With this stacked cast of musicians, this could never be anything but 5-star perfection!

My favorite scene in Point Break is where Anthony Kiedis gets shot in the foot. While I appreciate the musical talents of the band, Anthony always seemed like a creep and I have always found his vocals annoying. Given his penchant for dating barely legal girls, I don't think I'll ever be a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan. Having said that, though, this was my first listen of this album in a long time. Musically, the band is tight. Flea's bass is the driving force for the whole album, but John Frusciante (only 21 at the time of this album's release) holds his own and then some on guitar. Lyrically, this album is for middle school kids and teenage douchebags. With lines like "Every woman has a piece of Aphrodite. Copulate to create a state of sexual light." it's easy to dismiss the album in it's entirety (not many songs swerve out of the lane of the title track in terms of theme). But, while I've already mentioned my disdain for Kiedis, but I do enjoy the message and can tolerate the vocals on "Power of Equality." Six stars. Mostly because the musicianship of the band. Anthony Kiedis is gross.

• The Verve is U2 if U2 were somehow more boring and mind numbingly dull. • This sounds like it's an album the Columbia Record Club would send you if you didn't pick something else and your preferred genre was "Alternative." Nobody wants it, but for some reason everyone has it. • For the love of all things holy, why is this album 76 minutes long!? I'm really sort of torn as to whether to give this 1 star or two. It's bad enough to justify a lone star, but I'll give it 2 stars because "Bittersweet Symphony" is actually pretty good and this is on a lot of "all-time top" lists. Maybe I'm just missing something.

This album was EVERYWHERE in ‘96. You couldn’t escape it! MTV had the videos for “Ready or Not” and “Killing Me Softly” heavy rotation. I’m not complaining, though; “The Score” is very near perfection. I could do without all the skit interludes, but doing that kind of thing was kind of en vogue then, for some reason (there’s a bunch on “The Chronic”, too). Not every song on this album is a 100% banger, either. “The Beast” and “Cowboys” being the weakest tracks on the album. Four stars is the rating here but the more accurate score (pun intended) would be 4.5.

I have trouble, sometimes, separating a band's music from the band's fan base. In the case of Lynyrd Skynyrd, even at just the mention of the band, what immediately comes to mind are white trash hillbillies festooned in Rebel Flag merch screaming something about their "heritage." It seems that at some point in 2012, the band stopped using Confederate imagery on their album covers, but that's too little too late and it hasn't stopped their mouth breathing fans from rocking the stars and bars. With that being said, I was shocked to actually enjoy the first half of this album. It's the sound that every southern rock band has tried to emulate but usually fall well short of achieving. "Tuesday's Gone" has been used in so many film soundtracks that it's kind of cliche at this point and I'm fairly certain I've been to a Southern funeral or two at which it's played, but it's honestly a pretty solid tune. Speaking of cliches, this album ends with "Free Bird." I hate this song. But, if you go to a concert to see any band of any genre anywhere in the world and someone doesn't yell "Play Free Bird" in between songs, did you really go to a concert? 2 stars. I'd almost allow myself to give it 3 for "Tuesday's Gone" and the album's pretty solid first half, but I'm sticking with 2 because their fans can really suck.

Great. Another Britpop band... The British catch a lot of hell for their bland food, but they don't get near enough grief for enjoying bland music. Why do they all have to sound like the unholy marriage of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Wonderwall!? I feel a little bad because this album was at least slightly less boring than The Verve's "Urban Hymns" that came up a couple of days ago, but because I'm still not over how awful that was, I'm punishing this one with a one star rating.

I've never listened that much to Judas Priest. I was introduced to them by Beavis and Butthead. "Breaking the law! Breaking the law! Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh-huh." I always thought the vocals were cheesy and it just sounded too much like the 80's to me. I was right. The music is cheesy, and it is very much rooted in the 80's. But, that's okay. I'm a pretty big metal fan and it's easy to see the influence Judas Priest had on the genre. As soon as I heard the bridge of "Rapid Fire," the second track on the album, I thought I was listening to "Motorbreath" by Metallica even though their album "Kill 'Em All" didn't come out til 1983. 4 stars for being pioneers of a musical genre that I love and because "Breaking The Law" is a straight up classic.

I've been at this for exactly a week now and this is already the THIRD boring Euro-pop band that's come up! Enough with this late 90's crap, too! I hope I'm getting front loaded with all this garbage and the good stuff is coming later. Also, I assume the douchey, pretentious cover is supposed to be an homage to Blue Note Records. Is it an homage, though, if it's a blatant rip-off? Lyrically, this album is some of the most vapid songwriting I've ever heard: "If you were a dog, I'd feed you scraps from off the table though my wife complains." Musically, it sounds like a cheap, off-off-Broadway theatrical production, and the lead vocalist wishes he were David Bowie so hard but falls well short of getting the imitation quite right. If it were possible to give 0 stars, this album would deserve it (or worse). As it is, however, they should find themselves fortunate that I begrudgingly award them 1 star.

My first perfect 5 award. Soooooooo good. Amazing listen from start to finish. Adding this to my permanent collection and will be revisiting often.

I wanted to like this one. The title track is decent. I own a few other George Clinton albums, and they are all way better than this one. I'll give it a few more listens later; perhaps it will grow on me. Disappointing 2 Stars.

I used to think this album sucked. I mean, I still do, but I used to, too.

1001 albums... 786 of which are Radiohead. Yawn. Next. 1 star.

Seriously, all this UK late-90's/early-00's crap sounds the same. Lots of reverb, whiny vocals... it's boring. Fine. Put one or two on the 1001 list to fill it out, but there's no need for so many. None of them are different; none of them are historically significant. I don't need to hear another one. 1 star because I'm sick of the same bloody sound day-in and day-out.

Perhaps in the right mood, this might click for me. I don’t hate the sound but it didn’t blow me away, either. 2 stars, I think; on a different day, though, maybe 3?

Lyrically, this album is quite funny. I actually lol'd several times throughout "If I Were With a Woman." Musically, however, it's dated and not good at all. I would rather this were sold as a collection of dirty limericks in a book. 2 stars.

First two tracks are actually pretty good. The rest of the album is slow and repetitive; I was nearly convinced that they were all the same songs. Sounds like a crappy Coldplay cover band.

There are a few super-solid tracks on this album, but being a double LP, it suffers from serious bloating. The vast majority of the songs are like listening to someone singing a recount of their acid trip to the tune of the Scooby Doo theme song. 2 stars. Just because something is historically significant doesn't mean that it's good.

Very avant- garde. Kinda reminded me of Mr. Bungle.

Why on earth did I need to listen to this before I die!? This is some of the most sterile, lifeless music I’ve ever heard. Most tracks sound like 80’s Contemporary Christian music. 1 star.

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It's fantastic for me that this album came up today. You see, I'm working on a screenplay for an action movie. In the film, there's a scene where the protagonist has to investigate some mystery that's led him to a dance club. One of the bad guy's owns the club, and there's gonna be a big shootout. The club is filled with people who are dressed in comical amounts of leather and whose dancing style can only be described as writithing. When the shooting begins, the music is so loud that the idiots dancing don't even know that they're in danger. I think any one of the songs from this album would work perfectly for this scene (it's worked well for every other late 90's film that follows this cliche).

Not my jam. Love the cover art, though.

With this stacked cast of musicians, this could never be anything but 5-star perfection!

As a lifelong fan of traditional bluegrass music, I have already heard versions of nearly all these songs and I was kind of excited to get this album. I'd never really listened to Joan Baez much; so, this would be a first for me. Not a fan, though. Should have been titled "Vibrato: The Album." She has to end every note with an obnoxious, ear splitting trill. You know how sometimes, you're trying to sleep in on the weekend but there's a mockingbird outside your window that won't shut up? That's Joan Baez. If Tiny Tim made a folk album, it would've sounded like this. Kudos to her for bringing these traditional songs to the masses in the 60's, though, and for that reason alone, I'm giving it 2 stars.

Reading through the reviews; I feel like I'm missing something. I don't get it, and I don't like it. I thought I would. I'm sorry but this doesn't do it for me at all. I understand I'm in the minority, but I'm afraid it's a 2 for me.

Beck’s “Loser” except it’s a whole album. Not good

There's a reason this kind of music is often heard in hospitals and doctors' offices: it's bleach white and sterile - which is ironic, given that it made me sick to listen to it.

In high school, occasionally the drama kids would randomly stand up in the middle of the cafeteria and loudly sing songs from CATS or some other obnoxious show tunes. They would've loved this album; I do not. It actually started off kind of okay: the first four or five tracks start out with a decent tempo. The songs are fine even if overly sincere and try-hard; I thought "I'm surprised; this might actually get a 3!" Then, the pacing takes a nose dive off a cliff and the rest of the album is a slow, torturous grind. Even though the first few songs are tolerable, the sudden and permanent change in tempo for the rest of the album is awful. I was never gonna listen to this again anyway. 1 star.

Ok, Dimery; that's quite enough EDM-esque albums. Every time one of these comes up, I feel like the name of the book should be "1001 Albums You'll Hear and Wish You Were Dead." This album isn't exactly Daft Punk or Skrillex; there's a bit of a rock edge to it that makes it slightly more palatable. There's enough techno influence, though, to make it suck.

I thought I was only familiar with the first track, "More Than A Feeling." But as each new song came on, it was "I know this one! Hey, I know this one, too!!" This album alone was hit single after hit single. Classic rock isn't always my jam, but this album is an easy solid 4 for me.

I think that "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" is a better album, but this is still a solid 4.

This is the soundtrack to every receptionists' lobby you've waited in for the dentist to drill your teeth or to experience some other painful medical procedure. Easy Listening at it's most basic.

First impression based on cover art: Blech! This looks like some more eurotrash, electronica/techno crap. After listening: Yep. It is. This album is hot garbage. It’s like Enigma from the 90’s had a child with a PlayStation 1 game soundtrack. 2 stars because the track “Light” actually sounds like pretty good corporate phone hold music.

I suppose that Throbbing Gristle had to crawl before bands like Skinny Puppy and even Ministry could run, but this album is just racket. There's no semblance of a tune; no song structure whatsoever. 2 stars for genre historical significance, and that's being incredibly generous. Should honestly be a 1 (or a zero, if that were an option).

This album is so overrated. From Wikipedia: "...the album incorporates an eclectic mix of stylistic influences, including trip hop, dub, Latin and punk rock." I can make a casserole out of hot dogs, chocolate chips, sour cream, ranch dressing, green peas, and ice cream, but that doesn't mean that I should or that it'll be good. 2 stars only because of Del Tha Funky Homosapien on "Clint Eastwood."

Surprisingly good album that I wasn't expecting. "Pictures of Home" is kinda metal, and I'm into it. "Smoke on the Water" is a classic, of course, and this album is relatively short (love that about 70's rock albums). This is a case where I wish that there were half star ratings. 4 seems a bit generous but 3 feels too low.

The vocals are too breathy. This album would've been better served if the vocal tracks were replaced with instrumentation. 2 stars.

When I was in the 8th grade, I began to break away from top 40 pop music and get into the "heavier" stuff. I had Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood." My friend let me borrow and record his copy of Poison's "Flesh and Blood." I also saved up a little bit of money and I bought "Hysteria" by Def Leppard on cassette. Then, midway through the school year, a classmate let me listen to a Metallica album he stole from his older brother. That was it for me. I begged and borrowed it from him, went home and put tape over the two ends of the "Hysteria" cassette, and I recorded over it with Metallica's "And Justice For All." 8th grade me wasn't entirely stupid; good call, kid.

I dig Paul Simon but this album is not good. I'm having a hard time understanding why it's even on the list. "Cars are Cars" is one of the dumbest songs I've ever heard. The title track is okay, though; so, I'll grant it 2 stars. Could almost have been 1.

This is the easiest 3-star review ever; I don't think I've encountered a more middle-of-the-road album yet. Perfectly fine but also perfectly forgettable.

Fantastic album, and I'm not really a Smashing Pumpkins fan. Would've been 5 stars except for Disarm.

Vanilla.

I was a freshman in high school when this album came out, and I was the perfect angsty age for grunge. I don't know, then, why Alice in Chains never clicked for me. I used to actively dislike it. Upon this listen, I've softened that stance, but I'm still not a fan. It's solid, though, and I can see why most people vibe with it. 3 stars.

The title track from this album is amazing, but I'm not in love with the rest. I absolutely LOVE Emmylou's album "Cowgirl's Prayer" - it's quite easily in my top 10 favorite albums ever, but "Red Dirt Girl" didn't really do it for me.

If David Bowie and Bob Dylan were morphed into one person, that would suck. This album sounds like that unholy union, and it sucks too.

Current Coldplay is Imagine Dragons level of awful. "Parachutes" Coldplay was fantastic.

Bloated and boring. Thank you, next.

I enjoyed this album waaaay more than I expected to. Fun listen!