I like this but it isn’t amazing.

I guess this is the emergence of Americana! Revolutionary for its time.

Chris Martin is a great songwriter but I just find listening to Coldplay SO dreary. My issues are: - His lyric ideas are good but some of the lines are trite. I just wish he was a better poet - His voice is tolerable but not that interesting - Song arrangements are so predictable. No interesting sound scapes. I suspect if he had more talented musicians around him, he would have created astonishing music. As it is, this music is fine so long as you don't listen too closely.

If you didn’t know it was Nirvana, would you really love this? I mean, I like the overall vibe and soundscape but nothing sticks out as melodically interesting.

Love new wave but this isn’t my favourite Smiths album. I know. Controversial. There are obvious highlights but it isn’t of absolutely consistent quality.

I’m surprised how much I loved listening to it. Very invigorating and still sounds great decades on.

I'm surprised to see this album in the 1001. Sure, The Beach Boys are great, but this isn't a particularly interesting or innovative album. Very pleasant to listen to, but not one I would pick. Perhaps because I'm not American I don't appreciate the significance of it?

Yeah, it’s good. Obviously one massive smash hit. But I really liked the vibe of the whole album. I’d forgotten how funky it was with those cool bass lines.

Really disliked this. Put me in a bad mood for hours afterwards.

I wanted to like this a lot. My husband loves this album. But I just couldn't. At times it felt prog rock-like. Other times almost like musical theatre. Maybe at the time, it was more distinctive and ground-breaking. Sorry The The.

Very famous first song. Incredibly important album at the time but not so compelling to listen to now.

Yeah. Nice. Not amazing but stand the test of time pretty well. Not sure I’ll return to it but a perfectly nice listen.

Easy listening that is easy to listen to, but I won’t again.

This is really good. Very nearly a 5 star. Want to listen to some more.

It’s of a time. Not really the kind of thing I would choose to listen to but perfectly pleasant.

I do really like The Who - memories of childhood because my Dad loved them. However, I don't love this album. I can see why it was so critically acclaimed at the time. It's a work of art. But that isn't enough for me to want to keep listening to it today.

4 star but a very very good ones. Lovely songs, a couple of which are obviously outstanding.

Probably cutting edge in 70s but nothing there now.

Nice folksy stuff. Nothing special.

Nope. Really enjoyed nothing about this.

One song is a good song. The rest is just shouting. I'm too old for this.

These are REALLY good songs. OK, prog rock isn't really my scene. It doesn't warm my heart. But nobody can deny that they are songs.

Still so fun to listen to. What tunes! It’s not quite 5 star for me.

Had no idea SFA made this more Radiohead-esque experimental stuff. Listened a few times. Good but didn’t love.

Really did not enjoy this at all. I like the more tuneful Metallica but there’s a lot of one chord screaming here.

More like avant- garde classical. Dislike.

Trad country not be bag but I liked this!!!!

Didn’t get into it.

Ok but won’t listen again. Just a bit non-descript…

Nope. Still don’t like it.

I like the song everyone else likes.

Punk folk. Brilliant. Even better if they made a punk rock version.

Loud music with long guitar solos. Sigh.

My dad would have loved this.

It’s fine. Wouldn’t listen again.

It's good doo-wop. I wouldn't chose to listen to doo-wop but you have to acknowledge this is a good version of it.

I like this but it isn’t amazing.

Nice but I don’t like guitar led blues.

Or the greatest dolly.

Good album. Enjoyed it!

Fine

Didn’t finish it

Couldn’t be bothered to finish it.

Some absolute classic songs here.

I find this hard to listen to now. It’s such a strange novelty record. Two great songs - badhead and to the end. Not interested in the rest.

This is a properly great album to listen to. Sure, it wasn’t in innovative when released. Just Brit inspired indie rock and roll. But I like this kind of music and it’s a great example of the genre.

Yeah really good. Like this music.

1 star for enjoyment. Extra 1 star for their talent. Not my scene at all.

One amazing tune, some other nice things. Wouldn’t revisit.

Absolute shit. Unlistenable

This is not a good PJ album

It was ok but I didn’t enjoy it.

Mediocre

I like Dylan. Not sure why this one chosen but I enjoyed it.

I love Bowie but his albums are a bit patchy.

Very good

My husbands thinks it is 5 star. I don’t.

A lot of very well know Elvis numbers on this one.

I like Simple Minds and understand the significance of this album. Just don’t think it is great.

Beautiful album

It’s good.

Very well known stuff

Hated it first time round. Still do now.

Didn’t know this. Interesting mix of rock and roll and bluegrass etc.

I like Kanye but I don’t find his albums very consistent. This is quite interesting given what happens to him later!

Pleasant but dull

It’s good. Important. Not blown away.

Nice. Not outstanding but I’d like to listen again.

I know lots of people who think this is amazing but I just don't get it.

Amazing. Still as good as the first time I listened to it. This is rock music.

I know it’s good but it isn’t my scene.

I know this quite well. Like it. Don’t love it.

Cool music. I didn't enjoy it that much. I probably would have loved it at the time!

Knew this well at the time and liked it. However, I don't enjoy listening to it now. Such is life.

Interesting to hear. Liked some bits and pieces. But patchy.

Perhaps the worst album I’ve ever listened to all the way through.

It’s good. I enjoyed it.

I like Nina Simone. Not crazy about this album.

It’s actually ok but really not my scene at all.

This album brings back so many memories of my Dad. I know it backwards. The first 4 songs are masterpieces. Cohen is an amazing poet. Just didn't quite make the 5-star for me though.

Didn’t like.

Hate

Pleasantly surprised. Enjoyable to listen to. Not blown away by it.

Hate an amazing first 4 songs. It is a great album. A very nearly 5 star for me.

Liked this far less than I remember!

Not my favourite album by them.

Nice. Just nice.

Amazing sound but album is just dull.

Not one of his best…

Not that interesting to me.

It's great. Is it perfect songwriting? For me, not quite...

I know every word of this album. But listening back as a 40-something I’m surprised by how much I dislike it. It over-emotes which makes it tough to listen to.

Good. Long! Wish they’d made it standard length with the best there.

A lot of well-known songs, including one of the most beautiful songs in the world: In My Life. It’s interesting to listen knowing what was ahead of them. The songwriting has taken a big departure from the early doo-wop pop numbers but many of the arrangements are still rough and ready guitar band with close-harmony. Overall there isn’t a consistent sound and the quality of the songs is variable. For that reason, it isn’t an album I listen back to.

It's hard for me to give an impartial view of this, given how important it was to people of my generation at the time. But yes, it's still great to listen to.

Didn’t enjoy much

You can see glimmers of their greatness here. Interesting music but not emotionally gripping.

Great funk but I don’t like funk.

Love Nick Cave but this is only good.

Great voice but only really like 2 songs.

It’s dull

There is much that is strange about this album. I don’t like the start. Then you get Angels, which is objectively speaking an excellent song. Then a load of forgettable stuff. Then Let me Entertain you, which should have been the opener. Then some sweet stuff at the end. At times it is 2-star but for two smash hits I’ll nudge it up to 3.

Understand why this was acclaimed at time. Interesting sounds and nice to listen to. However, no compelling songs at the heart of the soundscape.

My husband felt it was cruel to give this 1-star on the basis that it is tedious rather than painful to listen to. But this should be 1001 albums you should listen to before you die, not 1001 albums it is worth tolerating. A strange mix of soul, ruined by a sprinkling of big band. It takes a great song as its first track and makes it terrible. How is that even possible?

It’s Nick Drake so you have to say it’s great. It’s the law. 2 amazing songs, everything very nice.

Remember this well. Don’t really enjoy listening to it but appreciate how important it was to the UK black music scene at the time.

Just no.

Such an interesting album, with moments of brilliance. Very nearly a 5 star for me. Perhaps I’m being cruel only giving it 4.

Tolerable. No great tunes.

One of the best songs ever written - Jealous Guy - and then a load of dross. Sorry John.

Although not really my music I can appreciate why it is on the list.