Achtung Baby
U2A very good, but not the best, album by U2. Quite a few really great songs but also some - in my opinion - poorer ones. But overall an album you can put on anytime.
A very good, but not the best, album by U2. Quite a few really great songs but also some - in my opinion - poorer ones. But overall an album you can put on anytime.
Typical music from Depeche Mode. Generally I find them ok, some songs are really great, some not.
No fan of Carole King.
I thought I already knew all famous and important bands of the 70s. But I must admit I did not know The Band at all. So this was a great listening, getting to know yet another good 70s band.
Interesting listening. Of course I listened to this album in the 80s and at that time found it great. But now, approx. 40 years later, it simply isn't the same as before. Yes, it was great at it's time but for me now not anymore.
The Rolling Stones has always been a band with a couple of nice songs but never a band where I sat down to listen to a whole album. I see now that this was wrong. Aftermath is a wonderful album, one of their first as far as I know. There is a wonderful freshness in the songs and it contains quite a lot of their well known pieces. Even if only for this album, taking part in this journey of 1001 albums has paid off.
Never really listened to The Smashing Pumpkins and this album won't change that. A couple of songs are ok, the rest I found quite boring. Not the right band for me.
Wonderful album by this old and very classic band!
For me a discovery. Very interesting, a lot of nice and surprising musical topics. Good album.
Interesting ... once again a 70s band I did not know. Very nice 70s rock music. Like it!
A nice album by a band "everybody" knows.
Not my album, not my music!
Not really my music. Liked a couple of song but in my opinion a very ordinary album with no big highlights.
Interesting album. A great piece of art if you consider the age of Pete Townshend when composing it. But still it does not grab me as much as I thought. Probably one should have heard the first time in the 70s.
Wonderful. A classic great album by Bob Dylan. Like everything about it.
The album is, good rock but not really my cup of tea. Maybe if I'd have the patience to listen to the album a few more times I'd like it. But I rather want to turn to the next album.
Nice rock punk album. Like it
A wonderful mix of jazz and rock. Definitely my favourite in this list until now. Will be listening a lot to it in the future.
This was 16th album and the first one I really know, which I find interesting since I know a lot of the albums on the 1001-list. Life's Too Good is a classic album from the 80s and from a time before Björk became famous in the whole world. I grew up with this album and personally, I like the Sugarcubes albums better than what Björk did later. Can recommend it to anyone - a real gem.
Interesting psychedelic rock from the 60s. But did not like it very much.
Didn't know the album but have heard Song2 a million times. So expectation was high, expected more of such. But unfortunately no, the others are not bad but different. It could have been a 5 with more Song2-songs but the rest is simply not special.
Sounds like a mixture of other bands. Nothing interesting.
If you like this kind of folk music, I suppose the album is fine. The music kind of flows along withouth any highs or lows. For me not interesting.
A nice rock album and, once again for me, something new.
Wonderful classic album by the great singer Aretha Franklin. Contains a lot of the well known, but also some of the lesser known songs. A gem!
Nice rock by - once again - a band which I did not know until now (although the name was familiar).
Music I usually do not listen to, but goes well as background music when working. Will not be looking for more music from William Orbit, though.
Nice album with nice songs. Definitely recommendable!
I hated this band in the 80s but I forced myself to listen to the album. Now, fourty years later, they are not as bad as in my memory but still, I wouldn't voluntarily choose an album from this band.
I really struggled to listen to this album ... a couple of songs on the second were ok, but the rest really the worst imaginable pop music. Ok, I am aware that a lot of people like and enjoy this music but I will never, ever be one of them.
Interesting album, although not my kind of music.
This was the second album from David Bowie I encountered here in this travel of the 1001 albums THBYD. I loved the first one, Blackstar. This one is also ok, but at least from a couple of listenings for me "only" a good rock album.
The second album I encountered here at 1001 ATHBYD. The first one being "Third" was good but I like this better. Intriguing songs ...
Nice Beatles album. Had never listened to this album but contains a lot of well known songs.
A big range of songs. Some well known like "My Sweet Lord", some average ones and some great instrumental pieces at the end of the second cd (I listened to the 2014 Remaster version.
No, nothing for me. Music is ok, but I did not find it interesing at all.
Wonderful, classical album by The Byrds, certainly one of important bands in the history of "modern" music.
A wonderful album! The music circulates and soars. Never boring, though on the first listening, a lot of repetition. Definitely one of my favourites by Miles.
Well, it's similar as with Blur by Blur. You know a song, never had the chance (or simply never thought about) listening to more songs or an album by this band. You expect something you like. And you are let down. Generally the band has some turns, liked the song "Monitor" but did not like anything else on the album.
Nice album from the 90s. But I was never a R.E.M. fan. For me they play music, which is nice to hear in the background, good melodies and songs but nothing more.
Boring, boring and once again boring.
I am definitely one to put on an album by Leonard Cohen although I have heard several of his (popular) songs through the year. So I did not expect much. But in this case I was positively surprised. I sure do not like all the songs on the album, but "Take This Waltz - Paris Version" and a quite funny "Jazz Police", as well as "Tower of Song" were ok/good.
Not the best one by The Cure, but a solid, nice collection of songs by this classic band. Like it!
A rock/metal album definitely worth hearing. But still I miss something to be able to say "great album".
I suppose you should study the lyrics to make any sense of this. She can rap - that's no question - and she has a great sense for rhythm and putting words to rhythm. But for me there is nothing in the music.
Nice album by one of the historic persons of popular music the last 70 years.
Isaac Hayes is certainly one of the greats of the last 50 years of music history. This album maybe is a bit too much film-music-like but it does not really matter. The songs are still great and the album as a whole also.
Never listened to an album by Randy Newman before, although I of course (who does not?) knew a few of his songs. Guess this is one of oh so many nice albums out there, which I think are ok, maybe even good, but which I will never search out for listening.
One of those bands which can play very good, which have ideas, which - of course - have their fanbase. But, sorry, I did not connect to the music. I suppose if you grew up with it, you will like it. But I do not!
Once again the Rolling Stones, the second album on this trip of these 1001 albums. Aftermath is in my opinion better but also this one is one of the great albums of the band!
Quite nice. That's it.
A very good, but not the best, album by U2. Quite a few really great songs but also some - in my opinion - poorer ones. But overall an album you can put on anytime.
I had never heard about Fiona Apple before this album came up here. I had not heard any of the songs on the album before. Therefore a big surprise: I really like it. Will definitely be listening to her again!
For me this is one of so many 80s albums which are ok, but kind of boring. You can listen to them again and again but it simply does not get interesting.
What to say about this album? The Kinks in the 60s are very 60s. The music is great - also for later generations - but also somehow "simple". Short songs (who would wirte a song like Two Sisters or No Return today?), instrumentations, etc. But then they have some great highlights like Waterloo Sunset (on this album) or Lola (not on this album), which turn them into a classic band, which "everybody" knows. This album - certainly worth sitting down and listening to - even if you're not into 60s music.
Rock of the 80s. Nice, ok, sometimes good, sometimes not.
Blondie at her best. Some nice songs but also some boring songs. ok.
ok, but nothing more
A classic album. Not the best soul album of the 70s but certainly contains some of the best classic soul songs. Always nice to hear.
An album which is easily listened to in the background. For me not more.
Wonderful work. Great musicians, great music. I suppose difficult for all, which are not used to jazz, tango or similar music but if you are patient enough to listen a few times to this album it will pay you back!
Good album.
This combines everything I don't like about 80s music. The synthetic beats, simple melodies and sooo many played like this. Except for Tainted Love nothing special.
Basically a nice album. But somehow the songs flow by and don't leave so much behind. It is simply to smooth, nothing unexpected, nothing exciting.
1970s ... Punk ... loud ... quick ... simply as it should be :-)
Nothing spectacular. Only really nice song is Lazy Sunday. The rest partly ok, partly quite funny but it simply isn't anything more.
Used to listen quite a lot to PJ Harvey but not quite so impressed today. I like the album, but somehow something is missing. Total impression = ok.
Typical Indian classical music. I have always liked it as a background music. In a restaurant, when working, when reading, ... But never really dived any deeper into it. For me this album is exactly perfect for this kind of background music. And it gets better at every listening.
Classic country. Quite ok but will never be my favourite.
A Queen classic. One of the really great ones and one of the hightlights in the history of this big rock band.
Radiohead is a band I tend to like. Didn't know this album, though, and it ist in my opinion not one of their hightlights.
The second David Bowie album I get in this series. The first I did not know but Hunky Dory is full of great well known songs. Great to listen to and reminds one of his genius as a musician.
Hmmm ... modern country music. Sounds ok. Bute leaves nothing behind. One wonders why Kacey Musgraves is so popular but you probably have to be more into this kind of music to understand that.
Such a wonderful historical album. Today nobody will understand why "God save the Queen" was a major scandal. But it took some courage for "Virgin Records" to publish this - now classic - album (nobody else wanted to!). An important contribution to the world of rock and popular music.
Not the best but ok.
Typical music from Depeche Mode. Generally I find them ok, some songs are really great, some not.
Not the highlight of Blur but ok.
Music, which can server as background music somewhere where you don't concentrate on the music itself. Some of the melodies are ok, but there is nothing emotionally capturing in this work.
I am not a big fan of heavy metal music although I really love some songs by Metallica, Korn, System Of A Down, etc. Slipknot will never be a band I can listen to, simply too far away from my musical taste. But one can't deny that they have quite a lot of nice riffs and they are really good musicians (I don't think you can play good heavy metal music without being an excellent musician).
Very simple --- I did not like it. And, to be honest, I did not think it is such a great album. Probably it hit the nerve of the time when it was published but to me it sounds a lot like an album made for teenagers with the goal of making money and less like an album where a musician put in a lot of work to do the music he'd like to.
The newer albums were more popular but sound boring today. This is still to fine to listen today.
Experimental music from the 80s. What more you can say.
Did not know the band and after reading a review on it I expected something interesting. But no, it was not interesting. More boring than anything else.
Nice 80s rock. Didn't know it but like it!
Probably they were good in the 80s. Some of the sampling is nice. But not my thing.
Songs are ok, could listen more often to the album. But does not convince me.
Boring 80s music. No wonder I did not notice this band then. Not a "1" terribly boring, but I would not put the album on again.
Good Bob Dylan album but not the best.
One of the great ones by the Beatles. Lot of nice songs.
x=Boring => xx = Boring*Boring
It's ok, not particularly good, not particularly bad. If you're a country music fan I guess it's a kind of highlight. But if you're not, not so special.
Nice rock but not very nice.
Sometimes I wonder how and why the albums have been chosen for this list. This is one of the case.
Nice!
Although I am quite familiar with the band and know a few albums I had never listened to this one from the beginning to the end. And this is also a nice album with several great songs.
Nice album, sounds similar to The Smiths - guess Morrissey simply was such an important person of the band.
Not my kind of music - found it boring, even after two listenings.
A really great album by an artist, I must admit, I did not know. A shame that is isn't available on Spotify, but found it on Youtube. Will be dipping into his other records but since I listen either on Spotify or on my stereo I will probably not hear this record again ...
Except for the song "Here Comes Your Man" quite boring.
I knew Wilco from a couple of songs but I have never been a fan. This album - ok, quite ok but still nothing which convinces me
Bollywood music is certainly not my favourite. But in this case I expected more. Maybe it get's better with repeated hearing but I gave up after one time ...
Great - like it
I'm more familiar with the "old" albums of Bob Dylan (although I guess 1997 is for a lot of people also "old"). This is in my opinion not as good as those, but still quite good. So definitely worth listening to.
Well, a 60s band, reminds one of other 60s bands (I did not know the band before listening to this album) but doesn't add anything to what one has already heard.
It's ok ... but definitely not more ...
Wonderful album. Some nice blues, great usage of the organ. Certainly one of the greats in the history.
It doesn't matter what you think about this album - if you like or dislike it - it is one of the most important albums in the history of rock. As the last album of Hendrix, it can only make us imagine what could and would have come next.
Didn't know this album by Calexico but have listened to other albums. I find this very similar to the other. There are a few magnificent songs (e.g. Across the wire) and then some songs which sound like a "filling" for the rest. For the best songs it would be a 5, for the filling it would be a 1 or 2.
No idea why this album is here on the list. It sounds like thousands of others, but probably I simply don't get it.
Neither knew the band nor had ever heard one of the songs. So this was a positive surprise. Very nice.
I know several of Tom Waits albums but this one I had never listened to. Unfortunately, this one did not convince me. There are a couple of songs, like A Little Rain or Black Wings, which I find very nice. But too many, which (in my opinion) are not that good. Albums like e.g. "Blue Valentine" or "Alice" (and others) are by far better.
Nice background music, but not really more.
I'm not a fan of Paul Simon. But this definitely was a major album when it was released. In a time before the "World Music" of the 90s it was an encridibly important album for popularize unknown (at least for many) music styles. For this reason a "4". Otherwise it would have been a "3".
Wonderful rock album. Powerful, loud, noisy and interesting.
Simply not my kind of music. Although some of their songs are quite ok.
No, this is nothing for me.
Nice rock album with some good songs but a lot of average songs.