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.

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

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.

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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!