Used to like Nick Cave but his recent comments about Palestine have shown him up for the tosser that he is.
Not quite as good as Paranoid, but still great.
The man is a turd and makes my skin crawl.
What can I say? Just listen to it.
One gets the feeling that this band could be so much better if they had just let rip with their abilities, Maybe they didn't want to upset their parents by going berserk with their music and chose the path of mediocrity instead. Sad really. Blandness is OK(ish) in moderation, but these guys take it to the extreme.
I could write a whole thesis on this album (and band) but I'll narrow it down to two words - puerile drivel.
I had never heard of this band or this album. I hope I never hear them or it again. Music like this makes me consider having my ears surgically removed. However, they deserve 2 stars for trying. Not sure how this made it onto this list.
If all soft-rock albums were as good as this then I'd probably like the genre. They aren't and I don't. However, Steely Dan are definitely the masters of this type of music, and I don't have too much trouble listening to this. They are notorious for their meticulous production techniques and this really shines through on almost all of their albums, which helps.
The Birthday Party sit with The Gang Of Four and The Pop Group as one of the best post-punk bands ever. I know a lot of people just "don't get it", but that's their problem, not mine
Only one thing worse than a moronic racist, and that is a moronic white racist who has made a career and amassed a fortune out of plagiarizing black music. I present Eric Clapton.
Much better than the first album by this band and far better than anything they produced afterwards ( possibly because of the influence of Eno on this one). This certainly deserves a place on this list as, in my opinion, it is one of the most unique albums of the early 1970s.
The production alone deserves 5 stars.
I know so many people rave about SY. I never understood what all the fuss was about. They just sound like a hundred other bands that I could name. Just found this a little tedious.
Usual Madonna drivel made slightly more bearable by William Orbits input.
"Anger is an energy" - John Lydon, Rise
"Reward" was Ok. Err, that's about it.
Good, but not quite as good as "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash".
It's Capt Beefy - has to be 5 stars.
Like 80s pop with a hangover. Not for me.
All normal humans at some point in their lives experience heartache, loss, despair, loneliness, isolation and sadness. This album is for (and about) those times. This ranks alongside "The Head On the Door" as the best Cure album. High spots are Last Dance, Prayers For Rain and The Same Deep Water As You.
6 out of 5.
If you're going to produce an album of this style, at least make the effort to do it well. To me this just sounds like an immature, middle-class teenager who thinks being angry with their parents is the ultimate revolutionary act. I had never heard of Fiona Apple before. I wish it had stayed that way. I'm not sure this album should even be included in the top 100 trillion albums of all time, let alone the best 1001. Utter puerile drivel.
Electro-pop at its worst. How people can describe this as "psychedelic" is beyond me. I can only assume that they have been sold inferior acid.
I used to like E.C. but after reading his nauseating excuses as to why he accepted an O.B.E. I've lost all respect for him and his pseudo working-class politics.
Along with Solid Air & Bless The Weather, this is one of JM's best albums. Never be anyone like him again. ( He also used to drink in local pub)
Stunning production and the usual heartfelt lyrics that we've come to expect from Joni. When testing new audio equipment, this is one of my go to albums.
Dire. unimaginative electro-pop. Seriously, what is this drivel doing in this list?
Why? Just why?
Really like this album although it loses a star for being a bit "pop". However, I guess it's meant to be that.
This is a great album - not the best of it's genre, but still very good. In fact, if this had been better recorded it would have easily got 5 stars. Having said that, the fact that it is still highly enjoyable to listen to now is testament to the original recording using the limited technology available in the 1950s. Anyone who isn't moved by the rhythms on this album needs to check themselves.
Meh.
The musical equivalent of wet, grey cardboard.
The bass sounds great. The brass sounds great. The rhythm section sounds great. The first album that I've not heard before that truly deserves to be on this list. Excellent choice.
"Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter as the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?" This deserves 5 stars for that line alone.
Not their best IMO, (that accolade goes to Exodus) but still deserves a 5 by a wide margin.
Mass-produced music industry drivel masquerading as something "alternative". I find it deeply depressing that so many people believe that this is somehow "special" or original. It ain't. It's pretentious shite by and for people with little or no imagination. Completely underwhelming.
Anyone who can make a fortune from, and win awards from, the music industry by taking the piss out of the music industry is a genius and deserves 5 stars for that alone. The excellent use of sampling on their previous incarnation's (The JAMs) "What The Fuck's Going On" album deserves another 5 stars. This album continues that theme.
Music industry approved pap aimed at white. middle class teenagers who want to play this to upset their parents, believing it to be the ultimate revolutionary action. This album is, not to put too fine a point on it, a bag of shite. Listening to the lyric, one has to seriously question the sexual orientation of someone who hates women this much.
Mixed feelings about VM. Really like some of his stuff (particularly Veedon Fleece) but sometime when I listen to his other stuff I often feel like "why am I putting myself through this?".
More forgettable pulp from a bigoted narcissist.
This makes supermarket music seem dynamic and exciting by comparison. Depressingly unimaginative in the extreme. Who told them it was worth making an album of this tedious bile?
I can only say that people who "don't get" Jimi Hendrix need their ears syringing.
This is the album that Jimmy Page and Robert Plant often mention when they talk about their admiration for Joni Mitchell. I personally prefer "Ladies Of The Canyon" from this period of her career, but this, like all of her albums, deserves at least 5 stars.
Saw them live a couple of times in '79/'80. One of the best live bands I've seen (along with Gang of Four). Definitely one of the best albums of those decades, and totally deserving of a place in this list. Also, The Clash were the only white band ever to play reggae convincingly.
I've farted more original and interesting sounds.
This is a little different, and I'll give it stars for that alone, however, it probably isn't something I'd listen to regularly, but that's just my personal taste.
Even the artist himself sounds completely bored just performing these songs. Drab, unimaginative and pointless are the three words that spring to mind. About as sparkling and interesting as a slug on mogadon. Please can someone explain not only why this album is in this list, but why it was ever made at all?
At last, an album that definitely and without doubt deserves it's place here. This should certainly be in the top 50 albums of all time. Rubycon should probably be here too.
I don't get pop music and this is the perfect example of why. I just don't understand what anybody gets from stuff like this. I always thought music (or any artform) should at least stir up some emotion or feelings in the listener. Sadly, this has all the raw energy of a piece of wet tissue.
I quite like some prog rock (early King Crimson, PFM etc.) but totally understand why some people hate it. Sadly, I find ELP one of the bands that give credence to that hatred. They are everything that is bad about the genre -pompous, overblown, self-satisfied smugness which really doesn't gel well with my tastes. This one's not for me. One extra star for the cover artwork.
Back in the 1980s their was a craze for "world" music which I never really got into. I believe much of it was not very good, but a lot of trendy westerners listened to it because it was "niche" I listened to this album fully expecting not to like it, but was very pleasantly surprised. The intricate and mesmerising guitar work seems to interweave amazingly with the vocals. This is an album I would definitely listen to again. An easy 5 stars.
The whole genre of "Britpop" is something that I remember with certain amount of distaste (bordering on nausea) - images of Oasis toadying-up to Tony Blair and his "New Labor" cronies, who went in to instigate the deaths of 100,000 Iraqi civilians. This was , musically, a grim time for Britain and should forgotten about as much as possible. I heard nothing about it that remotely interested me, and the false cockney accent of the lead singer of Blur still haunts my worst nightmares! "Cool Britannia", indeed.
If any album summed up the late 80's/early 90s in the UK this would be it. Love the production on this, and while it is typical of the time, it somehow manages not to sound dated. A great follow-on from William Orbit's more commercial Bassomatic stuff. Definitely a 5 from me.
Can't quite work-out whether they have had too many drugs or not enough. A fun album though, that doesn't pretend to be anything else.
I quite liked this.
Not the best VM album in my opinion - that accolade goes to Veedon Fleece, but I can certainly see why this one is in this list. A seemingly timeless album, yet of it's time. Only 4 stars simply because I prefer Veedon Fleece.
