Boring. Couldn’t make it the whole way through.
Not a fan of sixties music generally and nothing here to change my mind. Sounds like songs kids would sing at school. Nothing offensive, nothing particularly interesting.
There’s a lot of Jarret concert albums and a lot of them sound fairly similar, so you probably don’t need that many. This is one of the best. Doesn’t outstay its welcome, like the longer ones. A classic for a reason.
A classic debut album. Doesn’t reach the heights of subsequent albums, but contains some all time bangers.
Incredible. One of the greatest opening tracks ever and doesn’t drop off the whole way through.
Half bangers, half filler.
Nursing home music
The aliens can keep this one.
Muzak
‘Nice’, I suppose, but not in anyway interesting.
Obviously, It’s the End of the World as We Know It is annoying as, but overall, it’s a solid 80s indie album.
Sometimes the pioneers are exceeded by their followers so much they don’t seem to be anything special. This is one of those cases. Horrible 80s synth bass.
90s muzak
Better stuff has been made by its legion of inspired followers, but still a classic.
One of the better 90s sample albums
Probably the best Portishead album. Underrated.
This is the kind of music I would pay to avoid.
OK but gets a bit twee.
Couple of OK songs but most tracks get boring fast even though they are short.
The 90s attempts to replace rock albums with dance music albums don’t really hold up, but this is one of the better ones.
Maybe the only Flaming Lips album that doesn’t sink into self-indulgence.
Never cared about Elvis.
Jazz has its place, which is soundtracks. I would never listen to this.
Surprisingly decent sound for a thrash record from this era, but the lyrics and vocals make it unbearable.
One of the best thrash albums with some classic tracks.
After Sympathy for the Devil and Streetfighting Man, the rest is pretty disposable.
Most of the Britpop era was bands putting out one or two decent singles and otherwise being entirely missable. This is a good example.
Couple of good songs.
Radiohead are a great band sometimes. Thom Yorke is an unbearably whiny singer who can’t carry a tune. Gets worse after this. Basically unlistenable.
A timeless classic.
Outstays its welcome
Twee, sacharine tosh
Not their absolute best, but a classic.
Says nothing to me.
A unique classic. Still sounds fresh after 50 years.
Peaked on his first release. Another of the great sampling albums.
Okay.
No bad Piazzolla
I just don’t like this sound.
Some earworm anthems for sure, but terrible lyrics and horrible 80s drums.
Boring
Boring
Stevie Wonder is definitely in the top 10 most overrated artists. Boring, dated sounding.
Another good sounding band with an unbearable singer.
Now my heart is full, Spring heeled Jim, and Billy Budd is about as good an opening trio of songs as you can get. One of the two classic Morrissey albums.
Grunge is the most overrated genre ever.
Never as good as their PR.
No
Sounds nice without being in any way interesting.
Candidate for most overrated album ever. Unbearable.
Music for people who hate music.
Sounds dated and the followers have done it better, but still a classic.
I just don’t understand why anyone would listen to this.
Classic jazz album, sort of thing they play in a restaurant.
Probably the worst Smiths album, so still better than almost anything else from the 80s.
Good, but not outstanding.
It’s got Living for the City, which is the only good Stevie Wonder song, so it’s his best album.
There was a thing around this period where middle aged rockers started feeling obsolete and going on about electronic music. Then they made albums which showed they didn’t really know anything about electronic music. This is like most Radiohead stuff, it’s Ok to quite good until Thom’s tuneless whining comes in.
One of the best of the 00s. Great lyrics, great music, original, much better singing than the Milk-eyed Mender.
The poster child for bands championed by the British music press on the basis of politics and class prejudices. Unbearable Brit Pop cringe.
Synthpop classic.
No reason anyone should listen to this.
Mystifyingly overrated.
The definition of catchy but dull
Horrible sound
Somewhat mystifyingly her most popular album but not her best. Rather let down by Thom Yorke’s tuneless whining.
Before they really got good.
Classic electronic album
Boring
Pompous, overblown, portentously meaningless lyrics. Another decent band with a completely unbearable singer.
Running boogie music through MIDI quantization is how to sterilize it. Ludicrously dated.
Magnificent from beginning to end. Easily one of the greatest albums ever.
Nowhere near his best
Who can listen to Kanye anymore?
Whole thing doesn’t hold up to the singles but still a classic.
Doesn’t stand out from the early 2000s alt-country mass.
Some weird stuff starting to come through in the lyrics, but the music is still saccharine crooner shlock. Later albums much better.
Muzak
Never getting past that accent
Grunge boredom.
All time classic
Take out Frankly Mr Shankly and Vicar in a Tutu and it’s basically flawless.
Turgid and overblown
Fairly decent for country.
Not the best side of the 80s
Historical significance doesn’t make it worth listening to.
Overrated due to his death, but still a solid album.
Don’t be ridiculous
Classic
Another mystifyingly overrated artist.
More jazz tedium
Bland and dated
I don’t like the galloping sound.
OK
Songs ranging from terrible to great
This vocal style and sound is dated and uninteresting.
Gets tedious fast.
One of the good Primal Scream albums.
Don’t like the vocals
Extremely irritating people but an all time classic album.
Retro tosh
OK for country
One of the most depressing albums ever.
One of the blandest things I have ever heard.
If only they’d been as big as Nirvana, we might have avoided all the lumpen grunge whining.
One of the blandest things I have ever heard.
They were in decline by this point.
Great album slightly let down by the usual Albini production issues.
Would have been better if they let the feedback rip
Couldn’t make it through this one.
Classic
Nothing especially interesting.
Jazzy noodling. No.
Boring
Couple of decent tracks.
No
An utterly inexplicable artist. Can’t sing, music is trash, lyrics purposely opaque drivel. Every second spent listening to him is a second wasted. Wish I could rate it zero.
Nearly as boring as Coldplay.
Everything about this is horrible. Possibly the stupidest name ever.
One of Lou Reed’s better efforts.
Most of the songs sound pretty similar. Gangsta rap is silly.
Solid album with a couple of classic tracks.
Ok. Always better to read about than listen to.
Surely no one would ever put this album on?
So boring.
The band’s OK, but there’s something unbearably cloying about his voice that makes them unlistenable.
Incredible how such a terrible sounding record ever got released. Couple of decent tracks.
Utterly dated and uninteresting.
One of those cults that’s not actually much good.
It’s that horrible sixties sound again.
Horrible, dated rock. I particularly dislike the drumming and bass guitar, as well as the singing and the stupid lyrics.
Dull
A story about nothing.
Losing the energy of the early releases and getting boring.
OK. Couple of decent songs.
Absolute mediocrity
Hard to imagine a more horrifying phrase than “pioneers of jazz-rock fusion”.
No interest at all.
Terrible band. Weather with you is one of the worst songs ever recorded.
Couple of OK tracks.
Gets a bit wearing.
It’s got that horrible country twang.
Solid album from Can’s best period.
Derivative and uninteresting.
Bit bland. Couple of OK songs.
Dance classic
The definition of MOR.
More restaurant music. OK for jazz.
Couple of good songs but gets a bit monotonous.
Hard to imagine anything being worse than this fraud’s studio albums, but this tuneless caterwauling manages it.
Classic
The high point of these mediocrities.
Crap vocals and guitar solos.
Not one of their best, but still a classic.
Pretty sixties sounds with no impact.
Nothing interesting here.
There’s only 1001 albums in this thing and it’s unbelievable they would waste so many entries on this worthless fraud.
Very boring. Couldn’t get through it.
A mystery only Americans can understand. Dull music, weird muffled sound, crap vocals, overblown lyrics.
Timeless classic.
Dated irrelevance.
Not bad.
Not much to this.
As awful as the name would suggest.
It might be from the seventies, but it’s still that crappy sixties sound.
Not interested in the blues, but BB King’s tone always amazes.
Amazing this strangled squawk was once considered to be good singing.
Solid indie album that stands out from the Britpop slop of the nineties.
This nu metal stuff has aged atrociously, and it was mediocre to begin with.
So bland.
So boring. Couldn’t get through it.
More sixties slop.
Some kind of nursery rhyme songs.
Your reaction here is going to depend on how tolerable you find her chalk on a blackboard singing style.
You can tell they’re running out of ideas.
It’s hard to find good jazz, and this isn’t it.
Hard to believe these guys were ever it.
I don’t think this is bad but it doesn’t connect with me at all.
I would never choose to listen to this, but it is OK.
Not sure why this retro tosh is supposed to be alternative.
Madness made a bunch of great singles, but never made a great album.
Impact is blunted by the army of inferior followers, but still a classic.
Timeless and essential.
One of those cases where the stuff influenced is better than the original.
I don’t like Irish music or country, so this did not do much for me.
I accept the historical significance but don’t find any of this worth listening to as music.
More landfill indie.
Ok for grunge.
I’m sure I already had one Police album and this is a good illustration of everything wrong with this list. Meanwhile I have not seen an actual reggae album yet. Everyone already knows the Police, there is nothing to discover here. If you like knock off reggae played wrong and Sting’s limited squawk, this is for you. If you have taste, you’ll be listening to the real thing.
Another one where the historical significance is clear but it’s just not as good as what came later. The weak vocals are the biggest let down, but the jazzy drumming can get annoying too.
Can’t stand this twee sound.
Pretty dull
This list is turning into day after day of famous and familiar albums I would never want to listen to.
Everything she ever did was done a hundred times better by a Black singer.
Another band that deserved one entry at most. Dull sounding production and not really notable.
I supposed it’s OK for hard rock.
Not much good besides Tainted Love.
Couple of OK songs. Old and cheesy.
Sometimes I feel like this list is some kind of art project to make people listen to the most worthless music.
Great singer, but more of that music that has only historical value.
I’ve seen them a couple of times and there’s something to them live, but there’s no reason to ever listen to a Napalm Death album.
It’s OK, but Bowie doesn’t get great until later.
Could hardly be more lifeless.
Bits of this are good but overall it’s rather boring.
Not the worst sixties music, but not the best either.
This was really terrible.
First African album, I think, and it had to be one with a Brit on it. First couple of tracks are OK. Bit too jazz.
Unbelievable! How does this fraud keep coming up?
This album is a bit of a travesty due to the collaborators and dodgy production. Clearly a cash grab, although Hooker probably deserved it. Not sure why it’s on this list rather than a proper Hooker album.
Sad boy indie
Self-indulgent garbage.
Bit dull after Metal Guru.
Lots of multiple entries for old boomer farts on this list.
Cracking opening, but suffers from the same problems Patti Smith always exhibits. Dull music, bad mix, lyrics veer wildly from evocative to overwrought.
The jazz albums included in this list appear to just be random selections.
Bad beats, bad production, bad vocals, just all round terrible.
Leftover dregs of the sixties with nothing to say. Painful.
This album is what you would get if you set out to make music that does not engage the listener in any way. For a couple of years it was playing in every shop and restaurant because the only thing it is good for is background noise.
OK I suppose
French is not the best language for rap.
Two of the Stones’ best songs at the beginning and end, middle completely skippable.
Like the pile of Dylan albums isn’t enough for this list. Obviously, the absence of his caterwauling is an improvement, but the music isn’t any good either.
OK. The songs all do the most obvious thing and the vocals are pretty weak.
Utterly baffling how these guys got on the list once, yet here they are again, duller and more sterile sounding than the last time around.
One of the worst things I have ever heard.
Music - 3, words - minus 5
A shoo-in for top 10 most overrated bands. Around the time this came out, a lot of these guitar bands were feeling like they weren’t cool anymore and talking about how much they’d always loved electronic music. Then they made bad albums with supposed electronic influences like this one. Experimental if you know nothing about music.
Groundbreaking and all that but not worth listening to. There are some ambient albums that rise above being background noise, and this isn’t one of them.
Definition of bland.
Still fresh sounding and unblemished by its association with the turgid nonsense of trip hop.
Sounds like the soundtrack to wacky adventures in a sixties film.
We already had one album by these mediocrities.
Sometimes, the page refreshes and you can only think “WTF”. People were laughing at these one hit wonders 30 years ago and they don’t sound any better now.
The intro to Layla is cool. The rest is mind numbing.
Elvis means nothing to me.
I feel like this list is mocking me.
One of Bowie’s best, although a step behind Low from the Berlin albums.
The sound of every advert back when people used to watch television. Lowest common denominator soulful samples over derivative beats. Nothing music.
OK songwriter. Terrible performer.
There’s no reason why anyone should own this or ever want to put it on. Great production though.
OK for country.
Already had one of these and he hasn’t got any better.
Derivative as anything but still better than almost all Britpop.
Incredible that someone could turn singing like this into a 40 year career
Classic, but this list does not need to have every Nick Drake album.
Group of mates jamming. No reason for anyone else to listen.
Occasionally sounds like it is going to be good, and then turns to cheese.
Not Bowie’s best period.
Adding jazz to hiphop doesn’t make either of them better. Not the best rapping either.
Three classic singles but the rest is pretty meh.
Highly parochial and backwards looking sixties stuff. Nice enough melodies but nothing interesting.
There’s already been one Joni Mitchell album and that was already too many.
This big beat stuff was not great at the time and it has not aged well. Extra demerit for Noel Gallagher.
Whenever I hear STFS, I always wonder where the elevated reputation comes from. Dull and poor production.
Three hundred albums into this list before the first reggae comes up. I wonder if there will be any more. Not Marley’s best, but still essential.
I don’t understand the purpose of including this kind of thing in the list. It’s not an album and the selection criteria are obscure. If you want jazz or classical, there are thousands of albums worthy of consideration, having just the odd one or two is pointless.
By this stage, Ella Fitzgerald songs is music you hear on soundtracks or in the background. I would never put this on and listen to it, despite recognizing its qualities. Its time has passed.
Skits and dross bury the couple of bangers.
Laughably amateurish even for a punk band. Being women might have been significant 50 years ago but does not make it worth listening to now.
Great singer, classic songs, but its time has passed.
There’s no reason anyone should ever listen to this.
Maybe it was significant for its time.
Retro tosh.
1 good song, lots of filler.
Rare example of the drummer being the best musician in the band. 60% all time bangers, 40% pure filler. Good enough to overcome the terrible singer.
Mishmash of stuff that never really adds up to anything. List didn’t need multiple Beck albums.
It’s got that sixties vocal sound and production that makes it super dated rather than timeless, although some of the songs are good.
Back in the 90s, many bands were claiming this was a massive inspiration but it didn’t sound great even then and it has not improved since.
Multiple Queen albums here when the Greatest Hits is all you need - and even that has some horrible novelty songs on it.
Great production but the shouty vocals get tiring.
Nice but not interesting at all.
A few interesting strange bits, but mediocre singing and poor production.
I’ve never understood the appeal of Rock Lobster and the other songs weren’t great either.
Too much jazz but better than that gangsta nonsense.
I’d generally avoid Billy Bragg and this album reminded me why.
Unbelievable cheese.
One of the better choices among the weird selection of jazz on this list, but if you like jazz, you will already know it, and if you don’t like jazz, you definitely won’t like this.
Almost nothing from this era of heavy metal is worth listening to.
Contains the only good Aerosmith song, Sweet Emotion, which can’t make up for every other Aerosmith song.
Reading about Brian Eno makes it sound like he’s interesting and groundbreaking. Then you listen and it's this kind of nonsense.
One of his best.
Really not made to be listened to as an album.
Getting close to giving up on this. An endless stream of well known and uninteresting or just bad, like this, albums.
Kiedis can’t sing. Terrible album.
One hit wonders. More sixties music with nothing to say.
A shoo-in for top-10 overrated. People talk about this MOR tosh like it’s some great work of art, when it’s just music for people who don’t really like music.
There’s no call for three Dexys albums on this list.
One of the post punk greats. Sounds a bit dated now, and not their best, but always worth listening to.
Bad singing and not enough of the Brazilian drumming influence to make it interesting.
Great singing, but the guitar playing gets a bit wearing and the drumming is very basic.
The Clash are another band for my most overrated list, especially their crappy “reggae” stuff.
I do not understand the appeal of the Beach Boys at all. This is like stuff for a primary school music class.
Like a lot of desert blues, it’s too twangy and does not have enough variation or build in the songs.
At last, something unfamiliar. Bit surprised this is from 2004, sounds more 90s. Nice base. Singing a bit all over the place. Not bad.
It’s got some classics on it, but Ramones are always best enjoyed as a singles band or live.
Thrash isn’t as bad as death metal, but it’s still mostly garbage.
Horrible singing, bland production. One of the worst things this list has thrown up so far.
One decent song (Eleanor Rigby) is far outweighed by one of the worst songs ever recorded (Yellow Submarine). Utterly phantasmagorical how they could have been released as a double single. The past really was a different country. Third rate attempts at techniques already standard in classical music and laughable attempts to incorporate Indian music.
This is one of the worst sounding records I’ve heard. Cross between the bad bits of Slint and the bad bits of Sonic Youth, with really bad singing.
Boring, self-indulgent and stupid. Some tracks, like Mother, are so bad it’s hard to believe they’re serious.
Couple of decent songs. Not their best.
Very smooth, and that’s not really my thing.
Very uneven. There aren’t many soul albums that hold up all the way through and this isn’t one of them. The falsetto gets very monotonous.
New Order are a strange band. The singer is terrible, the lyrics are often worse. The production also often sounds horrible. But they still regularly produce great songs that rise above it.
Probably the last Nick Cave album that wasn’t terrible, but still a bit of a caricature.
Bauhaus wrote a handful of absolute bangers, but generally were a bit boring and certainly nowhere near, say, The Cure. Completely superseded by the bands they influenced.
Roadrunner is an OK song, but most of this is laughably amateurish.
Do you have to be an American for this one? Horrible vocals, self-indulgent.
This was not good at the time and it hasn’t improved since.
Absolutely mystifying. Why is this here?
I hate jam bands. There’s two minute songs on here that last for twenty.
Once again stating that this list should have no more than one album by an artist. Bruce Springsteen is a hack at the best of times, and this isn’t the best of times.
We’ve already got Bowie on the list, why do we need this?
Like most punk, this may have been significant for its time, but is not worth listening to now.
While Johnny Cash is one of the handful of country artists worth listening to, we do not need two prison concert albums on this list.
Twee and whiny
Easily Bowie’s most overrated album and period. The great stuff came later.
The tiny selection of random jazz albums on this list is still basically pointless, but this is my favorite Miles Davis.
The cult were a second rate goth band who suddenly turned into a third rate pub rock band. One of the worst singers ever.
Really don’t like the singing.
I’ve already heard this far more times than I want to.
I don’t think Iggy ever made a great album, but this has a couple of great songs on it.
Absolute MOR. Sounds like the kind of thing people who don’t actually like music listen to on the radio.
McLaren’s usual exploitation shtick. Some of the stuff he stole for this was pretty good, listen to that instead.
The second samba jazz album on this list is music for playing in the background at restaurants.
There is nowhere near enough reggae on this list. This is a classic from beginning to end, one of the greats.
Just boring. Couldn’t get through it.
Two good songs and the entire rest of his career is garbage.
Tedious jazz blues.
Well, this was dull as dishwater.
Not the best example of 90s Warp.
Probably good on a sound track or something. I’d never listen to it myself.
Truly a monumental, landmark album. At least four all time classics here.
This is another one of those albums that has obviously been included because it was massively influential, but which has been completely eclipsed by those followers and has nothing more than historical significance.
Astonishing that they were once the biggest band in the world.
You can appreciate the performers’ skills and its place in history, but the songs just aren’t up to the same standard. They all sound the same and the lyrics are uninspired. The sound is evocative of an era, but there’s really no reason to listen to this.
I’d be happy dancing to it, but it goes on way too long with too little variety to listen to.
Crappy sixties sound. Childish songs. Supposed historical significance of using 12 string guitars. Another album that’s an artifact with limited relevance.
The worst of the boomer rock “classics”? The occasional monster riff, but otherwise terrible singing, sounds awful, why is Keith Moon supposed to be a great drummer?
A second Supergrass album is just nuts. They were only ever a singles band.
Bad singing. Didn’t enjoy it.
This is Ok. Nothing outstanding. But given the dearth of reggae on this list, including this second rate Scottish stuff is almost insulting.
Great singer, and sixties soul and reggae was much better than the white sixties pop. But it’s better as singles. Over an album, it’s all too samey.
Ok if you like nostalgic indie. Not an album you need to hear though. I’ll never listen to it again.
We already had Paul’s Boutique. No need for anymore Beastie Boys. Too much jazz on this one, which goes less well with all the shouting. Sabotage is the only really good song.
Another one of those albums with purely historical significance.
Another one where it appears and your mood sinks. Did not persuade me to change my mind about Steely Dan.
I think this one has aged pretty badly.
Beatlesque, which isn’t a good thing. Don’t like the singing. Lasts forever.
Says nothing to me.
Hate everything about this.
Another one of those boring electronic albums that were made for mainstream listeners, safe and basic. So many classics from that era, and here we are with Orbital and Sabres of Paradise
Nothing better than OK. I don’t suffer from nostalgia, so the fake and worse Spector/Motown knockoff production does nothing for me.
This was OK. I’ve always found Throwing Muses a bit hit and miss. A whole album is a lot.
Captures several of the things I hate all at one: nostalgia, the sixties sound, parochial anti modernism.
Probably White Stripes’ best. There’s already been two of their albums here. Hopefully, there won't be any more.
Boring commercial hard rock.
Dreary commercial “punk”.
Not the best Spacemen 3 album and everything that’s good here was done much better by Spiritualized.
One of the best of the Eighties.
One of their better ones. Shame they never sounded half as good on record, one of the best live bands ever.
Great album let down a bit by the thin production.
It’s not bad, it just has nothing that speaks to me.
Too jazzy.
American Pie is the best song on this and it’s not a song I ever want to hear again.
Prince is one of those artists with great songs rather than albums. This is often called his best but it’s mostly made with a Linn drum machine and a Fairlight synthesizer, two of the worst sounding instruments ever, making it hard for even the best songs to come out listenable.
Retro mishmash never gets interesting.
Listened to this once when it came out and it was landfill indie slop. Hasn’t got any better since.
You can safely judge this by the cover.
My sister likes this, so I’ve already heard it far more than I ever wanted.
Another tedious sixties album.
90% of this list is albums that aren’t worth listening to at all.
Mindbogglingly boring album of falsetto whining.
By this point, any time this page refreshes and it’s not some whiny indie folk or sixties nostalgia slop feels like a gift. Red Rain and Mercy St are bangers. Never need to hear Sledgehammer again. Further confirmation that the Fairlight is the worst synth ever.
I don’t think we really need all this thrash. A bit of Metallica and Megadeth is plenty.
Sometimes the page refreshes and you just have to LOL at the sheer absurdity of considering the album that has just appeared essential in any way. There was never any reason to listen to this bland, paint-by-numbers MOR, and there never will be.
Once again, there should only be one album per artist on this list. There are way too many Neil Young albums, even if this is one of his better ones.
My least favorite Smiths album. Undermined by Morrissey’s recent behavior like everything else they did.
Every day is like Sunday is one of the greatest songs ever, and Suedehead is one of Morrissey’s best songs. The rest isn’t really necessary.
Another one of the albums that seem to be on this list because of one good song.
Some memorable songs, but too Eighties to be timeless.
I like Indian music and I’ve heard this before. It’s fine, but the westernizing touches aren’t necessary. I haven’t listened to this here because the link to Spotify is to some knock off version. The original doesn’t see to be available.
I love Nick Cave, and I don’t want to take anything away from him dealing with his loss, but everything he has recorded in the last twenty years is unlistenable.
Starting to think this list hates music. There’s no way multiple Elvis Costello albums can be justified. Gave this one a couple of tries, couldn’t get through it.
It’s OK. I’d never choose to listen to it.
This was like everything bad about 90s britpop all distilled down together.
Don’t like all the RnB bits. Plods along in places.
Couple of classics but the usual Led Zeppelin self indulgence.
I always feel like I should like Kate Bush, but then I listen and there’s just too much pointless warbling.
It seems incredible now that this kind of whiny toss was being acclaimed as a masterpiece just a few years ago.
OK punk.
Here he is again. No better than the last time.
There’s an OK 20 minutes hidden somewhere in this 10 hours of self-indulgent twaddle.
There’s a lot of rap that’s unlistenable due to the unrelenting nihilistic stupidity of the lyrics and this is a good example.
Grunge is one of the worst genres of all time, even if it is enjoying a mystifying resurgence at present. Smashing Pumpkins were among the worst chancers thrown up during it. This album is another one for the 1001 albums to avoid before you die list.
This wasn’t as bad as I expected from my vague memories of hearing it in the 90s, but it wasn’t good either.
I did not expect to encounter Hawkwind on this list, although given the general quality, I probably should have. If you liked the songs in Spinal Tap, this could be for you.
One of those generic, absolutely formulaic bands that somehow gets popular once in a while.
