A fun listen to an artist that captured a snapshot of a time and place. They don’t make musicians like this anymore and they certainly don’t have concerts like this anymore.
It’s an interestingly creative album. I don’t understand the endless 5 star reviews over an album that is essentially a soundscape. It’s really good at what it does, but it’s not a masterpiece in my opinion.
An ambient, relaxing, chill, rhythmic soundscape. It’s easy to listen to and enjoy. There is a review on here praising the drummer and stating that he is better than other luminary drummers of the era that are world famous. As a drummer myself it took me many years to understand what it was about all the drummers people love and how to play more like them. Once I discovered the secret to all of them, the illusion of mind blowing drummers (and drumming itself) was kinda ruined for me. Here’s the trick that they all do…..They all play syncopated 16th notes nonstop between their whole kit. Take your hands and play along and you will find they are just playing 16th notes the whole song without stopping, sometimes throwing in a quick fill of 32nd notes here and there. 16th notes nonstop doesn’t impress me anymore. I enjoy drummers who let the music breathe and play for the song. This drummer just plays 16th notes constantly and it’s the reason why I can’t give the album 5 stars.
It honestly sounds like dementia patients having musical diarrhea. There are no redeeming qualities besides when it eventually ends. Pretentious and pompous as a “great album” when in reality it quite the opposite. It’s the first time in my life I wished I was deaf. Is it art? Sure, but it’s not good art. It’s terrible art in the worst way possible. It’s a potpourri of baby vomit and freshly stepped in dog shit but in musical form. Walking into an any Guitar Center and hearing musicians randomly play parts of songs overtop of each other is about as enjoyable, and the same level of talent, as this album. Jesus this is just fucking awful noise. I’d rather have a colonoscopy than listen to this. If I could give it zero stars I would. Here is how I know the people reviewing this with 5 star ratings and giving it praise are full of shit…. If they went to an elementary school talent show and hear a bunch of 8 year olds playing this, they would cringe and have a hard time sitting through their performance. Afterwards they would give the kids words of encouragement stating that with some more practice, they can get really good.
A very low key hip hop album. Engaging and easy listening. The songs are well made and produced. I recognized Q-Tip from his work with the Beastie Boys.
I really like this one. Afro fusion rhythms
Two great songs, one good song, the rest was a waste of time.
A really great album.
Not my style. I love the early Radiohead but this transition album made me transition out of enjoying them further.
It’s very repetitive and monotonous to get through. There are a few enjoyable tunes but the vast majority sounds and feel like filler songs.
Besides the one hit song on the album, the rest was a waste of time. It’s very boring and non inspired. Of it wasn’t for Song 2, I’d rate this album a 1.
While not my style of rock and roll/punk/heavy metal, I can appreciate its influence they had on other styles of music.
A fantastic classic rock album. Truly a great masterpiece.
Great album of soulful funk. These are some very talented musicians.
I enjoyed the music but and lyrics but I am not a fan of his singing octave.
A good album by a band that helped create the grunge sound. I prefer Dinosaur Jr over Mudhoney but it was still a solid album.
Public Enemy #1. I enjoy their early 90’s stuff a little more as it hits harder.
The album was better in the second half. Enjoyable but not great.
Great album. Looking back now I consider this rock and roll way more than metal. Solid album with some sleeper hits.
This is my first time listing to Ryan Adams. He’s very talented and a good songwriter. There was something about this him and this album that I couldn’t put my finger on that made me not love it as much as I should considering how talented him and his band is. The closest way I can describe it is, is they have heart, but they don’t have soul.
A classic for a reason. Typically I’m not a fan of double albums but this is one of the better examples. There are so many fantastic songs here.
Nope.
A very talented lead singer. The vocal mix is too loud and the underlying music is too boring.
A fantastic album from the 1980’s. A classic from that time.
A great soul album fr its era.really nice melodies and singing.
It honestly sounds like dementia patients having musical diarrhea. There are no redeeming qualities besides when it eventually ends. Pretentious and pompous as a “great album” when in reality it quite the opposite. It’s the first time in my life I wished I was deaf. Is it art? Sure, but it’s not good art. It’s terrible art in the worst way possible. It’s a potpourri of baby vomit and freshly stepped in dog shit but in musical form. Walking into an any Guitar Center and hearing musicians randomly play parts of songs overtop of each other is about as enjoyable, and the same level of talent, as this album. Jesus this is just fucking awful noise. I’d rather have a colonoscopy than listen to this. If I could give it zero stars I would. Here is how I know the people reviewing this with 5 star ratings and giving it praise are full of shit…. If they went to an elementary school talent show and hear a bunch of 8 year olds playing this, they would cringe and have a hard time sitting through their performance. Afterwards they would give the kids words of encouragement stating that with some more practice, they can get really good.
Joni is a very talented singer. However these songs don’t really speak to me and I find them all very similar and boring.
I understand the cultural significance of this band and album, but in my opinion the majority of the music doesn’t resonate with me. There are some great songs and great funky grooves. A solid album.
A true, deep, powerful classic album.
What an amazing and powerful voice. A true artistic talent. While I enjoyed the style of songs bouncing around, I feel it would have been best to stay with one style of music over multiple styles.
This is the music C-3PO makes love to. At least there’s melodies.
There are so many better bands from that era.
Great hard hitting funk rock hooks and powerful lyrics. The album would have been better if they dropped a song to make the runtime shorter and written a 3 minute song also. Not every rage has to be 5 minutes long.
A well crafted album of metal from its era. Younger me enjoyed this a lot more than older me.
I appreciate the rhythms but this music doesn’t speak to me.
I enjoy this album but I am biased. I was 10 years old when this came out and played this album on repeat that summer. Aerosmith was always a unique band back then and now and there has never been another band that has sounded like them before or since. For that alone they deserve some praise. Like them or not, you know Aerosmith when you hear Aerosmith. Their band was their brand and they did it well. All the members are talented musicians who know their craft well. The lyrics are all overly sexualized which dates the songs very much but that was the 80’s. All the songs are unique and are produced, played, and recorded with talent. It’s up to the listener on whether they enjoy them or not. I do. They’re fun and memorable.
An ambient, relaxing, chill, rhythmic soundscape. It’s easy to listen to and enjoy. There is a review on here praising the drummer and stating that he is better than other luminary drummers of the era that are world famous. As a drummer myself it took me many years to understand what it was about all the drummers people love and how to play more like them. Once I discovered the secret to all of them, the illusion of mind blowing drummers (and drumming itself) was kinda ruined for me. Here’s the trick that they all do…..They all play syncopated 16th notes nonstop between their whole kit. Take your hands and play along and you will find they are just playing 16th notes the whole song without stopping, sometimes throwing in a quick fill of 32nd notes here and there. 16th notes nonstop doesn’t impress me anymore. I enjoy drummers who let the music breathe and play for the song. This drummer just plays 16th notes constantly and it’s the reason why I can’t give the album 5 stars.
A classic album by ZZ Top. The hits are timeless.
It’s just an average folk rock album. Nothing more or less. All talented musicians but there is no inspiration here.
In an age where autotune and computers make music sound like perfection, it’s refreshing to hear a recording where the vocals are so bare and exposed. I wish I enjoyed the songs more but I find them all very boring.
A very low key hip hop album. Engaging and easy listening. The songs are well made and produced. I recognized Q-Tip from his work with the Beastie Boys.
I have never enjoyed The Offspring. This album didn’t change my opinion.
A chill album. It was ok.
It’s the same mellow energy on the whole album. It’s pretty flat just like the state of Illinois.
I grew up a teenager in the 90’s addicted to grunge and alternative music. I enjoy old school 80’s rap but not really anything past that. I like the beat samples on this album but I think his vocal mix is poor and all the songs have a same tempo or energy. The album is ok, not terrible and not great.
Karen O is an immense talent and this album is a fun, well crafted record. The songs have a fun, energetic depth that I enjoy. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are one of the better modern bands.
The Sex Pistols are a pillar in the early punk rock scene. I find this album fun and well made but the songs all are very similar in sound and tempo. It’s like one song rewritten 12 times. As time and music have moved on from these beginnings, these songs now feel more rock than punk.
This is an interesting early Queen album. You can see glimpses of the heights they will reach, but they aren’t quite there yet. It’s a fun rock album.
A very well made album but once again, an album where every song sounds the same. No twists or turns. It could literally be one long, run on song.
A great live double album. I really enjoyed this as Van Morrison has such a unique style of singing. Timeless songs.
Not as great as the Beatles but still a good, fun, talented band.
I liked the rhythms but I disliked all the derogatory language.
Frankie says yawn. The energy is great. The singing is not. I admire them covering Born To Run but the execution was lacking.
I really wanted to like this album but alas it is boring as hell. What a waste of a talented singer in a band that is the equivalent of a warm salad.
Poetic and rhythm and melody fueled. This was a really enjoyable album by a group I never heard of before from a style I often don’t care for.
A fun listen to an artist that captured a snapshot of a time and place. They don’t make musicians like this anymore and they certainly don’t have concerts like this anymore.
I’ve never been an Eminem fan. After listening to this album, I’m still not an Eminem fan. It’s just not for me. I recognize the talent that he has but him music just doesn’t speak to me.
Having heard a few Cure songs in my life, I’ve never understood their cult following. After listening to this album, I get it now. I really enjoyed the journey this album took me on.
I’m not so sure he’s singing vs just talking in the right pitch. It’s a nice, ambient album but it’s too much like adult lullabies
I enjoyed this album for the 80’s nostalgia. You can hear some Beatles influence on a few songs but it’s not heavy handed as some reviews would suggest. It’s a well written and crafted and a pleasure to listen to.
This is a different style of rap from back in the day. It’s more positive and fun and was a nice listen. The album could have used some editing down on the number of songs in the back half and overall, it was a little too preachy.
A true masterpiece. An amazing album from front to back and such a gem. I wish Radiohead would have kept making music like this but they continued to evolve and I don’t really care for much of their stuff besides this album. Some of their fans will argue Kid A is their best work but for me it doesn’t even come close. These songs are timeless and have more melody, structure, heart, feeling, passion, than anything else they’ve done as a band. The songs are experimental, but not so far off the rails, and are written in a way where they come back to a more traditionalist song format. For that reason the album and songs appeal to a wider audience. I consider this album in my top 10 albums of all time and I’m not a Radiohead fan in general. I typically don’t care for most of their work.
The Flaming Lips aren’t for everyone. There is so much music that I want to love but they just make it weird enough to ruin my enjoyment of the songs. This isn’t a bad album, far from it. It’s just not for me. If they got out of their own way, it would be a fantastic album. As made, I don’t find it all that great. It’s disappointing because all the talent and elements are there. They just need to edit their strangeness down to be truly timeless.
Once the cat is out of the bag, it’s impossible to go back. Knowing now that Michael Jackson was a pedophile, sexual groomer makes me not want to listen to his music. Some people say you should judge the art and not the artist but I disagree wholeheartedly. People want to ignore his vile behavior and enjoy his great pop songs. To those people I will say this. Imagine for a moment that the order of his life was reversed. What I mean is imagine if it was known that he was a pedophile sexual groomer and then went and later wrote great pop songs. Would you support him then? Would you listen to his catchy tune then? Nothing about his life would be different in this hypothetical except the pedophilia knowledge came first. I doubt anyone would be his fan or listen to his music, no matter how great the songs were.
There is no range in his songs or music. If you listen to one song, you’ve heard the whole album. Boring, uninspired, and bland. It’s the musical equivalent of eating an unsalted saltine cracker.
Mundane and strange enough on some songs to not be enjoyable. The 1990’s had some phenomenal music come out of that decade. This certainly is not that.
This music wasn’t made for me and does nothing for me besides wanting to turn it off. It’s chill, it’s relaxed, it’s ambient, it’s low key. It’s also pretty boring. Maybe if I was spelunking would I find this a good soundtrack.
If I was a hippy in the 1960’s I would have liked this album. Since I wasn’t. I don’t.
A fantastic and classic album. This is how you make great music. Each song is unique and tells its own story, while at the same time having all the DNA of the collective songs on the album run through each song. Although this isn’t a perfect album, it is damn close.
One good song on a well recorded and produced album. Meh.
It was a nice album but it doesn’t stand out as anything special. Maybe I’m missing something.
An influential band that aspects were dissected up and repurposed in other artists future works. It’s cool to be able to hear the origins of the inspiration of so many hugely successful musicians to come after.
It’s a nice album and it’s really nice background music. If the best compliment is that though, why must it be 1001 albums I must listen to? There are better albums that grab your attention and keep it. This is a filler album on this list, filled with filler music.
It’s a nice album. Their music is like a softer, rounded off, punk sound. The bad thing is that there are no stand out songs in my opinion. If you listen to two of the songs, you’ve heard the range of the music on this album which is a shame.
A new band to me. It’s cool hearing the influence of so many 80’d bands had. They were pioneers in a newly forming sound.
A great debut album. They sound like they’ve been playing for years. It’s not my style of music, but they do a great job.
This album is a bizarre trip. Ultimately, a bad trip. I really enjoyed the part of the album where it ended. I hear their influence on other, better bands, but that doesn’t mean that this album is great. It’s the rock album equivalent of Trout Mask Replica.
I get it now. This is the album that finally made me realize my mistakes on rating music from the past. TIME AND PLACE. I grew up as a kid in the 80’s. I never loved this band, even back then, but it was a very popular band and I did have this on cassette and cd. I liked it back then. I haven’t been a fan of them since that time. Now listening to them almost 40 years later, I get that you have to have lived during the time to accurately judge them. It’s more than just the music on the album. It’s about the culture and what was happening it at the time. Today this album is a funny laugh and is barely worth 2 stars. If you judge it back in the 80’s it’s a 5 star masterpiece. It is a fun album regardless.
A true classic. A timeless masterpiece.
A 60’s vibe, electronic album. It’s inoffensive and well crafted. The songs are fun and pretty low key. I’m not familiar with this band but I really enjoyed this album.
Bland and boring. Rinse and repeat.
This is a quintessential 90’s alternative album. It ebbs and flows like the tide. It’s an easy listen and subdued in its presentation but the messages are loud and clear. Really well done.
Van the man makes damn good music. I’m a fan that he can jam.
I’d be this angry if I grew up in Iowa surrounded by nothing but corn and tornados. There not diversity of things to see or do in that state, just like there’s no diversity of songs in this album. The track listing ebbs and flows from one song that is uptempo overplayed busy drumming, heavy metal guitar riffs, singing and screaming, and sound effects peppered in, to another songs that’s the same, followed by another song of the same. I have always said that it’s easy to hate. It’s a primal emotion that doesn’t require people to think critically. This is hate music. While the talent it requires to play these songs is impressive for sure, the actual songs and the emotion they are meant invoke in the listener are basic, boring, and simple. Hate music is simple to write. Instead, writing a beautiful melody or a love song is much more vulnerable and infinitely harder to do. People should strive to emotionally evolve. There is no evolution emotionally here. Lastly, I do laugh at the jokes along the lines of how this album is the perfect embodiment of a 14 year old boy who was asked by his step mom to take out the trash for the 5th time and he had to quit his online Call of Duty match. He’s so pissed, especially after taking the trash out and he goes to the kitchen and realizes he drank the last of the Mountain Dew Baja Blast and ate the last of the Flaming Hot Cheetos.
A pivotal album in music history that helped define the alternative music’s grunge scene. This band and sound was the one that imitators often tried to emulate. A true classic.
What a waste of potential. This band never reached world fame not because of their singing, drumming, guitar playing, or even their songs. All of that is enjoyable and ahead of its time. The thing that makes this band unlistenable is the terrible decision to have someone play an instrument that is best described like the sound of a goose with someone shoving their fingers up its ass the whole time. If they kicked their friend out of the band that played that instrument, they could have been rock stars.
I appreciate its influence on later bands but I don’t like her voice or singing style. It ruins the whole album in my opinion.
This album is the musical equivalent of a 10 year old kid who is a picky eater so every meal consists of boxed mac and cheese. No exploration, safe, bland. One meal or song is just as inoffensive and forgettable as the last. Then one time their mom makes them try a recipe from when she was a kid and it’s good, but then the kid goes right back to mac and cheese.
What a great album. As someone who is slightly familiar with this style of music, it was a pleasant surprise to listen to a great example of the genre. It’s so refreshing to my ears.
It’s not my cup of tea but it wasn’t made for me.it has personality and melody which is more than I can say about a lot of albums I’ve heard on this list.
I’ve never seen the appeal of The Doors. I still don’t even now. Their organ sound ages this music terribly.
I’ve always have heard Billy Joel’s hits but I would never consider myself a fan. I like a lot of his songs and this was the first time sitting down and listening to one of his albums for the first time. I’ll say this, he’s immensely talented and a great songwriter and performer. His music just doesn’t resonate with me. This is still a fantastic album regardless.
I’m not a fan of his singing style. I was grateful this album wasn’t any longer. Everything about this was just very forgettable.
It certainly was a bold stylistic choice to use the terrible and goofy ass sounding jaw harp all over this album. Like why? Just why? The songs are alright but the songs with the jaw harp are almost unlistenable.
There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t been said already. I wonder what music he would have made if he hadn’t died so young. What a phenomenal musician.
As a huge Metallica fan in my youth, it’s fun to see them on this list. They are one of the most influential bands for young musicians because their music sounds cool, and it’s easy to learn to play, no matter the instrument. That’s not to say their music is simple, it’s just easier for those learning an instrument to try and learn. Listening to this album now, I realize that Metallica is the Weezer of metal. Easily approachable and fun to listen to.
It’s a nice album that is great music for having on in the house while doing chores or hosting friends. It’s not something I would pig on to listen to just by myself typically. The Temptations are a icon of the Motown scene and they don’t disappoint here.
There was no need to have this album on the list. It’s long, boring, and repetitive. I’ll be glad to never remember this album.
The album cover is iconic, but the music is forgettable. The album sounds like it was played through a bad stereo inside a cavern, and they put one microphone in the cavern to record the crummy stereo. The production was bad, the songs were boring, and I’m glad to be done listening to this.
I’m always glad to hear rock music on this list. However this is shit music. It’s boring, repetitive, derivative, and forgettable. I’m losing faith that the author of 1001 albums actually knows and understands not only good music, but truly influential albums. I’m 100 albums in so far and I am not impressed with the bulk of what crap I’ve had to listen to so far. I thought this would be a fun way to find good, new music. It’s turning out to feel more like a punishment more often than not.
I never heard of this artist nor listened to any of this music. Simply refreshing and fully of rhythm, melody, and talent. It’s fun to hear the influence it’s had on other, more famous artists. Don’t know why he ended the album like a cartoon though.
It’s an interestingly creative album. I don’t understand the endless 5 star reviews over an album that is essentially a soundscape. It’s really good at what it does, but it’s not a masterpiece in my opinion.
The spoken word intro on the last song should have been cut. Almost half of a nearly 19 minute track is him just speaking and not music. That is ridiculous. It’s a good soul album but there are better ones out there.
Having never listened to her music, and lived through the Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilera era, I wasn’t pleased to see this album pop up for me to listen to. Especially since I’ve already had to listen to a Brittany Spears album on this list and it was brutally awful. I was shocked at how different these artists are and how much more talented Christina Aguilera is compared to Brittany. There really isn’t any comparison to be honest. Christina has a more pleasing singing voice, better range, more powerful delivery, and over all a much more talented singer. Her songs are also so much more musical and listenable. Whether you like this style is up to you. I found it was well written, recorded, and produced. All of the songs seemed busy with too many layers going on. It’s a production for sure. For an album that harkens back to music that she admires, it falls into the same trap as sounded dated and from a certain time period (the early 2000’s). In the end, it wasn’t something I would listen to even now. I’m glad I did though. I now know who the better talented artist is between the two big pop stars of that time was.
What a lovely album.
3 phenomenal hit songs and 9 mediocre to bad songs does not make a great album. This sound is so dated. If only they were more consistent in writing better music as a whole. I’m glad hair metal is dead.
This album should have been called Lullabies For Fish. It’s so boring and one style and energy it could even put fish to sleep. There is no reason to listen to this, unless you have insomnia.
This album starts off as strong as any album ever made with the first three songs. Then it just swims along with a bunch of songs to not offend anyone. It’s a pretty great album if you can stomach U2.
ELO has a sound so unique you can tell it’s an ELO song within the first 3 seconds. The issue becomes all the songs have a similar sound, so if you’ve heard two or three ELO songs, you’ve heard their breath of music they can write. Instead of a double album, this could have been four songs and I wouldn’t feel like I missed anything.
Definitely….Maybe this is a good album.
The beats are dope.However, let me quote one of the songs to describe the rapping. “Armed with seven rounds of space doo-doo pistols.” Doo-doo indeed. Is this the right list? I feel like this is 1001 albums to hear to make you want to die.
How can an album going this hard be boring? I don’t know how they managed to do that, but they did. Maybe because every killer, iconic guitar riff in popular culture has pauses in it and a rhythmic pattern. These guys sure do know how to play nonstop eighth and sixteen notes without pausing anywhere in their riffs to make anything musical or with melody. Yawn. So fucking boring.
Music from a time long past. This is a fun album with songs played with emotion, heart, soul, and love. This is a great album.
So fucking boring. If you heard one song off this album you’ve heard them all. They have the range of emotion of an upset toddler.
The bulk of these songs are meh, besides the obvious two bangers on the beginning of the album.
The sound of the keyboard haunts my dreams I’m not so sure this isn’t just one song that they took breaks in to rest before starting up again. They have the depth of a kiddie pool and the range of a car that’s running on fumes.
Damn near a perfect album. So much emotion oozing out of every song.
After listening to this album I’m fixing’ to buy a Stetson hat, a big belt buckle for my leather belt, and some cowboy boots and drive on down to Fort Worth Texas to the stockyards.
Make it stop. Just make it stop. It’s just not good and I enjoy indie music. It’s the musical equivalent of kids making dinner. It doesn’t taste good and they make a fucking mess.
This album expounds a feeling of excitement. It has some great songs that just evoke a youthful look on the world. Really well done.
It’s the soundtrack for a yawn before a nap.
I made the mistake of listening to this album while sleep deprived. It sounds like an album of music they play in a dentist’s office waiting room. Every instrument and all the singing was performed with care so as to not offend the listener. God damn is it boring. I’d imagine it’s a good album to slit your wrists too.
I wasn’t familiar with this band besides the hit song that was overused in the 90’s. What a fun album of songs that all had character and melody. It’s not a perfect album, but it is above average with its range of unique songs played in a fun manner. This is what good music should have, style, soul, and conviction.
Dare I say his singing is overrated? His vibrato at times almost seems clown like. I appreciate the cultural significance of Elvis but I’ve never been a fan. There was better music made back then by other artists. I regard him as a 1950’s Justin Bieber.
Reinvention of an iconic and controversial band doesn’t mean they got any better. In fact they got worse on this album.
Pure comedy gold. It’s supposed to be taken seriously unfortunately. It’s a really well performed pile of crap.
I’ve often felt like jazz in general is a collection of talented musicians who want to flex their talents at how quickly they can play notes, over play a riff, or put together a collection of notes and time signatures that don’t make a good melody, but are good for the fact that they don’t make a good melody. This album hasn’t swayed me from that position one bit. It’s all a collection of musicians flexing what they can do in an ensemble setting. A cornucopia of noise. Hot garbage.
It’s an enjoyable indie album for sure. It’s somewhat unique and well written and made. I’m not so sure I’ll remember any one song off of this album a few days from now.
Besides their one massive hit from the early 70’s, this band was relatively unknown to me. This album was fun but didn’t achieve the highs of their contemporaries of that era. Not bad but not great.
Dated, boring, repetitive, all played in a loop to funky, poppy rhythmic beats. It has the musical depth of a puddle. The 90’s will be remembered for some awesome, timeless music. This is not that.
It’s a great first album by an iconic band. I have always listened to other albums by them more, so going back and listening to this one I was surprised at how more bluesy it was than rock and roll. Still a classic album though.
What a unique artist back then and now. At first I’m captured by her voice and great singing, but then I start to question her voice and style. It’s as if she recorded her vocal performance for half the album or more with no music written and afterwards they wrote music to underlay what she already sang. There’s a disturbing disconnect between the rhythm being played and what she is singing over it. It kinda makes me sick to my stomach honestly. She lags behind the beat so much and I find it really grating. She is a talented singer for sure, but her style grew stale for me after 3-4 songs. Shes a one trick pony and all of her music sounds the same.
A favorite from back in the day. I haven’t listened to it in decades. It held up well.
I’m not very familiar with Elvis Costello. This was a fun, well performed album with catchy songs. I liked this better than any Elvis Presley works as I find The King over rated.
If watery diarrhea was music, it would be this shit. It’s experimental yet somehow derivative at the same time. I’d much rather stub my toe than listen to this again.