The Bee Gees were a lot more successfull at ripping off black artists than they were at ripping off white artists

I do not begrudge John Lee Hooker for selling out like this, he is a blues legend and I'm fine with him securing his retirement funds. However, I do not see the point of adding this album to the list in favour of some of his classic stuff.

Way too poppy, way too long, way too much imagine

Men with acoustic guitars has to be one of my favourite genders

Why is this on the list? Who the fuck cares about Shack? Who even remembers Shack in 2023? Imagine the great album whose place on the list is kept occupied by fucking Shack

This is extremely 60s in the worst way possible to me

I wonder how much budget was spend on coke

Men with acoustic guitars has to be one of my favourite genders

Musically it's quite good but the lyrics are just gross

It's ska.

One of my favourite albums, just fantastic

Great but way too fucking long

Even worse than the rampant homophobia is how annoying some of the songs on this album actually sound

A great opening three songs that are slightly let down by the rest of the album. However, still a great listen.

Northern Sky is one of the best songs ever made.

As I'm making my way through this list of albums I've come to the realisation that I don't really like new wave music. Come On Eileen is a banger tho

A great album that for me is slightly let down by how much Radiohead's later albums overshadow it

A pleasant listen, but nothing really stands out on this album

Did we really need another Beatles ripoff in 1967?

All of my 1-star reviews so far are albums that piss me off, while this is just so completely forgettable that I can't even remember any single hook or riff from the album. So no, The Hives won't be my new favourite band

The only thing bringing this album down is the ten minute monologue

My tolerance for medical sex jokes was running out by the end but an interesting album nontheless

Perfectly enjoyable but not particularly memorable

Huh

It's a masterpiece

I went into this album with low expectations because of my dislike of post punk music but was pleasantly surprised

A shame about the length, because there are some great songs on here

An extremely enjoyable album

You know that this is funk music because they keep telling you that you're listening to funk music

A shame that Morrissey is such a cunt because this album is actually pretty good

If you get the chance, try to see The War on Drugs live, they're fantastic

Surprisingly dull for a live album

Really fun and varied

I've been wanting to get into Nick Cave for a while now, and now I've finally got an excuse. This album is just fantastic, but I will concede that the second disc drags a little bit, although for a double album the pacing is surprisingly good. A great entry point into a fascinating artist

How many other albums end with an orgasm?

The casual homophobia ruins so much of 90s hiphop

Haha, imagine not connecting at all to one of the most beloved albums of all time

The production of this album is just immaculate

If you love the organ, this is the album for you!

Was it not necessary in the 80s to be able to sing?

If you cut 20-25 minutes from this album you'd end up with a fantastic album. As it is, it is a bit too bloated

Ya like jazz???

After three jazz albums in a row I'm feeling a little jazzed out

I pity the person whose first interaction with Tom Waits is Bone Machine. It is abrasive and challenging, and if you're not in the right mindset to process that it will bounce right off. But if you are receptive to this sound (and conditioned by some of Waits's other albums like Rain Dogs, Swordfishtrombones and Mule Variations) you'll find a harrowing beauty in it

Went into this album with kinda low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. You can really hear the punk sound in the vocals. I also love the production here, sounds really good. I also love that the album ends with a goodbye, love when that happens

Meh

Less ballads more bangers please

So unnecessarily overindulgent I can't help but respect it

Dull

I prefer it when Coldplay makes bangers so this album isn't much for me. Also 1 star less because of Yellow. Fuck Yellow

no

Arguably the best Radiohead album period, certainly the best Radiohead album of the 2000s

4 stars for the music 1 star for the album cover

Morrissey is a cunt

Maybe I just don't like reggae

The Bee Gees were a lot more successfull at ripping off black artists than they were at ripping off white artists

This album just makes me want to listen to the Smiths

Goes hard* * United and Red, White & Blue do not go hard

French electronic artists are the only people on earth who actually understand how music production works

I would enjoy most metal a lot more is the singers were actually able to sing

Some of it sounds great, some of it sounds horribly dated

Loses steam by the end but still great overall

I like Talking Heads too Peter

Enjoyable but a couple guitar jam sessions to long

I used to like The Prodigy quite a bit when I was younger bu I have to say that this album really doesn't hit me the way it used to. Maybe I just got old idk

This album is way too long, features way too much guitar slides and has a completely unnecessary instrumental section at the end. 4 stars

I really wouldn't recommend listening to this album while drunk in bed. The vibes are just clashing

Bland and boring

Why is this on the list? Who the fuck cares about Shack? Who even remembers Shack in 2023? Imagine the great album whose place on the list is kept occupied by fucking Shack

The Only Living Boy in New York made me cry

Album good

The vocals are the weirdest thing about the album. Starts of strong but I lost interest by the end

Kanye is a great producer but he is by far the weakest rapper and singer on the album

Like R.E.M.'s Document, only smothered in shitty production

Great instrumentals combined with some of the worst vocals you can imagine. I know post punk isn't know for great vocalists but come on

I can count on two hands the amount of double LP's that actually benefit from being that long. This is not one of them. Shame because there is some great material on here

Hip hop artists make a 40 minute album challenge (impossible)

Shame they didn't go for the full 17 minute cover of In A Gadda Da Vida

The jug just ruins what is a pretty good album

Great opening track, but the rest of the album is quite unremarkable

This album is the result of combining every acclaimed indie album of the 2000s

A boring version of Portishead

I really don't like this album enough to excuse Kanyes bullshit like I do with some of his other albums

Gets one star less just because of the girl is mine. Who decided that that wet fart of a song should be the lead single

This is so 90s in the best possible way

Folk Taylor is a lot more interesting than pop Taylor

Never manages to be anything other than background music

Sounds like a drunk David Bowie

It's fun to hear the Clash being so versatile even on their debut. Makes them far more enjoyable than most other punk bands that usually suffer from more monotonous albums

3.5

I wish that we as a society could pretend that nu-metal never happened

Whitest music ever made

A little bit too lofi for my tastes

David you're not Godspeed You Black Emperor, no one cares about your shitty street interviews

I don't particularly like LCD Soundsystem or this album, but All My Friends is one of the best songs ever made and I cannot ignore that.

Ruined by its shit production. The glitchy beats really ruin a couple of potentially decent songs

After sitting through 2 weeks of mediocrity I'm probably rating this higher than I would normally, but it is also some really interesting post punk

Hell yeah, finally a 60s album on this list that doesn't feel like it's ripping of one of the big B's: Beach Boys, Beatles and Bob Dylan

I expected to hate this album because of my hatred of the title track, but the rest of the album is surprisingly competent, if a bit forgettable

Please tell me this is the final Kinks album on the list I'm so fucking tired of them

I'm a sucker for prominent piano in rock songs so this album is right up my street

I'm sorry bu I need hooks in my music, this just borea me. Sometimes Van sings A LITTLE LOUDER, and sometimes he sings a little softer. That's about the only interesting thing here

White guy rapping

As with most hiphop albums it is too long. However this album is at least not filled with obnoxious skits

My dad would disown me if I rated this any lower

This is fantastic most of the people here are just stuck in their boring dad rock

This could only be considered cool in the early 2000s, because nowadays it sounds dated as shit. That said, I'll still scream along with In The End every time I hear it though

Girl just leave him he ain't worth it

One of those albums where the big hit really overshadows the rest of the songs. Sweet Dreams is great, but I don't really care about the rest

Great music if you want to be yelled at by a bunch of 12 year old kids for an hour. There are however a couple tracks where you are not being yelled at like Futtermans Rule and they are genuinely great.

George should have just called this album Songs About Fuckin' A very appropriate album to get on Valentine's Day

Rather annoyingly the first three tracks are the clear standouts, overshadowing the rest of the album. That said, these three tracks are all classics in their own roghts

It's more than 2 fucking hours long!!!

"I eat Kleenex for breakfast" A lyrical masterpiece

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There are a couple of good songs in here, but most of it veers into annoying weird instead of interesting weird

The Smiths, but boring

For a band that is well known as a singles artist as opposed to an albums artist, there sure are a lot of Rolling Stones albums in this list.

Typical hip hop album that's way too long and is mildly homophobic

No amount of Bob Marley on this list is ever gonna make me like reggea

Remove all the covers and the instrumentals and you'd have a great single album, instead of this bloated double album.

Right, so the reason this doesn't work for me as opposed to something like The Wall is that it feels insincere. It's like they constantly started adding whatever bullshit they could think of in order to justify the length. There are a couple good songs on this album (as usual with the Who, way more a singles band than an album band), but as a whole it's just a slog to get through.

The most 3/5 album ever made. Pleasant to listen to, short, completely forgettable, ugly as fuck album cover. Just a perfect example of mediocrity.

It's funny how Slint and Talk Talk are seen as foundational artists for the genre post rock, when the two bands couldn't be more different from each other. Talk Talk is intimate, vulnerable, and life affirming, while Slint is angsty, unsettling, and oppressive. Yet within later post rock releases you can find traces from both bands. While I prefer Talk Talk's Laughing Stock over Spiderland, I cannot deny the influence this album has had on so many later bands.

This is so 90s it hurts

Of course the worst song here is written by Mike Love

It's a good album, but also the weakest of REM's 80s output

Hippie bullshit

Commits the eternal sin of reminding you of far better albums you could be listening to

Bland and inoffensive. I'm tempted to bump this down to a 1 because of Angels but nothing else here is that awful

I'd rather listen to the Coltrane album

It's better than Astral Weeks but I still don't like Van's voice and songwriting. The fact that he is a xunt in real life doesn't help

Boring, dull, supports an apartheid state, uneventful, lethargic.

Way too poppy, way too long, way too much imagine

This is such psych rock bullshit I kinda love it

This album has a song named "Indifference" and that perfectly sums up my feelings towards this album

Wtf is this shit

Meh, Lana has way better albums

The introduction of CDs as the most popular album format has done disasterous things to album pacing

Transphobia in the very first song. Just fuck off

Gets an extra star for not being filled with pointless filler and skits like most rap albums.

I hate Justin's voice. I might be kinder to this album if it was sung by someone who could actually put some power but with Justin it just sounds like pathetic yelping

Sometimes an artist is called influential, not because they made good music, but because they had a good idea but were shit at executing it

Possibly fun in the club when you're shitfaced, but not when you're sober at home

First three tracks are absolute classics, the rest is pretty meh

Oh man that album cover has not aged well

Supergroups sound cool in theory, but most of them just end up as less than the sum of their parts

Would be a lot better if the bloke could shut the fuck up and let Björk sing. Anyway I've got no idea why this is on the list but Post and Homogenic are not. Post is a bit messy but contains one of the best songs of all time with Hyper ballad while Homogenic is one of the most influential albums of the 90s. There is plenty of mediocre slop (including this album tbh) on the list that I'd happily remove in favour of one of those two.

If it wasn't for I Can See For Miles I'd give this album a 1

Berlin Bowie is best Bowie

The Cult drop the post-punk/gothic rock influences of their previous album Love in favour of this sell-out, cock rock, derivative garbage.

I do not begrudge John Lee Hooker for selling out like this, he is a blues legend and I'm fine with him securing his retirement funds. However, I do not see the point of adding this album to the list in favour of some of his classic stuff.

The title track is good, the rest is typical Swedish pop garbage that only belongs at Eurovision

This album is the dictionary definition of white guy world music

The problem with Morrissey (aside from the fact that he is a twat) is that he is a great lyricist but he needs a musical genius like Johnny Marr beside him. That is what ultimately made the Smiths work. Some musicians need that collaborative friction to bring out the best in them, and the Smiths are a prime example (alongside the Beatles and Pink Floyd)

Music for annoying, edgy, misogynist, homophobic, 12 year olds

I'd agree with the reviews calling this a masterpiece if Billy Morgan wasn't such a shit singer

I hate early 2000s pop so much

The lyrics feel like they are the result of asking an AI to write Morrissey lyrics

It's funny to compare this to current black metal and how much heavier it has become. This album seems tame in comparison

I like Holiday, but don't care about the rest

This is exactly the kind boring music my dad would try to convince me is actually really good and interesting. I am genuinely surprised this album isn't in his LP collection.

I might like this in a studio setting where all the fat is trimmed and the vocals are cleaned up, but as a 2 hour live album? Nope

If you're a gen x'er who grew up with this album you'd might think it were good, but I didn't so I don't.

Yeah it's not Mezzanine but it does the job

It gets a bit sappy at times with all the strings and the background choir, but it's influence is undeniable

Yeah this album is pretty blatantly ripping off Neu! at times but honestly, who cares when the music is this good

Landfill indie, AKA dad rock for gen x'ers and millenials

Commits the cardinal sin of not being quite as good as the albums that came after that are somehow not on the list. There seriously wasn't any room for Homogenic, one of the most influential art pop albums of all time?

I 100% support what this album stands for, but sonically it just doesn't do it for me

LCD Soundsystem is, for me, a weird band. I love all their obvious influences (Talking Heads, New Order, etc.) but yet, outside of a few songs, I don't like LCD. The instrumentation is all there, but I can't connect with it. The problem with this album specifically is that all the songs are way too long and it is missing an obvious highlight like All My Friends. It is not bad per se, but it does feel like a waste of potential.

Maybe Paul's "granny songs" weren't that bad John