Not as great as the best Smith albums, but good enough.

A great album, one of rock's best double whammy albums. I like Beggars Banquet more (Stray Cat Blues is sooooo nasty!), but this is a late-prime Stones rocker. Near perfection.

First hearing this. Quite enjoyable, to be honest. It's not perfect, some of the tracks not quite that good. But there's enough that is quality to keep this in the 4 star realm.

I am listening to a 1997 CD version with these bonus tracks: 12. "You Got a Reputation" Tim Hardin 3:08 13. "Lazy Days" Gram Parsons 3:26 14. "Pretty Polly" trad, arr. Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman 2:53 15. "The Christian Life" (Rehearsal – Take #11) Charles Louvin, Ira Louvin 2:55 16. "Life in Prison" (Rehearsal – Take #11) Merle Haggard, Jelly Sanders 2:59 17. "You're Still on My Mind" (Rehearsal – Take #43) Luke McDaniel 2:29 18. "One Hundred Years from Now" (Rehearsal – Take #2) Gram Parsons 3:20 19. "All I Have Are Memories" (Instrumental) I've listened to this album several times over the years. Always loved it. Some of the reviews sound like those who would've hated Dylan for going to rock from folk. Open your minds, folks. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

1. The Suburbs: Toe-tapping, the piano picks up the pace, great singing, plaintive, great guitar in the background: I didn't like this song at the beginning, but the piano, the vocals, the beat got me...thumbs up. My heads bobbing now. Yep, I like this! Thumbs up to track 1. " We were already, already bored." yes we were..... TBH, I never lived in the suburbs; maybe in Germany? But that wasn't my house. It was my girlfriend's parents. So not really me living there. (We eventually broke up, my fault 100%, I am a cheating MFer.) Thumbs up to track 1. Question 1: Is this a concept album? Need the lyrics for the album. My player has provided the lyrics...yes! MUCH BETTER. 2. Ready To Start: Good 3. Modern Man: Great, obviously. There's a reason a song becomes a hit. Plus, you can sing along. 4. Rococo: "They build it up just to burn it back down..." Okay. That line makes sense. Good. 5. Empty Room: I don't speak/understand French, unfortunately. Probably doesn't matter. Enough said: When I'm by myself I can be myself.... 6. City With No Children: Well, personally, as an older man in a long-term relationship with a woman, and no children (DINKs), I don't miss having children, personally. We did take in a nephew when he was just becoming a teenager: 13 or 14 years old. That was enough parenting for me...(laughing). 7. Half Light I: a bit slow this one.... This not a celebration either. Just saying. Okay that's a dud. 8. Half Light II (No Celebration): Dud 2.... But I do like this line: "Some people say we've already lost But they're afraid to pay the cost for what we've lost Pay the cost for what we've lost" Yeah, still paying for that loss.... 9. Suburban War: Just a great song. Most excellent. 10. Month of May: Rocker! Love it...worth the price of admission. Have to say this is my favorite song so far. 11. Wasted Hours: Not my favorite. Screeching brakes on the energy from MoM...yuck. 12. Deep Blue: A song about a computer chess program? Nah.... 13. We Used To Wait: A song about pining for waiting for letters/the mail? Okay, I guess. That's quaint. And the US elected Trump...it's gotten worse. 14. Sprawl I (Flatland): Both of these songs are good, this one is better than II though. 15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains): Kind of disco...not my thing. 16. The Suburbs (Continued): And we exit with strings....okay.

This one's easy...what more could I add?

Honestly, this is my 2nd favorite Prince album. I like Dirty Mind more. But I like this album (just slightly) more than Purple Rain. And I love Purple Rain.

HaHaHa...is there any question this is 5-star material. Strong guitar, drumming, backing musicians, great material. What rock group would not have given a right (and a left) nut for such a banger opening track? Then getting down/dirty with Sway. Wild Horses? Maybe the best song on this album full of best of... material?

5. One bad track. The rest are classic funky psychedelia/jams

I loved this album. I hadn't really listened to the several albums I have of The Beta Band, but I am impressed. I need to get more of this and give it a listen. Well done

I am a Neil Young fan and this is one of my favorite albums of his. I can listen to it at any time and any day. I regularly listen to it. So easy to give this 5 stars....

Without You is definitely a great song and played out in the early 70s. And Coconut was a great funny song and also everywhere in the 70s. Otherwise, I'm glad I listened to this...but really most of these songs are at best not horrible. Middle of the road....

Some really great songs: That Lady, Summer Breeze. But also some not so good. But the good ones are truly great.

Not my cup of tea. To be honest, a bit boring. There's better heavy music than this shite.

Not my cup of tea, really. But also, I listened to the whole album and enjoyed many of the cuts. Something new every day....

Dense. Very difficult to find.

Great. I am not a fan of the big hair, but this rocks.

Good: Beechwood Park, Hang Up On A Dream, Butcher's Tale, Friends of Mine, Time of the Season Okay: Care of Cell 44, A Rose For Emily, Brief Candles, Hung up on a Dream, Changes, I want her...., This will be our year Overwrought: Maybe After He's Gone, Surprised how overwrought most of this album is. A bit fey and outdated...., some other 1968 albums which are better imo: Lady Soul, Big Pink, White Album, Cheap Thrills, John Wesley Hardy, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Strictly Personal, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Waiting For the Sun, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Crown of Creation, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland, several John Fahey albums, Live at Folsom Prison, Mama Tried, Beggars Banquet, The Circle Game, Astral Weeks,

a classic indie band album. I love this album. And of course it's hilarious too.

Not as great as the best Smith albums, but good enough.

Gold....

A great album, one of rock's best double whammy albums. I like Beggars Banquet more (Stray Cat Blues is sooooo nasty!), but this is a late-prime Stones rocker. Near perfection.

Not a bad song and a couple very great songs (Tanto Tempo, August Day, So Nice). What's wrong about great background music. Man, one's probably going to get some, too. Is that a bad thing? Life is short and enjoying some downtempo with a "friend" is a way to make it memorable.

Man...I liked this album but the first 2 songs did nothing for me. And still I think this album/band is like nothing else I actually really like. I have most of their stuff (MP3s) yet I don't think I've listened to most of them. Something grating or rhythmically to weird. I'm perplexed so 3 stars it is....

Le Freak is an unbelievable dance song. The rest of the album is much less enjoyable. That being said, I never stopped toe tapping and I could imagine dancing (in the right venue) to these songs. Came out the same year as The Scream, and I liked this better.

I've enjoyed versions of these songs and this album for years. Well-liked here. Easy rating....

I just listened to this one about a week ago. I probably play this album 3 - 6 times a year...because of the amazing grooves that start the album: Flying High, Not so sweet..., Death...by this time I am committed, happily! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ha...easy.

OMG...this is horrible. I think we should play this on repeat for at least 24 hours to a certain shackled world leader and hope for the best. There is no way that world leader would survive and we'd all go back to being somewhat better Americans. No other word can describe this: torturous.

nope. No like this bland easy-listening stuff. ⭐

I don't hate any tracks. I don't love any tracks (tracks 2 & 8 were good in that at least they were memorable). It sort of just sits there, no flash, no grab, and a bit of fury. But after 3 songs, I was a bit bored. Could I listen to this once in a blue moon? Sure if on random-album mode. Would I choose to listen? Nope. But if it came on I'd probably listen to 5 (plus track 8) tracks before going, "okay, that's enough." Track 8 at least had a change of pace (at the beginning), there's that...and oddly, that's probably my fave track. The rest just blends into the background of yelling and heavy drumming. (2nd listen, I also liked track 2. Yeah, I'd be in the pit for that!) Just read the backstory to this album...RIP CB. Still: ⭐⭐⭐(2.99999...)

Sentimentally, 5 stars, right? But really, at best, there's some good (not great) tracks, but all in all, it's an old man's voice with a song itself that's great but Johnny Cash's voice/delivery is the weak link (Hurt, Personal Jesus, In My Life, etc.). I may want to hear these tracks, but not the majority because really they aren't that enjoyable (for me).

Not particularly noteworthy...

Barf_us!!! Wankers.

After that boring ELP crap...this is gold! Not wankers. Thank you 1001 rock-gods, actual rock and not wankers.

Such a great album, gives me warm fuzzies....

Damn, we need 6 stars...where the (other) boys mark a line in the white Dover chalk! and claim not the Beatles!

Is it any wonder that Ronnie Lane became a Stone? And there was a time when Rod Stewart wasn't a punch line.... If you don't want a beer and a dirty dance...check your pulse

Very solid 1st album. I enjoyed most of the cuts even though some of them seemed sonically similar to Nirvana tunes. But is that a bad thing?

Interesting music. Never heard of it before today. And I am impressed. Deserved place on this list....

1. War Pigs: Turn it up....the ur-gods of sludge...I am hooked. 2. Paranoid: Even better. 3. Planet Caravan: turn it down boys...let Ozzy sing with a Led Z groove behind. Oh and Tony gets to doodle at about 2:30 mark. 4. Iron Man...massively influential. Tony's guitar parts are now cliche but back then...rage. And Bill's drumming: worth the price of admission. 5. Electric Funeral: such a funk guitar intro, before Ozzy snarls. Tony is bending strings. 6. Hand of Doom. Watcha gonna do?....play some metal, that's what. 7. Rat Salad. Instrumental. 8. Fairies Wear Boot. What a way to end a classic rock metal album.

Okay...I'll listen to again, but it's not my new fave album.

Still worthwhile.

3 or 4??? I'm leaning up...so I'll go with the higher mark.

Starts with a bang, but not as exciting from there. Still, it's enjoyable and I did quite like Skidmarks On My Heart...I will listen to this occasionally for the remainder of my years. No doubt

Hell, yes. Something interesting, loud, abrasive, and I love it....

From Lightning Bolt to Deerhunter...the universe has a sense of humor, and good musical taste! Thanks universe!

Banal.... Couldn't even make it past the 1st cut Will try again tomorrow Horrible. Simply horrible. Is it just one track with different words....

I regularly listen to this album. It's a go-to Sunday morning dink around the house background. Plus it's just so relaxing, no matter when/where. This was an easy rating...and washes out the bile I was feeling having spent any time wasted on Linkin Park.

Sad world we live in now, without Ozzy. A good, not great, Sabbath album. But compared to Linkin Park, it goes to 11. This will get 4 stars

Really, this hasn't aged well and I don't think many of these 70s/80s albums were something special to that older crowd, yacht-rock lovers. But really, this is just banal studio work. Great, Todd. But learn to play well with others. Another voice in the room might've pulled you back from the general boring shite this is. The 1st 2 tracks are truly awesome and then it just drops off the cliff into a pile of boring shite. And then to make matters worse, we have CD filler for a 2nd album/disc. OMG...crap!

Yes, this is real. Not some wanker in the studio, self-satisfied bloke who thinks more of himself than he should. Plus, the crown noise is almost erotic with their love. Great album....

1. Overwrought 2. Even worse 3. I'm starting to think that because a rock outfit has strings and orchestral backing, people assume a band is deep and meaningful...well, no. (Suede, Blur, hell, even Oasis are NOT this overwrought. Please stop them from embarrassing themselves and all of us who love "Britpop" This is just crap....) 4. If you were a horse (at first I thought they were singing "whore" which at least might have been a bit edgy)? This is getting ridiculous. Please kill me.... 5. If I were you, I'd not have made this crappy song and worse album. I would've put away the strings and the pretense, I definitely would've galloped off...away from you because you're a hack whacker. (Luckily, this might be last time I will ever listen to this crap. I'm going to make the whole 7 songs, but I vote this as one of the worst experiences of Britpop I've ever experienced. Embarrassing.) 6. Puerile. Dammit, it keeps getting more horrible. 7. This guy keeps singing about animals...maybe he is really a pervert who thinks he's funny? This is not cute, nor clever, not even particularly witty. This might be the worse "best" album ever put on vinyl, plastic, etched anywhere at any time. I'll need to purge this bad bad britpop with some truly excellent stuff by Blur, Suede, Verve, hell even Oasis. Please shoot this guy...the best thing I can say about it was that it was thankfully short and did end before I killed myself. This album went to -11. I need some better Britpop music. I'll start with Blur (1997)...just about 1 minute in I'm feeling better (Beetlebum, thank you.) And Woo hoo!!!!

I had this in my MP3 collection. But never listened to it. WOW! Genius is thrown around, probably too much. But Miles had it...here's an example.

this is in my big beat 10, plus in a 1001 albums to listen before burial. Well deserved accolades 5 big beat stars

Only 2 songs were not 4/5 stars: Crippled Inside and How? The rest were 4 or 5 stars with most of these 5 stars. I could and will listen to this going forward....

I prefer the more bare-bones blues (re: Plays and Sings the Blues). But hey, this is damn good, too. 5 easy stars

Whether it is or not, feels like a concept album (what that concept is, I am not certain). But there is a depth to this album, an effort to make a great album, musically and thematically. I really didn't hate any track and I really enjoyed most of the songs. 5 stars...pretty satisfying.

1st album I ever bought. I saw him live at the old Memorial Coliseum in PDX. I was 12. We were way in the back but high up and directly in the middle of the stage so far away. Great experience. You only get to see Elton for the 1st one time. Well worth it.

Pretty good album. I don't much like the person, but he can write some great songs. Yes, he can.

Banal. This is not an impressive album, not even the title track. And the rest is just an excuse to be bored. Sweet Dreams is a great hit/song. But the rest, yikes!

This is better than the Eurythmics. But still, what she will do next, this pales...

Yes, as a man, he was a POS. But man could he rock. I am not judging the man here. This about the music and the show he put on...and just WOW! Jerry Lewis and the Nashville Teens? Humor or horror. This is f'ing rock and roll....

Over Produced, Songs just kind of sound banal. Not bad but nothing that I found exciting. I can't even say I could dance to any of these songs. Unremarkable. Banal. Boring. Where's the passion? This is not rock or roll. This is just (indie/alt) pop, but pop first/foremost. Good songs: I've had it (still boring though) Bad songs: Put me on top Okay Songs: Stupid Thing, Say Anything, Jacob Marley's Chain, Mr. Harris, I could hurt you now, I know there's a word, way back when

Is there a band that's more feel than real? I have tried several lyrics sites...and I still don't think anyone has gotten these lyrics right. but like I said, it is the feel of the music not the exact words. I still loved this album: 5/5

Grooves strong with this one.

Not much more to say...perfection

1 of 3 must-have Pixie albums....

Too much Paul. The Beatles (as we knew them) were done. To me, this album is banal and over-wrought. We still miss you, John. This is as close as a good album can be to a mediocre, run-of-the-mill effort. But there are great songs, even if they are sugar-shite. 3.51 = 4 stars

I listened to both David Bowie's and Iggy's mixes. As noted by many, including other Stooges, Bowie's mix sounds much better. Iggy's mix sounded a bit tinny/hollow. But hell, I could've mixed it and this album would've blown the doors off....If I could rate "to 11," this album would be it....11 stars!!!

Okay, I am not going to listen to this fully. Some of their hits are wonderful (and I can sing the words to all these songs, well, because I am of a certain age and I listened to the radio in the smallish Oregon town from whence I came): Dancing Queen, Take A Chance..., Mamma Mia, SOS, Fernando, Waterloo.... But that next level? I hope I never hear those songs ever again. And this album is full of next level "ABBA hits," which aren't hits at all (at least in my opinion). I listened to a sampling of that album and I wasn't impressed. Swedish (European) pop is puerile and I don't care who I insult. This album, even in a short/truncated version, was banal. No way this album should be included in a best of/1001 albums to hear before you die. When I pass, I will not (repeat, NOT) regret ever hearing the full album of this shite! Please...this is an insult to about 5 Beatles albums that didn't make this list, several Rolling Stones albums not to mention some albums that will never make these lists by artists such as Mark Lanegan, Cat Power, Mount Eerie, Felt, Andrew Bird, Bad Brains, Engine Kid, Kyuss, Mimi/Richard Fariña, etc., etc.... Yikes, this was just horrid. -11 stars.

Great album. Well-deserved accolades. Loved it. I will most definitely listen to this again, pre-death.

Here we are again living in a dystopian nightmare, with a regime far more disturbing than what even these guys could imagine. Why does this governance keep getting worse and more dictatorial? But always dressed up in red? and massively long red ties... While listening to these nightmare-describing songs, I only dread our present reality more deeply. That this was describing a world almost 30 years in the past...if only there were a god to save us. I'd be a believer. But this is the hell we have, still, but it goes to 11.... A hauntingly, disturbingly beautiful look into our dystopia, like a sonic bottle in the ocean from 1997.

Not my genre...I listened to one track. That was enough.

yes: 1,2,5,7,8,9,11, no: 3,4,6,10,12,13 The bad songs were maudlin. The good songs were just great pop songs/covers. They really did credit to Dylan songs or maybe the Dylan songs were just great. An uneven album that has no direction....

trip-hop, downtempo (yeah I could groove to this in the lounge.) yes: 1 (definitely, banger start!),2 (another banger),4,5,7,8,9 no: maybe: 3,6 4 stars...I will listen to this album again. But I might think of skipping a couple tracks...who knows what mood I'm in.

I don't really like Oranges & Lemons. 2* I like Skylarking quite a bit. 4* This album lands in the middle. 3* It starts out with a WTF? then Colin starts singing and it's okay. Definitely a change but not in a bad way. I will definitely listen to this again, because it's interesting. But I don't get all the Beatles comparisons. What Beatles album, specifically, does this sound like? I personally don't hear it.

I like Three Ragas much more, but this is a great album, though the talking/discussions in An Introduction... does nothing for me. We have YouTube for these things nowadays. But once the players start just playing, it's exquisite. A very fine introduction to sounds of India.

"Brothers, it's time to testify and I want to know, are you ready to testify? Are you ready? I give you a testimonial, the MC5"!!!! F.... yeah!!!!!

Enjoyed this much more than I expected...but wow, talk about fat. This is fat by about a 3rd. Still the tracks that are good are actually great. Which offset the throw-aways (my opinion). I walked in thinking this was gonna suck. But by about the 5th cut, I was blaming my ignorance. And I think this has to be a 5 star because it's an obviously important set of songs. Gotta give it to them....

Good: Bad, The way you make me feel Bad: everything else...just horrid Sometimes you just gotta admit that the masses don't know shit.... 2 stars

Powerful, insightful, scary, a driving force that just pulses throughout. I didn't hear a single wasted cut on this album. Perfection.

A compilation album which seems (to me) to be a cheating. But here you go. I can't penalize the artist for the choices made by someone/a group years later...these are pretty great cuts. His best work? not by a margin. But better than half of what we have to trudge through here? Hell, yes. 4 stars.

Unique music, vocalization, harmonies...All in all, a great album that warrants its appreciation. I was impressed with every song, but especially Stillness Is The Move. Every song was great not just good. Stillness was exceptional on an exceptional album.

Great album. Cutter is an exceptional cut. But...I am still partial to the 2 earlier albums, especially Crocodile. Man, Crocodile made me a post-punk fan. Absolutely. But still, Porcupine is exceptional.

This album conjures up the year I fall in love with my wife, the summer we met and the summer we worked together doing timber/veg research plots in California, Oregon, and Washington. Magic, simply magic....

Nothing more to add. 5 solid gold stars.

I was not a fan of this album. Upon first (2nd, 3rd...) listen I was so biased because of Ziggy and Diamond Dogs (which I absolutely loved) that I could not give a non-biased ear to this album. Then I moved to Germany and spent so much time in Berlin with my then girlfriend (mid-80s to mid-90s)...and I absorbed so much of the grungy Berlin/German underground music scene. And it dawned on me: I loved this album . If you ever nodded out at the Frankfurt bahnhof, missed your train to Berlin (before the wall came down) and met your junky friends (Germans and GIs) behind the wall, you'll get more of why this album means so much to a gen-X German/American crowd. Warszawa was about the time you'd be nodding out...popping into/out of your nod while the rest of the album played on...and hopefully some of your friends (Germans, Americans, New Zealanders...) could keep you safe enough to see another sun....

First hearing this. Quite enjoyable, to be honest. It's not perfect, some of the tracks not quite that good. But there's enough that is quality to keep this in the 4 star realm.

I am not particularly into metal because I often find it overwrought, self-important, gibberish. Any day of the week, give me punk. But this was better than most, which is usually somewhere in the middling range. I will listen to this again.

I was still in high school and listening to southern rock bands (sometime late in my HS years, I went to a Dead concert which also included Eddie Money and some now forgotten "southern rock" band (.38 special?) at Autzen in Eugene OR). I did start listening to Talking Heads around then. But THIS band? Nope... That was out of my wheelhouse. My bad.... If I had listened to these guys then, man, I'd be (almost) cool. But when you grow up in southern Oregon, you're bound to be at least 20 years behind the times. In this case 45 years....) I missed out. 4 outta 5 stars.

I liked about half these songs, but the album kind of peters out (in my opinion) at the end: 4 awesome songs, 3 great songs, and 3 meh songs, which unfortunately end the album. Which left a bad taste in my mouth. This album should probably be a 4 star, but I have to be honest: those 3 last songs really blew it for me. 3 stars, good but not great and certainly not awesome.