1001 Albums Summary

i love this. and it sounds similar to arctic monkeys, one of my favourite band.

Although i somehow feel good whenever some band uses accordions in their works, Irish folk is not something that i like too much. It's too happy (?), and I like things a bit more moody. but i think it's actually ok, as "fairytales of new york" is still a standard for christmas.

it's (of course) not as good as "tommy" and "who's next", but since it is their debut, it's alright. even keith, my imaginary friend who's a big who fan, agreees about that.

so the first time that i ever hear something from this album is when a regional music award payed tribute to prince and all the artists that died in 2016 at the awarding ceremony in 2017, with my favourite artists covering "purple rain" and a bunch of songs, and the guitarist that i always admired soloed on the cover. the awesomeness of the cover makes me look foward to the album that may sounds more awesome. it did sounds awesome, but the first three tracks don't live up to my exception. they are just normal synth pop 4/5

extremely stereotypical zz top, just like what i imagined their song is like after hearing "sharp-dressed man" for the first time and only that song is good the others don't rock 2/5

Heard "Blonde" before. Frank Ocean is awesome on doing those emotional stuff, and that album is extremely beautiful. But channel orange is just ok, pretty normal, not as good as blonde. 3/5

hey kids, gothic rock is fun! so i only heard "Bela Lugosi's Dead" before, but now i somehow like this genre. 5/5

erm its pretty decent i guess but still not as good as different class

conclution: edm is better the cover version of light my fire has only 1/100 awesomeness from the original the vocal is sloppy and jim morrison's original version is 100% better 2/5

the happiest radiohead album somehow heard jigsaw falling into places before 15 steps and bodysnacher is some other tracks good for me to dance to weird fishes makes me twirl around like a fish and has a tense ending there are beautiful moments like nude and depressing tracks like all i need and videotape they all goes extra hard for me 5/5

conclusion: techno the youtuber is better than normal techno somehow (i know his full account name is technoblade but it's just for a somehow weird comparison) the first ten minutes feels like 2 hours while the music beeps and boops and then it beeps and boops in a danceable way although danceable, the rest of the beeps and boops make 1 hour sounds like half a day 3.5/5

latin music never interests me 2/5

when i saw this album today during lunch break, i figured out that i'd like to get high during english language class while the teacher talks about stuffs and the questions in class slowly drifts out of sight and becoming surreal. care of cell 44 has this classic 67' beatles feel, the guitars and pianos and harmonies, so penny lane. i like it, as i'm a ex-beatles fan. but some tracks are sloppy. 4/5

it's psychedelic, and also makes me wants to sleep more. it goes left and right around my head. its just so tiring... 2/5

Other reviews says it’s what a quality Phil Collins album might sound like. But a quality Phil Collins album is “in the air tonight” sorts of things repeating 12 times (just joking). This one is different every time. Genesis is a great band: but there’s no way of making fun of other members using other’s solo work to compare to thems. Peter and Phil are both great. 4/5

the singer's voice reminds me of thom yorke's falsettos. but anyway, why is the first track named "Charlie Big Potato"? it's absurd. 3/5

2/5

Another motherf****ing irish folk album. And why there's a segment of "blackbird" with an improvised melody at the end of the song? As a ex-beatles fan, this really makes me confused. But the title track is great, and beautiful moments occasionally occur. 3/5

it reminds me of contemporary rnb, which is the genre that i hate the most in this world, with all those "baby"s and "oh yeah"s. i can fall asleep to this 2/5

ITS SUCH A BIBLICAL MOMENT WHEN I RATED MY PREVIOUS ALBUM AND SAW "DEFINITELY MAYBE" APPEAR ON THE TOP OF THE PAGE. cause i am a simple-minded 10th grader aka oasis stan. anyway, oasis is a great band. and i'm going to write my review in an extremely chaotic way similar to me writing essays in school. and as we all know, the band's soul is the Gallagher brothers, with elder brother Noel playing guitar and younger brother Liam singing. The guy lying on the ground in the album cover is Liam himself, the self-claimed "RNR STAR GODLIKE RASTA ICON LEGEND BIBLICAL OMNIPRESENT PROPHET SPIRITUAL MAJESTICAL CELESTIAL OPTIMYSTIC BUDDHIST JEDI APPROACHABLE ZEN LOVER HUMBLE 🐝" as written in his twitter bio. his twitter updates once a day, with him saying hello to fans, and then reacting to fan's comments and talking about football, like, after manchester city's loss to liverpool in the premier league last month, he said, in a love me, love my dog way, "we piss all over the beatles". and even before he penned the bio, he was everything mentioned in it. surely, a true rock star knows how to stir up controversies: he argued with Noel nearly every day after oasis broke up and before they reformed months ago, he was involved in many fights, took drugs, and did a lot of rock'n'roll-styled things. but the thing that stands out the most, along with his attitude, is his voice. that fucking sarcasm. that fucking emotion. that fucking "shiiiiiine" which was dragged along the music and became a meme. and it goes so well with the lyrics noel wrote, probably while he was getting high, like the pure nonsense in "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker". And apart from the nonsense, there's some pretty philosophical things in the album, such as the lyrics to "Live Forever". "Columbia" on the knebworth live album is messy and chaotic, while the studio version is bit lame with distortion incomparable to the live. "Bring It On Down" is a hidden gem. "Digsy's Dinner" makes me want to eat lasagne, while "rock'n'roll star" is a solid hit while also functioning as the opening song. it all proves that Noel is half a genius at music, although not as good as Dylan or Lennon. But he can only enter his complete form with Liam at his side, singing the songs he wrote. "Definitely Maybe" is definitely maybe one of the best debut albums of all time. also, i'm going to manchester this winter and buy the man city & noel collab kit and maybe get tickets of them versus chelsea (at home). perhaps the next album i'll rate is "parklife" cuz damon is chelsea fan. congrats me =) 5/5

wait... what? MORNING GLORY? TWO OASIS ALBUM IN A ROW? THAT'S SOME TRUE BIBLICAL MOMENT! but anyway, today is gonna be the day that i rate my second oasis album on the list. there's no need for me to say too much about this album. it's biblical. I love it so much that I even went to Berwick Street myself and took photos in the location of the album cover last year, when I was travelling in UK. maybe I'm going to do it again this winter. Liam's voice is at somehow a peak. "Hello" is a good opening. "Roll With It" is full of attitude. "Don't Look Back in Anger" remains classic. "Hey Now" is top nonsense. "Some Might Say" has a philosophical lyric. "Champagne Supernova" is epic. "She's Electric" probably stole from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", but it's ok. "Cast No Shadow" is interesting storytelling. "Morning Glory" was featured at the beginning of "Acquiesce", which is my favourite Oasis track. so is there something missing out, apart from "Bonehead's bank holiday"? yeah. (took out guitar) (put capo on the second fret) Anyway... Here's Wonderwall. 5/5

i hate political stuff 1/5

ok, i understand. this is good, this is a classic. but it's just too... "American". somehow it is R&B-ish and never-ending, like an orgasm that never came. 3/5

"Little Wing" is what you calls an eternal classic. a beautiful love song penned by the best guitarist in the whole rock history. the only problem of the song is it's too short. some of the songs are that boring type of blues rock, only become better because of jimi's guitar playing. but it randomly slaps hard. 3.5/5

more boring soul music. i dont want to listen to it anymore.

oh, dear old mark knopfler. some pretty damned "rockers" seems to run around popular band's fandoms (like coldplay) making chaos using "money for nothing" as a boring phrase to ridicule their commercialisation, but that's horrible and non-respectable. and its all because they are famous and rich, and those guys tries to prove that they have awesome music taste by rejecting popular and mainstream stuff. all a bunch of shit. also, the album sounds ok. "money for nothing" actually sounds good and has a awesome riff, but mark didnt write a clear melody line, making it bit boring. 3/5

wow this hits hard and catches my attention from the start 3.5/5

i hate country music from the start 2/5

uh-oh. the once lowest ranked album on this list. and it is free jazz. instead of listening to this, i'd rather give throbbing gristle or the birthday party a 4 or 5 than listen to this shit, because these two sounds pretty good when compared with this shit. 1/5

"We piss all over the Beatles"-- Liam Gallagher, 2024 so after liverpool beat man city at the beginning of december, i began erasing the evidence of me being a beatles fan that i was in middle school and tried to focus on good old big O. but, i had to admit that any beatles album just brings me loads of good memories of me in that period of life. there's a snapshot of me when i decided to talk about them in the chinese class's pre-class sharing, and the teacher made all my classmates share a topic that we are interested in turn. (well, about the chinese class... i think that i should mention that i am east asian. I mentioned that in an earlier review, but now it's edited out.) i end up with a serious overtime, stretching the 5 minute sharing limit to a 8 minute piece about their whole history, from john and paul's meeting to the death of George. also, "Now and Then"wasn't released back then. and there i was, listening to "and i love her", sitting outside a shopping centre at 8 in the morning in England, summer 2023. another one is me watching many video of Paul's live concerts on the way to liverpool, all from the recent times, starting with either "can't buy me love" or that hell of a chord in "a hard day's night". those silly love songs are not the beatles' most musically complete works, but they're good soundtracks for a teen going through the ups and downs in her life. only half a year has passed since i finished middle school, and i miss those days. 3/5 for the music itself, but 4/5 for the memories it bring.

meteora is my life album from the second half of my 8th grade to now, because everything on it are somehow all self-doubt teen angst anthem. hybrid theory is similar. i like the whole album a fucking lot, especially "in the end", because it's just so suitable for high schoolers. sorry, boomers. i'd like to give it a 4 instead of a fucking 1. 4/5

damn, it's folk. and the first track is instrumental. maybe i'll give them a 1, because they are from birmingham, and my home team is playing against aston villa today but anyway a 2/5

i don't like rap but eminem is just pure awesome 3/5

no 2/5

song is proper 90s british rock but the melody is a bit weird purest teen energy at it's finest i like those stuff even when it's not made by oasis or blur or pop punk era green day 3.5/5

MERRY CHRISTMAS, everybody! Although Phil is a terrible man, i appreciate his effort on putting the wall of sound on christmas music, and makes it richer than before. It's better than other albums he produced, like "let it be" or "death of a lady's man", but less good than "imagine". actually, christmas music is as cheesy as ever. We should play non-christmas music on christmas, like the soundtrack of "love actually". 3/5

the kinks are all right 3/5

woo hoo 4/5

so when i thought about blues, the stuffs that automatically came to my brain is: "Yer Blues" by the beatles, a sort of parody on the genre. The Birthday Party, my new favourite band which, in theory, is a post punk band that is influenced by blues and noise rock. and there are all the memes. And early rolling stones. and late rolling stones. and me playing "gimme shelter" over and over on spotify. and this album... it did makes me very blue. but i'm always blue, actually. it's... emotional. and it's good to go blue before a manchester city match. although they are playing against leicester city who is also blue, by the way. oops... i was thinking about some other things. 3/5

so keith -- my imaginary friend who's a big who fan-- decided to write this review for me after this imaginary struggle with him over who should write this: "OK! Now we're getting somewhere. I read the global reviews and hey, why are everybody complaining about the jingles? they ARE cliché, but that's what they are meant for! they are doing a parody of a radio station, and who doesn't know about the lengthy commercials and cheesy jingles happening in between songs during a radio broadcast? You really lack a sense of humor! It's a very good album, and it deserves some love, OK?" "But it amuses me when people, hating the jingles or not, praised "i can see for miles". It deserves it." Keith gives it a 5, and i give it a 4. on average, it's a rounded up 5. 5/5

ok, Keith, here we go again. "It's funny, isn't it? Two peak who albums back-to-back. Heard that 'Tommy' is here too, but never mind about that. the thing about it, is, that it captures the Who's high energy live so fucking perfectly. I... I just can't say how much I admire this. That's the beauty of live albums, isn't it? with al those improvisations, solos and applauses, it makes you feels like that you are there, although you aren't there. OK, hipsters, motown lovers, and indie dogs who give this album something less than a 3, i understand your point. But I just simply wonders,“why don't you all f-f-f-fade away”, as I shall give this album, another five! (This time, me and Keith had an agreement on the rating.) 5/5

it's good in a nightclub when you can't feel the time passing, the flashing lights and effects make you have this instinct to dance, but listening to it at home is not the best choice 4/5

it's ok 3/5

2 minutes in and it already feels like forever some wanker even compares it with kid a but this shit really makes me suck a lemon 1/5

horrible american stuff 1/5

So It’s post punk. I’m pretty into post punk these days. It's tasty, but sometimes pretty repetitive. 3/5

this is my kink it makes me proud as an English citizen, and then the album ends and i remembered that I'm NOT BRITISH at all. i missed the days that I spend in the UK. 4/5

i still hates soul. no war, please. i'd rather give peace a chance. 3/5

it's just ok 2/5

people tends to hate on post punk, but why? idk. anyway, this is... ok. not so stereotypical post punk, but instead leaning a bit into new wave. not as influential as joy division. and who the fuck names their band "the The"? i thought that "the Band" is a terrible band name. 3/5

moody music for walking in the rain. although Portishead also has "head" in their name, they're not as good as Radiohead. 4/5

anything not pure rock that is released from the 60s (except for sinatra) automatically gets an 3 from me and soul is boring, so there's a penalty so it's a 2

new wave is more boring than post punk 3/5 edit: what was i thinking when i first listened to this? Never Let Me Down Again and Strangelove are now both tracks in my usual rotation. why would i hate this album? 4.5/5

uh 2.5/5

hey ya is an instant classic but the rest is just ok 3/5

the morning bell rang, signaling a new album from the 1001 album generator site. a certain person sat in front of their computer, played some games, failed, ask themself frustratedly “How come I end up where I started?”, open the site, saw this album, and because of their disinterest in jazz, thought about how they can tolerate it. But maybe it is not a mission impossible if they take five minute's break from the shitty stuff... So this is actually a series of really terrible pun: Because of the existence of "Take Five", songs in 5/4 time are randomly added into the routine. back to the album itself. it is one of a kind of a polyrhythmic feast, with me struggling to count the way through the odd meters of the track. "Blue Rondo a la Turk" starts with excited piano vamps and sounds weird while still maintaining a sense of order, changing time signatures every now and then. "Strange Meadow Lark" is just stereotypical jazz, while "Take Five", the ultimate hit on the album, sounds as classy as ever, making "15 steps" the second best 5/4 song imo. in conclusion, if you like head-hurting stuff but think that maths rock or midwest emo is too noisy, you can come and listen to this.

i have a bias toward rap albums, but this one is pretty good. maybe the reason for this is the presence of ye as the producer and the co-writer, who is still half a genius at then, before becoming that wanker that he now is. even though i was a fan of taylor when i was in middle school, i still miss the old kanye. 4/5

Firstly, nick drake is not a fusion between nick cave and drake, since the former is down under's own evergreen alternative rock icon, the latter is the most iconic (and the most memed) rapper from the great white north tried to strike a chord with people but choose to hit A Minor and became the ultimate loser, and nick drake is a british folk singer who died young. secondly, nick cave said that he enjoys nick drake's songs, saying that "Whenever I have heard Nick Drake’s music over the years I have enjoyed it" (Cave, 2021). so i might enjoy it too, i thought. Finally, this album is, once again, something that I considered as weird. but it also has this conforming quality that seems to embrace me in its weirdness. p.s. but there IS a meme on the internet, fusing the "hotline bling" meme with the lyrics in one of nick cave's songs, in case you want to know. 5/5 works cited: Cave, N. (2021, July) "Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #159" The Red Hand Files. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/relation-between-you-nick-drake/

it's a fucked up album -- No, I mean, "Funked up". terrible pun, i know. the fact that my winter holiday has just started makes this album more enjoyable. because everybody has this experience of being too relaxed after the school year finishes. And I was just super relaxed, bobbing my head with the strong beat, it feels somehow like a drug. what an awesome rhythm section. what an energetic vocalist George Clinton is. And that whole damn awesome guitar and horns. I haven't had any type of funk music related experience that can match this since I danced to "Uptown Funk" in the school KTV night. It makes me become the chill guy. 4/5

i am thinking about buying cigarettes and alcohol to accompany my listening. but i am a minor and they don't sell anything related here. anyway it's nice. 4/5

im getting pretty lucky with this run of albums (excluding slipknot). 4/5

hell yeah this is fucking cool. i just... how the fuck did they manage to make such a cool album? 5/5 (some other things about the talking heads: i was in the costume department of the school play, and the drama teacher/director asked us to design a set of costume that both looks cool and convinent for the actor to dance in. And i just thought of david bryne's big suit and made a parody of it. although it is just a not-so-oversized suit while still exaggrating the body outline. although the idea is ultimately rejected by both the actor and the director.)

fun animal crossing music 4/5

“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.’” --Nick Cave I hate California a lot and I hate it more after listening to RHCP, but Flea is an amazing bassist and some songs are catchy 3/5

you can infer the reason that I won't go and watch "A Complete Unknown" although I am a Timothée Chalamet stan from this album. because I am afraid that he would perform the song in a too faithful-to-the-oringinal way. in a sentence, i know he's good but just meh. to quote a popular review: [strums guitar gently, starts singing] “How many Bob Dylan albums must a man endure, before he’s free of this god forsaken list? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.” [abruptly stops strumming] …wait, no it’s not. Seven. The answer, my friend, is seven. 3/5

4 jazz funk greats. 4/5

Tom sings like an early Leonard Cohen while tries to fuse Indonesian gamelan into his music half the time. the other half is torturing ballad with hoarse singing. 2/5 Update (on 4/11/2025): Now I am on RYM. And during my time on the site, other users has long suggested me to re-evaluate my rating for "Bone Machine". So here i am. cling-clang. cling-clang. "Earth Died Screaming" started the album with a series of woody percussion and horror imagery: stars falling, hellfire, chaos everywhere, the craziness of the apocalypse expressed through equally crazy accompaniment. A surrealism of death. Than out of the blue, the soft piano and horns of "Dirt in the Ground" sets the stage in a post-apocalypse world after the last track, while Tom sang this most charming dirge for the dreams, the men, the bible stories, everything once existent on the earth. and by the lyrics and the arrangements, these two beginning tracks singlehandedly established the album as the most unconventional death and loss themed concept album. One finer than The Black Parade and can compete head to head with what else than Murder Ballads. The death count on the album may not be the most impressive one in all death albums (well, of course. Compare Murder Ballads with a death count of 64 people, one dog and a uncountable number of guys living in a slum) but the musicality peaked here, along with the other albums mentioned before. And hey! somehow there's a murder ballad presented in this album too: "Murder In The Red Barn", a half deadpan half simplistic song detailing the aftermath of the murder is chilly even the listener have no sense of what is going on in the lyrics. Surely the creepy arrangement shows Tom being experimental and weird, but the songwriting also shows how good a writer he is. And as people may agree, Tom always has two sides: the experimental side and his singer-songwriter side. This album took the two and juxtaposed them together with the unique and appealing soundscape: In the experimental side, we have the ever-changing genres of the songs: the cling-clang of "Earth Died Screaming" and many other songs that are unable to generalise in a single genre, piano ballads such as "A Little Rain", "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" with its creepy spoken word performance, old time blues such as "Jesus Gonna Be Here", and even punk-sounding stuff. Example: "Goin' Out West". But rule number one: don't talk about this song. While for the songwriter side, we get touching ballads such as "Who Are You" telling about lifes with a mercurial lover, "A Little Rain", detailing stories of all the lonely people, nearly resembles piano ballads by his fellow singer-songwriters, like Nick Cave on "The Boatman's Call". Right before the end of the album, there's "I Don't Wanna Grow Up". But while listening to the song i was just in my room, using my time that i should use to write my AP art history essay practise to listen to this album and re-evaluate it, thinking about how my other 10th grade classmate are all doing mock exams but i am here writing a fucking review and wishing that i was still a child. Isn't that IRONIC? But that's life. We are all growing up, becoming boring adults, decaying as an inreversible process of life, and finally becoming dirts in the ground. That, is what "Bone Machine" was made to do: give us some advice, make us see something in life and then just leave, and carry on, as Tom and Keith Richards sang in the last track, "That Feel": "And there's one thing you can't lose, and it's that feel".

sometimes you need to stop hating on pop rock bands, especially when you are listening to something that they created before they became pop. I usually hates protest songs, but the songs are just beautifully written by bono and the edge, so i think that the reason that people hates pop rock bands is just because their songs are more accessible. so they become popular. (see: Chris Martin.) i shall give it a five, because i am a melody-first and vocal-first listener.

heard the location of this album cover was on fire before. now that is some literal “light my fire”. and the album makes me on fire. dad knows it, mom knows it, my imaginary friend knows it, everybody knows it... i just love blues rock. 4/5

3/5

well, i can dance to this but its still mid 3/5

american kung fu 4/5

so this is the new No.1 in the 2020 version of the 500 greatest album of all time? Funny. The only reason that I can see that made the critics put this, instead of “Sgt.Peppers” on top, is that it is an album of PROTEST SONGS. AND I HATE PROTEST SONGS. so I shall protest against protest songs by giving it a 1.

the bats are released and it did hurt. come on, there are one hundred of them fluttering in my brain at the same time when i'm listening to the album. what a great rock opera. but come on, you are telling me that the songwriter who works on this album also wrote "total eclipse of the heart"? that's some wild news. 5/5

peak RYMcore. i thought that I'd hate the stuffs that all self-pretentious people love. but i dont hate it. it is just... mid. good for studying background music. 4/5

ok, i know, this is a classic. AND INDEED, IT IS AWESOME! 5/5

pretty solid. the type of grunge that sounds different to what Nirvana does sounds great. 4/5

("Free Bird" intensifies) 3/5

meh 2/5

i'm not gonna be the guy that sighs eternally because of leonard cohen. because who the fuck cares about the guys that kurt sings about? music is everything that we should care. 5/5

i am always paranoid but this is not "Paranoid" at all. 3/5

not as good as what came next but the cover is what i look like during the runtime of the album. 5/5

androgynous synthpop an improvement for the gay rights advocates and stuff but i just don't get it (although i am one gay rights advocate myself) 2/5

ohhhhhhhhhh. another of the lowest rated. and fuck it. i didn't take any lsd but it's just a trip gone bad... it's pure terror with all that distorted and out of tune singing with unsettling noises. literal horror game soundtrack. that bunch of germans screaming and banging on metal is even better. what's their band name again, Ein-stür-zen-de Neu-bau-ten? (Well i am just pretending. i know EN since blixa collabrated with nick cave. but never listened to anything.) 1/5

the "seven nation army" album the majority of the arrangements on this album ties closely with the white stripe's stripped down aesthetics somehow. and i think because i like arctic monkeys, franz ferdinand and this album, one of my most favourite genre is garage rock revival from now on. 5/5

the first song makes me lol cause there's a wonderwall reference, but today isn't gonna be the day that i feel something in this album. and they even got nigel godrich for the production. ok, so now that's some radiohead like stuff going on. maybe there's gonna be some people who like it, but after all, i'd like go back to wonderwall and the bends. old britpop is the best britpop. 3/5

My inner voice during my trignometry class: Getting bored by all those changes of the sin waves? your life is truly fucked up. So what will happen if you change the "fuck" to "funk"? Me: it will still be as fucked up as it was. 3.5/5

why is "Gymnopédies" here? why it's pretty normal jazz rock afterwards? and why it switches to psychedelic rock after that? why did THIS win AOTY in the grammy in 1970 instead of "Abbey Road"? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? 2/5

just listen to the title track and you are done with this album. 1/5

1. i know paul weller from his association with oasis. 2. i know the Jam because of "Going Underground" being featured on the London olympics opening ceremony. 3. and i think it's good although i wont put this on repeat! 4/5

awwwww folk rock. i would like to listen to like folk punk more than ever, rather than listening to these. that french bob dylan cover with the shit like violin and accordion makes my life more terrible. 1/5

sorry but blues rock is bit better 2/5

YESSSSSS ANOTHER RADIOHEAD. it is the weakest radiohead album after pablo honey tbh. but 2+2=5 and a wolf at the door are pure gold. (2+2-1.5)/5 aka 3.5/5

so. i opened the website. i submitted my last rating. and out of nowhere, i had this feeling that there's gonna be some boring things coming up. AND HERE COMES MY NEWEST FAVOURITE SONGWRITER! (squeals excitedly, disturbing my classmate's peace while can't control my limbs well because of the cup of coffee that i drank) so. this album is important. it is considered one of Cave's best work and is also the first album from Nick and the seeds after long time contributor Blixa Bargeld quitted the band to focus full-time on their own band. and the name of Blixa's band? Einstürzende Neubauten. yes, THE Einstürzende Neubauten. the band that has the lowest rating on this fucking website. but anyway. so first, let's take a look at the album closer, "O Children". Nick's second famous song because of its usage in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And fun fact! i bought a pack of butterbeer flavoured snacks (which is a certified tie-in with the franchise) this morning! the snack is mid. BUT THE TRACK IS PERFECT. with the fleeting and spiritual arrangements, and the gospel-like vocals. the lyrics with all these bittersweet moments of life and death, and we rejoice with tears while the song fades out. well, now to the first disc of the double album, "Abattoir Blues". Don't tell me you can't feel an immediate adrenaline rush from "Get Ready For Love". YEAH! A STRAIGHT PUNCH IN YOUR FACE! "Cannibal's Hymn", build upon a repeated bass riff, is a departing from the straight punch the first song offers us, with a rather tender form of songwriting and the song running in a waltz-like 3/4 time beat. "Hiding All Away" returned to the energetic state using dirty blues rock/post punk and uplifting backing vocals, while "Messiah Ward" mitigated the atmosphere again with Cave's songwriting sensibility. (fuck it i begin to talk nonsense again.) BUT ANYWAY! LET ME PRESENT TO YOU! THE ONLY OTHER BOLDED SONG ON THIS ALBUM'S RYM PAGE! THE ANTHEM OF SEEKING INSPIRATION! THE PRAYER TO THE MUSES! MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NICK CAVE SONG, IF NOT COUNTING "THE MERCY SEAT" IN! "There She Goes, my Beautiful World"! i literally get my social media username from the opening lyrics of the song ;) well, just take a listen... and look at how fucking motivated this hell of a songs is. i can't tell you how much i like this song and all its references to famous writers (although Johnny Thunders didn't write "Chinese Rocks", the songwriter is Dee Dee Ramone). it helped me while i was encountering writer's block. many times. i just put it on and typed furiously. "Nature Boy" is a near pop rock love song praising beauty which, being a constant theme on the album, was written in many, beautiful, ways. It is also pretty in sync with the flower on the album cover imo. "Abattoir Blues" is not blues but art rock, and released a scent of apocolypes and death with misantropic lyrics and the arrangement that paints doom right into the song. "Let the Bells Ring", based on a tinkering guitar riff and sounds religious in all the way, is both melancholic and uplifting. "Fable of the Brown Ape", the closer of the first half, literally sounds like bipolar disorder somehow. and it is weird. VERY WEIRD. So, "The Lyre of Orpheus". both the disc and the song. It brings a literal twist to the story of Orpheus and Eurydice with his signature dark storytelling. Nobody looked back this time, but both orpheus and eurydice are still dead in the end. and here's "Breathless". Nick tries folk rock. Tommy and Grace married over the song. and "NO FOOKING FIGHTING". "Babe, You Turn Me On" is a folkish song too, but it is not featured in Peaky Blinders. And for "Easy Money", i think it is similar with Pink Floyd's "Money". but i don't know why. "Supernaturally" is a hidden killer track and sounds like something that should appeared on the first disc. "Spell" is mid, while "Carry Me" retained the gospel-like arrangement find in the first disc that Nick would come back to 20 years later in "Wild God". and as we listen to "O Children" one more time, i just want to ask every one that gives a low grade in this might be biased way, HOW DARE YOU NOT LOVE NICK CAVE? 5/5

ok. number 100. 100 down, 1000 to go. a round of applause. so, "Raising Hell" by Run-D.M.C. i like the beat, i like the flow, i like the sampling, i like the version of "Walk This Way" on the album, and i can admit and 100% admit that it is a non-deniable influential hip-hop album. i hates modern rap but the 80s is just pure excitement. the only problem is that i am not wearing my adidas sneakers while listening to this at school. i am wearing a pair of cheaply made sneakers instead. 4/5

NUMBER 101! IT'S THE BEATLES, MOTHERFUCKER! i am literally crying when i saw the cover i even went to THE zebra crossing to recreate it the first time i went to the UK. so, the beatles literally means extremely much to me... and i love the most of the album i just dont know how to say how i love this album i want to techniclly break it down and build it back and analyse how awesome it is but it's literally hell mode for me so i will just say it over and over: this IS my second favourite beatles album besides the white covered one. imma going to silver hammer everyone that hates this album somehow. 5/5

WOOOOOOOW this is a good run of albums. but it dont goes too hard for me so 4/5. there is a reason for why he went to Berlin, isn't it?

erm so this album is too gay even for a pansexual person. and the cover of my favourite pink floyd song makes me uncomfortable. and i wasn't numb during the runtime. i was painful. but hey, at least it is danceable. 3/5

no, except for "Roundabout". 2/5

1. jeff beck is such a good player. 2. yeah, "Morning Dew". Nick Cave said on Desert island Discs that he likes the original version. wait... einstürzende neubauten also sang it too. no wonder nick likes the song, because he is still thinking about his good old days with Blixa. 3. the vocal sounds good. oh, rod stewart sang it. 4. YOU MEAN THAT THE RONNIE WOOD WHO PLAYED WITH THE STONES IS THE BASS PLAYER HERE? 5.but i am not too interested in blues rock. so in conclusion, a 4. 4/5

Suede's "This is Hardcore" is on this list. but it's britpop and it's not hardcore. and THIS, my friend, is TRUE HARDCORE. 3/5

cheerful 80s new wave, but sang by a girl group. make me think of the bad old 60s. but becuse it's new wave and it sound great to a certain degree, 4/5.

One of my besties asked me what Beatles album do I like, then bought this album as my 14th birthday’s gift. And I’m soon going to be 16. memories. And man what can I say this is the best album that the beatles created in their whole career. 5/5

i was having a SAT test today in Hong Kong. and after the test i went out to by records for the rest of the day. and i finally can listen it before bedtime. so i can say, soul is the ultimate go-to hypnotize genre. and her sister is better. Thank you, Beyoncé. 1/5.

Sorry but I don’t do drugs so the album is mid for me. 3.5/5

4/5

that accordion at the beginning of the first track sounds cheesy and disgusting. or maybe it's a harmonium. but wtf cares. and i always don't like indian sounding thing except for the beatles' works. well... it seems that they actually covered Norwegian Wood. And it's a faithful rendition, apart from the fact that they sang it in Hindi. it sucks. 1/5

dude the cover... and the music is just a bit better than the cover, actually. 2.5/5

awww somehow i wish that i get Junkyard today. the band is literally called The Birthday Party and today is my birthday. and under the training of Nick, Rowland and everyone else, this album is pretty ok for me. but every song sounds the same. 3/5

I was a asian anglophile before but after finishing this album i am now a believer of the AMERICAN DREAM. MAGA! 4/5

after reading all the reviews, there's only one thing that i can say: ew. Come on guys, why won’t you understand that every people has flaws? Please seperate the artist and their works first before you write your fucking reviews. but i dont think that we should seperate the two here. both are trash. y'know what they say? members of a great band always flop after going solo. for some better and more emotional white-man-doing-blues-influenced-music, see: "Henry's Dream" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. and it even have a lower score on this site. sorry 1001 album generator, but i just literally believe that you, to some extent, represents the public's music taste. 1/5

OHHHHHHH oomf LOVES this album. she is that type of person who loves elliott, lana, leonard and all those depressive stuff. and now i know why she would call his music "the best soundtrack for self-loathing". 4/5.

"you've phoned me so we can listen to and comment on 'Tommy' together but MY CD PLAYER IS FUCKING BROKEN." Keith shouted from the other side of the phone. (for the back story of Keith, please see my review for other albums by The Who.) "You better move it to somewhere else. i've done that once and it functions as usual." "well... OK." it finally works, "And-- Here we fucking go!!" "the overture is so fucking long." i muttered. Keith responded with unsatisfaction: "Just pretend that you are listening to the soundtrack for a musical. then it won't feel that long." "erm, Keith? can you come to my home so we can watch the movie version? it's better with a bunch of stars singing it." "You need to accept the original version, cause it's the original version." "You literally said nothing useful!" "Seems the classic motif is coming up. the 'See me, feel me' part always send shivers down my spine when I was watching the movie. and similarly, in their concert videos." "Well, who the fuck doesn't get shivers because of Pete's songwriting?" "can I say that for 'The Acid Queen', Tina Turner's version is better?" "well, i have to admit that her voice is more powerful and suitable for the song. And the arrangement is better!" "Dude why the Underture is ten minutes long?" "it's meant to be like that. i can't do anything with it. i actually skipped that track on first listen. And sometime I still do that too. and well? the CD player still works but the remote is broken. I guess that we should spend the 10 minutes wisely." "It's finally building up. and, three minutes to go." "it's always building up and then going down. like the tide." "can we listen to 'Love, Reign O'er Me' in the last 3 minutes?" "well, it's only 3 minutes. You can tolerate it, can't you." "i... hope so." "And maybe there's a reason why your name is Sally, as in 'So, Sally can wait'. and why do you fail to wait for a song to end?" "oh yeah we are finally through this... two more tracks to go and it's THE song!" (two more tracks later. Keith began to play air guitar to "Pinball Wizard".) "YEAHHHHHHH! although i am not a who fan I absolutely LOVE the song!" "WOOOOO HOOOOO!" "The motif is returning and the 'listening to you' part is adding in... Tommy is ready to regain his senses. Don't you remember the part in the movie, when during 'I'm Free', Roger runs on the beach like that gamer youtuber that is pretty famous for being single for a long time?" "Yeah, I remember that in a vlog, he was running alongside the beach shouting 'I long for freedom! I want to fall in love!'. I love his videos and he is finally married recently..." "yeah, FINALLY." "Wait a minute, the plot of the movie is THAT different from the album? and 'i'm Free' don't come in until two songs later?" "wait a sec you dont know that? you should check out the wikipedia page for that before you listen!" "Why I am laughing sooooo hard when 'I'm Free' begin playing?" "cause you are just fully in the 'I long for freedom! I want to fall in love!' mode." "Shut up." "'Tommy's Holiday Camp' is the cheesiest minute of music that i ever heard." "Cant disagree." "Well, I don't like the first half of 'We're Not Gonna Take It', cause it's pretty political." "erm... but it's still a good song, isn't it?" "you... are pretty right." "And it just fades out at the end? I always thought that there would be a grand finale!" "Yeah! Post-listening reflection time!" "Can I say that although this is an influential album for one of the first rock operas, Quadrophenia is still better?" "of course! So, what's your score? I don't think that it deserves a 5 solely judging by musicality but i'm still giving it a 5." "A 4. there's weak points but the whole album is still strong." "Well... OK. A 4. So, we've agreed on each other!" 4/5

i like brian as a producer and songwriter, so i am pretty eager to check out his solo works. and well, it's ok. but not my type of thing. 3.5/5

HERE COMES HEAVY METAL! \m/ well, what... can i say? here's where everything starts. although it's still not as good as "Paranoid", i may say. but still a 5.

eh? so after Black Sabbath's namesake album, here's some newer metal coming from... Brazil? but ohhhhhhh, this is pretty decent. although at many times, it just feels... flat. 4/5 anyway.

erm so this is some exprimental thing? and this is supposed to be a ballet score? well it sounds great! maybe i should thank my ballet dancing experience from kindergarten to 3rd grade for being able to understand this shite of an album because i can somehow imagine how this should function as a dance score, and it is not as bad as it sounds after i envisions the dancing that should accompany the album. 4/5

so basically it has a groove, but not much. 3/5.

"In Da Club" is a certified hood classic but other tracks are pretty mid. 3/5.

literally for the who-the-fuck-cares-how-many-time-i-have-said-it-in-a-row time: My bias toward soul music is pretty hard to erase by now. but anyway, it... actually sounds pretty great! and it doesn't sound that long! and it sounds pretty rocky and groovy! 4/5

country music: meh. covers of pop standards: it depends on who sings it. putting the two together: hey it's actually ok. 3.5/5

the three unavoidables of life: death, tax and dream pop albums that are highly rated on rym. but good news! it's more poppy and goth-like than dreamy. and the part that i hate about dream pop is how dreamy it is. 4/5

meh 2/5

my bias toward country music slowly rises and stays... 2/5

1/5

\m/YEAHHHHHHHH\m/ although metallica is a little bit better =) 4/5

3.5/5

4/5

oh yeah led zep. 4/5

I am a Beatles fan, half a left wing but also sometimes conservative, a 60s rock enjoyer who actually tried to dress like a hippie, and this album successfully attacked all my weakness. if i can travel back in time to see a Frank Zappa concert, i would like to be that stupid with a flare gun. 2/5

1. German music. I love German music. 2. who cares about the English version of the album if there's the original German version always available for you? so a track-by-track breakdown. "Europa Endlos"("Europe Endless"): based on a four note motif, this is the ultimate "music to play while you are driving through the countryside". "Spiegalsaal"("Hall of Mirrors"): this song is again based on repeated motifs, but creates an errie atmosphere with the arrangements. "Schaufensterpuppen" ("Showroom Dummies"): The sound sounds as mechanical as ever, maybe its because erm... it's a criticize on commercialism. i like the deadpan delivery. "Trans-Europa Express" ("Trans-Eurpoe Express): It's not a "music to play when you are on a train" song, although the beat resembles the clanking of the train wheels on tracks and also a military march. the vocals are processed through a vocoder while chanting the title, and also used natrually during other parts of the song. it almost feel dangerous, not as calming and lighthearted like the group's earlier work "Autobahn". "Metall Auf Metall" (Metal on Metal) and "Abzug" continues as a refrain but adds more metallic clanking as mentioned in the title. Almost industrial-flavoured. Proto- Einstürzende Neubauten. Germans. As the sound of the train wheezes by, we enter the final two tracks. "Franz Schubert". a tribute to the late classical composer, and to a degree, it has that romantism tint to the music, but it's still nothing like the rest of the album. Then in a circle, there's "Endlos Endlos" (Endless Endless), a short reprise of "Europa Endlos", as the music fades away. So in two words: Truly Revolutionary. Even if there's pioneers in the genre like Wendy Carlos, these pioneers couldn't make this album. 5/5.

3/5

People describes "Dookie" as "Adolescence: The Album". It did hits hard for a teenage girl. 5/5

2/5

4/5

wait a minute. the band's name is familliar to me but where is the occation that make me know about them... OH I REMEMBERED IT THE COVER MODEL OF THEIR ALBUM PHANTASMAGORIA IS SUSIE BICK! but anyway. this is so punky. or if there's a genre called proto-hardcore, this album is the example. but some songs are meh. 4/5.

Dear 1001 Album Generator: As an Anglophile, I object the mandatory listening of this album today due to the automatic result of your album choosing algorithm because I are, of course, an Anglophile, and I shall object America and its dominance of the world as this album is considered the official anthem for white supremacists. wait... so the title track is about how hard American's life are? well that makes it a little bit tolerable. And! the most important thing is that i once saw online a video clip of my favourite singer going to Springsteen's concert and chilling out to "Glory Days". That's a positive sign considering his English influences and him being a Commonwealth citizen. but anyway. a 4/5.

today i suffer. but why???!!! 2/5

a tiny bit better than the last album i got from them but still, a 2/5

i dont wanna listen to another conscious hip hop/jazz rap album anymore i'd rather not be woke because i am unable to be sympathetic. 3/5

yesterday: i'm depressed because of some political issues today. please don't give me any leonard cohen albums tomorrow or i'll be more depressed. now: this is 1/10 leonard cohen. i am depressed. but Jeff can carry every fucking song and give me an mental orgasm at the same time. 5/5.

So this is it. Ladies and Gentleman... We are now floating in Neo-Psychedelia/Space Rock Revival Hell. But wait a minute... this is actually not hell. although dream pop hell is in relation with here, this album is quite decent. and some song sounds quite indie as well! 4/5.

country music sucks. 2/5.

JUST STOP. 2/5

80s pop but better. 4/5.

i wrote a very good paragraph about noise rock in general but i think its more suitable for "Daydream Nation". and that album is better. 4/5

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH (sorry for that just pretend that i am quoting the lyrics for the chorus of Lithium, where kurt just goes YEAHHHHHH and bipolar'd all over the place) Well, here we are now, so Entertain Us. i simply remember the fact that the first riff on the album is also the first riff i ever riffed on my telecaster (0-3-5 not included cause i first learned it on acoustic guitar) and as Kurt drags his voice through the verse and shouted through the chorus of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" i cant help notice my urge to smash the tele, wasting 300 bucks or so and change it to a jazzmaster (although kurt plays a jaguar but aren't these two guitars almost the same?). And we float through the music, Kurt's voice and lyrics, talking bout imaginary friends and bipolar disorder and disinterest in things and many guns, become a butter knife screaming my teenage angst over the flat plastic disc spinning in the cd player like butter on a toast, and nobody even know what emotion that it is going to inflict cause it inflicts every feeling only existent in teenagers and its just like this, like what its ever was, the punk power chords and the aggressive drumming and until every thing is inaudible that happens since 1991 and continues on as it ever was, influcing people decades to come and if you literally want to ask why jaguars and jazzmasters and mustangs are so fucking expensive to the degree a nirvana-loving high school student failed to buy one using her own accumulated pocket money you can just blame it on Kurt. But this is also a good thing as well since there's finally something that talks about what we want directly instead of these fucking hair metal bands making power ballads cause we are all tired to these things, isnt it? underrepresentation is the worst thing that ever happened. and This, is somehow the non-deodorant teenage spirit. Thanks to MTV, Thanks to Kurt, Krist and Dave, we can happily enjoy all these better music coming from 1990s. 5/5

If God don't want us to enjoy Talking Heads' music, He won't have given us mild autism. -- Modified from the words of a Radiohead fan So two days ago i watched Stop Making Sense's imax version in a screening. And as an autistic guy who can't dance very well and don't have a large automobile and need to ride a bicycle 80% of the time, i am pretty glad. Please get off my way, first, cause i am changing into a real live wire, and, there's a possibility that the lyric of "Psycho Killer" is actually more autistic-coded than you would think. but its still a 3.5 for me cause Remain In Light and Stop Making Sense impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much apart from Psycho Killer, although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works.

got a awesome band's debut album yesterday, and today its the debut album of another awesome band. when i read all the reviews, what formed in my mind is as follows: the wall is better than this. the dark side of the moon is also better than this. wish you are here is also better than this. animals is also better than this. but this is decent... so possibly a 3 since its a bit weak for a 4. 3/5

so first fuck it how many effect pedals are present on this fucking album tell me the monetary value of them added up and shut up eternally for me. apart from using the guitars to reinforce the lyric's atmosphere and fusing punk rock with 50s rock'n'roll one thing that the cramps did well is to prove is a band can have no bassist and do very well and this made the existance of bassists a joke. certified halloween album. guaranteed by the review writer, half a goth who just wears black and failed to do makeup. aka horror movie enjoyer. 4/5

when i was in middle school i loved my biology teacher to bits and its my platonic attraction to her that make me feel like i might be a lesbian although i am bisexual. One of the reason is that i live in east asia and she is one of the few people around me to have beatles related knowledge that i interacted with during my most intense periods of beatlemania, although its only about lucy in the sky with diamonds and the song's relationship to lucy the hominin skeleton. and this brings us to Sgt.Peppers itself, a forever classic that, according to some critics and edgelords and hipsters, is "so fucking overrated" and has more cultural impact that pure musicality. Personally i don't hate the album, and by saying that i don't hate it, it of course means that i really love it, and it also don't mean that i agree that the hipster's words about how "the music itself is shitty but because they use advanced technology the musicality can be forgiven and this is a big influence over things to come so it should be considered as their best, and that's wrong since we are hipsters and we only like unpopular things, so the music itself is shit so the album is shit" is valid and neutral. cause i actually think these comments as so fucking biased although the real best beatles album for me is, and will always be, the white album. But without a doubt, Sgt. Pepper's is indeed a cultural milestone that intervines with many various things at the time and to come, from the summer of love to how people would consider rock music as high art, to ppl calling ok computer "the sgt.pepper of radiohead", and to my brief fake love affair with my biology teacher due to the naming of the ape skeleton. But actually people saying that the musicality is not expressed on this album unlike revolver is also very weird... George giving the Indian raga realness on Within You Without You, the circus extravaganza of being for the benefit of mr. kite, the harmony and the cheesy and optimistic atmosphere on Getting Better that really makes people feel better, and don't forget the baroque pop perfection tearjerker named "She's Leaving Home", my literally me song every time dad and mom argued with each other. But anyway, A Day In The Life. you may just think about the fact that there just isn't anything that sounds like this before (apart from Strawberry Fields, released as a single and later included in MMT), although many songs to come has surpassed its greatness. and you will know about its greatness. So my final verdict? Due to its actually great songwriting, the clever usage of studio techniques, the strings of hits and the culture landmark status, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will always be a great album, a truth that hits as hard as the final piano chord of A Day In The Life. 5/5

So this is my second Bowie album on this list. Aladdin Sane didn’t impress me very much so i said “well, that’s why he first moved to Los Angeles and then West Berlin” in that review so indeed, here’s his LA time, coke-filled product! The title track is, well the title track and it exceeds 10 minutes but under the influence of its funk rock-driven beat the track actually sounds short! And the whole album is also very just... Vibe-y, i am just a high school student so what can i say. Although i use to hate (and still hate the majority of) soul music but hearing him singing Word On A Wing just singlehandedly made the genre 1000% more tolerable! So maybe drugs did make something happen and the heard fact is that even Bowie himself didn’t remember him recording this album. So... since even himself has forgetten what happened during the recording i'll just assume that it worked. but too much is too much, still. So he need to go to Berlin and enter rehab and it worked better. 5/5

every artist have a breakup album and this is Bob's take on it... wait a fucking minute that's Blood On The Tracks. although his singing still lacks technique, it sounds way, WAY better than that on "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", my last dylan album from the list. The songs are decent and the arrangements as well. And oh yes, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" definitely make me want to get stoned. but there's too much fucking harmonica. so... 3.5/5 i think?

4/5 probably

this is more indie pop and a bit better than usual country but still a 3/5

When i was writing my review for Sgt.Pepper's i started with the words as followed: "when i was in middle school i loved my biology teacher to bits and its my platonic attraction to her that make me feel like i might be a lesbian although i am either bisexual or pansexual." And that's why this album is appealling for me apart from Eddie's instrumentals. Since it bears the song called "Hot For Teacher". 4/5

"Walk On The Wild Side" is one of the best gay anthems of all time. And "Perfect Day" is one of the best songs of all time. 5/5

so you are telling me that i am going to another VU album after listening to lou reed's solo album one days later? and anyway, candy says made me cry. 4/5

wat? brazilian music again? this might suckx 4/5

70s pop is really good pop. 4/5

ok guys so i don't often stream myself listening to my daily album but today's album is so significant that im streaming me listening to it. It's Trout Mask Replica. which is supposedly: Piero Scaruffi's favourite album which proves his status as the shittiest music critic ever. The only thing that divides the music nerd community apart from wether harsh noise should be considered "real music", and the thing apart from death and tax that haunts every 1001 albums go-throughers. don't forget to like and subscribe, and here we go. (after playing "Frownland") erm... so the instrumentals is just a little beat offbeat and i actually can tolerate this? a 4/5 i guess (a long and tough journey going through many weird things and listenable things) i think i am wrong. but i think i am right at the same time! This is basically unrateable like the time I tried out Tim Buckley's Starsailor and the first song stunned me with all its might leaving me unable to listen to the rest more normal songs like Song to the Siren, but this one has a lot more jazzy noodleing and half the time i feel like i am ascending and the other half of the time i feel like im going to hell. so basically its both a 5 and a 1 at the same time so how do i rate this? but... ill just give it a 1 here.

So another van halen album generated precisely a week after I got 1984? Fine. It’s a 4. And yes, Eruption, along with stairway to heaven and comfortably numb, MUST be in the great Rock’n’Roll songbook for their solos. 4/5

getting this when its still IDAHOBIT in the west coast (although its already 5/18 in asia, where i live) is the weirdest thing that could ever happen.

today is somehow very hot and although i am indoor with the air conditioning blasting overhead, i still need some very cool (in a lot of sense) stuff. 4/5

the real order of bowie albums the generator gave me : aladdin sane -> station to station -> low. probably will get heroes for my next one. and this is really good. although i still thinks that ziggy is better. 4/5

dance punk is always my thing

bro is never interested in latin flavoured music. 3/5

so boring. also i reconciled with my ex-boyfriend so can i get an album that he loves tomorrow? 2/5

think ppl are Playing tricks with my mind when they say this is the greatest electronic album of all time. 3.5/5

i entered this blindly. when i saw the top descriptor for the album on rym is "political", i took off my glasses and rubbed my eyes, and stared at the screen blankly and soon tried to make sure that i see it correctly. and i think i forget to mention that i have moderate short-sightedness. anyway three minutes later i was vibing and all my hate toward soul music disappeared. 4/5

im so fucking mad today cause i messed up my music final exam by playing "smells like teen spirit" gradually faster and out of sync with the backing track while also played the solo all wrong. i don't need any fucking r&b to sooth it, i'd rather like some leonard cohen cause it will make me depressed. and this is so fucking cheesy!!! 3/5

one of my (imaginary) friend that only knows "smoke on the water" listened to this album with me and shouted at the beginning of the song "it's 0-3-5 time" and smoke on the water'd all over the place. the only problem, however, was how we are not listening to"highway star" on a highway. 4/5

Metal is always decent but some of the songs really feel a bit long. 3.5/5

What ppl does are casting bias on British music. I mean there are 20+ country music album on the list and every of them sounds the same and you guys still give them 4s and 5s like that’s the best thing since loafed bread 3.5/5

YEAH RADIOHEAD! (Laughs uncontrollably) (Begin to suck an imaginary piece of dried lemon) I’ve listened to Everything in its right place, optimistic and how to disappear completely. They are all superb songs. The electronic flavour is beautiful. The drum is knocking my temples and kicking my brain. And the beeps and boops really turned me on and send me floating. “Motion Picture Soundtrack” is one of the most beautiful piece of music that human has ever created. Solid 5/5

lol so what you are trying to tell me is that every time I got assigned an Radiohead album, one of my favs of all time appears next day.(Apart from in rainbows, cause it becomes my album of all time only after I finished it.) me being an theatre kid is somehow the best thing ever because it makes me an total enjoyer of this album with its glam rock aesthetics. And also happy pride month =) 5/5

I. REALLY. HATE. CONTEMPORARY. R&B. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE ALBUM GIVEN TO ME YESTERDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY IS TWO OF MY ALL TIME FAVS. 1/5

i am really not this biggest fan of slacker rock. but noise rock, and indie in general are really decent genres. the album in general has a really good sound, many songs are short and they succeeded in catching my attention. some songs are actually so unserious that they are half art. a lower 4. and there isn't that much of songs that im willing to revisit. 4/5

due to various reasons, today my life stopped making sense. like... me forgetting to remind my parent top up my school card for lunch. and she failed to doing it asap. so i got to the cafeteria late. so i just eat some cheap stuff. and i got this. weird. so: brian eno=awesome. david byrne=awesome. but this might not sound awesome on first listen. it... is the peak "how did i get here" experience. there's on-brand eno-ish ambient. there's the classic talking heads groove. and there's some plunderphonics and religious chant elements. so im not sure about the score... but i think i like it! 4/5

blah blah blah misogyny misogyny misogyny. well take your fucking hands off the west coast hip hop scene and go give bikini kill 5 stars. and you are also unwilling to give them a 5 cause they sound terrible. and the only thing you know is to give these dated hip hop albums a 1. shite politics. and also i know its not the best rap album lyric or beat wise, but without this im pretty sure that west coast hip-hop won't be in its current state, we won't have "gangsta paradise", and the one really bad thing about this not existing is that kendrick would not be in his current state as well since due to g-funk influencing many of his works, and TPAB will never exist (which all you african americans and progressive white americans and asian americans and indiginous people and latina/latino/latinx/hispanic and people of every ethnicity with good musical taste love but i could never get it due to its american-ness and me being a china-born asian), and? the beef won't happen and that's really less interesting. *mic drop* 4/5

Wow, a not…that impressive 200th album. As a britpop fan I myself is trying to be impressed. So here's a joking prayer for the whole Madchester/Baggy scene: O rise, you great(er) Manchester boys, reveal your rave scenes and your parkas, your drugs and your drum machines, your pills and the nightclub trills, tell me your directions while you were getting high, zooming inside unknown pleasures, but still fall at the feet of the latecomers, cause they are the arching sky, the wind, the lighting, and the resurrection. 3/5

Wat. So this is my 201st album. I miss when my 101st album came to me. was Abbey Road. yeah i mean this is really boring. and i might be the biggest brazilian music hater in the most fucking world. I will only remember you for the hundreds of versions of "My Way", Frank. 2.5/5

\THIS IS TRUE MUSIC/ so there's finally something almost proper for my 202nd album. im not sure wether i should listening to this before taking a nap. enter sandman will probably give me a nightmare. it's a 4.

Before you come to me and says "no i won't listen to anything you say, this IS shit", please consider my age and the environment i grow up: i am 16, grew up listening to western popular music and 1989 is, for me, the pop album of all time. there's the perfectly catchy melody and sometimes bit of complex, and very 80s flashback. and everybody here hates 80s synthpop, am i right? (it functions better when you are staying in NYC during the summer with your family members cause when "welcome to new york" hits the only thing you can do is to pray for the school year to end (i think i said before that i'm asian. and actually my finals are still a week away.) so you can take your plane ride and land in JFK ASAP.) (and for ppl who hate Bad Blood: ok so i admit the version featuring Kendrick is indeed better, but literally i had beef and has been backstabbed by one of my moots so the original version never age for me. if you don't like it just pretend you are a 16 years old who get traumatic from a very serious beef which invloves things such as willingful devotion, mistagged misandry, overly politically conscious radfems and a bunch of moot who believed in that moot's lies and helped to spread them that began a year ago and the said 16 years old never recovered from the beef. that's why it speaks for me.) 5/5.

uh, political satire... the toy story song he wrote is 100000% better than this. 3/5

bruv... i know that brian died yesterday but are you sure that its ok to give us this in memory of him? 6/12 is literally my fav's birthday and i need to be very happy. yes to keep my true identity a secret i'd like to call myself a Robyn fan. i mean, "Dancing On My Own" is such a banger. I especially like the david byrne collab version on SNL50 although ppl says that its shit asf cause they are all out of breath and other problems. its really fun. anyway back to surf's up. it makes me anxious. maybe its because im always anxious this week due to my finals. and there's some political messages. like, who the fuck cares about ocean except ppl that are associated with the surfing subculture? i think im becoming more tense and nervous than yesterday because of the bit of disturbing nature of this. maybe its because brian died and i cant see it in a objective way. anyway here's a 3.5. Please, take it. Also please don't adjust the algorithm to give us Pet Sounds tomorrow, dear site mod. we dont need a wake that lasts half a week long. give us some good old beatles, ok?

yes, it is not the beatles. and i strongly recommend you to listen to it while playing action games, such as dead cells. cause when i was listening to this, i used it as background music for playing dead cells, and its literally the coolest action in the world. 4.5/5

the best soundtrack for touching some imaginary grass and enjoying some imaginary sunshiiine while its raining outside 4/5

NOOOOOOOOOOOO it feels that a tiger kept biting my imaginary tail from the first note to the end. 2/5

pov: when your first iceland album is not bjork It's one day before my history finals exam. I am now in my bedroom, with all the curtains closed, staring at revise materials while the air conditioner blows at a temperature that freezes the room into ice. Determined, I opened the album. and I elevated. 5/5

Maybe every time ppl criticise gangsta rap i should take out my review for "The Chronic". in which it goes "blah blah blah misogyny misogyny misogyny. well take your fucking hands off the west coast hip hop scene and go give bikini kill 5 stars. and you are also unwilling to give them a 5 cause they sound terrible. and the only thing you know is to give these dated hip hop albums a 1. shite politics." And let me reveal a "really fun" fact: 9 out of 10 of the most called "misogyny" albums in this website are gangsta rap albums. I mean, this list is FILLED with problematic artists. so why only hate hip hop? Anyway, you know the highest upvoted review in which dude goes "sorry but women's lives matter"? in fact this dude give "Exile In Guyville", the female reaction counterpart of "Exile on Main Street", a 3, and "Fetch The Bolt Cutters", an album about female rage, a 2. Im not saying that is inappropriate, what Im saying is about double standards. In fact I hate feminists, but only a part of them, cause some of the most radical of them ruined my men-loving life. and they still think i'm a girl and i should resonate with them? sorry you wankers, it seems like i think i was a cis female back then, but i now figured it out and is actually non-binary instead. it's a 3.5 aka a high 3.

so this list has an excess of Elvis Costello. huh... and wait a second... he plays a jazzmaster! we must cancel him cause i want to own that exact guitar ever since i first become a nirvana fan but i think it dont belong to me!

Headspace Radio Broadcasting. Thank you for tuning in. Today, the topic for all our show is: Elvis Presley. *radio static, switching to another station* the familiar synth jingle of the Weather Station rang from the radio. "This is London Calling: there's a big storm happening today evening in somewhere. Beware of possible deaths that may occur during childbirth, especially if the child is a firstborn." the station was switched again. eerie music slowly unravelled itself. "Now reporting from Supernatural FM. Today, the debut album of Elvis has left the building... and entered my listening challenge. What do you have to say, Mr. Joe Strummer... oh, there's no answer from the afterlife? im a pretty terrible psychic." Sound and Legacy, everybody's favourite talk show, follows a brief heavy metal riff. "And let us reach the 3rd time where i quote a line from my "The Chronic" review: 'Shite Politics'. I mean, S-H-I-T-E P-O-L-I-T-I-C-S. DO NOT underestimate some music's cultural influence just because it whitewashed things. Without Elvis we won't be able to have the Beatles and everything else. You know, only Little Richard and Chuck Berry is not enough..." with betting adverts, came SKY Radio Sports. "Manchester City scores! Phil Foden, what a pretty shot! The citizens probably are singing 'Blue Moon' on the terrance now!" it's now Legacies, where people discuss music, mainly classic rock. "It's pretty useless to underrate the importance of a cover song just because the original have 'passion' and 'soul', as you heard in the versions of Hallelujah, Jeff did this beautifully rendition and has more emotion oozing from his voices but WHY STILL VALUE LEONARD COHEN?" The radio switched back to the Main station. "Admit it, its of course not as good as radiohead. So give it a 3 and end the whole headspace thing." 3/5

1. shite politics. but anyway, fuck MAGA. but anyway, shite politics. 2. good song. 4/5

OK, so, Ry Cooder. I've heard of him before. cause... the generator gave me Talking Timbuktu before. that album's pretty boring i suppose. why are you everywhere in the field of promoting world music? can i have some paul simon or david byrne please? but anyway this is pretty decent. 5/5

Let's just forget about that handshake with Carbon Monoxide... and forget about the season 1 final of Dark. (aka other associations that some people tend to think of when they heard the phrase "a quiet life".) first. then we can listen to this. something i wanna say: new wave is fun. Brits are awesome. Japan is an more than decent country. And I love this album because its new wave before new wave was actually born and it sounds like what happens after new wave is born. 4/5

so... i have finally finished my exams and you are telling me that i need to lsiten to a super long face-melting, mind-bending guitar solo as relief? but anyway im always as rotten as a nest of maggots. so i listened it in the complete dark, with a blindfold on my eyes. and i can say that the title track is the finest ten minutes of guitar wankery i ever heard. it deserves that 5. 4.5/5

the storytelling is vivid, the arrangement is good, but they don't impress me that much at first. but as soon as the accordion solo in the middle of "vienna" began, the album finally validates itself as the album which represents 70s pop rock at its finest. 5/5

CAN YOU JUST STOP HATING BRITPOP. 3.5/5

Really solid singer-songwriter album. But still not the cream of female songwriter music. 4/5

My exam is doomed. So the appropriate choice named George Harrison’s first solo album arrived here. ant literally it saved my life and makes me feel better although many songs feel imcomplete. 5/5

(closeup shot of a tumbleweed) (the reviewer holding a gun, two legs open like in a western film's duel scene with Marty Robbins standing opposite them) Reviewer: Sorry, Mr, Robbins. This favour of Western is not my go-to choice. And also, i prefer other ballads, like pop ballads, rock ballads, and... MURDER BALLADS. (gun shot) 2/5

(deep breath) OH YEAH! it's "im 16 and this is deep" time! but you know what? it somehow failed my expectation quite a bit and the best songs are those released as a single. "Bullets with Butterfly Wings" is a really good one when it comes to being the backing soundtrack of your action game run. 4/5

PoV: you are a angry but tired young non-binary that loves a 80s musician who has a special fondness toward this certain shirtless American dork and you got his album today (while also obsessing over the album’s producer) you played the bowie mix. you got a bit angrier by the raw proto-punk music. and wait. the iggy mix is better, as they said. you put on the iggy mix. its less sluggish, you told yourself, and now, prepare to experience the raw power. its really... raw. anyway. 4/5

life is distracting these days. so here comes lightning bolt with their noise rock, to distract me further again. On this site noise rock has long been underrated, for this album as well: It gets a stunning score of 2.28. But it really came to stun me. since the band's lineup is nothing more than a bass and a drum, and if i didnt look up the facts, i would think its a trio or something because dude make these noises that make ppl think its a guitar. the singing are minimal in order to make space for the earthquake like riffs, which shook me like a log cabin in the middle of a strong storm, fuzzy and wild, shaking beliefs and minds. Some of the music and arrangement slightly tears a bit of the storm, and outside it, we observed a wonderful rainbow. this might be the coolest thing that ive ever heard. 5/5

there's no fucking businiss like show business, people usually say... and here's this live album by the hardest working man in the show business. i listened to it in the middle of the night during a night flight to new york when im in some place transferring in the middle of the night and sitting near the broading gate at 2 in the morning listening to the blaring horns and james scatting into my headphone. so dynamic. so lively. so out of this world. some songs are a bit long but thats ok. im hallunicating cause i need to sleep at 6 in the morning to adjust to time lags the quickest. post script: i rly hate people who don't enjoy live albums. 4/5

ok so the doors are certainly rly indflucencial but i dont vibe with blues rock that much 3/5

oh well it seems like when i rate my 300th album and the "congrats! 300 albums!" didnt show up, i forgot this. and this is ok i think. just like all the blues rock band before. 3/5! written on 2025/9/16

The time when everyone think that British rock is all the same. Guys, are you pretending that the Beatles don’t exist and oasis don’t sound nothing like blur? And also this sounds rly good wtf are u thinking 3.5/5

yesterday i came up with the brilliant theory that i can self insert myself into everyone from the wizard of oz and dont feel weird. and today i got this. i just really don't know why. but anyway the album is rly decent. i know that ive said similar words over and over again but ill still say it. also the output of sir elton and bernie on the album is rather instable. there's classic songs like the title track while something will make you think "what?". 4/5

it sound pretty good but i am never on acid 3/5

*casual noodling* 2/5

augh. i always want to listen to this album since discovering it on rym. but anyway, somebody goes "A right load of pretentious bollocks has been written about this band "there's never been music like this, before or since". Well good, because it's shit." checked out their page and found out that based on things hinted in their reviews, they're about 70 years old since they talked about listening to led zep's (then newly released) second album in their teenage years. ok boomer. when i saw the genre i initially think that this is somehow the more evil, nick cave like version of the cramps. but they're a less evil, more 50s rock and roll version of the cramps. It didn't live up to my expecation but is stil a fine album. 4/5

i woke up this morning and just got bjork'd. some might say that bjork rhymes with jerk. but im not good at icelandic. every single of her album cover looks creepy with homogenic being my childhood nightmare. "but its still a 4 for me cause Homogenic and Vespertine impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much apart from Human Behaviour and Venus As a Boy, although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works." -- Modified from my review of Talking Heads '77 4/5

A cornerstone of 70s glam rock but still not as beautifully crafted as Ziggy Stardust and other classics. But the weird thing is that tomorrow im going to attend a summer program. so listening to the title track that is really against education on the day before returning to "school" is such a weird experience. but anyway i wish my old school can be blown to pieces. 3/5

first, "If God don't want us to enjoy Talking Heads' music, He won't have given us mild autism." secondly, i believe in \STOP MAKING SENSE SUPREMACY/. So this is so mid. Like, if you can watch the Stop Making Sense film version of David byrne doing his autistic little dances while singing "Life During Wartime", you won’t want to come back to this. but still 4/5

after seeing your comments i enter with pure low expecation. but actually its not as boring as you claim it to be. lol 4/5

? what 2/5

child: i want to buy two cds! one for t-rex and one for ac/dc! mom: we have a compilation cd of them two at home. the compilation cd at home: 3/5

complete nonsense writing. It feels like such a long time ago when i began to reject feminism. and the reason is that radical feminists ruined my life and my whole internet presence so i need to reject. ha-ha, you are a bitch and you should be proud of it. they said. and ultimately i found that i am non-binary. bruh i should amuse myself to death by escaping the paradigm but found myself still trapped in it. i mean it started with him acknowledging my favourite artist and i got too near anyway how did it end up like this its only an imaginary kiss. i hate you all. come. take me out and dig my grave. i mean so do this album really have very exposed and not subtle "-ism" related things? im not sure. so its better than their last album and everyone in this fucking scene which is also the worst thing that ever happened in the 90s (i need to specially call out Bikini Kill for starting it all, all the third wave -ism and all the trauma and all the hurt happened in the later 30 years) because realding the lyrics, i didnt see any visible "-ism" and they have really good music going on there. you hate boys whining and girls yelling. they said that the hate on the latter is "disencouraging empowerment" but in reality warbling vocals is always an annoying thing. bang. punk is always left wing. post punk is more complicated. may God give me peace and existansial crisis in other music also made by female musicians. And give me a gun so i can shot a hole into the sun as everybody explode with the everlasting bullet hole in my sucking chest. bang bang. 4/5

ok Australian boomer. only the title track is good and everything sounds like everything else. 3/5

i mean i kinda understand the reason that jazz hip hop is so poppular well you know they are all black genres widely accepted but still peaked at black performers so i guess this is decent 4/5 4/5

wow this is such a heavy album like most of grunge albums. i like the distorted guitar fuzz. i can hear some nirvana and soundgarden in this which proved the fact that this can be considered proto-grunge. 4/5

on one side i absolutely loathes traditional folk and have a bit of negative attitude toward comtemporary folk. on the other side i have a mid to high regard on punk. so who would thought of the fact that folk punk is actually very appealing to me? 5/5

what. the first minute of the first song sounds like if you stitched a marching band and a circus together. and the rest sounds mostly like a normal psych song. and i dont know why but everything on this album sound diferent from each other. so weird. so when people asked me "where were you when we were getting high?", i can say "well... here?" 4/5

I KNOW IT WOULD COME TO ME! so ozzy's dead. and we should listen to some black sabbath. what else? cut off the head of a bat-shaped cake to honour him? but anyway back to the album itself. i values personal dispair more than society doom and im pretty selfish and just want the few person that i love to live happily and don't care about the majority of people (except the minority groups me and my cared ones are a part of. Im sorry for lacking kindness but im just too tired about things they have already bought me trauma. sorry). so i avoid things with a clear political message because the truth is forever to brutal for me to see. But War Pigs is just so good. Just like Paranoid. Paranoid is so good that its literally my brain structure half of the time. Just as Iron Man. tbh i think there's only one weak track on the album ans its Planet Caravan. What was noteworthy is that all these song has a real dystopian imagery which fits with Tony Iommi's riff and the whole atmosphere beautifully. i mean why would people hate this album? jsut i mean its really a straight up classic. 5/5

its a bit boring 2/5

Science Fiction is always appealing to me. And as this album is a science fiction themed concept album, its appeal elevated despite being an Contemporary R&B album, in which the genre is something that i really dislike. maybe i should use my sci-fi judging eye and my music judging ear to rate this lol. The overture quickly bought us into the atmosphere of a old time sci-fi movie happening in real time: orchestra tuning, applause, while it unleashes fullthrottle into a classical styled piece. and the genre hopping! no, the genre hopping is so awesome that i can do nothing but to admire it. and how the first three songs flow into each other is just so awesome, without looking at the tracklist i just honestly don't have any idea about it switching tracks. such a interlinked album i mean it is as conclusive as a science fiction plot. and it does what many SFs needs to do: to be both conherent per plot (even the fade out seems not weird as well although some seems a bit weird), switch between high-energy, tense moments and calmer parts and aged like wine. when i say age like wine i mean the social commentary in the lyrics. i don't like political stuff but if you sugarcoat it it is just so sweer and fine and appealing to me like many SF writers have done and continues to do. no wonder someone compare this with sgt.pepper. they all hope between genres (although peppers is still a bit inconherent), influenced musicians to come, have a concept (of course!) and instantly become a classic. instant 5. 5/5

halfway through the high energy dance pop/r&b of the ArchAndroid i finished my review, clicked "submit" and found THIS waiting on the other side. you know i hate country music. 2/5

Another country album but most are covers. It makes me feel more comfortable despite being Johnny Cash’s last album in his lifetime. So the problem is that I happen to own the downward spiral on CD so I can compare this version of Hurt and Trent’s original version. Good news? Nick Cave was featured on this so it makes this album less grim. And the problem is I just finished a transatlantic flight home and have a pretty serious cold. I’m not dying anyway. and this is unexpectedly good. my mental state is already unstable and hurt just made it worse. (because i played the original version before this.) the cover of Personal Jesus is a bit unexpected but i like the original more maybe its because non-cheesy synthpop is one of my favourite genre. I really feel that In My Life is a highlight of this album because when John Lennon wrote this it already have this "im old and i look back on my life" type feeling and Cash indeed makes the feeling stronger. Hank Williams is not a singer that im not so found of but the cover of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry make me smile a bit. because Nick Cave. and We'll Meet Again is such a perfect closing track... i didnt cry in the whole process and thasts

my impression of this album before a certain video came out: aren't this album by the rap group who were featured on feel good. inc? my impression of this album after a certain video came out: https://youtu.be/ZT2uYUlcE5g?t=20 so Mr. John Flansburgh... i 100% agree with your approval of this album. i really like the creative way they used sampling and how this album radiates positivity and fun instead of anger and dissatisfaction at the modern society, or money, violence, the hood, and women like what the genre looked like back in the day. and the skits are absurdly funny as well. 4.5/5

*excited goth noises* First I’ll repeat what everyone else have said before: Siouxsie is literally the queen of the genre. And I generally have a lower expectation toward debut albums so let’s wait and see. but anyway i think i should establish a template of debut album review s from now on. it will borrow some of the reviews that i have wrote before. the formal review: it's (of course) not as good as Juju and Tinderbox, but since it is their debut, it's alright. but its still a 3 for me cause these two albums mentioned before impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much apart from the cover of helter skelter, although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works. 3.5/5

wait a minute. how many mid and relatively unknown hip hop albums do you have on this list. wait another minute. why is this a 3.9 on rym. and it has comedy hip hop elements in it. we are saved. and holy fucking shit. this is so weirdly funny in the absurd way that i love the most for a good comedy. 4/5

ok so its everyone's least favourite "00s british indie band" time.

i mean its alright i guess but not that significant for me because im not that into jazz 3/5

A Fake Essay on Why the Personal is, and Always Will Be, More Important Than The Political, or why OK Computer is greater than To Pimp a Butterfly I don’t know what to say. Yesterday I finally decided to listen to OK Computer conclusively and you are telling me that my choice today is that very album that exceeds okc and becomes the best album of all time, according to RYM? I mean I of course understands why people love this album. due to my nature of being a music-first listener and secondly for me it really don’t deserves that #1. That evil moment when Kendrick took Thom Yorke’s crown and put it on his own head suggests that the widespread focus on all types of entertainment shifts from the personal experience to the political reality. What a pity. One thing that is funny is that tpab’s status is mainly based upon its politics and how it fused with the music, instead of the music itself. If this album is a bit less political it would plunge to below a 4.2 on rym, making it inferior to OK Computer. And let me tell you the fact. Being conscious and woke and join in activism won’t work. I mean, things might get better for a bit if you do some activism, but the long term outcome still won’t change. In other words, have you ever listened to “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by the Who? In that song Pete Townsend used his lyrics to describe an angry young activist going through revolutions with idealism, only to realise that every promising politician looks the same, or, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”. What is interesting is that we mentioned Radiohead in this article as a must, and this change is found on Thom Yorke himself. Hail To The Thief is a good example of him being angry and young and frustrated about the life, and in the following years we observed him joining in all kinds of activism but theres seldomly a positive outcome. At the same time thom’s life changed too and he slowly found out that nothing he did actually work. That’s how he began to have these “terrible political takes” regarding the Middle East which are being called “incorrect”. But let us know that he just wants to have a rest from all these things he feels powerless about. And also perhaps people should remember that HTTT is an album that is more than 20 years old and there is seldomly any political songs released after that album, making the point that “Radiohead has always been a political band” worthless. Instead we see personal despair being commonly written about in their albums, from their first ever hit, the great meme song “Creep”, to “True Love Waits”, the last song on A Moon Shaped Pool. Under this condition we can see that Thom’s starting point towards the things around them shifting from the political to the personal, making us able to detect the fact that the political issue’s inferiority when comparing to the everlasting and importance of the personal issue. But anyway, why would you think I, like everyone else, would helf this album in high regard? Is it because I am an Asian and Asians are, like black people, people of colour? That’s funny. When one singer I admire accidentally used racist slurs under the influence of drugs and frustration I choose to temporarily ignore it and still listen to his music while still acknoledging its exist. Political witch hunts has destroyed me and my favourite singer’s life for once and for all in a significant and unforgivable incident a year ago and all discourses and guilt tripping has since began to make me hate politics and made me nonchalant to things that isn't relevent with me. So ladies and gentlemen and non-binary folks, and everybody who lives in a society, i have got a match in my hand and I am here to burn down the house. it might be trauma. or it might be a super terrible political take. or it might be a war that i can only lose. but i don't regret. It is politics that tears us apart, and only by throwing away the political and return to the personal, we can see each other as simply humans. Post Script favourite track: u (due to its relevence regarding the self loathing and mental health theme), Mortal Man (but only the "When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?" part and the last part with the catepillar allegory), which are also the most personal part on this political album. Special Thanks to: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brian and Phil Selway. If you didn't form Radiohead, this review would be written in a different light. And to my blue eyed problematic faves: Firstly, Nick Cave, as the AI hater turned middle grounder and supposed zionist, but also somebody juggling expectation and nuances. Then, Liam Gallagher, as the accidental racist, but also a frustrated human without higher education. And again, Thom Yorke, as the supposed zionist, but also a tired human being. "Mortal Man" won't mean that much to me without you. When the shits hit the fan, i think i would still be a fan. 4.5/5

firstly i am a serious live album lover. you see, stop making sense and oasis's knebworth '96 are two of my fav albums of all time. secondly... i just cant stand long instrumental jams! so im probably in hell today. cause the album runs a little bit longer than 75 minutes, and guess what... there's this track that took up the entire side. and its noodling at its purest with almost no redeeming quality. so if the album name is a multiple choice question, i'd rather choose dead over live while listening to this. 1/5

oh no. there's still some redeeming quality to it so im going to give it a 3.

firstly, bro have a super huge bias towards prog. and instrumental rock. and child prodigies. secondly, bro really need to watch The Exorcist. thirdly, bro liked the part that was used in the 2012 olympics opening. in general it sounds ok but some part is too repitive and sometime it sounds too celtic/irish and too inconherent. 3/5

I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me! ...wait a second thats the wrong album. the hip hop influence is really interesting but the loose approach to the arrangement make me lost interest. 3.5/5

dude. Dude. DUDE!!! i dont think i need to say that '94 is when music peaked but here i say it once again. i mean my favourite live album is still stop making sense but this is so peak. literally the best live album in every normie's sense anyway. and also this is my last nirvana album out of the 1001 and i was watching the video for this. tbh i laughed when kurt claimed that he doesn't have a gun. i am sorry. and i am today years old when i found out that krist can play the accordion. which is an equally hilarious fact due to his height and the compactness of the instrument which makes it really tiny looking. but i would favour john linnell and weird al over him at any time. but unlike linnell, who is 5'10 and might be a giant, krist is indeed a giant. *its pretty hard to describe it but you can see the hilarious scene at 10:39 of this upload:* https://youtu.be/pOTkCgkxqyg?t=639 but anyway i don't think i need to add more commentary but kurt's vocal on this is just so unreal. i mean i like his dynamic control and everything else. music truly peaked in '94. 5/5

DISGUSTING! UNFORGIVABLE! What an asshole you are, 1001 album generator. Yesterday its nirvana and today its this band from my least favourite country. and its not even daft punk. its some Downtempo shit from 98 and honestly? i think that the genre peaked at portishead and everything else don't matter. and it's hella boring. it just goes on and on for 30 minutes without change. 2/5

average indie band 3/5

it has a really good flow and beat but its still not my thing 3/5

Life sucks. That's why you need the song to stain everything in sight. wait a minute you are all talking about the British version? guess i don't have any space to put my personal dispair since Paint it Black is not on this. but in fact the glimmer twins' songwriting on this really inspired me a lot. you see at most of the time they sound really shite but later they become better. so i am not to worry about my terrible music skills. 3/5

too much alt and not enough noise. 4/5

contrary to what other people on this site thinks, i consider this as a really decent 80s pop album. the sounds are refreshing and i absollutely love it. although the second side pulls it down a bit. but still, 4.5/5

this is better than my impression of 80s synthpop. and wait a minute, Johnny Marr is featured on this! in general i like this. 4/5

DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this review, are solely those of the individual author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of 1001albumsgenerator.com and rateyourmusic.com, the family member of the mods and creators of 1001albumsgenerator.com and rateyourmusic.com, other neurodivergent people like the writer, or any other individuals associated with 1001 Albums Generator and Rate Your Music. Any content provided by the writer is their opinion, and they are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and validity of their statements. 1001 Albums Generator and Rate Your Music does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of any opinions expressed in the content. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of 1001 Albums Generator and Rate Your Music or any other individual or entity with whom the writer or website may be affiliated. 1001 Albums Generator and Rate Your Music is not liable for any content that may be considered offensive, inappropriate, or inaccurate. there was a reviewer on. he wrote this fairytale of a review, and other really good reviews. it is about how rush made prog become a genre that values technicality instead of soul, and really expresses his hate of the synth sounds of the 80s. but the twist is that like how Geddy Lee is portrayed in his review, the reviewer don't have a brain or a soul. he is a self pretentious bastard that won my trust by liking depressive music like radiohead and nick cave ONLY TO REVEAL HIS TRUE NATURE OF CONSIDERING THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS AS A PARODY OF THEMSELF AND ARE THE SAME WITH RUSH WHO BUILT EVERYTHING OUT FROM TECHNICALITY INSTEAD OF SINCERITY. while considering that the blue album is the greatest nerd type album of all time. and that's why you shouldn't trust critics. especially people who pretend that they like deep things and won trust those stupid man and woman and non binary people won't understand the beauty of all things you crown. just like that random bastard who think that modern music sucks in his reviews but still choose a TMBG album released after 2010 to put into the users list that happened after you listen to all the 1001 album and you didnt die. if they choose Flood or Apollo 18 to put on the list... maybe that critic would still be this stupid. i want to do something bad. i want to do something really bad. the critic gave Murder Ballads a high score and my name is now Loretta. i have the urge to do it but i dont know why. but maybe i should understand him more cause i am autistic. and tmbg is like, tailored for neurodivergent people. and he is probably neurotypical. weezer is good music but they are like, fake nerds. while the traits of nerds largely overlaps with autism traits. Good news! John Linnell (one half of TMBG) often describes himself as "sort of autistic" in interviews! Their fans are largely autistic as well! so i guess maybe his hate toward tmbg sprouts from people not being able to accept neurodivergent sounding music and think that only deep stuff has value. he even think that Stop Making Sense is not the essential talking heads album because its actually a film. is it because he can't understand the underlying autistic quality of the album? as for Moving Pictures itself... i only have two things to say. 1.although i don't think synths as being overrated. 2. it is not as prog as king crimson or as hard as led zep. and limelight is too poppy. 3/5

i won't have any idea that this album is fully built from prexisting samples if you don't tell me about the fact. Certainly one of two certified classics in the genre of Plunderphonics (the other one is Since I Left You.) 4.5/5

it's (of course) not as good as London Calling, but since it is their debut, it's alright. but its still a 3 for me cause London calling impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much, although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works.

ugh 3/5

ok so this is supposed to be another shitty synthpop record, innit. wait a minute it is not but i dont like it. 3/5

*a visible sigh* ok guys. its dreamy shoegaze time. i hate dreamy shoegaze cause noisy shoegaze is better. and im tired. and this album has the concept of being a pill. wish its a hypnotic... but how can i judge an album while sleeping through it? i can't sleep. and holy shit this is so beautiful. i like it. the title track i mean what an opener. on the same level of doing something to the album with how everything in its right place did to kid A. 5/5

good morning everyone! the sun is shiiiining and we are in synthpop hell yet again!

After a grand trip in outer space with Jason Spaceman, and a escape from synthpop hell, the review writer found themself in crisis again: The air smells like harmonica. Flat singing filled the ear. Without a doubt, the reviewer is in the hell of “lovers of people with a beautiful voice”: deep in the muds of the Bob Dylan swamp. Before the reviewer can put on Subterranean Homesick Alien as a way of coping a sharp guitar riff blasted in from the depths of the swamp. It’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. But the reviewer is trained. The are trained in tolerating and accepting of all type of weird singing voice, so weirdly the most difficult condition of the Dylan swamp is not a hard condition anymore. But then it is the harmonica. The writer probably consider it as the only torture instead of his singing. The harmonica terrain is sparsely spreaded between the easier terrain of singing so they hurried their way on escaping from the wheezing instrument and the good news is that the song is lesser that three minutes As soon as the blues rock loving writer escaped from Subterranean Homesick Blues easily, they entered the relatively peaceful area of She Belongs To Me and Maggie’s Farm. The writer hated the former, but exploring the floras and faunas of the latter give them a really good time although they’re mostly stuck in the deep muds of harmonica. Love Minus Zero is also difficult to navigate for them. But Outlaw Blues is more exciting for them cause the guitar hits hard and the harmonica is almost functioning as the pure background soundscape filling in the sparseness of the swamp. On The Road Again made the air surreal like all other best surrealists of the century whereas the sharp blasts of harmonica made the writer hesitate as a fan of surrealism. The only problem is that it is too short. By the time Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream started the writer is having weird thoughts. They are thinking about how this is vaguely related to their upcoming exam. And their supporting football team’s allegation. Their leg had been submerged in the swamp for too long. The thought disappeared because Dylan messed up. Run. Thought the writer. But soon the swamp is again deep and the mud is again muddy. So they were left in this six minutes of wild hallucination while Dylan droned on and on. The previous experiences of wandering in the swamp now much helped in the best way as they lifted their leg and raced with time through the harmonica and the singing, with the strong rock beat after them. But they have run out of luck: scenery swapped radically as the second half of the record returned to acoustic. “Save me, Liam Gallagher!” The writer shouted without much hesitation as they sensed a figure in front of them: The tambourine man. Any knowledgeable person knows that the best way to counter a thing is using the same thing. But Liam, although being one of the most famous tambourine man in rock and roll, is still living and is a person rather than a god so he won’t help. By the way, Mr. Tambourine man don’t have any fucking tambourine. So it won’t work. But gladly they still managed to escape under the tense and imaginary atmosphere from the Tambourine Man. And everything else after that is almost the same long and tiring walk. As long as the exodus but it’s out the swamp and back into home. Collapsing on their bad after a warm bath, the reviewer happily went to sleep with a rating: 4/5. Might listen Again.

So this is the apex of twee pop, according to RYM. Hmm. I often sees twee pop as a super naive sounding music genre. And I know I am wrong as this album stood somewhere between the sentimental bullshit of French pop, the jangly guitar of the Smiths and general 60s folk rock. But this blend of genres made me of unease more. Although the lightly bittersweet and breezy atmosphere is something I am usually found of, the majority of this album feels not on my radar. And some arrangements have a weird country tinge, especially on the title track. You know I don’t like country. I’m feeling sinister so I would like to give this a 3. No, a 4. Honestly many songs are not so bad but they are just not that for me.

*inhales* So first I like German music although this is not a german band but i like music sang in german. Secondly I found industrial not irritating. And I love Soviet jokes. Lastly this album is supposedly both a huge soviet joke and a huge anti-nazi joke. but the funniest thing is that the authoritarians and the facsists all like this. i live in a half-authoritatian society with pretty much freedom but i don't find this intersting. they are too sincere that it feels like the worst parody of things. when weird al parodies a song he still feels halfway between serious and joking and when i seldomly tried to write parody songs i tried to sound as unserious as possible. it is not possible to parody such a heavy topic with 100% sincerity. especially when it comes to the two covers on the album: Queen's "one Vision" which is literally a song of solidarity and overcoming difficulties, but often used in media (and covered by laibach) in an additional meaning of... well, you know what i mean, and i prefer freddie's clear high vocals in the original version. the other really unorthordox choice is Austrian band Opus's "Live Is Life" which is this really harmless pop rock track that becomes... a military march of all things. but from the musicality i would give this a rounded up 3.5. and hence it starts my controversial opinion on industrial music in this list. 4/5

Too damn fucking cheesy 2/5

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The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of 1001 Albums Generator and Rate Your Music or any other individual or entity with whom the writer or website may be affiliated. 1001 Albums Generator and Rate Your Music is not liable for any content that may be considered offensive, inappropriate, or inaccurate. I FUCKING HATE FEMINISTS! I FUCKING HATE FEMINISTS! I! FUCKING! HATE! FEMINISTS! Sorry for being too aggressive. I agree that toxic masculinity is as toxic as hell cause my boyfriend is often being mocked because he is a crybaby and a long-haired art student who is also afraid of cockroaches. but radical feminism ruined my life by saying that men are trash and ridicules me for being too devoted to a my boyfriend. so, let me present to you, the radfem logic in two sentences: women and men should be equal. (well, they even put women in front of men, letting them become the first sex.) and all men are trash. SO THEY ARE ALSO TRASH ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN LOGIC! BEHOLD! WHAT A LOOPHOLE! AND THE BAND NAME IS ALSO IN FRENCH AND I HAVE FRANCOPHOBIA! AND THEY USED THAT MALL GOTH CLOTHING STORE AS A SONG NAME although I got a really decent jacket from that store. And let me count all the things that radical feminists and the cyberbullying from some of them give to this world: MY DISASSOCIATION! YEAH! MY DEPRESSION! YEAH! MY PARANOIA! YEAH! MY TRAUMA DUMPING! YEAH! AND TERFS! INCREASED TRANSPHOBIA! THE RUINED LIFE OF MY IMAGINARY LITTLE SISTER WHO IS MTF! They just can’t understand an autistic mf who treats objectification as a joke literally. i hate peopple who gets offensive by bad jokes i mean i know the joke is bad but its offencive. bad jokes never get this offensive. i just posted "i wanna be your dog" and they think that im really a bootlicker and consider my boyfriend as a manchild. i mean he is to some extent, cause he is afraid of cockroaches. they should really walk a mile in my shoes but they wont cause as soon as they took off their own shoes and wore mine, ill steal their shoes as fast as i can. Let me explain this real quick: i lived in a really toxic society. discrimination is common, abuse happens a lot in small towns, and people generally lacks sex ed and woke people all wish they have the ideas of feminism when they are in middle school instead of recieveing the idea right now when famous feminist literature about the filthiness of Man began to get introduced into bookstores, just so they can cope with the society in the most angry times of life... and guess what? i grow up in a large city and was born with all these stupid privileges and still think that i am unhappy and right now jarvis cocker need to appear and sing "common people" to me because i never encountered abuse. and i metaphorically died because of guilt. or i might lived on, having filled with guilt and having 0 guilt at the same friend because i am the most insensitive human in the world when it comes to gender issues but still breaks down when slurs gets targeted towards me by the person i consider as trustable. and like how every ideology agenda flew above my head the whole concept of a gender is also somewhere else although when i was small i desprately tried to be feminine from time to time. but when i labelled myself as nonbinary things began to get better, but it all happens after the hurt. so, how do you mend a broken heart? by escapism, by disassociation, by pretending that you are an adult and drink once a month, listening to cheesy lovesongs, calling yourself trash, and most importantly, to get away as far as possible from everything that results in that unmendable scar on your heart. and by seeing feminist art it is to tear my heart apart again like when the family members of a crime victim are needed to confront the criminal. so i confronted the one person that all the criminal learned their trades from. she don't look like a criminal. she is dressed in cloths that i feel cheesy and out of date, possibly something that dates back to the 80s. she behaves like a little child cause in her words, "little girls don't care about all the fucking sexism! isn't that good?" anyway girl, is that a swear word that you just said because you are a punk? i ask her, and who is that guy you name checked? is that the artist who shares a surname with my little sister? she hated surname jokes. she stepped on the painting to be stepped on and what? you played at that AFAB cis women only music festival? now i hate you more cause i said that my little sister is trans. because she is one of the finest woman i have seen in years. and i want to make sure that she never walk alone. i am going to eat you up no matter how many time you claimed that you support trans rights cause TERFs have continued to harm both trans woman and masculine cis woman. just ask them how many butchs have they seen in their lifetime! just because my sister have only began to take medications and still have a dick don't mean she isn't a girl. she is fighting against all doubts to become a woman and isn't that wonderful? isn't it the most beautiful representation of womenhood? come on! show me how you can bite those supposed stupid male human's dick off! show me how the dance punk music you made supposedly influence all those latecomers that i love and admire, especially mister James Murphy, everybody's favourite north american scum! show me how you can unite all the troublesome girls around the world into a life-changing force! no, you can't! am i right? AM I RIGHT? i can see her struggle and hear her say, "that is non of my business! the girls who harmed you are latecomers and... and..." "learned nothing from me!" i sighed and stopped the investigation. looks like trauma really does something significant. expressing anger is good. i am in awe of my stupid mind. 3/5 for the music, changed to 1/5 for the flood of trauma this album brings.

so as people might know, the writer themself is an Anglophile. Due to their love of the British culture, a certain degree of hatred toward a certain country is also injected into their veins. Stereolab is famed for being RYMcore. which is, pretentious music held in high regards by Rate Your Music users. So the write give it a try. The first song is krautrock-y repetitive while the second song launches is quickly into French pop territory but ignoring fact that the lyrics are being written in one of the most boring language the song actually sound decent. And the rest is what it sounds like when you put Kraftwerk, Neu and any random French female singer into a blending machine and blend them together. Weirdly, the writer likes this and decided to give it a 4/5

guess rym likes this too. honestly its the same with every soul/contemporary R&B album: i can sleep in the middle of it and when i wake up i would jave no idea that the song changed. apart from The ArchAndroid, i mean. that one is really fucking eclectic. 2/5

Uh. Soul yesterday, soul today. I don’t have a commonly defined soul so why this much soul. and this is somehow lame. 3/5

So it’s everyone’s least favourite British music time. And everyone’s least favourite electronica time. i dont like this. 2/5

back to the fish bowl called school in which i have swimmed year after year. a new school probably means some new lost souls. i mean i dont think i have any time to listen to shine on your crazy diamond in its full cause today im going back to school. wait a minute the car ride to school took 40 minutes and i can finish the whole album on the way and watch some of my favourite youtube videos. and also i HATE roger waters and how useless his politics is. cant this irl moai just shut up. and also im not the biggest prog fan in the world, and the wall is my favourite album of them. but the two part of shine on your crazy diamond is actually realyl awesome and the title track stands as one of their greatest work. have a cigar and welcome to the machine really let the almost perfect flow of the album down. 4.5/5

1. britpop never sucks for me. post britpop too. 2. "sucking pop rock bands" generally have a really great debut album. 3. i mean my favourite colour isnt yellow but you know what i mean. one time, two time. spin the desktop globe until we exit upside down. cheesy pop rock has been a part of my DNA since 10. continuing it into middle school until im now a junior. coldplay was somehow just like the old kanye and the old u2. their earlieast works are the best works. i still remembered being alone as a sophomore and joining in music class getting to group up with classmates and playing "yellow" like literally thats the last thing that mattered. playing in a band is literally the best thing that happened like what we are covering is coldplay, guys, its literally coldplay. i did hope one day i can grow wings and anything else. making music is like a chemical reaction it creates awe like when you look at the stars and see it shining for you. guess its just a bias but i really like it. 4/5

disclaimer: my border of the genius producer/mid rapper and the mentally ill extreme right wing is after this album so i don't see everythign before it in a negative light because of the ethics. i found the borderline of antisemitism and anti zionism so blurry that people joining in the good cause of anti zionism sometime streched to the 1930s germany fashion of antisemitism. thats boring asf. and also, i mean if you give him a 1 you should give the smiths a 1 cause morrissey is a nationalist and is whiny and supports man united. but you dont because of johnny marr and you only give moz's solo a 1. i know you, ethics warrior. but anyway because of ye's ego this album has a potential to be labelled comedy hip hop along with the slack beats and the various jumpscares. 3/5

I’m not sure

In the morning, on discord: I would consider it as proto metal like how Iggy Pop is proto punk Right now: Woof! Woof woof! Woof! Woof. Woof woof woof woof woof; woof woof. Woof woof woof. Woof woof woof. Woof woof woof woof woof, woof woof woof, woof. Translation: it's (of course) not as good as fun house and raw power, but since it is their debut, it's alright. but its still a 3.5 for me cause these two albums mentioned before impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much apart from 1969 and I want to be your dog, although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works. Woof.

"Disintegration is the best album ever!" -- Kyle, in S1E12 of South Park Just like what John Linnell, singer/keyboard player of famed American band They Might Be Giants once wrote in “Older”, You're older than you've ever been/And now you're even older/And now you're older still”. Set to a 60 bpm drum beat, the song vividly portrays decay at a visible time, bringing us the existential crisis that stood still in our heart. When Robert Smith began writing this album, he was motivated by the same thing: the fact that he is already 29, and most artists in the music world has done their best work before 30. The result is probably the annex of the whole gothic rock genre. The atmosphere of the album immideately sets up with"Plainsong", which starts with a shimmering soundscape and airy synths and guitar, while Robert's voice doesn't enter until halfway. "I think it's dark and it looks like it's rain", he sang in a painful manner, like doom, its unescapable. the protagonist wryly smiled for a second but the smile is enough to give the feeling of doom. It's just the way I smile, he continued. basic and natural and harmless but still giving harm. like the fact that you are 29. "Pictures of You" is more dreamy and lengthy than plainsong but for the general audience, its more accessable because of the presence of lyrics throughout the song. It seems to be about love but can also interpreted as the lost of youth and the worried state that Robert was in, But it is "Closedown" that he addresses the issue more throughly: "I'm running out of time", he starts the song directly and let his anxiety loose, singing about emptiness, having real feelings again, and love. Speaking of love... Lovesong is definitely the lightest moment in the whole album. Created as a gift for Robert's long time childhood friend and eventual wife, Mary Poole, it escapes the pain and highlights the love, the most straightforward thing in human relationships and one sparkle of light under the anxiety of underachieving. Last Dance, the addition track on the CD version and streaming version is somehow an anti-lovesong: affection turns to the fear of aging but still continuing that wryness of Plainsong, ending a relationship. Lullaby is another light note with the bedtime story of people eating spiders set to a rather lighthearted instrument, might be the only cure song that i have heard on local radio. im in east asia by the way. Ending side one, Fascination street have an iconic riff and a somehow "heavy" atmosphere, the somehow dancy instrumentals made it another commercial hit on disintegration, the lyric is also unstable as well, feeling the type of forced feeling when everything is ending. Please take me out and give me meaning, this is what the lyrics feel to me. Prayer for Rain opens the darker and generally longer side 2 with the essential darkwave atmosphere, brooding, dark and lingering. The lyrics are also visibly depressing in a near masochism fashion. We dont know who the “you” Robert is mentioning, but rain is always a symbol of hope and reborn, so we might as interpret it as a song hoping for one last chance to prove yourself before you are deemed worthless by the general public, before all the pain kicks in. The nine minute epic named “the same deep water as you” is transcendent. Framed with death motifs and in stretched out synths and reversed guitars for me somehow returns the the grand theme and probably can be interpreted as the difficulty for musicians struggling to create their best album before they turn 30, struggling and working but ultimately sinking due to that, its unfiltered pain in the most serene form. The title track gives us a similar type of lengthy buildups but having a more melodically strong riff topped with Robert’s lyrics, decaying, breaking apart from anxiety, disappointment, and frustration. “It's easier for me to get closer to Heaven/Than ever feel whole again”, he sang in a most pathetic and powerful manner, as the music keeps on its beat and the melody repeats over itself, feeling like falling and flying at the same time. But we all know that we will never grow wings one day. Easily one of the best track on the album. Homesick is inferior comparing to Last Dance for both of them being bonus tracks on the CD version, so at last we come to Untitled, the finishing of side 2 and of the entire album. Robert talk about time and underachieving again, struggling to tell what happened to people and the fear, the anxiety, with the final result being more things undone but also keep this feeling inside his heart and that’s how he managed to make this album, racing against the clock and his own fear, until successfully escaping it all, like how flowers bloom in natural disaster sites. Before talking about why Disintegration is a 5, i have something to say about myself. I am an anxious neurodivergent sixteen year old who lives under self loathing and tried to create music because I love music. under Robert's negative influence i came to know that if i didn't create anything good before I am 30 i would rather be going to hell. funny, you would think but actually i mean as the John Linnell lyric i quoted, time is marching on every minute and every second so i am drenched in fear as if i am turning 30 next minute. i feel what he feels, the decay and the ending of your life being unsuccessful at 30, people tried to reclaim the age by celebrating 30 years old like it a brand new start for their life, many singers continue to produce high quality works after they turn 30 and some debut after turning 30, but the fear of the age is real. With disintegration, Robert successfully beat the social expectations of turning 30 and created the most successful gothic rock album, blending dream pop, post punk and alternative rock with ease. I didn’t feel at ease with my age but I need to constantly remind myself that I am only 16. Although time is marching on everyday still feels long to me. I have time to learn, time to study, time to continue making shit songs just to prove that I have so much time to be alive and when time comes I might succeed in creating my disintegration. and also, one of the reason i love the cure is that i fucking hate morrissey. dude is both a whiny extreme right wing racist and a supposed man united supporter. this type of people should go to hell for supporting man united (and for being a nationalist too). wait a minute he dont support any football team. i both hate him less and hate him more. 5/5

i dont like it or hate it. really stereotypicak styff and just like all indian stuff i have heard before. 3/5

elegent dinner music 2/5

first day of school. the whole "abandon all hope ye who enter here" atmosphere lingers... and there's jazz. free jazz. avant garde jazz. with a swear word in the title free avant garde jazz. I have listened to "Sound of Silver" before. but anyway here's a mashup of miles davis soloing over the last song of that album. https://youtu.be/huEtJw7pfLk?si=QrA_te7fIvzzY5HW this album is a whole different beast. pharaoh's dance is good but the title track really feels long and boring to me. that make it a 4. 4/5

the great Canadians have come to me one by one. First its rush at aug 16, than its neil at aug 19, and today, at sep 9, its joni. don't tell me that leonard cohen is on his way to torture me. david byrne was talking about his fondness of Blue in an interview i was just listening to and yesterday i got a jazz album. so? i think its good but not that consistant. 4/5

WELCOME TO PROG FLUTE HELL! YEAH! but i like the folk-rock-prog style of this. prog need to be more like this and less technical wankery. 4/5

its absurdly good 4/5

Spoilers: for this listening note you will see many jokes based on puns related to looking and seeing. visually impaired people may not find it (or *see* it) funny so i apologize in advance. like how i approached Innervision, i entered this *blindly*. as always, i tried to keep my *eyes* sharp on judging albums, but also to keep an open mind since i havent *seen* anything. it *seems* that this album is not something that i would actively find and listen to as far as i have *seen* because of the blues-adjucent music present in the first half and the jazz adjecent thing in the second half. but its decent though, really make me *see* things from a different light. 4/5

1. so, manchester. madchester. cigarettes and alcohol, but 80s manchester. 2. dont tell me that they support man united. tomorrow is the manchester derby and i support man city so i ceased stone roses, ceased new order, ceased morrissey even though he don't watch football, and im not sure that i should listen to another yanited supporting band. and its not boring but its just that type of thing i wont listen again unless im doing drugs. 2/5

I can envision everybody screaming “ITS ANOTHER 90s BRITISH INDIE BAND! FUCK!” right now. the first side is so good but the second side drags down it a bit. 3.5/5

ok 300th. so you hate this beause you think only led zep and white stripes are white artists who makes good blues rock. but comon its ok innit 3/5

my 301th album... upbeat melodies! jaunty beats! political lyrics that sounds unserious with the accompaniment! what else could i ask for! 4.5! 5/5

The reviewer would like to thank Google Translation for helping them write in German. Danke, Google. ich liebe dich. oh Scheiße. Jetzt kommt es. Ich weiß nicht, wie lange ich darauf gewartet habe und was ich davon halte. Aber ich versuche, es zu schätzen, weil es so einflussreich ist. Ich habe ein paar Freunde, die Krautrock mögen … und ich persönlich bin wirklich begeistert davon. und ich kann nicht beschreiben, wie großartig es klingt ... was für ein experimentelles Album. Das Album ist sehr rhythmuslastig, Schlagzeug und Bass halten immer weiter den Groove aufrecht, als würden die Räder eines Zuges klirrende Geräusche machen, während Gitarre, Gesang, Keyboard und so weiter lange Zeit improvisieren. Die Texte sind oft in einem wirklich klassischen Unsinn im Stil von „Alice im Wunderland“ geschrieben, mit vielen klassischen experimentellen Klanglandschaften, wie Tonbandschleifen, die hier und da eingestreut sind. Es hat diese besondere Schwingung, die manche Leute anspricht, aber aufgrund der experimentellen Natur von Krautrock vielleicht nicht für die breite Öffentlichkeit attraktiv ist. Ich will nicht anmaßend sein, aber ich mag das wirklich. Abgesehen von „Aumgn“. war dieses beschissene Lied die längsten 17 Minuten und 32 Sekunden meines Lebens. fünf auf meiner fünfstufigen Album-Bewertungsskala (original text: oh shit. here it comes. im not sure how long i have waited for this and what i think of this. but im trying to appriciate this because how influencial this is. i have some friends who like krautrock... and personally im really excited about this. and i can't describe how awesome it sounds... what an experimental album. the album is really rhythm heavy with the drum and the bass going on and on maintaining the groove like the train's wheel making clanking noises while the guitar and the vocal and the keyboard and stuff improvises on it for a lengthy time period with the lyrics often written in really classic, "Alice in Wonderland" style nonsense, with a lot of classical experimental soundscapes, like tape loops, thrown in here and there. it has this type of special vibration that has some appeal to certain people but might not be appealing to the general public, due to the experimental nature of krautrock. im not being pretentious but i really like this. apart from aumgn. that shit is the longest 17 minutes and 32 seconds of my life. five stars out of five on my album rating scale) 5/5

(sigh) politics is not something to be openly discussed here. right now america is having one of the biggest witch hunts in the history of the country, so i don't want to comment about it much. but goddamn this is so awful. the first songs are good to ok but the others. all over the place. ugh. 1/5

can i say that i laughed when "sunshine of your love"'s riff began. 3.5/5

I don’t understand

my last neil young album is not a good experience but this is quite amazing. but quite my thing but still a 4. 4/5

brighton have the worst gulls and the best fries. and decent music. although i consider this as a club classic and pretty good its not something i would listen to every day. 3.5/5

i am not the biggest fan of sadomasochism. but this album is not about sadomasochism. the abbriviation just happens to be the same. i mean what do you want from a guy who gave the black album a 4. the music itself is really good but in master of puppets when james was letting the audience singing the backup my brain automatically fills it with the original version so its a bit weird for me. everything is more epic with the ochestera. there are some weak tracks on it but generally a 4. sad that theres no use of the tubular bells in for whom the bell tolls.

contents of this album: something great/anything could prove the majority of this site wrong. i know you, posers who see all pop rock as fake. but know who make pop rock too? the beatles. and you know who's more pretentious than you? the people there on rate your music. they are all pretentious as hell but they still award this a collective 3.78. And it’s really good. What are you thinking. 4/5

i have some respect to this album but it didnt give me too much satisfaction. and for the two tracks i just mentioned, i like aretha and mick's cover(/original) version respectively. 3/5

yes... i remember everything well. you giving your head to a unhip and lame old man in the chelsea hotel, one night stand and then left quickly. you ruined your life but he made that stupid moment immortal. collectively 4 albums spanning about 3 hours is what you have left, we remembers you individually while he carries on with the heart of an asshole. a priest(ess) is what they call you and him. he follows on mine mind everywhere and resides rent free in my mind. if at that time i minded the gap and walk away his name will not be linked with pure burning hatred. go home and cry, leonard, our dear asshole: we will never miss you. the boomers will hail you and janis both as a god but why should i care about it? 4/5

weather update: its raining the hypnotic rains of smooth jazz. 3/5

what do you mean that i got janis's solo album the day before yesterday and a big brother and holding co. album today? the ball and chain is not lucky. the piece of my heart is taken. 4/5

i guess this is supposed to be really lengendary. anyway its legendary. 5/5

It’s not my favourite flavour of jazz 3/5

I really like this and I think it’s a little bit better than either/or 4.5/5

Oh. So this is Marvin Gaye’s breakup album. Hope his next marriage with Phil Ochs will turn out well. (For people who don’t know it’s a They Might Be Giants reference: in one of their songs they sang about the scenario in a mad-lib type way.) 2/5

Oh yeah. Like everybody said, this album has a near flawless first three tracks and after that it’s mid. 4/5

I had a relatively positive experience with them the last time. But this time it’s not something I would enjoy. The political satire is fun but the music is mid. 3.5/5

its David Bowie. We are saved. Not his peak but is still a good album. I like the title track and the cover of Across The Universe. 3.5/5

I am not the most radical leftist you would come upon. To be honest I would label myself as a centralist for most of the time. But yes, I’m one of the anglophiles of all time. I don’t support the conservative values of the monarchy though; I just consider it as something that’s really pretentious and cool cause the best thing is that the King is just a symbol. But yeah it’s right to say that England has no future. Really nihilistic saying but also as old and cliche as usual. As for John Lydon and his friends, I wish they won’t disappoint me when they come to me in the form of PiL. 3/5

One of my best friend is a Protestant and the other one was an Irish catholic. They make jokes about the Catholic Church every day because the first one is non-binary (and has been gladly accepted into a more progressive branch of the church) and the second one is a lesbian. nothing compares to telling lame jokes and avoiding demostrations and the smell of washed hair. 3/5

oh. an associate of somebody i know parasocially. my failure of imagining a crime film didn't lower my enjoyment of this album. 3.5/5

its certainly better than their debut because of the involvement of bruce dickinson. 4/5

today i tried not to self harm under great frustration. everyone will leave me in the end. happiness is fleeting but the pain is eternal. i might have messed up my socialization although i should understand its generally the problem of wanting other people to be online 24/7/365. anyway why won't people just listen to trent's original version of "hurt". its infinitely better. and stop making sense is better. although its not by the same artist but stop making sense is still what i consider as the apex of live albums. i would compare every live album i have heard to SMS. i am not being let down and i didnt hurt after listening. 4/5

slightly better boomer rock but still boomer rock 3.5/5

I was actually thinking “what if I get revolver today” before receiving my album today. and… guess who showed up? I’m somehow a failed prophet. Still some really good memories. New generations of elected American left wing politicians should learn from the lyrics of Taxman and employ the “one for you, nineteen for me” method on taxing the rich people. i want to tell you might be the only weak point on the album but everythign else is peak. here there and everywhere is literally paul's best song and i dont do drugs so tomorrow never knows didnt unleash its supposed power on me. easy 5/5

i have encountered polices in a lot of places. no matter its being hit by a motorcar when riding my bike in the wrong lane and scrolling my phone just to get a cup of coffee faster, or playing disco elysium, or watching news about cop violence in america. sting, stewart and andy are slightly above average polices for me and for the majority of time im enjoying this album. 3.5/5

i like live albums and don't hate dad rock. i guess he's alive here but this thing don't make me want to be alive. 3/5

*the reviewer, persumed unconsious after listening to Trafalgar, being aggressively CPR'd by their friends while blasting "stayin' alive"* friend: today we pay tribute to the reviewer. they suceeded in finishing the album but the bad news is that they died due to boredom fearlessly like Lord Nelson. May them rest in peace. one minute later, the review sat up and said a short "fuck". everybody rejoice. fade to black. 2/5

i guess i kinda sees what the ratings will be: "1/5 i hate british music and 80s sounding synthpop". dude. this has a wooping 8.0 rating on pitchfork, the ultimate "one music snob decides everything" reviewing site and a 3.4 on rate your music, the ultimate "a million music snobs decides one thing" website. all those stupid people doing this should be aware that the editors are mostly british and gen X. of course they decided to choose lame ass post 2000s albums because they are most familiar with music before then! is boomer psychology this hard to understand? so what im trying to say is that i like it although there's many better synthpop albums! 3.5/5

weirdly, our school uniforms have the color palette of red, white and black. and the aesthestics of the white stripes are also red, white and black. although post-breakup jack white is blue, white and black. and this album is an absolute peak. 5/5

all french music that is not daft punk annoys me. this too. i can hear the midi keyboard's accordion preset piercing my ear from the first note of the album and i loathed it. completely. just boring love making music for hipsters who think that the french new wave cinema is greater than the american new wave music scene when you literally have talking heads as a part of the latter. 1/5

stereotypical nightclub music 3/5

if only i have become rust. then i can stay up and exchange information with people on the other side of the earth all night long. i have very bad postures and i'm so ugly. that is ok because so are you. do you want to burn out or fade away? you ask, i keep silent because i am afraid. i don't want to walk out of the blue because i have always been descending into the black. sex pistols broke up. johnny rotten was reborn as john lydon. john lydon formed PiL. the king is dead. long live the king. 4/5

not something i would really like 3/5

i can't remember what happened in my mind during my last REM session. also known as, I can't remember the dream that I had last night. But I woke with delight and excitement but still forgot it nevertheless. /ref but why is rem so consistant for their first more than three albums. i love them from now on. 4/5

the doomsday have finally descended upon me. it is the doomsday known as the unleash of "rate your music core" albums, or "rymcore" albums. but anyway why is this album so fucking whimsical i am fucking crying i mean it i am a mature sixteen years old person a mature person who navigates the real world like an adult i shouldn't consider this as one of the best albums of all time because of how childish it is... but i love it. and no matter how strongly i deny the feeling it will just become stronger and the just slightly audiable accordion in many songs are so good... every song is longer than 5 minutes but it don't seems to drag on for a second. in general i love this. 5/5

its a bit better than other soul albums i have listened to but its still not my thing 3/5

guess this is what people participating in this challange wants albums from weezer, QOTSA, charli xcx and other modern artists to replace. aka cheesy boomer trash. robert dimery are you listening? take this out next time. change it to stop making sense. or lincoln. or songs for the deaf. the first song is the only good song. 2/5

I forgot about the existence of daylight saving time so I panicked when the album isn’t refreshed at 11pm EST. also guess portishead is the peak of trip hop and i don't like this genre too much apart from portishead 3/5

oh so this is where no woman no cry came from. also its the only highlight of the album. 3/5

i read all your reviews. what you are doing is telling me you are a pretentious music nerd without actually telling me. i mean, there are 20+ country music album on the list and every of them sounds the same and you guys still give them 4s and 5s like that’s the best thing since loafed bread. the late 90s british music scene is not blend: even the big four of britpop (aka oasis, blur, suede and pulp) sounds different from each other. oasis is straightforward three chords self assured stuff, blur is more diverse in every extent, suede is glam rock orinated and pulp is post punk aligned and more dancy. you are saying that oops i did it again deserves to get on this list as an example of innovations of the music industry in 2000 instead of this? stay up until 2 in the morning, get drunk and try this album again. if you really want to complain, then im waiting for your thousands of complaint letter filed toward robert dimery when the next book come out, mainly written by millinnials and gen Zs. also they revise once in about three years so 2026 might be a good chance for you. but don't forget this list is also a really subjective thing, being more created from influences instead of RYM ratings, and music taste is build upon both listening to good albums and bad albums. by the way, my dear music snobs, if any of you ever wrote that complaint letter, please write one on my behalf asking to put TMBG's Apollo 18 into the revised edition. 4/5

white rabbit and somebody to love are peak. and that's all. 4/5

BANGERS but tend to sound the same as time goes on but its dancable 4/5

this for halloween? im expecting thriller. but anyway... ok, so this came out in 1966. and every single underground/indie musicians went bananas over this. why, i asked myself. people came to explain. before this, rock music isn't explicitly about sex and drugs and BDSM and stuff. and its relatively polished. nobody have ever thought to put a bunch of noise as a part of the music. why is many modern rock music so raw? go ask lou reed i guess. also i guess sunday morning sound somehow just like no surprises but just 30 years earlier. as a radiohead head i approve. lou reed's voice is ok since i have tolerated bob dylan not only once, but three fucking times before mr. reed arrived to me. the sinister drony soundscape fits venus in furs perfectly cause its... bdsm although the song could be a bit longer. guess ill just call all tomorrow's party as proto-goth cause many gothic rock artists have covered it. the sombre atmosphere is genius too. heroin is a bit overrated but actually its not it sound like the highs and lows of a drug addiction. i'll be your mirror is pretty sweet. European Son could be shorter. 4/5

I fucking love earlier Coldplay. Yes I said that sincerely. Also clocks and the scientist and in my place are absolute epics 4/5

ok i get it. drum and bass is a genre that don't have much appeal. and its british. and honestly i like drum and bass but i hate this. i hate it when the "drrr-drrr-drr-dum dum dum dum deh deh deh deh deh" and stuff don't start in the first 3 seconds. 3/5

black friday is just weeks away as i spend imaginary times in guitar center looking at that one instrument the perfect alternative instrument with the music blasting slowly creeping flooding out of the speaker and into the room, a thousand issues of madness floating together toward me, submerged emerged isn't that good? lifelike actual size pain continues until everybody's favourite 7/4 song sounds again from the far side of the moon, singing bout new guitars lasagnas five star daydream, think i'll buy season ticket for my supported football team, gooddamn crazy floating reverb drained feedback wails, hypeing me up like continuously drinking coffee but in the end sleeping in front of tv, dreaming of elevating myself up into outer space and you asked, can you stop writing such a personal "review" that is even not a review? i said no, and you asked again, do i wanna know what happened regarding your shame of not being a good enough guitarist? no, i said, but i am the one that build its life upon alternative rock and noise rock and shoegaze and couldn't even get hold of the holy sword of the genres... is this really happening, or is this not happening? i don't know what will happen when i look up to my shiny stars and thought that the instrument has become such a crucial part of them that i just don't fucking know what will i think when i finally get hold of it... will i think of them in tears? will they hate me? will they just say nothing? so load up on guns and kill all my dreams my hopes my imaginary friends, and watch every song becoming a weeping song and before the radio dropped dead, heaven knows if i'll still be weeping long. 5/5

the last time i got clapton (461 ocean boulevard) i said these wise words: "after reading all the reviews, there's only one thing that i can say: ew. Come on guys, why won’t you understand that every people has flaws? Please seperate the artist and their works first before you write your fucking reviews. but i dont think that we should seperate the two here. both are trash. y'know what they say? members of a great band always flop after going solo." but layla isn't trash. it is better than trash. but for me it is still a 3. clapton did peak at the song. 3/5

firstly, i am the biggest hater of country music if its stereotypical, and a hater of feminism because of the trauma it once gave me. secondly, feminism is never popular in republican states and 60s country is a republican genre. thirdly, although country has evolved to enable johnny cash cover NIN, it is still largely a genre in which every song sound the same. so, 1/5.

yes, kanye is a narcissistic alt right asshole. but yes, this album is one of the greatest of all time. Runaway is still a classic despite some other song let the quality down for a bit. 4/5

*excited noises* generally peak but there's one to one and a half songs that are not that good 5/5

this has a 3.11 here. it is also in top 10 britpop albums on rateyourmusic. i choose to trust the pretentious music nerds today. because if there's one supposedly overrated genre that i love from the depth of my heart, its britpop. and its not even stereotypical britpop, its more indie britpop. why would all you hate this? And its a 4!

Another country album? Forget about the britpop, country is the real needless influx on the list. 2.5/5 because its a bit poppier

i mean why

after about 300 days or so... after the author entering the sincerely autistic fandom of they might be giants... before they begin to descend down the hell known as midterm exams... they returned to nick cave. people might think that since the reviewer have devoted themself to tmbg, their goth-related hobbies is just a phase. it is not. so they inserted their cd into the cd player. although to be honest, they never finished the album in its full. but they have two band tees, six albums, one vinyl, and how can they claim themself a fake under these conditions? literally impossible considering they have been listening to the same set of his songs on repeat for a long time. hehe. entering the reviewer's ears are the dramatic arrangement, the dark and brooding atmosphere, Polly and Kylie's feature, the... yes! the storytelling! since murder ballads is named murder ballads, it should feature a huge amount of killing and talking about killing! here, to expand the amount of visual sensationwalking a thin line between horror or humour, with the repeated use of "motherfucker" as representitive of the humour and twist and turns going from unexpected killer reveal to gory mention of blood depicting horror. i could never unsee the mjuxposition of the two since nick said in an interview or something that this album is indeed a comedy album. whats also worth noting is the absurd reusing of chrous melody of "henry lee" and "the curse of millhaven", which are coincidentally two songs that both features a female murderer. the first one is out of jealousy, and the second... she's just a little fifteen years old girl thats a bit mentally insane, what else can i say when nick sings these words in the character of a insane fifteen years old girl but using his 40 or something grown man voice, "I’m a wicked young lady/but I’ve been trying hard lately/Oh fuck it, I’m a monster/I admit it"? When speaking of gore, people often says "the more death happens and the gore depicted, the better the effect". Its validated when the protagonist of O'Malley's Bar, an unnamed person considering himself as handsome, murdered fifteen people under the influence of simply wanting to be noticed by others. he was granted satisfaction in killing, saying that his "dick feels long and hard", shouting cringeworthy stuff, and comparing his deeds with religious imagery. as the fifteen victims fall to the ground in various ways mentioned in the incredibly detailed imagery, we managed to peek into the murder's brain. but despite the vivid imagery, the effect of the words won't be as strong as in the song if its written on paper as a poem. it's Nick's delivery, sometime sinister and sometime panthetic, that employs the lyric to its maximum effort. Death Is Not the End gave us a comedic relief at the end of the album, as if what happened before is just a play and the song is the encore. but really, considering the theatrical and tense atmosphere of the whole album, and how most of person featured on the album each gets a stanza in the song, this theory is, to a large extent, weirdly correct. Knowing nick's nature of writing dramatic music and "acting" a masculine personality onstage, we can easily conclude that he is indeed a singer that has a performative nature and it is possibly alienating to non-fans of his, which also means that if you are not a theatre kid, you might not vibe with this album. Thus, since the reviewer themself is a ex-theatre kid with a love in the violence and craziness, they love this and is willing to give the album a 5/5

oh, its an associate of nick cave. seems like the streak happily continues... and also 1978? wdym that this album was released in 1978? it sound like a blend of every post punk and new wave album but it is not released in the 80s? wtf 4/5

*confused* the first two songs are your average punk song but when the goddamn awful noiseful bagpipes hit it become suddenly unlistenable. 3/5

Fuckass average singer songwriter music 3/5

As a ex-beatles fan, you won’t know how important this album was to me like, my second ever post-beatles cccartney CD is this one, ok? and the first guitar notes of the title track literally awakened some mysterious urge to sing along that i thought have died along with my interest in the beatles. also the blue canary nightlight in tmbg's "birdhouse in your soul" is the better bluebird song due to how flashy it is. many underrated song and many overrates song. in general a 4 but unlike the 14 years old me its no longer the best album of all time. 4/5

i mean i just don't understand what has indie hipster music done to you that makes you dislike them so much. you see, i have an irregular hate toward canadian music because of leonard cohen. i hate him like he murdered my family. but i guess arcade fire is some expectation cause their first three album run is just so increditably good. although we all know what happened later. i remembered me being a boring middle schooler. hauled into the water of society like a fish suddenly released in 9th grade. hurt online but also gradually healed. one thing the suburbs is about is not being able to return back to the past. i looked up and realised that i am now approximately 5900 days old. still a long way to go before i bite the dust. i was writing about how we move on despite death's looming in the past. but now the only thing i can write about is a certain fear of arriving at the end of adolescence under a sudden ephipany of existansial crisis. and the wish to return. leaving one place for another, then another for yet another. going back to that naive summer holiday in england. when me and my friends are still connected. when i had a good summer with the things i love. when i was never being bullied by people because of my fault. when i was not afraid of ceasing to be, biting the dust, kicking the bucket, and shuffling off the mortal coil. before anxiety and fear devours me. i was running toward an unchasable future only to discover that the past always look the better. so hard to be an overachiving teenager trying so hard to be like a grown up. what have i become? trim some songs and it will be better. 4/5

no, i don't have a artist ex who turn to using music as a therapy after we broke up but ultimately got out from it while still being friends with me. and yes, this is not the album that miss polly harvey made after she decided to broke up with nick cave because she just don't feel like being in the relationship. but i still put on my headphone and was in the town of a thousand friendships. they both moved out from the relationship: Polly making the more "heavy" and darker Is This Desire, and Nick creating The Boatman's Call as a way of healing. the next step, as you all see, is a stylistic shift. Nick shredded off his darker side and took up gospel influences while Polly also leans toward the brightness. she moved to the concreate jungle where dreams are made of. Stories is not like other of her albums. less black and while anger and more nightime walking through urban area, despite the sometimes throwback to her earlier sounds. because you see, everything will still be beautiful even though you are no longer young and pretty. so my spirit floats down 3rd street, across the brooklyn bridge, and returned back to an unsinkable manhattan. through the diamond streets and faint smells of pizza and coffee and the weird al concerts i missed, its at a few blocks away that i met a familliar figure. oh hello thom, i waved toward the creator of kid A. his voice floats like a spectre as usual above the alt rock arrangements which is always a delight to hear. he smiled and then vanished like the crypid that he always is. with his and polly's voice in my head, with the rage, the emotion highs and lows, the new feelings in a greatest love, i continue walking down the streets of manhattan pass my faint memories and vivid memories, into my uncertain future coming from the tides and back to those streets again. 5/5

No, you're not, the critic quickly responded to the album title and then stopped. wait a minute. the critic looked at the page again. The man on the cover is no other than Mister Leonard Norman Cohen, their long time self-claimed archnemesis. And here's their testimony. so, people who hates nick cave used to think that the facts that he has 6 albums on this list means hell. But as a fan of dear old nick, listening to goddamn canadian Asshole leonard cohen’s work is the REAL equivalent of being stuck in hell, especially when I found out that there's five of them on the list. The first reason is he sounds so boring and drony and sleepy and LOW. the second reason is that the accompaniment is boring too. the last one is because my ex is a fan of him, and I tend to listen to his songs a lot. Actually, he's not my ex, just a boi that I had a crush on, and everything that I did is voluntary. And what’s even worse than that is the fact the nick admires leonard’s works. Oh shit. but the listening must go on. so i took out all my cohen related stuffs that i got during the previous relationship. six CD (including the one of the banana album), one vinyl, eight books, one magazine, I arranged them into an altar one by one. and i flipped a huge bird before scribbling a bunch of slurs and stuffs on it. after all these fiddling around, i inserted the CD and pressed play. awful synths blasted out from the cd player. cheesy. and then he began singing. deep, deadpan, as if he's playing a action film villain. "They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within." yes sir keep being bored. we are so entertained by this. "First we take manhatthan, Then we take Berlin." Silly idea. I am going to NYC for college in the future. Berlin is also an important part of my mind. How dare you have the courage to take over both of them, although its just the words of a character that you are playing. hear that evil laughter at the beginning of the third verse? unnecessary acting. But its not the worst part: there's this unnecessary backup singers that sing the whole chrous and appear once in a while. Too much, i told myself. you are just hiding the fact that your voice sound bad by using these poor ladies. The only merit of the song is how rhythmic that it is. Then, "Aren't No Cure For Love" began. i can't tell you what i feel when THAT SYNTH SAXOPHONE hit. its just... straight up awful. i just don't understand why i used to like this song that much! is it because of my ex and how i used to hopelessly adore him? its basically the part of synthpop that i loathes written into a whole song! like, saxophone. basic drums. and even more awful female vocals. What happens next is that Mr. Cohen decided to become a cynic in "Everybody Knows". go on, go on, drone on. keep being a cynic. the world is hopeless but everybody around me are trying to create a change. thank you so much, as a fellow cynic turned one time optimist. also, by hearing this, can you believe that this was released near the end of the 1980s? it sound like 1985 or even earlier. implicit racism still existing and will never change? can't you just take a good long look at the world. Speaking of being a hopeless romantic... Look at the title track, everyone. Dude wants a woman so bad that he's willing to engage in BDSM activities. what the fuck do you mean when you said that "if you want to strike me down in anger/here I stand/I'm your man"? does that means i can spit on your grave and punch the air and kick on the tombstone? also guys, if you really want to listen to this song, Nick Cave have a genius cover filled to the top with his drama and flair and you should listen to it. any time. don't thank me. Halftime break arrived soon and its time for me to talk more about the context™ behind all this rant. So. there's this cohen fan that im friends with. he is really really nice and i think i have developed a crush on him. i got really hazy in my mind and tried to tell him that i love him for many times. eventually he got fed up with me and ghosted me. i was basically in many intertwining emotions during the next few months. eventually i began to loath him and i found cohen extremely unattractive, and he become one of my least favourite singer. so that's why i whine and hate and said bad things so hard. it's just some natural feelings. not too strong but able to continue on. continue to the second half. no, leonard, i will not take your weird dance, leave me alone with your weird adaptions of queer Spanish poet's works and your cliche 3/4 time beat and this really undynamic song. also... please don't get me started on how bad jazz police is. i live in a place where the cops are not that bastard and jazz is an ok genre, and i also this is not jazz. it have some really "jazzy" chords and a bit of dissoance, more cheesy backing vocals, a piano solo that i completely don't understand and some lyric that i literally don't know how to talk about it. but i had a second thought... this song is catually funny and i guess i might stop hating it. but thats the only redeeming quality of it... two songs left and they have all been covered by my favourite singers. first featuring I Can't Forget, covered by the one and only, Best fake creep and hornyboy of britpop, Jarvis Cocker. when cohen drones on and on backed by the synth in his version, Jarvis slightly sped up a bit and added a tiny bit of his usual dramatic flair to the song, and with a graduate speedup in the end, he managed to make the song less boring, of course. Typical Jarvis. a perfect 10/10. At the same time, Nick Cave's deconstruction and reconstruction of Tower of Song is way more radical. in the original version, we hear cohen's meteronome ticks on and his lame keyboard solo plays through the five dollar keyboard, the backing vocals developed a lighter way of deliverary with nonsense scatting. everything is so quiet and boring and nonsense. the lyrics are even worse... "i was born with the gift of a golden voice". clearly thats ironic but his fans seemed to believe it. boring at least and utter unlistenable at most. but mister cave... edited from an improvisation totalling thirty minutes, he brought to the table a reconstruction with original lyrics (even changing the "hank williams" in the lyrics to cohen himself), reverbed vocals, the strum and dang and tempo and dynamic change. Singing "golden voice" with both irony and sincere and boasting. adding in many spoken word section graduately building up tension. stammering. sincere laughter. the only redeeming quality of the album is that it provides some comedic relief to my anxious and boring heart. it showed us that a fifty years old serious old bloke can find fun in making shitty songs accidentally. and i think i should give it a three. but anyway, some final notes about the boy i kept calling my ex. we recently reconciled and are friends again. and we may meet again in family gatherings. cause after all these bullshit, i'm now sober and he's still my cousin. but its all platonic and we're happy to return to normal. also we are not incestous. its just platonic and he don't like me after i got too near. we don't have the chance to meet each other except for family gatherings. ITS SERIOUS! 3/5

as everybody knows, the panel of mercury award have always been edgelords, despite the sometimes clarity of giving the prize to peak albums like different class and stories from the city, stories from the sea. and in 2016, when you think a moon shaped pool or blackstar may win the prize, they gave it to this album. but still i listened to this for a bit and i like the beat and the bri'ish accent and this is not as bad as they think! でもね…さようなら。もう二度と来ないで。ア・ムーン・シェイプト・プールの方がいいわ。 (im bad at japanese so i translated using google and this is what i imputted: but anyway... sayonara. don't bring this to me again. a moon shaped pool is clearly better.) 3/5

i guess punk happened because of this. and thats good. some good points but mostly boring. Largely overrated. 3/5

jangly Dylan. Oh… as somebody who have already listened to the origin version i guess this is a drastic improvement over the original. but every song sounds the same. 3/5

challange: listen to this in class while trying to sit completely still (i have adhd) details on me doing the challange: 30 seconds into planet claire i was bobbing my head to the guitar riff. by the way my sona's middle name is claire. idk what does that imply but yeah the music is fun. weirdly their last name is wilson. but they're completely "normal" apart from being autistic. anyway time to rate. 4/5

so this thing happened today. me in physics class when the the other dudes are gossiping with the teacher about other students on other classes and it turned into a discussion about neurodiversity and nobody knows that im autistic: dude, i dont think that everybody want to use "condition" to replace "disorder"... it depends like, for some people, "disorder" is actually not that bad like, it depends... i quite like disorder cause it sound good! this poser guy in my class who feels superior by listening to rock music and discussing politics: did you just said that disorder sounds good? does it mean you like joy division? what a "superior taste"! me: can you just fucking die you stupid poser it will be funny if i just ended the review here and just give it a 5. but this is not a funny album. and since i have a vinyl of this i should write about the whole listening experience when i get home and spin it. so i got home and gave the album a spin, in my room, on a winter night with a radiator that has the temperature turned up too high. the thirty eight minutes of pure lost, pain and struggling began with almost drum machine like drumming, cold, skeletal basslines, reverbed guitar, and of course, one of the best opening lines on a debut record: "I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand/Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?" yes, ian. i totally feel you. and then i found that no words could describe how i feel about the album and its beauty. trying to break it down song by song like my usual approach leads to a big failure and would make it overlong. so i shall try to generalize it as much as i can. for me, the beauty of unknown pleasures are built upon five things and can be applied to post punk bands generally by changing the musician's names to their corresponding ones in other bands: peter's cold basslines, steve's mechanical drums, bernie's lonesome guitar, and ian's bleak lyrics and how he delivered them. the way the intertwines together to paint this dark and sombre picture of ian's mental world, and possibly the whole of 80s manchester, is absolutely beautiful. i love the atmosphere. i love the lyrics. i love how the song almost all starts and ends cleanly without dragging too long. even the 6 minute long closer "i remember nothing" sound short for me. i guess the only weakness on the album is the relatively sloppy songwriting of "candidate" and "insight" and peter's vocal on interzone. it somehow ruined the atmosphere. his voice suits new order a bit more. time to rate. its, of course, a 5/5

YES btw i have this on cd but havent listened in about 2 years so going through everything really quick. running up the hill is literally what im thinking about every day. if i got to own the talent of people i admire that will be the best thing ever. transitioning into hounds of love, establishing a tight atmosphere between facing the emotions and denying them, all over onto the big sky tinted with whimsy and changing shape every moment. mother stands for comfort is far more eerie than the other songs with the crystal clear piano and the lyrics. literal overprotective parents. cloudbusting is nothing but beautiful. now to the second side: the narrative of this side is just really cohesive. waking the witch is the only song that feels out of place due to its experimental nature. also is the helicopter in the song from another brick in the wall, part 2? also as somebody who don't like irish folk that much, jig of life is weirdly a high point on the album! the album is really coherent and best to be viewed as 2 eps and i love it! <3 5/5

two days of peak albums that sent me eight miles high followed by another facade of the new wave scene. ig ill love it its giving me the impression of this "we have __ at home" meme but its talking heads. like, british teenager (to record labels): can you press more talking heads album? record labels: we have talking heads at home. talking heads at home: 3/5

oh. i have heard of their third album, forever changes, which is praised highly by rym users. seems that one is on the list as well. i like the first half but the 18 minute long blues rock second half is so mid 3.5/5

omg only zep III and physical graffiti to go until we escape the influence of the black magic of jimmy page. /j it's (of course) not as good as led zep IV but since it is their debut, it's alright. but its still a 3.5 for me cause IV impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much apart from good times bad times and dazed and confused (which is literally a watered down version of whole lotta love), although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works. 3.5/5

two debut album in a row? i mean wdym by this. also i am adhd and people jokes that devo is peak adhd music. and i am a fan of they might be giants. many of the other tmbg fan around me are into devo. maybe after today ill get that flower pot hat that devo members often wear in order to make a statement. and as a person who is into talking heads idk what should i say about this album. half of the album is all over the place, i am once a fan of the stones and listened to satisfaction for a lot of time so the cover of satisfaction feel weird to me, im almost sure that uncontrollable urge is about sexual desire, the whole concept of mongoloid is so stupid although its a good song, the rest of the album does not impress me that much, and i feel devo'd (as in began to feel that i have devolved and became a stupid ass monkey) after finishing. 4/5

ANOTHER DEBUT? anyway as an AFAB asian person (or a literal china "girl"), i agree, like everybody, that this album consists of nightclubbing, china girl, and other mid to bad songs. a tad bit letdown for me. 4/5

i mean what i was watching a video about fela's life this morning... starting december with this one but i dont think i like it that much. it goes on and on without rest and sometime i found it a bit boring 3/5

non-jazz instrumental is not my favourite genre. green onions are my favourite vegetable to be used in chinese food. so, i dont like this. 3/5

ive got 1979 (in melon collie), 1989 (taylor's magnum opus), and now its 1999. curiously enough, i was born in 2009. and actually its really good (but only the title track and little red covette) the rest are either not that good or overlong. 4/5