yeah i mean... what is there to say lol this is just really really good. just still holds up. feel all my old teenage wounds and hurts and rage and messiness rising up in me again listening to this. so much painnnnnn. weirdly specific memory of some girl in the year below me at school singing lithium in the girls' bathroom lol. horrifically that would have been TWENTY YEARS AGO. i wonder where she is now. gonna give it 4 just because these days it's not really the kind of thing i'd listen to regularly, like i feel there are only really really specific moments where i need this kind of music, but i feel like i really mean 4.5.

actually felt sick listening to frankie teardrop idk just came away from the whole album feeling unwell gonna give 3 stars to this album because it definitely made me feel things but also i never want to hear it ever again

i used to listen to early white stripes all the time when i was a teenager but never really paid attention to this era apart from the singles (ugh my doorbell is still so good). i feel like i don’t like their piano stuff as much as stuff like elephant etc but this was still really good and weird and fun. also it feels like it aged really well? like it doesn’t sound dated at all. so yeah this wasn’t my main great.

yeah i mean... what is there to say lol this is just really really good. just still holds up. feel all my old teenage wounds and hurts and rage and messiness rising up in me again listening to this. so much painnnnnn. weirdly specific memory of some girl in the year below me at school singing lithium in the girls' bathroom lol. horrifically that would have been TWENTY YEARS AGO. i wonder where she is now. gonna give it 4 just because these days it's not really the kind of thing i'd listen to regularly, like i feel there are only really really specific moments where i need this kind of music, but i feel like i really mean 4.5.

Idk, this was ok. I listened to it while walking around Asda, I don’t know how much that added to the experience. I feel like.. this is the kind of music that you can see how it helped pave the way for other stuff and is important because of that, but nothing really stuck with me. I feel like the songs just kind of happened to my ears. That said, there were some melodies and bits that I enjoyed and if they’d developed into something a bit… MORE I would’ve enjoyed it more. SO36 was cool, also Requiem. Yeah, I feel like I get it but I don’t really get it. I think i would’ve been the kind of person who got it in 1980.

this was fun. not much else to say. some fun songs and i had a good time listening. some lyrics i ummmmmmmm just tried to ignore. a lot of it is just fluffy and silly and sometimes that's all you need. i was in a good mood afterwards. CARS AND GIRLS CARS AND GIRLS

This is a perfect album. It will always be in my top 10. It is so special to me.

this was nice. tbh i find i very rarely am in the mood for this kind of music but it is good and obviously her voice is amazing. i listened to it on the bus and it was very sunny and i felt quite sleepy and it washed over me in a pleasant way.

I loved this! It was really fun to listen to. I’ll admit I was flagging a bit towards the end because it is longgg but overall I had a really good time with this one.

Hmm this wasn't really my thing. Parts of it were ok. I've literally never heard of this guy but just read his Wikipedia and feel quite sad. I recognised a couple of the songs. Sunday Shining was nice. Also idk if I'm going insane but I Need A Lover sounds like it samples parts of Waterfall/Don't Stop by the Stone Roses?? is it just me?? I can find no proof or confirmation of this anywhere so maybe it is just me. Anyway yeah, gonna give this 2 stars. It feels like a very specific part of the 90s that I never paid attention to while I was living through the 90s, but now I realise it was always there. Like I would have been in the car with my parents playing Magic FM and some of these songs would've come on but I was paying attention to something else.

Went into this wondering how much it would have in common with the classic Loona yyxy EP, beauty&thebeat - and I don't know, I think there's some kind of weird sunny girl pop vibe that they both have?? Anyway this was good, I'd never heard any of it before which is odd in a way because it fits in so well with a lot of the kind of music I listen to all the time. I guess sometimes you just miss stuff! I'm gonna say 3 but I really mean 3.5.

Ughhhh I don’t know. I don’t know about this one. Most of it I really didn’t care for UNTIL the last song, Lady Grinning Soul which just completely slaps so I don’t know what to think now. I think it’s still mostly a 2 for me but LGS bumps it up to a 2.5. Something about this album just really didn’t hit for me :(

I went into this fully expecting to hate it, and I do hate the IDEA of it and how it was made, but I can’t deny that I actually enjoyed a lot of it and I liked the weird collagey nature of it… so it feels strange to be giving this 3 stars but that’s what I’m gonna do.

Easy 5. Just so good. I can’t believe I never got round to listening to this album in full. I know so many of these songs but hearing them lined up like this one after the other, fucking hell.

this was really beautiful

No. I'm sorry but why is this on the list. Who is this for. There is other stuff out there that is *like this* but crucially *better than this*. Why would you listen to this instead of that, unless you had some nostalgic connection to this. This is the sort of music I would hear playing on the speaker as I walk around a secondhand record shop in a seaside town somewhere random in the UK and then I leave the shop and I never think about that music ever again.

I think sometimes I give 3 stars to things that like... they're not really for me and don't do much for me, but I can see how they're pretty good and would be enjoyed by other people, if that makes sense? This is one of those.

partway through listening and this is okkkkk so far but i've had a lot of 60s/early 70s albums this week and im flagging tbh. just really wanting different music that is not this, sorry...

YES!

I appreciate what this is but it isn’t for me.

This was really good!

yeah this was pretty good. tbh i sort of had it on as background music while i did other stuff and it was vibey and fun but didn't really stick with me. ive had so much late 60s/early 70s music this week PLEEEEAAAASE albums generator give me another decade!!! i want to get out of here!!!

this was ok. i listened to it in a heatwave on a sunday with a headcold after a really difficult week and it sort of made sense in that context.

there's some fun song titles here. the album cover is good. i didn't think i knew any of their songs but rikki don't lose that number started and i was like OH YEAH THIS. the rest of it, idk. im doing some work on my laptop and just kind of bopping along to this but it's one of those albums that is just kind of there and nothing else.

decent decent.

DEBASERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR yeah ok FINALLY something that is just excellent. i hadn't heard debaser in years and years and when it came on i almost started crying but i think that's just because my period is due. i listened to this album twice today. i actually have this weird feeling that i'd never heard this album in full before, but i also feel like that can't be right and surely i did at some point??? i don't know.

DNF’d this (can you say that for an album?). It was just profoundly uninteresting to me.

freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, this album. THIS ALBUM. Funeral came out when I was 15 and I was obsessed with it. I liked The Suburbs when it came out as well. I didn't really listen to their later stuff after that apart from a couple of songs on Reflektor, and obviously recently all the bad stuff has emerged and there's lots that can be said about that. But THIS ALBUM. I'm sorry. There are just some albums that appear in a certain time in your life and can't be untangled from your life and that's it. I'm not gonna write an essay here about whether we should separate the art from the artist or not etc etc etc. There are artists I can't listen to anymore. But THIS album, these songs. I just can't let them go. I just started typing out some stuff about the period of my life when I started listening to this album and then I thought, do I really want to share this with the 1001 albums generator website hahaha. Let's just say it was my first year of uni, I was a really unhappy and confused and messed-up person in a lot of ways, and this album just ended up soundtracking a lot of stuff. Every single song on this album means something to me. I get a lump in my throat listening to it now. Today just for a change I've listened to A Giant Dog's cover of the entire album and it's fun, but it does just make me want to go back and listen to the original anyway.

this was ok but just not really my thing :(

Listened to this while make a gazpacho👍

I already know this album is 5 stars, but I associate it with a really bad time in my life and actually can’t listen to it if I’m feeling even a little bit emotionally fragile.

i didn't finish this. tbh i didn't get very far through it. is it unfair to rate this if i havent heard most of it? idk i don't think tom waits will be affected. i just don't think my ears want to listen to this man and i want to move on. please stop giving me albums by him.

i actually enjoyed this a bit more than i expected to?? for some reason it reminded me of when i was a teenager and i briefly worked in a spa where my job was to clean and make coffee and refill all the pots of nail polish, and they often played a lot of Magic FM and this kind of music would play a lot. idk, i don't really know anything about Prefab Sprout but i feel like their songs would fit well on Magic FM's playlist circa 2004. anyway this was nice and nostalgic and i'm feeling generous so i will give it a 4.

listen, i love coldplay and i'm not even sorry. i don't love all coldplay and i especially don't love the more recent things but THIS album, come on. this is a GREAT album. it is just banger after banger. politik. the title track. all the singles. AMSTERDAM??? my memory of this album is listening to it in the back of the car on a cd walkman (lmao) on a family holiday in france. i was 14 and it was the early noughties and it wasn't (that) uncool to like coldplay yet, peep show hadn't come out yet so there was no quote from super hans to bring up every time someone mentions coldplay, it was a simpler time.

Yeah this was fine in an early Beatles kind of way. I already had a soft spot for some of the songs. I associate All My Loving with a weird period in 2017 when I was in Liverpool for a bit and had really bad insomnia. That’s it really.

Amy ❤️

this is just kind of .... solid. every song is the same but not in a bad way?? idk.

this is another one of those albums that i listened to obsessively as a teenager so giving it anything less than a 5 feels dishonest to myself even if ~objectively~ it probably isn't a 5* album. like it's messy and not all of it works perfectly but that's why i always loved it, you know????

this was alright, i'm guessing Urban Hymns is also on the list somewhere but i haven't got to it yet. i found it funny when he sang IM GONNA DIE ALONE IN BED a hundred times. ok richard. it's very oasis/stone roses in places (obviously).