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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United States Of America | 5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
| Follow The Leader | 5 | 2.65 | +2.35 |
| Palo Congo | 5 | 2.69 | +2.31 |
| All Hope Is Gone | 5 | 2.7 | +2.3 |
| Medúlla | 5 | 2.72 | +2.28 |
| Electric Prunes | 5 | 2.73 | +2.27 |
| I Am a Bird Now | 5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
| Caetano Veloso | 5 | 2.85 | +2.15 |
| Beach Samba | 5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
| Os Mutantes | 5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Joshua Tree | 1 | 3.67 | -2.67 |
| Hounds Of Love | 1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
| Coat Of Many Colors | 1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
| The Fat Of The Land | 1 | 3.41 | -2.41 |
| Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | 1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
| Stardust | 1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
| xx | 1 | 3.37 | -2.37 |
| Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) | 1 | 3.24 | -2.24 |
| Virgin Suicides | 1 | 3.24 | -2.24 |
| Being There | 1 | 3.22 | -2.22 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Beatles | 7 | 4.71 |
| Miles Davis | 4 | 4.75 |
| David Bowie | 9 | 4.22 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 4.5 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 4.67 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.67 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.2 |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 4.25 |
| Metallica | 4 | 4.25 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.33 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 4.33 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 5 | 4 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| My Bloody Valentine | 3 | 1.67 |
| Dolly Parton | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Prodigy | 2 | 1.5 |
| Air | 2 | 1.5 |
| Emmylou Harris | 2 | 1.5 |
| Fatboy Slim | 2 | 1.5 |
| Primal Scream | 2 | 1.5 |
| Willie Nelson | 2 | 1.5 |
| Orbital | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Beta Band | 2 | 1.5 |
| Kraftwerk | 3 | 2 |
| Beck | 3 | 2 |
| Kate Bush | 3 | 2 |
| Joni Mitchell | 4 | 2.25 |
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| Artist | Ratings |
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| Fela Kuti | 5, 2 |
| Spiritualized | 4, 1 |
| Rufus Wainwright | 4, 1 |
| Brian Eno | 2, 2, 1, 4, 4 |
5-Star Albums (96)
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Mj Cole
1/5
Ok, it's possible to do the worst album ever and still be part of the 1001 list. You convinced me.
17 likes
Sleater-Kinney
5/5
This is one of the best albums that I didn't know and I'm listening now with this site. This is just a great and classical rock album with all the strength and soul that was expected from a real rock album. For sure, it is a five-star album
15 likes
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
It is a refreshing album. Good to listen to after something more experimental or hard to understand. In short, it is a simple album, but here, simplicity it's a good thing.
13 likes
Buck Owens
1/5
I know that the 1001 list is very USA/UK-centered, but I must say that for each pair of country albums on the list, we can replace one of them (like this one) with almost ANY album by almost ANY artist from India, Nigeria, or South Africa, for example. I am keeping the list only of native-English speakers rather than thinking about other world music.
I know the original book was unavoidably focused on the USA and UK since these countries gave us the majority of good albums worldwide, but the book was updated. The list includes even albums from 2022, so finding suitable replacements for hidden country albums should not be a real challenge.
Despite the rant, this album is like any other country album that doesn't have any highlights or something to say anymore, and that was not as influential as any other country album (I must say that there are some excellent and influential country albums that I reaffirm, it's not the case here).
The album is very outdated, even for 1965.
8 likes
Skunk Anansie
5/5
Wow! Another point for the 1001 list. I had never heard about "Skunk Anansie," but I'm glad to discover this fantastic voice and great songs!
Awe-inspiring work!
7 likes
1-Star Albums (65)
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LCD Soundsystem
2/5
I never listened to LCD Soundsystem before, even knowing the band by the name. It's a strange album that sounds "strange" to me. First I thought that it was "too much experimental", but I like experimental music too, so this is not the problem.
In short, I didn't like it too much, but It had some very good songs, like the last one, for example. I'll not listen to it again in the next weeks, but maybe it deserves a second try some day.
Iron Maiden
4/5
I like Iron Maiden since my teenage years, but to my own shame, I never listened to all songs from this first album. It's a great thing how much these songs sound fresh comparing with more recent Maiden songs. It looks like a great 2021 metal album.
Absolutely a great album!
R.E.M.
5/5
This is another example of a band that I already know about (actually, I like very much R.E.M. songs) but never listened to this whole album in a row.
For this experiment of 1001 albums, this is just the third one but is for sure the best until now.
It's really worth it!
Dire Straits
3/5
I started this album knowing the name "Dire Straits", but without any reference to any song, however almost all the songs are very familiar to me, actually. It's the type of album that every song has a kind of "I know this one from 'Guitar Hero'", "I know this one from that movie", etc...
So, many songs are very famous but it is something very common, just the simple and old hard rock. It deserves a chance, but the songs are better as the soundtrack for movies and games instead of a complete album.
Kraftwerk
1/5
Electronic music is definitely not my place. However, this album is very good in simulate the annoying of long road trips (at least).
3/5
This sounds like a real classic. No matter who you are, these songs are all very recognizable to anyone. Great album.
Blur
5/5
I liked this album very much. It sounds so true and so fun. It sounds like "good days". I didn't know Blur much more than "Song 2", but now I'll search for all other albums to know a little bit more. Definitively, worths it!
Garbage
2/5
I liked this album but is too "simple". I know that maybe it was revolutionary for 1995, but nowadays it's just another indie rock band without anything great for me. Sure, I'm biased by the fact that I didn't know anything about Garbage, so I don't have any affective memory with it, but it's an album that I probably will forget tomorrow.
Sebadoh
3/5
It's very nice to listen to something that sounds "grunge" besides Nirvana or Pearl Jam, but also has many experimental songs with a kind of metal that is good even not understanding everything. In short, it was good to know this album, even not being the best one on this list until now. Probably, I will listen to it again someday...
The Beach Boys
5/5
This is a great album that I already know before. It has some of the most important songs in the whole world.
Impossible to give it less than 5 stars
Charles Mingus
4/5
I like jazz music, but for no good reason, I don't listen to it so frequently. This album is a good remember that I need to listen to it more and more. An excellent album for all days.
Ice T
3/5
It's very interesting to listen to this album because it sounds like classical gangsta rap most of the time, but it's because it's is one of the classic albums of this style and inaugurated all of these classical characteristics. A great experience!
Hole
3/5
It's very nice to listen to some clean and real raw rock album. It's not one of the best albums for me, but it's very honest.
Sleater-Kinney
5/5
This is one of the best albums that I didn't know and I'm listening now with this site. This is just a great and classical rock album with all the strength and soul that was expected from a real rock album. For sure, it is a five-star album
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
This is the longest album that I already listened entirely. It's hard to evaluate it because it has almost all song styles and possibilities for an English love song. a kind of repetitive album, but it's not the worst thing ever, just an "ok" album with an ambitious idea behind it. Ambitious albums are almost always a good idea, but this one is not one of the best-executed ones.
The Coral
4/5
I started this album expecting something like any mid-2000 indie rock, so, I wasn't expecting too much. However, this is a very nice album, with fewer cliches and some good songs. Nothing spectacular, but a nice album.
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
It is a refreshing album. Good to listen to after something more experimental or hard to understand. In short, it is a simple album, but here, simplicity it's a good thing.
The National
2/5
This is so boring and common that I don't understand why it is on this list. Anything between a piece of elevator music and an end of party music. Even the live versions have not any soul.
Elliott Smith
3/5
A calm and introspective album with some very good songs in it. I didn't know anything about Elliott Smith, but his songs sound like a good remember of the simplest teenage years, including all the teenage problems.
Massive Attack
3/5
I really don't like electronic music, but to my surprise, this is a nice album. According to Wikipedia, it starts the style of trip-hop with the mix of electronic and hip-hop and I think that this mix made my opinion change a little. It's not the type of music that I choose to listen to during my day, but at some electronic party, these songs would be a very good choice.
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Initially, I didn't like it too much, thinking about why these ambient songs were here in this list. However, I finished it with the opposite opinion. It is a very good album with some very good instrumental songs. It is surprisingly modern for a 1962 album.
Van Halen
4/5
All songs from this album are classical. A great album with only one notable drawback: it sounds a little bit dated, probably because it is a reference album for almost every rock band nowadays. However, worth every song!
The Doors
5/5
This is an absolute classic. I noticed that I didn't listen to it for some time, but it is still one of my favorite albums of all time.
Joni Mitchell
3/5
It's a surprising album with some very interesting songs but at the same time, some songs are very boring.
I liked to listen to it, but it's not very probable that it will happen again, even with those good songs at the first part of the album. The art cover is very beautiful.
Radiohead
4/5
I'm not a fan of more recent Radiohead works, but this album has some type of rawness that really touches me. A great piece of art.
ZZ Top
3/5
This album is very common and easy to listen to. I know that it should be considered a great rock album for 83, but nowadays, the age came and it just an ok album.
TV On The Radio
3/5
I absolutely didn't know anything about this band and this album was a very good surprise. It's not absolutely different from standard indie rock from the last decade, but it's a very good example of this type of song. :-)
Donovan
4/5
This was a very surprising album. The art cover is awesome and the album itself was an amazing experience. For sure, I'll search other Donavan's albums to discover a little bit more about these songs. The Wikipedia article is also a good waste of time.
Steely Dan
5/5
This album was an amazing suggestion from this project. I absolutely loved almost every song, even not knowing anything about the band before.
Slayer
3/5
I know many of Slayer's songs from my teenage years and I like them and listen to them today made me realize how much they influenced the metal scene forever. Their songs from this album are a little bit repetitive, but it's cool.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
I always think about Bruce Springsteen like something like bad country songs (don't know why), but this album is very different from my expectations and it is a very good piece of good songs.
John Martyn
3/5
Ok...It's a good album, but nothing special for me. The song "May you never" is the best.
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
Now I'm listening to you 1001albumsgenerator 8-)
David Bowie
4/5
This is very different from everything else that I already listened to from David Bowie. I prefer his more recent work, but it's very interesting to listen to this album.
Iron Maiden
4/5
Another Maiden album. This is album does not have my favorite songs from the album, but it's still great!
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
This album is not so special at all, but it deserves 3 stars for the absolutely special songs. "California Dreamin" deserves the 3 stars itself for being a great song itself.
The Rolling Stones
5/5
I know just the most famous songs from Rolling Stones and this album is surprisingly awesome for me. All blues and rock were amazing here. Included in my favorites
Santana
2/5
It's a very good instrumental album (or almost instrumental), but nothing very special to me.
k.d. lang
2/5
Definitively, country is not my style....I like very few songs from this style, so this album was very boring to me. I'll dive it 2 stars for one or two songs that were comfortable for listen.
Bauhaus
3/5
This was very....strange. I was expecting something like Joy Division or The cure (things that I like), but it was more...darker and strange. I liked it, but not too much.
Tito Puente
2/5
I think that this is a good album for Friday, but it's not too much more than it.
Queen
4/5
This is not the Queen that I know. The Wikipedia link shows that this is not the most knowledgeable album from the band, but it's also great! Worth it!
The Waterboys
4/5
This album was surprisingly good for me. Very good songs with a nice vibe.
Eminem
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
This album does not sound like the best of Nirvana for me, but still, it's a great piece of music and definitively worths it!
The Youngbloods
3/5
Very nice surprise!
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
This one was a great Latin music album. Worth it!
Elvis Costello
3/5
I didn't like it too much, but it is an ok album.
Solomon Burke
4/5
This was one more great album that I absolutely didn't know. It's incredible how this project has been a great introduction for some important musicians for me.
Julian Cope
3/5
This album is too irregular for me. There are some great songs, but there are also some experimental and dislocated songs (more appropriated in some kind of really experimental album)
R.E.M.
4/5
Louis Prima
5/5
This was a great treasure discovery. It resembles in me a great classic that I didn't know yet.
Definitely, an album to listen to before die!
Travis
2/5
Usually, I like this type of music, but this is just ....nhem
The Pogues
4/5
Another great surprise...
Incubus
3/5
Beck
2/5
I didn't get it....:-(
David Gray
3/5
3 stars
Solange
3/5
I didn't know anything from Solange after Destiny Child and this is a very good album. Remembers me Alicia Keys and this is great!
Little Richard
5/5
This is an album that deserves 5 stars for its simple existence.
The Byrds
3/5
This album mixes some things that I definitively do not like, like country music and a kind of early stages of rock n roll, that I like very much, so it's for me a kind of definition of a medium album.
Nothing special, but a good album to know something of this important band
Tim Buckley
3/5
I didn't get this album. It's like too much experimental, but not....3 stars because it's a cool thing to discover another artist that I didn't before this site.
Coldplay
3/5
I like coldplay, but this album is not the best one for me
The Zombies
4/5
Very nice surprise. One more album for my favorites from this site.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
It's very nice to listen some great classic like this.
Beach House
2/5
So boring...10 mile stereo is the only song that saves the album.
Pixies
3/5
I liked to know more about Pixies, which I already like, but this album is fine. Nothing so special that deserves too much highlight, but very nice songs.
Alice Cooper
3/5
Very nice Alice cooper album. I don't know if I classified it as essential, but it's a good choice, for sure.
Fugees
5/5
I didn't finish it yet, but this a great hip-hop/soul album. Unbelievable that I didn't know it until today. Thank you 1001albumsgenerator!
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
I can get the importance of this album, but it's not so good to me. Just ok!
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
I like QOSA, but this album is not excptional
Metallica
4/5
A classic album with iconic songs. Almost every song is at least great!
The Undertones
3/5
This album is strange because sometimes it sounds like a bad Beatles imitation and sometimes it remembers me something of green day in their good days.
At least, is a curious album
PJ Harvey
3/5
It sounds strange, but cool
Paul Weller
1/5
Really boring. Not my taste
Elvis Presley
4/5
I never listened to a complete Elvis album before, so I'm very impressed with this one. A great opportunity to know a little bit of pop/rock history, even recognizing a lot of influences from blues and knowing that Elvis is not a real rock pioneer (maybe in a commercial way, but not artistic), this looks like an important album for me.
Green Day
4/5
This is a simple album for more simplest times. I enjoyed almost every song here and feel like a young boy again.
Funkadelic
4/5
It's very clear how much this album influenced many modern songs. This is not exactly my preferred music style, but it's very easy to understand why this is a complete classic.
Kate Bush
2/5
I can understand the importance of this album or even the importance of Kate Bush, but her songs are absolutely not for me....anything between an elevator song and strange 70's rock. Sounds like a bad flashback playlist.
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
The was a very different experience that I don't know how to evaluate, but the album contains some good instrumental songs to keep focus during the workday. The Wikipedia page is simple but it looks like this album influenced great songwriter that I admire, so 3 stars is fine to me.
Bob Dylan
4/5
This is a great album and just it
Marvin Gaye
3/5
I like to listen to it, even not being exactly my kind of music. Maybe is just some type of bad influence, but it sounds like old romantic music for my mother....
Tricky
1/5
It sounds too much exotic and bad music. Not my kind of thing
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
I'm not a big fan of post-punk, but this was a good discovery
Lou Reed
4/5
It's something very pleasurable to discover a new album and recognize it as something classical. This album is great!
The Rolling Stones
4/5
I enjoy Rolling stones much more than I thought before this album.
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Another Joni Mitchell's album and I'm more certain that I don't like it. Next
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Good surprise
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Good but not all that people say.
Yes
3/5
This real progressive rock is not my kind of thing (I prefer things less experimental and "low level" like Pink Floyd), however, this album was a good experience.
The Kinks
4/5
A great album but a little messy. I didn't get a signature in all songs like I saw in other albums of The kinks.
Madness
3/5
I expected much more from this album. Just ok!
Otis Redding
4/5
This is one of the hidden gems in the book that I never listened to and shows a great piece of art. Exceptional, for sure.
I didn't like so much of these versions of "My Girl" and "Satisfaction", but the album is brilliant.
Frank Black
2/5
Raw and true, but not so good
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
It remembers my teenage years so I have some good memories of all RHCP's career. However, this album is not so great that I remember, even with the last songs being great examples of all the RHCP power and dominance of their style. I'll give it 4 stars for it because of all, the memories, the sentiment, and the good songs.
B.B. King
5/5
A great album! Just it!
Elton John
4/5
I didn't listen too much to Elton John's songs because I identify his songs as something for Sir and classy people, but this album absolutely changes my mind. I didn't love every song, but almost all songs sound very good to me. I'm able to identify much classic rock in these songs and I like it!
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Where I was in my teenage years for not listen to this all day? I recognize the most famous songs, but the whole album is great!
Dolly Parton
1/5
ZZZZZZZZZZZ...good first song....ZZZZZZZZZ
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
I absolutely didn't get it....it's not bad, but it's not good also...it's strange, but also very simple and raw...It's not for me, but I recognize something that should be for me....I Don't know...
The Fall
3/5
I like this type of post-punk music, but the album itself is just good, nothing really special.
Love
3/5
I don't understand why this is considered psychedelic rock, because normally I'm not a fan of psychedelic songs and I liked it very much....probably I don't know what is real psychedelic rock. :-)
In short, A good album with very pleasable songs and the last one "real" experimental or psychedelic but still cool! Worth it!
4/5
It one of the strangest things that I ever listen to, but still very powerful and I don't know why I liked it, but I liked it. I'm not a jazz fan, but this kind of thing touches me in some way that is strongest than my comprehension
Koffi Olomide
3/5
I liked it because it's cool to know new artists that I never knew, but the album itself is so monochromatic. Good songs to dance to, maybe some important message that I don't understand, but just a good album.
Yes
3/5
This is much better than the album "Fragile". I think that is more "conventional" but for sure better.
Roxy Music
3/5
From the Wikipedia article, I got that Roxy music has great importance in music history, but their songs are too basic for my taste. Good songs but just it.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
I didn't know how much I could like Steve Wonder songs... It a great album with a lot of innovations and very pleasable songs. Much better than his most famous tracks, this album is very good
Prince
3/5
I understand the importance of this album, but it's not my kind of music. I prefer Prince covers to actual Prince songs. "1999" is the only great song that I liked very much from the whole album.
James Brown
2/5
I know that I should liked it more than I liked, but this live album was....just ok, nothing special. it's not up to James Brown
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
I don't know where I was in the '90s, but I know that I like Smashing Pumpkins much more than I tough before this album. A great piece of art with a lot of different styles, but still connected, even the more "experimental" songs are great and in line with the rest of the album. Definitively worths it
Small Faces
3/5
The first songs are pretty common, nothing special. The second part gave me a "Lord of the Rings" vibe that was very cool and justified a good rating for this album. I probably will not listen to it again anymore, but it was a good experience.
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Strange, but nice... Not too much experimental, not too much classical. I probably not revisit this album again, but it was a nice experience to listen to it.
Stan Getz
3/5
Personally, I didn't recognize much "samba" in this jazz, but I know bossa nova very much and the album is a good instrumental bossa nova versions of some good songs. Nothing special, but I think that spread this Brazilian song around the world (even in an instrumental way) deserves a place in the list of 1001 albums to listen to before die.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Something very recognizable, but anything special. I don't know if this album has something special for their time, but nowadays it's just fine.
Nas
4/5
It's a very good classic rap album. For me, these songs could be more strong and the thematic sounds old for modern days, but I respect the historical music from the hip-hop movement.
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Very nice modern R&B album. I liked it most because I can recognize many influences in some very good songs that I like (Alicia Keys for example).
Fiona Apple
3/5
I know the more recent work of Fiona Apple and listen to this old version of her work is very interesting. This is not any piece of art in my opinion, but it includes many good songs and worth the almost 1 hour of her voice. I prefer the most recent albums from her, but this was a good experience
Led Zeppelin
4/5
It's very interesting to listen to some Led Zeppelin songs that aren't part of the greatest hits of the band (for me, the only exception here is "The immigrant song"), but Led Zepelling is always Led Zepellin, so I don't have so much to say: Absolutely amazing
The The
4/5
This is the kind of album absolutely surprising! I don't know the band, I never listened to anything from them, The name was strange, the first song is catchy but not so special, but when the album ends it looks like something different happened. What I listened here? A simple post-punk album? Why this band is so underground? More people should listen to it. Well, for me it's something that I'll sure listen to again in the future and hope that more people know it
Ray Price
1/5
Looking at the Wikipedia page I expected to find a good Johnny Cash-style style songs, but it was just an old classic country album without any innovation. I understood the importance of this kind of music for music history, but it's not my taste
Finley Quaye
3/5
First "reggae" album here and, although I don't knew the artist, it's easy to note the innovations brought by the artist in the '90s that are used until today.
Eurythmics
1/5
I swear I try, but except for some very popular songs, Electronic music is definitely not for me. In this case, even the meme song "Sweet Dreams" is tiring.
Milton Nascimento
4/5
Shame on me for being Brazilian and never listen to this whole album. Sure, I know some songs but listen to them completely was a very nice experience. Sometimes Milton Nascimento makes me sleepy (mainly his new songs after "Clube da Esquina"), but this album is completely the opposite, it makes me fells with a lot of energy. I don't know if this list includes more Brazilian albums or even Brazilian artists, but this one was very pleasable
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
4/5
I didn't know this album, although it sounds like a classical. It was a very pleasable experience listen to it and it's easy to see their influence on modern songs.
Jimmy Smith
3/5
A very nice jazz album. It's hard for me to evaluate this type of thing because I like jazz, but I don't understand it very well.
Tears For Fears
4/5
I just knew one song from this band, but this album surprised me. It's very good.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
This project is showing to me that I like Rolling Stones much more than I tough before these first 120 albums listened from the list. However, this is the third Rolling Stones selected in my list and I think that is the worst (the other two were awesome and this one is just good). I liked much more of this album because of the Wikipedia link. The history of this album and its production gave me another perspective of it, even wich the songs nothing touching me in any way. It worth it, but this is not the Rolling Stones album that I'll listen to in the near future.
Wilco
1/5
Besides one or two good songs, a long boring album with no personality. I know that Wilco influenced some new bands that I like, but I didn't see anything here.
The xx
1/5
Is this really an important album anywhere in the world?
2000's years have so many good songs, but this one is just boring...
New Order
4/5
I always liked Joy Division and I had something "against" New Order, but this album changed my mind. I need to go back and listen to them again. I know that this phase is not absolutely "synth" as the next albums, but it was a so good experience and I think that I'm able to give them another chance.
2/5
It's funny because one day before this album I listened to something from "New Order" expecting something like this Devo album and found that I didn't know New Order very well. I didn't know Devo so well too, but my expectations were all achieved and these expectations were an album with a lot of synth-rock without much meaning....well that's not men, It's Devo.
The Wikipedia link was interesting.
David Crosby
3/5
It's very nice to listen to something like Neil Young that is not Neil Young. I don't want to reduce Crosby's career to be some type of Young cover or anything like that, but I'm comparing their importance for USA's music. This album is good enough to show this importance but it's not the best work in my opinion.
Talking Heads
3/5
This was a good album. Nice to listen to it and very nice recognizable singles, but also very repetitive. Good to know a little bit more about this important band.
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
This is a very good live album, but it's still a live album and I prefer studios over it. Reading the Wikipedia link, I understood the reasons for a live album, but I still prefer the studio versions
Blue Cheer
4/5
It's a very nice surprise to discover these pre-heavy metal bands that I did not know about before. An excellent album.
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Whow! That's something! I didn't know the band and this album was amazing!
Beth Orton
2/5
It sounds to me just like some generic Alanis Morissette cover band. I'm not sure who came first, but this does not matter, it is just very boring.
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
This was a very nice surprise. The entire album gives me the sensation of being in the 80's being sad and living my life as a rebel teenager while my mom brings the fresh cookies to my cleaned room. Good experience!
The songs are nice too, but the experience is great!
OutKast
4/5
This was a very good surprise. A great album that sounds very different from "normal" American hip-hop.
The Monks
4/5
It's very interesting to discover these "hidden" things from music history. This is not the best punk that I listened to, but thinking about the age of this album it sounds so much fresh that it definitely worths it
Björk
3/5
I know Björk, but I never liked too much of her work...it's not anything special, but it's nothing my kind of thing.
This album does not change my mind, but I think that I "understood" better her work and this is a nice thing.
The Pharcyde
3/5
It's very cool to discover this hidden hip-hop history. I'd like to know more to make a real analysis on it, give some background (besides the Wikipedia article), and an informed evaluation. This is the kind of music that demands some research work and this is something very nice. However, I'm limited, so I just would say that this was a fun experience and I want more hip-hop classics during this list of 1001 albums to listen to.
Soundgarden
3/5
I like Soundgarden, but except for the hit "Black hole sun", I think this is a pretty normal grunge album. Reading the Wikipedia article, I realize the importance of the album for Soundgarden history, but the songs themselves are fine and nothing more, nothing special.
Beatles
4/5
This was the first Beatles selected for me on this site (in a row of almost 120 albums now) and I'm glad that this was selected because I like too much of this band (not surprisingly), but I didn't listen to the cover versions from their initial years and this album (specially B-side) was a great experience for me. A great band playing the greatest songs and making history. It's not the best Beatles, of course, but worth each song.
Red Snapper
1/5
It could be a good instrumental album, but it's just boring because includes too much electronic without any purpose. I can't see any purpose or line of reasoning in these songs. The last song, at least, is likable.
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
This is a classical album that deserves 5 stars for the influence. Any modern hip-hop could not be the same without this album and, also, it sounds so new even today. Classical is classical for one reason!
Talking Heads
3/5
With this album, I confirm my first impression that I only like the hits from Talking Heads and not of all of their songs. The album is not bad for me but is absolutely nothing special.
I'll keep the hits in my playlist, but I'll probably forget almost all songs from this album tomorrow.
Stephen Stills
3/5
This album was a pretty normal experience. Maybe I was expecting too much from it. It's not bad, definitively, but even the "experimental" part sounds just like old and classic rock and roll
X-Ray Spex
5/5
This was great!!! It's so raw and real. I'm devastated for not know this band before. A great album that deserves much more attention. The songs are cool and different during the whole album, this "punk" sax thing is kind of a special thing and the vocalist is a very good example of the best punk singer.
I don't have any complaints. Just a great album.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
This is a second 5 stars in a row using this project and again it's an album that I knew just by the name before and never gets the necessary incentive to listen to it.
This was a great experience. The only drawback here is the short length of the album. I'll sure listen to it again.
Sonic Youth
3/5
This was another surprise because I always have some previous bad impression of Sonic Youth, but this album was pretty good. The first songs are great songs and if the album ended there, it deserved 4 or 5 stars. The last songs were a little bit strange, too experimental for an album that does not start with an experimental approach. I don't dislike these experimental songs, but also don't love them.
JAY Z
4/5
This was a very nice album. I like the older hip-hop songs, but this kind of more "modern" hip-hop is so recognizable for me that it's almost impossible do not listen to some songs with a "home" feeling. The first songs are the best and the last ones are a kind of repetitive, but in a whole analysis, this is a great album.
Madonna
3/5
I'm not a fan and this album didn't change too much my impression of Madonna's work. It's nice, but (except for one or another classical song not included in this specific album) it's just mainstream pop music and does not mean anything at all.
Waylon Jennings
2/5
Is it possible to believe in a country song in a country album be more country than the most country song in a country world ruled by countrymen and countrywomen with country childrens singing country songs in a country album?
Yes, it's possible!
Jane Weaver
1/5
Why this album is on this list? Why?
Cocteau Twins
2/5
Nothing remarkable about it. I listened on Friday and now (Monday), thinking about what to write about the album, the only word is forgettable. Not totally bad, just forgettable!
Leonard Cohen
4/5
I liked it much more than I thought initially. It's strange to listen to it so "sad" songs with this electronically vibe, but the Cohen voice is so interesting that hypnotizes anyone independentilly of the song. For sure, I'll include it in my favorite albuns list.
New Order
2/5
It's very strange for me how "New Order"'s albums could be so different among them. They have some great albums and things like this one that does not deserve so much comment. By the ability to do so different things I'll give 2 stars, but this album is 1 star for sure.
Tangerine Dream
2/5
This was the first electronic music album that I'll evaluate with more than 1 star. The first song has a dreamy sensation that is likable, but it's still that kind of European electronic song that's absolutely not my kind of thing.
Mylo
2/5
Is this lo-fi to improve my focus during the work/study routine from Youtube?
It's nice to listen to these things that are the origins of the modern trending, but it's still not my style of music. 2 or 3 songs are nice to listen to.
3/5
This album gave me some mixed feelings because I dislike most of the electronic music that I listened to in this list of 1001 albums, but this one has some very good songs. Since I speak Portuguese, I'm biased, however, I'll ignore this bias and make this electronic album the first 3 stars electronic album on my list.
As a side note, it's very nice to discover new things, this project is really awesome.
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
"Layla" is enough classical for the whole album, but some other songs are also very good songs. This is not an exceptional album, it stills sounds like a "clean" 70/80's rock n' roll (this is not really a bad thing, but it's hasn't any real highlight besides "Layla").
Alice In Chains
2/5
I never liked too much of Alice in Chains. No good reason for it, but never liked it. This album showed to me the reason: It's the same song for 1 hour!
It's not absolutely bad, normally I like this 90's feeling, but the exact same song for 1 hour is too much 90's for me.
Amy Winehouse
5/5
This is awesome. Enough said
DJ Shadow
3/5
This was a very different album. I was prepared for something very electronic and 2000's feelings, but I found one of the precursors of the sample used in hip-hop music (maybe).
Is this instrumental? Is this some kind of risk vinyl disk? What it is?
In short, this is far away from the best album on this list and it's not exactly my kind of music, but it makes me realize the purpose of this project (and probably my reason to keep into it).
The Go-Betweens
3/5
I'm not sure if I listened to an album from a band or an album from a soundtrack of some generic romantic comedy. These songs are so recognizable like if I listened to them every day, but at the same time, they are new for me.
Well, a pretty fine romantic album, but nothing exactly special.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
I never liked too much of Elvis Costello, but this is another surprise brought to me by this project.
I never like it because I never listened to the phase with "The Attractions". This album is the second one of "Elvis Costello & The Attractions" and it's another classical with a lot of references and good songs. It's not so linear and has one or two downsides, but it's definitively a great album!
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
This is a very specific experience. I know this album and I loved it the first time I listened to it some years ago, but re-listen to it now made me note how much Kendrick Lamar was "raw" and inexperienced when it was launched.
His work as so much better now that even this album being a classic for modern hip-hop, it's easy to note the fails and drawbacks.
An awesome album that, for me, was overcome by the new albums, but it's still a great work.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
This was a nice experience. A progressive rock that really looks progressive and sounds erudite.
I liked it, but I didn't love it. Good point for not be a long album. 40/50 min for an album in this style is more than enough for me (especially for progressive music where the albums are frequently too much long).
Mariah Carey
2/5
Almost 1 hour of Mariah Carey?
That is...at least, unexpected.
A good album if you want to listen to the same song for 50 minutes.
That clean and inoffensive hip-hop/pop/soul mix does not mean anything in the end, but I assume that there are some nice songs for some busy days when you won't turn off your mind and do not think or enjoy the music at all.
Michael Jackson
4/5
He is not the king of pop without reason.
His sound is still pop and still fresh even after more than 30 years. Not generic pop music, but a really great mixture of jazz and soul music that is extremely catchy!
I'll give it 4 stars because I know that is not the best of MJ yet, but it's a great album.
The Prodigy
2/5
I understand the rave vibes, but this could be good if each song had 2 or 3 minutes less.
ABBA
3/5
This is nice. Nothing special, good to know some curiosities on the most famous ABBA album, but nothing more to say.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
3/5
I was not expecting this one. When I read the "synth-pop" style on the Wikipedia page I imagined something so different than what I got.
It's not anything genial or like but it's like some good parts of that "New Order"'s style that are enough good for an album and a good discover.
Slipknot
5/5
It's not perfect (far from it). It's not the best thing that happened to the music...
However, listen to it makes me remember my teenage years and so I'll give it 5 stars just for it.
Sister Sledge
3/5
I didn't note anything so much special about it, but I can get a lot of samples that were got from this album to create great modern hip-hop songs, so I got how much it influences modern songs, reason that I think that justifies the presence of the album in this list.
For the album itself, it was a nice experience, but just it.
3/5
It's hard to explain, but however this album and "Parklife" have just 1 year of difference, this album is far away from the quality that I got listening to "Parklife".
The album itself is fun. They have a lot of good experimentation and the songs are fine.
Public Enemy
4/5
Listen to this album these days sounds a little bit old, but keeping in mind the importance of public enemy for hip-hop history, it's very easy to note the importance of it.
I liked to note how much rock samples were used in these early hip-hop songs. For sure, I'm biased, but I believe that more modern hip-hop songs lost this link with rock songs.
The Prodigy
1/5
I can't get what the metal scene has with "The prodigy". For me, it's just the basic electronic music with some new beats that didn't make too much to create good songs.
This is the second prodigy's album that I get in this project and for the first one I gave 2 stars, but now, just electronic music: nice at the party, bad in my ears. Prefer the metal covers from this album, they are much better than it.
Big Brother & The Holding Company
5/5
This was simply great! The vocals, the guitar, the drums, the bass, the whole band, the album cover. Even not liking too much the "live" inserts in the middle of the songs, this still is a great piece of modern music. Enough said!
John Prine
1/5
I never listen to it before and reading the Wikipedia article, I got the relevance for John Prine. However, for me, it still looks like a piece of really boring country music.
In the best moments of the album, it remembers me of a bad cover of the worst songs from Bob Dylan.
Patti Smith
4/5
This album is rare. I like very much to listen to these pre-punk albums.
Patti Smith is one of my favourites. Great album
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
This was a nice album, but I don't have too much to say about it.
For me, it's far from "Cosmo's Factory" that is also on this list and is much better. Cool classic 70's rock.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
How this album could be a 60's/70's album and sounds so modern and fresh?
For me, it's a definition of atemporal.
Air
1/5
Is this an album for white noises and ASMR aficionados?
I didn't get it, absolutely.
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
Her voice is superb and I'm not able to do any criticism over it. It could be a crime.
The album itself is cool, but a little bit repetitive. It's, at least for me, a real document that deserves appreciation and studies over it, for many reasons. However, for an "innocent" session of good music, I believe that we have many other good albums, including some Ella Fitzgerald works.
Aerosmith
3/5
I don't know if it's just a bad day, but I believe that I prefer much more the first albums of Aerosmith.
This one is fine, but just it.
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Is there any possibility to give less than 5 stars to it? I don't think so...
Raekwon
2/5
I liked Wu-Tang Clan's work, in a group, and also the solo productions that I know. However, this one is a very bad job.
I didn't like it at all.
Wilco
3/5
It's too much better than the other Wilco's album ("Being There") that I listened to on this list, but it's still a very normal and correct indie rock album and nothing more.
I didn't get all the hype on Wilco, but maybe it's me.
Iggy Pop
3/5
The solo Iggy Pop's career is not my preferred and this album specifically hasn't much to say for me. However, it's still nice to see how these guys that I know as "classic rock" and "proto-punk" sound with many varieties of styles and songs and were soo much "out-of-the-box" even 40 or 50 years ago. Modern bands should learn more of this kind of thing from the old school and not just the bad things.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
This is the third "Creedence Clearwater Revival" that I listened to in this list and how this band is inconstant! There are some very good albums like this one and others are so overestimated.
In short, I liked it, but there is nothing special besides the greatest hits included in it. Definitively worths it, but the album is like the band, inconstant and unpredictable (some times very good and some times just ok)
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
This is a very simple classic rock n roll album, but it deserves space on this list and deserves many merits to be what it is.
This is not a great album for our "modern" ears, but its importance transcends some "modern" rules and must be analyzed with this in mind.
The Sabres Of Paradise
1/5
Just another "conceptual" electronic album that means nothing at all
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
I liked to know this new hip-hop album, but for me, it's just more of the same thing that I already know. I understand the importance of it in a historical way, but I didn't get much from it
Jazmine Sullivan
2/5
I appreciate seeing an album so fresh (2021) on this list. However, I didn't appreciate the album itself. :-(
Just another generic pop/hip-hop/soul.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
This is Bob Marley and I'm very happy to see it on the list.
This is not the best thing that I listened here, but for sure it fits all the characteristics of a classcial.
Mudhoney
4/5
I believe that this is the pure definition of a very historical album that sounds "simple" or "old" because of so many things it influenced after its release.
The songs are great and the spirit is pure 90's grunge.
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Except for the first song that is a hit, just basic
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
This was a very pleasant experience. Normally, I didn't like any of the songwriter "solo" albums that I got on this list until now. However, this one was a very nice one.
Bruce Springsteen still sounds like "song for my parents" style, but sometimes I can enjoy it too.
very nice instrumental arranges
Queen
4/5
For me this is not the best Queen, but for sure is the album that has the best songs.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
This is a great album, really. I don't have almost anything to say against it.
However, it's too long and does not have a clear "thematic" line. So, when I finished the listening session, I was a little bit tired, even after listening to some of my favorite songs.
Television
3/5
Except for the song "Marquee Moon", the whole album looks like any generic post-punk album that was forgotten inside an old box of cassettes in some basement...
Reading the Wikipedia article, I got the importance of the album for the movement in that time and the references of New York are nice, but the songs are just normal.
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
This was a very experimental experience. More than I was expecting when the first song started to play.
Personally, I didn't like it too much, but it's very easy to note the virtuosos in the instrumental part and I got why this kind of thing deserves to be on this list. These guys are real musicians and no one can say the contrary.
I'll keep my rate in 2 stars just because it's not exactly my kind of thing.
Emmylou Harris
1/5
Coutryzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I got her importance, but this kind of music is boring
Hole
4/5
It's so good to listen to an album that sounds like the band really enjoyed when it was recorded. I'm really not sure if they were really into it, but the album sounds like they were. "Hole" is a band that I knew very broadly and, because of the 2 albums on this list (until now) I'm on the way to becoming a fan
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
"Free Bird" is a real classic and I believe that this album could be much better for me some years ago.
Nowadays, I have more references and some little music knowledge to classify this album as a kind of repetitive classic rock and roll. Not a bad thing, but nothing special.
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Another electronic album... the famous songs are worth it, but it is so much longer than it should be.
The Electric Prunes
5/5
Wow!
Sometimes, this project really surprises me with this kind of thing: An album and even an artist or band that I never heard about before and became a fan instantly.
The first song sounds a little bit ~strange~ but when I got the vibe for it, it's a great album with the right number of songs and an excellent set (more songs could be too much)
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
I liked it, but it's too long for this type of punk/post-punk thing. The Beatles cover is interesting, but kind of the worst thing in the album.
Bob Dylan
4/5
This is not the best Dylan for me, but I should say that the Wikipedia article on the page helped me to understand a little bit more of the importance of this album. Being the "most" personal of Dylan's work, it's increasing my evaluation of it.
Musically, it's too much country for me, but it's still Bob Dylan and it counts!
Missy Elliott
4/5
This is a really good album that makes me think about all that 2000s Hip-Hop/soul and wonders where did it all go?
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Well, this is Hendrix....enough said
Anthrax
3/5
I'm sure that is something that I will enjoy much more in my teenage years.
Classic metal with all the pros and cons of this loved music style. "I am the law" is an instant success.
Elbow
3/5
I really don't know how I never listened to this band before. It's exactly the kind of modern rock that I liked very much during my teenage years.
I can see a mixture of "Imagine Dragons" and "The Killers" that I'm sure that was a real hype in 2008, however, this is my first experience with "Elbow".
Well, even nothing makes sense, the album is just it. That kind of teenage alternative British rock that a lot of people (including me) loves for a period and forget when new songs and music types arrive in our lives.
Nick Drake
4/5
I never listened to Nick Drake before and his voice is really powerful.
I really didn't get all the hype for this album, but I'm could see its importance during the last song when I realized that I was fully immersed in his voice.
A small piece of immersive art on this list! Great experience!
Muddy Waters
4/5
This is pure music.
I liked it very much. After all the songs, I think that it is a little bit repetitive, but it's so awesome that even this drawback is something good!
Laibach
3/5
This was a very interesting experience. This group has personality and it's different from the majority of the things that I used to listen to and even when compared with the common songs from this list, they have a very distinctive sound.
I understand some hate on it, based on the info from Wikipedia, cause they have some controversies in its history, but based only on the music aspects, this was a very nice experience.
William Orbit
1/5
Are you serious?
Eels
4/5
I don't even know how to name this music style? post-grunge? pop-punk?
However, this kind of music that remembers me of some rainy afternoon watching "How I Met Your Mother" and eating some pizza deserves some respect.
George Michael
2/5
I know that is my fault, but I don't like almost anything from George Michael. It sounds like a fake in some way that I can't explain. On another hand, listening to his whole album was a good experience. Nothing really changed in my opinion, but I can enjoy a little bit more when I get some of his songs in some random playlist now when I know that this is really not my kind of sound
Beatles
4/5
At the same time that is very easy to listen to anything from "Beatles", it's very hard to evaluate it. This is not an absolutely perfect album, but almost everything that I had to listen to for my whole life had some influence on this kind of thing, so it's absolutely important for my life.
I'll finish with 4 starts and without a lot of comments to avoid any injustice. This is the (almost) first album from the band and they have some problems.
The Avalanches
2/5
Another electronic album, but this time it's a little bit different from the other ones on this list.
The first song is a nice one and for it, the album deserves 2 stars for it, but it's just another simple electronic album. For me, it's very hard to note great qualities in this kind of music despite the classical albums (that is not the case of this).
Bob Dylan
4/5
Ok, I've already listened to many songs from Dylan and I always liked them. Using this list, I noted how much he is important for the music industry and for the music evolution in the last decades, even don't find anything perfect for me from his discography yet.
This album is by far the best one until now. A little bit long for my taste, but a great piece of songwriting with great music.
Buffalo Springfield
4/5
The best Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young that I've seen on this list until now. This is not absolutely perfect for me, but it's a kind of rock n' roll that I like very much. Rock, Country, and Blues at the exact level.
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
This is a lost jewel for me. I've already listen to something about "Earth, Wind & Fire" but I was sure not expecting this album.
Great Friday album!
Suede
4/5
This is the definition of a hidden gem! It sounds so fresh and modern, but also nostalgic in some way. If anyone says to me that this album was recorded yesterday and proposes a "flashback" style, I'll totally believe.
For me, the last songs are not so good, but the album itself is a very nice discovery!
Peter Tosh
3/5
It's very cool to see some true reggae songs here on this list and Peter Tosh deserves his place.
This is not a perfect album and it's kind of repetitive.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
That's interesting to know this album and nowadays it's absolutely obvious their influence on modern rock songs.
However, listening to it today, I can't see so many qualities in these songs. They are nice to listen to, but nothing more.
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
This album is a little bit repetitive, but is impossible to think about any modern hip-hop and don't think about Run DMC, so, it deserves his place on this list.
The Kinks
4/5
This is the third "Kinks" on this list and I believe that I'm turning into a fan.
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
This album has great potential, but more than 1 hour of electronic music is always the worst scenario for me.
"call the police" is a very nice song.
Miriam Makeba
4/5
It's very interesting to know this different and (at the same time) comfortable new type of song. I believe that it opened my eyes to a whole new world, but it's a world that I already know very well and this is wonderful.
The Clash
4/5
It's very impressive to listen to this album and how it sounds so new. All songs and lyrics still make sense today like when it was released.
Punk is still great in the past and today.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
If this album is some kind of lo-fi post-punk on purpose, I really didn't get it.
To me, it looks like bad songs with the worst recording process. "Jesus and a Mary chain" looks better on paper than in the real world.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Before starting this project I just know one or two of Cohen's songs and know that he was considered a great songwriter.
Listening to his songs gave me the opportunity to truly start to like his work. English is not my main language so I'm not able to get all from his songs, however with this second album listened to on this list I start to get why he is so important.
One or two more albums and I'll be a real fan. :-)
Pretenders
3/5
I liked it, but it's too much generic.
Radiohead
4/5
"Ok computer" is so much different than any other Radiohead album that I know. This kind of difference makes sense to how extent this album is famous and recognizes as a great one. It really is a great album besides any comparison with the rest of Radiohead discography.
Carpenters
3/5
Everyone needs some kind of 80's flashback songs some days during the year. Ok, this album is just it.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
I already listen to about Nick Cave, but I never got the hype on his work and never understood why he is so appreciated.
From now on, this album made my mind and I got everything. It's so strong and powerful that I understood exactly all the hype around. I'll keep my radar open for Nick Cave now and I'll also recommend it to everyone.
The second part of the album is a little bit repetitive and too much longer for a perfect record, but the first part compensates for any possible "error".
Fela Kuti
5/5
This is the kind of music that deserves 5 stars just because of its existence.
It's not the best Jazz album that I listened to here on this list, but that has very good songs with some meaning. The Wikipedia article here is essential to understand the album.
Supergrass
5/5
Wow.
That was a very good surprise. A lot of mixed rock styles, some of them looking like 60's classics and also some kind of grunge (?) at the end of the '90s.
They are not the best in any of these styles and besides some songs, they are not memorable, however, the album looks like a real walk through song style and all very well played.
Nothing much more to say. but "Supergrass" will be included in my songs research for the future.
The Roots
3/5
When the album started I think that I was listening to something similar to "Body Count" mixing hip-hop and Hardrock. This is not the best thing in the world, but is pretty cool and I like this type of mix.
Along the rest of the album, this changed a lot...what is it exactly? "Water" is an experimental hip-hop song?
Even not understand all the album, I liked it. It's a good experience that could be shorter, but it's cool enough to deserve another chance someday and even other albums from the band.
The Who
5/5
I started this album with 4 stars in my mind. "My generation" deserves 5 stars for its existence and the rest of the album looks like an excellent classic rock album.
I finished it with the certainty that the whole album deserves 5 stars. This is not only classical, but it's also raw and it preserves its force even after some decades. Listening to this album as a whole is a real experience to understand the mindset of the 60/70's in a way that just a few cultural products are able to do.
Wild Beasts
2/5
I believe that it's the kind of music from the 2000s that was made to win prizes and not to be enjoyable.
"Indie rock" used in its worst connotation.
Various Artists
4/5
This was a very nice Christmas gift to listen to. Discover the life history of Phil Spector was a nice bonus (I never heard about him before), but the songs themselves were a great payoff.
I hope to keep this project alive in my 2022 to-do list and these songs were a breath to get the greatest albums from the project and also to "enjoy" the worst ones which I'll never understand why they are here.
Christmas songs always give me some type of hope and this album was a great piece of Christmas songs
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
I already knew "White rabbit", but not so much more of the band.
I liked it VERY much. I don't have much to say, but it's for sure one of the best psychedelic rock that I've heard until now.
Living Colour
3/5
I started this album after reading the Wikipedia page on "Living Colour", so I was with very high expectations.
After listening to it, I'm a little bit disappointed, because the mixture of all these music styles could be a great album, but it's just "casual and chills". Maybe I'm biased because I'm sure that this album influenced a lot of bands that I like and so I see just the same song style every day, but how knows. It's a nice album and just it.
Billy Bragg
3/5
I believe that I never will get the hype on Wilco, however, I should give some respect to them (with "Billy Bragg") for this album.
I believe that any recovery from classical compositions deserves some respect, even in cases like this album where the result is a little bit repetitive.
The Wikipedia page helps to understand who was Woody Guthrie and now I need to know all the other projects from "Mermaid Avenue".
Great project, good album
The Divine Comedy
3/5
The first songs are very enjoyable.
The middle of the album is a little bit repetitive, but nothing too much different from any other Britpop.
Finally, the end of the album has a feeling of something more experimental, but still pop. It's not too strange/experimental, but it's not pure Britpop anymore.
The album deserves perfect 3 stars.
Bon Jovi
4/5
I mean...it's Bon Jovi. "You give love a bad name"...
Start the party!
The Rolling Stones
3/5
I got the importance of this album for the music industry and, reading the Wikipedia, I also understood the importance of it in Stones' history.
Even noting these things, I didn't enjoy too much this album. I like this "blues" side of the band, but a whole album of blues is not what I was expecting from Rolling Stones.
For me, it was a very good opportunity to discover some new songs of this great band, even without like the whole album.
Morrissey
2/5
He does not deserve even the 0.000001 cents that I gave to him when I listened to this album on Deezer.
However, despite all the "personality" thing, this is a very nice album with some reminiscence of "The smiths" that made a good rock album.
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Review this album its a very hard task, since it`s not so revolutionary, but it's still classical.
It is too much noise, but not absolutely experimental.
I don't know, but this album is an interesting experience, even when I'm not capable of any type of a real analyze.
Marvin Gaye
3/5
I'm don't have much to say about this album. It's fun, but this "romantic funky" R&B is not exactly a style that I love.
The Wikipedia page about the album is worth it because the album's background is pretty more interesting than the album itself.
Nirvana
5/5
Maybe, I'm just remembering the first time when I listened to these songs, but I can't give to it less than 5 stars!
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
This is a great album.
Excellent lyrics and unbelievable instrumental work. I`m very happy to discover more songs from Simon & Garfunkel.
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
I was expecting much more from this album. For any special reason, the cover and the Wikipedia background gave me some hope of a 70`s classical.
Well, it`s not bad, but it`s not anything special too. Good album.
Roxy Music
3/5
The first song rocks, but the rest of the album is just normal.
The last song looks like something that could be happened here, but then the album ends.
David Bowie
3/5
It's very interesting to know a little bit more of this so famous "Berlin phase" of Bowie.
Actually, I didn't enjoy it too much, however, it's impossible not to note how it influenced modern songs after it.
The War On Drugs
2/5
I had some fun listening to it, but why so long songs? and why so much experimentalism even when the best part is the "classical" one?
The Offspring
4/5
I believe that all these albums that remember me of my teenage years turn on some nostalgic critical sense that gives me much less independence.
I know that I don't have any idea if these songs are really good, but they were good for younger me and when I listen to them, I respect that opinion.
Mike Ladd
4/5
I'm surprised with this album.
I was expecting just some generic electronic samples and basic hip-hop, but I found a very deep album with some really good songs.
It's impressive how these songs are recognizable in modern rap/hip-hop songs.
4/5
What is pop? This is absolutely pop, but not the low-level pop.
These songs are the greatest pop that I've known.
+1 point for this project to show me this album.
Bob Dylan
4/5
This is the best Dylan that I got here at this project until now, but I'm wondering that, at the end of the day, I don't like so much of Bob Dylan as I thought.
I know that probably is some kind of a crime somewhere in the world, but I prefer his "rock" songs (like some in this album) over his "folk" ones, that is the majority of his work.
Maybe, listening to it some other times brings to me new perspectives and I change my mind, but I like this very much of this Dylan album exactly because it sounds less like Bob Dylan for me.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
I have some bad vibes with "Yeah Yeah Yeahs" for no good reason. However, listening to this album was a good experience to remember that rock could be just fun, even when the song themes are not exactly about funny things.
I really liked it!
The Smiths
4/5
I hate the fact that this is an excellent album.
The Lemonheads
2/5
It looks much better as an idea than an actual result.
Basic indie rock with
Ice Cube
3/5
I got the importance of this album for modern hip-hop and its songs are really cool. A little bit repetitive, but still cool!
Dr. Dre
3/5
By coincidence (I guess) I got 2 albums from previous NWA members in sequence (Ice Cube's "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" and this one).
This experience let me think about how these two albums are influential for the modern hip-hop culture and how they both sound a bit repetitive after the first songs but also gave to me the perspective on how much this one is better than the Ice Cube's first solo album, even suffering from the same "drawbacks".
Dr. Dre brings much freshness to his songs and lets them sound much more atemporal. This is remarkable in this first release.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
1/5
How to sound exactly like ANY OTHER hard rock band: A handbook
George Michael
2/5
I received "Faith" early this month on this list and while it is "basic", I can get what makes it a classic by its influence on modern pop. This one here it's still "basic", but much more boring.
I got the importance of it for George Michael's career and Freedom is an anthem impossible to dislike, however, it's impossible for me to like a whole album based on this only song.
Pavement
3/5
I didn't get anything special from this record. It's cool, but nothing special at all.
Can
3/5
This album is much more interesting than I thought when I got it on this list. Maybe too much longer or too much stranger to being a real good album, but it's for this kind of thing that this list exists, right?
I'll probably listen to it again someday in the future...maybe with more preparation, I'll be able to understand its strangeness and enjoy it.
Napalm Death
4/5
Since I know that this album is the "worst" on the list according to the users, I was expecting something really bad, but I didn't find it.
It's a strange experience? Sure, but it's not bad, it's just different. I'll give it 4 stars not because I really liked it (it's too much for my taste), but I believe that discovering this kind of thing, even when I don't like it, is one of my main objectives using this site (Electronic music does not count :-P). To list Beatles and Beach Boys again, I really don't need to use any site.
4/5
I was expecting too much from this release. It's nice since I already assumed that Bob Dylan is beyond my comprehension, so I can say that the album is not as remarkable as I thought. It's good, sure, but lower expectations could be a good approach to listen to it in 2022 when Bob Dylan is already a Nobel-prized author with so many expectations over his songs.
The twist acoustic/electric between the two discs is something strong.
Nina Simone
5/5
This is good enough to keep my comments on me and just give it 5 stars
Al Green
3/5
I didn't find anything special about this album. It's nice and chill, but nothing more than that.
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
When I got this album, I just thought "Ok...let me listen to this 1-star album"...
However, after listening to the whole album, I was kind of hypnotized by this noise ambiance song with dirty guitars....so, 2 stars are enough for the power of hypnotizing songs, and maybe this is the reason to include the album on this list.
Kraftwerk
2/5
Electronic music is definitively not my cup of tea...However, after listening to it over and over again on this list, I kinda see what makes this type of song important for the music history and concepts at all.
At least, this album is not completely annoying
Jeff Buckley
5/5
This was an unexpected surprise. I didn't like all the songs, but the whole album is great.
I think that this is the first absolutely unknown for me that really deserved 5 stars.
The Stranglers
3/5
I believe that the beauty of this album resides in the fact that it sounds like the coolest 80's punk and new wave, but in 1977. I'm not sure if it could be considered the precursor of anything special, but for sure it influenced a lot of people that are much more famous for being precursors of this song style.
In short, a very cool album with cool songs that sounds much more modern than 1977. This list is working like a charm for my objective of discovering new things that I barely knew that I want to discover.
Tim Buckley
3/5
This week I'm receiving a lot of family pairs albums and this is an interesting situation because on one side is very easy to know the influences of family in some songs, but some other times they look like opposite works (with also makes sense).
Independently of family structures, I liked a bit of this album, but it is too much longer and starts to be annoying after the first 5 songs.
Femi Kuti
3/5
MC Solaar
4/5
This was very unexpected album. Good hip-hop style with some french style embedded into it.
Very nice discovery
Kate Bush
1/5
The 3 last songs almost give this album an extra star, but as a whole, it's just boring as hell.
Joni Mitchell
2/5
I swear that I tried to like it because I know about her importance for the music, but I can't, unfortunately.
Besides 1 or 2 songs that are nice, the album is nothing my cup of tea at all!
Fats Domino
4/5
This kind of thing is the reason for my use of this site. It's hard to analyze these pioneering musical works, so I'll just remark that this is something that I'll surely listen to again in the future.
Simple Minds
2/5
Meh.... a basic new wave without much to say.
Fred Neil
3/5
When it started I almost don't like it, but after the first songs, I kind of liked this folk album with a strong voice.
I'll probably not be a fan of it, but it was good to know a new folk artist beside the clichês around.
Depeche Mode
3/5
"Enjoy the silence" deserves its own place on this list. One of those songs that are so recognizable that is tough to forget. Maybe it's overused and that is the reason it is a classic, but listening to it in the context of the album makes much sense. It's an extremely nice song.
The rest of the album? Well, it's nice. Sounds fresh even after more than 30 years and this is a nice thing, but it could be better if it had fewer songs. After all songs, it starts to sound repetitive.
The Band
2/5
Pretty hard to say if I didn't like it because it's just almost the same country/folk 60's that flood this list so much or if I didn't like it because it sounds exactly like a B-side of Bob Dylan's band and nothing more, but I didn't like it so much.
Gene Clark
3/5
I was not expecting so much of this and I received exactly what I expected. Nothing special to say about this release
Ute Lemper
3/5
This is the kind of thing that is so unexpected that ends up being a good experience. I'm not a fan of "The divine comedy", but these versions and songs are pretty much cool. They are not quintessential for music, but I already received many worst things on this list, so, this is nice.
Moby
3/5
Ok, I still don't like electronic music at all, but this is list is trying hard to convince me of the contrary.
This is a very nice release. Could be shorter, ending at the tack 5m but still nice.
Duran Duran
2/5
I know Duran Duran only by reputation and I was expecting much more from this album. In the end, it's just a boring new wave.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
This is that kind of jazz album that is nice to listen to one time per year and remember why we have all this buzz around jazz music style. It's easy to understand with albums like that.
Reading the Wikipedia page, it turns even more special, with the different times' explanation. The extended version of the album with live recordings is for sure a 5 star. The original one is too short for it, but it's still a gem.
Black Flag
3/5
Good discovery of punk ancestry.
Gotan Project
3/5
I didn't love it, but this is the kind of thing that makes this list worth it. Discover new bands, new songs, new ways of thinking in music.
Listening to this kind of "pop tango" was very surprising and also a good experience.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Much less noisy than the other Sonic Youth releases that I got on this list, so, much more enjoyable. I'll not become a fan of the band and I don't consider them so relevant to stay with more than one album on the 1001 list, however, this is a nice album and it's a good way to spend 37 minutes.
John Coltrane
5/5
Even without really understanding all the reasons, it's easy to recognize a masterpiece when I see one.
Jurassic 5
2/5
Maybe it's a bad day, but I didn't like it too much. There isn't anything particularly bad about the songs, they are just too much the same as any modern hip-hop, but they haven't anything special for me.
Queen
4/5
It's Queen. It's not the best Queen album, but it's rock!
3/5
After two other "Yes" albums, I kinda like these long experimental songs. Nothing much special about this specific, but I believe that now I'm almost understanding all the hype around the band.
Eric Clapton
2/5
I'm very happy to didn't like so much of this album from this genius guitarist but an awful person (at least during the last years).
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
I already listened to some new releases of this band (actually, I didn't even know that they were a 90's band), but this album sounds so different that I didn't recognize the band as the same as their newer albums.
This one is a very nice 90's indie rock with some good songs and a little bit of extravagance. Nothing so remarkable, but a good album for a Friday morning.
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
I didn't get the meaning of all songs from this album, but it's one of that cases where a classical is easily recognizable.
The Byrds
3/5
I liked it, but I kind of annoyed with all these Beatles-like songs. Maybe it's a matter of the day because some days I'm really into it, but not this time. Good album.
Slipknot
3/5
I liked much more of the new Slipknot releases, but this first one is not bad at all. It's possible to see all the characteristics that made the band famous since this firsts songs.
Todd Rundgren
4/5
This was very impressive and unexpected. I don't remember if I've already listened to something from Todd Rundgren, but this release sounds really great and that is the type of thing that made this 1001 list worth it.
A lot of experiments that sound much more modern than some 2000's bands, but still very enjoyable without exaggerated virtuosic.
I liked it very much!! It's not 5 stars, just because there is one only song that is kind of exaggerated, but it's almost an essential album.
Primal Scream
1/5
Reading the Wikipedia page I was expecting a true revolutionary album, but it was very disappointing. Maybe it was revolutionary when it was released, but today, it sounds very generic and not so good electronic rock.
SAULT
4/5
Pretty cool album with some influences that are hard to define, but still with a clear purpose.
It's hard to establish that it will some kind of classic in the future, but for sure it will influence the next classics.
Baaba Maal
4/5
I didn't understand it at all, but it's very nice to receive this kind of album here on this list. Just listen to it and it's absolutely impossible does not to note the importance and influence of these songs in almost everything I listen to every day. The language, the drums, and everything else is recognizable in some way
Unexpected surprise, not understandable, but very cool!
PJ Harvey
3/5
It's the second PJ Harvey album that I got on this list. Until now, I'm still not in the hype, but it's a nice album, nothing so much special about it.
The Black Crowes
4/5
Am I listening to a 70's heavy metal? Or maybe a true hard rock band from the '80s? Maybe, it sounds a little bit like an English indie rock from the 2000s?
I'm not sure if I liked the whole album because it's a little bit longer than I normally like, however, it's impossible to not say that it looks like a real trip in rock history and a well-done trip.
Beatles
5/5
I'll help to keep this album in the first place of "Highest Rated Albums" on the site. Nuff said!
Nick Drake
3/5
I didn't think I was going to like this album, but I did somehow. The strings and flutes with that strong voice are kind of mesmerizing.
Roxy Music
4/5
This is the third album from Roxy Music that I get on this list and it's very impressive how different they are from each other. This one it's absolutely the best one. Very sharp melodies and good experimentation without loss of quality on the songs where they are more "classic". I probably need to go back and listen to again "Roxy Music" and "For Your Pleasure", just to check if I lost something the first time because this band really rocks (apparently)!
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
So strange and so recognizable...I liked it, but it's not anything so special. Maybe another day I'll give it another try just to check.
Sheryl Crow
1/5
Country musicians ruining country music since always
Grizzly Bear
3/5
Interesting for the first 2 songs, then a deep and strange valley with some not-so-good things that made me think what was happening, and finally a calm end with a very beautiful melody. My definition of a 3 stars album.
I like to receive things from the 2000s that I didn't know anything about.
Röyksopp
1/5
The worst of two worlds. Electronic elevator songs.
The Gun Club
4/5
One of the best things in following this 1001 albums challenge is this kind of discovery. I never heard about "The Gun club" before, but this early post-punk is becoming one of my preferred things to listen to these days. Great discovery!
Bee Gees
3/5
I believe that I had never listened to Bee Gees with attention before. This is a nice album and looks a little bit different from what I expected. It's still recognizable as Bee Gees, but it's purposely fancier.
I probably never listen to it again in a row, but some songs maybe.
The Kinks
2/5
Fouth "The Kinks" that I get on this list and it's the worst one. I don't even know why, but it does not have any remarkable song. It's not all bad, but the other albums from the band on this list are much better.
The B-52's
3/5
This is exactly what I was expecting when I receive the album this morning. I'm not sure if this is good but at the same time, it attends to my expectations.
Well, I don't know, maybe my expectations were not good enough.
The Stone Roses
2/5
I didn't get the hype over this album. For me, it just sounds like old pop. Sounds old today as it probably sounded in 1989.
Beck
2/5
A bunch of styles in the same album and I'm not sure if it should be the main feature of this album.
Mixing a lot of things in a consistent way is pretty hard...and this album is not so good at doing it. It's not absolutely bad and some songs are nice, but the lack of personality is the opposite of what I expected from Beck.
Funkadelic
4/5
This is pretty impressive. One of the best new albums (for me) that I got on this project, for sure. A little bit strange in the last songs, but still impressive!
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
I'm sure that this is an essential hip-hop album and it listens to it in 1992 probably was a great thing. 30 years later (!!!), it sounds like a very good hip-hop album, which is also impressive, but not so impressive as it was in the 90s.
The Stooges
5/5
After 330 albums on this list, things start to get a pattern. Sometimes I enjoy finding out some cool non-English albums (even being so few in the book) and sometimes I spent the whole week listen "the same thing".
Then...this! It's very strange to note how a 50 years album can be so refreshing. I don't know if it's a pre-punk, metal, or anything, but it's very good!!
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
I'm not a fan of Neil Young, but for sure this is the best album that I listened to from his work. It sounds like everyone involved really wants to be there playing those songs! Amazing!
The Shamen
1/5
I believe that I have never listened to so much electronic music as the last year following this list. After so many electronic albums I can confirm each time that it's not my cup of tea! Absolutely!
It's not the worst genre, I kinda like a few songs, but these artists insist on these 1-hour long releases with almost the same thing that even at a party will be boring for everyone.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
I liked the other Cohen albums that I listened to along this list, but this specific one I didn't like too much. It looks like a poetry reading session more than an album. Maybe I'm not in the vibe.
Death In Vegas
2/5
Well...I don't know what it is. I don't dislike it, but also don't like...I want to rate it with 3 stars, but it's too strange to be "medium"...
Pulp
3/5
Altough this is not hardcore, I liked it. It's steal too indie to be great, but it's nice
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
This is not exactly my favorite genre of music (this kind of pure countryish rock) but isn't possible to deny the influence of this album on modern music.
This is not essential to listen to it, but it makes me understand some things much better.
Ghostface Killah
4/5
I didn't expect to like this album so much. I was expecting some old-style hip-hop or maybe some kinda 90's-ish melodies that I like but it's not the best thing that we have from this style. However, I found a strong record of what I consider modern hip-hop, even with some proto-trap if I exaggerate a bit.
The lyrics are not the best of what I like, but I git the album idea. The greatest problem for me is the length, it's too long, but it's still great.
Dead Kennedys
4/5
It sounds a little bit dated, but still one of the best punk records of all time!
Culture Club
3/5
I feel that someone put the 80s in a mixer and just put the result in my ears. The worst part is that I kinda liked this amorphous slime of nostalgia.
The White Stripes
5/5
A long time ago, this was one of my favorite albums, and listening to it after some years brings me some very good memories. However, now I can note that this album does not deserve 5 stars because it's a little bit dated...
Who cares...this is a 5 ;-P
John Grant
4/5
This was a very different experience. I never heard about "John Grant" or about this album. However, during my listening session, almost all the songs were so recognizable that was a scary situation, although almost all songs are very nice.
I was reading the (short) Wikipedia page looking for some information about the use of these songs in movies or things like that and my search was unfruitful.
My only conclusion is: This album is excellent in mimicking exactly my preferred indie-ish songs from the 2000s and I liked it more than I tough at first.
Stereolab
3/5
In the first song, I thought that it will be another annoying electronic music album with the same song for 1 hour. However, after this annoying introduction, all the other songs are pretty good. Some indie pop mixed with rock and hip-hop which is very nice to listen to.
Not quintessential for me, but nice to listen during the morning!
T. Rex
3/5
I was expecting much more from this release when I received it this morning.
It's not bad, but far from something really remarkable for me.
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
This is a very impressive record with much more consistency than I thought at first. I already knew "Mr. Blue Sky" and some other songs, but never had listened to it as a whole album and it makes much sense listening to it in this way.
The final result is a little bit repetitive, but it's definitively a great album.
Meat Loaf
5/5
This was totally unexpected for me. Based on the cover and album name, I expected something absolutely different.
And I loved it!! It was a great piece of music! The lyrics are exactly fit for the chords, the songs are great and everything works like a charm on almost all songs.
I'm reaching 350 albums at this challenge and I was missing this kind of completely unknown album that deserves 5 stars.
Isaac Hayes
4/5
This was a great surprise. An album with a soul!
Massive Attack
2/5
Because of my last experience with Massive Attack, I was expecting a 1-star album with annoying electronic music that just takes too long to be enjoyable.
I'm happily surprised that this was not exactly the case. It's still far from my preference for music, but I didn't hate these 45 minutes as I expected before. I believe that the hip-hop and reggae influence in some songs helped a lot to be an almost enjoyable album.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
Ok. It's nice for a 1-hour long guitar solo.
Crowded House
2/5
Maybe i'm not in the right vibe for it, but it sounds like a very generic 90's pop rock.
Paul Simon
4/5
This was absolutely unexpected for me. Totally different from Simon's previous works, with a lot of influence from other song styles, and very nice songs. The kind of album that shines in the crowd of mediocre albums around.
However, for me, it's still far from a perfect record. It lacks a little bit of Simon's personality.
It's easy to note the importance of the album and how it resounds even these days in pop music.
Eagles
3/5
It was nice to listen to this first Eagles release, but for me, this album is the definition of "not so bad and not good enough".
A perfect 3 stars album.
The Verve
4/5
It's strange to listen to an album that I never heard about, even recognizing almost every song. This could be good or bad depending on the listener.
In my case, this is good.
An unknown classical
The La's
2/5
Is this just a REM from an alternate universe where every song is not so good?
Dire Straits
3/5
Musically impeccable. For me, this album almost deserves 5 stars. The only problem is the lack of variability among the songs. They are amazing, but it looks like a 40 min long song instead of an album.
This is the second "Dire Straits" that I got on this list and it's much better than the other one. The guitar here is incredible.
Thin Lizzy
3/5
The exact same (absurdly amazing) hard rock song for 1 hour.
I didn't have the right feeling to really enjoy this live album, but it's very likable and impossible don't to note how much influent (also influenced by their predecessors) it is.
Somedays I miss hard rock like this, even not being so good
Spiritualized
4/5
I never heard about Spiritualized and didn't have much information about "space rock", but I loved this album.
The last songs are a little bit exaggerated for my taste, but the first songs are more than a good reward to receive for these last songs. I rate it with 4 stars for the whole album, but absolutely 5 stars for the first half of the album.
It's very nice to note that the late 90s (that I lived and liked very much) still have these hidden gems to find out.
Pavement
3/5
Nothing so much different from ordinary independent 90's rock with the addition of a little bit more screaming. Probably it was kind of revolutionary for 1992.
Nothing so bad, but not memorable!
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Apparently, the 1001 book's author was very into electronic (and related synth styles) music when he/they wrote the book. I'm reaching 1 year following 1 album per day and it's almost impossible to spend 1 month without some electronic album.
Well, about this album itself, it's kind of amusing. It's hard for me to say that I liked it, but it's not annoying like some other electronic albums. I hope to learn more about this style and finally get what is all about and why so many electronic/synth albums like this one are important for music history.
M.I.A.
4/5
It was a very unexpected album. I already heard "Paper Planes", but the rest of the album was very interesting. Normally, I don't like a high mixture of styles exactly because it gives less personality to the album, but this one was an exception. The different styles of music are used in the right place.
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Altough a little bit repetitive, it's not a bad release. It's funny because some songs from the same decade sound so fresh and songs like those from this album sound so...old fashion.
This is not necessarily bad, there are plenty of old-fashioned songs that are still great in 2022. These ones are fine but not great and that's nice. Sometimes, we need to listen to nice songs that are not classical quintessential music.
She had a great and powerful voice. I'll probably look for other releases from her.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
It was very nice (and unexpected) to get utterly instrumental jazz that does not look like a revolution or something like that. I didn't expect this "normal" jazz album on this list.
It was a pretty lovely album and it's worth it, for sure although I believe that I'm suspect. This is the exact type of song that I like to discover.
Public Enemy
4/5
This is another of that cases where is pretty hard to rate. While this is classical and influenced almost everything, it's also a little bit repetitive. I need to give it 4 stars, even knowing that it should be 5.
Sam Cooke
5/5
I think that I'm in a classical week!
I know Sam Cooke by name but I never heard a whole album from him and now I have a new favorite album for my list of best albums. Nuff said!
Elvis Presley
4/5
This is a nice album that became classical for obvious reasons.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
For sure, this was a classical week themed on this site.
Unfortunately, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is not exactly my cup of tea. I have already tried some times; I got all their influence in modern music, and I like a lot of some solo production from the quartet, but the releases when they are all together, they are just ok.
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
It was a lovely album for a Monday morning. Nothing exceptional, but listening to some salsa here is very warming.
Four stars
Black Sabbath
5/5
This is one of my favorite albums since I understand my kind of music. Impossible to dislike it.
The Strokes
4/5
This album is refreshing and repetitive in the same proportion. I enjoyed it, and I'm annoyed by the similar songs around the whole thing.
Overall, from my perspective, this is an excellent Strokes' album, but it's far from their best.
Gorillaz
4/5
This album probably was very "revolutionary" in 2001 and still sounds like it. It's not the best thing from this list, and it's even not the best Gorillaz work, but this mix of electronic music (that I don't like) with some rock spicy is catching! It's one of the good examples of how to use technology in favor of the songs, instead of just playing repetitive sounds forever and calling it music.
I hope the current versions of the book also include the most recent works from the band. We deserve more.
The Stooges
4/5
The first part of this album is far from what I expected from The stooges. It sounds much more like something post-punk than punk itself.
However, the last songs...wow...that saxophone made some difference (I love it), but the whole energy in these songs is excellent... a remarkable punk recording.
The Police
3/5
Being an "Every Breath You Take" specialist when the subject is The Police, I must say that this album impresses me with its variety of songs and styles, keeping the same 80's vibe that is pretty recognizable.
It's far from perfect, but it is a lovely album and a good mood to start Monday.
The Stooges
3/5
This is the "less" punk of the Stooges albuns that I've listened to on this list. I miss the crazy Saxophone from "The Fun House."
Altough this is already a preview of Iggy's solo career that I tend to like, I must classify it as a good album, but not excellent. "Search & destroy" is the best song, but the rest of the album is good.
Ray Charles
4/5
I know Ray Charles is a genius, and I'll increase my rate here to four-star based on that information.
The album itself is ok, a lovely piece of music. Nothing much more
Manic Street Preachers
5/5
Another hidden gem that I just discovered, thanks to this list.
According to Wikipedia, the band chose the name "The Holy Bible" to reflect the holiness of the album, and I don't know if they achieved it. Still, it's a holy release that deserves its place on 1001 albums to hear before dying.
Taylor Swift
4/5
This was very unexpected for me, but I liked it very much. It's still a commercial pop sound, but it has some roots that differentiate the songs from what I was expecting to listen to it.
3/5
I finally found a PJ Harvey album that is not absolutely boring. It's still a little boring, but with 2 or 3 nice songs.
D'Angelo
3/5
It's a very classical hip-hop album but very repetitive.
I liked it, but I'll probably not listen to it again.
k.d. lang
2/5
Less country than the other album from the same artist I got here on the list, but still annoying.
The three last songs are at least a little enjoyable, but the whole album is not!
Happy Mondays
3/5
It's cool, but it's extremely basic
Q-Tip
3/5
For a 2008 album, it sounds remarkably fresh in 2022, which is impressive in a context like hip-hop, where things change very quickly. It's not so remarkable on these songs, but nice to listen to them and know a little bit more about
David Bowie
5/5
I like David Bowie, and he has a lot of classical in his musical history, but how is it possible to create a whole album that does not have fails?
This is one of that rare cases where there is no single bad song in the entire album. This is impressive.
Interesting to note some "new" things applied to some songs here for the first time that will follow his career until "Blackstar."
Aphex Twin
2/5
Right. The Wikipedia page for this album is pretty impressive, so I need to consider that this album has its importance for music history and especially for the electronic scene.
On the other hand, ambiance music is annoying and electronic music is (generally) annoying and repetitive as hell.
I conclude that I can rate an essential album with two stars when it has the most annoying sequence of songs I have ever listened to.
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
They were far away from the excellence of "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness," but I'll rate it with five stars just because it's still a collection of memorable songs, and I made a mistake of giving just four stars to "Mellon Collie" when I received it on this list.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Maybe I'm becoming a Nick Cave fan? Maybe...
Altough a little bit repetitive, these piano sessions are a great piece of music!
Prince
4/5
I must say that I didn't like this so much of this release (I prefer his less-pop releases), but I should pay respect to Prince.
Björk
3/5
This album is her first album despite the name. It is much less Björk and much more enjoyable for my ears' taste.
I liked it, and the last song is the best one. After that, I got the idea of her most recent albums and more "experimental" songs, but these are great examples of her talent besides these experimentations.
Scott Walker
3/5
It's bizarre to listen to it because I didn't like it so much, but it sounds very similar to some things I like. It resembles some songs from David Bowie and Bob Dylan but never reaches the quality I expected.
Three stars look fair to me.
Deep Purple
4/5
I'm not a big fan of Deep Purple, but listening to this release, I get the reasons for this so-long hype. They are consistent in their albums, and Machine Head is somehow the summary of their potential.
A classical album does not become classical for no reason.
Mudhoney
3/5
To the same extent that I liked the first Mudhoney I received on this list, I "disliked" this one.
It's not bad, but while "Superfuzz Bigmuff" is raw and authentic, "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge" sounds generic and expected as any 90s grunge. Maybe it's just my mood listening to it today or the not-so-good recording quality, but it's not the best from Mudhoney.
It's still worth listening to this album, but it's forgettable.
Taylor Swift
4/5
This is an excellent album that I was not expecting!
Last week I got another Taylor album on this list, and the difference in 4 or 5 years of her project "getting. back to her roots or something like that" is working. I still think that this album is quite long, but I'm genuinely curious about the next steps of her career (something that I never believed was possible:-P)
Radiohead
4/5
I liked to listen to this album on a Monday morning, but I miss the "dark" tone I was expecting from Radiohead. I know that the lyrics of this album are far from optimistic, but it does not look like the same band from "Ok computer," even being a good release.
Björk
5/5
I had mixed feelings when I saw that the album today is from Björk. At the same time, that is not my favorite music style (far from it), but it's impossible to say that she does not bring a great personality and a natural artistic feeling to this list.
Given that this album is an excellent way to spend 50 minutes. More experimentalism than I like, but in the end, it's good music.
This is the third Björk album that I got here, and I hope this is the last, but if not, I'm sure I'll enjoy the next strange musical trip waiting for me there.
It's necessary to rate it with five stars because some music is far from my preference, but it's a piece of art.
Dr. Octagon
3/5
I was missing some hip hop on the list since this album is the first in some days. It's not the best on lyrics (I like the themes, but here I feel it is a bit exaggerated), but it is very well produced.
I liked to know a good release, but it's probably not remarkable enough to take me back to it soon.
The Byrds
3/5
Very unexpected! I listened to The Byrds (at least in a complete sense) the first time because of this list. This is the third album from the band that I got here.
I think this one is a little different because I was not expecting a bit of experimentalist and psychedelia that I found in some songs here. I'm not sure if I can classify it as good or bad, but it's different and deserves the spent of 50 minutes.
Megadeth
4/5
Heavy metal is one of my favorite genres, and this is a classic thrash metal album. However, analyzing it in this list's context, I think it is a classical within the metal community and not a classical album for music history. It deserves some space when considering 1001 albums? maybe, but I'm not sure, even though it is an excellent Megadeath release.
The songs are lovely, and the album sounds good, despite some repetitiveness.
Ice Cube
3/5
This is not a bad release, but it's pretty standard. I expected more from Ice Cube because I liked his first solo album, so this one had great potential.
Fairport Convention
3/5
Usually, I like folk music, and it was fascinating to listen to these pioneers of folk music in the way I want. However, almost 1-hour long of the indistinguishable songs is pretty much even for me.
2.5 stars
The Chemical Brothers
1/5
Wake me up when the party ends.
1 or 2 songs are salvageable, and nothing more to see here. Let's go to the next.
Erykah Badu
4/5
Altough a little bit repetitive, this album have a lot of good points: so much soul and so much jazz
Van Morrison
3/5
This album has a lot of good vibes, and the lyrics are also enjoyable. I don't know if I'm receiving too much folk and folk rock, but even with a musical style that I appreciate, I think this album was a little bit repetitive.
I understand why it is part of the 1001 list, but it's not a 5-star due to the repetitiveness.
The Jam
3/5
The bass line is pretty impressive, and the songs are lovely, but the album is not much more than this. Good to know "The Jam," whose I had never heard about, but I'll probably not go back to this.
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
I sincerely do not know why, but everything from Fleetwood Mac sounds to me like a copy. Sometimes a Beatles copy, Beach Boys copy, copy, copy copy...
I know this is not true, but I cannot rate it with more than three stars.
Dexys Midnight Runners
5/5
I was not expecting long songs for this punkish album, but it's not bad. I must say that I love it much more than I tough and I'll surely listen to it many more times in the future. A great point to this list. I like it very much when I discover new things around here!
Johnny Cash
5/5
Maybe this is not considered the best Cash's work, even the maturest one, mainly because it's a covers album. But, without any doubt, it's my favorite!
All songs and lyrics are unique, and Cash's interpretation is astonished.
My first Johnny Cash on this list, and I consider it lucky
Depeche Mode
3/5
I don't feel anything so remarkable on this release, but it was a pleasant experience listening to it.
The musical work is impressive, they take account of the listener's experience for real, but the high number of promising techniques do not compensate for the lack of "trueness" on the whole album!
Black Sabbath
5/5
It's impossible to rate it with less than five stars.
Simply one of the most influential albums in music history and essential to creating my taste for music. Nowadays, I'm much more eclectic in my music preferences, but heavy metal is in my veins, and this album is the main reason for it!
Gang Of Four
3/5
Nice album. It looks like an essential album for the post-punk movement, but it's a little bit annoying sometimes due to the repetitiveness.
Not perfect, enjoyable, and historically significant, so it deserves a 4-stars rate.
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
The album starts with a lovely mood, and these funky songs sound nice to me. However, while the music kept going in my ears, I was gradually losing interest in what I was listening to. Maybe my mood was decreasing, but I can't rate it with more than three stars.
Pantera
4/5
It's a compelling album, without any doubt. It's not perfect, though.
I must rate it four stars at least.
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
The album has the same "problem" as a lot of early-age hip-hop albums. They are almost always much influent in our modern hip-hop, but at the same time sound very dated and not so fresh. Maybe, this is a problem of a genre that updates itself all the time, and it's never stopped in time, but it makes it hard to rate it with more the 3 or 4 stars (except maybe on the definitive albuns on the genre, that is not the case here)
Janelle Monáe
5/5
The concept is incredible, the songs are great, the lyrics are amazing, the mood is fantastic, and I don't know enough good words to describe it.
I've heard some Monáe songs before, but this album surprised me, and it's already on my favorites list.
Skunk Anansie
5/5
Wow! Another point for the 1001 list. I had never heard about "Skunk Anansie," but I'm glad to discover this fantastic voice and great songs!
Awe-inspiring work!
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
It's always lovely to listen to this kind of Jazz during the morning, so this is an excellent pick for today.
I know I'll be unfair in my analysis, but the problem with this album is the lack of innovation, which is very unfair for a 1961 album. Still, I already received other old Jazz albums here on this list that are also good and have a lot of innovation.
In short, a great album with a great interpretation, but not remarkable as others released some years before and after.
Frank Sinatra
3/5
I understand the historical importance of this album for the music industry and the culture as a whole, but it's not a good one. Sinatra has some very classical songs on his voice, and none are in this specific record.
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
Ok, 2 or 3 songs became real Pop classics, but the album is a little dated nowadays.
I was not expecting something revolutionary, but why is this album in the 1001 list rather than any other 80's Pop album? No reasons.
Nirvana
5/5
I'll follow most of the site in this case because this is one of my favorite albums of all time. Impossible to rate with less than 5.
Tom Waits
3/5
I liked to listen to this bluesy album with some depressed punk attitude. Waits' vocal delivery is impressive, too.
For me, the only problem is the repetitiveness of the album. I was a bit bored with his songs at the last song.
Shack
2/5
Ok, there are 1001 albums on this list, it's acceptable to have some absolutely generic albums from time to time. I'll rate it 2-stars.
Blondie
4/5
I've sometimes heard about "Blondie" in the past but never tried to listen to a complete album.
However, listening to it, I know these songs: from movies, from the radio, from my childhood memory, from somewhere that I don't remember, but I know I've already listened to them.
I think that even though not being exactly my cup of tea, these songs are the definition of classical songs. They keep in our memories even if we aren't aware of them.
CHIC
3/5
It starts with very cool songs; in the middle of the album, we have some ambiance songs that are killjoy, but it finishes with a set of 2/3 songs that grab my attention again.
Irregular, but it's lovely to receive this album on a Friday morning
Eminem
4/5
I liked it very much some years ago, but nowadays, I comprehend the worst parts of this album. However, the music is so nice, and I like this hardcore hip-hop (thanks to Wikipedia for the new term) style that Eminem plays so well, and I'll rate it five stars if the lyrics were not so awful.
I understand his anger and his motivation to write and record these things. Still, it's necessary to recognize these problems at that time with the exact measurement we used to realize his musical geniality.
Queen Latifah
3/5
I recognize Queen Latifah much more for her TV/movie career. But, even knowing about her music, I never took the step to try it. That said, I enjoyed this album a lot. This dancing hip-hop, with some reggae influences, really pleased me. Quite a long album, and the lyrics are a little repetitive, but I'll give her a try to her other albums someday.
PS: she wants that everybody knows her name and also that she is a queen 😂
Simply Red
2/5
I disliked this album, but among the 1001 albums, I was missing this type of music.
I can't name this style correctly, but it's something like a grew-up millennium child listening to some "Flashback '80s or 70s" album with cover art that is a poster of some movie from the '80s. It's much more a feeling than a musical style, but it was lacking on this list before this album.
Nice to listen to it, but 2-stars is my maximum
Fugazi
3/5
I liked this album, but I think that is because it is the exact kind of music that I am passionate about, but I don't consider it so different from any other thing that I have listened to before.
Apparently (according to Wikipedia), they were very influential in the early 90s, but it does not sound atemporal to me. Going deep on the band's Wikipedia page, I must say that their posture in the music business is admirable but considering only this "Repeater" album, I rate it three stars.
AC/DC
4/5
The album is a little bit repetitive but has powerful music. I think that rock n' roll was never the same after AC/DC, which is a mark in musical history.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
After listening to some Neil Young albums on this list (apparently, he is essential for the 1001 book's authors), I confirmed that the Crazy Horse band songs are the best version of Neil Young songs. "Rust Never Sleeps" is far away better than this one, but it's still an adorable listening session.
Rush
4/5
Some albums are classics for rational reasons, and some are just a matter of pure feeling. This one fits the second case.
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
This kind of unexpected album is one of the most exciting things about this list. It's far from my favorite music genre, but it's far because of my lack of knowledge of how big the world is.
I hope to keep this project for the following years, and I wish to receive more classical but even more of these different and culturally challenging albuns.
Good music, great experience.
(Unfortunately, the Wikipedia page for the album is too short, but the Youssou N'Dour page helps with it)
The Black Keys
3/5
I liked this album, but I think I liked it much more around 2010 than now. Maybe it's just a matter of my mood, but today it looked too long and repetitive for me.
Justice
3/5
I keep my opinion on electronic music and the excessive number of electronic albums on this list, but this one is pretty enjoyable.
"Cross" is one of the first electronic albums that are not a simple variation of the same song for 30 or 50 minutes (not the only one, fortunately).
After all, enjoying a few samples and electronic drums is not impossible.
5/5
I think it is impossible to say anything that everybody did not say in the past about this album.
A great piece of music history. It's awe-inspiring how much Bowie is eclectic and different among his different albums
Hawkwind
3/5
The album starts very well; the songs are likable, even psychedelic rock not being my favorite thing.
After 1st hour, the songs start to lose any sense...why I'm still listening to it?
After 2nd hour: Is this real life?
The album's end is in a melting brain by psychedelia, "space rock" (whatever that means), and poetry(?).
I got why this album is on the list, but more than 2 hours (only 2 hours?) of anything is enough to enjoy and hate that thing. Watching the live presentation looks like an authentic experience, but listening to it is just part of it and, at the most, is enjoyable. At its worst is annoying. A perfect 3-stars
Scott Walker
2/5
Another Scott? How many Scotts do we have on this list?
Well, I didn't get why one more album from the same artist in this case, since they are pretty similar among them. Some artists change many of their styles or lyricism from album to album, but this is not the case. It's just another Scott.
Traffic
3/5
I don't get much from this album. It has some cool songs and an exciting mix of styles. I think it is pretty innovative for 1970, but it's not something that I call atemporal.
The Replacements
4/5
When I received this album Friday morning, I thought: ok, it's some ugly brother of THE "Let it Be." I was not wrong, and this was awesome.
A great piece of late punk songs (post-punk, according to Wikipedia) that made me feel like it was in the 80s. Much rawer than its shine brother album and enjoyable as hell. I'll keep an eye on other albums from "The Replacements."
4 stars
The Velvet Underground
4/5
"The Velvet Underground & Nico" is an album I was afraid to listen to because of its reputation. However, it's such a classic album that I could not understand how much geniality it compresses.
Finish my listening session; I can say that it is pretty nice but also pretty typical. But, listening to it in 2022 is much different from listening to it in 1967. The album was released one year after "Pet Sounds," which means the revolution was everywhere around Velvet Underground guys. So it was "easy" to capture the moment and put it all together.
The last songs of the album, mixing some noise and raw distortion into pieces, are engaging experimentally, but even these songs do not sound so revolutionary to me. It's still a gratifying experience, and now that I'm not afraid anymore, I can search for more Velvet Underground. Some months ago, I received "White Light / White Heat" on this list, and I could not understand it. After Listening to this one, I can conclude two things:
- they weren't as revolutionary as I thought
- Not understanding it made it even better for some reason.
Leftfield
1/5
I write almost the same for all electronic albums because it is not my favorite kind of music, with 1 or 2 exceptions until now.
This one is not an exception.
Brian Eno
2/5
I had already heard about Brian Eno's solo work, and this album is what I was expecting. I understand why this is one of 1001 albums to be listened to before dying, but this doesn't make it much better. I like some noise in some songs, but JUST noise is not so good.
I'll increase my rate from 1 star to 2 because it's nice to understand some musical tendencies better and, as I said, my expectations were completely fulfilled, even the worst ones.
The Young Rascals
3/5
A 60's rock album that sounds precisely as was expected for a 60's rock album.
Metallica
4/5
It's a pretty impressive release, solid on Metallica albums history, even not the best one, in my opinion.
I think that this album lacks singles for a band like Metallica ("One" is the exception that confirms the rule), and the songs are too long.
In short, I enjoyed it very much, but it's not a 5-star.
Songhoy Blues
4/5
After reading Wikipedia, I'm sure this album has great potential to be classical in the future. Mainly for the band members' history and their musical qualities because I think it is pretty hard to be established in the jazz/blues/rock industry without singing in English.
Judas Priest
3/5
I tend to like Judas Priest, but I must say that with my mood today, it does not fit so well.
Good album, at least one classic of all times for the metal world but nothing so remarkable compared to other stuff on this list.
Alanis Morissette
4/5
This album is much better than I remember from my teenage years. Alanis's voice is awe-inspiring, and her angry lyrics are very modern (since the emo is coming back, it's very contemporary).
I enjoyed it very much.
The Icarus Line
2/5
I'm sure this album could be much more enjoyable with fewer songs. This kind of noise rock music is not so bad (it's pretty interesting sometimes), but it's annoying after 35 minutes and worsens every minute.
This is important enough to be part of the 1001 list. Still, it has many more lost opportunities than actual realization, mainly because of the lack of brevity and self-awareness of its limitations.
2 stars
Metallica
5/5
Definitively Metallica is a band to be enjoyed in live sessions. However, this one is even more special due to the mix of metal and classical music!
It's always a combination that I enjoy a lot, and I can't give them less than five stars.
Rod Stewart
3/5
I expected much less from Rod Stewart, but this album is enjoyable. Nothing exceptional or out of the box, but nice
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
This was an outstanding experience. This is exactly like I remember RHCP in my teenage years. Even though some songs could be better, the emotion here is responsible for my five-star rating.
Foo Fighters
4/5
Pretty strong release. They are not the best foo fighters because they have significantly improved in the last few years. The record made only by Dave Grohl is a well-known anecdote but always incredible to hear about his process.
Peter Gabriel
4/5
I was expecting something very different. Something more experimental or psychedelic, but this album is pretty much diverse. I hear some psychedelic but mixed with old plain rock n' roll, pre-indie rock, and a choir(?).
I'll increase my evaluation just because of my surprise.
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Great piece of music! I'm humiliated for someday being afraid or disliking Stevie Wonder songs. This is a very diverse album with many music styles and fun music.
Elvis Presley
4/5
It's very impressive how modern an album from 1969 can sound. I'm not an Elvis fan, mainly because of his polemic use of black people's compositions getting all the credit as "the king," but I must assume this is historically important and an excellent album. Elvis's voice is incredible. "Power of My Love" and "Suspicious Minds" are incomparable classics.
Kanye West
4/5
It's tough to split up the album from the artist. I hate to assume that this album is an excellent piece of modern hip-hop made by someone who may not deserve to be recognized by anything (independent of any possible psychological problem, this is not a forever excuse for everything Ye has supported over the years). I'll concentrate on the Wikipedia page that clarifies that this album is much more a result of collaborative work from many artists than Ye himself.
David Holmes
2/5
A not lousy ambiance song. I didn't get it as a whole, but it's not annoying, as it has nothing special to say.
Willie Nelson
1/5
I know something about Willie Nelson by his name, and he is somehow crucial for American music history, but this was such a dull experience that I don't care too much about his importance.
I wouldn't say I like it, but apparently, Nelson recorded almost 80 albums. So maybe I'll try some of them in the future.
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
This is a lovely album, but it's so flat. I almost thought that I was listening to a long 40 minutes song. Not bad, but the only remark is its flatness, so 3 stars are enough
Tina Turner
4/5
I was not really into Tina Turner until today. I don't have good reasons for it, but it always sounded slightly "artificial" to me.
Thanks to this list, I'm glad to have the opportunity to listen to it today. This album is not something I classify as excellent or perfect, but it's everything rather than artificial. It's intense rock music with meaningful lyrics and excellent voice work.
When I saw my home project page this morning, I was somewhat disappointed, but now I hope to see more of Tina's albums in the future.
Chicago
4/5
I always think about these bands with city names as the same (Chicago, Boston, Nazareth, Alabama, etc...) with that kind of easy-listening music from the 70s and 80s. How foolish I was for never trying "Chicago" before.
It's an extended play with more than 1 hour trip to various rock styles and an excellent instrumental vibe from start to end.
I hope other bands named after cities I never tried have identical surprising albums on this list. I'll be lucky.
The Cramps
3/5
Listening to all these albums on this list helps me understand music history better (at least the US/English-centered music history), which is very interesting. Examples like "Songs The Lord Taught Us" are fascinating, even though they are not the best songs or record production.
The mixture of punk and rockabilly-inspired music here is an incredible resource for understanding the 80s and 90s musical movements and how we reach the 2000s with so much nostalgia in our minds. The future is not shining anymore, and the past is always a place to be comfortable, so the change/remix/(des)organize the past is an excellent tool to enjoy the present while waiting for the possible worst future.
Big Black
3/5
The lousy quality of the record affects a little bit the possibility of analyzing their songs. I know that garage rock should sound as bad as it is on this release, but it's still making it hard to appreciate.
Given that this album is part of the remains of punk history and 80s history that is accessible to us. We probably will never know how these things happened at that time, but this kind of thing makes us feel something that matters. It shows us how humankind is linked by the long line of history and its revolutions (musical revolutions for the sake of this list, but not only).
I didn't know anything about "Big Black" before today, but I'm used to enjoying early punk rock.
The Beach Boys
3/5
I'm far from a specialist in Beach Boys discography, but this album before THE "Pet Sounds" sounds interesting.
I can see much of the future experimentalism of the band, but also some remains of classical surf rock. I don't have much to say, but this quick and good release from this band some years from changing the musical history and listening to it is a good experience.
The Who
4/5
I like the concept of these opera rock albums, but I must say that I rarely listen to them, paying much attention or following the correct order. So it was a lovely surprise to get this album today. It allowed me to pursue an opera rock album as it should be: Listen to the songs and follow the history behind them, paying attention to the details.
It is astonishing how much "The Who" changed their style and lyrics from their previous albums to this one. It looks like a whole new band.
It was a good experience; I enjoyed listening to opera rock in the way I should have heard, and "The Who" is not such an influential band without reason.
The Charlatans
3/5
It was nice to listen to an Oasis cover band in a Monday morning...wait...is this still an Oasis cover? What is this song about? It does not look like an Oasis cover anymore...
Cornershop
1/5
Totally different from what I was expecting and absolutely boring.
System Of A Down
4/5
It's funny to listen to this album. SOAD was one of my favorite bands during my teenage years, and I still enjoy their music. However, I have never listened to this album as a whole album since today. It was a great experience that reminded me why I liked them 10 or 15 years ago.
Machito
4/5
Lovely album! Smooth songs for a smooth Friday!
I'm very impressed with never heard about "Machito" before. He made a real contribution to Latin culture and other Afro-Cuban cultures.
I hope to get more of this kind of music here on this list!
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
This album mixes "cool! good English folk stuff" and "is this just generic nostalgic 80s songs?".
For me, it's a solid 3-stars. However, since I discovered this band on this list with their first album, it's strange that I gave five stars for the first, with much more solid work, and three to this one, but I'm not a suitable parameter when giving stars/points, so I accept my incongruencies 😁.
Boards of Canada
3/5
Not my cup of tea, but it's a not-intrusive ambiance sounds good to listen to during work hours.
Pearl Jam
5/5
This is a pure sentiment put in music.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
You know, they are the Rolling Stones, and no matter what they do, they will perform well. I didn't like so much of this album, even enjoying these bluesy songs from the stones, because I think the album is to monothematic. Sympathy for the devil is an astonishing song that I've listened to so many times that became a personal classic for me (I guess for everyone), but the other songs are just good blues played by the Stones. They can do whatever they want and it's good.
Cheap Trick
4/5
Usually, I'm not a big fan of live albums, and I'm also unaware of "Cheap Trick." I heard about the band, I know a few songs, but this is all.
And after listening to this album, I must say, "wow." Their energy is contagious even in a record. I'd love to have the opportunity to watch a real live presentation of this band after this album.
David Bowie
5/5
This is one of my favorite albums since it was one of my first real contact with Bowie's work. I already know him by name and some MTV singles, but this was one of my first listening sessions, some years before started this 1001 list challenge. Since then, I've already listened to other albums from him (because of the list and also by myself) and I'm becoming more and more of a fan.
Os Mutantes
5/5
This is one of the essential pieces of Brazilian music, and I cannot give it less than five stars. All the influences from psychedelic rock and Brazilian traditional rhythms like samba are here, making an impressive album with a lot of poetry in its lyrics.
I love this album!
Common
3/5
I liked this album, but it's pretty long. It's interesting to see how many different hip-hop styles we have only in one album. It sounds exactly like what I expected for one 90s/2000s hip-hop album. The cultural mixes of the end of the XX century are all here. Reducing 30 minutes and being a little less repetitious would be one of the great hip-hop releases from the last decades.
Motörhead
3/5
It's interesting how this album is so influential for many rock bands after Motorhead, even if it is not a great album. It's too monothematic, musically and lyrically. I enjoyed the long length of almost 2 hours with not-so-good record quality, but it's because is my preferred style of music since I was very young. However, it's not in my list of 1001 albums that people MUST listen to before they die...maybe if the list goes to 2000 albums.
The Velvet Underground
4/5
After listening to the other two Velvet Underground albums on this list, this one is pretty "normal." The Wikipedia page says it's a less experimental album than the previous ones, which is nice. It shows the band's versatility and good qualities in almost any music genre.
Not considering "The Murder Mystery," all ballads in this album are enjoyable and easy to listen to. The song "The Murder Mystery" is actually a good break almost at the end of the album to show us that we are still listening to Velvet Underground.
Not the best stuff from this list, but good enough since its historical influence. When I started this challenge, I was kind of afraid of listening to this band and not understanding it. After listening to 3 albums from them, I'm not a fan, but I noted that it is pretty easy to understand good music, no matter how experimental or strange.
Alice Cooper
3/5
Besides the tremendous single "School's Out," this is a pretty classic album from the 70/80s hard rock and metal scene. Alice Cooper is essential in rock history, but I think this album is not among his best works.
Robbie Williams
4/5
Much better than I thought at first glance. I was not expecting such solid and personal songs. I was expecting some generic pop songs and was surprised by this potent work. Without this 1001 list, I'd never think about listening to Robbie Williams, but now I'm looking for his newest albums 🙂.
The Who
3/5
I liked the idea of the album, I enjoyed a lot some songs, but overall, it was a little bit annoying to reach to the end of this. It's not a bad album, but it's much better to listen to The Who's greatest hits rather than this album.
Kanye West
4/5
It's far from his best albums for me, but it's a very solid debut from one of the worst persons in the whole world (a great rapper, though)
Arcade Fire
5/5
I know some songs from Arcade Fire, but this was my first time listening to their debut as a whole. It's a great work, musically and lyrically. I don't have any bad comments about what I've listened to now!
It was delightful to (re)discover a band that was just "a standard indie rock band" until today.
John Lee Hooker
4/5
This was a lovely experience! Roots blues music is perfect for Mondays!
It's not one of the best albums of my life, but is absolutely good to listen to these clean guitars!
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
It's very nice to know a little bit more about the post-punk movement, but it's a very strange and hard-to-follow album.
Radiohead
3/5
The difference between "Ok Computer" and this album is whopping. I prefer the first since my taste for electronic music is not so accurate and, usually, I'm not too fond of it. Still, I must assume that some songs caught my attention—a solid 3 stars in my not-so-solid personal rate system.
Common
3/5
It looks like a very influential album, but it sounds standard for 2022 ears. It probably deserves more than 3 stars, but it's hard to find reasons to rate it without the historical background. Maybe almost all hip-hop albums suffer from this problem since they are always too contextualized, but some of them (like this one) are hard to stay relevant after more than 10 years after their release.
Thundercat
4/5
This was very interesting. I never saw myself enjoying a "bass album," but Thundercat and his hip-hop inspiration considerably make me appreciate these songs.
The White Stripes
5/5
The White Stripes is one of my favorite bands that I forget to listen to for months...However, I am surprisingly amazed by some songs when I return to them. I know that sometimes their rawness is not so well digested by our ears, but I can't dislike them.
Japan
4/5
I had never heard about "Japan" (the band, not the country, of course, 🤣 (I'm so funny)), and when it started, I thought it was some 70/80's standard pop easy to listen to and forgettable.
However, from song to song, I noted some lovely rock influences and even some very interesting jazzy mixed with the pop style. It's not perfect and deserves three stars, but I'll rate it with four just because of the surprise.
50 Cent
3/5
In the same way, as many other hip-hop albums, it's too dependent on its context, but it's not a bad album. Of course, more than 1 hour of 50's gangsta stuff could be annoying for some people, but "In da Club" is an anthem of 2000's rap, and his influence is undeniable, even being dated.
Prefab Sprout
2/5
It starts well, but at the end, it's just a standard pop-rock song from the '80s. Nothing else.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
I'll never look for this kind of music, but the 1001 list teaches me how (and maybe why) I like Nick Cave. It's not my kind of song, but it's always impressive how much I enjoy their albums.
Jethro Tull
3/5
I liked it more than I expected, but it's not as classical and mind changer as I thought a first glance (Jethro Tull is mythical, right? It should transform my life)
The Fall
3/5
It's bizarre to see it as a punk/post-punk album with so many electronic components and long songs, but it's not so bad.
Jungle Brothers
5/5
These guys should write a manual like "How to do 90s hip-hop sound even more 90s". I felt transported to another time listening to this album, and I liked it much more than when I lived in the 90s.
The mixture of sound and percussion instruments/beats is unique (at the same time, that was extensively used around hip-hop for the next 10 years after this release), and the lyrics and voices are unforgettable.
It looks like a very influential album I should listen to more times in the following years. Hip-Hop albums are always too many dependents on the context, but they shine when some are also so influential and time-transporting like this one.
Bonnie Raitt
1/5
Ok, 1001 is a lot of albums...it's necessary to have some things like it, I understand.
Wikipedia says it's really important, and I'll never get why.
Bobby Womack
3/5
This is a lovely record, even not being so recognizable to me. I liked it, and I'll probably go back to listen to it again, but it's not remarkable.
Elton John
4/5
This album is that kind of stuff you know that is classical and important for music history, even being a little bit repetitive.
I'm not an Elton John fan, but his talent is impossible to do not to remark on.
King Crimson
3/5
Before starting this 1001 challenge, I completely misunderstood progressive rock and experimentalism in popular music. So I learned a lot listening to it on some occasions and reading Wikipedia from time to time.
It's not my favorite style, and I felt sad when I received some progressive album (apparently, the book's author loves this kind of music). Still, after almost 500 albums, I must confess that I was missing some experimentalism in my daily album. Thanks to "King Crimson" for allowing me to listen to some experimentalism today. I guess that after the subsequent 200 albums, I'll become a fan of progressive rock.
Antony and the Johnsons
5/5
Where was I in 2005 that I didn't know about this album or this band? For today, I think this is a little bit exaggerated on the sad environment, but it looks perfect for the 15 years old me.
David Bowie
4/5
After listening to some Bowie albums following this list and also by myself, I consider myself much more aware of his many musical styles and phases. This one is not the best for me, but it is still Bowie, a 5-star artist even on his worst days, so it deserves a high rate, for sure.
Grateful Dead
3/5
Grateful Dead is another of the bands that I was "afraid" of listening to because I don't feel I'm able to understand. However, after this album, I realized again that this fear is not justified, mainly because their geniality or unique qualities are too much intrinsic to the songs. A plain listening session gives us the experience of a standard 70/80s rock band and that it's already good enough (better than many other albums on the 1001 list).
Maybe this is not the best GD album. Perhaps I'm still unable to comprehend everything, but I know I'm listening to good music and something meaningful. This is enough for me.
Frank Ocean
4/5
This album is so refreshing and a great piece of music. It's hip-hop, but also, it's something more that it's impossible to explain.
Rush
3/5
I liked 2112 very much, and I was expecting something similar here, but I found just a good album and nothing else. Good listening session, but forgatable
T. Rex
4/5
I didn't know much about T. Rex before this 1001 challenge, and the first album I got here disappointed me since they have a nice name and didn't reach my expectations. Now, this is different: A fantastic release with almost every song in the right place, excellent songs, and lyrics...I was fully into the album during the listening...I expected moe of this T. Rex in the list.
Adele
2/5
Ok, it's a good album, and her voice is fantastic, but after 3 or 4 songs, I was annoyed. Too much repetition musically and thematically.
Stevie Wonder
5/5
I was under some stone to ignore Stevie Wonder so many times. I always had the impression that he was a sleepy jazzy musician without much attraction for me, but listening to this second album from him on the 1001 list, I only hope they have more albums waiting for me.
Strong songs, meaningful lyrics, and powerful interpretation. No complaints about this album.
Green Day
4/5
I would rate it five stars because of my teenage year's soundtrack, but I'll finally rate it with four because the album is too repetitive.
Very good album and that's enough
Talvin Singh
2/5
Reading the Wikipedia page, I got Singh's influence, but his songs are just another fancy electronic music that is not for me. I'll rate it with 2 because the song "OK" reminds me of some good anime openings, and "Soni" gave me some "Blade runner" vibes that I enjoyed a bit.
Gary Numan
3/5
This is definitively not my favorite genre, but this album gave me pleasant sensations. Like listening to some lo-fi compilation on youtube or something like that.
The Crusaders
3/5
An excellent first song and then a classic jazz album that does not excites me too much, but it's easy to get the qualities of the songs. I love pieces that use sax, which is nice on this album, even if not the best sax work that I listened to.
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Unexpected, and I love it. I was looking for genuine folk, and they gave me that but with lots of blues and some good guitars. "Baby Driver" is awesome, and the whole album shines!
Pink Floyd
4/5
I was expecting something different from what I received listening to this album. This is not the Pink Floyd I know and like to listen to sometimes. It's something different but recognizable at the end. It's strange but also familiar somehow.
It's not easy, but the 50 minutes are not annoying. For sure, this is an important thing that will remain with me for some weeks.
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Ok, I understand his importance for music history, but it's pretty hard to enjoy this album with so many repetitive songs. I guess it is much better when you are someone who enjoys his style. That is not my case, so I give three stars for the relevance.
Van Morrison
3/5
It's not so much different from the "Astral Weeks" album I received on this list some months ago: same good vibe and same rate.
Everything But The Girl
2/5
I don't get exactly why this album is more important to be on this list than any other late 90s electronic album. Still, I assume that at the end of my listening session, I was considering it kind of modern for 1996 since it already captured this spirit of modern times that privileged the nostalgia and some reverence to previous idyllic times.
As I said, I'm unsure if this is something exclusive from this album or if it was generalized into the electronic scene at that time, but I'll consider it an extra point. 2 stars
Frank Sinatra
3/5
This album is a good register of an excellent music style, Bossa Nova. The album itself is not so good, but it's important for being part of the world's spread of this style, so it deserves its place on this list.
Listening to it in a single session could be annoying, but it's not so hard to finish.
Beatles
5/5
Maybe I'm too influenced by the media and the Beatle's propaganda, but this is one of my favorite albums. Even with the wide range of styles found here, I enjoy all the songs.
Its influence is spread worldwide, and many bands and musicians were made around the concepts they developed on this album, so a 5-star rate is the minimum rate possible for it.
Dizzee Rascal
4/5
Quite a long album, with normally is annoying, but despite the number of hip-hop albums on this list, "Boy In Da Corner" comes with fresh air (almost 20 years ago) and makes the time goes fast into a good listening session.
Not the best hip-hop album of all time (maybe far from it), but it is one of the best on this list for sure. It deserves four stars for the nice job.
The Triffids
3/5
Although it looks like an hour-long 80s flashback album, despite its themes, I must say that listening to this album brought me some good feelings. Forgettable but nice.
Beastie Boys
4/5
Is this the final hardcore release forever and ever? Great album, great music, and a great band.
Sade
3/5
Apparently, I should start 2023 with an extensive 80s vibe. Nothing so much special about this one. Good vibes, the first song is nice and memorable, but nothing else is a particular highlight for me.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Since I usually give five stars to any album on the top albums from global statistics of the site, this one surprised me. Not because it's a bad album, of course, it is excellent, but I liked much more of the "Physical Graffiti" I received almost a year ago on the site. So this one SHOULD be better, and it's not.
Reading the Wikipedia page, it's clear its historical role in the rock industry and even being part of the metal "creation," but in the end, my expectations when I received it were too high, maybe impossibly high.
David Bowie
4/5
How is it possible to like as much the jazz-like "Blackstar" and these piano sounds at the same time? It does not matter the style Bowie decides to give to his music; I'll enjoy it any time. For personal taste, I'm still much more into the "Next Day" and "Blackstar" eras, but it's impossible not to note the high level of this one.
The Dictators
3/5
Well, the Wikipedia page was necessary for me to understand the reasons for this album on this list, but now it's clear that it deserves some space on the 1001 most essential albums since with was so influential for the punk scene. Musically, I can note a mix of what I recognize as punk and some beach songs, leading me to enjoy the album, even not being my favorite stuff.
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Sometimes I get why someone or some band has more than one album on the 1001 list (like Beatles or Bowie, for example), but in some situations is hard to get why "My Bloody Valentine" got three spots on it (please, be only 3). Ok, they are some ~different~ kinds of rock but let's agree that just a quick demonstration is enough to show precisely why/what/how they change with their music, and it's done. It's not necessary to listen to another half an hour of it.
Well, after the first rage section, the album is actually better than the other ones that I got here ("Loveless" and "m.b.v"). At least it is a less annoying, more straightforward song. So I'll rate it with 1-star just for justice with my ears since I gave 2 for the others (worst) ones for some reason that just the past me will know (my comment on it was that the noise sound hypnotized me, and I can't use a better word).
Hugh Masekela
4/5
It sounds like an essential album; its name sounds like a very important name, and I guess it influenced many things worldwide.
The only bad thing I can't stand is the album length. It's not something annoying, but I'll enjoy these songs much more if they were shorter.
I hope to receive more of this kind of album on this list.
Harry Nilsson
2/5
Very traditional and too-much-common pop song from the 70s/80s. Maybe he was a pioneer somehow at that time, but today is one of the blandest music I've ever listened to.
Weather Report
4/5
The first song was interesting, then the following songs went down in quality a little bit, but the album ends with three amazing songs, mixing jazz with many other styles, giving me a very good vibe.
I'm not sure this is something I'll listen to again in a row, but I enjoyed it very much.
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Indie songs with good vibes (despite some depressive lyrics), but nothing else. Not bad, but too much bland for my taste.
Slint
3/5
I don't get it at all. Maybe it's too much high level for me.
Good album
Deep Purple
3/5
I'm not a big fan of the band, although I sometimes enjoy listening to some songs. This release is too much show-off and less good music, but it's pretty clear why they reach so much success in the 70s until today.
After almost one hour of show-off how good they were playing, "Lucille" caught me and ended the album at a very high level. Still far from something that I'll listen to any other day.
De La Soul
4/5
Sadly, this one is unavailable in any streaming service. I'm not sure I listened to the correct album getting a Youtube playlist with some unavailable videos. It's sad because just with a little sample of the whole album, it's clear this is powerful.
It's something exciting and, for sure, a must-listen before dying. I don't know if there is more De La Soul on this list, but it should be.
Bert Jansch
3/5
I didn't love it, but at least that is something different that I would not listen to without the 1001 list, so it increases my rate a little since I'm here for it (sometimes?).
Excellent to listen to a good folk album that does not go so fast to the bland country and early rock and keeps it folk until the album's end.
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Get some generic 80s songs with some good lyrics and a few undefined instruments. Put it in a mixer, and you will get exactly this album. Not exactly bad, but it is far from something significant.
Nice album cover
The Pretty Things
4/5
I was astonished by this one. I have never heard about this band, and something so special like this album is exactly one of the reasons I keep coming to this site every day for almost 600 days.
It's not perfect, but it captures the best part of the Beatles-like formula with the ascending psychedelic of the 60s/70s and creates this incredible album.
It's better than "Tommy."
Bob Dylan
4/5
I know this is an important one. After almost 600 albums on this list and 3 of Dylan's albums, I should like them, but I don't.
I can get the importance of his lyrics. His influence in modern music is sometimes too evident, and his songs are very well produced, but something stops me from rating it with more than 3 or 4 stars. There is always something that makes me not enjoy it as much.
On the other hand, from his previous albums listened to here, this is the best tough. I'll probably listen to it again someday, and maybe in the future, I'll be able to get all his geniality and something like that. But, for now, I'll rate it with 4 expecting his following albums on the list to check again.
Incredible Bongo Band
5/5
I guess it will be the first time I'll rate an instrumental album with the maximum rate, but this one was so unexpected that it deserves it.
It is so jazzy and so funky that it's impossible to listen to it without enjoying at least one song.
Super Furry Animals
3/5
It started like a pretty fun album, but it became more and more "standardized" until I almost forgot I was listening to something different from any "Top 10 rock songs from the 90s" or something like that.
Radiohead
4/5
Reading the Wikipedia page for "Kid A," 23 years after the album's release, is exciting because it's pretty clear how it is to be underground and how things have changed over these two decades. It influenced a lot of things in music, the music industry, and the different manners to deal with the increasing technology.
I'm still not very into this electronic phase of the band, but it's impossible not to see how it was essential.
On a side note: Is this list created to go along with Beatles and Radiohead discography intercalated with some other stuff, right? (I'm not complaining) :-P
Orbital
1/5
I started to play this album and forgot I was listening to something since it's like staying 1 hour in an airport.
After 4 or 5 albums here with this kind of electronic music and/or ambient songs, I think I got what the thing with these songs is: Somehow, they are almost transgressive, but they are highly dependent on some kind of deep knowledge of music history and musical structure that it's virtually impossible for regular people to really GET it.
All in all, still, I'm not too fond of it.
"Halcyon + ON + ON" is the only song that almost looks like real music here.
Meat Puppets
2/5
I didn't get it, and I think that is because the band members themselves do not get it either. The songs are not bad, but this looks like much more a demo EP to show off the different styles the band can perform than a coherent album.
I don't think that every album must be organized, and I'm into some experimentalism, but it should at least looks like an album rather than a found lost tape that the band forgot in some studio in the 80s.
Beastie Boys
3/5
This is a lovely album, and I know it is a classic. Still, for me, it is not better than "Ill Communication" (far from it), so I'll keep one or two songs from it and keep going with the latest releases from Beast Boys, which only increased in quality over the years and are getting old like wine, always better.
Lenny Kravitz
4/5
Being the debut album of Lenny Kravitz, I was expecting something much more standardized and less "Kravitz." However, it was the opposite, and he already had all his energy and personal style of making music. It's not perfect, but I enjoyed it a lot!
Pink Floyd
4/5
After more than 500 albums, many psychedelic and experimental music among them, and one early Pink Floyd album, I was expecting to enjoy it less, mainly because of possible repetitiveness. However, it's indeed a great album despite any previous concept.
Roni Size
1/5
I think this was the first electronic release with high potential for me to enjoy it a little more since it has some recognizable instruments behind the whole electronic stuff. However, it has 2 HOURS!!!!! I guess it's impossible to enjoy anything for 2 hours in 2023; I'm sorry.
Johnny Cash
4/5
I guess this is the first Live album from this list that's purposely made as a live album for reasons that make much more sense than recording a "simple" live presentation (capture the moment and blah, blah, blah). I'm not against live albums at all, I got many good live albums following the 1001 list until now, but the lack of purpose on them is remarkable compared with Cash's live presentations.
This is not the best Cash album for me; I guess this is not the best Cash album for almost anyone, but this is the kind of country music I like. I know other country styles have their value for music history other than being in the birth of rock n' roll as one of the most influential styles for modern music, but few albums highlight the music's power (country or not) like this one.
John Lennon
3/5
It's an essential album with not so many remarkable songs besides "Imagine." I'll probably forget about it in some weeks (while still mentally singing "Imagine" tough), but I guess that every time I go back to it, it's an opportunity to remember how important it was (Lennon himself and also his songs)
Linkin Park
5/5
Since this is one of the first CDs I bought with "my" own money, and it also contained some of the first songs I downloaded as illegal .mp3 files. My emotional memory already ensures a 5-star rating.
However, besides my good memories, this album also represents the synthesis of the 2000 rock songs. It represents the feeling of these lost years, with all the remaining angry and revolutionary mindset from the 90s, while also being a preview of all the following musical tendencies of that time: the rap-rock ascension, the emocore feeling that would dominate all the charts of the decade and even a kind of prediction of what would become trap/hip-hop for the next decade, incorporating all the angry (and sadness) of the 90s and 2000s accumulated.
Meteora is a better Linkin Park album, but this one absolutely is a hors concours for me.
Public Enemy
4/5
Sometimes it's pretty easy to understand why an album is so classic and influential in modern music, even when it's hard to explain.
Fairport Convention
3/5
I used to think I liked folk music, but I'm increasingly discovering that I didn't know much about folk music and just like some specific artists. Well, this is not a bad album, but it does not understandable why it deserves a spot on the 1001 list.
2.5 stars
The Who
2/5
For the album that records the allegedly (according to Wikipedia) "best live presentation," it's a disappointment. Indeed, most of the songs are already on this list in other albums, and even considering that I'm far from the end of the list, I've received some better live albums.
I like "The Who," and I enjoyed the experience, but even 1001 being a long list, I don't see a clear explanation to justify this one.
2Pac
4/5
Even not a person who knows all 2Pac's career, I know his fame and his influence in modern hip-hop are impressive and undeniable. This album sounds a bit old-fashioned today, but it is still good and gave me a fantastic listening session.
Goldfrapp
3/5
I expected a great album cover with just crap music, but it was good at the end. Nothing remarkable, but far from annoying.
808 State
2/5
Ok, I did understand how much the book's author is really into party hard. I got it, I swear.
Morrissey
2/5
Except for the "Suedehead," which sounds like a Smiths song, this album does not deserve many more lines of commentary, especially considering Morrissey's personality.
Minutemen
2/5
I did not understand why this album was on the list until..." Jackass," and I finally got the reason. It makes a lot of sense now (🤪). But seriously, I enjoyed the album a little bit; I guess they were a bit ahead of their time when they released this album in 84, but for my 2023 ears, it sounds a little bit old-fashion punk/post-punk that did not get old in the best form. It's enjoyable but forgettable at the same level.
The Last Shadow Puppets
5/5
It started as a standard cliche of any indie 2000s rock, but it began to change when some songs looked like a vintage movie soundtrack from the 50s and 60s but still sounded like indie rock. The musical evolution was natural. Suddenly, I finally noted the orchestral work and fell in love with the album. So that is a very nice discovery from the 1001 list.
After finishing the listening session, I looked through their following album, which was far from the same quality but still worth it.
Genesis
3/5
I was much more interesting than I initially thought when I received the album. It's not the best psychedelic, and it's not the best psychedelic rock, but it was not a pain.
Burning Spear
4/5
Although reggae is not my favorite genre in the end, I appreciate it sometimes, like in this album.
It has an important message and is quite ahead of its time with some of the lyrics.
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
This looks like the exact kind of album introduced in the book/list as a promise, just to be removed in newer versions (After writing it, I checked Wikipedia and discovered that she is an experienced country singer and that the album won the Grammy's. It confirms that I understand nothing about music and that this project is perfect for discovering new stuff, even the worst ones).
Flat, bland, personality-less, and generic.
Sonic Youth
4/5
I kind of discovered Sonic Youth following the 1001 list, and I still don't know if they deserve 3 spots on the list (until now), but I must assume that I'm learning to like them.
Even listening to the albums in the "wrong" order, this one is the best until now, and I really learned to discover the music behind the noise. I'm enjoying the noise and the attitude somehow. I'll probably become a fan if they have 2 or 3 more albums here.
1/5
I was a kind of U2 fan when I was young, but they are one of the most potent examples of a band with songs that got old pretty badly. It sounds old; it looks like I'm listening to bad ancient songs, even being much newer rather than some other albums on the list.
It's not a pain to listen to it, and I understand that the lyrics have a nice message, but it's not possible to ignore how deep my personal change on the band's enjoyment.
The Young Gods
4/5
This was one of those albums that are too strange to ignore and, simultaneously, too much strange to enjoy fully. I like how the 1001 list helps me get out of my "comfort zone" so strongly that I end the experience with nothing to say about what I have listened to.
This album does not deserve to lie on the worst albums list of the Global stats (it is still there on the day I'm listening to it). Maybe I'll change my mind before confirming my rate, but it is a 4-star album in its weird way to surprise me.
Mekons
3/5
I got how important the band was, but maybe this is not one of their albums that really deserve to be part of the 1001 list. It's not bad, but a flat post-punk album.
The Damned
4/5
I guess that in almost 600 albums, this is one of the first albums that I recognize as a punk album in essence (musically, lyrically, attitude, etc.), without any unnecessary extra (like it happens with many post-punk or hardcore jazz, for example).
I liked it very much, and I should check more stuff from The Damned!
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
I never got exactly all the hype on Sufjan Stevens, and after listening to this album, I still don't. However, it's impossible to do not to admit it has a bag of qualities on the instrumental part.
Some songs are catchy.
In summary, I'll not join any fan club of Sufjan Stevens or something like that, but I'll sure look with more attention to his new albums to check if it's me that is losing all his geniality (high probability, I guess 🤣)
Elastica
3/5
Apparently, I've received a lot of punk and post-punk albums here on the list these last few days. However, I'll not complain about it so soon since I discovered and rediscovered a lot of good bands and albums.
This "Elastica" starts very well and declines at the end with a more "pop" mood that does not look connected with the album's first part, but it's still a lovely release for punk and post-punk fans.
I'm not sure it deserves a spot on the 1001 list since it's somehow too much " standard, " but it definitely deserves a place in my ears.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
Reading the Wikipedia page, it's easy to find out why he deserves one spot on the 1001 list. Listen to the album, I think it's nice but far from remarkable.
The Beau Brummels
4/5
I was expecting nothing, and I got a lovely folk-like album with good voice work. This is an excellent highlight in a week with many "standard" albums, and I'll give it 4 * just because of the fun time.
Kraftwerk
3/5
After this third Kraftwerk album on the list (until now), I guess I finally understand their purpose. They are not good albums to listen to, but they are fantastic as companion songs for reading or annoying work sessions.
I discovered it by coincidence, and I wouldn't say I like the album as a whole, but understanding it is part of the way to finally getting why they deserve at least 3 spots on the list. Maybe after listening to the whole Kraftwerk discography and understanding the hidden mystery of electronic music, I'll enjoy it.
I'm betting that I'm losing some life secret that will enable me to access the hidden knowledge about the great war against the capitalist aliens that command our lives, just letting us access these small pieces of peaceful songs for the long and annoying job sessions.
Yes, listening to this album is like reading this text: a craziness.
5/5
Muse was my favorite band some years ago, and then I suddenly changed to listening to other stuff. I'm back to this album again. I think it's longer than it should be, but it's still a precious release.
I don't know exactly how, but these songs leave me in another state. Nostalgia perhaps? Maybe, but it's still worth it a lot.
Talking Heads
3/5
Apparently, "Talking Heads" is really not the best band for me. I liked this album, but not enough to remember tomorrow.
Joan Armatrading
3/5
I had never heard about Joan Armatrading, and her voice is lovely. I didn't enjoy the album so much since it's pretty standardized, as I expected when Wikimedia classifies it as "singer-songwriter" style. Apparently, It's pretty hard to be impressive in the singers-songwriters community, and it's easy to sound like any other in the same community, even with excellent voice work.
Circle Jerks
4/5
I'll forget everything I thought I knew about punk. 15 minutes of pure anger are what I'll call punk from now on.
The Incredible String Band
3/5
I understand why this album is ever on the list of worst albums at the Global stats of this site, but I think this is very unfair.
Yes, the songs are not great, but in 1001 (and some extras) albums, we have soundtracks and many Live albums, so why not an RPG soundtrack directly from a Playstation One game from the 90s? And they influenced Led Zepellin (according to Wikipedia), which should count as some points for them.
I'll rate it with 3* because having this strange stuff around is fair and sometimes necessary.
Ray Charles
4/5
It's not legally allowed rate this album with less than 4 stars, even if it is not being so great as I expected and sounds a little bit old-fashioned for modern sensibilities.
Ray Charles is not my favorite singer, but his importance cannot be forgotten.
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Fantastic voice and flattened music. It is not unlikeable, and it's clear that this influenced some modern songs, but it's forgettable.
Tom Waits
4/5
Since I listened to a previous Waits album some months ago, this was very unexpected. I was ready for classic bluesy rock and got industrial-like sounds that looked like music.
I'll rate it with a 4 for the surprise. Give me more.
Bad Company
2/5
The first songs were good, but they ended up being the definition of generic music. I liked the first ones precisely because they remember some other bands and other songs.
Peter Frampton
1/5
The epitome of dad rock. Now also live!
The Flaming Lips
3/5
It looks like a boring rock electronic-like album good enough to be on the list of 1001 boring electronic albums to listen to, but some songs like "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" and "Are You a Hypnotist??" makes it a little bit more remarkable of attention. I liked it on a Friday morning, but it's not the perfect fit for any other mood.
Prince
4/5
The third Prince album I got on the list and even being too much "pop" for my ears, it's the best one until now, and it has the best Prince stuff (in my opinion, of course), that is his musical variety on instruments and themes as in the lyrics.
It's the third I got and the first I really agree that deserves to be on a list like this.
Billie Holiday
4/5
I like listening to some of Billie Holiday's songs, but this is not her best compilation.
Sadly, this one was selected for the 1001 list since it is still very good but sounds old-fashioned in many songs, and it was not her best vocal work, even being great.
The Fall
3/5
What happens when punk meets some kind of experimentalism? Nothing so remarkable. It's good, but I'll forget about it tomorrow.
Lorde
2/5
I enjoyed it more than I expected when I received the album this morning. However, it is still repetitive and too much standardized, especially compared to other stuff on the 1001 list. I like to receive new albums (after 2010), but I think that the quality of an album to be included in such a list as 1001 will always need to prove itself over time, and 5 or 6 years is not enough to really be considered an album to be listened to before die.
The Cardigans
2/5
It sounds so wishy-washy that I almost forget I was listening to it until the third or fourth song. Then I enjoyed it a bit, but it still has a sound that harkens back to the less memorable tracks from the 90s.
It's not the worst thing in the music world but it is entirely forgettable.
PS: The "Iron Man" cover is on the edge of disrespect.
Lou Reed
5/5
This was very impressive. After listening to 2 albums from Velvet Underground, I had clear expectations for this one when I received it, but it was a surprise to note that the album goes in a completely different direction, and it's great.
This was the first concept album that made me care about the characters. Of course, I've listened to some good concept albums (I received, I think, 4 or 5 on this list), but this one made me think about the characters and listen to the album like a fiction book or something like that.
Duke Ellington
4/5
I think that the interludes are entirely unnecessary, but it's an absolutely fantastic album.
Kid Rock
2/5
C'mon! It's not too bad as it looks by looking at the worst albums on the 1001 list. It is over-egocentric and It lacks originality, lyricism, and production, but it still is important for some music genres(I don't know which genres, since Kid Rock doesn't either. Maybe Nu metal? Rap-Rock? We'll never know)
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
It's hard to say that this is not one of the best albums I've ever listened to, but this is my point of view. Hendrix is a master, but listening to his songs in a row like this album doesn't cause an ecstasy sensation like getting some of his live presentations randomly in some social network feed.
Maybe it's a matter of the day's mood, though, I don't know. "Spanish Castle Magic" was new to me, and it is the best song on the album.
Deerhunter
2/5
The mysterious album cover inspires some curiosity, especially being a band I've never heard about. However, it's just generic 2000s rock without much personality. 2 stars is enough
Joan Baez
3/5
I was thinking I received another album from Joan Baez some months ago, but apparently, I imagined it or listened to something very similar. This is precisely the problem of the album, it has some authenticity, but it is still highly similar compared with some other albums from the list. A genuinely 2-star album.
Her voice resembles somehow of Janis Joplin, and it gave me some nice goosebumps that increased my rate to 3 stars
Sepultura
4/5
Despite some repetitiveness, this is a great, revolutionary album for 1996. The trend of thrash metal mixed with traditional Brazilian music was a huge bet that gave Sepultura a significant part of their success.
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
Excepting 1 or 2 songs, it sounds exactly like a Flashback collection from the 80s. I expect to listen to some of these songs in a restaurant or something like that. It's not that bad, but totally forgettable.
The Sonics
3/5
Attractive covers from some good rock n' roll classics. The original songs are good, like a noisy version of Beatles or Rolling Stones; that was probably the trend when the album was released.
It was an interesting listening session, even though it was not remarkable.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Another week comes with another Sonic Youth album on the 1001 list. With one more, I promise to give 5 stars. Keep trying.
For this one, it's not as good as the last SY (we are becoming friends) I received here, but it's not bad.
Britney Spears
2/5
This is not good for 2023, but it's far from the worst thing I've ever listened to and far from the worst thing I got here on the 1001 list.
Tom Tom Club
1/5
Reaching 600 albums, I was sure that this was not possible. However, I dislike every song on this album. It's possibly important for music history or some musical movement like the new wave, but it's totally unpleasant.
Cocteau Twins
2/5
I don't get their importance, even if I don't consider it an awful album. I enjoy the non-English insertions on some songs and the album's general mood, but it is still too much repetitive. 2 starts for me
N.E.R.D
3/5
This one surprised me a lot! Looking at the cover art, it immediately gives me the impression that I was about to listen to some copy of a copy of the worst of Beast Boys or something like that. In the end, I was kind of right about it (😅), but at least they do a good copy, and they are almost bright with some novelty in their best songs.
Never heard about them before, look like a cover band, sounds like a good cover band and it was a nice listening session. 3
Korn
5/5
It's awful; I hated it.
Five stars
Rod Stewart
3/5
The best Rod Stewart I've ever listened to, which does not mean so much actually. 3 stars
LL Cool J
3/5
There is no way to be more old-school than this album. This is not necessarily good or bad, and the album per see is nice, but it is one of the best candidates to be excluded in future editions of the 1001 list. There are a lot of albums that can be included in place of this one.
Ryan Adams
2/5
Very easy-to-listen music, but it ends up being so generic that it's hard to care with it after 30 min, and it keeps playing.
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Jazzy and introspective. It could be better and more impactful with some less duration, but it's good.
Bill Callahan
3/5
I immensely liked his voice, but the songs are annoying and repetitive. So it's not bad, but not something I'll listen to again by myself.
"Invocation of Ratiocination" was an excellent surprise to break the feeling of repetition, but it's very dislocated from the whole album, so it loses the primary purpose.
Paul McCartney
5/5
I enjoyed this album a lot! It's impressive how this album really shows how much ahead of his time McCartney was in 1970. His first songs with more experimentalism mixed with some songs that still sounded Beatles-esque but included much more texture, which was really impressive.
I hope to see more McCartney in the 1001 list because this is someone that deserves to be listened to.
Astor Piazzolla
4/5
This was highly surprising and outstanding music for my mood today. I'd never heard about this "new tango" stuff, but it was almost instant love.
Minor Threat
3/5
Looking at the cover art, I'd not guess the power of what I was about to listen to when the first song started. But, despite the last song, which was a total anti-climax for me, I enjoyed the album.
Worth to mention that the 1001 list includes a good number of other punk albums, so I guess this is not the most memorable, but punk is always a good choice, so give me more.
Kings of Leon
3/5
When the right thing is done almost correctly, this results: Soulless but quality songs. It's not a bad album, but totally forgettable.
Pink Floyd
4/5
I bet I can't say anything different from anyone else about this album, so I'll just let my 4 stars to it.
Nico
3/5
The album is very interesting. Reading the Wikipedia page it's sad to know that she didn't like the result and considered the production as a sabotage of her work. It truly affects my rate of the album since it's always better to have the artist's view, especially when it is an artistic album like this one.
I enjoy the experience, but it could be better if it was Nico's true work, even thinking that the strings were a very good addition to her raw folk.
Primal Scream
2/5
"The Lack of Focus: An Experiment" should be the name of this album.
Miles Davis
5/5
A masterpiece is not defined as a masterpiece by mistake.
Mj Cole
1/5
Ok, it's possible to do the worst album ever and still be part of the 1001 list. You convinced me.
Sparks
3/5
I don't know if I didn't get it, but it's annoying. Not the worst thing ever, but far from the base quality of a great part of the albums on the 1001 list
The Adverts
3/5
Yes, it's punk, but it's so repetitive that it loses 2 or 3 stars in my rate
Paul Simon
3/5
I got the Second Paul Simon solo album on the 1001 list, and I enjoyed "Graceland" much more, but this is not a bad album for my taste—a solid three stars, even if not the exact music style I usually enjoy.
The Teardrop Explodes
4/5
Despite looking like a juice of 80s rock sometimes, It's possible to see many differences and highlights here and there in some songs that are really hidden gems. Maybe a less long album would be better, but I enjoyed it.
Lightning Bolt
4/5
I had never heard about "Lightning Bolt" before, so I was completely surprised by this one. I enjoyed it, especially for being so different from everything else. I really enjoy it when this happens.
Highlight the Wikipedia page that points out this album as the "most accessible one" of the band. I'm slightly afraid of what I'll get if I look at the others.
The Style Council
3/5
It's hard to define the album and band style, and I think it is a little messy. However, I enjoyed almost all the songs, which gave me the will to look for more of this sophist-pop stuff.
Afrika Bambaataa
4/5
I enjoyed it a lot, but it lacks something (I can't identify precisely what) to be a perfect 5-star record.
Classical albums are defined as it, usually, for fair reasons and this is not different, even with this lack of some spicy that I expect in this kind of music. So I hope to have more Afrika Bambaataa on the 1001 list to try again and ensure that the problem was me or my mood and not the album.
Nightmares On Wax
1/5
I almost liked the first 2 songs, but after more than 1 hour, I realized it was annoying, and that is it.
Radiohead
3/5
This is what comes to my mind when I think about Radiohead, and unfortunately is the worst Radiohead album I got on the 1001 list (this is the sixth Radiohead album I got here). It's sad that, since they are a band I like, the "standard" song that comes to my mind is not their best work and instead is this one. This is a 2-star album with an extra point for the excellent jazzy last song.
Anita Baker
2/5
<Radio voice>
Now, the best romantic directly from the 80s. Here are your favorite songs. Just at the 102Mhz
</Radio voice>
Oasis
4/5
I liked it, even not knowing why. Sometimes it is hard to explain stuff...
Janis Joplin
5/5
This is not the most remarkable when I think of a Janis Joplin album, but of course, it's a 5-star.
Jack White
4/5
An artist I like playing songs of a style I like should be perfect. However, it's not, and I don't know why. It's very good, but not perfect as I was expecting.
Suzanne Vega
2/5
It's good, but totally forgettable.
Fishbone
3/5
Little Simz
5/5
I was really surprised by this album. I was expecting something more copycat of 90s hip-hop or even some trap, and both could be nice when well conceived. However, I got something different, maybe in the middle of these two styles. I see some 90s reflections and early trap but with a lot of jazz and classic R&B that made me feel good listening to it. I enjoyed the lyrics, too, and I'll check other Little Simz albums.
The Yardbirds
3/5
It could be good, but after 1 hour, it became annoying and repetitive.
Fela Kuti
2/5
I enjoyed previous Fela Kuti releases, but this one is just for real drum lovers. It's nice to have a so specific kind of album in the 1001 list, but it's not for me.
Neil Young
2/5
The high number of Neil Young on the 1001 list shows his versatility during his career.
He has some great albums (especially when together with the Crazy Horses or other partners) and also some albums that are just "meh," like this one.
I think I'll probably get more from him on the list, but despite my enjoyment (or not) of listening to this album, it was good to learn how far someone with talent and willingness goes to test the limits of his talent.
Neil Young
4/5
Second Neil Young in a row, and it was perfect to demonstrate my comment yesterday about his versatility.
Yesterday an album that was meh in the best case, and today one that is classic and almost perfect.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
After listening to almost 650 albums on the 1001 list, I must assume that I should consider myself a Stevie Wonder fan. I somehow feared his songs before the list, thinking that they could be too much cool for my personal taste or even just 70s standard pop, but now I have 2 of his albums on my favorite list, and even this one that is not so great as the other 2 I received here is still amazing.
Cowboy Junkies
3/5
Based on my history and knowledge, I shouldn't like this album, but I enjoyed it for most songs. Alternative country is far from what I look for in new songs, but the "Cowboy Junkies" will be included in future listening sessions.
Mercury Rev
3/5
This is a bizarre album, hard to define, and for some reason, this is a compliment. It does not look like anything from the 90s that I've listened to before, and, at the same time, it is strangely comfortable for my 90s ears.
I think that deserves a second listening session to ensure everything is correct.
Beck
2/5
Third Beck album I got on the 1001 list, and I still don't get it...
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
Is this album a collection of songs?
Is this a song?
Am I listening to a song or working in a factory in 1980?
Is this reality?
What I'm doing listening to it?
Who am I?
I need to give this album an extra star for predicting 1978 how AI-generated songs would look like in 2023. Impressive.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
I still think he sings targeting old/nostalgic people, but it's good (Wait! Am I old now? Dammed!)
PS: This is my fourth Bruce Springsteen here...being good or not, it's reaching the reasonable limit for a single artist in a solo career.
Sepultura
3/5
I know that this is recognized as one of the best "Sepultura" albums, and I understand why.
However, this album looks more like a path for what they achieve in "Roots" and sounds a bit repetitive—a solid 3-star, but still 3.
Liz Phair
2/5
I should like it, there is nothing wrong with the album. For some reason I can't explain; I don't like it.
Willie Nelson
2/5
Better than "Stardust," which I got here before. One or two songs that are worth it, but still a not-so-enjoyable album.
Spiritualized
1/5
I think I'm spiritualized enough, thanks.
Impressive that I disliked this album almost to the same extent I liked the previous "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" I got here some months ago.
The Doors
3/5
I like The Doors, with their debut being one of my favorite albums, and I understand why this album is here, but for me, it's not one of their best.
It's good and remarkable, but it's possible to choose another one with the same qualities, ignoring the importance of being the last release with Morrison alive.
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
I receive the Fifth Bruce Springsteen album on the list, the most famous one, I guess, and the worst!
Maybe worst is too strong a way to think about it, but it was kind of disappointing to listen to it.
Despite the title song, the others are just ok.
Butthole Surfers
4/5
This album was on the list of lowest-rated albums from this site. I like receiving an album from this list because I usually disagree, but also because I note how non-orthodox albums usually receive very bad rates. At the same time for me, I think sometimes I'm here precisely for this kind of stuff.
Anyway, is this a good album?
Probably not. Or even better, not a good album for everyone.
Do It deserves 4 stars, and should be kept on the 1001 list?
Sure! These guys were doing these crazy sounds and a lot of experimentation in 1987!!!
Neil Young
3/5
Definitively, Neil is better when accompanied. I found the key to enjoying his songs!
1/5
This album is awful, even for me, enjoying a significant part of the nu-metal movement and its bands. It's entirely inutile for 2023.
Jean-Michel Jarre
2/5
This is just as good as any electronic album I've got on the 1001 list, which means I dislike it as almost all other electronic albums. However, I must assume that it sounds kind of innovative to know that a so modern sound was released in 1976. It is worth something!
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Despite the disrespectful cover of Comfortably Numb, I liked it much more than I thought I could when I started to listen to it.
It's far from perfect but an honest modern rock album.
Paul Simon
4/5
It's not as good as Graceland yet, but it's a fantastic release. Thanks to the 1001 list I'm becoming a fan of Paul Simon!
ZZ Top
3/5
Excellent guitar work in all songs, highlighting "Precious and Grace", but it still sounds too old (in the sense of outdated and not classical) for my taste. I bet it was great in 1973 but nowadays is just one more.
Good for whom likes old-fashion rock music
Richard Thompson
3/5
I didn't see anything special about this release. completely harmless
John Lennon
4/5
I didn't enjoy this album as much as I expected. Still, it's easy to see echoes of the last Beatles songs together with some experimentalism that would be impossible to be released under the Beatles brand even after the "White album". It's a interesting album, even far from what it can be considered the best
Gang Starr
4/5
Is it possible to sound more old school than that?
Def Leppard
4/5
The essence of the phrase "old but gold."
The The
3/5
This is not as cool as "Soul Mining", but it's still fair enough for an honest port-punk listening session.
SZA
4/5
SZA is an exciting case by having songs in the exact line between hip-hop and R&B. Combing this mix with her fantastic voice creates a great album. Quite repetitive but still great.
Also a great cover by the way.
The Smiths
4/5
This album still has the "Smiths"' vibe without including any of their greatest hits, and it is one of their best albums!
Highlight the keyboard work here. It's impressive!
Moby Grape
3/5
I've never heard of Moby Grape before, and I'm pretty sure I've not listened to any of this album's songs. However, almost all of the songs sounded very recognizable to me.
It could mean they are just an album from its time since it sounds like 60/70s bands. Maybe it also influenced a lot of other bands, and I recognize them from which they influenced. So how do they also sound so fresh?
Some mysteries about the effects of music on us are very hard to put into words. They are a good band with great songs, I'll look for their later albums after this debut. I think this looks better.
Madonna
2/5
This is the second Madonna album I got here on the 1001 list, and even being so crucial for music history, they chose her worst albums to be on the list. Since I'm not a huge fan of her, it always looks like any standard pop song without much to say.
It's not objectively bad, but besides the 1st song, it's a good album to be used as background music for those who like pop.
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Undoubtedly a great album that, unfortunately, sounds a bit outdated today. I guess it will survive being played worldwide for its historical importance, but I also think many hip-hop albums influenced by them surpassed its songs in quality. The curse of pioneers, I guess.
Tom Waits
3/5
Third Tom Waits album on the list and third surprise. Apparently, he didn't like to keep consistency between his albums. I should give him extra credit for trying to be such an innovator in this way.
For this album itself, I enjoyed listening to it, but it's not so great. The long conversational records are clearly an attempt to sound like a bar record, but I'm not in a bar, so it's just lost my attention.
King Crimson
3/5
I can get the historical importance of this album, and King Crimson was responsible (thanks to the 1001 list) for my discoveries on experimentalism and progressive rock. On the other hand, as expected for their first release (still starting to mix up stuff with the most basic rock lines), this album is a bit repetitive and not so easy to listen to. The song "The Court Of The Crimson King" is truly amazing, but the rest of the album could be much better, as their own proved in their later releases.
The Cure
3/5
This is very far from what I know about The Cure. I was expecting something different, and this is not exactly bad, but I guess I need some other listening sessions to evaluate it accurately, honestly.
I usually appreciate the Cure, even not being a fan of everything. This album sounds explicitly a bit more down than other of their songs but still has enough energy to help me to reach the end of the album.
Brian Wilson
5/5
This is a very impressive release that really looks like a personal effort of a very dedicated (maybe obsessive) person. It sounds like a continuation of the Beach Boys' work at the same time that includes many new pieces of music highly interesting for any music fan. A mixture of styles and lyrics, and instruments that compounds a masterpiece.
Unfortunately, it sounds a bit old for 2004, but having in mind it was planned to be a BB album after Pet Sounds is enough to get all the geniality behind it.
Michael Jackson
5/5
The great by the most significant pop singer until today is not something I can evaluate.
Billy Bragg
3/5
The Wikipedia page really turned me on this album with a bunch of possibilities in mind. Yeah, it's good, but I was expecting too much from an album.
Kings of Leon
4/5
This is much better than the "Aha Shake Heartbreak" I received some months ago on the 1001 list. It's still not so remarkable, and it will be lost in the history of indie rock from the 2000s, but it's unfair to rate it with three stars when compared with the "Aha Shake Heartbreak."
I'll rate it with 4 stars, but with some effort and considering the best songs, it's a 3.5 album.
The Dandy Warhols
2/5
According to the Wikipedia page, they wanted to be "distant" from the grunge movement happening in the 90s.
Yeah, it could be better to keep out this idea and just follow the flow. Some people are talented enough to oppose some trends, but it's not the case here.
The Verve
2/5
The information about this album here on the site is wrong. It should indicate that this is just an Oasis album with another name and not as successful as the others.
Ramones
4/5
This is hard to evaluate. At the same time, it is a timeless album and a very dated collection of songs. In 2023 I can't rate it with five stars, but its importance for the music history and my emotional link with some of these songs ensure the four stars without much effort.
Girls Against Boys
2/5
By the band name, I was expecting some interesting underground Riot grrrl, but I got generic 90s indie rock without much to serve. The first songs are good, but the album per see is dispensable.
The KLF
1/5
According to the Wikipedia page, this album has some different releases. I'm unsure if I picked the right one. I don't know if I care.
The Human League
2/5
whatever. 2 stars
Jorge Ben Jor
5/5
This is not the best Jorge Ben album, but it's still a too much strong release to do not to rate with 5 stars.
The Cult
4/5
I'm reaching the 700 albums listened to here and was missing this kind of Hardrock. Maybe it is my mood or the fact that I got too much country and electronic music and didn't get enough glam/hard rock yet, but the energy around this album is all I enjoyed when I discovered this kind of music.
I'll surely listen to more of The cult, even knowing Wikipedia that this release is different from their previous albums. By the way, his producer's Wikipedia description of this album as a mix of AC/DC and Led Zepellin is quite accurate for reference. Nice job, mister Rick Rubin.
Neu!
2/5
I'm more and more sure I don't like Krautrock
Don McLean
2/5
Besides "American Pie," which became an anthem for a wide range of situations and the mandatory soundtrack for half of the movies/series produced in the USA, since it is indeed a great song, the rest of the album is not bad but is forgettable.
Bad Brains
4/5
I love it when I get an album that does not look like any promise, and it finishes being a great album and also an influence for bands and artists I'm a fan.
Also, I'm increasingly enjoying discovering numerous bands of proto-punk (and its subgenres) together with actual punk bands I was unaware of.
4 stars, without a doubt.
David Ackles
4/5
I had never heard about David Ackles before. Based on the Wikipedia page and the first songs of this album, I was ready to consider this album just another folk-like attempt to be a great album and with a final importance only for a few Americans proud of anything produced in the USA between 1970 and 1990 as the "upper" quality among all songs (which is entirely fake). For me, it was worth a maximum of 2 stars.
However, some other songs caught my attention when they sounded more like Sinatra-style, jazzy, and big-band songs I usually enjoy more. I also liked the last songs' beautiful instrumental/orchestral work, so my initial assumptions were wrong. Indeed, it can be an attempt to sound important. Still, the variety of styles and interesting instrumental work proved that if it's impossible to achieve it, the dedicated effort is worth it. Maybe it's not an essential album for everyone, but not being perfect and sounding like an honest musical attempt made this (before completely unknown) album important for me.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Sometimes, I feel I like Bob Dylan's work much less than I should like. By listening to many of his albums along this list, I'm more and more convinced that I just assumed I should like him for no particular reason, even without actually listening to his songs.
Anyway, it's a good album, but maybe it's, in fact, not my cup of tea or maybe I'm not ready for it yet...
Traffic
5/5
I have never heard about Traffic more than a few words, and I don't think I listened to more than 1 or 2 songs. Now I'm in love with this album. It started so "standard", sounding like any other rock band from the '60s/70s, but it increased and doubled the bet on a strange (and familiar at the same time) mix of blues, classic rock, and a bit of experimentalism that really catches me.
I hope to see more Traffic on the list since I got "John Barleycorn Must Die" some months ago, and it was far from the work I see here at this album.
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
I always thought about Sinead O'Connor as someone much more important for her political positions and beliefs spread by her in the interviews and profiles rather than by her music. This increased a lot after she recently passed away.
Now, when I listen to this very important album, I can see how much wrong I was. Besides any polemic or any opinion, I listened to a great singer and a very nice musical work. Wikipedia credits her also for the string arrangements in some songs, and it attests even more to her artistic talent.
From now on, I'll keep her life story in mind, but even more than this, her extreme talent.
Lupe Fiasco
4/5
I was not aware of Lupe Fiasco, and this album is entirely fresh stuff for me. I was initially surprised by the heavy partners they have for his first issue, and the songs were unknown to me.
I was truly surprised by the quality of this album. If I got it correctly, reading Wikipedia and some news about Lupe, he is involved with some very problematic opinions, which is sad since his work is excellent even in this debut album.
The production is perfect (the Jay-Z and Kanye names in the credits indicate the reason, of course), and the lyrics and voice work. Excellent sample selection and the amazing job that, unfortunately, is now marked forever by Lupe public person.
I'm happy to see this album on the 1001 list, and I think that is the first post-90 hip-hop album that really catches up with me.
Madonna
4/5
It's the best Madonna album on the list until now. Maybe it's too obvious, but it's her masterpiece, and everything after sounds just like an attempt to be as good as this one.
The Darkness
2/5
Usually, I like this kind of band that tries to rescue some "tradition" from the 70s or 80s and mix it with more modern stuff, but in this case, they won't be able to be so far from their inspiration. At the end of my listening session, just "It's a thing called love" was saved since it remembered me from MTV clips afternoons.
Coldplay
3/5
This album includes the most iconic songs from Coldplay, and it's at the same time their worst album. Besides "Politik," they can't go too far on the "Coldplay's standard."
It's sad that this album is on the 1001 list when I think their newer releases are much better, even if they do not include many iconic songs.
Hüsker Dü
3/5
I can't stand a punk album for over 1 hour, but it's not bad. Simple, but not bad.
The Byrds
4/5
I'm wondering (as many others, I presume) why these guys are not so recognized as much as The Beatles or The Beach Boys. Maybe they are not the best on this comparison; it's a matter of taste, and I don't think they are the best.
However, it has everything here: the experimentalism, the psychedelia, the "feeling good" rock n' roll, everything!
Maybe the problem with Crosby affected their reputation not to be so recognized worldwide as the most famous band. I'm happy to discover them on the 1001 list, even if I do not enjoy every song.
Soft Cell
2/5
Nothing remarkable
The Specials
4/5
The definition of easy-going music is now established for me. I'll sure look for more "Specials" albums later.
The Everly Brothers
2/5
Sounds old, classical, and forgettable.
Screaming Trees
3/5
This is the pure juice of the 90s. I can't say I dislike it, though. Especially the last songs of the album are quite interesting.
The Beach Boys
4/5
It's far from the best Beach Boys albums, but it's still great.
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Another indie rock for the list. I'll forget about it in a week, but it's not bad.
The United States Of America
5/5
This was entirely unexpected for me.
Looking at the band's name and cover art, I expected something like 60s rock, Beatlesque, or The Byrds-influenced band. The name suggests a typical American nationalism that is easy to identify and criticize, which is typical for people from the USA and annoying.
Keeping the comparisons, I found a great band in line with the best of the Beatle's last albums and the best of the Beach Boys. The lyrics are the opposite of my first impressions, and it's excellent!
It's a shame not to know this band before; sadly, this is the only album.
Marilyn Manson
3/5
It's a good experiment that mixes the nu-metal stuff more excitingly than the others from the same period. Still, it's so repetitive (thematically and musically) that it becomes annoying in the half of the album.
Janet Jackson
3/5
I was not in the right mood for this album today, so my impressions will be much more biased than the standard. It's a good album and a huge backstory that makes it even more significant. I do not like Janet Jackson, and her songs sound too plain. Still, considering the mentioned backstory and how she wanted to be more conscious and political during this recording, it deserves the standard 3-star rate.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
2/5
No matter how much I try, I don't enjoy country music, even with this album's rock n' roll makeup.
They deserve extra credit for being so influential in music history (I believe in the Wikipedia article) and for "Hot Burrito #1," which is at least enjoyable.
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
At least they are honest in the album title...I don't know if they got the money, though.
I didn't enjoy it, but they deserve some credit for the experimentalism. This stuff is not enjoyable, but they are typically responsible for all the excellent music created after them. It's necessary to have someone on it for the money (and craziness) to enable others to do it better for the art (also for the money).
Deep Purple
3/5
I can get the quality of these songs, but they will always sound a bit dated for me. Deep Purple is one of the few classic rock bands that almost never catch me and always sound like old grandpas trying to be cool.
Tori Amos
3/5
Excellent piano work and good lyrics, but reaching the album's end without falling asleep is hard.
Donald Fagen
3/5
It's so much 80s that I almost typed this comment on my electric typewriter.
Todd Rundgren
4/5
It's another Todd Rundgren album and another surprise. It's not as good as the "A Wizard, A True Star" that I got here before, due to the inconsistency along the album. Still, it's the kind of thing that makes following this list worth it.
Ash
2/5
They had their heart in the right place, and they were in the right place, but luck sometimes is the only way to survive. Nowadays, it is only an outdated 90s band.
American Music Club
1/5
I was not too fond of it from the first note to the end of the last song.
Adam & The Ants
1/5
Easy to listen to and even easier to dislike.
Brian Eno
2/5
It's the best Brian Eno album I've ever listened to until now. This is not exactly a compliment.
Dennis Wilson
4/5
It's pretty hard to evaluate this. It's a strong album with a recognizable quality while still sounding like a Beach Boys B-Side, which is definitely something good, but it also takes off one star from my evaluation for the lack of personality (I'm afraid to be very unfair in this last sentence).
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
My detailed evaluation of this album, step-by-step:
⭐⭐- Two from the beginning for not being from an English country.
⭐⭐⭐- OK, the music is a bit more experimental than I expected, but it's not bad
⭐ - (reading the Wikipedia page and discovering the plot of the album)
⭐⭐- Contextualized with some information regarding Serge Gainsbourg's career and importance for French culture
U2
3/5
It is the best U2 (which is not so hard) and gives me some good memories, so an easy 3 stars.
The Vines
3/5
It starts like any other indie rock from the 2000s; it gets some personality in the middle, and then it finishes like any other band from their time. It's not bad, but forgettable.
Stereo MC's
1/5
I don't know if they are bad at rapping if they are bad at sampling, or if they are bad at making music. The only thing I know is that this is a bad album.
The Temptations
4/5
This was my introduction to psychedelic soul, and I liked it very much. I'll watch everything from "The Temptations" and hope to see more of them on the 1001 list.
Magazine
3/5
I was expecting nothing from this album and it ends up being very fun and enjoyable. +1 on my list of artists I never heard about and discovered through the 1001 list.
Jamiroquai
3/5
I have something against Jamiroquai, even not being a frequent listener. I don't know what, but I always turn off my brain every time I try to listen to any of their songs.
However, respecting the 1001 challenge, I tried this one and surprisingly enjoyed some songs. I still think they sound childish somehow (no explanations, just feelings), but now I can at least listen to 1 of their albums. I'll not try the others. Let's keep this relation in a good status.
Stan Getz
4/5
I think that the album sounds a bit dated from 2023 ears, but it's an inevitable album, and it's still great.
The Soft Boys
4/5
The Pitchfork commentary about this album mentioned on the Wikipedia page is perfect. They were ahead of their time, and I'm sorry to listen to this album more than 40 years after its release. If someone presents this album to me without revealing that it was released in the 80s, I think I (or probably anyone who doesn't know it) will guess it was a modern album.
Dirty Projectors
3/5
As pretentious as it should be in 2009. I think in the last 10/15 years, it's impossible to be "original" (for any sense of this word) without sounding at least a bit pretentious.
It doesn't make this album a good one, but it helps to understand and maybe enjoy it more.
Big Star
2/5
It's a bad imitation of what was happening at that time and context. It became a cult album due to other characteristics rather than the music.
It's not a bad album, but it's far from the quality of other albums here.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
It looks like an album that is much better for being a very cult rather than because of its individual qualities (I'm just wondering if this is not the case on almost every album on the 1001 list).
It's a good album, and it's an easy listening session, but 3-star is enough
Wire
4/5
Respectful punk/post-punk. Easy to enjoy
Aimee Mann
2/5
It was just another country pop that was saved from the 1-star rating for 1 or 2 songs that are enjoyable.
Morrissey
4/5
This (horrible) man knows how to do music for me much more than I like to admit, and I rated 2 (good) of his previous albums 2 stars, so the 1001 list won this game. Here it is my 4-stars to Morrissey.
Klaxons
2/5
It's the worst combination of rock and electronic music. It's fun for 5 minutes and just it!
Joanna Newsom
3/5
I enjoyed it much more than I was expecting when it started. I'm not sure if I'll go to see other albums from her, but this one will stay with me for some time.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
"Queen of Soul" is not a title that came from nowhere. It is reserved for the greatest.
The Specials
3/5
Less special than the specials from the specials got on the list some special weeks ago. Too much special styles in a special single album. They should be specialists in brit ska, but they tried special new rhythms and end with a not so special the specials album.
Herbie Hancock
4/5
I was not expecting to enjoy it so much. I really should listen to more jazz (and its sub-genres) to discover things like this.
Christine and the Queens
1/5
HOWTO Tutorial: How to be a very annoying and generic pop singer in two different languages.
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
These superbands always get me. I can't argue
10cc
4/5
Pop and experiment in the exact right amount to not be annoying and still be a very good listening session.
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
This is not my usual music, but it's always excellent to note hidden influences in the music I listen to daily.
The Hives
4/5
As punk as it should be.
Brian Eno
1/5
Ok....I guess
Sigur Rós
2/5
annoying
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Nine Inch Nails is not exactly my type of music, but this is a strong release. It looks like a work that intends to make some art with the music. It's a bit longer than necessary, making it hard to pay attention until the end, but it is vital and absolutely worth this place on the 1001 list.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Not the best of Marley, but still Marley, and it is always worth some listening time.
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
The first song is quite impressive, altough the rest of the album is a bit generic. However, it's a fascinating album, and it's always nice to see more modern stuff on the 1001 list since it typically (not always) gives me some hope that despite all the music already produced, there is always space for creativity and innovation.
Destiny's Child
2/5
Ok, it's nice to have this album on the list for historical reasons; it's still the birthplace of huge stars from the last decades. However, despite "survivor", It's a good album only if you are really into 2000s R&B.
Turbonegro
4/5
This is the type of thing that is perfect on the list. It's not a well-known album, but it's truly fun from the top to bottom of the tracklist. It's not perfect, but it's really enjoyable.
Digital Underground
3/5
After more than 700 albums, with 61 classified as hip-hop, I thought I had received some old-school examples of the genre, but we can always be surprised by a random album from the 90s. What a decade, huh?
It's as classical as something released in 1990 can be.
Parliament
4/5
This is an excellent album, but I think I got it here a bit late on the list. Getting such an influential album after listening to many albums influenced by it is much less impressive.
It's an album that deserves attention, but listening to it with some contextualization is mandatory.
Hot Chip
3/5
After almost 800 albums, I finally found one enjoyable electronic album that was not included in the list only because of its importance in music history. Maybe it happened because the book author insisted on selecting so many electronic examples.
Even a broken clock is correct two times a day. It's a 3.5 stars.
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
It was far from the quality I found in the "Holy Bible" that I got some months ago on the list, but still an honest indie rock album that was enjoyable.
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Whenever I receive something unknown on the 1001 list, I can bet on country or electronic music, and my chances are almost 80% that I will be correct.
This one was country; as usual, every song is the same.
This album deserves an extra star for the clever use of some instruments in the last songs and for effectively portraying the country mood in the tunes, which is quite challenging to find in some other country albums on the list (they are terrible).
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
I think it's impossible to listen to something from the 50s in 2023 that doesn't sound at least a bit outdated. I appreciate the effort of the book author to keep this kind of classical stuff on the list, but it's pretty hard to find the real hidden gems among the albums from that time.
Kings of Leon
4/5
I liked it much more than I expected, maybe because "Sex on Fire" was huge on my corner during my teenage years, but we never know. Perhaps I like Kings of Leon.
Def Leppard
3/5
I think we never have enough Def Leppard, but I guess I would enjoy it much more if I had listened to it some years ago.
FKA twigs
2/5
It started with a total potential to be a good and modern R&B, but it ended up being just a strange mix of 2000s pop and electronic music. It's not for me!
Suicide
2/5
It's clear they were much ahead of their time, but even listening to it at the "right time," I still didn't like it. They influence a lot of good people according to the Wikipedia page, so they deserve some extra points, but not a new listening session.
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
It's not so remarkable, but it's pretty good.
Dusty Springfield
2/5
Old but g.... Wait, it's just old anyway
TLC
2/5
Somehow, I miss this type of light R&B that was so common during the 2000s. At the same time, I wonder how something can be so generic that it is forgettable 1 second after finishing the listening session.
They deserve one extra star for being a bit ahead of their time.
Elliott Smith
4/5
The first time I listened to Elliott Smith was on the 1001 list a year ago or so ("Either Or" album). At that time, I enjoyed it, but I was unprepared for how much this was way better than "Either Or."
It reaches me this time.
I don't think it's a perfect album, but everything from the lyrics to the production is well done and caught my attention and emotions.
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Being a country album already indicates that I'll listen to the same song for 30 to 50 min, but this is just the usual when country albums are picked for me on the list.
Despite that feeling, I think we have good work on this album, given the time it was released. The instrumental work is well done, and the voices are not annoying, even when singing annoying songs. The gospel section of the album was a surprise for me, but it was also good enough for a gospel country.
I'll probably forget this album in some weeks, but I'm happy for not having another bad experience with country music.
Orange Juice
2/5
It has some potential but it ends up just being generic and annoying.
Arrested Development
4/5
This was a lovely experience. It sounds a bit outdated in 2023, but it's just the normal outdated and not some bizarre ancient as is the case for many other albums on the list.
I don't know if there is more arrested development on the list, but I'm sure I'll listen to their echoes on many other more recent hip-hop albums.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
It was a great album; however, the new albums from Kendric also overcame it. Even being really good, it's not possible to give it more credit than "To pimp..."
OutKast
5/5
I don't know if this is a masterpiece or two masterpieces. Maybe three masterpieces if I consider the combo "Hey Ya!"+"Roses" are a third masterpiece by themselves.
Nitin Sawhney
3/5
Musically it is interesting, but it's not so nice to listen to it.
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
This was just strange. It's not strictly jazz, not precisely blues, not exactly hip-hop (Wikipedia lists it, so...), and it doesn't look like any experimentalism mixing everything. Being so, it's pretty hard to evaluate it. It's not annoying to listen to it, but it's also not eye-popping. Yeah, I think I got the perfect three stars...
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
It was interesting to listen to this album. It's slightly different from the standard R&B and hip-hop from the 2000s, even being forgettable.
Les Rythmes Digitales
1/5
I should know what my rate will be even before I start it, and I also don't need to wait 1 hour to know that it will be 1 star. It's not the most generic electronic album that I have here, but still boring.
Mike Oldfield
3/5
I think it was the first time I listened to some almost pure instrumental album, and I didn't find it boring. It's far from my favorite album from the 1001 list, but it deserves a fair 3 star rating for the production.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4/5
It's pretty hard to evaluate this one, but receiving the different kinds of stuff on the 1001 list is very interesting. It's like a cleaning session from the amount of "same album" from the 80s that sometimes runs the list.
Arcade Fire
3/5
This is not as good as "Funeral," which showed me that I should pay attention to Arcade Fire again, but it's a lovely album, sadly a bit longer than necessary. Nevertheless, I don't think Arcade Fire deserves 2 (or more?) spots on the 1001 list, especially given the amount of different stuff that was released around the globe until 2010 (Yes, the list is VERY English-centric, but we can always dream of seeing this excellent Arcade Fire album replaced by something interesting from Latin America for example)
Dolly Parton
2/5
I unlike it as much as I was expecting. I can't say they don't have a point.
Maxwell
3/5
I didn't like it at first when it started, but I guess it was a manner of mood since I was kind of enjoying it, and I reached the end of the album. It's not outstanding, but it's a warm song for the background in the cold days.
Randy Newman
3/5
It's an OK album with a clear highlight on "You Can Leave Your Hat On."
Forgettable, but I'm unsure if the album's objective was more than that.
David Bowie
4/5
The worst from Bowie is still great and better than 90% of all other stuff.
The Zutons
2/5
It's so generic that I already forgot it. I'll rate it with 2 stars to not be unfair; maybe it was just my memory not working well.
Tim Buckley
3/5
This is the 3rd Tim Buckley album I got from the list (until now). I'm absolutely sure he doesn't deserve 3 spots on the list, although this is the best one. It's more uptime and interesting musically.
The best of Tim Buckley. Now I understand, and we can agree to avoid more Tim Buckley on the list, right?
Venom
3/5
It deserves its spot on the list. For me, this is not in discussion.
However, it's very far from a good album. The production quality is not so good, the lyrics are much less "dangerous" these days (although I'm sure it was crazy to release it around the 80s), and the modern extreme metal is much better than this one. I would like to see more examples of extreme metal on the list.
The Thrills
1/5
This is really awful. When I thought a generic folk/indie was terrible enough, they started with some unexpressive and generic country influence.
To put the last nail in their coffin, Wikipedia says that Bush was a fan. That was all I needed to rate it with 1 star.
Fiona Apple
4/5
This is her best album. Experimentalism in just the right amount so as not to be boring but relevant.
Enjoyable!
Scritti Politti
3/5
Some years ago, it was easy to turn on the Radio on any station and find a thematic block of songs for a "Flashback" or "Romantic session." Yeah, I guess some of these radios just put on this album on repeat. Even with more meaningful lyrics, it sounds like any other 80s pop.
It's not bad. It's just meh!
Frank Zappa
3/5
I still didn't "get" it. It's an excellent Jazz album, but I still need to listen to more from Frank Zappa to understand why he is so well-received as a genius.
Norah Jones
4/5
Her voice already deserves my 4-star rating; even so, this is very far from her more recent releases.
Keith Jarrett
4/5
From my point of view, this is an excentric release for this list, so I think it's pretty hard to evaluate it using the same metrics.
As a Jazz album from a monstrously talented pianist, it's perfect, and it also works very well as background music, but it lacks some diversity that I'm used to getting from the albums on the 1001 list. It's understandable since it was a live presentation that should not be released as an album, but still, it was, and it was included on the list.
Michael Jackson
3/5
It's still Michael Jackson, which means that it's impossible to be a bad album (yeah...yeah), but it's far from his best, and it's still a bit repetitive for my 2023 ears.
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Usually, when I get some electronic album, I already start it with a 1-star rating, ready to go; it's definitely the music genre that less interests me.
However, for this one, I can say that I kind of like it. The rock elements here and there really made it for me. It's the first electronic album from the list that I really intend to listen to again someday. It's strange to see that the other "The Chemical Brothers"' album is 1-star. Should I give them another chance?
KISS
3/5
I never know what to expect from a KISS album, but they always deliver what I need and nothing more than expected.
4/5
I really enjoyed this one. It was amazing to know this new band.
Doves
3/5
This is a strange album for me since, on one side, it should be perfect for me. It's precisely the type of thing that I usually enjoy. On the other hand, it was okay during my listening session for some reason that cannot be explained. Just ok
Holger Czukay
4/5
It's a bit repetitive, but it's pretty cool to know this new stuff on the list.
Buzzcocks
4/5
It's so nice to listen to these pop-punk origins. I liked it very much
Astrud Gilberto
5/5
This is release is far from the best we can found from Astrud Gilberto. I'll rate it with 5 in respect to her whole career.
John Cale
3/5
This is very far from what I expected from John Cale after listening to Velvet Underground, but I liked it. It's not so remarkable, but it's good.
Dion
1/5
I understand that Phil Spector was a important guy on the music industry, but the (way better) Christmas album was good, I didn't need to listen to this one too. I'll check if Dion has any other of his albums on the list, because this is just anoying.
Heaven 17
2/5
After so much insistence, it deserves 2 stars for some songs here and there, but essentially, it's just another electronic/synth-pop, whatever.
Skepta
3/5
High-level start that just goes down and down to a mediocre standard 2000s hip-hop. It's far from unlistenable, but it does not stand too much time with me.
Talking Heads
4/5
I'm too lazy to listen to Talking Heads...they are so 80s that it tired me somehow. However, this specific album was a happy surprise. I don't know if the pressure on the 80s radio made their singles sound so different from the entire album, but the songs I found inside "Remain In Light" do not sound like what I expected from Talking Heads. They are much more powerful and less generic synth-pop.
It's still 80s songs, but at least it's much more enjoyable.
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
It started well, but for some reason that I didn't identify, it finishes just like any generic rock album that will stay in my memory for some hours and then go away forever.
Fever Ray
2/5
Talking about post-modern electronic music, I'll probably go with Bjork, but this one is not unlistenable.
Marvin Gaye
4/5
I must admit I listened to this one without paying too much attention. It's Marvin Gaye, potentially good and transformative for its time.
I'll listen to it again later just to be sure, but I'll give it a 4-star rating just based on my confidence, even knowing I didn't even note when it finished in my listening session.
Justin Timberlake
1/5
I know that Justin did much better in the following years. This one is just the most generic pop from the 2000s. Easy 1-star
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
Maybe I didn't understand it completely yet, but this last song caught me in a way that maybe I finally started to get it.
The Mars Volta
3/5
I always associate The Mars Volta with the standard emocore movement from the 2000s (I like it), but when I listened to this album, I saw that they are in a high opposite direction. Of course, they have something from emo, but they are much more complex than that.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
I think this was the best from Bob Marley that I got from the list. It's a bit repetitive, but it's a must.
James Taylor
2/5
His voice is good, but it's just another country album among all the others around the list. No novelty.
Saint Etienne
1/5
The first song was promising. Then the rest is just the basic electronic that is apparently mandatory on the 1001 list at least once per week.
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
A classic is classic for some reason. It sounds (of course) old school for 2024, but still enjoyable. It's not a masterpiece tough.
Baaba Maal
4/5
Although I didn't enjoy his voice so much, this is the kind of music I'm looking for when I open this site daily. Something different from the standard that touches on sensible themes and has historical importance, especially when it is unknown to me.
This Lam Toro album meets all points.
Throwing Muses
4/5
It was an absolutely great discovery! I think it was the first time I thought an album was not long enough. I wanted more.
TV On The Radio
4/5
I liked this album a lot. It's much nicer than I thought it was possible based on the description and Wikipedia page. So many styles are encapsulated inside the same album that it becomes hard to analyze them thoroughly.
It's better than the "Dear Science" album from the band (released later, but that I got on the 1001 list before).
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
This is the kind of music made for my teenage self. Nowadays, it's just tedious. 3 stars for the memory.
Faust
2/5
Krautrock is not for me. Period. This one is not so bad.
Malcolm McLaren
4/5
Of course, it's extremely outdated, however, I guess this is the kind of album that probably really changed the game when released, spreading all these different music styles around the world. I bet that McLaren was probably not a music genius, but his marketing feeling proved one more time to be very sharp.
Joy Division
4/5
Second time this month that I got a perfect album for me, but the teenager me. Joy division is a pearl for the sad young boy with no problems at all. Nowadays, it is good song.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Too much uniform to be perfect, but very good stuff
Carole King
4/5
I loved her voice and this album contains one of my favorite songs, but it's a 4, because it is a bit repetitive
Tom Waits
4/5
As I learned from the list, Tom Waits is always unexpected and always a pleasure to listen to, even when the songs have too many drums for my personal taste.
The Doors
4/5
Violent Femmes
4/5
I have never heard about them before, and I'm always amazed by how much good stuff has been around since the 80s, with no sign for me. This list is centered around the '70s and '80s albums, but apparently, all bands around that time were much ahead of their time, like the case of Violent Femmes.
Sadly, they decrease a bit at the end of the album with some slow songs, which makes me rate them with a 4, but I'll always love to listen to all this proto/pos/folk-punk music.
Miles Davis
5/5
How do I think I am to evaluate it?
Le Tigre
2/5
Eith half of the length, it could be good.
Ian Dury
2/5
I bet he is a very important British singer-songwriter, but am I obligated to like it? I don't think so
Bee Gees
3/5
Second Bee Gees and no "Stayin' alive"? It's unexpected, as unexpected as myself enjoying a bit of their music.
Metallica
4/5
It's an enjoyable classic but lacks a bit of variation among the songs. Perfect for me 20 years ago.
ABBA
3/5
When it started, I thought it would be just another ABBA album without the greatest hits, but I found it very enjoyable despite all the ABBA cliches.
The Clash
5/5
I can rate it with 5 just by the cover, but it's still good music!
Ozomatli
2/5
I'm unsure if I listened to the right album, but it's okay. I'm happy to see some Latin (or Chicano) rock on the 1001 list, but I'm sad that it is far from the best Latin rock available. Being a 2004 album, there are plenty of options that can easily replace this one with much more success. Let's see if the book contains more options in the future.
The Sugarcubes
4/5
This is an album made for my taste. I love punk/riot-girls sounds, and punk music is always a good option for the day. That being said, this album is a bit common sense for me, with energy but without novelty, even being from 1988, so it deserves just 3 stars.
I'll finish with 4 because of my curiosity about being the first Bjork band.
Kate Bush
3/5
Listening to this album, I can confirm that Kate Bush's songs are not made for me. I really can't appreciate it as it looks like it deserves.
However, I must say that this specific album is pretty intense, with a lot of personality, experimentalism, and audacity, which catch my attention for some songs.
The Saints
4/5
This is an album made for me; unfortunately, it is too long to pay attention to all the songs.
Barry Adamson
2/5
It's good for background music but meaningless for anything else.
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Electronic music is one of the musical genres I dislike, but I must say that I almost enjoyed this synth-pop. Because of its importance in music history, I can rate it with 3 stars.
2/5
It's just another country album that's officially not my personal preference, but I enjoyed the first song. It sounds old school, even for the '60s.
Tortoise
2/5
Usually, I say that I like rock music. It's a way to define myself, even broadly.
Now, I'll start to say that I dislike post-rock. This is much more precise in defining myself.
The Bees
3/5
I'm not sure if I liked it, but I think they have a precise album name. Listening to the album, I really felt that the sunshine hit me, and then he called the night to hit me again in the last songs.
extra points for the Mutantes/Jorge Ben song.
Sugar
3/5
I'm a bit tired of this kind of music (may I call it light-grunge?), but it's enjoyable.
Orbital
2/5
I don't know if I need to say again that I don't like Orbital, but I must say that album looks like a courageous release. They were really trying to say something with their songs; it's me who doesn't get it.
I enjoyed the (unexpected) "Quality Seconds."
Lucinda Williams
1/5
I was expecting something different but it ended up being just the old country-based American music that I must hear before die, even not knowing why.
The Killers
4/5
I like Dad-Rock. Maybe not so dad and not so rock, but I like it.
Dagmar Krause
3/5
I liked to know that this kind of more "classical" music is also present in the 1001 list, sharing space with pop music in general. Reading about the album and Dagmar Krause, I also enjoyed learning about German compositors. On the weak side, the album is quite long and too uniform to be really good. "The Rat Men—Nightmare" is a song that I'll probably include in my favorites.
Arcade Fire
4/5
Sometimes, I think Arcade Fire is just generic indie 2000s rock, and sometimes, I guess I should look closer to Arcade Fire because it is pretty good stuff. This album was definitely the second case.
The Cure
3/5
This was very unexpected for a The Cure album, and I really don't know what to think. Maybe I'll give it another shot someday, but now it's an OK album.
Soul II Soul
3/5
Am I watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for 1 hour again? Damn, very nice show!
The Undertones
3/5
These guys were much ahead of their time, now, I'm sure. I'm not sure how much I like it since it still sounds generic to my ears.
Calexico
3/5
This is totally different from what I was expecting, and I honestly don't know if I liked it.
Caetano Veloso
5/5
It's not the best in Caetano's history, but it's one of the best in Tropicália!
Cat Stevens
3/5
I don't know exactly why, but I liked this one. It's calm and peaceful
Beatles
5/5
Is there anything else to be said about a Beatles album?
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
I think this album deserves the prize (1 extra star, that's what I have to give them) for the most misleading cover from the 1001 list.
It's a flowery album, good to listen to, but nothing so much special.
Slade
3/5
Sometimes, the most cliché is everything you need to.
Nick Drake
2/5
This is the third Nick Drake album I got on the list. For me, it's the worst. I don't know if it's just a mood problem, but I find this one a repetitive collection of rehearsals from the other 2 albums.
Merle Haggard
2/5
It's just ordinary country, but the guitar work prevented me from getting sleep.
Portishead
3/5
It was the first time I liked this strange trip-hop stuff. It's still more strange than likable, but I normally can't stand electronic stuff, and now I believe I maybe can handle things like Portishead.
Devendra Banhart
3/5
It's not exactly my kind of music but I enjoyed it a bit. It caught my attention in more than 1 song. It's peaceful
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Usually, I use Deezer to listen to the album I get here on the 1001 list, and they have already started to suggest country music to me. Please make them stop. I beg you!
Given that, I liked her voice.
5/5
This album really hits a spot in my mind. Punk music with a bit of riot girls is everything I want when I wake up and open this site.
Jacques Brel
4/5
I'm somehow used to French music and this was totally unexpected. Very strong presentation, and "Amsterdam" really touched me deeply.
Exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for on the 1001 list. Happily surprised
The Streets
2/5
I thought it was just another hidden, unknown British stuff that is so common on the 1001 list. Indeed, it is, but I liked the concept of rap opera, so I'll give it credit.
The Flaming Lips
3/5
This was way better than the "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" I got first on the list. I don't have much to say despite it.
Eagles
2/5
After the first Eagles album and finally this one with the famous "Hotel California" song that I listened to so many times (whether I wanted it or not), I can finally state that I don't like the Eagles style and music. It's still possible to tap my feet a bit during the listening session, but nothing more.
Air
2/5
It's not absolutely annoying, but it's far from what I consider a good album that deserves to be included in my own 1001 list of albums to be listened to before I die.
Black Sabbath
4/5
This is not my favorite album from them, but it's from one of my favorite bands, I can't be objective on it.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
I much more enjoyed the other releases of the band I got on the list, even though they do the exact kind of music for me. Maybe after so many albums, I'm becoming more eclectic and enjoying less the basic rock that made my mind in the past.
The Blue Nile
2/5
I couldn't pay enough attention to it, or it was so boring that my brain turned off for a few minutes. Anyway, it's just a standard hidden UK rock album. There's nothing much to see here.
Cee Lo Green
2/5
It's possible to enjoy it for 20 minutes, but then it becomes a very annoying cover of itself, for I don't know how many more hours.
"Scrap Metal" is the only highlight I can think of without too many complaints.
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
I was expecting a new Rolling Stones (based on the Wikipedia page), and I got a not-so-good RS cover.
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
I kind of like this kind of experimental album that just contains 1 very long song. No, wait...
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
It's good jazz, but I didn't see too many novelty or highlights for this one.
Buck Owens
1/5
I know that the 1001 list is very USA/UK-centered, but I must say that for each pair of country albums on the list, we can replace one of them (like this one) with almost ANY album by almost ANY artist from India, Nigeria, or South Africa, for example. I am keeping the list only of native-English speakers rather than thinking about other world music.
I know the original book was unavoidably focused on the USA and UK since these countries gave us the majority of good albums worldwide, but the book was updated. The list includes even albums from 2022, so finding suitable replacements for hidden country albums should not be a real challenge.
Despite the rant, this album is like any other country album that doesn't have any highlights or something to say anymore, and that was not as influential as any other country album (I must say that there are some excellent and influential country albums that I reaffirm, it's not the case here).
The album is very outdated, even for 1965.
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Good but not so remarkable for me
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
"Ragged Glory" is a way better album from them, but this album confirms that Crazy Horse helps Neil Young achieve his finest.
I liked it a lot, and I'm becoming a fan of Neil's rock-like work. I'll rate it with a 3, regretting a bit that I also rated "Ragged Glory" with a 3 in the past.
The Only Ones
3/5
I never heard about them before. It's a good album in the most standard way to be a good album.
I can see their influence somehow when I listen to Coldplay or Imagine Dragons, so I guess they should provide a very nice live concert. It would look like something very ahead of their time for 1978.
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
I'm a bit tired of this post-punk. Maybe it's just my mood today, but this list is so full of this kind of music that I like the style, but I dislike how much I got here.
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Comparing this album with "Back to Black" sounds a bit unfair, but I can't see how much evolution is palpable when listening to this one after listening to "Back to Black" some months ago. It's still easy to see Amy's powerful voice and qualities along this release, but the production is so over that sometimes it masks her quality behind a wall of synthetic sounds.
It's a great album, but it looks like what it is: a debut from a potential star (later confirmed).
The Police
3/5
I liked it for today. It's far from what I consider an excellent album, but it's honest, fun, and easygoing rock. Besides "Message in a Bottle," I was unaware of this "The Police" release, so it was a good experience.
Compared with other albums from them here on the 1001 list, "Synchronicity" impressed me more.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
The authors of the 1001 book really love "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds". Even though I do not consider all their work among my favorites, I can understand why they have so many albums on the list.
Each of these albums is so different but also so aligned with each other that it is hard to select just one to represent the whole work of the band. This also creates a problem: wrong choices like this one. I still like the final result of the album with all this speech poetry, but it's far from the best found on the list.
Elvis Costello
4/5
I discovered and started to like (as much as possible) Elvis Costello on the 1001 list. After five (5!) albums, I feel he can achieve the impossible. He can sound very repetitive, and very repetitive, even though it has one of the widest ranges of styles on the list.
How is it possible?
I don't know.
I prefer his work with "The Attractions," but I didn't dislike this debut. The rawness that is only possible in a debut album saves it from being just "another (but different)" Elvis Costello album.
Gene Clark
2/5
The Byrds were good until now, and I understood that Gene Clark was the guy behind them, but this album is very annoying and never-ending. "For A Spanish Guitar" is a good highlight, but it doesn't save the album.
Faith No More
3/5
I thought I would like this one, but in the end, I didn't enjoy it so much. Maybe another day with another mood, but it's not a bad album; it is consistent with what is expected from a 1989 album.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
It's a good blues/rock album from the '60s, but it's not exactly the Rolling Stones. Indeed, checking the Wikipedia page, we can see that it is basically a cover album with songs by some famous bluesists.
I understand its inclusion on the list. It is, of course, historically important, and I enjoyed it, but being the Rolling Stones and with so many albums in their career, I'm unsure if being historically important is enough to be among their best albums.
The Who
3/5
This is not a bad album, and I can almost understand its inclusion on the list, but after 5 The Who's albums on it, I noted that I'm indeed a fan of their greatest hits and not much more.
The Cure
5/5
I was not enjoying the other "The cure" albums from the list so much since they are too strange for me, but this one was wow! I think I finally got it, and now I should re-listen the two other ones that I rated with 3 stars. 5 stars to compensate.
The essence of what I can understand as post-punk.
Lana Del Rey
2/5
I listened to 880 albums on the list before discovering the "Americana" music style, just to discover that I don't like it. Based on it, I think I'll not get all the hype about Lana del Rey, so I'll not try so hard.
Neil Young
3/5
Thanks to the 1001 list, I think I've already listened to enough Neil Young to see that his styles and production vary a lot. I think this album is the most well-produced one from him on the list since his voice is clear (for the good and the bad), and the instruments are all so clear that I think I was listening to some HI-FI stuff on my streaming service (even without a subscription).
However, this is by far the worst of his albums on the list. Sadly, the best production was used in the worst music.
I think another 3-star rating for another Neil Young album will not hurt anyone.
Doves
1/5
I don't understand why Doves has 2 albums on the list. I kind of enjoyed the other one, but this one here is just annoying, and indeed, it is not something anyone should listen to before dying.
I usually like to hear non-obvious albums around here, but when this is the best option, I prefer to go back to the recommendations of the Beatles and Beach Boys!
The Cars
2/5
I think I didn't understand the hype about the new wave. Is this a so broad style that I can't recognize it anywhere? Sometimes, I think it is much more on the rock side (like this album), and other times, it looks much more like electronic stuff.
I'll never get it, but this album is amusing but not remarkable.
Lambchop
1/5
Bland rock is good compared to this album. I disliked this one with all my rock soul!
CHIC
4/5
Even not enjoying it so hard and noting that it's a bit outdated, it's fairly easy to see that this is "serious business".
This is important material for musical history, and it's very fair that it should be included on the 1001 list.
Johnny Cash
4/5
A classic will always be a classic. Cash's voice is so powerful that he makes me enjoy some country songs.
It's not the best of Cash's works, which for me are his last albums, but the whole background history of the album increases it a bit in my rating.
Iggy Pop
3/5
It's the best Bowie album, but it is not a Bowie album.
China Girl is a great song, no matter who is singing it.
I prefer other albums by Iggy Pop. I link his image with the punk movement, so he does not match so well with this electronic /art-rock stuff. However, I must say that his work here, with good production, makes it stand out compared with Stooge's work, even the last being my favorite.
Ministry
3/5
It is an interesting album...I think I'll never listen to Ministry again since it's too pop for my metal vein and too metal for my pop vein, but it's a very interesting inclusion to the list.
Joy Division
3/5
There is not too much to say about Joy Division that has not been said yet. I liked this album, even though I prefer "Unknown Pleasures."
I'm unsure if they deserve this second spot on the list, but okay, 1001 of anything is a lot of things.
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Good for background noise and not much more. The hit song doesn't save the rest.
The Beta Band
1/5
It has great cover art and awful music.
Rufus Wainwright
1/5
Again? is this list repeating albums? Oh no, someone really decided to include 2 albums from Rufus Wainwright.
It's not the awful thing in the world of music, but I'll rate it with 1 star, paying some respect to the other 1001 albums that are not on the list and that can be a good replacement for this one.
Goldfrapp
3/5
I still don't enjoy electronic music too much, but I need to assume that thanks to the 1001 list, I learned to respect it much more. Two years ago, electronic music was just noise made by people who could not play real instruments. Currently, my opinion has changed 100%, even though I still dislike most of the electronic music I tried.
This one was one of the few exceptions. Maybe it is just a matter of mood, but with more respect to the producers and people who play the majority of electronic instruments (now I know it), it's easier to see some quality in the music.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
4/5
I love the concept of a big band, and this album proves this is wonderful. I would love to see them playing in a live concert. However, this album also proves that even the most enjoyable songs need to have some time limit. 1 hour of a big band (not in a live show that should be great) is too much.
Robert Wyatt
2/5
This is one of those strange cases where the technical qualities are clearly evident, but it's still not good music to enjoy it.
The xx
3/5
Since I disliked the first album from "The xx" so much, I got on the list and had the lowest expectations ever. Maybe because of it, I enjoyed this one a bit. It's still far from what I consider an excellent album, but it's very well produced, and some songs are almost good for a second listening session.
Elis Regina
5/5
Being a fan, I must give it a 5, but it's a pretty strange choice for a list like that to choose this album instead of almost any other from Elis' late years.
This album misses some of her more outstanding qualities.
Beastie Boys
4/5
Thanks to the 1001 list, I think I realize that I'm a fan of the Beastie Boys. However, I don't think this is their best album (as the Wikipedia page appears to argue) since it's too unorganized and doesn't look coherent.
Not all albums in the world should be coherent, but all the Beastie Boys albums I got here were, so it's a problem for me. An expectation problem, but still.
Great album, though!
UB40
2/5
Nice cover art, but it's British reggae, which is strange from the concept. Nothing that contains the words reggae and England can be good.
The lyrics are nice, and I bet they were important when released. In 2024, it's just flat music designed for good hip-hop DJs to create samples. I hope they enjoy it.
Daft Punk
3/5
I have learned to respect electronic music more in the last two years of running through this project, but more than an hour still looks too much.
This album deserves some respect even before listening to it due to its influence on pop culture, but more than an hour of it still looked too much for me.
Among all electronic bands, I think Daft Punk is among my favorites (as much as possible for a music style I usually don't enjoy), but more than an hour of it still looked too much for me.
Indeed, more than an hour of it was way too much for me, but I surprisingly enjoyed it a bit. They achieved something good with this album, and as my evaluation shows, I almost didn't care about its length.
3/5
I used to enjoy Oasis when I was a teenager, but nowadays, I think I was trying to sound much more cult-like than I was (often in my teenage years and frequently using wrong references...Oasis... hahaha).
After listening to their album almost 30 years after its release, I can enjoy it more. It's still pretentious and lengthy but enjoyable for me. "Definitely Maybe" was much better for me, though
Richard Hawley
2/5
Even though this is an album with original songs, it still sounds like a long album of covers. There is no personality here.
Isaac Hayes
3/5
It can be much, much better accompanied by the movie, but I can see some perks here and there. It deserves a listening session, even knowing that Hayes has other much better albums.
Joe Ely
2/5
I tough it was just another country album from a singer not so well known when i received it. I was correct this time but it at least contaims some sparklings of old rock n roll. It ewas fun to see these signs with good guitar work.
Rahul Dev Burman
4/5
Altough it probably is much better if listened with the movie, including this album on the list already deserves 4 stars. I came here for it.
George Jones
1/5
Just another day with another country album...let's go to listen to it and then forget about it tomorrow.
The last song was almost enjoyable and resembles a bit of Johnny Cash.
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
It's very unexpected for a Pet Shop Boys album. Altough honestly, I don't know if I know what I expected from Pet Shop Boys, even after 2 or 3 albums from them on the 1001 list.
I can say that I liked it, even though it was not so remarkable.
Syd Barrett
2/5
I recognize Syd Barret's importance for music history, but I cannot handle a very well-produced rehash; sorry about that.
The Modern Lovers
4/5
This was a very nice experience! Another time, a band I had never heard about with all the energy of punk music but without the exaggerations that were commonplace in the 80s (and maybe 90s).
Even the slow pieces were great to listen to.
It's a bit longer for my full appreciation, but plenty enjoyable.
Portishead
4/5
You made it. I enjoyed listening to electronic music.
What surprises me is to call it trip-hop, since the example band of this style is the Massive Attack. I cannot see any similarities, this is much better.
R.E.M.
4/5
Despite the "Strange Currencies," this is the least R.E.M. album from R.E.M., and I'm still wondering if that's a good or bad thing.
Until I decide my opinion, I'll give it a rate of 4 stars.
The Temptations
3/5
After listening to "Cloud Nine" on the 1001 list some time ago, I was excited for the next Temptations. Expectations are born to die, and that's the cruel truth.
This album is not bad; it started with some very funky songs, but then it suddenly became a generic soul/Motown album with no personality, which is fairly disappointing, especially when compared with "Cloud Nine."
It probably deserves its spot on the list, but it's not something I'll remember.
The Libertines
3/5
For some unknown reason, I feel that I should pay respect to this release, but I can't really enjoy it so much. It's nice and somehow cozy to listen to any indie British rock from early 2000, but in 2024, they lack something important that I can't name, but I can rate it with 3 stars to represent it.
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
Old School hip-hop has its place, but it's almost impossible not to sound outdated in 2024. Sometimes, the qualities can be so astonishing that we can try to analyze it with 90s eyes, but sometimes not.
A good number of songs on this album can be appreciated without the bitter taste in the mouth, but the whole album is much more historically significant rather than enjoyable to listen to.
It deserves the spot on the 1001 list, but I'm unsure if I'll re-listen to it as a whole album after today.
Missy Elliott
3/5
It was another old-school hip-hop in a row, but noting how some songs aged much better than others was interesting.
It's far from my favorites, but it's a nice album.
Supergrass
4/5
I enjoyed the "In It For The Money" I got here some time ago much more, but this is the kind of energy I expect from a rock band. It's not perfect, but it's a solid 3.5 album.
Blur
3/5
Risking to be repetitive, I dislike this album almost to the same extent I loved "Parklife." I don't know if it's too indie for me, but I found it almost annoying. It won one extra star from me for song 2 and all its history of a joke that became a success.
Killing Joke
4/5
Given that I'm far from a specialist, this should be the essence of post-punk. It contains all the energy and riot-vibes that I expect from punk with all the strangeness that I expect from anything released after 1980.
Billy Joel
3/5
I only know about Billy Joel by his famous name, which I see here and there in movies and TV series. Apparently, he is important for TV productions as a reference, but I have never listened to one of his albums.
This one was a nice introduction. It still sounds like I am listening to something purposely made in 2024 to sound like something from the 70s/80s, but being really produced around 1970 makes a lot of sense.
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
It was a good and unexpected surprise for me. It's not so memorable, but her voice and the lyrics will stay with me for some time.
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
It is an interesting album, but I think that psychedelic people should really enforce some time limit around the 40 minutes of the album. The interesting becomes boring too quickly to support more than that.
Guns N' Roses
5/5
A straightforward no-skip album (yes, even "Sweet Child o' Mine")
R.E.M.
4/5
It's not the best R.EM., but even their average is still dope!
Christina Aguilera
3/5
When I saw the album cover, I was sure it would be another 1 star that got a spot on the list just to be removed some years later.
However, to my surprise, I kind of enjoyed the album. Aguilera's voice is something unreal, and I think this is not a discussion, but her singles normally don't catch my attention in any way.
Listening to the full album, I found some cool songs on CD 1 and CD 2. Of course, I agreed with some of the critics I saw on the Wikipedia page, like the fact that the album is lengthy and the emulation of the 1920s–1950s idols is sometimes just fake, but overall, I found it pretty enjoyable.
I still think that it's an album that will be replaced on the 1001 list soon, but now I guess it will last at least for 2 or 3 editions, at least it deserves.
3/5
Strange, noisy, and not too much memorable. Not exactly what I wanted, but maybe what I needed.
4/5
00:20 after the album starts: It starts with a Beatlesque with no novelty, but ok, it's good enough.
18:00: I am listening to the "Greenman," which has slightly changed my opinion; it's nicer.
19:00: Let me fav some of their other albums, just in case.
20:00: Is this the real life?®
24:00: Thank you 1001albumsgenerator.com
Deee-Lite
2/5
One uber-single, which largely represents the 90s, rescues this collection of the worst songs of the 90s from the deepest place in cultural history.
It should be on the list of 1001 singles to listen to before dying, but not the whole album.
Randy Newman
1/5
I like American music, and it's almost always enjoyable, but this album yelled "USA" so loud in my ears that it was too much for me.
Thelonious Monk
3/5
I felt that I should have liked this album much more than I did. For some reason, it sounded a bit repetitive to me. Maybe I'll give it another chance on another day.
Muddy Waters
4/5
Sometimes, the old school sounds excellent instead of sound outdated.
The Auteurs
3/5
Nice to listen to and enjoyable. I bet it was indeed important for Britpop, but in 2024, it sounds like any other Britpop we can get from Soptify's recommended playlists.
Giant Sand
1/5
How can something have so much potential and be so annoying simultaneously?
The last (extra) song is almost good, but that's all.
Tom Waits
4/5
As I learned to expect from a Tom Waits album, it's unexpected. It's hard to say if i liked it, but it of course crossed some boundaries and if I didn't lost the count, it's the last album from him that I'll got, so it deserved the 4 stars.
fIREHOSE
3/5
It's not groundbreaking or revolutionary, but I enjoyed this groovy and upbeat indie for today. It will probably go directly to the forgotten valley of my memory, but it deserves three stars for the fun 30 minutes.
Morrissey
4/5
I still don't like the person, but he knows exactly how to do music that I enjoy! Damm!
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
It's not exactly my preferred type of music and a bit lengthy, but it's not that bad. It's easy to enjoy its first 30 minutes and forget the rest.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
5/5
Honestly, it's not the best album I listened to, nor the greatest hip-hop of all time. But few albums go beyond their music, and this one is one example.
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
It's far from the best album on this list, but it does not deserve one of the last positions in the global status rank. Yes, it's strange and sometimes annoying, but many other post-punk albums follow the same pattern here.
It was at its best when it somehow resembled Sex Pistols. Post-punk is better when the "post" part is ignored; that's interesting.
The Jam
4/5
So, this is what the revival of rock in the 2000s should sound like. Now I got it. 🙃
In my heart, I'm still a teenage rock fan, so it's almost impossible to me not to like it
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
It deserves one extra credit for sounding so outdated without necessarily sounding like Dad Rock. I enjoyed the upbeat style, and it is always fun to know bands from anywhere other than the US and UK, even singing in English. Sometimes, I doubted if I was listening to some kind of Kiss cover band.
Goldie
3/5
Just another day with another British electronic album. Despite the length, at least this one has an upbeat that was enjoyable. I'm still harsh with electronic, even learning to respect it during this 1001 challenge, but this type of drum and bass looks like a good style for me.
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
From the Wikipedia article, I can see that this artist and album influenced many people that I like, but this is just another proof that sometimes it is better to stay away from (bad) influences.
Rocket From The Crypt
4/5
I should assume that I love punk rock when accompanied by a saxophone(?!)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
It was fun and had good potential, but for some reason that I don't understand, they decided to record it in a bathroom with the whole band playing live and all the windows open. It made it a bit harder to have a good experience, so 2.5 is enough.
Cypress Hill
3/5
I can understand the importance, but I can't feel the music; it sounded too bland for me. Maybe when I'm in a better mood, I should try again, but today, it's a 3-star album because of its historical influences.
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Listening to it without knowing the artist, I cannot bet a good guess on Peter Gabriel. Thinking of Peter Gabriel songs that I know, this is not the type of album I was expecting.
This is a clear mismatch, but it was an enjoyable mismatch.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Nowadays (maybe because of the last 900+ new albums in my life), I have mixed feelings about prog rock. This one was nice to listen to, but I still don't know if I can say that I LIKE it.
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Who do you think I am to say something about this album?
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
When I received it, I thought: "Do we really need a third Echo And The Bunnymen album on the 1001 list?" I was not expecting this kind of album; where did all this rawness go in their later albums? They are a good group, but this album should be much more highlighted than any of their latest releases. Their debut is the best for me.
Snoop Dogg
2/5
I enjoyed the upbeat of this gangsta rap, which is not typical for me since usually, the themes highlight more to my ears than the music, but the outdated lyrics hit hard on me this time, so I can't rate it with more than 3 stars.
I know that this kind of album should be respected for its historical importance, but it's something that I will hardly listen to again (fully, at least) in the years coming due to its lyrics.
The Afghan Whigs
4/5
This was a pleasant discovery of good old-fashioned rock in the exact tense I enjoy listening to. Maybe it's a bit generic, but who cares? I'll forget it next mont, so I don't care at all, it was a nice session.
The Birthday Party
3/5
I was quite excited for this one. It's interesting to check if this is indeed one of the worst albums of the 1001 list since when I started the list, I think it was the last of the global list.
Finally, it is not so bad. The list has at least 10 albums worse than this one that comes to my mind immediately.
Indeed, I think the list has enough Nick Cave ( always inpredictable), but as a post-punk band, they did an almost good job. Good experience.
LTJ Bukem
1/5
I'm not sure I listened to the correct album. Still, I got one on Deezer credited to "Various artists" that followed almost the same track list I got on the Wikipedia page (just out of curiosity, that also has another one with the same cover and 3 HOURS of electronic music...😂😂😂...)
Anyway, it will probably not change my opinion. It is the kind of generic electronic music that may have had some importance in the '80s/'90s, but it just sounds like nothing important in 2024.
XTC
5/5
I had a very similar feeling listening to this one that I had while listening to "Apple Venus Volume 1" previously on the list. It starts very generic and without highlights but slowly grabs my attention, showing exciting songs with excellent arrangements and different instrumentation that definitively deserve a spot among the 1001 discs I would like to know before I die. I think "Apple Venus Volume 1" may be better, but now I can't finish this challenge without giving five stars to them in at least one album.
Khaled
4/5
This is the kind of music I want to discover, even when I don't thoroughly enjoy it. I liked the mixture of styles. The version of "Imagine" was not offensive to me (although the song itself is already saturated). I liked the Algerian French accent in some songs.
It's far from something remarkable to me, but its inclusion on the list is fair, and it was a good listening session, with more than a lot of British underground electronic music from what the list is falling in love with.
Van Morrison
3/5
Is it really too late to stop, Van? (I know that was obvious.) It's the third album from Van Morrison I've got from the list, and I increasingly feel it deserves 3 stars. It's not bad at all, and it's pretty enjoyable sometimes, but it's always the same.
Motörhead
3/5
The younger me would enjoy it so much, but today, it's almost background music for busy days when I don't want to spend too much time thinking about what I'm listening to.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
There is this big elephant in the room with the problem of uncredited covers and plagiarism, but if Zeppelin deserved five stars in an album, it is this one.
Since I've already received Zeppelin I on the site and gave it 5 (it's a fantastic album), I'll keep this with 4.
Beyoncé
4/5
This good album will not stay on the 1001 list for long. I'm pretty sure it can be replaced by "Lemonade" or even "Cowboy Carter" in the next edition (especially the second, given the book authors' love for country music).
However, it is here, and it was a good listening session. It's nice to note every breakthrough from Beyoncé's last albums being born here and there, along with the songs of this album.
5/5
There's nothing to say about the album itself. Of course, it is five stars.
It is interesting to listen to it closer to the end of the 1001 challenge (I have a bit more than 100 albums to finish) because it's easy, fun, and quite interesting to see the influences used by the Beatles in the album, as well as how much they influenced other artists (almost all) that we also have on the list.
Genesis
4/5
I was unprepared for another Genesis, and I was not expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Now, give me more.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
When the first song started, I thought it would be a fun rhythm and Blues session with a pinch of Bluegrass, and I was happy with it, but it did not deserve much attention.
Suddenly, around the middle of the album, I started to listen to some experimentation, which I had not expected to hear. It increased my evaluation a bit, proving it not as another useless album but something worth my time.
Far from perfection, it's sad that I never heard about the album or the band.
Ravi Shankar
4/5
I'm always complaining about the 1001 list being so US/UK-centered, and to my surprise, the last two weeks have been quite diverse in terms of the music from other countries delivered to me. It was necessary to wait for more than 900 albums, but it happened.
For this album itself, I was totally not expecting a class about Indian music given by a sitar virtuoso musician, but the best things in life are those we didn't ask for.
Jane's Addiction
3/5
It's strange how something released in 1988 can sound much more outdated than other albums on the list that are more than 60 years old, but that is what happened with Jane's Addiction for me.
I can see the qualities, and 1 or 2 songs are still great, but the album as a whole is a product of the 80s and should be kept there.
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
This is a strong album. I'm sad I didn't listen to it before. I've always been a fan of desert blues, even though I didn't know it 🤪.
Coldcut
2/5
It's the first time on the list that an album has a self-explanatory name, right? The answer to "What's That Noise?" could be "Just another generic and forgetable 90s electronic album."
One extra star because I learned to respect synthesizer players, and the album's upbeat is nice.
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Listening to it, it's clear to me that it's a good album with enough qualities, but it's pretty hard to understand why it is so important to be on the 1001 list. Okay, 1001 is a huge amount of stuff, but I'm sure there is much better and more important stuff out there.
There were highlights in "Violence" and "I’m a Cadillac / El Camino Dolo Roso," which were pretty good.
a-ha
3/5
Except for "Take on me," which is the nice song printed in my mind (and I bet in almost everyone else's mind), it's a very generic pop album. I don't know if I'll have more a-ha from the 1001 list, but if not, it's possibly the last time I've listened to some of their albums entirely.
Stephen Stills
4/5
When I got it during the morning, I was not excited about it, but it ended up being the best of the solo projects from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young! (I think I've already got at least one from each on the list)
I liked the atmosphere, the lyrics, and the fancy instrumental. Nice job. I'll probably not be looking for more from Stephen Stills so soon, but this one is worth it.
N.W.A.
4/5
I felt the same way about almost all the gangsta rap I got on the 1001 list: I recognized its importance but felt that it was outdated. The same applies here, but for some reason that escapes my understanding, I'll give it one extra star due to some strange feeling. For some reason, their anger kicked better with mine.
The Pogues
4/5
An Irish Celtic folk-punk is everything I wanted, but I didn't know how to ask for it.
U2
3/5
U2 sounds like U2, for the best and the worst
The Byrds
2/5
It's not a bad album, but it has no personality. They need to decide if they are a Beatleesque band, a copy of Dylan's style, or somehow a psychedelic band. Without decision, it looks much more like a Spotify playlist from 70/80 rock rather than an album.
Underworld
1/5
I really learned to respect a bit more electronic music, but 😮💨
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
The third Dexys Midnight Runners I got on the list, and altough I loved one of them, I'm still unsure if I like the band. Let's wait for the fourth album.
Ride
3/5
It's possible to make a noise that sounds almost good, but it's still a noise!
Boston
4/5
It starts with the epitome of the dad rock(which I like but it's pretty outdated). However it ends being a very decent album between the 80s heavy metal and some hair metal that I associate morw to the 90s.
I'll not remember it for a ling time but it was a god listening session
The Boo Radleys
3/5
On my summary page on the 1001 list website, Shoegaze appears as one of my worst genres. I'm unsure if I agree with this, but I finally discovered what was missing: Shoegaze Orchestral Music (SOM for short).
SOM is delightful. I'm amazed by it.
Hey! What's that noise? It's SOM
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
It's a very nice album. It's impossible not to compare it with anything from the Beatles, but they highlight the differences well.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
This is a pretty impressive piece of work. It's hard to classify, but it's remarkable how an almost poetry session with background ambiance music catches me so much.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Although absolutely far from my comfort zone, it's easy to spot its influence on modern music. It deserves its space on the 1001 list.
Jeff Beck
4/5
It sounds like classic rock, walks like classic rock, and smells like classic rock. I can bet everyone knows what it is.
Beatles
5/5
Does someone really need to read what I think about this album? Do I need to write something about this album? Does anyone need to write more about this album?
Megadeth
4/5
Metal is the music style I use when I need to feel good, so I can say that it is my favorite genre. Despite the surprising number of metal records on the 1001 list, most of them are classic metal rather than modern releases, so it's hard for me to evaluate them. On the one hand, I love almost all of them, but on the other hand, in the list context, they usually are not astonishing enough to be so well evaluated.
I'll vote with my soul for this one, even though I know this Megadeth album is far from perfect.
Manu Chao
3/5
After the first two songs, which are very nice and have an excellent upbeat, the album just falls into a hole of the same reggae-inspired songs without much originality, even with good lyric work. It's not something to be disliked, but it probably is also something not to be remembered.
Marty Robbins
2/5
I'm not very into country music, but if someday I need some ballad for a gunfight, I'm sure that now I know where to look for it.
Happy Mondays
3/5
It's bland but enjoyable.
The Go-Go's
5/5
This is another hidden gem that I was looking for and for which I didn't know how to ask. Thank you!
Talk Talk
2/5
It's an okay album, but do we MUST listen to it before die? Are you sure about it?
Steely Dan
2/5
After 3 (?) albums, even enjoying Steely Dan, I got annoyed by this album.
Steely Dan
3/5
It's an enjoyable album, and I liked some previous albums from Steely Dan on the list. Still, the allegedly "more sophisticated compositions and arrangements" (from the Wikipedia page) make it a bit less good than the others. I prefer something rawer for them, and I even enjoy some sophistication sometimes.
The Associates
3/5
I listened to it yesterday, and I remember enjoying it a bit, but just one day later, I already started to forget it, and now I only have the impression that I listened to a good The Cure cover band.
I'm unsure, but the album is probably good enough to receive 3 stars.
Christina Aguilera
3/5
I was unprepared to enjoy a SECOND Christina Aguilera album on the 1001 list. Her voice is fantastic, and the lyrics are outdated but still significant. However, even though I believe no one needs to listen to her albums before they die, the songs are here, and among all the crappy albums that I've heard before on the list, this is genuinely far from the worsts.
Ryan Adams
2/5
The album starts pretty well. It still looks like a low-cost Bob Dylan, but it's pretty good. The following songs become more and more blame, and the album's end is almost anti-climax. Maybe I'll give it another chance on another day, but for now, I can only rate it with 2.5 stars.
Love
3/5
It's an okay album but has no great remarks for me.
Kanye West
4/5
I don't want to like it, but it's great. Dammit!
Spacemen 3
2/5
Too much psychedelic for me. I spent the whole day finishing the listening session because it was necessary to stop from time to time to take some air.
Drive Like Jehu
4/5
This is what I needed for a rainy Thursday: some noisy hardcore!
It's interesting to note how many albums are classified with the subgenre hardcore at the 1001 list, but just a fell really fell hardcore to me, like this one. After reading the Wikipedia page, I can even see the signs of emocore here and there. It's not perfect, but it's a lovely album for today.
Can
3/5
It's too much for me, but I should pay some respect to them. I feel that I still need to have some time to understand what I listened to.
Ananda Shankar
2/5
I like the sitar songs, and I'm positively surprised by the number of "traditional"-ish Hindi music we have on the 1001 list, but honestly, this album is pretty annoying. There is no novelty or upbeat; it's just a bunch of covers (or almost covers) without any new energy or so; the sitar is there only to be.
Pink Floyd
4/5
I prefer "Wish You Were Here," but I decided not to go against almost 16000 people on the site. It's indeed great, just not the best.
There's too much U2 on the list, don't you feel?
Basement Jaxx
2/5
After over 1000 albums, I reserve my right to get tired of it.
GZA
3/5
I think that all the albums on the list from WuTang members never catch me. I usually like them, but only in a very standard way.
It's a good album, but it's a bit outdated. It also sounds influential in the same way.
Joni Mitchell
2/5
It is the fourth Joni Mitchell album on the 1001 list. I don't have anything more to say after the first 3.
Fatboy Slim
1/5
1008 albums... let's go with it!
The Divine Comedy
2/5
These people who write music are supposed to be good with words, so why is it so hard to understand the meaning of "short"? More than 1 hour is not short.
Let's state once and for all that your irony and/or sarcasm is not as good as you think it is. Never.
Annoying album with 1 or 2 highlights here and there.
Steve Winwood
1/5
It was impressive to see that he was playing everything, but this did not improve how much I liked it, which was too little. It's generic and soulless, as if a big band of contractor musicians were playing it.
Gillian Welch
2/5
I almost liked it in the first song, but then it was almost a loop of the same song for almost one hour!
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1/5
I almost enjoyed it when I noted that 2 hours of honks, ponks, tonks, and yeaaahas counts like hypnosis.
White Denim
3/5
I got what they are trying to do here and they were successful, but there are so many others (better) doing the same thing that is harsh to highlight on the progressive/psychedelic 70s rock, mainly when the album was released almost 40 years after the 70s.
Laura Nyro
4/5
Very unexpected! I checked the cover and the Wikipedia page expecting some forgettable album, but now I'm astonished by her voice and music. Awesome hidden gem on the 1001 list
Pulp
3/5
It's a nice album, but it becomes boring pretty fast after some repetition along the songs.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
2/5
Yeah, Yeah...okay. Next!
Miles Davis
4/5
It was Miles Davis's worst release on the 1001 list, but it's still one of the best albums on it.
Silver Jews
1/5
No one deserves a country indie rock album.
Pere Ubu
2/5
Go easy! It's nice when rock bands decide to "test the water" of experimental stuff, but there is a thin line between being a genius and being a strange that sings alone yelling to the clouds with no one to pay attention to.
Miles Davis
5/5
It's not an album that I truly enjoyed listening to, but given its importance and the fact that I'm in a bit of a Miles Davis mood (it's the second album received in the same week), I should pay some respect. Creating a jazz genre is not something that happens every day.
2/5
I bet the concert was awesome, but this recording is not good at all!
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
It could be good, but I was tired of the voice and the style on the second song and they gave me another hour of it.
Sex Pistols
5/5
Is it a 30-minute album with the same-ish song? Yes!
Will I give it 5 stars? Yes!
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3/5
It is an interesting and touching story, but the album is just another one in the pile of psychedelic rock from the 60s/70s.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
5/5
I really enjoy their music. This album is not perfect, but I complemented it with their NPR Tiny Desk presentation and for sure it deserves a 5.
Pere Ubu
3/5
It contains the level of experimentalism in the fringe zone before becomes too strange and not enjoyable. I liked it, even though I'll probably forget it in some days.
Germs
3/5
Reading about this album's history and importance, I was expecting much more. I enjoyed the listening session, but it's far from something I can call a "good" album.
Brian Eno
4/5
I think that listening to all of Brian Eno's albums on the 1001 lists could be a much better experience if they are heard in order. This album is good, but it is not as challenging (challenging does not necessarily mean good) as some others that I received before. This is indeed the best of his solo albums to me, but I would have viewed his more experimental works with much more sympathetic eyes if I had the correct historical context.
George Harrison
5/5
Awesome work and the best post-Beatles album are enough labels for this album. I had never listened to it fully until today, but it was an amazing experience.
Pentangle
3/5
It's not bad, but it is a bit snoozefest after some songs.
Peter Gabriel
4/5
This is the best Peter Gabriel on the list until now and I was lucky to get his albums almost in order since it's easy to spot his evolution as a solo artist. I'll not become a fan because of this album, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it more when I get some of its songs within my recommendations.
Dr. John
4/5
This was a great great surprise. It's not perfect, but it contains the exact amount of everything that makes a good album. It's not easy, but also not extremely challenging and every piece looks in the right place.
The Band
3/5
I know The Band goes beyond a support band, but Why do they sound so much like a support band?
Robert Wyatt
3/5
This is totally not what I was expecting. But I'm fine, I bet I subscribe to this challenge exactly to get this type of stuff, so I'm good with it.
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
Great surprise for today! I was not expecting another hidden gem after more than 1000 albums, but I am happy I was wrong about it.
Einstürzende Neubauten
3/5
I must give it credit, maybe for the punkiness and energy or at least for the courage and shamelessness of releasing this album in 1981. I'm pretty sure it sticks with Gen Z without problems but in the 80s? Good move, guys!
Pixies
3/5
As a non-Pixies fan, I can see some qualities on this album that may sound much better for those who like them more than I do, even if it does not sound exactly like I expected.
CHVRCHES
3/5
I was not expecting to like it, but I did. It's forgettable but enjoyable for a listening session. I can see some characteristics that I really enjoy in other artists like The Weeknd, which may have helped me to enjoy it.
AC/DC
3/5
This is a greatest hits album that was released before the hits themselves. This is good, but also kind of bad if you note that an album is not exactly only a collection of good songs. All in all, I like the album, but it lacks at least some storytelling. It starts high and keeps going high until the end.
The Smiths
3/5
Great album, but it's far from their best.
Haircut 100
4/5
Am I enjoying the British new wave from the 80s? What did you do to me, 1001 list?
Sabu
5/5
It's not my favorite music, but I guess the list was missing something on this really Latin/Caribbean style, so I'll pay respect to its inclusion on the list.
David Bowie
4/5
I'm not in a position to criticize this album. However, listening to this album after "The Next day" and "Blackstar" is a bad choice. I liked it a lot, but given that I enjoyed much more the final albums from Bowie, I can't give it a 5-star.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
When it started, I thought it was a joke, another irrelevant album from someone who maybe had some importance in musical history. During the listening session, I changed my mind a bit due to 1 or 2 songs that caught my attention, but with no power to avoid thinking it's still mediocre. It can be enjoyable, but not enough to be part of a list of essential albums.
Animal Collective
3/5
Experimental pop...these guys are so funny....wait...it is really fun!
The White Stripes
4/5
One of my favorite bands. Not my favorite album, but I need to say that making a completely different album in comparison with their other release has its value.
3/5
I can see the historical importance of this release, but it was not a very enjoyable listening session.
PJ Harvey
3/5
I can finally state that I'll not get the hype on PJ Harvey's songs. However, from all her albums I got from here on the 1001 list, I can also say that this one was the best. It has some cool songs (more than the previous albums I got), even being a bit repetitive sometimes.
Adele
2/5
It is a great voice but a forgettable album. Except maybe for "Hello," these songs are okay in the best case.
Soft Machine
2/5
It's too hard to listen to this kind of album: It screams historical importance, probably influencing many artists that I like, but it's so boring that I feel ashamed for listening to it. I can probably just read a music history book with the same effect.
Nanci Griffith
2/5
Another almost country album that I cannot say I didn't enjoy a tiny bit, but it is also one of those I'll forget before lunch
Guided By Voices
3/5
It's lo-fi rock, but not exactly punk and/or garage rock. It's pretty hard to get it either musically or historically important, but I can't say I didn't enjoy it at least a bit. I guess some rate between 2 and 2.5 is fair enough for an album that costs 10 bucks (according to the Wikipedia page).
Gram Parsons
1/5
Among the options we have on the 1001 site, we should have the option to limit just 1 country album per week maximum.🙃
Take it seriously. I bet it's not the worst country album we have here, but after listening to all the albums that influenced it and all that was influenced by it (in a genre with less variability), it is normally an awful experience.
Kelela
3/5
Even though I'm not a fan of electronic music, what I enjoyed most about this album was to (re-)discover the alternative R&B style, mainly in the songs with more electronic effects.
M.I.A.
3/5
It's indubitable that M.I.A albums has many qualities, maybe by the diversity of references or the energy, but this debut album itself is far from what she reached on "Kala", a much better album also on the 1001 list. I'll not be surprised at all if more recent versions of the book only kept only the last.
John Martyn
3/5
It is always funny when I arrive at the list, see a name that I don't recognize, and click on the Wikipedia link just to discover how many fans this "unknown" has. There is one long and complete Wiki for the album and for the artist. He was probably very important to a lot of people (at least to the Wikipedia volunteers).
The album is nice too.
Steve Earle
2/5
This album is in the wrong book. It should be in the "The most generic songs of all time: How to do it in less time"
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
It's far from my preferred type of music, but after so many albums (and a lot of mediocre stuff), I should always pay some respect to this kind of inclusion that allows me to taste really different kinds of music.
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
You must be in the right mood to enjoy this one. Luckily, I was this time.
Sonic Youth
4/5
I feel that I'm always on the edge of becoming a fan of Sonic Youth, but after all their albums here on the list (I guess this is the last one I'll receive from them), they never REALLY hit the spot on me. I'm unsure of what I missing or maybe what they are missing. It's enjoyable, but always missing something to get my extra star on the rating.
Aerosmith
3/5
Aerosmith being Aerosmith. I like it
Grateful Dead
2/5
I know that I should have liked it, but I didn't. Hard to find a good reason.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
This album is far from the worst on the 1001 list. Maybe it is the strangest one, but not the worst. I don't understand why the opinions are so divisible, but I bet I'll discover them after the third listening session. (Help me!)
Neneh Cherry
2/5
It sounds like a parody, but not a good one. I totally believe that these songs can easily be made by artificial intelligence.
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
After listening to one song of the album, we can derive everything that comes after. It's nice but so predictable that it loses a one-star rate.
Cream
3/5
It's a nice album, but after so many albums, it's hard to listen to something that sounds innovative. Somehow they were doing what everyone was doing at that time.
The Slits
4/5
Musically, this doesn't catch me so much, but even before read the wikipedia page, it's quite obvious that I was listening to something important for punk history.
Pixies
4/5
I guess I finally got the hype on the Pixies with this album. They introduced the exact amount of noise and strange stuff without being too pretentious or too experimental. I didn't enjoy so much the other Pixies releases I got here on the list, but I guess I'll have better impressions listening to them again after this album.
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
For anyone born or living in Brazil for the last 20 years, it's impossible to do not recognize some of these songs. They are the quintessential songs for elevators and supermarkets in the country. Now that I've listened to the full album, I can state that it's not much better than elevator songs, indeed. Best track: The jazzy "Close Your Eyes."
Django Django
2/5
It's quite easy to evaluate this album. It's possible to see a lot of potential never accomplishes by them. Since it's a debut, I'll maybe check their later releases to see if they indeed had any improvement.
The Monkees
3/5
They sound like a cover band in almost all songs. Sometimes a Beatles cover, other times a Beach Boys cover, and even Rolling Stones sometimes. Given that, they are good at covering their more famous band cousins.
Aerosmith
4/5
Another day and another Aerosmith album. At least, this is among their best.
Björk
3/5
I've already rated a Bjork album with 5 stars in respect for her influence in music history (and it was her best in my opinion) so for this one I'll keep my old friend 3 that represents pretty much well this album.
New York Dolls
3/5
I always took New York dolls as a bad joke on the punk movement. Apparently I was missing something pretty enjoyable with their punkness energy at high on the first songs and a bit less impressive at the end, but still good. They are a joke, but a good one.
Suede
4/5
Few artists/bands deserve 2 spots on the list. Altough I really enjoyed the first Suede album I got here, I was skeptical about this one. Now I can state that it was great and I'm sure that Suede is a band that deserves their 2(?) spots.
Method Man
3/5
I had the same feeling for almost all solo albums released after Wu-tang Clan. They are okay, but nothing else. It was not different with this one. It's a round 3-star album.
Big Star
3/5
The Wikipedia page quoted someone who correctly said how unfair it is to listen to influential albums after having listened to all their influences over the years. I bet he is right, but still, this album sounds like a collage of '60s and 70s songs. It means that it's enjoyable and recognizable, but not memorable. I enjoyed the listening session, but I'll forget about it in some days.
Barry Adamson
3/5
Apparently, he wanted to create movie soundtracks, and according to Wikipedia, he made at least one for David Lynch's movie. I'm happy that this album helped him on his way to his objectives, but it is not much more than it... an imaginary soundtrack. It's not bad, but I guess it could be better accompanied by the movie.
The Beta Band
2/5
It's better than the other Beta Band's album on the list, but it's still pretty awful.
Hookworms
2/5
Ok, it's not a bad album, but why? why is it so important to be listened to before dying? I really should check this entry in the book; I can't believe it.
MGMT
4/5
I was not expecting to enjoy it so much. Good stuff
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
When I started this challenge almost 3 years ago, I barely recognized the name Nick Cave as "someone famous for some reason that I'm unsure, but probably related to music." Now, after noting that the list has a lot of his work (with Bad Seeds and also others), I consider myself an almost specialist in Cave's work 😅.
Their works are normally very different between them, which is nice, even being very unexpected sometimes. This one I consider quite classic Nick Cave, which is pretty nice to me, so 4 stars from a new almost fan.
Brian Eno
4/5
It's the best Eno album on the list, and it also helps to fill the "gap" between his rock albums and his other (not so great to me) ambient music albums. I feel that I understand his work better after this album.
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
When it started, I was ready to give the good old 3 stars for a good job as an indie band doing a correct job with some rock songs. When I listened to "Don't," it changed my mind a bit. There is more on Dinosaur Jr. Maybe not much more, but at least something to pay attention to and search for in the future.
Van Halen
4/5
It's like exactly what is expected when we read "Van Halen" on top of the page. Nothing less and nothing more. It means that it indeed sounds a bit outdated, but still incredibly good.
Supertramp
3/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
This is my last listened-to album (although not the last generated), and there is no better way to close this list than with a standard album compared to others of the same genre. For psychedelic/progressive rock, this album is far from the best but also far from the worst, and after 1089 albums, I can state that this is true for most of the albums on the list. I'm happy to have new knowledge regarding what In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is overall and it was a nice 3-year long experience. 3 stars is enough for me.
The Residents
4/5
It's a very very strange album, but I must say that I kinda like it. It may be that I am so close to the end of the 1001 list I'm reaching the enlightenment of the book authors. (probably I'm just tired, it's almost 6 PM)
Steely Dan
3/5
After a lot of their albums here on the list, I can state that only Steely Dan can be so great and so disappointing at the same time.