Downvoted by Americans whose taste in anything is always questionable. Go figure.

An important album at an important time for UK music. I can imagine if you aren’t from the UK and/or late 80’s/early 90’s wasn’t your thing then you might not like or understand the album. Or you probably like Velvet Underground 🤮

I heard a lot good things about this album and I’ve been left really disappointed. For me the album gets better towards the end but no track stands out a classic. I don’t like jazz so those jazz infused tracks were not nice. A generous 3 stars.

FUNKY FUNK!

I feel like I’m listening to them live and they are warming up, in particular the lead singer. I don’t like his voice. They should re-record the album with a different singer.

Nice voice but I can’t stomach 3.5 hrs of this. I got halfway and skipped through the rest. It reminds me of cartoons and being off school and mum has the radio on.

So good. A couple of weak tracks but the good tracks are so so good. An album that has inspired numerous other musicians. Samples used by Nas, SWV, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, The Prodigy, Kanye West, 2Pac….

It’s not 3 stars but it’s also not 4 stars. I don’t like the limitation of 5 stars and no halves! It was good, funky but nothing amazing.

Downvoted by Americans whose taste in anything is always questionable. Go figure.

Lower class wizard rock. Mostly unpleasant sounds.

I’m listening to this on January 7th and I don’t care. I like Christmas songs and these are some of the best. In the lead up to Christmas put this album on instead of Mariah/Arianna etc.

Dylan is marmite. How can I focus on the lyrics when the voice makes me angry and bored?

Slowly realising I don't like prog rock. This is almost drivel. I want to get all the people who rate this album highly in to a room and just question them on various aspects of life.

"I feel music should make you happy, make you relaxed, pump you up, make you think, make you inspired. I feel music shouldn't make you feel anxious, on edge and angry, which is what this album did to me. Ross from Friends on keyboards with a guy off the street singing over it. The good thing about listening to 1001 albums is that there are the odd person/group that I have never ever heard of. There's a good reason I haven't heard of Robert Wyatt or Rock Bottom, the album is horrendous. I read more about him and his history and ending up in a wheelchair is not an excuse for releasing crap music. The equivalent of a monkey throwing faeces at a canvas and calling it art. "

The first track which is 15 minutes long, is like a group of chimps have found instruments and they each stumble across different notes which kind of resemble music but none of it goes together. The album does pick up slightly in the middle but then deteoriates. A real tough listen overall.

I don't like jazz. So the jazz parts were unpleasant but the funk parts were pretty decent.

Everyone likes Abba but not everyone can admit it.

Well this is a weird one. This band/album completely passed me by, despite being released at a time when I was deep in to all sorts of music. As soon as it started I feared the worst but I was pleasantly surprised. It's such an easy, basic minded, probably American viewpoint to compare them negatively to Oasis. Good songwriting, good variety of sounds.

You're not extra cool if you like jazz. Just stop it.

People not giving this album 5 stars are American and/or deaf.

I don’t like gin and tonic. Mainly because I don’t like the taste of gin and don’t like the taste of tonic. Friends will always ask me to try theirs as apparently “it’s the best one yet”. It never is. This is how I feel about Jazz. This album was at the lower end of Jazz. Really hurt to listen to. Like my 6 year old daughter had found an instrument and attempted to play it.

Pretty unpleasant but not the worst I've heard so far.