Never understood the appeal of Metallica. This shit wouldn’t be out of place at Eurovision.
Once you’ve heard one Adele song you’ve heard all her back catalogue and anything she’ll produce in the future. The uniformity would be something Ford would be proud of.
Like getting to like Guinness. I like Guinness, I don’t like Prince despite repeated attempts to do so. I’m always left thinking ‘right, so it’s five minutes to the song in and I’m ready for something to happen’.
Outstanding album. Perhaps a little lull (drop in tempo) in the mid-tracks, but overall an absolute belter
Really liked this. Full of various styles and sounds. Short.
A solid 4. Not really my kind of music, but I can appreciate it for what it is.
Not their best album. Some interesting songs in there, but didn’t really do enough to elevate itself from background noise to something I was actively listening to.
Again, I can appreciate the music for what it is and the massive Nile Rodgers influence, but I’m just not a huge fan of disco.
Could be mistaken for thinking you are listening to an extended play of one song they are so similar. Not unpleasant, just not really anything to get excited about.
Dislike this Blur album. Much prefer Blur (1997).
Better than I remember. Faded in the second half. Seeing a lot of comparisons to Weezer’s Blue Album. This is far inferior.
Not for me this one. First I’ve not finished.
Great album. Hadn’t listened to it in a fair few years, but didn’t seem as long once played. Very familiar.
Country Pop. No, no, no. Not even the best example of the genre.
Absolutely stunning. Wonderfully witty lyrics. Have fleetingly listened to some Belle and Sebastian before but they were big before my time. This is fabulous!
Not an Elton John fan, but enjoyed this album.
Enjoyable enough. Don’t think I’d actively seek it out to listen to again.
Funky. Filled with classics. Doesn’t have any weaker songs and oft sampled, which again shows its quality.
Really didn’t like this. Passin’ me by is alright. Of its time. Misogyny writ large.
Great album, but not as great at Kid A.
Not for me.
Knew of this band, but never listened to them. Was expecting something different from ‘hard rock’. This was eclectic and I liked it.
Meh. Nothing really distinguishes one track from the next.
Great album. Can see how it influenced a lot of bands in the 90s/00s.
Didn’t enjoy this. Can’t really see the reason why people hype them.
How this is one of the 1001 albums is baffling.
Bought this on release. Come on! Feel the Illinoise Part 1 is a particular favourite. Lots going on. Lovely
SOAD passed me by in the 1990s/2000s. Like this. Will seek out the rest of their back catalogue.
Middling. Never really got going and all I could think when I was listening was that I’d much rather be listening to Nick Drake.
Great music. Love it.
This washed over me.
Enough Beck already!!!!!
Bought this when it was released, but never really thought much of it at the time. Relistening now, I’m appreciating it more. Nice lyrics and melody.
Not a huge fan of The Who. This album has done nothing to shift my opinion. Always feel like if the world wasn’t mad for British music at the time then this band wouldn’t have got anywhere.
Mixed. Solid air is an excellent track, but the movement between genres means that as an album it’s not very coherent.
Not for me
Middling. Not any standout tracks, partly because they all sound the same. Will I listen to it again? No.
Not for me.
Dated. Lacks any variation in the songs so became tedious.
Great live album
Fucking awful! First three songs are incoherent. Gave up after that. Life is too short to spend it on this.
Clearly one of the few who cannot stand Prince’s music.
Björk, innit. Lots of plodding along and never really getting anywhere.
Never liked Pulp in my youth. Re listening to them again through this makes me appreciate them a lot more. This was a good album.
The music was fine. His voice and lyrics less so. Less Paul Simon the better.
Utter, utter shite! Everything about this is utter shite! If I could give it zero stars I would.
Quite liked this.
Never heard of Traffic before. Really liked Freedom Rider. The rest were pleasant background music.
Played REPEATEDLY EVERYWHERE when it was released. Nevertheless, it’s a polished album full of relevance even sadly 20 years after release. Like it.
It’s a shame bluegrass music has travelled beyond the region where people chose to listen to it.
Pffft. Starting with a 20 minute extended play of Inner City Life is certainly a statement. Sadly, it gets worse as you progress through the album. By the end you’ll need a lie down in a darkened room. Awful.
That guys voice can do one!
This albums inclusion is laughable. This was rubbish and overplayed/over-promoted at the time of release. Cannot believe there aren’t better albums than this to be included. Twee rubbish.
Nope.
Wasn’t expecting to like this as it’s not really a genre I like. However, was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it in the end.
Confusing album. Some of it was very, very French and in no way rock, let alone industrial rock. However, every second track was a banger of industrial rock. No idea what they were saying though.
Heard songs from this many, many times on 6Music. It’s ok. Nothing more than that. I’d have liked it to be funkier.
Urgh. This was a tough listen. Not much variation in the music.
Singer has a funny accent put on for a few songs at the start, which isn’t great. Beige.
Nothing particularly differentiates this from any other 80s pop. Mediocre.
44 minutes in a dive bar.
Not for me this.
Some thrillers. Some fillers.
A truly terrible record. Crooning pub karaoke.
Some good, some bad. Overall, better than I expected. Definitely can tell William Orbit had involvement.
Middling.
Not for me. Yawn.
Like The XX and Jamie XX, but this album was underwhelming.
70s. Enough said.
Liked it.
What a chore it was listening to this.
Loooooonnnnnggggg last track.
A complete change from previous Radiohead albums. I bought this at the time and was shocked at how different it was. Now solidly one of my favourite albums of all time. It’s easy to mock this album. Haters are going to hate.
Long. Samey.
Great Christmas album.
Very of its time. Wouldn’t listen to it again
Dark, but enjoyable album.
My enjoyment of the Manics is tainted by their ever-presence in the late 90s on the radio. Can’t quite bring myself to like the singers shouty singing either. Sadly I can’t look past either of these.
Not an easy listen overall, but it’s better that some of the other more experimental stuff on the list. Only just though!
I don’t like The Who. This doesn’t change it. It’s not ground breaking. All the songs sound the same. It’s average at best.
Love this album. Awesome talents. Haters are gonna hate.
Short songs. All sound the same. None ever go anywhere. Trudgery.
Meh.
Liked this .
Love it. Every song is a banger!
Not my favourite Beta Band album. It’s good, but not great.
Ever present part of 1999-2000. Some good tunes in here. Quite eclectic. Some are quite poor though.
Not for me.
Background music in a Tarantino film.
Not for me, but can appreciate why people like it.
Vocals had annoying effects. Music by numbers. Forgettable
Forgettable. Not a fan of this genre and this hasn’t changed my mind. None of the songs had any distinguishing variation from any other.
Really enjoyed this. Doesn’t sound like an album from 1981.
Was ok. Didn’t dislike it, but wouldn’t seek it out to listen to again any time soon.
Ok. A sign of the future output from Blur.
40 minutes shouldn't be daunting, but this 40 minutes was. Found this difficult to listen to. Lackadaisical drumming and guitar playing throughout. Very few albums have I stopped, but only got half way through this before I felt I’d heard enough and wonder how they managed to become as big as they did. The musical version of Napoleon Dynamite.
Nope.
Fine. Dates, but important.
Didn’t warm to this. Quite a difficult listen.
Liked this. Some 6Music favourites here made this album familiar. Overall, doesn’t sound like an album that’s nearly 50 years old. Sounds quite modern.
Refreshingly different. More of this and less repetition of bands and artists with several albums would be welcome.
Down with this sort of thing! A White Stripes and now this! Stop making me feel bad.
Ok
Fine. Nothing more. Wouldn’t actively seek it out to listen to again.
Dated.
All thrilla
Generic 70s rock. It’s a shame that so much of this is part of the 1001 albums as it all sounds the same.
Energy. Energy. Energy. Wiggle. Wiggle. Wiggle. Wiggle.
Never heard any Neil Young before. Quickly realised that this is music to avoid.
How dare you.
Enjoyed, but can’t tell whether this is good or not because the amount of world music is so limited on this list. Perhaps a bit less repeated albums and more artists would have been better
Noise. First half of the album is awful. Second half is marginally better. Mixing of the tracks is terrible. They bleed into one another.
Awful. Have never understood the hype this man lives off.
Some good tracks, but some weaker ones too.
In my mind I see blue skies with a Concorde being tracked through it a dazzling vision of a near-future France. This is the soundtrack to that vision.
It’s a CCR album. They all sound the same. Excellent, but once you’ve heard one you’ve heard them all. Not surprising given the rate of output over a short time period. My bugbear is why so many of them if they sound the same. Get some other artists in the mix instead.
Meh
Dated
Good background music, but it’s all the same. Gets a bit doom loopy about half way through when you realise you’ve been listening to effectively the same track 6 times already and there’s more to go.
Not the demographic for thid
Enjoyed this. Dark and mesmerising. Searching out the back catalogue.
Loooong! Not as good as anything he did with the Pixies. Very of its time. Wouldn’t listen to it again.
Some funk. Not enough.
I’ve never understood Metallica. Generic metal with a guy who sounds like he is yodelling on vocals. The addition of a fawning crowd woooing at every chord change is unnecessary. The only saving grace of this album is the orchestra, which stops us from being a pile of shite that steams for two whole hours.
Three tracks were enough to have listened to the whole thing. This sort of stuff doesn’t deserve to spread beyond dive bars in the dustbowl.
It’s ok. Never really understood the hype. Meandering. The backwards track (if that’s what it was) was unnecessary.
It’s obviously good, but not my cup of tea.
Listened to this a lot during my university years. I liked it then. I like it now. Not something I’d play a lot nowadays though. Has that student vibe to it and I’m far from a student these days.
Not my favourite Nick Drake album, but it’s still good.
Never understood the appeal of Metallica. This shit wouldn’t be out of place at Eurovision.
This is garage, not electronic. It’s therefore instantly shit!
One long play song. Dreary.
Kept me interested, mainly because it was all over the place. More of a concept album and probably the reason why it’s been sampled by others. Liked the worst band in the world sonically.
Having heard it I’m not going to listen to it again. Nothing special or interesting here.
Feels like I’ve been living an early 2000s indie American film star life listening to this. It’s good background music, but only that. Ultimately, quite dull and plodding, like all early 2000s indie American films.
Softens jazz and takes the shrill edge of by adding the samba beat. Liked this. Wouldn’t actively listen to it, but would make some great background music for a dinner party were I to have friends or want to host a dinner party.
This is what all hip hop should have aspired to and be the benchmark for any comparisons within the genre. Lyrics are witty and tightly woven, but more importantly, don’t lower themselves to the misogynistic drivel that is pumped out and hailed as being outstanding (looking at you Mr Lamar).
Bought this on release. This is fine. Nothing more. It’s a bit scatter fun and ‘noise’ to be anything more than fine.
Never been a huge fan. Tried many times to listen to this band and see what others do, but can’t.
Not my favourite Chemical Brothers album. Sunshine Underground is far, far better than this. It’s ok.
Decent pop. Flashbacks on primary school discos in the 80s.
Urgh. Too dull to care about.
Refreshingly different
Felt I’d heard the whole album after the third song. Great vocals, but repetitive.
Any time I see a double album I weep a little for the time I’ll never get back. Brevity in an album is an art form within itself. This isn’t music that travels well. Dull, repetitive and closed lyrics about the south mean nothing to me.
Better than I expected it to be from the cover.
New band to me. Shit name though. First track had lots of promise and reminded me of DJ Shadow/UNKLE/RJD2 etc. and also made me think the first track belonged in a Guy Ritchie film. However, quality and my interest declined markedly after first track.
Only had two songs from the album on Spotify. Both were forgettable.
Great start. Lost interest about 5 songs in. Same as every Arcade Fire album.
I can get behind a Tina Turner album that is brash and in your face, but this isn’t. The bland, tepid music is really holding the vocals back. A few decent songs, but overall quite poor.
This was very, very middling. Listened to it whilst doing various tasks about the house. Nothing caught my attention, but the didn’t stop listening either.
It was fine.
Didn’t enjoy this as much as Fela Kuti.
Really wanted to like this as a sparse example of non-western music on the list. However, it’s just not up to it. 6 minutes of percussion not really my thing.
Not my thing.
Easy listening. Inoffensive
Three hours. Listened to the first hour then left the party as they’d run out of vol-au-vents. Great music though, but knocked down a star each as it’s not an album and it’s THREE HOURS LONG!
Album cover didn’t fill me with much hope.m. How wrong was I? Good album with some songs I recognised but didn’t know the artist. Now I do. Eclectic.
Second track 30 seconds in is enough to know this is shit. Probably what Andrew Tate listens to.
This wasn’t floating around at the time on tape. Never heard it. There’s a reason. It’s not very good.
Stadium pop.
Varied. Enjoyed listening to it. Even the fillers are thrillers.
Once you’ve heard one Adele song you’ve heard all her back catalogue and anything she’ll produce in the future. The uniformity would be something Ford would be proud of.
Enjoyed this. Short and snappy.
I was taken in by the hype for LCD in the mid 2000s, but quickly jumped off. Now firmly a fan. Really liked this album.
Two LCD Soundsystem albums in a row. This is certainly toned down by comparison to the others, but is excellent in its own way. The 13 minute track at the end made me think I’d been transported into the Minecraft universe though.
After the first three songs this got very ‘samey’.
I’ve never seen the appeal of the Beach Boys. Good vibrations is maybe good for about a minute then it becomes tedious. Same can be said for all other songs, but the tedium sets in sooner.
Fine. Some nostalgic songs on there, but there’s quite a few sub-par tracks on there. Haven’t sought out any REM album to listen to again, perhaps this is why.
Gets dull quickly
Another Bowie album….
Probably on the better side of good.
Better than the majority of the genre from this time, but the bar isn’t particularly high.
Nice voice, but every track is effectively a carbon-copy of the one that came before it. Good to have on in the background when cooking the dinner, but beyond that I wouldn’t actively listen to it.
It was ok. Of its time. Couldn’t listen to it frequently.
Fine. Musicianship is better than I remember it being. Lyrics are a bit meh now, but that’s society for you.
No. No. No. 19 minute opening track. Takes the piss.
Separating the man from the album this is still as consistently boring as I suspected it would be.
Organs, organs everywhere. Middling.
Fine
Quite dull
It’s very 90s, but it’s also very good. Something of a rarity from the period.
A mad album. At times I was listening and thinking this is a real 70s album, but at times it was music that you could quite imagine being made now with someone like Andre 3000. That said, all of it has clearly been made under the influence of copious amount of psychedelics.
TWO HOURS AND FIFTEEN MINUTES?!?!?!?
This is what I would imagine my band would sound like if I started one with no musical skill or ability.
Not for me.
As beige as beige can be. Little wonder I’d never heard of them.
Pleasant surprise. There’s quite a lot of punk on this list. This was one of the better ones.
How many Bowie albums are on this list?!?!
Like getting to like Guinness. I like Guinness, I don’t like Prince despite repeated attempts to do so. I’m always left thinking ‘right, so it’s five minutes to the song in and I’m ready for something to happen’.
Another where one album from the band would be sufficient. It’s a yes album, like the others. Fine, but nothing more.
Liked this. Didn’t understand a word of it.
I could insert the Big Lewbowski quote here, but I’ve been beaten to it by many other middle aged men.
Too much CSN and their offshoots on here. It’s all the same!
The inclusion of this is an insult to music.
Great album. More accomplished than his subsequent releases.
Not even the best Pet Shop Boys album.
Dislike country in any guise. If I were Skynet wouldn’t have bothered about John Connor, but instead sent a terminator back so stop the genesis of this genre.
Very of its time. I like later orbital stuff, but wasn’t a huge fan of this. Always waiting for something to happen. It didn’t.
Fine, but nothing more.
I can’t keep listening to this.
This sort of music explains why real men go to church with a semi-automatic under their jacket. Awful!
A great album. No fillers. Some nostalgia is influencing my opinion here, but who cares. It’s ace. Makes listening to all the Metallica albums on this list an absolute kick in the teeth.
I liked this and would happily listen to this very long double album several times before listening to any more country music. The music still seems fresh today. Whoever said it’s like being at a ceilidh hasn’t ever been to a ceilidh. It’s like being in an Irish pub with a warm fire. Lovely.
Mixed. Some really strong tracks that don’t sound dated in there, but fades towards the end where some do sound dated.
I’m clearly in the minority here, but this isn’t very good punk music. It’s boring. It’s also too long. It’s also repetitive.