The best industrial band after Throbbing Gristle. Kollaps is unremittingly harsh, with vocals shouted and screamed above a din of banging and scraping metal percussion. E.N. uses found sounds and often use homemade instruments made of scrap metal & God knows what else in their sonic attack. Many would consider their sound to be little more than noise & I get that. This isn't 'Pet Sounds' a record that anyone with working ears should/would love. The 23 songs on Kollaps are all different but to many they will all sound the same & I get that too. I would not casually recommend this album to anyone unless I knew them well & knew their music tastes even better. I really like it and it works for me on all levels but that means nothing with this kind of music/noise. There is a good chance you will despise this album, and I'm surprised that I don't and a small chance that you will like it maybe even love it but don't count on it. Stream it first before spending money on a costly import.

Mott 4 Ever.

Some of the music sounds fun to dance to but a lot is ruined by boring vocals & dumb lyrics. More than awful this album is just disposable.

To discover 'I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight' before you die is one of the advantages of being alive.

This is what I was afraid of- that I would get albums by artists that I really dislike. Bjork's debut was a difficult listen for me her annoying voice gave me a bit of a headache and it seemed to last hours. I listened to it all because well that's the purpose of the generator, but I would be lying if I said that I didn't consider just flat out quitting I gave it ⭐️⭐️ because it's well produced and when she's not screaming/singing the music can be pretty.

Pretty good, pretty good. I don't like it enough to own a hard copy of it but it's more interesting than I remember. Best solo album by a drummer since Ringo's 'Beaucoups of Blues'.

This is what I was afraid of- that I would get albums by artists that I really dislike. Bjork's debut was a difficult listen for me her annoying voice gave me a bit of a headache and it seemed to last hours. I listened to it all because well that's the purpose of the generator, but I would be lying if I said that I didn't consider just flat out quitting I gave it ⭐️⭐️ because it's well produced and when she's not screaming/singing the music can be pretty.

"O samba, a prontidão e outras bossas são nossas coisas, são coisas nossas." Black Orpheus I mean Black Francis discovers Bossanova on the third Pixies album but outside of the use of unconventional chords in some songs with complex progressions and ambiguous harmonies it doesn't much sound like Bossanova to me. I liked the first couple albums better, but Bossanova is a great listen just don't go expecting Joao Gilberto.

5/5 The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band of Hip Hop. If you have any interest at all in Hip Hop this is an essential album. Clan in da Front!

A great compilation album of tunes recorded in 1949 & 1950 that would go on to define cool jazz.

So far, my favorite album from the 1001generator. Five Stars! Makes me dance like a 1960s Go Go girl!

Fun Buzzcocky punky power pop music.

Fun synth pop new wave from the early 1980. Some very good songs (Jennifer, title track, Love is a Stranger, etc.) but some filler too that likely sounds better on the dance floor after a couple drinks. For this kind of music, I like The Human League, Tubeaway Army, early Depeche Mode, OMD, Soft Cell, etc. better. Not my absolute favorite genre of music but I do like it from time to time, it never bored me & went well with my Sunday morning coffee.

It was OK kinda dancey some fun beats but nothing great.

The Blueprint to shaking your ass like a fool in the living room while your cat & dog look at you like you are crazy! AKA "Dad, I'm only dancing."

One or two clever ideas stretched too thin.

To discover 'I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight' before you die is one of the advantages of being alive.

To discover this album before you die is one of the advantages of being alive.

Wonderful album!

This album makes me want to become a stripper. One of the greatest debut albums of all time. Turn it up & shake your moneymaker!

As essential to any country music library as Sgt Peppers is to any rock music library. Her voice is just perfect. Essential.

Welcome to the Stomach Room! Oh, look it's Scott Walker & Burt Bacharach. Hello, Burt, hello Scott! What's playing? Sounds like chamber pop mixed in (or is it up?) with a bit of Brit pop & Frank Sinatra, old blue eyes himself! Sounds so strange, yet so very familiar. Did Noel Coward show? Of course! Go say hi!

On paper I should like this album better, but it remains... One of those albums that to me it's history or rather the history of events that occurred during the album's cycle (Rickey Edwards goes missing for one) is more interesting than the music not that the music isn't pretty good (it is) it just doesn't grab me all that strongly and not something I'm likely to ever play again. That's about it. I listened to it twice this morning & had heard it a few times during high school and my opinion of the album is exactly the same - good album by a talented band that for whatever reason fails to resonate with me on any level. Rickey Edwards (band lyricist, backing vocals & I guess some guitar) went missing on the first of February 1995 & was legally presumed dead in 2008. It's widely believed that he committed suicide. A body was never found/recovered. 4REAL.

Mott 4 Ever.

Several songs are as good as Fast Car. I usually only like folk music from before 1980 but this is a very solid album and wildly mature and intense for such a young girl (late teens/early 20s) I felt lucky that my life has been so sheltered (and yes charmed) as I'm about the age she was when this album came out and I have thankfully never felt many of the things she experienced /felt & turned into powerful, generation defining songs. I will buy this album maybe on RST next month and I know it will sit nicely next to my Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell albums. It's that good.

A perfect album. The California sound long before The Eagles, Jackson Browne, etc. claimed it as their own (or at least Rolling Stone magazine did) & years before Mick Fleetwood discovered a young Stevie Nicks & her moody boyfriend, started selling millions of albums & every lifeform under 30 fell in love with Stevie Nicks. Some absolutely perfect songs (the first 3 songs on the album are nearly as perfect a trio as any 3-song album opener has ever been) but the harmonies got on my nerves- I don't know why as I adore The Beach Boys and harmonies in general but by the end of side two, I was feeling a tad violent. Is there such a thing as too perfect? I don't know. Maybe but likely there isn't, 'Pet Sounds' is absolutely perfect and almost as good as The Beatles at their very best but I digress. I want to give it five stars, I get how massively important this album (came out in the summer of 1969) was/is in shaping the music of the 1970s (at least in North America) but likely due to my own short comings I can't. I rated Tracy Chapman's debut album five stars yesterday & frankly this album is way better but IMO a 5-star album shouldn't get on your nerves, and it certainly shouldn't make you feel violent. I feel like an asshole or like that Robert Christgau fellow. Same difference- I guess.

Reminded me of music aliens would play at dance parties. Simple, repetitive music that would likely drive me insane hearing it all night, but an album's worth was pretty good. Not sure I would ever buy it or even want to hear it again, but I enjoyed it a bit this morning with my coffee. Sounds a bit like hi energy exercise music - I don't know I'll likely forget all about it before lunch.

Lots of fine albums came out in 1975 (best year in Rock after '66?) & this one is near the top (Physical Graffiti being at the very top) in that magical year of living prog rock as Punk lurked about prepping for a takeover of the status quo that would fizzle out with a dull thump much as the summer of love had done a decade earlier.

Too long. Too boring. A couple good songs. Too little. Too bad.

Este disco es bestial en todos sus aspectos, sonido , producción , composición , potencia , años dorados de los autenticos Sepultura. En mi opinión este disco tiene más elementos de Death Metal que de Thrash, una banda con un estilo unico. Brasil, obrigado!

A fun album that would sound great at the beach, a Tiki bar or even better a Tiki bar at the beach! Not something I would play all the time but at the right time I can see this being a great soundtrack to summer activities. Makes me wish I was at Black's Beach skinny dipping in July!

A couple songs I really liked that had a dreampop feel to them but the rest of the album while not bad at all was just OK kinda boring indie rock vocals. I'll likely never listen to this band again.

I give DRY a one-and-a-half-out-of-five-star rating. I get that I'm supposed to like this album, but I don't - sue me.

Some of the music sounds fun to dance to but a lot is ruined by boring vocals & dumb lyrics. More than awful this album is just disposable.

Perfection.

In late 1986 The Cult put all their influences in a big black cauldron and called Rick Rubin. Something about a cauldron, a bunch of songs that were on the verge of getting it on, the need to break America and English pussy... Rubin listened to the message again & called the boys back, within days Rubin started digging in that rusty beast and found hard psychedelic rock, Highway to Hell era AC DC, The Whiskey au Go Go via The 100 Club, some Led Zeppelin magic, a little Rolling Stones swagger, some T Rex, some goth rock, some T&A and started sorting it all out in his lab. The Cult rerecorded every song they had ready for the next album under the watchful eye of Rubin and renamed the album Electric to better reflect the newly recorded music. It rocked. Not long after the fruits of their labor was released in America & beyond to great success. Electric was hailed from schoolyards to the New York Times as hard rock perfection. Rubin took off his glasses and fell asleep on his shabby couch (his beard full of peanut shells) peacefully knowing that he gave The Cult his best. The boys hit the road for months of sold-out dates and they rocked electric for Electric rocked.

Seminal Washington D.C. hardcore punk that would go on to influence everyone from Pantera to Living Color, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine & endless others. Essential in all ways.

Ronnie Van Zant sounds like a veteran bluesman but with his own unique style, a style that often sounds broken beyond repair & gloriously hopeful often in the same song. Just brilliant stuff. One of the best albums from the early 1970s (1973 to be exact) and maybe the best debut album of 1973 certainly greater than the debuts by such powerhouses as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Bryan Ferry and even Queen. No rock N roll library can be called complete without it at least not with a straight face. This is America reminding the world that we invented rock N roll and more importantly reminding ourselves that no one rocks harder and truer than a southern man raised on boiled peanuts, king cake, country music & old 78 rpm blues records. To call it essential seems like some grand underestimate of all the fire n skill that one finds on an album that is just over 43 minutes long.

Outside of a couple decent songs (Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World) that we all know & tolerate this album is pretty dull, had a hard time getting through it but I did. I don't need to hear this band ever again.

The Nashville sound of the mid 1950s to early 1960s (before The Beatles came along and changed the entire landscape) was brought back from the dead by K.D. Lang in the late 1980s on an excellent album called 'Shadowland' produced by Owen Bradley who produced Patsy Cline at one time which makes sense as this album has Patsy Cline all over it, from the production to the vocals and general aesthetic. A really strong country music debut that goes down as smoothly as grits and a Martini after a day in the studio with the Nashville A Team laying it all down.

When the robots take over our world, they will throw a big party & allow us to join in the celebration. There will be a huge area (a sign will read Humans Allowed) with colored lights, beverages, pizza & the music on this album will be playing as the robots encourage us to dance as humans dancing greatly amuses them. I suggest you dance I know I will.

Paul Weller's third act begin with the previous year's self-titled album and while it found The Jam's ex frontman in fine form it wasn't until Wildwood that Weller's rebirth was complete, an album that stands next to anything The Jam ever released and far better than The Jam's final effort (The Gift) it's that good. Blows away anything by The Style Council for the record. A rustic masterpiece that deeply inspired bands like Oasis & Blur and let the world know that The Modfather was back and back for good. An essential British rock album.

Grunge (REAL grunge not whiny pretty boy BS) like God intended. Filthy, hard, starved, raw, wet, buzzed and stooged up.

One of the greatest albums from the 1980s or any decade for that matter. This is prime CURE and The Cure at their best was (and still is in 2025) among the greatest bands of all time up there with The Beatles, The Who, The Jam, The Rolling Stones and The Small Faces.

It's Pink Floyd. It's one of their best albums. You are reading this. Do the math.

A few really good songs. A few boring ones. Overall average.

Fantastic noise pop about a great Sci FI writer named Phillip K. Dick AKA 'Master-Dik' hints of the greatness they would unleash on their next album (Daydream Nation) are all the place on 'Sister' an annoying cover of Crime's 'Hot Wire My Heart' keeps it from being 5/5.

Great music for an all nighter!

Mind blown to smithereens! I knew 'Come on Eileen' & a couple other songs by Dexys and liked them fine but never enough to seek out a full album... I've been missing out big time! How have I not heard this work of art in 23 years of being alive? I've heard it three times already & will play it at least three more times today, ordering the vinyl record & CD after I click 'Comment' and submit to you my scattered thoughts. This at once has become one of my favorite albums of all time! I'm obsessed! No music has hit me this hard since I discovered (and by "discovered" I mean my dad saying, "hear this." as he hands me an album, this time The Queen is Dead) The Smiths when I was 14. Moments like this are a big reason why music is, has been and always will always be a huge part of my life. What an eargasm!

Ever wondered what it feels like to be on some mind-bending cosmic drugs but don't do drugs? Fear not. Play this amazing live album by the end of it, you'll know. The flashbacks never end.

A synthpop group from Sheffield (once home to a number of historically important nightclubs in the early dance music scene of the 1980s) that takes their name from a fictional pop band mentioned in Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. What about the music (?) you ask. OK, OK, don't rush me! Well, the music heard on 'Penthouse and Pavement' no doubt sounded like the future in 1981 to a bunch of forward thinking creatively hungry young people looking with excitement to the lives that lay ahead for them as they swayed to the new wave that was them as much as it was the music that was playing at nightclubs all over the west end & beyond. It's icy and unconventionally slick, it's hot & it's cold it probably sounded like it would age well when it first came out and while it's not timeless in any regard, it's still fun and makes me want to reread 1984- God knows why. So, to recap interesting electronic music not as good as The Human League but better than Alphaville which I suppose is faint praise. To me in 2025 this music ultimately doesn't do much. It's not bad and I get the appeal as I tap my foot to the nervous stop and go beat of 'The Height of the Fighting' but I can't really imagine playing it again nor do I find myself curious about their other albums that I'm assuming sound pretty much like this one. The cover art is likely an ironic poke at their own left leaning politics and looks like what the music would look like if the music within had a look - which sorta does to me - if that makes any sense. So, in conclusion this music (interesting as it is at times) is just not for me, but I don't hate it & no doubt will get and keep people moving all summer at various Hollywood retro nightclubs. Hot August nights, anyone?

Raw power will surely come Running to you...

I played it so loud that I went def.

If you don't feel the need to get up & dance to this album, you got cement in your shoes, baby.

All but impossible to rate this album less than ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ without coming off like a total idiot but here goes nothing. Why less than a perfect score for this great album? In short there are better ways to be introduced to Buddy Holly's music in 2025. The best way is to buy or stream a copy of 20 Golden Greats (also known as Buddy Holly Lives) that came out 20 years after his untimely death in 1958. It was my introduction to Buddy Holly as a child (I was 8 or 9- I think) and it has his absolute best work & really the only Buddy Holly album you will ever need unless he becomes your favorite recording artist (and there are many that consider him to be the best that ever was in Rock N Roll) then get your hands on 'The "Chirping" Crickets and his three studio albums - it's all great stuff. Anyways, if I was rating this before 1978 this album would get 5/5 but Buddy Holly is too important to BS around with and IMO suggesting you get this album over 20 Golden Greats is some elitist crap as I'm not pointing to his greatest work contained on one album. Now I know Rockers whose interest in Rock N Roll ends with Holly's death (certainly by the end of the decade) in which case get this one (Chirping Crickets) first but anyone reading this that is in the Rockabilly scene knows this so maybe I should get to the point & hit COMMENT. That was not easy & I had to force the words out of my head but the above are my honest thoughts just not expressed as well as I wish I could.

I don't like this album. In some ways I hate this album despite the fact that everyone in the band is talented some insanely so and the music on this album is entirely listenable. So, what gives? I don't know TBH everything about 'Brothers in Arms' works well on paper but when I listen to it - it's just really boring to me sometimes obscenely so. So, what gives? I don't know really outside of 'Money for Nothing' the entire album just blends together and while it would be misleading to call it bad in any way I honestly enjoy 'Brothers in Arms' the best when it's not playing & I can just look at the photo of the pretty silver guitar that serves as the albums cover. P.S. We have all met people that seem to be indifferent to music. All music. People that when asked who their favorite bands are resort to saying things like, "I just listen to whatever is on the radio." I never understood those people because to me music is a huge chunk of my life hell to me music is life and frankly, I always looked down on them a little but what if to them all music sounds like 'Brother in Arms' does to me? How does it sound to me? Well-constructed background noise at best something to hear when conversations come to a standstill. That would be awful to say the least, but I wouldn't know what I was missing out on as music would have all the appeal of watching a game of chess on TV- so maybe I was wrong to look down on such people - I mean I would never date them but 'Brothers in Arms' made me understand them yo-yos after all these years and come to the conclusion that they ain't dumb - that's just the way they do it. You know?

The best industrial band after Throbbing Gristle. Kollaps is unremittingly harsh, with vocals shouted and screamed above a din of banging and scraping metal percussion. E.N. uses found sounds and often use homemade instruments made of scrap metal & God knows what else in their sonic attack. Many would consider their sound to be little more than noise & I get that. This isn't 'Pet Sounds' a record that anyone with working ears should/would love. The 23 songs on Kollaps are all different but to many they will all sound the same & I get that too. I would not casually recommend this album to anyone unless I knew them well & knew their music tastes even better. I really like it and it works for me on all levels but that means nothing with this kind of music/noise. There is a good chance you will despise this album, and I'm surprised that I don't and a small chance that you will like it maybe even love it but don't count on it. Stream it first before spending money on a costly import.

...should we talk abaaat tha govaaarnmeeent!!!??

Some filler mostly all killer.

Not as awful as THE XX (what is really?) but still not great. I liked a couple songs (The Shining Hour and Grace- a song that sounded a bit like The Dream Syndicate) a bit and nothing on the album made me wish I was deaf like THE XX did, but I heard nothing that would ever make me want to play this album again. Two stars for not outright sucking like THE XX. CONS: As mediocre as it gets. PROS: They are not THE XX.

Essential (and more importantly FUN) new wave music by the great Adam Ants & his ants. Play loud. Dance naked. Ant people are GO!

I like Meg White.

I've been hearing The Pogues since I was a little girl thanx to my dad and I like all their albums with Shane MacGowan (The Pogues released 5 albums with Shane MacGowan on lead vocals, 2 with Spider Stacy on lead vocals & a live album with Joe Strummer who took over vocals after Shane MacGowan was fired for excessive drinking in 1991) super fun stuff but it all starts to sound pretty same-y to me which is why I'm giving this album a very SOLID 3/5 it's very good just not essential IMO If you love Irish music this is likely a 4/5 for you or maybe even a 5/5. I don't know.

Fun AfroPop/ World Music type stuff, lovely voice not something I would play all the time but once in a while it really hits the spot.

When I got this album today, I screamed, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" but much to my surprise I liked it & made me feel like dancing- anything that makes me feel like dancing is AT LEAST ⭐️⭐️⭐️ in my book!

I like BLEACH better, but this is still a flat-out masterpiece and after Oasis as good as Rock N Roll got in the 1990s.

The definitive heavy metal album (or is that Painkiller?) by the definitive heavy metal band (or is that Judas Priest?) ...

An incredibly creative album in spite of it being a leering, boring, profoundly uncomfortable listen. Songs are too short, chomped up, groped, too cutesy and self-aware, a relic that likely sounded like a revolution in 1968 to the too cool to be cool counterculture strays but in 2025 to my ears anyways sounds like Frank Zappa jerking off for shock value & to let everyone know how different & wacky he is. Mourning wood. Get it? Idiot lyrics, cartoony vocals, silly inside jokes, loony sounds that scream OMG what a character Zappa is (!) so dada (!) type of poop. This isn't the sound of a generation (in decline or otherwise) at best it's a collection of sound bites that collectively play like what one would hear in the waiting room of some fever dream purgatory as the rug is pulled out from under you as your name is called in speaking tongues. "Mr. Shithole the DR will see you now." No doubt this was a great album at one time before Zappa decided to goof on his own work for street cred or whatever. Burnt Weeny Sandwiches for all the lord has risen! There are traces of absolute brilliance on WOIIFTM which is a testament to Zappa's restless untamed genius for better or worse.

A talented singer songwriter who I simply can't get into (I tried several times) nothing wrong with Grace but nothing right either at least not for me.

It's not bad at all but I doubt I'll ever listen to them again & I likely won't even remember what they sound like by the end of the day or ever think of them again.

I love it! I will marry this album!

Pretty interesting. Reminds me a little of King Crimson circa 'Red' and Sonic Youth. Hearing this album 3 times in a row made me want to replace my long-lost copy of this post hardcore gem & by golly I think I will!

Music for fucking (and being fucked) in heaven. Track 3 is called, 'Fucking in Heaven' and I think we can all agree that if there is no sex in heaven they need to be sued for false advertising. Imagine you somehow end up in heaven, you are mad horny (dying will do that sometimes) and as you seek some carnal satisfaction (we still have bodies, right?) you see a big sign that reads NO FUCKING IN HEAVEN - YOU ARE ABOVE THAT NOW - LOVE GOD XOXO ... but there must be- there simply better be! Fun body music! Dance! Fuck! Fight! Keep moving! You've Come a Long Way Baby by Fat Boy Slim makes me want to dance naked under the stars and in my book, you simply can't ask for much more from an album.

Essential Hip Hop classic. Don't ask why just buy!

Pleasant enough trip hop likely sounds a lot better at a club slow dancing with someone you fancy.

Album started as a 5/5 (first couple songs) but ended as a 4/5 because as great as they are a lot of the songs sound pretty much the same. Maybe because I'm not all that familiar with this kind of music (rock samba?) so keep that in mind.

'Life's Too Crap' w/ Bjork's shit sandwich of a voice. 0/5

One of the greatest albums by one of the greatest bands in world history, easiest 5/5 ever. I got to see The Rolling Stones live in Las Vegas last May (2024) & seeing them do 'Sympathy for the Devil' (from this album) up close (Row 5, Center) was one of the best experiences of my life thus far Mick Jagger was scary good at 80 & moved well like Jagger, the band was as tight as it gets, everything was spot on & I swear Mick smiled at me. *swoons* I feel a little sadness for those that will live an entire life never having heard this work of art - don't make me sad.

Pretty fun zany jump jazz rock crazy house music! It's a good time & more likely a 4/5 but I'm pretty burned out on Louis Prima as my dad played his stuff all the time growing up and I was always more amused by it than right out loving it- it's akin to Weird Al novelty music to my ears FUN in small dosages. I have a greatest hits CD on Rhino Records (I think) in my collection that I might play someday again but I probably won't.

Pick your review, you have 2 choices: 1.) Better than Frank Ocean but not as good as The Beatles or even The Monkees. 2.) Reminds me of William Faulkner.

Sir Paul McCartney's first solo album recorded during a very difficult & depressing time in McCartney's life - as The Beatles were breaking up - a time that found him isolated in his farm in Scotland with wife Linda, lots of booze, profound depression and a bunch of instruments. McCartney is a lo-fi masterpiece in which Sir Paul plays all the instruments. The uncertainty of it all is palpable in these songs, a baker's dozen but so too is the sheer joy of being as free as he would ever be musically. No deadlines (album was recorded in secrecy) no bandmates, no expectations at all not even from himself and as such it sounds like nothing he had recorded before or would ever record again. Probably the first indie rock album, definitively essential listening.

This is Caetano Veloso debut album from 1968. It spearheaded the Tropicália movement (an art movement he helped create/popularize characterized by the amalgamation of Brazilian genres—notably the union of the popular and the avant-garde, as well as the melding of Brazilian tradition and foreign traditions and styles) it was not well received by the higher ups in his native country which led to his arrest, imprisonment (talk about tough critics!) and he was even kicked out of the country! I hope they let him back in at some point. I personally would have given him the keys to the country- it's a great album of dreamy & interesting sounds lots of different sounds all mixed together - this would be a great album to play during a pool party! The songs to my ears tend to sound alike but it's such a great sound that I don't mind at all & maybe after a few more plays the songs will start to stand out on their own- regardless- I love it & so far, it's my favorite discovery from the 1001 Album generator project (hear an album a day) by far. I will be adding this album to my collection & look forward to hearing it playing loudly as I skinny dip all summer sipping tropical cocktails with cute little pink umberellas.

Not much to say this morning. American girl makes good in the UK & helps usher in punk. One of the greatest female fronted albums to ever come out of the 20th Century this doesn't rock hard for a girl it just ROCKS HARD AF. Punky new wave rock at its finest. NO COLLECTION IS COMPLETE WITHOUT IT.

The Nightfly sounds a bit (A LOT in places!) like an ultra-slick jazzier version of Steely Dan minus one member not to imply it's anywhere as good as any of Steeley Dan's 9 studio albums but it very much has that vibe. Nothing really grabbed me about the album (the electric piano playing is a highlight) but nothing made want to stop listening (even if I hate smooth jazz shit) in fact at times it seemed to just become one with the background, faceless & just always there. It's an exceptionally well recorded album too bad the material is as MOR as it gets. Painfully inoffensive, bachelor pad/party music for yuppies circa early 1980s. Listen to it or don't you decide- I don't care -neither decision will have much impact on anything. Who wants a line? _______________________________________ Don't like my grade? Fair enough. You grade it. 5/5 If you subscribed to The Wall Street Journal in 1983 and "The Dan" was your favorite band in college. 4/5 If you're from Passaic, New Jersey. 3/5 Only because it's so annoyingly well recorded. 2/5 If really well recorded records don't mean all that much too you. 1/5 If you were really hoping to get a Pantera album but the generator has a warped sense of humor.

I've never been fucked sideways with a lunchbox and it's not difficult to imagine how very painful that must be, but I flat out can't imagine it being more painful than this HOUR-LONG fever dreaming bastard of an album.

"You're the type of girl that I can't pass over Give me one chance, and I'll bend your ass over Just call me the plumber at the end of the night 'Cause a nigga like me'll lay plenty of pipe" When I saw I got Amerikkka's Most Wanted a few hours ago I knew today's review was going to be very very long or very short. I went short. I don't feel like writing a novella this morning. Too much to say about this album & most (if not all) has been said before & better than I ever could. If you like rap music, you NEED this album. That's unarguable- just so we are clear. Need not want. It's miles above 98% of all rap music ever released in fact top of my head I can't think of a better one (Eazy-Duz-It is way up there but Amerikkka's Most Wanted still beats it- I think) even if I like the back catalog of other rappers (Run DMC for one) much better than Ice Cube's back catalog - Amerikkka's Most Wanted is in a class of one. On paper no way should 'Amerikka's Most Wanted' appeal so strongly to a privileged 16-year-old white girl (the age I was when I first heard it) whose favorite band is The Beatles, but it does & I think it's because great art is timeless and make no mistake this is great art. A game changer when many thought that the games was over. - Chelsea M. So that's it. If you want to read about the history of rap, I can't praise the late great Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree comic book (now collected in one volume) highly enough.

God's favorite band.

Absolutely sublime music. Everyone should own at least one ABBA album- I suggest Greatest Hits. So good!

Wrote a long review for this album, took over an hour to write once done I reread it & it was absolute garbage, fuck. Now I have a stress headache and I'm not having fun which defeats the entire purpose of why I'm doing this "project" as many of you like to call it. I need to calm done, accept that the awful truth that I'm not great at putting into words how I feel and stop treating everything like it's a matter of life and death. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. OK, here are my hopefully not too jumbled thoughts on Different Class. A deep dive into everything that matters more than sex (HINT not much) in first world countries circa late 20th century which is entirely appliable to circa now AKA 2025. In Pulp's world people (all people) belong in one of two groups (1) those that have sex & (2) those that don't have sex. Different classes if you will. 12 songs about how sex controls everything. Some subtle, some less so all first rate. The music is flawless and works remarkably well with the clever lyrics like scary good. I love this album it's almost as good as sex.

Coked up and influenced by German bands and his friendship with Iggy Pop Bowie changes directions once again and gives the world The Thin White Duke the MC of all tomorrow's parties. Low is a spacey, electronic epic poem that is often too beautiful for words hence all the instrumentals. It's superior to anything Kraftwerk and Neu! would ever release the two bands who most influenced Low and that's not taking a dig at either band both are essential bands with ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ albums of their own that I absolutely adore but such was Bowies at his prime, surpassing his influences became the order of the day. Low would go on to influence every post punk band worth a second listen as well as the rest of the 20th century - everything from art to music to fashion to you name it. In conclusion, I liked it and think that you will too.

What if Jimi Hendrix hadn't died in 1970? What if in 1978 he wanted to record a new album but couldn't decide between a heavy funk album and a progressive rock album? What if he decided to record ideas from both the funk album & ideas from the progressive rock album and booked United Sound in Detroit to lay it all down? I'll tell you there is a good chance that the music would sound something like One Nation Under a Groove.

No, Loveless is not better than Pet Sounds but it's a great, perfect album just like Pet Sounds is but don't go in thinking this can top the greatest album to ever come out of North America-it can't. Death to Pitchfork. Loveless is a dreamy sounding album influenced by Neil Young, Phil Spector and all the noises & distortions of unrequited love. It's one of the very best albums on the 1001 list easily blowing away a good 90% of said list. Listen to Loveless when you can give it 100% of your attention. Stop checking your idiot phone. Close your eyes. No double tasking while hearing this one. Bathe in its enigmatic beauty. Seriously, no doom scrolling while listening to Loveless.

Richard Butler has a fantastic voice- he could sing the back of a cereal box & sound sexy & all Velvet Underground cool. The music works well with Richard Butler's hella sexy voice it's crushing at times bleak dark pop/rock music that you can dance to, meditate to, drive to, whatever really - it would also make fantastic background music while having a cocktail or a cuppa coffee or tea as you talk, talk, talk, LOL (sorry)

One of the reasons why I'm such a music fanatic - beyond that, really- music is one of the great joys in life for me up there with kinky sex & pizza. Cute kittens (they are all cute) and puppies too. It will always blow my mind how four humans created something so magnificent & humbling. This goes well beyond being a beast of a record (it is that) but a life changer, released during the very early days of my favorite genre of music HEAVY METAL one of my earliest concerts back in 2013 (I was 11 & already lost to the cause) was Black Sabbath's farewell tour with my dad who got us very near the front of the stage tickets- I was in heaven- Tony Iommi was mesmerizing to watch that late summer night -he stood there like a shadow, a Rock God mere feet away from me EVERYTHING after that concert was BBS (Before Black Sabbath) and ABS (After Black Sabbath) the fire had been lit. You NEED this album if you love Rock music to any degree but careful there as there might be no coming back.

The greatest rap album of all time, the funnest album of the 1980s and one of the best debut albums ever, as I write down my thoughts on Licensed To Ill only The Velvet Underground's debut album tops it no doubt there are a few others (Nirvana? The Stone Roses? The Who? Oasis? Big Star?) but nothing comes to mind that at once stands out as better except for the Velvet's 1967 debut, as stated. Maybe The Sex Pistols, The Jesus and Mary Chain or The Clash- maybe not? I think I'm going to shut up (for now) and play Licensed to Ill again.

A big influence on bands like R.E.M., The Replacements & The Stone Roses and really the entire college/indie rock of the 1980s & beyond. A psychedelic near masterpiece that sounds like it was inspired by The Beatles, The Byrds, Pink Floyd's Syd Barett while having their own very unique one-of-a-kind style. Nothing sounded quite like it when it came out in 1980 and nothing has since. When the band broke up in 1981 lead singer Robyn Hitchcock went on to have a well-respected career first with The Egyptians & then as a solo artist while guitarist Kimberley Rew joined Katrina & the Waves and wrote 'Walking on Sunshine' for them a truly awful song that made many people pray for deafness or even worse.

“Before Elvis there was nothing” - John Lennon The King of Rock N Roll. His debut album. The start of it all. Second to none son.

One of my favorite reggae albums (take that with a grain of salt as my expertise doesn't lie with reggae) it puts me in a good mood even when the subject matter is depressing on some songs. I tend to prefer earlier reggae like on the Trojan Records reissues, but this album is a keeper & I plan on adding it to my collection in the near future. I think Amazon has a reissue on red vinyl for $25. So, yeah this is solid stuff, kinky reggae!

Unplugged in New York is the only album I have ever heard that has made me question if I even have any business listening to it. I wasn't expecting that. The music is great, let's get that out of the way. No surprise there. It's Nirvana at their very best which is essentially as good as music got in the 1990s. I personally like Oasis better, but Nirvana is the far better band - Nirvana is just a lot less fun to listen to especially this album and this might change as I get older and experience more of life and more of the world but as a 23-year-old girl who is somewhat privileged & somewhat sheltered - I don't often play Nirvana and Unplugged in New York reminds me as to why. It's just too much. It's ugly and beautiful, it's as pure as any record that I have ever heard, it's harsh & soft as rain, it makes you happy to be human, but it also reveals just how fucking dangerous it is & how much you have to dumb everything down to fully enjoy the experience at least in my opinion. It makes me feel and think too much. It floors me and lifts me at the same time. Kurt Cobain died at 27 just four years older than I'm right now but his voice sounds as old as sin and if you didn't know better you would think that he somehow lived several lifetimes in those 27 years. Someday Nirvana will be the soundtrack to my life and that scares the shit out of me and excites me in endless ways, some good, some bad. Some day.

I like how some beats/sounds just repeat themselves in this album it feels comforting but by the end of the album I was getting a bit burned out, but I liked the album overall.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience's second five-star album of 1967 (talk about being on fire!) is a psychedelic masterpiece that should be in the library of anyone who has even a passing interest in having a well-rounded collection that properly represents the music of 20th century. Every bit as good as The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album (Are You Experienced?) that was released earlier in 1967. Has anybody ever released two stone cold classics in the same year besides Hendrix? Honest question.

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson For my money Soundgarden had recorded all of their best work by the fall of 1991 that said they never released a bad album(even their tepid reunion album from 2012 had its moments) & Superunknown (1994) is a good album even a very good one but it's not a great one like the first two albums are and it could have been better, it should have been better. What happened? I think most everything from 1992 on was too polished, sometimes overproduced and the pressure for radio play from their label really neutered that glorious Stooges meets Led Zeppelin sound they had on the first two albums but hey they still rocked with some degree of greatness until the bitter end. It's hard to see a band that sold millions of albums as a kind of cautionary tale and I don't, but Soundgarden never lived up to the enormous promise they showed in the late 1980s until about the fall of 1991 and that sucks.

This one started strong the first song had a Hendrix/Prince feel to it & had me excitedly wanting to move my butt to it at one, next couple songs HELLA HOT but then things slowed down and got too samey. I still liked the album, and I might even add it to my collection as prior to today I had never heard of this rock band not even in passing. Had every song been as strong as the first one this would be a 5-star album but by the end of it there was a lot of filler decent filler but filler non the less. Too bad! Almost gave it four stars but the drop in quality was way too strong from the first song to the last one, so it gets a strong solid 3 stars- fun 1001Generator discovery for me after way too many albums I had already heard.

Much better than 'We're Only in it for the Money' while Hot Rats at times feels like the joke's on you it never feels like one big joke as 'We're Only in it for the Money' did however well played and bursting with creativity that joke on wax was. Hot Rats is well edited and sometimes I think that's the big factor in evaluating if a Zappa album is great or a done in one listen. 'We're Only in it for the Money' felt like Zappa just pressed record & went batshit crazy. This jazzy cosmic rock of an album is largely instrumental (Captain Beefheart does vocals on Willie the Pimp) and benefits greatly from not having Zappa's at times idiotic vocals crapping all over the music. Sometimes less Zappa is more.

An album that sounds like sex. The vocals are among the sexiest ever recorded and the beat of the music is pure sex at its naughtiest, at its most joyful, it seduces your ears & then rest of you all the way to your toes. Electric Warrior was pivotal in popularizing glam rock. It would go on to influence in one way or another any music that mattered for the next decade plus. No punk band in 1975/76 (at least in the UK) not have a copy of this album in their practice room. A huge hit in the UK in 1971 & a moderate one in the US the same year. Go on & get it on but first get this album your partner will thank you!

Pretty good. I like Genesis (pre 1975 Genesis) way more, but this is a good innovative album with great drumming from old band mate Phil Collins and even The Jam's Paul Weller playing lead guitar on a song called **Through the Wire (**Gabriel is a big fan of The Jam) Games Without Frontier is a great song. ...none of the songs are bad a few just get a bit boring pretty quickly but what can you do?

Absolute shit, sincerely.

Pleasant enough background music but not much more to it. I have heard some great tracks by Booker T. but none are on this album.

"Ain't I clean? Bad machine Super cool, super mean Dealin' good, for The Man Superfly, here I stand Secret stash, heavy bread Baddest bitches in the bed." Right on, baby! My favorite soul singer of all time.

It was a different world when I started playing this album but so much time had passed by the time the last track reached its end that how could it not be? It's already June 2025 as I write my thoughts down. How crazy is that? Seems like it was just Christmas eve. If I play 'Home Is Where the Music Is' two more times it will be 2026. Pretty great jazz music not as good as it gets but what is these days?

The definitive southern soul record. Otis Redding had and continues to have in 2025 very few equals and even less that can better him, arguably the singers that can top him can be counted on one hand with a few fingers missing. What a voice. The man could convey every emotion known to men sometimes the bulk of them in one song. As essential in a soul lover's record collection as pasta is in the kitchen of an Italian. Buono! Buono, Mr. Redding!

One of the greatest albums of the entire Dreampop/Shoegaze scene second only to My Bloody Valentine's first two full lengths. A beautiful marriage of melody & distortion near the top of all releases from the 1990s.

Fantastic sneering punk rock from Australia. I had only heard a 7" by this band before (I forget the title & I don't feel like going into my music run to dig out my copy) and liked it just fine but never heard anything besides that one single. I'm happy that changed today. I really liked it in fact I liked it so much I heard it four times already! Enough talking I'm going to go hear it again & see what a vinyl copy goes for on eBay & likely order it this morning. Long Live The Saints!

Electronic proto punk music. The singer sounds a bit like sweet Gene Vincent on downers on some songs & on others he doesn't, the music I like as it has a lot of repetition and it's a sound I take comfort in. One song that was a difficult listen was Frankie Teardrop it just has an unsettling feel to it and as if that wasn't enough the screams got old fast. If it wasn't for Frankie Teardrop this album would be a 5/5 for me and I would play it a lot more (I do own a copy) but that song makes me not want to hear it all that often. A near masterpiece and one can hear the influence Suicide has had and continues to have on endless bands from Devo to the The Birthday Party to NIN to Radiohead & the list goes on & on. I guess I could always just edit Frankie Teardrop out which BTW is not a bad song at all it just makes me feel on edge.

The second of three splendid albums released in 1969 (!) you read that right CCR released 3 albums (all splendid & shit) in 1969, two of which are on this 10001 list! Even though CCR never knocked my knee-high sox off I have long admired what a tight and to the point band they were (not a wasted note to be found) and forever are the undisputed kings of swamp rock. Yup. Three albums. One year. 1969.

YES, at its best which means progressive rock at its finest which means music from the 20th century at its best which means buy, borrow or steal this album ASAP you need to hear it sometime before you leave the planet. Headphones are not required but strongly encouraged!

Triangle - The Beau Brummels ⭐⭐⭐ Psychedelic countryish pop with some baroque pop thrown in to the already heady mix and it somehow all works better than it ever does on paper. Not the most exciting album you will ever hear (I hope!) but it's very good and certainly sets a mood. While I'm only giving this album three stars I easily could have given it four stars (the quality is there) but since I don't see myself ever playing this interesting very much of its time record, I'm going to go with three stars and call it a day.

I've been meaning to hear this album for a long time and now thanx to the 1001Generator I have & I'm simply not hearing what a lot of others have heard and that's greatness. To me this is not a great album. It's a good, interesting album, the last two tracks being my favorites. A lot of it just sounds like soundtrack music, most of it has a sadness about it that reminds of Big Star and no of course I'm not saying they sound a thing like Big Star I'm saying both this album & the bulk of Big Star's back catalog have a similar kind of sadness to them. It's interesting enough & has a massive enough reputation that I will do something that I rarely do when an album is just average to me and that's replay it. I will hear it a few more times during the week & see if anything changes if it does, I'll update my rating, of course. I didn't dislike anything about it but outside of the last two tracks it just seemed like variations of the same soundtracky song played over & over. Maybe I just don't get it or maybe it's just not for me - I'll see if I come to any conclusion by week's end.

Dr. Octagonecologyst - Dr Octagon ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ (if you are not into butt stuff) DR Octagon is about a homicidal time traveling gynecologist that writes little weird raps about his misadventures on earth. He sounds like he takes LSD 24/7 and has anal & oral sex on his mind almost nonstop. He even dreams about it & is obsessed with girls with nice butts for obvious reasons. It's one of the interesting albums from the 1990s. The music is psychedelic trip hoppy rap. Very surreal. The scratching is fantastic in all ways, the lyrics are inventive & very sexual and strongly focus on mostly unconventional anal sex acts that might be popular on his planet but are all but unheard of on planet earth. I had a great time listening to it again as it's been close to a year since I last played my triple vinyl copy of this deranged out of this world (literally!) masterpiece!

Justified - Justin Timberlake ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I bet I would look pretty good on the dance floor shaking my butt to this music! JT has a great voice and a tight band. It's a fun album with a couple great songs on it but the whole album is more in that good maybe very good category rather than great. Not a thing really wrong with it. Would sound great at a club or wherever but it's not some masterpiece or anything like that. Not much to add really, it's just dance-y pop music & sometimes nothing sounds better at a club when you are wearing a cute/sexy new outfit nursing a cocktail and dancing/flirting the night away. As Thom Yorke says, 'Everything in Its Right Place' ... to the dancefloor!

The last great Beach Boys album before Brain's mental health started nose diving already bad since before Pet Sounds, in the first half of the 1970s things came to a head. There would be great songs on uneven albums after Surf's Up both with The Beach Boys and as a solo artists & near great albums The Beach Boys Love You (1977) is an odd, gorgeous album that just misses being a five-star album and certainly some would strongly disagree with me & call 'Love You' the last truly great Beach Boys album but so it goes. A melancholy optimism is all over Surf's Up at times beautifully comforting and on occasion unnerving. In many ways Surf's Up can be seen as a goodbye letter to the brilliant at times overwhelming waves of youth.

With new guitarist Steve Howe YES nails their sound, avoids getting dropped by their label, release a solid album with stellar songs like Yours Is No Disgrace, Starship Trooper & I´ve Seen All Good People ,1971 was a good year for the band. Fragile & Close to the Edge were just around the corner. The Yes Album is YES right before world domination it's not perfect (that would come later that year with Fragile) but it's bloody good. The first essential Yes album.

If your asshole hipster uncle yes, the one that hugs you just a little too long, insists on massaging your feet and has never visited without his hand somehow always ending up on your butt by the end of his visit had a band it would sound exactly like Captain Beefheart. There he is trying to be the center of attention by goofing on whatever song is playing by singing along with an exaggerated cartoon voice that got on everyone's nerves a half dozen Thanksgivings ago. Uncle Beefheart who always seems drunk out of his mind without consuming a drop of alcohol, drunk on his own bullshit, beating his own band members whenever he feels like it playing or not, stopping the band to address his audience captive or otherwise with some story of his black face wearing college days told in the voice of some old black man on LSD. This stuff is exhausting, seriously no album has ever made me feel this beat up, no album has ever sounded like an eternity, this album is one long self-sucking inside joke, that quite possibly no one gets except for dear Beefheart & Frank Zappa. I don't care if I'm about to grade an album unfairly for the first time ever and by that, I mean yes there is absolutely no doubt this tormentor is wildly talented as is his long-suffering band, but he uses his talents to try to drive you insane or at the very least pressing STOP and screwing up your entire 1001 albums project because you swore to yourself that the moment you don't finish an album you would bow out and darn it all I so wanted to end my torture. I somehow heard it to the bitter end & if I was a professional, I would give it two maybe even three stars because it's as creative as any album from the last 50 years is but I'm not, so I won't besides this feels personal. Easily the most annoying, unpleasant album listening experience of my life, if there is a hell this album will be playing on loop 24/7. I look at the running time because this music keeps playing for days and it shows that I still have 20:28 to go HOW SERIOUSLY HOW has it not ended yet? I might as well keep writing documenting my descent into madness as I become the fool that asks, "How can anyone actually like this crap? Are they all pretending to like it to appear to be in on the joke? This is a joke, right?" Absolutely abrasive noise that makes the truest black metal band sound as soothing as Mozart and about as evil as Hello Kitty with corpse paint, kawaii! That's I'm too pooped to continue writing. I'm just going to close my eyes and let the album finish then if that holy moment ever comes, I'm going to give it ONE STAR because I can't go any lower GODDAMMIT and take a bit of twisted comfort in knowing that if you haven't heard Trout Fish Replica already you will soon enough and I have never been happier to not be you. I'm still here.

The Scream is raw and visceral. Haunting and soothing. Alien & oddly familiar. More punk than post punk even if it sounds nothing like what was happening in the punk scene just a couple years back in fact is sounds like nothing that had been released in the 20th century up to late 1978 when The Scream was released. It's loud, messy, frightening, beautiful, chaotic one minute & heavenly the next it ends way too fast and leaves your head spinning not certain of exactly what you heard but endlessly happy that you did. One of the most important debut albums of all time. It would influence almost as many bands as the Velvet Underground inspired a decade or so earlier. Scream for me Steve Lillywhite?

This band was huge in the 2010s they had 3 number 1 albums in a row and a couple top tens before the 2010s then Covid happened... and someone accused the lead singer of some type of sexual abuse (I don't think he was ever charged or even if anything came from those allegations) and their latest album (2025's Pink Elephant) did not even chart in the Billboard 200, and I mean AT ALL whoever the accuser is/was did a lot of damage. Was the damage earned? I have no idea. To me the above is the most interesting thing about Arcade Fire. Neon Bible isn't a bad album but to me it's a very boring one. Inoffensive as warm milk. It plays and then it ends and makes no impact, good or bad on me. Boring indie rock that exists for seemingly no real reason like mildew or Mayim Bialik.

The world feels different while listening to Leonard Cohen. Everything makes more sense and less sense at the same time. Everything is bigger and smaller. That voice, those lyrics, the music, all so very needful, all so very hypnotic. I'm at some bar in Manhattan nursing a Gibson Girl when Leonard Cohen walks in, he looks at me and half smiles, nods and walks out of the bar, I put my cocktail down and follow him to the end of the world or his flat, whichever comes first. When was the last time a song made love to you?

Never heard of this band until today. Too bad! The title track is GREAT sounds like Michael Jackson doing the vocals and so catchy- I'll be hearing it in my head for the rest of the week! Fine by me! The rest of the album isn't nearly as good, but the title song alone makes this album 100% worth getting anyways! It's not bad I just don't much care for jazz fusion except for maybe half a dozen albums.

Viva Hate - Morrissey ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another great album about Morrissey's favorite topic on earth, himself, his wonderful self, bitch! Awash in glam and rockabilly (did I hear some surf guitars just now?) our charming man sounds as good as he ever did in The Smiths. The most English, snippy, dry, brilliant, delusional, joyful, sad work of art about one's love affair with oneself since Noel Coward's 'Private Lives' with its evasion of moral judgement, and the blur of paradox and witticism. Morrissey's third solo album includes Johnny Marr's favorite Moz song, 'We Hate it When Our Ex-Band Mates Become Successful' seasick, yet still docked, indeed!

Another perfectly listenable reggae album. I'm not the biggest reggae fan but so far, every reggae album on the 1001 list has been worth a listen or two. Natty Dread doesn't change that one bit. If you like reggae, you'll love Natty Dread and if you don't you likely still enjoy it. I had a lot of fun with it and I'm considering buying a greatest hits album by Bob Marley, Wal Mart has one on Rastafarian colors vinyl for about twenty bucks, it's really pretty.

"We only thought of ourselves as a good time rock 'n' roll band, really... But we weren't trying to get a message across, apart from have a good time, you know: get pissed, get stoned, and fuck a chick. And that'll do." - "Fast" Eddie Clarke Ace of Spades is the title of the fourth Motorhead album that came out in 1980. Motorhead is a Rock 'n' Roll band, they played Rock 'n' Roll and nothing but. They played monstrously loud and appealed to both punk & heavy metal fans. They never aligned with either genre and repeatedly insisted that they played Rock 'n' Roll. This 3-piece band helmed by ex- Hawkwind member Lemmy out punked the punks & out metaled the metal heads. They were as good as it got. They were as filthy as it got and you're going to love them like a reptile. This weekend get some head... some Motorhead!

Urban Hymns is either that last great Brit Pop album or the first Post Brit Pop album. I'm certain of that. Which one? Not too sure but whatever it's a great listen if a tad too long. Clocking in at just over 75 minutes and only slowing down towards the end, Urban Hymns is very much worth your time, but had it been edited down by half an hour or even 20 minutes this would be a Five - Star album in my book as it stands it's a solid Four-Star Album. A very strong orchestral psychedelic album both poppy & bright and dark & foreboding. It's a shame that The Verve broke up after Urban Hymns as it sold well over a million copies in the US alone but if ever there was an album that sounded like it would break America while seemingly breaking up the band internally it's very much this one. A hell of a way to go.

While no doubt Purple Rain was produced in the 1980s and as such would keep lesser albums from getting a perfect score the music is so gorgeous, so perfect that it not only overcomes the nightmare that is often 1980s production values, but Prince (with his cracker jack band, The Revolution) works it to his/their full advantage making Purple Rain a definitive work of sonic art & then some. The music is everywhere from pop to heavy metal to psychedelia to funk to rock to just "Prince Music" which at one time meant some of the most innovative sounds to ever land at the very top of the Billboard's charts. Purple Rain is a panty dropper, a religious experience, a journey into the heart & soul of a man at his creative & spiritual peak. It's church music if your body was the religion & Prince, was its God. Purple Rain is without a single misstep with some of the absolute greatest songs of the 20th century. You need it. Come my fanatics.

This morning the mighty generator gifted me with yet another very good reggae album, more or less, this one is a little more rock steady (a successor of Ska) which I tend to prefer than the more laid back let's smoke ganja stuff that gained popularity in the states (UK too but they were more into it already by the time us yanks embraced reggae SHOCKING I know...) in the mid 1970s or there abouts. Marcus Garvey might be the best reggae album on the list so far. To my ears reggae (Ska & Rocksteady) tend to sound the same but there is something different here what that is I can't pinpoint but I like it! The production is flawless BTW by a gent named Lawrence Lindo THIS is how to produce an album, seriously flawless. OK I guess I'll stop writing now. I need more coffee and both my huge goldfish & chihuahua are giving me the 'I'm hungry!' eyes. Of Note: The album is named after the Jamaican National Hero and Rastafari movement prophet Marcus Garvey.

The sounds of an octopus f**king a bagpipe. Soulless guitar driven dance music that will keep you off the dance floor, off your tits or not. Microshift? More like microshit grande.