First of the bunch (meaning, my 1001 albums listen through). I'm familiar with the band, even like some of their tracks, such as Shout. I got an overdose of them in the 80's, when Sky Trax and Music Television we're a thing. The album is the very essence of 80's pop, to my surprise it doesn't feel too dated today, it did feel very much so in the 90's. For me it was a boring album for the most part, the artsy slow bits especially. Some of the light jazzy bits were fine as well, basically I liked the tracks with big beats and groove, disliked the soft moody songs with too much empty space in them.

Ah, Stax Records, The Bar-Keys, soul music and unstoppable groove of the late 60's and early 70's. This album has been on my dive deep -list for quite a while, well all of Isaac Hayes catalog really. It's an awesome record, the psychedelic era is starting to seep through, in a smooth way.

Another 90's trope that was on every radio station, TV show and mediocre DJ playlist. Drove me crazy. I've heard this album in full few times, someone I dated listened to it a lot, but that's about it. Its edgy pop music, with a slight punkish undertones and I understand they made an effort to not include "grunge vocabulary" in their music. I hear and understand the appeal, but do not like the album, for reasons I cannot put to words. I might be biased "having been there", overexposure and what have you.

Santana has been on my radar for a long time, I've enjoyed his Woodstock performance on several occasions, but I've mostly listened to the self titled album. I actually have a version of this album in my collection, but can't remember when I've listened to it the last time! And once again it's a joy, lots of latin vibes, "world music" meshed with rock, psychedelia and mysticism. I love it.

Another album I have in my collection, I think I got it around the same time as Johsua Tree was released and ended up liking it more. Then came Rattle 'n Hum and Achtung Baby and I couldn't be bothered anymore. This album has the good goth-ish post-punk whiney pop sound that I like, they didn't like what was going on and said so in an annoyed manner. Funny and naive, but also pretty and kind of interesting music. New Year's Day is the best U2 song.

I've "It Takes A Nation..." in my collection, but this album didn't hit me like that previous did. I think I was moving on to other things musically, so it took few more years to get back into hip hop via Paris, Cypress Hill, Ice Cube et al. While I'm sure this is an important album in the hip hop context, it's just "more of the same" to me. I do remember several of the tracks on this album, probably can get in on the hook from first go, due to power play in MTV and such, on tracks like "911 is a joke" as well as "Burn Hollywood burn" and "Fight the power". Also, I didn't like the interludes that we're quite common at this time, I feel they just brake the feel and flow of the album, instead of adding to the story.

First album on the list that I've not heard before, Eno I am familiar with of course, but not his music to any real degree. I guess he was ahead of his time, because this sounds like early 80's to me. Not just the sounds, but the pop sensibilities... oh wait, Eno was in Roxy Music before this album came out. Okay, whatever, not my kind of music tho.

One of the big Brit rock records, I was into Oasis even more and I didn't get this album until discounts hit it later. As a metal guy Song 2 hit me harder, while I appreciate the rest of the album too. I remember being quite indifferent to the ridiculous notion where you had to "choose your side" over Oasis or Blur and sometimes Pulp aswell. It's not my favourite, but it's not bad either, quite enjoyable record in fact.

I know the group, but not really the music. I feel like I don't get anything out of it at home, maybe I would at a party or curated into a DJ's set, but like this, almost nothing. Few tracks did make me feel like I should learn to dance.

I've listened to Exit...Stage Left, live recording which I own and came out after this one, and R30, so lots of the tracks are familiar. Out of their albums I've heard some here and there, but haven't real idea how their style has evolved from one decade to another. I mean, this album is basically mostly classics, for me anyway.

I wrote this review once already, but it dissapeared, so F it. TL;DW: have it, bought it way back when, really thin sounding, time has not been nice to it, don't really like to listen to it anymore.

Another band I know exists and that's about it. According to my Last.fm stats, I listened to one of their song, three times. Well that was a handful. It seems the band had no direction whatsoever, they just made music in what ever style and direction they please. I think the first track had a guitar tone I really liked, aggressive low grumble, but it never came up again. The whole album is all over the place, I mean with better guitar sound and fuller production, the song "Baron Samedi" could be a Santana track. There are few great songs on this, but for the most part I find it too scattered. It's like listening to a mixtape, but all tracks are played by the same band. It's kind of unsettling. I just realized this is the band with that hit song "I don't like reggae, I love it" a.k.a. "Dreadlock Holiday". Holy shit.

Another band I'm familiar in name only. I'm sure I've heard some tracks, but I couldn't tell which they are. I don't know what I was expecting to hear, but it for sure wasn't punk laden garage with bluesy rockabilly tones. I feel there's psychedelic elements and repetitiveness from krautrock in there too, some experimental atonal noise elements sprinkled here and there. This is pretty wild stuff!

These kinds of albums I was waiting for! Music history that I've never gotten around to listening. I wish there was someone explaining the importance and relation to the time period, just contextualizing the whole thing for me. Just by the music alone I'm not wildly impressed, I mean Bowie is great, very recognizable and creative master, but still this leaves me feeling a bit... meh. Couple of songs had cool parts to them, that hadn't aged at all.

Ah, country and folk. I've gone to considerable trouble trying to get into this type of music. Just a few outlaw country artists have made the cut so far. I'm not lyrically inclined and most vocals are just another instrument, which is why Young's voice, especially his high pitched yowls, rub me the wrong way. In addition a mere acoustic guitar or piano does not cut if for me. I found this album utterly boring. I basically forgot I had music playing and it melds into the background, until Youngs wailing brings him back to focus. Even the rockier songs are starting to irritate me towards the end.

Nice, a band I didn't know nothing but the name about! I actually thought this would be a reggae/dub/elektro -mashup, after reading up on it I think this is something that my mates in the 90's tried to push on to me. Only things that stuck were Children Of The Bong and some Metalheadz/Goldie things, I suppose. I really enjoyed this one. This is chillout music at it's best and I gotta look into this stuff some more.

I love krautrock and while I know Can, I haven't really gone deep into their stuff. I do however recognize several tracks from this album, for example I love the bumbling groove of Halleluwah. I listened to half of this album with other people at the office, some only tolerated it for a little while and found it annoying pretty fast. I find the minor changes and tweaks to repetition of the songs interesting and enjoyable. Is this still considered experimental today, I don't know nor care. They did experiment the hell out of this record, I mean it's not totally atonal, but it also has bits that are. It is a genre defining album for all I know.

I've never listened to this album in full. I know several tracks out of it quite well, I've read many articles about it and acknowledge Marshall is the rappers rapper. I'm not a rapper and I like screeching guitars, psychedelia and growled vocals. I see a problem. For me, this is a not something I can listen to while doing something else. The ADD flow and ton of rhymes to boot are a bit too much, feels like I need to split my focus between several elements to enjoy. Basic beats, while very groovy, and melodies do not elevate it to "I'm listening to music" category, so it's impossible to enjoy it just as that. It requires too much of me to be enjoyable on as a backing track, as plain music it's too pop and all the cutting edges are in the rhymes, not the music.

I love 60's and 70's psychedelic soul/funk, Stax records hard hitters, even the industrial Motown stuff and the cool soundtracks that exploitation movies brought along. Superfly hits a bit different because the music is made for a movie, it's got it's moments for sure, but soundtrack isn't the best platform for a cohesive whole of an album. Musicianship is top notch, production likewise and it all sounds amazing.

For some reason I love easy listening, jazzy show tunes and 60's pop music in general apparently. I listened to the version of the album with the bonus tracks, so it's almost double the amount of songs and I never felt like I should put on something else. Utterly enjoyable listen, her voice is smooth and has nice rasp when needed. Awesome orchestral bits here and there speak volumes on how little actual studio work modern day music requires. Compared to the production values on this, all new music feels so plastic and disposable and I hate that.

Apparently there is great adversity, bad luck, musical growth, excellent production and producers involved, but also they've been quite the pet of the indie scene. The music sounds like eletro-influenced indie pop with some guitars thrown in to me. Not really music that I'm fond of. These similar soundscapes with less of a hurry and synth vibes, would be reminiscient of Slowdive, whom I do like, but as it was it is just some aural background canvas for me.

Feels like watered down brit-rock with some U.S. folk thrown in for good measure. I get strange vibes, like it's produced by someone used to doing pompous stadium rock, then they're asked to tone it down and they don't really know how. This is not what I though Dandy Warhols was. Then again by late 90's I was not interested in billboard music at all, so I probably glanced over nor had any interest in most of that kind of music. Pretentious, boring, time has not been nice to this album.

I love the idea behind the album, "music as ignorable as it is interesting... capable of inducing calm and a space to think". Also the fact that this is the first piece of music to be called "ambient" is quite astonishing. In 1978 synths were very expensive and new, so not many artists used them and even fewer made music that focus around them. While modern ambient or even 90's modern style ambient, is quite different, I can hear the seeds of the soothing music in this record. I might've listened to this at the wrong moment, it was morning and I just started working, but it still held my attention wonderfully well. Lovely.

Again, artist that I know the name of, but their music is largely unknown to me and I have no idea where they fit in the grand timescale of music events that I have in my head. I have a rough, but kind of solid, idea what this set of songs is, but I was surprised how laid back blues and "rock 'n roll" it was. For some reason I was expecting the hyperdrive of Little Richard. Enjoyable bit of musical history that inspired so many artists, who then inspired lot more artists and so on.

This sounds very familiar, even tho I've never listened to Mr. Burke, atleast while knowing what I was hearing. This has very classic sounding rock ballads, which are filled with clichés, probably because this is where they originated from. I don't know and don't care enough to look into it. Sad to say, I found it quite boring of a album.

This is one of my all time favourite albums. Black Sabbath did so much for the heavy music movement, that it is difficult to ephasize how important the band is, especially the first four records. They almost single handedly spawned the doom metal genre, but also had huge influence in all of the heavy and extreme forms of music today.