Come Away With Me

I remember people going mad for this at the time, pretty sure it was in the album charts top 10 for years but seems to have had no long term cultural affect. Like David Gray I guess. Dull but harmless.

This screams Jools Holland guest edits a radio 2 show where he goes over his albums of the year. Guest stars include Gary Barlow, Mika and Katie Melua

Of course, Norah Jones has a lot of talent. She can play piano. She can sing. She writes her own songs... However, this type of coffee shop music is exactly the type of music I can't stand to listen to, so I just can't rate it highly.

Fucking awful, how is this released on blue note. Sounds like a CD you would buy in Starbucks

it’s nice but not my thing

Uhh okay singer-songwriter album type of thing. Whats the point now? Significant 23/62 Liked 10/62 Added 3/62 NNN Like I dont get it its like the most lukewarm album Ive heard here. Its not annoying at least.

Yh 2000-luvun kantri. Ei nappaa. 2/5

Don't Know Why 7/10 Seven Years 5/10 Cold Cold Heart 4/10 Feelin' The Same Way 5/10 Come Away With Me 6/10 Shoot The Moon 5/10 Turn Me On 4/10 Lonestar 3/10 I've Got To See You Again 2/10 Painter Song 4/10 One Flight Down 3/10 Nightingale 4/10 The Long Day Is Over 2/10 The Nearness of You 4/10

Gar nicht mein Stil.

Está bien para ponerse de fondo, pero después de un rato aburre un poco.

A good album to fall asleep to, or for getting annoyed to in Starbucks

A fabulous voice, it's just a shame that it's not really my type of music - pleasant but insipid jazz blues pop.

Beige and boring

Norah Jones has an amazing voice, but her songwriting skills are forgettable.

Soooo boring. The kind of music that boring middle-aged women that think they’re bougie listen to while sipping wine.

Smooth, easy listening, just not my personal jam.

Lovely, but just not my style. Wish I could give 2.5 stars

I struggled to get through the album. Some of the lyrics I didn't care for. Example "turn me on like a child waiting for spring", that's a no from me. Some times the instrumentals felt to fast for her style.

Beige and uninteresting. Inoffensive but immediately after finishing this album I had forgotten all the songs.

I've never sat down and listened to Norah Jones before, but I assumed that I would recognize some of the songs on this album as I listened to it. That turned out to not be the case. I guess I wasn't in Starbucks very much in 2002. This album was okay. I know the early aughts saw the emergence of a lot of acoustic pop performed by singer-songwriters, and this album managed to go diamond during a time when Napster was wreaking havoc on the music industry, which is really impressive. Norah Jones has a great voice and plays the piano well, but she didn't write a lot of these songs. I'm not quite sure how this album is different than the music of her contemporaries at the time, other than its massive sales numbers. Honestly, a sound like this was a dime a dozen at the time. Just because something has wide reach doesn't make it great. This album is kind of bottom-tier for me, but to each their own.

Album is carried by Norah Jones charismatic voice, but overral there isn't anything special in it. Favourite song(s): I've Got To See You Again, Cold Cold Heart, Don't Know Why.

Kjedelig

Ok

Slow, soulful, I fell asleep

Elle a une jolie voix mais franchement c'est zéro prise de risque, zéro dépassement des bords, zéro émotion réelle. Allez, pk pas "Feeling the same way again" et "Come away with me" qui n'est pas pour rien la chanson titre, l'instrumentation tente un peu des trucs, mais ça reste globalement de la musique d'ambiance. Ecoutez plutôt "Run away with me" de Carly Rae Jepsen, qui n'a pas peur de se rendre un peu ridicule avec du saxo qui dégouline et une voix qui casse un peu, plutôt que de plaquer les accords de piano les plus doux possibles pour ne froisser surtout personne.

Have never listened to it all the way through, but I know the hits. I liked it and a pretty impressive debut album.

This album sounds like a Starbucks. Norah clearly is a talented vocalist which sounds nice over the modest instrumentals but it's also just so damn boring. The only emotion being conveyed seems to be longing. Obviously don't know wide is pretty timeless but the rest of the album all blended together for me and was vert hard to focus through or distinguish between the tracks

I'm four songs in and really don't care very much. I enjoy Don't Know Why, and generally find the music to be inoffensive; however, the instrumental is generic coffee shop jazz. Not going to knock her voice though. It's smoky and very pretty; just doesn't do enough to pull me in. I'm over halfway through and have lost the urge to continue listening. As I said above, its inoffensive and she's a talented singer; just not for me. 2 / 5.

Lovely voice, a bit MOR for me though

Пазз Жоп епта Кристгау - хоси суй 4/10

She has a nice voice, but dear god is this album boring. Don't Know Why and Come Away With Me are the hits, but they have always been incredibly grating - an immediate skip or change the station.

Un prescindible album de Muzak que fue premiado en demasía, probablemente por se un representante de la cultura estadounidense de principio de los 2000s. Un disco que perfectamente podría estar fuera de esta lista.

tbh I can't rate this higher b/c I know some of the musicians and industry people that have worked with her professionally and, well, they say she's "difficult". It's not a bad record, but I can't listen to it for the same reason I have a hard time listening to Buddy Rich records.

Minun mielestäni aika turha albumi. En saa muuta irti kuin tunnelmointia ja kaunista, pehmeää laulua - vahva nainen mutta silti in love. Aila tylsää, ehkä 2002 tämä oli raikasta mutta monille uppoavaa.

Blandly pleasant.

2/5 Best: Don't Know Why Worst: Painter Song

I listened to the whole record but it was not very satisfying. I’m sorry to say that, but it I will probably not do it again

Blah

PAS POUR MOI

Harmless enough, but not exactly impactful. Nothing inherently bad, but nothing to get too excited about.

This is what I imagine Tapestry would sound like if there were no good songs. Bland lounge jazz with the only saving grace being her voice.

Pleasant 2+/5

Dit is muziek voor tijdens het strijken. Ik strijk alleen nooit. Zeikmuziek.

The first song is actually good but the rest of the album is very mid. It is basic singer-songwriter jazzz-pop with a calming undertone. Nothing special and actually kind of boring but it is not bad you just forget it right after you listened to it... 2/5

Not anything original or at all of use in my opinion. Well instrumented but not expressing anything in particular.

Послушала две песни, дальше стало неинтересно, хз как оценить

Not for me, some good songs but I felt they all meshed together after a while

Who knew that Ravi Shankar's daughter would go into music to make vocal jazz? It's a smooth and calming album that would fit perfectly into an evening cafe with dimmed lights. After a few songs, this becomes a bit of a dry, boring listen. Dear god is it a slog. What starts out as a relatively nice listen quickly becomes a soulless and vapid, with little variation in between songs. The closest I can think of is Lonestar and it's more country crooner sound, which still holds on tight to the slow, breathy delivery of the other songs. This is the musical equivalent of unflavored oatmeal. Perfectly competent, but so damn bland. Norah Jones would go on to sweep the big four awards at the 2003 grammys, which only proves how safe the grammys are. Wilco's indie rock masterpiece, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, was released the same year as Come Away With Me and would've been eligible for same awards. Wilco wasn't even nominated.

It did surprise me a little, because of my expectations, which is as low as that Titanic submarine. Her voice is nice and the guitar works okay... in the beginning. Reminds me of the local acoustic poppers here. But damn, I could only take a little of this white bread pop. I think I need something to purify myself. Black metal or death metal, maybe hardcore punk or big beat even. Come on generator, you can do it.

was bored

It was all right. I was bored

Can’t seem to engage with it. Certainly not unpleasant.

- Her voice sounds very nice, but the music is kinda boring - Not really my thing but I can respect it

- Shoutout Norah Jones for being on a Foo Fighters song - Nice voice, backing music can be sleepy - Overall nothing that stands out

ooo extricated list ooo This album is... nice, but it all kind of blends together, nice for background but there are better singer-songwriters out there. Didn't need to be as long as it was. 9/1001 Listened 5/26/2023

midpop

Something feels so inherently LAZY about easy listening music to me. Norah Jones has a cool vibe to her voice but I can't imagine this music being used as anything more than a Hallmark movie background track. And don't get me wrong; this is a well-assembled album. The instrumentation is appropriate, the vocals are flawless, and the songs do not seem overly similar or repetitive. The problem is that I don't feel anything (well, maybe a bit bored.) This is music that we're told is good. Music for people that don't like music. So to summarize: fantastic singer, mind-boggling popularity.

I know this is contrarian, but her voice is just not my taste. She is like licorice to my ears. I know some people like some licorice, I really don’t. Nora was probably taken to the cleaners with little profit from the massive success of this album. And it was produced by one of those chubby industry icon types that plucked the likes of Barbara, Diana, Whitney & Mariah.

I'm pretty used to Norah Jones playing in the background thanks to my parents' Norah Jones phase, but I was unpleasantly surprised how dull this music is when I actually tried to listen to it.

I am loosely associated with some jazz concert programmers and we get vocal jazz artists wanting to get programmed sending their music through. This is exactly why the never get programmed. It's not objectionable, but it's not really jazz. It's like jazz, in the way that Bud Light is like a beer.

I can appreciate a voice like Norah Jones, but good grief, she puts me to sleep. I didn't remember until I got this album for today's listen, but there was a seemingly relentless campaign on TV and Radio of the "Sounds of Norah Jones, Buy the album now", wow how wild and random. The jazz-pop/adult contemporary is definitely not my jam. Best: Don't Know Why Worst: I've Got To See You Again

Something I'd listen too to fall asleep tbh

Maybe a whole album of this is too much

it was alright but not spectacular 2.5/5

I mean it’s fine Her voice is lovely - very sultry - but it’s all very samey

Beautiful woman, even prettier voice. The music was just too slow and drab for me. Even the hits were just this side of a bummer in the slowness category. Have to give this at least a 2 though.

Highlights: "Don't Know Why," "Cold, Cold Heart," "Nightingale," "The Nearness of You" Maybe, to read way too much into it, this ends on "The Nearness of You" for a reason. Besides its claim to most of the greatest albums ever made, Blue Note guards its reputation for exacting production, and maybe we could say they were ahead of the curve in foreseeing The Great Clippening and realizing digital production could also be used to make the softest timbres really pop. In other words, Billie Eilish or mumblecore rappers, there was Norah Jones. This is forced, but I'm really scraping to justify this album's inclusion. Otherwise, the drumming on here can be really good; feels more high effort than the other parts. Jones' piano seems mostly to create an interesting harmonic line over the vocals, but that's enough to get interesting covers of stuff like Hank Williams. As a whole, though, it was a slog. You see Waits' and Zorn's drummer and Frisell on a track and the eyebrow raises, but it's somehow even more anodyne than the last track. Just a bunch of studio gladhanding. I was confused about why all the demos in the deluxe edition were more interesting than the songs that actually made it. If we're talking Blue Note's poppier side, I'd rather do something like Donald Byrd.

probably great if you like this kind of thing but i don’t like this kind of thing

It's nice. It's relaxing. It's some of the best elevator music I've ever heard.

Last 5 days Norah Jones, Suzanne Bega, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, the Pretenders.

I bought this record back in the day curious from all the hype; I remember being disappointed. Listening with older ears it is perfectly nice, she's a talented singer and the arrangements are pleasant, within a narrow range. A few songs bring a little impact, Don't Know Why and Come Away With Me, but most go by without leaving any mark. Listened to all in a row, the nice songs actually add up to a pretty tedious whole. I really don't hear anything that justifies this album being on this list.

An easy-listening classic - she's the musical equivalent of wrapping yourself in a towel after a bath...and the towel has been on a heated towel rail...it's lovely, but kind of non-descript. We all agree it's nice, but this album won't change your life. It's offensive in its inoffensiveness.

simples e bom jazz com vocal interessante, mas nada demais e ficou chato rapido

I can tell what this kinda was going for, and it was very nice to take a nap to, but I found it boring.

This is an album full of pretty songs. I just do not know when I would listen to this album again, as the pace is slow and it can feel like one long song at times. Very talented artist but I do not think this is a must-listen album and I remain confused how it was showered with such adulation. This feels like an album that became popular because rich people liked hearing it in the background of their dinner parties.

Not hugely keen although she has a great voice

It’s just not my idea of a good time, listening to this.

rätt så tråkigt va? gillade det här lite förr men njae.

Nice voice but that was VERY boring.

Nope, not for me.

Kwam erachter dat ik moeite heb met alles wat neigt naar 'soul'. Norah is wel goed natuurlijk, maar ik vind er zelf dan geen klap aan.

Iets te zoetzappig en erg laidback allemaal

Dum de dum de dum de dum. Glass of wine would be lovely thanks. Dum de dum de dum. Who is this album? Ah yes, I heard it at Peter’s house last week, and I think Sarah was playing it too. Dum de dum de dum. mmm Dinner looks lovely thanks. Dum de dum de dum.

This was a breakthrough when it happened of course. I'm not sure it holds up as well, since a lot of the hype was label driven. (Don't be mad at me.) It's a really good album, no doubt. But is it a timeless masterpiece? Not sure. Lonestar and Turn Me On are highlights for me.

lets go girlws

Ganske plagsomt

OrangeMochaFrappuccinos! 2*s for evoking something in me, if only that thing wasn't reaffirming why i don't go near a Starbucks

Now i'm depressed

Boring and samey. Sounds like backing music from a Nigella cooking show, possibly performed by one of her smug twat friends. All the songs sound the same, but somehow all worse than each other too. Inoffensive bland nothing, with as much substance as the frothy milk drinks she soundtracks. Still many million times better than Nico and Morrisey though.

not for me -- but the first song is okay (princess diaries vibeeee)

Un disc que va triomfar més pel seu concepte que per les seves cançons. Que la protagonista fos una noia jove guapa, amb una veu excepcional, fent r&b modern i amb un lleuger toc comercial va tocar la fibra del públic mainstream, que es va llençar en tromba a per ell. Jones ha fet discos molt millors a la seva carrera, amb aquest el factor sorpresa va jugar al seu favor

Nice voice, not a big fan though

inoffensive and unoriginal. something that is played in a doctors waiting room. soulless voice

I've had a lot of disheartening moments in my music journey, but Norah Jones singing "Cold Cold Heart" might be the nadir.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Prefs: Don't Know Why, Cold Cold Heart, Shoot the Moon Moins pref: The Nearness of You

This only gets a two because giving it the same rating as “Antichrist Superstar” seems wrong. But holy hell what a bore.

Couldn’t get into it, all slow songs

Nope. An album so massive and so good you were only ever allowed to hear one snippet of one song. But in every advert break for about 6 months. So I eventually stuck it on, but it didn't surprise, I have no real memory of it. Inoffensive though. 2 stars.

Dull

God this album is boring. It's so boring I didn't notice when it ended.

I can see how people really like this one but it's not my taste. Norah has an absolutely beautiful voice and the songs are well made. This set the stage for singer-song writers of early 2000's so it unfortunately has been played out and repackaged by every other artist to follow making this feel a bit boring. It's not bad by any means, its a solid easy listen - unoffensive soft jazz for the masses but I doubt I'll explore this album again in it's entirety for a while.

I'm... Conflicted about this album. I can't tell if I like it or not. Musically and lyrically it is good, but for me? I left me indeferent. And since I'm rating from a subjective point of view... Well...

The second half is better, the album is relaxing but is not my cup of tea

Wanted to give this one a shot, but 45 straight minutes of tempos in the sub-70 BPM range and not much melodic/instrumental variation made this LP a slog. Very much coffeeshop-core and not sure why it's on the list to be quite honest

So... I was confused by it, to be honest. Norah Jones has a lovely voice, of course, but the songs struck me as being so tepid... like background music that should play in a Starbucks or something. So I looked the album up on Wikipedia, and this is what it said: "Come Away with Me peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200, and received Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. It was later certified Diamond by the RIAA on February 15, 2005, for shipments of over ten million copies in the United States, and has sold over 27 million copies worldwide as of 2016, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time." This seems to confirm my suspicions that I am indeed a musical philistine who is not qualified to judge anything. But I judge it anyway.

I don’t like vocal jazz

When this came out I was in my serious "audiophile" phase, where I was listening to the equipment instead of the music. Along with the likes of Patricia Barber, Dianne Krall, Melody Gardot and Madelaine Peyroux, she was popular with the audio geeks who wanted to test their systems because it was well recorded and her voice is quite pleasant. But gawwwd is it ever tepid, bland and totally lacking in passion. I soon got tired of this genre and sold all my audiophile CDs and moved on to music with actual content. This album is not actually "bad" so I can't give it a 1, but a 2 is far as I can muster.

There's nothing objectionable about it, which I guess was the whole genre. Unfortunately every song kind of blends into the next, and I find myself listening to the sound without really hearing the words. The style is not my jam.

Not bad, but not what I'm here (in life) for.

Jesus this is so bland, generic and BOOOOORING. I could listen to some better music, but no. Her voice is generic female voice no. 5, the music is to sleep. 1/5 Like atleast the last no. 1 I gave, Tago Mago, I can see why this one should be on the list, I don't like it but it's interesting. This is just like the most generic whatever music. Edit: aight, it saved itself on the last 4-5 tracks, it's still a boring album, but these last were from aight to beautiful. 2/5

It's not bad enough to hate, but it certainly is dull. The songs on their own are tolerable but the 45 minutes feels twice as long when listening to the entire album. It's good for insomnia and yuppie dinner parties or something. Otherwise it's boiled celery bland.

Seichte Hintergrundmusik, mehr nicht. 'Don't Know Why' wurde eingespeichert

I don't actively dislike this music. It's just kind of sleepy and boring. It's what should be on in the background of a dimly lit restaurant. Nothing you actually listen to, it just sets the mood subconsciously.

I've previously stated that there was no good music released in the early 2000s, and this entry continues to supply hard evidence for this assertion. One of the greatest quotes from Star Trek: The Next Generation is "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure, that is life." and this album is the musical embodiment of this observation. There is nothing wrong with this album. Jones' voice is perfect. The production values are superb, the songs are almost faultless. But does it win, given it does so much right? Does it hell as like. Overall, it is musical wallpaper. Beige in a way I've not heard since Taylor Swift's Evermore. Not actually offensive, because that would imply that has affected you in some way, this has the substance of blancmange.

pretty boring

korrek

Not my thing; all a little bland.

The thin line between listening to music and falling into a coma.

Nice but no thanks.

boring, dull, uninteresting. Need I go on.

It’s fine. It’s probably a real terms 3⭐️, but as an essential album…

C’est bien fait. C’est un mix de « jazz » (les guillemets sont volontaires) et « country » comme il n’y en avait pas vraiment à ma connaissance. C’est peut-être une des seules choses qui rende cet album intéressant. Comme dirait Mathieu, c’est parfait pour meubler les restaurants. Ça ne cherche pas à déstabiliser quoi que ce soit. Il n’y a rien qui retrousse. Ça manque un peu.

Smooth and easy jazzy standards that are pleasant and break no new ground. Personally I prefer Diana Krall who is slightly edgier. The epitome of middle of the road. 2.5 🌟

2 1/2

Eh

couple of songs

Se estudar Nematoda fosse um álbum, seria esse. Extremamente sem sal, a voz é bonita, o instrumental é bonito, mas não passa de música de fundo. Não acrescenta e nem tira nada.

It’s definitely a plodder - despite Ms. Jones’ silky-gravelly voice. While it’s a pleasant album at times - it reads like a bankers BMW CD changer collection member - or at times one could imagine a cowbro listening to this in his barn or pickup truck. It’s declawed jazz and country at the same time - kind of like Muzak- pleasant but with the right conditions tortuous.

2/5 too slow and calming

Pleasant music that doesn't do a lot for me personally. Just not my thing really but that's ok!

Nice voice and some nice piano parts, but overall a bit too saccharine easy listening for my taste

Really not my thing but very much more listenable than Kate Bush. Fine background but no more than a 2/5 for me.

Not really a fan of this sound at all. The musicianship is good, but it's not for me.

Great sleep aid

This is perfect backround music for dinner to me. Like a warm family meeting, 100% i'll comeback to this album on next december, but really not a type of music in my player

This album is incredibly pleasant. Norah Jones has a very pleasant voice (soft, intimate, smooth, and sultry, if not a little unsexy), and a pleasant band. They play pleasant arrangements; a little bit jazz, a little bit folk, and little bit country. But nothing offensive, nothing that leaps out. Nothing is too loud, or too fast (or even too slow). It's very pleasant wallpaper. I'm not surprised it sold a bazillion copies in physical media (at a time the industry was starting to collapse), because it is a hard to hate. I will say, that she edits her arrangements really well. Nothing outstays its welcome. No songs much over 4 minutes, and many under 3. She has the great sense not to use every minute of available capacity on a CD, and keeps the whole album to a classic 45 minutes. She interprets the works of many songwriters to give all the material a consistent voice, and I she knows exactly how long to play for. But I would never choose to play this record again.

Pleasant enough but nothing earth shattering. Norah Jones has a very nice, smoky quality to her voice, but it never really shifts from that. Reminds me of Borders bookstores and Starbucks. Favorite tracks: "Don't Know Why", "Shoot The Moon"

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Feelin' The Same Way, I've Got To See You Again Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: what the hell sure

I'm not sure anyone has ever said 'its really easy to ignore' as praise. It's nice. But nice in a very wash over you without actually doing much to interest you kind of way. It doesn't offend me in the way Sade did. But it really isn't interesting enough to warrant a home on this list (yes it sold millions. So did the Bay City Rollers). She seems to have become far more interesting since.

Of all the norah jones albums, that was a norah jones album

Kósý en smá leiðinleg

Retro feel with nice breathy vocals. Pleasant accompaniment. Upright bass reminds a bit of Astral Weeks. Nice slide guitar bit on "Lonestar" A bit dull an inoffensive. Bit of a Nick Drake feel from "Nightingale"

No connection for me but god bless if it is your thing

Perfectly fine but fuckin blanddddddddddddd. See why nobody talks about her no more. Some nostalgia attached to a couple songs, as I imagine there is for anyone near my age but ehh.

It's not something I see myself ever listening to again, but I could totally see why some people would love it. The laid back instrumentals complimented the vocals fairly well. Speaking of those instrumentals, I need to find out who did the guitar work on this record - I was loving it! I could see someone listening to this while getting some work done in a coffee shop or something, that's the kind of vibe it gave off to me.

Fuck off im not listening to this

Bland, middle-of-the-road easy listening soft-jazz. As if an AI was prompted to write background music. The pretentious vocal articulation does not help either.

Beige. Boring.

It’s bad craic when you’re 3 tracks into an album and you’re already looking to see how much longer is left. This was a slog for me to get through. It’s not necessarily that it was terrible, it was just an absolute tornado of vanilla.

Cold Cold Heart (Hank Williams cover) stood out. I know there are people that like this type of music and singing style, but I do not. 1.5/5

Snoozefest, I'm sorryyyyy.

Not in my edition of the book! 2002. 1 star. Bland background music for Netflix and chill. An entire millennium generation was conceived to this. Doesn't mean its any good though - every song sounds exactly the same.

Bloodless. This lady has never been on top of a mountain.

hate it with a passion

Anathema to everything I like about music. Everything on this album is as bland as eating sand. The lyrics are your standard "oooh baby I miss you so much, please come back to meee" drivel, and somehow this album makes the whole "vocal jazz + country" mashup thing unimaginably boring to listen to. This album commits the worst sin art can make, which is be boring.

I just can't stand this

3/10 - Sounds like Kohls Cash.

yawn

Elevator music. Nice voice, unremarkable but not badly executed music. Totally forgettable. Favorite Songs: There were different songs?

Absolute tedium. Boring songwriting, boring voice. Nearly gave a 2 because realistically it’s harmless and inoffensive, then I remember this list is supposed to be about innovation. So a 1 it is.

Background music that all merges into one. Not very exciting.

Sappy, watered-down jazz, that’s been repackaged with a folksy-country sound for bland mainstream audiences.

This album sucked on 2002 and it still sucks in 2026

Nooooooooooooooooooo. One of my most hated albums of all time!!!! So overplayed and overawarded and aggressively BORING!!! I saw the cover pop up and my heart rate skyrocketed with rage, which is ironic given the BPM of the tracks. Someone should make a Norah Jones x Macy Gray mashup so I can concentrate my annoyance more efficiently. Blues-pop? Country-soul? What are we doing? What's going on? It feels like music for people who don't really like music. (however, did you know she's ravi shankar's daughter??)

It's giving tinkerbell soundtrack. Liked a few but also not rlly my style of music but I can imagine listening to this on a nice slow Sunday morning

Not for me, what is a lazy Sunday anyway

Oh my god. It's like if background music was recognized as a legitimate genre. It's so goddamn boring. It's so sanitized. How is this 15 songs and not a single one of them does anything interesting? It's insane. And I've seen people that love this album sing its praises, but it's almost always in the context of doing something else! Oh it's good for a dinner party, it's good for painting or crocheting, or for a pleasant drive on a sunny day. What kind of album is it if people seem to enjoy it the most when they're not listening, and it's just filling space? I'm so sorry Norah Jones, I have the utmost respect for you. But I just. Can't. Vibe.

-ehh not my cup of tea -aggressively nothing. felt a lot longer than 45 mins.

nah man not for me

I hurt myself today. Not like Johnny Cash or Trent Reznor, but in an emotional way, by checking how many "death metal" albums will appear on this list. The answer is zero. ZERO. About 5 albums are marked as death metal and none of them actually fit that label. Slayer's Reign in Blood was formative in terms of riffs, but vocally is Thrash Metal. Don't get me wrong, I'm beyond ecstatic that Napalm Death's "Scum" is here and Sepultura's "Arise" is a baffling inclusion albeit a welcome listen but we’re sorely lacking here. In the face of this painful news, please allow me to briefly summarize at least three more death metal albums that are essential listens as they either altered music entirely by simply existing, or greatly influenced a highly influential genre. POSSESSED - SEVEN CHURCHES - Arguably the first commercial death metal release, which was a trailblazer in both the aesthetic and sound of the burgeoning genre. MORBID ANGEL - ALTARS OF MADNESS - Pure sonic mayhem and a crash course in the raw punk energy of early American death metal. I believe this record to be as important as some of the formative hardcore punk releases and it should be required listening for the curious music fan. DEATH - HUMAN - This is a layup. Even insufferable dorks who don't like death metal can appreciate this record. Aggressive metallic drive with an updated 90's production and a slant towards the progressive takes this into "must-hear" territory. I hate to harp on late era Death, but between Human and Symbolic, these records do have a large following outside of the metallic echo chamber. Instead we have every David Bowie album, most Bruce Springsteen albums and this. An overblown, saccharine, pseudo-jazz record churned out by a soulless studio to appeal to moms who fantasize about divorce and that guy they met during spring break in college. There is a world beyond agreeable ballads. Get out of your bubble. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: In my hair, yelling at the manager of this Swiss Chalet

Lovely background music for a shopping centre, safe, bland and nothing to get anyone excited

przesluchalam chyba pol i tak mi sie nie chce kurwa dalej moze nie jest to az tak gowniane gowno ale mi sie nie podoba

Don't like contemporary jazz either

Boring go next

All the hype around Norah didn't feel justifiied for me personally. I couldn't get into the vibe. I think it's because it feels like others already paved the roads she was walking.

Nisam slusao......ali vidim i da je danas jebani PERAA UBEE

Unimpressive. Way too vocal-focused for me-can’t appreciate the music at all. I was bored and a little irritated trying to listen to this. She’s not untalented, I just can’t find anything that grabs me in this album.

bien pour dormir quoi

Really can't be arsed with music like this. She has a nice smooth voice, but musically it's so boring! Background music for some dull as dishwater American sitcom

NOTHING CONNECTED WIT ME 2/10

ja ze kan erg mooi zingen etc maar god dit is het soort zeikmuziek waar ik totaal niet tegen kan

this is torture to me, respectfully

This album has made me the most mad with this 1001 albums so far. This may have been amazing in 2002, but I am listening to the most melodically uninteresting music with a woman who sounds like she won't open her mouth completely.

If he wasn’t dead, already this version of Cold Cold heart would have killed Hank. The rest of the album nearly killed me.

I can’t begin to understand why this album is popular. The songs are so slow as to almost be catatonic. I remember when this album came out there was this frenzy. At the time I couldn’t understand it because it just sounded like someone I might see at a piano bar. It doesn’t help that the songs are deathly boring. I would imagine this album sold well with people that don’t typically listen to a lot of music.

This is music for people who don't like music. Just horrible. I made it through two tracks then had to stop.

Snooze fest, sounds like royalty free music

Crikey, this was dull. The whole album feels like background noise for a smug middle-class dinner party—polished, safe, and utterly uninspiring. Nothing grabs you, nothing surprises you. It’s pleasant in the way wallpaper is pleasant, but if you’re looking for soul or spark, you won’t find it here.

she has a nice voice but the album isn’t my style. i was excited for it to end. sorry norah!

not

trop calme, trop calme… y’a rien de palpitant….

snooz

boring radio shop

Terrible

Its ok

Ga albumet en ny sjanse etter først å ha gitt opp etter fem sanger. Behagelig og kompetent, men rimelig kjedelig. Bakgrunnsmusikk. Dette legger standarden for én stjerne. Det betyr i grunn musikk jeg har null interesse av å gjenbesøke; simpelthen en one and done.

Not to judge an album by its cover, but as soon as I saw that 2002/2003 type cover I knew I wasn’t going to like it. Just not my type of thing.

This was like water torture. Felt like it would never end. It's so sickly sweet and vaguely 'emotional' for an hour. So 2002 dinner party. Like bad library music from a second-rate film

Norah can definitely go away without me, some good pianist work and thats about it.

First song sounded same as last. Not much in-between

This album is what you would get if you set out to make music that does not engage the listener in any way. For a couple of years it was playing in every shop and restaurant because the only thing it is good for is background noise.

Risible muck.

Meh

Do not like.

Ich war da irgendwie nicht im Film. Schwierig.

A flat white with oat milk please

All the songs sound the same to me. Too slow and sad for me but more in a romantic way than a sad sad way.

I forced myself to listen to a Radiohead album, so I suppose I owe it to Norah to listen to hers. But my god I wanted to turn it off. I could tolerate one track if it came on the radio. Maybe. But if you’d have said it was the same song on repeat I would have fallen for it. Apparently there’s a Super Deluxe version of this album with two additional discs. Such excite. One out of five for this album. Five out of five for me actually making it to the end. Standout track - Seven Years

Not my music

Boring

Pretty voice, but pretty dull music. Uninventive and uninspired backing which exists purely as a cushion for the singing to rest upon, which is a concept I can't really get to grips with - the whole package needs to be part of some kind of unifying statement or vision for me, not just window dressing.

She has a pretty voice but I don’t understand why this is on this list.

Three words. Dull as ditchwater.

So so dull. No personality, no edge - could be anyone singing those songs. That it's a Nepo baby makes this a firm one star.

Low 1 "Alexa, play chill music" Worst album yet. It feels incredibly empty, ai generated even. If I gave amy winehouse a 2 this has to be a low 1. Take away Amy's voice, her cutting lyrics, the modern twist on the instrumentals and what's left is this album. Ie absolutely nothing. The voice doesn't interest me, the backing and songs are utterly bland. Pure background cafe music

Charlotte says: I don’t like this one mom

i didn’t realise i’d entered a cosy new york coffee shop…

Day 16 She clearly has a great voice but I didn’t enjoy this album at all, just not to my personal tastes. 2/10 Highlight Cold cold heart

"Blues-pop", a genre I didn't even think would exist, and now I know it does. This is some sort of throwback monstrosity, no substance, just a bland crooner crooning out some pap. If this were playing in Starbucks, I would turn around and walk out. If this were playing on a telephone hold, I would hang up. This really is utter and unremitting shite, 1 star.

Boring Muzak for elevators

Very boring

Milquetoast? Lonestar is the best song so far. Painter Song had such a great vibe and potential until that pump organ/accordion solo came in and made it extremely trite.

um sonoro NÃO, OBRIGADO

Not my type. Too jazzy. Don't like it. Couldn't finish listening

No

Boring. I'm not rich enough to enjoy this

Just mind-numbingly boring. Like emotional music with the soul removed. I can imagine why millions of unhappily-married women bought this record, but it is so bland and uninspiring.

first song is nice, but then, it's too slow for my liking

1’5

Boring. Overhyped.

ce n'est pas trop mon style même si ce n'est pas mauvais mais j'ai pas aimé désolée.

Not my jam. I actually like her voice, it reminds me of Amy Winehouse. But it’s just too soft for me. I don’t even know what to call it. It’s jazzy, but it’s not jazz. It’s country-y sometimes, but it’s not country. I don’t know, not my jam… but I can see why other people would like it because it’s not bad.

I’m glad it’s over.

OTT

Music I hear at a Dentist's office

I made it all of three seconds into this album before I recognized the agonizing waiting room/elevator staple "Don't Know Why" and noped out HARD. New record for shortest time spent listening!

Ahh yes the goody two shoes Fiona Apple. That’s what I’m thinking of. You could take every one of these songs, throw some Christmas words in each one and bingo bango you have yourself a Christmas album. Due to that, it confuses my ears and my brain. It’s spring right now and this chick has me thinking that I’m going to freeze my ass off when I go outside. Not my thing here. To sum it up, it’s Christmas, McDonald’s, boring, sunshine, slow, piano driven music. She plays it safe on every song. It’s not worth your time.

This is the kind of soft, bland lounge jazz that people who aren't really terribly interested in music buy.

im literally so sorry norah im not doing all this

Bland, soft pop. Guh.

1. uuhy - 1.5 2. zeven - 1.5 3. cold - 1.5 4. feeling - 1 5. come - 1.5 6. moon - 1 7. turn - 1.5 8. lone - 1 9. again - 1.5 10. painter - 1.5 11. flight - 1 12. night - 1.5 13. over - 1.5 14. you - 1.5

Boredom is a necessary condition of adulthood. Not the skittish boredom of hyperactive childhood, or the “I’ve got nothing on” boredom of one’s teenage years – a boredom freighted with anxious-joyous anticipation – but actual, brain-numbing boredom that threatens to form an ocean of apathy so vast that you can’t hope to ever be rescued from it. Bored as you may be, it’s your duty, as an adult, though, to get on with it. You’re invited to find in the tedium rhythm, in the dull a purpose. You’re reminded that if it didn’t feel like work you wouldn’t need to pay someone to do it. You’re alienated from your labour, of course you are, but that’s the cost of living. Get on with it. If that attitude of corporate ascetic were to be transformed into aesthetic, this record would likely be the result. This is the soundtrack to the hump days of your life; a bland and anodyne tour of an uninteresting series of emotions. It’s the musical equivalent of an anonymous message scrawled into a card passed around the office. While no one knows who said that mildly pleasant thing, it doesn’t stoke anywhere near enough intrigue to merit a follow up. And so I fail to finish this album, and experience that as an act of defiance. My fate might mean being bored awfully often, but I can still say “no” sometimes. Good for me.

every song sounds like Don't Know Why

Eh, too slow, bit samey, just not for me.

This is putting me to sleep, not my jam

Really boring coffee shop music. Really uninspired writing too. Some songs are fine, sweet perhaps, but really mild. Bored silly.

I don't even know what to say about this. I get the idea, I get the purpose, she has a wonderful voice and the sound is easy on the ears, but as a whole it amounts to... not much. The amount of copycats this album has spawned also may have taken a toll on me through the years... It's inoffensive, forgettable, songs are hard to differentiate. It's supposed to be relaxing, but it only wears me out. It's just not for me and I don't get why this might be a "must listen", it did sell quite well so there's that I guess. Nightingale is a chill song if I must choose one. 1.8/5 Edit: this thing actually haunts me, I remember it every so often and get angry, if that’s not a one I don’t know what is… 1/5

Boring to me except Don't know why

This one was a struggle to get through. It’s the kind of music that feels like it’s tailor-made for playing softly in the background at a dentist’s office during a root canal. It’s like elevator music—except not as good!

This album will put your ass to sleep

bleh

The very definition of bland.

2 out of 14 songs. That is a really bad rate and remember this album got a Grammy...Pffff

Saccharine lounge drivel vomited out of the daughter of a great sitarist. Only grandmas listen to this while driving very slowly and running red lights in their silver Toyota Camrys. It's listenable, sure, but does it have any substance? I couldn't find a single song I felt I would want to hear again. I know why she didn't come...

I got as far as the slaughtering of 'Your Cheating Heart' and bailed. Cocktail lounge jazz, generic, formulaic and devoid of real emotion.

This album never came up in anything I was consuming so, you can imagine my confusion, when, after hearing this album, I discovered how many copies it sold. How many relatives does she have in India? As has been said by others this album is smooth in production, and performance, but the problem for me is that there is nothing on this album that screams to me THAT THIS IS A SONG THAT ONLY Norah Jones would perform that way. I expect that to be the bare minimum of a bar to leap over for an album to be relevant on an all time list. There is no personality. It sounds like many, many other highly competent performers I've heard over the years in jazz bar lounge, hotel bar lounges, and jazz festivals. The difference? They did not have the Ravi Shankar name association to get a deal done with Blue Note Records. The best albums reveal to you what a performer/performers personality and inner thoughts are. You come out of this album as in the dark about what makes Norah Jones tick as you did going in. Super boring, and this is from a guy who loves Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Patsy Cline, Barbra Streisand, Nat King Cole, Seal, and countless others that Norah is drawing upon but not moving forward at all. I cannot imagine myself feeling an insatiable urge to listen to this again. Definitely not an album that belongs on this list. Even worse is that this jazz rock record is included but the authors don't include Sting's THE SOUL CAGES or TEN SUMMONER TALES? Both of which are essential albums to this jazz rock genre. I have to wonder if Gordon Sumner stepped on the authors' dicks or something. Perplexing protocols for this list.

I could not engage with this album at all. Too soft and boring. This may play well at a coffee shop or Barnes & Nobles. Not a must listen in my opinion. Standard bland 1 star...

Bland non-music

I had a very scathing review of this written out. But it has been lost, and the anger has left me. Safe to say I found it deeply irritating.

Snoooze

There’s absolutely no way I can listen to this front to back

In a nutshell: soulless acoustic blues-pop. Skip this album. Listen to her "Live in New Orleans" recording from 2003 instead. You'll get a better idea of what industry pros saw in her, and what *should have* been captured in the recording studio. The studio album sounds so... beige. I don't really understand how Come Away With Me was a hit, but it was. Overall: 2/10

just really not my type of music.

Boring

It's all in the cover, isn't it? A gorgeous-looking artist in a close-up shot, pretty lettering for her name in the top right-hand corner, and a more discreet font and size for the name of the album on the other side. A bland, unimaginative cover. Fitting with what is, for all intents and purposes, a bland and unimaginative lounge-jazz album of unobtrusive ballads, too demure and by-the-book to elicit a strong response from anyone enjoying truly *vital* music. Norah Jones obviously has stellar skills as a performer, both as a singer and as a piano player. But those skills are never put to good use, i.e. playing music where a minimum amount of risk is taken. The mere fact that 1001 selected this Blue Note album instead of, say, John Coltrane's *Blue Train* speaks volumes about how misguided their priorities are when it comes to jazz albums. They only looked at recent commercial sales, and estimated Jones was the next big thing in that genre. Well, the next big things are not always the next best things. I remember some acquaintance of mine trying to attract my attention towards the production values of this record around 2002. But I don't remember that person's name 20 years later. As I didn't remember the album itself, so unmemorable that mix of cover songs and unremarkable compositions by Norah and her team of musicians is. Tried to see if listening to the recors again would make me change my mind, but in retrospect my assessment of it is even harsher now. I'd rather go through all the cheesy 80s synth pop albums this app routinely sends my way all over again. At least they have something distinctive to offer. 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 for musical and professional compentency + 1 for the artistic flair). Number of albums left to review: 141 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 369 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 218 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 276 (including this one)

Seriously!?

Boring

Tranqui chill conocido

Poor Snora Jones. I knew the first song and unfortunately nodded off halfway through it. I woke up with a couple of songs to go and can't say they were particularly lively. Not my thing 1

Talented, but not my type of music.

empty

Put me to sleep. 1/5

This was the worst thing I've listened to. Maybe ever. Her voice is so cloying, every single lyric is vacuous, and the whole album sounds like it was created solely for sofa adverts. My hatred is limitless. The fact that she sings a duet with Stuart Murdoch on Write About Love and I love it is testament to the genius of Belle and Sebastian.

terrible and boring

Nice voice boring album

I gave it an honest go but this album did nothing for me. All the songs sound samey samey, there is no forward momentum they all just sort of carry on in a really boring way. Her voice didn't strike me as anything special. The lyrics are all pretty standard sad romance cliches. I thought Norah Jones was supposed to be jazz. This sounds like jazz for people who don't like jazz. Not for me.

This got so damn overplayed when it came out that I still kinda hate it. I think the nicest thing I can say about it are things like "tolerable" and "inoffensive". I was thinking I'd give it the 2, but actually... 1.5 rounded down, this is so damn boring and trite. No thanks.

"""come""" away with you ??? 🤨🤨 dont know why- the beginning piano sounds like youve got a friend in me. 3 seven years- idgaf. 2 or 3 cold cold heart- 2 feelin the same way- reminds me of cyberbully. 3 or 4 come away with me- i would go no where with you. 2 or 3 shoot the moon- what did it do to you. 2 turn me on- no thanks. please get me outta here. 2 lonestar- yoooo like goodbyre future once so bright meet my pregnant girlfriend? evidently not. 2 no more school assembly music. lps music video type shit.

no

Vapid aural wallpaper.

Listened to the first song and hated it. Did not finish

kinda sorta liked it at the time, cannot stand it now

It didn’t really go anywhere

Dull as…

Painfully boring

Dull. Sorry Norah Jones.

No way missus, im married. Obviously a great voice and probably a good lyricist. However the music made me cry tears of pain, it was like soul without the rythm, it was like Jazz without the insight. Terrible drudging music without pressnce or urgency like being stuck in a traffic jam with the cast of stsr trek the next generation.

The polar opposite of music that I like. Music for people who can't be bothered any more, competently replicates the apathy of the time.

every song is too similar

Music for people who don’t know what music to like.

I did an internet search for 'dull' and this album image came up.

Maybe I wasn’t in the mood, but I found this album incredibly boring. Not for me at all. Can’t really say much about it. Struggle to get through and no memorable moments for me.

Rating: 1/10 Absolutely awful, worst album I heard yet and one of the worst albums I ever heard. This album embodies all of the worst qualities of music: it is not creative or interesting in any way and is insanely boring and predictable, every song sounds the same. The worst thing about this is that it may be one of the most forgettable albums of all time, there is not a single memorable melody (either vocally or instrumentally) throughout the entire album, which is an impressive feat considering that this is a pop/jazz album.

I realize this is very competently made music, but this is absolutely mind numbingly dull. Craft store core.

Saai

Once loved it. Kind of find it annoying now.

Instantly forgettable. Literally cannot think of a single riff, lyric or tune that sticks with me. Dire.

Couldn’t finish it tbh

Its ok

This was the first time I wanted to stop listening. Found the first half fundamentally boring hotel lobby music. Some of the later songs are slightly better. The piano heavy songs in particular were tiresome.