This is a difficult one to review. I liked the music and Biggie's vocals flow well. However, some of the lyrics are absolutely appalling. I'd feel embarrassed to listen to this album with other people around - and considering I'm happy to listen to Kunt and the Gang, that's not an easy thing to achieve. The glorification of violence, the casual homophobia and, in particular, the horrific levels of misogyny mean that I can only give this album 1 star, even though I thought the music was good. Some of the more delightful lyrics: From Me and My Bitch: "And I admit, when the time is right, the wine is right I treat you right, you talk slick, I beat you right" From Just Playing (Dreams). Where Biggie "Dreams of fucking an R&B bitch" "Make Raven Symone call date rape" Fuck off you creepy, vile weirdo.

My first reaction to seeing this album come up was anger. I had to force myself to listen to it and in listening to it, I examined just what it was that makes me hate this album so much. White Ladder isn't a one star album, sure it's bland as fuck, but the music itself didn't actively annoy me in the way some others have. I think the thing that angers me most about this album is just how popular it was. It's success damaged my faith in humanity a little. Now, considering I'm writing this on the day Donald Trump was re-elected, my faith in humanity has already taken a pretty big hit, but I can at least mitigate that by pretending that Americans are stupider than us civilised Europeans. Unfortunately, this album being so successful in my native UK shows that people here are in many ways just as horrifically idiotic as they are in the US. At least David Gray isn't a proven rapist I suppose. Two stars.

A big nostalgia hit as this album was part of the soundtrack of my twenties. A lot of that music I don't really listen to any more (The Rakes anybody?) but there's still a lot of good stuff on here, Michael, The Matinee, This Fire, Take Me Out, Jaqueline and Darts of Pleasure are all a cut above the usual landfill indie of the time.

I find it almost universally true that a double album would have been much better as a single one, but this isn't really a double album, it's two solo projects that have been released together because of management decisions, so giving it a single rating seems odd as there is, unsurprisingly, no real link between the albums. Speakerboxxx is by far the more consistent of the two albums, and the only one I'd bother listening to again. GhettoMusik I already knew, and liked, from the b-side of Hey Ya! but I also particularly liked Bust and Flip Flop Rock, both featuring Killer Mike. The Love Below is a mixed bag of mostly rather self indulgent songs but featuring one of the true great pop songs in Hey Ya, the only song I'd go out of my way to listen to again. Both albums suffer from the common hip hop inclusion of skits and interludes that don't really add anything other than becoming more annoying the more the album is replayed. There's also a clear degree of grating misogyny, also something that is a frequent feature in, but hardly exclusive to, hip hop. Speakerboxxx 3*, consistently decent with a couple of good songs. The Love Below 3*, mostly 2* songs with Hey Ya! being a 5* banger giving it an extra mark. It's tempting to give the whole thing 2* because listening to it all in one go make it worse than the sum of its parts.

This feels like a warning about how American centric this list may be. With so many exciting and innovative artists making music in the 80s, it seems incomprehensible to me that this uninspired and clichéd album could be in anyone's top 100,000 albums, let alone 1000. There's a couple of songs on here, Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Time After Time that are okay, a few that are mediocre and the rest are just incredibly grating with Lauper's vocals turning a bland song into an annoying one. The idea that someone, who presumably has listened to at least several thousand albums thought this was an album to be lauded has made me feel quite angry. It's like claiming Meghan Traynor is the most innovative and exciting artist of the 21st century. Absolute toilet.

Fine. Not particularly exciting. A little pompous and overblown, but nice enough.

Good. I liked this one. The last few, non live tracks feel a bit tacked on, but overall, lovely stuff

Much better than I remember it being. This came out when I was 17 and heavily into American alt rock. I've had Dub Be Good To Me and his remixes of Body Movin' and Brimful of Asha on my playlists for years and I've always had a soft spot for the Housemartins but I guess my teenage cynicism about this album has unwittingly persisted. The reality is, this album is pretty good in places, but is patchy, the singles are enough. The rest is just filler.

This feels like a warning about how American centric this list may be. With so many exciting and innovative artists making music in the 80s, it seems incomprehensible to me that this uninspired and clichéd album could be in anyone's top 100,000 albums, let alone 1000. There's a couple of songs on here, Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Time After Time that are okay, a few that are mediocre and the rest are just incredibly grating with Lauper's vocals turning a bland song into an annoying one. The idea that someone, who presumably has listened to at least several thousand albums thought this was an album to be lauded has made me feel quite angry. It's like claiming Meghan Traynor is the most innovative and exciting artist of the 21st century. Absolute toilet.

I find it almost universally true that a double album would have been much better as a single one, but this isn't really a double album, it's two solo projects that have been released together because of management decisions, so giving it a single rating seems odd as there is, unsurprisingly, no real link between the albums. Speakerboxxx is by far the more consistent of the two albums, and the only one I'd bother listening to again. GhettoMusik I already knew, and liked, from the b-side of Hey Ya! but I also particularly liked Bust and Flip Flop Rock, both featuring Killer Mike. The Love Below is a mixed bag of mostly rather self indulgent songs but featuring one of the true great pop songs in Hey Ya, the only song I'd go out of my way to listen to again. Both albums suffer from the common hip hop inclusion of skits and interludes that don't really add anything other than becoming more annoying the more the album is replayed. There's also a clear degree of grating misogyny, also something that is a frequent feature in, but hardly exclusive to, hip hop. Speakerboxxx 3*, consistently decent with a couple of good songs. The Love Below 3*, mostly 2* songs with Hey Ya! being a 5* banger giving it an extra mark. It's tempting to give the whole thing 2* because listening to it all in one go make it worse than the sum of its parts.

I liked this a lot, it sags a little in the middle, which is the reason I'm not giving it 5*, but there's a lot a good things going on here. 21st Century Schizoid Man is a great start to the album. On Spotify, the only version that is available is a remastered version with bonus tracks that add nothing to the overall experience - which is frustratingly common with older albums, but I'm not marking it down for that.

The music on this album is perfectly pleasant, but Devendra's voice is bordering on annoying. The whole thing has a twee smugness which winds me up. It feels like coffee shop music, if the coffee shop was run by wankers.

I was looking forward to this as I love a bit of Stevie Wonder but I only know the big hits. I didn't recognise any songs on this album and there's probably a reason for that. Most of the songs are fine but unexciting. Boogie on Reggae Woman and Please Don't Go are better than that, and were the only songs I'd like to hear again. You Haven't Done Nothin' would be up there too, but the base line is so similar to Superstition that I can't help thinking I'd rather be listening to that instead.

I don't listen to much stadium rock as it's often dull. This however has a sleazy, slightly menacing edge to it that many of Guns N Roses cotemporaries lack. The songs are for the most part punchy and even the longer ones don't really outstay their welcome. Axl Rose might now look like Mama Fratelli from the Goonies, but before all the drink and drugs took their toll he had some serious pipes. His powerful, slightly raspy, vocals add a lot to the music. I think this just about deserves 5*. If I only gave it 4* I'd be setting the bar very high and barely giving out any.

A surprisingly musically diverse album that still remains coherent. There's a lot of distortion on some of the vocals, but it's still very distinctively Beastie Boys. There's hip hop, jazz, world music influences as well as rap-rock before nu-metal came along and made that a dirty word. There's still a few bits of frat boy humour, but the whole thing is a lot more mature than Fight For Your Right era Beasties. I liked this a lot.

This is a perfectly nice album, but nothing more than that. At times it gets quite silly, which isn't a bad thing but it means the whole album feels like a collection of songs rather than a coherent work. I liked Gotta Get Up, Without You and Coconut was fun, but I expect would quickly become grating. Threeth stars

This album starts off pretty well, with Decepticon being a fun, bouncy track. Unfortunately, the album falls off sharply after that with the remaining tracks varying between just about ok and not very good. It's a shame, I like the ethos of the band and wanted to like the music more, but it's fundamentally weak. A semi-foof.

I have memories of my dad playing this in the car occasionally when I was a kid and I wasn't particularly impressed by it then and I'm not now. There's nothing wrong with it per se, but there's nothing that draws me in or excites me. The only song that I would go out of my way to listen to is Call Me Al and even that I'd be perfectly happy to never hear again. Threeth Kens out of Val.

There's a little man, in a little house, With a little pet dog, and a little pet mouse, I know where he lives, and I visit him, We have Sunday tea, Sausages and beans. I only really know the legend of Syd Barrett not any of the music. This was a pretty bog standard album. Nothing particularly good or bad about it, with the exception that the only version on Spotify is a crappy deluxe version with outtakes tacked on the end which add nothing other than annoyance. Thanks record companies, on your hands at last a dead star.

Not the first album that comes to mind when I think of New Order, but a fun one nonetheless. There's no real stand out track here, like a Blue Monday or Temptation, but it's all good quality and it's definitely worth another listen.

This is the first album that I've had where I've never heard of the artist. There's a lot to like about this one. It's punchy, aggressive, wall of noise. However, it also does feel relentless. I'd have liked a few contrasting quieter parts to provide more texture and variation to the album. All in all, I'm going to have to give this a few more listens to properly make up my mind, but I think this is a pretty good album, that I'll only want to listen to when I'm in a certain mood or frame of mind.

I don't really get the hype that surrounded this album. I can only think that it had a lot to do with Jeff's tragic early death. Mostly it's fine, but just that and it does tend towards sounding like a poor man's Manic Street Preachers towards it's more rocky end. Ironically, despite Leonard Cohen being famously self depreciating about his voice and the very 80s production of the original, I still much prefer his Hallelujah to Buckley's. It feels a bit harsh to give this 2 stars, as it's not terrible, so I'm just about giving it a 3.

I read some of the reviews and a lot of people seem to be unhappy with this being background music. I don't really get that. There's definitely a place for music to have on while concentrating on something else or for when you just need to chill out a bit. This certainly isn't up there with the great ambient works of Eno or Aphex Twin, but it's pleasant enough and I'll add it to my rotation of chill out tunes.

On hearing the first few seconds, I thought I was going to hate this, but it wasn't too bad. I liked many of the songs individually but, as an album, it doesn't really hang together, the changes in style from track to track and sometimes within the same track can become quite jarring. A Minha Menina is a good song as are Bat Macumba and Ave Gengis Khan, but overall, the album is weaker than the sum of its parts.

I have neither anything good nor anything bad to say about this album. I'm entirely indifferent to it.

There's a lot to like about this album. It certainly beats the pants off Nilsson Schmilsson, which was recommended last week. There's a diverse range of music on offer that holds together as a singular work well. I enjoyed the contributions from Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave too. My instinct, after a few listens, is to give it a 4. There's not much that stops it from getting a 5. Vermillion Kisses being the only duff track - a faintly misogynistic and twee story that adds nothing and deserves skipping on every listen after the first. I'll definitely be adding this to my rotation of albums and look for more by Barry.

I only really knew Yes from Owner of a Lonely Heart and Rick Wakeman's capes. Unfortunately, as someone who often enjoys a bit of prog, this album feels like a list of reasons why people don't like the genre. There are occasions where you start to feel that something good is about to happen, but then there's a crappy bit of, very dated, synth (not Wakeman's) or a twatty folk track with some random clapping that kills any momentum that was building. To add insult to aural injury, the only versions available are wanky deluxe editions - shit off with your demos, single versions and remixes. Utter guff.

I'm tempted to write that, even post covid, I'd rather bite the head off a bat than listen to this album again, but it's not that bad. Just. I'm wavering between giving it a one or a two. I definitely don't want to ever listen to this album again, but I don't think it genuinely annoyed me enough to get a one. A, feeling generous, two.

Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I didn't have high expectations. Mostly it's fine, but And Then It Stoned Me is the only song I'd want to hear again and the album does tail of towards the end with a couple of real duffers.

When I first heard Tom Waits, I found his voice rather over the top and slightly annoying. However he grew on me after a few listens and I started to appreciate his music. This album was like listening to Tom for the first time again. It's so stripped back at first that it was a tough listen and I was relieved when the album came back to more traditional Waits territory. However, after listening a couple more times, I found myself enjoying the whole album - bar the cover of I Don't Want To Grow Up - which I could definitely do without. A gravelly foof.

Michael Jackson, Here's the basic facts son, He was born black, He died white, And in the middle he fiddled with kids. It's hard to get away from the paedophilia accusations, Jackson's own childhood exploitation and abuse and just how many people facilitated these things for a slice of money and or reflected fame. However, for me, it's even harder to get away from the nostalgia this album brings. Bad came out when I was 6 years old and was one of the first albums I ever owned (along with Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic and Get Even by Brother Beyond - my childhood music taste was shite). When I read the reviews before listening again, I found myself agreeing with the more negative ones, but listening to this album again transported me back to a simpler time when I'd get this tape out of my Thomas the Tank Engine tape box, put it in my ghetto blaster (super bass on) and enjoy an untainted Jacko's music in my Superman wallpaper covered bedroom. The slower songs, Liberian Girl and I Just Can't Stop Loving You, are exactly that. But the rest of the album is good fun, even if Jackson can't pronounce basic words like come on or Annie. I expect if I was hearing this for the first time as an adult, I'd be much harsher on the album, but I just can't help but enjoy it.

This is a difficult one to review. I liked the music and Biggie's vocals flow well. However, some of the lyrics are absolutely appalling. I'd feel embarrassed to listen to this album with other people around - and considering I'm happy to listen to Kunt and the Gang, that's not an easy thing to achieve. The glorification of violence, the casual homophobia and, in particular, the horrific levels of misogyny mean that I can only give this album 1 star, even though I thought the music was good. Some of the more delightful lyrics: From Me and My Bitch: "And I admit, when the time is right, the wine is right I treat you right, you talk slick, I beat you right" From Just Playing (Dreams). Where Biggie "Dreams of fucking an R&B bitch" "Make Raven Symone call date rape" Fuck off you creepy, vile weirdo.

I like this one a lot. Top end of a 4 for me.

This starts off quite fun, but goes on for far too long and you just feel bongoed out by the end. I think I'd enjoy each track individually, but there's 19 of the bongtastic bastards for nearly 80 minutes of bonging. I'll definitely put some of the tunes on my wake up playlist, but I don't think I ever want to sit down and listen to the whole thing again. Three Bongos out of a Wagner.

This is good. It's a tight 10 tracks of quality reggae. There's a dub version of the music on this album - Garvey's Ghost, which I prefer to the slicker version on this release, it would have been interesting to have that with the vocals from this album.

The cover of this album looks like it was drawn by a 13 year old and, unfortunately, only a few songs from it are available on spotify. I managed to find it on YouTube and it's as good as the cover art is bad. At first I found the songs a bit overlong, but the more I listened to it, the more I got into its borderline prog funk. It's a pain that it's not available to stream. I'd probably listen to it a lot more if it was.

A beautifully tender album, made a pretty difficult listen by knowing the circumstances in which it was conceived. I do tend to prefer Nick Cave's more upbeat songs. They tend to cover his tendency for slightly non-sensical and overblown lyrics, which are exposed on this record. Still, a great album for a melancholy mood.

Bad, but not so bad it's actively annoying. It's so generic that I didn't notice when Spotify started playing similar artists afterwards. It was great when he sang about getting drunk and hitting his girlfriend though :/

This is a decent album, but compared to Arcade Fire's previous two offerings, it's pretty weak. The only songs I'd really care to hear again are The Suburbs, Empty Room and Sprawl II. The other songs fail to grab my attention and lack the bombast I'm used to from Arcade Fire. It sounds like I'm being a bit harsh, but it's only because I loved Funeral and Black Mirror. It's still just about a 4 star album for me.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Good fun. Foof stars.

A big nostalgia hit as this album was part of the soundtrack of my twenties. A lot of that music I don't really listen to any more (The Rakes anybody?) but there's still a lot of good stuff on here, Michael, The Matinee, This Fire, Take Me Out, Jaqueline and Darts of Pleasure are all a cut above the usual landfill indie of the time.

I have fond memories of the Beach Boys from listening to them in my Dad's car on childhood summer journeys, but this is actually pretty bad. Help Me Ronda and Do You Wanna Dance are pretty good fun, but the rest of the album is just the same thing but worse, except for a shitty, self indulgent out take at the end. There's a time and a place for the Beach Boys, and it's probably on a best of compilation.

Starts off strong but ends weakly. Which is a shame as I think Depeche Mode are a sweet band.

This album a bit of a difficult listen, but when I gave it my full attention I found that I liked it. I doubt I'll listen to it again often but, for the right frame of mind, it's a good album.

When a new musical trend emerges, music executives are desperate to find something similar to flog and you end up with tat like this landfill alt rock. Celebrity Skin (the song) is fine, Malibu is just about tolerable, but the rest of the album is so dull. It felt a lot longer than its 50 minute run time. Boring

It's surprising the I'm giving an album with the 5 star song, Sympathy for the Devil such a low score, but most of Beggar's Banquet is really bad. I liked Street Fighting Man and Stray Cat Blues but, Dear Doctor and Factory Girl are utter dog shit, some of the most annoying, anger inducing music I've heard since I started 40 or so albums ago. The rest of the songs are pretty crappy too. I can't give this more than 2 stars, frankly it's lucky to get that.

At first it felt I little like I was listening to something in a museum. After a while though, I started to enjoy this and, on a second listen, I had a lot of lovely fun.

Cheesy as hell, but I'm enjoying it.

Love this album, probably my favourite by PJ Harvey. An easy 5 for me.

Queen, are another band, like the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones, who have a great best of compilation (in this case two great best ofs), but whose album tracks are pretty bad. The album tracks on A Night at the Opera aren't so awful that I'm giving it two stars despite the presence of a 5 star song (unlike Beggar's Banquet) but there's still a lot of guff on this album. Bohemian Rhapsody is an obvious stand out, You're My Best Friend is fun, but don't bother with the rest.

Found it difficult to get into this one. The bonus tracks at the end of the re-release didn't help. I think there's some good stuff here, but it didn't quite work for me.

Like several other reviewers, I don't really get why this album is on the list. It's a perfectly serviceable glam / stadium rock album, but there's nothing more than that. Nothing new, interesting, vital or exciting. If it's your type of music, you'll like it, but it's hardly worth going out of your way to listen to.

I've listened to this album plenty of times in the past, but over the last few years it's pretty much just been Debaser and, occasionally Wave of Mutilation. I thought going in, that I was going to give it a 4 but, listening to the whole thing, I think it just about deserves a 5. There's a few absolute classics on here and the rest of the songs are upbeat alt rock that puts me in a good mood.

I like this one, although it does tail off a little on the last few tracks. The vocals prevent it from being a top, top album, but it's still a lot of fun.

Thanks to the random number generator, I've had two Pavement albums back to back. For me, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain is a significant downgrade from Slanted and Enchanted. I enjoyed several songs, particularly Cut Your Hair and 5-4=Unity, but the more polished sound didn't have the energy or little pockets of interest that Pavement's debut album did. Crooked Rain Crooked Rain is still a good album but, as someone who doesn't listen to Pavement all that often, I can't see why I'd listen to it over Slanted and Enchanted. 3 Stars feels a little harsh, but giving it the same 4 as their previous album feels overly generous. If it were out of 10, this album would be a low 7 whereas Slanted and Enchanted would be a high 8 for me.

Good Dylan, but not great Dylan. This is a step or two behind Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the tracks. Still pretty decent though.

Yeah, this is the good stuff.

I've always found the Manics' lyrics and willingness to speak out on political issues more interesting than their actual music, which has a tendency towards middle of the road dad rock. There's a couple of songs that I enjoyed on this album, although, as it came out when I was 15, there's a degree of nostalgia colouring my thoughts. Really, the only truly good Manics' songs are Motorcycle Emptiness and a couple of tunes from the Holy Bible.

This felt pretty one note and generic. There was nothing hugely bad about it per se, apart from a few slips into tweeness, which blights many American indie bands, but there was nothing particularly good either. I can't think why I'd want to listen to any of it again.

This was quite fun. Very dad rock, but enjoyable.

Pleasantly surprised to see this on the list. I love a bit of The Fall. Easy 5

I enjoy a bit of Elvis Costello. On this album, Oliver's Army and What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding are the highlights. For me, the use of the n-word in Oliver's Army has to be seen in the context of the time and as a critique of British colonialism in Ireland - even if it is a rather crude analogy.

This isn't really my thing, but I quite enjoyed it. However, I was amazed the album was recorded in 1987. It sounds a lot more old fashioned than that. Like stepping back in time.

Objectively, this is shit. Alanis' silly voice, the dated production, the often inane lyrics. It's basically music for people who have "Live, Laugh, Love" pictures on their walls. In very small doses, much like the music of William Shatner, I find Alanis Morissette so bad she's funny. It quickly wears off, but it's the only thing stopping this album from getting a one.

Pump can be used as a slang word for fart, which seems appropriate in the context of this album. This isn't so bad it makes me angry, but it is definitely very bad indeed. Edit: Actually, the last song - What It Takes, is so terrible, I'm giving this a one. The musical equivalent of shitting in your hands and clapping.

This was okay, but it felt like a tribute album. Why is a Scot singing about highway's and smokey rivers? There are points where Jansch's Scottishness comes through and the album feels much more authentic and better for it, Needle of Death, in particular is a beautifully melancholy folk song. For the rest though, it just feels like someone pretending to be an American, and even though he's doing it pretty well, it doesn't quite get there.

I liked Message in a Bottle, but this album is soon starting to grate. The cod-reggae feels like it's taking the piss at times. Jesus Christ, On Any Other Day is as bad as anything I've ever heard. I was debating whether Message in a Bottle meant that this album deserved a two, but, fuck me, I hate this song. Does Everyone Stare is several times less awful than On Any Other Day, but it's still offensively shit. This was no 369 on Rolling Stones greatest 500 albums of all time list. How much cocaine were they taking at the time? I've taken 500 dumps that I'd rather listen to again than this heap of tod.

This is an album that I feel that I should like, but I just can't get into it. In a way it reminds me of Field Music, who make similar indie music that's slightly more interesting and intelligent than the norm, but unlike say, Alt-J, none of their music, nor Django Django's really capture my imagination. Three stars feels harsh, but I can't think of a reason why I'd want to listen to this again - I gave it three full playthroughs and still couldn't pick out a song other than Default, which I already knew.

Love The Cure. This isn't my favourite thing they've ever done, but it's still better than most things around.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. However, it really felt like music to have on while doing something else rather than music to sit down and actively listen to. I'll keep listening to it, as a change from my usual Eno and Aphex Twin albums, when I want some background music that doesn't distract me from what I want to concentrate on.

Bowie at his peak is magnificent, but this album isn't his best. Young Americans and Fame are great, most of the rest is fine but nothing more. The cover of Across the Universe is pretty bad. Overall, this just about deserves a four, but there are much better Bowie albums out there.

I liked Down by the Waterline and Sultans of Swing, but nothing else on the album really grabbed me. There was nothing I'd go out of my way to switch off, but nor was there much to make me want to listen again. Another band where I'd put on a best of, but not studio albums.

I enjoyed the actual album a lot, although it's only available in a shitty extended version on Spotify, which makes it feel overlong at nearly 80 minutes as opposed to the 40ish minutes of the original album. I wish record companies would stop pulling this shit. I only want to listen to the actual album, not a ton of outtakes, alternative versions and b-sides.

I didn't really get the reason for this album being on the list. It seems very generic and no better than many other similar modern female pop artists. I'm not a big fan of the genre but, to me at least, people like Taylor Swift, Marina, Janelle Monae, Charlie XCX etc are a significant step up from this. It's not bad, but it's not something I'd go out of my way to listen to again.

Easy 5 for this one. There's a couple of songs that aren't amazing, but mostly this is Bowie at his best. Changes, Oh! You Pretty Things, Queen Bitch, Life on Mars. Fantastic.

I loved Smashing Pumpkins when I was a teenager, but I've not listened to this album for at least a decade. On putting it on I wondered why, it opens strong and I enjoyed the guitar tone a lot. I don't quite have the same opinion of it as I did 25 years ago, the album gets a bit samey and repetitive and Corgan's lyrics often come across as the words of a teen poet. Corgan also is one of the arseholes of the music world, but I haven't docked the Smiths stars for Morrissey and I won't do that here either. This is a strong 4, it might have got a 5 on a generous day, but the tail end of the album is significantly weaker than the start and prevents it from getting the full 5.

This was decent enough. There were times where I thought it was going to be genuinely good, but it never quite got there. A high three.

This is poor. I don't understand how such loud, in your face music can be so boring, but it's really, really dull. I'm just coming to the end of the second song and it's already starting to piss me off with it's shit repetition. An easy one. Total shite.

I audibly sighed when I saw this was today's album. Yesterday I had Metallica's Master of Puppets, and after listening to that aural turd, I really didn't fancy more of the same. Fortunately, however, while this genre isn't my cup of tea at all, this was significantly better that Metallica's crappy offering. I didn't like the death metal vocals, there was too much growling and not enough singing, but the music had some variation and points of interest to accompany the chugging guitars. It's not something I'd listen to again, but I didn't hate it, like I hated Master of Puppets.

I enjoyed this a lot. Definitely the good side of prog. Totally pretentious, overblown and unnecessary, but still very enjoyable despite, or perhaps because of that. This album felt a bit like a rich dessert, too much would make you feel sick, but in smallish amounts (which is why I avoided the extended edition like the plague) it's very enjoyable. A high 4.

Since The Bends, Radiohead albums have been near universally excellent. This is no exception and an easy 5.

I'd never heard of these guys before. They sound okayish, pretty generic 60s pop. Not the best example of it by a long shot. Not Your Stepping Stone is a good song but besides that there's nothing I'd want to hear again. A harsh 2 but not good enough for a 3.

I've heard songs by NIN that I've enjoyed but, unfortunately, there weren't many on this album. Hurt was ok, although Johnny Cash's version was far superior (which isn't unusual). Besides that, there wasn't much. I think I prefer NIN when they're slightly more poppy and melodic.

After Beggar's Banquet being so bad, I wasn't looking forward to this, despite the fact that Gimmie Shelter is a fantastic song. Listening to it. As soon as Gimmie Shelter finished, I was starting to get annoyed with the album. It's amazing just how big the delta between the Stones', stone cold classic, best songs and their faux honkey tonk, dog shit, album tracks is. In a way, the few good songs being great makes me more angry with the other songs, as they show how good the band can be when they get it right. It's hard to comprehend how a band can write songs as good as Gimmie Shelter or Paint it Black and then think songs like Country Honk deserve to be on the same record. I'm genuinely baffled.

Yeah this is good. Perhaps not quite as good as having cocaine blown up your arsehole, but good nonetheless.

Easiest 5 so far. A masterpiece of an album. Probably my favourite thing that they've done.

This is good, but too samey to get a 5 from me.

Yeah, this is the good stuff.

Nile Rodger's fingerprints are all over this album and that's a very good thing. Another easy 5.

Brilliant. Love this album.

This was nice enough, but it didn't really do anything much for me.

I adore David Bowie. The man made some of the greatest albums of all time but, this album being on the list is ridiculous. When you've only got a thousand albums to list, why include a sub par Bowie album when you've already got multiple stone cold classics by the same artist? As an album, this is fine, there are some good songs and I prefer it a lot to a significant number of albums I've listened to so far. However, it falls a long, long way short of Ziggy Stardust, Low, Hunky Dory, Blackstar, Diamond Dogs, Let's Dance, Heroes, Station to Station, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps or the second Eponymous album. So why bother when there's a lot more than a thousand artists that are worth listening to? Where Are We Know and If You Can See Me are my favourite songs but, frankly, I'd rather listen to the Labyrinth Soundtrack than this. Still, just about a 4 for me. I do love David Bowie.

I'd heard of Dr. John, but not heard his music. I'd assumed it was just more white man, southern funky piano, but this album was a lot more interesting than that. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It reminded me of Captain Beefheart to an extent, but with more structure and less weirdness.

These are the plums I've been looking for all weeeeeeeeeek. The curse of the double album strikes again. This would probably be a 5 if the weaker songs were cut. Just Like a Woman, One of us Must Know and I Want You are classic Dylan but there's too much filler and Rainy Day Women is annoyingly crap.

I was ready to take this piss out of this album, but I ended up quite enjoying it. It's very samey, so the enjoyment wore thin towards the end of the album, even though I don't think the later songs were any worse than the earlier ones.

Another album that I thought I was going to hate in the first 30 seconds of listening to it, but that I started to enjoy as it went on. It's a challenging listen for sure, but after giving it a couple of goes, I think it's actually pretty good. It's certainly different and fits more in the theme of a list like this than one of the more mediocre Beatles or Bowie albums.

Another 40 minute album that's only available in a bloated, multidisc, "deluxe" edition on Spotify, which is shit. I don't need to listen to Barry Chuckles Oh Dear Remix (Radio Edit) when the original song is right there. However, the actual album is pretty good. One to add to my rotation of ambient music to have in the background when I'm concentrating on something else.

A 28 minute album that's only available on Spotify as a 'deluxe' edition that's over 2 hours long. Fuck off. As for the actual music, it's pretty bland, middle of the road grunge. Nothing particularly good or bad about it. I wouldn't cross the room to turn it off, that's about it. Also. Muffs.

This is a classic but, for me, it didn't quite do enough to get a 5. I like it a lot, but I don't love it.

This is okay. Art "Tiny Eyes" Garfunkle has a wonderful voice. However a lot of the songs are run of the mill. The best songs are reworkings of traditional songs rather than original compositions. Overall, decent, but no Bridge Over Troubled Water

This feels like the soundtrack to a musical theatre show. That's not in of itself a bad thing, but it's amusing to think that something so camp caused any outrage. Overall the album is fine, not really my cup of tea, but decent enough. If you're a fan of Cats, Blood Brothers, Hamilton etc, then you'll probably enjoy this.

I enjoyed this well enough although I don't think it's Young's best work. Just about a 4.

Several years ago, I found out that LL Cool J stood for Ladies Love Cool James and it's been difficult to take Cool James seriously ever since. The title track is a great song, but besides that, there isn't much to recommend on this album, Around The World Girl is pretty enjoyable I suppose. There's nothing particularly bad either. Cool James even promises a woman that he sure wouldn't rape her, which definitely puts him above Notorious BIG.

My first reaction to seeing this album come up was anger. I had to force myself to listen to it and in listening to it, I examined just what it was that makes me hate this album so much. White Ladder isn't a one star album, sure it's bland as fuck, but the music itself didn't actively annoy me in the way some others have. I think the thing that angers me most about this album is just how popular it was. It's success damaged my faith in humanity a little. Now, considering I'm writing this on the day Donald Trump was re-elected, my faith in humanity has already taken a pretty big hit, but I can at least mitigate that by pretending that Americans are stupider than us civilised Europeans. Unfortunately, this album being so successful in my native UK shows that people here are in many ways just as horrifically idiotic as they are in the US. At least David Gray isn't a proven rapist I suppose. Two stars.

How much of this album was actually by Malcolm McLaren and how much was just plagiarised or others' work that McLaren claimed is debateable. He always was a slimy shit of a man. That said, the actual music was enjoyable. A four star album by a one star human being.

Mostly bland and dull, occasionally mildly irritating.

This is pleasant but nothing special. There are moments when I thought it was going to be more interesting than it was, particularly the tracks with a more electronic bent. However, the guitar parts of the album have a faint whiff of the landfill about them. Ullswater was probably the only song I'd go out of my way to listen to again.

I have fond memories of this album and then memories of their subsequent stuff being surprisingly bad. On listening for the first time in years, the album does not hold up as well as I remember. The singles are very enjoyable still, but the rest of the album falls a bit flat - and indicates that the follow up albums being poor shouldn't have been as much of a surprise as it was. Still giving it four stars, possibly a little nostalgia tinted, but I do really like the singles from this album, so it's kind of deserved too.

I don't think this is quite as good as Radioactivity, but it's still an easy 5.

I enjoyed this. The title track and Big Sky are the standout tracks, but most of it is pretty good fun. The weakest songs are the last two, which means the album ends on a bit of a sour note, but it still deserves a four.

I love the Prodigy. I saw them live, they were fantastic and I have fond memories of listening to them throughout my teenage years. However, the elephant in the room needs to be addressed. This album starts with the song "Smack My Bitch Up" and there is no defending this awful piece of misogyny. Unlike Notorious B.I.G's album, where this vileness was a constant undercurrent, the rest of the tracks on The Fat Of The Land aren't so cretinous. If it wasn't for the opening track, I'd give this album five stars. It's a shame really.

Decent R.E.M but not great R.E.M. For me, they've done much better albums.

This was a difficult album to listen to. The music was good in places, but very dark. There was a lot of extremely violent and angry lyrics, particularly directed against his wife / partner. But they, for the most part, didn't feel like glorification. The album tails off towards the end and after the intense first half, that did mean it dragged on a little.

Mostly excellent. One of the big names of the sixties that seem consistently good.

The upbeat songs are good and Superstition is amazing, but the rest of the album doesn't really do it for me. A 4 because Superstition is just that good.

While this was nice enough. I didn't enjoy this as much as Lady Soul. Which I loved. Respect is, obviously, a classic, but I can't really remember another song on the album. This is a 3 borderline 4 album for me.

There's nothing as good as Virginia Plain on this album, but I still enjoyed it to an extent. Just about a 4

Another Aerosmith album. For fuck's sake. The idea of using 2 slots for this wank when you're limited to 1001 is ridiculous. As to the music itself. The album is better than Pump. But then again, a solid turd is better than a runny one. They're both still shit at the end of the day. I think this album just about scrapes a 2. It's bad, but my real anger is at the fact it's on this list, not in the music.

There's bits of this album that I liked. Alive and Even Flow are decent enough songs. However the vocals started to annoy me after a while and, as the album is nearly an hour long, I was glad when it ended.

Unobtrusive background music. There's nothing here that I'd choose to listen to, but it would be perfectly pleasant to have on in a restaurant or while I was concentrating on work.

I thought this album was going to be an easy 5 as I loved it when it was released but it's not as good as I remember it being to be honest. Perhaps that comes from over-listening, but when Spotify played Laika when the album finished, I enjoyed that a lot more. It's still a good album, with several stand out tracks, but it just didn't hit the spot.

I preferred this to the other Getz album, but it's still music that seems designed to be as non descript as possible. The lyrics helped add a bit of interest but the album is still very much background music.

I occasionally listen to The Last Broadcast and think that I should listen to Doves more, but this album is why I don't. It's mostly pretty landfilly, non-descript indie rock. The Cedar Room is the only song on the album that I'd go out of my way to listen to again, but the rest fall into the Elbow/Coldplay generic genre. Inoffensive but not worth listening to again.

I've listened to this before and I'm not quite sure why I haven't listened to it more. The album starts off really strong and doesn't get much weaker after that. Gloria and Land are the stand out tracks, but it's all good.

I prefer Unknown Pleasures, but this is still a great album. Easy 5

I feel slightly dirty admitting this. But I like Clarence, Clearwater Revival. The cover of Heard It Through The Grapevine on this album is over long and massively self indulgent shite. Besides that though, I really enjoyed the album. Several of the songs sounded like countryfied versions of Good Golly Miss Molly, but their derivitaveness didn't bother me.

I was going to moan about this album being too long before I realised that the last 5 tracks were CD bonus tracks not part of the original work. Musically, it's all pretty samey, which is why the length annoyed me. It also felt rather fret wanky and, frankly, a bit dull.

This is very similar to Pearl Jam. Although not quite as bad. It has the silly, 90s American rock vocal, but not quite as silly as Eddie Vedder's. More Chris Cornell. It's too long, like Pearl Jam, although it's slightly more varied. If the album was 40 minutes rather than an hour, I'd be tempted to give it a 3.

I like later Beatles albums a lot but this has a lot of twee shite on it. Hard Days Night, Any Time At All and And I Love Her keep this from being a two.

This album is very much of its time. But as a child of the 80s I have fond memories of that time. Sure it's dated, and the wordplay could be sharper and flow more easily, but I don't care. I enjoyed this quite a bit.

Not as good as I thought it was going to be. There's some good stuff on here. Come Together and Here Comes The Sun are obvious stand ours. However, there's also some right toss on here too. Maxwell's Silver Hammer, in particular, can fuck right off.

This album did nothing at all for me. It just happened and then it finished. Utterly forgettable.

I couldn't tell you a single song from this album. It was perfectly decent, but nothing stood out at all.

I didn't really get this. There were some songs I liked, Trouble Down. South, Psycho Cupid and Country but the more country the songs were, the less they worked for me.

This gave me the same feelings as watching Duck Soup. Historically interesting, but not something I'd bothet to do again. Also, considering the introduction said Sarah had a lyric sheet, she sure did forget a lot of the words.

This album has a fragile beauty that I love. Easy 5.

It's not really my genre, but I enjoyed this a decent amount. You could clearly tell the difference in quality between this album and the stuff Spotify autoplayed when it finished.

While I liked the slightly sardonic lyrics, once I got over that this was the Toy Story guy, I found that the music didn't do much for me. For 70s American piano, I preferred Billy Joel.

This album consists of the magnificent Let's Stay Together and 8 more songs that are good, but not as good as Let's Stay Together. I think it just about deserves a 5.

Easy 5. Pulp were comprehensively a Different Class to the rest of britpop.

Another 5 for Jimothy. Consistently great.

More of a conventional rock album than A Night At The Opera and more consistent, but Seven Seas of Rhye is the only song I'd care about hearing again.

Not as good as I remember, but still pretty decent. Black Math(s) and Fell in Love With a Girl are the obvious stand outs

This is incredibly cheesy but you'd have to either be a miserable bastard or a desperate try hard to not enjoy it.

I've a lot of time for early Leonard Cohen. Songs like Chelsea Hotel and Bird on a Wire are great. However, at some point in the early 80s, all his songs started to remind me of Chris Rea. I like an egg in my bath as much as the next man but, musically, this isn't a good thing. The album is fine, nothing more.