1001 Albums Summary

Yusss! I’m your face Dimery - you dumb shit! This mediocre, manufactured millennial pop is the perfect response to the dredge through dad rock I’ve just enjoyed/endured. Big 3 stars!

An interesting insight into what was going on in Sweden at the turn of the century. At first I wouldn’t have guessed Scandinavian, (sounded kind of Indian and Irish to me). Nice enough, but nothing I’d listen to by choice.

What is this incel Springsteen madness?

3 or 4 rad tracks on here. The rest of the album is a bit of a letdown for me, but the strength of the singles just about keeps it in the 5 star club.

Big respect to Hikaru for writing, performing and producing the whole thing. Sounded like mid career Madonna to me. For 30mins or so I was happy with four stars for the talent, the underrepresented genre and general inoffensiveness of the music. But unfortunately after about 40mins her voice started to grate on my nerves. A little trimming down and I’d have really liked it

It’s nice to hear “World Music” suggested by people from all around the world, rather than by some middle aged white guy from Croydon.

I think I’m usually more open and understanding with these user submissions but wow, this is borning.

Ugh, like, I’m sorry for your loss and all but do you have to make it everyone else’s problem?

Very cool. Glad to be exposed to some Italian funk. I like it and it’s very good, but I don’t think I can give a 5 as I don’t love it and it’s not quite great.

Oooph, this is right now the middle dad rock. He probably does deserve a place on the list but I struggled to give it my attention. I now know why I know the name but none of the songs.

If there one thing completing this project has solidified for me, it’s that I don’t like Jazz Trumpet. I find it shrill and stressful. But then here’s comes Chet with his beautiful mellow tones to completely shit that theory right out of the water. Nice work Chet.

Sorry but I really did not enjoy this. The vocals just annoyed me throughout. Probably a two star album for me but something else really got on my tits too… what is it with the fucking Irish cosplay of East Coast American? It’s cultural appropriation, a transparent marketing scam, and it makes you look stupid, stop it now. 😮🫨😮

One of the things I learned from this list is the actual definition of krautrock. I had a vision of David Hasselhoff in my mind, 80s, leather, metal studs, mullets and pointy guitars. I was pleasantly surprised to learn its true nature - experimental, electronica from the early 70s. So I was happy to get another example here to expand my knowledge. Unfortunately, this leans too far into “experimental” and ends up as noddling. None of the tracks seem to have much purpose and no-one in the outfit has the ability to write any form of hook. I think I’d rather listen to The Scorpions.

This is all over the place, in what I think is mostly a good way.

I don’t to be too mean, because I think there’s a fair chance OP is a member of or has a strong connection to this band. That’s the only way I can understand this being submitted to the list. It’s 20 years out of date and sounds like a second rate Nickleback.

This is kind of all over the place but not in a particularly good way. Not sure if he wants to murk me or make sweet love and raise my kids?

This is a nice find and extremely pleasant to have on in the background. But it’s in no way exciting or outstanding.

For the first 2 or 3 minutes I was fully on board for being a massive John Mayer fan. The album soon settled down into being “pleasantly boring” and my enthusiasm waned pretty quickly. It’s still “very nice” and I struggle to find anything wrong with it. It’s maybe just a little bit lame?

“The band had reached an unwieldy 15 members. In preparation of the album, they trimmed their numbers to ten” These guys have an odd take on brevity. Sounds like the boring bits between tracks of Entroducing…..

Generic Spiders Music

Decent 60’s psych. At times Beatlesque, but also borrowing from The Kinks and The Zombies. Surprised I’ve not come across it before but I doubt I’ll visit again.

Amy Winehouse does O Brother, Where Art Thou? It’s not doing much for me.

Beautifully sweeping around the boarders of insanity.

Oh lads! You’re bringing me all of this rage and “poetic” angst and fury and all these tumultuous emotions… I’m 44 guys, the best I can do you is tied and annoyed.

This is good. I’m somehow pleasantly surprised but also a bit disappointed. My assumptions on Charli were proven wrong (I though she was just an another annoying Nicki Minaj) figure but then I got myself all hyped up by the comments on here and the album couldn’t live up to it. It’s good but it needs a couple of recognisable bangers to push it to a 5 for me.

Epic, soaring and cinematic. But also boring, annoying and forgettable. Time and a place, I guess, but this weekend wasn’t it for me.

Ooh, that’s a bit much for me. I couldn’t even hack 26mins I’m afraid.

Not as lame as I was expecting. I did visuals for these guys just as this album was coming out and found them pretty forgettable. I was DJing regularly around this time and downloaded a few of these songs but never really played them out. But listening now, a few years down the line, this is…. kind of OK.

I enjoyed this one. I was settling into the 80s homage but just as that was starting to wear thin it switched up enough to keep my interest.

Seemed pleasant enough for 10mins or so but really didn’t hold my attention I’m afraid.

Not really my genre at all but I found it enjoyable in parts. That one song definitely made me smile, but the rest of the album lacked the same humour and didn’t keep me engaged.

An interesting mix. Landing somewhere between a cool, international 90s trip hop and cheesy 80s smash pop hits. I’d happily listen again.

A Master class in repetitive and predictable sample sequencing. Really over-hyped for me. While there’s still a few good memories and a couple of big bops on here, it generally gets a bit boring. Tough to choose between a 3 and a 4 but I’m generally glad it exists.

Middle of the road bangers! It’s slightly depressing that I’m now the key demographic for these miserable little upbeat ditties. To tap my toes and nod my head through a collapsing marriage and a midlife crisis. I kind of want to mark them higher but it’s just so middle of the road it can’t be anything other than a 3.

I don’t know if this sounds like it’s 25 years late or 40 years late but either way: it doesn’t sound very contemporary, it does sound like it’s peaking into the red and I’ve very little desire to get to the end of the album.

What the shit? How am I so far off the popular opinion on this one? This is just naff. Sounds like it was cobbled together by a session band using half baked lyrics from someone who’s had half their brain zapped away by electrodes. Maybe if this was 1969 you could make a case for it being groundbreaking but for 1980… it’s just shit?

Why would anyone want to make those noises? Or listen to them by choice. Gross.

Decent. Occasionally sounded like a cohesive White Album or Cream but then also sounded like a teenage neighbour had just got his first electric guitar so they dug out a tin whistle and xylophone to have a jam. A nice inclusion to the list.

Very cool. Very weird. Very dark. A nice inclusion, I’ll try and listen to more.

Loved a couple of the singles when this came out, I probably should have listened to the whole album back then. Very cool surf/punk simplicity but with kind of ethereal shoegaze atmosphere at times. Norgaard and If You Wanna put it on a 4 and the rest of the album does enough to nudge it to a 5.

Do we really need another Elvis Costello album on the list? To be fair, this also sounds a lot like: Joe Jackson, Squeeze, Rolling Stones, Thin Lizzie, The Undertones and I’m sure a few others. Thankfully I like most of those things so listening to this isn’t a problem.

She’s just out here making great pop songs! First time I heard Hot To Go I was doing the stage set up for a gig and I knew it and loved it by the time the second chorus came around. I went home and played to my family and now my 1 year old loves it and will demand I play it for him with some weird, uncoordinated form of toddler semaphore. Along with Olivia Rodrigo they’ve restored my faith in music in the 21st century (props to Dan Nigro). Nice one OP, great choice.

Fine. I feel like maybe we had Mumford & Sons in the UK while the US had this? Nothing standing out to me but nothing pissing me off. Fine.

Really nice

I struggled to place this. Kind of an interesting one I guess, sounds quite contemporary at times but then also very “prog”. Maybe a bit to much for me to fully process but I guess I’m going neutral.

I just really don’t want to listen to this. It sounds like they are good at what they do but I guess I have different ways of dealing with my emotions than this? It’s a dilemma I’ve had throughout this project - do I rate it objectively or subjectively? Sorry OP but in terms of appeal to me this has to be a one star.

👏🤣 There’s no way I’m listening to two albums by these guys!

This is weird and all over the place, but maybe not in a particularly good way. I think want to like it more than I actually like it.

I tried to listen to this 3 or 4 times and for various reasons it kept getting turned down or off. So I heard the first 2 songs multiple times and they still made zero impression on me. I don’t dislike it, it’s just not doing anything to capture my attention.

Hummmm. Interesting, relaxing, provocative and boring.

Prog-grunge is not a genre that appeals to me. Not a lot for me to enjoy here.

Oh prog off, you prog.

Mixed feelings on this one. The vocals are undeniably annoying and I don’t think we really need a post punk Springsteen but it does kind of rock out and I kept coming back for more.

Great album, awesome talent. Easy 5 stars, this was on my short list of albums to add myself. She has really restored my faith in modern music. I do much prefer her punky rage to the ballads and this one has a better upbeat bop to ballad ratio than her debut. A fine choice OP.

I can’t get caught up in the fuss about this I’m afraid. It’s better than grunge I guess, I like it, I certainly don’t dislike it but I can’t even get excited about the singles. While Buddy Holly is an undeniable bop, I always used to want Say It Ain’t So to be I Miss You by Blink 182. I’d probably rather listen to Come Undone by Robbie Williams than The Sweater Song. It’s a 3 or a 4 for me. I’m probably being a little hash but marking it down as an average 3.

I can imagine that new music after a 15 year gap must have been pretty exciting to fans of The Cure. But personally, I was a bit underwhelmed by the albums on the original list, so I’m afraid I really don’t think we need another one adding. It’s fine, but it doesn’t feel he’s developed much in 40 years.

While I would not say that Adult Contemporary Country Pop is one of my favourite genres, this album has a few undeniable bangers on it. On the strength of the 3 massive singles and that killer opening riff (is that midi horns?!) I was almost ready to come out blast with a big 5 stars, but it kind of settles down to being 90s pop with a country (Canadian) twang and that is not something I can truly love. It’s another massive oversight from Dimery and a solid inclusion from OP.

Does this list really need more British post-punk from 1981? Now I guess if you like: The Cure, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen etc etc. then this could be seen as a slept on classic. I however, am not a fan of post-punk, so I don’t really care.

If “Kids in the Hall” was a record.

I enjoyed this for a bit… until I didn’t. At first I was completely onboard with the RATMesque anger and call to action. I found the stops and starts and extreme dynamics exciting. I found the vocal tones engaging. I was considering 5 stars for bit. But my god it got formulaic. It’s not exciting and engaging if you do the exact same stop stars and intense drum emphasis every track. It just got annoying and stressful to the point I decided I was not having a good time and turned it off.

One of those albums where you have to check if your Bluetooth earphones are connected properly after 30 seconds because nothing has happened yet. Sure it’s got “dynamics” but the downs are boring and the ups are stressful.

Oh just plug it in to a PC, you silly hipster.

It’s like John Lennon and Chuck Berry but everyone is trying to out Yoko each other.

Pretty basic.

Very cool. I’m not really a ‘jazz guy’ but this is the kind of stuff I can enjoy. Reminiscent of Headhunters or Heavy Weather to me, it’s wild and funky but still well structured not too shrill.

Aah, I really wanted to love this album after track 2 but there’s not much else on here that stands out to me. And realistically, track 2 just sounds like Kasabian, who, yeah, did this stuff 20 years ago. I’m still just about falling on the positive side with this, because I think I will keep listening to Starburster, but I’m a bit disappointed that the rest of the album couldn’t deliver more bangers.

Seems like a fascinating guy, I quite like the instrumentals but I’m afraid I find the bleating vocals pretty unpleasant so can’t enjoy this one.

I love the irony that this was submitted by somebody who didn’t quite have the attention span to make it through 2% of the list. It’s a decent snapshot of the time though. We probably should have an example of generic, uninspired 2010 EDM on here. Could just as easily be David Guette or Calvin Harris or whoever, but this is fine for what it is.

Musically, seems like a whole lot of nothing going on. Without the dance routines, or Brian’s cute eye brow thing and Shane’s bad boy curled lip (I’ve no ideas of “the characters” of this boy band), there’s very little to latch onto. Max Martin gives us a bit of a power pop opening, then it settles down into being bland and forgettable. The most interesting part for me was reading the wiki of their first manager who “was accused of running one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in United States history” and was Art Garfunkel’s first cousin.

Aah, I don’t care for 80s post-punk so I don’t really see why you’d want to regurgitate it 30 years later.

Welsh Run DMC meets The Beachboy? Sounds like exactly like the kind of thing I need in my life. I do like this, but just not as much as I was hoping I would. Good but not great.

I guess it’s kind of impressive that this manages to be both boring and unpleasant at the same time?

Seems like there a lot more going on here, than I had time to take in today. I’m liking what I heard though, it’s got more of a punk ethos than a lot of the punk records on the original list. DIY but with talent and something to say. I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and go 5 stars, to try and make sure I listen to more when I can find the time. Nice recommendation OP.

There’s a fair amount to like on here but also a big lack of direction or focus. Black Gold of the Sun was a staple of my favourite bar back in the day, and there are other tracks on here that can keep up with that vibe. But then we get some really messy/stressful jazz jams and it seems to settle in to some shitty funky house towards the end. It’s funny that even OP can’t give this one 5 stars. I think the good bits and the bad bits are levelling me out to a 3.

How the fuck, did I get through 1001 albums without really learning who Giorgio Moroder is? What is Dimery even doing? Surely we can swap out one of the Morrissey solo albums for something featuring The Father of Disco? Anyway, 4 stars for the Italian electro pioneer, unfortunately it’s 2 stars for the annoying Mael Brothers so we’re evening out at a 3.

Pretty standard 80s synth pop. A little faux-funky at times, a couple of half decent singles but generally a bit basic and forgettable.

Ugh, some people like some dumb shit. (Sorry OP)

This is cool, I like it but I think the link might be broken. It seems to be sending me to a Parliament/ Sly and the Family Stone compilation.

I think this might have caught me on the wrong day, but I’ve not got the patience for all these emotions right now. Feels like it might be 10 years late to the party as well, but it’s really not my bag and it’s not the day for an hour + of this kind of stuff.

Sure, ska-punk pioneers. Not really my thing and this one is a bit too punk and not enough ska for my taste. I could go neutral if this 32mins long but feels more like a compilation than an actual album and I’m not going to make it through an hour plus. On the basis that I don’t want to listen to this complete record, we going with 2 stars.

It is absolutely bizarre, that in a universe where Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and Robert Dimery have all been proven to exist, this album is not in the book.

I don’t like this. I feel like I have to defend or justify that stance for some reason? Maybe it’s not as bad as I was expecting, and I’m defending my own preconceptions of what I thought MCR were like… but it’s still not my thing. I think the song writing is strong enough to outweigh my basic dislike of the genre and push me towards a neutral.

This is a lot.

Yeah, I do like R.E.M. they are good. I guess this album is closest to their melancholy masterpiece Automatic for the People, which is an easy 5 stars for me. There are a couple of great singles on here but I just don’t love it.

Do we still need to do this? Hasn’t it been covered 40 years ago?

OP is a basic boomer with zero imagination. I bet they voted Trump and sing along to the chorus of Born in the USA, while saluting ICE and the flag. I wonder if they used to be cool…

Nice submission OP. Not come across these guys before but found it really enjoyable. Nothing jumped out to grab me though so going with a safe four stars for Stars.

Oh dear, this seems to take itself very seriously.

Pleasant but dull.

Sorry but soft country rock just isn’t my jam.

Over an hour - 🫩 Live album - 🫤 All covers - 🥱 I know it’s harsh because there’s nothing bad about this record, but I’d much rather listen to studio recordings by original artists.

As soon as I saw the cover art I knew this wasn’t going to be for me. And on this occasion judging an album by its cover was a pretty reasonable assumption. It’s ugly. I don’t like live albums, I don’t like garage punk and I do not like this.

I for one, will not be drawing a face on my knee. Odd choice.

Too Real for me I guess. I really liked Starburster from the other user submitted album but it’s been a steady down hill from there. I found the tone and repetitive lyrics super grating on this one I’m afraid. But to be fair, the music is decent and it’s a completely reasonable submission, it’s just not at all to my taste.

LOL imagine sitting through this dynamic and varied album and deciding it’s drum and bass. There are more dance genres than EDM and dubstep, America. Cool choice OP, I was dubious about this coz generally dance albums can get boring and repetitive after half an hour or so, so I didn’t think I’d be able to mark this highly. But no, I’d slept on Freestylers. Nice breakbeat, dub, D&B, turntablisum, electro and it even sounds like they had a cameo from Five at one point? I probably should give it a 4, but fuck the haters - 5.

Sorry, but I just find this really cringey.

I might have liked this 25 years ago. Nice enough production. Decent flow and tone (although I’ve never been much of a fan of 2pac). But the content just doesn’t appeal to me at all. Maybe I’m a pussy-arsed-bitch these days but I just find it a bit gross.

I just don’t really like prog.

Unpleasant, for sure but I was expecting talentless punk and I got industrial goth. Still really didn’t like it though.

I’ve been invited to an “art happening” at the old fruit market, which has now been gentrified into a hip gallery space. I arrive half way through my acquaintance’s set. He’s hunched over a laptop with far more midi devices than can possibly be useful. The picnic table he’s set up on is far too low. Behind him, low-res flowers bloom in time lapse. It’s been poorly keystoned and apparently pays no heed to the changes in music. Between songs, I hold my room temperature stubby between my teeth and give my obligatory applause. That is a much enthusiasm I can muster for this boring dross, without the free beer, would you even bother?

Oh my, these guys are weird. Not anything I’d ever listen to by choice but glad I did.

Ah, that’s a shame. I loved the first three tracks - dark and jazzy and political and electronic and generally a bit weird. But then it really fell off and ended up as boring blues. Still, a cool inclusion from OP and the kind of thing I’m looking for with these user submissions.

I guess it’s interesting to get a bit of background and context to C-de-B but Theatrical Prog is not one of my favourite genres.

I really appreciated the discovery of John Martyn on the original list, exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for, finding new talented artists who for whatever reason never got the publicity or recognition they deserved. So I enjoyed listening to this album, but do agree that the list probably doesn’t need a third from John.

• I don’t like post punk • The original list has too much • This album is 30 behind the times • Sounds super unoriginal I just don’t like post punk.

Wonderful addition. Exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for when I signed up to this project… like 5 years ago. Apparently Robert Dimery isn’t capable of surprising me under exposures gems like this, but big thanks to OP and SidledsGunnar for making it all worth while with little discoveries like this one.

Heard a lot about this so was interested to see what the fuss is about. I don’t rate it.

I’ve tried with Tool a few times but it always feels like an effort. I just don’t find any joy here at all.

I think I hate this. So messy and noisy and muddy. Why would you want to make sounds like this? I have a feeling that if you stripped away all of the distortion there is very little talent lurking underneath.

I really enjoyed the first B-52’s album on the original list, but I think maybe the impact and novelty has worn off a little. Still a fun listen.

I’m no fan of Prog but this was a very pleasant surprise. All of the musical skill and weirdness but somehow without the self-indulgence or any unpleasant sounds. Jazzy, funky and whimsical. A very unexpected 5 stars.

I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t expecting much. I was not impressed. I was not disappointed.

The art work looks like someone got a crack of 3DS Max and cocked about for a week. The audio sounds like someone got a crack of FruityLoops and cocked about for a year.

This is a real fucking mess. I DJ a bit and I enjoy mashing silly songs together. I get the “joke” here, he’s just not doing it very well.

More miserable post grunge. This one feels at least 10 years late to the “party”.

I feel like I have to come up with excuses for giving this a low score, but the main things is, I find her voice a bit annoying. Maybe if trimmed down to a tight 40mins there would be enough variation to keep this interesting, but as it is I really struggled to get through it.

Sting - 1/3/93 - Fields of Gold Bruce - 6/4/93 - Fields of Gray I know which one I’d rather listen to.

If I wanted to listen to Travis, I’d have played Travis.

“I know the pain of too much tenderness” Odd choice this one. Epic 80s rockers kicking still kicking around in the Brit Pop era.

I was okay with this until the 5min mark when Gollum started singing. I don’t mind the cinematic music but I found the vocals a bit silly.

A fun listen. Sure, I could make a lot of comparisons, but yes, it sounds like upbeat, indie rock from 2005. Lots of nice moves and switches going on and that interesting Scandinavian take on things.

As soon as I saw the cover I knew what I was in for. I hate this, and I want to give it a one star, but it is kind of catchy, so I don’t know if they deserve some additional credit for that… No, head lice are also catchy and that doesn’t make them any more enjoyable.

Epic, ambitious but not as painfully pretentious as I was concerned it would be. 3 points for the music and vocals and then a bonus point for the mammoth scale of the product.

Chilled. Pleasant. Cinematic. Nothing I’ll ever revisit though.

Oh this is exhausting. I did a photoshoot with these guys a few years back (I project the lines from Nothing is True on their faces), and they seem like decent lads. I just wish I liked their music a bit more, so I can legitimately brag about it and really care about the band. But it’s just not my thing. There are little moments throughout the album that show potential of being enjoyable to me, but then it defaults back to the metal-core screaming and I just want it to be over.

This is fucking stupid. On paper, I should hate this. I don’t like happy hardcore. I don’t like screamcore metal. I’m ambivalent about eurodance. I don’t identify as a fuckboi. But life isn’t lived on paper, is it? It’s lived in the hearts of newlyweds. On the dancefloors of Hull. On the poppy fields of Flanders. In the disabled bogs of Dresden. Maybe we are all fuckbois if we can only choose to believe it. We are all one, we are love, we are the universe. And the universe is finally ready for Electric Callboys rave attack. This is fucking stupid, and I love it.

I like this but I just can’t love it. I feel like maybe it’s not quite what I want it to be. I want it to be more stoner chill reggae, or more punky angry political but it just doesn’t quite hit the mark. It’s harsh, because they have no obligation to please me, but I’m not quite there for a 5 I’m afraid.

Do expectations figure in your ratings? This is probably a two star album for me, but because I really liked Float On back in the day, I somehow feel really let down by this one. It’s messy and noisy and long but I don’t hate it. I’ve no desire to get to the end and yeah, my main feeling is disappointment, so it’s a harsh 1 from me I’m afraid.

A good pop album. Fair play Harry.

It’s a decent pop punk album that’s a standard, solid 3 for me, but The Middle is such a killer bop we can nudge it to a generous 4.

All of the subtle, mellow warmth of Amy Winehouse with the raw, dangerous power of Nora Jones. Oh, and Anthony’s rambling warblings in place of any memorable melodies.

A few decent tunes in here but generally it sounds like a bunch of 40 year olds trying to sound relevant.

Great, love this. Live albums rarely do it for me, but with this kind of talent it really works. It’s just a really fun and funky time.

My first thoughts were that this album was very average. But as it went on I found it more annoying than enchanting and more boring than engaging. Yup, a dull and occasionally discordant REM.

I like the fact that I’m finding out that I’ve no idea what The 1975 sound like. Lots going on here and I enjoy most of it, but I guess the unpredictably is my favourite part.

I never really got into MF DOOM, I’m glad I got this over the weekend so I had a chance to really dig into it. OK, so lyrically he’s maybe the best ever. He’s got a huge vocab and he seems to effortlessly make all kinds of ridiculous things rhyme. But that’s where he ends for me. I find his flow, his tone and the production on this boring. Very monotone, no hooks and messy beats. Glad I had the chance to listen - I kind of get it now - but I’ve not been converted to a fan (probably just not stoned enough these days tbf).

Ok, so yes, the universe is a cold and indifferent void. But the world -and your life- is basically a mirror. While it is chaotic and cruel and beautiful and unfair, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. If you think that the world hates you, it might be because you’re an insufferably pompous twat with a fucking annoying voice.

Perfectly pleasant folk that slipped into the background without me noticing.

Alright, whispery!

Sure, this is good blues rock from 1974. He a good guitar player. I’ve never heard of him and it probably deserves a place on the list. But my god is this generic dad rock. OP loves Dylan and Pink Floyd and The Who and Rod Stewart. They gave 1 star to Power in Numbers by Jurassic 5 and Dummy by Portishead. We’re just into different stuff.

Ugh even The List is trying to radicalise me now? Yesterday I had the most booming of Boomer Rock I almost dyed my hair blue in protest. Today is dislike this Woke Left Agenda enough that I’m starting to doubt the validity of climate change. I feel like this is more of an Artist Statement than an album of good song, and I am not here for that.

This is nice. It’s not making a huge impact on me, but pleasant and enjoyable.

I quite like the chip tune production. I could maybe give an instrumental version of this 4 stars. But the vocals really are horrible. I was weighing up between a 2 and a 3, then I checked the run time and there’s no way I’m making it through an hour of this.

Snow is falling all around me. Children playing, having fun. It's the season, love and understanding - Merry Christmas everyone!

At first this seemed like a solid 3, that could be tipped up to a 4 on the strength of Cannonball. But I lost interest as it went on and it slipped into the background like a lot of the other 2000s folk albums on here.

If OP can supply the heroin (and the childcare) I might just be able to make it through the 2 hour run time. It’s a bit like the Trainspotting sound tracks, minus the fun bits.

This is cool. It started off a bit ‘Epic by Numbers’ - sounding like Human by The Killers or Dakota by Stereophonics or U2 or Springsteen. But I was sort of on board with throwing my arms up (can of Fosters in one hand) and wailing along to the chorus. Then it shifted towards more subtle downbeat stuff - a bit Leonard Cohen - and it still worked for me. I think some of the second half isn’t available on Spotify for me, but I enjoyed what I heard. A nice suggestion OP.

Nice head-nodding, toe-tapping indie. I think I’d have loved this if the timing was slightly different. By 2001 I’d discovered decks and drugs and drum and bass and hip hop, so by the time this was released it was well off my radar. Listening now, I like the instrumentals but find the vocals just a little bit annoying which ties it down to a 3.

That drop shadow tells you everything you need to know about the quality of this release.

Wow that first track is a rip off of Taurus by Spirit.

This is great funny fun. I think the version on Spotify is probably a “deluxe” extended edition so I’m choosing to rate the 1st 40mins - which is 5 star for me.

I’ve never heard of this guy before but he’s really good. Starts off straight down the line Rock and/or Roll with interesting little experimental flourishes here and there. But it evolves as the record goes on and keeps changing to keep me invested. I’d much rather have seen this included than any number of depressing British Post Punk albums on the list. It’s probably a 4 star album for me, but it gets an extra bonus point for showing that douche Dimery what the list should have been.

This is OK Fun enough, poppy, punk, hair metal, rock. It’s not my thing, but if I was the right age at the right time I could see this being important to me.

I enjoyed most of the music production but found the vocals a little grating at times. Sounds like he’s off his meds, but not always in a good way. Avengers out to a 3.

You know what? It probably makes it into my top ten Argentinian rock albums of all time!

Post-Grunge Prog Fusion. Steely Jam? Pearl Dan? I hate this.

I quite liked a lot of this, and respect him for making it single handed. But… I also dislike much of it. I found some of it really unpleasant and was pretty happy when it was over

This really doesn’t match my energy. This is very ugly and angry. I submitted Jack Johnson, man.

Maybe more interesting than entertaining.

Fairly unremarkable R&B. Pretty inoffensive but certainly not my vibe.

First listen I thought this was alright, but over the weekend it slipped down in my favour and by Monday morning it had settled firmly in “subpar”.

The original list had too much Britpop. It seems that my American cousins are trying to counter balance this over representation with a load of boring Post-Grunge sludge, which is of very little interest to me.

Wonderful soothing instrumentals but the vocals were maybe a little too smooth for my taste.