1001 Albums Summary

Just a little lovin provides an excellently smoky start to this album, giving us a picture of Itchy Summerfield as a singer in the basement of a club singing to the regulars. However, this is a bit of a ruse as the rest of the album slips back into typical upbeat female crooner led late 60s pop. It’s not bad, but it isn’t doing much for me. The track of note here is obviously Son of a Preacher Man, which deserves every ounce of praise and admiration it has received over the years. Just a fantastic song, bringing together a funky rhythm with gospely singing. I can’t help but still think Urethra Franklin provides a more inspired lead on her version, but as the original this version deserves attention. At least on that track, Crusty’s vocal starts soft and gets somewhat excited towards the end but ultimately doesn’t drive us home with the conviction you want. Ultimately a lot of this album is forgettable. There’s a few decent tracks, one good track, and a bunch of filler.

This feels like an album you buy on vinyl just to discuss how you own it with other people who bought it on vinyl. While a stripped back early punk sound has a lot of appeal, it needs to be combined with a lot of creativity to make an album’s worth of content interesting. Nearly every song the Angry Ladies put on this album is just a repeat of the same 4 odd bars over and over again until the end of the song. The closest they come to a bridge is the occasional breakdown into mindless flaying of the instruments. The notable exception to all of this is the final track Good Feeling, which abruptly is a whole different feel from the rest of the album. It’s a decent song and if there were a couple more nuggets like it sprinkled throughout I think it would have lended this album some much needed variety. The songwriting is lacking on this album, limited to coming up with pretty much 4-8 bars per track with maybe 3 chords. That being said, I enjoyed the instrumentation. The bass stands out as the most inspired work on the album, sitting front and center throughout and playing non stop riffs. The licks may suffer from the same repetitiveness as the tracks, but they’re still pretty good. The guitar is decent too, and the drums are sloppy but pretty fun. Overall I think this Frumpy Broads drags when listened to all at once, but hearing a track or two individually is nice.

What a start to the album, just a great opening lick. Lots of soulful funk going on here, with awesome bass, keyboards and guitar all over the place. Those three instruments take a backing position to the vocals, which are always front and center, but oh man focus in on any of them for an absolute treat, especially the guitar which you can honestly miss altogether on some tracks but it is just groovin back there in the mix. Lay Your Lovin On Me could be an Anderson Paak song, I'm sure he got some inspiration from this album for some of his sounds. The album's most popular track seems to be If You Think You're Lonely Now, which I don't understand because that's got to be the most tedious song on there. I had to skip that track a couple times at the office because it felt like it was literally extending my afternoon. Overall decent stuff. Pro tip: read the Personal Life section on wikipedia for some weird.

I hate U2. They're all smug, self-important, pretentious assholes. I also am irritated by the standard U2 sound, with Bono doing improvised high up wailing vocals over Edge's jingling high pitched droney guitar nonsense on a bed of boring bass and drums. All that being said, this album was better than I expected. It is certainly plagued by a boring back end, where the drummer comes up with a single rhythm and just plays it with few fills for the entire song. And that rhythm is often the same across multiple songs to the point where the drums need to be there but are forgettable and can be mostly ignored. The bassist was good for coming up with at most one good riff per song, which is rarely improvised over. That riff is usually pretty good, but come on show some creativity. It is especially egregious in the transition from Mysterious Ways to Tryin to Throw, where the similarity of the single riff highlights the lack of creativity. Note that the bass is quite well mixed on this album however and stands out exactly when it should. Thankfully the guitar on this album is pretty good. Edge stays away from his high jingly garbage for the most part and lays down some pretty nice tracks. Guitar highlight for me is the extremely tasteful two-guitar opening to One. Bono is at his worst when he does the high wailing stuff, but mercifully that's absent from a number of these tracks. I would say overall that this album is mostly decent up to Mysterious Ways, then after that it is garbage other than the last track which I thought was a pretty decent closer. Mysterious Ways itself is more of a classic U2 sounds but man do I like that song. That bass groove is so nice, even if it never changes. The outro section kind of devolves into U2 garbage but I can forgive it. Another big highlight for me is the false rhythm opening to Until the End of the World, really like that. Anyways, impressed by some of this album but unlikely to go listening to much more U2.

Not a lot to say here. The story about this album is kind of interesting and the last song being written by an inmate is definitely cool, but I'm here to review music not read a story. The music is typical 50s stuff, though recorded in the late 60s. He is a good singer and good guitarist and has a serviceable band around him, but ultimately the music itself is boring. It's remarkable how little variety there is in 50s music like this stuff, like they couldn't be bothered to write a bridge? Or have a fourth chord? On top of all that the primitive recording stuff available at the time leads to a horrible mix where you can hardly hear anything besides Cash's vocal and guitar. There is little in this album to elevate it over its brethren from 10 years prior.

I don't think you're likely to hear Jesus Walks from your local church choir. Fuck Kanye West as a person but he can make music. This is nowhere near my style and I won't be revisiting this one in the future, but there's plenty to enjoy in here for a listen or two. I'm not really a lyrics guy so my problem with a number of these tracks is that the music is extremely repetitive within one song. Just the nature of the genre I suppose. I will say that Kanye's beats are at least pretty good on a number of the tracks, and there are definitely some tracks that mix up the sound more than just changing who is rapping. There's a lot of filler tracks in here that probably make more sense if you're paying attention to the lyrics, but really just serve as a distraction for me. I think my favourite is Never Let Me Down, and the lowlight is certainly Last Call which is a garbage self-aggrandizing jerk off that lasts for seemingly 3 or 4 hours. Boy does Kanye seem to have contempt for higher education. As an alternate universe Patrick Roy might say "I can't really hear what Kanye says because I got my two degrees plugging my ears."

This album starts off with a bang with Movin' on Up, a very fun and upbeat track. The song is well put together, entertaining, and ends before it gets old. The same cannot be said for most of the rest of the album. The second track makes you think ok maybe they're actually going for a psychedelicy atmospheric sound and it's pretty ok. By the third track you are realizing there's no point in figuring out what they're going for because they're just making random stuff, some of which is garbage. I might hear that synth whistle in my nightmares for the next while. The hallmark of this album is that most songs are about 2-3 minutes of actually pretty good content stretched out into 6 or more minutes. I noticed that in the UK release of the album Come Together was actually 2.5 minutes LONGER, which is insanity. Loaded would be an actually fantastic track if they cut it in half. It spends a lot of time building the sound up with 4-8 bar repeats, adding a new instrument or piece of the sound each time. Ramping through the sound changes much more swiftly would drastically improve the pace of the track, either by changing every 2 bars, or else by adding two sounds instead of just one each cycle. It has a jam feel that is kind of appealing when listening to a snapshot, but is a bit much over 7 minutes. If you skip around in most of the tracks of this album, I find that I enjoy the music a lot. The problem is that much of the songs outlast their welcome so listening to the whole album is quite tedious. Not to mention track 3, which is by far the worst thing on this album and nearly justifies burning this album in a fire.

Some of this music is fine. But generally it's a real snooze. Not a good album to try and stay awake to while at work. None of the instruments are very interesting. The songwriting is ok, but the sound is so consistent here, it's like listening to one long song with some gaps.

Another album that starts off promising and devolves into senseless trash. Sleep on the Left Side is a jaunty and fun little ditty that made me think we had emerged from this hole of 90s musical wanking. It's still a bit long with an extended outro that someone should really have noticed and cut off. Brimful of Asha as a follow up is boring and monotonous but not awful and makes you feel like you're getting a feel for their sound. But then. The third track feels like a weird departure into some experimental psychedelic stuff. Not much musical content here, just some loops with drums that aren't even interesting. Almost feels like one of those songs the drummer "writes" that you include on the album out of pity. It's only after the third track that you realize in fact the departure was the first couple songs, and in fact we're in for a journey through experimental nonsense for a while, with a couple steps away for proper songs or fragments of songs. They bring it back to songs for We're in Yr Corner and Funky Days, but those songs are both terrible. Then it's back into the mess with 6 minutes straight of various garbage throwaway tracks. Anyways, other than Sleep on the Left Side and Good Shit, this album is composed of a bunch of junk tracks, with a few actual songs that have a mostly monotonous melody and uninteresting instrumentation. Oh and with an abrupt switch in genres for Candyman to little benefit. The Beatles cover at the end sucks as well (though I'm a pretty hard sell on Beatles covers). I don't feel terribly surprised that what I assume is a direct translation of the lyrics doesn't fit rhythmically into the original melody. "Norwegian Luggery (Eh Jery Bahgey)" This album feels like a musician doing a bunch of unstructured jerking off. A handful of songs written, fleshed out by a bunch of filler material and a lackluster cover. Which is why you have a producer who can curtail your impulses and shape your creativity into a cohesive whole. Oh. It's self-produced. Big surprise there. Maybe 8th time's the charm, but I doubt it.

Here. We. GO! This album is great. Full of great songs that not only have great riffs, but also switch things up with bridges and pre-choruses and solos all over to keep you interested. The instrumentation is fantastic, everyone here is so good at their instruments. The standout is the bass, which often flies off into an excellent riff or has some counter-melody lines in the chorus or something. As someone who is not overly into metal, I found this album to take the best aspects of metal (energy, instrumentation) and kept them in a format where the songwriting and music can really shine through and without getting carried away with overly long tracks or overly repetitive foundations. The highlight for me is the run from The Number of the Beast to Gangland, where all three are fantastic songs that seem to be just the right length. I really like Hallowed Be Thy Name as well but that one runs just a touch long for me, I find it loses my attention before it ends usually which is a shame for the final track of the album. Just a small negative though on a mountain of excellence. Of the albums we've done so far, this is the new number one.

This album is pretty sweet. The style is all over the place and really keeps things interesting. Starts off with a Rock Band classic that's pretty decent if a bit repetitive. Very catchy chorus of course. He sounds like he attempts to sing while using as few facial muscles as possible, perhaps he is a ventriloquist on the side. I'm less of a fan of the rap tracks but honestly they're still pretty good. For some reason I really jive with the chorus to Hell Yes, for example. Great bass line on that song too. A highlight for me is Farewell Ride which is a pretty awesome song that just puts me on a worksite building a railroad in the wild west. I would not be surprised if this track was part of the inspiration for the Breaking Bad theme song. Honestly not a lot to say. No major lowlights. Just a solid album through and through. Maybe I'll check out more of his stuff.

A lot of this album is that kind of classic American rock (a la Bruce Springsteen) that I just never really could get into. Tom Petty has a unique voice that is pretty great on some tracks but just gets weird and annoying (see The Wild One, Forever) on others like he doesn't have complete mastery of his mouth muscles. Really interesting how much his voice is different here from the voice I recognize more from later albums. The guitar, bass, and drums are all decent and definitely competent, but nobody is standing out really. None of this is helped by a top-heavy nearly mono-style mix that doesn't really do the musicians justice. The album starts off pretty great with the first two tracks, but after that becomes the American rock stuff that's just not my thing. It's definitely not terrible but the style really gets stale on me over the course of a full album. This is the kind of music where if you made a greatest hits out of 5 albums of content it would be really awesome, but having to listen to several deep cuts in a row starts to lose my attention. And then Mystery Man comes on and I have to reach for the next track button because that one sucks. If you don't skip Mystery Man and your brain tunes it out instead, you will not be snapped back to attention by the lackluster Luna. Just when I'm fully sick of the album and ready to listen to anything else, American Girl comes on and reminds me why this guy is so famous. That song is absolutely great and provides a stellar outro that pretty much makes you forget that you weren't really enjoying the last few tracks. On a separate note, it's pretty cool that they got Linda McCartney to pose for the album cover.

Buckle up. This is not Led Zeppelin's best offering. But that's not saying much. This album is awesome. There are so many good tracks throughout. It's later Led Zeppelin's more raunchy feel but with all the recognizable hallmarks of their sound including sloppily awesome guitar work, virtuoso-tier bass full of counter melodies, insane energetic drumming full of fantastic fills, Robert Plant's classic singing, and a smattering of wailing harmonica and delicate mandolin. A UK rock radio station once did a poll that asked listeners to create the greatest rock superband in history by holding separate votes for the greatest rock singer, guitarist, bassist and drummer. The poll simply produced Led Zeppelin. I wouldn't quite go as far as the poll does, but surely these four each deserve to be in the conversation for the GOAT of rock musicians at their respective posts. We lead in with Custard Pie, whose guitar and keyboard riff gives us a taste of that crunchy rock we are in for a double album of. The Rover is great but amongst the caliber of this album I find it to be one of the more forgettable tunes. In My Time of Dying has a phenomenal hook as all the instruments are introduced one by one. It's a very long song but has so many tempo and dynamic changes that it doesn't really grow old on me. Next is a block of classics. Houses of the Holy is classic Led Zeppelin sound. Trampled Underfoot is one of my favourite songs by them, that keyboard/guitar riff just charging ahead through these hilarious lyrics, with the cherry on top that is the keyboard solo. What more can be said about Kashmir. A definite departure from their typical sound, it is somehow something different from Led Zeppelin's normal sound while at the same time being so classically them. The contrast of the haunting verse progression with the breakthrough into the triumphant chorus progression. Throw in strings, horns, and an excellent bridge, and baby you got a stew cooking. Disc 2 is less hit-heavy, but contains some of my favourite Zeppelin deep cuts off any of their albums, specifically all of the first 5 songs here. In the Light molds together weird atmospheric stuff with some amazing rock riffs into such an awesome track. The vocals are amazing. This song is long but it is great and I wouldn't lose a second of it. Bron-Yr-Aur is a beautiful instrumental. Down by the Seaside's guitar tone makes you feel like you're underwater. Ten Years Gone is so nice and has an excellent solo. Night Flight is one of my favourite Zeppelin songs. My favourite small moment of the album is on that track, a small and simple drum fill that strikes me as being just absolutely perfect, I think of it whenever I think of the best fills (timestamp about 0:58). The band cuts out and the gap is filled beautifully by just 5 hits. The final four tracks are a bit weaker by this album's very high standards, but the outer two are still two good rockers and the inner two are fun acoustic jam songs featuring some tasty mandolin. I love this band and this album. Talent just dripping off of them. As much as I wrote here I could have written three times as much. What I wouldn't give to have been a fly on the wall while they composed, recorded and produced these tracks.

I am reasonably confident the inclusion of this album was an unfortunate typo. Apparently Tim Horton, Duke Ellington, and Nick Drake all died in 1974. I can only imagine they all died due to a broken heart from hearing this album. 1974 had the deadliest single airplane crash with no survivors in history, this is also likely due to this album. Trash

I must admit I enjoyed this more than I expected. The first song is garbage, some typical extremely 80s junk where the snare is so compressed the roadies probably kept it in their pockets. However it improves steadily, peaking with This Corrosion which is actually a pretty damn good song. At first the length of it felt a bit much but honestly it doesn't get old on me as much as some of the other songs on the album that are half the length. Besides the first track, each song has something to enjoy, whether it's a decent chord progression, decent guitar playing, good bass, or good keyboards. The drums are boring and fairly shitty, but they're a drum machine so pretty par for the 80s. I don't like the singer's voice and the melodies are usually pretty bland, a definite low point in their sound. Definitely pleasantly surprised here.

I have never been a fan of AC/DC. However, I have never listened to a whole album of theirs before and I resolved to go into this one open minded and ready to try out some of their deeper tracks surrounded by some of their biggest hits. You know when there's a pressure difference across a doorway that slams the door shut as you pass? That pressure difference was AC/DC's music on the open doorway of my mind. By about one minute into the second track, I was absolutely sick of it. The guitar work on solos is quite competent, even good, representing the only thing I liked here. The bass and drums are terribly boring, the guitar outside of solos is nearly sheer power chords the entire time, I find Bon Scott's singing voice irritating, and the songs are uninteresting. The one brighter spot track wise is You Shook Me All Night Long, which isn't a great song but I definitely found myself grudgingly head bobbing a bit to it, indicating there is some redeeming quality in that tune. On reflection though it's like a half remembered dream, I can remember the general feeling of enjoying the song but my mind can't quite grasp why. The best thing about having to listen to this album is that I know it is AC/DC's best known album, so there is hope that it is their only offering on this list. Some rock and roll is, in fact, noise pollution.

Off to a slow start but the opening track just grows into a great little number, and shows off what you can expect from the album as a whole. Some slow sections, some fast sections, and a range from forgettable to absolute classics. The songwriting is on display here, with some real nice chord progressions on many tracks. Instrumentation is for the most part simply arranged, typically centering on one or two acoustic guitars and the vocal melody. Overall the album is pretty great, with few tracks that are boring enough to merit displeasure, more than counterbalanced by the brilliance that is Wild World and Father and Son. Besides the aforementioned two amazing songs, other highlights include: the piano riff on Sad Lisa, the crescendo in Miles from Nowhere, the play between when his voice gets intense on On the Road and the na na naaa, and the fantastic denouement that is the title track. This is how you put together an album. Doesn't need to be super complex, just needs to be a good set of a variety of tracks that flow well with each other with a couple top tier tracks to hold it all together.

Some good musicianship here. The guitar, piano and harmonica are good, and he has a decent voice as well. That being said, this album falls pretty flat for me. There are just way too many slow songs all over this album and it drags me down to sleep. When I do pay attention to the glut of slow songs they are pretty decently made, I just find that putting them all in a row makes for a rough listen. A highlight is To Be Young, it's a fun and upbeat start to the album. I don't even mind the throwaway intro track since it kind of sounds like a conversation I would have with some buds over some beers.

As someone who isn't really interested in lyrics most of the time, there is very little on this album to take my attention. The music backing up the rap is token at best, with few interesting beats or attempts at supporting melodies. There is little structure in these tracks, it's mainly just rap verses without many choruses or other changes to the formula. The album has nearly the same tempo for every song as well. All of this combines for an album that is largely interchangeable tracks that fails to get my attention and disappoints when it does.

This album is pretty ok. The pure punk sound is just a bit much for me over an entire album. I really like the songwriting from these guys overall and the instrumentation is decent. The singing is great if only because I love the hilarious classic Clash singing style. I never listen to this album despite enjoying the Clash a lot, just due to how it's fairly monotonous and I get tired of it. Mostly, listening to this album just made me excited that we would eventually certainly see London Calling pop up on this list.

This album just sort of runs out of steam. As I jog my memory listening to snippets of the various tracks, a lot of them really are quite decent, and a few really good ones like Re-Hash and Clint Eastwood. Through the second half of the album the density of weaker tracks just gets high enough to lose my attention. From the boring Slow Country and Starshine to the straight up irritating 19-2000. I want to make special mention of the song 5/4, which is a pretty good attempt at writing in the awkward time signature, but loses points for the lazy and self-congratulatory title. I was initially leaning towards a 2 on this one based on my impression from full album listens, but listening to individual tracks reveals some more quality here than that impression. This album is less than the sum of its parts.

Well I can definitely say this is the first time I've ever listened to an entire ska album. My impression of this was that it was like if someone really liked the Clash's Revolution Rock and decided to make an entire album of slight variations on that song. However, this actually came out a couple months ahead of London Calling so I guess it was just in the air of London at the time. The musicianship is decent but the album drags on a bit since it's all the same thing. Definitely some good tracks sprinkled throughout though, and I didn't hate it. I bet these guys are fun to drink with.

I can see this album being good for meditating or some other low-brain-activity thing, but as an album of music to just listen to there isn't enough going on to be worth the time. The noises are pleasing enough, but this is background music. These tracks could be great in slow and ambient sections of a video game, maybe one of those indie games that has an emotional scene where the character is learning about their dead/estranged parents' pasts. That or just music on the main menu. It could also serve as backing music at a planetarium show. Musically, each track is very long and basically features just piddling around on instruments (mainly synth) without any kind of structure or much development (also, 30 seconds of dead air at the end of the first track, whyyyy). You could probably recreate this on the fly from an electric piano and maybe a couple of friends running their fingers on the rims of crystal glasses. As negative as that review was, I don't dislike the album. It kind of lulls you into a happy place. This is good to work to if you're doing something interesting enough to keep you awake. I got some good coding done with this on. When evaluated based on what I personally look for in music however, such as instrumentation, musicianship, melody, and song structure, it just doesn't rank very highly.

The first two and last three songs on this album are just country crap that I can't enjoy. The middle seven songs however at least don't turn me off immediately. She does have a great voice and I sometimes find myself getting into those middle tracks. I quite enjoyed the variety in the decent songs. Black Coffee and Shadowland are suitable for a smoky basement club, though I admittedly can't picture k.d. in the requisite scarlet dress crooning at the front of the stage. Sugar Moon belongs on a Hawaiian beach, and Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes seems like it is played by a mariachi band. The backing band is very solid, not a lot of standout performances but just steady and solid throughout. The slide guitar is the one that stays with me, providing a sound that is irritating on the country tracks but quite nice on the other tracks, even if it does attempt to drag the genre back towards country. You can create an EP from this album that is fantastic.

This album has a couple of ok tracks mixed in with a bunch of hippy junk. I imagine Croker Cortbullion is quite good if you’re three tabs deep convulsing in the grass while your friends nearby chat about how we’re all really just one organism, man. But it doesn’t click for me. Dr John’s voice is kind of cool. There’s not much on this album for me but it wasn’t awful.

I think the songs on this album have that mix of being energetic, repetitive and not overly interesting that makes them very suitable for mini-bosses in video games. Not quite epic enough for a true boss. Listening to this as purely an album where you sit down and listen to the tracks is not a particularly interesting experience. This is background music.

This album starts off great, with some soulful good stuff. The rhythm guitar and keyboards throughout are great, played really tastefully and adding a ton to each track. The first five tracks are all quite good, building up an excitement for the quality of the album. Rainy Day comes on and it's a nice step back into a moody instrumental that I find to be quite nice. And then you're smacked with XL-30, some sort of dystopian circus soundtrack that absolutely sucked me out of the mood of the first half of the album. It's an awful song that reeks of unstructured jamming. When that's over you hope to get back into the groove for the final two tracks Pling and Not Available. You could easily fall back into the groove as those two fit better with the first half, but unfortunately the wake up call that was XL-30 lowered the veil over the second half of the album, and you can't help but notice that where the first four tracks are well put together songs, the last five really just seem like jams by comparison. I have a strong suspicion that our buddy Shuggie put together an EP of material but wanted to release an LP so he filled the rest of the bare minimum play length with a few jams and called it a day. It's too bad, there's some real potential in the first half of the album that ends up unrealized.

The first song is a classic. I spent a fair amount of time listening to Take On Me trying to decide if I had never heard it before whether I would like it or not. I could never quite decide. Either way, I do enjoy that song and it makes for a great opener. The rest of this album is synth pop trash.

I have heard that the lyrics on this album are really great. That's very cool but it's just not what I'm here for. I didn't find the beats to be terribly interesting, and I didn't find much to listen to in the music, so there really wasn't much for me on this album.

Pretty typical alternative rock throughout. I definitely enjoyed it more than I assumed I would. I don't really like the singer's voice but the musicians are decently talented. It's the End of the World has such a catchy chorus, not surprising it's so famous. Overall better than expected but nothing to write home about.

On my first listen to this album, the slight country twang of the first couple tracks got in my head and I caught myself looking for reasons to dislike the album. I forced myself to get over it and wound up listening through the album three or four times. It's pretty damn good. While his voice is just ok, in general the musicians on this album are good stuff, especially the bassist who definitely stands out. The songs are generally of good quality with nothing I would consider a significantly weaker track than the others. As I continued to dive into this one, I found that my initial pet peeves about his voice and sound became the pieces that I found fondly memorable. His sound actually reminds me of another band, The Band, which I have very similar feelings for. Despite it probably being too long, I think my favourite track so far is Some Misunderstanding. The guitar solo of that song has almost a Pink Floyd feel. It's not easy to break your way into my core rotation of music. This is the first album from this 1001 album challenge that I am adding to my triage playlist for further listening, and I think a couple of these tracks might find there way onto my playlists.

Is this ever a 60s album. The instrument tone and mixing just has the quintessential 60s feel. This album is really quite decent, with a lot of good songs spread throughout. Two highlights for me are the massive song Somebody to Love and the instrumental Embryonic Journey. Embryonic has a Jimmy Page-esque feel. There are great performances by guitar, bass and vocals all over this album. There's also a variety of song tempos and styles. I really wasn't expecting much from this bunch of hippies, but as it turns out this album gave me everything I look for. Pleasantly surprised by this one.

Oh boy, jazz. Jazz is totally cool in small doses, but it is a genre I have a hard time listening to full albums of on repeat. The bossa nova flavour of this jazz is quite nice, lending a structure and fun to the music that other jazz can be sorely lacking. With that structure and fun comes the distinct feel of "interlude music" however, and you can find yourself being transported to a waiting room, or a lobby, or an elevator, or a montage scene in a movie where the main character spends several hours cleaning their house or something. As is typical for jazz, the instrumentation is the highlight here. The bass, guitar and drums were all fantastic, and zoning in on any of them was a pleasure on every track. The soloist is there to provide melody for people to center their listening on, but it really isn't the stand out track to me on any of these numbers. I probably won't revisit this, but I won't be upset if a similar album pops up once every couple months.

This was decent. For whatever reason some of the lyrics were filtering through to me on this one and some of it was odd stuff for rap, but definitely interesting. Maybe I was charmed by the british accent. Nothing to special on the music side of things but I found this one rather more accessible than a lot of hip hop (or Grime or whatever the genre apparently is).

This album is like if you took a really good album and just started adding layers and layers of synth and effects. I can hear those good songs underneath, with really nice rhythm guitar parts, great bass, and good drums. But the 80s sound that infests it all really takes away from the music. I'm also not a big fan of the guy's voice. Overall I definitely enjoyed this more than I expected, but I found myself wishing I could listen to that album that might have existed if this material was written in a different decade.

My initial impression of this album was that it was more boring alternative rock. Upon repeated listens however it really raise its head above the other stuff we've had. These guys' sound reminds me of Pavement, and places the album firmly in the mid-90s. This album definitely suffers from some sameyness, but luckily in this case it was a samey sound that I found myself getting into. I like the singer's style, and I quite liked the bass and guitar's work on the side, simple as it may be. The turning point for me was listening to this music out loud while doing chores this weekend. I found that the music was really nice played that way, as opposed to in headphones like I typically listen to these. Pleasantly surprised, I'm marking this one to return to!

Some massive hits on this album. I have officially discovered that if you don't listen to Freebird for a very long time that it actually does become good again. An obviously talented band playing a collection of decent songs. This is definitely a good album, and if I was into Lynyrd Skynyrd's sound I'd even call it great. The highlight is the guitar work, multiple fine guitarists in this band.

Very solid album. This song has a good variety of songs at a variety of tempos. She has such a great voice and the songwriting is quite interesting. I don't really have any major highlights or lowlights to point out here, it was just a good end to end album. I listened to it over and over all day yesterday.

My first listen I was unimpressed but this one grew on me. They have kind of an unusual sound but it comes together into some pretty decent songs that sort of mix punk with a bit of Gorillaz and maybe some avant-garde or something. Competent musicianship all around and creative songwriting. A low point is definitely Isle of Her, which I find to be kind of boring and a bit too heavy on the weird factor. The other dud is Four Horsemen which I find is just a bit too intense that it loses out on the intricate sound the other tracks have. Also it doesn't have a melody since they just sort of yell the lyrics, and the song misses that. These two low points are easily outweighed by the good work on the rest of the album however. My highlight is probably the intro to Atlantis to Interzone, where that vocalization noise in your left ear and the siren in your right ear sounda chaotic but quickly resolve into the beat of the song. Really nice stuff.

This feels like a novelty album or something, but all signs on wikipedia point to it being a sincere effort by this group. I found this album to be pretty lame. There was nothing to interesting going on in the instruments or the songs themselves. Most of the singing was like punk-style half-yelling, but it was clear the odd time they tried to sing a melody that none of them can sing. Also reading about member Richard Manitoba, he is an asshole.

Solid music. He's a great singer and these songs are fun to listen to. No major highlights as this is a pretty consistent album. The lowlight is the last track, I get a little tired of the story he's speaking to us because it is insanely long. Overall I think some of these tracks could stand to be shorter, if only to for the sake of making room for an additional couple tracks for us. On their own though, despite their lengths, I found that other than the final track these songs did not overstay their welcome, they're just nice to have on.

This album is ok. I found the guitar work to be rather sloppy and got the impression that they are mediocre guitarists that turn the distortion up to 11 so it sounds like they're super good. I don't mind the guy's voice. This album just didn't really connect with me. Didn't hate, didn't really enjoy either.

Couldn't get into it really.

Live albums are really mainly for people who are big fans of a band. As someone who doesn't already know some of the songs on here, I find that listening to lengthened and less structured versions of these songs isn't all that fun. Not to mention that mindless screeching noises at the start of Lazy might be fun in person but are just awful through headphones to someone trying to get through the work day. Being at a concert is a great experience, but live albums fail to communicate that experience to anyone who hasn't already experienced that band's live act. It's like having someone describe an event to you: sure they can get the idea across but it will never be the same as actually being there. All that being said, they do sound to have been a fun live act. The renditions are impressively faithful to the original tracks aside from how they're mostly much longer, and their musicianship stands up on the live stage as much as on the album. Including the singer, which is often the weak point in a rock band's live show by comparison to their albums.

This is a great album. Not by the standards of the Beatles though. If you had asked me which Beatles albums would be on this list, this would not have been one of them. Their second LP, With the Beatles expands on their first album by providing a marked step up in the maturity of the songwriting while still maintaining the covers and simplistic structuring of Please Please Me. In many ways it can be seen as somewhat of an older brother to Please Please Me. The originals on this album come in a big range of quality. At the top of the list has to be All My Loving, which combines hard hitting triplet chords with a walking bass line and McCartney's excellent vocal to create an excellent 60s pop song whose sound is so unique you really can't do anything like it without being super obviously mimicking it. It Won't Be Long, All I've Got To Do, and Not A Second Time are nice Lennon tracks that are interestingly written and display the creative exploration going on, but aren't going to blow anyone's socks off. Hold Me Tight was originally written for the first album but cut. It's not one of my favourites but I will say the guitar and bass parts are deceptively tricky with some interesting chord changes. Don't Bother Me isn't too interesting but is notable as Harrison's first contribution, the budding of a great songwriter. Little Child is one of my least favourite Beatles songs, I find it to be bland and unappealing. I Wanna Be Your Man is a goofy little throwaway song, but my favourite thing about it is that the Beatles decided to give it to the Rolling Stones who then had a hit with it. The Beatles then decided to record their own version and it's just a million times better than the Stones' one. Looking away from the original compositions, we have a very interesting selection of covers that really displays the broad range of music the Beatles listened to. They famously listened to everything they could get their hands on and had an extraordinarily wide view of popular music, which I believe was a major factor in their ability to synthesize so many disparate sounds into the canon of songs they're so famous for. Till There Was You provides a brand new soft side to the Beatles, and is an excellent track with fantastic singing and great lead classical guitar. That solo is just awesome. You Really Got a Hold On Me and Devil in Her Heart are darkly interesting songs that I think suit the Beatles well. Money is just a classic and in a similar vein to Twist and Shout the Beatles really made it their own. Money showcases two of the best rock voices of the early sixties: John Lennon ripping his lead vocal and Paul McCartney at the top end of the backing vocals, awesome stuff. Roll Over Beethoven is a fun time and showcase of Harrison's awkward early guitar solo style. Please Mr Postman I find pretty boring and the weakest of the covers. Overall this album shows us a band who already has found their sound but is eager to continue to expand both through covering tracks and writing originals. The creeping maturity seen here only barely hints at the greatness to come. If The Beatles fell off the map after this we would probably say they were just another promising pop band, if remarkably talented, that couldn't sustain their popularity. But history shows us that this album is just one stepping stone as they made their way inexorably from a peppy upstart group of goofballs into the innovational force they later became. PS whoever decided to hard pan drums and bass on some tracks in the 2009 remaster can suck a fat one.

She is a pretty great singer but this album is kinda weird. Some decent stuff in here but a lot of fluff and 80s trash I have a hard time with. And then that last song is just an awful finish. There are some rock elements in here that sometimes get me going for sure, but overall just didn't connect with it.

What an album. One of the all time great bands enjoying the peak of their prime. The album begins with one of the greatest atmospheric intros that I am aware of. Synth G minor, chimes, in comes a meandering keyboard solo, in comes such a tasteful guitar solo, in comes that classic riff, and the song kicks off. We're already over 4 minutes into the song and it has barely gotten going, and yet I'm not annoyed by the length. The high up guitar chord slams in the background, more just fantastic guitar soloing up next. Classic, if simple, lyrics come in and teach us of an enigmatic man, the original leader of the band Syd Barrett and his descent from eccentric band leader to losing his mind. Now time for an insane sax solo to lead us into an atmospheric outro from the first part of this epic song. Welcome to the Machine is probably the weakest track here, but it's still very cool. It puts you almost inside a factory where you're stuck doing mindlessly repetitive behaviour. It's a bit of a departure for the album since it doesn't feel like it connects into the Syd Barrett/origins story the rest of the album themes around. Have a Cigar is such a cool funky track with awesome bass and guitar. Depicting the story of Pink Floyd hitting the big time, my only regret about this song is that Roger Waters didn't sing it (he sings it live and it's great). What more can be said of Wish You Were Here. An all time classic track, with an accusatory first verse and brilliantly loving second verse, it is another tribute to Syd Barrett and the complicated relationship the band had with him until his final departure from the group. After a nice ride through some more ordinary (if brilliant) songs, it's time to hop back on that Shine On train with a last couple verses and some more fantastic solos until the final fade. This album is a beautiful tribute to Syd Barrett. It shows the band is still inspired to creation by him even in his absence. It shows the band wrestling between feelings of longing and nostalgia for how things used to be with him but also knowing that things can't be the same now. Apparently Syd Barrett, nearly unrecognizable, showed up at a recording session for the album. That must have been an intense experience, and probably very sad. On the more positive side, this album is the second half of the creative cohesive prime of Roger Waters and David Gilmour, when they still collaborated extensively. They both have marks all over each song of this album. Pink Floyd stays great for a couple albums after this one, but never again will their creative forces mesh together to the extent they did here.

This album oscillates between interesting and awful.

I fear I didn't give this one as fair of a shake as I should have, since I'm rushing a bit trying to catch up by doing two a day. I didn't really vibe with it as is common with hip hop albums for me. I'm trying! Just need to find one with interesting music in the background.

I am not usually one for music in foreign languages. Even though I'm not really a lyrics guy, I guess there's something I don't like about not even being able to listen to them if I wanted to. However, this album has some pretty interesting music all over it. It's a very long album but honestly it doesn't drag too much. Good guitar all over. Love the jump into 5/4 time for Lilia. Surprisingly enjoyable.

I think this would have been lovely to have been in attendance at while knocking back a few drinks. Listening to it 70 years later is a bit tedious. 50s artists tended to be fairly one dimensional and this fits that bill. Talented musicians and a great voice with some bits of fun banter, but too long for me.

Very cool stuff! They remind me of Royal Canoe. A diverse soundscape with lots of different stuff going on. It's pretty interesting music that has something to grip you no matter when your attention starts to flit back to it. Saved for later!

I got into a couple of these tracks. Still not my thing but I could feel it bobbing my head sometimes.

The songs are actually pretty interesting on this album, but unfortunately the off-putting singing ruins the effect quite a lot.

This album is extremely famous for how much of a true concept album it was so long ago. Judging it now, a lot of these songs have some filler aspects to them. I think when you compare the music on this album to the Who's other music it's actually fairly simplistic and not overly impressive. It would probably be my choice for only third best Who album. That being said, there are some absolute gems on this album. The See Mee Feel Me recurring theme is hauntingly beautiful. Pinball Wizard is of course an all time classic, and a standard for aspiring acoustic guitar players to do some proper damage to their guitar bodies trying to play. It's kind of a shame you have to listen to Fiddle About right before it, which isn't a bad song musically but is just hard to not cringe when hearing. This album is certainly greater than the sum of its parts. The story is kind of cool and the use of recurring musical motifs to enhance the storytelling of the lyrics is great. In the end though, this album feels to me like just baby steps towards the masterpiece that is Quadrophenia.

I wrote off Supertramp as a youngster because I don't like Dreamer and I thought it was basically what their sound was. I'm glad I was forced to listen to an actual album by them! Their sound is so much more than the goofy high pitched soft pop Dreamer bit, as iconic as I find it to be. They know how to rock, they're good instrumentalists, this was a good album. I'm wondering if this is their best album because it has all the songs I know off hand by them. Highlights include Bloody Well Right and the moment in Hide in your Shell where the pre-chorus transitions to the chorus with "Don't let your...".

This was pretty interesting. I've never heard his stuff before for the most part and I thought it was pretty good. Production quality is insane for 1971, maybe it's a remaster? It's not all good, and Jump into the Fire is downright bad, but definitely decent stuff. HE PUT THE LIME IN THE COCONUT AND DRINK IT ALL UP

Great singers. Though this shows some flashes of the typical showtunesy ABBA I'm familiar with, there are some very cool songs on this album. Highlight is definitely the title track, which has an atmospheric and dark vibe I really got into.

Prince was an immensely talented musician who used his abilities to create awful music. It's like if all Monet did was take big steaming dumps on canvases.

There's stuff to be enjoyed here but for the most part I'm unenthused.

The first 6 songs on this album is an unreal run. Candle in the Wind is beautiful, Bennie and the Jets is a classic, and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is some fantastic songwriting. The rest of the album is a bit hit or miss. Misses like Jamaica Jerk-Off can be nearly painful to listen through, but then Saturday Night's Alright is nestled near the bottom of the album and is an all-time classic. As is so often the case, if this were a single album with the cream of this crop, it would be one of the greatest albums ever. As it stands, it's still damn good, just not quite elite.

You know what? This is decent stuff. It just really didn't do much for me.

There's some ok stuff sprinkled in here but you almost forget about it amidst the sea of boring noises.

Surprisingly actually has a couple tracks with decent rock. This album is like a mixture of Beastie Boys and some arena country or something. The decent rock is far outweighed by the absolute trash scattered throughout the album. Only God Knows Why is apparently an extremely popular track but the heavy autotune on it completely ruins it for me.

Rolling in the Deep is amazing. Her voice is amazing. This album drags with a number of more boring songs though.

All time classic. God Only Knows has one of the nicest melody/chord progression combos ever devised. Wouldn't it be Nice is such a great feel good song. The various supporting tracks here are a mixed bag but generally good. Brian Wilson had such an ear for melody and harmony, his vocal line compositions here are amazing. Shame he went nuts. Also Mike Love is a bastard.

meh

What an opener. Good stuff but gets a little stale for me

An entire album of jazz just gets tedious

Not really my style. Some decent tracks but his vocals are annoying and the music didn't really work for me.

I don't like this, it's weird

Pretty nice stuff, great bass and lovely voice. Got a little sick of it before the end but generally pretty good

Meh

Such good bass and guitar, with boring melody lines. Needs more variety, this album drags because it's just so samey

Some great stuff, a few forgettable ones

Great music but I get a bit sick of it and also Ray Charles was a shit dude

Not the biggest fan of Aerosmith. Talented guys but their music is lame. Adam's Apple seems like it was made exclusively to deliver a handful of Bible puns someone came up with, and it sucks. This would get a 2 except that Walk This Way and Sweet Emotion are absolutely fantastic songs.

Some great stuff here. Imagine is a classic. Jealous Guy may be my favourite Lennon solo track. How Do You Sleep would be one of his best as well if it wasn't such a vicious attack on Paul McCartney. It's remarkable to me that on Spotify that song is the third least listened to song on the album, which must be in part attributable to it's lyrical content since it's so good musically.

Great hits, boring deep tracks. I usually don't like the songs where Kiedis raps instead of singing.

Decent

Such a talented band. So few top tier tracks from them though.

There is some excellent stuff in here, but it is scattered in with a whole bunch of garbage.

Junk

You know what? Better than I remembered. Lots of trash on here but there are a couple medium songs and of course Bang a Gong is a classic.

Doesn't work for me

Not a rap guy but there are really good beats here. Lots of iffy lyrics though, caught something about beating his girl? Also not the biggest fan of all the loud sex noises, makes it kinda difficult to listen to the album at work.

Too long for basically a jam album. Decent quality overall but no stand out tracks to hold your attention.

Some good songs in here but also some trash sprinkled throughout.

boo

Wow was this one album? Felt like it lasted about 7 hours

They're good but this album is nowhere near as good as What's the Story

So sick of these guys. The singer sucks and the weird dissonant guitar hammering they do just gets on my nerves

ugh

Ah the Byrds. Talented folks that just get way to obsessed with being super psychedelic and it creates some really bad tracks. Good stuff on here though.

Bob Marley was a talented guy and there's some good stuff here but listening to a whole album of his gets real samey on me

I thought I didn't like it but then Dull Life woke me up and I realized it was pretty damn good. Dull Life is the best one.

Such a shame this guy didn't get the recognition he deserved back in the day.

snore. Some decent stuff sprinkled in

Some ok stuff and a whole lot of the worst kind of psychedelica. I'm here to listen to music, not what amounts to 30 minutes of house creaking

Early Who with almost all songs sounding the same. My Generation is obviously an all time classic but the rest of the album is filled with forgettable songs that are only fun to listen to because they recall the sound of the actual good sounds from the early days of the band. The opening track actually rips off the riff from Anyway Anywhere Anyhow, unless it actually predates it or something. Legal Matter is probably my least favourite moderately famous Who track.

Fun and funky but also boring

ok, not much for me

Good beats but a bit boring to listen to all in a row. Good background music for a drone tour of a city or something

Pretty good. I know it's their sound but I sometimes feel like I wish instead of the verses being mostly rap they had written melodic verses. I quite enjoy the music but wish there was a melody to tie it together

I'm not really a rap guy. But there is some beautiful stuff in here and this girl can sing like crazy. Good beats and some nice instruments in the background too. The sudden Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You was a definite highlight, I was a big fan of that cover.

Pretty good. The highlight is the guitar for sure, and Sultans of Swing is an amazing song.

Pretty good I guess. Skits are boring they're a real trope of these rap albums

This is from before they invented interesting music

A couple all time hits in here. The backing tracks range from decent to forgettable. I'm in Love With My Car is probably my least favourite Queen song that I'm actually familiar with.

I don't really like how country they can get sometimes but this is obviously a very good album

Decent music, but more suitable for an elevator ride or pause menu than a dedicated listen.

Great album

Just ok for the most part. Killer Queen is unreal

Good but unremarkable

Great album

Generally good but not great, with Don't Think Twice as an elite song. The creativity is showing and so is the lyrical quality, but the musical maturity isn't there yet.

Not into it

Terrible garbage. Their big hit on here is pretty good but mostly for the familiarity. These guys suck

I get it you like to pretend to be robots. This album was probably composed wearing cardboard boxes and dryer vents

Pretty interesting stuff on some of these tracks. Should have been a single album though there's lots of boring tracks.

TRASH

His stuff is weird but this was not as bad as some of the other more boring stuff.

Baby One More Time is a great song. A lot of the rest of this album sucks though

What an album. After 11 months without a major release and a whopping 18 months since their last full album, the Beatles are showing off that they are producing so much material they can randomly do a double album instead of single. That being said, to flesh out all the way to a double album there is some definite filler in here (not much but it's there). Knowing all the other material they were working on that would find spots on later albums and even their solo careers, I don't know why they decided to put tracks like Wild Honey Pie on here. But of course being the Beatles even the filler kind of serves to highlight the surrounding songs when listened to in proper album context. Despite how much I love this album, it contains the one part of the Beatles discography that I always skip: I always end this album two tracks early. Revolution 9 is just too experimental and garbagey to listen to more than about once a year, and Good Night sucks so I just end the album instead of skipping. The album was recorded with the four Beatles working separately on a lot of it as they went through a period of internal strife. For the most part you can tell the songs where they worked separately as they have a single Beatle's instrument or singing super highlighted with little harmony. At this point in their career John and Paul were producing so much high quality stuff that the music transcends whatever internal conflict they had and comes out as yet another set of fantastic tracks. This is also the first album where George has one of the most famous contributions to the album in While My Guitar Gently Weeps. This is the time where his writing production skyrocketed in both number and quality, which shows over the rest of the Beatles' career and into his solo act. Ringo also contributes a composition in Don't Pass Me By, which is forgettable. What an opening. That jet fade in for Back in the USSR, crossfade to Dear Prudence's flowing guitar arpeggios, to Glass Onion is three great rock tracks to get you in the mood. As you move through the rest of the album you're greeted with the typical Beatles fare: great chord progressions, great melodies, great instrumentation, great album pacing, a variety of styles, and of course sprinkled in are a number of all-time classics. It's not hard to forgive the album of Good Night, Revolution 9, Wild Honey Pie, and Don't Pass Me By when they are counterbalanced by Back in the USSR, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, I Will, Mother Nature's Son, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Revolution 1 and Cry Baby Cry. Random tidbits: -Helter Skelter is considered to be a major influence in the development of early heavy metal. -Yoko Ono's line in Bungalow Bill is the only female lead line in the Beatles catalogue. -Eric Clapton plays lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. -Blackbird is played by every person who has ever owned an acoustic guitar but somehow everyone stills likes hearing it anyways. -Everybody's Got Something to Hide is one of the only songs where I have never been able to properly sync up my mental beat counter with the song before the rest of the instruments come in. I have tried so hard. -Revolution 1 is amazing but Revolution is still better. I'm beginning to think these Beatles characters were pretty talented. Fun game: create your personal single disc version of the white album. Limit it to 23 minutes on each side of the LP, and order the tracks so both sides flow well. It's so hard.

Damn, so much good stuff here.

Decent but like most 50s music it gets pretty samey listening to a whole album

ok

Not terrible music but instrumentals always bore me after a while. A full album like this gets tedious.

A phenomenal album, full of great tracks and a regrettable third disc that is lame. This is the backlog of George's music from writing in the intense creativity hotspot of the Beatles' recording studio, but overshadowed by the prodigious output of John and Paul. Those years of behind the scenes writing and only getting a couple songs onto Beatles albums gave us the crystallization of the best ideas he had over that period in this album. If only the Beatles had found a way to work stay together, I can't even imagine how these tracks would have developed without all their input. Amazing stuff.

Ughhhhh. At least Born to Run is good. This big sound Americana crap is so awful

Pretty boring

Brutal stuff. So boring

This was ok. Some of it is a bit boring but I don't mind the style they were doing

I've never listened to her before but quite enjoyed the grooves on here

Great album. Such interesting composition, there is a wide variety of speeds on this album, though all closely clustered into typical folk genre. The chord progressions and guitar work are great here, as are the classic Fleet Foxes harmonies. By comparison with their later work, you can see how unpolished their sound is, but taken on its own this album is an absolute treat.

Not my favourite by him but still decent.

ok

ugh

ok

I kind of like some of the instruments on some songs but mostly hated the overall sound

Old timey country for small cowpoke children

I enjoyed it! Some of the good elements of the Smiths music without the shit elements of some of the other Smiths music

This is a fantastic album. A bunch of great ones and a couple mediocre ones, nothing terrible. The absolute greats are Carry On, Teach Your Children, Woodstock, Deja Vu, and Our House. That's half the album!

Nope

Boring, not my thing

Not terrible, but definitely not that good

Damn, pretty good stuff

I do not like this era of Bowie.

Not bad but gets a little tedious on a whole album

These guys are pretty good and I'm into their sound, but the songs sort of bleed into each other. The album is too consistent track to track, could use a couple change ups to keep it interesting.

I think the music in general is ok if not all that interesting. The vocals are terrible and ruin everything.

This music isn't really my style but it's definitely interesting

What a weird album! A mix of stuff I quite liked with some really weird interludes. It definitely keeps your attention. I might have to explore this guy more

Pretty good. A bit of a different sound than I'm used to for them, some bluesy stuff going on.

Decent album but a little dull. The old people voices one is weird. Mrs Robinson is obviously a classic.

This music is very interesting. Not all the tracks landed with me but it definitely kept me interested

I quite enjoyed that!

This was pretty good

meh

ok

Started off enjoying but got kinda tired of it by the end

Decent

Kind of boring, typical mid-60s uber psychedelic summer of love type stuff. Some of it is definitely decent.

Classic band and a couple classics on this album. Fun tunes.

Some good stuff, some boring stuff. Album could be great if it was a few songs shorter.

Interesting, definitely not terrible but didn't connect with me a ton either. Come On Eileen is so good.

Pretty lewd. Also pretty decent. Would listen again

There are approximately 800 songs on this album. It's not bad stuff but kinda boring overall.

I love Fight Test. The rest of the album is decent

ok

A whole album of jazz is always tough

Thought I would like their sound but it really got boring on me. Fairly samey.

Such a garbage band

Jazz again. He is super good but jaaaazzzzzzz

decent

Brightside and Somebody Told Me are so good. A number of good supporting songs here too. Unfortunately peppered with some real duds, especially to end the album.

Couple ok ones, mostly junk

Decent stuff but I never could get into ELO's sound.

Classic album. Some of these songs are unreal. Unfortunately there are some tracks that are boring and that general 80s feel in the background takes me down from a 5 to a 4.

Time after Time is decent for an awful 80s ballad. Girls just wanna have fun is trash but it is recognizable and not awful when drunk in a group at a wedding. The entire rest of this album is horribly bad and nearly drove me to start mindlessly destroying things around my desk.

Some decent stuff.

Good album.

Pretty sweet but doesn't really stand out to me

Some 60s pop stuff. Not terrible but kinda boring.

REM kinda blows but this album wasn't awful

There were some better songs on here than other Madonna stuff we've done. The American Pie cover was atrocious. Gone was an interesting look at her actual singing ability. I Deserve It was pretty good. Overall though this music still sucks.

ok punk, kinda boring

I get the feeling that this is really good music for the genre. It just doesn't quite connect with me though. The Beatles cover didn't "Help" either ell oh ell

The Stranger Things song is great. The rest is ok

Very good album. Highlight is the opener, what a great track.

Decent, probably shouldn't have been a double album. I actually have never heard the original that inspired Gangster's Paradise before so that was cool.

ok stuff

Not really my thing but it's not like it was bad

Dancing Queen is a fantastic song. There are other decent ones here, but overall it's not my favourite sound.

One of the greatest albums of all time. Imagine being in 1966 listening to all the other stuff coming out in the mid-60s and then you're hit with this. Track after track of great sound, many tracks that just had no comparable songs at the time. Highlights: -George Harrison's first song that rivals Lennon/McCartney quality in Taxman. -Paul's guitar solo on Taxman. -The feel of I'm Only Sleeping and its reversed and patched together guitar solo sweeping across your ears. -The harmonies on Here There and Everywhere. -The drumming on She Said She Said. -The dual guitar melody on And Your Bird Can Sing. -The everything on For No One (my top Beatles track). -Just when you're winding down listening to this album Tomorrow Never Knows smacks you in the face and still has no songs that really remind me of it. Amazing stuff.

Pretty laid back, decent stuff

Not bad

decent. Some great stuff mixed in and some boring stuff. Why are skits such a thing

Decent

not my favourite sound

mostly ok, but boring

liked

This is fine. I was reading about how people talked about it as the best album of the year. Revolver and Blonde on Blonde both came out a couple months later.

This guy can really play but hardly the type of album I look to listen to

Classic but not that interesting

These guys are so boring, I can't believe The End is so popular. At least Break on Through and Light My Fire are actually good.

meh

Hate the singer

It's good but jazz

Old timey christmas music, fun but not exactly groundbreaking stuff

Decent stuff

HAted this

good stuff

He was so good at trumpet. Full album of jazz though, gets a little snoreful

Never listened to an album by them before. Not bad

Something about this really worked for me

Not great

Liked this

Decent

Junk. Feels kind of cringey getting into a prison and singing about how much you hate prison to a bunch of criminals

This is just rock. Kind of weird to hear almost in the context of the late 80s. Just plain old rock. Not bad.

This was awful. The mere presence of this album calls into question the sanity of the person making this list, and thus the value of the entire list.

ok

You know I think I would find this music listenable if it weren't for Billy Corgan's absolutely Z-tier garbage voice. He ranges from soft whisper singing like someone attempting to conceal a fart to his higher pitched yell singing that sounds like someone playing a kazoo while also pinching their throat shut.

Pretty cool

boring

Pretty sweet. So much more than a hip hop album.

Meh

Pretty good. Never listened to an album by him before

Pretty good

Only gets a 2 because of a couple ok tracks. A bunch of junk on here.

decent

This was pretty sweet stuff. I'm not really one for pure instrumental albums but these guys are good and I can dig the jazz fusion going on.

Better than expected

Flava Flav pisses me off

Good

Did nothing for me

pretty decent

boring

Such weird music, but something compelling about it.

Classic stuff

meh

Pretty sweet

Great

Discount U2

I thought a lot of this album was mediocre to not great. And then the 6.5 minute final song hit and it was so awful it decreased my 2 or 3 star rating right to a 1.

Classic album

Not what you imagine when you think of the Bee Gees. Some good stuff on here.

All time classic

Decent

ok

Cool album. The commercials are a bit annoying

Sick album but not sure why it's on this list.

This is some weird combo of Elton John, Queen, Bruce Springsteen and Fleetwood Mac. There were moments of that combo I liked and moments I hated.

Good

Nothing here for me

Noisy. I was into it at the beginning but it just keeps going and doesn't change.

Pretty good. I don't really listen to the lyrics much but the snippets I caught sounded like classic Morrissey complaining that us regular folk don't do enough to improve the world. But whatever I'm into his sound

ok

not very interesting

Decent

ok

ok

garbage

Pretty ok

Decent gangster rap

Interesting. Didn't like some but really surprised by how interesting it got in places!

meh

meh

Just can't get into these guys

This guy sucks

Pretty good stuff for the mid-50s. No wonder he got so famous, the bar was just to do something even mildly different from everybody else.

Hate these guys

Good but gets old

A few classics in here

good stuff

I have never heard the Christmas song but it is amazing. The album is very good.

meh

Nope

good stuff

Quite liked this

Meh. Bob Dylan live sucks compared to his albums

Decent

nope

Good.

Pretty decent. I'm not the biggest fan of their sound but the songs are pretty good

Just ok

meh

God these guys are awful

It's basically Bruce Springsteen but not

Interesting, sort of early Beach Boys esque. Some good stuff

Interesting, and ok

Interesting

A bunch of good songs, a bunch of garbage.

Great stuff. A couple misses on this album for me, especially the abysmal What Goes On.

decent

Interesting transitional stuff between early Beach Boys and Pet Sounds. Not that stellar though

nope

Still cannot understand why these guys are so famous

Not enough tracks I got into to balance the tracks I just found boring and overly repetitive

Live album, always a weird choice

One of the weirdest additions yet.

Some of the most 60s music ever

meh

Takes me back to Rock Band in university. There are moments on this album where you can hardly tell the song has changed they're so similar. But there are also a couple gems like Under the Bridge and Breaking the Girl.

Hated this.

Discount Daft Punk. Decent

Why are these ok live albums on this list. This one isn't even particularly good

Blech. There are elements of interesting songwriting in here, but I just don't like their overall sound, especially the awful singer.

Pretty good. Got a little long on me though for whatever reason

Decent

gross

Fantastic album

ok

Prince. Great guitarist, interesting person, writes music that I hate.

Interesting sound. I don't hate it but some of the songs did suck.

Interesting soundtrack, some cool stuff

Interesting, never heard of but kinda liked

Very good album

ugh hate him

This was good

Pretty not bad

Awful

The Doors are the definition of meh

Pretty cool but still hard to understand why this is on here

PRetty damn fun

Great fun stuff

Good stuff

good

Sunday Bloody Sunday and Drowning Man are great songs. The rest of this album is generic U2 junk, not interested.

This was very cool

Nah

Not bad for the genre I think. Hate the genre.

Good

Why are these guys so popular

Not feeling it

Some ok stuff in here but lots of trash

some ok songs

Not bad

A classic. Not my favourite Bob Dylan but it's great

Decent

Not bad, but kinda painfully 60s sounding

nope

Screw the haters, this is a great album. Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova are overplayed and cheesy but they are good songs. Don't Look Back in Anger is a classic. She's Electric is one of the best approximation Beatles homages ever. Good stuff.

This guy. The epitome of writing nice poetry and pretty tunes and then just slapping them together regardless of how they line up. It always bothers me how his vocal phrases don't at all fit with the melody he writes. And don't get me started on rhyming gone with alone.

Wow not bad

yikes, not what I want

ok

ok

meh. country

pretty good, but got tiring before the end

This is not terrible. I cannot for the life of me enjoy these guys but this album is at least ok.

The gangsterist of gangster rap, and the a random dance track at the end

GAD that is a good album. Man in a Shed is one of my faves by him. Wish he lived long enough to play for us at folk fest.

Pretty good album, couple big hits and decent supporting cast.

yikes. Ranges from generic 60s poprock to basically children's music??

very ok

blah blah blah. Couple ok ones but man they had boring material and his voice is like nails on a chalkboard after a while

Great album

I kind of hate these guys but also found myself rocking out to some of this album.

Does this guy ever sound like David Bowie. With a hint of Bob Dylan.

Weird but not bad

Not much more to be said about one of the greatest albums of all time.

Sgt Pepper followed by Dark Side, what a treat!

Great guitar work but Van Halen kinda sucks. Hot for Teacher, Jump and Panama are classics though

ok

Not bad. Solsbury Hill is great

ok. it's fun but I get bored of it because I'm working in excel, not on drugs at a rave

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof

did NOT like. That sound they had between some tracks that sounds like a program crashing gave me PTSD to not having saved in too long

meh

Some interesting stuff, but the interesting pretty much just balances the weird

not great