Electronica, 84 eme album =>1/5

>Rahim Redcar Pfffffffffffffffffff

What are we doing? How can this be on the list?

God damn is this terrible. It’s like I’m stuck in a trendy mall fitting room in 1987. Bailed after a few songs.

Dwie godziny popu po francusku.

Un as o absoluto

Boring and overrated…

First time I heard of this artist or listen to this album. Loved being turned onto something new, but I didn’t really do that much for me.

Album #169 Christine and the Queens: Chris This is the first time this list has truly baffled me. There have been some inclusions that I thought were both culturally insignificant and mediocre; however, I was able to write them off as being from a time when the list curator was actively in the music scene. 10 different average electronic albums from the 90s? I guess the guy was just big into the scene at the time. However, you can’t tell me the same guy who thought that a Red Snapper album was essential, also stuck around listening to random shit for 20 more years until this came out and decided it must make his list. Is this the worst thing I’ve ever heard? No. However, I just can’t see any convincing argument for why this would be an essential album. Essential albums from the 2010s are already rarer than those from past decades, just by the nature of not having time to become as influential. But an album which largely passed everyone by, and doesn’t even seem to be that cherished in the LGBTQ community (of which there are infinitely better candidates for albums), just seems like an absolute waste. I listened to the French version since I figured that was how it was intended, and truthfully, I didn’t want to listen to the cringy lyrics, but honestly, the album was still just absolutely unnecessary. So for that reason, I have to dish out a pretty abysmal score. Best Song: 5 Dols Worst Song: Le G Score out of 10: 3

Good lawd

Not something I'd ever really enjoy...

Androgynous French Taylor Swift with a British accent. 1.5 hour album. Get the fuck outta here.

You know what they call pop music in France? Le Pop with cheese.

boring

Hemskt

I haven’t heard this before. I have not even heard of Christine and the Queens, so this will be very interesting. Unfortunately it is not very interesting. This sounds exactly like it could have been on top 40 radio in 1987 or 88, which is my least favorite era of pop music besides the stomp-clap-hey era of the early 2010s. There are a few songs that sound more modern, but in a rejected from the last Taylor Swift album kind of way. I could appreciate it if it expanded on that late 80s sound in any way or pulled in some new jack swing instead of rehashing a dated aesthetic. This shows up as a double album on streaming which it really doesn’t need to be, but apparently she released both an english and a french version of the album and only shows up double on streaming and special collector’s editions. So I won’t hold that against her. Although not enough to raise the score here.

This is something I would expect to see on a Spotify discover weekly, not on a list of the most important albums ever made

Really, really not my thing at. Disliked this.

musica de bolleras, 1/5

I find it very hard to believe that this deserves to be in the top 1001 albums.

Offensively bland

Nope

Why is this on the list? It sounds like background music that I hear when entering a generic store – and this is not a quality sign. Some songs remind me of Michael Jackson but without any soul (in both senses of the word). So I ask why the producer of the album did not spot it and either made something out of it or changed the songs on this record.

Ужас, звучи като деведесетарско, само дето е и по-тъпо

1/2

Straight-up boring.

Not my vibe and also too long.

Even if you like this album do you believe it should be on a list of 1001 best albums of all time? It's an incredibly unexceptional album. Deeply boring and uninspired. I'm grateful that no Taylor Swift albums have so far made it on this list but I think I would prefer that instead of whatever this is.

This does not sound like it came out in 2018. It DOES sound like garbage, I couldn't get through the whole thing I tried

Ooof not for me today

Ugh.

Trash.

I have never heard of this artist, nor any songs by them. This just seems like super bland, generic, contemporary pop music to me. I think it's trying to sound like 80s synth pop which I mostly didn't like when it first came out - and this definitely didn't add anything new or interesting. She has a decent voice. And I assume it takes some talent for writing lyrics for the same song in 2 different languages - which it looks like she did. NOTE: I did not listen to the full French versions of each song since I don't understand French language. But.... This is just not for me. I listened to this a few times and not one song grabbed me as something I need to listen to again. It just kinda happened in the background and never once did I go "hey, that's cool". 1001 Albums commentary -> I have a long list of albums and artists I would put on this list that for some reason did not make it. It does get frustrating when I get a whole bunch of 1 star albums in a row - but I guess you gotta work your way through the crap to find the diamonds. And we all have different ears. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/11 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)

I know this guy from his collaborations with one of my favourite artists Charli xcx but I feel like she deserves a spot more than this (I’m certain brat will get added in the next version but she deserves 2.). And also the lyrics were very cringy, I’m LGBTQ myself and love other androgynous artists but it feels like it’s all he talks about. The God is stupid song also came over as very r/atheist once again I’m also atheist.

Didn't care for it. I'm old school...

didnt like it skipped the french bit.

Pop Trash

Tried. No.

French version of Ninja Sex Party.

Just what nobody needs to hear before they die - a dude who thinks he’s a girl, singing in French. Merde.

I wanted to like it but sadly it was bleh contemporary pop. It might have a great message but I was too bored to really focus on that aspect unfortunately. Yet again he could really use some help with his 2010+ selections. Rating: 1.3

Non merci

Why?

Da fuq??

I hated this so much I couldn't finish the album. It all seemed terribly retro even by 2018 standards.

It's really trying so hard to be artsy that it forgot it also should be entertaining.

No mfdoom, no jcole, only 1 2pac album and no tyler the creator yet i have to listen to mid french. Mano chao can speak 4-5 languages and make music in all of them, some of his french lines i like. But if you make a multi lingual album at least make it good.

bad

Took generic pop and somehow made it worse

genuinely some of the worst pop slop ive heard in a WHILE

mi sono bastati letteralmente i primi 20 secondi della prima traccia per dire: no, poi magari ho sbagliato però il primo impatto è stato terribile

Oh, fuck me. Really? A 23-song double-LP collection of 80s-esque shitpop sung in French. No fucking way.

No sé qué es esto, si música ochentera, noventera o qué.

Certainly way better albums that came out in 2018. This is a disgrace to the albums that didn’t make the list such as Foo Fighters (they have 1) or Kings of Leon or Michael Buble

This album sits in the background neither wowing not offending. Reminds me of the first Chvrches album, but with a lot less impact and charm. It sounds exactly like what you'd hear on top shop or H&M. Lots of 80s influences, but a no point does it surpass those influences, especially not the MJ rips. I don't think I'll bother listening to it again in French, although I expect that would be an easier listen.

Terrible

Rehash of musical styles I hate.

If I could give it a 0 I would. Worst album ever, I don’t even know why this album is in this site. Terrible

It was fine, way too long in my opinion and didn’t really stick out to me

This sounds so mechanical, it has no soul. The vocals are monotone and the beats are boring. I have only listened to the English version so far, will update after the French side is complete. I have listened to about 125 albums through the generator and about 400 just going through the book. I have finished every album presented so far. I am real close to ending this one after 6 songs! It feels like it has been going for soooo long. Why didn't I start with the French side? I would not have completed the English version if I had. I hate to poo on someone else's favorite album but this is hot garbage. There is much better synth pop, why is this included on the list?!

French (pejorative).

Do not like lol.

I’m not a modern pop guy, none of the songs appealed to me.

Weak 1.5 Not sonically intriguing, dragged on for too long (French version)

not a pop fan

I'm not sure anything needs to be said about this one.

I can see the appeal to the sound, but not enough tracks grabbed me. Embarrassingly, I got 3 tracks through disc 2 before I realized it was in French.

Not my thing

Да ну, это какая-то унылая шляпа. Даже не хочу слушать целиком.

It's not awful but "Must Hear Before You Die"? If we're limited to 1001, then there are definitely better candidates not yet included. My dislike for this album is also greatly enhanced by the fact that the digital versions of this album basically repeat themselves, making it even worse for listening to in an album format.

Bland predictable French pop

I can’t review music on an objective basis unless I either enjoy listening to it, or I find it interesting enough to continue listening because it’s weird and different. I did not find this interesting and I did not enjoy listening to it. It’s not offensive it’s just boring.

Canzoncine pop dozzinali

Again, not sure why this album is on as an essential.

Retro-rehashed '80s and '90s pop that countless other artists did better. What a useless pile of crap this album is.

You're not a gallic Michael Jackson so please stop. God this is awful faux 80s shite. Overproduced. Overexcited. Over it.

This album broke me. I really didn't find it warranting a place on this list. Crap Europop. No stars - did not finish!

Not my vibe

Given that there's no real substance to these tracks, the singer tries to infuse the thin melodies with some sort of emotion by employing every clichéd vocal mannerism from the handbook of modern pop.

even if i understood what they were saying this one wasn't for me. 1.5

Nope.....just nope.

Really curious why this is in the list, but hey.

Best Song: Doesn't Matter (fitting track) It sounds like early 90's dance music that I despise. I do not hear much with this I enjoy no matter what language you choose to listen to it. I suppose if I ever feel nostalgic for my time stocking shelves at Nordstroms, I can throw this on and relive a hungover 19-year-old me stocking pantyhose with this kind of music acting as background noise for old, rich people to shop to so they feel like they're hip with the new music and their best years are not behind them. 1/5.

Meh

Did not like a single song.

Sounds like an interesting artist, interesting story/background, but this music does absolutely nothing for me.

Maybe there's more to this album if I listened more closely to the lyrics, but musically this is a mashup between 2020s dance and 1980s new wave that I found very boring, could hardly wait for this to be over.

Trashy electronica

didn't care for it 1/5

Should be able to give zero stars for this trash

How are you going to make a generic 2010s pop album and not even make any of the songs catchy? Without catchy melodies, pop is just completely empty.

Didn’t like this one.

king princess francesa

Is this AI?

Christine sounds a bit like a French Madonna but certainly not as good. I def did not need this one from the list. This Frenchy pop does not seem worthy; however, it is not the worst. Quickly moving past this one with a 1.45 star rating.

no

Sofrível! Percussão eletrônica e uma pessoa sussurrando. Passo!

Really dull, and this kind of pop has been done so much better than this.

Not for me.

It's... fine. Pretty generic synth pop. Not deserving of being on this list in my opinion.

Couldn’t even finish this, just didn’t care for it at all

Not my style

First genuine wtf, no thanks

A French transgender Michael Jackson homage? Sign me up! Honestly, all of the politics aside, this is just 80s nostalgia and not done particularly well at that. This music could be the soundtrack to Stranger Things and no one would know it wasn't actually from the 80s. His accent is just heavy enough to make some lyrics hard to make out. It's always interesting that foreign language artists choose to perform in English. America is just so culturally dominant....Happy 4th of July! And now a song about the existence of God placed in an 80s dance pop song. This album is 90 minutes long! 23 songs! Why, France? What did everyone do to deserve this from you? You give us the Statue of Liberty and think you can just dump the rest of your garbage here? Just realized there's an English album and a French album. So it's half that, reasonable....should I listen to the English version or the French version? I guess the French? They were released at the same time so I'm sticking with the English version since I'm halfway through already. Thank God I looked up the track listing. Even at only 45 minutes this feels like a long album. There's a Kate Bush vibe to What's-her-face so the whole album sounds like someone digging in the crates and coming up with a bunch of 80s albums.

I can’t stand this… Girlfriend is an okay song. I guess because of the background theme. Otherwise this is not for me

not my vibe

Great voice. Very emotive. I just don't like synth-pop.

shite

With my promise to myself to listen to at least the first minute of each song, I got through this in 11 minutes with minimal trauma. This just isn't the type of music I like.

???

the book doesn't go to 2018. it barely goes past 2000, so what in the fresh hell is this absolute dogshit record? is this website taking the piss? is this the recommendation of someone who finished the list? if so, curse them for foisting this trash upon my consciousness. the world is awful enough as it is.

ne kbecht ass

Tbf I only listened to the first 4 songs but it didn’t capture enough attention to keep me going. 1/10

Mist!

The same boring "Poppy" sound the entire time, with no unique instrumental play, or beats. Quite possibly one of the worst albums I've ever heard in my life. Favorite Track: "Follarse".

I listened to both the English and then French versions of this record. At the end of the day this is pretty boring and uninspired pop music (to my ears at least). I think I prefer the French version to the English because it lends it at least the notion that it might be slightly more interesting than it is. But this is not it.

Looooooooooooooooooooooong

50% English, 50% French. 110% sh*te.

Dit klinkt alsof het gemaakt is met Garage Band.

No

No idea what was remotely important to hear. Bog standard pop that doesn’t even have the good sense to be catchy. I keep waiting for a hook or something fun, but it’s just pop with all the stupid fun parts, that supposedly make pop worth listening to, sucked out of it.

I don't want to say this album is bad, but I would definitely never listen to it again.

Pretty crappy, pre-packaged, cliché-driven, ultra-compressed, dime-a-dozen 2010s pop. 1.0/5.0: Embarrassing

pathetic attempt at making songs people want to hear

Poop

Why is this here? Is it to combat accusations of the list being too anglophone centric? It’s just a standard and pretty dated pop album. Not a particularly good one at that. One star.

4 songs in and I'm done. Then I look and see TWO DISCS? TWENTY-THREE songs? Nope!

So generic and boring. Maybe i should have listened to it in french.

I tortured myself by listening to both the French and English versions of this album, and I honestly couldn't really tell a difference. Every song is exactly the same as the next and all of it is boring as shit.

Why do something conceptual half-arsedly? The album as a whole feels like a very old-school French musician is trying to pretend to be American but is too afraid to go all the way. The background tracks sound like something Céline Dion did better years ago and the constant moaning into the microphone is not something I enjoy. I don't rate it. I don't understand why they've made 2 discs with exactly (but no I mean _exactly_) the same music on it but just sung in a different language. What would have been interesting could maybe have been if the English version had backing of what typically appeals to a French audience and vice versa (see what I did there?) I didn't make it through as I didn't fancy listening to exactly the same album twice and as per my rating system, that's automatically one star.

Couldn’t listen to this one. Did my best but had to bail. Really awful music

oof. Let AI do 80's retro

Nope. Sounds like Madonna but not in the best way.

I liked the song Tilted that showed up on another album, but all this? meh.

Why is this on the list? Forgettable lightweight pop. I only made it thru 4 or 5 songs. If you want good French pop try Air (which is on this list) or Les Rita Mitsouko ( which isnt)

Sensationalism for its own sake is so exhausting. Get you, performer. How have you not grown up yet?

2018. Pop album. Why? I’m sure this won’t appeal to me but I’m a trooper. Listening to the French side. Not doubling up for 90 minutes. Come on. First song. Fuck sakes. I can’t even critique this accurately. This kind of music is not for me. I don’t think it’s for thinking. It’s supposed to be fun and bright and fluttery and make people happy or whatever. It’s unbearable. CHRIS. Why is this English now? I don’t know man. Listen. I’m not going to go to the ends of the earth to hear this one so French or English, whatever. This will hopefully be the last time I hear this anyway. This sounds like young Michael Jackson who discovered he can say swear words. Bad. The worst feature ever conceived. Bam. One step closer. More wailing. Overly dramatic but at least I get to practice my French. You know. This isn’t the worst song so far. Way too much repetition though. OH MICKÉ YOU’RE SO BELLE. Uh yeah. God this one is horrible. Just abhorrent. Boooooo. I meant to type an N, but hey. This typo is working for me. Bad. Pourquoi? Jellyfish jam. Ah man this thing would KILL at a postnatal dance workout class. Oh boy. More melodramatic RØSE (that’s French P!NK for all you linguo-Heads). Yeah this one is like you’re dying in the desert and you realize you’re completely lost and nowhere near getting to listen to Morbid Angel. How many god damn chansons we got left on this fucker??? WHO IS BRUCE??? I was just getting used to Chris and now there’s another name to learn. Scrap it. The G eh? Yup. I’m a French whiz. Le uhh genius de français. Check out that ç. Real fucking deal. I guess I can talk about the music again. This is glittery pop. 80’s diva stuff. Not for me buuuut The breaks are kind of fun. This song would be kind of fun if I was completely blitzed. Which doesn’t happen anymore. Ah well. Still a minor highlight. Mal ballade. I don’t like this. Thanks for trying. I think I have Stockholm syndrome in Paris because this isn’t a zero. While this individual was a terrible judge on drag race France, and most of their music is run of the mill pop, there’s something substantive about this album. Much more than I thought. By golly is it ever not for me, but I can’t say I hated all of it. 1-1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: La Marcheuse, Le G.

Now playing through the busted out speakers of your closest TJ Maxx.

Did not like at all.

if we are putting things from 2018 onto the list, they better be fucking amazing. last two decades were shattering borders, allowing everyone with an ounce of talent and hard work to become famous, never before was it so easy to find new music to enjoy and never before was it so easy for musicians to release it. and this aint fucking it, the music is just really fucking boring, plain, empty, begging for more metaphorical musical juice in the mix, its just boring boring BORING bored i am bored listening to this. props for having two versions I guess? NNN

Meh

Unremarkable.

Both 80s synth-pop and ironically named modern vaporwave. Generally uninspiring but could be used in the club due to its medium to slow tempo 4/4 beat. A rare all-skips album.

Gar nicht meins.

NOT IT

Retro electro-pop that's so authentic that it sounds like it really was recorded back in the mid-80s. What's not to like? All of it; it sucked so bad. I hated this sort of music when it actually WAS the 1980s, so to dredge it back up and try to breathe life into it was like some cruel torment for me. Throw some bilingual songs and appalling lyrics into the mix and you have an absolute stinker of an album. Those synths and drum machine beats should be crimes against humanity. I guess the singer is channelling their inner Janet Jackson, or something, no idea why anyone thought it was a good idea to put this garbage album together? Money? This was as close to not completing an album that I've come so far, and I'm over halfway through the full list now. It really was a terrible chore to get through and there was no way I was going back to listen to the same awful songs a second time in a different language. I would rate this as negative stars if I could, as 1 star seems generous.

I thought it was over and had started back at the first song multiple times… because it all sounded the same, like shit!! And it just kept going and going 😪Department store Muzak has no place on this list!!

H&M music Already knew I was going to hate this one based on the 1 song of theirs that I already detest. But this was way too long and repetitive 1 ⭐️

Geneeriiic

I would not listen to a single track again

это что за гейское говно здесь? у меня реально вопросы к авторам книги - почему из 10-х были выбраны вот такие релизы???

This is #day12 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... this album makes me feel nothing but irritation. Bland, uninspired, etc. For this reason, it's joining the company of 1s. Also, why is there an album from 2018 already? Has the list been revised or something? I thought it was a 2016 version. Whatever. Looking forward to #day13.

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Not my cup of tea

80's pop influenced. Couldn't go past 5 dollars song.

holy shit that was hot ass

Sounds just like any other female pop singer on the radio. I can't stand her voice and the music is so uninspired and boring.

Way too 80's, but it has its charm

Sounds like every other electro-pop Robyn-lite hotel lobby-friendly record released in the 2010s.