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.
The aliens can keep this one.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not their absolute best, but a classic.
A unique classic. Still sounds fresh after 50 years.
Peaked on his first release. Another of the great sampling albums.
I just don’t like this sound.
Some earworm anthems for sure, but terrible lyrics and horrible 80s drums.
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.
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.
No reason anyone should listen to this.
The definition of catchy but dull
Somewhat mystifyingly her most popular album but not her best. Rather let down by Thom Yorke’s tuneless whining.
Before they really got good.
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.
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.
Never getting past that accent
Take out Frankly Mr Shankly and Vicar in a Tutu and it’s basically flawless.
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.
Another mystifyingly overrated artist.
I don’t like the galloping sound.
Songs ranging from terrible to great
This vocal style and sound is dated and uninteresting.
One of the good Primal Scream albums.
Extremely irritating people but an all time classic album.
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.
Nothing especially interesting.
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?
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.
Losing the energy of the early releases and getting boring.
OK. Couple of decent songs.
Hard to imagine a more horrifying phrase than “pioneers of jazz-rock fusion”.
Terrible band. Weather with you is one of the worst songs ever recorded.
It’s got that horrible country twang.
Solid album from Can’s best period.
Derivative and uninteresting.
Bit bland. Couple of OK songs.
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.
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.
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 boring. Couldn’t get through it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
