I love LCD Soundsystem but I always have to curate the song selection to get a true 5/5 from them.

I was happy to see this album pop up as my first selection because it takes me right back to college. Nowadays, as an ol’ man, I like Nirvana Unplugged a little more but damn this is still a great album. Had forgotten parts of it, so it was great to listen the whole thing again. Definitely a great album, one of the best from the early 90s.

I was happy to see this album pop up as my first selection because it takes me right back to college. Nowadays, as an ol’ man, I like Nirvana Unplugged a little more but damn this is still a great album. Had forgotten parts of it, so it was great to listen the whole thing again. Definitely a great album, one of the best from the early 90s.

I am only a little familiar with Joni Mitchell. Wow, she really is remarkable.

I’d say this album is not for me. Didn’t enjoy listening to it, but I can appreciate that it’s innovative.

Jazz isn’t really my thing but I found this very enjoyable.

Bored now.

Wow that’s a weird time capsule. Too saccharine. And I definitely didn’t need to hear Carpenters sap the energy from a Beatles song. Conversely, I can see why “cooler” artists would enjoy covering some of these songs b/c there are some decent melodies.

Super fun

I’ve loved this album since I discovered it in 1990. Playful; great melodies.

Meh. A little interesting but it wore out its welcome, especially the “electronic jug” sound which was cool as hell at first then just got straight up annoying. I definitely respect the way the artists were exploring new territory, but I doubt I’ll ever choose to go back to it.

Not my genre. There are some great things here but a lot that bores me, and the interludes really dragged me down.

It’s growing on me. I’m the kind of listener who doesn’t hear the lyrics right away, but I know I’ll appreciate this album more when I’ve really heard them. My score might be a little bit harsh.

Joni Mitchell is remarkable

Liked this more than I expected. They’ll get a little more attention from me going forward.

Not for me

This was a good discovery for me. I preferred the instrumental pieces more than vocal pieces, but it was overall really pleasing. Never expected to like it from the description.

Very mid. Liked that I could feel the Kinks coming through.

I love CCR, but this album isn’t my fave of theirs.

It didn’t help that this is my 2nd Blur album in 4 days. I feel like I’m listening to the Kinks if the Kinks sounded a little less pleasant.

I tried. I honestly gave it a shot.

Turn between 3 and 4? Quirky, charming, at times frustrating, and at other times beautiful.

Not for me

I’ve never been a Michael Jackson fan, even though he was exceptionally popular through middle and high school. And over time, I’ve grown to like it even less because I still hear it too much. Not sure I bag tell you why his music bugs me, but generally Iv would turn the dial of he’s on the radio.

Ooh boy, that’s some twang. It grated on me after a while so I couldn’t finish the album in the first sitting. In small bursts, it’s charming. My dad would have loved it.

I do like Paul Simon but this isn't my favorite -- though there are a few songs here that I love, the album as a whole is just mediocre.

For its historical significance, I get it. And it was cool to hear some of these classic pieces performed in this old school, classic and simple way. But overall? This was kind of boring for me.

Not really my favorite style of music but I can't deny thee talent here!

So many thoughts: 1) in general, I don't like rap. Since if this was a lurks tolerable. 2) The juxtaposition of high culture and low culture references... I honestly don't know if I liked it or wanted to roll my eyes at it. I mostly land on: that didn't work for me. 3) I askari didn't like the ethereal moodiness although it made it more lustrnable than a lot of rap or hip hop is for me.

If I were a passenger on a road trip and the driver said they need this album to help them stay awake, I'd say, "OK, but not too loud or it'll give me a headache, alright?" Other than that, I'll never voluntarily listen to this again.

Welp, I guess I get it. A couple songs were intolerable.

This is a tough one for me, because I used to love Van Morrison, then I kind of got over it, and then I cashew to learn more (distasteful stuff) about him as a person so I just let him fall away into history. Listening to a full double album was probably too much just like he is a probably too much. Can't deny he had talent.

I liked this a lot. Good find for me. Would I like it more or less if I knew what the lyrics mean?

Another tough one for me -- it certainly takes me to a specific time. And Depeche Mode really owns their distinctive sound, and I kind of like that sound. But their melodies are discordant just enough to bug me.

This music came out when I was in college. I was pretty indifferent, but I thought I’ll give this a genuine listen today. I’m still pretty indifferent. Even the song I remember liking was boring. Other than a few catchy refrains, I couldn’t get into this. Not my style.

It's been a while since you've thrown an album at me that I could get excited about -- and this is still not it! Kind of forgettable for me... I might give it another shot sometime in the future to see if it grows on me, but for now, kind of meh.

Liked it more than I thought I would. Still not my style but I enjoyed the energy.

I remember liking this album more. I still liked it but it wasn't the 5 I remember it bring.

OK, I genuinely enjoy a little synthpop now and then, but one "little" is fairly important there, and these songs were often too long and too repetitive.

This was a wild ride. At times, I almost quit, and at other times I thought I'll definitely come back to this a few more times. Was it a 2 or a 4?? I guess I'll split the difference.

Mostly love it

Um... Ok

Nice

Elvis has never really been my thing, but this album gave me a new appreciation for his talent. And frankly, it's sexy!

I could not stand to finish any one of the songs on this album.

Not for me. Some of the atmospheric stuff works at times, but mostly it's just too sonically ugly.

I think Taylor's a good songwriter but a very mediocre singer. I feel like she sounds tuned and/or she's half-singing/half-talking. I find it difficult to listen to too much of her at once, even though I usually like her music in smaller doses.

Another surprise: a jazzy album that I liked!

Love the vibe

I can't deny this is a masterpiece. I wish I just liked it a *little* bit more.

Totally inoffensive but not sorting to get excited about. I can understand how it might be just the thing for people who focus with music playing but don't want the music to actually pull their attention.

God I love this album. A little tougher to listen to do many years later because of the bittersweet nostalgia it makes me feel.

Crazy that this is one of the first CDs I ever bought, so I was expecting to be taken down memory lane, but instead it was all pretty forgettable.

Great discovery. I suspect it's going to grow in me.

Not even a little interesting. The jazzy, bluesy sound grates, her voice grates, the lyrics grate.

I did not know Pere Ubu. I liked the punk every. There were a handful of songs that I loved, but offset by a few things that were irritating. I'll come back to some of the good stuff, but I won't listen to the full album again.

I did not listen to much Kate Bush when I was young. I knew she was an object of some ridicule but I my never knew much about why. Then she had a renaissance recently, and I thought I had probably had missed something worthwhile. But now I'm thinking it was this album that my friends were reacting to -- it's just too strange. Too overproduced and too 80s.

It's hard not to appreciate this album -- classic and pure blues! Amazing! The only reason I can't give this a 5 is I don't tend to want to listen to blues; it's not really my thing. But this was still a great album.

I'm all over the map on this one. I've never listened to this album in full, and I knew it was iconic so I had high expectations. At times, it met them.

Oh boy, another challenge. What do I do when my respect is a 4 but my enjoyment is a 2?!

I don't really understand the praise that Bowie gets in general, and this album was especially mid

This is not my genre so I expected I'd hate this, but it wasn't so bad.

Funk/soul is not in my wheelhouse, but this impressed me.

My affection for this album is high. I don't know if there's anything objective shot my rating. I love it for too many reasons.

I've barely been aware of ELO. It's... whatever, but I don't think I need more of it.

This is an example of the great surprises that this web experience can give me. I think I would have otherwise never crossed paths with this artist.

*sigh* I'm not much of a fan

I don't get the appeal. It's just kind of boring.

Hm hm hm. I wish I could give this album a 3.5 -- there's probably more here that I would skip than enjoy, but it's hard to fight the nostalgia factor.

There is some truly beautiful music here. I can't give it a 5 because it fits feel repetitive at times.

I can't stand his voice. It makes me actively uncomfortable

Nostalgia: 4 Qualify: 3? I'm going to let Nostalgia have the win.

I was excited to see another global music entry. I enjoyed but week only cover back for a couple of these pieces.

Unknown to me. I found it a little weird but mostly quite enjoyable

I've never liked jazz. This 1001 musical experiment has shown me that sometimes I do like jazz, but this isn't one of those times. This is exactly the jazz that I don't have patience for.

This was a new artist for me. I enjoyed it quite a bit and will return. There ate ways that this echoes many other artists with whom I'm slightly more familiar -- and I don't know who's influencing whom.

I'm such a sucker for The Velvet Underground. (I could do without the last two songs, so I always cut this album off early.)

I wish I could give this a 2.5. It's too harsh for my taste, but there are interesting ideas.

This got increasingly unpleasant. I feel like the curator of this list is drawn to make singers with aggressively raspy, harsh voices -- or maybe I've just been unlucky and had several of these in a row this week.

I have never really understood the appeal of this album. A friend gave me this album on CD because she loved it, but I've always been pretty indifferent. There are a ton of songs that start off great, with a good beat or fun disco vibes, but then the vocals start and just don't match the energy. The Music is the Victim is the exception for me -- fun from start to finish. I don't require all music to be fun, but the disconnect between the minor melodies and lame vocals with the more energetic rhythms of the backing track lead to a disjointed and displeasing experience.

I'm embarrassed to admit how much I love this album. The Cars was the first love concert I ever attended so there's a lot of nostalgia here. After all these years, I knew I'd like it but didn't know I'd want to listen to it straight through 3 times in a row! Does that mean I'm about to give this a 5?? Yep, I guess it does.

I like folk music, but this is so folk it's almost a parody at times. The female vocalist seems to come right out of a tavern in a D&D game.

This is one of the fun new discoveries for me. Good vibe, didn't love his voice but it works overall.

I can remember my friend Doug telling me I had to get this album. He loved it. I didn't. I do respect it: interesting sound, cohesive throughout. Ethereal. Moody. But not to my taste.

Well, sure, fun throwback. But 3-5 minutes is more than enough time for the nostalgia. After that, it gets tedious.

I'm not a rap guy. At all. I'm certainly aware of Tupac, but wouldn't have been able to bane a song or album by him. I've given pretty low scores to every radio or hip hop album that's vibe my way -- merely because I cannot get into the genre. I did not redirect to like this, but I liked it quite a bit. To be chear, I fully believe good rap artists are true poets. But I just don't gebretatose enjoy the style enough to give it the attention it deserves. This album has a mellowness and clarity that made it easy to listen to abd easy to follow. I do cover back to it a few more tires so I can more fully appreciate Tupac's poetry.

Here's the roller coaster ride I just went on: Track 1: what the?? This is the Temptations? I guess I've never properly given them a chance, cuz this is crazy interesting! Track 2: a decent cover of a great song. Works for me. Track 3: this is blowing my mind! I guess I totally had the wrong idea about this band. This might be heading toward 5 stars. I need to go read the Wikipedia page... Then as I read while still listening, the music reverted to the more typical Temptationd stuff, just as the Wikipedia page said it would. I'm disappointed that it became so much less daring.

I kind of forgot about this artist. I need to revisit his work because I do like this album.

These songs all sound interchangeable to me, and it's all unpleasant.

I did not know this group or album. I definitely liked their quirky style, both musically and lyrically. I also thought there was enough variety that it kept my interest. The thing I most disliked was that some of the instrumentation was so overly simplistic that I thought I was listening to a mediocre high school band at times.

Better than I expected.

I'm not that into the fast guitar, and I don't love the way Bob Mould sings. It makes me a bad Minnesotan b/c I'm not a huge fan of Husker Du either.

I always feel like Billy Bragg is yell-singing.

Boring, self-indulgent, tedious.

The lyrics might be a little dramatic for my taste. But overall this was a pretty compelling album. I'll need to come back to it. One listen was definitely not sufficient.

I respect that they were hugely successful and influential, but they never did anything for me.

I cannot stand listening to this man's voice.

Meh

Nothing about this is interesting to me

Other than the nostalgia factor, there's not much here.

I do love the early Beatles. I’m not as much of a fan of some of the covers here. I prefer to hear their sound with their own songs.

Definitely not my vibe but it kind of grew on me.

I’m up and down on this album, but I come back to it a lot, so I guess the ups win.

There were a few songs I had to jump forward because they went in too long without being interesting. Otherwise, it was kind of meh.

Too weird

Fun and weird

Really, this guy again? At least this time it was listenable.

Much more interesting than I expected.

I can barely stand to listen to Coldplay. I feel like each song is so ploddingly repetitive -- not of each other, but within each song. Each song sets up some rhythm or motif -- and not generally one that I find appealing -- and then just pounds that into my skull for several minutes straight, without any real variety or progression. Ive never been a fan of Coldplay and never understood their wide appeal, but generally I just thought of their music as dull. But today, listening to an entire album all at once, I almost feel rage.

It's definitely more noise than I like but there are some high moments.

Hard rock is not my genre, but this is a classic. So many hooks that work. I'm surprised how high I'm going to rate this.

OK, let's start with the fact that I cannot stand Portishead. But this time I tried to really listen to the album to figure out what was it that kmahes it so off-putting -- because I don't like atonal stuff to much, I don't think this is atonal. It's not exactly pretty but there are definitely interesting sounds in here. So after really immersing myself for a full album, I realize my dislike is entirely about the vocalist. And the morr ethereal she gets, the more I hate it. Her consonants tick like a person chewing in my ear; her melodies are fine but her delivery is affected and pretentious and, to my ears, ugly. At times when she is louder or more forceful (while still hardly ever singing with any real force at all), I find her singing more tolerable but still the worst part of everything in listening to. And finally, at times when she's not singing at all, I actually really like this music. I dig the electronic soundscapes, but just cannot get owe how much I dislike listening to the woman's voice on top of it.

Definitely for me. Not my genre. Pretty boring.

My first response was, "Well, this is kind of dull." I had just finished with Portishead which I did not enjoy but it was challenging and forced me to pay attention. This seemed so uninteresting by comparison. It grew on me though. A few songs pulled me in a lot, and now I'm going to have to give it another listen. Alas, after listen #2, this is overall meh.

+ I like folk music - but I like it when the lyrics seem a little more universal. This album is just too much middle-aged for my taste. + I like Joan's dynamic singing - but I don't love her vibrato; at this point it's been parodied enough that it's a lurks hard to take it.

I'm so white.

I wish I liked this more. I respect the hell out of it, and I get why people would love it, but it's a music style that doesn't hold my attention.

Pretty much unlistenable.

I once loved The Byrds. There's a lot of beautiful stuff here, but it's kinda boring too.

I knew I had a gap in knowledge when it comes to Led Zeppelin. I really only knew their big hits. But listening to this album straight through kind of blew my mind. Such diversity while always being obviously Zeppelin. Truly wonderful.

Tolerable, not my style at all, not something I would ever choose to play

This was fun but I'm not sure I will come back to it l. Not super compelling but fun.

Fun, Kinksy

My god I love the Pretenders. I'd forgotten how much. Chrissie Hynde's voice is killer, but the band behind her is great too -- distinctive, engaging. This was a long album abd I loved (almost) every second of it.

I feel like a terrible person for not enjoying this, but jazz is usually not something I enjoy. After a while, the constantly changing syncopation starts to drive me nuts, almost like nails on a chalkboard. It's not you; it's me. It's definitely me.

How is this an album? It feels like fucking around to get some ideas that might some day get on an album. Worse, I had zero interest in most of these ideas. The ones that were a little interesting were too few and too insubstantial.

I don't like Bowie as much as the author of 1001... does, but this was pretty good Bowie

I was not familiar with this. It was up and down, and the last 3 songs were decidedly down, resulting in my dropping the score from a 4 to a 3.

I just had a Bowie album a couple days ago. I generally don't like David Bowie. And two in such short order did him no favors. Why did the author of 1001... think everything Bowie is awesome. I did not like this album.

Fun. Sometimes I think I loved at the wrong time.

Only passingly familiar but I really enjoyed this. A 4 might be too low.

Eeeehhhhhhhhh. Fun at times. Annoying at times.

I'm not really sure why I'm listening to hiphop that I can't understand. Plus I don't like hiphop all that much... On the upside, the rhythms are fun.

I feel terrible because obviously these are talented musicians, but it's just not my music.

I love LCD Soundsystem but I always have to curate the song selection to get a true 5/5 from them.

I straight up like the rock'n'roll versions of these songs way more than what's in this album.

1) Hiphop is typically not a genre I like 2) but I can appreciate there were some interesting moments, both musically and lyrically 3) but for the most part, the messages or tens of the lyrics aren't especially compelling to me 4) and finally, going back to point 1: hiphop ain't my thing. Quite a few songs I slipped out of a little past halfway because the setting was getting boring.

It's really hard to rate an album where I mostly like the music but I don't want to listen to this much if it at one time.

Amazing voice. Groovy.

I always liked Brimful of Asha even though it was overplayed, but I never checked out the rest of this album. My loss. I suspect it would have been on repeat for a while -- if I weren't already trying to plow through 1001 albums!

I love that the Pogues exist. It's a cool album but not really something I can return to with much frequency.

Definitely some cool and fun stuff here, but there were several songs I didn't enjoy at all -- to the point that I skipped out of them. The good stuff is 4/5 but the overall average is only 3.

This is the kind of thing I could put on in the background while I'm working so that I'm not distracted.

Jazz just bores me, man. I'm sorry.

Sometimes boring. Often irritating. Occasionally funny. Only sometimes interesting. I hate when an album feels like a collection of experiments.

God how I love this album. Iconic.

I have some affection for The Cure but I'll never need a full album of The Cure at one time.