This list really loves albums that are old. This is more old music that is not special or unique compared to the other old music and it adds nothing. Just because things are old don’t make them groundbreaking or important. This is best described as decade filler.

Listening to this album made me feel like I was watching an episode of Sesame Street for some reason. This is super country. It’s not like the rock country or the blues country or even fiddle country. This is just straight living in the Appalachians with a hand crank well pump in your front yard and an outhouse. If you like that, listen to this album. It might be too heavy for you though.

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Here's the thing about Van Halen: they're really talented people who haven't made anything I've ever liked. This album is no different. Most of the songs I've heard from them are on this album so I knew I wouldn't feel any different after listening. People go gaga over Eruption but it's simply disjointed, incoherent soloing that isn't well put together. He's just doing a bunch of admittedly cool things like he wanted to show someone all the possible tricks he has. If he had made it mesh together it would've been way more impressive. I get why people like Van Halen, there's just way more acts who have a better use for their talent.

There are a couple of hits on here but it’s boomer rock and doesn’t add anything special to the genre. People joke that the Eagles are bland and haven’t added to the genre. This is a far more bland album than anything the Eagles have put out. I see almost no impact to the music world if this album hadn’t been made. This list doesn’t need this album.

This fucker wants his music off Spotify and now I have to jump through hoops to try and find his old ass album? No thanks. Just like people who complain about piracy, if you make it difficult for people to find your content, they either won't or they will pirate. I can't even be bothered to pirate this guy. I don't pay for all these music services so you get a 1-star for being a tool.

I listened to this album closer than some other albums because I wanted to find a reason not to rate a Lorde album 5 stars. There wasn’t a track on here I didn’t like. I have no excuse to give this leas credit than it deserves. The lyrics are clever, the music is catchy, I like the beats, the synths, and the vocals are delivered really well. Overall it’s an album that is filled with good tracks that are fun to listen to.

It’s fine as background music in a show or a video game. Is it terrible like some other reviews make it appear? No. The guy is certainly talented playing most of these instruments himself at 19. The final track really brings this down though. Short attention spans aren’t going to let a lot of people tolerate this album though. Maybe if he just split the tracks up they’d have liked it better. It’s good music. I just don’t have a desire to listen to background music much these days.

This one was very interesting. I’m not one for skits but this one did capture early radio stations I heard growing up. I liked the music once it got started. Solid album.

It’s just ok. Nothing special but also nothing bad. I wouldn’t feel like I was missing anything if I’d have not heard this album and I think I’ll forget it quickly.

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A lot to like here but I have limited years of my life and I can’t afford to spend them waiting several mins for a song to begin or listening to “time becomes a loop” a billion times.

This list really loves albums that are old. This is more old music that is not special or unique compared to the other old music and it adds nothing. Just because things are old don’t make them groundbreaking or important. This is best described as decade filler.

Another example why this list needs a committee and not a single author. We get it, the author loves Elvis Costello. Not every one of his albums is groundbreaking or great. There’s so many other albums that need to go on this list instead of another Elvis Costello run of the mill.

It’s ok. Nothing really adding to the genre but nothing special.

One of the better Beatles albums. I was never a huge Beatles person. When I was younger they were no longer “cool” and I was too angsty to appreciate their goofy songs and I couldn’t look past those to see their more serious tracks. I have heard most of these in the years sense and have come to have more of an appreciation for them. They’re good and I could listen to them more.

This album had a lot of ups and downs for me. It starts strong with the first track that is a perfect blend of rawness, punk, catchiness and message. It falls off hard on the next two tracks and I was worried this was a one-hit album. That wasn’t the case but there were only a handful of songs I thought I’d listen to again but those songs are so good I still give this a high rating. I’d have loved this album if I knew of it back in 99.

More easy listening if you’re into easy listening. Inoffensive if you’re not into offensive. This is “safe music” and you put it on if you don’t want anyone complaining in a crowd because while it isn’t special in any way, people are afraid to say they don’t like something Paul Simon has put out and don’t care for this pedestrian album. This sounds like an album Paul Simon’s label put out when when he has no hits.

I need the author to explain to me why this album is in this list. This is another album where the artist sat around high on meth adding random ambient sounds repeating for minutes on end and then someone circle jerked them into thinking they creating magic. This isn’t special and anyone with a year of Fruity Loops experience can churn out something better. Yeah, they start putting beats in and then repeat those ad nauseum until every ounce of promise has been ripped from the track. They do that thing where they build up adding new sounds every few minutes like it’s a chore to put in effort to hear something neat happen at minute 5. No thanks.

It’s fine. It sounds like those guys who hang out at faires and play lutes trying to sell their “Sounds of the Wind” album. This is great if you like feeling like you’re laying in a valley listening to birds and the grass is starting to itch and you know you’re supposed to keep listening and relaxing and enjoying it but at the same time you’re really wondering how long you have to listen and people won’t judge you.

Sigh. More albums like this make this “1001 Albums to Waste Precious Minutes of Your Life.” This is an album of Christmas music without the Christmas.

This was really interesting. Just when you think you have it pegged it does something different. Sometimes that different is doing a George Michael song but overall it’s really good I think. It’s amazing this came out in 91 and it was totally overshadowed by grunge and alternative but this is a good mixture of that late 80s rock, hip hop, and early alternative.

I was reserved when seeing another live album. I don't typically find them appealing with bad mixing/recording. This one was different. It sounded great. Here was a band who are all dead today but back then they were on the verge of breaking up and having one stretch of live shows and recordings to try to hit it big and take that next step. You hear that intensity in this performance. Only thing better would be to go back in time and attend the show live.

It’s jazz. If you like jazz then here’s some jazz for you. It sounds like all the other jazz so maybe this is good jazz or maybe this is middle of the road jazz. It’s definitely jazz though.

Really good early days of rap. It's upbeat and positive but not in the boring way that old music tends to be.

Not as great as the other album of his on this list but still ok to listen to. It has a few hits on it but Tiny Dancer takes too long to get to the good part. No wonder the radio edit shortens the beginning.

Ok but not his best album. Some of this is good but also just too high pitched to understand.

Damn

This is some smooth music. I like this dude's voice and the songs are easy to listen to.

I did not "come together" on yet another live album. Maybe if I were there I'd get into it more but this is just another "look what you missed" album and it doesn't even really sound like I missed much.

I grew up hating the cult of personality. I can't tell you why other than people having different taste but I loved rock and alternative so it's the kind of song I should've liked but I didn't. Skip to today. This album is on my list and I listen to all of them even if I suspect I will dislike it. Wow. Was I missing out. The album starts with cult of personality but this time I'm thinking, "maybe I wasn't very fair with this song. It's not as bad as you thought." I actually kind of liked it. After hearing it a million times maybe it's acquired taste! The rest of the album though I really did like. I was missing out on a great album that was always there and available for me at any time. Can't go back now but I'm glad I listened and changed my mind.

It has some of their best songs but it's not perfect. The last two tracks are not ones I could ever want to listen to. The weird garbled vocals on the last track and the long drawn up drum jam are just not interesting. It's sad because with some different tracks in place there this could've been a perfect album.

It doesn't get a 1 because the music is actually ok. The vocals are terrible though and I couldn't listen ever again. His voice is ok but his lyrics and cadence aren't entertaining to me.

Everyone has heard School’s Out the song but as an album I find it largely forgettable. There isn’t another track on here I’d see myself playing again. Alice Cooper has a mystique that isn’t represented on this album at all besides some lyrics here and there about graveyards in your soul. I’d skip this and listen to something else.

This is a really late 80s /early 90s Janet Jackson album. There is a good amount of songs that are catchy and “radio friendly” and other songs that have more meaning and emotion. It’s easy to listen to and several I remember listening to back in those days.

Very boring. There is nothing gained here after listening. I do not want to hear them again.

It’s aggressively ok. I see where modern acts have taken inspiration from this. It falls into that category of important for providing inspiration for later acts who’ve expanded and iterated on this to deliver something better. So it’s important but after hearing the better stuff based on this work you find yourself not wanting to listen to this anymore. It has a lot of flavors I should like but just find it ok. It makes me want to listen to MGMT.

It's jazz. If you like sitting around your house listening to smooth instrumental jazz then this is for you. I don't so it's not for me. If I were at a jazz club and they played it there then I'd be ok. I don't have any use for this album outside of that purpose.

This Elvis Costello album was slightly better than the last but nothing I'd write home about. I don't know why. I like his voice. I like his singing style. He has a Tom Petty vibe who I love but Elvis's songs are boring. Storytelling is great if your stories are good but I can't do anything with this album.

It's fine. It's not the best rap album but there's nothing too bad about it other than being slower, more rhythmic rap you see in the earlier years. It's dated for sure too.

Another just fine album. It's not great. It's not terrible. Would I miss it if I never heard it again? No. Only the Good Die Young and Moving Out I like but those are what gets this into the "fine" category.

It's another emperor's new clothes album. People are too afraid to say they don't listen to this old music that doesn't have a good production quality. It was good then, it inspired later artists, it has a place in music history, you should hear it once I guess. It isn't something you listen to again though because there are newer, better albums today. That's with a lot of this list. She's a good singer but time changes all, even music.

Nothing special to see here.

The previous Cohen album I rated was terrible. This wasn't. Some of it I'd classify as even good. The probables is it overstays it's welcome after like 3 tracks. I don't know how people can listen to him slowly prod through album after album if this is his style. He's like the last dinner guest at your house after everyone else has left. You're standing at the door. Dishes are being washed. You keep saying things like "well ok then" but he keeps telling his story and launching into new ones. If you told me he writes his music watching birds I'd tell you it shows in the music. Not bad but it gets boring.

It was ok. I was concerned with the first track because it was good music but the singing was ghastly. I don't know why they led off with that song. If the rest was sung the same way I'd have not made it through the album. Overall it was ok. It seemed to go on forever though and I did get tired of it. There any great songs that made me want to listen again but nothing too bad.

There's much better Steely Dan than this album. There's much better everything than this album. I haven't figured out why it's on this list but it's not good and not special or important.

Beach Boys fans are going to hate you if you don't like this album but you have to be a Beach Boys fan to care about anything here. If you e been in a grocery store in the last 30 years you've heard Wouldn't It Be Nice. That's pretty much the album just never meeting the catchiness of that track.

This is my second Wilco album I've come across on this list. I don't think it's as bad as the other one but it's boring. It's like 90s alternative without the urgency. Imagine REM sitting around one day and say, "maybe we should try writing some slow songs for once?" That would be this. It doesn't get a single star because the singer doesn't sound bad and the music is ok. Just a album full of boring. Even the band hates it. I'd like to ask the author what this did for music to warrant being on this list?

Nothing here is bad but it's dated. I'd listen to it again but it's on the same category as sublime. I'm sure in 1979 this inspired scores of ska and pink kids. Today it's just ok.

Blerg. His vocals are ok on this album. It's tough to give a Bowie album a poor rating but I definitely will when it doesn't even have him singing hardly. It's boring. It's low in the list of great Bowie albums.

Another one of these. People tell me they're like the Smashing Pumpkins. They're no where close. It's just shoegaze nonsense with droning low vocals. That genre is the worst. I can't imagine these albums are high on the list to get replaced by the next great albums in the next update.

It's a live album and I normally don't rate those high. You have to be there to get the full effect. He incorporates Capital Theater into his song and the crowd goes wild. That means nothing to me. I don't even know where Capital Theater is. It isn't anything bad until they start adding back in the crowd and it's just annoying. Few songs are better in the live version. I'd rather just listen to these songs on their studio albums.

Really isn't any different than the other album on this list. Why both are needed is beyond me. There's too many conditions you need in order to like this: be drunk, be drunk with friends, your friends have to be drunk, you have to be at a pub, you have to be at an Irish pub, you have to be in the mood to sing Irish folk punk, then you can enjoy this. Since there's so many conditions needed you probably don't need both these Pogues albums. Choose one and you're ok.

This is one of the Aerosmith albums I'd never listened to before. This was pretty rocking. I liked it more than most of their recent stuff and better than their first two albums. Very short at about 30 mins so it's a quick listen. There's some tracks I'd be happy to listen to again. Nobody's Fault is a song I'd never heard before. The closing solo is good. Not the best guitar solo I've ever heard but good for them.

It's ok. I'm not particularly inspired by it but it isn't terrible.

It's good jazz. If you like jazz then here you go.

It's fun and funky.

It was good. A little slow but I'm into this type of music so I could see myself listening again. I wouldn't be upset if I never heard it again though. It's the perfect example of middle of the road to me.

Here's the thing about Van Halen: they're really talented people who haven't made anything I've ever liked. This album is no different. Most of the songs I've heard from them are on this album so I knew I wouldn't feel any different after listening. People go gaga over Eruption but it's simply disjointed, incoherent soloing that isn't well put together. He's just doing a bunch of admittedly cool things like he wanted to show someone all the possible tricks he has. If he had made it mesh together it would've been way more impressive. I get why people like Van Halen, there's just way more acts who have a better use for their talent.

I have always abhorred All I Want to Do. It's been decades now since it last infiltrated my radio all day and night at the height of its popularity but even today hearing it is an offense to my ears. Luckily, Sheryl has far better songs, some on this album even. The other singles from here are pretty good and Run, Baby, Run is catchy enough and well-put together that I figured it would be a hit. It's not a terrible album overall but just stop when it hits that All I Wanna Do as the rest aren't worth your while.

No

I really only like Nothing Compares 2 U and Black Boys on Mopeds. The rest is good singing but those are the only special songs to me.

This is a great album. Peak 90s rap if you ask me and worthy of ushering in the early 2000s changes to the genre. The lyrics and flow are great. The beats are dated for sure but if these dudes got together for a modern album I'd be all for it.

"Who is it? What is it? Who is it? What is it?" Idk who or what it is but it isn't good. They wrote psycho killer which is good and everyone have them a free pass on the rest of the album. It seriously feels like at times he doesn't know what to say and just says random words. This genre is usually my favorite but I'll not miss putting this album to bed and never listening again.

Listening to this album made me feel like I was watching an episode of Sesame Street for some reason. This is super country. It’s not like the rock country or the blues country or even fiddle country. This is just straight living in the Appalachians with a hand crank well pump in your front yard and an outhouse. If you like that, listen to this album. It might be too heavy for you though.

I’m not an adolescent girl in the 60s so this does nothing for me. It’s another example of how the author needs permission not to add every album from iconic bands. It seems like he thinks that’s required. It’s ok to say a Beatles album isn’t great and in comparison with their other albums it’s fine to leave it off the list for better albums.

This was such an unexpected surprise. I won’t lie. I thought it was Jaden Smith on the cover! Little Simz is so freaking good. Every single track was fire. I added every track to a playlist in Spotify and this goes in heavy rotation.

To me it’s an album carried by Maggie May. The rest are ok to listen to but like so many albums of the time it had a hit and a lot of b-tracks.

I enjoyed this more than I expected. This dude is smooth. I believe in love now that I’ve heard this album. I can’t believe this is 1969 though.

Really couldn’t get into this. It’s not bad but nothing I would want to listen to again.

I don’t know what to do with this album after hearing it. Do I hate it? No. Do I like it? No. Is this culturally significant in some way? Idk. Is this an important album in the band’s career? Idk. It’s just here.

Obviously everyone loves American Pie. Correction: everyone loves the situation that surrounds a crowd singing the song in unison but may not necessarily love the song itself. It has that group dynamic. After that song, this album has nothing left to offer except generic old folk singing. If you like that, you’ll like this but it doesn’t stand out to some of the other great folk albums on this list.

What I expect from early punk. A lot of fun here and as inspiration many bands have improved on this and executed much better. For the era, this would’ve been excellent.

Another one of those albums that feels like the emperor’s new clothes. If you admit you find it boring then you have zero taste in music and everyone will push you into the mud and make fun of you. So more people say they like it. It’s another concept album from the band but not as good as their others. There’s still good songs here and there’s a light show you can go see they’ve been milking for 80 years but make sure you’re high to listen or watch.

This fucker wants his music off Spotify and now I have to jump through hoops to try and find his old ass album? No thanks. Just like people who complain about piracy, if you make it difficult for people to find your content, they either won't or they will pirate. I can't even be bothered to pirate this guy. I don't pay for all these music services so you get a 1-star for being a tool.

This was a really good listen. I didn’t think I’d like it as much as I did. Everyone has heard Time After Time and All Through the Night and I thought it would be one of those albums with two hits and then a bunch of b-sides like what happened so often back then but that wasn’t the case. Solid album.

This one was pretty ok. I did not mind it but didn’t have a significant reaction to it. I do like the bond the band members seem to have and got a feeling of a live jam session that still sounded good. I like when bands sound like they enjoy playing with each other and have fun doing what they do. I would’ve preferred being able to hear the vocals more but as a live album it’s what I expect.

This has a lot of the Christmas hits you already know and hear every year. It's pretty timeless but you're limited to just December on this one.

Some of the songs added in the last few tracks were pretty cool but overall this is largely forgettable.

There’s a reason the shoegaze genre is the lowest ranked genre on this site. This is it. It just drones on and on and you can’t even tell it’s the next song except for the fact that you know you ended the previous one by pressing next halfway through. Imagine waking up and thinking “you know what will be really groundbreaking? Having vocals in a song that you can hear someone is singing but because the mix makes them super low, and I just stone on and on, no one can tell what I’m saying, but not in a cool way like metal or grunge, just in a way that makes the record sound unfinished. That would be really cool.”

There are a couple of hits on here but it’s boomer rock and doesn’t add anything special to the genre. People joke that the Eagles are bland and haven’t added to the genre. This is a far more bland album than anything the Eagles have put out. I see almost no impact to the music world if this album hadn’t been made. This list doesn’t need this album.

Another person in the list I’ve heard their name for many years and yet had not heard anything from them. I was certainly missing out. I really enjoyed this Tom Waits album and it’s different than so much other music.

It’s a good early punk album. They do something that’s at the same time classic but you can listen in modern times as well.

This fucker wants his music off Spotify and now I have to jump through hoops to try and find his old ass album? No thanks. Just like people who complain about piracy, if you make it difficult for people to find your content, they either won't or they will pirate. I can't even be bothered to pirate this guy. I don't pay for all these music services so you get a 1-star for being a tool.

This pretty excellent. I’ve never heard of him and I’m glad I have now. The composition and song writing here is fantastic, easy to listen to, and highly enjoyable. He plays a lot of these instruments and can sing well. It’s all interesting. I don’t think it’s sing along or something you end up memorizing the lyrics but you still like to listen to it.

I normally abhor Jane's Addiction. Them and Perry Farrell's other band Porno for Pyros have always felt like the same music because he's so unique and overpowering as singer. Neither have piqued my interest over the years. I have Nothing's Shocking a low rating but this album just hit for me. I still dislike Been Caught Stealing but the rest of the songs are really good. I'll listen again.

Björk has always felt like the "high art" version of pop music. It's not bad and there's stuff I like. It's just I find myself wanting to care about it more than I actually do. I give her high marks for seemingly doing whatever the heck she wants to do and that's always a good thing in my book. Still, this is an album that I'll never listen to again but feel guilty that I "don't get her" the way she probably deserves.

I'd heard Maps and liked it. I really liked Heads Will Roll but I'd never gotten around to checking them out further. Well I did with this album and I wasn't missing anything. I even checked their Spotify and their top 5 songs is Maps and 4 different versions of Heads Will Roll. This album is a conundrum for me. I like the style of music. I like the music. I like her vocals. I just don't find any of the songs other than Maps entertaining. It's the same issue I've always had with Van Halen as well. All talented but don't like any of the songs.

If they say too much of a good thing is bad then too much of a mediocre thing is just awful. This is that. It wasn't bad but by the end all the goodwill it gained in the beginning had worn thin. By the final ten tracks you're begging for it to be over.

I'm sure the concert was great. Maybe if I'd been there I'd enjoy this album more. As it stands, it's good music just they jam way too long to be enjoyable outside of the actual attendance.

I'm all for experimental music but they should've experimented with something different.

Randy Newman's music is the equivalent of walking down the street and overhearing random people's conversations. Mundane and irrelevant to you. It has no significant bearing on your life and quickly forgettable. Listening to an entire album is the equivalent of waiting in a long line and having to hear the guy behind you carry out the boring details of his life.

This dude got a Casio keyboard for Christmas one year and made the same song over and over.

Not as bad as everyone here makes it seem but that's about the best you can say about it. They seem like they had a good time making it and if that isn't what music is all about then I don't know what is.

It's fine

This is the definition of an overrated album. The amount of hype portraying this as perfection in musical form hurts it and forces you to listen more critically and decrease your own rating. This album is not bad. It's much more important to the Beatles and their mythos than it is important to music as a whole. It's decent but not great. There are better Beatles albums for sure.

Another band I've heard of and never gotten around to checking them out. Well if this is the best they have then I'm glad I didn't waste my time before. What a forgettable album that does absolutely nothing new and seems to even do that worse than others.

This is it. When people want a hip hop and rap suggestion you name this album. This is a 5 star album and in a list that is rife with questionable choices, this one stands above the rest.

Really beautiful music. Takes you back to when music was structured differently though.

It's hair metal but one of the few hair metal bands who are pretty good. Richie Sambora really loves his pinch harmonics and his solos are simplistic compared to his peers but they still fit. This album would be much better with some epic solos though. This album has a lot to offer in hits and deep tracks.

This is like listening to art. I know it's good. I know it's important. It just doesn't really mean anything to me. It's an album I should like. I like his other albums. I like his style. I like his lyrics. I like his content. I like the beats. It's everything I want...I just don't don't want this. It's not bad though either. I'd rather reach for Good Kid, Damn, or even Black Panther.

When the special thing about this album on Wikipedia is that it was included in "1001 albums you must hear before you die" it makes it a bit recursive. Maybe if you like Mambo music this will be good for you.

More old music that's on here because everyone has heard the song Groovin so obviously the entire album is so special you must hear it, right? Right? Nope. Just the same boring and bland old music with one track that got popular and surrounded by filler.

I can feel the lack of Kim Deal in this album and find it less deserving to be on this list than previous releases. Maybe they rushed this one a little too much. It's not terrible. I wouldn't reach for it again though like I would with albums like Doolittle.

This is just flat out boring

Some of the music was pleasant but it just sounds like literally everything that came out at the time.

It has some hits and isn't bad to hear.

I really thought I'd like this album while listening to the first two tracks. They were interesting and she's a good singer. She showed a ranged of emotion and the music was interesting. It just didn't go anywhere after that. She sounds flat and the music is just boring.

It's a great album. People like Ziggy and it's a fine track but Suffragette City is the star. I wouldn't say it's perfect since there are some boring filler tracks mixed in but the good tracks compensate for those.