1001 Albums Summary

IS there a more iconic album/song opening. I thought this might be the Rolling Stone #1 album, but that was What's Going On - which I agree is good, but I think I enjoy Let's Get It On more, especially for casually listening. Bias: love a 45-min-or-less album

I was initially wary because I'm not a big fan of long songs, but I enjoyed the opener a lot. The second was fine, I liked the third, and then the fourth felt like a man invited me to his home and put on a record I "had to listen to" and talked over it, for the first eight minutes. The back half was better but can't redeem the front half. 2.5 rounded up

synthesizers go brrrrrrrr my internet glitching out while streaming really added to this experience how can you dislike something that opens with rolling the r in rrrrrobot anyway I don't think I've ever sat and listened to an entire Kraftwerk album, and don't think they benefit from that approach, which is fine 4.5

AC/DC should never be purchased on vinyl, because they should never be listened to as an entire album

the worst Radiohead album, kicked off by the worst Pink Floyd song, thankfully punctuated by Ignoreland and Man On the Moon

I don't think today was a good day to listen to this album. I do keep meaning to listen to more Bjork and I think a song or two at a time was nice, I liked the opening track, but. I will have to reserve any real judgment on the album because it was not an "errands day" vibe.

I found a lot to like about this. The title track especially felt like the thing I imagine when I'm listening to The Beatles and think "I like this, but I'd really like it if it were more uptempo and like 20% More" Would prefer Starship lose the last three minutes but maybe that was because it was a live show recording? 3.5 rounded up

Ah yes, the other side of the 1960s rock coin, now that I just defended Kick Out the Jams. I like Sunshine of Your Love well enough, but overall this is a 33-minute album that I had to take at least four breaks from listening to because it feels like interminable jam band music to me. I did also enjoy Strange Brew. I'd like to unhear Mother's Lament and SWLABR.

The problem with prog rock is that I sometimes like a three minute long cohesive clip of sound that would, in other circumstances, be a song, but in prog rock circumstances is actually a small portion of a twelve-minute morass that seems to be trying to depict an entire hero's journey. Then I am left, like someone playing cassette tapes, skimming through a bunch of squibbles to play the part I liked.

I barely needed to relisten to this album. My Best Friend's Girl is, in my opinion, the standout track even though Just What I Needed had more/longer-standing commercial success. This album (and band) get coded as early new wave 80's pop a lot but there's some very twangy and Motown inspired sounds in here under the Casio synth lines that I think are interesting too. I can feel you asking "fmst if you're so effusive about it and love new wave, why is this four stars" and the answer is mostly because I have 1001 albums to get through so I realized I want to really hold the fives in reserve. I also think some of the tracks (Let the Good Times Roll) drag more than they needed to and in just nine tracks some of them feel start to feel samey (You're All I've Got).

holy GOD just strike me down it's not even like the music is unlistenable but a man whose name I can't even remember, who is every grungy rock man born in the early or mid 80s, would NOT shut UP about this RECORD AND I LISTENED TO IT TO TRY TO HAVE SOMETHING TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY

Love Vigilantes: slaps This Time of Night: cardinal sin of "witchoo" Sunrise: slaps Elegia: fine but feels like watching The Cure jam instrumentally at their show as I wait desperately for something I can recognize

"Listening to The Band is like contemplating old sepia pictures of America:" yeah I wouldn't choose to spend my day off doing that, either I'm not going to act like I have a critique of it on any merits it's fine I just don't like it

of course these men also did a podcast about themselves it just sounds to me like a lot of other music that I'm like "yeah this is fine" and then I find out the group has a rabid following in their local tristate area and all of their fans think they're revolutionizing the rock scene rather than saying "yeah the guitar is fun and the vibes are chill, it's nice to drink a beer to." the venue probably sells PBR tallboys for like six dollars. it is walking distance from an inexplicably fancy bowling alley and four establishments selling very bad wings I actually did enjoy some of some of the tracks as a "doing stuff with music on" vibe. Burning was fun, for example. low points were when it seemed like the vocalist was trying to sound like Bob Dylan or Don Henley

Turning up Blitzkrieg Bop as I embark on a day of Halloween errands: 10/10 Sheepishly leaving a second time because I forgot my wallet, quietly playing Beat on the Brat: 4/10 I'm once again not going to act like I have an informed critique. This fucks

I'm going to guess that I liked this more than most of the rest of the group, but even I have to admit it's not particularly...listenable. I'd give it a 3.5 but not in good conscience a 4 so rounding down. A lot of it sounds familiar in difficult-to-pin-down ways which makes me think this is one of those "musicians liked it and no one else listened to it" albums?

well they CALL me BAby DRIver Listening to this on the record player was a nice experience.

The opening song does this album a disservice. Not that I particularly like the rest of the album, but I really hated the opening song.

The beat was fresh and the vibe was funky!

A lot of reviews for this album call it an update for "southern rock" but I would like to put forth that this is the groundwork for emo music. Notably: whiny lyrics about being skinny and effeminate, and a lot of disdain for women. And tapered jeans. I remember when Four Kicks got really big on the music video channels and I thought it was annoying then too. 1.5

I don't love this but I have to admit I don't hate it enough to roast it. I don't think I'm ever like "hmm let me put on an entire Moby LP" but some of these were decent zone-out music and I regrettably enjoy Bodyrock.

you're listening to Dad Radio, on 99.9fm

Accidentally listened to five bonus tracks/versions off the deluxe version because they're all good. I could do with fewer Flavor Flav shouts/ad-libs on a lot of the songs though.

1959 is for the romantic, Victorian typa goths which is not me no other notes looking forward to seeing what everyone else in the group thinks

"your conversation's boring as hell" well how would you describe this song Robbie A lot of this album kind of makes me think of how when Ryan Adams covered 1989 and Calum Scott covered "Dancing On My Own"* they seemed to inexplicably (or explicably) get a lot of critical acclaim. Probably because I saw that this album doesn't actually contain his first (hit) single which was a cover of "Freedom" by George Michael that strips out all of the character found in the original, and imo this album has a similar lack of experimentation and personal style. I was gonna give it a 2 until I got to the secret spoken word poem. *I'm honestly still not over how one of my closest "nearly got run over as a pedestrian" incidents was a young man in a minivan, in a parking lot, absolutely zooming through the path where I was clearly visible, with this song version blasting out loud through the entirely-fully-down windows. The Gen Z twinks don't know who Robyn is and it's leading to the downfall of Western society

I remember the singles off this album but I don't think I ever listened to the whole thing. I liked Girl back then and I like it now. There was another song I liked and a couple I disliked, but I was listening while driving so don't recall. It's fine.

Their label seems to be trying really hard to make The Sonics happen, because it seems like there are multiple similar albums like "introducing The Sonics! here they are, The Sonics! come meet The Sonics!" so honestly, has there ever been a time without industry plants? It's amazing how, uh, boring and white they made Roll Over Beethoven. Some of this has the vibes of a wedding band being held at gunpoint to play an extra hour for the father of the groom who really likes Little Richard. I kind of liked The Witch but I assume that if I google it, it'll actually be another cover where the original is funkier and more fun. One of the descriptions I found for the band says they were "howling" pioneers of a garage rock scene but I absolutely cannot hear it here except for some occasional guitar and vocal tones.

really solid front half but the back half kind of drags

These guys really like White Castle huh Jokes aside, this one was really interesting. I started out excited because I knew that I enjoyed a lot of songs from it, but partway through The New Style I think my brain snapped into listening to the lyrics and I wondered: what on earth must this sound like to people listening for the first time in the 2000s? When they're rapping (repeatedly, across many songs) about pulling out a jammy, it's honestly laughable. And in some ways I'm sure it's supposed to be, but in others I'm skeptical. I think it's full of bangers I've known forever, but I also think that at this point it might read as dorky and opaque new listeners.

I came here ready to show up for my genres and I just couldn't. There wasn't a little catchy sparkle in there.

1) I think I wasn't depressed enough to listen to this today 2) It's very interesting (negative/derogatory) to me that this album from 2005 is on this list when its praise seems to be for being a bluesy, countryish, retro sounding record because so far (admittedly only 31 albums in) I would think a blues or country album from the 60s would be better featured

Et's a cyuhse-uh, that I like this music but that some of the songs are a slow drag through what I assume is a vocal affectation done on purpose. Past Gone Mad slaps

sure why not

no, thank you

I think I might like grime as a genre but I found this particular artist/album repetitive and sometimes sounding like Drake (derogatory). I did like Man and Shutdown.

I wish My Old Man and Little Green weren't on the same album as River and A Case of You, because the former songs are a case of lyrics really taking me out of a song and vibe.

I guess I'm not convinced this was super groundbreaking, and Sabotage stands so far above the other songs on this album imo

The intro song is so corny I'm sorry. I think I didn't really like any of the self-referential songs (Still Dirrty) because they were very plainly written and just not very interesting. The \"Thank You\" interlude was also weird to me? The sampled fan voicemail selections were... interesting. The second half opens... interestingly... with Nasty Naughty Boy, which was. A song. It's incredible how sexual some of these tracks are while also being decidedly not sexy.

I don't think I would have liked this regardless but I super didn't like it while exercising or walking

yeah, sure. here comes your man

perfect for disassociating at the mall because I accidentally needed to buy pants on Thanksgiving weekend, thanks

I thought I liked The Kinks but I didn't particularly like this album. It made me want to listen to The Violent Femmes?

Yeah, sure. Not my favorite Beatles album but I can appreciate a fun thirty minute record.

I thought this was really interminable, but I actually just accidentally listened to it twice. I still thought it was just Okay.

1-3: bangers 4-on: ??? slow. no bangering at all.

I love Poly Styrene but I also love not listening to her entire albums at one sitting. Sorry! Love u!

1) not sure if I got brain poisoned by reading about them being French or if this album actually sounds very French 2) about six songs too long 3) heavily front loaded, back half faltered between Around the World and the final track 2.5

Could you be a little more of a fucking bummer, dude? Sorry, every time I listen to Frank Sinatra and the song isn't "Witchcraft" I just want to listen to "Witchcraft" instead.

I went in with low expectations but this was pretty enjoyable. I knew a lot of the first half already and it didn't overstay its welcome.

Sure! Okay! Vibes! Kinda weird though.

like ordering Mexican food in Portland

Pretty good! Not bad! Can't complain!

Two stars for Kashmir and none for anything else on this album goodbye

I'm really glad I discovered this. I'm pretty sure I recognize Down to Zero and maybe Love and Affection but didn't know who they were. I'm gonna give it a five just because (in addition to being good) it's the first album I was unfamiliar with at all and am glad I found. I actually listened to it twice then the album To the Limit

Hey, this wasn't that bad. I think my issue with improv jazz is that I start liking one part and then one of the 27 jam session members starts doing something else and it all gets weird for three minutes. Less of an issue with one guy on a piano.

I wish I could understand a single lyric that was said at any point in any song, but yeah otherwise I liked it. The guitar and bass had some good stuff goin on.

I think today was not a great day for me to love this, but it's still good.

I liked a lot of the music of this but the...lyrics and vocals...took me out of it a lot.

I'm really surprised I hadn't already heard of this album or group. I'm further surprised that, for once, I hear "oh so and so must have been inspired by this" in the album but do not conclude "and did it better...maybe this was better in its time" - this album is still good IMO. Re-Ignition and Hired Gun are highlights with the intro and Let Me Help as lowlights but still decent. 4.5

Tangled Up in Blue slays and I personally think it's unfortunate this is the album it's on.

I've never sat down and listened to this album, but I *did* have a livejournal and then a tumblr so I think I've heard all of it before. It's fine? I never got into Arctic Monkeys when my cooler friends did. I do like Teddypicker, which is not on this album.

2.5 rounded down. Why am I being yelled at? What was with the dinosaur song leading into a song about kind of dating his mother? No really, what was with choosing a partner that reminds you of your mother? Hello?

I keep trying to like Neil Young but never pull it off

2.5 stars, rounded up for Phenomenal Cat

I forgot I had Zero on my running playlist for forever. I could really take or leave the rest aside from Heads Will Roll as a Halloween song. ETA: my first edited rating! I hope to keep these very rare. A little while after posting this, I felt bad about how harsh I was. I don't really dislike this enough to rate it a 2 - it's a 2.5/3.

One thing I really like about this album is that we got punk music as a response to all of the meandering guitar solo jams of the era. I guess another thing I like is the memetic nature of Smoke on the Water. And it has an end, which is nice.

Yeah! Ok! I think a lot of Christmas music doesn't sound like fully produced music and this was consistently fun, well done, and had good soulful vocals.

uhh 2.5? I was able to fully ignore this while working on something else, which is better than Made in Japan.

I expected to like this more than I did. Overall I did like the instrumentals, except for when it got really beepy in The Sound of People You Love... or whatever that one was.

Embarrassing reveal that I have emotions: I haven't listened to a lot of David Bowie's work since he died, because I used to listen to Ziggy Stardust, Low, and Hunky Dory a *lot* and he was the first/only celebrity death that really upset me. That said: Aladdin Sane doesn't make it onto my replay list a lot aside from The Jean Genie. To me it's obviously very iconic in its cover and imagery (the strange mullet adjacent haircut got immensely popular and we all probably recognize the lightning bolt) but not a big stand-out musically. I find a lot of the tinkling piano unpleasantly jarring and the rest is Fine. I'm trying to remain unspoiled as to the albums on the list, but I have to assume David Bowie has at least five and I'm not sure why this is one of them.

My dad must have turned on the Weather Channel and then walked away again, leaving me to listen to the Doppler radar music.

The best thing about this album is that one of the songs was under a minute long. There are a lot of albums I've drawn from this list that I personally disliked but that I could understand why other people like them, but this album is not one of them. I'm especially unclear why there seems to have been a push to remaster this album and make it available in very high quality. Maybe it's because I'm listening in 2023, but even in the ~70 previous albums I'm sure I've heard funkier jam band jams. Aja felt like the Weather Channel forecast music but at least was fairly cohesive in its "5am rain projection" vibe. Deep Purple was noodley but at least high energy. I just know that tomorrow I'm going to look at the global reviews are going to be full of high marks and I still won't understand why. I'm relieved this site doesn't have any commenting function I've identified because I just know this is the sort of album several die hard fans would pour out of a van painted with a (to be fair, very sick) wizard to tell me I'm wrong for hating. It is true misfortune that I actually liked the first 3:47 (a normal song length) of Heart of the Sunrise but that the track is 11:26.

I enjoyed the first track then got worried because I disliked 2-4, buy enjoyed 16 Shells and Town with No Cheer. I think I don't like the talky songs. I full-on skipped Frank's Wild Years. I liked Down, Down, Down as well. After that was meh.

Ok look. I didn't finish this album today. I've heard this album so many times. It's fine. I like a lot of it. It's also extremely long and has some intercuts that make me feel I'm having auditory hallucinations (negative). 2.5 rounded up

no notes except that patriotic song was weird

no notes! best cassette I probably ever bought!

I think I have the capacity for approximately 40min of enjoying Bjork and unfortunately this album exceeds that limitation.

This obviously slaps, however: the thing that I assume is an electric organ sounds very churchy and is very irritating on the high notes.

Near the end, I thought, "yeah this is about as expected - I like reggae influences and a little reggae but a whole album is too much for me." Unfortunately, this was actually about halfway into the album and I still had thirty more minutes left.

Life in the Fast Lane slaps and I am fine with never hearing the rest again. It slaps enough to give this a 3 I guess.

i say union, u say power

not for me, thanks

I was really pissed off today and this went well with it. Mild Pogues fan to begin with, this album definitely affirms it.

Suspicious Minds: 🕺 Don't Cry Daddy: 🤢

Why do I get the feeling that this album is complained about by die hard Talking Heads fans for being too approachable to the common pleb (like me)? 3.5 rounded up

this isn't bad, but it *is* the exact flavor of boring indie rock that plagued me for about 2007-2011 because every guy who would hit on me in certain settings would tell me I needed to listen to it, they're very literary (use wordsrlike halcyon) and that it really captured their innermost feelings and then I listen and it's just, like, "isn't it sad that time passes and the last time you see a friend might be the last time you ever talk again? deep moody thoughts in here" yes?? life's a bitch and then you die that's like the whole point the xerox flyer promotion scheme described in the wiki page just sounds like "street teams" of the warped tour era but for kids with a printer in the family room ok ok I'll stop now musically it had some bits that approached fun

It's not my favorite Springsteen album but I like it well enough and I think Thunder Road counterbalances how tired I am of the title track (it's played at.... possibly every road race startup corral area ever)

Man Lou Reed is tough because if you like his music you have to be like "yeah so there's this great album about just all the worst things that can happen to you"

2.5 rounded down. It's not so much that this was bad and is more that I got bored of it quickly. I listened in the morning and by dinnertime I couldn't remember what the album was today. I think I'm starting to struggle to listen to these independently and instead keep wondering why some of them are on this list.

absolutely no notes

mom: no, we're not stopping, we have Talking Heads at home Talking Heads at home:

I had "intro" on my running playlist for forever and have heard it an infinite number of times, but was like, "did I ever listen to the rest of this record?" when I saw it. I have to assume the answer was "once, to realize I hated it, and then never again" until today.

This was fine? I liked noting all of the samples but some of the songs felt long. I really liked Ham N' Eggs though lol

Super glad I happened to be off work for this, because I thought I was doing fine avoiding my emotions by skipping the Carter Family songs but then Daddy Sang Bass walloped me. I always get that tune/tempo of "Will the Circle be Unbroken" in my head and can never find a version that matches it but I guess this is where I heard it growing up. This is a real "my dad put on something while puttering around and I'm off to the side entertaining myself where he can keep an eye on me" sort of music for me. My grandma who passed recently, she and her sisters would sing Carter Cash or Patsy Cline stuff and her house was always where family members would sit and play guitars and mandolin and sing and it's just really nice.

I'm very convinced I listened to this, but apparently I never rated it, so I'm going to give it a 2.5 rounded up. It clearly did not leave a strong impression.

This album was sent to me today to let me know it's okay that I spent a lot of money on going to see them play this album in August. I cannot say anything bad about this record! It was my entire personality for years! It led me to The Smiths, New Order, and so many other bands I love!

I'd feel bad giving this a 2 so I guess 2.5 is rounded up today. I remember a lot of this from the first time and like, I can acknowledge this was very influential but I don't really care for it. Actually, no, I'm giving I a 2 because this isn't about being an arbiter of taste. Also this man cheated on Beyoncé.

Inoffensive and enjoyable, but not compelling to me personally

This would have been bland but fine background listening except that saxophone really needed to dial it back

Apparently I'm the only person in the group who's never even encountered the singles off this album and frankly that was a blessing. I've dabbled in sample-based songmaking before and can respect how difficult it must have been to create this album, but I just don't understand why you would. No track seemed to reach a sustained melody that wasn't the one being sampled, and mostly it reminded me of the Pogo imitations of the late 00s where The Bit was that people were using wacky or nostalgic sample sources. Sample heavy hip-hop builds a new topline or a pocket for rapping over, and something like Front 242 tends to build a club beat while occasionally having a narrative. This album, by comparison, felt like an exercise in understanding what it's like to have ADHD, punctuated by the most piercing tsew-tsew-tsew sounds available. I'd be willing to believe that the music was the runoff effect of someone's hobby of filing tedious sample-clearing paperwork with record agencies, like how my yarn collecting sometimes results in a crochet project. Highlights, while still dim, were portions of songs like ETOH and Summer Crane where a sample was actually looped long enough to create a rhythm. Little Journey even approaches the feeling of a hazy summer afternoon but then heralds a tempo and style change with something jarring that sounds like a guitarist squealing up the neck. I've often thought I might be impervious to resistance-breaking via music because I would simply Enjoy listening to portions of Enter Sandman repeatedly, but the CIA would just have to play the first 3-5 songs off this album and I'd falsely confess to whatever they wanted to hear.

Hm I tried multiple ways of saying I love Lauren Mayberry but they all read back in a creepy way. I don't really care for their slower songs on this album or the male vocals (sorry, gentlemen) but the hits are HITS. Also, tumblr nostalgia. l

I think that the way many people felt about the AC/DC album is how I feel about this album. Every song was the same song except a little different. All of them were what would be playing if you went to your friend's house in high school and their dad came in from the garage, no shirt and acid washed jeans on, music still blasting on the boombox, and got a beer and then offered you one and laughed his head off when you looked panicked. Somehow after every single verse I expected "f-f-f-foolin'" to be sung except I also didn't even notice when Foolin DID play.

"This developmentally disabled boy is so stupid he doesn't even know who Jesus is so I guess his soul is eternally doomed: the song" was really weird and also surprising to hear anywhere outside of, you know, maybe Mass or The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

I feel so certain that if I could understand lyrics I would enjoy this album

I didn't dislike this as much as I expected to and a couple of tracks were fairly likeable.

I.... could not get through this. An album I can tell is well done but that is not for me.

I enjoyed this until about track 8 when I suddenly realized a lot of the guitar and drum bits are very repetitive throughout the album. I think RATM goes with AC/DC in the stack of "don't listen to a whole album front to back" artists for me.

Sure wish this album had "It's My Life" on it. I enjoy it but confess I'm not sure why it's on here?

Yeah sure! A couple of songs get draggy or the vocals get to be too much. It's The B-52s idk what to tell ya

I don't think I had enough attention to devote to this today. It sounds fresher and more futuristic than 1999.

I'm gonna make my group mad and just say it: this album could use like three more songs!!!!

Incredible how much this 1999 album sounds like 2006. Maybe people were using "Writing to Reach You" in their AMVs. Immoral therapists are playing this album in their waiting rooms to retain depressed patients. The secret song was actually pretty compelling.

I think this might have been a 4 on a different day, I just didn't have a lot of attention for it today. I was intrigued to see the artist was in Massive Attack, who I generally enjoy.

This is like the easy listening of synthpop. Enjoyable, light, chill.

Hmm. It's fine

This wasn't what I expected, in a positive direction. I'm not sure how to describe the qualities of 90's hip-hop that I enjoy except maybe that it's a little loose and goofy, with loops? This has quite a bit of that. Once again: would love to be able to understand words the first time I hear a song.

I can usually do without skits but found the radio station ones entertaining. I know a lot of these songs, mostly the front half, pretty well and enjoyed this listen.

Checked to see how close I was to the end and I was on song 2 Is this album really important? Really?

As compared to other sample-derived albums we've had, this one has a lot more of the things I like. There's almost always one unifying riff or melody per track, the tracks have different tempos and tones, some of them are danceable, and the samples are from a wide variety of media and origins. I liked The Jezebel Spirit and The Carrier the most off of the standard album, and liked a few of the tracks from the remaster as well.

If the best song I'll ever hear is in the back half of this album and I never hear it because I refused to keep listening, that's fine with me. Plonky piano music seemingly designed to be put on the mix CD a high school boy who got dumped will slip into the locker of the girl who said she never wanted to hear from him again.

I was hoping from the opener that this would be pretty funky but a lot of the tracks gave me [dude band from 90s-early 00s that you probably hear on rock radio or something] vibes which I find less interesting.

On one hand, this is an album I've listened to before and generally enjoy. On the other, I do feel like a lot of the narrative about this album is a little overly rosy dur to Kurt Cobain's death and the way we tend to look back at things.

I really enjoyed this and it was fun to have something very out of the norm from the albums I've pulled so far.

i skipped most of Stairway and i WILL NOT apologize I actually really like Black Dog

The evolution from Nasty Girl to Partition is proof that human beings are capable of change. I'm a little surprised, but I'm gonna have to give this one a dislike!! (2) The first three songs are killer, defined a generation, etc etc but after that it's a reminder of the profound girl-on-girl misogyny of the early 00s and I assume the label also really preferred a Black, female, group to keep such a conservative base to their lyrics in order to balance out how risky they might have seemed for sales.

behhhhhh the two songs I like on this album, I think I heard covers of first and liked those and it rubs off onto the originals more power! more thrashing!

Uhh I liked this more than Bad Company yesterday. I enjoy some CCR but I think I'm more of a "greatest hits" person with them

Hmmm I didn't dislike this but it's definitely exposing me as not knowing a lot to compare it to in order to help myself contextualize the songs. I really enjoyed Obrigado and saved that one.

I'm pretty sure I've listened to this a couple of times before. I like it well enough!

First two songs felt really interminable but the rest was better Update: except the squealing at the end

Sure, 90 minutes of Beatles is a lot. But the front half is full of bangers. The Revolution variants are weird. The rest is fine.

too much

sorry for the lack of review i was too busy skanking

sorry to radiohead, but this album is irreversibly linked to the ex of mine who had a big poster for it and also literally never washed his bed linens but would complain if I febrezed anything because he had "a very sensitive sense of smell"

ugghhh I'm sorry to Karen Carpenter but I find this nearly unlistenable. this hits a lot of critiques of pop music for me - maybe if I could parse lyrics I'd find them full of meaning but it feels samey and bland.

Everybody always says yee haw but nobody ever asks haw yee 😔 Another instance of an album I know led to many more albums that I enjoy, but I don't necessarily love the album itself. "Black Rose" is a highlight.

Ok listen I did not fully replay this album today, but I've played it before and Parliament is (as far as I've ever encountered) always at least three stars for me. Funky, still fresh sounding somehow in 2024, and silly. However: four long tracks for sittin' at home is not my favorite form factor.

This album dropped and then run-out music for boys' junior high and high school sports teams was never the same again. Listening to this made me have to confront some warring feelings in myself, because on one hand I think this album gave a lot of boys an outlet for big feelings in a world that doesn't give them many besides anger. On the other hand, even before I read the summary of "the album's lyrical themes deal with problems lead vocalist Chester Bennington experienced during his adolescence, including drug abuse and the constant fighting and divorce of his parents".... yeah. A big part of me wants to be like "can you please shut up and stop making white boy rap and nu metal about the world not being fair because your parents had a fight?? did you punch holes in all the drywall so this is all that's left??"

hmm yeah it's devo! idk devo is enjoyable enough to me, I understand they have a real formative role in music I like, but I didn't vibe spectacularly with this album

This is definitely more "Texas honky-tonk" than the country music I usually listen to - it's honestly a fully different subgenre from the folk/americana/gospel, mountains area kind of stuff. I still liked it well enough, but I'm not sure I'd put it on again and it got overwhelming.

oh hey it's the Across the Universe soundtrack but by all dudes playing with stereo sound look, it's fine, some songs are fun, but it's almost tiresome to listen to The Beatles for this. I know most of their music and they're on every music list ever

no notes. a pinnacle of the genre. where my clove cigs at

Great stuff. There's a variety of song styles here, but they all feel united by the production and sound somehow. I love the title track, I love Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, and of course I love You Can Call Me Al. I've seen Paul Simon live and he starts on time, sounds great, and takes time to credit all of his musicians.

I don't have a coherent review, I just don't really get it

The second star is for not being as bad as I was afraid it would be, but overall I still disliked it.

Shirley Manson pls notice me

whoo can look me in the eye and say this album doesn't kill? hmm?? no weapon formed against ABBA shall prosper

I guess this is how other people felt listening to Berlin by Lou Reed. A lot of the music was really enjoyable and I liked a lot of the songs but sometimes I'd suddenly realize the content of the lyrics and be bummed out and uncomfortable. It also just seemed like a lot for one sitting.

[a series of salsa girl emoji] Yeah, this is enjoyable all the way through. I like it as background music while I do things. bongo bongo bong

I don't enjoy this faux gritty music production and sound and I don't care about whatever this man is sad about

This didn't really grab me until Give the Po' Man a Break which is unfortunately at least halfway through the album, depending on which version you're listening to. Mine had Michael Jackson (the song) on it, which I also enjoyed, and I liked Punk to Funk. Maybe it's an issue of having or not having a vocal sample to catch my attention vs it feeling more like a soup of electronic music.

yeah sure. dad rock that mom says not to wear the t-shirt for out in public.

Of all the albums that could be selected to reflect the rich tapestry of New Orleans rock/blues/zydeco and other music, this is not what I would have picked. For the most frequent review descriptors to be "psychedelic" and "spooky" does not help its case for me. I like swamp rock and zydeco! This was a meandering and interminable experience made worse by looking back from 2024 to see the supposed first exposure for mainstream media of NOLA music be Some Guy from there make a concept album about being a Senegalese Haitian folk healer.

On one hand, this album made me realize how much of what I like about Back to Black is the production. On the other, Frank made me realize why Amy's voice and vocal styling was such a big deal. Unfortunately I remember the media cycles around her, her struggles with substance abuse, and her weight and appearance so well from that time and it makes it all feel so heavy and sad.

I'd say "meh this was fine" but I was finding it annoying by the end. It felt very samey and I didn't find any of it particularly interesting.

Hmm I'm gonna be bold and say there's some fillery stuff in here BUT the hits are HITS!!

Beefing with your label so hard you leave and stream the album for free on your website is extremely punk rock but unfortunately the sound is just boring. It further suffers from Jeff Tweedy possibly being the name of my junior high friend (redacted)'s shithead stepdad who would tell her she "didn't deserve to be a Tweedy" when she misbehaved, like there was any social cachet involved whatsoever. I always thought this would be a much more compelling threat if it was Tweety, because at the time Looney Tunes were still fairly relevant in teen and adult popular culture.

I enjoyed this.

Tough one, because I remember this the first time and the singles being all over MTV. I think "My Doorbell" is slightly less annoying now that it's not over saturated. The album overall was mostly ignorable.

I feel bad for disliking this one because it gives me that feeling where I do think this is probably innovative and possessing of some critically acclaimed qualities...but I intimately disliked it. Possible that I'd like other work from the artist or listening to this not on youtube.

Forgettable background music except for the parts where the vocals got grating and distracting

I feel like I've tried listening to the Buzzcocks before (maybe in this challenge??) and didn't like it then either. It's not horrible but I also just don't like it. There's something that's too grating, even when I'm expecting punk/post-punk music.

I'm really starting to wonder if I'm just having a cranky week and being unfair to these albums lately. However: 1. I don't know why you would pick this album out of all of Goldfrapp's work 2. I don't know why you would pick Goldfrapp to represent airy pop singer-songwriter/electro-folk/whatever and 3. I don't know why you'd pick this to represent music in 2008. So I'm really not sure why it's here. And I didn't particularly enjoy listening to it.

3.5, but rounding down. There were some fun songs on here I was unfamiliar with, but it started rubbing me the wrong way by the end.

I was listening to the opening track (Bawitdaba) when I realized I was hearing something that couldn't be in the song. Unfortunately this turned out to be the rapid dripping of water coming out of my ceiling, a place I typically do not expect water to be pouring out of. After a brief interlude to call someone about this development, I attempted to return to my yogurt while listening to Cowboy and googling the lyrics, thinking about all the times my friends sang these two songs in parking lots and bedrooms and wondering how this was my life, then and now. By the title track I was holding my head in my hands, reading the wikipedia pages for Joe C and this album, wondering what I had ever done to deserve this. Then, sometime during Roving Gangster (Rollin'), something started to come over me. I found myself actually enjoying Wasting Time as I piled wet towels for the laundry. Welcome 2 the Party was a pretty good time as I vacuumed out the cat's bathroom (which will now be our bathroom for at least a few days) of stray litter. Isn't this what Kid Rock is made for? People contemplating bathing using a bowl of water heated in the microwave because the plumbing is shot? Is it not a great afternoon at the trailer park to grill out while your mama's sister sets up the karaoke machine so you can scream "you get what you put in and people get what they deserve"? Maybe this album belongs here after all. A lot of these are cringe, but they are bangers that cringe. My fuse is short and I am short too!! Then the adrenaline started wearing off around Where U at Rock and listening to Black Chick, White Guy as I dragged a laundry sack as big as myself out the front door made me remember all of the times "slipping mickeys" got dropped in this album. A guilty 4.

I was concerned when this said 'jazz' but it definitely has disco vibes. It sounds like The Weather Channel, but in a (positive) way not in a (derogatory) way.

3.5. it might have been a 4 if it hadn't auto replayed itself leading to me wondering just how mamy times they could do callbacks to other songs

Hmm. The final track was interesting. 1 additional star for that.

I'm not actually sure I loved this album five stars much, but it's at least a 4 and I'm excited to discover this genre of music! I didn't love the ballads but found it interesting how close to salsa some of them were. Interesting instrumentation and really fun.

I'm sorry I just don't like this guy's voice

the worst crime: boring

The first time I tried to listen to this, I immediately shut it off at the high-pitched blelelelelelululu sound. The second time I actually kind of enjoyed it, although it's got a lot of that high squealy clarinetty stuff happening. Cleveland weirdo representation!

I didn't love this when it came out and I think I like it less now. Content aside, there's like two fun tracks, a lot of skits, and a lot of repetition.

If this were an album consisting only of the title track, the song "Wish You Were Here", I would give it five stars. I've been shouting "TWO LOST SOULS SWIMMING IN A FISH BOWL" since I was a child. Unfortunately, this album contains four other songs that are, to me, profoundly uninteresting.

I guess this was a departure from License to Ill in that I didn't find any of these songs particularly fun. Without as much entertainment value, this means it feels more fratty and less compelling to me, although it seems critics disagree.

I enjoy a raspy vocal. I didn't really find the instrumentation all that interesting, but I could imagine putting this on while I do something.

I mean. It's fine, I guess. It fits perfectly into like "60's pop that I expect to hear on in the background somewhere because it's completely inoffensive" and I guess really it's a 2.5 but I'm rounding down. Sounds like I made a good choice in listening to the mono version.

one year in Atlanta, a music festival evacuated all of us (to just outside their boundaries) because of lightning (and their lack of interest in insuring us probably) - can you imagine the sheer number of facebook posts of photos of the gates captioned "you can play a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather" we uploaded this is a quintessential "grillin out" album but it does run a little long, for me.

This was a little much for the kind of day I was having today, but it's not bad!

Hmm yes my least favorite parts of their live show

Wish I didn't have to listen to this on youtube! Fun stuff.

Fine! My parents liked Aerosmith. It's enjoyable enough. Not sure why it's a necessary album.

I enjoyed the Brian Eno album I listened to after this! I wish I could put my finger on why I didn't really like this. I think maybe I'll listen to other work by this artist because it's close to things I like but this one just wasn't the vibe.

I thought I was done with this album at least four times but actually I'd paused it for a break and forgotten about it.

I would actually swap this for Guero

yeah sure

Really great vocals and guitar but unfortunately really like....blendy without any noticeable tempo changes and I really wish the last song was not like fourteen minutes long.

If I don't give this five stars a goth in Demonia platform boots will show up at my house and take all of my black clothes and I will have to wear the joggers I accidentally dyed Pink instead of vampire wine red and my lime green novelty UFO Museum t-shirt

This is an album that I appreciate a lot, but that I don't necessarily enjoy. Overall I don't pick up a lot of PJ Harvey but I do, I guess, conceptually really like her. Putting this on while trying to work at work was not my smartest choice and it went over a little better while at the gym. Yet another time I wish I could uhhh understand lyrics and process audio.

I always wish there were like three more songs on this album

I enjoyed a lot of this! The songs that I did not enjoy, I found myself thinking "this sounds like The Beatles" and/or "this sounds like The Beatles being played backwards or something".

Sorry Miles Davis I cannot stand this

I would ask why and how this album got on this list, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the repeat references to Scott Walker I found in reviews.

I knew a couple of these songs already and enjoyed the overall experience.

I don't recall enjoying this when I had to listen to it for the Rolling Stone top 100 and I didn't enjoy it this time around.

Enjoyable, although it got pretty blendy. This is a band I've heard of before but never sat and listened to. It borders on a little too whiny for me at times but I'm going to still give it a bonus star for being a fun discovery.

This was a little too far into the "renn faire" side of the folk music map for me

💃💃💃💃

Enjoyed it when it came out, enjoyed it again

Pleasant to listen to while doing errands.

Hmm. There were a couple of tracks on here that I enjoyed, but overall I found it kind of plodding. It might not have helped that I had a bunch of cleaning and gardening type work to do today. Not one of my favorite iterations of Hallelujah either.

This was enjoyable enough but I think if Get It On wasn't such a bop it would be a little bleh.

I have already shunted all of this out of my brain

Another long 40 minute proggy listen brought to me by 1001albumsgenerator.com

Overall enjoyable, but I kept waiting for a real banger like Heaven or Las Vegas or Alice and one never came.

I'm tired of this, grandpa

I think I would have liked "Something For Nothing" if it wasn't after everything else.

Help Me Rhonda really carries this

There's an incredibly tight 55min album in here. I still remember being transfixed by the Through the Wire video and it might have been one of the first rap songs I had fully memorized. It's a bummer to know what Kanye is like now, but this album still feels fresh and interesting to listen to.

I found some interesting tidbits in here but don't imagine myself listening again, so 2.5

There was a lot more Prince here than I expected, as someone who knows later Lenny Kravitz but had never listened to his early work. I don't think I'll return to it although I didn't dislike it.

I wanted to like this more than I did. At some point I noticed how the songs mostly ended with the same (sounding) harmonization of the last phrase by the choir of ladies and then it drove me nuts the whole rest of the time.

Every time a song ended I thought (hoped) we were being led into Mr. Blue Sky so it loses a star for all the times that wasn't true.

I saw a summary/review of this album that called it something like "the hardest mod pop" anyone had done yet at the time, which made me smile a bit because I feel like I've met a few older men who consider The Who to be, like, the peak of what rock has to offer and I think they'd dislike hearing it called mod pop. I didn't actively dislike this but I didn't particularly like it either, and for some reason I was reminded that the Duff sisters, Hilary and Hailey I believe, covered "My Generation" but because it was a Disney venture they said "hope I don't die before I get old" which caused a mild kerfuffle with probably the same older gentlemen. I have no idea how I came to know this information, if it's even true. They don't really detail a lot of what people are saying about their generation, though, do they? Just that they're talking because this generation likes to hang around? They would have hated Twitter (I mean so do I but)

Another album I expected to like more than I did. I think I have a hard time with the country-choir harmony backing vocals.

I like your funny words, magic man I have absolutely no clue what's going on here but it was strange and I had a mostly nice time

2.5

2.5. It's fine. It's not as good as every dude in a tshirt over a longsleeve insisted it was.

Yeah this sounds like Smashing Pumpkins

I've definitely listened to songs by The Pretenders before, but hadn't ever sat and listened to an album. I enjoyed it!

After also getting Pavement and Smashing Pumpkins this week, I'm afraid I can no longer care about this

I think I'm in a slump

one star off for the song that starts with a killer coming at me or whatever. the rest slaps

off the bat, I love a kazoo otomatone type vibe so I was in not as much of a fan of the slower later songs as I was the openers

I liked the drummy jungle/dnb parts and the airy female vocals more than I did the cymbal-y parts and the breathing sounds

I could swear I already listened to and rated this album but maybe it was one of the many other albums by The Who that have been served to me. This one, like the others, felt interminable even after I found the regular version in amongst the multiple editions and remasters. It only gets a second star because I love "I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles" - the rest feels like yet more nearly indistinguishable Rock Music With Guitars

You know, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Maybe because it's only 40 minutes. 2.5

I didn't like this much as the other, weirder Tom Waits I've gotten from this project before.

"how bad can this one be it's only 31 minutes" [31m of rhymey-wimey 60's pop ensues]

The Talking Heads album I am most familiar with, which is probably related to it being the one I enjoyed the most to date. Slightly Unsettling Pop Jams for Slightly Unsettling Pop Girlies

I liked this more than I expected. I think if this was a 30-45 minute album it would be a solid 4, but the last few tracks feel like a drag. It can have a 3.5.

PUMP IT UP honestly the rest of it is Fine but that song slaps

Hmm not an everyday driver for me personally but I do absolutely believe I've heard some of these at The Gay Bar at some point and they do have catchy vibes. I particularly enjoyed Bingo Bango and had "I hate it but I love it" feelings about Same Old Show. 2.5

Me loading up this album: "man I wonder if this one has Come On Eileen what a fun song that makes me think about roller rinks" The album synopsis in my player: "this album was loathed by critics and other people of poor taste because everyone wanted another Come On Eileen hit because they were stupid, but this album came out instead and was better in every way, " I thought the second song was three different songs, one of which I liked, except it was actually one twelve minute song.

Another one that I think is totally new to me that I'm glad I found through the project. I will have to try to remember to listen to some of their other work, these didn't all hit for me and it was maybe more of a 3.5 but it can have the extra half-star for being a nice little treat dug up by the generator.

I liked this a little more than Bitches Brew but I still didn't like it

2.5 - there are a lot of "freaky weirdo" qualities here that I should like but some of the actual sound and instrumentation put my teeth on edge

Another album of music I am glad to learn exists, although I didn't enjoy it as much as Cheb Khaled. It seems female vocalists are rare in Sufi devotional music but I'll be curious to check into that more.

The hits are hits but w

This might have been a 4 if I was more ready for it on a different day. I'm convinced though that I can tell LA-area punk bands from other punk bands of similar timespans and they sound slightly surfer-y, which isn't my favorite.

Weird lyrics my man but really truly enjoyed the song structures and the flow. Played "Short People" after to complete the experience.

This is another one where I wonder if I had the book, would it explain to me why this album is here? But more importantly, would that make it make sense? Would I find it believable? Feels like no.

I'm a little surprised I've never listened to this album, because I do enjoy "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and usually wind up at least trying out an album if I know a track well. These were all pretty similar to that, I enjoyed it. I'm torn between a 3 and a 4 because Steely Dan to me is never like "man I want to run home and pop them on and listen to them" but I do enjoy them if they're on. 3.5

Oh hey I know a couple of these songs. Another "it was fine" album from this generator, I guess. I appreciated knowing who this had been the whole time I heard their songs on the radio but I don't think I'll be like "ooh yeah let me listen to some more of The Black Crowes" later.

In my opinion, truly nothing is shocking about this if you're looking back at it and are someone who's been involved at all in an 'alternative' subculture. It made me think about how Jane's Addiction played at a music festival I attended and most of their press coverage after the fact was about how they'd had people perform a suspension act (so like, hooks pierced into their flesh and lifted up on a wire) which is certainly A Thing To Do but just didn't strike me as the most boundary-pushing concept to do in the 2010s. Maybe I'm missing the context. It's fine!

Why wasn't this Mezzanine instead? I acknowledge I'm biased because Mezzanine was the first Massive Attack album I listened to, on the recommendation of probably some LiveJournal internet friends who didn't actually read my blog I was just fascinated with them because they were people who lived in cities and were older than me, but I really didn't think that this album was as varied and as interesting overall as Mezzanine. Another history lesson that I would know about if I had the book? A mystery for the ages.

I'm fully unequipped to evaluate this on its relevance or merit but what I can say is that it's full of bangers with beats and instrumental stings that still feel like they could be released new today.

Me and my friends: idk why the other kids act so weird to us Also my friends: requested Enter Sandman from the homecoming DJ

It was really entertaining to happen to get this the day after Metallica's black album. The opening song did not fill me with a lot of hope, but I wound up enjoying it overall.

Hmmmm I liked most of it but not enough to go back to, I don't think.

From the band that brought you "that one song they play at every wedding reception that's so long you can go smoke not one but two cigarettes" it's a double-length live album that went on to have multiple other volumes. Why are you playing for so long. Who is this for. I don't even hate it I just don't understand. This feels like music made to be played in the background of people doing something.

I'm glad I looked into this album a little bit before writing anything, because I almost made a fool of myself by calling this 2000s midwest emo (the album erroneously showed as 2006 in my player). I stand by what I commented to my partner, though, which is that I think it's wrong for any genre but punk to seemingly portray an inability to sing as a positive, because I refuse to try to get past "I never attempted to learn breath control" in order to try to listen to an album. The lineage here with Minutemen is worth a couple of points, I guess, but I did not find this an enjoyable experience.

Somehow it feels like I've listened to this album a dozen times for various foolish little projects, which doesn't make sense because besides this project the only music one I've done is to listen to Rolling Stone's top 100 albums off their 500-album list. Harvest is on there, but I think the problem is that so are 2-3 other albums, and there are at least 2-3 other albums on here too, and I just don't care for Neil Young that much. This album contains some of his most Kermit Thee Frog vocals along with songs that just don't strike me as endearing. Of course you want a maid. Just pick up your fucking socks, Neil

Oops! I forgot everything about this album twelve hours after listening to it. I did add a song to a playlist and I clearly didn't have any major complaints.

Amazingly, for all the time I spent listening to The Smiths, I think I spent it listening to the other albums and not this one. I was vaguely familiar with "Girlfriend in a Coma" but not much else. I assume this one just wasn't around the stores I went to in high school and then I moved on. Enjoyable. Not my favorite of theirs.

(Voiceover) Imagine a world where time drifts slowly. A world where music carries you away. Experience Pure Moods, the perfect soundtrack for your way of life. Direct from Europe, this multi-platinum collection has won the hearts of millions. Set adrift with the timeless pleasures of Water From a Vine Leaf. Or take a trip into the unknown with Deus Ex Machina. No other collection gives you the feeling of Pure Moods. (Lyrics) Hey yaiiiiy hiiiiiiii ohhhhhAAIIIIII HWAIIIAAY YA

banger after banger this album has a lot of my favorite Sinatra songs, which I guess is just saying I prefer his versions of a lot of common pop songs around the time, but truly I don't think there's a faceplant on here besides Makin' Whoopee, which I guess was of its time but I struggle to imagine what life was like when we were saying that regularly. the band arrangements and performance are great, the songs are fun, I want to go to a social dance where they just play through this album

I can sense a general aura of critical acclaim and big thoughts about this album, but honestly, it's another "this was fine" from me. I assume it's one more instance of "if I could understand lyrics I bet thsi would be really interesting and perhaps very thoughtful".

The overview for this album says that the record company really watered down the sound to make it more "palatable" to the listening audience, which makes me really want to hear what the original versions sounded like. Although I did enjoy this so maybe I'm the watered-down listening audience.

broadly: I like this one better than In Utero

Apparently I gave our previous two Björk albums 3's also, which is a real shock to me. I thought I liked this one more than the previous ones and was planning on giving it a 2.5-3, but I guess I just have to do 3 and then this message. The danciest of the tracks were fun. It's still a lot of Björk.

indie rock boys take even a single vocal lesson challenge, I promise you can continue to sing with grit and you can choose to be off key if you want to but you can do it without all of those warbles and unplanned cracks baby!!!!!!! the instrument/music part was good

can't wait to never hear this again

Fully support everyone listening to James Brown, but why are we listening to this James Brown album. This crowd does not have enough energy. I guess at least it happened before the explanation could possibly be that everyone was on their phones recording instead.

This was fine, and approaching enjoyable, except that it made me feel like I was in like the mid 90s not getting invited to warehouse raves and instead listening to the closest thing I could find to EDM that came on CD at Best Buy. Which is probably a little influenced by reading the album blurb before listening, but what can you do. It was a little too down-tempo for me maybe and I liked the songs/parts with vocals most because then at least some more stuff was going on.

Why are there so many albums on this list described as 'psychedelic'? Is it because men don't crowd together into one bed at a sleepover and discuss thoughts and ideas about the universe, so it's not until they drop acid at age 25 that they discover the idea of sonder? That all seven billion people on this planet have their own unique thoughts and feelings influenced by the things they experience throughout their lives? Does the reverb added to an overly-long guitar riff remind a person who lives like this of the concept that they are not alone in the universe and are, in fact, but a small speck in the massive ocean of life? Is that why?

The singles really carry this, in my opinion. 2.5.

uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh idk what that was, dude

You know what, 2.5. When placed in context with everything else the generator has given me this week, this has: very few vocals, it had some good rhythm, it's called Hot Rats. I'm still rounding down because some of the saxophone(?) squealing got really really grating and the song with vocals was not great and also nine minutes long.

Who let this vocalist into the band?

After a week of weird little guys (derogatory) finally we are gifted a weird little guy (complimentary) This might be a 4 if I didn't get to play it on the radio (torturing the tri-county area) and hear it in the station. I'm not actually sure the mixer's speakers are that great but it has string lights.

the first cool day we've had as a break from summer heat + quintessential dad music I'm honestly glad I was raking and trimming branches and stuff today because otherwise....I guess there just isn't a lot that's super interesting here aside from 1) the guitar-noodling song that I skipped and 2) me thinking at the introduction "yeah sure, 'sit down and let me groove on you' sure sounds like something I heard the last time I was at Union Station, is that managed by the Chicago Transit Authority, maybe, I should write that in my review"

I'm pretty sure I listened to this to catch up the other day but I did in fact forget anything outstanding about it. I wasn't counting down for it to end so that's good.

This lacked a lot of the fun surprises that I've found in some of our other world music (is there a less condescending term for that?) from the list, unfortunately. I was really looking forward to enjoying it and it just felt samey after about halfway through.

I'm not sure if I'm familiar with this cover of Mrs. Robinson or just some other punk style cover of it. I enjoyed this album even though I don't really have any commentary on it. I hope to remember to go check out their other work, it's just really solidly in my "put on and go do stuff" wheelhouse.

I wish this was a single album. +1 extra star for Sir Duke

I guess I like this one compared to the others

grow up

At times this reminded me of Stankonia, which I am chalking up to both being experimental hip-hop records from 2000. Really enjoyed 'To the Moon's Contractor'

american girl is not the only good song on here ok breakdown is also good

Hey, I forgot Sepultura exists. I had to save this until later to be ready to listen to it because it was not my 9am vibe today, and Canyon Jam was simply unnecessary. Otherwise kind of enjoyable. Not a high-ranking vocal style for me though which is the real drawback.

This is it, it's the only psychedelic prog album I would keep on the list, it's weird, good job

maybe if david had laid off the coke even a little bit we'd have gotten more "Golden Years" and less "everything else on this album" when we got Aladdin Sane I was already a little curious why that album made the "1001 albums from the whole world in all its history you have to hear" list and this one is lower than that one for me I think this is a situation where anything this guy put out at this time was going to be massively influential on music and fashion, and not really about the album itself being influential or particularly innovative. in the next few years we get some of my favorite tracks and performances but here I just think "hmm yes the time he was storing urine in his fridge because he was in some sort of drug psychosis imagining witches stealing his bodily functions"

Every time I think about k.d. lang I actually picture the music of Melissa Etheridge, which I assume is my brain just accidentally merging two late 80s / early 90s women who made me ask some questions about myself. At any rate, this isn't super for me (surprisingly) but it's impossible to deny the vocal quality here.

I was excited for this but then it didn't really grab me the way I expected.

do you know how hard it is for me right now to try to review my thoughts on this without just making a dirty joke about how the first track is excellent and the rest sounds tired? can you begin to imagine?

a Hastings employee sold this to me underage and it made me feel extremely cool

This was really enjoyable today - the energy level was working with what I was doing, and it was really excellent for putting on and kind of half-listening to. A fun discovery

why is there so much psychedelic rock in here

*does the groovy grim reaper dance from The Haunted House (1929) to "Bad Moon Rising"*

This was good but then it just kept going. When I thought it was almost done there were still five songs before Layla.

if they trimmed down the songs at/over four minutes and maybe killed the steppenwolf cover this would be perfect "in the garage" music

Ah yes the music that made me think "maybe I'd like jazz" because I liked the four ripped songs I had and did not yet know the wide scope of what people call "jazz" Don't really like jazz, do kinda like this album. Have listened to it before and will again. 3.5

one album. two questions. 1) why are so many "folk/americana" albums on this list from non-US musicians? this is a constraint of my music streaming app's set genres, sure, but it's curious 2) why are so many "folk/americana" albums on this list "trippy renn faire" folk and so few "phil ochs, barter economy, workers rights"

good and I enjoy it but I wish it was More

how is Peter Gabriel not on the Time/Life Ultimate Love Songs Collection, a two CD set yours for only 26.99 but if you pay by credit card you'll save ten dollars

I liked that the first song was pretty gay

I think I know someone who was named after Aimee Mann, which made this a fraught listen, because what if I didn't like it and had to be like "Aimee your namesake is overrated" next time we ran into each other? Luckily this will be a non-issue, glad I wound up with this one in the project.

La la la-la-la, la la la-la-la

I mean.....fine. I didn't hate every track. But I don't understand why I dislike this so much when I do like some similar artists and songs. Maybe it's too much and for too long.

I'm really glad that Andie and Duckie are friends throughout the whole movie and it doesn't force a romance narrative, but I also think Blane sucked, so I don't like the movie's ending but I also disagree with most other people about what it should have been.

everyone else in my album listening club: MORE tom WAITS how many can there BE why must we be TORTURED like this me in the background, wearing a silly little outfit with perhaps a silly hat that trails behind me, carrying a bongo drum and doing a little conga line dance as Cemetery Polka plays: uncle VIOLET / was a PILOT [shimmy shimmy *bop bop* shimmy shimmy *bop*] I did not really care for the instrumental though

Since this album allegedly influenced every sort of music I like, I've listened to it several times. The problem is, I don't like it as an album. I like some of the songs a lot but don't care for most of them, and I don't think it flows well. Even the songs I do like just make me want to listen to different Lou Reed songs. I'm sure there's something here that I just don't get, but I don't get it even though I've tried.

It's amazing to me how different the title track sounds from everything else on this album. A lot of the rest is still enjoyable, but a lot of it is just much lower energy.

OK look I saw "Canadian country group" and then "recorded in one night at a church" and braced myself but this was very good!

meme photo: lie down - try not to cry - cry a lot this album project has easily led to the most David Bowie I've listened to since his death, because that was the first celebrity/public figure death that really deeply upset me and I didn't like to be reminded about it. I had to take a couple of breaks during Blackstar and it reminded me of all the conversations I had with friends where we went from just talking about the album and videos to talking about how it was a secret farewell message. Life is hard! Death is hard! It feels trite to say that so much of this album is haunting, but it is - the vocals and the machinelike-but-human drumming especially. I do think the title and closing tracks are stronger than the rest, except for maybe Lazarus.

2.5

I found nothing to like about this

This was fun, I wish I was able to pay a little more attention to it but was slammed RIP

mehhhhhhHHHH

Yes, perfect. The ideal rate and ratio of beeps and boops. Just enough Ronald Reagan libel/slander (that's a lie, I could go for a little more).

This was mostly pleasant but I don't know about the Parade song and the song with the child. I enjoyed listening to the artist's profile on streaming more, so it's kind of weird that this is the album selected?

Fun! Short! The only issue is that I was slammed at work so I found this much energy infuriating but that's not Little Richard's fault

I accidentally autoplayed twenty minutes of another Tortoise album so I'd say it felt samey

Hey, this sounds kind of like Against Me! I've heard a couple tracks by these guys but never an album, and I will have to give this another listen. Another loss for Bitches Who Can't Understand Lyrics the First Seven Times They Hear them!!! I bet there's some good critique in here.

Some of these get just too far into singsongy folk for a 5 but it's a high 4 love my weird little guys

This was enjoyable, and I feel really sure it's important in music history, but for me today it is a "yeah I liked that"

This is nice but it's so many love ballads

Yeah you know how sometimes when you like a genre of thing except for a couple of fairly notable examples? It's not like anyone has ever said "oh like The Modern Lovers?" when I'm describing my music taste, but it would be reasonable if they did, and I really hated this album. I don't think it's a one but it's a 1.5 hanging on to a 2 by the skin of its teeth. The production is so sparse that I actually noticed words, and the words were like "ugh I miss the 1950s" and "Pablo Picasso got all the chicks because women can't say no to hot men with hot cars" and if they weren't cringe they were rhymey.

uhhhh this was pretty okay but it was probably helped that I had to do a bunch of repetitive tasks

Rob: Massive Attack, No Protection, the song is: Radiation Ruling the Nation. Barry: Oh, kind of a new record. Very - very nice Rob. A sly declaration of new classic status slipping into a list of old, safe ones. Truth be told, I'm not sure why our record store owner chose No Protection instead of the original Protection, but that's just me. I like Protection a lot, Karmacoma was one of the songs I first downloaded when people I admired on the internet talked about liking Massive Attack (along with Teardrop, obviously). There are some things I might choose to leave off (ok, that final live cover) but it's really solid for popping on and letting run.

muzak for slightly edgy people

I'm so sick of this man!! I have a long familial problem with Elvis Presley! My aunt and mother warred over buying his records or other records as a child and it poisoned us all! That weird Blue Moon version gets 1 additional star for being weird (positive)

All the hits you know and one of them you never know the name of, with like three other songs in there for fun I guess IDK I'm not in The Who

why are there so many albums like this on this list

This fizzles a little over the course of the album after a strong start, but it's all really grooving and chill so who cares, could have listened to 2-4 more tracks.

Fun! Wish I understood any words.

Did I dislike this album, or am I poisoned by my knowledge of Ryan Adams as human being? At any rate, I really didn't enjoy this listen. It felt like I heard the same song three times. Reading a critique to try and gain some insight just led me to conclude that some people think anyone singing with a bit of a Southern accent is making introspective country music. sadboy pitchfork fodder (derogatory)

Enjoyable, inoffensive, probably not going to pull it up again later.

hell yea dude we're honkin AND we're tonkin I don't love this guy's voice if I'm honest but I do like his inflection and the tunes is there anything like listening to country jams with the windows down at night in the summer when it's starting to cool off

this was one decent album worth of music followed by 1.5 more albums. one additional star for Tonight Tonight

I wish more of the album was like "Olel"

It can be really hard to listen to this style of hip-hop because of the sound perspective of how not-dense the music and rhythm is compared to newer music, and the years in between can make it feel really corny when maybe it wasn't at the time. All that said, I find it hard not to like music that's just like "the FDA doesn't give a shit about us" and "modern entertainment is build on minstrelsy" at least a little bit, because it's nice sometimes, to hear someone roast the shit out of our power structures. I think it over-reaches at points, and I think "hiphoprisy" is clever a few times until you overdo it.

THIS SLAPS and I won't be hearing anything else, thank you. I understand and agree that in any other situation "hey little girl is your daddy home" is deRANGED and CREEPY but it works here and I don't intend to entertain any opposing viewpoints. You can have them it's a free country or whatever but I'll be here with Dancing in the Dark, a song my wife Lucy Dacus and I both enjoy.

sure, beam me up dude

I have enjoyed this album in the past but today I think it was too much stimulation so my point in time assessment must be a 3

For some reason, The Chemical Brothers were a group that cool people I liked on LiveJournal all seemed to like but I couldn't get into. They would also talk about them like they were this really weird underground unpopular band, but then Block Rockin' Beats was all over the place. I'm sure at least part of this is just how life is, but when I was younger and trying to Find Myself and ideally do so by finding unique and cooler music than everyone else, this group just didn't do it for me. Today was better, although I think a full album of it is a bit much (or maybe the last two tracks dragged more than the others).

This mostly just made me want to listen to other Willie Nelson

Not my favorite album of theirs but pretty suitable for some Halloween crafting action

Kind of drags on the front half but I can't deny the back half has some bangers even though I do not believe for one (1) second that Steven Patrick Morrissey has ever actually known how Joan of Arc felt

When I lived in Ohio, I got to be friends with a guy who worked at the Jimmy John's up the road from my office. I was always either a 6 or a 6 on wheat, and it was my lunch any time I didn't pack one or couldn't deal with my packed lunch, so I guess I became easy to spot. He turned out to be pretty cool, he did a bunch of community theater and I started going to his shows and helping him pick things to go out for. He was also extremely weird (so am I) so on one trip we saw a play that involved, IIRC, someone hanging by their entrails with all of the lines in an Irish accent and rhyming cadence. The point of this story is that he was the biggest Nick Cave fan I've ever met, and he is absolutely precisely the sort of person I had envisioned Nick Cave fans being. A lot of this is a little bit too, like, depressed-in-a-dark-cave-by-the-ocean for me, but I did like this album more than some others I've heard. 3.5

This is very not what I expected, and kind of reminded me of yesterday's Nick Cave. Except, like, slower and more 70's in sound and instrumentation.

Mostly I just feel like I don't get it

Glad I found this! A solid album ended with a really fun version of Who's Lovin' You. Something seemed odd with the sound mixing at times, not sure if that's intentional, original, or an artifact of the various processing/versions, but it was a little annoying.

I have listened to a decent amount of Suzanne Vega, but not this album. I enjoyed it and was happy to give it a listen. There's some almost Sinead O'Connor type bits that I particularly liked toward the end.

There was one song in here that I found really annoying but it was for a petty annoying sonic reason that just didn't agree with me, which happens. Fun. Short.

I was initially pretty hyped by the fingerpicking guitar but then we did kind of slide into more shoegazey stuff. I still liked this overall and sent it to a couple people, but I'd like the version that's more like the first song more.

No notes Loretta Lynn is a boss

Kind of a lot don't you think, just with the crowd and the live and the lack of variation

RNG giving me Siouxsie and the Banshees and Depeche Mode in October is a very polite gift

The vocal style used on "u" got pretty grating, and there were a few other points where songs felt dense/overly long/like some phrases were being repeated. This is a classic case of an album where I recognize it gets critical acclaim for many good reasons, and there's a lot of lyrical interest, but to sit and listen to it front to back is too much for me personally.

this was fun and nice to both listen to and also idly hear in the background

I don't get it and there's so much of it

I kind of hated this, but I enjoyed hating it

cringe

very sexual lyrics for something I only had time to listen to while working, gentlemen

Two great singles and then some other songs in between them

I'm starting to think all of these songs are Missy Elliott exclusives

I really enjoyed a few tracks on this...but then it also had the coconut song and some really predictable lyrics on others

angering every indie music boy I ever knew by calling this one "fine?"

I guess at least I finally learned who does the annoying child singing "dear God, " song

I did not know what to expect from this, which I see now is an egregious oversight because I do get down with a lot of folk punk, finger-picking, dark themes, kind of music. The opening track was my favorite and I was sad when the album was over. Maybe truly a 4.5 but, rounding up