1001 Albums Summary

Just no

No

Not my thing

Self-indulgent, but at the time, they had a point.

Music - yes Lyrics - 😑

Didn’t listen

Very eighties vibe -yes!

Mixed bag. Probably would’ve enjoyed it when young.

May be the fatger of punk but the kids are better looking.

More innovative than their early pop stuff but still not a great fan.

Why not?

I knew by the cover I’d hate it. Listened to three tracks for 2 seconds each which confirmed my hate. 👎

Oh come on, he’s not that good. Where’s the evolution, man?

2 for being 80s but generic forgettable 80s.

Sounds like cheap Sex Pistols. Just another imitator.

Amazing, unique voice! Some of the songs would be quite ordinary without her vocal talent. A very influential singer, controversial for all the right reasons.

Ravi Shankar was obviously influential on western pop music but i just can’t bear the sound!

Sounds very Van before the booze gt his voice. Quite nice.

Heard of them but never actually heard them til now. Very 60s. I like it.

Yet another Cure soundalike. Great name but couldn't be bothered to listen to more than 10seconds of each track.

Not my kind of music, just couldn't listen to it. Nothing against the artist eho was probably good at her job.

I didn’t know Bush’s music beyond her Wuthering Heights hit til i listened to bit of this album. It doesn’t mean much, her songs, just cute pop music. Meh.

I don't understand what’s definitive of the music. Soft pop, nothing memorable.

More mediocrity. Is this the theme song of people had nothing to offer but very do angry about having nothing yo offer that they decided to punish everyone else?

I keep failing to see whats influential about music that sounds so obviously derivative. Maybe i am just too old for this.

I have to agree with one reviewer who said there is just too much ego in this album. Mixed bag: definitive overall sounds but discordance over-used and yes, lead is bit whiny.

I wasn’t a fan if Cash when he was young, nir of country music but I’d give this album a 6 if I could, compared to most of the garbage on this list. Cash has a quality in his voice at this age that young ones just can’t produce: suffered experience. All the shouting and wailing just can’t match what Cash brings to other people’s songs that transcends the original artist. I’d give it 5 for Hurt alone but Bridge Over Troubled Waters outdoes S&G and that’s saying something. Even Danny Boy sounds okay.

Another one of these influential must-hear bands you’ve never heard of and which sound like a compilation of sux other bands. It was listenable but a bit tedious after a while.

Costello’s voice and style are distinctive, more so than a lot of albums I’ve reviewed on this list. I wouldn't listen again though.

I appreciate the greatness if these three women but I just can’t bear the sound of their voices together.

No, just no. I can’t say more. Other reviewers have summed up the complete waste of talent on this endless noise.

New to me. Must’ve bypassed Australia. Quite like the sound.

I saw one reviewer divided the world into those who love ABBA and those who pretend not to love them. Well, I don't fit into either category. Yes, they've released some all time pop favourites and yes, they're iconic but that doesn't mean I want to listen to them. I took in a few soundbites of three songs and they all sounded like any other ABbA song. Pass.

There a sameness through the the tracks that tells me, yes, its that Coldplay sound, their definitive sound. Is this album influential ? Is Coldplay influential? Not a fan do hard to say.

Another I've never heard of. One listen doesn't justify me to decide whether an album was influential or not if I’ve never heard of them. Who did he influence? Who did he make an impact on? Some niche group? Music critics? I don't mind the voice but again, is his music more different to his contemporaries? Pass

Must be my age but I liked the album, even though I was only a kid when it came out. Easy listening.

Descendants of vikings, these people be. Not quite my thing but certainly different.

Ok but that’s all

Two iconic songs, the rest I can listen to easily, if not more than once. If this had been one of the first albums on this list that I rated, I’d have given it a 3, maybe 2. But Ive listened, or not listened, to such much shit, that Im giving it a 4, just in protest.

Good voice, bit same-sounding across the album though. The album didn't light any fires in me.

I quite liked CSNY but this is fairly forgettable.

Wtf? I don’t care how great the singers are, the songs are trash and so is the producer.

I don’t feel qualified to judge this one. I don't like the music. Like Ravi Shankar’s sitar, it’s like fingernails on a blackboard to my ears but who knows? Maybe he’s a genius.

Mostly laidback easy listening. I quite like it, which is showing my age, I suspect. I’d heard of Country Joe but never heard him. Until I started rating these albums, I didn't realise how much my musical tastes must have been formed by being a child in the 60s, wistfully missing out the hippie years and instead, being forced to listen to dire disco music by the time I was a teen. Giving it a 3 for nostalgia.

Three for the music, one for the racism. Always the question: can you separate the art from the artist?

‘I can’t stand it!’ She warbles. Yes, agreed. Special - not.

I listened to a bit of each track and they’re all a bit samey: The Pogues meets Coldplay playing covers in an Irish pub and The Chieftains walk in for a bit of the craic and for a guest appearance. Nice, but iconic? No.

In the 65 albums Ive rated so far, I can only consider one or two of them as memorable. Vast numbers of derivative tracks, little originality, loads of pretension. There must be some iconic albums somewhere on the list, surely? But this is not one of them.

Well, that was different. Like a palate cleanser in a 50-course meal at a Henry IV banquet. 3 for audio refreshment. What’s next?

I haven’t yet worked out yet whether I’m supposed to rate on whether I like an album, whether I think its iconic of it’s genre and decade or whether i think it’s been highly influential for later artists. Not being a pop/rock professional, I can’t really judge by anything other than ‘like’. So …. It’s nice, she’s talented, what else am i to say? Not going to buy it, though.

I remember I bought this album for the cover - so cool - and then grew into the songs afterwards. But Neil Young makes it, really, cos in retrospect, without his reedy voice shining through, they’re just a nice country rock band. ‘Helpless’ is timeless but I found ‘Country Girl’ meant the most to me, 46 years on from that first listen. Listening laced with nostalgia from my youth.

Not much variety on this album. Springsteen has a good voice but a limited range, both vocal and musical, at least on this album. I was never a fan so I don’t know his other albums. But at least it IS music - unlike some of the albums on this list - so hmmm.. 3

Just pop songs, that’s all. No idea how it gets labelled ‘influential’ or ‘must hear’. I could quite happily have not heard this album before I die.

I’ve taken to checking out the authors of the reviews and it’s fairly clear that if you hate Lennon or Dire Straits, you just love Screaming-Cats-Electrified-By-A-Cattleprod-type music. Lennon seems pretty polarising anyway. If you grew up with the Beatles you usually love him. If you cut your milk teeth on hip hop or punk, you think he was just a bullshit artist. I didn't bother listening to the album as I already knew the key songs enough to remember most of their lyrics. Not my cup of tea now or then. Was the album influential? Probably. Do I need to listen to it all before I die? No. Two stars.

Although I like folk music and can appreciate the craftsmanship in these songs, the album didn’t set my heart beating any faster. A 3 for Linda Thompson’s voice.

Nice pop music, nothing mind-blowing. ‘Weather with you’ very catchy. I remember it now. 3 for the catchy song, 2 for the rest.

‘ In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 497 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time’ says Wikipedia. On one listen, I’m surprised it was that high. I’ll admit, I’ve never heard of this band til now and I didn't need to. It says nothing to me. But I’m increasingly convinced how consequential you think an album is depends on where you were at in your life when you first heard it. Meaning anything you heard in your teens and 20s will probably seem more consequential than when you’re older. I’m probably far too old for it cos it just sounds like the same stuff the neighbourhood boys were bashing out at the local hall in the 70s.

Started out well but became a bit theatrical without the charm. An odd fit but not without some merit.

I didn't remember this album, these songs, til I started playing it - and they were suddenly so familiar that I realised I must have bought it. I know i had one Yes album back then. I’m sure I've Seen All Good People was a hit. Memories of listening to my transistor radio under the bedclothes late on a school night surface. I enjoyed this album for its nostalgia value, but god knows what anyone born after 1980 would make of it. I think their brains are hardwired differently now. A 4 for the memories. Won’t ever listen to it again, though.

Not my cup of tea but an amazing voice. Giving it a 4 in response to the wanker reviewer who called this ‘secretary music’. And that was the most polite name he called it.

Listened to 30 seconds of three tracks then gave up. Which is what they should've done. Taking the trash can out is more enjoyable than submitting my ears to this.

So dated! That classic synth-pop sound! Took me back to my heyday, trip down memory lane and all that. But they were fairly generic for the era. I could’ve been listening to one of a number of bands. 2 for the nostalgia .

Hendrix was a phenomenon: the voice, the guitar, the look, the early death. This almost obscures any critique of the music itself. Hey Joe sums up the phenomenon, some of the rest of the album doesn’t. 4

Great title track, got a bit bored after that.

Don’t know them, seem competent. Inspirational? Myst hear? Nah.

No, just no. 0 if i could.

Another band I’ve never heard of that sounds like a dozen others.

Nice and easy. Reading the reviews, I see the 90s babies hate it with a passion. That’s ok, I hate the gear-grinding white noise they call music. Having said that, Sweet Baby James is a bit meh, so 2.

I laughed when I saw this guy come up on this list. I mean, really? Inspiring? No. Mandolin Wind is probably the best track, a nice nostalgic pop song. So 2.

Nice enough. I don't hate it, so 2

A 2 for historical interest

I cant listen to this nowadays but I appreciate the sentiments.

There’s nothing else quite like that Neil Young sound that makes me feel like I’m transported to the American midwest (even he mainly lived in California). There’s something so laidback on the surface but do much angst underneath. Ive always liked his music though I don't play it a lot but this is not my favourite album.

Never heard of them. I think I tuned out of the 90s because band were just rehashing the musical trends of the past three decades and thinking they were so cool. This is not punk, just pop with punk influences. Having said that, these boys have a bit of talent if not much originality, so 2.

‘ "Guarantee you anyone born after 1982 is not putting this in their 1001 albums to listen to list"’ says one of the highest rated comments here. I’m born before 1982 and I’m still not putting it on my list. Nor am I going to pan it. It doesn't appeal to me but to give him his due, musicality and talent etc, I’m giving him a 3

I missed the Go-Betweens heyday probably because as I was living in England in the 1980s. I didn’t recognise any of the track names but as soon as I heard them, I thought: this sounds so Australian! Then I recognised Lindy Morrison from the APIA household insurance ads from a few years. What a comedown. But anyway, nice nostalgic music for a scene I wasn't part of: 2

Beautiful voice, so talented and musical. A breath of fresh air amidst the overriding male BO of most albums on this list. Having said that, I wouldn’t listen again, as it’s not quite my style. But a 4 at least.

I think punk rock was exciting at the time but it comes across as dated and, well, a bit banal in 2025. But maybe that’s just me , ageing.

All the kids giving this album/artist a rave must of been born yesterday, to find it do inspired. As another reviewer said, sounds like an algorithm created it out of a tick-a-box list. I was tired of it after 3 seconds with the whining voice/ lyrics. But I’ve heard worse, so 2.

Unrateable. 1 for originality and it was the 60s.

One hundred albums in, I have to wonder why we need to listen to a thousand? If 500 of them are as forgettable as this one. She has a nice voice, that’s the best one can say about Idlewild. 2 for the voice.

Original, creative, unlike a vast number if albums on the list. I wouldn't buy it or even listen again but he deserves st least a 4

Nope.

An acquired taste. Interesting voice but it reminded me of Kate Bush without sounding anything like Kate Bush, and I don’t much care for Bush. Maybe the lyrics are good but I can’t get past Harvey’s voice.

The sort of music thats playing in the background of a bar in a nightclub in an 80s movie, probably something about friends and lovers. It’s not bad, it’s not good. When there’s only a scale of 5 in the ratings, 3 seems too much approval.

This takes me back to early high school and its not a pretty memory. Sounds so dated now, that canned pop music sound. Reminds me a bit of The Sweet, but funkier. No better than a 2

Meh, it’s listenable because its nostalgia fir my youth, but i hear to many other bands in the songs. 2

Hey, it’s Joni Mitchell! But not at her best. And I’ve never bern a fan, she doesn't speak to me or for me. But hey! She’s a bucket and a half better even on her off days than much of the dross on this list. 3.

Too dated to decide if it was influential. Just 60s pop, nothing special. 2

The album cover put me off - I thought Bonny Billy must be another heavy metal headbanger band. So I was pleasantly surprised when the music began. I thought maybe even a 4, but then it turned out Billy was another kind of headbanger, the melancholic rather than the angry sort, so it dropped to 3. Then to 2 as it got very samey. I don't need this stuff. Maybe it appeals to young men?

The 90s really were a crap decade for original music. Listened to this yesterday, must be forgettable as now can’t even recall what they sounded like.

I’m not keen on covers usually. These are no exception to the rule. Pleasant enough but not gonna light my fire.

I see REM are considered Indie Rock - I’m not a fan, so to me it just sound like pop music, perhaps because I only know their big hits. They are certainly talented and have a distinctive sound, but I couldn't listen to the whole album. So a 4 for being influential, not because I like them especially.

Beautiful, melancholy music, all thats left of this sensitive soul. More gifted than 90% of the albums on this list.

Meh. Boring guitar, boring lyrics, just another rock band banging away and saying nothing much.

A clear 5. I’ve nothing else to add that other reviewers haven't already said, except to note the sheer variety of moods and music in this album, the range they cover, is exceptional. El Conda Pasa is quite transcendent but The Boxer really touches the soul.

I suppose if you came of age musically in the 90s, you might think this album/band something special (‘incredible! Just incredible’! gushed one reviewer😒), but to me, a child of the 60/70s, they just sound like a dozen other bands of the same genre. The lead can sing sort-of, and had an almost-distinctive voice, not quite cos he really sounds like someone else better known, but that's the high point of this sound. One more angst/not angst but cool band doing what they did back then. 2 for the voice and it didn't hurt my ears. Second thoughts, its too teenage male doing what teenage males do, regardless of decade, so 1. I’m not, and never was, a teenage boy.

I had to search my memory to come up with a Todd Rundgren song. Not exactly memorable. I see dome reviewers raved and gave this nothing in particular album a 5. 🫢 Perhaps they’d just listened to 5 heavy metal albums in a row?

I enjoyed this more than I expected to. But then, I like the 60s psychedelic sound, nostalgia and all that. 3

If someone here has classical music training, it doesn’t show. Just a mid-70s rock band with one big hit. Being played on rotation on a radio station doesn't mean ‘great’, it just means ‘background filler’, 2

Every nothing-much album that turns up on this list reminds me that the brilliant Midnight Oil don't appear at all. In fact, no Australian bands appear on it. Anyway, This album is just nothing. Leave the singing to daddy.

I enjoyed this more than I expected to. I only knew Creep til now, which does nothing for me, but i might actually listen again to some of these tracks, especially Street Spirit. 3

Just no.

Not a fan. I can understand how one album got on this list, but another five?

Meh. Guy has feels, wants to express himself, wants to tell the world his feels are different to everyone else’s feels. Wants to make money from his feels. Wants to be someone. So male, so millennial. Meh.

Never a fan, and creepy attitude to women 👎

I saw Wings live once in Sydney, not sure why. I was never a Beatles fan though obviously I recognise their influence. But Paul always seemed the most lightweight of the Fab Four, the most ‘pop’. This album bears that out: catchy tunes, Paul’s signature voice, cute lyrics. Curious that the previous album i rated from this list was a Stones’ one. They couldn’t be more different. But would Wings have made it without having a Beatle at the helm? Probably not. The album isnt show-stopping, just solid middle-of-the-road pop with some extra zing.

Sounds like someone else. 2 for the voice.

I only ever liked one Prince song - When the doves cry - and its not on this album.

A 5 for Tusk and a 3 for Sarah for that iconic Fleetwood Mac sound but the rest is just Standard pop to me. Not sure about other reviewers’ comments about ‘manic’ and ‘rambling’ - have they listened yet to some of the post-punk and heavy metal albums yet? Tusk sounds fairly sane to me.

5, no question at all about it. But one album of this is enough. And I’m sure as a lover he would’ve been a pain in the backside to have around. All mood and swoon and hangdog looks. No thanks.

Yep, it’ll pass.

I absolutely have never heard if this bsnd and nor do I want to. Epic fail.

Better than I thought it would be. Not my thing but he was very influential. And I did realise Act Naturally was first recorded by him, not the Beatles. See? He must be influential if he influenced the Beatles.

Oh god, not another 80s hair/metal/leotard noise-makers.

I like most songs on this album though its not perfect. Moreover, some of them have real cultural significance, which is more than you can say about much of the garbage on this list. But I’m giving it a 5 just to counter the jerk reviewer who described Simon and Garfunkel as ‘low-talent hacks’ - and then rates Fiona Apple as one of his top albums. Seriously?

Not too awful but also nothing special. Not even distinctive let alone influential.

Not my favourite Led Zep album, but an influential bridge between the early albums and what was to come. A4 for the Immigrant Song alone.

Britpop at its worst.

Donovan wrote some beautiful and timeless songs for children that I still listen to, sometimes - but not for this album. These sings sound very dated, and though I like 60s music generally, these are not the best.

I don't care for her voice but cant deny she’s been influential on country music. A 3

Influential on what, exactly? Its just another poppy plastic album with country overtones (is she channelling Dolly?) cashing in. Nothing awful, nothing special. 2

Influenced who? Her manager? Her mother? For crying out loud, the album has barely even reached pre-school age yet, let alone talking about it influencing anyone of note.

Nope.

Another pointless inclusion on this weird list.

More punkpop than punk. Not the worst but nothing memorable

5+ cos I fookin’ love Irish music and Irish attitude and this album has heaps of both. Even the wtf songs like Worms have attitude. Not too bad at all.

This woman could really sing! What a voice! raw, edgy, great range and musical as well. Not the kind of music I listen to generally, but respect for what she gave us. Move Over and Me and Bobby McGee iconic of the era.

Might have had more impact if there were fewer tracks. Less is more, I got bored.

I’m a sucker for 60s music so couldnt not like this, though not s fan of the band. But apart from that iconic 60s psychedelic soft rock sound, the tracks weren't memorable. 3

Gross!

Notable only for the two Neil Young songs, it was quite enjoyable but very uneven in quality. 3

Yeah, nah. All the young dudes was better. I temember liking it enough yo buy that album but in retrospect, I cant imagine why.

I like music from this era and The Band is iconic of genre so 3.

I just don't care for Bowie’s voice or music or general persona.

Slightly better than ‘meh’

After 173 albums, mainly dross, finally something memorable. Tempting to give it 5 but realistically a 4

Not the worst but hardly groundbreaking - or even vaguely memorable. I was in the prime of youth when this album came out snd still I’ve never heard of them til now. 2

How on earth did this Aussie band from my youth get on this list when Midnight Oil, a hundred’s time superior, doesn’t? (Or I couldnt find them on the list, anyway). Headbanger stuff and not very good at that. Forgettable 1

A nice easy-listening band from my youth with one hit on an average album. But not exactly setting the world on fire. I’d give it 2 only, except that there so much other dross on this list that, by comparison, its at least a 3.

5 just for poignant Time After Time alone, a song that followed me through an ill-fated romance in my early 20s and then later used in the iconic (in Australia) 1990s Strictly Ballroom movie from Baz Luhrman. The rest of the album is quite good, too, if like this sort of pop.

Grossly overrated nonce, even without his private life. 0 if I could.

Not a fan. Deep Purple and Led Zep did it better. Laguna Sunrise the best track. 2

No false moves in this one - 5

I don't like bland pop tunes with cute blondes mouthing repetitive words and gestures but I know most of the rest of the world totally gets off on them.

I’m not even 200 albums into this list and I've come to realise that ‘influential’ on the list just means ‘had a hit’ or ‘had a song written by someone who had a hit’ or ‘appeared on tv or video’. Another generic 60s-sounding band with lots of little nuthin’ much tracks. Pass

I’ve heard worse and they were certainly influential so 3. For you young ones, if you’re wondering what all the hype was about, you had to be there. They were a lovely antidote to Abba and glam rock, if nothing else

Pleasant, professional but forgettable.

I like CSN&Y but only Young could really make it on his own. The album is pleasant but that’s all. 2

Another New Wave forgettable. Hard to believe this band arose out the ashes of Joy Division.

Hard to look past the legendary 60s hype of Grace Slick when listening to this. I knew White Rabbit but not much else. Not a sound I’d listen to again but probably influential.

Just no.

Classic 60s bubblegum pop. I don’t care that they were concocted as America’s answer to the Beatles. I preferred them, they weren't so pretentious as John and co became. Just fun and Randy Scouse Git is tops. 3

4 for Layla and the sound, 1 for his racist attitude. But I reckon that’s more normal amongst white male musicians of his generation than most let on. But he got drunk and said it out loud.

I like to read the reviews sometimes before I rate an album if I am not that familiar with the band/singer. This gives a bit of context to my thoughts. So I’m a late boomer (some young ‘uns seem to think using generational cliches a relevant method for classifying albums so I’ll humour them) and care nothing for the Stones. Or the Beatles, for that matter. But they were a cultural phenomenon so you have to give them that. But musically? Nah. Every Stones track sounds derivative of all the others. That’s just them. Every song is the same, just about. At least the Beatles evolved musically. (The Stones haven’t evolved anywhere. They’re just the same strutting teenage boys they were 50 years ago. ) 2 for cultural phenomenon

Adam Ant had an album? Or two? I only ever knew of his hit song. Cute but that was enough.

Not a fan but some songs built to last.

Hmmm. I quite like some Cohen but this just seems almost like he’s sending himself up here.

Curious synchronicity, but Ozzie Osbourne died today - and then this album pops up. My social media feed is full of people bewailing his passing but I was never a fan, so I’m not rating this album on nostalgia. I don't like their music and what they stood for, either.

Beats the knickers off Black Sabbath, and a lot more musical as well.

I started out prepared to like this album id never heard before but it dragged on and on and I just wished someone would put put it out of its misery.

Very 80s sound, takes me back .. but Joy Division they aren’t, and that makes them just another 80s band.

Possibly my least favourite Led Zep album. A bit same old, same old at this point and Kashmir is just turgid.

Not terrible but also nothing much else. I know most music is derivative but you don't have to be so obvious about it. A beta band? Should never have been released.

I know she’s a name and sold millions but any music that ends up as blah mall music does not serve to be called inspirational. 2 for the voice and attitude.

‘Thrasher’ just about sums up this album. And I don't mean the track name (I refuse to call it a song). 1

Never was a fan but can’t deny they were influential. 3

Madonna’s music is the least interesting part of her. Seven albums is six too far.

Ten times more listenable than the previous album on this list, Madonna’s 7th album. Yes, its simple, refreshing, straightforward pop but not at all pretentious of over produced. I wouldn't listen to it again, not being 22 anymore ( the age I was when it was released) but yes, 4

Until I had to listen to madonna albums on this list, I never realised how much I disliked her voice. So manufactured and packaged, nothing real or spontaneous about the material girl. Ugh, I hate it.

No comment

I have to admit I’ve never heard her before and only barely heard of her, as i switched off from pop music decades ago. I expected, then, to hear another of these little girly fantastic-plastic voices like many of the other blonde popsicles preceding her. So i was pleasantly surprised by her presence and big ‘real woman’s’ voice. This was no popsicle! The songs themselves don't speak to me but she well and truly earns her place on this rather dubious list.

When I saw it was a double album, I wasn't sure I could be bothered.

Watching the original video of Come On, Eileen almost put me off altogether, it was so bad! But I don't think I thought at the time. It’s a fun album, it’s dated - surely it didn't really influence any body ? Other than a few high school bands?

I just don't like Bowie.

Not so bad considering I don’t like country music. But not that good, either. At least they’re not BritPop like every other album on this list.

I’ve never heard of this person so I read the wiki and a few reviews before I played a few tracks. It was better than what the reviews led me to believe, but yes, as some other reviewer said, this music is for people who buy activated almonds and Gwyneth paltow’s gunk.

Slightly better than the last Sonic Youth album I rated but still nothing special. Last time I wrote that it might have had more impact if there were fewer tracks. And it did! 3

5 for Tainted Love, which is so iconic it appears in a Doctor Who episode ( ninth dr with Rose, 2nd episode, I think). The rest are forgettable but somehow I like the genre. So 4.

There’s far too much britpop on the list. I like 80s music but I’m over it and I’ve not even reached 300 albums yet.

Not awful.

Hard not to give anything with Janis Joplin a 5, her voice is so iconic of the late 60s and of a whole cultural phenomenon. Never been a voice like it since.

Seems to be hours of someone clashing dustbin lids and yelling tonelessly in my ears. ‘Thrash’ is it.

At this point, U2 had lost their edge (no pun intended) and were now just up themselves.

Yeah man, cool.

So middle of the road it’s embarrassing that it’s even on the list. Anyone influenced by this derivative album is obviously desperate.

More britpop??

A 5 for the exquisite Candle In The Wind and the title song, then 1 for the mindless Benny and the Jets. The rest fall between.

I’m not a fan but appreciate what she has done for music by women, for women. 3

Always a Women reminds me of all the bars I never sat in, moochily drinking the martinis i never ordered on those late late Saturday nights I never stayed up for. How’s that for invented nostalgia? But that’s Joel’s gift, making us feel like the everyman . And I’m not a man, either. But it’s The Stranger that Im really giving him a 5 for.

I hate his voice. But i listened to a few bits of a few tracks to give the album a chance - and made me feel like I wanted to immediately take a shower and wash him off. Slimey. Ugh.

Good lead vocals but …err.. cliched?

I really like the sound and vibe of this music, this album, but that may just be nostalgia. Clapton is undesirable but then lots of male musos are. They just don’t mouth off about it in public. 3

Fuckin’ awful!

I love reading the reviews here of original bands like Led Zep from young trendies who just go ‘yawn,.. oh! Bands from MY youth did it soooo much better’ or making pseudo-intellectual analyses of Plant’s sexuality. Led Zep did it first and with a rawness that the Cobains just imitated.

Thinks he’s a cross between Donovan and Louden Wainwright III. Born forty years too late - they covered this back in the 60s and 70s so not sure he’s influencing. Awful album cover, just made me cringe.

Oh my god, oh my god! An actual influencing album after 200 dregs and wannabees. 5,10,50 by comparison to last 10 albums I’ve reviewed . But in fact, I’m only giving it 4. And the whole ‘he sold out to apartheid’ thing can be read both ways. Always easy to pass judgment about event that happened before you were born, even when the same polarising events are taking place right now in your own country (looking at you, USA).

Not live, please.

The Pixies post-date may rock music prime so yo me just like , well, lots of other bands. Can sing, can play, can write lyrics - so what? 2

2 because its not dreadful but I can’t think of ant justification for a higher score. Anyway, I’m a Neil Young fan.

Not another 70s British band, sigh.

Not as good as Thick As A Brick or Songs From The Wood but a good 3. From an era when bands could actually still experiment with what ‘rock’ was, rather than confirming to narrow market constraints, like in the past 30 years.

90s bands always sound so same-y and derivative of previous decades.

3

Not as bad as some of the reviews made them out to be. Had I heard if them before? They're my generation, but no, I hadn't heard of them. I give them a 3

It helps if you have a good voice snd can sing in tune.

Hmm, Chrissie Amphlett did it better.

Robotic. No thanks.

Oh fuck off.

I can understand young trendies rubbishing them but they don’t realise how much their idols owe to the Beatles, amongst others. They just hear as boomer music and put it in the bin. Just because. Oddly enough, I’m not much of a Beatles fan, either, considering I grew up with them. There isn't a song on the album that I’d listen to again, except maybe Eleanor Rigby, but I can’t say the album isn't influential based on my personal tastes. I know lots of reviewers do, though. A 3

Never ever heard of you. Never want to hear of you again

I don’t think this bad so much as just dated. Very hippy, very dated. Some of the shit that passes grunge, metal or rap on this list isn’t any better but there’s a whole generation or two who’ll think it is, just because they heard it when they were a drunken teen off their face at their first adults-only party.

I once heard someone say Jeff Buckley wasn't as good as his dad. I think they got the names round the wrong way.

‘Gorgeously textured‘ says one reviewer. ‘Mishmash of blurred discordant sound’ says another.

Thank God, what a relief! A woman, a woman who can sing, a woman with a voice! After albums of wannabees and pretenders, wanky boys getting off on themselves, an actual musician. Women definitely don’t appear often enough on this list, except as wet-dream bondage fantasies of teenage boys, but that’s show business.

I don't like Country, especially B-grade Country singers who don't deserve to be included here.

I can quite happily die without listening to any more of this bizarre offering.

I don't like the genre, and AC/DC did it better anyway, but this album is so much better than the previous 5 albums on this list that I’m giving it a 2.

Only Neil Young could get away with a voice this bad yet its so perfectly matched to the music and lyrics, it sounds transcendent. Obviously I’m Neil Young fan - he belongs to my melancholy youth - and this album is his most almost perfect. There are other songs of his I like more than some of these, but these tracks hang together almost like a narrative.

Yeah, 4 for Once in a lifetime. It’s not my groove but they were influential at the time.

Grunge away! No thanks .

I hate disco. It’s muzak. I hate it more than grunge which at least tries not to be middle of the road muzak.

More muzak.

Listenable with that distinctive voice but not a great fan.

Grossly over-rated pop band with catchy tunes and empty lyrics. Fairy floss pop.

Actually, not too bad at all. Never heard of them but the music is tight and funky and heaps better than many albums on the benighted list.

No

I really like Neil Young but gee, there’s a lot of rubbish on this album.

Quintessential english 60s pop. I like it.

Lots of reviewers here give this album a 1 as they say Dylan can't really sing. This is a bit puzzling, since most vocalists on this 1001 list can’t really sing. Isn't that one of the trademarks of rock music? Those who can sing become opera singers; those who can’t join a rock band. There are one or two iconic tracks on this album so a 3 from me. But then,I like Neil Young as well.

3 for the voice but don't like the songs or the over-packaged vibe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah… a three because of a few songs but I never listen to them anyway.

90s music is overrated. Regurgitated mishmashes of the 60s, 70, and 80s pretending to be nu. Liam Gallagher has a whiney grating voice, too.

Yet another singer with a nasal, whiney voice. But Neil Young gets away with this. I like most of his early works - must be my age - so 5 for Down By The River and Cowgirl and to spite everyone who gave it 1. You wankers probably love shit like Oasis.

Gotta laugh at all the reviewers giving this album 5 and chanting ‘haters gunna hate’ about anyone who doesn't share their tastes. That one chant sums up everything about Swift’s music - complete lack of originality and repetition. But I don't mind her otherwise as she obviously has the business and musical smarts for the pop machine. Good luck to her

Self-indulgent. Overcome with their own profundity when the lyrics and concept really quite shallow. Good musicians though. A 3 for the wistful Wish You Were Here.

Like a Lindt chocolate ad. White chocolate.

Wouldn't it be nice if they just stopped here.

Smooth

A full five for this giant of traditional folk music

Five

Good voice, but songs a bit same-y.

4 for New Year’s Day and memories of when Bloody Sunday meant something other than what Bono could make money out of. Judging the album on then rather what they became.

Didn't age well. Didn’t like it much at the time, either.

I preferred the previous and next albums to this one. But give it three for ‘Rhiannon’.

Not his old man. Nor his old lady. Preferred them both to the son.

One iconic song, two other good ones. And never really went anywhere as a band. But like giants compared to the previous 15 albums, which were so blah I didn't bother scoring them at all.

If this album had popped up in the first 50 or so, I’d probably have given it a considered 3 or 4, accompanied by dome thoughtful reflections on my years listening to Neil Young. But since its arrived here after 350 albums, of which 250 were utter tripe, I can only shout ‘Hallelujah!’ at finally getting something I can actually listen to for more than half a track. Not my favourite Young album but its a 5 for me today.

Maybe the best Dylan album.

Best ever led

So 60s psychedelic cool 😎 But a bit too much. You could get away with it back then.

I don't care for Eurythmics music and endlessly repetitive lyrics and beats ad nauseum but recognise that it was influential for its era.

I think you had to have been there to appreciate this album. Meaning, been there when it first came out. I remember really enjoying this album and Yes in general at the time. But I cant listen to it now, its too excessive. It seems self-indulgent. But then, I’m old now and all youth now seems self-indulgent. A 3 for the memories.

Curiously, as I opened up this site for today’s album, I was listening to Once I Had A Sweetheart. Needless to say, i like this album. I appreciate the genius of Jansch, Renbourn and Thompson in how they complemented McShee’s unearthly voice with eclectic experimentation in jazz, blues and folk. A 5 To all the little boys calling this album utter crap in the reviews, while praising utter crap like grunge, you can shove Nirvana up your arseholes.

Impressive in its time, though not an album or artist I can listen to now. Classic 4