I love that this band doesn't sound the same in every song.....but they always sound like themselves.

This album tries so hard to sound like so many of the other great bands of the time. You then wonder why you are wasting time listening to this when you could just listen those other bands who know their own identity. This album was like a three-course meal of nothing but dry white toast.

I really like the song "Red Eyes". The problem with these guys is that every song used the same template, chords, production values....everything. If you've heard one song, you've heard them all.

If Joni Mitchell had three brothers who could produce nothing but dry, white toast.

She has a great voice. If she would work with a real producer and some decent songwriters, she could have a real impact on music, not just on record sales. This is a perfect example of having a template for a song and being forced to copy it for an entire album.

There are some great bass lines, and hooks, in a few of the songs. (Excursions, Butter, Everything Is Fair). I can get into tracks like these in small doses.

Some of these tracks are what I called "rainy day" jazz...which I really like. But even the tracks that aren't my cup of tea are brilliantly played and arranged.

This didn't do anything at all for me.

The covers they did of other artists didn't do much for me. You can hear some elements of funk creeping in some of the tracks....very indicative of what many bands were sounding like in the 70s. The vocals are top notch, but I prefer their earlier stuff.

This is a really fun listen. There are some really good hooks on some of the songs (Kinky Afro, Loose Fit). There are many moments of "that sort of sounds like ________", and use of familiar samples from other artists' songs. This is an album that I would listen to 2-3 tracks at a time, but not listen to all the way through.

I'm not a big country fan. However, I do like what I consider to be REAL country: not the countrified-rock crap that is put out today. Emmylou's voice is amazing, and this album was a gem from start to finish.

It's Aretha. Enough said.

Some of the tracks I enjoyed to background music. But the vocal style just isn't my thing.

A nice, easy listen. A little swing, a little soul, and other things that I can't quite name. If Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin had ever collaborated, I think that the result would have been something like this.

I liked the slower, more laid-back, stuff more than when they try to "rock". I can see listening this on a lazy afternoon, although none of the songs had a hook that really spoke to me.

Hints of The Police, Joe Jackson, and The Clash. This sound has a little bit for everyone. If you're hardcore punk, new wave, alternative, or mainstream, then this album won't do much for you. If you are, like me, somewhere in between, then you give it three stars for who they were influenced by and for who they influenced.

Some of the music tracks were okay. Rap just doesn't do it for me, and this entire album was monochromatic.

A mixture of early U2, the Smiths, and some New Order thrown in just to round things out. I liked the songs well enough.....2 or 3 at a time. Anything beyond that and all the songs started to sound the same.

I like the funky parts, but those parts didn't outshine, or even complement, the rapping.

A masterpiece.

Prog-rock on steroids. It meandered too much to keep my attention.

Absolutely raw and powerful. Punk at its best.

A little soul, and R&B, with a nice '70s vibe. But there wasn't really anything about the song writing, or the singing that put this over the edge for me.

*Rock snob alert*. Not my favorite VH album. Not even close to their bast album with DLR. Panama and Hot For Teacher are rockers. I'll Wait is a great song, and one of the few VH songs where DLR actually sings. The rest of the album is "take it or leave it for me". My rating is for the three aforementioned songs, and for, musically and vocally, them being at the top of their game.

Such a beautiful, soulful voice.

I'm not sure what the hell that was, but it certainly was not static, or boring. Noise of Carpet- I enjoyed this one a lot. Freestyle Dumpling was a trip. If I ever had dropped acid, I would have loved this album.

Ground-breaking. This album was a classic the moment is came out. It sounds as fresh today as it did when it came out in the 80's.

Low volume, as background noise, and I'd fall asleep to this.

A lot of soul, but it didn't do much for me.

I liked Epoca to some extent. The rest wasn't that great.

I love that this band doesn't sound the same in every song.....but they always sound like themselves.

I like her voice. Smooth Operator brings back good memories. This could have been a good R&B album if not for being over-produced; as was typical in the mid '80s. It was a great album at the time, but hasn't aged very well.

Echoes of The Clash, The Stranglers, Devo, and early Joe Jackson. A nice hard edge to some of the songs. Punk meets new wave meets alternative.

I didn't really care for him when Wishing Well was all over the airwaves, and I don't care for him much now. He's got a soulful voice that got ruined by '80s production. Most of what I heard here sounds like what would later go on to be the Dave Matthews Band. Do with that what you will.

The fourth star is purely for nostalgia. A pretty damn good album that has aged pretty well.

Pretty monotonous. Trying too hard to be the Stooges, so I'll just listen to the Stooges.

I'm sure that in the right setting, that this album would work: just not sure what that setting would be. This was like if Enigma and Mannheim Steamroller were dropped into a garbage disposal.

Definitely not one to just put in an listen to. Great stuff in the right context....and if you know how to dance.

A good attempt, but it fell a little flat for me. Still, it's worth a listen.

A fun listen. If not for these guys, there's no MGMT, Kasabian....

A good album. I like the stripped down, raw sound.

Great music......in the correct context.

Kudos to Bowie for never standing pat, and for going out, musically, on his own terms. But this whole thing was too "out there" for my tastes. This album sounded like it should have been the soundtrack for True Crime. (See Trance Figure by School of The Seven Bells).

Not bad, but never really gets off the ground. I love his voice, but these tracks all sounded the same.....flat.

Non very imaginative song writing, but a fun little listen 1-2 songs at a time. I almost didn't even listen to this because of "There She Goes": one of the most annoying songs I've heard. Knock Me Down and Son of a Gun were standouts on this album. I'm glad that I gave it a chance.

I really enjoyed Crucify, Precious Things, and Leather. Tori has a great voice. This album was a nice surprise and a pleasant listen.

Exodus, Natural Mystic, Jammin', One Love.... a great, mellow album.

You want their "hits"? You want their radio-friendly songs? Then go buy their "Best of..." albums. This album is them showing their blues roots, and paying homage to all the blues greats, without whom there would be no Rolling Stones. If you don't recognize what makes this a watershed album for this band, then you don't deserve to understand this album. How's that for a bit of rock snobbery?

This album has a little bit of everything. I find myself returning to this album more than any other Zep album. I'm not saying it's their best. I'm just saying what I'm saying. "That's the Way" and "Tangerine" always get played to the end.

The opening song, Supervixen, is a good one to start the album off. The problem is that every other song sounds just like the first one. Too formulaic for my tastes. Too bad because the talent is there.

Without Muddy Waters, there is no British Invasion....or any rock music that's worth listening to.

This was a nice discovery. A nice set of songs to just relax and let play in the background.

It's Creedence. Enough said.

I appreciate Randy Newman for what he is: the world's most successful singer in a piano bar. I like him well enough......one song at a time. Two songs or more, and it all just sounds the same. Two stars, instead of One, because of the song "I Love L.A.", which isn't even on this album.

This just didn't do it for me.

Bring the Pain has a nice musical hook to it: musical, no lyrical. That's all I've got...

I love his music. This is a really easy listen and gives a glimpse of how good is songwriting was, and would become. Good stuff.

Some rock-a-billy, some punk. It's listenable, in a good way. They get 4 stars because they are playing what they want to play rather than trying to conform to what punk "should" be.

The main theme is a classic. The rest of it is as 70s as it gets. But without context, most soundtrack music doesn't really work as listening material. A soundtrack that consists of actual songs (Almost Famous, Saturday Night Fever) would have been a better suggestion from this site.

Great voice. Great music.

I like the "Lay Lady Lay", "Tangled Up In Blue", "Nettie Moore" Dylan. But when his singing style is like is on this album....it just doesn't do much for me beyond one or two songs.

"Heroine" is the only song that I'll remember from this album. Everything else just sounded like variations of the same song.

This one grew on me. The more I listened, the more I liked it.

Next....

Country Sad Ballad Man and Song 2 are great. I like Blur....just not all the time.

Fooled Again was a nice surprise. Other than Breakdown, and American Girl, the rest of this album is pretty meh. However, you can definitely hear a lot of what was to come from this band. The songs that they included the keyboards more prominently were definitely better than the others.

This album is a classic, and was the soundtrack for the entire early-to-mid 80s. Most younger people only remember the Michael Jackson who was a complete nut. But when this album came out, EVERYBODY listened to this album.

Jazz, for me, is more dependent more on the setting in which I hear it, than the music itself. Could I sit and just listen to this? No. Would this be great to create a certain atmosphere or mood. Yes. Would it be great to listen to live. Definitely.

Musically, his stuff is very interesting. Lyrically, he just sounds like Moby's pissed off alter ego.

Not bad. I liked Hero, Final Days, and Solid Ground. The rest of it sounded like it should be the soundtrack to Jackie Brown.

I just never got into Elvis. He's the Don Corleone of rock music: he's the original, but his biggest fans have ended up making it so that Elvis became a parody of himself.

Incredibly unimaginative.

This album tries so hard to sound like so many of the other great bands of the time. You then wonder why you are wasting time listening to this when you could just listen those other bands who know their own identity. This album was like a three-course meal of nothing but dry white toast.

For reference: if I dropped silverware into my garbage disposal at the same time my dog started barking, I would give that 5 stars compared with these jokers. But on the bright side...they didn't have to actually write lyrics, and props to the vocalist for not bursting out laughing at the absurdity of it all.

Don't Cry is a good tune. Chameleon by Blanc sounds like a infrigement lawsuit waiting to happen. Most of this album was a pretty easy listen.

10 Stars.

A 3-star album that gets a fourth star for the trip back to my senior year in high school. Just like the album, that year was hit or miss, but overall pretty damn good.

Maybe I just wasn't feeling this genre today. But I do enjoy this type of music.

Weird stuff. It sounds like it should be the soundtrack to the show Carnivale or a really cheesy Disney ride. I didn't really care for the songs, but they're going to be stuck in my head for the next week. Props to TW for being original.

I love Iggy. I love Bowie. I don't care for Iggy simply sounding like Bowie.

Hell yeah!

Early 90s cookie-cutter music. Not bad, but instantly forgettable.

The problem with Zappa is that tried to be so avant garde that he became a cliche' of himself. He wanted you to: like him so that he could smirk and bash you for being so bourgeoisie and "beneath" his brilliance. -or- hate him so that he could smirk and bash you for being so bourgeoisie and "beneath" his brilliance. Whichever camp you were in, it doesn't matter because you just don't get why the joke is on you.

4 for originality. Nice use of distortion to give them an early punk sound. You can definitely hear their embracing of the early 60's songwriting, but very forward-thinking production, and attitude, that would spawn The Stooges and The Hives.

I've just never understood the hype surrounding Joni's playing, or her singing. To me, she just comes off as a coffee house singer who is just trying too hard.

"Right Here, Right Now", and "Praise You" I actually really liked. The rest would be great in a club, but not really anywhere else.

Not unpleasant. But I don't see the point in listening to something that only makes me think of being on a moving walkway getting me from one set of airport gates to another.

I LOVE the Beatles. But these songs all sounded the same to me. But what gives them a pass here is that you can listen to their later stuff and see how they used this stage of their career as the foundation for what would come later. THAT'S greatness.

It's like putting spoons in a blender and hitting the "Puree" button.

Enough already.

Pretty good prog-rock. Early flashes of Marillion with a touch of ELP thrown in. I still say that the best thing that happened for Peter Gabriel and the three who remained as Genesis was their split from each other.

Not too bad.....for one or two songs. After that they all sound exactly the same.

I've seen other bands release their "Greatest Hits" that didn't have the number of hits that this album, which isn't a "Greatest Hits", has.

The great songs on this album are enough to buoy up the other stuff.

Dylan is hit or miss with me, but this was a very easy listen.

Pretty progressive for a band from 1971. Nevertheless, it didn't do a damn thing for me.

Pleasant, but immediately forgettable.

King's X, Faith No More, RHCP, and ska. Definitely intriguing. I can take it or leave it.

Wasn't sure what to expect from a band named Primal Scream, but was very pleasantly surprised. Most of the tracks were very listenable. Slip Inside This House was reminiscent of The Only One I Know, by the Charlatains UK, that I've had it on a loop all afternoon.

Like everything else Springsteen, this is hit or miss. This is more a nostalgia album for me than something that I would actively listen to.

Not bad, but too twangy for my tastes. And if you've heard one song from this album, then you've heard them all.

I love her cover of Neil Young. And some of the ambient tracks were okay....some weren't.

Station To Station, and Golden Years, are enough to earn 3 stars. The other tracks were meh.

Pretty good stuff. For some reason this reminded me of the soundtracks from all the mob movies by Martin Scorsese.

I can hear their influences in a lot of the later New Wave bands. The songs are easy enough to listen to, but nothing that will stay me.

Only Shallow was a great tune. The rest was a bunch of pretentious noise.

These guys have a couple of songs that are....okay. Other than that, however...

"Music" for poc, who want to feel justified in blaming everybody else for problems of their own making, and for white people who want to feel "edgy". Rap is KKKrap.

Bubble gum punk at best. A few tracks that are listenable. Don't compare this album to all the pretentious "we still think we're punk" crap that came after this album. And they lose points for trying to make everyone think that they are British.

No thanks

An nice, easy listen. However, the tracks really all sound the same.

57821 is a really good song. The rest is very creative, but doesn't do much for me. The two overtures were and unexpected turn.

Meh. When the best that you can say is "This sounds just like....", and then can't even remember who they sound like, that's not much of an impression.

So whose idea do you think it was to use the same vocal track on every single song? Seriously, how much effort can one woman put into not singing, and doing it on every track? Pretentious crap. One star for convincing somebody to actually record her.

Musically, I really liked this. But then they had to open their mouths and ruin it all. Using the N word just to sound edgy just makes you a poser.

This was very nice music to have on in the background.

Stupid from start to finish. ZERO stars if it were possible.

Kick ass maximum R&B.

The Animist was pretty good track. The rest of it was interesting. I would never set this as playlist material, but if it were on, I don't think I'd mind too much.

Not bad, but not really memorable either.

This reminded me a lot of Joni Mitchell and Carole King: neither of whom I like at all. There was only one song where Laura wasn't forcing her singing to a level of intensity that didn't match the music. A meandering mess.

A damn good album. Courtney Love has a pretty damn good voice. I never wanted to listen to these guys because she's such a dumpster fire of a person, but I'm glad that this showed up on my list. But this album should have been titled "Thank Heaven That Our Singer Is Married To That Guy From Nirvana".

This may be due to the fact that I recently returned from a trip to Mexico.... I found this album to be a very pleasant listen. This is pretty good background music: even if it is more likely to be overheard in some cheesy restaurant.

This album did nothing for me. No hooks, nothing catchy. They are the grunge version of Almost Famous. But at least they can look down on the successful Seattle bands under the guise of not having "sold out".

This wasn't bad....for a couple of songs. After that, her voice just grated on me and the music seemed to meander.

Say what you will about his singing, but Bob Dylan knows how to write songs. This is a very good listen.

"The Seed" had a nice musical hook to it: the only thing that will get me to listen to crap like this.

Great for the time when it was recorded. But its saxophone/keyboard sound has become cliche' because of every damn soundtrack from the 80's. Three stars because the title track is awesome.

"Find Somebody" is awesome. You can hear the many different sounds that influenced, and were influenced by, this band. The Beatles, Smokey Robinson, Otis Redding, Jefferson Airplane. This really is a crossover album for a lot of 60's music. And a shout out to Pat Benatar for taking "You Better Run" and turning it up to 11.

Amazing music for a rainy day.

That was 40 minutes of a band with a major identity crisis. They sounded so much like so many different bands that I found myself wondering why I was listening to these guys at all.

I either really like a Kinks' song.....or I don't care for it at all. 4 stars for always being true to themselves and being one of the most influential bands ever.

I do like some of these songs....somewhat. I just can't ever get over the fact that these guys started as "punk", became mainstream (no judgment here), and then became an "edgy" boy band (Tiger Beat magazine awaits!). That's cringe for me.

Well... that sucked.

A nice bluesy album with a little country/folk twang thrown in for good measure. However, listening to this album straight through has it all sounding like the same song.

"Madeleine-Mary" and "Song For the New Breed" were good tracks. Other than that.....meh.

More "Radio Disney" music that will be forgotten within a year and have absolutely no lasting impact on music. Lorde may keep the public's attention for being an "influencer" or some other thing, but her music is instantly forgettable.

A classic. Their first five albums rank up there with any of the other great bands. They should have stopped recording after Draw The Line. Everything after that fifth album was either passable or recorded just so they could cash the checks.

She has a great voice. If she would work with a real producer and some decent songwriters, she could have a real impact on music, not just on record sales. This is a perfect example of having a template for a song and being forced to copy it for an entire album.

I'm not a huge fan of thrash metal. But this is a damn good album for what it is. Great production values, their playing is TIGHT. They would be great to see live.

A classic. Their, arguably, best song "Eleanor Rigby" is accompanied only by a string quartet. That's some feat to pull off.

Not bad, but also not much in the way of variety. The lack of variation in their songs, and the fact that they sounded a lot like the free-form style of the GD, just had people deciding to just listen to the GD.

Every song sounded like a watered-down version of The Clash or X. I found myself wondering why I wasn't just listening to one of the other "real" bands.

The best "flat pitch" singing in the business. I love this band. This isn't my favorite album by them, but it contains their two best songs: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, and How Soon Is Now.

The Avalanches.... Shit Tsunami is more like it. This is like if Moby had no talent for arrangement, or ear for music.

Bland, formulaic, cookie-cutter sound. This is what happened when the band no longer had Courtney's hubby as a safety net for their writing. They get an extra star for having the guts to keep going anyway.

Bowie never sounds the same, but he always sounds like Bowie. I don't like everything on this album, but I love that he was never willing to stand pat with his music.

"Music Make You Lose Control" has a nice bass line. If I were at a club, high, and looking to hook up, then this is probably really good stuff. But I'm not at a club, high, or looking to hook up.

If rap did anything for me at all, it would be this kind of rap. Musically, this album has a lot to offer. But the vocal style indicative of rap just doesn't do it for me.

How incredibly bland of instantly forgettable.

Not bad. Very avant garde for its time. And I can certainly see how it's loose, dgaf style was so influential on the New York CBGB types. Overall, it wasn't a bad listen. Some good tracks all produced by people who can't really sing.

This Is A Call is a good song. For All The Cows is the best thing that I've heard them do.....even if it is just a ripoff of Nirvana's "Polly": certainly just a coincidence. I just have never seen anything about these guys to get excited about. Every song is either Dave Grohl shouting while they play the same power chord, or Dave is actually trying to sing and you realize that he doesn't have a great voice and has very little range. Take Dave out of the equation and these guys are just another Nickelback.

This site needs an option for zero, or negative stars. So somebody recorded my middle school band, while we were warming up, and decided to release it as an avant grade album of jazz fusion's version of speed metal. This crap is the musical equivalent of a root canal being performed without any anesthetic.

I'm so used to their greatest hits, that it was a bit startling to realize that some of their stuff.....sucked. And so it goes. These guys still created some of my favorite music. Soundtrack of my childhood....yada yada yada..

I'm hit or miss with Bob, but this was a nice, bluesy listen.

Just go listen to The Stranglers if you want to hear what these guys wanted to sound like.

A nice, albeit bland, listen. This Year's Love is the standout song.

I actually really enjoyed this. It's like Amon Tobin, but with tolerable bits of techno music thrown in.

A great 80's sound that didn't sound too "techno" or "alternative". Great singing and songwriting. This album has aged really well. "Love Is A Stranger" and "I Could Give You" are the standouts.

Not bad. "Connection" and "Car Song" are pretty unique compared to the rest that all sound very much the same.

This was a good listen. "Who Discovered America" was a really good track. A little Latin, a little hip hop. Reminded me of Santana.

How sad that the original version of "Hallelujah" is probably my least favorite that I've heard. This didn't do anything for me at all. Two stars for "almost".

I really like the song "Red Eyes". The problem with these guys is that every song used the same template, chords, production values....everything. If you've heard one song, you've heard them all.

A classic. What a way to debut your music.

If the Clash doing Irish jigs is your thing, then you are going to love these guys. If you are expecting anything that sounds like "Lorca's Novena", then you are feeling like I do right now.

Not their best stuff. Pretty typical 80's fair, though.

No explanation needed.

This is what I call "listenable punk", although it really doesn't have that hard of an edge. This is punk by guys who can actually play their instruments and write music. I think that the Clash were/are the British equivalent of Bruce Springsteen: they spoke to a population that was blue collar and felt disenfranchised. But as much as I love the Clash, I have to question any group that is beloved by Rolling Stone magazine. Just saying....

Too much twang for my taste. The songs are pleasant enough, but also too monotonous to need to listen to more than 2 before you've effectively listened to the entire album.

Great songwriting magnified by understated performance. I'm not saying that his playing, singing, etc., isn't in top form. But there's nothing about this album that feels forced. This is Clapton being Clapton.

What a great playing style. If Jeff could sing at all, he'd have been as big as Clapton. But when Rod Stewart is doing all your vocals, and Rod isn't available to go on tour with you, then.....

The kind of stuff that you hear in coffee shops and boutique stores. For me, this music is good in those contexts, but not much else.

Awesome stuff. It loses one star because the blaring horns really started grating on me.

That was better than I thought it would be, and longer than it should have been. 6-minute songs mean that these guys couldn't edit.

I'd never heard of these guys. This was a nice surprise. They reminded me, somewhat, of Burning Brides. "G Song", "Cheapskate", and "How Little Reign" were the standouts. "Sometimes I Make You Sad" is an earworm song.

Pretty good punk. Punk isn't always my thing, but these guys fit the bill pretty well.

"International Star", among a few others, had a nice hook. But this is the kind of "f" it album that an artist puts out when they're pissed off at the record company.

Zero stars. And to think that I thought that he sounded like garbage when he wasn't trying to be musical.

Nothing fancy, but an easy listen. "When Will We Be Married" and the title track were the standouts.

Amazing, soulful, music. Those keyboards are awesome.

Question: What do you get when the singer for the Violent Femmes tries to sound like Beck but instead ends up doing a piss-poor job of sounding like Lou Reed instead? Answer: This crap.

A pretty nice listen. However, it seemed like he was singing the same tune every song, but with different music in the background.

Nothing really jumped out at me on this album. I like Aimee's music, and this was an easy listen.

I love the title track because why not. The rest isn't bad, but loses points for have the exact same mix on every song.

Nothing special. They were a pretty good concert, however. There were a couple of songs that had a hook to them, but that's about it.

For as much soul as this music has, it's a very slow burn. There's some serious story telling and reflects a darker side of life.

Pretty easy to listen to. But if you like this type of music, then go listen to Moby, whom they mimicked, and get your money's worth.

I don't always love his singing, but I love his song writing.

4 stars just for her amazing voice. However, she loses one star for singing too many covers. Her voice is so controlled even when she's belting out the song.

This was my first real introduction to DM. I love this album.

I understand why this album was so influential, but it didn't do a damn thing for me.

I don't really care for rap, but I do like LL Cool J. And I love the hook of the title track.

I like these guys. A couple of these songs were gems, a couple weren't. The rest was a good listen.

Did the folksy side of this band kick off the psychedelic era of rock music? Yes. But if I wanted to listen to a Moody Blues album, I'd just go listen to a Moody Blues album.

I like Rod Stewart. This is really good songwriting and a very soulful performance.

This gets 5 stars because of so many great memories associated with when this album came out. They released 7(!) singles: all of which got a ton of radio airplay. But I do have to say that the layered harmonies, and the heavy production, haven't aged very well.

I love his voice. This isn't really my style preference, but there's no doubt the influence that he had on blues-style rockers that came after him.

Unintersting music by disinterested musicians. I pictured them all recording this while looking non-stop at their phones while pretending that none of the other musicians were actually there. EVERY track sounded the same except for the first song, which was an obvious rip-off of David Bowie's "Heroes".

Pretty good stuff, but I can see why Rod branched off on his own. This band was holding him back.

Anybody who complains about the flute knows what they can do with said instrument. This is a classic from start to finish.

I'd have loved to have been there to see this live. But simply listening to it falls pretty flat.

This would have been pretty good if the producer had had the balls to tell this guy that he shouldn't be anywhere near a microphone.

I'm glad that I already liked Neil before I heard this. I like that he is willing to experiment with his sound, but that doesn't mean that I am willing to automatically buy into his b.s. like to wonks at RS are prone to do.

The same drum, and keyboard, sound on every track? Check. The same vocals, and melody, on every track? Check. Typical 80's over-production? Check. The "Jackson" coattails to give this album the overhype that it received at the time. Check. But give credit where credit is due: this was an original sound when it came out. Unfortunately, it is largely responsible for a whole lot of crap that has been trying to ride this album's wave for the last few decades.

I love the Byrds harmonies and guitar sound.....just not for more than 2 songs at a time. After 2 songs they just all sound exactly the same.

It's difficult for me to give a f*** about a bunch of guys who go out of their way to not give a f***, but are trying too hard to accomplish not giving a f*** because they actually give a f*** about not giving a f***. 1 star for the ironic effort.

They have a couple of songs, on other albums, that I absolutely love. Because of that I was very excited to listen to this. However, this album just plain sucked.

Listenable punk....not that that's a bad thing at all. The first time I ever heard these guys was when I saw them playing Bogarts in Cincinnati. This is a good album that sounds even better live.

One of the great American albums.....by an Irish band. Everything about this album is amazing. And the songs evoke images, and the hopes, of the frontier of the western U.S.: both modern and historical.

Somebody to Love is Grace at her best and has one of my favorite guitar solos/outros. White Rabbit is the psychedelic anthem of anthems. Today & Coming Back to Me are Marty Balin at his best. Helluva band and a great album from start to finish.

If you weren't around when JA put out their albums, then you may not be aware about how ground-breaking and genre-defying this band was. This album was as powerful as Nothing Shocking, but JA didn't just copy themselves to please a fanbase.

Their songs are "okay", but lacking something that would make them memorable. Also, their sound/style is such that each song is indistinguishable from the others.

If you don't like Deep Purple, then you should be deaf.

A little funk, a little soul, and way too much 80's canned-overproduction. An extra star for what could have been.

As a whole, the 80s really sucked.

If Joni Mitchell had three brothers who could produce nothing but dry, white toast.

I was pleasantly surprised by this. The music and rhythms were an easy listen, and even the vocal style was okay. Would I put this on my playlist? No. Did I enjoy the listen? Yes.

Now THAT's a live album. Even if you don't like his music, that's a concert that you would feel like you got your money's worth. Tons of energy, tight playing, and did I mention the energy? Way to blow the roof off the joint, Jerry.

If this does it for you, then have at it.

I wasn't looking forward to this listen simply because I have never like the song "We Are Family": it sucks. But the rest of the album was pretty damn good. It was funk/r&b with the lasting touched of disco, but it is what it is. It has Nile Rodgers stamp ALL over it. As a matter of fact, if I didn't know it was Sister Sledge, I would have guessed that it was Chic that I was listening to.

All-around it's pretty good. The problem is that I just can't figure out what they were aiming for. I'm glad that guitar hero gave them their 15 minutes because otherwise I think they wouldn't have been on anybody's radar at all.

"Feel Flows" is one of my favorites by these guys. This was a very different album than I was expecting. I'm not sure if they were maturing with their music at this point, if they were just tired, or if they were trying to re-imagine themselves and keep up with changing musical tastes of the time. I'm glad that this wasn't a "Surfing Safari" type of album. As was the tag line for this album when it was released: It's safe to listen to the Beach Boys again.

This isn't bad considering that this genre isn't really my thing. He gets an extra star for trying to look like a serial killer on the album cover. :-)

I love Bowie, but this did nothing for me.

Free-form-Latin-stoner music. Good stuff even if you're stone cold sober.

"All Hope is Gone" Yeah, no shit. There are bands that are hardcore/badass. Then there are bands, such as Slipknot, that could have more moments (Child of Burning Time, Vermillion, Pt. 2) if only they weren't so busy trying so hard to be badass. I can't believe it takes nine people to produce this crap.

I was very pleasantly surprised by this album. It was very listenable, and very even-keeled for this genre of music. "I Am Somebody", and "What's Golden" were the standouts. I will listen to "What's Golden" often.

There is a fine line between sounding like you are trying too hard, and sounding like you just don't give a shit. I honestly don't know where the hell these guys landed with this one.

I like this band. I like their sound. This was a good listen, but there wasn't anything that jumped out at me.

Typical 80's overproduction. The songs were good, but too polished for Hooker's style of blues. Thank heaven for the last 5 tracks, from "Sally Mae" to the end. THAT was John Lee blues.

They never made the movie to go with this soundtrack just in case the movie sucked as badly as this garbage.

Nice and raw.

Not bad, but just not quite.....

It's Stevie. Living For the City and Higher Ground are enough to earn the five stars.

A very fresh, innovative sound for 1979. They were never afraid to try different sounds: all while sounding like the Talking Heads. (Franz Ferdinand is cut from the same cloth). This was a nice listen.

I'm not a huge fan of this genre, but this was a nice surprise. The music was good and the vocal style was...tolerable.

Bluesy and not overproduced. This was a great listen. I love Beck's guitar sound.

Zero Stars. Fear of a Crap Planet.

I can see why this sounded fresh at the time, so I'll give it an extra star for that. But this album was a nothing-burger-with-cheese.

I really like "Bongo Bong" and "La Vie à 2". This genre of music, for me, depends largely on context. In a cantina eating Mexican food? Yes. Cleaning out the garage? Not so much. But I enjoyed listening to this album.

If reggae is on in the background, then....fine. But that's about as much as I can say for the genre. An easy listen, but nothing to get excited about.

Without the context of the story, this album doesn't make much sense. And some of the songs haven't aged that well. But this is a very important album for me. I heard it and the music, certainly not the story, really resonated with me. "Amazing Journey" and "Acid Queen" are two of my favorite deep cuts.

The songs that I will listen to a lot are "With Our Love", "Warning Sign", "Found a Job". I really like the Talking Heads: always have, always will. And this was a good album. However, their repeated song structure wears a little thin when you are listening to them an entire album at a time.

This is the answer to the question, "What would Stevie Wonder sound like if he had no talent for singing or song writing?"

This was a pretty good listen. The biggest knock against it is that nothing really stood out for me or was anything that I would give another listen to. It was really pleasant background noise and not much else.

I love Beck. I don't always love what Beck produces, but I love that he always sounds like himself even when every track is so different and genre-distorting.

I've always been "take it or leave it" with Bruce. I love his song writing, and the passion in his singing (even if his voice isn't worth shite). It turns out that most of the songs by Bruce that I enjoy the most are the ones that don't get radio play. And if it wasn't for the piano player, these songs would fall apart. However, this album kept my interest more than I thought that it would.

It isn't just that this music is bluesy. It's that most of their songs have a really hook that is unique and keeps you wanting to listen to the song repeatedly. The only thing that grates on me is the distortion value of the vocals on EVERY song.

I love Zep, but this is not my favorite album. It's basically a cover album of their favorite blues songs. But the raw energy they bring to every track was a hell of a signal as to what was to come.

The album where every song sounds exactly the same and only one of them, "Everybody Knows", is even listenable. Subtract one star for the cover photo where he's eating a damn banana.

What this lacks in funk it more than makes up for in soul. Would I put this on repeat? No. Would I listen to it again. Definitely. "Poet" and "You Caught Me Smilin'" are the standouts.

The album was my first real immersion into The Smiths. In terms of the soundtrack of my life, this is an extremely important album for me. I love every track even though it reminds me of one of the most difficult periods of my life. But, hey, sometimes you have to take your demons out and exercise them from time to time, don't you?

If salsa music does it for you, then I imagine that this album will really do it for you. For me? If you listen to any 5-second segment of any of the tracks, then you've basically heard the entire album.

I love Peter Gabriel. I love post-Gabriel Genesis. I like prog-rock. This album, to me, just sounded like outtakes and what would be the inspiration for early Spinal Tap. Thank heaven that Peter Gabriel split from Banks, Rutherford, and Collins, and they all stopped getting in each other's way.

This was very innovative for 1977. And I can certainly see how this would have influenced many different genres going into the 80's. But innovative and influential doesn't mean, in and of itself, that it's any good.

I once heard this album referred to as proof of John's misogyny. I wonder if the context of some of these songs would have allowed John to survive today's cancel culture in the wake of the #metoo movement. I don't know, but it could make for an interesting conversation. Lots of great songs here to showcase the transition from their earlier work to what would come next. 5 stars because even their meh songs are better than most bands' best efforts.

Great band, great album. A little folk, a little touch of southern "rock". A nice, easy listen.

"How Do You Think It Feels" was my favorite, but "Berlin" was good as well. Lou Reed, like Springsteen, is hit-or-miss with me. I recognize the great songwriting, but the delivery doesn't always hit the mark for me. Regardless of my personal opinions on him, I think that most people who say they like Lou Reed do so because they think it makes them appear "deep". Just a thought...

This is one of those albums/bands that fell in the cracks between other blues/rock bands of the time. They would have made more of an impact if they had been able to write some songs that sounded a little different from each other. They also shouldn't have relied solely on distorted guitars and screaming vocals.

"Shortcomings" is the only track that was remotely memorable. I didn't dislike this album, but there wasn't really anything unique about it.

This is classic Bowie. I love that he never just stands pat on his song writing.

I once visited an art museum with a group from a class that I was taking. We stopped in front of this 10'x10' canvas that was painted black: no texture, no variants in shading.....just black. Our guide, as well as many in the group, waxed poetic about this important piece of art and blah blah blah. The truth is that they saw it for what it was but didn't have the guts to say so because they didn't want to appear to others as "not getting it". Anybody who gives this album more than zero stars is just like the group of sheep who don't want to call out a black square as being nothing more than a black square. This album was 45 minutes of hipster wet dream.

I kept wondering what method they used to come up with names for each of these tracks. There is music of his that does it for me. This album missed the mark by a wide swath of bitches.

The underwhelming Undertones. They fell into the gap between soft punk and new wave. This isn't a bad album, but it's just very.....forgettable. And whoever came up with the idea for the video for "There Goes Norman" should be flogged.

It's weird. It's original. It's sometimes catchy and sometimes it's just dizzy. I liked it musically, and the vocals weren't so annoying that it grated on me. They get the third star for keeping my interest for an entire album.

Middle of the road reggae. I'm pretty ambivalent about them as a whole. "Madam Medusa" had a nice bass line to it. That's as exciting as it got for me.

"Brighton Rock"......THAT'S how you start off an album. God save Queen.

I love blues music. However, I do have to admit that most blues songs, from any blues musician, all use the same three chords, key, and chord progression. It does tend to make it all blend together into one long song.

This was a great, mellow, listen. I was a bit surprised that this came out before Moby came along (unless there's a connection between the two). This album is going to get listened to a lot.

I love Beck. Of all of his albums, this one probably doesn't have as wide a range of musical styles. The songwriting was amazing. I didn't pay attention to the lyrics, but my guess is that this is Beck's version of a break up album.

I like the Pretenders. And this is a great album. But I blame their brand of "punk" for the Green Days of the world.

A very 80's-defining album. I've always liked "Hungry Like the Wolf", but the rest of the album is better than the 80's version of me remembers. Le Bon tends to whine too much in his singing, but I digress.

And now I know who Lord Huron's favorite band is. "White Winter Hymnal" is one that I've heard before and quite like. When I first heard that this was a folk album, I was a bit skeptical, but his album was a home run.

"Banstyle" was listenable enough. That's all.

It's not bad. It's not great. It just is.

Listening to The Kinks is like taking a really pleasant Sunday drive. It doesn't really matter where you are going, or even if you "arrive" at any destination. The road just meanders and you enjoy the ride.

Mumbling hipsters producing the musical equivalent of a plate of saltine crackers. This album was a boring, monotonous waste of an hour.

I really enjoyed "The Mess We're In". This album was a very nice surprise due to the first PJ Harvey album suggested by this site....sucked rocks. The songwriting, and delivery was great throughout. The last 6 songs were the strongest parts of this album. I'm glad that I gave it a chance instead of skipping it.

A little pre-grunge-wannabe-punk. It wasn't a bad listen, but nothing that I'll remember or revisit.

"The Yo Yo Man" had a nice hook. But the best that can be said for the rest of the album is that it is doesn't suck.

Catchy, upbeat songs that are pretty well written. This album came out at the perfect time for an all-women group to fill a niche that didn't really exist since The Runaways (Heart, Pat Benetar, and Tina Turner notwithstanding). However, it should be noted that the primary reason these songs worked at all is because of outstanding bass lines and strong playing by the bassist.

Not too bad. However, I'd like to slap whoever the idiot was that decided that forcing the distortion on everything would make them sound "harder" and "edgy". Overall, I'm not impressed.

Other than a few moments here and there, I wouldn't have figured this for country music. This was a nice listen. Hints of Allison Kraus and Mindy Smith (not that I'm hugely familiar with them).

Musically? Yes. Lyrically? No thanks. I think that most people rated this so low because they just don't like him or his persona. I think that he's just trying too hard. It all sounds forced.

This is great music for people who readily relate to emperors who love new clothes that only they can see. This was what my high school jazz band sounded like when they were warming up to play actual music. Save yourself 40 minutes by listening to the first 10 seconds and then shutting it off.

I like her voice and her sound. But this was not anything memorable. And once you've listened to 2-3 songs in a row, you realize that she's a one-trick pony. This was a nice listen, but very middle of the road.

I do like the big band sound. And I do love Ray. This is what I consider a "context" album: the setting that you hear it determines whether you think it's a great album or, as is my case today, it's just okay.

I was expecting a pretty decent smooth jazz album. Nothing really jumped out at me that would warrant a second listen, but this was a nice album.

When they're good, they are very very good. This album was a harbinger of what was to come during the 80's. It had little hints of punk, some new wave, the synth sound of progressive music. Anybody hearing this album for the first time may think, "meh", but in 1978 this was a bridge between 70's album rock and synth-heavy 80's music. At the time nobody knew that it was anything more than just a different sound.

The guy certainly had a very distinctive sound and style. This is a pretty good album on it's own merit. But you can certainly hear how much he had matured, and taken more creative control, when you listen to Thriller. Too bad the guy ended up being such a colossal loon.

This was a really good album to have playing in the background this morning. Not having heard this guy before, I had no expectations. Very nice voice and good music.

There's nothing flashy about this album. This is the recording of a guy who sat down and played songs that he wanted to play and wasn't worried about topping the charts or pressure from the record company. A nice listen, but nothing really stood out to me.

A really good listen. This isn't an album that you put on to just listen to. You put it on and let the music enhance the mood of the room.....if that makes sense.

Anybody who relies solely on auto-tune for their vocals shouldn't be allowed to record, much less be on a "must listen" list. This should be on a website "1001 Albums You'll Wish That You Had Died Before Hearing".

I like the blues. I like blues-based rock. I like Eric Clapton. But this album was the same progression of blues chords on, and throughout, every track. This bored me very quickly.

These guys found 69 pretentious, self-indulgent ways to suck. This guy sounded like a moody Ian Curtis (THAT'S saying something, isn't it?), who occasionally let's his girlfriend, whom the rest of the band hates, sing.

Tina is great. The issue I have is that this album was a couple of good songs that were buried in a pile of way overproduced 80's sound. The production values just haven't aged well and I, personally, just can't get over that.

I like Yes a lot. I don't mind weird time signatures or key changes. But the parts where it didn't even sound like they were playing a song, or the same song, just didn't do it for me. The saving grace is that when this album in good, it's very very good.

I'm certain that the makeup and stage presence may have been very off-putting for a lot of people. That's the only reason I can think of for why they weren't as commercially successful as other bands of the time. Pretty good mix of punk and "rock" music. This is take it or leave it music for me, but I do recognize how fresh this must have sounded when it was released.

"Overground", "Metal Postcard", and "Suburban Relapse" were the standouts on this very good album. Very cutting edge music from a band that doesn't get the credit that it deserves for all the 80's new wave/punk bands that it influenced. This sounds like a perfect mix of The Smiths and X.

I love these guys. The only minus is that if you've heard the first 20 seconds of the song, then you've heard the entire song. However, these songs were written to be performed live more than to be listened to on a stereo.

"I'll Call..." and "So Fresh, So Clean" are really good tracks. I like Andre's vocal sound even if I don't care much for this genre's vocal style. But if there is a good musical hook to a track, then I'm good.

For this genre not really being my thing I have to give them props for being ahead of the pack in terms of their overall sound. They get an extra star for that.

c.r.A.A.p city

Not a bad listen. The first track was pretty interesting, but nothing else really stood out as memorable.

This is an important part of the soundtrack of my childhood.

Reggae is always a pretty easy listen; and this was no exception. But, for me, reggae has been like sushi: I never crave it, but will, occasionally, try some if it's there. This gets an extra star for being really good for what it is.

Music written for the stage (theatric, not concert) really only works for me if there is a context for it; like an actual stage production. Other than that, it doesn't do much for me.

What happens when you are too late to the grunge party, but decide to go for it, but throw in a little punk so that you don't get accused of being posers who missed the grunge party boat? One star: that's what.

Pearl Jam are really hit-or-miss with me, with very little in-between. The irony is that the songs of theirs that I really like never get any airplay (I'm not sure if that makes me the hipster d-bag among their hipster d-bag fan base or not). I will, however give them their props for being original, never being formulaic, and for using the same into/outro to open, and close, the album.

I don't know about arrested, but I could get behind "cease and desist". The best part of this album was imagining somebody being able to record this with a straight face. This should be on the list "1001 Albums That You'd Rather Die Than Listen To Again". Zero stars. That's all I've got energy for today, folks.

"A Means to an End" and "Heart and Soul" were okay. The rest of this album just didn't do anything for me.

I absolutely love Priest and this album was what started it for me. When the first song you ever hear from a band is "Living After Midnight".....yeah....game OVER. I can't believe that "United" never became an anthem played at sports stadiums everywhere.

A really interesting, eclectic, listen. I like that Bryan Ferry isn't formulaic in the songwriting. This is an album that I could probably listen to many times and hear something different every single time.

Very interesting, very diverse, and very pointless. And for an album recorded in the mid-90s, somebody should have told Barry that the "sax" sound of the 80s sounded dated even when it was popular in the 80s.

I really like Coldplay. But I don't think I could listen to them for this many songs in a row again. I like what's-his-face's voice until four songs in and realize that without the music, just his vocals, I wouldn't know what song he was singing.

Anyone who gives less than 5 stars deserves to be deaf. Anyone who gives less than 5 stars because Animals, or WYWH, is their favorite PF album, should be slapped. Judge it on its own merits or gtfo. That's my rock snobbery for the day. Happy holidays, everyone.

A couple of these songs sound like watered-down versions of Stereolab. That's not a bad thing, but just an observation. "Been It" was the track that stuck out to me the most. "Lovefool" I have heard without knowing who sang it. It was meh. This was like IKEA meatballs: pretty good, but nothing that I'm every going to crave.

This one just didn't do anything at all for me. It's not bad, in any regard.

I guess that swan was wrapped too tightly around her neck. I'm sure that she was trying for ethereal in these songs, but it ended up just sounding monotonous and like a drunken voicemail from an ex.

Hats off for George successfully completely revamping his image with this album. This album didn't do much for me at the time, but it has aged pretty well. The songs are well written and performed.

A nice, easy, middle-of-the-road listen. It's good, but nothing of note to remember.

Shite. Zero stars. Damn the idiot who put this on the list.

I know that Costello has always been a hipster's wet dream, but I find him to be tolerable at best. Two stars for not exactly sucking, but, come on, there's nothing to this album.

Not bad for background noise. Nothing of note, musically.

I prefer Andre 3000's The Love Below, by far, to Big Boi's contribution. But 40 damn songs? Come on guys, learn to edit, ffs.

I love the Doors. I don't harbor illusions about Jim Morrison being the great poet that he obviously thought that he was, but I do like his singing style and voice. "Maggie M'Gill" sounds so much like "Back Door Man" that I would bet that Maggie was quite a lady.

Innovative and ahead of their time. They weren't afraid to just be themselves, and it shows. At the time nobody knew what the hell to make of them. Now, it's pretty obvious the impact that they had on a vast majority of 80s new wave and alternative music.

I do like Kate's voice.....in 1-2 song increments. But the songs themselves were not that good. It's almost like they just slapped together some music and figured that nobody would notice because of her voice. Honestly, except for "This Woman's Work", it sounded like she was singing the same tune just with different backing tracks.

This was a pretty easy listen. Other than the ethereal aspects of the production, there really isn't anything that stuck out enough for me to want to listen to again.

I love that Blur is willing to go with whatever sound they feel like performing. This album just didn't do it for me.

Nothing was going to live up to Rumours. And I think that a double-album is just begging to be seen as mediocre. It lacks the tension and angst of Rumours, but is still a damn good album. The Ledge is a fun stomp. Tusk is a great drum beat. Sara is a home run. This is an album by a band that had grown quite a bit from the coke-fueled middle school drama of previous albums.

She has a great, soulful, voice with a little southern vibe to it. The songs, while not incredibly original, are well written. This was a nice listen.

Crude, rude, and brash. These guys definitely did not just talk the talk. Their sound and attitude has been the benchmark for every punk/hard rock/metal band that has come since. Some bands have come close, but never duplicated all of this. Oh yeah, the music is pretty damn good too.

The weird thing is that I like these guys, then I realize that they always sound like Search & Destroy by The Stooges. Maybe if they had a little more variety to their songs.

I'm a very casual Metallica fan. They're a fun concert, I like their sound, and their playing is tight. Overall, I like this album even though I'm not a speed metal fan and, after a few songs, I can't distinguish this album's songs from one another.

Another album that has interesting music tracks being overshadowed by gibberish pretending to be edgy and/or poetic.

Home run.

I like Lenny. His music will, as a whole, always 3-stars music.

Formulaic and unoriginal. It doesn't even come off as being a "retro" sound. Savage Garden called from 1993. They want their album back.

An extra star because of Cars. But every song is exactly the same: and that's not a good thing.

Pretty strong effort for a debut album. Not a bad listen at all.

"The Perfect Kiss" was the best song. The rest was pretty formulaic new wave stuff. Nothing spectacular, but it didn't grate on me.

Musically, this is amazing. But I just get into a vocal style that is just yelling with no choral intonation whatsoever. They lose an extra star for that.

"Make My Mind" was easily the best song on what was a pretty boring album. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything memorable either. This band seems to be one of those that the verse is better than the chorus, and that's not saying much.

"In Your House" and "M" are great songs, as is "A Forest". I'm not a huge Cure fan, but this was a really good album.

"On the Beach" was the best song. The rest was a very easy listen, but nothing to get excited about.

Great album. There are refrains of The Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Seeds, Love, etc. This is some great music.

The music isn't bad. But her voice is flat and if she has any range to her singing, she never shows it. She is the inspiration for every lame-ass coffee shop singer that I've heard since 1990. No thanks. One star solely for the music and for not having to listen to "Luka".

How nice for them.

Great band, great music, tight playing, and extraordinary musicianship. My problem with performances that are just extended, wandering jams is that after bit my mind just wanders and then the music just fades into the background. I get to a point where I don't even notice anything about the music that is being played. So then, imho, what's the point? Keep the songs to where you still keep my attention throughout and that's a better live performance for me. But that little opinion isn't enough for me to knock them down much.

Well, that was boring as hell.

Interesting, and not a bad listen. It was nice to have on in the background, but I'm not sure that it would ever be something that I'd listen to again. This sounded a bit like more recent string quartets, who recorded covers of classic rock songs.

"Memories Are Made of This" and "Orstralia" were the two that really stood out to me. This whole album was great. The songs didn't drag on forever, the singer actually sang, and it wasn't the same chord over and over throughout all of the songs.

I like Nirvana. I like this album. But Kurt was not the musical genius that many paint him out to be. Their best song, "Come As You Are", they completely ripped off from the band Killing Joke. The rest of their songs are basically just using the template laid out by the Meat Puppets. Kudos to Kurt Cobain for cashing in on other people's work.

This was a good album to have on in the background today. Lots of percussion, but arranged in a manner that it didn't overtake the music. Paul Simon would use very similar styles on his Rhythm of the Saints album in the early 90s. You have to enjoy anything that sounds like a drum circle.

This wasn't unpleasant at all. It would be a great album to use for falling asleep. However, other than "So Easy" being a take on Bobby Vinton's "Blue On Blue", there wasn't much to remember this album by.

I love these guys even when I don't love everything that they play. I love how the will play all different styles, and then mix styles together. Their avoidance of being formulaic works for me in how they go about writing their music.

One song at a time is enough for me. The harmonies, while good, are all the same on every sang. But they do get an extra star for the obvious influence that they had on future artists such as the Everly Brothers.

I confused this guy with Alan Parsons. Oops. So I was a bit surprised to hear country when I was expecting something in the prog-rock genre. Emmylou Harris certainly added a welcome voice to the songs. I like this kind of country music. However, if not for Emmylou's vocals, this wouldn't be anything of note. The songwriting is okay, but his voice and singing style is pretty meh.

This album should dispel the myth about what a musical genius Kurt Cobain was. He was a damn poser who ripped off others' music even more than Jimmy Page did on the first few Zeppelin albums. Cobain wasn't just influenced by these guys. He didn't have an original idea in his head. As for the Meat Puppets? I like them. This album was pretty good. I wonder if their singer was trying to sound like the guy from the Violent Femmes, or vice versa? Just curious.

This is five-star music if you're in a club or are just some poser who thinks that listening to this makes you "edgy". Thank heaven I'm neither of those things.

Interesting. I enjoyed the hell out of this album: I definitely didn't see that coming. I liked the chord progression, and the production sounded very fresh.

It wasn't bad, it just wasn't anything memorable. They were like a really watered-down version of Soundgarden, but with the same annoying guitar distortion on every song.

A good first album even in light of what would come later from this band. There were a lot of bands that had similar music at the time that this album came out. The difference is that those other bands didn't have a powerhouse rhythm section as did The Who. The songwriting is good, the playing is tight, and the bass and drums helped give this album the punch that would lead to The Who's moniker: Maximum R&B.

This is what happens when try to sound like Strawberry Alarm Clock and Jefferson Airplane, but don't have the chops to pull it off. When you see people on the news chanting "Death to America": this album is part of the reason why.

As an aside: this was America's first real glimpse of gender identity. There was quite a debate about what sex "Boy" was. This is pretty standard 80's fare. Boy has a great voice and the music, for the time, was pretty good. But I hate "Karma Chameleon" with a passion and the rest of the album is just meh.

This was lame even when it came out in the late 80's.

There are some real gems on this album. This brings back such strong memories of high school that I'm not sure if I should add, or subtract, a star from my rating. This gets three stars on the strength of the 4 songs that got regular radio play. The rest aren't that great, but the album has aged pretty well for a mid-80's album.

53 years later and this classic still holds up. Who would have imagined that one of the best things to happen to rock music, and created an entire genre, all came about because the Tony Iommi lost the tips of two of his fingers. He down-tuned to allow him to play the guitar. And the rest is history.

"Tonight" was the standout song that I've been listening to on repeat. The rest was a good listen. It reminded me a bit of Andy Williams and others of that time/genre. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

A damn good album. I'm not going to lie: I never gave this album a chance because all I ever heard on the radio was Love Song. The rest of this album is worth the time.

Some people just like plain vanilla ice cream with no toppings. That's fine...you do you. But it's nothing to get excited about in the least. This album was the equivalent.

More "techno" than alternative, but still a very good album. For me this is a more mature, sometimes darker, album. Certainly it's more introspective than previous albums. And you have to love a line like, "reach out and touch faith".

I remember when I found out that this album wasn't a "greatest hits" compilation. That's how damn good The Who are. Maximum R&B.

My favorite album cover that shows every person in the band looking like they think the photo concept is the dumbest thing they've ever heard. When they are good, they are very, very good. Other times they are still pretty damn good.

I like U2. I like this album well enough. It brings back good memories and the songs are okay. But most of this is just a great bang going through the motions.

I can't believe that these guys were considered "edgy" when I was in high school. It's obvious that they were trying to sound like the Ramones. Instead, they come off as sounding like Tom Petty. That's not a bad thing, but it's nothing to get excited about. Still, it wasn't a bad listen even if it was rather unexciting.

Classic disco with a little soul and funk thrown in. Good stuff that has aged better than a lot of music of that era.

Some hints of The Saints, but a very fresh, original sound. "Is She Weird" is the earworm song of the day. The rest of this album was terrific from start to finish. Definitely one that I'm happy made this list.

"International Jet Set" was, at the very least, an interesting listen. "Enjoy Yourself", along with its reprise, are like the song "It's a Small World After All": songs that will drive one to insanity if played on a loop. This album could go on the list of albums that I could have gone a lifetime without hearing. Ladies and gentlemen: The Mundanes!

"Get Your Hands Off My Woman" was a rocker even though the falsetto felt a bit too much. "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" is also a really good song. The rest of the album was pretty bland. And the singer's range is impressive....at first. But after a couple of songs it's just annoying. And he hasn't got that great of a voice to begin with.

Meh. One good song and the rest is either them trying to sound like Devo, or them trying to sound the like The Cure trying to sound like Devo. It's like that period of the 80's new wave all had the same producer who couldn't get out of their own way.

I can't believe this f****ing guy is smiling on the album cover. "Songs to Shoot Heroin By", "I Watched My Entire Family Drown", "I've Been Buried Alive".... These would all be more appropriate titles for this depressing as f*** album.

Nice songs, and she has a nice voice. However.....she sings the exact same on every single song and her voice inflections wears thin pretty quickly. "River Lea" was the best song. The rest all sort of melded together. I couldn't tell where one song ended and the next had begun.

Great songwriting and a very smooth voice. I like Paul Simon and really enjoyed this album.

Pretty innovative for 1978. "My Tulpa", "Motorcade", and "The Great Beautician...." were the standouts. This was a pretty damn good album that has aged very well.

"Timeless" was aimless and pointless.

Good music. But at this point his singing, to me, is just a parody of himself. I don't get Elvis: never have, never will. I can understand early Elvis, but not the overdone-Vegas sound of his voice. An extra star because the music has aged better than the vocal style.

It's good music and pleasant to listen to. But most of it is very generic and sounds pretty listless. I guess the context of when you listen to this matters.

Nothing spectacular. It sounds more like a Jefferson Airplane album than the Byrds.

When it's good, it's very good. Some of the tracks are just a meandering mess. "Give Up the Funk" is good enough for it's own star.

This has not aged well at all. She has a nice voice, but her singing is so sappy that it's hard to listen to. When you add in the backing vocals.....no thanks.

My problem with this album isn't that it's rap, which I generally don't care for. But this was the EXACT same vocal track with different music backing. If the music were interesting, then I can live with that (Tupac's "California Love", The Coup, Jurassic 5). However, this was just another album that I could have died happy never having heard.

"M62" and "N.Y." were interesting and sounded less like Coldplay than other songs. But this was, overall, a pretty forgettable album.

Well, somebody was trying to sound like Stereolab, weren't they? This album just meandered aimlessly. Sometimes that works for me, sometimes it doesn't. There were some interesting, but fleeting, moments here. This definitely wasn't a boring listen: that's not necessarily a compliment.

"So Young", "The Drowners", and "Metal Mickey" I like very much. The rest of the album is good, but doesn't live up to the hype that the British music press heaped on the album.

This album was WAY ahead of its time. Wow. This would go on to influence alternative as well as what the 80's would call "new age" music. "Hall of Mirrors" was probably the most interesting track. The rest was okay for background noise, but 9 minute tracks of the same 15 seconds over and over was a bit much. An extra star for being so ground-breaking.

"UFO" and "The Seer's Tower" I loved. Others like "Jacksonville" and "Casimir Pulaski Day" were really good. This was a very interesting listen: even the one about John Wayne Gacy. Albums like this make up for all the clinkers that are on this site's list.

There is some rap/hip-hop that I can enjoy if there is a musical hook to it. But every time the Beastie Boys find a musical aspect that I can get into, they open their mouths and..... I tried.

I love Al Green. Not every song on here was great, but still pretty damn good.

Just another poser trying to sound edgy and be contemporary while being "outraged". Yawn.

Bland 80s schmaltz at its finest. I will say this for this album: I didn't care for it, but it I was in a pissy mood when I started listening, and it's hard to feel anything while listening to this.

It's nice. It's relaxing. It's some of the best elevator music I've ever heard.

The Slits? Get it? "Cut". Get it?? Topless women on the cover. Got it yet? All are cheap marketing gimmicks that they had to use because they couldn't pull off punk or ska.

"They Won't Go When I Go" and "Cowboys and Angels" are terrific songs. His singing style can seem a bit embellished and overly dramatic, but when it works, it works. This was a really nice surprise.

Other than a couple of songs, I'm not very familiar with Radiohead at all. This was a nice surprise. Now I get what I've been hearing about them.

"Take Your Time" was mesmerizing. This is a good album to zone out with. "Shine a Light" started strong and then went off the rails. This wasn't a bad way to pass some time.

Great band. Great album. This gets the fifth star simply because my brother played this cassette non-stop during the summer of '83. I hear these songs and it brings back memories so vivid that even the mundane remembrances can invoke nostalgia.

Sometimes interesting, sometimes melodic/hypnotic, sometimes a meandering, rat-crap crazy mess. But, for the most part, it wasn't bad as background noise. Would I listen to it again? Probably not. Does that mean anything? Not really.

What's less than zero?

Pretty good mid-80's fare. It's not bad to listen to, but every track is just the same template. They had the one hit, but didn't do anything to standout from all the other similar bands of the time.

Pretty good stuff. It's nice to have on in the background, even if there's nothing memorable about it.

"Down Through the Night" had a catchy riff that repeated endlessly. However, this album should have been titled, "Wish We Were King Crimson".

Raw and powerful. This was U2 before Bono got a little too preachy and full of himself. This is an important chapter in the soundtrack of my life.

Overall, I like a lot of their songs. However, their songs don't have a tremendous amount of range or variety to them. When they're good, they're very good. The rest of the time they are very generic.

This was a great listen. This was perfect to have on while I'm doing what needs to be done. Lots of very subtle percussion in the background gave the tracks some extra depth.

This is pretty ahead of its time for 1979. It has also aged pretty well. This was a good listen from start to finish.

Some catchy tunes within a lot of meandering tracks. These guys would focus and have some good songs later, but this was meh.

New Age before that was even a thing. Kudos to him for that. Trippy and pointless, but not bad to zone out to.

Simple and raw. And the good thing is that if you don't like a song, no worries, it will be over in less than two minutes. "...Basement", and "Loudmouth", surprisingly, actually have some structure and chord progression. The rest of the tracks are indistinguishable from each other. However....see my two minute observation.

I'm not going to lie....I was very surprised by this. These guys can play and actually wrote songs with structure. It sounded, to me, like a cross between Motorhead and Metallica. The problem is that they reminded me of that guy in high school/college who, regardless of how cool he actually may have been, tried SO hard to be edgy/scary/stand out from the crowd, that he lost all credibility and left everybody rolling their eyes as they walked past him. That's these guys to a "T". Enough of the "satanic imagery.....oooohhh....scary!", boy. It's always been lame and ages really poorly.

"Watch Me Jumpstart" and "Always Crush Me" were the standouts. Overall, this was a very good album. For having never heard of these guys, I'd listen to this album again.

This was the equivalent of vanilla ice cream: good, but nothing that I'm going to crave or simply want on its own. I really liked the first half of "On Sir Francis Drake". The rest was highlighting some uninspiring keyboard playing. This was The Youngbloods transitioning into Pablo Cruise. Meh

There's a big difference between somebody who knows what notes to sing, and can hit the correct notes, and somebody who can SING the music. There's no passion in her voice, there's no rich quality to her singing, she's just singing what is put in front of her. I can't believe that everybody hypes her the way they do. She gets an extra star because her voice isn't terrible and because the music is not bad.

Too heavy on the horns. This didn't do a damn thing for me.

Good music. I'm just not sure what exactly it is supposed to be. There's not much to remember about these guys.

Not a bad listen despite them trying to sound like a cross between Radiohead and John Lennon on "Across the Universe". 10 identical tracks; none of which stood out at all.

She has a great voice.....except her vibrato sounds too much like she's grabbing the skin on her Adam's apple and shaking it back and forth; that gets old fast. And all of these songs are the exact same song. My problem with folk, as with most Christian music, is that the artists get too preachy and heavy-handed in the delivery. Believe what you believe, but be subtle about it and stop shoving it down our throats.

It took a couple of tracks for me to settle in, but this was a really good listen. It has aged very well.

Metal is hit or miss with me. Overall, I liked the guitar riffs and the vocals were okay. The thrash part just does not do it for me at all.

A home run. I wonder if more of these songs would have been hits if the few that had already been released weren't dominating the airwaves.

Other than the saxophone on "Your Latest Trick" not aging very well (way too 80's schmaltz), these tracks are all incredibly performed and produced. Trivia: this album was released in the cassette era, but just as CDs and digital audio was just coming of age. This album was touted as "you must own the CD version".

Pretty damn good. "Insight" was my favorite, but I liked the overall sound and mood of these tracks.

As soon as I saw that this was produced by Frank Zappa I knew that this was going to be a shit show. I'm sorry to have hit the nail right on the head with that assessment. 28 tracks? Seriously?? It's garbage like this that actually makes me look forward to reviewing an album by Britney F***ing Spears tomorrow.

And thus is the Radio Disney era begun. Bad songwriting, average voice, crappy production. This site's credibility is again brought into question simply because some wonk decided that selling 25 million albums must make it one of the all-time greats.

There wasn't a single track on this album that wasn't bland and unimaginative. I'm surprised that these guys didn't die of boredom while playing these songs.

I'm not a big fan of country music, and there isn't anything spectacular about this album. However, when I think of country music, this is generally what I'm hoping to hear. Pretty good stuff.

I'm a hit-or-miss, take 'em or leave 'em, R.E.M. fan. And I've always thought of Michael Stipe as a self-righteous, grumpy "old man" type. But this was a fantastic album from start to finish. I've always resisted calling myself a fan primarily because the few people that I've personally known, who were huge fans, were all pretentious a**holes. That has nothing to do with their music, but I just like having a forum to say it out loud. Kylie, Ed, Emily, Tall Ed, the jerk who sat behind me in geometry, and Liz Walker's d-bag brother: get over yourselves, you dicks.

This was pretty bland considering that they have a lot of other great material. One great song and the rest all sort of sounded the same with a low energy output.

After 30 years of not listening to the song because of American Pie "fatigue", I have to admit that it really is one hell of a good song. I know that the song is specifically about Buddy Holly's death, but some of the other references, including "birds" and "eight miles", also have me believing that the "day the music died" was also referring to Altamont and how that weekend brought the whole Woodstock/Summer of Love era to a crashing halt. American Pie then stands as bookends to two major rock music eras. The rest of the songs are pretty good folk tunes, but aren't very varied or imaginative. It's obvious that Don was breaking his neck trying to sound like Paul Simon, but coming up a bit short. Still, this entire album was a very strong effort, but didn't quite deliver.

They have a couple of songs that I really like quite a bit. But they also have a lot of songs that are a meandering, muddy mess. They need to sharpen their production values and figure hone their songwriting. They get the third star because it is listenable.....in small chunks.

I like XTC's sound and when they find a hook for their songs. But too often their songwriting just meanders until it gets back to the catchy hook. That's fine unless the song doesn't have that hook. "Mermaid Smiled" is a perfect example of a hookless, meandering mess. "Earn Enough For Us", "Season Cycle" were decent songs. "Dear God" is just whining that seeks to blame somebody else for humans being assholes to one another due to our own folly and hubris. It became a hit simply because it gave d-bag, hipster college students the illusion that they were rebelling against their upbringing. Not so edgy.

CCR is some of the best road trip music ever made. People might be surprised to realize that this isn't a greatest hits compilation. Just a stellar album from start to finish. I can't believe the three who aren't John Fogerty threw such fit about not being recognized for John's work. Talk about killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.

It's pretty listenable for as monotonous as it is. This is pretty ahead of its time for 1980, but was too bland to have any real staying power.

"Seven and Seven" is a great song. "The Castle" was catchy and "Stephanie Knows Who" is pretty good as well. This album sounds like they got caught between psychedelic and what would become "classic" rock. Good when they're good, forgettable when they're not.

"The Bride" was a pretty decent song. The rest was just a big mess.

"Fotzepolitic" was the most notable track on a listenable, but altogether forgettable, album. It's obvious that these guys listened to nothing but ABBA and just didn't have the chops to pull off the same level of execution.

So they changed directions from folk-rock to whatever the hell this is: glam rock, because they put on makeup? Whatever. "The Motivator" rips off "Bang a Gong", but is the better song. "Planet Queen" was also a good song. An extra star for those efforts, but that's it. I don't get why everyone goes apeshit for these guys. Every song is the same level of everything: middle of the road on every count. And it's not possible for the singer to mumble any more than he did. Sheesh. Were these guys trying to be so quiet that you weren't sure if they wanted to actually be heard or not? These guys are a nothing burger with cheese: the cheese is good, the bun is good. But without the meat, then what's the damn point?

When you consider how all over the place Gabriel was with Genesis, and his earlier solo efforts, I can see why some would be skeptical about this commercially appealing album. And yes, the 80's production doesn't always age well. However, this is just a great album from start to finish.

Not a bad listen, albeit pretty forgettable. However, I would put this on again as some background noise.

I loved everything about this album. It just hit the right note for what I was in the mood for today. "Hanky Panky Nohow" and "Paris 1919" really stood out for me. His voice is a bit of Ray Davies and Ringo Starr. The songwriting had a touch of Harry Nilsson (or vice versa). This was a great album

Three standouts (I Believe, Superstition, Maybe Your Baby), one cliche' (You Are the Sunshine of My Life), and a lot of middling, syrupy songs. I love Stevie's songwriting, but sometimes the delivery is too much schmaltz for my taste.

Shades of Radiohead and Tool. "Breadcrumb Trail" was a great opener. I liked this album quite a bit.

"Waitin' For the Bus", "Jesus Just Left Chicago", and "La Grange" are enough for this album to get 5-stars. But that the rest of the album is DAMN good is just icing on the cake.

All of the naysayers need to consider this: 45 years later and most of the songs on this album still get regular airplay. There aren't a lot of albums by any band that can make that claim (that aren't "greatest hits" or " best of" compilations). This is a home run.

Not bad for a first effort. Good energy and decent riffs. Is there anything that really jumped out at me? No. Would I sit through it if it came up in the playlist? Yes.

I really liked "The Fun Lovin' Criminal", and "Bombin' the L" plus 2-3 other standouts. Overall, I found this a pretty good listen. For a genre that I generally avoid, I prefer this to any of the crap put out by the Beastie Boys.

Another reviewer, celebrating their 365th review, lambasted the rest of us for our minimalist reviews and descriptions. My response is that if they want loquacious treatises on the merits of an album, or lack thereof, then subscribe to RS or one of the other wastes of musical publishing. My reviews are primarily for me. The best I can say for this album is that is was boring but, overall, didn't suck.

A great mix of soul, funk, and R&B. These guys are amazing. And the production values, for the time, were unmatched. This is a great album.

I love when I'm exposed to an artist/genre like this and it just clicks with me. I loved listening to this and will play this in the future. I'm always wary when anything international makes this list, but this was a wonderful listen for me.

I liked it. It was catchy and mellow enough to chill out with. "Love of Mine" was a great track. I'd give this a listen again in a heartbeat.

Zero stars. Why listen to a Swedish knock-off of Madonna, Janet Jackson, etc., when you can just listen to the aforementioned artists? Instead we have what would eventually spawn all of the synthesizer-based, auto-tune Radio Disney garbage. What a crap sandwich.

So the hit, "Brimful of Asha", was just flat out annoying to listen to. "Sleep On the Left Side" was a good start to the album. The rest of the songs were pleasant to listen to, but nothing memorable.

I'm sorry, but being a "break through" album shouldn't be enough to warrant a spot on this list. When you compare this to their album "Breakfast In America", this album is a bargain bin submission. A couple of good songs in "Bloody Well Right", and "Dreamer" aren't enough to overcome the fact that this album is this band's award teenage phase.

I'm surprised at how much I liked this album. I was in high school when "Tainted Love" was a hit. This was a nostalgia trip for me. "Sex Dwarf", "Seedy Films" and "Youth" were damn catchy. The rest was pretty good 80's-synth fare. A problem for these guys is that "Tainted Love" was such a huge hit, that nothing else they did was going to live up to that song. The other problem is that they sound a lot like what Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Pet Shop Boys were putting out at the same time, but the other guys just did it better.

18 tracks of sound-alike music that shouldn't be played outside of a pub or a wake. Do people actually listen to this stuff when they're driving, doing homework, etc? For what it is, it's good. But they have two (so far) albums of Irish jigs on a list of 1001 must-hear albums. What the hell?

America's favorite lounge singer. His music is okay, but his voice is....not great. I listen to his music and I wonder if he was just biding his time until Disney made him the soundtrack for all of their Pixar movies.

So my understanding is that she has a team of 13 song writers helping her with this crap. What a joke. What a waste of time.

Some of the tracks were okay....those that featured the vibraphone. The free-form tracks with what sounded like a damn accordion? Give me a break.

"Goldfinger" was a good song. These guys want to sound like Nirvana/Smashing Pumpkins, but were a little too watered-down and late to the party. "I'd Give You Anything" is ripped off from Black Sabbath's N.I.B. Other than that, there wasn't anything memorable about any of these tracks.

I wonder what it's like to be 15 seconds into your first track, and you realize that you need to fire your singer. The good news is the singing gets better, sort of, after the first track. Musically, this is all pretty good stuff. "The Beast" is a good track. This is another album that if it's on, I'll listen to it, but I doubt I would add this my playlist.

I enjoyed "Uncomplicated" and "I Want You" very much. Let's establish something here: he can't sing and the tunes he sings sound the same on every single song. The songwriting isn't bad. However, I just never "got" this guy, which is probably just fine with all the hipsters who swoon whenever Costello's name gets mentioned.

"Tides" was a nice, chill tune. The rest of it, however, was a rambling mess of musical styles, and cultures, that never should have been combined. I'm not sure how this made it onto this list.

I love this type of jazz. I love her voice. This album is a home run.

I quite liked "Lovely Head" and "Paper Bag". They were a little bluesy/jazzy ethereal. "Oompah Rider" was carousel music on acid. The rest of it was a little too meh for my tastes. A lot of the tracks sounded like the soundtrack to some 90's arthouse film that was going for a "deep" feel. It wasn't a bad album, but it wasn't much to begin with.

Very progressive and ahead of its time for 1979. That still wasn't enough to keep me interested. I kept wanting it to be more than talented guys just going through the motions. Come on, guys, put some passion into it. These guys must have felt really screwed when Duran Duran completely copied them and then went on to be massive superstars. But this is a case of "if the songwriting were a little better and the sound a little bigger". Should of, would of, could of....

Very listenable, quasi-Clash album. There were some very nice musical hooks to several of the songs. My biggest gripe is that they never really built on the original riff of any one song. It was just wash, rinse, repeat. That made most of the songs get old fast. But they get an extra start for being good when they needed to be good.

I didn't always get Neil Young. However, I love that he does what he is feeling at the moment and if you get it, then great. If you don't, then sucks for you. In this case, I really like almost everything about this album. The songwriting, his singing, the lyrics, the mood (for lack of a better word), all resonated with me. The only exception is "There's a World". That song should have been reworked, or redone altogether. Neil needs to just focus on being Neil.

I get why this album is so highly praised. Great harmonies, amazing production values, great song writing. And I love how they manage to cram so much sound, in so many layers, into each song without it sounding muddy or overdone. I can totally see how ahead of its time this must have sounded when it came out. However, most of the songs were indistinguishable from each other. Extra stars for "God Only Knows" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice".

Some hard rock mixed with thrash metal mixed with punk. An original concept that managed to sound very unoriginal. This album didn't do a damn thing for me despite being well written and performed: an extra star for that.

You can't dispute Bruce's songwriting ability. And his lyrics tell stories and really are meant to speak to the listener rather than just be vocal filler. But this is over-produced and lacking in passion. They all sound like they are all just going through the motions. This album should have been titled "Cruise Control". It's flat as hell. It's really telling that, except for Bruce's distinct voice, there isn't any difference between this album and most of John Mellencamp's cookie-cutter albums from later in his career. The violin "Waitin' On a Sunny Day" is a perfect example of this.

That was a fun, bluesy ride. That's definitely a nice surprise from a band with a really dumb name. "Yellow Brick Road" had a nice plot twist in the middle. I will definitely give this album another listen.

Musically, I loved this album. It was a nice mix of blues, R&B, and soul. Vocally, it wasn't so great and the lyrics were to heavy-handed for me to consider them impassioned or powerful. "Song for Bobby Smith" was the only track that really hit on all fronts for me. It was a very soulful, bluesy song.

I liked this album quite a bit. I'm not a huge country fan, but I liked this much better than the crap that is soft-rock with a country twang; no thank you. Her voice reminds me a nice mix of Dolly and Loretta. This was a nice album to have on today.

Whatever this was, it was NOT alternative. It wasn't bad, it was just completely uncreative and boring. It would have fit in well as the lousy soundtrack to one of the many lousy movies that were prevalent that year.

It took them 1 minute into the first song to rip themselves off. It sounds a lot like "Deliverance" by The Mission UK. "Lucretia" had a nice base line. I liked this mostly because this was part of my high school years. I wasn't goth, and we all were pretty disdainful of those pretentious d-bags, but the music was pretty damn good, overall, despite being pretty repetitive. The big knock against these guys is that they were caught between trying to sound like The Cure, and figuring out their own identity: which is as goth as it gets. And it was also eye-rolling to hear the guy keep trying to sound like Bela Lugosi when he sings.

I liked it. The songs had variety and managed to keep my interest throughout. There's not much more to say about it than that.

It was......fine. The music was okay, but nothing memorable. The singing was so middle of the road that I kind of forgot that it was there as I was listening to this album. This is the musical equivalent of Minute Rice: it has its place, but I'll never be hungry for it alone.

This was a pretty good album. "Use Somebody" was one that I didn't know was them. "Closer" was a really good track. The rest is good enough to play the entire album again. However, I can see why these guys never became huge.

If getting stoned and going to clubs is your thing, then this is the album for you. I don't enjoy either, so that's it for that.

Vocally and musically this was all fine and good. But Morrissey's solo stuff will never sound like anything more than really watered-down Smiths songs. This loses one star simply because every single song made me want to just go listen to The Smiths: so off I go.

It's a pretty nice listen, but nothing too exciting. "You Can All Join In", "Pearly Queen", and "Feelin' Alright" were the best tracks. Middle-of-the-road music gets a middle-of-the-scale rating.

"You're Going To Need Somebody On Your Side" and "Glamorous Glue" were real surprises. I really enjoyed those songs a lot. "Tomorrow" was the closest that he came to capturing the Smiths magic. The rest of the album was very unexciting.

This made me nostalgic for areas of the city that I wouldn't, and shouldn't, go into for any amount of money. This was a very chill album.

"Dumb Waiters" was the best track on the album. I liked "Pretty In Pink" before the remastered version; oh well. "I Wanna Sleep With You" and "All of This and Nothing" were the standout tracks for me. The rest of the tracks all sort of morphed into one another and didn't jump out at me all that much. The Furs were big when I was in high school. I'd probably have liked them better if 2 of the 3 songs (Love My Way and Heartbreak Beat) that got regular airplay, had done more for me.

For what it is, and on its own, it's great. But when you consider how much similar music was being produced at this time, this gets lost in the shuffle. That there isn't anything to really make this album stand out from all of the other music of this time/genre caused it to lose a lot of luster for me.