My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Casanova The Divine Comedy	5	2.67	+2.33
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	5	2.68	+2.32
Konnichiwa Skepta	5	2.74	+2.26
So Much For The City The Thrills	5	2.81	+2.19
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.85	+2.15
Gris Gris Dr. John	5	2.88	+2.12
Fromohio fIREHOSE	5	2.89	+2.11
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	5	2.9	+2.1
The Only Ones The Only Ones	5	2.92	+2.08
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	5	2.97	+2.03

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.22	-3.22
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	1	3.93	-2.93
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1	3.72	-2.72
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	1	3.42	-2.42
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	1	3.39	-2.39
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.37	-2.37
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	1	3.33	-2.33
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.33	-2.33
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	1	3.31	-2.31
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.29	-2.29

Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	3	5
David Bowie	4	4.5
U2	3	4.67
Pink Floyd	2	5
Beck	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	2	5
Marvin Gaye	2	5
Metallica	2	5
Coldplay	2	5
Bob Dylan	2	5
Blur	2	5
R.E.M.	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	2	5
Belle & Sebastian	2	5
Kraftwerk	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5
The Beta Band	2	5

Artist	Albums	Average
The Beach Boys	2	1

Artist	Ratings
Joni Mitchell	5, 2, 2

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

I listened to one side and that was enough,.I am sure they have many people who love the smashing pumpkins, but it was too long and inconsistent for me, a lot like use your illusion 1&2 it could have made a great single album

Foo Fighters

5/5

Brought back a lot of memories, I was there in the tent at reading to see the foo fighters in one of their very first concerts. I really enjoyed listening to this, when it first came out I judged it too much against Nirvana. Time has been very kind to this album easily 5*

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

Not my thing, but I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would, deserves five stars as a superbly well made album with lots of flare and creativity

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

This is my favourite Bowie album, I love the lyrics and the musical style, to me it is his most coherent and connected album. Over shadowed by Ziggy, unfairly I believe as this is a better work. Much more creativity and emotional content. Easily 5 🤩

Cypress Hill

5/5

Great for the genre

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

I have been listening to this since I was 9, 53 now old, love this album more than any other, it has it's flaws but don't we all. it's like an old friend to me

Ramones

3/5

Ok, nothing ground breaking, rock n roll with a angry twist, lyrics poor, not as angry as English punk, probably unfair comparison, likeable enough

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

1/5

I used to listen to this when I was 15, unlike other albums I have listened to for that long Dark side, Master of puppets, Mama etc, lyrics like "Take no prisoners Take no Shit" have not aged well. This album is not something that will be looked at now and be thought of as anything but "Trump esq" rubbish maybe it was ahead of its time! 2* Music 0* Lyrics 5* Shame I ever listened to this when I was younger

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

I couldn't really get into this too far removed from what I like and too eclectic to get settled

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Light weight for a list of 1001 albums

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

***** ***** ***** All day long.... First chords of whole lotta love are greater than some bands entire output. I mean this most sincerely, they are like Radiohead musical gods Anyone who can sing about Mordor and make it sound that good gets my vote

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Gave it a go, how much did they pay the A&R man?

Le Tigre

2/5

I tried but not for me

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

The true power of this app struck me with this album, I got the idea of it before I started, but the idea that here is something I would never have listened to without the app struck me. Great album skip first 8 minutes of last song though, it's true what everyone says about 1969!!!!!

Konnichiwa

Skepta

5/5

I don't know anything about grime, as a white 53yr old never been my thing, but after listening to this and looking up the prison population stats and stop and search I get the anger. We live in a country that promote British values, and as a teacher I do this but these only really apply to white people. This is a well made album and dwarves 4 stars.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

I was 11 when this came out, if they had not released come on Eileen, I think I might have given them a chance as I can't stand that song! The rest seen to good. Also I saw Kevin Rowlands at a reading festival singing to a backing track, the track kept breaking down much to the amusement of the crowd, Kevin bless him found this very annoying and threw a strop at the crowd, wrong move as we responded with plastic bottles, turning the whole thing into a farce, I am loving this app as it causes me to listen to new music and look back on happy memories.Thanks Kevin 🍼

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Teenage memories again 😂 So far my teenage listening has turned out to be a mixed bag from the sublime Pink Floyd to the ridiculous Megadeath 😁 Somethings don't date Hot Buttered Soul, somethings become grown men singing about women in ways that are not appropriate. Funny how distance changes ones perspective on events, "oh Mr Tyler going down" and then Jamie's got a gun pops up! You could have done so much more Music ***** Vocals ***** Lyrics* Ps I was a big fan in the day and saw them live

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Reading some of the reviews I think some people really miss the point of this exercise. It is not a list of all your favourite albums, it's there to challenge you and get you to try to listen to things that you would otherwise never have listened to. When you approach it this way, it truly makes sense, it's a percentage of what I have listened to I would never have tried and my life is better for it. Hot Buttered Soul was a revelation, plus some of the rap I wouldn't have listened to either. So please embrace the true spirit of the app😁 This album is "cool" love the laid back beats. On the issue of ownership of samples the artists are paid and also how many chord combinations are now original? You have to be at the front edge of creativity to come up with original music eg Radiohead etc which most people are not to create totally new music Great experience 5*

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

Screaming anger like Kurt on In Utero, does not have the melody like Nirvana which is what set them apart from most other punk/hardcore/grunge bands. Kurt could put a melody into any song however angry. This is more hit and miss and some of the songs are way too long. This will take multiple sittings 😔

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

1/5

This takes self love to a whole new level😁 too polished for me and slick. I can't get passed the 💩 lyrics too

Be

Common

5/5

As a polymath with PhDs in maths, physics...only kidding it was a very good album if that is your taste stylish and very well produced 😁

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

I was born in 1971, but like marmite and Bob Dylan you either get it or you don't. I get Dylan but not Joni 😞

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Good instrumentation, interesting lyrics, not so keen on the voice.

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

When it comes to folk I much prefer American folk, it has more of an edge to it. British seems very dancing round the maypole or so I thought until listening to this, an emotional and stylish album, especially track five which is very shine on you crazy diamond it style, and predates it. This is a good addition to my listening experience. By Polymath.

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Dripping in style and skilled musicianship but alas in my eyes very little substance

The Stooges

2/5

A lot the last album by chic style and some good music (some dull and repetitive) but very little substance. I know I know that was the point of this precursor to punk/stoner rock.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Great album so many memories 5*

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

What a coincidence yesterday I found Elton's Greatest Hits from 1974 on vinyl in a collection given to me by my parents. Never been a big fan but really starting to get Elton now, very late to Saturday night.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Very European in style, I did like it as not something I had listened to before except Kids. Not sure I will return to it but worth at least one listen. A well produced piece of Pop music

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

1/5

Today they would have to bill themselves as a Beatles/Beach Boys tribute act featuring a fucking pervert

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

A sound that is timeless, a great performance. Fun and spontaneous like a live album should be, another album I would never have listened to. Polymath

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Every modern day music artist owes a massive debt to these guys for without them there would be nothing. Rock n roll started here and the rest as they say is history. This album is what a hungover cockerel would make after finding that his wife had took the dog and fucked off after he returns from a three day drunken blender 😭

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

I need to give this a few more listens to come to a conclusion 🤔

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Not sure 😁

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Beautifully done ❤️

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

Thought I would stop after first song but still going 20+ minutes in, good album first two songs messy but good after that.😁

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

We are so used to albums being the same picture in 10-12 slightly different posses, true greatness is to produce an album where none of the posses are related. From Beach Boys sitting on a beach with a cool beer to the Doors stoned in a dead end drug den via Kurt sat in his bedroom writing about the pain of teenage life Polymath Polymath

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

I had ever heard of Sufjan before but this is a good record, there was one song though which was straight off Disintegration The Cure, the rest was made for a really interesting listen. One to revisit, voice really 👍

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Personal Thoughts Right now I think it's time England split from America, and rejoined the EU. Why would we be allies to a country who is friends with dictator Putin, has thrown the Ukraine under the bus, has taken away their own people's rights. Trump is a bully, a greedy rich white man who cares nothing for his people or any one else's. America you have made a grave mistake and unfortunately everyone has to pay for it. The album, I have never been a Stevie wonder fan and this has not changed. I get why people are but it just doesn't float my boat

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

A couple of good tracks cult and middle man, I think it's the lyrics they sound very angry 15 year old very obvious with little suitably Polymath

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

5/5

The Voice The Synths Polymath

The Score

Fugees

5/5

I tried this but maybe it was my mood I don't know but I didn't make it through, no reflection on this as it is clearly a great record just not for me Polymath

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

5/5

My wife's favourite record when it came out, she has moved on to Radiohead now. This is the beauty of the site, I didn't listen to or like these at the time, but what a great record amazing musicians, thoughtful lyrics and style.This brings back so many memories of that period in the 90s when I went to festivals seeing Bowie, Young etc

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The year my wife was born😄I found this was not the classic I thought it would from the comments and it's reputation. Some of the songs are great but others especially No women No cry are awful. How any producer could allow that track out lord only knows, reminds me of how Metallica screwed up and justice Polymath

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

God True story my wife's uncle was a bouncy for a concert Jimi played just outside of Leeds England, he saw Jimi come out of the venue and walk down the street, didn't speak to him or get an autograph. 😭 'So fine' is a great inclusion as it highlights how far forward Jimi was compared to the average bands, with the obvious exceptions Polymath

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

My bus has turned into a space ship and major tom is at the controls as we fly away...........now a sexy disco has started we are dancing away in a most peculiar way.......goodbye everyone....... Polymath

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

I once saw Billy Bragg great live act, very passionate person. Like a British Bob Dylan but with a very strong Lancashire accent, like Dylan very marmite. Superb song writer.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

My first vinyl record, will always have a place in my ❤️

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Can I dig it? Well it's another one of those where I can appreciate how good it is but it's not for me. Polymath

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

I remember seeing these at a festival, amazing set and light show, consummate professional. Enjoying it except elektrobank and it doesn't matter very repetitive songs.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

I won't give up on you..... Polymath

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

5/5

29 years late to the party 🥳 Straight through listen great record, beautiful vocals, one of the few times (outside of Radiohead) that a drum machine has brought anything to the 🎉 Polymath

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

No body made a live album without a debt to this album No guitarist ever picked up a guitar without a debt to this man This is rock n roll's DNA. Polymath Ps I love live albums ever since the Iron Maiden classic Live after Death, I still have the tape from when I was 14, with all the details worn off the plastic. I don't agree with comments about a studio version is my point.

Palo Congo

Sabu

1/5

No Polymath

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Greatest live Albums 1 Live after Death IM 2 Live over Hammersmith IM 3 Exit Stage Left Rush 4 isle of white The Who

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Great album. Great songs. Never as good as they thought they were. Original no, great yes. Three really good albums Definitely, What's the, and B side collection Master plan. My personal favourite Oasis Supersonic, drips with attitude. Saw them live Liam wanted a fight with a member of the audience!

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

1/5

Bastard's hung up....... Polymath

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Another first time listen, only know Killing Moon, a good album, a very good lyricist with clear Jim Morrison influences and The Cure musically. A varied, well made and thoughtful album. Standout track: Ocean Rain Polymath

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Great record, Candle in the wind had tears welling up at the bus stop. Such a great song writing combination Elton & Bernie Polymath

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Another blueprint album that has echoed down the decades. Polymath

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Odd Polymath

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Interesting listen 👂 Polymath

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

5/5

A very soulful voice worthy of a 5:)

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

It's the voice and that hotel lounge music that is not for me. The music is like a weird mix of Pop and country, it's just so bland. Hold music. Lyrics *Checking on my sex appeal* what????? Polymath Ps The Television album contains one of the greatest lyrics "And the Cadillac left the graveyard"

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Adele

3/5

I read the negative comments and thought shut up she is amazing, but then on listening I found myself agreeing. It's not her voice it's the quality of the songs, her voice deserves better. "Hello" is amazing but the rest are standard platter. Polymath

Moby Grape

3/5

Amazon does not have all the songs in the UK any way, so listened to Best of which has a lot of the songs on. Message to any Americans post Liberation day (Fuck up day) I do feel for you having a demented idiot with no knowledge of global economics, good luck with the recession

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

Can we just stop making out that every 13-15yr old boy is a masogonist, because they are not. Shit album

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Great social comment 👏

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

1/5

Not my bag

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Oh lord that's good 💯

Among The Living

Anthrax

5/5

Bought on the day it came out

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

💩-1*

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Such a beautiful voice and lyrics 💓

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Reminds me of FSOL but stripped back

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

2/5

I like lots of the the music that Damon has produced especially blur, but I found this dull and his voice always too deep in the mix. I think it could have been very good if more care taken over the production

Elvis Presley

3/5

I realise having read some of the reviews how poorly informed(my fault) I am about the origins, motives and background of certain albums and artists I am. The motive behind Elvis was he was white and so the great songs that the black music community had written could now be sold to the white world. I feel the same happened much later with Eminem when the record industry thought we have a rapper here we can sell world wide

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Good music

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Nah

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Excellent music

Chelsea Girl

Nico

1/5

Very poor

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Big catch up Donavon: Sunshine superman there are 3/4 tracks on here that are a blue print for the 70's ps nothing like Bob Dylan Solange hi great theme music that addresses the horrors of racism in America, a theme which this list has educated me on Fela Kuti & Ginger Baker:The Africa 70: Sat in a Jazz bar in the 70s, band playing, Gauloise in hand, whiskey in the other. What an album decades ahead Nico: Just to end any debate she can't sing or write. Save time you will never get back Rolling stones: Aftermath mixture of great tracks and drops, mothers helper former, stupid girl latter. Going home Change to Going insane by the end, the stones could not put a full album of quality tracks together which is what separates them from the Beatles

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

1/5

Not on Amazon

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Love post punk now thanks to the list

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

Oh no please don't.............a day off today I did try and I can't stand it 😭

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

This is not Sargent Peppers, Dark side of the Moon, Straight out of Compton or Black Sabbath in that it changed nothing. It is a band playing rock n roll that is fun, entertaining and let's not forget it's a tribute to one of the greatest frontmen of all time, bare chested (look up AC/DC on top of the pops) Bon Scott. Fun is the key point here if your looking for more then don't listen. The Romones did the same when they released The Romones. There are many great songs which in the light of our more enlightened times (Trump excluded & his Cronies too) do not stand up to examination. Fav track: You shook me all night long This was the first AC track I heard and have been listening ever since, the intro to TNT and Livewire are the two greatest intros in rock music

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Already a fan of Neil Young, though I didn't get him until I saw him live at a festival, same festival at witch I saw David Bowie. I was not looking forward to seeing him, but he was amazing. I was too keen on this album some tracks are way too country which along with RnB are my least favourite genre

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Tame is the blueprint for "in uetro" . I have never listened to a pixies album, mind blown 🤯

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Never considered sleeping with a man until Marvin seduced me on the 163 bus to work......

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Really liked this one, I was unaware of all the controversy at the time it came out.......

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Love this album for over 40yrs, recently got live over Hammersmith vinyl, I saw 7 times in my youth, best gig was at Hammersmith amazing

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

I expected from the reviews some serious adult synth then I got oh oh oh oh teeny pop synth music....second song better...it's the voice I can't on with and the super cheery sound so 80's pop, which I am no fan off, Tether is a good track less upbeat

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

5/5

This should be interesting.....very good just not my cup of sage

Achtung Baby

U2

5/5

Fucking loving this album, truly forgotten just how good it is saw them twice on this tour awesome.Confession I was working at Butlins UK and a friend had a U2 ticket and I was desperate to go but didn't have one. She said she was feeling unwell (nothing serious) I then proceeded to paint a nightmare scenario where by she would all but die in a concert crowd! She then gave me the ticket but would not take any money for it ☺️ Favourite lyric: In my dream I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows, they learned to swim* *Borrowed I know from Frida Kahlo

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Odd

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Great

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Excellent 👌

Throwing Muses

3/5

Some good tracks

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

One of my all time favourite albums, love Rush. So many memories, such a superb live band, I got to see the greatest living drummer of my generation. Amazing creativity and a band for anyone who felt a little bit odd, different or geeky. They will always be in my heart. The lyrics and musicianship on show here are second to none. Ps to the wanker who wrote the oh so not witty story fuck off

The Man Who

Travis

4/5

....Sold the world 🌍 by Bowie Ok so Travis didn't change the world, but neither did The Eagles (Burrito Band), Elvis (White version of black music) Eminem (same as previous brackets) very few bands genuinely change things. Just sit back and enjoy

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Good but not my bag

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

God album

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

A lot heavier and guitar based than I expected

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Ok let's get rid of the ELEPHANT 🐘 in the room, Lars fucked up the production, even when given a chance with the remaster he fucked it up, but even he couldn't kill off what is a great collection of songs. One of my all time favourites, I saw them on this tour at Sheffield city hall, fucking awesome, at their prime. Stage set unbelievable, the first of 7 times that I saw them. 💀. 💀 💀 💀. 💀💀 💀. 💀. 💀. 💀 💀. 💀. 💀. 💀 💀. 💀💀. 💀 💀. 💀

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Not very inspiring

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Not really interested

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Ok

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Great

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Not one of the greats but worth 3 stars for Fame

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

If you don't like it then... FUCK YOU YOU LIKE WHAT THEY TOLD YOU FUCK YOU YOU LIKE WHAT THEY TOLD YOU X10

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Great for it's type

The Only Ones

5/5

Another planet seems like the blueprint of so many great bands styles. I agree that this is the perfect 1001 album, something you are probably familiar with but contains music that has clearly influenced what came after, one of those bands that appears on musicians influence bands and I scratch my head thinking who the fuck are they!

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Interesting

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Ok

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

I try but just can't like even though he is so talented

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Quality

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

Great

Maxinquaye

Tricky

5/5

Brilliant

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Interesting

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

Awesome

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Nah

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Morrissey racist wanker This album amazing

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Didn't get a word of it!

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

1/5

What an annoying prick

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

5/5

Wow people are so down this, I had never heard of the guy, but found it an interesting and chilled listen. Much better than the Malcolm McLaren let's steal black music and claim we made it popular. Similar to DJ Shadow

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Interesting but lyrics were odd

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Blackman had the blues Whiteman had country Guess who got the raw deal

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Odd

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Interesting

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

Great 😁Screw the haters

Gris Gris

Dr. John

5/5

👍

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

1/5

Can't stand there cheese laiden, all American tripe, from our side of the pond American is a sad, prejudiced, rotten to the core dump. I genuinely feel for the poor souls who have to live their, with an **** (fill in as appropriate d,c,f,t) for a leader along with the rest of his playground gang. It's not like we are much better but we do elect intelligent individuals and we don't treat minorities like shit or allow guns. Right now time to give it an unbiased and fair listen to. How does anyone have the nerve to talk about these in the same breath as the Beatles. I know the Americans wanted their own Beatles but fuck me these lot! This sounds like a bunch of junkie musicians who put out the shit they recorded while high instead of binning it and recording some proper shit when straight It's a bit like us and Elton John we feel we have a duty to love everything he does, when some is great and some is shit. To sum up finely with Stevie Wonder I have tried to like him but I can't The Beach boys I have tried to like but can't Difference is Stevie Wonder is a musical God and The Beach Boys are shit A day in the life of a tree fucking hell guys sounds like a guy coming of a ten day bender! Were the lyrics taken from LOTR

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Never into James Brown but what a great early fusion of what would be funk and soul

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

💩for the music 1* for the cover

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Good, just shame it took white musicians to do it

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

Good

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

Overblown

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

This is one of those record covers I see in charity shops along with countless other Bach, Shadows, Leo Sayer and Top of the pops (Cover is a girl in a bikini on roller skates) this could just be a UK thing I have no idea! If it is please could someone like this to let me know.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

1/5

This is a record of it's time that does not date well, I did buy it at the time. I saw her live at a festival and did enjoy the experience. The problems I find now are several: schreaching ( who ever is torturing stop you cruel bastards), lyrics some of the worst angry teen lyrics of all time and ones written to shock (but don't) like the sexual references clumsy. It's so contrived and lacks any sophistication. FUCK ME JUST READ THE REVIEWS YOU LOVE HER OPEN YOUR EARS. DATED MUSIC MEANS IT IS SHIT NAME ME ONE CLASSIC THAT SOUNDS DATED. DON'T EVEN MENTION THE IRONY THAT ISN'T

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

5/5

Geno play those horns for me 🎺🎺🎺

Faith

George Michael

4/5

A taste of what was to come, never my bag at the time but now I am older I can appreciate how good he was

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Not a fan

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

Ok, didn't set my world alight but not as bad as some people made out

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Monsters inc. A very relaxing and chilled half hour. I really didn't think I would enjoy this, but happy to be proved wrong. Another victory for the list. I asked a friend what decade he would put the album cover "80's punk album"

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

Excellent

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Music made by the band for the band. Very few bands do this (Radiohead) and it is when you get the most creative and greatest moments in music.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

5/5

A refreshing discovery, some great tracks. Not sure why this band weren't huge?

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

A really simple but very thoughtful album, so different from how most music is made today, with layer upon layer of complex music and lyrics. You can clearly see what an influence on so many artists this guy had.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

5/5

Awesome live saw them last year.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

5/5

Reminds of a band I love from the nineties Beta Band, that laid back eclectic style, the music gives the impression that these would be a really nice set of guys to have a beer or a fat one with 😄😄

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Bob "Marmite"(or Vegemite for you Aussies)Dylan Didn't realise how decisive Dylan was, I get it though, I love his music, there are many musicians who would dream of writing just one song lyric as amazing as Dylan writes every time he puts pen to paper. This album is just like a best of as there is one classic after another, most bands must spend there nights with dreams of this album being theirs

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Blonde on Blonde encore still not run out of classics! Bob is the greatest lyricist of all time. ❤️You Bob. End of encore Final Bob encore (you did scream for more) I was one of the many who couldn't get past his voice for years, but once I did it opened up amazing songs whose lyrics blow you away, be patient it's worth it Elvis Costello, never tried him before but what a great record this is, can't help thinking he is some what underrated? I could be wrong don't know enough about him. Another reason this list is so great😁

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Interesting 🧐

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Very strange indeed, I have tried numerous times with the Byrds and I just can't hit it off with them, hence my lonely life in the dark abyss and my constant membership of several dating sites

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Some good Some 💩

GREY Area

Little Simz

2/5

Side note As the awesome Throbbing Gristle keep being mentioned throughout various reviews, I tried it believing nothing could approach the levels of depravity mentioned wow was I wrong! Little Simz not for me, everything I don't like about rap

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

1/5

FUCK I AM IN A LIFT, ONE MINUTE ON THE 163 WITH LITTLE SIMZ THE PUT THIS ON AND TRANSPORTED TO A LIFT IN M&S AÀAAHHHHH little Simz come back please Ps: Little Simz: music great, ability to rap great, what I can't deal with is how the lyrics are so direct and always about how great I am,u always suggests to me a lack of maturity. Maybe as a 53yr old British white guy I will never get it as not target audience. On with Abdullah

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

5/5

Awesomeness returns after Jazz lift hell😁 Lalalalala lalalalala I am holding on tomorrow as a twentieth century boy! 1971

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

I am on my knees worshipping at the alter........ God Album "Drive" this song is for everyone who has ever had a dark thought about themselves. Rem were one of those bands who could churn out songs that other bands could only dream over on a regular basis. Songs like this separate the poor from the good from the great Try not to breathe- Tears on the bus You know an album is great when it sounds like a best of Marriage of the bands Rem+Rush

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

Not an ABBA fan but this has in places really touches what it felt like in the eighties at the height of cold & nuclear war paranoia, I remember growing up thinking it was when not if WW3 would start and end the world

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Two words I never want to see together Jazz & Samba, another case of why I love this list, eat my words first track awesome, as soon as it started England got their 9th wicket against India in the third test 4th innings

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Seen the film Heard the hits Not bought the t-shirt Now for the album... It would have made a great album if all the bits cut out

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Uummmm

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

I have found out while doing this list that Neil Young very much divides the audience, there are no uummm take him or leave him. It's love or hate. Odd how Mr Soul finishes half way through, fuck me how does the second song belong on the same album........i see why Neil went solo...

The Joshua Tree

U2

5/5

Last night I tried to save money on line £19 and ended up wasting £45🤬I then fucked off everyone in the house and ended up in the spare room🤬 my wifes parting words "Don't rush home" so when this came on I was 😄 first good thing in 8hrs Not worthy Not worthy This was an album where the band could have stopped at perfection. Say what you like about Bono but to let that get in the way of judging this album is churlish. Every track is beautiful. Such memorable lines, my favourite being... "Outside it's America, outside it's America" I was late to the U2 party mainly because when they were hip I rejected it. I love the ambiguous nature of the lyrics leaving you to do the work Favourite track: Exit

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Favourite i

Ingenue

k.d. lang

2/5

Do not like at all

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

More than just the hits, I do find the lyrics a bit repetitive in places

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

Mixed bag

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

The day after Ozzy dies, this is either 1) everyone got this due to an algorithm 2) A huge coincidence 3) Divine intervention Five stars awesome album

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Great in places

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Great folk

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Ok

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Not bad

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Blur

5/5

Beautiful music

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

Not my bag

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Not bad

Kenya

Machito

2/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Awesome

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Too much n***a bitch etc

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Great 👍

The Next Day

David Bowie

5/5

Gtrat

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Ok

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Ok

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Not for me

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Interesting 🤔

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Great

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Uummmm

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Ok

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Not for me

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Great music of it's time 👐

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

1/5

Boring

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Great record

Music

Madonna

2/5

Experimental Hahaha Definition Experimental: Doing something that has not been done before. I won't insult your intelligence by explaining the irony of this 2* for the people who did all the computer programs

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

God Album. His best album ever recorded at home on an eight track. Atlantic city wow

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Oh that voice

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Mixed bag

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

Going to try again, only got halfway through first song before the voice beat me! But in the spirit of the list must try again

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

1/5

First thought was that I could be covering period 3 music lesson.....there are some people from 1994 who had there yr7 music projects stolen

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

The greatest metal album ever

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

A work of art

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

Of it's time

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

I didn't like the music or vocal style, but they are Manchester's most successful band, suck on that Oasis😀😀

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Not more Bush

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Just name calling! It's the worst of the rap albums I have heard so far along with Eminem

So Much For The City

The Thrills

5/5

The Doors

5/5

This is the end....

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

I really don't know what to say about Radiohead that hasn't been said a thousand times before. I love their music, it's so different and creative and thought provoking. Nothing is cheap with Radiohead, i still discover new things after years of listening.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

5/5

Fun Fun Fun Fun on the M62

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

2/5

Jean has a real flare for song titles, even Kraftwork (previous record and massive influence on this one) had more creativity than this! Like been held on virgins customer service line......

The Grand Tour

George Jones

1/5

Two verses in and I caught my self standing on a bucket with a rope in my hand😥

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

🥶🧊❄️🌨️🏔️Cool

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

Happy chap 😁

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

Groovy baby 😽

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Funk it up

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

Not sure

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

1/5

Over produced poor lyrics

Dust

Screaming Trees

5/5

Very good music, great melody and a very good voice

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Middle of the road

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

God Album, I may never move on from this one, this is one of my top five albums of all time. I feel genuine love for this💗Wish you were here is my favourite song of all time, the imagery and love for another human being has never been expressed better in a song, I feel teary as I have never written down how I feel about this song.

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

Strange

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Cool tunes

All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2

4/5

I think if you changed the name of the band, and put the album in a blank brown paper sleeve you would review it fairly, just a 💭

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

A classic which I have never heard, plus a horrific album cover, there is a reason I haven't listened to this fuck knows what it is! Great first song, years ahead of it's time! First song reminds me of some of the more progressive Sabs

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

5/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

5/5

Love this band

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Awesome

Thriller

Michael Jackson

1/5

Pedo: this should be removed

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

2/5

Not my bag

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

Sad

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Insipid soft rock/country hybrid if this led to punk then I get why they were angry, Peter Green era great

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

5/5

Great 👍

Bad Company

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Bad company who I did write a review for are a mixture of cheese laded rock for people who love chicks and potential to have been so much more, a very good voice let down by shit song writing. Coldplay suffer from U2 syndrome where a good band get slagged of for doing nothing wrong. They are superb song writers who deserve respect

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

Good if it's your type of thing, I wasn't a fan at the time and not changed

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

1/5

Racist C**T I just read the same review as mine without the Astrix Zero

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Not my style, quality but too up and down and every where else too 😉

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

1/5

Hear is a record that I have never listened to (stop groaning) and I see previous review on beach boys i just don't get them. But in the spirit uof the list (and to appease everyone else in the world who loves this record) i will give it a good listen Nope still don't get it 😕

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

Sounds like a musical soudtrack

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

5/5

Is SFTD not on the list? What! Considering pedo Jackson has just popped up twice that is a crime

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

5/5

A great record but you do have to be in the mood, as one guy from darkest Vermont said. I see a darkness is beautiful

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Great

xx

The xx

4/5

Ok

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Ok

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Ok

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

A really nice well written and well played album

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

Ok

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

The Clash

5/5

White Riot 1:56 seconds of Real Punk Not like the commercial shite that was the Pistols I saw Joe Stummer live at a working men's club doing a benefit gig for Yorkshire miners( people who worked down a pit not children) such an ordinary bloke

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Great albums don't date

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Good

Nixon

Lambchop

4/5

Greet

Guero

Beck

5/5

Great

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

A good listen, another album from my lost 80's decade that I would never have listened to if not for the list

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

Ahead of its time

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

Really unusual and different in this era of manufactured female singers

So

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Another lost 80's record

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Not for me

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

Weird 70s

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Awsome

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

4/5

One of the reasons I hated the 80's but this list is changing that so here goes... I must admit that this was better than I expected, apart from the singles the rest was good, well written music especially the one about the Native American

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Unexpected gem for me

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

1/5

What the fuck! Ironically without change and development from old England village cricket grounds to modernity 9they would not have been able to record this album never mind moan 8about everything! If this was recorded now it would be about immigrants taking our jobs hahahaha Oddly though I love their Mama album one of my all time favourites Its one of those albums where every band member has to have a solo! This explains the emergence of punk in one fairy encrusted record, only surprise is it took so long to arrive They clearly had aspirations to be Pink Floyd but unfortunately they fell well short Put The Clash The Clash on to expunge my 👂's .

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

Superb

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

That eye is freaking me out, subtitles needed, this guy needs therapy, out of this world drumming.

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Great

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

This is the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the road

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

God album

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

The British I may remind you have produced many of the greatest artist's of all time, in fact it is possible to create a viable list of the greatest with only British artists.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Awsome

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Great music

Smile

Brian Wilson

5/5

I just cannot get along with anything beach boys 😫 good music if you like it i don't

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

One of my favourite albums of all time top 5, "Same deep water as you" is one of the most emotional songs ever written. Like a previous reviewer I was a metal head in the 80s, early 90s and so this kind of "morbid girly shit" my metal head thought's of that time didn't register. Now I too realise what a massive knob i was and how i missed out on some truly great music, not just the cure but alsorts. That is something this list has really brought home, never shut yours ears to anything at least once give it a try

Debut

Björk

2/5

Not a big gan

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Classic

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

No more please pretty please. Ok, so I find the old Kate's bush joke funny, but music wise no. Currently enjoying some Big Time Senuality with Bjork

More Specials

The Specials

4/5

Great

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Good

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

God album

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

What an artist

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Definitely not my thing

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

10 WTF! 20 Skip 30 End (A review for spectrum owners)

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Music good lyrics about cat fights or maybe it was a very sophisticated metaphor I missed 🤔

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Not as good as the first album

Play

Moby

2/5

Addendum to public enemy apocalypse 91 second lesson revealed a great record feel the anger! Not really inspired by this slick unimaginative Kobain "Radio friendly unit shifter"

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

1/5

Patrick Bateman would have this on repeat

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