Her voice keeps switching from annoying to beautiful

Nails on a chalkboard

Sounds like a modern hipster band

One of my favorites

Perfect

I listen to this album a couple times a year. Great album to start with! Upbeat and classic.

I had this album in regular rotation back in high school but it's been a couple decades since I've listened to it. Today is now a jazz day and I'm listening to all sorts of old favorites

Sad I missed this band growing up. This was my first time listening to this album. It's beautiful but I think it's a little too '90s for me to really get into now

I've heard most of these songs individually but never together. I'm not a fan.

First time I've heard of this band! I like it.

Solid music, not my style

Quality. I remember this well from parties at college

I feel like an old person saying this album gave me a headache but I was 14 when it came out. It seems so repetitive, with its only saving grace being familiarity.

I should listen to this more. Enjoyed the album thoroughly

Perfect

It's a shame to give it a bad rating because the music style is great but I cannot handle the singer's voice

Perfect

Whiny, annoying. Although I did like some hipster music from that era, I never understood the draw of this band.

I'm a fan, but this album is not one of my favorites

Bizarre

Great. I can see how this influenced today's artists. Not very catchy to me

Glad I listened

Lovely, and in the style of good '60s music the lyrics are painful (in a good way)

There is this quality to this album that makes it great rap even after 25 years. I think it's how many collaborators are on it

Lovely. I'll have to pull this out again

Discordant. I didn't know that Pink Floyd went back this far

Smooth, sexy.

Solid, great music

Beautiful voice, not always my favorite music

I can't handle the voice

I can't believe I've never heard this album before! This is going in my regular rotation

I love the references to pagers and watching Arsenio Hall on channel 9

Her voice keeps switching from annoying to beautiful

I purchased the CD when it came out and was disappointed at how chill it was. I can appreciate it a lot more now but I think Beck is better when he is more funky

I love the Who. I hate live albums. The sound quality is awful even though this is one of the best albums.

Sounds like a modern hipster band

The songs are fine, I just can't stand his voice

I can appreciate this album as much now as on my first listen when I was six years old. It isn't subtle. It is still brilliant.

Fun. Never heard of the band before

Quality music, not my style

Another album I wish I had heard back in the '90s

Some great songs but the rest was too esoteric for me

One of my favorites

Pretty darn good, especially for an album I've never heard of before

Decent jazz album

A very specific sound but also mostly fun

The rest of the songs are almost as good as the song The Weight

I've never heard of it, it's inoffensive, didn't blow me away

Another new-to-me artist. I think I would have been blown away in the nineties, but now it's okay.

Super interesting! I'm still not sure if I enjoyed it but I'll give it more listens later on

There is a song on here that I sang in choir and I thought it was something way more lame than the beatles

Too much distortion, it hurts my brain

I like Fugazi but this album just sounded like noise

First listen of that album but I know Morrissey well. He didn't ever change his style, did he?

Some great songs, some not so great songs. But I can't bear to give Queen less than four stars

Nails on a chalkboard

Surprising because I'm a fan of the later pop selections from Aerosmith, but this album was not enjoyable

I usually just think of them as classic rock but I was really blown away listening to the whole album together

surprisingly pleasant for music that is not my style

One of those albums I put on and then a half hour later remember I'm listening to music. Entirely inoffensive, but I'm not seeing the art.

I don't get why this is good

I've tried this album a couple times and still can't tell if I like it

The least good of a great discography

Oh the memories

Not my style but I can see how it's good

can't believe I'm giving a live album this high of a rating

Pretty good, eclectic album. Weird that the only song from it I know was a pop hit

Not their strongest album - odd that it's on this list. But it's hard to go wrong with the Pixies.

Not my style of music but I actually listened and I can see why some would consider it great

Aside from the misogyny, this album is just about perfect

Way to chill for most situations but it is a very good album

One of my all time favorites

I had only ever heard the song "pale blue eyes" on many mixed tapes - the rest of their music I only knew with Nico. Much better without her.

It's a genre I like so I want to give it 3 stars but it's seriously so annoying I can't

Solid. All good songs

Only one fantastic song but the whole album is pretty good

If he only had a better voice

Interesting. Worth a full listen a couple times

I'm glad I listened to the whole album; I would never have known there were Springsteen songs I could tolerate well. Some I would swear weren't him.

I don't like the song Sweet Dreams so I was shocked that I love the rest of the music on this album!

Always a classic

Surprised I disliked this. It was annoying with the sliding, drunk-sounding voice

I listened four times through. Really great.

One of the best albums, musically, lyrically, and vocally, I've ever heard

Sounded generic on first listen but I really liked it after the second

If give them another listen! Pretty good but nothing caught me

Not my style at all but so beautiful I'll revisit it for sure!

I could give it another try but I'm not feeling it. I could see myself really liking it if I fist heard it as a teenager

Fantastic that they fit a whole album into 15 minutes. of all the hardcore punk I've seen this is some of the more enjoyable.

really, not bad. I can tell why she has so many fans. It's just too slow and not electronic enough for me

So grating, and I can't find the greatness

A bit too weird modern jazz for me

Motorhead is good. Live albums are not.

I really should have owned this cassette, damn

Funky, smooth, and lots of social commentary about drugs.

It's impressive when I already know most of the songs on an album. Odd that there are so many repeats made of different versions of songs on two discs, but also lots of other odd choices that made it stand out.

It was gibberish. Not uncomfortable to listen to, and I get that he revolutionized hip hop and all, but I couldn't make it out.

Something something separate the art from the artist, I don't know what I would have rated this if I didn't know who the nazi is. Then again he talked about women as females after sending dick pics so maybe it deserves two stars? Listened to the whole thing, props to me.

Musically fantastic, vocally grating

Too much repetition and electric beat for me in general, though by the Erasure-like song Sometimes it gets more melodic and I started grooving.

I had read about the xx and was excited to listen to dream pop. I heard fine electronica. Not much song to song distinction.

I don't know why I thought The The was in the '60's era of The Who. I'm a big fan of This Is the Day from Empire Records, and the rest of the album is pretty great. I'll give this lots of more listens.

With how much I admire the persona of Elton John, I really want to like his music more.

I listened to it on repeat for days

Great early country, if you like that. Surprised I haven't heard of her before.

Another one I just don't get. I want to feel inspired by the Celtic poetry, the starving artist beauty that so many hear, but I hear a slightly annoying guy in a cheezy bar in Vegas. It's surely an interesting follow up to Brown Eyed Girl.

Refreshing when you know the first banger of a song and the entire album continues in that groove

Really underimpressive from the Velvet Underground guy. I'm reading all of these as bland background songs I had to keep reminding myself to listen to

grateful it was so short. I'm grateful for the nineties but not this voice, sadly

So little instrumentation and effort can make my shoulders go up to my ears from how awful the songs make me feel inside, but it's also not bad, it's just drivel with a droning voice

People are always surprised when there is a breakout artist from a boy band or a girl group, not realizing that they are real artists in themselves. This album is when The Monkees were finally able to write their own shit and it shows

I'd never heard of this album, artist, or the main song before, and man what I had missed out on. Glad to listen now.

Folksy, seems pretty socially justicy which i like but I still don't enjoy folk music

If I had this album when I was a pre-teen I would have devoured it. Great American stuff, glad to have realized I really only know Pet Sounds.

If I didn't just listen to Low it probably would have a four. Not bad, not great

The organ is spectacular.

Fun new wave, a bit cheesy

Really fun groovy stuff, sounds like they had a blast while making it

Amazing that I've been hearing these songs for over forty years and that first one can still make me cry. The percussion and instrumentals on Cecelia are delightful. Each time I order a lager I sing "I'd rather be a lager than an ale" to the tune of El Condor Pasa. The range on this album is impressive as hell. I love how many songs are quiet with only guitar, some have choir backing vocals, some have horns or flutes, and each fit the song perfectly, and the songs flow together in an album so well

This brings me back. A full listen and I was surprised at how much of the album I know, never having owned it. College houseparties screaming about 'fuck the norm', but listening now the music phrasing is sick as hell.

It's hard to be objective about an album whose cassette I owned and whose songs belonged on a third of all my mixed tapes. Perfect road trip album

Hometown pride (Go Bills!) will never be enough to get me to understand this damn band

I recognize how important this album is, and I finished it. I don't like electronic music.

Repetitive, bad use of instruments and vocals, but so much freaking fun. Great energy and lyrics

In the nineties I called his music cheesy. Listening today I'm in a total groove, though I haven't heard most of these songs before. I am very pleasantly surprised

Aside from the bad covers, chill music

A concept album that works. Creepy as hell, though if you put his albums in order the next song that comes up is "nazi rock"... his songs fit this perfect mood and this album does the thing an album is supposed to do. it takes me on a journey, and before I knew the lyrics I felt really good about the journey.

Beautiful songs, rocking album, can't stand his voice

Since I saw the album as a teenager, I have wished this was a lesbian power album. Even if the lyrics are about the singer loving an abusive guy, this album slaps.

Great album, especially on a US holiday. Feels patriotic.

Better than I was expecting but a double album?! Not fair.

I love Sam Cooke but live albums are rough

The worst parts about classic rock, men who think they can sing, and men who love classic rock. The least terrible part was the spoken word song

Damn, what a great album. Good example of a rough voice used perfectly. powerful lyrics, good songs, good flow, and an album that changed the game. Legit.

Nostolgia but bad? Don't know how it made the list

Really fun and fresh. Not their best, but some strong songs

I'm sad that China Girl was an Iggy Pop song that Bowie covered. I've always hated that song. Otherwise, this album slaps

This was my first listen. How remarkable, I need to remember to go back for more Kate Bush

So I love me some heavy radio play pop music, I love a good movie song, I'm not against popular stuff. I just checked and I'm dissapointed the Spice Girls never made this list. But I've never once intentionally listened to a Coldplay song and I know 3/4 of these mediocre, sleep-mood songs. Are they just a more friendly radiohead? I'm so confused. Worst part is they are not bad enough to give a two.

Back when I was doing warehouse raves in the '90s I sometimes went to the jungle room because that's where the cute guys danced. I never lasted longer than four songs. I genuinely mean no shade to this artist, I just can't handle the whole freaking genre.

A couple bangers (like A Fool), but the rest of the album isn't worth a second listen

I am glad I have grown into Janis Joplin. I was putting this album off because I have always found her voice grating, but now I see a deep soul and feeling. The songs are beautiful.

Great harmonies. Otherwise boring

boring '90s crap

I kept forgetting there was music playing. I've heard this album at a house party before so I don't need a re-listen, I am giving it a third star for how unoffensive it is

Double albums now get an automatic -1 star. I don't like that these songs and instruments are fun, good, quality, high-energy, and the untrained and rough voices take away from it so much.

I have no idea how these songs were so popular in Europe. Signed, an American '90s Spice Girls megafan

Even though it's new to me it's such a feeling of the '90s that I heard my partner and hid my snack because I was so convinced it was my mom

This one surprised me. It was boring and a little cheezy at first but it's got a lot of depth and gets lots of relistens.

When I first heard the Yeah Yeah Yeahs I was blown away. I heard them a lot a lot, and now I generally avoid them. I realized in listening to this album, I definitely avoid because of overexposure. They are so solid and I will come back to this band hard in a decade or so.

A good 15 years since I've heard the full album, it's still a banger

boring and annoying

I've heard this album Maybe dozens of times. I don't understand how some artists I love, admire this guy. He seems so College radio.

Something special. It can be background music but it's the type that makes me stop and breathe and relax every so often.

Luck of the draw that I missed this cassette in the '90s, I would have memorized this album hard. There were even enough clean lyrics I could have sung them around my mom. I kept listening to Gang Starr after this and enjoyed their later stuff even more but this album does slap.

Solid as heck.

It hurts to give this a three because it's truly not good enough. But just fifteen years ago I had this album on repeat and I'm not a dumb person so there must be something to it.

I am glad for the impetus to listen to old Bowie! Some of the songs were really mind bending. I really enjoyed several listens through.

I do get down with Ornette Coleman on occasion and I have nothing against stochastic music. I do like some Captain Beefheart songs too. This album was a bit too Free Rock for me, the distortion was so constant I had to check my speakers a couple times. Although it had its moments it wasn't a winner.

Fresh sound, great beats, comprehensible lyrics. If I didn't understand the lyrics I might make this a favorite album, but the singers show grown men unable to handle basic emotion, and I see enough of that in my daily life.

Brilliant tones, voice, invigorating and relaxing music. I must revisit

Good, fun, rocking, and if I didn't go in blind knowing their later work it would get a higher score

Great artist, good album

Woah, this is my first never-heard-of-them-before five. I know the singer from the buzzcocks but these songs are much more like a well baked breakfast pastry than his previous band's wonderful Nick Tahoe's garbage plate songs

Separate the killer beats art from the awful lyrics artist. Lots of these albums with bad lyrics pass me by because they mumble but Dre annunciates how he will beat a woman if she talks back to him and how women are shit but hoes and tricks. It's tough because there's nostolgia but it's a painful listen