1001 Albums Summary

It's alright. Probably the peak of post-punk, and not necessarily in a good way. Each track sounds like any other Talking Heads track, very little variety. The Gary Numan's Chameleon bass feels very out of place.

Buttery smooth hiphop. Can still hear the hiss of the vinyl that they sampled the beats from. Creamy vocals, easy to digest. Not a huge amount of variety, but honestly how much can you do with a crumby old Akai and some battered records.

You have to really like Dolly's wobbly voice and steel guitars to get through this one with a smile on your face. Far too American, far too boring, and only trace amounts of musicality. Lovely bass though.

Repetitive, uninspired, insipid, there is absolutely nothing to enjoy about this low-energy emo rubbish unless you need something to make guests leave your party when it's getting late.

World music-y, chill, fun, with some absolute slammers.

This is a flawless psychedelic blues album that doesn't put a single note wrong. The mastering is fantastic and gives an extra-dimensional quality that you just don't find in the modern day.

Any album that starts with such a beautiful FM electric piano is worth its weight in gold to me. This album also has some of the best vocals mastering/mixing/recording I've ever heard, and the overall sound design is nothing short of genius. It's not an album for everyone, but it's right up my street, and the mastering quality cannot be denied. Aside from this, it's hugely musically varied. Not every track is a banger, but it's easy enough to leave playing and still enjoy it.

Yeah it's alright. Gets boring after 5 or 6 tracks though, and by the end I was completely over it. Too long with too little variation, sounds like any cookie-cutter country/blues/rock album that many others before have done better. It's the McDonalds of rock albums.

Luscious tones and lovely singing, this is how to do a folk album properly. Has plenty of variety, but it lacks a sense of excitement which could've rounded it off. Excellent dynamics though.

Not the right album if you're introducing someone new to hip-hop. Several stone-cold classics, excellent (if uncharacteristic) mixing/mastering, and a great all-round album for connoisseurs, but let down by the too-laid-back beats that don't match the lyrics. I could've done with the aggression turned up a little bit. Unfortunately, this leaves it trailing its contemporaries. Still great, though.

Count Basie didn't invent big band, but this album is a flawless presentation of everything that makes it great. You'd have to be properly miserable to not enjoy this.

I'm just not interested in live albums. Not sure why anyone would want to listen to a crumbier version of perfectly good studio music unless you were actually there. I'd prefer this song list as just a compilation of the album versions. The live music doesn't add anything, and strips off a lot of polish. Only giving this 2 because at least the songs are good.

Nice tones, good recording quality, musically fascinating, good variety. Doesn't hold up very well in the modern day, and just feels like classic boomer rubbish now. Guitarist only knows one picking pattern, but the bassist is fun to listen to. The music this inspired is better.

Opening with a ring modulator is a brave move. I love the use of African percussion and vocal effects in the intro, too. Outkast weave in a lot of heavy plosives into their recordings, which gives them quite a unique feel. The aggressive beats and overdiven guitar and synth puts across the same emotions of their lyrics. This album also has Ms Jackson, a massive international hit, which was a soft introduction for huge swathes of people into hip-hop. Their buttery smooth rapping is the icing on the cake.

I pressed play and thought it was a blues album. I've never been so disappointed so quickly. Love the stereo effects; there's some decent mastering for 1963, but can't help feeling like the out-of-time, super quiet kick panned far left ruins things a little bit in Night Life. I liked the super chill, laid back blues of Night Life, but the country is bollocks. Started strong and rapidly dropped off musically, but Ray's voice is lovely at least. And how many songs need to start with violin chord stabs? Come on, lad, you've got a full band. Use them.

Utter dogshit.

Short, enjoyable bit of latin funk. As soon as it finished, I listened to Low Rider though.

This is where the line blurs between best albums and most impactful albums. Yeah it's great, yeah it changed the world of music, but there's very few unique ideas and outside of nostalgia and studying popular music history, there's very little reason to listen to this in the modern day.

I enjoyed this a lot. Greatest album ever? Don't think so, but it's pretty special. I'm a fan of anything that uses unconventional instruments to build its sonic landscape in a unique way. Bass playing is top notch too.

Goths in the 1980s had it rough.

Camp fun, slides down the ears.

Peak 2009. Not in a good way. There is nothing memorable about this wishy washy rubbish, but equally it wasn't offensive.

Crikey that was a good album. Excellent jazzy blues all the way through. I'm a big Kenny Burrell fan already, so it was bound to resonate with me.

I've never listened to Neil Young before. I have now realised that was no true loss to me. Painfully dull.

Bob didn't invent reggae, but this album helped refine it. Excellent groove throughout, with luscious bass.

I'm not sure what I just listened to, but I thought it was excellent. Love to have that much variety in an album.

Placebo did it better.

Tedious slog. Maybe you had to be there.

Such a fucking good album. A rare case of the original being the best.

The OG of stealing black music and giving nothing back

Brits do it better. But track 3... ~hits from the booooong~ is all I could think about.

Hey, Americans, country music isn't anywhere near as important as you think it is.

I think this is one of the sexiest albums that's ever been written. All About Love is a highlight, but it really exposes the struggles of 1970s recording technology with a lot of clipping on the drums and trumpets. That's kind of part of the charm though.

Raw, pure. Essential listening for anyone with the simple gift of ears

Boogie Pimps did Somebody to Love better. White Rabbit is a total slammer, but the rest is easily forgettable. I wanted to like this album more than I did.

Music has moved on, and it wasn't even that good when it was new.

Hippie bullshit.

Smooth, but the skits are irritating.

All the hope of the sixties wrapped up in one album. Sorry it never worked out like you wanted, boys.

I'd rather pick the dried shit out of a dead sheep's fleece and use it as a toothpick than listen to this utter wank again.

Yeah it's alright.

A lotta screaming and not really getting anywhere. It's pretty powerful and fun though.

Decent shoe-gazey rock album. Not much to it, but what it's got is fab.

Not ambient enough to be enjoyable

Finally, some good fucking music

45 albums in and already a second Neil Young effort. Are there really so few artists out there that we have to have such a density of this whiney gobshite's music? It's just not that fucking good, is it? The mastering on this album is bad even for 1974. I'm so bored of this shit that I can't even be bothered to criticise it more. Catatonic.

Michael Stipe's voice is fantastic. I forget how much I love R.E.M.'s melodic tones. Love this album. Love the instrumental experimentation. That being said, it leaves a lot of excitement on the table.

This is the boulder that Planet Rock has been leaning on for decades. Total slammer, I LOVE IT, AND I NEED IT

Shit Mining

Trigger Happy TV! I can't listen to this without picturing Dom Jolly winding people up. It's also pretty good.

I quite enjoyed this. Instrumentation kept me interested, and the tone seemed playful and joyful when it needed to, and morose at other times. Reminded me of Pulp in a lot of ways.

This is exactly the kind of thing I signed up for. I didn't really like it that much, but in a sea of country and Brit pop, this is a welcome break.

It's pretty cool for an American rock album. Enough variation to keep it interesting, but lacking in power.

Giving this 5 because I love it, but it's mainly fun to piss off boomers and yanks

My last favourite track is the title track... The rest is great though.

In a sea of mediocrity, Frankie Goes To Hollywood tried to do something special.

I'm not miserable enough for this

Starts strong and falls off a bit, but really enjoyable soft rock jaunt

When are Americans going to realise that country music simply isn't as important as they think it is

White guys playing black music but worse.

Boring album held up by a few legendary tracks. If it was released today, it would be considered loser indie trash; does this make it ahead of its time?

It's fun but what's it doing in this list?

It doesn't matter who you are, where you came from or what you think, this is without a shadow of a doubt up there in the top three most important albums ever been laid down

Fuck yes, some proper music

Yeah it's alright

I few stinkers but I enjoyed this

Boring as fuck

Not actually listened to this before but that was really good. High energy, fun, interesting, very listenable.

One of the better psychedelic blues albums I've heard. Very Doorsy

I've listened through this album hundreds of times by now. It is practically solely responsible for shaping my late teens. I can't not give it 5/5.

I'd never been inclined to listen to the rest of this album, regardless of how often ~that~ song is pushed in classic rock playlists. This is some bottom-of-the-barrel Blackpool working-man's-club bullshit.

When I was younger, I heard Girlfriend In A Coma sung to the tune of Tiptoe Through The Tulips on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Kinda ruined the original for me, but the album is still great. 1 star because Morrissey is a racist lunatic.

Kinda loved this, but could've done with being about a third of the length

This album made me regret being born with ears.

Textbook how to have fun with writing an album

Way better than I expected, but that's not saying an awful lot

Some of the best percussion recording of the 1970s. Proper fucking music, this.

Of all the pedophile rapists in the world, Robert Plant is certainly one of them.

Biggest bangers, but the rest of the album could do with a little more fun

Kraftwerk changed the course of music for the rest of eternity. I just wish they could've done it with a bit more pizazz.

He ain't much without Lennon. Poor lad.

Yeah it's alright

The tube in his mouth was a fashion statement

"Where Is The Line" she asks. It's outside Dignitas, full of people who listened to this.

Took them a while to get good...

Stunning thrash, redefining the whole genre.

Never been a huge fan of New York punk, but this is pretty cool

Punky, cool... Too cool for me.

Never heard an 808 work so hard. Sublime.

Lovely and well recorded, just boring and unintelligible.

Yeah it's alright. Not the best Cure album, but not intolerable.

Delicious music. Yum yum.

I hadn't properly sat down to listen to a Cure album before, and I'm glad I did. I loved the ambient feel of this.

Boring

No

Number one on the list of bands I don't particularly like, but hugely respect/appreciate.

Better than I expected. I liked it more than my spellchecker did.

Masterful dynamics, gets a bit boring.

I get it, but it could've done with a decent beat.

Hard to give this anything other than 5 stars, but I can't recall a single track and it lacked standout moments...

Not sure about this one.

Americans trying to sound like Brit rock. Shit.

Very Björky

Reminded me of Mclusky, so I went and listened to Mclusky instead.

Instantly makes you 290% more horny for your sister

Yesterday's was Creedence Clearwater Revival, then this today... I'm ready to be a conscientious objector.

I thought this was going to be about Bugs Bunny. I was wrong.

Funky shit

Meandering, pompous

If you listen to Animal on its own, it's a good song. If you listen to it in the context of the whole album, it's an absolute banger. Didn't expect to love this as much as I did

Pretty cool. Amazing what you can do with an S1000 and an Amiga.

Jazztacular

It's just a bit shit, really.

Underwhelming, but gets an extra point for sampling The Selecter.

Iconic? Yes. Important? Yes. Good? No.

All the best hits from The Doors but slightly different

Domestic battery doo bee doo bee doo

I thought "Beck" was just Jeff being lazy, but I guess not. It's not terrible but I'm not desperate to listen again.

Radiohead's like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get.

Maybe if I was camping, deliriously drunk,I might've enjoyed this.

Lovely, like full cream music.

Finally, something fun. Not the best album ever, but cool, light, well put-together.

If this was released today, nobody would batter an eyelid. But it wasn't, it wasn't even released in the 70s. Extremely futuristic.

Difficult. Would've enjoyed this at 14, but I'm not 14 now.

Just a bit boring.

Wasn't expecting to fall in love today

Yeah it's alright

Soft. Nice. I feel like the woman in an old Dove Soap advert.

They sentenced me to 41 minutes of boredom.

Thought this was going to be way sexier than it was. I love Bryan Ferry's voice though, so it gets points for that.

Bit shit

Sound of my early teenage years, possibly one of the first albums I "listened" to. Still holds up as a classic example of naughties British rock.

Synth gods, but this one fell flat for me

Don't think I'd listen again, but it's cool as fuck

Cute, fun, enjoyable if a bit long and samey. Can see why people ate this up in the 80s.

Music for gods, by gods.

Just another Brit rock album, but kinda fun

I was expecting more from such an established name in music history. Regardless can't change my rule that all child-fuckers get 1 star.

Meg White is my generation's Ringo Starr

Good fun, for sure. I'd never listened to 10cc before, and I regret that now.

Bob Dylan changed the world, but so did cholera

Some call this musical masturbation. Well, joke's on you because I like masturbation.

I fear no jazz

Smoother than a mercury milkshake

Absolutely superb.

I guess if you absolutely had to choose a Dylan album to listen to, you'd choose this one.

I can't be the only one who thinks this whole album would be better if it was performed with steel drums instead of synths.

This sounds like I recorded it.

Empty, tinny... Maybe it's a lyrics thing.

Legendary slammers carrying a good album.

Is this where the trope of man-standing-with-guitar-with-one-leg-on-a-wall began? Either way, less offensive than most country albums, and even a little fun.

Not worth the effort it took to find

I really wanted to like this more than I did

Like a curry that wasn't spicy

Liking PJ Harvey makes you cool. Shame the music isn't that good. Skip to We Float then turn it off.

You had to be there to enjoy this. And if you were there, I'm sorry to hear that.

Felt like this album was all over the place, like a bunch of sketches thrown together with not a great deal of overarching narrative. Great music, but not enough consistency.

Great if you like Morrissey

Really enjoyed this.

This was a rock album that sold like a pop album. I listened to the CD on repeat back in the day, but I've grown up and it hasn't

It's alright, but I don't get the fuss. Mick Hucknall winds me up too.

Perfect for hip-hop samples. Lovely to sit through.

This album gave me a boner.

Liquid shit. You don't have to be a racist to steal black music.

Somebody get him a new microphone. Nice cover art tho

Squeezing so many straight-up hip-hop bangers onto one album must've been exhausting.

Tonally gorgeous, great production, but the songs are just a bit shit.

Americans complaining about the amount of Brit-pop here can shut the fuck up

"ah, so that's where those tunes come from" the album

Cheap and uninspired sampling tricks that were boring in 1995; this has been done a million times before and a million times better.

Yes, she can sing, it's just that it sounds like a distressed seal.

Took a break from domestic abuse to write the most iconic piano intro of all time. Spent the rest of the time recording mediocre blues and Beatles B-sides.

Whizzing along at 200 smiles-per-hour

Americans getting boners - live

Historically significant but there's not much to enjoy about it these days.

He listened to The Beatles and thought they would be better if they sounded shitter

Yeah it's alright. Not much variety, but at least it sounds nice

They really worked out those kinks

Every song sounds basically the same, but at least it's cool. Would've lapped this up if I was 30 years older than I am.

PJ Harvey if she was from South America

Masterclass in songwriting, recorded almost completely without soul.

Every teenager's songwriting notebook since 2002. Boring as fuck.

This is a great album to me, but I wonder what it'd be like going in blind... Oh well. A review isn't about what others think.

I get Radiohead. The textures of this album are gorgeous. That doesn't stop it from being depressing as hell though.

I wanted to love this, mainly because I think it'd make me intelligent, but I just couldn't.

Stealing black music then he has the gall to go on a racist rant. Idiot. "Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded, and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking … don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for fuck’s sake?"

Don't know how to review this masterpiece. It's tricky.

It's not offensive, but for the life of me I can't work out why they made this album. Doesn't feel tight in the slightest.

Take any song, put it in a classic rock playlist, and it will never be skipped. Does this mean they all sound the same? I guess so, but they all sound great.

Impossible to have a bad word to say about this soul masterclass.

Boring and depressing

Yeah it's alright, but not sure I'd say it's one of the top albums ever

This is the kind of utter shit listened to by 13-year-old girls after they've had an argument with their mum

This is one of them albums that everyone told me is great, so I never bothered to listen to verify as it seemed so unanimous. I guess I was missing out.

The 37th chamber

I thought I'd grown out of pink, but this felt fairly modern and mature.

This isn't it

It was fine, but didn't excite me

Drab dogshit, shut the fuck up you whiny bastard

Nice break from all the country. I enjoyed this, but not sure I'd listen to it again.

Delicious timbre, my ears drank it like tawny port, yum yum yum. My only question is: are you allowed to "enjoy" grunge?

Good music but struggled to get over the misogyny

Pretty raw recording, for better or worse...

Sorry, this is just dogshit.

MGMT were the most formative band for me in my teenage years, not least because I covered a lot of their music in my old synth pop band. Easy to listen to, fun, straight forward bops.

Gather round kids and listen to daddy sing about his ebony fetish

Music for sad modern cowboys

I don't know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't that. Phenomenal from start to finish. Took me right back to being a child and sitting down to play TOCA2 on PC.

It was alright... Bit waily though.

Some tunes were better than they had any right to be, but I found the rest of it slightly annoying.

Boring and shit

Fantastic, I can put this on at any time and just listen.

Droplets of fun scattered in the pond of tedium

Doesn't do anything wrong, but does it do anything right?

Wow they turned it into an album

I make many excuses for albums on this list, like "sure... It's good for 1970", but this album is good for today. Timeless. Wild is the Wind has some of the finest drum recording on any album in history.

Absolutely sublime. He only plays about 5 notes across the whole album, but what 5 notes they are.

Most fun you can have without taking your clothes off (optional)

I wouldn't put this album on my iPad, but I'd definitely invite them to my barbeque

Like Radiohead but shit

Kinda boring, was expecting better. I guess they had a rocky start, just made me want to listen to Eliminator

Yeah it's alright.

Cilla Black if she was American.

Yeah, sounds like Dire Straits. Great album, but not their best by a long shot. However, still excellent.

This album sets out to do one thing, and does it very well. Very fun.

Why is every track used on Trigger Happy TV on this list? I'll tell you why: the tracks are fucking good. Shame about the rest of the album in this case.

Pastor of Muppets

I hope I die before I get old, and start believing in fundamentally racist and obvious dogma regarding international trade relationships

Straight-up fun, but not much else

Park loife

Wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. It's like early Smashing Pumpkins crossed with Butthole Surfers.

Godly

Absolute dogshit. Bland, regurtitated, tedious dog shit.

Was expecting pop nonsense, got served with cool punk goodness.

Decade-defining, genre-defining.

Smooth and creamy masterclass in sampling and rapping

I was once commandeered to be in a band with an Elton-obsessed maniac. Even though we didn't perform any Elton, it was enough to put me off him for life. I'm glad this has encouraged me to listen properly and give him a chance.

I like some Morrissey albums but this didn't do it for me. Dynamic, cool, different, just lacking a spark.

They wrote the rulebook for funky dance music, as far as I'm concerned

Pretty cool, very typical of its era

It's just singing. The singing is nice, but that's all it is. Got boring quickly.

Kinda raw, but like raw carrots rather than raw cake batter

Good fun, varied, emblematic of its time

Can't overcome the boredom

This is a bit shit. I've heard people talk about Nick Cave like he's some sort of mythical creature, so I expected more. Maybe I'm missing the point, but I don't care.

Yeah it's lovely but I'd never put it on my iPod

Like Meat Loaf but even sexier

Older people often bemoan the repetitive styles of modern dance music as if it's a sickness of the youth. What the fuck, then, do they think this is?

Legendary music, but can't get past the murder and right-wing bullshit from John.

If I went and bought this in 1977 and played it on a crackly, cheap plastic record player in my bedroom at the family home, it would've changed my life.

Undisputably legendary, but falls flat for me a lot of the time. When it slaps, it slaps, though

I got recommended this album the day after Ozzie died. The album is a legend from my childhood, but I suppose I never stopped to appreciate why I loved it so much. Each song is a journey, the whole album shows more dynamics than an entire symphony, it explores multiple genres whilst still feeling completely tight. It really is the perfect example of how to write ~an album~.

I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover but I was expecting something more sophisticated

Nope

There's a few albums I love and think are great that I wasn't sure if they'd make it into this list. This is one of them, and honestly I'm glad it's here. Pet Shop Boys were so far ahead of their time and laid the groundwork for electronic music in pop, and this album is just a continuation of that legacy. Having said that, Very is very short of bangers.

Doesn't get boring but it's all a bit shit.

One of my first CDs, so of course it was on repeat all the way through my childhood. But then my mum went to see them a few years ago, so they have automatically become uncool. Sorry guys, I don't make the rules.

When did harpsichords become de rigeour for pop albums in the 60s?

It's alright, but just made me want to listen to Mclusky

I like Beastie Boys, but not like some people like Beastie Boys. This album feels all over the place. I get that it was revolutionary, but if you didn't love it back when it came out, it's hard to find a space for it today.

Cool as fuck, and honestly stands tall just for its attitude, but not a strong album all the way through

Sounds like the easiest album to make, and at the same time, the most difficult. Could anyone else put this out and get it on the top 1000 albums ever though?

Yup, sounds like an Aerosmith album. Loses points for not having any of their bangers, but I still enjoyed it.

It's this the only album on the list that features a dulcimer? Should get 5 stars just for that. Joni is phenomenal, and proof (maybe the only proof) that American singer/songwriters aren't all dogshit.

Really falls apart after the first track, but what a first track.

Kick Out the Jams was a staple of old skate rock CDs, and I tried listening to their other music even back when I thought it was cool, but just couldn't get into it. I think you had to be there.

I saw a review here about how Brits are tone deaf for stealing music from colonies. It's good to remember that we did that with 2-tone music, whose bands were formed of a mix of Brits and Jamaicans, vocally anti-racist, and used their success to promote support for the Jamaican communities of Britain. This isn't one of those cases, and is just shit.

Get fucked, Kanye

Kinda like Kate Bush but not as good. Not terrible though.

Nice but wanky

5 stars just for Eddie Hazel's solo on Maggot Brain

I want to hate prog, but I just can't.

Wasn't really sure where this was going. Nice, tho.

Do I love this because I'm a guitarist, or am I a guitarist because I love this? Modern era Mozart.

Honestly just doesn't tickle me. Fair play to the lads, but I'd rather not have to sit through this again.

Strange Cargo III? No, strange cargo vroom vroom you idiot.

Cigar Smoking Simulator

Not my cup of tea, but this album is mastered incredibly. The use of negative space is excellent.

OooooooOOOoooOoOoooooooooo x 400

Kinda shit

Sounded exactly as I expected it to sound. Not bad, but reggae complaining weed laws is just boring.

Yeah it's alright, I see why people like it. Not my bag, though.

I fucking love funk and soul, but I just have no idea why Sly & The Family Stone are so popular. Maybe you had to be there. Poor mastering, even for 1960's 8-track novice recording, boring music, rescued only slightly by the progressive lyrics - the absence of which would've surely seen this album disappear into obscurity.

They had their formula, and it worked. Fair play. 15-year old me would've given this 5 stars, but they lose marks for the lack of musical bravery. Did it change the world? Yes. Is there better rock music out there? Also yes.

Really feels like a first album, put together before they'd properly found their feet. However, I must commend it for trying different things, using great dynamics, and making best use of the sonic materials they had to hand.

Classic Joni loveliness

Kinda boring, not their best work IMO.

Epic is great but the rest sounds like Guitar Hero nonsense

Super cool, good fun, enjoyable

Not even heard of this band before, but the album was a bit of fun

Opens strong but kinda boring after

Not a fan of this Bowie period, but not unlistenable.

Nice

Pure music

Yeah it's fine

If the one trick pony's one trick is really good, then does it matter if it only knows that trick?

Pretty cool, pretty fun

Revolutionary, absolute slammer

One of my favourite albums. Michael Stipe is unstoppable

Forgot how much fun Supergrass are. Great album

Not a fan

Nice enough, but doesn't tickle my fancy bone like other Fleetwood Mac albums.

Really cool

This album took me into space and refused to bring me home until I knew how to dance

I grew up in the era that this was all over the radio. It wound me up then as much as it does now. I can sort-of understand the hype, but if this album was never made, the world would be exactly the same.

Kinda shit

The album I had to listen to before this was by Parliament, now Ministry, what next? House of Lords? Foreign Office? Treasury? Album is good if you like industrial thrash. I, however, don't.

I didn't hate this as much as I remembered back in the day.

Within a few days I've listened to two albums that reference David Bowie, but they're Americans who pronounce it "boo-ie". The other was Mothership by Parliament, so they got away with it.

Poundland Joni Mitchell

Poundland Bryan Ferry

I liked listening to Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath

Nice (but not really).

More mind and less simple next time, please

Not my kind of style, but what a legendary album. Has to be a 5.

There's a guy in the reviews here who claims to be named after one of the songs on the album. I think their name is Wood.

Boring

Smooth as fuck funky beats

Boring, but makes up for it by being cool. If I was in the right place, this is an easy 5; however, sitting in my office, this album doesn't cut it. It's not a "listen anywhere" type.

I'm too young to appreciate this

Lacks the refinement of Songs for the Deaf, falls short in my books.

If you were a teenager when this came out, it's the best thing you've ever heard. I was more of the Arctic Monkeys generation, but still think Brit indie is all a bit shit.

Americans wouldn't know good music if it slapped them in the face.

It's certainly The Cure.

I feel like I should care about this album, but I just can't. Fair play to the lass, but it just doesn't tickle any of my bones

Gets an extra star for In the Ghetto

I don't like having a Police record

Kinda shit

This album could've been an email

Sick riff in Animal Nitrate. The rest just sounded like my old band practice.

OoooooooOOOOoooOooooooh

Shit

The band that invented the modern teenager, and then abandoned them in pursuit of their own benefit.

Nice to listen to something familiar, yet different

Good fun, something a bit different, enjoyed this

Bit shit

Brilliant

This is the kind of shit they play on loop in the part of heaven reserved for cousin fuckers. Utter seppo dogshit. Every yank retard complaining about the amount of Brit pop here can go fuck themselves.

Something a bit different, inoffensive but I couldn't get into it.

It's The Beatles that my grandparents liked, before they were fun. As an album, it's not much, but it feels like blasphemy to give it less than 4 stars. I'm not a court, I'm allowed to judge based on outside factors.

People used to be so horny

Didn't enjoy this at all

Child abusers get 1 star regardless of how good the music is

Wasn't expecting much, didn't get much. This album totally washed over me, no idea why it's in this list...

Wishy washy arena rock silliness, but I like it

Where's the bangers???

I used to wonder if Björk was some kind of practical joke the universe was playing on me. As I've grown older, I appreciate her far more.

We've heard this everywhere, which makes it "good" in a sense, and I do appreciate it for what it is, and I love Moby for just doing what he likes, but it's just so... Lacking. I love a fun album, and this ain't it.

I didn't understand The Stranglers when I was a child. The weird off-kilter organ and peculiar dynamics threw me off. Decades later, the thick bass and daring-to-be-different is just fabulous to me and I can't get enough.

Bit weird, but I'm on my 350th album to review so, I suppose, so am I.

Please, no more U2

The sound of my childhood

What the fuck is this mess

Giving this 4 stars because I feel bad for the top review calling him English

Finally some proper fucking music. Funky, jazzy, souly, I could listen all day

What a tosser. Shit album, too.

Middle of the road pop rock with a few bangers. Not as good as Free All Angels or Meltdown

Yeah it's alright

Stellar, but loses a point for the fart noises

I forgot this album as soon as it ended.

Absolute belter

This is my generation's White Album

Kinda shit

Folky, mediocre

Love Metallica, not interested in live albums

The only live album worth paying attention to. Still country tho, sorry Johnny.

It's a good album, but let's be honest, it's not one of the best in the world.

Porn music made by narcissists

I went into a record shop and asked what have you got by the doors? The bloke said a bucket of sand and a mop.

Remember when David Bowie invented music? What a day.

Unfiltered, cool, perfect.

Kinda shit

Lovely

If Magical Mystery Tour was written by a lunatic

Hip hop spectacular

Drums sound like I recorded them

Something a bit weird, a bit different. The track The Court of the Crimson King elevates this to a 5 though.

Very modern sounding for 1968. Obvious influences of the time, but what musicians didn't experience that.

Clearly stellar, but just didn't enjoy it that much.

Criminally funky

Like a Rich Tea biscuit. Completely inoffensive.