Delightfully weird.

Objectively imprecise, subjectively gimmicky, occasionally catchy.

powerful. transportive. emotional. beautiful.

Understandably dated, to my ear. I remember it being influential and important when released originally, but I found it mostly boring. A few catchy tunes. My opinion has been biased by overplays. This is gas station music at this point.

Really enjoyed the amazing line-up of personnel on this album. I had no idea so many great players were on here...and in 1969!

Heard it a lot. Heard it again.

Always fantastic. simple and groovy.

Solid foundational electronica. Some of the vocals are atrocious. Early Tricky.

Not my style.

Made it about halfway through, but I've heard it a few times in the past. Some surprisingly groovy parts, albeit extremely straight and very aggressive. Reminds me of growing up in rural New England.

Fantastic.

Better than I expected. Very similar to The Rolling Stones. Recording quality is awful, but that might be somewhat intentional.

no thank you

classic

This is a seminal album from an influential band.

I have heard this many many times. It is phenomenal.

somewhat dated to a modern ear. groundbreaking at the time of release.

A few bright points in a mediocre effort.

Absolute classic.

Interesting treatment.

brilliant.

Transcendent.

Too country for my taste.

Iconic, required listening

This is some truly terrible singing within some extremely mediocre music. I got about 2 songs through before I had to quit. Really - this has no place in the list.

The title track melody is very similar to Keane's 2004 release "Somewhere Only We Know." Numerous passages are lifted from Beatles songs throughout - it could be passed off as homage. It could also be that all notes and all combinations have already been recorded.

Really excellent. Great bass tone. Some iffy singing.

Ahead of their time. A lot of good grooves on this album.

Delightfully weird.

I enjoyed this. Well-produced bluesy fusion of geographical styles.

Heavier than I anticipated, but pleasing and heartfelt.

Excellent, relaxed, sometimes somber, sometimes funky.

A must-listen, often replayed.

awful.

A classic of an era. A bit whiney in modern context.

I had not listened to this group before. The work has that classic British one-two hop-groove that can be quite funky at times. Lyrics surprisingly heartfelt and relatable - very authentically delivered.

This is cool glimpse into early Bjork - you can really hear some of the same themes that she returns to for Human Behavior many years later.

meh.

Heard this a million times.

It's Neil. Listen to it if you haven't, then after that it's optional.

Objectively imprecise, subjectively gimmicky, occasionally catchy.

This was not good.

Abuser. Whiner. Did not listen.

This is a fantastic, historical album.

This album was influential, and holds up well.

Seminal fluid. ubiquitous claptrap. catchy like syphilis.

This is very, very good.

Get stuffed. RIP Chester.

This album changed my life.

Quality performance from a master in his prime.

Extremely solid rock'n'roll. David doing some of his finest work.

I could only make it two songs into this shoegaze drudgery.

Pop punk before it was cool. Echoes of Bowie, without the inspiration or musicianship. Mostly boring.

It's throbbing gristle - one can only take so much at a time.

Understated yet grandiose. Melancholy and drenched in nostalgia. Consistent.

Some interesting tracks but mostly just a lot of British yelling.

Spare me.

It's Air - it's good.

It's high quality.

started as a strong background album, then shifted to lower-quality and improperly tuned whining.

no thanks.

Listened many times to this classic.

Some sour notes, but mostly enjoyable. Last song is the catchiest.

Masterful.

she's amazing.

Required listening. Always rewarding.

My wife loves this album.

Did not make it through the whole album. Mediocre, occasionally grating, decent drumming.

I was previously unfamiliar with Hawley. It's a certain kind of mood for a certain kind of day. A certain kind of person would really get into it. I liked the progressions, but it all felt like shadow puppetry.

This album is very good. The album art is even better.

This was not good.

This was nostalgic at first, and rapidly became confining.

Some classics.

This has been one of my favorite albums of all time, for a long time. It was a pleasure to listen to it straight through again.

Good music to listen while traveling

literally terrible. I do not know why anyone would ever willingly listen to this collection of noises.

Relatively standard, but enjoyable.

required listening.

Very, very good.

A classic album full of classic sounds. I had forgotten the zany pleasure of "Mother"

meh.

relaxing, good in the background

Better than I expected. At times reminded me of Smashing Pumpkins, other times I heard some distinct Black Sabbath influences....

excellent.

sad, but cleansing.

I did not like this music.

always fantastic

This was just ok.

Very good, funky album with quality rhymes.

mediocre Bjork derivative with quasi-Daft Punk sensibilities. eminently missable.

Eclectic and folky, sometimes slightly off-kilter. Interesting stuff.

This album was "what if David Bowie was not as good?"

old school, aggressive, quite good.

Groovy, blends into the background. Nostalgic for those of us the right age.

This was mellow and good.

very cockney. enjoyable.

mellow, moving, contemplative. As you might expect from Nick.

relatively tired at this point, but still quality.

fantastic.

I found this to be mostly unremarkable, but passable as background music. A few of the more vulgar tracks grabbed my attention, but not in a bad way.

classic hip hop.

I enjoyed this. I did not remember how much like The Beatles they sounded.

jangly and not very musical.

I really tried to listen, but only made it through 3 songs. I respect Cyndi, but this album did a bit too much cocaine.

Yawn.

There is some truly awful singing on this album.

meh.

Always classic.

I enjoyed this. Murky and atmospheric, but also groovy.

Classic.

Very good. He's such a legend.

blah blah, classic blah

very good, although some also very bad singing....it's the genre.

This was not good music.

It is unsurprisingly very good. Jimi is not as good a singer as everyone thinks; I agree with Jimi on this.

this was a mediocre shoegaze that i've already forgotten

very good, beautiful singing and harmonies.

A bit too country for my taste, but good guitar work.

Always gold.

too country for my taste, but much respect.

could not make it more than three seconds into track 1. way too country for me.

they wish they were The Rolling Stones. (They were not)

Good, mellow folk style introspective music.

Pivotal and relevant. RIP Chris.

None for me, merci.

This album was influential to me as a young person, and I had not listened to it in perhaps 20 or 25 years -- and, it holds up pretty well. The samples are somewhat dated, but that tracks with the age of the work.

whinier than i recall.

pretty raw, lots of yelling, almost no dynamic.

squeezed cat vocals forced me to abandon within a few seconds of the first track.

not as bad as i remember.

Very good; an album I had not heard which made me want to delve further into the Costello discography

more warble than groove on this one.

While I can recognize the importance of the work in the Sphere of All Musical Endeavor.... I really just do not enjoy hearing these noises. I've even seen John Zorn in concert, and it's just as unbearable.

I kept hoping for it to get better; it does not. Bargain basement Joni Mitchell.

Passionately unremarkable music that somehow manages to leave the impression of crying in one's sleep.

i couldn't make it through the first song of this whiney, jangly mess.

boring, self-serving, jangly, forgettable

exceedingly forgettable - half the time I thought I was listening to The Pretenders by accident.

when they included melodies from The Lord's Prayer in their song, they lost me.

this is boring and garbled

powerful. transportive. emotional. beautiful.

This made me sad because so many of my friends love this band and I thought it sounded like a bag of cats in the rain.

This was really bad. Like: "Is the tape broken?" kind of bad. Why does everyone talk about this band as if they are iconic or important? I could squeeze my cat in a reverb tank and get a better sound.

James Jamerson's bass work on this album makes it worth listening to.