It's very funny to read the reviews of the album. From "crappy" to "genre novelty". I found the album quite decent. Nothing new under the sun, but very pleasant to listen to. (5/10) FT: evermore
An album that was certainly not up to the standard of singer-songwriters of the time, but it showed that Bowie was more than just a pop singer. (7/10) FT: Changes, Oh You Pretty Thing, Life On Mars, Queen Bitch
It’s one of those LPs that just seems pure and uncomplicated. Really loved this record. (8/10) Favourite Tracks: Breakdown, Hometown Blues, American Girl
Very modest, pure, elegant, innocent style of optimistic dreamers. Two tenors singing harmonic thirds alternated with the twin riffs of their acoustic guitars, accompanied by a modest rhythm section. The album in short: never a solo, never an out-of-tune note, never an electric arrangement. Succinct and elegant, simple and refreshing, the brothers represented the familiar romance of the average good American boy, neither idol nor rebel. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Cathy's Clown, Baby What You Want Me to Do
The riffs come about slowly, dreadful and hyper-distorted, built around depraved melodies. One of the Bands that really starts playing Heavy Metal. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Doctor Please, Summertime Blues, Out of Focus
Surprisingly good. I don't usually listen to punk, but the album was really good despite the somewhat repetitive songs. Police & Thieves is also now on my private playlist :)
Good Album. Amazing Songs. I loved how the album was structured. Thunder Road as an overture, than the big one born to run and on the end, the emotional peak, Jungleland. I simply love the saxophone solo's.
Pretty solid Sound. (6/10) Favorite Tracks: We are the Pigs, The 2 of us, Still life
A couple of good catchy songs. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Basket case, When I come around
A mix of country and classic rock that I liked. Very pleasant to listen to. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Maggie May, Mandolin Wind
I don't usually listen to EDM. However, I was very entertained by the album. Favorite Tracks: Red Alert
Really intense harmonics and likable sound from a punk-band. Short tracks that not all sound the same. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Mannequin, 12xU, Three Girl Rhumba
It was good to hear other Puente songs. The music just puts me in a good mood. (7/10) Fav. Track: Hong Kong Mambo
Obscure, but interesting guitar riffs, tempo changes and somehow moving. Very interesting style. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Don Aman, Washer
I didn't expect so many pop tracks. Otherwise quite okay. Her voice is really beautiful. (6/10) Favorite Tracks: The Emperor's New Clothes, Nothing Compares 2 U
Melancholic pop. Very pleasant to listen to and chill around. (7/10) Favourite Song: Pale Blue Eyes
He's a genius. I love him. Great arrangements on some country songs. (8/10) Favourite Tracks: Careless Love, I Can't Stop Loving You, You Are My Sunshine
This album has its moments. I like his voice and the lyrics. But the orchestration aged a little badly. The songs that stood out, I found out, were by Jacques Brel. (5/10) Favorite Tracks: Jackie, Next
Good Riffs. I really like Ozzys voice. This album is the start of a great band and a new music era. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Black Sabbat, N.I.B, The Wizzard
Mixed feelings. Some songs I like and some I don't. I have to listen to the band more often. (6,5/10) Favorite Tracks: Here
Enjoyed the whole album. Fun and exciting. Little Richard is amazing (9/10) Favorite Tracks: Long Tall Sally
Very funky Livealbum. James Brown's screams are simply legendary and the way he handles the audience! (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Try Me, Lost Someone
I don't usually listen to Metallica. The album made me curious about the original songs. So I have no comparison. (6/10) Favorite Songs: No Leaf Clover, Nothing else Matters, Master of Puppets
Easy listening album of the 60's. Solid Sound, but don't pin out too much. (6/10) Favorite Tracks: How Can I Be Sure
One album several colours. The album is certainly not monotonous but not everyones taste. (6/10) Favorite Tracks: Lazyitis
Solid album. Lot of songs I grew up with. (8/10) Favorite Tracks : Three little birds, One Love
I don't listen to hiphop that often, but her soul voice and the pop/funky beats are a very good mix. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Every Ghetto, Every City; Doo Wop (That Thing)
Simply brilliant show. I love the way Johnny Cash sings and talks to the audience. (8/10) Favorite Tracks: 25 Minutes to Go, Jackson, Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog
An album I should listen to more often. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Life During Wartime, Heaven
An album that I would never listen to. I appreciate it. (5/10) Favorite Tracks: Walking Wounded, Before Today
Okay... Funky Bass mixed with brutal rhythmic and vocal styles of funk and rap music with the brutal guitar-driven style of heavy-metal. (6/10) Favorite Tracks: Funky Monks, I Could Have Lied, Under the Bridge
Pleasant voice and good song writing. Some very good guest musicians. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Think Too Much, The Late Great Johnny Ace
Not really my taste. However, I found some tracks quite interesting. (5/10) Favorite Track: Jesus Built My Hotrod
I like his voice and the slower songs. I feel the energy and the theatrical vibe, but it's not my type of music. (6/10) Favorite Tracks :Black
Really nice Songtexts and meanings. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Beautiful Love
Good Mood Album. (6/10) Favourite Track: We Got the Beat
Great Album! Great Song and Singer. Unfortunately, he didn't write any of these songs himself. (8/10) Favourite Tracks: I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms), After Loving You , Suspicious Minds
Half of the album are hard rock songs and the other half is more progressive rock. I like the Klezmer-influenced song. (6/10) Favorite Track: Of Course
Good album. Didn't expect that from Alice Cooper. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: School's Out, My Stars
Pure 80's Sound. (He sounds a little bit like George Micheal, didn't he?) Karma Chameleon is a certified hit single. Second half is better than the first. (6/10) Favorite Tracks: Church of the Poison Mind, Mister Man, Melting Pot
An interesting album, with some influences from Patti Smith, Radiohead and Bjork. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: This Mess We're In, Good Fortun
Quite elegant, with an essential preciosity that blends with the airy vocal harmonies with linear melodies and energetic instrumental interventions.(7/10) Favourite Songs: Sunday Afternoon
I like the atmospheric, even vaguely jazzy beats , such as Sunrise, mixed with more conventional elaborations of the old funk-soul sound. (7/10) Favourite Songs: Pacific 202
A rather theatrical album. Some good songs. I love his voice! (7/10) Favourite Songs: Tiny Dancer, Levon, Indian Sunset
A grim and atmospheric ablum sound. The swinging organ theme (as well as its jazz solos) and demented chorus add something to the song Peaches. (6/10) Favourite Song: Sometimes, Peaches
The core of this album is made up of songs, starting with Celebrity Skin and Awful, that repeat the same pattern: soft melodicism over a male beat and melodramatic riffs. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Celebrity Skin, Malibu
This album surprised me. This is highly intelligent, creative and trans-stylistic postmodernism. The blend of sometimes 3 different styles with a mix of Frank Zappa-esque orchestration. A sharp edge between Hip Hop and Pop (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Jesus Walks, Spaceship
The Songs are pretty similar. From the album you could hear his influences like Prince(not last his falsetto crooning) and Marvin Gaye. (6/10) Favourite Tracks : Lady
Basically a good album. I noticed the influence of the 60's on many songs, like Chuck Berry or Little Richard. (7/10) Favourite songs: Randy Scouse Git, Zilch, Shades of Gray
Ein merkwürdiges Album. Irgendwo zwischen elektronischem Bombardement von Beats auf einem Wandteppich aus renaissanceartigem Gesang. War auch irritiert als 2-3 Songs einfach abrupt enden. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Hunter, The Rip
It's 1969 and Cohen has released a singer-songwriter album. Very brave. Against the prevailing mood, carving a niche for a kind of subdued, lo-fi, intimate, personal lament. He's brilliant. (7/10) Favourite tracks: The Butcher, Bird on the Wire
The album seems like a soporific dirges arranged in a minimal style. The sinister sorcery of Abbaon Fat Track and the disco diva funk of Suffocated Love don't rest on much of a foundation. On the other hand, there are really interesting tracks on the record like Black Steel. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Black Steel
Iconic style and riffs. Sometimes a little too repetitive. But I understand why many artists have copied.(7/10) Favourite Tracks: Mannish Boy
From a technical point of view, the way they were able to start a song with a theme that gave no hint of the main theme will also go down in history. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: It's a Sin, What Have I Done To Deserve This, "Always on my Mind"
A Mix of Sinead O'Connor's pathos nd a bit of icy Nico's voice. The music is easy to listen to, but the lyrics seem a bit banal. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: If I Had a Heart
The album draws picture of the violent street life, with colloquial dialogues between Raekwon and Ghostface Killah that introduce the various themes as if they were interviewed for a documentary. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Ice Cream
Another frenetic and rugged album , featuring Gimme Shelter, a quintessential jam that featured post-psychedelic guitar counterpoint. (8/10) Favourite Songs: Gimme Shelter, You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Virtuoso guitar solos. Some blues numbers that shine more with guitar solos than with vocal performance. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Layla, Bell Bottom Blues
A wildly eclectic potpourri, Gold sounded almost like the collaboration between a number of different singer-songwriters. From Neil Young to Allman Brothers (6/10) Favourite Songs: When the Stars Go Blue, New York, New York
This album was a nice spectrum of 70's Rock, a prog-rock track of Wars of Armageddon, or a Jimi Hendrix-esque Solo of Maggot brain. (7/10) Favourite Track: Maggot Brain, Can You Get to That
Is a kind of funk in the punk album, filled with metallic dissonances. A Talking Heads mixed with Jimi Hendrix. (6/10) Favourite Songs: Damaged Goods
Their first album without covers. A lot of love songs. I like them, very pop and happy. (7/10)
Crime of The Century is quite dominated by the pop refrains (like Dreamer) , which were still painted with the harmonic complexities and sounds of progressive-rock. (7/10) Favourite Songs: Dreamer, Crime of the Century
Each song is a condensate of polemical rage and "wit", firmly structured on dissonant jazz funk, and a haggard and more analytical rambling in the punk idiom. (6/10) Favourite Songs: Glory Of Man, Corona
It's a "cleaner" version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The music is a formulaic repetition of mainstream stereotypes (that they already used in the previous album). (5/10) Favourite Tracks: Road Trippin', Otherside
The whole thing is a parade of chaotic thrash and wild cacophony that assaults and stuns with its obsessive roar. A mosh pit will appear magically in your mind. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Rise Above, Damaged II
I like the minimal arrangements, funereal cadences, with a muted Hammond organ. A poetric barbarian. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Jersey Girl, Ruby's Arms
Punk meets New Wave. She is a prominent as a singer, I like her catatonic and monotonous voice, shameless and bored. Really fitting to the era. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Kool Thing
Sophisticated Pop. An extensive use of electronic keyboards, synthesizers, and polished arrangements. It sound very 80's instead of 90's. (6/10) Favourite Track: Cherry-Coloured Funk
Good production and great, compact jamming. Many good musicians jamming together. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Expecting to Fly, Bluebird
The Album atmosphere is somewhere between erotic (Perfect Skin) and philosophical (Forest Fire). (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Rattlesnakes, Down on Mission Street
A good country- /folk-rock album. You can feel the melancholy. (8/10) Favorite Tracks : Out on the Weekend, Heart of Gold, The needle and the Damage Done
This record is a collection of poems (Bob Dylan-esque) about an individual who finds himself helplessly at the mercy of the madness of the world. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Once I Was, Pleasant Street
With this album the Beatles left behind rock and roll to get closer to other musical styles. More experimental. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Eleanor Rigby, For No One
Pleasant country/folk jams. (7/10) Favorite Tracks : Freedom Rider
Very innovative album, he changed the classic blues rock to a harder, faster syncopated sound. (6/10)
It is above all a demonstration of dynamic and emotional range, as if to prove that the genre has gained maturity and solidity after so many failures (Blur, Oasis). Sparks and Trouble are pretty Smiths-inspired, with the whole album being one gigantic summation of British pop. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Yellow, Everything's Not Lost , Sparks
This was much less "rap" music than avantgarde music. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: The Seed (2.0)
Soft pleasant new wave pop. The guys certainly had fun. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Love Plus One, Love's Got Me in Triangles
Unfortunately, I cannot rate this album objectively. I grew up with this album and simply love Queen. A dark album in contrast to their later stage-ready songs. (7/10) Favourite tracks: The March of the Black Queen, Seven Seas of Rhye
It’s one of those LPs that just seems pure and uncomplicated. Really loved this record. (8/10) Favourite Tracks: Breakdown, Hometown Blues, American Girl
If the intention was also to compose music, the Manic Street Preachers end up sounding like less creative. Some Songs are not my cup of tea. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: She Is Suffering
A Album devoted to mediocre imitations of Sixties pop. A dance album that was propelled by both strong disco beats and Rolling Stones-like riffs, that fused acid-house and blues-rock. (6/10) Favourite Songs: Movin' on up, Inner Flight
This album is kind of a shrewd collection that offers imitations of their other successes, but with the highest degree of refinement. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Girlfriend in a Coma, Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
The album as a whole is a little park walk of the English bourgeoisie and especially their vices, a kind of Kinks concept. But overall it is an album of mediocre songs. (6/10) Favourite Songs: Parklife, To the End
Apart from the ingenuity (and that he produced and played everything himself) and the "mimicry" skills, the sound is somewhat still washed out and has little personality. The real creative approaches are found in the instrumental parts. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: I Saw the Light, Breathless
The sound is that of an amphetamine blues-rock with high explosive potential, grouped into short, rough and deadly loads of TNT which erupt in one breath the volcanic energy of the guitar. (8/10) Favourite Tracks: Red House, Purple Haze, May This Be Love
This overcrowded album certainly brought together good arrangement ambitions in a pompous and multifaceted manner. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Runaway, Lost in the World
The riffs come about slowly, dreadful and hyper-distorted, built around depraved melodies. One of the Bands that really starts playing Heavy Metal. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Doctor Please, Summertime Blues, Out of Focus
Classic country. There is not much to add to that. You like it or you don't. (6/10) Favourite Track: Big Iron
That's why we had synth-pop in the 80s, techno in the 90s and glitch in the 00s. And today Nintendocore. One of the first albums that charmed me with robotic rhythms and mechanical melodies. (8/10) Favourite Songs: Europa Endlos, Franz Schubert
I liked the beats, but I couldn't find my way into the lyrics of the song. Partly very difficult music to relax to. (5/10) Favourite Track: Bladerunners
I like the wildly schizophrenic dynamics that flung most songs between acoustic and quasi-symphonic passages. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Step into the Breeze, If I Were with Her Now
Solid. I like the atmosphere and the brass sound. (8/10) Favourite Tracks: The Kid from Red Bank, Splanky
Really good sound engineering. A homage to rock history in a melacholic way (7/10) Favourite Tracks: He Would Have Laughed, Revival
egendary riffs (Whole Lotta Love ) and drum solos (Moby Dick). Simple and good. I love his voice and its sound. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Whole Lotta Love, Ramble On
This album is a medival-rock-sphere pop mix. The tracks are less pop-songs and more rock. In the fact its amzing how these hamonic experiments are grafted onto rock structures. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Lorelei, Persephone
I love her voice, lyrics and tracks. Slam dunks. No comment. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Gloria: In Excelsis Deo, Free Money
Haunting blues rock of the title track (and very good solo), heavy, cadenced songs. Considering that this is a New Wave of British Heavy Metal Ablum (NWOBHM), it's quite okay. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Ace of Spades
A hybrid style that combined elements of sophisticated ballads, samba and jazz. And a really depressing albumcover. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Me Deixe Em Paz
The second Live-Prison-Album was okay. The first live-album was comparatively more relaxed to listen to and more interesting. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Wreck of the Old '97, Jackson
The double album is practically a collection of extended Stairway to Heaven tracks. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Kashmir, Boogie with Stu
Mike Patton is a talented rock singer and certainly the most interesting and unique in rock since Robert Smith. He steals a lot of the show here, especially on "Zombie Eaters" and the cover of Sabbath's "War Pigs". However, track 4 "Surprise! You're Dead!" sounds like a very good quasi-new metal modern rock band from 1999. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Epic, Edge of the World
Es hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Die Originalität der Band zeigt sich jedoch am besten in den Liedern, die die I liked it very much. However, the band's originality is best seen in the songs that cross the line between genres, both in the ethnic realm, especially the syncopated Middle Eastern metal fusion, but also the foreign musical accents , in the pop realm, like the bombastic power ballad Spiders. (8/10) Favorite Tracks: Spiders, Suggestions
Very modest, pure, elegant, innocent style of optimistic dreamers. Two tenors singing harmonic thirds alternated with the twin riffs of their acoustic guitars, accompanied by a modest rhythm section. The album in short: never a solo, never an out-of-tune note, never an electric arrangement. Succinct and elegant, simple and refreshing, the brothers represented the familiar romance of the average good American boy, neither idol nor rebel. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Cathy's Clown, Baby What You Want Me to Do
Gloomy and at the same time very cheerful album. The jazz elements are well done. Very good for an early 90s hip hop album. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: I'm That Type of Nigga, Passin' Me By,
Song 2 (perhaps the best song) is dissonant vaudeville halfway between Rolling Stones and Sonic Youth. Their traditional melodic sound is delegated to fringe compositions like Strange News From Another Star and Look Inside America. (6/10) Favourite Track: Song 2
Reed sings almost without emotion, and his album has the character of a reportage. Reed's monotone voice and light boogie rhythm practically created a new kind of singer-songwriter, who can be a distant observer and an engaged protagonist at the same time. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Caroline Says II, Sad Song
It's good-humored blend of southern rock, ranging from cow-punk to Southern boogie, from Tom Petty to the Rolling Stones, from "the Band" to Neil Young. (7/10) Favourite Track: Zip City
Mathers is a calculating pop phenomenon (songs alternate with brief spoken interludes of people commenting on Eminem's attitude, of he having oral sex with two guys, etc, the ultimate form of self-glorification) that viscerally exposes calculating pop phenomena. (8/10) Favorite Tracks: Stan, The Real Slim Shady
The album sounds something like a mutation of Mott The Hoople paired with the Beatles. The songs are a bit trashy and arranged in the cheesiest way (including a trumpet fanfare and a flute march). (6/10) Favourite Track: Something 4 The Weekend
Pump contains a trio of legitimately classic jams in “Love in an Elevator”, “Janie’s Got a Gun”, and “The Other Side”. The rest of the LP is pretty tight, too. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: See above
This album is destined to remain their great masterpiece, and one of the masterpieces of the entire decade, one of the most influential albums of its time. Almost every song speaks for itself. It's hard to find a common denominator, apart from extreme creativity and the usual light-heartedness. The songs are songs, but they go against the antithesis of song because they are always blasted by extreme contrasts, sometimes in an erudite way and sometimes in a crazy way. (8/10) Favourite Songs: Where Is My Mind, Gigantic, Bone Machine
None of the four was a virtuoso, yet each one of them was a genius. My Generation ist pure Wut und Verzweiflung, Geysire jugendlicher Energie, die auch das Talent des größten Songwriters dieser Generation offenbaren. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: I Can't Explain, My Generation
Not only was it a concept album, but it was full of eccentric sounds and the songs seemed like collages obtained with a painstaking art of editing, making use of a small orchestra. Nice but little overrated. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Wouldn't It Be Nice, God Only Knows, Sloop John B
The tracks exude Pink Floyd's psychedelic majesty, jazz's subdued ambience, random quotations from the history of soul, funk and disco music, and more than a passing mention of Burt Bacharach's and Ennio Morricone's scores. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: All I need
The rappers press on dramatically and paroxysmally in a patchwork of rap noises, casual bandisms, scratch improvisations (Terminator X, aka Norman Rogers, the scratch wizard) and electronic disturbances. It's a classic, an overwhelming and sophisticated sampler of revolutionary music. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Terminator X to the Edge of Panic
Perhaps one of their best concept albums, could not contrast more starkly with the pomposity of The Who's Tommy. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Shangri-La, Victoria
Cool, clever and mediocre Stevie Wonder impersonator who reintroduces 70s soul and funk with a touch of cabaret theatrics on the album. Good rhythms and creative arrangements (especially when using horns). (6/10) Favourtie Tracks: When You Gonna Learn?, Blow Your Mind, Whatever It Is, I Can't Stop
Amazingly, the album features a string quartet, a mixed choir and a brass section. The title track is a de facto classical sonata, solemn and elegant. The composition is but a minor detail compared to the effort and care with which the songs have been arranged and produced. The question that remains to be answered is whether it is art or technique. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, I Think I'm in Love
To the best of my knowledge, The Madcap Laughs is the most comprehensive documentary of schizophrenia in music to date. Reading the background of this album make you cry.... similar to a bad trip... (7/10) Favourite Songs: Here I Go, Octopus
Political and sarcastic songs. Nevertheless, there is also no shortage of danceable tempos in pure teenage style, like Chemistry Class and Green Shirt. This album will remain his masterpiece. (7/10) Favourite tracks: Olivers Army, Two Little Hitlers
The Boss is making a statement: “I can write songs without an E Street Band.” I dunno, and I don’t care. Nebraska is a great time-killer, especially if you’re on a long flight or drive. Put it on; forget it’s there. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Atlantic City
The rousing party music of the trio may evoke Sixties' girl-groups, with punchy guitars and dance beats, but in Hannah's mouth it becomes a channel for hard-line feminist ideology. On the surface one hears folk-rock, Motown soul, but each song is a terrible story that leaves deep scars. (6/10) Favourite Track: Deceptacon
The record is characterised by a somewhat outdated realism, harking back to themes and moods of the 1930s, from Frank Capra to Ernest Hemingway. Where The Streets Have No Name marks a new peak of transcendental intensity, thanks to the frenzied, raga-sounding tones of the long instrumental overture and tribal beat. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found, With Or Without You, Running To Stand Still
Violator was a major turning point: two guitar tracks like Enjoy The Silence (atmospheric riff over a pensive disco beat) and Personal Jesus (an energetic boogie that will remain their most aggressive track ever), Depeche Mode set themselves apart from the old synthpop. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Personal Jesus, Enjoy the Silence, Policy of Truth
Solid jazz funk fusion album. The first track that came in really felt it like setup the sounds that would stick through the album. Then the bass line in particular was super funky. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Street Life
This album is a postmodernist essay. Given the goal, it's no surprise that the songs include digital glitches, falsetto choruses and restless dynamics. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2, Do You Realize???
Natty Dread probably one of the most essential Bob Marley record you could own. It's a spiritually charged political and social statement.(7/10) FT: Lively Up Yourself
Hip-hop can be corny, too. It wasn’t all gun battles and baby mama drama. (5/10) FT: The Way We Swing
Fun Album. A little theatrical, spooky and catchy. As Alice cooper (7/10) FT: No More Mr. Nice Guy, I Love The Dead
Their sound, bordering on garage-rock of the 1960s and on the new wave of the late 1970s, is the quintessence of sexual frustration and existential desperation. The singer proves to be one of the best shouters of her generation. (6/10) FT: Maps, Date with the Night
Sounding like a nostalgic tribute to the neurotic new-wave of the late 1970s. Like Talking Heads, Bowie etc.(6/10) FT: oh baby
I would call it synth-pop, but I don’t even sure how to categorize their sound properly.I guess they were something special for maybe one year. No offence, just not one of 1001 albums that are a must hear (5/10) FT: Fascist Groove Thang
Simply fantastic. No wonder no one wanted to rival them. (8/10) FT: I'm the One, Ice Cream Man, Eruption
Plagued by heroin dependency, Clapton dropped from the scene for some years, but returned triumphant with 461 Ocean Boulevard. Did you know that Clapton’s cover of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “I Shot the Sheriff” is his only #1 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100? (6/10) FT: I Shot the Sheriff, Motherless Children, Ain't That Lovin You
The duo indulged in the most artificial/intellectual tricks of various styles of production (hip hop, ambient, funk, industrial, house). Their genre of melodic and exuberant instrumental music was hardly innovative compared with the disco music of their parents. (7/10) FT: Around the World
The Solomon Burke album is sort of a “cool, obscure” , but still a fun record. (7/10) FT: Cry to Me, He'll Have To Go, If You Need Me
It's scary how they were ahead of their time. They are immersed in the dark, oppressive atmosphere of German expressionism and French existentialism, but they also exhaled an epic libido: each song was a sexual fetish, and a cathartic sadomaso release. (9/10) FT: Heroin, Sunday Morning
I’m sure a lot of deep Bowie fans are going to spit and want to slap me, but Young Americans is not a complete must hear. “Fame” is the only gem, and the title track is embarrassing. There also other good songs, in this album. (5/10) FT: Fame, Across the Universe, Young Americans
This album succeeded because the band consisted of five exceptional musicians. It boasted perhaps the best rhythm section of the era, powerful, solemn, exuberant and concise, one of the best ever. (7/10) FT: I Shall Be Released, The Weight
The combination of existential mood and imaginative melodic collage is taken up here. (6/10) FT: Stagger
I’m not sold on these cats. They were influential on the East Coast rap scene, and in some ways, directly responsible for Wu-Tang Clan. There is a hardcore thread running through this record that definitely shows up in future artists. They had some sick rhymes with lyrical substance, but it never really gets cooking on the album. It’s reminiscent of ATCQ, but with none of the excitement or verve. It’s just kind of…there. (7/10) FT: Step in the Arena, Execution of a Chump
I will always love this album. I cannot answer the question of whether the Beatles are a must-hear. (10/10) FT: Something, Oh Darling, Come Together
Great orchestral pop rock, simple arragements that have aged well though. (8/10) FT: Turn To Stone, Mr. Blue Sky, Sweet Talkin' Woman
It's a slower, softer and lighter electronic album. Compared with other album releases during that time. (6/10) FT: Original, Release The Pressure
Hot Rats consists of instrumental jazz-influenced compositions with exhaustive soloing. Zappa described the album as “a movie for your ears.” Thank you wikipedia ;) (7/10) FT: Peaches en Regalia
The Album was a concept about his failed marriage. Sorry about that... (5/10) FT: When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
They were better than that. The only really must-hear track is "Papa Was A Rolling Stone". (5/10) FT: see above
Nice acoustic covers. Cobain has a style all his own that you have to like, or not (7/10) FT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night, All Apologies
Great voice. Good songwriting. But not a masterpiece... (5/10) FT: A Thing Called Love, Nick Of Time
A somewhat awkward and amateurish work despite the impeccable fusion of electronics and vocals, the impeccable collages, the impeccable production. (5/10) FT: Blood On The Leaves
The Album is a giant cauldron of artificial, natural, social and musical sounds that come from distant lands and distant contexts. Ultimately, though, it is her style and attitude that make it stand out. (6/10) FT: Paper Planes, Jimmy
They downplayed the guitars and emphasized the electronics, moving the band into pop and dance territories. (6/10) FT: Heads Will Roll, Little Shadows
This is the one Iron Maiden album. They may have put out a dozen more records, but this is the apogee of their career, and one of the keystones of 80s metal. (7/10) FT: Run To The Hills, Hallowed Be Thy Name
Wow, methamphetamine and hallucinogens actually get along quite well. A fantastic live show (7/10) FT: Born To Go, The Awakening
A robust album. Nice guitar solos and rythms. 2-3 good songs, the rest is okay. (7/10) FT: Proud Mary, Born On The Bayou
Opus Dei is a lonely flank of post-industrial noise, dark ambient, neo folk, dark wave and neoclassical orchestrations mixed with military marches, historical speeches and political, apolitical or metapolitical lyrics. (4/10) FT: Geburt Einer Nation
It is considered one of the most important movie soundtracks without a movie and is an absolutely delightful instrumental music listening experience. If you got time for that (6/10) FT: The Man With The Golden Arm
An album that was certainly not up to the standard of singer-songwriters of the time, but it showed that Bowie was more than just a pop singer. (7/10) FT: Changes, Oh You Pretty Thing, Life On Mars, Queen Bitch
With this acid guitar riffs I would say is stoner-rock for the masses. (7/10) FT: If Only, Regular John
Among early white rockers, Jerry Lee Lewis was, by far, the most faithful to the wild style of black rockers. Amazing concert! (7/10) FT: Great Balls of Fire, Good Golly Miss Molly
A dreamy album, which quite reflects in Witchy Woman and Take It Easy, based on the Crosby Stills & Nash-like vocal harmonies that were all the rage that year. (6/10) FT: Take It Easy
Document might be one of their BEST ALBUMS, and as much as I like it, you’ve already heard at least one LP from the list. Nevertheless, you pretty much have to be familiar with “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”. (8/10) FT: It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), King of Birds, The One I loveL
A quite good album. Eminem handles classic themes in a cynical way. And the closing "Still Don't Give A" recapitulates this tragic leitmotif in a quasi-classical epic. (7/10) FT: My Name Is
The hits this time are the stentorian boogie of Money For Nothing and the hard-hitting rockabilly of Walk Of Life. A little bit generic and banal rock , but nice Guitar solos and riffs. (6/10) FT: See above
I like The Who, and Sell Out is undoubtedly an entertaining record, but the novelty wears off, leaving two jams ("Armenia City in the Sky" and "I Can See For Miles") and a couple of progressive tunes. (6/10) FT: see above
Last Broadcast brilliantly balances a static chant with a hypnotic rhythm, country-ish guitar-picking and floating female vocals. However, these tracks have a bit too much melodrama, and sometimes they "only" have melodrama. (6/10) FT: There Goes The Fear
Donovan's style had also assimilated elements of jazz and raga. The effect was to transform his medieval odes into small "baroque" chamber pieces, rich in colors, nuances and deviations. We would call it hippy (7/10) FT: Sunshine Superman, Seasons of the Witch
Super album that makes a good mood. Because of the simplicity it makes it fast moving. (7/10) FT: Clandestino, Bongo Bongo
Relaxing, down-to-earth album. Smooth voice and arrangements. It is also one of the best selling albums of all time. (7/10) FT: It's Too Late, You've Got A Friend
The band slightly differ from the average, due to a more punk, Buzzcocks-like feel. (7/10) FT: Alright
Athens' new wave spawned the quirky dance-music with Sixties overtones of the B52's, basically a synthesis of the three leading phenomena of the time (new wave, disco-music and Sixties revival). (7/10) FT: Rock Lobster
A set of complex pieces for tenor saxophone, notably Brilliant Corners and Pannonica, in which Monk played both piano and celeste. This was to remain his masterpiece. (8/10) FT: Brilliant Corners
Modal jazz was fundamentally a reaction to bebop's stereotypical pattern: a rapid succession of chords. Miles, Coltrane, Adderley, Chambers, Bill Evans on piano, Jimmy Cobb on drums improvised in the studio, without any rehearsal. Four lengthy jams, So What... (9/10) FT: So What, Blue in Green
A mixture of blues and gospel elements accelerated according to the same practice of Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising, more and more immersed in sinister voodoo nightmares. (7/10) FT: Bad Moon Rising
The album created a spasmodic expectation, is a learned encyclopedia of melodramatic tricks, often touching progressive rock arrangements, with a lot of Genesis and Moody Blues between the lines. Moreover, the songs boast lyrics saturated with references to the singer's bisexuality, heroin, sodomy, suicide, according to a plot that sets the music in a bestial world that contrasts (or complements wonderfully) the graceful and innocent face of the singer. (7/10) FT: So Young, Animal Nitrate
She became really recognizable for the bubblegum dance-pop of the Max Martin creations: Bad Blood, Shake It Off and Blank Space. (6/10) FT: see above
I guess this album was influenced by a lot of artist, like Prince, Kate Bush and Lauryn Hill. A concept album that marked a quantum leap forward in musical ambition. (8/10) FT: Say You'll Go, Come Alive
She has a beautiful and pure voice. The first Songs are pretty good. (6/10) FT: Boulder To Birmingham, Too Far Gone
Xx's subdued sound was the equivalent of trip-hop with dubstep rhythms or other fashionable styles replacing hip-hop rhythms. Really relaxing. (7/10) FT: Intro, Crystalised
Listening to their music was a simple act of collective ritual that required no education. But unlike Beatles fans (who became pop singers at best), the teenagers who identified with the "lightness" of Black Sabbath's music were the very ones who would form rock bands: Black Sabbath spread an alien virus, the heavy metal virus. (8/10) FT: War Pigs, Paranoid, Planet Caravan, Iron Man
While preparing to record the album, the drunken Wyatt fell from a third-floor window and was paralysed from the waist down. Nevertheless, Wyatt made Rock Bottom one of the first known rock records recorded by an artist in a wheelchair. (8/10) FT: Sea Song
One of the best-selling albums of all time (twenty million copies), perfected the style with an even more vehement production and roar (You Give Love A Bad Name) and epicness (Living On A Prayer). To paraphrase Rob Tyner of the MC5, you’re either part of the problem, or part of the solution. (6/10) FT: see above
The album is nonetheless one of the most effective indictments of the year, thanks to a fascinating set of punky but not too pretty songs that reinterpret the history of rock music. (6/10) FT: Waking Up, Connection, 2:1
The album is a Mix the sex appeal of Mick Jagger, the erotic guitar of Jimi Hendrix, the shamanic perdition of Jim Morrison. The Stooges' heroic sound was furious and gruff. Love it (8/10) FT: Dirt, L.A. Blues, Down on the Street
This album is something of a triumphant and thematic return to the black and mawkish aesthetic they had explored in the early 1980s, the culmination of almost every musical direction The Cure had ever explored. (7/10) FT: Love Song, Pictures Of You
A scholar of world music, he was able to infuse a country square dance with hip-hop to get Buffalo Gals, or mix African and South American folklore en masse. Hip-hop is even used to rework three famous operas, "Carmen", "Madame Butterfly" and "Turandot". Anyhow, Nice try (6/10) FT: Buffalo Gals, Obatala
The protagonist of Jagged Little Pill is a little girl with mood swings. The album lives from catchy melodies, and especially from the track Ironic, in which the change of tones in the chorus is extremely emotional. In this little dramatic monologue, Morissette reveals an amazing flair and can speak, whisper, scream and modulate with equal ease, only to explode into a shrill teenage tone. (6/10) FT: Mary Jane, Ironic
Bad. Ass. Dudes. While the Beatles were singing "la-la yeah-yeah", the Monks (self-proclaimed "anti-Beatles") scared crowds of well-behaved kids with this album. (7/10) FT: I Hate You
Snivilisation is perhaps one of their most ambitious works, ranging from house to hard rock, using the voice in the subtlest of ways and integrating samples in almost mimetic ways. It is also their most "physical" album, which is a testament to the duo's greatness. (7/10) FT: Forever, Kein Trink Wasser
California Dreamin' remains to date their most memorable refrain and their most exciting vocal counterpoint. The Mamas And Papas took harmony singing of the 1950s, adapted it to the sound of folk-rock, and turned it into a national anthem for the hippie generation. But listen to the whole album?(6,5/10) FT: California Dreamin', Monday Monday
The monumental Being There, comprising 19 songs, revisits the singer's musical roots, from "the Rolling Stones", to "The Band", and many more. It's the arrangements that make the difference to this other bands, that add a dash of humour and weirdness, that turn a pompous recital into an eccentric aphorism. (7/10) FT: Forget the Flowers, Misunderstood, Monday
The album smelled a bit like Hollies mixed with Searchers, prompting the British press to call them "the greatest band in the universe". Rolling Stone magazine speaks of One Album Wonders.... Well,... (6/10) FT: There She Goes, Feelin'
World Clique redefined techno music as futuristic kitsch, a genre for the masses with a sense of humour. "Groove Is in the Heart” is on World Clique, and notably features funk n’ roll godfather, Bootsy Collins on bass and spoken word. That’s it. (6/10) FT: Groove Is in the Heart, What is Love
The clear and straightforward arrangements, the lush harmonies, the high falsetto voices, the humanitarian-populist lyrics characterise Shining Star. But that's pretty everything for that album... (6/10) FT: Shining Star, That's The Way Of The World
Christmas as we know it. Classy arrangements, bright harmonies, but is not my favorite music. (funny side note today is the 25.12.2021) (5/10) FT: White Christmas
Look, I’m about as pro-ganja as you can get, but I’m telling you the title song is the only jam on Legalize It. The rest is forgettable at best. (5/10) FT: see above
In fact, despite being a not-so-special album(for a MUST LISTEN 1001), it's an album I enjoy listening to. Probably because of my love for the saxophone sound and her voice. (6/10) FT: Smooth Operator, Your Love is King , Sally
The sound has attained an expressive maturity unparalleled in the annals of the decade: there are still traces of the experimentalism of the early days, but appropriately camouflaged in balanced harmonies and cleverly referenced to the genres of the rock tradition. The motto is: diversity of style in the unity of the arrangement. The ingredients are basically the same as always: cold and distant vocals, strings stretched to the limit of noise, chaotic interweaving of counterpoints, obsessive chord repetitions, insistent percussiveness, alienation effects and tense atmosphere. (8/10) FT: Total Trash, The Sprawl, Teen Age Rio
The thing is that, the more Morrissey sings, the more the listener realizes that he is always singing the same song, and maybe some songs do not need to be sung even once. (6/10) FT: Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself, The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get, Now My Heart Is Full
Wow...Really nice Album. Nothing to add to that. (7/10) FT: Walk On By, By The Time I Get To Phoenix
The "black" album, contains another of their masterpieces and one of their greatest, Enter Sandman (tank cadence, textbook guitar progression, raw and brash chorus, instrumental bridge that heightens the dramatic tension, chorus, coda), and again digs into the darkest depths of the human soul (Of Wolf And Man, My Friend Of Misery), but in general it marks the beginning of a step backwards towards a more human sound: only three tracks have a "thrash" rhythm. It is the most "unspectacular" work of their career: Metallica is a classic mainstream hard rock album and you are going to hear it whether you like it or not. (7/10) FT: Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, Nothing Else Matters
It's not my favourite genre in hip hop, but this album is solid. Ice Cube speaks hard truths. That's very evident here. Comments on race, violence, inequality, culture, etc. are delivered with aggressive poetry. (7/10) FT: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Is This It, that apes the atonal lo-fi pop of the 1980s; the bouncy and spirited Someday; the ska with progression a` la Cheap Trick of Last Nite. Like it, but don't know if it'S a must hear. (7/10) FT: see above
'77 reveals a strange combination of social attitudes, naïve melodies and surreal fables. The oblique strategy David Byrne used to set his psychotic rigmaroles (which I really love) to music was complemented by a rhythm section consisting of danceable and tribal beats. (8/10) FT: Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town, New Feeling, Psycho Killer, Pulled Up
The Byrds are the Byrds in name only at this point. Gene Clark and David Crosby are gone. Yet the Byrds continue to release albums... Quite easy listening album (6/10) FT: You Ain’t Going Nowhere, Hickory Wind
A German cabaret singer who I heard in my childhood in Hunchback of Notredam. (see Spotify most listen) Again, I wonder why it's one of the 1001 albums? (6/10) FT: Tango Ballad, The Part You Throw Away
Ambitious album for the time ( sound engeneering and mixing) to combine ambience and 70's rock. Quite relaxing. (6/10) FT: Dirge
The band banished solos permanently and anchored rhythms very clearly. The production is meticulous and you can feel the "touch" of Eno implemented in some songs. (7/10) FT: Found a Job, Take Me to the River
Many of these songs, like the ones on the previous two albums, are fairly predictable, but elsewhere Beck uses elegant arrangements to enhance the emotion hidden in the lyrics and to downplay the simplicity of his delivery. (6/10) FT: Lost Cause, Golden Age
An important album for Disco- and dance lovers. Whether this also applies only to listening, I am not sure. (5/10) FT: We are Family, Lost in Music
Quite pop-ier than their previous albums. A new direction for the band: invigorating music with the author's usual nihilism. (5/10) FT: A Design for Life
A Punk Rock Opera. It sounds like a really bad idea, but it they manage to turn it upside down. (7/10) FT: Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Holiday, Wake Me Up When September Ends
I didn’t like it as much as I thought I wouldn’t. I heard an african album once and they aren't all like this one. (4/10) FT: Désespoir
This is a sort of hip-hop opera,where all the songs being related by the story of a some lost money.(7/10) FT: Fit but You Know It, Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
The album as a whole is a mixed bag: the band's arranging talent is interesting, the compositional art rather superficial. Nevertheless, the album is very easy to listen to and enjoyable. (6/10) FT: Poor Leno, So Easy
The album is even more varied and dense, with a few more classics of their ragged, debonair style, taken a little from 1920s town bands, a little from barrelhouse entertainers, a little from country bands and a little from 19th century minstrels. (7/10) FT: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Up on Cripple Creek, Jawbone
It's very funny to read the reviews of the album. From "crappy" to "genre novelty". I found the album quite decent. Nothing new under the sun, but very pleasant to listen to. (5/10) FT: evermore
After listening to their last album, they try to keep the same course. They also added 2 catchy songs. (6/10) FT: The Model, Neon Light
The arrangements are as conventional, predictable, abused and traditional as possible, as proven by the singles LMK and Frontline. It's really well produced and pleasant to listen to, but a 1001? (5/10) FT: Blue Light, LMK
Live & Dangerous would be a fucking A-M-A-Z-I-N-G if it was even close to being a live recording. According to producer Tony Visconti, about 25% of the album is recorded live. Very rocking and exemplary for the time. (6/10) FT: Still in Love with you
On closer inspection, they were one of the bands that ushered in the post-punk era. It has punk, new wave and rock elements, it's mediocre. (5/10) FT: Shot by Both Sides, The Light Pours out of Me
This album contains virtually all of Boston’s best cuts and in some way could be considered a greatest hits collection. (6/10) FT: More Than A Feeling, Peace Of Mind
In retrospective, you can say, it's a more mature and "different" Elvis. I like his voice and his entertaining style. (5/10) FT: Such a Night
You must listen to this album before you die, otherwise you will die believing that Anna Calvi and Amanda Palmer were the ultimate women in rock. (6/10) FT: Dress, Sheela-Na-Gig
First album. Really raw. Really old school. Really cool (7/10) FT: Protect Ya Neck, C.R.E.A.M.
The so-called White Album was an example of the change of mood in rock music towards a simpler and more traditional way of making music. It's an album my parents listened to and so I have a more emotional approach to it. (8/10) FT: While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Hapiness is a Warm Gun, Blacckbird, Dear Prudence
It is a very mature album. Siouxsie is perhaps at the peak of her grotesque vocal abilities, and the backing singers accompany her with truly satanic fervour. McGeogh's atmospheric guitar performs little acrobatic feats that enrich the sound. Pretty dark (7/10) FT: Spellbound, Arabian Knights
With sombre monologues, Lydon touches the bottom of existential depression, wandering aimlessly in the grip of a "deadly boredom" for a universe that has reduced itself to a dark and deserted tunnel. (6/10) FT: Public Image, Fodderstompf
A fantastic, hysterical and emphatic exaggeration of rock'n'roll clichés. A wonderful glam rock album. (7/10) FT: Bat out of Hell, Paradise By the Dashboard Light
You know the one song. The question is whether you should also listen to other songs. (6/10) FT: Come On Eileen, Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
Joni slowly but surely found her inner sophisticated lounge singer. It's a folk jazz album. Deal with it (8/10) FT: Coyote
Louis Prima is amazing! But ...Listen, would you mind explaining to me how the fuck this list does not contain any Chuck Berry or Louis Armstrong? How is that possible? (7/10) FT: Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares for Me), (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
The goal of the raga is to create a trancey state, to broadcast a mood of ecstasy. Maybe I need to be high for this. Good introduction (5/10) FT: Dádrá
Incredible heroes of 70's PoP, with disco anthems and musicals that resulted. Whether this album is one of them is questionable. (5/10) FT: One of Us, Slipping Through My Fingers
Among The Living shaped the final sound and some of the classics of the genre trash metal. It's like German tourists on the beach with white socks and sandals. It's strange, but you look at it longer than you think you would be looking at it. (5/10) FT: Caught in A Mosh
One step up from Taylor Swift and two steps up from Ariana Grande, but certainly not revolutionary, and it is debatable who should get credit, since most of the appeal comes from the arrangements. But i like it (6/10) FT: Liability
Humour became satire and portraits became murals. The Beatles were left out with Sgt. Peppers and everything else that appeared in the British charts that year. (6/10) FT: Waterloo Sunset
Good album, which lead to a much greater period. But it’s also another cocaine record. (7/10) FT: Golden Years
Solid bluesy-swamp rock Live-Performance. Too little time to argue for or against this album. (7/10) FT: One Way Out
This album represents another creative high point in Young's career. Possibly one of the best with the band Neil Young & Crazy Horse. (7/10) FT: Powderfinger
A progressive rock classic. Long incredible solos. Genesis took the fusion of folk and psychedelia to the extreme. (6/10) FT: Firth of Fifth
This live album is indeed a grotesque riot of musical cruelty and primitivism, but also an impressive example of destructive power and music of the heart. After that you will understand why modern punk rock is nothing more than a fashion statement. (8/10) FT: Kick Out The Jams , Come Together
I have personally listened to this record at least 100 times in its entirety. I love it... But it's not for everyone...(8/10) FT: Oh My Love, Jealous Guy, Imagine
Undeniably it’s a great folk album. Modern arrangements, astute rhythms and the two harmonising voices. (6/10) FT: Matty Groves
An experimental album of eccentric arrangements and weird melodies. I like it :) (7/10) FT: Jesus, Etc, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
A very good disco album. Basically not a fan of disco, but Miacheal brings it across in an easy-going way. (6/10) FT: Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough, Rock with You
Yeah, noise punk-pop post-hardcore something :) Homogeneous album... (4/10) FT: On the Lash
It is de facto a concept about God... Such an amazing last album. (7/10) FT: You Want It Darker, Leaving the Table, Traveling Light
The lyrics are far less interesting than the atmosphere created by the confused and noisy arrangements. (6/10) FT: I Luv U, Fix Up, Look Sharp
The singer screams like a cross between David Bowie and Robert ,singing lyrics of urban desolation. Somehow disorganised, the record consists of different genres: heavy metal attacks, mystical psychedelics, the hyper-distorted melodramatic blues in Led Zepplin style. (7/10) LT: Jane Says, Ocean Size
An attempt at a jazz-hop-fusion album. Quite okay. (6/10) FT: Buggin' Out, Check the Rhime
A pioneer in the field of bedroom electronica. An album that will inspire many other electro artists. Quite funny to listen to. (5/10) FT: In My Arms, Drop the Pressure
Bad Company had some solid jams, didn't they? Remind me. They were a good to very good band that stayed within the narrow confines of lowbrow hard rock. Still a good album. (6/10) FT: Can't Get Enough, Bad Company
Unconventional mixture of reggae, retro-soul, African root beats and current DJ rhythms. (6/10) FT: It's Great When We're Together
Basically an above-average heavier album from Metallica. Noticeable are the half-hearted riffs, the martial rhythms that repeat themselves ad nauseam. (5/10) FT: One
Senegalese music mixed with reggea and disco. Certainly refreshing for in between. (5/10) FT: Yela
Pretty raw... The Idiot was the first result of the collaboration with Bowie and, in fact, the prototype for Bowie's own album Low. (6/10) FT: Nightclubbing, China Girl
A highly dramatic and unified thematic work (the forms of evil). Epileptic, stormy and satanic. Metal... (7/10) FT: Wake Up Dead
Ah...Annie Lennox is a great vocalist... 2 good songs, the rest are rather poor. (6/10) FT: Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), Love Is A Stranger
With this album Weller found his authentic voice. (6/10) FT: Wild Wood, Sunflower
This is what a live album used to be and is supposed to be. Sadly Harlem Square was recorded in 1963, it wasn’t released until 1985. (7/10) FT: It's Alright, Bring it on Home to Me
Great pop album. Catchy motifs and interesting melodies all around. (6/10) FT: Girlfriend, Damn,dis-moi
In my opinion, Roots is not just an album by a mature ensemble, but an avant-garde work whose songs are well thought out. (7/10) FT: Roots Bloody Roots, Ratamahatta
Green has a cultured, effeminate way of establishing himself as a sex symbol, but also superior vocal skills. (7/10) FT: Let’s Stay Together, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Very good ballads. Good voice and story telling. (6/10) FT: Fast Car, Talkin' 'bout a Revolution
Surprisingly good album. Many many influences that made the album more exciting. (6/10) FT: Run, Baby, Run, No One Said It Would Be Easy, I Shall Believe
Amazing! Stevie convinces me with the first two songs. (I mean all the good songs would have fit on one album).... (8/10) FT: I Wish, Sir Duke, Isn't She Lovely, Pasttime Paradise, As, Another Star
The album is neurotic and baroque at the same time, like 1000 Umbrellas, and which will remain one of the milestones of pop. …Produced by Todd Rundgren.(7/10) FT: Dear God, 1000 Umbrellas
Great Live album, little bit long, but great barbaric presentation of the band at their peak (7/10) FT: Child in Time, Smoke on the Water, Lazy
I have incredibly beautiful memories with this album. Very beautiful moments and cheesy ballads. (8/10) FT: Nearly whole album :) Movin' Out (Anthony's Song), Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Vienna, Everybody Has a Dream
Really good jams. Hard boogie to epic ballads. (7/10) FT: Free Bird, Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man
Ah... Madonna is more and more a woman without a man, a woman without feelings, a woman without emotions. Really really pop. Filled with singles (6/10) FT: Like a Prayer
Newman manages to cast such simple music in a socially critical setting. Love it (7/10) FT: Louisiana 1927, Birmingham, Mr. President
An album manifesto that in practice acts as a link between different genres from ambient to heavy metal. The album's greatest weakness is: every second of music is absolutely banal in its context. Prodigy gives the listener exactly what they expect. Triviality has its merits, especially in the field of dance music. (6/10) FT: Breathe
The album's intentions are good, but it has too much fluff. It sounds like the album of musicians that try desperately to sound interesting. But in fact, it was pretty pop. (5/10) FT: Juxtapozed with U
Santana is the Michael Jackson of guitar players. You have to hear one of his albums in its entirety. You don’t have to like it, just listen. (7/10) FT: Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman, Samba Pa Ti
French dance music, yeah okay. But a 1001AYMHBYD? (5/10) FT: Sometimes
Sam Cooke's guitarist made a phenomenal record if Stevie Wonder didn’t exist. He does. Nevertheless, a beautiful ballad soul crossover. (6/10) FT: If You Think You're Lonely Now, Where Do We Go from Her
The album is more of a vocal tour de force, of wild psychedelic hymns in Indian rhythm. In any case, he is years ahead of his time. (6/10) FT: On Some Faraway Beach
A big and small hit. The rest is rather mediocre. (5/10) FT: Don't You Want Me, Love Action (I Believe in Love)
Solid Hard Rock Album. (6/10) FT: YYZ, Limelight
Indeed, with this album, Pavement have interpreted the anxieties/problems/issues of their time at their best. (6/10) FT: Unfair, Range Life
Okay...It's better, though not as good as the first albums. (6/10) FT: Sugar Kane
One of the milestones of heavy metal. However, I am unfortunately not a speed/trash metal fan... (5/10) FT: Raining Blood
It is an ambitious and creative work, reinventing prog-rock for the post-"rock" generation. (7/10) FT: Inertiatic ESP, Roulette Dares, Televators
He composed, played and produced on his own. Really nice (6/10) FT: Strawberry Letter 23, Pling!, Sweet Thang
A mix of folk and punk, with really good songs. (6/10) FT: Riddle of the Eighties, In My Mind
An album that sold less than the others but offered, a incredible good production sound and solos. I love that album. (8/10) FT: Shine On You Crazy Diamond
A formidable ensemble, and that nice Middle Eastern tone of his tenor. (6/10) FT: Immigrés
this album is ALMOST everything. Almost great, almost incredible but also almost bad and mainstream. (6/10) FT: Sultans Of Swing, Six Blade Knife
A lanky, four-eyed white boy from Texas who shaped the template for today's rock. (5/10) FT: Oh, Boy!, Not Fade Away, That'll Be the Day, Send Me Some Lovin'
I am Brazilian, so I grew up with her. Her voice is just amazing. A prodigy, with a far too sad story. (7/10) FT: Tiro Ao Alvaro, O Que Foi Feito Devera, O Trem Azul
Don't know, why it is a AYMHBYD.... the only track that really justifies the album is the progressive jam Small Hours. (5/10) FT: Small Hours
Run-DMC brought rap to the mainstream rock and pop market, thus to white people. They made hip-hop just white enough without losing its integrity. You can't go wrong with their debut album. (7/10) FT: It's Like That, Rock Box
One of the origin albums of "gangsta rap". (7/10) FT: Straight Outta Compton, Fuck The Police
Not bad for a pop starlet. But really a 1001? (5/10) FT: My All
Afro-beat combined with some James Brown's funk music, highlife and jazz. (6/10) FT: Wonder Wonder
The first impression of Bjork's music is always of something terribly trivial, obnoxious and ultimately boring. With her, a lot always happens in the studio. However, there is something meditative about it, which I thoroughly enjoy. (6/10) FT: Unison, Pagan Poetry
This is mainstream new wave, nothing more than well-crafted pop music with a beat and a sax solo here and there. (6/10) FT: Hungry Like The Wolf
Sounds a bit like a mix of funk and psychedelic. Bit often used the word funk... (6/10) FT: Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)
It's a "Pop"-Version of a Radiohead album. Little bit trivia. (5/10) FT: Why Does It Always Rain On Me
With Ginger Baker Live! is basically quite good but no AYMHBD. (5/10) FT: Black Man's Cry
A quiet and gentle album that downplays the rhythmic element and incorporates a stronger melodic element. It builds up like a Wagnerian climax . (7/10) FT: ISI
His voice adapts depending on the song. Truly remarkable. Arrangements are postmodern and baladic. (6/10) FT: DLZ, Family Tree
Harvey's vocals are even more raw and vulgar, able to plumb the depths of despair in Rid of Me, Dry and Rub Til It Bleeds. (7/10) FT: Rid of Me
They have transferred a velvety, romantic style into the techno era. Simply nice (7/10) FT: Round & Round, Vanishing Point
Very well produced for 1985, almost sounds like the music wants to jump out of the speakers. (6/10) FT: Bonny, When Love Breaks Down
The Best Jazz Pianist of the Era. He was on Kind of Blue. The co-founder of low-key bebop. But I find other albums by him even better, therefore only: ( 7/10) FT: Alice In Wonderland, Solar
It’s a slower, radio-friendly mix of mid-tempo 4/4 tap-a-longs. Nothing really remarkable. (5/10) FT: If I Can't Change Your Mind, Helpless
Is an anthology... Swedish garage rockers go Rock'N'Roll. (5/10) FT: Hate to Say I Told You So
The White Queen Of Soul. Really a 60's "white" Soul Album. (7/10) FT: Just a Little Lovin, Son of a Preacher Man
As for his influence on Western pop music, there are a handful of people in the world music genre who have probably ripped this man off from here to Lagos, Nigeria. Certainly a brilliant musician. (6/10) FT: Zombie
Absolutely fantastic (8/10) FT: Come Rain or Come Shine, Tell Me You'll Wait for Me
Morrissey being Morrissey (6/10) FT: Suedehead
A sharp and compact overall sound, with relatively melodic compositions. The arrangements are among the most eccentric of their time. (7/10) FT: Seven and Seven Is
Very pleasant French hip-hop, you hardly notice that you have listened to a complete album. (6/10) FT: Caroline
Great pop. The album has the sad ballads, the up-tempo songs. (7/10) FT: Faith, One More Try, Father Figure
Three levels: Sound quality that becomes more and more crystalline, assimilation of electronics that are now on a par with traditional instruments, and the "alienation" of atmosphere that transforms each song into an increasingly complex abstraction. (7/10) FT: The Big Ship, Golden Hours
Not essential, but not bad. There are some extremely catchy jams on this record, and some queasy-cheesy moments, too. (6/10) FT: Treason, Brave Boys Keep Their Promises
Two things: Aretha Franklin is awesome, especially in the 60s. And this 25 minutes of Aretha. Love her. (8/10) FT: Respect, Dr. Feelgood
Not really outstanding. Don't know why this is a 1001 AYMHBYD. Still not bad (5/10). FT: Laughing, Cowboy Movie
Must Hear if there ever was a Must Hear. Really Futuristic... (9/10) FT: A Love Supreme, Pt. I – Acknowledgement
It's a mix of 50s pop-soul arrangements, with a crooning melodramatic and decadent style in the vein of David Bowie. (6/10) FT: The Look of Love (Part One), Show Me
Sad it's her last album. Such a voice. Such a woman! (7/10) FT: Cry Baby, Me and Bobby McGee, Mercedes Benz, Get It While You Can
Heaps of Merseybeat, psychedelic and pop trivia. Nevertheless, the album set a sales record for a debut album. (6/10) FT: Live Forever, Up In The Sky
Beautiful jazz elements. Each song offers something different. (7/10) FT: Pretzel Logic, Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Post-punk noise pop with gnarly guitars and whining vocals. Solid (7/10) FT: Little Fury Things, Just Like Heaven
The counter-movement of intellectual rock, which in turn were the antithesis of progressive rock of those years. It has a slight trash factor (6/10). FT: Rock On
Merely scratch the surface of their postmodern technique of layering kitschy and retro sounds. Again a repeat of Pink Floyd-ish instrumental tracks. (6/10) FT: Ghost Song, Playground Love, Highschool Lover
Quite accessible for being called the "Ramones from Ireland". (6/10) FT: My Perfect Cousin, Wednesday Week
The record is an ambient techno classic. (6/10) FT: Water From A Vine Leaf
Interesting. Guitar technique and mezzo-soprano singing. (6/10) FT: I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
This is the record with which Beck Hansen legitimises his charisma as the most representative singer-songwriter of the 1990s, when the wild style of rap was combined with the courtly style of the folk ballad. (7/10) FT: Jack-Ass, Novacane
With a calm and meditative tone Nick reveals himself to be a lyrical and elegiac poet, dedicated to the search for wisdom through. (7/10) FT: River Man, Saturday Sun
Alice In Chains were a marginal influence on the future of alternative metal.... Quite a fine piece of hard rockery. (6/10) FT: Them Bones, Would?
It is undoubtedly an original record, with orchestrations here and there worthy of classical music elegantly complementing the rock instrumentation. (7/10) FT: Alone Again Or
Just great. I was really amazed (7/10) FT: Juicy, Respect, Big Poppa
Blueprint for a lot of psychedelic albums. As it stands, it’s much more garage rock than anything else. And that’s OK. (6/10) FT: The Kingdom of Heaven (Is Within You), Roller Coaster
The melodies were even more mediocre, but what mattered is the way the song was structured and orchestrated. Anyhow I like it ^^ (6/10) FT: Scientist, Clocks, In My Place
A psychedelic depression with expressionistic overtones. Love him. (7/10) FT: Perfect Day, Walk on the Wild Side
The most gifted jazz vocalist of the era, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday ans Sarah Vaughan. Sooo goood. (7/10) FT: Willow Weep for Me, Be Anything (But Be Mine)
Like it. If it's a 1001 questionable... (6/10) FT: No Other, Strength of Strings, Some Misunderstanding
Apparently some people think this is an influential record. I don't (6/10) FT: Nocturnal Me, The Killing Moon
Just a great album. Point (7/10) FT: Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man
They fused hip-hop with jazz, rhythm'n'blues and reggae at a deeper level. Love it (7/10) FT: Ready or Not, Killing Me Softly
I like how they warnend about the genre in advance. Really clunky. (5/10) FT: Xtal, Ageispolis
Sgt Pepper represents a breaking point in their career on several levels. Also happens to be one of the prototypical psychedelic records. It certainly defined the genre. (exception being The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds) (8/10) FT: With a Little Help from My Friends, A Day in the Life
Nightfly is a pleasant and soulful collection of intimate music. The only weaknesses are Fagen's vocals (rather unoriginal and often stretched) and the melodies (rather derivative). (6/10) FT: I.G.Y.
Dark, edgy, and kind of creepy. This is what the cure sounds like (6/10) FT: Play for Today, A Forest
Folk punk. I really like the arragements, the melodies and the spirit of the album. (7/10) FT: Sally MacLennane, Dirty Old Town
A somewhat mediocre album. Mediocre voice, mediocre lyrics, mediocre arragments. 1-2 songs that are good, but no 1001 for me. (5/10) FT: I Remember Me
I fell in love with music because of this album. In classical music, in rock, in jazz, in vocal singing. Thank you Queen (10/10) FT: Bohemian Rhapsody, Love of my Life ... actually the whole album
An album that unites rock and baroque pop. Some songs are also reminiscent of Prince, U2 and Hendrix. Beautiful. (8/10) FT: Knights Of Cydonia, Supermassive Black Hole, Soldiers Poem
For 1991 really ambitious. Worth listening. (7/10) FT: The Concept
Evol is a milestone in the band's history, although the album is less profound and disturbing and more traditional rock, the sound contains the essence of two decades of music of moral decay. (7/10) FT: Shadow of a Doubt
In Rock (1970) was a transitional album. 2-3 really good rock songs, the rest rather average. (6/10) FT: Child in time, Speed King
Thanks to that album, Cohen can be considered one of the most influential singer-songwriters of all times. There is all in there (7/10) FT: Avalanche, Famous Blue Raincoat, Diamonds in the Mine
Remarkable dream-pop, with delicate and stunning merry-go-rounds of sounds. (7/10) FT: Svefn-g-englar
Tango - Ambient - Electric sound. New? I don't know, but I like tango. So anyway (5/10) FT: Época, Santa Maria
Autobiographical storytelling that was certainly more literate than the average. Okay (6/10) FT: Money Trees, m.A.A.d. City
The soft, dreamlike backgrounds that make these songs a kind of existential meditation made Massive Attack famous, at least as producers. The artistic aspect, on the other hand, was to be deepened a few years later: see Portishead. (5/10) FT: Unfinished Sympathy
A ska revival with a pinch of punk rock. Catchy lines. (6/10) FT: Enjoy Yourself, Stereotype / Stereotype Pt.2
Lot of catchy Pop Songs. Maybe responsible for the gospel choirs in throwaway pop music. (6/10) FT: Freedom! '90, Praying for Time
Whether you like it or not, country rock is a thing, and these guys were the Pangaea of the genre. (6/10) FT: Christine's Tune, Hot Burrito #1
The late Curtis Mayfield is the reason you should listen to this album. He’s such a fine singer. Goodness. (7/10) FT: Little Child Runnin' Wild, Pusherman, Superfly
The one of the first and foremost, children of the blues. Incredible tracks and rock-hymns. (9/10) FT: Stairway To Heaven, When The Levee Breaks, Black Dog
Kid A's sound has decomposed and absorbed countless new perfumes, like a carcass in the forest. Radiohead move as close as possible to electronic music, but without endorsing it. (8/10) FT: Everything In Its Right Place, How To Disappear Completely
Its "songs" have replaced most of the "cinematic", noir quality with loud and frantic body movement. (6/10) FT: State of Contraction, Miles
Mellow Boogie Man (5/10) FT: Blueberry Hill
Peace, love, communal living, esoteric mysticism, sitar, gimbri, shenai, oud, harpsichord, panpipes, penny whistles, and 13-minute suites about molecular biology. (7/10) FT: Koeeoaddi There, A Very Cellular Song
The Buzzcocks are a greatest hits band who never had any hits. (6/10) FT: I Don't Mind, Fiction Romance
Seriously, how could anyone listen to current popular music and not think, “How did we get from Elvis Costello to One Direction.” It just boggles the mind. (7/10) FT: Little Triggers
A other level of new-wave music. (6/10) FT: Cars
A fusion of danceable and rock. (6/10) FT: Setting Sun
This album is a mini-symphony of hardcore techno that uses breakbeats to construct atmospheric music. (7/10) FT: Timeless
Surprisingly, Grohl turned out to be a rare pop talent, able to create melodies, rhythms and riffs that are easy to listen to and totally on trend in the post-Cobain world. (7/10) FT: This Is a Call, Big Me
A really talented musician. The white Stevie Wonder, if you will. But not after '77... (6/10) FT: While You See a Chance
Free love and LSD. The band knows how to absorb elements of folk, blues, rock and jazz, but it is the vocal harmonies of Slick (high, majestic voice), Balin (soft, sunny voice) and Kantner (sharp, neurotic voice) that set the tone. (7/10) FT: White Rabbit, Somebody To Love
Wow, pretty late album from JLH. Very solid, very bluesy. (7/10) FT: The Healer, Think Twice Before You Go
It's not particularly original, just better produced than his previous album. (7/10) FT: Praise You, Love Island
Palo Congo is a solid Latin jazz album. However, we already had Tito Puente and Machito. I would have preferred a Django Reinhardt album. (5/10) FT: El cumbanchero
Loved by fans and critics. 11 million copies sold. It's like RnB mixed with the Supremes.(6/10) FT: Creep, Waterfalls
Jethro Tull albums generally follow the CCR Format, but also reinventing Led Zepplin. The title song is a timeless classic and there might be one other really catchy jam on here. (7/10) FT: Aqualung, Locomotive Breath , Bourée
A mix of blue-eyed soul, jazz and modern influences (for the time) made this a more sophisticated, progressive pop album. (6/10) FT: You're the Best Thing, My Ever Changing Moods
A funny album. Lots of unusual odd time signatures that show that a song doesn't necessarily have to be in 4/4. (8/10) FT: Blue Rondo à la Turk, Take Five
It’s easy to see why this album it's on the list. But I think he got better ones (6/10) FT: Down by the River
Beautiful harmonies. There's something about mixing renaissance choral music with a folk band. (8/10) FT: Ragged Wood
He sounds "hard and funny" and raps about "crass materialism" and "life's simple pleasures". Okay... (5/10) FT: Mama Said Knock You Out, Around the Way Girl
The Village Green Preservation Society are songs of the common people, soft, humble and gentle, combining admirably with elegance. (7/10) FT: Picture Book
Nothing to add to this. (7/10) FT: Mr. Tambourine Man , It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
It's a musical extravaganza with whimsical arrangements and virtuoso vocal performances, even if the songs sometimes become so erratic that they lose their cohesion. One of the highlights is the piano playing, which unfortunately often remains in the background. As it is, it ends up being more about the lyrics than the music, and there are much better poets and novelists out there. (6/10) FT: I Want You to Love Me, Under the Table, Ladies
The future of indie rock. Rock like exploding granite. (6/10) FT: Betray
Couple of original Beatles and a few cover songs. Nothing revolutionary, but good mood music. (5/10) FT: It Won't Be Long, All My Loving, You Really Got a Hold on Me
A collection in the style of 1970s songwriters. Impeccable, great lyrics, but a bit derivative and repetetive (7/10). FT: Marz, Queen of Denmark, Outer Space, Sigourney Weaver
Folk surrealism with crazy rhythms and weird arrangements. Infected alludes to the AIDS epidemic of the time, somehow unfortunate title, don't you think? (5/10) FT: Infected
Musically, the Mondays layered indie-pop guitars with house, funk and Northern soul beats. Yeah okay (6/10). FT: Step On
I think his older albums are better. Songwriting and vocally solid, but it's still nothing new under the sun. (5/10) FT: C'est la Nuit, Alach Tloumouni
They set the British record for fastest-selling debut album of all times. British pop-rock that has been around before. Still great (7/10) FT: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, A Certain Romance, From the Ritz to the Rubble
The Doors tried to modernise their sound by completely breaking away from the now outdated rock psychedelia concept. (7/10) FT: Been Down So Long , Riders On The Storm
The music consisted of mediocre soul-jazz ballads rooted in the past, but with good lyrics. (6/10). FT: Amy Amy/Outro , I Heard Love Is Blind, Moody's Mood for Love/Teo Licks
Wow, a fully all-instrumental hip-hop album, entirely composed on the sampler but nonetheless lushly orchestrated. (7/10) FT: Midnight in a Perfect World, Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
Bowie's first album in a decade, produced again by Tony Visconti. Solid, not insanely good but solid. (5/10) FT: The Stars and You Feel So Lonely You Could Die, Next Day
Simply great if you like ambient music. (6/10) FT: 1/1 , 2/2
A very entertaining album. Unexpected to have known only 2 songs on it. One of which was by Beethoven (7/10). FT: Beth
A nice fusion of Led Zeppelin and John Spencer Blues Explosion with both driving a punk-ish feel to the songs. (7/10) FT: Seven Nation Army, The Hardest Button To Button, Ball and Biscuit
The album lives almost exclusively from the fact that something is there and not there for the listener to hear. Like, for example, the tempo changes (or "out-of-time") are spectacular. (7/10) FT: Wail, Dynamite Lover
I really appreciate this album. This solid rap with this funk and experimental hip-hop nuances. Reeally good. (7/10) FT: Ms. Jackson, So Fresh, So Clean
Rock Opera par excellence. (6/10) FT: Pinball Wizard, Sally Simpson
Pretty organic album. But unfortunately only one track is really good. (5/10) FT: Savane, Soko Yhinka
An album with many rock anthems and bangers. (8/10) FT: Back in Black, You Shook Me All Night Long
A mixture of eccentric pop of the Pixies with the eccentric dance music of New Wave. (6/10) FT: Only Happy When It's Rain, Stupid Girls
High technical production and good quality pop. Really good (7/10) FT: Good Times Roll, Just What I Needed
Her ballads were simple but profound, personal yet somehow universal, melodically discordant, achieving a synthesis of emotional states and not just musical styles. (7/10) FT: Me And A Gun, Silent All These Years, Crucify
Quite good Country Album. Origins of the “Bakersfield Sound". (6/10) FT: I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail, Act Naturally, Falling for you
Simplicity. It’s three dudes in a half circle around one microphone, singing these catchy little tunes. Love it (8/10) FT: Blister in the Sun, Kiss Off, Confessions, Gone Daddy Gone
A textbook in how to turn teenage angst into the musical equivalent of fast food. (6/10) FT: One Step Closer, In The End
This album became the best-selling album in the history of the music. There are really 3 great Hits on it. But the rest is mediocre. (7/10) FT: Thriller, Beat It, Billie Jean
Joy Division is a post-punk Cristiano Ronaldo making-off-from-the-top-of-the-key goal. (7/10) FT: Isolation
Yes, a solid soft pop rock album. Good hits. (6/10) FT: What's Love Got to Do with It, Can't Stand the Rain, Private Dancer