1001 Albums Summary

Best break-up album of all time

My favorite CCR album with Lodi, Bad Moon Rising and Wrote A Song For Everyone

I don't understand why this is on the list but Machine Head is not, since it's pretty much the same tracklist. A 20 minute version of Space Truckin' is wildly unnecessary.

It's more of a 3.5

This album is wack AF. I want my 47 minutes back

More of a 3.5

No Surprises is such a dreadfully happy song

I came in ready to hate this album since I cannot stand the song Hotel California after hearing it a million times (Spotify has it at almost 1.5 billion plays), but enjoyed a few of the other tracks: New Kid In Town, Wasted Time, Victim Of Love

Frontier Psychiatrist was my jam in high school when this album came out and it's still a bop

I thought ZZ Top was supposed to rock. How is this album so boring

More like a 3.5 since the album sort of falls off after Earn Enough For Us

It's good but it's no I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You

This album is corny as hell. It sounds like a half-assed, wannabe version of so many other good bands of the era. Just do yourself a favor and go listen to The Kinks or Smokey Robinson & The Miracles instead. I hope this album being on the list means that I'm not going to have to listen to the Monkees eventually as well. Listening to this album was a chore, and started to make me doubt my commitment to completing this list.

I enjoyed the album but some of the songs seem to be unfinished demos, and I would have appreciated those more if they were longer than a minute or two

The second disc of the album is not as good as the first, but still a solid double album

This is some real basic bitch shit. I would rather listen to the FRIENDS theme song on repeat for 45 minutes than hear this album again. You're wasting my time, list.

2.5

I honestly couldn't make it through the album. I was hating it from the get go and then had to stop on track 3 after the lyrics "cover me in your golden shower". Why is there so many shitty British 90s rock albums on this list? What a load of piss.

Every song sounds the same and the album is so long that I just lost interest halfway through and skipped to the most popular songs to see if they stuck out. They didn't.

I know Paul's Boutique is already on this list, but Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty better be as well, because they are all superior to this one, as iconic as this album is.

I know this is the first rock opera but Who's Next is a more rockin' album.

It's Too Late is a bop.

Another basic, boring British album on this list. When will it stop

One of the best live shows ever recorded

If you gave acid, a bunch of instruments, and recording equipment to an extra on the set of Monty Python & The Holy Grail, they probably could come up with a better album

Such an underrated band and album. So many great deep cuts. Mambo Sun, Monolith, Lean Women Blues, Planet Queen, and Rip Off are all better songs than their "one hit" Bang A Gong. This album rules and if you haven't listened to it, do yourself a favor and do so.

Sounds kind of like a watered down Roots. Whoever decided to put a Parental Advisory sticker on this one probably did so to sell more albums, but I can't remember a single swear on this album.

When Brian Eno is producing an album, it tends to be a fantastic album. When Brian Eno makes his own music it just sounds pretty boring.

Abattoir Blues was rocking hard and then The Lyre Of Orpheus sort of dropped off in quality and wasn't as good.

Another album that's just too British for me I guess. These songs are way too long to be this repetitive. I'm pretty sure one song was just a long drawn out parody of Warren Zevon's Werewolves Of London. Including entire conversations that you have with your bandmates in your 12 minute song is not endearing or artistic or whimsical or cheeky or some other British adjective or interesting or entertaining in any way. Don't do this. Not even once, kids.

The only reason this isn't a 1 is because I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll is a good song

So that's where the "Ahhhhh, freak out!" sample comes from. Didn't realize they stretched that out for a whole 5 minute song though. This is some seriously repetitive and basic stuff. Wasn't a fan.

This album came out when I was in high school so it has an extra star for nostalgia reasons. As much as we're all tired of the radio hits on this, and I would rather go back to sleep as soon as Wake Me Up When September Ends starts, the deep cuts on this album still kick, like Give Me Novacaine, Letterbomb and Whatsername. The two 10 minute long tracks are fun as well.

Otha Fish is a masterpiece that transcends hip hop. There are many other great tracks on this but that song is one of my all time favorites.

This would automatically get a 1 from me because it's a Christmas album, but there is a terrific amount of talent behind this. Shame it's wasted on a Christmas album. Christmas (Baby Come Home) is one of the five Christmas tracks or so that I actually enjoy

Nothing really stuck out. If You're Feeling Sinister is way better

I have been putting this off for literally 100 days because it wasn't on Spotify and based off of the album cover and song lengths/titles, I assumed it was fairy renaissance faire music with lots of lutes and harps, which I wasn't about to go above and beyond to listen to. But, Steve Albini died today, and I saw that he had produced this album, so in his honor I finally got around to listening to it. It is pretty much exactly what I expected. See above description. I wanted to like this but just didn't. I gave it an extra star for the Steve Albini hand in it but if the maker of this list felt the need to include this album, then the list better have Big Black's album Songs About Fucking, because that album rocks and is an industrial masterpiece and partially helped define the industrial genre. Steve Albini was a great influence on music and produced some great albums, including Pixies Surfer Rosa, Nirvana In Utero, and The Breeders Pod. Unfortunately, I wouldn't include this album in the pantheon of his best work and would recommend you go listen to anything else that he's worked on.

Life On Mars is one of my favorite songs ever. Between that track, Changes, Queen Bitch and Oh! You Pretty Things, I can't in good conscious put this below a 5, maybe a 4.5

This might be the most 80s thing I've ever heard.

This album was the toughest listen on the list so far. Clocking in at an hour and 18 minutes, it might be the most self-indulgent, bloated album I have ever sat through. There's cabaret, pseudo-gospel tracks, other genres that may be considered the bad kind of cultural appropriation, nods to Aretha Franklin, possible comparisons of Christina to Aretha Franklin, and a Steve Winwood feature. The fact that it came out in 2006 scares me because that means there is probably earlier Christina Aguilera albums on this list that I will ultimately end up listening to. I keep telling myself to give things a chance but this one was rough. She has pipes and can sing well, but these are just bad songs. Maybe if it had Dirrty on it, I could understand the inclusion of this album on the list, because that track bangs. But alas, all we get on this one was Still Dirty, and folks, it does not bang. I know I'm ranting and rambling at this point, but just thinking about this album again made me upset.

Only Love Can Break Your Heart is a masterpiece

I've tried getting into this album for years and it's just kind of bland and boring. 2.5 stars

I know that Ravi Shankar influenced the Beatles but this album is a snoozefest. It's more of a recorded sitar lesson than an album. If you want to take a nap though, it's good for that.

I may be a little blinded by nostalgia on this album but it seriously holds up. Somehow this album can be simultaneously beautiful, angry, sad and joyous from track to track and still be coherent as one of my favorite double albums of all time. 1979 is one of my favorite music videos ever and is like a time capsule of being a teenager in the 90s.

There's some decent sampling on this record and I know it's one of the first hip-hop albums, but it's hard to ignore how corny and wack these rhymes are.

This album rules

I thought Walk Of Life was a John Mellencamp song

Why. Why? Why?! WHY?! Why is this album on the list. So wack. I love George Gershwin too but if I referred to him as Georgie Gershwin, I hope someone is there to slap me.

Another boring British album. Do better, list!

IS 2 Unlimited not British? Because I'm sure they would be on this list instead of The Shamen if they are. So sick of mediocre and bland British music and I'm starting to hate a lot of these albums.

They sound like they're trying to be Springsteen so bad but end up just being Sting. I'm not sure why they felt the need to extend each song past 7 or 8 minutes but it was a total snoozefest.

There's better PJ Harvey albums. I hope they're on this list. I suspect this one was included because it's about England

This guy sure loves his horns

It's a banger

I love me some Johnny Cash, but this is the third album on the list I've come across, one of which was a cover album and the other two are live at prisons. Hoping to get an actual album like One Piece At A Time and not a live from Walla Walla album on his prison tour.

I get this guy is a legendary producer but his actual music just sounds like a bored Ringo Starr

I like their other album a lot and was hoping this one would be good but it was so bland, just generic 90s rock. I can't believe the outro to Columbia was the same guitar riff repeated for almost 2 minutes. 2.5 Stars

Sounds sort of like a British version of the Replacements. I liked the album enough but it gets an extra star for how awesome Music When The Lights Go Down is. That track is a masterpiece.

This is what it would sound like if the Talking Heads sucked.

Yawn.

I liked a song or two on this but the 10 minute long annoying songs put a dent in the rating. I get it, it's experimental, but it sucked to listen to. 2.5 stars

Escapade rocks

Pro tip for navigating this list, I call it the 4 B's rule: Imagine you're a few songs into the album, so far it's Basic, Boring and Bland. You're wondering why it's on the list. You look up the artist or band and find out they're British. Feel free to skip the rest of the album and give it the appropriate score. I'm only saying this because it's been such a common experience going through this list and more often than not, when I'm not enjoying an album, it tends to be a British artist and this rule applies. If you think I'm wrong, I want to point out that I wrote the entire paragraph above after listening to the first three tracks. Then I looked up the artist info. British. Of course. It always is. Anyways, feel free to use this rule when going through this list as I will not be patenting this system in order to help others.

Despite my badmouthing a good amount of British music on this list, I do enjoy many artists that happen to be British. One of the best to ever do it is Damon Albarn and I am always open to see what he's up to. I wasn't aware of this project before my listen and while it's not up to Gorillaz or Blur levels, I found it to be enjoyable, but not particularly memorable. Paul Simonon from the Clash is also always appreciated. 3.5 stars

I was 12 years old when this came out and it was the perfect music for that age. I loved it and would have given it 5 stars if you asked. Revisiting it is a different story. I was looking forward to it when I saw it on the list and was wondering if it would hold up. It doesn't. What it does is perfectly encapsulate the sound of the hard rock / nu metal / rap rock radio sound of 2000. At my current age, it just sounds like a teenager throwing a temper tantrum in their room, punching pillows and screaming, after their mom took away their N64. I can't help but picture a young AJ Soprano in the early seasons of the show doing this while listening to this album. The lyrics to the three song run of Runaway, By Myself and In The End serve as a trilogy of sorts to this scene and made me laugh out loud to myself as I was listening to it. Definitely not my scene or sound anymore at my age, but if you want some pure distilled teenage angst, this is it. I gave it an extra star just for the nostalgia of revisiting it but all in all, In The End, it wasn't good and maybe doesn't really matter after all.

Ever since I can remember, I've always hated Daft Punk, outside of the tracks Da Funk and Technologic. Around The World, One More Time and Get Lucky are so basic and boring and I've never understood the appeal. I've tried numerous times to get into their music and the best I can muster up is a "meh." So, since this album has Da Funk on it, I was looking forward to it hoping I would like the other songs. After listening to the full album, I don't even know if I like Da Funk anymore. I started the album thinking, "this is ok, I'm sure it picks up and gets more interesting further in, maybe changes it up a bit." Nope. It's basically the same beat for the entire hour and 14 minutes. HOW IS IT SO LONG?! My boredom became hate and loathing during Rock N' Roll and stayed there for the rest of the album. I don't care that I'm going to catch hate for this but this album is not good and I'm tired of people pretending that Daft Punk makes good music. If this bothers or offends you, then you're probably basic and boring, because Daft Punk makes basic and boring music for basic and boring people. But that's ok! It's ok to listen to if you like hearing the same beat for 7 minutes and enjoy counting to 8 over and over again. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just not for me. I'm sure all of their other albums are on this list and I am not looking forward to being bored by those albums either.

I love this album. It's a delight!

This album is a classic and I would give it 5 stars if it wasn't for the annoying skits

There's been some really bad music on this list, but I think this might be some of the worst "music" I've ever listened to. I got through 3 out of the 4 songs on this album and fell off. I couldn't bear to endure the last 15 minute song and despite the "artist" asking for more money on the second track, I was not about to give them another fraction of a cent from the Spotify stream. I'm legitimately angry for the following reasons: 1. This exists 2. I listened to it 3. It's on this list 4. Other people will listen to this It might be the worst album I've ever heard and the maker of this list should be ashamed of themselves for including it. I hope wherever they go when they leave this mortal plane of existence they have to listen to this album on repeat for eternity. Utterly atrocious. What kind of sick joke is this

Second attempt at getting into R.E.M. Attempt failed. 0/2

I'd rock this in the Catskills

Good album but if the last Tribe album is not on this list, then the listmaker missed out and I am disappointed in them

Better than Daft Punk

It sounds like they can't decide whether they want to be The Killers or The Strokes, and the result is an album that is a pale imitation of either and nowhere near as good. None of the songs stand out, including the big hit, Take Me Out. It's interesting that this actually came out months before Killers Hot Fuss, because it sounds like a rip off version. Or maybe The Killers ripped off Franz Ferdinand. Or maybe this kind of sound just saturated early 2000s rock music after The Strokes and White Stripes led the "garage rock revival" and was ripped off by so many bands named "The <insert plural noun>". At least they didn't follow the band name formula, but I don't know how this band got this big when they sound so bland.

I hope some of her other albums are on the list because I like them more, especially Falso Brilhante

Fun game: count how many times James Hetfield does the UGGHYEEEEEAAAAAAAGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! growl on this album. Don't make it a drinking game though or you'll probably die. At first, the orchestra adds a nice touch to some songs, but then detracts from others, overshadows the rocking and ripping and ultimately sounds like it's looking for something to do while the band is out there shredding. Orchestra good: Ecstasy of Gold, Call of Ktulu, Hero Of The Day, Nothing Else Matters Orchestra Bad: Master of Puppets, Until It Sleeps, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Wherever I May Roam, Battery and sadly Sad But True No-Leaf Clover rips and is the only recorded version of the song as far as I know. It was refreshing to not hear the crowd yell along since no one knew what it was. The setlist is some odd picks out of their catalogue, a little too much Load/Reload and not enough 80s Metallica for me. This album did remind me of how much Metallica used to shred though before they became rich whiny babies and I hope there's more on this list so I can rock out more. One extra star for No Leaf Clover

The interludes get annoying and Speakerboxxx is definitely the better of the two discs but it's a pretty solid 4 stars. Last Call is a banger

Homeward Bound is a classic but it's one of the only stand out tracks on this album

Third attempt at trying to get into R.E.M. and you know what? I actually enjoyed this album. Stand was the only track I knew going in and it's one of the weakest tracks, despite being a single. I guess R.E.M. are alright

What the duck is this doing on a must hear list. Never Mind The Bollocks is classic, but the only good thing anyone in the group ever did. This is absolute garbage and I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a joke on the listener or not. Duck you, list makers, you suck again!

This was pretty bad. Rock Bottom is a pretty fitting name

I didn't know about this Hot Chip album and it was a nice surprise. The songs ran a little too long but it was decent

I don't understand how this band has three albums on this list. They're terrible. Come On Eileen is their only hit and it's an alright song, but also very messy with the nonsense. The rest of the album sounds like it's trying to make messier versions of Come On Eileen to lesser degrees of success while also trying to sing like Freddie Mercury. Stop trying to make this band happen.

Between this and Deep Purple Live in Japan, I'm hoping there's no more boring 70s bands who have long drawn out 10-20 minute live versions of their songs where they don't even really jam out on the tracks, it's just an hour plus of paint-by-numbers rock and roll music that doesn't really rock out on this list. How do you have a 20+ minute of Whipping Post, a great song, but forget to include that triumphant guitar riff in the end? I would have been disappointed if I had payed money for this show

I liked it but I probably won't ever listen to it again

This album is weird but I enjoyed it. What I didn't enjoy was when the album ended and Spotify started playing Dexy's Midnight Runners. Get that band outta here! They suck. This album is fun though

I was prepared to not like this album, due to me being exposed to the Steely Dan slander so commonly found in pop culture. This album rules though and it's hard to deny once you actually give them a chance. I had to listen to it again right after it ended because it was that good.

I think Tommy is overblown and pretty mediocre. Who's Next rules and was my favorite album of theirs, but I think this album might take the crown now. It's great

It has it's moments but mostly sounds like a band goofing off with their new casio keyboard settings

I'm hoping for some more Blur on the list, since there are way better Blur albums

Head Over Heels rules the world

Well, what do you know, more boring basic British rock. I wish this list would just cut it out with this crap

I think this might be their best album and was definitely their last truly solid album. Was gonna give it five stars but I forgot there's a few filler tracks, specifically Black Mud through Ten Cent Pistol and the two tracks after Sinister Kid. The Go Getter has some pretty dumb lyrics. The rest of the album rocks though.

I didn't hate it

This is probably the best post Beatles album. No filler. No notes.

I'm about 1/4 through the list and the logic of what is on here vs. what could/should be eludes me. I love most of what Jack White puts out and he doesn't really put out bad music. This album is one of my least liked albums of his though and I do not understand why it was selected over any White Stripes album, any Dead Weather or Raconteurs albums, or even any other solo Jack White albums. He even did a duet album with Loretta Lynn. This album is decent, Trash Tongue Talker is a good track, but it ranks mid or lower tier Jack White and I'm finding myself more often than not disappointed or confounded by the picks on this list.

Is it just me or is this album just the same song over and over again at different lengths?

I love Dinosaur Jr. and this is a decent album from them but don't listen to Don't. It's a rough song

This could have been a 5-star album based off of the greatness of Dear Prudence, Blackbird, I'm So Tired, I Will, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Sexy Sadie, but they had to add filler and knock it down a peg. The first disc is excellent outside of a couple throwaway tracks but the second disc falters. If they just moved Helter Skelter, Revolution 1, and Sexy Sadie to the first disc and didn't make it a double album, this might have been the best record of all time. Revolution 9 is one of the worst "songs" ever recorded and including it at all really takes you out of the album right at the end. I wanted to give this 5 stars but the inclusion of the nonsense that is Revolution 9 will not allow me to do so

crunchy tunes

There's some decent songs but it's really not my thing

An extra star because they didn't play Brown Eyed Girl

I love this band so much and hope their live album is on this list as well because it's phenomenal with a full orchestra. Their second album is also a classic but this one is front to back solid and a wonderful debut. Nothing else sounds like this. Beth Gibbons has such a beautiful, haunting voice that I never get tired of.

Oh Baby and American Dream are great tracks but the rest of the album is just ok. They have better albums and I don't know why this was included on the list. 3.5/5

I'm assuming the artist is British and that's why it's on the list. Not a good listen. Don't recommend. Do better, list!

No clue what this is doing anywhere near this list. There's nothing groundbreaking, exceptional, or particularly interesting here. I hate the lead singer's voice so much. Get it away from me. My guess is it's British which is the only reason it's included on this list

Cool album art

This album was so unremarkable and generic that I forgot I was listening to it

This album was so much better than it has a right to be

I was excited for this because I have been enjoying the Stephen Stills albums on the list and some Graham Nash songs recently but this was somehow forgettable outside of the doo doo doo doo do, do do doo doo. 2.5 stars

This album rocks so hard and kicks so much ass right out of the gate. It's easily my favorite Stones album. There are maybe 2 or 3 filler songs (Turd On The Run and Just Want To See His Face), and even those are still tolerable.

What. Why? Just why is this on the list? I'm so glad rock and roll came around or else this would have been the height of entertainment. I can't believe this was recorded live and people paid to see it. ACCORDION MUSIC?! Necessary to listen to before you die? COME ON

When you listen to the song Bold As Love, you can hear Jimi making 80s rock in the 60s. Little Wing, Bold As Love and Castles Made Of Sand are 5 star songs but some of the other tracks on this album bring it down to a 4

This is one of the best concept albums ever concocted. Even the skits on this are worth listening to. It's one of the first underground hip hop albums and showcases the talents of Dan The Automator, DJ Q-Bert, Kool Keith and even DJ Shadow. Unfortunately, due to the lack of taste on this list, this is probably the last time we will see Kool Keith on it, which is a shame, because Black Elvis-Lost In Space is another great album from the twisted mind of Kool Keith, an old school hip hop legend who got his start in Ultramagnetic MCs.

Better than Daft Punk

Also better than Daft Punk

WHY IS THIS AN HOUR LONG? NOT NECESSARY.

I liked a few songs but it's not necessary to listen to before you die. The last few tracks were pretty rough. 2.5 stars

Not a single miss on this record. No notes. Perfection

This is what it would sound like if David Bowie sucked and made shitty music

I started this album sort of liking a couple songs but as it went on, the songs got worse and worse. They started sounding like demo tracks for songs, with placeholder lyrics that they would eventually rewrite and double back to, but never did and left us with half-baked lyrics such as "Wey wey hep uh hole" and "where are the prawns" repeated over and over again. I gave up halfway because I had already wasted too much time on this crap and there was no way I could endure the full 2.5 hours that this album lasts. Before checking the wiki in the global reviews, my prediction is this band is British, which is why it is included on the list, despite being incredibly sub-par and unnecessary. Don't bother with this album. Unless you hate yourself, do something better with your time, like huff some gasoline and stare at the wall for a couple hours. That will be more fun than subjecting yourself to this trash.

Extra star because The Weight is an all time classic jam

Pretty progressive for techno in 1989. Way better than Daft Punk

This album is ok overall, but gets an extra star because Proud Mary and Penthouse Pauper are some classic jams

It's like they just gave Brian Wilson some acid and let him loose in the studio playing with the equipment. PEt Sounds may be a masterpiece, but this is some real half baked sort of songs that wasn't a great listen

I hadn't heard of any of Frank Black's work outside of the Pixies and this was a wonderful surprise. Plenty of great songs but the length of it with some filler had to knock it down a star, but all in all, it's a solid album.

Extra star for The Killing Moon. That song is so awesome

This might be one of the most 90s records out there but I hadn't heard of it before and enjoyed it more than expected

It's Radiohead, so it's decent, but this is the first album of the "boring Radiohead era". Still good though

I'm glad they got better at making music later on. RIP Syd Barrett but maybe recording your psychedelic freakouts wasn't the best idea.

First off, we all get it, Limp Bizkit sucks, but that's more due to Fred Durst than anything. His rhymes are wack and his voice sounds whiny and petulant unless he's screaming or growling. It's hard to even really call their music "rap-rock", because DJ Lethal is barely phoning it in with some weak samples and scratches. With that said, Wes Borland rules, his guitar riffs rip, and he's the only thing that really carries this band. Anyways, onto this album: First off, it doesn't have Break Stuff, which is easily their best song and unironically rocks some serious cock. The intro and outro are wastes of time and basically just filler. The lyrics are so bad it's comical, but they're so comical it becomes pretty fun to listen to, especially after the gas you huff kicks in and your brain shuts down a little bit. The ad libs that Fred Durst does are funny, but not in a hilarious and clever Eminem kind of way. This album is definitely a product of its time, and I'm glad that time is in the past. After listening to the three punch combo of My Generation, Full Nelson and My Way, I just feel like yelling at someone to shut up as I punch a hole in something. If not a face, then I guess a wall will do. Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) goes hard and is the best song on the album. I unironically love it but it's no Break Stuff. Also, the opening intro to it makes me giggle a little bit before I start headbanging myself into a seizure. You can't help but do so! Wes Borland tears shit up on guitar and those riffs get stuck in your head. I love the part where Fred Durst rhymes the words "I know you be lovin' this shit RIGHT HERE" with "L-I-M-P Bizkit is RIGHT HERE". It's incredible. As a person who don't give a fuck, this track is for me. I gotta wonder how much they had to pay in royalties to the Eagles for that weak ass Life In The Fast Lane sample. Getcha Groove On has the best beats on the album but that's due to the legendary DJ Premier being on the track (probably a serious low point in his career that I hope he got paid well for). Xzibit carries the track as Fred Durst takes a backseat, but it's hard to ignore how corny that chorus is. The Rollin' remix at the end with Method Man, Redman and DMX also goes hard but it's hard to not be a dope track with those heavy hitters on it. All in all, I have to acknowledge that the music of Limp Bizkit may suck, the stupid absurdity that is Fred Durst probably makes you dumber by listening to him, but the sick Wes Borland guitar riffs kind of make up for it and generally I had more fun listening to this than I did not, so I have to keep my score on the positive side, even just barely so. It's definitely music for when you're bro-ing down with your bro-est of bros and becoming the lowest common denominator possible.

I liked this more than I thought I would

I used to listen to this album and it made me happy imagining Yoshimi fighting pink robots with karate. Ever since I learned that it's about Yoshimi battling cancer, this album makes me cry. I love it

Every track is a banger.

This getting released around the same time as his death adds an extra level of spookiness to Lazarus.

Gz up hoez down

I never really knew much ABBA beyond the hits but this list turned me onto The Album and then this album. I've enjoyed both albums a lot more than I anticipated and am coming around to being a fan.

This is wack as hell and the lyrics made me physically cringe a few times. The only thing I liked about this album was it was a half hour long

I really don't get the hype. It's alright, I guess

Had to give this one a relisten because it was so good. I think this is the second 5 star album rated on this list that I hadn't heard before. This album rules

Too long and too much filler but it has some gems

Shreds so hard

It's maybe like a 4.5 but I'm just so happy to see this band on the list that it gets a 5. Suite-Pee rips so hard

I'm sure it has its place in history or whatever but oof, this was a tough listen

Songs went on too long but went to some interesting places. Better than Daft Punk for sure. Probably more like a 2.5/5

Time and The Prettiest Star are two of my favorite Bowie songs but it just falls a little short of a 5 star rating. Maybe 4.5 but there are a few other better Bowie albums out there

What is this doing on the list

Timeless?! More like Timefull! It's so long! Way too long for songs that don't really go anywhere and are repetitive. Still prefer this over Daft Punk though

Everyone knows what this is gonna get rated. Never gets old. Always a solid choice.

It's basically the Ocean's 12 soundtrack

Another boring, basic and British album that doesn't need to be on the list. One or two songs stood out a little but not enough for me to even check the song titles. Except Rave On, that one has some nice sample potential

Not as good as Maggot Brain, but very few is

War Pigs is the best Sabbath song ever. I will fight you if you disagree with this statement

Another Boring Basic British album from the list that brought you all those other Boring Basic British albums we now know and don't love. They sound like they want to be U2 so bad. A handful of tracks weren't terrible

Maybe like a 3.5

Maybe like a 3.5

I loved the piano playing the most

The best George Jones songs are the ones where he breaks away from that George Jones pattern of singing where "EveRy TIIIIIIIIIME.......... he sinnngs songs liKE THiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissss". Most of those songs are still good too though

The production was good on a few tracks but the album was way too long and not very memorable otherwise. I'm really starting to doubt the quality of anything on this list that was released after 2010

I listened to both the US version that I have on vinyl and whatever version is on Spotify and my iPod and have to say that I prefer the US track listing with the inclusion of I've Just Seen A Face and It's Only Love. The other version has Nowhere Man, What Goes On and If I Needed Someone and those songs are the weakest on the whole album. Anyways, Girl, In My Life and Wait are three of the best Beatles songs ever and the rest of the album is great if you go by the US track listing, which is what my rating is for. If you are listening to the other track listing then this is only a 4.

3.5

I don't know what this is doing on the list. It's got some decent tracks but it didn't really blow my mind or stand out. There's a lot of other bands doing this kind of music from that era but way better.

It's about a 3 as you can get

The summer breeze I needed on this winter day

This album has some of my favorite Beatles songs out there (Something, Oh Darling, Because, I Want You (She's So Heavy and Here Comes The Sun), but man oh man do the filler tracks hold it back and bring the flow to a screeching halt. (Looking at you Ringo!) Octopus's Garden, Maxwell's Silver Hammer Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam are so bad that their inclusion on the album prevents this from being what should be an easy 5/5. I wanted to give it a 5 so bad but am currently listening to Octopus's Garden and it's irritating me so much. 4.5 stars

Despite the fact that I have heard every guitar riff on this done a million times, it somehow stayed fresh and kept me entertained throughout the entire album. A true master

It runs a little too long and lags a bit in the latter half but it's pretty solid otherwise

I have tried to get into Boards of Canada for over a decade now and it's never clicked with me. Maybe I just don't like ambient music or whatever it is but it always comes off as boring elevator background music with repetitive beats. This didn't click with me either. If you do like downtempo or ambient electronic music I would suggest Tipper, especially his album Broken Soul Jamboree. It's phenomenal and I can't imagine that any of his music is on this list, despite him being British.

Starlight and Supermassive Black Hole are bangers and give this an extra bonus star

You can't lose with Tom Waits and Nick Cave on it

I liked it alright enough but I don't think it belongs on the list

I haven't listened to Slipknot since high school and figured this wouldn't hold up and would be a slog sort of like Linkin Park but holy shit was I wrong. The first half of this album goes so hard that it doesn't even matter what's on the second half. This shit rocks. Before you start judging me or the band or the music, just remember that you would be that angry if you had to grow up in Iowa.

Black Hole Sun and The Day I Tried To Live are some of the best songs out there but the album has a little bit too much filler otherwise

Classic

Band On The Run and Let Me Roll It are fantastic songs. The other songs are ok

Nine Inch Nails is one of my favorite bands ever and while The Downward Spiral is a classic, I fear that this may be the only NIN album on this list. That would be a bummer, because The Fragile and Year Zero are my top favorite NIN albums with The Downward Spiral coming in at third. Enough about those other albums though, this one is a total banger from front to back. My favorite songs are Piggy, Closer and Reptile. Hurt, famously covered by the late great Johnny Cash, is a great song to close out the album.

This is on par with the Decemberists for that boring mid 2000s indie hipster sound that usually features a unnecessary horned instruments, dull stringed instrumental flourishes and a banjo. Total snoozefest but at least the singer doesn't have an annoying voice like the Decemberists guy . I don't think this should be on the list

This is a great debut album and Clint Eastwood is still an all-time jam but Demon Days better be on this list because it's one of the best albums of all time despite the switch up in producers from Dan The Automator to Danger Mouse. Dan The Automator is a legendary producer though and glad he's made a second appearance on this list so far with the other being Dr. Octagon. This is also another Damon Albarn joint and anything he does is going to be decent at the very least. Also hoping to see more Del Tha Funkee Homosapien on this list because he's an underground hip hop legend and I think Both Sides Of The Brain and Deltron 3030 (with Dan The Automator) should easily make the cut for this list, those albums are top tier. Anyways, onto this album. Despite the powerhouse tracks of Clint Eastwood, Rock The House, Tomorrow Comes Today and 19-2000, there is a lot of filler tracks that aren't that memorable. It probably doesn't need to be an hour long and can trim some of the fat but still a solid effort and definitely belongs on the list just for being a fictional cartoon band with some insane talent behind it.

This shit rocks

I've never really gotten super into Alice In Chains because their songs all kind of sound the same. This album has all of my least favorite hits like Rooster and Them Bones. I will say that Would? rocks though

Are these songs from a play or something? I feel like I've already listened to a different numbered Scott Walker and wondered the same thing. I didn't hate it but can't imagine why anyone would think it should be on the list. Wowza, "Next" takes a turn with the narrative. "Plastic Palace People" is rough. I think I might hate it now. "Wait Until Night" might have turned it back around. Nevermind, the rest of the album is pretty forgetful. Doesn't belong on the list. More off than on.

Any variation of the song Constantinople is always a disappointing addition to an album but this particular cover of the song was viscerally obnoxious. Starting the album off with it is a bold choice and it is one that does not pay off. The songs somehow get worse as it goes on. I don't know what else to say besides this thing is fucking terrible. Why it's on this list is beyond me but I'll bet you good money that they're British. This supposition is based on a well-trodden trail of missteps on this list that always seem to have that in common. I might be wrong about that but it's sort of impressive how bad this album is. I enjoy a lot of experimental music but not this I fucking hated this. I saw the song title "Birthday Boy" and thought that if it turns out to be any sort of Happy Birthday song I'm turning the album off. I was right so I did. Fuck you list for even knowing about this. Every fucking physical version of this album in any form should be burned and buried and all digital storage of it should be wiped by a big magnet. Only listen to this if you truly hate yourself and do not value your time. There's somehow an extended version of this album on Spotify. Ick! Get it off of everything everywhere I hate it

This album rules and Tom Morello is a wizard that does perverse things on guitar. Personally, I like Evil Empire and The Battle Of Los Angeles a little more but they are all five star albums and this is the one band that can be considered rap rock and not suck. Yes, the final lyrics of Killing In The Name have been memed to death but it still rocks.

This album rules. Favorite tracks are Metal Guru, Rock On and Ballrooms Of Mars. Ballrooms Of Mars is doing David Bowie levels of awesomeness and is one of my all time favorite songs. Glad to see it on the list along with Electric Warrior

I thought I was going to hate this based off of their hit song since it's been overplayed to death but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and I enjoyed it at times with some good guitar riffs. I don't know if it really belongs on the list though because the music isn't innovative, and sounds like B-Sides from various 80s rock bands. Makin' Out sounds like an AC/DC filler track from The Razor's Edge album.

Runaway Child, Running Wild did not need to be nine minutes long but the rest of the album was decent

The tracks sort of alternate with a song with some cringe lyrics and then a song that totally rips and makes me want to work out. But, when the songs are rippin', holy shit do they shred. Favorite tracks: Walk, Live In A Hole, By Demons Be Driven

The Great British Mistake should have been the name of this band

This is one of my favorite bands and this is my favorite album from them. Garbageman is a masterpiece If you don't like this music then you are no fun. Not one person in your life actually likes you because you are so boring and they all talk shit about you when you are not around because of how unfun you are. You need to learn to have some fun and appreciate the great things in life, like this band and this album.

They got annoying after a while, especially when the lyrics were just listing stuff. I liked Friendship Station alright enough but I wouldn't put this on the list it was ok at best

VERY 80s, not terrible, but it came off as a wannabe Tears For Fears. Some of the repetitive lyrics (Open For You and Holy Water specifically) got obnoxious. I don't know what the song Jerdacuttup Man was on about is that some sort of British boogie man or something? It sounds like a Tom Waits character but not cool. I take back what I said above, I kind of hate it now after hearing the corniest shit I think I've ever heard that is called Baby Can I Walk You Home. This sounds like a Christian rock band trying to dip their musical toe into Sting levels of reggae. Please stop with the Gaelic music if you're not actually in Ireland or Scotland or Wales or whatever it's not cute. This album did not need to be an hour long and I gotta dock it for doing so with such lousy music. Everything I touch turns to time, but I would rather just have my time back. I was wondering if their inclusion on the list was just because they're British but it turns out they're not. They're Australian, which is just hick British I guess, so still sort of counts since this list just adores mediocre British rock music. This album isn't technically British, but it is fairly bad, not worth your time, and shouldn't be on the list

I get why this is on the list but it has not aged well and both Ice Cube and Dr. Dre went on to do better things between The Chronic and The Predator.

I just realized that I have only heard three songs from this band before listening to this album: Rock Lobster, Private Idaho, and of course Love Shack. I was expecting to like this album digging deeper into their music but somehow I didn't? I don't know why it didn't click with me whatsoever but I would rather go listen to Blondie. Don't know why this is on the list

I had never heard of this band despite it being the kind of music I was listening to around the time it came out. Sounds like it would have been played on 93X, the area's hard rock radio station. It's pretty decent, the vocals reminded me at times of White Zombie era Rob Zombie's, sometimes like Alice In Chains and other times The Black Angels. My highlights were White Devil and Seasick. I was also kind of liking Virgin Velcro and Party The Baby Off if you don't think about the song titles or lyrics.

I only knew the song Halcyon And On And On from having the Mortal Kombat soundtrack on cassette as a kid and that song still holds up. I enjoy the progression that Orbital songs have and didn't even mind the long song lengths. Way better than Daft Punk

It's like a mix between general 90s grunge and Massive Attack, with various Damon Albarn projects sprinkled throughout. I can dig it

I don't know what it is about whatever this type of music is but it's great. It was all over the place genre-wise and I enjoyed everywhere it went.

I have a soft spot for this album because when it came out when I was living in another country and my friends and I rocked the shit out of this album. It was nice to revisit it. I forgot how good the hook on Dark Fantasy is and I was totally good with it just going on for the last minute or so on its own. POWER with the King Crimson sample crushes Runaway is almost a classic but the last 4-5 minutes of autotune mumbling the chorus is unnecessary. I feel like this could have been a 5 star album if you cut out the skits tacked onto the ends of a track and beats that just continue to outro for multiple minutes, but alas, Kanye did not. Solid album though

Another one that's better than Daft Punk

This is one of my least favorite Dinosaur Jr. albums and I'm not sure why it's on the list instead of Beyond, Bug or Where You Been. It's a decent album I just think the band is better represented elsewhere and shreds a lot more on those albums. Great band though.

For some reason I always thought The Sad Skinhead was a Ween song. I'm sure this album's inclusion on the list is because it's innovative or ground breaking or something like that but it just really isn't for me.

I have to admit that I never wanted to hear Sweet Child Of Mine ever again, because it was on Guitar Hero, which my roommate in college suuuuuuuuuuuuucked at. I had to hear this song stutter step whenever he fucked up the notes, which he so often did, so many times for that year that I was dreading having to listen to it once more. But I stuck it out. Welcome To The Jungle rips as always but I forgot how hard Mr. Brownstone rocks. Heroin never sounded so fun. Paradise City and Sweet Child Of Mine have been overplayed to death but still remain good songs. My Michelle shreds and the last three songs finish off a fantastic debut album. I can't let my biases towards the two mega hits mentioned above cloud my judegment. This album rocks