Album fell off there a bit at the end. After Candy Sam, it was all downhill from there.
Favorite songs: Diversion, Candy Sam, Californian Hills, Squealer
Least favorite songs: W.u.o.t.w.s., Baby Big Man (I Want a Mommy), The Magazine
3/5
Favorite songs: Gopuru (Tuna Swimming) in B-Flat Major, Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) in E-Flat Major, Waak (Crow) in E-Flat Major, Galiku (Flag) in D-Flat Major, Djolin (Musical Instrumental) in D-Major, Djilawurr (Scrubfowl) in D-Major, Wulminda (Dark Clouds) in E-Flat Major
Least favorite songs: Ngarrpiya (Octopus) in A-Flat Major
5/5
Who listened to every album on this list then thought....ya know what this list was missing....more obscure shitty indie/alt rock from the 90's.....
Favorite songs: Earthquakes Come Home
Least favorite songs: the entire album
1/5
Favorite songs: The Answer, Astounded, Bv3, Discosis, Go Shopping, More Shopping, Love Cliche
Least favorite songs: Senegal, Stepchild
4/5
Meh
Favorite songs: Only
Least favorite songs: Satellite Business
3/5
Favorite songs: She's Made of Chalk, Kalifornia, Ophelia, The Cynic
Least favorite songs: Ether
5/5
Favorite songs: "Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?", "Beat, Perpetual", FLAG//BURNER, Please Don't Take Me Back, Hope Gets Harder, Total Cancellation of the Future
Least favorite songs: Take Me Back to the Old Days
5/5
A much better album than the one that was included on the official 1001 list (Beautiful Freak).
Favorite songs: Mr. E's Beautiful Blues, Flyswatter, Grace Kelly Blues, I Like Birds, Packing Blankets, The Sound of Fear
Least favorite songs: It's a Motherfucker
4/5
Another instance of "this should have been the album featured on the official 1001 albums list". This album outshines "Homework" in every way.
Favorite songs: One More Time, Digital Love, "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", Aerodynamic , High Life, Voyager, Short Circuit, Too Long
Least favorite songs: Nightvision
4/5
Favorite songs: Le Premier Ciel, Chanson Noire, Sommeil Sans Reves, Comme Un Sage
Least favorite songs: L'exil
4/5
I am very appreciative of all the Canadian representation so far on the post-1001-list. Canada was largely ignored (except for superstar acts like Neil Young and Rush) in the original list. The only area that got any representation (at least at a national level) was fucking England and Scotland, and most of that was absolute trash. Love discovering new local acts! So far the post-list is 100 times better than the actual list!
Favorite songs: Your Ex-Lover is Dead, What I'm Trying to Say, Set Yourself on Fire, One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead), Soft Revolution, Celebration Guns, Ageless Beauty, The First Five Times, Calendar Girl
Least favorite songs: He Lied About Death
4/5
This album doesn't take itself too seriously, and that's the point. The singer is a poet. His words speak for themselves. Absolutely love this!
Favorite songs: People, Rejoice, Survival Song, Bells and Whistles, People II: The Reckoning, Personal Space Invader, Bad Bad Things, Brave as a Noun, No More Tears, A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit
Least favorite songs: Randy's House
5/5
Favorite songs: Egoverride, I Hate Alternative Rock, Deep Karma Canyon, Anymore Time Between, Art Crisis
Least favorite songs: Hair Stew, Thumbtack
3/5
Favorite songs: Hollywood Baby, Dumbest Girl Alive, Billy Knows Jamie, mememe
Least favorite songs: The Most Wanted Person in the United States, One Million Dollars
2/5
Pretty solid background music. Nice beats, just suffers as all electronic music does by having way too long of a runtime.
Favorite songs: Ruffneck, Don't Stop, Freestyle Noize, Dancehall Vibes, We Rock Hard, Here We Go, Breaker Beats (Pts. 1 & 2)
Least favorite songs: Scratch 22 (Jay-Rock's Theme)
3/5
Favorite songs: "You Needed Love, I Needed You", All to the Wind. Kaitlin, Time, Bird Has Flown, I Could Be Wrong
Least favorite songs: Tide
3/5
Favorite songs: Garden, Strange Town, Ship on the Ocean, Status People, Eccentric Man, "Rich Man, Poor Man", Soldier
Least favorite songs: Thank Christ for the Bomb
4/5
Favorite songs: Cleopatra, Ophelia, Sleep on the Floor, Long Way From Home, Where the Skies are Blue, Angela, Gale Song, White Lie
Least favorite songs: Patience, Sick in the Head
4/5
Minimalistic electronic music.... Kinda like the generic music that how-to videos employ. This one was written while Porter was apparently in a dark place battling with mental health. The writing process was used to get him out of that place, and what it created was an album that is really good at instilling hope in the listener. Really good album to listen to if you're down in the dumps.
Favorite songs: Unfold, Look at the Sky, Get Your Wish, Trying to Feel Alive, Musician, Mother, Sweet Time
Least favorite songs: Dullscythe, Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do
3/5
Favorite songs: Ladyfingers, Whipped Cream, Butterball, Bittersweet Samba, Green Peppers, A Taste of Honey, Love Potion No. 9, Peanuts
Least favorite songs: Tangerine
4/5
I feel like it ever quite made it where it was going. Kinda boring.
Favorite songs: Reincarnation, The Sound of War, Undercover
Least favorite songs: Music for People in Trouble, The Golden Age
2/5
Favorite songs: Polska, Gamen, Halling Jaron, Euchari, Herr Holkin, Black, Sorgsen Ton
Least favorite songs: Nio Ar
5/5
The Name of the Next Song should be "Shut the Fuck Up". This was horrible.
Favorite songs: Being It, Wax the Van
Least favorite songs: Tone Bone Kone, Answers Me, Tower of Meaning/Rabbit's Ear/Home Away From Home, Let's Go Swimming, The Name of the Next Song
1/5
Favorite songs: Time Warp, Sweet Transvestite, Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul, Over at the Frankenstein Place
Least favorite songs: "Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me"
4/5
Favorite songs: Here's The Thing, Favourite, Starburster, Bug
Least favorite songs: Desire
2/5
Favorite songs: Lady Marmalade, Are You Lonely?, Somebody Somewhere
Least favorite songs: It Took A Long Time
4/5
An interesting albeit strange offering today. Easily the newest album on the list I'd say. It was only released last month. I remember hearing about J-Pop and BABYMETAL on the documentary Global Metal. I wasn't aware they were still making music.
This genre is apparently called kawaii metal (a blending of J-Pop and metal). It's like that weird Japanese poppy anime music but mixed with dirty loud modern electro-metal. It isn't traditional metal, it's that new age metal that features bass drops, breakdowns, and drum machines. All in all, odd, but not terrible. I just, again, think there should be a 5 yr lock on albums submitted (nothing made in the last 5 yrs) to give it time to age and see it's staying power. That being said, BABYMETAL has been making music since 2010, so I guess they are doing something right.
One song on this album (Song 3) features Slaughter To Prevail (Russian deathcore band). Their lead singer Alex Terrible has some fucking insanely powerful vocals (well I don't know if it can be called vocals or screams, but dude can growl loud enough that a whole stadium can hear him without a mic). I'm not a big fan of their music, but have to give Alex props.
Favourite songs: White Flame, RATATATA, Algorism, From Me to U, Kon! Kon!, My Queen, Sunset Kiss, Song 3
Least favorite songs: KxAxWxAxIxI
5/5
More robot sex music
Favorite songs: Superheroes/Human After All/Rock'n Roll, "Around the World/Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", Robot Rock/Oh Yeah, Da Funk/Daftendirekt, Burnin'/Too Long, One More Time/Aerodynamic
Least favorite songs: Touch It/Technologic
3/5
Canadian dream pop/indie from Montreal. I'm happy to see all the representation Canadian artists are getting on the recommendation list. Even though this genre isn't really in my wheelhouse, it's nice to see.
Favorite songs: Say Can You Hear, Tailwhip, Slap Pie, All Night
Least favorite songs: Dorian
2/5
Someone looked at the 1001 list and said, you know what this list is lacking? Fucking British shoegaze.....
Admittedly, they coulda took an album of Jesus and Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine off and added this one because it's much better than any of the shoegaze on the official list, but it's still fucking shoegaze.
Favorite songs: Machine Gun, Alison, Melon Yellow
Least favorite songs: Sing, When the Sun Hits
1/5
Favorite songs: Papaoutai, asf, Tous Les Memes, Formidable, Moules Frites, Ta Fete, Ave Cesaria, Batard
Least favorite songs: Quand C'est?
5/5
Alternative hip-hop/indie rock. Reminds me of Beck. Pretty solid.
Favorite songs: These Few Presidents, Fatalist Palmistry, The Hollows, A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under, "Vowels, Pt. 2", By Torpedo or Crohn's, Good Friday
Least favorite songs: Gnashville
4/5
Favorite songs: Watermelon Sugar, She, "Sunflower, Vol. 6", Treat People With Kindness
Least favorite songs: Fine Line
3/5
I think I'd have dropped one of The Who's lesser albums like "The Who Sell Out" and replaced it with this album on the official 1001 list. This album is fantastic. Completely missed somehow by me until today. Of The Who's rock operas, this one is better than the rest as far as I'm concerned. Great addition!! Thoroughly enjoyed this one! Glad to have discovered it!
Favorite songs: 5:15, I'm One, Drowned, The Punk and the Godfather, Sea and Sand, The Real Me, Quadrophenia, The Dirty Jobs, Helpless Dancer, Love Reign O'er Me
Least favorite songs: Doctor Jimmy
5/5
Favorite songs: Simple Boy, New Day, Deadman, Goliath, Umbra, The Caudal Lure
Least favorite songs: The Medicine Wears Off
4/5
Absolutely leaps and bounds ahead of the other album of theirs I listened to (Romance). It's almost like it's 2 different bands....this is a high energy rocker, the other was boring drivel. I can get behind this album for sure! Definately back loaded. The first four songs were mid at best, but the rest of the album was super solid!
Favorite songs: Hurricane Laughter, The Lotts, Boys in the Better Land, Liberty Belle, Chequeless Reckless, Sha Sha Sha, Big, Dublin City Sky
Least favorite songs: Too Real
4/5
Prog folk/psychadelic folk from the 70s. It's like they took folk music of the Pentangle/Fairport Convention style and crossed it with King Crimson. And then took it to a very dark place.
Favorite songs: The Prisoner, Diana, Drip Drip, Song to Comus
Least favorite songs: Bitten
3/5
Reminds me of my college roommate. He loved these dudes! This album definately deserves to be on the official 1001 list. This stoner ska punk sound was huge in the 90's.
Favorite songs: Wrong Way, Santeria, Same In The End, What I Got, Caress Me Down, The Ballad of Johnny Butt, Pawn Shop
Least favorite songs: Seed, Get Ready
4/5
Oh.............OH NO.........
Ever wondered what a porpoise sounds like when getting fucked? This may be the album for you.....
Whoever recommended this album wanted to inflict maximum damage....and succeeded. This is complete garbage. To quote Billy Madison: "I award you no points....and may God have mercy on your soul"
Favorite songs: Midsummer New York
Least favorite songs:
1)Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow).....the intro.....fuck!!?!
2) Hirake......ahhh yes, the song that features the sounds of a dolphin actively giving a blowjob
3) Fly.........a 23 minute tutorial on how to sound like a clicker from The Last of Us.....or perhaps how to hold a sneeze for 23 minutes.....
I am going to play the song Fly at my next Goose Hunt to lure in some Geese. Should work great!!
1/5 because I have to......0/5 if I could
Why did they decide to record the vocals in another room? I just really don't understand this modern Scottish music.....it just doesn't translate on this side of the pond....
Admittedly upon second playthrough it started to make a bit more sense.
Favorite songs: Mogwai Fear Satan, King Herod, Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home
Least favorite songs: With Portfolio
3/5
Solid 90's hip hop crossed with Funk.
Favorite songs: Day Job, Tug Boat, Bozack, Retrosexy, Hell
Least favorite songs: We Can Work It Out
3/5
Favorite songs: Good People, Do You Remember, Breakdown, Banana Pancakes, "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing", Better Together
Least favorite songs: Situations
4/5
This man is a hell of a songwriter. The imagery he portrays in Thin Blue Flame is amazing.
Favorite songs: Thin Blue Flame, In the Dark, Wolves, Girl in the War, "Lillian, Egypt", Monster Ballads, Good Man, Here at the Right Time
Least favorite songs: Idaho
4/5
Favorite songs: Teenagers, Welcome to the Black Parade, House of Wolves, Famous Last Words, I Don't Love You, This is How I Disappear, Dead!, The Sharpest Lives
Least favorite songs: Cancer
4/5
Favorite songs: Skinny Love, Flume, For Emma, Blindsided
Least favorite songs: Creature Fear
4/5
This is so weird. Like every song is a different genre, and sounds like a completely different band.....I've never seen anything like that before.....Everything from alt country to rock to psychadelic to indie to pop......it's odd. I hated it at first because there is no cohesion, but once I understood what they were doing I had a second listen, and it hit better.
Favorite songs: It's Gonna Be a Long Night, Transdermal Celebration, I Don't Want It, Chocolate Town, So Many People in the Neighborhood, Hey There Fancypants
Least favorite songs: Zoloft
4/5
This dude was from the band 13th Floor Elevators (they had an album on the original 1001 list) before breaking off on his own. 13th Floor Elevators were credited with being one of the first psychadelic rock bands ever. He continues with that theme here, leaning more into the psychadelic/horror rock lane. A good album to listen to around Halloween ironically. This is some real good shit! It's like early Alice Cooper or less spacey Hawkwind. I really like it!
In the song Stand for the Fire Demon, Roky Erickson gives me kinda a Dio vibe as well to some degree.
Holy shit this entire album is fucking amazing. I love discovering stuff like this that would have passed me by unnoticed. Thank you to whoever recommended it!
Favorite songs: Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer), Creature With the Atom Brain, Don't Shake Me Lucifer, Stand For the Fire Demon, White Faces, It's a Cold Night for Alligators, Sputnik, I Think of Demons, Mine Mine Mind, Night of the Vampire, Click Your Fingers Applauding, Bloody Hammer, If You Have Ghosts, I Walked With a Zombie
Least favorite songs: None....
5/5
Favorite songs: What Do You Want From Me, Time, Hey You, High Hopes, Money, Us and Them, Keep Talking, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Another Brick in the Wall, Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, Coming Back to Life, Learning to Fly
Least favorite songs: Astronomy Domine
5/5
Favorite songs: 365, B2B, Club Classics, Mean Girls, 360, Apple, Rewind, Talk Talk, So I
Least favorite songs: Von Dutch (catchy song, but what the hell is that screeching sound played constantly throughout the song? It's like nails on a chalkboard....)
3/5
Favorite songs: Suburban Home, Kabuki Girl, Parents, Jean is Dead, I'm Not a Loser, Myage, I Wanna Be a Bear, Bikeage, Hope, Marriage
Least favorite songs: Tonyage
4/5
Absolutely should have been on the original list.
Favorite songs: Need You Tonight, New Sensation, Devil Inside, Guns in the Sky, KICK
Least favorite songs: Never Tear Us Apart
3/5
This is like jazz crossed with hip hop or electronic dance back beats, and Latin (samba) undertones. Very unique, very interesting. The lively back beats kinda add something to the normally bland jazz, plus they got in a few heavy hitters like Jocelyn Brown and George Benson on a few songs as well.
Reminds me of that band Gotan Project we had in the 1001 list.
Favorite songs: Sweet Tears, Runaway, Nautilus (Mawtilus), "It's Alright, I Feel It", Jazzy Jeff's Theme, Gotta New Life, Maw Latin Blues, Roy's Scat
Least favorite songs: Taita Caneme
4/5
Favorite songs: Fallen Angel, Shake Your Love, Foolish Beat, Only in My Dreams, Red Hot, Out of the Blue
Least favorite songs: Between the Lines
4/5
Sounds like playing Nintendo while tripping on Ecstasy...
Favorite songs: Black Panther, Untrust Us, Vanished, Courtship Dating, Air War, Magic Spells, Xxzxcuzx Me
Least favorite songs: Alice Practice
3/5
Vanilla alt rock from the late 90's. Not bad. Good music for anyone trying to dip their toes in the genre. Not too heavy or out there. Similar to light alt rock bands like P.O.D. or, in their first few songs which were more industrial, Living Color. Nice to see New Zealand repped.
Favorite songs: Pacifier, My Mind's Sedate, The General Electric, The Metal Song, Thin White Line, Just Like Everybody Else
Least favorite songs: Brightest Star, Spacing
3/5
Favorite songs: Big Fat Mama, Paper Plane, Don't Waste My Time, Roadhouse Blues
Least favorite songs: A Year
3/5
Not my style. I'm too old to understand this new pop rock stuff. Indie is always hit or miss with me. This one just missed the mark. Similar to alt-J or OneRepublic. It sounds the same to me as the rest of the music being made today.
Favorite songs: Life Itself, Pork Soda, Poplar St
Least favorite songs: Season 2 Episode 3, [Premade Sandwiches], Mama's Gun
2/5
As someone already said in a review: this is a nice R&B/Soul album. Songs and performance are good, but nothing to write home about.
Favorite songs: Tell the Truth, Freedom, I Need You, Adulthood, Sing
Least favorite songs: Boy Hood, Mavis, Until (fuck skits)
3/5
Pretty good. A lot of shouting that gets kinda tiring after a while.
Favorite songs: Uma Casa Portuguesa, Lisboa Antigua, Vou Dar De Beber A Dor, Nem as Paredes Confesso, Fado Portugues
Least favorite songs: Barco Negro (Mae Preta)
3/5
Unpolished, underwhelming, hard pass from me. Someone's random brain droppings does nothing for me
Favorite songs: Freedom Interlude
Least favorite songs: All I Need
2/5
Indie rock similar to TV on the Radio, Modest Mouse, or Arcade Fire.The one thing that struck me funny is the fact that the band is playing along normally, all while the drummer shreds his drum set. It's like watching Animal from the Muppets play drums. Dude is high, fast energy. Definately the star of the band. Super talented
Favorite songs: Helicopter, Luno, The Pioneers, Banquet, So Here We Are, Positive Tension, Like Eating Glass, She's Hearing Voices
Least favorite songs: Blue Light, Compliments
4/5
Favorite songs: Marta Tiene Un Marcapasos, Visite Nuestro Bar, El Ataque De Las Chicas Crocodrilo, Indiana, Te Quiero
Least favorite songs: La Carretera
3/5
Favorite songs: Mr. Crowley, Crazy Train, I Don't Know, Suicide Solution, Goodbye to Romance, No Bone Movies
Least favorite songs: Revelation (Mother Earth)
5/5
Favorite songs: 5:01AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Pt. 10), 4:47AM (Sexual Revolution), 4:50AM (Go Fishing), 5:06AM (Every Strangers Eyes)
Least favorite songs: 4:56AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 1)
3/5
More Canadian representation, this time from BC. I remember my first exposure to their music was their song Hello Time Bomb, which I heard on an album I'd purchased (Big Shiny Tunes 4). Falls into that alt rock category that occured right after grunge died. I then remember seeing a lot more of his stuff on MuchMusic after that (Load Me Up, Apparitions, The Future is X-Rated, Weapon). Something about them never fully hit with me. I mean, not awful, but something was missing. The hits were huge, but everything else was just filler. Similar style to early Our Lady Peace, Sam Roberts Band, Econoline Crush, or Big Wreck. Seeing that, it's right up my alley of musical taste, but Matthew Good was always just mid. Coulda been because Matthew Good himself was a huge douche too, I'm not sure.
Favorite songs: Hello Time Bomb, Load Me Up, The Future is X-Rated, Strange Days, Jenni's Song
Least favorite songs: I Miss New Wave, Born to Kill
2/5
The definition of a jam band. 12 songs, 2hr 11mins run-time. My ADHD won't allow me to focus on 30 minute songs, and I really don't care to.... It's just people canoodling on their instruments incessantly. I'm not on enough LSD for this. Similar to Grateful Dead, I like their album material, but couldn't give an ounce of a fuck about their live drug fueled horseshit.
Favorite songs: Chalkdust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Gumbo, Simple
Least favorite songs: Tweezer
3/5
This album is like dark alt country/blues? Similar vein to MJ Lenderman or Bill Callahan (we had one of his albums on the 1001 list) or Bonnie "Prince" Billy (also had an album on the 1001 list). Almost like doom country. A unique genre of music that I have very little exposure to, but like quite a bit. I will have to explore it more.
Favorite songs: Tigress, The Black Crow, Lioness
Least favorite songs: Baby Take a Look
3/5
A Pink Floyd album I am unfamiliar with. Was a great album. It is one of those that needs to be listened cover to cover to really appreciate the message it is conveying. Sadly, a lot of the political issues it raises are still very much alive and well in today's society as well. I'm glad to have become acquainted with this album. Not Floyd's best, but certainly worth recognizing.
Favorite songs: Pigs (Three Different Ones), Pigs on the Wing 1, Sheep, Pigs on the Wing 2
Least favorite songs: Dogs
4/5
Dude who was upset about this album is probably butt hurt because Werewolves of London didn't end up being All Summer Long by Kid Rock. Settle down.
A fantastic album from an artist that, I feel, didn't get enough recognition. This is some good shit!!
Favorite songs: Werewolves of London, I Need a Truck, Johnny Strikes Up the Band, Nighttime in the Switching Yard, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, Excitable Boy, Veracruz, "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
Least favorite songs: none. A gem of an album
5/5
Also.....it even smells like oatmeal......and The Bends DOES deserve a 1
Favorite songs: The Middle, Sweetness, Bleed American
Least favorite songs: Your House
3/5
Favorite songs: Don't Fall, Paper Tigers, Here Today, Pleasure and Pain
Least favorite songs: A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days
2/5
Favorite songs: People Everywhere (Still Alive), Dern Kala, Two Fish and an Elephant
Least favorite songs: Balls and Pins
4/5
Favorite songs: Await Rescue, Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here
Least favorite songs: The Big Afraid
3/5
Phenomenal album! This is the SOAD album that should have been featured on the 1001 list!
The story Rick Rubin tells about Serj Tankian getting writers block while creating Chop Suey. They told him, just pick a random book off the shelf, find a random passage from that book, and throw that in the song. Serj did that with the Bible, and found the verse:
Father, into your hands I commend my spirit
Father, into your hands
Why have you forsaken me?
In your eyes forsaken me
In your thoughts forsaken me
In your heart forsaken me,
Serj liked how it fit so much, he left it in the song, and it goes hard!!
Favorite songs: Chop Suey!, Aerials, Toxicity, Shimmy, Prison Song, Jet Pilot, ATWA, Bounce, Needles, Deer Dance, X
Least favorite songs: Arto
5/5
Favorite songs: Just a Girl, Spiderwebs, Don't Speak ,Sixteen, Sunday Morning, Hey You
Least favorite songs: The Climb, Tragic Kingdom
3/5
Wow! This was one of those kinds of records that come every so often from a band you haven't heard of before but it absolutely blows you away from the very first song!
Favourite songs: The Lion's Roar, King of the World, Emmylou, This Old Routine, Dance to Another Tune
Least favorite songs: Blue
4/5
Favorite songs: Fazer, Lie and Wait, Dine Alone, Freezing Process, Slip, Baphomet
Least favorite songs: Too Official
4/5
Favorite songs: Two Wuv, The Bidding, Welcome to Tally Hall, Be Born
Least favorite songs: Ruler of Everything, Dream, Mucka Blucka
2/5
Fireworks is one of the greatest Canadian love songs ever made:
"If there's a goal that everyone remembers, it was back in ol' '72;
We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger, and all I remember is sitting beside you;
You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey, and I never saw someone say that before;
You held my hand and we walked home the long way, you were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr"
As the title of the first song on the album alludes, Gord was a poet! There is no other singer who could put words together in quite the same way and be able to paint such vivid pictures with his words.
Bobcaygeon, Poets, and Fireworks both recieved a lot of airplay in Canada, but an under-appreciated song on this album, and one of my favourites, is Emperor Penguin. I love how the song builds and builds as it goes on.
As the OP stated in his review, The Hip and Gord Downie himself were household names in Canada. My cousin was who first introduced them to me. I was from a rural town and he was from a bigger city. His musical tastes helped shape mine, as all I was exposed to in my town was country music (which I still hate). First album I ever heard was In Between Evolution, and it was love at first listen. The Hip have been a huge staple of my life ever since. I actually submitted their album Up to Here as my recommendation for the post-list. I've learned that there are 3 Hip albums featured here, and am glad to see them get the attention they deserve on a list like this. Much love to the OP, and the Hip for helping develop my musical tastes into what it is today!
Favorite songs: Bobcaygeon, Fireworks, Poets, Vapour Trails, Emperor Penguin, Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man, The Rules, Something On
Least favorite songs: if forced to pick, Chagrin Falls
5/5
These guys are a sister group of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Apparently they made a concept album in the early 90's called Dead Winter Dead. It did surprisingly well, and inspired the members to create TSO to explore the genre of rock theatre.
They remind me a lot of Iced Earth, Manowar or Saxon. Pretty solid 80's metal. And that album cover is a perfect power metal cover!
Favorite songs: White Witch, Hall of the Mountain King, Strange Wings, Legions, The Price You Pay, 24 Hrs. Ago, Prelude to Madness
Least favorite songs: Castles Burning
5/5
Favorite songs: Pull Me Under, Metropolis - Part 1: "The Miracle and the Sleeper", Take the Time
Least favorite songs: Another Day
4/5
Favorite songs: Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread, Distant Past, Blast Doors, Regret, To the Blade, Fortune 500, Hapsburg Lippp
Least favorite songs: The Wheel (Is Turning Now), We Sleep in Pairs
3/5
It took almost 13 minutes for anything resembling music to be played. This sounds like a theater arts majors attempt at a final project in which he is trying to be deep and intelligent. Shoegaze has to be the shittiest genre of music I've ever been forced to listen to. Also, is there any need for this to be an hour and a half long? 5 minutes is too much... In order to properly create a concept album, you need a few things. 1) musical talent, 2) vision. These morons have neither.
The last 2 minutes of the song The Ground So Soft is just a feedback loop. Why?!?
In the song Waiting to Hit, the singer talks about making a deal with God in which he will spread the "word of the Texas-Jerusalem Connection" in return for God giving him a hit song so he can have a big house on a hill. Still waiting for that deal to come through?
This is the closest I've ever come to not being able to finish an album....and that includes the infamous Einsturzende Neubauten album.....this isn't music, it's shit.
Favorite songs: These Are the Days
Least favorite songs: this entire dumpster fire of an album....
1/5
The song Into the Storm has 14 minutes of silence in the middle of it......omg I'm so done with this stupid fucking album.....
Favorite songs: The Thrill is Gone, Born in Louisiana, Prison Blues, Tina Marie, Chapel Hill Boogie, Spoonful, Grindin' Man
Least favorite songs: Honky Tonk
4/5
Favorite songs: The Pot, Vicarious, Jambi, Right in Two
Least favorite songs: Lost Keys (Blame Hofman), Viginti Tires
4/5
No.
Favorite songs: Shapeshifter
Least favorite songs: this entire dumpster fire
1/5
Stick to hosting Family Feud Richard.....
Really solid. I can't believe I haven't heard of them before. Sounds a lot like Peter Gabriel or Genesis.
Favorite songs: Kayleigh, Lavender, Childhood's End?, Heart of Lothian, Pseudo Silk Kimono, Bitter Suite: Brief Encounter/Lost Weekend/Blue Angel/Misplaced Rendezvous/Windswept Thumb, Blind Curve: Vocal Under a Bloodlight/Passing Strangers/Mylo/Perimeter Walk/Threshold, White Feather
Least favorite songs: Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
4/5
Favorite songs: Battleflag, Lazer Sheep Dip Funk, Kasparov's Revenge
Least favorite songs: How to Operate With a Blown Mind, I Used to Fall in Love, Night Time Story
2/5
Favorite songs: Face Behind Her Cigarette, Loner Boogie, Sitting on the First Rock From the Sun
Least favorite songs: Breakfast Epiphany II
3/5
These guys flawlessly merge rap/hip hop/hard rock/ and prog rock into one cohesive mass that is totally unique. I really liked the album featured on the 1001 list (The Real Thing). I enjoyed this one as well, however it didn't seem as approachable as the other. This album felt more experimental perhaps?
The bass player is phenomenal. Especially on songs like Land of Sunshine. The band also does a great cover of The Commodores song Easy.
Overall a great album. The only songs I didn't really like were the ones where the singer felt the need to put the microphone in his mouth to sing.
Favorite songs: Midlife Crisis, Be Aggressive, Land of Sunshine, Kindergarten, A Small Victory, Easy
Least favorite songs: RV, Crack Hitler
3/5
One of my favourite bands discovered through this 1001 albums exercise. I loved the album included on the original list (Lost in the Dream), and I love this one too. Thanks to the OP for including it! These guys remind me so much of Tom Petty/Bob Dylan/Don Henley/Adam Baldwin. Right in the vein of music I really enjoy. This album is a gem!
Favorite songs: Pain, Nothing to Find, Strangest Thing, Up All Night, Clean Living, You Don't Have to Go
Least favorite songs: none
5/5
My knee jerk reaction upon seeing the album cover this morning was: "oh great, some more shitty pop music". What I heard was drastically different. Blackgaze......black metal mixed with shoegaze and screamo. Holy hell was I wrong!
It's weird. It's just a wall of distorted sound, with a "singer" who just makes gutteral screaming noises about 4 doors down from the recording studio. Not a bakers fuck of an idea what he's saying.
It's a really weird concept. The wall of noise is surprisingly warm, albeit deafening, but you pair that with the bloodcurdling screaming from a few doors down and it's like this weird light/dark balancing act. It displays, to me, like someone's inner struggles. Hope overlaying the constant quarrel with depression and anxiety?
All in all, not something I'd necessarily revisit, but not the worst thing I've ever listened to. You would have to be in a certain mood in order to be receptive to this kind of music. It is pretty dark and hard to digest by times. Certainly an assult on the senses.
Favorite songs: Dream House, Sunbather
Least favorite songs: Please Remember, Windows
3/5
Died of boredom before anything happened....
Favorite songs: Sitra (simply because it's a shorter song....)
Least favorite songs: this whole shitty album
1/5
Favorite songs: Way Down Hadestown, "Hey, Little Songbird", Why We Build the Wall, Our Lady of the Underground, When the Chips are Down
Least favorite songs: "Epic, Pt. 1"
4/5
Favorite songs: Pneuma, Fear Inoculum, Invincible, 7empest, Descending
Least favorite songs: Mockingbeat
4/5
Judging by the album cover, I thought maybe a light pop record or something, but it's a hardcore punk band!!
Holy fuck this album hits hard. It's based on the singer losing his mum to cancer. It hits like a fucking sledgehammer to the heart. In a way only punk can. When I want to listen to emotional music, I gravitate towards this kinda stuff because it can convey pain and agony in a way no other genre can.
Fuck this is an emotionally charged album. Dude was going through it....what he put to paper was beautiful and heart wrenching. Insanely heavy, insanely emotional, insanely dark, but in a weird way, there's hope and light. It's this guy's way of being able to come to terms with and move through this hardship. It's important that this music exists. So many people go through this kinda shit and can't deal alone. Music, to me, has always been a healer. Without music I'd be lost. Hearing this shit let's people realize that they aren't alone in their grief. Gives them somewhere to turn to help deal with the pain instead of burying it.
Everyone should really listen to this album sometime when they have the time to sit and absorb it, and are in a mental state to be able to do so. Unfortunately, I'm sure a lot of people can probably draw similarities from this kinda scenario. Fuck cancer.
Favorite songs: Displacement, Flowers and You, Rapture, New Halloween, Eight Seconds, Posing Holy, Skyscraper, Gather
Least favorite songs: if forced to pick, Water Damage
5/5
Favorite songs: I Am the Wooden Doors, You Were But a Ghost in My Arms, The Lodge
Least favorite songs: In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
3/5
Favorite songs: Holocene, Perth, Beth/Rest, Michicant, Calgary
Least favorite songs: "Hinnom, TX"
4/5
This is that new wave of rock music that's been popular now for the last 10 years or so. Foundations in rock, but they mix in some electronic/dubstep sounding stuff by times, and screaming to make the music seem more hard. Very similar to like Bad Wolves, I Prevail, or Ice Nine Kills. Not terrible....it's the kinda music that's trying too much to be hard. I'd think that adolescents, or people just starting into rock and metal would like this kinda stuff because it's more palatable. Radio stations and media would like it too because it also has foundations in pop rock.
All that to say, I get why it exists, but not my favorite. It sounds good and it's catchy, but looking at it from a traditional rock/metal standpoint, it's just kinda soft. And this whole album has snippets of like a sci fi/space travel movie playing in the background....which is annoying......it's like fucking skits on rap records .....why is it there?
Favorite songs: My Demons, Halo, Down With the Fallen, Carnivore, Let It Die
Least favorite songs: Telescope
3/5
What in the actual fuck is this?? Some moron took news clippings from the morning of 9/11 and laid them over soft jazz that you would hear on elevators or as call center hold music. This "artist" didn't even make the songs...he just took existing shitty jazz and made it shittier. This isn't music so I don't understand why it's on this list.
Favorite songs: The Weather Channel 9...I guess...
Least favorite songs: this whole album
1/5
The sound on this live album is terrible. Washed out distortion. No idea what the singer is saying except for the odd "WHOOOOO!!!" High energy. Not bad garage rock. I wish it was a studio album though so I could hear them properly.
Favorite songs: The Dream, Tidal Wave
Least favorite songs: Sticky Hulks, Contraption
3/5
This is the second Songs: Ohia album I've had on the post - list (the first being The Lioness). This is the better of the two. Both were good, but this one in particular was fantastic! Sound was better, more polished.
The only song I didn't like on the album wasn't because of anything Jason Molina did. It was Scout Niblett's voice in Peoria Lunch Box Blues. It was God awful. The rest of the album was stellar!
Favorite songs: Farewell Transmission, The Old Black Hen, I've Been Riding With the Ghost, Just Be Simple, Hold on Magnolia
Least favorite songs: Peoria Lunch Box Blues
5/5
Favorite songs: What About Me?, Jambone, Sleeper
Least favorite songs: Kite
3/5
Hipster folk. Not bad.
One thing about the album cover.....that bear is CAKED UP!! Look at them cheeks!!!!
Favorite songs: Change, Red Moon, No Reason, Blue Lightning, Spud Infinity, Certainty
Least favorite songs: Sparrow, Wake Me Up to Drive
3/5
Favorite songs: Spy Kiss, Bubblehouse, Night Marchers, Think, Dracula, Strance of the Spirit Red Gator
Least favorite songs: Henduck
4/5
The only National I liked was The National news on CBC with Peter Mansbridge. This was really boring. Took me two days to get through.
Favorite songs: Brainy
Least favorite songs: Racing Like a Pro
2/5
Favorite songs: Guest List, My Brain Hurts, Don't Turn Out the Lights, The Science of the Myth, Teenage Freakshow, Kamala's Too Nice, What We Hate
Least favorite songs: none
5/5
Favorite songs: Drone: Nodrone, Warsong, And Nothing is Forever, A Fragile Thing, I Can Never Say Goodbye
Least favorite songs: Endsong
5/5
Favorite songs: Careful, Brick By Boring Brick, Ignorance, Looking Up, Where the Lines Overlap
Least favorite songs: Playing God
3/5
Very early krautrock blended with psych and prog. It is wild, it is out there, it is completely fucked. It was created by a German art commune who were high as fuck in the woods.
The album cover features the band's late sound man, Wolfgang Krischke. Dude went on a bad trip and died of hypothermia while tripping on LSD. To immortalize his memory, they displayed him as the grim reaper on the album cover. An interesting sentiment, but amusingly, to me, he looks like a cross dressing Beatle moreso than the grim reaper, so I feel they did him dirty a bit.
I love how horribly unhinged this album is. A LOT of drugs went into the creation of this one. This is the kind of random shit that should be featured on this list more.
They were ripping on drugs, but they were onto something. This feels like a crossing over point from all the psychadelic 60's music to a more prog oriented rock. Its like some mutant form of Hawkwind, who just happened to do more drugs somehow. I would think that bands like The Mars Volta and Tool took lots of inspiration from these guys. Seems like they took this sound and polished it more to make it more palatable to the greater populace. This album here is just unforgiving and raw.
If and when you listen to this Amon Duul II album, make sure you listen to Disc 2 as well. From what I can see, only Disc 1 is included on both Spotify and Apple Music. Had to go to YouTube to get the second disc for some reason. That particular disc is phenomenal. It consists of 3 songs that were completely improvised on the spot during one of their jam sessions. Fucking nuts what they could come up with on a whim. Especially the song Sandoz in the Rain.
If you didn't catch it, the title Sandoz in the Rain is a nod to the lab in which LSD was first synthesized and commercialized (Sandoz).
Favorite songs: The Return of Ruebezahl, Cerberus, Sandoz in the Rain, Archangels Thunderbird, Halluzination Guillotine, Rattlesnakeplumcake
Least favorite songs: Gulp a Sonata, Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm
4/5
Yuck. Overprocessed, autotuned emo trash. Modern rap is awful.
Favorite songs: Blue World, Everybody
Least favorite songs: I Can See, Hands....and the rest of the album.
1/5
I'm so happy that The Hip are getting the attention they deserve on this list finally. These lyrics are steeped in Canadian culture and heritage. The story told in the song Fifty-Mission Cap about the hockey player Bill Barilko....the mention of Jacques Cartier.....the story told in the song Wheat Kings of David Milgaard, and his wrongful conviction of murder....
Favorite songs: Wheat Kings, Locked in the Trunk of a Car, Fifty-Mission Cap, At the Hundredth Meridian, Looking for a Place to Happen, Courage (for Hugh MacLennan), Pigeon Camera, The Wherewithal, Fully Completely, Lionized, Eldorado
Least favorite songs: We'll Go Too
5/5
Probably the best Talking Heads album I've listened to, but it's still 80's new wave/math rock. For a live album, the production value on the album is solid!
Favorite songs: Slippery People, Take Me to the River, Life During Wartime, Once in a Lifetime, Burning Down the House, Thank You for Sending Me an Angel, Heaven, Girlfriend is Better
Least favorite songs: Psycho Killer
3/5
Punk for idiots who don't know what punk is. Truly awful.
Favorite songs: Television
Least favorite songs: June, I'm Scum, Colossus, Love Song
1/5
Favorite songs: Reanimation, Making Progress, As the World Turns, Cliff Hanger, The Fabulous Ones, If I May, A to G
Least favorite songs: Searching
3/5
Favorite songs: Information Overload, Pride, New Jack Theme
Least favorite songs: History Lesson, Under Cover of Darkness
3/5
Favorite songs: Hate Street Dialogue, Sugar Man, Inner City Blues, Like Janis, Crucify Your Mind, Only Good for Conversation, "This is Not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues"
Least favorite songs: Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme)
5/5
Favorite songs: New Noise, Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull, Tannhauser/Derive
Least favorite songs: Liberation Frequency, Bruitist Pome #5
3/5
What a treat for Christmas Day! The perfect smooth jazz album to pop on while hosting Christmas dinner. This album is fantastic.
Favorite songs: Linus and Lucy, "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing", O Tannenbaum, The Christmas Song, Greensleeves, Christmas Time is Here
Least favorite songs: What Child Is This
5/5
Favorite songs: IV. Sweatpants, I. Crawl, I. The Party, I. The Worst Guys, 3005
Least favorite songs: II. Worldstar, I. Flight of the Navigator, II. Zealots of Stockholm (Free Information)
3/5
Favorite songs: Applause, Swine, Jewels N' Drugs, Aura, Venus, Donatella
Least favorite songs: Fashion!
3/5
Pretty solid blues rock. Sounds like if Tom Waits got really into blues rock that sounded like a cross between The Animals and The Doors, and also happened to be Dutch.
Favorite songs: Spoonful, I'm a Man, The Life I Live, Mr. Pitiful, Summer Thoughts in a Field of Weed, Down at the Bottom
Least favorite songs: Just Who's in Sight, Get Out of My Life Woman, Sour Wine, Bring it On Home, World of Birds
3/5
Really not my kinda music. Trumpets especially have a tendency to give me a headache. This all sounds the same to me. Nothing wrong with it, just way out of my wheelhouse. I like my jazz to have more than just trumpets in it.
Favorite songs: It Never Entered My Mind
Least favorite songs: I can't really say.....it all sounded the same....
2/5
Favorite songs: .44 Caliber Love Letter, Waterwings (And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas), Pulmonary Archery, Little Girls Pointing And Laughing, Jubella
Least favorite songs: Polaroids of Polar Bears
4/5
No.
Favorite songs: Self Defense
Least favorite songs: Fortune, Tapped In
1/5
Thank fuck this was done in under 30 mins.
Solid modern funk. Suffers a bit by being too long of a runtime, but otherwise solid. The bass player is insanely talented.
Favorite songs: Cory Wong, My First Car, Animal Spirits, Smile Meditation, Baby I Don't Know Oh Oh, 1612, Back Pocket
Least favorite songs: The Sweet Science, Running Away
3/5
Very similar to the noise rock of Einsturzende Neubauten. Chaotic and horrible, but there's something about the insanity that draws you in. Plus these guys frontman, Yamantaka Eye, was quite the lad. This guy once drove a working backhoe on stage during a show with one of his prior bands, Hanatarash. Another time he strapped a running chainsaw to his back and spun it around, cutting his own leg pretty badly. One of the strangest stories is one where Eye brought a dead cat out on stage and skinned it. Insanity that matches their music perfectly.
I mean, don't get me wrong, this "music" is truly awful, but the stories and spectacle have to be weighed into the score in this case because it played such a huge role in their overall persona. As I said with Einsturzende Neubauten, I've heard worse, and would probably find a way to add this to the 1001 list and remove some generic Britpop record. At least this band has an interesting story.
Favorite songs: Acid Police, Synthesizer Guide Book on Fire, Voredoms
Least favorite songs: Chocolate Synthesizer, Tomato Synthesizer, B for Boredoms, Turn Table Boredoms, Now Dom Go Synthesizer Way (Why?)
2/5
My wife's favourite era of country music, so I am more familiar with this genre than I'd like to be. This is like all the other 90's female country hits. Sounds a lot like The Judd's, Kathy Mattea, Lee Ann Womack, Trisha Yearwood...the list goes on. This is the type of country they love to play at wedding receptions and on the radio. It is country steeped in pop. It isn't really my favourite genre of music, but I do understand why it is in the post-list. I hate country music, but it was horribly underrepresented on the original list. Robert Dimery was too busy listing off every Britpop and Shoegaze band to bother including anything that meant anything on this side of the pond.
Favorite songs: I Feel Lucky, He Thinks He'll Keep Her, Passionate Kisses
Least favorite songs: Rhythm of the Blues, Not Too Much to Ask
3/5
Favorite songs: Angel No, Blue Nabou, Domingo, Oh Yeah, Desire, Vicious Games
Least favorite songs: Koladi-Ola, Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)
3/5
A perfect blend of Brazilian music, funk, hip hop , rock and electronic music. Pretty catchy.
Favorite songs: Sangue De Bairro, Enquanto O Mundo Explode, O Cidadao Do Mundo, Etnia, Maco, Maracatu Atomico
Least favorite songs: Sobremesa, O Encontro De Isaac Asimov Com Santos Dumont No Ceu
3/5
Favorite songs: Shit Luck, Teeth Like God's Shoeshine, Doin' the Cockroach, Trailer Trash, Polar Opposites
Least favorite songs: Jesus Christ Was An Only Child, Heart Cooks Brain
3/5
This sounds like Fairport Convention if they did a bunch of drugs, became pagan, and went to space.
Favorite songs: Dead Queen, Moon Occults the Sun
Least favorite songs: Dead King
3/5
Favorite songs: Dead Right, Eye Detector, At Last, Psyche O States, The Wharf Song, Keep Swingin'
Least favorite songs: Nuff Teef, WKMA Radio Pucker Up Hour
3/5
Dudes voice sounds a lot like the singer from Cypress Hill.
Favorite songs: Ain't It Funny, When It Rain, Rolling Stone, Tell Me What I Don't Know, Really Doe, Dance in the Water, Today
Least favorite songs: Downward Spiral
4/5
A band that doesn't take itself too seriously. Reminds me a lot of Barenaked Ladies. Not bad, but nothing too exciting either.
Favorite songs: Can't Keep Johnny Down, Old Pine Box, Canajoharie, Celebration, Judy Is Your Viet Nam, 2082
Least favorite songs: Cloisonne, In Fact
3/5
Surprisingly solid 00's indie rock.
Favorite songs: We Looked Like Giants, The New Year, Transatlanticism, Expo '86, Tiny Vessels
Least favorite songs: Death of an Interior Decorator
4/5
Another UK Grime album. This is an interesting genre of music. It's like rap/hip hop with electronic and dance mixed in. The first grime album I was introduced to was Konnichiwa by Skepta, which was included on the regular 1001 list.
Favorite songs: P's and Q's, Typical Me, Home Sweet Home, Mic Check 1-2, Ghetto Kid, Nite Nite, Signs of Life
Least favorite songs: Reload It, How We Livin', Boys Love Girls
4/5
Today's album is OUT THERE! The album is based on a study regarding people with Alzheimer's disease being able to remember music they listened to when they were younger, as well as where they were and how they felt when listening to it. Dude who made this album bought up a bunch of pre-WW2 ballroom records, and created this dreamscape record.
It heavily features the crackle of a phonograph as well as samples of old ballroom music. The music comes into and out of focus, kind of like you're standing outside a bar in downtown pre-war New York. You're close enough to hear the music muffled and just out of focus, but every now and again someone opens the door and you get shots of clear music, all while maintaining a steady phonograph crackle. I can see how these kinds of sounds would trigger memory in old folks with Alzheimer's.
This is the weird shit that should be on this list. Will I revisit this album again.....probably not......am I glad it exists.....absolutely.
Favorite songs: Libet's Delay
Least favorite songs: I Feel As If I Might Be Vanishing
2/5
Favorite songs: Lush Life, Dedicated To You, My One and Only Love, They Say It's Wonderful
Least favorite songs: You Are Too Beautiful
3/5
Favorite songs: Tryouts For The Human Race, Beat the Clock
Least favorite songs: La Dolce Vita
3/5
Orchestral Daft Punk wasn't on 2026's Bingo Card, that's for sure....
This is nothing like normal club/party music Daft Punk. This is like Hans Zimmer Daft Punk.... This whole album sounds like a Hans Zimmer album with electronic influence. And, having never seen the TRON movies, I can't assign these random musical movements to a movie scene, so it's just.....dumb.
Soundtracks that aren't just a collection of various artists songs are kinda dumb. Like ....one of the greatest soundtracks of all time is O' Brother Where Art Thou. Each song on that album is actually a song. With a beginning, middle and end. Not some random musical movement. Each song holds its own and can be enjoyed regardless of whether you've seen the movie or not. This is just random shitty orchestral electronica. It doesn't stand up on its own.
Soundtracks shouldn't be allowed on this list. Ya know what makes this album worse? It's almost 1hr 30mins long ffs.
Favorite songs: Derezzed, End of Line, TRON Legacy, Castor
Least favorite songs: Arena, Nocturne, Solar Sailer
2/5
Solid skate punk. Kinda dumb that it's only 1 song, but that is also the most punk rock thing to do lol. It doesn't feel like an 18 minute song when listening to it though. The larger song is made up of several smaller songs it feels like.
I would think there are better NOFX albums that could have been recommended, but all in all, pretty solid.
Favorite song: take a guess....lol (The Decline)
Least favorite song: none
3/5
I have vivid memories of listening to the song All My Best Friends Are Metalheads while playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 in the 00's. This album is feel good skate punk/ska punk. A defining sound of the late 90's/early 00's. Very similar to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, or SR-71. Thanks OP for the huge shot of nostalgia today.
Favorite songs: All My Best Friends are Metalheads, Last One Out of Liberty City, Nervous in the City, History of a Boring Town, Five State Drive, Help Save the Youth of America from Exploding, Big Crash, Danny Says, Theme Song for H Street
Least favorite songs: Motto
4/5
When I saw that this was another Scottish indie band, I immediately assumed the album would be trash. If the trend continued from all of the Scottish music included on the original list, that would be true. Thankfully, the OP selected an album that was actually pretty good. Reminds me of a slightly shittier Oasis. Not something I would revisit often, but I'm glad it's on the list, because up until now I just assumed all Scottish music after the bagpipe was just trash. This gives me hope that there is more good music from there, you just have to go digging for it.
Favorite songs: Watching Xanadu, Mull Historical Society, This Is Not Who We Were, Instead, Strangeways Inside
Least favorite songs: Public Service Announcer, I Tried
3/5
Early British prog. Reminds me a bit of Yes but better.
A lot of history around this album. Apparently the lads got an album cover design company called Hipgnosis to make the cover art for this album. It depicts a warrior overlooking a valley at Gorges du Verdon in Provence, France. The warriors wardrobe was borrowed from the set of the 1971 film The Devils. The warrior was supposed to be holding a spear and a sword. The sword was rented from the set of Roman Polanski's film Macbeth. On the cover, the warrior is only holding a spear, because someone stole the sword before they could take the pictures. Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin loved the album cover so much that he contacted Hipgnosis to create the album cover for Houses of the Holy. Also, the warrior on the album cover inspired the character design of Darth Vader.
Favorite songs: Throw Down the Sword, Jail Bait, The King Will Come, Warrior, Sometime World, Blowin' Free, Leaf and Stream
Least favorite songs: Time Was
4/5
Another prog heavy hitter! The themes of this album are retellings of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry and horror stories. Before today, the only exposure to APP I had was their album Eye in the Sky. This is their debut album. Super strong for a 1st album. Really great!
Favorite songs: (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher: Pavane
Least favorite songs: The Fall of the House of Usher: Prelude
4/5
This album sounds like German Radiohead, but with less moaning and more electronic influence, but that same kinda weird alt/indie rock.
These guys remind me a lot of MJ Lenderman, especially the song Consequence. I've been trying to figure out who the singers voice sounds like. It's a dead ringer for MJ Lenderman.
Favorite songs: Consequence, Pick Up the Phone, Pilot, Neon Golden, This Room
Least favorite songs: Solitaire
4/5
Primus Sucks.
Les Claypool is an insanely talented bassist. I love how the bass is the focal point of all of Primus' music. The bass is usually lost in the background of most music, but here it is front and center. I love how these guys don't take themselves too seriously. They are just here to experiment and have fun. They don't care whether anyone likes it or not, they're just here to have fun. The musical fusion they create is like nothing produced anywhere else. An underappreciated band, and a great listen. The fact that Primus had no albums on the original 1001 list is criminal.
This album is the one which catapulted Primus into the public eye. Before that, they were largely just an underground act. Jerry Was a Race Car Driver changed all that!
Favorite songs: Jerry Was a Race Car Driver, Tommy the Cat, Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers, American Life, Sgt. Baker, Fish On (Fisherman Chronicles: Chapter II), Eleven
Least favorite songs: Seas of Cheese, Grandad's Little Ditty
4/5
Ambient world electronica. Weird concept. World music base with electronic music mixing. Interesting to listen to, but not something I will ever revisit.
Favorite songs: Vapour Rumours
Least favorite songs: Shpongle Falls
2/5
Favorite songs: Pink Pony Club, Red Wine Supernova, Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl, HOT TO GO!, Picture You
Least favorite songs: Coffee, Guilty Pleasure
3/5
Favorite songs: La Paix, Artistiya, Senegal Fast Food, La Realite, Beaux Dimanches, Gnidjougouya
Least favorite songs: M'Bife Blues
3/5
Another example of a perfect album. All the anger of punk, but paired with actual musical talent. Usually punk is angry, thrashy, and sloppy.
Favorite songs: American Jesus, Kerosene, Watch It Die, Struck a Nerve, Don't Pray on Me, Recipe for Hate, Lookin' In
Least favorite songs: if forced to pick... All Good Soldiers
5/5
This is my album choice. This band/album is the soundtrack to Canadian summers. Bonfires/ camping trips/ fishing at the lake... This was such a formative album for me in my teenage years as I was shaping my musical tastes. I mentioned in another Tragically Hip album review that it was my cousin, who lived in a more urban setting that introduced me to The Hip in the first place. Once introduced to them, I went back to my rural town and bought a few of their records. I've been a fan ever since. What I love about them is that they change their sound slightly for every album they made. This album is blues rock, but other albums lean harder to the country rock/art rock sound. Gord was always experimenting and weaving beautiful poetry into music.
Lyrics such as (from the song 38 years old):
Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall;
Been one seat empty 18 years now;
Freezing slow time away from the world;
He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl
Such vibrant imagery to that chorus. The song is loosely based off of the jailbreak that occured from Millhaven Penitentiary near Kingston, ON. The song is sung from the perspective of a younger brother who's older brother was locked up after murdering the man who raped his sister. Just the thought of how time stands still for his family as he serves out his sentence...
When given the opportunity to select an album for others to listen to, I felt compelled to represent Canada in some way, simply because the original 1,001 list leaned hard on obscure British Britpop/ Madchester/ electronica/ shoegaze... I needed to represent something that meant so much to me. So crack a beer, sit out under the stars around a bonfire, grab a guitar and a few good friends, and enjoy life.
Favorite songs: Opiated, Boots or Hearts, Trickle Down, When the Weight Comes Down, I'll Believe in You (Or I'll Be Leaving You Tonight), Blow at High Dough, 38 Years Old, New Orleans is Sinking, She Didn't Know, Everytime You Go, Another Midnight
Least favorite songs: none
5/5
My fuck Zappa did a lot of drugs!
Favorite songs: Uncle Remus, Cosmik Debris, Apostrophe', Father O'Blivion
Least favorite songs: St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
3/5
Favorite songs: Dance Music, This Year, Up the Wolves, Magpie
Least favorite songs: Dinu Lipatti's Bones
3/5
Favorite songs: The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid, The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned), The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing, Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga), The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone), The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All), The Abduction of Margaret
Least favorite songs: Prelude, Margaret in Captivity, The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
3/5
This sounds a lot like a prog forward David Bowie. To get full appreciation for this record, listen on good speakers, or on headphones.
Favorite songs: The Hypnogogue, I Think I Knew, Aerodrome, These Coming Days, No Other You, C'est La Vie
Least favorite songs: Flickering Lights, Antarctica
3/5
Like blues crossed with country and acid house? Sounds fucked, but it works. Also, these dudes created the theme song for The Sopranos (Woke Up This Morning). Also, props to the band for covering John Prine's classic: Speed of the Sound of Loneliness. They did a good job.
Upon seeing the cover and band name, I feared I would have to suffer through some horrible twangy country rap/pop drivel, but this isnt bad.
Favorite songs: Woke Up This Morning, Converted, Speed of the Sound of Loneliness, Peace in the Valley
Least favorite songs: Mao Tse Tung Said
3/5
#1.....dumb band name.
#2...... this is that weird blues rock/jazz/indie shit that was huge in the 90's with bands like Cake, Beck (but he did it right), The President's of the United States of America, Butthole Surfers.....etc. This strange genre of music was either done really well (like Beck), or was complete shit (which is what we have here).
Truly painful listening experience.
Favorite songs: Down to This, "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago
Least favorite songs: Bus to Beelzebub, Janine....and the rest of this shitty fucking album....
1/5
The beginnings of Nu Metal, which took over the music scene in the late 90's/early 00's, which happened to line up perfectly with when I was in middle school as a rebellious teenager. At the time I was trying to push boundaries and listen to more edgy music, and Korn came on the scene. I must say, Blind is the perfect album opener for a teenager looking to piss off his parents.
Overall though, as influential as the whole nu metal scene was in shaping my transition into harder music, as an adult it doesn't really hold up. It's truly just thrashy, heavily distorted instruments, and yelling/swearing. Most of the time Jonathan Davis just growls anyways.
So, to sum up, as a teenager, great....but as an adult....corny (pun intended).
Favorite songs: Shoots and Ladders, Divine, Blind
Least favorite songs: Clown (dumb intro)
2/5
Is it just me, or does the dude on the album cover look exactly like 90's WWE wrestling superstar HBK (Shawn Michaels).
This album sounds like it is right out of the 80's. It is Australian synth pop/soft rock. Nothing to write home about, but not bad.
Favorite songs: Marlon Brando, Runnin' Outta Luck, Country Figs, Candy May, Stranger's Kiss, Politics of Love
Least favorite songs: The Chihuahua (he says the word pussy way too many times in this song...)
3/5
1) Really fucking dumb album cover.
2) completely lacking in substance. Just computer produced indie pop with lyrics that are auto tuned to hell. (Admittedly, the second half of the album was better. It switched to a kind of modern R&B lite. Not as terrible, but too little too late).
This is what's wrong with modern music. No one cares if there is any passion or artistic talent on display any more. I bet in 10 years no one will remember "The 1975" and the world will be better for it.
I was upset to learn that at least one more album from these morons is in this list. I am not looking forward to it.
Favorite songs: Be My Mistake, TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME, Give Yourself a Try
Least favorite songs: The 1975, The Man Who Married a Robot/Love Theme (really....too dumb to sing your own songs so you opt to get Siri to dictate it for you...)
2/5
Spanish punk. Fuck yea!!
Favorite songs: Ganao, En Una Patera, Estrellao, T.V., Ay! Dolores, Pikolin, No-Normal, Y Esta Bien, Hablando Con Mi Cerebro, Domesticao
Least favourite songs: Poema Social de Guerra Y Muerte
5/5
Favourite songs: Young Man Blues, Martin Atchet, D.E.A.D.R.A.M.O.N.E.S., The Outsiders (aka Hell is for Heroes, Pt. 1), Young Man on a Spree
Least favourite songs: John and Jimmy
5/5
Favourite songs: What's My Age Again?, All the Small Things, Adam's Song, Dumpweed, Mutt, Don't Leave Me, Going Away to College, Aliens Exist, Dysentery Gary, Wendy Clear
Least favourite songs: The Party Song
5/5
Probably one of the coolest album covers I've seen in a minute. The more you look at it, the more you see.
But, that is where the good ends... This is listed as Avant-garde metal, whatever the fuck that is..... (oh, a hipsters way of saying experimental metal I guess...) It's like slow, atmospheric orchestral type stuff with random bursts of thrashy black metal and screaming...
Also, remember that moron John Zorn? We had one of his albums on the original list... (Spy VS Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman). The dude that is credited with creating the genre of thrash jazz? Yeah that guy..... This band were signed to his record label, Tzadik Records, at the time of the recording of this album. That should tell you everything you need to know about this fucking pile.
Admittedly, the song The Manifold Curiosity is solid, but the rest of the album is way too out there for me. Jazz and Black Metal shouldn't be put together.
Favourite songs: The Manifold Curiosity
Least favourite songs: A Pitcher of Summer, Marathon
2/5
Favourite songs: Viva Discordia, Squares, Wintergreen, Pills for Everything, Damn Door, Rob the Prez-O-Dent
Least favourite songs: Kiss the Cook, Reagan's Kids
4/5
One of the original ska punk bands alongside Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Most of the band members went on to form the band Rancid after Operation Ivy's short 2 year run. Solid album.
Favourite songs: The Crowd, Sound System, Yellin' In My Ear, Artificial Life, Freeze Up, Knowledge, Big City, Bad Town, Missionary, Jaded, Room Without a Window, Gonna Find You, Smiling
Least favourite songs: Sleep Long
4/5
This album is so weird. Here is a list of things found on this album....
A) opera singers
B medieval renaissance music
C) flutes/sitar/weird instruments
D) black metal
E) screaming
F) dubstep
G) 8-bit NES music
H) chickens/random noise bytes....
I) french bistro music
The album starts with dude screaming. I assume that is to make the listener pay attention, because what comes next is hilariously chaotic, but oddly works. It's actually not bad at all. Extra points for being so fucking weird
Favourite songs: Apopathodiaphulatophobie, ieuD, Cheval, Houmous, Opus Brain, Spaghetti Forever
Least favourite songs: Va te Foutre, Robert
4/5
Might be iconic, but not for me.
Favourite songs: One Man Rock and Roll Band
Least favourite songs: Hors d'Oeuvres
2/5
So much distortion. It's just a wall of fuzz with everything just out of focus. No clue what the "singer" is yelling about, but according to the Wikipedia page, the album is about the loss of his girlfriend in a car accident. That sucks. Oddly, even though it's just noise, the emotions of pain and loss do come through. It feels like the inner struggles of someone going through it. When your in the thick of an emotional rollercoaster, and there is just noise in your head...
This isn't an album that you pop on to listen to at a party, or on a road trip. This is an album to pop on when you are suffering pain or loss to help cope with the feelings.
Not my favourite album, but I appreciate its existance, and glad to have listened to it.
Favourite songs: The Resonance of Goodbye, Burning in the Undertow of God
Least favourite songs: Sleepwritten
3/5
Utter garbage. No musical cohesion at all. It's like a bunch of people in a room just practicing their own instruments without any care for what the others are doing. Classified as punk, but nothing about this screams punk to me.
Favourite songs: Corpse Pose
Least favourite songs: Unauthorized Autobiography, Sensible
1/5
The kind of pop music frequented by teenage girls, like Taylor Swift. Unlike similar acts however, Olivia's type of pop maintains a guitar forward style, sometimes dipping her toes into folk pop. Her breath-y voice reminds me a lot of Kacey Musgraves. Because actual musical talent is on display all over this record, and Olivia has a beautiful singing voice, I actually didn't mind this album much.
Favourite songs: Bad Idea Right?, Making the Bed, All-American Bitch, Love Is Embarrassing
Least favourite songs: Teenage Dream
4/5
Favourite songs: Stevie Nix, How a Resurrection Really Feels, Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night, Your Little Hoodrat Friend, Charlemagne in Sweatpants, Hornets! Hornets!, Cattle and the Creeping Things, Banging Camp, Multitude of Casualties
Least favourite songs: Crucifixion Cruise
5/5
This sounds like a Clown slowly losing his mind. It's like a mix of prog and psychadelic rock.
This is a weird album, and it's horribly British. Like British weird is different than American weird. British weird is more refined. More palatable. I can usually tolerate British weird better than American weird. American weird is where we get things like fucking noise rock and shit. British weird is where we get stuff like excessive kazoo work or strong Renaissance feels from.
This sounds like if Noel Fielding was told to make a record. And, of course, because this album is weird, it is also almost 90 mins long. But it doesnt feel like a slog to get through. It's a trip. Same vein as Captain Beefheart.
Favourite songs: Fiery Gun Hand, Manhoo, Insect Hoofs on Lassie, A Horse's Tail, Bell Stinks, Bell Clinks
Least favourite songs: Eden on the Air, Quiet as a Mouse
3/5
I had another album by these guys last week (Separation Sunday). I was floored by how much I love these guys sound. This is right in the pocket of money I love. Somehow this was a blind spot I had, having never heard of these guys before. Since last week's listen to Separation Sunday, I delved into their whole discography. Admittedly, this album is my favorite, however, everything they have made is great! Thank you Op, The Hold Steady now has a new fan! This is the shit!!
Favourite songs: Same Kooks, Stuck Between Stations, Hot Soft Light, First Night, Girls Like Status, South Town Girls, You Can Make Him Like You, Chips Ahoy, Party Pit, Chill Out Tent, Citrus
Least favourite songs: if forced to pick, Arms and Hearts
5/5
Gross. Beyonce was always a fairly clean pop singer, but with this album, she seems to be trying to dip her toe into that gross pop music that features way too many songs about banging and has way too much vulgarity. Don't get me wrong, I swear like a sailor, but this just doesn't sound like Beyonce. It's more of a Nikki Minaj/Cardi B. Don't sell yourself out to be more like those sweaty, gross fucks. They need to go for shock value, because they don't have any other talent so they have to flap their tits on screen to sell records. Beyonce should be able to lean on her natural talent to sell records, not sing about thick cocks and asses. Not for me. Yuck.
Favourite songs: Church Girl, Move, Break My Soul, Cozy, Virgo's Groove
Least favourite songs: Plastic Off the Sofa, Thique, Pure/Honey
2/5
This album is a drastic change from everything else I've ever heard of Bon Iver. Super cryptic, super experimental, super minimalistic. His shit is usually largely "Unplugged", but with this album, he fucks with lyrics/sounds using synths/harmonizers. He dips his toes into hip hop a bit even. Very interesting album. Once ya settle into how weird it is, it's pretty solid.
Favourite songs: 29 #Strafford APTS, 715 - Creek's, 8 (circle), 666, ___45___, 00000 Million
Least favourite songs: 10 d E A T h b R E a s T
4/5
Favourite songs: Cheers to Me, Mother, Focus is Power, The Curse, The Deep Blue Okay
Least favourite songs: What Now
3/5
I never would have thought that jazz, electronica and hip hop would play so well together, but here we are. Thanks to the OP for this one. Very unique and smooth.
Favourite songs: Luv (sic.) Pt. 3, Feather, Ordinary Joe, World's End Rhapsody, Reflection Eternal, Modal Soul, Horizon
Least favourite songs: Music is Mine, Flowers
4/5
Of course. What we need to listen to is more subpar, obscure British garbage. Because there wasn't enough of this shit on the original list. I thought maybe if I listened to it another day it may grow on me, but it's still as awful as the first time. Way too long. I will say, the second half of the album is better than the first, but it isn't enough to save this dumpster fire.
Favourite songs: Fall Out, Serotonin, Cancer, Legacy
Least favourite songs: Inverse Midas
2/5
Favourite songs: Sick Muse, Gold Guns Girls, Help I'm Alive, Gimme Sympathy, Satellite Mind, Stadium Love
Least favourite songs: Twilight Galaxy
4/5
This is really fucking dumb. It is a demo album #1.... It consists of mostly Unfinished songs and demos #2..... Shittiest album cover I've seen in quite a while #3. Who would waste their vote to include this piece of shit...
Favourite songs: Zion Wolf Theme.... I guess?
Least favourite songs: Raw Beat, and the rest of this album.
1/5
Live albums are made for the people who know the band in question. For me, having never heard of My Morning Jacket, listening to 2hrs of out of tune canoodling was both painful and unnecessary. These guys are alt country/indie rock, and remind me a lot of The Glorious Sons. I think I would really probably like this band had I had some exposure to them beforehand, but this marathon of listening just did not paint them in the best light. I wish one of their studio albums was recommended rather than a live album. And regardless of whether I knew them beforehand or not, 2 hrs is way too long for a record. I don't really know what the last hour of the record sounded like, because after the 1 hour mark I lost interest and couldn't maintain focus. I just wanted it to be over.
So, to sum up, probably a good band, but not the best album recommendation.
Favourite songs: One Big Holiday, Golden (there may have been more, but by the end I just didn't care anymore...)
Least favourite songs: Wordless Chorus (painfully flat vocals)
1/5
Reminds me a lot of Cake. Fantastic discovery. Thanks OP!
Favourite songs: Amateur Rappers, Barbarians, Wallflowers, Industrialists, Grown-Ups, Realists, Holidaymakers, Travel Writers
Least favourite songs: Sentimentalists
5/5
I feel like Billy Squier is one of those artists whose songs you know, but either attribute it to another band, or don't know who sang it. I went into this album thinking I knew maybe 2 songs, and ended up knowing 5. Just super high energy, 80's heavy rock anthems. A lot of this album reminds me of songs like Heavy Metal by Don Felder. This album is a straight up hit factory. Thanks for bringing more attention to Billy Squier, OP. He definately deserves his place on this list!!
Favourite songs: The Stroke, My Kinda Lover, Lonely Is the Night, Whadda You Want From Me, In the Dark, You Know What It's Like, Too Daze Gone, I Need You, Don't Say No
Least favourite songs: Nobody Knows
5/5
Favourite songs: All Caps, Fancy Clown, Money Folder, Stakes (Supervillain Theme), Great Day, Figaro, Shadows of Tomorrow, Curls, Raid
Least favourite songs: The Illest Villains, Rainbows, Operation Lifesaver aka Mint Test
3/5
Indie pop. I had another of this band's albums in the post list (A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships) and absolutely hated it. This one is actually not bad. I mean, not great, but a comfortable 3. The other one was horrible. This is the much better choice.
Favourite songs: Looking For Somebody (To Love), When We Are Together, Happiness, Wintering, The 1975, Oh Caroline
Least favourite songs: About You
3/5
An hour of lo-fi electronica garbage. The one Boards of Canada album we had on the original list (Music Has the Right to Children) was more than enough of this shit thanks...
How can a whole country, just as a rule, make such shit music... Scotland really lost the plot after the bagpipes/Celtic music. All this modern music is utter garbage.
Literally 1 hr where NOTHING HAPPENS..... AT ALL!!! What a waste of a vote, and my time... I think the album included in the original 1001 list was better than this trash. I gave it a 3, but this is a hard 1. I just have no patience for this garbage any more. There was way too much of it on the original list.
Favourite songs: Music is Math... I guess?
Least favourite songs: The Devil is in the Details, Gyroscope, Dawn Chorus, ... all of those 30sec - 1min dumb fucking "songs"... and the rest of this garbage
1/5
An Canadian East Coast staple. Absolutely fantastic album. Can't wait to see Alan Doyle this summer!
Favourite songs: Mari-Mac, The Old Black Rum, Lukey, Rant & Roar, The Chemical Worker's Song/Process Song, Run Runaway, The Jolly Butcher, Billy Peddle, Dancing With Mrs. White, Goin' Up, Nothing Out of Nothing, Wave Over Wave, Fast As I Can
Least favourite songs: none
5/5
This album started slow and kind of weird, but by halfway through, I figured out Jeff's shtick and was able to enjoy the album. He reminds me a bit of Andrew W.K. but less rock, and more indie punk... A very hard genre to nail down, but not a bad album all in all.
Favourite songs: Wave Goodnight to Me, Bang On the Door, I Did Something Weird Last Night, We Begged 2 Explode, HELLLLHOOOOLE, Perfect Sound Whatever
Least favourite songs: To Be a Ghost...
3/5
