Repetitiveness in these songs definitely has a lot of charm and makes them super catchy and fun, but over 40 minutes of that somehow feels like too much. Tiring.

You can never be quite sure if it's overly serious, just regularly serious or actually making fun of everyone and everything. However, you can dance. It's about death, but it's catchy.

Yes, it's okay, I really don't see what the fuss is about

I was so glad when it was over

I love Nick Cave but there is a reason to why I mostly listen to his later music

I was so glad when it was over

Some tracks are quite brilliant, others rather boring and "Words" is the one to listen on repeat. I'll be coming back to Doves.

I suppose it's okay, but I'm really starting to lose my patience for American men with harmonica.

The only thing that I actually liked was the contrast of music and lyrics in 'Shit, Damn, Motherfucker'. Everything else was undisturbing at best.

Sounds like all of he 80. pop trends mashed together. Which is great and horrible both at once.

Oh, this is fun

4/5 for the album, 6/5 for Why Does It Always Rain On Me. Nothing is quite as mesemrising as this one song, but I'm still happy to get to know the band a little.

I don't know how I'm supposed to rate this. Overall the album was much better than I expected. I enjoyed some of the songs, but I also skipped several others because they were unbearable.

There're vibes of a low-budget horror movie, it's wonderfully kitchy, super catchy and every song is just pure fun. I'm in love.

I kind of regret listening to this at work instead of in the evening as a background for reading, so I think I'll need to come back to Sigur Ros to appreciate it even more. This is the good type of boring. And bonus points for not being in English. We need more non-english music to be noticed internationally.

Repetitiveness in these songs definitely has a lot of charm and makes them super catchy and fun, but over 40 minutes of that somehow feels like too much. Tiring.

It's all fine until Sting starts singing

On one hand this exactly the type of music I like, but on the other vocals were rather unpleasant for the most of time. Not really fitting to this dreamy, mystical atmosphere.

I was expecting a full album of Bowie's Modern Love so this was rather dissapointing

I'm not saying that the vocalist can sing, but his bad singing fits nicely with guitars. Also it's good to know who is the guy that beabadoobee wishes to be.

Listening to this album feels like an Event. It can't just be some background music. Sure, you can play it way too loud late at night at house party, but that'll make you conflicted if you really want to scream over the music to talk to other people or just listen. I consider that an Event too.

Maybe I picked a wrong strategy with this one. I have several double albums in my physical collection and I rarely listen to both cds at once. So why should I do that to Mellon Collie? Just because it was generated as my daily album on 1001 albums? While I genuinely enjoyed the music, at the beginning of the second part I already had quite enough. The division is there for a reason. Also I love the cover. I've only ever seen it in miniature before and now I can see that it really looks great.

At first I thought it's obvious that Joy Division is a 5-star band, but I'd never really listened to Closer as a whole. It turns out it's not really a 5-star album, even though it has Heart and Soul. Very good, but not quite as good as I expected.

It's so much more interesting than Simon and Garfunkel, I did not expect that

Sometimes I felt attacked by reggae. I liked the album as a whole, but I'm afraid what I'll remember best will be these moments of confusion

I'm pretty used to Norah Jones playing in the background thanks to my parents' Norah Jones phase, but I was unpleasantly surprised how dull this music is when I actually tried to listen to it.

A song or two were quite nice, but all in all I was better off unaware that this kind of music exsists

After absolutely amazing opening 'Airlane' everything else is bound to be a little disappointing - but what a beautiful disappointment it was! Dark, uneasy and totally captivating.

Not my favourite from Belle & Sebastian, but I still can't give it any less than 5 stars. What other band sounds so upbeat and so melancholic at the same time?

I would have loved it in 2013

I love this variery of instruments, unobvious melodies and unreal atmosphere. Maybe one day I'll try to learn something about Illinois through this music too.

I came to appreciate Björk as an artist several times already, but I never quite got to embrace her music. Maybe now I'll actually start listening to her. I absolutely love these shimmering, jingling sounds, but sometimes songs get dull anyway. It's not enough for 5, but I really enjoyed the whole album.

Definitely not a fan of the voice. It isn't that big issue in more dynamic songs, but ballads with guitar and vocals only are hard to listen to.

I like all these songs separately, but listening to them together is a bit too much. Or actually too little, because they're all similar and without much action - except for 'A Forest' which really stands out.

Somehow it's better than the best of Janis Joplin collection album I used to have as a teenager

Were these songs any different from each other? I don't know much about hip-hop but this just sounds very generic.

This album is just banger after banger. Ending is maybe a little bit less crazy and energetic but still very fun.

It wasn't really that bad, but it felt like it lasted forever and in the end I was just sooo tired. Every song was way too long and not even one of them managed to catch my interest.

Can't believe I needed to wait 80 albums for some good, proper metal

I was expecting something really bad based on the cover, but it was actually listenable. Mostly. Funny how little you need when you're ready for the worst - just some actual instruments and a little bit of a melody.

I've heard 'I only want to be with you' about thousand times, only with different instruments, different voice and in different language (quite flimsily translated as I realise now), so it was a nice surprise to come across this familiar melody. Beside that, the album is just a pleasant collection of love songs. Nothing too spectacular, but enjoyable.

There were some nice moments, but overall it's just... not bad.

I really like the layered guitar sound and distant, dreamy vocals. Unfortunately, the album is uneven and sometimes it sounds like powered-up Dylan (that's not a compliment). It's not the most important thing, but the cover is great. It's very fitting to the music and the title.

More of this, please. It has this complexity that doesn't appear too often in popular music, but it's still easy to listen.

Albums like this are the reason I listen to this list

Sure, it can play in the background, I don't mind

Her voice is impressive, the music not so much

I've never really heard anything like this before. Full on eclectic, fascinating and you can never know what comes next. It's a mix of everything, but somehow it still makes sense as a whole.

IMPORTANT: do not listen during daytime. This is evening/late night music ONLY. I could probably rate it higher, but I did make that mistake and put it on at work. However 'Honey' is wonderful at all times.

Instant obsession

Deeply unsettling

I don't know. I mostly liked the instrumental layer, but vocals and spoken intermissions were simply annoying. While in the beginning I could just concentrate on nicer parts, by the end the irritation definitely took over. 2,5/5

Is the rating even up to discussion?

I'd really like to rate it 5, because there are some 5 star songs, but inbetween them there are some others that are not quite so brilliant. I wouldn't say they're bad, but simply forgettable

I listened to this on Friday, now it's Monday and I don't really remember anything about it

There was a time when I was listening to Manic Street Preachers - namely 2014, after they released Futurology. But this isn't how I remember my Manic Street Preachers phase - The Holy Bible feels pretty forgetable.

I love Nick Cave but there is a reason to why I mostly listen to his later music

I wanted to write something a little mean, but then I remembered that Back to Black is actually a lot more interesting

You can never be quite sure if it's overly serious, just regularly serious or actually making fun of everyone and everything. However, you can dance. It's about death, but it's catchy.

I regret every minute

This weirdness and otherness hits hard, even dressed up as clownery. Or maybe that's the reason why it is so good. (Finally with album #130 I got to listen to a cd from my collection, yay!)

Not gonna lie, they got me with the cover art and band name already

I gather it's pretty meaningful music, but I just can't stand listening to it

I'd really like to like it, because there are some pretty interesting ideas (including the name "Haunted Dancehall"), but the truth is that it's mostly boring

Simply brilliant. And the best proof of that brilliance is when you listen to the whole album on a loop around 5 times and it's still as exciting and bizzare. The range of sounds that fit in these songs is amazing: it's circus, it's blues, some random noise, it's all world's strangeness cramped together.

Nothing particularly exciting

Vocals are too agressive for my taste, but the guitars? Amazing!

So far every 49th album is Bruce Spingsteen. If this keeps up we'll get 20 Spingsteen albums on this list - which could be funny if it wasn't for the fact that he's already released even more than that

It can only be 5, despite the fact that I'm still traumatised by that one time my English teacher decided to make the class listen to Yellow Submarine 20 times during 45 minutes.

Yes, it's okay, I really don't see what the fuss is about

This is witchcraft. I just can't sit still when this plays

"riotous gospel rock" sounds about right

I might not have listened to the lyrics too closely, but it really seemed like every second word was 'motherfucker'.

Not a single interesting song and the voice is pretty irritating

I liked it, but ending was pretty boring. Pity that now I don't remember much beside the boring ending, but that says a lot too

I'm so tired

What can I say, synthpop is just very aesthetically pleasing

Not the finest thing punk has to offer

When it comes to Sex Pistols it's so easy to get trapped in stereotypical thinking about punk, how it's simple, noisy, unsophistocated and there's no much skill and more shouting than singing really. A little time passes and you forget that Sex Pistols is just good music and in its own merit too, not only because it was so revolutionary and influencial. I'm glad I refreshed my memory.

I liked it at first and then it didn't. "Wild is the Wind" in particular I REALLY didn't like, which is pretty ironic given that it's also one of my favourite songs in some other version. But it's fine, there wouldn't be a cover without the original, so thank you Nina Simone.

I like guitars a lot, but vocals are just as irritating as I remembered

I really liked AB/7A. I would probably be more understanding of everything else if I encountered it in an art gallery as sound art or something. Not that I would actually sit 40 minutes in a gallery to listen.

I couldn't grasp why this music is so appealing to me, but then I saw how some critic described it as "collision between Soft Cell and Tom Waits" and I suppose I just couldn't not be mesmerised

Energetic and fun

I don't see myself coming back to this, but I had a lot of fun listening