This is the sonic equivalent of that wood textured paneling people would put up in their basements instead of drywall. Like a veneer of a facsimile. I feel like the singer is doing an impression of something. I can't articulate why I hate it so much but I do.

Janie Jones is one of my favorite british punk songs so coming out straight from the jump makes this album an easy listen. 1977 was an impactful time for music I can easily see why this is on the list

Obviously going to occasionally just saying "C.R.E.A.M get the money" for the next 3 days now. "Can It Be All So Simple" and "Da Mystery of Chessboxin' " stuck out on this listen

Already recommended by a friend so I had given it a listen before. I don't know what I'm talking about but I feel like this album has way more dynamic range than most things that get recorded at least in the contemporary days so listening to it with headphones makes it feel like there's something that was done really well to mix these songs. I don't really put these songs into any rotation but I appreciate it what for it is which is a singing-chops focused album. "So Real" gets to my speed at like 2:20 for a brief time "Corpus Christi Carol" completely stops the inertia and is the point I want to turn it off

First 3 tracks keep me in a groove. 'Shining Star' only suffers from the fact that it was used in so much media that I was bombarded by it as a kid. I would like to have heard it for the first time in 1975 because I'm sure it would have been in rotation a lot for me. 'All About Love' makes me want to listen to something else but I kind of like the meandering spoken word part Honestly while this is well recorded and not bad at all it doesn't stand out as something that should be one of 1001 albums to hear before I die. As more music comes out this should probably fall off the bottom, no disrespect

Standout tracks: Unhappy, Knowing It might be because I just listened to the whole double album in one go but The Love Below was way less interesting than Speakerboxxx in general. Unsure if as an album/double album it would go on a "1001 to hear before you die"

This doesn't stand out to me in any way.

Had songs that remind me of childhood. I like 'Teach Your Children' 'Ohio' is hitting different in June of 2025 CSNY is something I can take in small doses but a while album of the vocal harmony thing gets tired

Brian Wilson just died yesterday, I love Help Me Rhonda. Most of the other songs don't really stand out as far as something someone 'HAS TO HEAR BEFORE THEY DIE'. The next few years of Beach Boys has some bangers so I'm not sure why to include this one. It's like the adolescent middle between Surfin USA and Pet Sounds

My personal feeling is if I've heard one REM album I've heard what there is to hear. I'm guessing they have like 4 albums on this list since they've had a bunch of successful albums. There's nothing wrong with this album but almost 40 years later the impact of it is very diffuse

I feel like this album was on here because Robert Dimery liked 'Dancing Queen'. There's nothing interesting to say about it

This is challenging for me to get through. It is so very much a product of that very specific era. She's obviously a very good singer but it's all buried under pretty weakly produced tracks that just are bombarding my ears. The guitar solo on Fighter cannot have been a choice that Christina Aguilera made. I don't know enough about her to know if she ever actually did a 'Stripped' doen recording but that's the one I would rather hear

Its hard to overstate the impact this album had on my life.

My rating reflects the purpose of the exercise which is to hear 1001 albums before I die. I already had to listen to 'Stripped' two days ago via the generator. She can sing very well. Great. I get it. Why did I have to hear literally 3 hours of it across 2 double albums before I died? This isn't any different to me than having to hear 3 hours of someone who is 'very good at saxophone' doing saxophone solos to uninspiring backing tracks

I don't know enough about the history of jazz to identify this as significant or not but it's an easy listen and I will probably come back to Jade Visions when I'm in a jazz mood

not significant

I thought this was fantastic and I had never heard it.

I like his albums before and after this one a lot more but its Bowie

Kind of just feels like a trite throwback croooner stuff. Why not just put the obvious influences on the list

I only really know the hits but listening to this all of the way through I really enjoyed the drum machine featured on some of the tracks. Seems like a big deal for 1971. I googled and found out its and MRK-2 and it just had preset rhythms. It fits in really nice with these tracks, I especially like the songs that have the drum machine combined with a real drummer.

Like all of the classics that came out of this era that fall under the 'punk' genre there's some samey-ness but the interesting parts are what they did differently than their contemporaries on the the other distant areas of the planet. Definitely a worthwhile listen and might occasionally make it into punk rotations. I'm biased because I love a lot of what was happening between ~1975 and ~1982.

Its Frank Sinatra

Not for me though I did enjoy the lyrics about Sigourney Weaver fighting aliens and Winona Ryder in the vampire movie not getting the accent right

Without reading the wikipedia Im going to say this band is comprised of jazz band kids that really liked Pet Sounds and Toots and the Maytals when they made this. It's easy to listen to but probably not going to be a repeat listen. It gives me a 'try hard eclectic' feeling

Victoria is a great song, a lot of the post-WWII England rock opera concept is kind of lost on me as an American listening in 2025

Hearing Bonnie Raitt from this era is hard to separate from my childhood memories. Some of the instruments in the recordings have a distinct late 80s early 90s sound that I associate with being kind of cheesy. Her voice is great and some of these songs could be great if they were arranged/recorded differently. Also I'm going to guess that Luck of The Draw is going to be on this list somewhere because after listening to Nick of Time I went to go listen to 'I Can't Make You Love Me' because I think that's probably her best song. In an alternate version of the mid 90's she would have done a duet with Paul Westerberg and I would pretend that I don't like it but then listen to it all the time

Definitely belongs on this list, had a huge impact on my life. I don't listen to all of it all of the way through anymore but the tracks I still love: Tame, I Bleed, Gouge Away.

It kind of just came and went I was listening to it. I'm not that familiar with Neil Young's entire output but I don't think this particular album belongs on this list and the rating reflects that stance. It's not particularly bad sounding to me but it doesn't stand out.

Worth being on a 1001 albums to hear before I die list, more accessible than Trout Mask Replica and has some songs that can work their way into normal rotation, there's only a few on here I would skip on a normal day.

There's good little bits sprinkled in here and there, I've been meaning to go through Sebadoh's whole discography because 'Spoiled' from III is a powerful song. I think this would have resonated with me more when I was younger.

I don't have much context on this album but I don't think it should be on this list.

Some great tracks on here its hard to believe it was 1972.

Competently created and executed but it just doesn't do anything for me personally. 2 stars to reflect that I just don't think that this belongs on a list of 1001 albums to hear before I die. I'm left the same as before I heard it.

I'm glad this is on the list. I never gave LCD Soundsystem a fair shake and this album has some interesting parts. I had it in my head for no real reason that LCD Soundsystem was just some super accessible dance music or something but that was clearly a wrong take. I like 'blackscreen' the most I think

There's no real standout tracks on here. I also personally find something very bland about the drums on a lot of the tracks. I'm surprised by the general popularity of these Prince albums given some of the almost lethal cringe I get from the lyrics. I feel like there's always self prescribed music nerd waiting in the wings to tell me trivia about why Prince was a genius and they could be right but I don't enjoy listening to this.

Its interesting and I respect the big swing taken here. It does make sense as a whole album how things flow together but I don't think I'll be doing a lot of repeat listens. This is the kind of music for someone who will say "did you hear what they did there with the major 9th". For 1972 it just makes me want to go listen to Big Star

I just like the Smiths, anything after that just feels like more of Morrissey doing his same thing. It just had a time and place and it doesnt need however many solo albums after that

'7 and 7 is' is great I don't have the patience for filler jams like 'Revelation'

Its okay not really for me

Got some classics on here, the samples are great and the lyrics set Tribe apart from a lot of their contemporaries. I think Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders are better

Timeless beats on here but listening in 2025 I don't have the patience for all of the adolescent diss track stuff that preoccupies the whole beginning of the album

Not sure why this needed to be on the list, each individual artist probably already have albums on it and when joined together for this album it doesn't have any real change on the outcome. I liked Wildflowers which is just a straight up Dolly Parton song. 'Telling Me Lies' could potentially be better if it didn't have the mid-80s production. I'm like ~40 albums into this list and one trend I've observed is there seems to be an emphasis on albums that have focus on vocals and specifically vocal harmonies. Personally that's not what I'm looking for all the time so maybe that's why I bristle when they seem to be overrepresented as albums I need to hear before I die.

I love 'Supernaut' and 'Snowblind' but listening to the album all the way through made sure I listened to 'Changes' and that's been stuck in my head for the past day. I'm not sure if that's a mellotron in the back but it was done really well. Some of these slower songs from albums in the mid to late 80's just suffered from how they were recorded and this is in obvious contrast showing how it should be done

This is the sonic equivalent of that wood textured paneling people would put up in their basements instead of drywall. Like a veneer of a facsimile. I feel like the singer is doing an impression of something. I can't articulate why I hate it so much but I do.

An easy listen, I dont know enough about samba or music history to know how important or groundbreaking it is

I like that this one is on the list. It is certainly something distinct to listen to. I remember when 'Machine Gun' was going around on the music blogs so I was sort of familiar with that song from 2008. I don't know how often I will revisit these tracks

There's nothing I need to say this is a must listen

I like Green Day, everything they put out in the 90's is quintessential for that era. From all accounts they are the realest dudes. On the same day I did this review I saw an old video of Billie Joe Armstrong in 1997 jump kicking someone that was bullying people at a concert and that is awesome. I personally just don't love or enjoy rock operas or concept albums. I lived through the era being described in American Idiot and I think if we weren't living in an even dumber era I could almost look back and think "phew yeah I remember those days". It applies just as much today but it doesn't make me want to bop along to a rock opera concept.

This was pretty standard stuff for the mid 90s. I don't see a reason to have it on this list. I didn't enjoy it, just commit to singing or don't.

Some great songs on here, not sure if it needs to be on a list of 1001 albums to hear before I die. It's kind of a continuation of the british invasion sound

I really wanted to like this, a drum machine and reverb is a winning combo for me usually but there just aren't any real standout tracks for me. I gave it another listen for this list and still wasn't grabbed by it.

The music is okay but I get distracted by the lyrics that seem like very specific and personal recountings of things that happened. I don't know why that bothers me but it does

I dont have patience for this self indulgent horseshit

Can't go wrong with the Temptations

This might have gotten rated higher because I was coming off of the prog nonsense of 10cc but it was refreshing to have something that just rocked the whole way through. I'm not well versed in this history of the Stones but being a British Invasion band means that by 1972 they should have been doing terrible concept albums or spending a million dollars in studio time over a snare sound. Instead they just rocked. I love Tumbling Dice