The Black Keys to me feel like Imagine Dragons with more indie rocker cred. But like more offensive because Imagine Dragons doesn't carry the pretense of presenting themselves as a good band. This was somehow both inoffensive and genuinely painful, I felt like I was listening to an hour worth of primetime TV spots. The soundtrack to the death of mainstream guitar music.

Hell yeah

God I love this record so much. And now that I'm older I like it even more. I liked Magazine a lot in college but I think they're one of those bands you start really getting in the latter half of your twenties. Now I feel less like the object in one of Howard Devoto's songs and relate more to his point of view. It's cruel and cynical, it's sexy, it's sleazy, it's really self-centered and obnoxious, it's disaffected. Now being all those things in punk carries a lot of baggage, and maybe they did back then too. But it's something that punk is really missing. It's like nothing really ever stepped in to fill this void and everyone decided punk was just about hanging out and making friends. Anyway. Perfect record.

I'm glad I finally listened to an Earth Wind and Fire record in full but the slower songs didn't stand out to me as much, and that's like 80% of the album. I'm glad I gave it a second listen through though, because I found more I liked by giving it a second chance. Still really nice but I'm just not a big ballad person.

I wish I could give this a 6/5. I love this record SO much. I can't believe she was only 18 when this came out. I can't really explain how much this record means to me. Maybe to some people it's indulgent or tedious, to me it means everything in the world and more. I don't think I've ever felt so understood by a record or artist. I wish I could bury myself inside this record forever.

I liked two songs from this (I'll Never Let You Go and Blue Moon) but not really my kind of thing

Dodge Ram commercial music... I hate this so much. I don't care if it's a classic it sucks. The weird rapey song that was like "don't you struggle don't you fight let me cut your cake with a knife" was ok though

Goes hard love u Janis u killed it

The first half of this was fun MTV pop punk and a 3/5... the second half was absolutely terrible zany ska-punk and a solid 1/5 so imma give it a 2

This album was my jam when I was 12/13 and then I found Wire... and Pere Ubu... still has some bangers and is still a solid album but doesn't quite have the bite of all the art punk bands they were influenced by... sorry Franz Ferdinand ur getting a 3...

That "Patterns" song is a banger and so is "A Poem on the Underground Wall" but the rest didn't stand out that much to me. Nice though!

Coldplay/U2 if they tried to rip off Pavement. This is SO shit. SO middle of the road. SO generic and whiny. Jesus christ the zany symphonic sound is awful. I can't believe how beloved this band was at the time.

I've loved this album so much since it first came out when I was 13! Easy 5/5 and started my love affair with Janelle Monae. Such a beautiful, ambitious, eclectic concept album that manages to do so much and feel so timeless in the process.

So smooth and effortless can't believe it took me this long to listen to this in full B.I.B.L.E. especially is crazy good

It's pleasant enough but it's very dated and derviative and honestly sounds like a more hip-hop leaning version of something from an early 2000s girl group. This is like a Girls Aloud/Sugababes solo record, why is it on this list

Cringe, but the good kind of cringe

Corny.... Ludacris type bars..... why are we still doing skits in the streaming era can we not leave this shit in 2003??? I liked this but all the songs sound the same also Brits are just not as cool as Americans

The most influential, timeless, essential punk album of all time.

I've loved post-punk since I was like 13 but it took me until my mid-twenties to "get" the Fall. They grow on you until you wish every band sounded like them.

This was not a good introduction to Johnny Cash. This feels like a mediocre bootleg of a Johnny Cash performance.

First few songs are incredible but the rest of the album kind of sounds the same to me. It's a lovely sound but the songs don't stand out as much as the first three do! I'd like to listen to more Willie Nelson though, this definitely left a positive impression

Black Metal and Buried Alive are bangers but the rest of this kind of sounds the same to me. I will say I'm impressed by how fresh it sounds, it doesn't sound that dated that all and could easily be a new metal release today

Such a fun 'artsy girl goes to the disco' album. Not Bjork's best album but still good enough to be 5 stars.

This feels like a collection of songs that weren't good enough to make it on another album. It's just far too long and only a few of the songs are strong enough to be remembered. I like the Beatles and George Harrison but find it absurd how every single mediocre b-side ever written by these people is treated with universal acclaim

I could've lived without ever hearing this album and will never voluntarily listen to it again. 2 stars instead of 1 because he can definitely sing.

Genuinely exhausting to listen through. Rock for people who eat plain oatmeal every day for breakfast

I'm glad I finally listened to an Earth Wind and Fire record in full but the slower songs didn't stand out to me as much, and that's like 80% of the album. I'm glad I gave it a second listen through though, because I found more I liked by giving it a second chance. Still really nice but I'm just not a big ballad person.

Almost a perfect 5/5 if it weren't for there being a half dozen songs on this 20 song album that are really filler and are there to pad out the album. Some of the best vocals in pop history on some of the best pop songs of the 21st century weaving in and out of the occasional Radio Disney level filler. But I forgive it because the vocals are incredible and many of the songs could be hits today and haven't aged a day.

Glad I got to hear it but not my kind of thing. I'll give it a 3 because it was actually great background music for cleaning the house

Basura

This is the kind of stuff I signed up for when I started this listening challenge, as I would've NEVER listened to it otherwise. I'm glad I did! I didn't necessarily find a new genre I'll be listening to all the time, but it was an enjoyable listen and it broadened my horizons

Unusual! Day 27 and it's the first artist I've truly never heard of, not even in passing. Very sappy at times, and a bit challenging, but I like it! It almost reminds me of '70s David Bowie at times -- I'm glad I finally came across an artist here I've never heard of!

Some bangers on here I'll admit but homie is way too obsessed with sixteen year olds

It's a certified banger what can I say

Cannot believe this shit is on this list but Liquid Liquid isn't. This album would not exist without Liquid Liquid, even their names are eerily the same. This is a generic, car commercial, commercial landfill indie homage to no wave. It's fine but it's ridiculous and says a lot about the listmakers' lack of knowledge that this album made it, but the legendary band it is blalantly ripping off didn't.

Perfectly inoffensive. I was expecting to dislike this more, but the latter half of this record redeems it. The last three songs especially are quite good. I can see why this still sounds timeless, even though I'm not a U2 fan.

I wish I liked this more but it was kind of a bit tedious to listen to, especially the 14-minute Sex Machine.. I'm glad I listened to this record because it paved a lot of ways for what was to come in soul and rock and roll but I don't think it aged super well and sounds very much of its time.

This is cool as hell. I'm so glad I listened to this. Will definitely listen to other CCR albums now, and will definitely listen to this again. I might even grow on me to get to a 5/5. This is just something that I managed to skip somehow as I never grew up listening to classic rock radio or anything. So so good, I got so much out of this. I enjoyed every minute of the 11 minute cover of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine".

Really wish these '90s albums had less skits as filler and wish the humor wasn't so middle school but no complaints cause it's still so good, will definitely put it on again.

I like willow and no body, no crime. The rest of the songs are good songwriting but very bland and feel like music that plays in the background at Target, which is how I already felt about Taylor Swift. So this didn't really change my impression.

So fucking boring. Not a single track that stood out to me in the entire record. I can't believe how forgettable this was to me.

I wanted to hate this even more than I already do because this is aesthetically against everything I value in guitar music. I really hate hard rock and prog rock and hair metal with a burning passion. I did like two songs from this, Too Late For Love and Foolin’. The rest was still actually painful to sit through. The kind of slop you only like if your formative years were in this era and you just have nostalgia from making out with a girl to it in a drive in or something.

This was pretty cool. "Albuquerque" and "Tired Eyes" especially stood out to me. I saw Neil Young when I was 19 but wasn't really in a place at the time to fully appreciate what he was doing. Not all of this speaks to me but it doesn't ever drag on, and it's really good songwriting. Honestly, Neil Young sounds so much like Stephen Malkmus to me, I didn't realize how similar their vocals were until this record. I listened to it twice and could tell I would really like it if I was in the right mood, so I'll revisit this later when I'm in a particularly melancholic self-pitying mood.

I didn't get a lot out of this at all. The second half of this is definitely more energetic than the first but for the most part I found this to be incredibly mid-tempo and uninspired, and I can't tell if it's a Seinfeld effect type thing where maybe this was massively influential or if it is just straight up boring. It reminded me of generic runway show music, generic video game loading screen music, generic gay club music. I'm not surprised Leftfield doesn't like it either.

Still hits as hard as when I cried to it in high school what can I say a certified hood classic

The first half hour or so of this was a drag (and this is too long of a record, it's an hour and twenty minutes long) but everything that comes after makes me get why it's a classic. The lyrics are pretty dated and homophobic but I'll still come back to this

Generic Starbucks easy listening music but I unapologetically like it. It's some bullshit I can put in the background while I answer emails and that's fine, I enjoyed it as that. There were some pretty groovy bass lines in here too.

The Black Keys to me feel like Imagine Dragons with more indie rocker cred. But like more offensive because Imagine Dragons doesn't carry the pretense of presenting themselves as a good band. This was somehow both inoffensive and genuinely painful, I felt like I was listening to an hour worth of primetime TV spots. The soundtrack to the death of mainstream guitar music.

Not bad but perfectly forgettable, I don't think I'll ever listen to this again.

I love Nick Cave but this isn't his best. It's pretty indulgent with all the backup chorus vocals and in general feels mostly filler. I think this is an album only for the diehards, which is fine because I'm a fan of his but it begs the question why it's on this list.

Very unapologetically annoying and cheesy and gay, but it's still a vibe

God, this was pretty unbearable at times. I can't believe how hard I've forced myself to like Tommy. When I was in high school and was obsessed with bands like The Jam and The Specials (definitely flirting with punk without being outright fully into punk yet) and dressed like a little mod revivalist I really wanted to make myself like The Who in turn, I've even seen them live. And The Who Sell Out still is great to me. But Tommy can get really whiny and corny! Will never be someone who enjoys these big indulgent rock operas and I don't know why I forced myself to pretend I particularly liked this one. It has its moments though.

Love Missy. Love Timbaland. Love Aaliyah. Love this era of avant-garde freak hip-hop production so much. It's a little clunky and it's not Timbaland's best production work, but it's weird as fuck and defined the sound of an entire decade of pop music that left a huge imprint on me, so it was a pleasure to listen to. Twice!

Finally something I would've never heard otherwise instead of fucking U2 and Aerosmith. I don't think I'd ever heard music from Senegal until now. This was kind of psychedelic, kind of blues-y, kind of... new age-y? I won't come back to it probably, but I'm glad I got to experience it. It is kind of long and droning and I just can't stand when any record is over an hour long, but I enjoyed the ride nonetheless. I really liked the track "Djam Leelii" especially.

I really got a lot out of this record. It's a record made by a man who's dying and who knows he's dying. If most of the songs were as strong as the title track or Traveling Light were it'd get a 5, but I still got a lot out of the few tracks that really spoke to me. It's very heavy, ambient and atmospheric. Leonard Cohen's voice sounds like pure gravel, Tom Waits on steroids. It's a shame it came from being in a lot of pain and being very close to death but it's a very, very beautiful last work to leave this world with.

Cool guys doing cool guy shit I would definitely blow young John Zorn

All killer no filler. Dumb, snarky, sarcastic, camp, very danceable, everything that punk music should be.

First three songs really made me think I would hate this because god John Lennon can be really fucking whiny but Working Class Hero is such a masterpiece of a song. I guess John Lennon is at his best when he's trying to sound like someone else because I love how Bob Dylan/Nick Drake that song is so much, it's incredible. And after that it picks up a bit and starts to sound more like a Beatles record, and I like the Beatles. I definitely don't regret listening to it, but it's also pretty forgettable too, save three tracks -- one of which left a huge impression on me, so there's that.

Being sincere on any level isn't cool in 2024 (it wasn't cool in 2002 either) but it doesn't make Jurassic 5 any less good

Very beautiful voice with so much range, doubt that it's something I'll realistically revisit. But I learned more about South African history through googling who she is, that counts for something. I also didn't realize she was the wife of Kwame Ture. Anyway, none of that has to do with the music -- I guess I'll file it under "glad I listened, but unlikely I will again".

I should give Blonde on Blonde a 1/5 but I am going to give it a 2 because I didn't actually like any of the songs but I do like his weird grating voice and his songwriting

No

I actually love this so much. I was not prepared to like this at ALL. So melancholic, debaucherous, lustful, old-fashioned. Jacques Brel meets Frank Sinatra? I listened to it three times in a row and enjoyed it each time.

Very boring but has good politics so there's that? Idk I don't care about this but maybe if I was European and an annoying lefty weed person in 2002 this would be my vibe

I listened to this a couple of times because it was pretty easy to let it mentally fade to the background and I wanted to actually notice it. All I know from Spiritualized is "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space", which I do like, so I guess that was my only benchmark for what I expected from this debut of theirs. There is a good amount of that sound in this one, but this is also decidedly more jangly and shoegazey. It reminds me a lot of the more mellow songs on Primal Scream's Screamadelica, particularly "I'm Coming Down". It was really pleasant to have on, and it definitely has an atmosphere around it, but apart from Shine A Light, which is probably the best Spiritualized song I've ever heard, the individual tracks are pretty forgettable. This is definitely an album you put on start to finish just for the mood it sets.

I wanted to not like this but it's a classic for a reason. I like the vocals so much. I likely won't come back to it but I enjoyed it beginning to end. Solid dadrock. I get why it's on the radio all the fucking time.

The cover of Fever and The Girl of My Best Friend are both so fucking good. This didn't sell me on becoming a big Elvis fan but I enjoyed it a lot, I listened to it twice. Probably won't come back to the whole thing through hence the 3/5 but those two songs are fucking great. I like this a lot more than the more manic high energy classics I've heard like Hound Dog which I find kind of obnoxious, ballad-y crooning Elvis is where it's at.

Can you believe I've always claimed to love The Clash never listened to this in full? Such a poser. It's really good but I still have more of a taste for Sandinista! and Combat Rock, I guess I just love weirdo post-punk Clash best. But this is still pretty good. The bass lines are killer too. White Riot and Hate & War and What's My Name back to back to back is some of the best punk music ever written. I wish I liked it even more than I did but I guess the coolest thing about The Clash to me was always how eclectic their tastes were and I find myself missing that. Though I do love how much stripped down Clash reminds me of The Jam. Still good shit!

This is three hours and fifteen minutes long. Yes, I listened to the entire thing. It took me several days to get through because I enjoyed it that much. I guess there were like 7-8 tracks to me that were really standout and the rest were nice background music, but I'll definitely come back to it, mainly because it's really nice lounging/cleaning music to put on.

Apple Store indie (derogatory).

No.

Like a more Twin Peaks-esque, more mellow Depeche Mode. I just got another Pet Shop Boys from this generator literally a week or two before this but it was a lot more kitschy than this. And this is plenty kitsch and camp too, because its still the Pet Shop Boys, but this takes itself somewhat more seriously and feels more "adult" in like an '80s corporate elevator music way. It's pretty cool but it gets monotonous.

Oh my god, what a pleasure to get one of the best bands I've ever seen in my life and an record that completely opened up my entire world when I first heard it in middle school. I guess there are a few tiny moments where I have to give twelve year old me credit for being extremely cool. It's one of the best ambient/post-rock albums ever made.

This fucking rules. It's so maudlin that a lesser artist would have made this feel like it ventures into Disney girl territory but it's so fucking perfect that it never manages to toe that line. Real weird girl hours who the fuck is up

Almost all killer, very little filler. But there's enough skips for it to be a 4 for me. I just get annoyed by how many interludes and preludes and outros and skits older hip hop records have, and this is over two hours long so there's a lottt of that. I prefer The Love Below to Speakerboxxx it's way weirder and it's a more cohesive record. If it was just The Love Below I'd rate this a 5, but I still just really like both.

This was alright. The namesake track is good but the rest felt fairly monotonous. Pretty blues-y and cynical in this resigned man wiser beyond his years way so that's cool. I do really wonder if I'm just not a big Neil Young person or if he'll just take time to grow on me, so I'll give this one a 3 like I gave Tonight's The Night, because at least it's pretty short.

I am so sorry to be a cliché but unfortunately every fucking bit as good as everyone says it is and more. Bury me with this record. I've loved it since I first heard it when I was 11. I will love it until the day I die. My favorite record from this so far.

There's some fun tracks here. I like the first half of this record a lot. The second half feels like filler bullshit that was scrapped from a Beatles record. But it's a fun and easygoing pop record and I do think it does that well.

I really like Hole, but I wish I liked this record as much as other people do. I just wish this was more aggressive. Because it could be if it wanted to be. I think Live Through This is "my" Hole album, for that reason. I blame picking Michael Beinhorn as producer, I'm really not a fan of his sound on anything he does and I think that post-grunge sound is dated in a decidedly uncool way. But I think the band was already starting to be at the end of its rope too. I don't know. Still technically a "good" record but doesn't have any of that magic for me.

I bet this was INCREDIBLE to experience live. As it is, glad I heard it, but didn't change my life either.

Milquetoast sixties pop rock/blue-eyed soul. Both things I like but I did not find this to be memorable in any way, shape or form.

I really love Missing and I know Wrong is on this record so I was looking forward to listening to more of their output because I was hoping it would sound like that. Unfortunately this is a bit of a bore in comparison to their biggest hits and is just watered down elevator music drum and bass... I wish it did more with the cool breathy vocals but it really doesn't. This was sadly a bit of a disappointment but I'd give another EBTG record a shot, maybe it's just this one that isn't that special.

Never heard of her prior to this. Didn't really speak to me much but was cool to be exposed to a singer-songwriter I didn't know until now. Kind of a mix between funk, soul and folk rock, pretty cool.

Yes.

I thought I liked this record, but it's been a decade since I sat down and actually tried to listen to it beginning to end. It's just too fucking long. 23 songs? And there's five Who records on this list? Go fuck yourself.

Never heard of this before until now. Really like it. Downtempo acid jazz bossa nova. It rules. I love it. Very good cleaning/focus music.

Motown with a little bit of psychedelic flair. Glad I heard it I guess but didn't really speak to me. I'm guessing there's better Temptations records on this list.

This was ok. Not my thing but totally fine background music. The bassist is handsome so I will give this a 3 instead of a 2. It's my rating system and my rules.

These guys fuck.

Tired of writing reviews. Who even gives a fuck about what I think about this. The Doors rule.

Glad I heard it and has its moments but doubt it'll be something I come back to.

It sounds like something that would play in a Starbucks twenty years ago but I kinda like it anyway. I think there's a part of me that would've likely been an earthy poetry slam person that attended Lilith Fair in 1998 so that part of me doesn't mind it at all. I don't know if it's very good or essential per se, at times it sounds like a mix of Taylor Swift and Barenaked Ladies? Which aren't very complimentary comparisons? But I don't know, it's kinda cool at times. I had fun listening to it. I might come back to some tracks it made me want to buy rustic Christmas decorations and like buy a bullet journal or something.

Absolutely perfect record. Not a single track that I don't enjoy.

I got this for day 89. I just wanted to share how cool of a coincidence that is. Unfortunately, this absolutely blows and worse, this is the second Taylor Swift album I've gotten in 89 days. At its best it reminded me of Carly Rae Jepsen but with less personality. This didn't change my perception of Taylor Swift, I already knew she was a competent songwriter with not an ounce of personality to her. Musical chicken tendies, music for people who don't really like music.

Not as good as my favorite Can records (this guy was in Can), but it's still fucking weird and I respect that. I enjoyed the ride. I think the reason this was on this list was because it was an early example of sampling-based work, he collected a lot of the elements just by listening to random things on the radio. Very weird and funky freaky experimental rock/electronic record, with Persian and African music. I don't know. I'm glad I heard it.

It was fine. I like post-punk Nick Cave so I don't think I'm the target audience for an all ballad effort from him. But it was fine. I really like his singing voice and his raunchy melancholia that his albums have, boring as most of the songs in this one are.

Holy shit this took a few listens to click and when it did it REALLY did. I had this down as a 3/5 on first listen. I never listened to early R.E.M. until now, despite knowing how important they were and all that just because I found their big hits from the 90s to be really whiny and annoying. I think there was a Seinfeld effect thing happening where so many bands took from this sound that the original is not as exciting to me but I gave it a second chance and it got really good. Sometimes it reminds me of Wire and sometimes it reminds me of Crowded House. There's some really great bass lines in here. The opening bass line in Pilgrimage that is played on bass, piano and vibraphone at the same time is insane. I like it a lot I guess it really is just more mellow and melodic post-punk which is exactly what alternative rock basically is lol

I like this record just fine, but the best part of it is just a remix of half of Gainsbourg's Histoire De Melody Nelson, and also another Gainsbourg standard, probably his most famous song -- Le Poinçonneur des Lilas. Which like of course samples can still be original works but it's less of a sample and more of a straight up remix album, or like just the actual songs but instrumental with some extra kick drum tracks added on top of it, unless there's something subtle I'm missing. I did like it but what I liked best about it was the part that Gainsbourg did. There's also a rework of the James Bond theme too? I don't know. It doesn't feel worthy of being on a list if you know the references it comes from, which aren't deep cuts at all nor is he really adding much of anything to them. It's a very derivative and half-baked album, and if I wasn't such a sucker for 90s electronica I would definitely give it a 2.

Another record that tween me really loved. My entry way into dream pop/shoegaze. Still very good. Definitely belongs on this list and easily one of the best albums of that decade. The last two tracks drag on a bit and aren't as strong as the rest of it, but about as close to perfect as you can get.

I think this record gave me a mild headache. The song \"Walk Now...\" sounds like a ten minute smoke alarm without batteries and genuinely gave me a headache. I like some noisy stuff but unlike the Zorn album from earlier this is very boring on top of being annoying. Halcyon On and On is very, very good. The rest of it though is like tinnitus simulator. I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do with myself while listening to this kind of music. It feels like a dreadful sort of purgatory. It's not like, aesthetically offensive, but I know I decisively don't like it. I don't dislike it in the same way I dislike Rush or Aerosmith where it's not only boring but also something I feel in my gut should be nuked off the face of the earth, and Halcyon On and On is again an incredible song, so it gets a 2 instead of a 1, but yeah this is definitely largely irritating and a bore. First time I have an actual headache listening to anything on this list. With one very good song to make up for it. So I guess just listen to that and skip all the rest?

So good. Gets repetitive at times for my infantile attention span (which is probably why I don't listen to this kind of music much, all the songs are like 8 minutes long) but it's very, very good.

Yes. Yes to literally anything Massive Attack. I want the two dudes from Massive Attack to eiffel tower me. I don't even care. I love this record and this band so much.

This is both sexy and also a really maudlin and vindictive divorce album, it's like so messy that it's kind of awesome? Would be a 4 just for how unapologetically messy it is but I think I like earlier Marvin Gaye records more and also some of the songs just drag on and on. Worth listening to though, the backstory behind this record is crazy as hell

A bit of a bore compared to Outlandos d'Amour (which fucking RULES) but there are some truly great songs here. I really liked The Bed's Too Big Without You, Bring On The Night, Walking On The Moon, No Time This Time and of course Message In The Bottle. The rest I could do without. A four for the half of the album that's very good and a two for the other half that is a complete bore.

I wish I could give this a 6/5. I love this record SO much. I can't believe she was only 18 when this came out. I can't really explain how much this record means to me. Maybe to some people it's indulgent or tedious, to me it means everything in the world and more. I don't think I've ever felt so understood by a record or artist. I wish I could bury myself inside this record forever.

I kinda like this kind of melancholic old school country. It sounds so much like Hawaiian music, which I never really made the connection until now. Why does country music sound like Hawaiian music? Is it just the steel guitar? Anyways, all the songs sound exactly the same but it's still nice. 2 because it's not bad at all but there were no songs apart from the title track that stood out to me and I just don't see myself realistically ever listening to this again. At least it was short at under 30 minutes.

Hell yeah

One of those albums that started my love affair with punk music, though I guess a lot of people who hear it might argue that it's not punk and that it's more of just a straight up rock record. I would argue that punk is kind of a meaningless descriptor anyway. It's just so awesome. It's both really urgent and agitated but also shows so much restraint and great musicianship. It's a really weird combination that I've been hard pressed to find before or since. If you don't get this band just keep listening to them until you do. Even their last album in the '90s is excellent. Such a fucking cool band!!!

I thought I would absolutely hate this but it's actually alright. This is kind of like The Who if The Who were less annoying. Or Rush if they weren't literally the worst band of all time. It's still unrelentingly dorky because it's prog rock but it has its moments honestly, I'm genuinely surprised. 2/5 because, well, I still had to listen to Yes for 45 minutes. EDIT: I spoke too soon. This should be a 3/5. 'A Venture' is so jazzy and also beautiful in a very Scott Walker way, another artist I found and grew to love through this 1001 album thing.

Never heard of this band before. Apparently they were big in Australia. Good for them. I don't give a shit. Fuck man this was just so annoying and just feels like a lesser version of those eighties bands that rode the line between new wave and mainstream rock like The Cars. I really tried to get it because I do genuinely like all that "adult alternative" eighties stuff but I realized after a few tries I don't truly like any of the songs on this album and that I couldn't wait for it to finally end. It's like, not literary enough to be a "sophisticated" pop band like Prefab Sprout or The Blue Nile, not punk-leaning enough to be alternative rock or new wave, not catchy enough to be a good pop/rock band, I just don't understand who this is for or why it's seen as good. And then it started to sound like The Pogues after a while and it's like come ooooooonnnnnnnnnnnn... shut the fuck up........... I gave it a fair shot and listened to all of it more than once but yeah fuck off.

Waaaaaaaaaah!!!! Rock on duuude!!!!!!!!!!! \m/

If Babyshambles are landfill indie then I guess this is post-landfill indie. One is the sound of iPod commercials and one is the sound of having a UX design job at Apple eight years later. Like the landfill has been paved over and there's a Starbucks with a mural painted on the side of it now and this is what's playing in it. Really bad and just really resigned and flaccid sounding, it's millennial muzak.

No complaints, but didn't really speak to me either. Paul Simon is a very good songwriter that seems to be known for everything save putting his heart in what he does, despite making beautiful music. At least that's how he comes off to me. I remember listening to Graceland when I was 13 or 14 because my mom bought me an issue of NME or Spin or one of those magazines that wrote a retrospective on it, and being thoroughly confused by what the big deal was. Being older hasn't really changed that feeling, I guess.

I used to be really into Echo & The Bunnymen when I was in high school, but I wasn't able to connect the dots until now on exactly why I liked them so much. In a lot of ways they can come off as a more boring version of The Cure and The Smiths, especially in this record, but the vocals and "haunting" sound also feels a lot like The Doors too. And like it or not they're kind of the blueprint for bands like Radiohead and early Coldplay that I really liked in junior high. They don't sound far off from the rest of '80s jangle pop or even Madchester either. They're just somehow adjacent to... basically all of alternative rock music without sounding derivative of any of it. This would've been a 5 for me once but I think my tastes changed. They're a very pompous and indulgent band, and I used to actually find that endearing in the same way I can find the flamboyant bravado of The Smiths endearing, but I guess the more into punk I got the more this record has started to bore me a little bit, particularly the slower songs. Now I like Crocodiles more because it's more angular and dark and more of a post-punk record, but this is still good too.

Third Who record so far. Two more to go because there's FIVE on this thing for some reason. My big discovery from all this is that I don't actually like The Who much and thought I did for some reason. Like I somehow gaslit myself into thinking I did.

Five for Liberation and Free Form Guitar, but I think the rest of this isn't something I'll revisit. Way, way cooler than I thought, though. I had no idea how good Chicago used to be. Noisy funk rock jazz fusion chaos, I would've never in a million years thought that from their '80s music.

This was cool!! I'm trying to listen to the original length of all these older records because I don't think I would like it as much if I would've listen to the whole bloated complete version that is on Spotify right now. I just listened to the original five songs that were on the LP. Because I don't care about a jazz rendition of the Star Spangled Banner or four minute long banter introducing the band. But yeah this was really nice, good house cleaning music.

I love Frank Sinatra honestly. This put me in such a good mood.

Absolutely incredible

Boring and annoying... kinda like Joe Jackson but a lot less cool

I thought the rest of this would be like the first track and got excited but it was just okay. I like The Beach Boys, but this felt more like a collection of songs (some of them better than others) than a cohesive album.

Good but also sounds like NPR music in a way I can't really look past. It rides a weird line between being very beautiful and sounding like it was almost just made to be in the background of a Netflix series or HBO show and I can't unhear that. I even hate saying that because it has good musicianship and it's in good taste but it's still missing something, it's too pretty, like a woman that is too conventionally beautiful, maybe it's just that I need musicians to be dumb or angry or horny or neurotic but somehow he is none of these and therefore I can't say I connect with it. It has all the ingredients for a perfect cake but you're already full.

Hell yeah

Honestly, I didn't hate this and it had its moments. The second side of disc 1 is especially good. It's just too long... too fucking long.

Pretty good background music, can't say it did much more for me unfortunately but was still nice for what it was

Didn't change my life but I enjoyed the ride.

Sorry but this is really annoying. Made me start to question at times if I even like metal at all. Hoe-scaring music

God I love this record so much. And now that I'm older I like it even more. I liked Magazine a lot in college but I think they're one of those bands you start really getting in the latter half of your twenties. Now I feel less like the object in one of Howard Devoto's songs and relate more to his point of view. It's cruel and cynical, it's sexy, it's sleazy, it's really self-centered and obnoxious, it's disaffected. Now being all those things in punk carries a lot of baggage, and maybe they did back then too. But it's something that punk is really missing. It's like nothing really ever stepped in to fill this void and everyone decided punk was just about hanging out and making friends. Anyway. Perfect record.

Another one I just really did not like. This is my second AC/DC album I got since I started this, the other one was Back In Black. Both of them have been 1/5 for me. But I've been told their early stuff is better so I'll give that a shot too. So my actual problem with AC/DC is that it feels like they write songs about being jerks to women solely to try to impress other dudes and I like music that is about being jerks to women to impress no one. Like the day before this I got Magazine, another misogynist band, and that band is cool because at least Howard Devoto doesn't write about it that would impress middle school boys. He almost talks about love in a way that a homeless man on the bus would give me an anecdote without me asking him. So that's why Magazine rules and AC/DC sucks. That and every AC/DC song sounds exactly the same to me. I don't like AC/DC.

Kinda sounds like The Stone Roses meets Suicide? I wish most of the songs didn't sound the same. I might have to come back to this or another record of theirs because it sounded cool, but I gave this two shots and it kind of put me to sleep both times, nice as it was.

Definitely on the bottom half of Beatles records for me but still very good. I have a very boring stance on The Beatles, which is that I think they're great. I love early Beatles, I love late Beatles. I still really like mid-era Beatles, just not as much.

I like this more than Nevermind. Tourette's is my favorite Nirvana song.

Apparently tropicália is my thing? Jorge Ben's África Brasil was also a very enthusiastic 5/5 for me. I guess this is something I need to dive deeper into. So fucking good!!

Why is this one of Brian Wilson's favorite albums? Did they just have a lot less music back then?

Yes? More like Ok

In middle school I had a best friend, I'll call her Veronica. We were two parallel yet distinct flavors of edgy, and we were for a time inseparable (and I am pretty confident no one I met from school ever understood me more than she did) but we were also still middle school girls at our emotional nadir. And eventually this would cause a rift between us until we stopped speaking to each other in 8th grade and never spoke again since. What actually happened is that she stopped talking to me, just as the rest of our friend group started to wane from me around the same time (I'm sure because of something I did, I was a real asshole to be around at that age.) And not wanting to accept the reality of being rejected again, because around that tender time the only family that was regularly around was my single mom who was always at work and wasn't really able to be around outside of that, I wrote Veronica a long letter of why I didn't want to be friends with her anymore even though she clearly made the decision first. Anyway. Her favorite bands were Green Day and Linkin Park. I was obsessed with Björk and Radiohead. We both thought we were tortured souls that no one understood and wanted for someone else to notice how tortured we were. She wore fingerless gloves and wore her hair over her eyes and I dressed normal but I would cut my hair short, or would face my iPod conspicuously when a younger and more hip-looking substitute teacher would be in proximity in the hopes I could talk to them about Elliott Smith and they could tell me I had very good music taste for my age. The reason why I tell this story is so you can understand why I gave this record a 1. It's not because it's bad or too edgy or juvenile, it's because when I was 12, it was very important to me that the world understood that I wasn't *this* kind of edgy, I was a *very specific and different* kind of edgy, so god please, somebody notice. Just like it was for Veronica.

Perfect record.

I wanted to like this because I got excited by the names of collaborators on the cover (Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Scott Walker...) but it's pretty boring. 3 instead of 2 because I think the names that worked on it are still very cool but yeah disappointingly boring. Feels like a lesser Nick Cave record, like one full of ballads that all sound the same.

So impressed by Led Zeppelin's ability to take from the blues and somehow make it sound like some of the most boring, soulless and absolutely gaudy style of music ever made. I don't like this cock rock stuff and everything it inspired whether it be prog or hair metal, or even Queen, just fuck all of it, also I can't stand their lyrics which are always either a twelve year old's idea of sex or these mid-wit fake profound "big topics", I HATE Led Zeppelin, I wish to god this awful corny band never existed

4/5 for the great lyrics, 2/5 for the music (sorry I still don’t really get country)

Should really be a 5/5 but I hate skit interludes and there's like seven interludes on this record

I am so surprised and mildly embarrassed that I love this so much, but what can I do? I'm a Lilith Fair wine mom at heart. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I'm not cool. Absolutely loved this.

It's alright. It drags on and feels too long. I respect how much this pushed the limits of sampling at the time but it also feels too gimmicky for me to get all that into and I will probably never listen to it again

There is one song I really like on this which is "The Funny Bird", the review is for the rest of it. I think there was some sort of loose constellation of a movement around chamber pop in the 90s (which by then kinda meant any alternative rock that was intentionally trying to exclude any stylistic borrowing from punk) and this record is weirdly one of the most acclaimed, but most banal examples from that whole scene. Same with The Flaming Lips, I really don't click with both bands. So this suffers from the same disease The Flaming Lips do where this record is really big and theatrical sounding and wants you to know how arty it is, but it also has no edge, no passion and no raw emotion to it beyond being this really fussy, manic pixie dream boy musak. Honestly in a way that reminds me of why I don't like Taylor Swift it's like that bad. Both bands also share this same whiny vocal style that sounds almost like Mac Demarco to me; twee and resigned and castrated and dude fuck this I really just wish I was listening to Tindersticks right now instead.

Never heard of this until now. Crazy ass proto-punk shit from 1965. It reminds me of The Velvet Underground and The Doors but severely lower IQ, very very cool

Didn't like them as much as New Order when I was younger. Then I started liking The Doors a lot more. Now I get it.

One thing I've discovered on this 1001 album project without fail is that if an album has a very low rating, regardless of genre, even if I'm convinced that this time I will also dislike it, I basically always end up liking it. Or at the very least, think it's just fine. Almost every single time. It's kind of hilarious. I actually like this a lot. I don't think it's gonna inspire me to listen to a lot more psychedelic folky shit, but I think it's absolutely great. Weirdo hippie medieval peasant music. This sounds like something some 1970s sex cult run by a schizophrenic would play on repeat through an intercom system. I respect it.

I just discovered one of the best bands I've ever heard in my life through this. Right on.

Wow I always thought XTC was really cool and this is making me reconsider that. Meandering baroque pop shit that goes shamelessly deep into some Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney worship more than I'd ever care to hear (but with cornier lyrics). Never listened to this shit until now. I don't know, man. Of all the two XTC records to put, why have this be the one that isn't Skylarking. Such a random choice. Am I missing something? Was this really influential or or significant to someone back then? Who was listening to this in 1999? Why is this on the list but Drums and Wires isn't. Drums and Wires is one of of the best records ever made. I am confused. Who even listens to this. What is this National Geographic documentary midlife crisis music. What is going on.

Perfect no notes. I don't have a sophisticated taste in jazz and barely know anything so maybe this wouldn't impress someone deeper into it but idk I thought it ruled

Drags on a bit but some of my favorite bass playing I've ever heard

I hated this stuff in 2013 and still hate it now. Sounds like folding shirts at a Forever 21 ten years ago. This dogshit is what made me lose interest in modern indie and start getting more into older stuff and punk.

Almost perfect record

Boring and cringy lyrics. Not irritating enough to be a 1, but just... bland.

Another Bob Dylan album that I thought was totally fine but all the songs nevertheless sound exactly the same.

Better than Fear Of A Black Planet. It definitely sounds like it's 35 years old but it's still good.

There's some classics here but they're all corny to various degrees and just overall annoying. I hate the vocal style, annoying record.

Short but sweet. I really like Curtis and I liked this too but not as much as his more upbeat music. This is definitely not like Move On Up or Superfly, it's more mellow and introspective and somber. Wish I liked it more but didn't leave a big impression on me.

God damn this was a long 37 minutes of my life. So boring. It's not obnoxious enough to be a 1 but I definitely don't get it, the final boss of all baby boomer music. The most Rock Music music ever. I really liked Orleans but the rest is not for me. Boring stoner shit. BORINGGGGG

What self-respecting Britpop fan would I be if I didn't fuck with The Kinks? Perfect band, perfect songwriting, invented music. Not my favorite Kinks album but still great

Unfortunately this is nothing but straight heat and an absolute banger from start to finish. I wanted to not like it. I really wanted to not like it. I was ready to not like it. But it's perfection. It's fucked up. What can I do?

Another boring Bob Dylan record from this project. My third one so far? How many Bob Dylan records are on here? Why is every single one a 2/5 for me?

Huh. Thought I would find this really annoying but it's surprisingly okay. Apparently I like this more than Bob Dylan. I am very confused and discovering a lot about myself I guess.

Oh my GOD the sex noises skits in this are so fuuuuucking cringy and lame. And it's too long. But it's still a classic so we'll let it slide.

Third Nick Cave album I got since starting and this is the first one I got that is actually very good, I was starting to wonder for a second if I just didn't like Nick Cave as much as I thought. Prior to this I got The Boatman's Call and the Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus double album and those were both 3's. This is "my" Nick Cave so to speak.

It's a perfect album but it's missing something. I don't know what it's missing. I guess it's too polished and is missing energy. I really like The Police. Love Outlandos D'Amour. But their earlier albums I like more because they are weirder and have more punk energy, even though I think songwriting-wise this is the best one. If this had more songs like "Mother" this would be a 5. I love Mother, I love that Sting didn't want it on the record and I love that fans of this record hate it. Andy Summers was definitely the coolest member of The Police.

Hell yeah

I respect the fact that it was released for donations only during the George Floyd protests. And it was relaxing to put on while working. But the actual music itself sounds like coffee shop music, like it sounds like Starbucks music I'm sorry. And the spoken word poetry is pretty bad in a local slam poetry way. I won't shit on this too much because I respect why it was made. It was ok.

WOW I did not expect to like this so much. As a fan of bands like Duran Duran and Depeche Mode I always overlooked ABC as being too slick and adult alternative leaning, but man do I absolutely love this. I think if you like the lyricism and melancholy of bands like Roxy Music and you also like early Duran Duran you will LOVE this. This is EXACTLY my brand of '80s cheese. It's melancholic, self-pitying, glamorous, frisky, flamboyant. It's so unapologetically SO MUCH. It's like the epitome of gold lamé suits and hairspray and self-absorbed passion. It's like, cool and sexy theater kid music. Yes. So fucking good.

This was definitely not what I expected, it's definitely a Britpop record but it also pulls a lot from shoegaze too so it reminded me a bit of the band Ride? Who kinda occupied a similar niche? And this feels like it has some pretty strong Beach Boys influences at times too. It's like Beach Boys meets My Bloody Valentine meets Blur. There's a little bit of jazz influence going on too. I liked it, but it's a little zany and try-hard, to be honest. I don't think it's a must listen but it scratches a lot of itches of things I'm already predisposed to liking which is why it's a 3 and not a 4 or 5. I just wish it didn't feel so try-hard about being eclectic intentionally because I really want to love this record, it has all the ingredients for something I would like. But as is it reminds me a bit of a Mike Patton project which is NOT a compliment coming from me.

I didn't like this as much as The Sensual World, which was definitely a 5 for me. Really was expecting to like this because I love Running Up That Hill, but this album feels super inconsistent and feels more like an experiment and someone just noodling around than trying to make a solid album? Like, glad I heard it, but I don't know. Overrated. Don't know why it's considered the best Kate Bush record.

This was totally fine but all the songs sound exactly the same. I get why a lot of hardcore sounds like this and it seems fun to play but damn this shit was kind of boring!!

This was a bit of a curveball, I was actually dreading this one after three Who albums in the past 166 days that were so indulgently long and a complete slog. Maybe the under forty minute length helps but I honestly wouldn't mind listening to an hour and a half of this. It didn't like make me a diehard Who fan but it's truly a solid live record. Definitely better than the studio albums I've listened to so far. Pretty cool.

Perfect no notes

It's jazz. It's jazz that sounds like it would play at a nicer restaurant or new year's eve party. It's perfectly fine.

This record means absolutely everything to me. It's the ground zero for everything I would grow to seek out in music. Noise, post-punk, krautrock, shoegaze, weird, jittery rhythms, vocals that are "haunting" and "hard to like" and "too much". Melancholy, alienation, passion, nihilism. I bought this CD with my pocket money in sixth grade and immediately put it on in my mom's car in the parking lot, it quite literally changed my life more than anything else on this list.

Annoying and bad. Can't believe I liked this band in middle school. I should be shot for that

Perfect no notes

On paper I hate a lot of hard rock but this is fun and has a sense of humor so I like it. Not really my thing but I still like it.

Perfect no notes

When you're having a mid-off and your opponent is this album

When I was in high school I wanted to like Sonic Youth more than I did in the hopes it would make me cool. I just really admired and idolized Kim Gordon and thought the music itself was just fine. I think I actually now fit into those once-too big shoes. Genuinely loved every minute of this.

This rocks. Apparently this is a mix of traditional music from Mali and blues. I listened to it twice. The more blues leaning songs were more up my alley than the ones that I guess were more straight up Malian music but it still sounded like nothing else I've heard before so that's cool.

This was a lot of fun! A few of the songs didn't feel different than the pop standards of the time and reminded me of The Beatles or The Beach Boys at their most boring but the bulk of it still rips. Very cool that Dancing Queen is like the fourth best song here, I really didn't realize ABBA rocks this hard. My mom was right all along.

Again I wish I knew more about jazz but this is one of the few jazz records I own and idk I love it. Everyone knows this record but I don't care it's really cool. I'm getting the feeling there will be very little jazz on this list in general so it's just something I'm gonna try to look into on my own.

This was somehow simultaneously really boring and also zany and full of too many ideas in each song. I like '80s Peter Gabriel. This more folky prog but bluesy rock and roll and also symphonic stadium rock (again there's too much going on in this record) stuff isn't my thing. Solsbury Hill sounds like one of the sample songs that comes with Windows XP/Vista to demonstrate how the visualizer on Windows Media Player works. Sorry that's such a random observation. Then near the end it sounds like Star Wars theme music but with a white boy funk/arena rock lean. There is just too much going on and none of it is interesting. Only the last song (Here Comes The Flood) was tolerable to me. It sounded like a Bowie or Elton John song so that was fine. This album is so fucking stupid

This is my favorite Cocteau Twins album I've heard so far, maybe because it's more accessible? Whatever it is I love it

So this site tells you what your favorite genres and artists and decades are after rating enough albums, and for the bulk of me doing it it's been telling me my favorite decade for music is the '50s? Which is funny because I listen to like, no music from the '50s. But I think it's because the sample size of '50s albums is much smaller, and all of the albums I've heard from this from the '50s so far have just been a lot of fun and perfectly pleasant and haven't been as strongly love or hate as the rest. So I guess my favorite decade will remain the '50s because this was so much fun. This is just really enjoyable and dancey swing music with some jazz and 12 bar blues thrown in too. This was fun!!

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Soundtrack to being a tumblr indie white girl in 2009 but in the best possible way. Flawless record.

No lie one of the worst things I've heard in my life

My least favorite Beatles record (but still a 3, I like the Beatles). I don't really have anything to add about probably the most talked about Beatles record because to me it's just the least interesting one. The interesting stuff is all contextual and not really the music itself. There's some really corny lyrics, which made me think of how social media have changed social customs because I guess it was avant-garde at the time to really just have no fucking shame, "I used to be cruel to my woman / I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" ...and to me this record feels more like an awkward transition than something that is great on its own. It feels like proto-prog but somehow also stripped down and unfinished at the same time. As someone who would definitely defend the Beatles from complaints of being "overrated" I gotta say I see exactly where people who don't "get" the Beatles are coming from with this record. Never cared for it but give me White Album or Abbey Road any day. Those two records are timeless, still interesting and still worth stealing from and looking back to. This is kitsch, this is 1967. 3 instead of 2 because A Day In The Life is on it.

Actually really good. Weird, I told someone I thought the Sex Pistols were boring as recently as a few months ago. And I wasn't even talking out of my ass I listened to this same record in full. And now for some reason I think it's great. I literally think it's because I started doing this, lol. I think so far I've listened to a good amount of '70s New York punk and proto-punk from this project (Ramones, Television) and also a lot of '60s British Invasion bands (The Who, The Kinks etc) and I hear how this sounds like both now and can be like oh I get this it's like those two things fused. And also I got a PiL album last month and I can hear now how something like this would eventually become PiL This is another record where it's not possible to have any kind of contrarian opinion on it because it's all been said and done. I guess this is one you're supposed to like at 14 and not come around on at almost 30 but here we are!

She's no My War or Slip It In but I still have love for her. My War would be a 5 and should be on this list. Slip It In would never be on this list but I'm just yapping about how much I like it anyway because I think anyone who doesn't like that record is an idiot. Here's the real question: why is there no room to put in My War too but somehow all these irrelevant 00s British indie bands and every CSNY, Simon and Garfunkel and Beatles associated album known to man? The guy who made this list is so insufferable. But I listen through the list anyway... day 189

Hate this record, hate this band, hate the corny lyrics, hate Ayn Rand, hate their fans

Annoying, neurotic, quirky, boring, unrelentingly British

Boring but at least it didn't actively anger me idk

Apart from Apache Rose Peacock, which is a lot of fun in a porno soundtrack sort of way, I hate this record so much. This is actually very similar to Aerosmith aesthetically, just for a younger crowd. Really difficult to sit through. Crazy how incredible of a year 1991 was for alternative music and this shit makes its way into the list.

I like Pulp a lot, but always overlooked this record, even though it's their most famous one. I really loved His N' Hers in high school, and I've always had a soft spot for more indie/post-punk leaning '80s Pulp (yes, they've been around for that long.) This is good too. Such a funny band to be lumped into the Britpop movement. They were already around for like 15 years by the time they rose to fame, and they were always very quirky and nebbish and horny even for Britpop standards. I don't know. Sometimes I feel it drags on compared to more post-punk/indie leaning Pulp but it's still great.

Genuinely really good, sorry Ice-T I see you as the guy from Law & Order: SVU and didn't expect this to age so well

Oh my god. A soundtrack album to a non-existent crime film by the bassist of Magazine (who was also in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds AND Visage)? Yes please.

Beautiful. My favorite Stevie Wonder album I've heard so far.

Nah, no good -- if you were also wondering what this this is and also only recognize Malcolm McLaren because he was the manager of the Sex Pistols, I guess it's a weird mix of early hip-hop with some turntablism and different music from Africa and the Caribbean. Could be really cool in theory. I don't like it because it's so corny and all over the place that it borders on novelty music, and I think that's kind of a disservice to all the different styles of music it pulls from. Feels less like it's trying to make something cool and more like it's presenting these things as weird and exotic and wacky. It just doesn't work in a way that is annoying to me.

Insanely good. I liked this record a lot as a teenager and I was getting really into Velvet Underground/Lou Reed around the same time, now I can hear the connection so clearly. I hear Bob Dylan style vocals too, man I wish I actually liked Bob Dylan I've forced myself to like him for the longest time because I just honestly like his vocal style a lot but anyway whatever pull it had on the sound here it works. Just one of those bands that every other punk or indie rocker teenager becomes momentarily obsessed with at some point in their journey and for good reason, perfect record.

It's kind of ass, sorry. Feels like sitting through a coworker's show to be nice to them. Thank god for The Stooges and The Velvet Underground because god damn this dragged on

While this has its moments, I still just don't like the Ramones. Every song sounds exactly the same and has no energy.

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This was so fucking weird. I can't tell if I like it or dislike it. I guess the answer is both. At its best this kind of sounds like White Stripes or Red Hot Chili Peppers were on Amphetamine Reptile Records, and at those times it's honestly kind of cool genuinely, there's this effortless jazzy/bluesy meets unpretentious noisy rock vibe to it that kind of reminds me of Helmet but overall it still just feels corny and this is an abomination that could've only happened in the '90s. But I also love '90s schlock so this is so hard to rate. Idk if this makes sense but this album feels like jerking off when you're not turned on, and you could get yourself into it if you really tried to fantasize but like why bother? I respect that this seems to be intentionally doing something confrontational in a semi-commercial sounding way which is a respectable fuck-you to two opposing crowds at the same time but it's also not that good if I'm being honest with myself and I'm probably never gonna listen to this again to preserve my taste in music and protect my peace.

Loved Loaded and the banana album in high school. Always overlooked this one in comparison. I think because it's a lot more mellow and not as aggressive. But it's also really good.

This was pretty cool. Interesting mix of '60s psychedelic rock and roll with folky elements too. It didn't blow my mind but it works, I don't regret listening to it, now I know it exists I guess. It's very aggressively 1969. It kind of has a country twang to it too? And kind of sounds like The Byrds? Then it gets into actual jazz territory?? I don't know. It sounds like every style that played at Woodstock at once, but in a way that doesn't feel derivative. It's done well. Just not really my thing, save a few songs.

This was a live recording of a performance. I liked it. Somewhere in the middle of timelessly beautiful and boring nice restaurant/hotel lobby music, it's definitely not something I like because I'm giving my full attention to it. Put me in a good mood while working but didn't really make me feel any kind of way either. It's pretty light jazz and really beautiful singing. Will probably put it on again next time I wanna get work done.

First half is perfection and second half kind of is a bit slow for me but it's okay because I'm biased because this is the same Pere Ubu that did The Modern Dance so it's gonna get a 5 I don't give a fuck bitch it's my review and my rules

This was very beautiful and I will probably never listen to it again. But now I know how much range The Temptations have, so that's cool. Every single track here felt completely different genre-wise it's kind of insane. All Directions indeed.

Hahahahahahahaha I actually liked this. I really love the song "Writing To Reach You" and thought the rest of it was genuinely good. I listened to this twice. Did you know that my first concert was Coldplay? I actually cried when I went, I cried so hard because I was so overwhelmed that I was in the same building as Coldplay. I was 11 and that was probably the last time in my life I was genuinely very happy. I have a soft spot for all this whiny ballady turn of the millennium Radiohead-knockoff garbage because that was my very first steps into being a rocker! My equivalent of someone else's Slipknot or System Of A Down or something. I was a truly boring and innocent kid and if I had any edge at all it was only because poor social skills and growing up too fast forced me to fit in better with freaks. Anyway. Travis is one of those bands that started out being praised but would get lumped in with stuff like Coldplay as bad supermarket mom music. This album is somewhere in the middle of early Radiohead and late Oasis. Some of it is chef's kiss melancholic supermarket music and some of it is truly absolute garbage that I kind of forgot how bad it was ever since rap and EDM claimed rock's throne of being the Western world's elevator music. It's very late '90s. That's fine for me. I just truthfully like Gen X mom music slop. Made me feel some kind of way. It's nostalgic for me and endearing. I definitely prefer this to all the garbage that UK music critics pushed after like The Libertines as a reaction against stuff like this.

Like the Travis album I got the day before, it's an album you can only like if you're a child of the right circumstances. I'm not. The most American thing about me is my love of gas station hot dogs, and I didn't have a dad or grandpa to gaslight me into pretending this is good which I really think is the only way anyone could possibly like this.

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It's three in the morning and I have a lot of anxiety right now and this is definitely making it worse. But it's okay because it's the sound of how I feel. Especially "Touched". It's such a deeply unsettling track. But it's a perfect album.

I've tried cocaine twice and I've dabbled in cheating so I think that's enough background to understand this album it was alright

I really don't like anything to do with Frank Zappa. His career crosses the threshold from aesthetically unrelatable to just genuinely dishonorable. The scat jokes, the attention seeking imagery without really saying anything at all, the juvenile demeanor while essentially just collecting signifiers that want so badly to be seen as musically clever. I've listened through Zappa's discography more times than anyone reasonably should outside the confines of a CIA black site because guys that resonate with this function a lot like dead heads and make it a core aspect of their identity, so whoever isn't initiated should be evangelized too. I've actually sat through a lot of stuff that absolutely honks because of a guy -- entire episodes of Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman podcast, Cum Town, National Lampoon, Megadeth, David Goggins, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Dune and Mad Max movies, Slipknot, Star Wars, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Burzum, Tool, Dungeons and Dragons, anything to do with bitcoin or sports betting, Starship Troopers, Death Before Dishonor. Some of it eventually resonated with me after getting older and growing more jaded and fucked in the ass by life -- power electronics, Houllebecq novels, hardcore. Zappa is probably at dead bottom of the list of stuff that still honks because I can't even bring myself to find it endearing for being out of my wheel house in some uncomfortably sincere or Tarzan-like way, it is just unrelentingly hollow and fucking annoying.

I've never been a fan of Dirt compare to "heavier" albums like the three legged dog one or Black Gives Way To Blue, but I didn't dislike this. I just think most of the songs sound the same and didn't move me much. But it's still a cool sound.

I overlooked this at first listen, but it's actually so perfect. I'm glad I gave it a second shot. Definitely wouldn't have appreciated it as a teenager, I don't think. Too understated. It reminds me a lot of R.E.M. and a bit of Hüsker Dü at times? Why is this so fucking good?

More like Bored To Run. Get it? Ha ha ha. Because this was boring. I put on Warren Zevon after this and it was so much better in every way. The only two songs I liked is She's The One and Meeting Across The River, those two were pretty cool.

I love Nick Drake so much. I love this beautiful record, I love every Nick Drake record. I enjoyed every minute of this. It is grim but also feels like the most familiar hug.

Why do I like this so much? I thought this band would sound like Foo Fighters or something, I was expecting this to be shit. I really like it. It's controlled and laidback in a way I absolutely love. I totally forgot this band shares members with Kyuss. Really really enjoyed this. Didn't give it a 5 because the second half does drag on a bit compared to the first half but I still got a lot out of it.

I wanted so badly to like this more than I did, because Precious is so fucking good, but it's just not a very strong or memorable record. It does have its moments though.

I think this is the highest I can possibly give a Zappa record given how much I cannot stand him. It feels like he's trying to make something earnest and not just using his talent to play class clown for once, which I appreciate. The problem with this is that the second half is a 4 or 5 and the first half (which is much more Zappa) is a 1 or 2. It alternates a lot between genuinely really good jazz fusion whatever the fuck but also rock and roll guitar solo wankery.

Nothing but straight heat I can't put into words how much I wish all of Coldplay died in a plane crash after the first two albums, people talk about the Radiohead influence in this album but I hear so much Jeff Buckley too, yeah sorry this is banger after banger I love you early Coldplay

I truly loved this. On the site where this project is done this averages at a little over 2.5. I'm convinced the people doing this challenge on the site are some of the most dull people imaginable. Much of the top reviews are yapping about how pretentious and self-serious it is, I was expecting something really inaccessible or out there. So I start playing it and it literally just sounds like DJ Shadow or Thievery Corporation. That's what's polarizing? It's totally listenable and it's good. There's some classical Indian music elements in it. There's some drum and bass. Like '90s trip-hop mixed with classical Indian music. Sure why not. It really honestly works well. At times it does kind of sound like something that would play in an upscale hotel I admit, but fuck it. I will definitely come back to this. One of the rare times I got something from this that only British people know or care about but I think Americans should care too. If you like '90s trip-hop/downtempo/electronica/drum and bass bullshit you will like this.

Definitely also coffee shop music but very lovely coffee shop music. I gave it a 4 and not a 5 because I enjoyed it a lot but it's also not really memorable or compelling. It's just like instrumental coffee shop jazz I don't really know what else to call it. Very short and sweet at a little over 30 minutes and a total pleasure the whole way through. But not a 5 because I think I could've lived without hearing it as lovely as it is.

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS ALBUM INVENTED PUNK MUSIC!! ONE OF THE FEW LPS FROM THIS LIST SO FAR THAT I OWN!!! FUCK THE RAMONES AND THE CRO-MAGS LISTEN TO THIS INSTEAD

I like this just fine. It's inconsistent but when it's good it's really good. Almost all the songs are covers and there's nothing really special about the covers, but it has a raw and raunchy punk energy for 1963. At least the beginning and end of it does. Some of it is honestly boring and just reminds me of early Beatles, but not as good. I can see how you could see this as punk before punk. It's really timeless in songs like Strychnine and The Witch, especially if you like noise rock and garage rock revival and stuff like that. But not all of it is timeless. I would say the middle chunk of it mostly feels like second tier early '60s rock and roll. Filing this under "cool but I don't think I'll ever listen to it again".

Literally one of the coolest things I've ever heard. Like I'm actually floored. It's psychedelic jazz rock but also has folk and bossa nova elements too, and it's done in such an effortless way -- truly incredible. Finally something that actually belongs on this list and isn't just something that sold a lot of records in the '80s.

This is an absolute piece of shit. I like Porcelain and wasn't prepared for his music to be so terrible. Who is this kind of music for and when do you put it on? I wouldn't want to dance to it but I wouldn't want to play it at a coffee shop either. It is too repetitive and lacks the energy to be paid attention to, but it's also too distracting to be background music. It's gimmick music. Every song is a gimmick. Why does this album exist?

It's a classic and glad I listened to it in full, that being said I doubt I'll ever listen to it again.

I feel bad for giving this such a low rating but it just did not move me. I understand why it's so beloved, I just found it exhausting. Sorry.

Wow two jazz rap albums from 1991 back to back (I got The Low End Theory the day before this) this absolutely rips great flow and the delivery was so sexy I love French music hon hon hon bleuuugh hon hon