Corny, Stale, Naff, and Yawn

It's fine - as an overstimulated zoomer who was born decades after this I probably miss out on a lot of the appeal and innovation of The Doors.

It's a good album, don't get me wrong, but it's coated in a thick, sticky layer of 70s excess and heavy guitars. Sometimes, it leaves me feeling a little sick by the end. With that said, I can see myself enjoying a lot of these songs individually in the future.

Sure, I like this. It's pretty good. Can't say much else, honestly.

No combination of words strike more fear into the heart of a man than "English Indie Pop".

Pretty good album to start this whole thing with. It's a little loaded, maybe a song or two could have been cut but overall I like. I hope the system recommending these intentionally sends the earlier albums in an artist's discography first if they have multiple items on the list.

How can a person listen to this and not rate it at least a 4? I haven't actually heard a Stevie Wonder album coming into this... I was a bit sceptical going in, noting the length and the fact that this was like his eighteenth album or something. But luckily, this is just solid from beginning to end, and it was over before I knew it.

Never heard of these guys before, so was very curious to get into it. Unfortunately, it didn't really work at all. It was a brief album, excluding the strange 10+ minute gap of silence to fit in the underwhelming secret track on the last song... it just didn't hook me at all, and I found it a tad dull.

Johnny Cash - smash or pash? For me, it's the former. I also recently watched the Columbo episode where he guest stars and I am very much on a Johnny Cash buzz right now.

This was pleasant, something a little lighter and more energetic after some heavier albums. Nothing I would revisit personally, though. I would have given it a 3 had it not been a bit too repetitive and lengthy - but it's very close.

Sure, I like this. It's pretty good. Can't say much else, honestly.

It's like a short but underwhelming yacht ride. Trite.

The algorithm is good to me, blessing me with this album after yesterday's flop. This is really just stellar - it doesn't quite hit the 5 star mark, but only because I have very specific standards for an album to reach that calibre, but this is definitely a 5 star album in general.

I haven't actually listened to a Kate Bush album, for the reason that I resented her legendary status that Netflix Show helped popularise, and I deemed "Running Up That Hill" overrated. Thing is... I accidentally loved it. Stranger Things have happened, I suppose.

This is a really difficult one to rate because the first half is really good, but it drops quite a bit in quality during the latter half. I decided to be gracious, because there is some excellent music in this album.

I would have preferred the cheesy music they use in actual pornography over this.

Another Pink Floyd, so soon after the last album? You're too good to me. This is a definite 5 stars through and through.

Every song sounds the same. I need to be in a very specific mood to enjoy this type of music and it was just not hitting today.

This is pretty good, it does all sound a little bit samey but I think it's short and sweet enough to not bring the quality down too much. It doesn't get higher than 3 stars however, as the only standout song was "The Bucket"... and my dad would kill me if I scored this album lower, he loves these guys.

Corny, Stale, Naff, and Yawn

It's just some standard reggae, man. It's not even particularly good reggae...

I almost resent Green Day being good, but goddamnnit, this is great.

My 50th album! A pretty minor milestone when looking at the long road ahead, but it's still satisfying. ...oh, the album? It's pretty good - OK, even. Massively overrated if we're really saying this is one of the best of all time, though.

This Zappa fellow has incredible aura.

This whole album is basically the brilliant "Sympathy for the Devil" stacked on top of nine turds.

All filler, no killer.

The album is almost perfect, save for that 11 minute long blight that completely kills the pacing.

Aretha Franklin? More like Urethra Stankin', hehehe. Pretty good album though.

It's really painful listening to these classic albums for the first time, only to come out extremely underwhelmed by something so critically acclaimed. Like I really want to love Led Zeppelin, and this album, but I can't dig it at all.

Look at the album cover. Complete apathy coming from all those lads, you can tell they didnae put their heart into it at all.

It definitely was Fats Domino.

This album lulls you into a false sense of security with some solid music, and then suddenly Frank Zappa comes out of nowhere to barrage you with like 35 minutes of feeling like you're losing your mind.

You're watching Adventure Call! My name is Falconhoof, and I will be your guide on your quest!

That godforsaken song has popped up in my life like half a dozen times for the past week. Please make it stop.

No combination of words strike more fear into the heart of a man than "English Indie Pop".

For the greatest album of all time that was pretty shit.

I genuinely got pissed when I arrived at the last track to find out that's it's 20 bleeding minutes long.

This is my 100th album. Thank you for the headache and also recommending me 99 albums before I had to suffer through this one.

It's alright. It's adequate. I hate to be rating all these albums 3 out of 5 - 4 is a bit much for an album I just kind of thought was okay, and 2 would make it out like I disliked the album. Ah well.

For me, this was the "Holy shit. I get it." moment for post-rock.

As far as overly long live albums go, this is pretty much the best it can get.

I guess she is just a big ol' pair of tits after all.

That harmonica lives rent-free in my head after listening to this album, it's strangely brilliant yet extremely irritating at the same time. Anyhow, I can't in good conscience rate this anywhere above or below the average of 3 stars, it has the problem of every song being basically indistinguishable - but it's pleasant, Bob Dylan's voice doesn't grate on me.

This is like the 5th best Electric Light Orchestra album, and yet it's still getting the maximum rating. I know why this one is on here though, it obviously has the "Concerto For a Rainy Day" suite, you can't really argue with "Mr Blue Sky". I do think something like "A New World Record" or "Time" are better albums all around though, because this one is a little overlong and some songs are a bit forgettable, in comparison to the all killer, no filler albums I rank above it. You have an impure soul if you're rating this under 3 stars. I'm sorry, I don't make up the rules.

Eh, I really vibe with the actual music, but I can't get behind Miss Fever Ray's grating vocals. There is something about the vocal delivery that genuinely pisses me off a little, it's like she's preventing me from actually enjoying the music. It reminds me of a coherent Yoko Ono.

It just sounds like reggae, man. Clearly my ears aren't sonically refined enough to appreciate much more about it other than being pretty good reggae.

I will not respect your concept album if the concept doesn't have enough substance to constitute a full album, so you have to have this awkward second side to justify it even being an album in the first place. That said, I like Mrs. Robinson doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

My dad likes this one a lot, and I do too :)

My head really didn't need this today.

Respect to Gaye for putting a sequel to his song within the same goddamn album. He must really like gettin' it on.

This is a very good album but I struggle to fully enjoy it sometimes because of the weird fuzzy sound it has... it's off, but not too intrusive to make it not an amazing listening experience.

Morrissey sounds like an insufferable human being, to such a ridiculous extent that I sort of respect him in a way that transcends understanding. I think this album is superior to any The Smiths outing, so I can definitely say he's at least a good artist with confidence.

It's like a bad Adult Swim show.

Good music for when you go on a scenic boat trip with your FBI-informing mafia associate (after he appears to you as a talking fish in a dream).

Posh twat university student core.

I think I'm underrating these rock albums recently because this list is diluted to fuck with them ;-;

I feel like these songs have lost their flavour due to the passage of time.

This just reminds me of that meme where Hollywood movies always depict Arab countries in the same way. This music would play during all those establishing shots of camels and mysterious ladies in lots of fabric mysteriously staring into the camera. Anyway this is too fucking long and is the only album so far that I've actively struggled to finish.

They really do add any old slop in these later editions of the book, huh?

Probably the most mediocre thing I've listened to on this list so far.

Pretty amazing at the start, although it fizzles out into mii maker music near the end.

I was vibing with this for a little bit... but it's just so one note and my opinion on it dropped dramatically as it went further on. I was begging for it to be over by the end. A real shame.

The scariest thing about listening to this album is that I know they have another entry on the list... lurking in the shadows... waiting to strike the moment I let my guard down... and I'm going to force myself to listen to it all the way through.

Phair enough.

do i fucking look like i have time to listen to an hour and a half long album on christmas eve ;-;

This really isn't *that* bad, although it does sound like music that'd play during the credits of a Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil movie... For a gutter-tier rated album I expected much, much worse.

This is probably how non British people see Britain.

Pretty solid honestly, I enjoyed this a bit more than the other Dylan albums I've heard so far.

The Brits do it again by needlessly slaughtering another beloved genre.

Petrifying album art, but some of the best britpop has to offer.

Even the album knows it's a Ten.

This is much better than "Nevermind", honestly. I love the dumb pink cover to death. I'm afraid the top reviews are on the wrong side with this one.

It's fine - as an overstimulated zoomer who was born decades after this I probably miss out on a lot of the appeal and innovation of The Doors.

It's really good until she starts singing and then it just sort of goes downhill from there unfortunately. This could've been a vibe, and that's the biggest tragedy of them all.

Solid. It's regretful that punk happened.

That one review stayed in my head longer than a single second from this album.

This has the problem with a lot of other albums, in that when the big hit song comes on it completely takes me out of the album purely based on the notoriety of the song (and also Black Hole Sun being like twice as good as any other song on this). Still, it's very good.

About on par for what I'd expect to be coming out of a butthole.

Whatever Gillian is awkwardly glancing at off-screen on the album cover is probably infinitely more interesting than a single note of music on this dreary, booooring album.

>The Modern Lovers >actually very dated and not that loving What did they mean by this?

20 years in the 1001 Albums Generator, I wanted The Beatles. I compromised. I got a dozen mediocre britpop albums consecutively. I wanted to experience something great for the first time. I compromised. I listened to mediocre country for the first time on a Saturday afternoon.

Artificial soul.

It's like advert music... but COOL advert music.

Not necessarily bad but it's just so middling and I'm a little sick of Adele's vocal performance due to being overexposed to it around when this album came out, as impressive as it is. I wish I could rate it a 2.5 (hehe) but I'll be nice and round it up to a 3.

Not entirely sure what he was going for but I dig it about as much as I enjoy other Bowie albums. It's strange how diverse his material can be but it all ends up at the same rating for me, which I guess is a testament to his consistency? I don't know. This comes across as a very polarising album, that's for sure, I can definitely see why some people would love it and why some would find it self indulgent.

Through listening to this pretty decent album I realised that Fiona Apple is absolutely capable of producing something I love, because this is the kind of music that really appeals to me. However, as of yet that potentially 4/5 star album is unrealised. Maybe the next Fiona Apple album will be kino?

It's a good album, don't get me wrong, but it's coated in a thick, sticky layer of 70s excess and heavy guitars. Sometimes, it leaves me feeling a little sick by the end. With that said, I can see myself enjoying a lot of these songs individually in the future.

Why does she get two mentions on this list, exactly? This one is arguably worse since it doesn't have the big popular song that people would actually know.

Something about this hits so much harder after weeks of milquetoast guitar and jazz albums.

...so this is what us Scottish people sound like to outsiders?

Chad move putting an interview at the end of your studio album, gotta respect that.

This is just nothing. Nothing interesting is going on in my ears as I listen to this album, other than a slight pain.

...wait a minute, these girls did that awful "I'm With Her" video back in 2016, right? I like the instrumentation on this album a fair bit, but the tedious vocal delivery and awful mix kills it completely.

Punk music but they actually know how to write real music and real lyrics instead of sperging out on the microphone for 2 minutes.

A live Thin Lizzy album is probably amongst the things I want to listen to the least on this current day.

This dude acting like he's this influential prophetical lyricist when half of the songs are just about fucking bitches and killing gangstas, and then using snippets of speeches and interviews with no context, then calling that riveting social commentary. I do kind of like it, though.

Makes me feel sophisticated and classy whilst also having major alcoholism and domestic issues.

I couldn't help but compare this vocalist to Grandaddy because the similarities are almost uncanny. I really did like this album, though, I have a weakness for these comfy 60s inspired bands. I do sorta wish that Jellyfish or The Lemon Twigs were on here, though. I'd even take more XTC or ELO.

This is one of these "Fuck you, I liked it." albums. I was in a damn good mood.

It's okay. I prefer his later albums where he finds his footing and his balls droop down a little lower.

Is that the fucking meet the engineer song?

This sounds EXACTLY like those Suno AI songs - the resemblance is uncanny. That's probably the only area in which this album has been 'influential' in any capacity.

Are people here really getting filtered by Elvis Costello? This is perfectly solid music, and I'd take it over any of the endless Bowie slop this list loves.

Much like Elton Johns career, it starts off with a bang, and then just progressively peters out...

I dig this, it's a unique sound which is a treat on this list, and it maintains its consistent quality throughout the duration of the album.

Rap really is just irredeemable slop, huh? Boring!