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.

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 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.

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 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.