Arular

headache inducing

Utter gibberish.

Crap

Nope

Oh no..

Not in my edition of the book! 2005. 1 star. Hip-hop/rap with a sarf Landan accent. Unbearable. I get the impression she is on the list because she is female, black and British.

A hodgepodge of noise as heard through one end of pvc pipe. Once I've heard all 1001 of these "must hear" albums, I'm going to go back and see how many were actually worth my time. Zero stars

K.I.A. Reminds me of being sat on a bus where some obnoxious teens are playing their crappy music through their phone.

O.B.N.O.X.I.O.U.S.

If I wanted to listen to an angry Londoner shout over dial-up Internet sounds I'd go and listen to, well, I don't actually know because recording and releasing something like that would be mental. I had the other (because for some reason there are two albums on the list) M.I.A album a while ago, and it got 1 star. This album is worse.

I was going to give it 2 stars on the grounds that you can actually listen to it but halfway through I made my mind up. If just for the sheer audacity of being on this list it's not worthy of 2 stars but nobody can in all conscious listen to this all the way through without screaming into the void. It's an album so transparent you can see straight through to the lazy drum machine programming that sits behind every tuneless yelp of this samey, boring, unmusical piece of rubbish. Make it stop.

I wouldn’t buy it. I wouldn’t even steal it on Napster.

Surprised this amateurish debut made the list.

This is horrible

я сейчас мужественно пролистаю все песни и попробую найти то, что мне нравится ... я нашла полтора песни, которые смогла дослушать. абсолютно не мое

My day is ruined and it isn't even 6am

It was terrible

Is this electronic music or hip hop? Either way, it is not good. I guess this is dance music but it's hard to imagine anyone actually dancing to it. I get why a music critic would put this on a list like this, but it's almost unlistenable. Steel drum is a hard instrument to effectively integrate into popular music. It feels like this a forced combination of world music, electronic and hip hop. This manages to be dissonant and repetitive at the same time. Galang is the hit from this album and is definitely the best track. I did not even notice the difference between Galang and M.I.A, when the album ended I was surprised.

Absolute drivel start to finish. Was painful waiting for it to end. Why dud I promised myself to listen yo every album start yo finish. This is a waste of electrons on a computer somewhere.

This album is not for me, I found myself not enjoying the album much at all, the lyrics are extremely repetitive, however the music itself can be interesting at times.

Very simple

A cool sound that's repeated through the whole album thus making it boring. She's anti vax and a 5G conspiracy whack job though. So the max number of stars is 1.

All Terrible

Shame her stance on vaccines made her unlistenable to me. This shit slaps.

Unlistenable garbage. I had to stop the belligerent assault of sonic crap on my ears halfway through, couldn't finish it. Everything about it is dissonant and unharmonious in the most obnoxious way. Hates it!

Tried but I couldn't make it through this album. Way to monotonous and annoying

I found M.I.A annoying and overrated before I heard this album and my opinion remains unchanged. Wow this was unbearable. It begins with an annoying skit in the beginning before several terrible songs play in sequence. The only respite was "Bingo" and the novelty of "U.R.A.Q.T." utilizing a sample of the Sanford and Son theme song but I would never choose to lsiten to these songs again. This honestly felt a lot like noise and frankly made me anxious to listen to this. I'd imagine this is on here for its fusion of world music and hip-hop but I do not think either of these styles is particularly well executed.I wanted to compare this to Yoko Ono's music for some of its more avant garde characteristics, but that would be unfair to Yoko.

Pass

This is not a genre I have any desire to listen to though I found the final track to be tolerable at least. Still 1 star or F for me.

I have to say, its a very different album compared to my first 70+ or so ive had on here. Some interesting sounds and samples or used. But it just isnt my cup of tea musically.

Unimpressed

The fact she’s got two albums on here really shows the British bias. The girl had 1 hit

This one is just bad. 'Provocative lyrics' or not it's not worth burning one's ears with.

Uh

Not my cup of tea. More of a Hip Hop person...

A shitty person made a shitty album. Big surprise.

genuinely could not listen to this i kept skipping and then gave up 1/5

too percussive

1.5

Meh

eh…

This is a waist of vinyl/CD/memory on any device. What a piece of crap,

Simply no -1/5

No

I don't care for this.

I cannot stand the beats in background. It feels like I'm listening to a bunch of electricity. If I wanted to listen to this album, I may as well go to the local science center and put my ear next to the electric ball. Vocals are not for me either. For me, this album has 0 redeeming qualities. My first 1/5

Hated this.

Would never put this album on again! Paper planes seems to be their only good hit

I only know her through the cash register song, which is pretty good. This album is not. This is unintelligible, repetitive, and the music/beats are not appealing at all. Fav tracks: N/A

This project has some very interesting ideas and was highly influential on artists in the internet age. Why does it suck so bad?

Not music, so bad couldn’t finish it.

Hard to get into anything outside of 'Paper Planes'

Annoying is the correct word for MIA. The lyrics just aren't there. Been a hip hop fan for decades, but this is just bad.

Well, succeeded in one thing: most boring one of the 500 in the list so far.

M.I.A. thinks she is way cooler than she is. The lyrics are repetitive and unsubstantial. The beats are all similar and quite boring. I was waiting for this one to be over.

Not a good album in the slightest. Seemed like the artist just picked random phrases to sing over random beats with the most random noises played over it. Would never recommend

This sounds overwhelmingly like the sort of skipping songs that primary school kids used to sing. In isolation some of the tunes aren’t entirely horrendous. Put together, however, this is, I’m afraid, one of the worst things I’ve listened to for a while. It might even be worse than Thriller, and I really hate Thriller with a passion. Whoever categorised this as World music is having a laugh. This is firmly routed in Saaarf London primary schools.

I mean Paper Planes is a banger but damn I don’t vibe with this album

They put this on the list over Graduation?!

Annoying noise, can’t keep up with her admittedly great famous single.

That one is good but otherwise oof

Je suis extrêmement confuse par cet album. Qu'est ce que je viens d'écouter ??

This sounds like a teenager who recorded herself with a Casio keyboard.

The musical equivalent of heart palpitations.

Trash

not for me

omg I hated this so much, I'm sorry. I did listen to \"Paper Planes\" after (which I heard before but didn't realize it was her, and I do like that song), but this album felt like a teenage girl making songs in her room which were about as good as the songs I'd make in my room when I was a kid. Seriously, the cantankerous bitch in me feels she got an easy pass on that album because she's a minority and female and it was a sort of \"fresh voice\" kind of thing--I dunno. Not impressed.

uhhh idk not for me

"Most sparkling debut since Madonna." Madonna is overrated shit, this is unlistenable shit. Fair call.

Schrecklich. Gefällt mir garnicht. 2.7/10

was looking forward to this as I liked what I heard from MIA before specifically "Paper Planes" and her feature on "FRANCHISE", but man this was a painful listen, couldn't finish the album.

Takes every wrong turn. I could probably come up with something more melodic by smashing my head on a piano. DNF

耳は燃えている あまり良い火ではない......

did not finish, style is too experimental for my tastes. an album i'd need to come back to when in the mood for it, i only like a few singles from M.I.A. and they aren't in this album

Horrible. This album is terrible and completely undeserving of any recognition. Shrill, British, female recording artists must have a special place in Robert Dimery's heart as there is nothing remotely redeeming about this atrocity. Something, something British bias and this album doesn't even have this one hit wonder's one hit...

A little repetitive for my taste.

I bet...if you played this for a baby...they'd cry waaaah waaaah 😭

Oh no. List what were you thinking adding these. oh god please no. If I wanted to give myself aids I would have taken a different route, but listening to this album in its entirety gave me aids. So I guess I have aids now

Trash. Offended my musical soul

Oh god this is terrible

Worst one yet

This is very personal taste but do not like the rap style. It sounds whiney and she often go out of key or bend on places that feels wierd. The beats are bland and sometimes annoying. Not an album for me.

Couldn't get through this album. Just when part of a song starts to get catchy, a cacophony of dissonant samples and effects are mashed into your eardrums. On the plus side you get a bit of a break with the skits.

This genre isn’t mine.

Quite exhausting to listen to. Not getting it at all. On track 5 and I am knackered. No sign of any tunes yet. Now giving me a headache. Will not be listening to this again. This one's for the kids. My brain is not wired for this.

Did not like

So wierd i dont like it

ugh, another album of hers? Ok, whatever. Ok, it's awful. 1/5.

Nee, dit werkt echt niet voor mij.

The entire time listening to this album I had that annoyed Clint Eastwood look on my face.