I really enjoy The Stooges (as it's possible to see in their 3 albums on the original list), but I can't stand this live version with such poor production. Maybe it has a historical value, and I bet it was awesome to be there during the recording, but I'll hardly listen to this record again.
Sometimes, I know it's pretty hard to define what "is worth it to be listened to before dying," but determining what is "at least worth it to be listened to without being bored" is pretty straightforward. Despite 2 or 3 songs that are cliche but enjoyable, the rest is awful.
I think I'm a person in trouble (always). After listening to this album, I'm in trouble but also sad and discouraged. Nice voice, though.
It starts promising, although a bit "dad rock". It reaches its peak and then goes downhill to the most generic songs. At the end, some hidden gems appear for a good farewell. Too unstable to be honestly evaluated. It could be a good addition to the original list, since there is a lot of forgettable stuff there, but it will not add so much value to the already long list of classic rock they have.
Is it still a bland country? Yes, but I can't say I didn't enjoy it a bit. It's not enough to be memorable, but I can see qualities on the album.
I'm unsure if the original list was really missing something like that. It's enjoyable but totally forgettable.
I discovered Café Tacvba some time ago while listening to them at NPR Tiny Desk, and I've already enjoyed it a lot, but now, listening to their debut album, I'm officially a fan. Great album of an absolutely great band
I know that there is not exactly a rule for user's submitted albums, but I think they almost all follow the line of "this album is missing on the original 1001 list". When I got this one, it was unavoidable to think: Right, another hidden British 90s rock album was precisely what was missing from a list with hundreds of them.🙄 However, my sarcasm was activated too soon since I enjoyed this album. They have the right amount of 90s energy combined with a pinch of experimentalism that makes it for me. Even after 1089 albums, most of them are British hidden stuff, and there is indeed more stuff to discover.
Despite two good songs, it's totally dispensable.
I cannot say I disliked this one, but you know, when you listen to something and immediately forget about it in the sequence? maybe I should try again another day.
More than 1 hour of noise split into 3 songs with a silence of many minutes in the last one? The essence of what I wanted and didn't know how to ask!
I'm truly sorry, but it's way too 80s for me.
It's very strange and hard to get, but I did understand really started to enjoy listening to it.
Although not exactly an album and for the sake of what it is as a collection, it's still crucial and nice to know about, even though it's not exactly pleasant to listen to due to the lack of consistency. It's a 3-star collection, but it deserves an extra star for its importance.
This is the type of album I can rate even before finishing the listening session (for the good old punk, but also the repetitiveness). Good and essential ska punk album from 90s.
This kind of album starts pretty annoying and pretentious, but since it stays with us for more than one hour, we ended up almost enjoying it. Almost.
This one was impressive. When it started, I was not expecting to enjoy it so much, but it ended up being a pretty enjoyable experience. Excellent discovery to add to my favs.
Huge potential, weak delivery
This surely should be included in the original 1001 list. It sounds exactly like the stuff the authors' list love (and I liked it :-P).
I can admit that some songs really got me. This was very impressive for a band I had never heard of. However, again, the error of going too far. Although it has enormous potential, it starts to sound too generic after more than 1 hour of listening. Even with a great closing song, it still lay in the valley of the 3-stars
I bet it was awesome to watch it live, but listening to the record is an ok album. It was good to know about Joe Cocker.
The original list and the user's list until now were missing some good ol' 90s hardcore, even better when it's also the prototype of emo-core. The problem here is that it's far from the best produced then. It's a nice album, but it's forgettable despite some novelty.
Just another electronic album for the list. Maybe it's my fault since it's far from the type of music I enjoy listening to, but the only thing I liked here were the samples from old video games.
It's ok at its best. I enjoyed listening to it, but I can surely leave it behind without problems.
I cannot say I love this kind of album, but it's always nice to discover the origins of my everyday "lo-fi girl study and chill" video, so I'll give it 4 stars.
It's enjoyable and very 2000-esque, but nothing much more.
I liked to listen to it, even though I didn't see anything truly remarkable.
It was a matter of time before TOOL appeared here. I have nothing against it, I even know some people who like it, and they (sometimes) are nice people.
It's quite fun when I know that something on the list is highly influential everywhere in music. I can also somehow get it by listening to the album. However, when it reached the end, the only thing I can say still is: "mm..it's ok, nothing great, but fun".
I liked almost everything I know that comes from Childish Gambino, so I for sure enjoyed it. However, despite the amazing variety and clever use of samples and instruments, this is not my favourite.
The author(s) of the book probably followed the list using this site, and finally, they found album No. 1002. It was a nice listening session, but I finished it with the complete feeling that it's an album that should be on the original list, for the good and the bad.
Pretty standard indie rock. It may be a good inclusion to the original list, but far from essential.
Even not exactly the type of music I enjoy every day, it's finally a user suggestion that shows something different and enjoyable in discovering (different and newish, but with strong bolds on some kind of traditional music). This is the type of thing that the original list really sticks to achieving, but fails in a myriad of repetitive, hidden British sea of indie albums. If I need to listen to more British albums, I'd be glad for more of this.
It's not perfect and put me in a bad mood at the end, but overall, I liked it much more than I had expected. It was a nice discovery (at least for most of the songs)
It started with a nice set and quickly became just a standard indie rock with no soul. Then "He lied about death" comes to save the album, although I still think it's missing something. Good album, but nothing great.
I never thought about an album of samples (basically what it is). The concept is interesting, but the execution is not so enjoyable.
It's enjoyable, but I didn't find it anything special. I liked the songs with the Muse-like style more, but I'll hardly go to listen to more from the band.
I started to listen to it right now. Now listening to the 4th song, I already know how to rate it with enough confidence. This mix of "traditional" British hip-hop and electronic music is far from my preferences. I respect who picked it for a gap in the original list, but are you sure about it? I'll finish my listening session, but I bet my rating will not change.
Thanks for the 1 hour of background music that helps a bit in concentration. I can give it an extra star for this.
It's far from perfection, but I liked it. Nice discovery that I'll probably forget soon.
If I had unlimited powers and someone asked me to create an album to represent my vision of 2000s rock, I'd not reach as good results as they did here for the good and bad sides of 2000s rock.
Target: 80s classic pop. Result: A bit of the time, kind of generic 2010s pop.
This may be a strange thing, but this is an album that I don't like at all, but at the same time, I can enjoy listening to it the whole day. Hard to say why, but that is it.
I love the cello, and I'm the audience for cello versions of famous songs on YouTube. But no, just no!
Was it supposed to be different from the original list or some kind of weird complement to it?
Even though it is not precisely one of my favorites of all time, I can recognize something important when I see it.
Is it good? Yes Is it essential? Probably not My rate of 4 stars makes sense? No, I'm sure
Indeed, there is a lack of metal albums on the original list, especially the kind of metal albums more eccentric like this one. When I got the second TOOL album on the user's list, I expected to fill this gap. It was done, but I was expecting so much more from a band with a significant number of followers and defenders that the failure to achieve my expectations made this album a bit worse for me than it probably truly is.
I really enjoy The Stooges (as it's possible to see in their 3 albums on the original list), but I can't stand this live version with such poor production. Maybe it has a historical value, and I bet it was awesome to be there during the recording, but I'll hardly listen to this record again.
It's not the best of Pink Floyd to me, but it's an easy classic.
Never heard about them and enjoyed it a lot. I don't think it's something essential, but it's worth it a chance on the list
Country right? Country for REAL. It makes things a bit tough for me to enjoy, but I'll assume that it is some kind of classic that was missing in the original list and save my 1-star for worse things.
Nightwish is not my favorite gothic metal band, but Once is one of their best, and the original list indeed misses a lot on metal subgenres, especially on my so-loved gothic side. Great addition, great band, great album
This is far from something I would search by myself, even as a metal fan (or almost). However, I subscribe to this whole challenge for this kind of stuff.
It's ok, almost good, but far from what I call essential
I have mixed feelings about John Mayer. Even though I am not a specialist in guitars or guitarists, I understand when I see people praising him for his talent, so why can I not see any of this talent in his songs? They are so generic and bland that I only remember him when I see someone else talking about him, like now on the list.
Well, they know how to play a guitar, right? I enjoyed it, but much more as background music rather than something special.
To me, all live albums but 2 or 3 give me the same impression. Maybe it was fun to be there, but a record of the presentation made with poor production will almost always be a bad choice for a listening session.
Quite boring. I enjoyed the one picked from the original list much more. Honestly, I'll not get what it's about Sufjan Stevens.
This is not a 5-star album, but my 15-year-old me will thank me. I thank you for picking this one to complement the original list.
Really? I can understand experimental stuff, but really?
Mixed feelings about this one. At the same time, it's a nice cover band of successful classic rock, and they also released it in 1979, so they are (?) a classic rock band. I'll go on the easy and rate it neutrally. Nice songs, but I won't remember them for such a long time.
It didn't start so well, looking like a copy of something good, but ended up being quite banging to me. Apparently, the band is still active following the River of Rock history. I'm unsure if the album caught me so much to start to follow them, but I'll sure go back to this album!
Although I learned to respect electronic musicians much more during the last 3 years, listening to new albums every day, it's still a style that I dislike too much. It needs to shine to catch me. Fortunately, this was the case here. It's not an absolutely incredible album. Sometimes it still sounds like a mix of the background of an advertisement and a child playing with an electronic drum, but I found it interesting.
Modern-ish prog-rock is not something easy to evaluate. I guess I'll enjoy this one much more if I got it in the 90s or early 2000s. For today, I didn't dislike it totally, but I found it a bit hard to get to the end.
To listen to a mix of Coldplay and Imagine Dragons, I prefer these 2 rather than Manchester Orchestra, but it's not an awful album, and it's nice to know a new band.
The missing R.E.M. album on the original list. It's the best one for me
Good enough for what it intends to be.
I can see some qualities, but it is generally annoying and hard to finish.
It's far from my preferred hardcore albums, but it was a nice discovery, and indeed the original list misses a lot of hardcore.
I truly believe that Vulfpeck is a great band, but a live album is really bad for identifying it. To me, live recordings (with a few exceptions) are much more for fans and greatest hits collections.
It's something that I usually enjoy, but this one didn't catch me.
These guys can breathe now!! It's not my favorite style, but I enjoyed it a lot, and I believe that the original list is full of many worse pieces of jazz, so this one deserves some credit.
I got it just after an album by "The Sound". This one is better, but I'm tired. In another day, I can try it again, but today I'm annoyed by 80s goth guys.
This is my pick for the challenge, so it's obvious a 5-star. I chose this album because, while the original list offers a somewhat decent introduction to Brazilian music, it lacks recent releases and artists. That omission makes some sense given the list's UK/USA-centric lens, but it also leaves a huge gap. So I wanted to bring something from the 2020s to the table, especially for those who aren’t specialists in Brazilian music but want to know more about it. Particularly, this is not my favorite Emicida's album (probably it is his debut "O Glorioso Retorno de Quem Nunca Esteve Aqui"). However, his most recent release "AmarElo" is quite interesting and appropriate to show the quality of Brazilian music, especially the hip-hop of the last 2 decades in the country. At the same time that he does not leave the "classic" Brazilian hip-hop/rap in his songs, "AmarElo" brought some new layers to his work. Just looking at the feats and special participation and even ignoring the content, it's evident that it's respectful to the tradition of Brazilian music (songs with Zeca Pagodinho and Marcos Valle), without losing the wave of new talents (Pablo Vitar, MC Tha), also inviting internacional people that talks a lot with brazilian history (Papillon and Ibeye). Looking at the lyrics, it's clear that he didn't lose his initial anger (almost essential to Brazilian hip-hop as an essential protest kind of song), but he also assumes a more mature way to look at things. There’s protest, yes, but there’s also hope, healing, and celebration. I could go on about this album, but for the purposes of a list like 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, AmarElo offers an essential snapshot of modern Brazil (musically, politically, and emotionally). It deserves a place. For those really interested in learn more, Emicida released a documentary-like movie on Netflix with the same name where he explains a lot about the process of creating the album ;-) .