So weird. So fun. So funky. So odd. So unique. So quirky. So silly. So... Talking Heads. From their least to most critically acclaimed works, Talking Heads has a style that is just so Talking Heads, no other artist/band can ever replicate or duplicate because none of them are as weird, fun, funky, odd, unique, quirky, or silly as these four. And for their second album, they can only go up from here, and they did.

Everybody wanna make their own Sgt. Pepper but not everybody should make their own Sgt. Pepper. Not saying this album is bad, there's a couple songs I liked, but I don't see myself listening to this again.

Jeeeeeeesus fucking Christ

I don't know much about Norah Jones, I don't think most people do. This won Album of the Year and she won a few others including Best New Artist at the Grammys but the "curse" behind that win *kinda* got to her. It's always interesting to see the amount of people who win Best New Artist never win a Grammy ever again or just fall into obscurity, but she won 5 out of her 10 total Grammys in one night thanks to this album, but she won 5 more throughout the next 20 years after this album so that's why I say *kinda* Anyway, was this album "5 Grammys worth" good? Compared who was nominated in 2003, I guess maybe yeah. The songs are fine. Not my style but I always liked Don't Know Why, I kinda remember it as a child, I must've been 3-4 when the song came out and the following years still playing here and there. Plus some other songs were just as good like Come Away With Me and Got To See You Again, but I don't think I'll listen to this album again, it's just not my style.

This isn't Michael Jackson's debut album, but it's the debut album of The King Of Pop.

Not much to say other than it's good. Only other Door's album I heard was their debut so this album being slightly on par with their debut kinda surprised me. It's a good listen, a fine album from a fine band, nothing really much to say other than that.

It's a good listen. Honestly half the songs are just okay in my opinion, not bad at all, just okay. But the other half, songs like Rio and Hungry Like A Wolf for example, are so fucking good, you kinda forget the okay half of the album

So weird. So fun. So funky. So odd. So unique. So quirky. So silly. So... Talking Heads. From their least to most critically acclaimed works, Talking Heads has a style that is just so Talking Heads, no other artist/band can ever replicate or duplicate because none of them are as weird, fun, funky, odd, unique, quirky, or silly as these four. And for their second album, they can only go up from here, and they did.

In the last year or so, there's been a discussion about sampling in music, as there was 40 years ago, but it's more of a different discussion. Modern sampling is just not good, not done correctly or properly to the point that people are saying sampling is boring or uncreative. But I disagree. Sampling, to me, works better when it's chopped and screwed, pitched higher or lower, to the point where you just make a whole new beat AND where the sample originates. You look at classic hip-hop and you see how much of funk, soul, gospel, rock, metal, and they work that into their advantage. No other group, in my opinion, did that better than Beastie Boys. No other example of some of the greatest sampling work done in hip hop history is Paul's Boutique.

Everybody wanna make their own Sgt. Pepper but not everybody should make their own Sgt. Pepper. Not saying this album is bad, there's a couple songs I liked, but I don't see myself listening to this again.

I guess this album was okay. It was what I expected, part psychedelic part avante garde part acoustic. Makes you wonder how Pink Floyd would turn out to be if he was still in the group. Maybe still kinda big because Syd is talented, but not "rock gods" big like they are now, but Syd is a legend in his own right, and I hope he knew that before he passed.

The worst song is his Across The Universe cover, but I can look past that because: 1. John Lennon is on the song and I find that pretty cool; 2. This album is just that good that I can look past one decent song. Young Americans was always one of, if not, my all time favorite Bowie song, so why am I just now listening to the album when I got it randomly today? I don't know but I'm kicking myself for not listening to it sooner. I love it. I miss David Bowie so much.

I couldn't finish it. Not because it was bad, I think the singer has a nice voice, but this album is absolutely not for me in any kind of way. I listened to half the album not included the Sweet Jane cover that I've heard multiple times before, which is a great cover in my opinion, and I just couldn't finish the other half. Like I said, not bad, definitely not for, definitely someone more into soft country/folk and I know there's plenty of people like that, but I'm not one of them

Despite it being Cee Lo Green, this album is pretty good. The beats are good, the features are good, Cee Lo's voice is good, but he's a much better singer than rapper in my opinion and also a few songs too long. Much better than I expected, but unfortunately I have to knock down a star because Cee Lo is a piece of shit.

The alternative rock boom of the 1990s would not exist without this album. This album was 20 years too early, but that's okay. We see the the importance of it now, the impact, the power it came from this album. Plus, the songs are good. How can you not give it 5 stars based on all of that?

Good Night is the greatest album closing song of all time

British punk rock in this era is kinda wonky to me. I either find it really good and innovative for it's time or straight up not for me. It was both for this album. The first half I liked, the second half was eh. Not bad, but some songs I liked, most I didn't care for too much.

It's cute, but really only a few songs stick out, but the rest is still alright. It's what I imagine a fairy tale forest to sound kinda like

It's The Wall

I dunno what to say about this album that isn't already been said, but here it goes... In October 2000, 9 months into the new millennium, a band that became one of the biggest in the world changed their sound so drastically and out of nowhere, it someway somehow changed the sound of music forever. From being one of, if not, the first albums to be promoted using the Internet to the feeling of alienation and the fear of the digital age and the future it can and will bring being heard lyrically and instrumentally, the change in Radiohead's sound that was once seen as a mistake to few when it first came out, is now seen by the same few and many others as one of the greatest ideas and moments in music history. Oh to hear this album when it first released...

It sounds like Husker Dü. Is that a compliment? I honestly don't know. The album wasn't bad, but I don't think I'm the demographic for it. Some songs were at best catchy to me, the rest I don't think I'll remember. One thing I like are how short the songs are and the album is. Short and sweet and I think a lot of albums should be like that in this genre

"Is it wrong to understand The fear that dwells inside a man?" Yeah he was in his bag when he wrote that. This album as a whole ks pretty good, some songs feel filler to me but the rest are actually pretty good. I see myself listening to this again and again.

This is just Bruce Springsteen if he was an indie rocker. It's not an insult in the slightest but the drawback is the song lengths. Three 7 minute song, one 9 minute song, three 6 minute songs, and the rest are somehow the normal length of 4 minutes. This album could have easily been like 10-15 minutes shorter by cutting some songs short. But the songs are pretty good so I guess I can't complain too much.

It's really funny to me that a before the songs about existential dread, depression , the effects of long use of drugs, they made a cute little psychedelic album. As psychedelic rock music was on the rise, there was a shit ton of it. Quite the amount of hits obviously, but a lot of misses too. So to stand out like this in that era is a pretty big deal in my opinion, and of course it did, it's not bad at all. Like I said, it's just funny that this is their debut. They had no idea the genius they will create later on.

Breaking News: An album considered one of the greatest ever recorded by a singer-songwriter, who is considered to be one of the greatest singer-songwriters, is pretty fucking good.

I gotta fever and the only prescription is more flute. As much as I heard of this album, I just never listened to it. All I knew is that they're known for their lead singer using a flute and like one or two of their songs. So I am surprised how much I actually enjoyed listening to this. It reminded me of the folk songs of Led Zeppelin but more harder at times while also being more "fairy tale-like?" I dunno how to explain it, but it's good and I'm surprised how good I I think it was.

Honestly this album is pretty good. This is the second only Black Sabbath album I've ever listened to, so I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Reminded me a lot of Led Zeppelin, who are also a corner stone of heavy metal. I've come to realize that maybe I do like metal, but only Black Sabbath and Les Zeppelin lmao.

This album is really good, the features carry the album well and the production is amazing as most of Dr. Dre's work, but I think it is very important to point out how absolutely funny some of these lyrics and songs are.

I feel like this type of music isn't my cup of tea. This album has 9 songs so it's easy to divide it by saying 3 of these are pretty good and could easily listen to again like add to a playlist or something like that, 3 are okay, and 3 aren't sitting with me at all. Maybe another album from them or another in this sub genre of hip hop I could say something different, but I doubt it.

I haven't even finished this album yet as I'm writing these notes. I usually do, but I don't need to for this album. First time listen, and I will have this bitch on repeat. Maybe I'm biased because I love alternative music, or that I'm already familiar with a small handful of songs by the Yeah Yeah Yeah, but I do think it's the biasness talking when I say this album is really, really good. Side note: One of my all time favorite album covers

So a little less than half way through the album I realized I don't really like it. So I skimmed through the other songs hoping to hear something that'll catch my ear, but I didn't. It's like Oasis vocals mixed with The Stone Roses instrumentals but somehow it's not good despite something that could easily work. I didn't finish it, I didn't like it, I'm sure someone else would.

A question that nobody has ever asked is "What's the hip-hop version of The Beatles' White Album?" OutKast was already genre bending their music along with making a name for themselves by helping, and basically singlehandedly put southern hip-hop in the mainstream. Let's be honest with ourselves, you can say almost exactly the same thing as The Beatles and the music they made during that time. So, with that being said, what is their White Album? A critical commercial success that's so weird and different and an album that has a lot of filler songs and yet these filler songs go well with each song that plays before and after them? It's this. It's Stankonia.

Jeeeeeeesus fucking Christ

I'm sorry but a few songs in and I could tell this one was just not for me. I never knew Kings Of Leon had southern rock roots and that's a genre that's a small hit or a big miss for me. Not my type of music :/

This is one of the best albums I've ever heard. I don't even have a joke for that.

I'm gonna admit something that I feel like my family only knows: I really like ELO. I've listened to their biggest songs, some featured on this album, way more than plenty of times. I dunno what I like about them so much, I just think they're good, but I think I've only listened to one album on my own. Maybe it's because I love their biggest songs and I'm afraid that if I listen to any full album of theirs I'll realize their bad, that's something that's happened and heard opinions on other people of them finding a song from someone/some band and they look at their other stuff and it's bad. I just didn't want that to happen if I listen to ELO fully. Fortunately, listening to this 70 minute album, I did not feel that way. When the album starts with Turn To Stone, few songs late Sweet Talkin' Woman, and then the end of the third side is Mr. Blue Sky, one of my all time favorite songs, and listening to 60 more minutes of ELO, I can definitely say they aren't bad at all. So in conclusion, and as mentioned before, I really don't know why I like ELO so much, I just think they're a one of a kind band and Jeff Lynne is an underrated genius.

Uhhhh....I expected to hate this, I mean look at the damn cover lmao...but I'm kinda fucking with this... All the songs are relatively short, so a 45 minute run time isn't too bad, but 40 minutes would've been perfect for me. Apparently there's a 35 minute version and that version didn't have "They're Hanging Me Tonight" so maybe the 45 minute version just is the best version.

This album is not on Spotify so I cannot listen to it lmao you gotta be kidding me

So I've come to the realization a while ago that I'm not a Who fan. I love Tommy but in all I think they're okay and I like most of what are considered their biggest hits. I'm aware this is like their magnum opus or at least a close second to Tommy, and I can fortunately say I like this. I think what really got me is that it is easily the best opener and closer to any album, which are two of their biggest hits that I've always liked for the longest.

Uhh... I liked it I guess. It's not a genre I listen to unless it's similar music in the background of a movie or TV show nor have I never even tried to get into, but it's good, but can't help to not smile and dance a little when it's on. You gotta be a lil racist to not like this.

I don't understand the hate for Coldplay cuz if Billie Eilish were singing the songs off this album, y'all would be going crazy. This is a solid debut for a band that would become one of the biggest bands of the 21st century. We can all agree that newer Coldplay can't hold a candle to their earlier stuff, you can say that for a lot of artists, but c'mon. You can point out the "Radiohead but bland" argument and I can get it, but in all honesty this is a solid debut album from a good band and I feel a lot of people are scared to say that there was once a time that Coldplay was an absolutely great band.

Fun, silly, goofy, and campy. Some of the vocals can get a little annoying, but looking pass that (a lil hard to do, I get it) you get the wackiest and one of the most creative albums to come out of the new wave genre, and with the hilarious genius that is the song Rock Lobster, you get an all time classic and an album that deserves to be called one of the 1001 albums you have to hear.

I always liked the Police. I'd definitely say Message In A Bottle is one of my favorite songs if I think super hard about it. But I truly can't think of I've heard a Police album in full before? Anyway, this album was alright. I never heard a non-"greatest hit" Police song and....eh it's alright I guess. One Any Other Day did not age well and I find it very funny. Bring On The Night is such a huge highlight for me I could listen to it for multiple times a day. I feel like a majority of the album switch between those two feelings. I liked it, it was alright.

So I know like two songs from this band (none of those songs are on this album) but their story is interesting. They had little to no commercial success, to the point where this band was basically nothing, however years later, to the mid 80s to 90s, a lot of alternative bands like REM and The Replacements were very influenced by them and that made this band finally get a cult following. With that cult following came retrospective reviews of their catalog and made them realize that Big Star is much better than once received. But imma be honest, I have mix reviews for this album. It's not bad, but I don't think it's that good. The songs I thought were good come once in every 3-5 okay and "not the best" songs. Maybe #1 Record and Radio City are better, but this album is definitely something. Also, there's like 6 different versions of this album for whatever bullshit reason, only one version was available and it wasn't this one. Maybe if I had this or one of the other fucking 5 I would think differently.

It's decent I guess. If you love folk music you'll like this. If you like folk music, you'll think it's decent. If you think folk music is decent, I don't think you'll like this.

I don't know much about Norah Jones, I don't think most people do. This won Album of the Year and she won a few others including Best New Artist at the Grammys but the "curse" behind that win *kinda* got to her. It's always interesting to see the amount of people who win Best New Artist never win a Grammy ever again or just fall into obscurity, but she won 5 out of her 10 total Grammys in one night thanks to this album, but she won 5 more throughout the next 20 years after this album so that's why I say *kinda* Anyway, was this album "5 Grammys worth" good? Compared who was nominated in 2003, I guess maybe yeah. The songs are fine. Not my style but I always liked Don't Know Why, I kinda remember it as a child, I must've been 3-4 when the song came out and the following years still playing here and there. Plus some other songs were just as good like Come Away With Me and Got To See You Again, but I don't think I'll listen to this album again, it's just not my style.

I mean it's alright I guess. I don't know much about jazz other than the gigantic influence on, not just black music, but black culture as a whole, but jazz isn't my cup of tea. If I or someone else wanted to start listening, Miles Davis is one of the small handful of jazz artists I would start with, and this album in general is a good starting point. Not my style, but I dig it.

Honestly...this shit bussin. It reminds me a lot of New Order, one of my favorite bands, but more gay (not that there's anything wrong with that.) I have little to no complaints about this album. It's so good I listened to it twice before I wrote this and I see myself listening to it more. Also I find it funny that one of the members hate this album cover to this day, but I really love it.

I mean it's Queen so it's going to be good obviously, but how good? Honestly it's pretty good. So many people, including myself, truly only know their biggest hits, which isn't a bad thing because they have so many, so listening to a full album can make you hear their deep cuts, and the deep cuts on this album, most of them are pretty good, much better than I expected honestly. Long story short, the album is good and it's nice to have a deep dive on a good band to learn their deep cuts and it's rewarding their deep cuts are good too

First time in a long time listening to this album, maybe even the first time I fully listened to it, and boy this album is long but it makes up for it, cuz it's pretty damn good. You could argue that a lot of the songs sound the same, and that's a solid point, but a lot of the subject matter in the lyrics are exactly the same. Is it a concept album? Or is there some story that goes a long with it? I honestly don't know what Arcade Fire was insinuating with this album, but whatever they were thinking really paid off for them. This album is pretty damn good.

For a movie soundtrack to be great, in my opinions, it doesn't need the movie to be attached for it, but also makes you appreciate the music more. I feel like Saturday Night Fever, Scott Pilgrim, Black Panther's and a few other soundtracks/"songs inspired by" doesn't need the movies attached to them. You can still visualize the scene or the characters in general from the movie but also you don't have to see the movie to enjoy the music. I want to say this soundtrack does that because I have not seen the movie, but the music is good. I liked Indian and Indian-inspired music, I dunno why I kinda always did. Honestly maybe if I seen the movie, which I probably never will, I can have a better appreciation for the songs

If Oasis and Blue had a baby and it wasn't that good. Mediocre britpop.

I just cannot believe this is their debut

I think people are scared to realize that The Smiths did what the Beatles did for indie rock, as in not invent the genre but redefined what a band could do in said genre to shape the future of it forever. And this album is a perfect example. It's one of my favorite albums of all time, an album I've listened to front and back time after time again. An album that makes me think "Man I was a depressed little bastard in high school in the year 2015" and makes me feel "Man many people were depressed little bastards since at least the 1980s." And album that makes me feel that I wasn't alone feeling like this and people will always feel like this and music helps to find and connect. I truly believe that Morrissey and Johnny Marr are the alt-rock/indie version of Lennon/McCartney. Many songs, including most of not this entire album, are perfect examples. In my honest opinion, it is a near, if not, perfect album for the genre. Now, if Morrissey wasn't such a raging cunt......

It's an album I've listened to many times in the past, an album I like a lot so much I own it on CD, but it's been such a long time since I've listened. So getting this I was kinda worried I wasn't gonna like it as much as I first fully heard it around 10ish years ago. But I was wrong. It's pretty fucking good. It's very unique and Beck at his best is when he is interestingly unique. It's an album that's a hodgepodge of different genres, sounds, and feelings. It shouldn't work and honestly it doesn't a few times, but it's the uniqueness that kinda pulls you in a little bit. I don't think this album is for everyone because of that, but I still recommend it just to hear the unique sound of Beck.

This album is great, like really great. But my God is it long. But all the songs are good and different from each other and kinda sounds different from other Fleetwood Mac songs, at least to me it does. But all the songs are good so the album being **20 SONGS AND 74 MINUTES LONG** can be a little excusable. I'll most likely listen to this album many times again.

White boys need to make music like this again

I can't explain this album other than saying it's one of the best albums I've ever heard. Maybe it's because it is my favorite genre so it's easy for me to find an album in that genre that's critically acclaimed and I'll automate like it, or maybe the lyrical matter and the writing is so good that I can push away my bias to enjoy what I think is beautifully written music. I've heard this album a handful of times. Jesus, Etc. and Heavy Metal Drummer are on my main playlist so I listen to those songs often enough, but since I haven't heard it in a while I genuinely forgot how great this album is.

Short, sweet, and catchy. If you want to do e into the England punk scene I guess this could be included. There ain't much to say I guess lmao....

A solid debut from a great band. I've heard a few people say that this debut is just a debut; it's good but nothing special compared to their later work. As I agree, I disagree that it's just a debut. If their debut wasn't good, I don't think this band would amount to anything, and I'm so happy it is and I'm so happy they did.

This album is very obviously so pro-Jamaica in ways I really wish I knew. The lyrical matter sounds incredibly important but unfortunately I'm to ignorant to understand, but not that ignorant because I am a black man. The only reggae I truly know is Bob Marley, one of my favorite artists of all time, but this album sounds very similar and makes me more interested in more reggae especially if it sounds like this. Tradition is my fav song by far.

This is as Johnny Cash as Johnny Cash can get.

Uhh...No. Awesome album art though.

I don't get it man. I was expecting this album to be peak. You go on the Wikipedia page under "Critical Reception" and "Legacy" it's almost as if it's the greatest album ever made. But in my opinion, it's kinda a mess. Maybe for it's time it was something, it is one of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums and a huge inspiration to Nirvana for him, so it is highly influential in music and to many, and I can respect that. But aside from Where Is My Mind, Gigantic, and maybe one other song, I'm disappointed.

I didn't know what I expected, but I didn't expect it to be as good as it was. Kinda remind me of real early Foo Fighters, which is never a bad thing.

I dunno if I liked this album or not. It seemed as if some songs I liked, some I didn't, then I think that some of the songs I didn't liked had a beat switch in the middle that I liked. It was kinda confusing in a good way. But I guess the album was okay, maybe I'll listen to it again in the future to have a better feeling with it, but I don't think my opinion on this will change.

So we all know Somebody To Love and White Rabbit, not only some of the greatest songs of the 60s, but easily of all time. Classic songs still played on classic rock radio, songs featured on every classic rock playlist. But what about the other 9 songs? Well, they're okay I guess. I'm sure like with many albums on this list this album is more influential than anything, and it most certainly is in many ways, but were the two songs were or was the whole album? Not to say the album is bad, it wasn't, but there's a reason why those two songs specifically will stand the rest of time.

As a debut album, it's fine, solid album. But as the debut for one of if not the greatest and most influential bands of all time, it's also very interesting. All but one song on this entire album is covers, and the one that isn't in my opinion is the best, and most songs covered are RnB hits of the time. It's an insight of their style and influence all in one in a really great way. The album just might be fine, but in the times to come they will be much more than a "fine" band.

Who knew that and album that is absolutely filled with loud, distorted, fuzzy guitar sounds with soft spoken lyrics you can barely hear or understand can be some of the most beautiful songs ever recorded.