The album was undeniably a cultural zeitgeist and I was a massive fan in high school because... I was in high school in the early 2000s. I despise this now. His cleverness and cultural questioning doesn't justify the raw hatred this man is spewing. I've listened to way more hip hop/rap since high school and there's just SO much out there that is so much better than this album. I gotta say, I really thought "1001 albums to listen to before you die" would base its ratings on "excellent music" and a little less on white boy popularity contest.

It was definitely good music, but didn't captivate me. Lyrics are incredible. It just didn't tug me heart is all

Her voice is cool, unique, and groundbreaking. Lyrics are full of teen angst. Absolutely nothing about the composition or arrangement is interesting.

The strings, the crooning, the backup vocals... an absolute soundscape that pulls me gently into its flow. Charles' phrasing is literally perfect and I'm taking notes.

Ah, my fave Beck album! Beck's weirdness and talent come together perfectly on this concept album. His other stuff is excellent but doesn't touch Guero. His tone is unusually consistent across instruments, vocals, and the weird "Beck" touches that he likes to throw in songs. The overall effect is unusual but not at all dissonant. Would be five stars if it broke my overall experience with Beck: catchy, but doesn't move me.

I can clearly see how this influenced basically every hair metal and rock and roll band I've listened to from the 70s onward. Nice highlight of the blues roots of rock

Absolute goated album, been one of my faves since high school. Like others have mentioned, front to back I don't think this is their best album. yet another dad rock album on this list

The album was undeniably a cultural zeitgeist and I was a massive fan in high school because... I was in high school in the early 2000s. I despise this now. His cleverness and cultural questioning doesn't justify the raw hatred this man is spewing. I've listened to way more hip hop/rap since high school and there's just SO much out there that is so much better than this album. I gotta say, I really thought "1001 albums to listen to before you die" would base its ratings on "excellent music" and a little less on white boy popularity contest.

While this isn't music that I would regularly listen to, I found it very enjoyable while working. Definitely some cool sounds in there and nice squelches, I'm a sucker for a good EDM squelch. It was interesting enough to keep me engaged with the music, energetic enough to keep me engaged with my work. That said I find basically all EDM so repetitive and unemotional that it's only good for working on something tedious or for dancing mindlessly at the clurb. One notable exception is Jay Electronica, who I wish was on this list instead of Leftism.

I love the more gospel-y parts, like on We Are Not Helpless. The man is a stellar guitarist and songwriter and I loved a lot of this. But I wonder why gospel songs by a white dude from the 70s made it to this list, and not actual gospel

If my band had made this album, I'd be proud. Controversially I super enjoyed some parts of the comfortably numb cover, but the bad parts far eclipsed the good. (the BeeGees style Ha Ha Ha Ha inserted in different places, puke.) Overall, not a bad dancy album, but like... again my complaint for everything on this list is that there's so much better out there to represent the genres and styles they chose! for dancy synth pop, Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia is literally unstoppable. And Mag Bay's Mercurial World. I know nothing about music but I know this for sure