It's a great album. Loved it.
I appreciate Black Sabbath for what they opened the door for, but I feel that I enjoy Black Sabbath songs performed by bands that are not Black Sabbath.
Metallica has to be the most well known bands where you can say "I liked them before...". And Justice For All is before Load the album where they seemed to have lost all of their fans and is, for me, part of a holy trinity of Metallica (And Justice For All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets).
When I'm listening a lot of my time is wondering what made this album on the list. This is a good album, it's snot bad, but I don't know why I would have to listen to this one.
One of the best albums that I've heard so far. I can hear how this has influenced other Brazilian Artists.
This is a classic for a reason. Not my personal favorite Depeche Mode, but a solid album start to finish.
Looking at some of the other reviews on this I was worried what I was going to hear. I don't see the hate, but I also don't know anything else to say other than this is was kind of Meh. It was not bad, not great, just kind of filler.
PJ Harvey is one of the many names of Artists where I know the name and I know they are famous, but don't own anything from them. I can see why this album is on the list, not really my style but a good album. The only thing I had of her when searching my own catalog was she was on a song with Tricky.
Adding a saxophone to yacht rock does not magically make it not yacht rock.
There is a reason that James Brown is called the godfather of soul.
One of the bester Missy Elliott albums, not a single song on this is bad.
This is one of the greatest. I honestly feel that 100% of my friends all have this album in one way or another.
It's a live soul album and it was good.
Sitting right in the middle of the two best albums from the Berlin Trilogy it's like most middle children not as good as the other two but still unique in its own right.
JuJu is one of those albums that I've heard all the songs on it but never listened to the album itself. Over all my years I would accumulate mix tapes and then sadly mix cds and in hundred and thousands of those some how my friends, lovers, and other people had given me this album but in the best way possible song by song over 30+ years.
The greatest Echo And The Bunnymen album because it has the greatest song they have done. I know it is just my opinion but I think that "The Killing Moon" might be the best songs from the "new wave" era.
Growing up my parents had a pretty eclectic taste in music. On any given day if they were listening to one of their albums you could get some Kraftwerk, Irish Folk Songs (mostly about how much the English suck), and you know other typical 'boomer' type music.
This album, is by far my favorite Kraftwerk Album 6 tight songs great album, great sounds.
A great album by a mediocre band.
As a kid who grew up in the 80's and 90's right in the heart of the satanic panic it's funny to go back and listen to this kind of metal. Holy shit were people losing their minds of Iron Maiden and AC/DC. When you actually sit down and listen to it you realize that it is nothing compared to what would come later. Hell I'm sure if I played some Iron Maiden now to some people they might go 'wow this is pretty good punk/heavy rock'. Which is it, and this album is great.
I remember when a friend of mine from PA mailed me a mix tape. The A side was some of his own electro stuff that he was working on and the B side was this album. In the note that he sent he was like 'picked this up the other day and was blown away, needed something to fill the B side of the tape so here you go'. I too was blown away because it was a great electro album and coming from the home of Daft Punk you knew it had to be great. Still when I hear DVNO I always have to listen to it a few times before moving on. I'm sure that when the tape I have breaks it will be at that part where I listened to that song over and over and over again.
Every night my partner and I talk about the albums that we listened to that day and what we thought of them (we both travel for work so it's usually done over the phone). I was telling her about Lauryn Hill and that I remember buying the album (on cassette tape) and that I remember the Fugees but I don't remember anything of them after this album came out.
That's the thing, no albums did come out it's like Lauryn Hill leaving the Fugees killed the Fugees and then there was nothing. It's an influential album for the ages but now that I listen back to it, it's not what I remember.
Let's get the joke out of the way first. I went to a fight and it was ruined by having an Oasis show break out. I kid I was never blessed enough to see Oasis live. I was 14 when this came out and was squarely in the prog metal and metal camp at that age. I had just found Undertow and listened to it so much the tape broke.
I definitely remember Live Forever an Supersonic playing on the 'alternative' radio station in the town I grew up in. Next to Blur, in my opinion, for the greatest Brit Pop band out there.
I always forget that this album starts with a reference to UFOs. Now I was not alive when this album was released and I can also say that I was not even an glimmer in my dads eye cause he was not even in high school yet. Jimi Hendrix embodies the term 'the good die young', unlike Henry Kissinger, Hendrix checked out at only 27 oddly the same age as another left handed guitar player from Washington state and the Seattle region Kurt Cobain.
My favorite song on here is actually the one sung by Noel Redding, but I think that could easily be switched with Castles Made of Sand.
As a fan of other Prog or "Progressive" music, Rush, Genesis, Polvo, etc. Yes, is one of those bands that I knew existed but I had never heard, or if I did hear them they did not make an impression on me. Before listening to this album I did go and see what other people thought, and it does seem to be similar to me. A mid album from a mid band.
Although there are 3 bangers on this Roundabout, Fiver Per Cent For Nothing, and Heart Of The Sunrise.
First off, is is the greatest fucking album from Public Enemy! Really needs no notes but I'm going to give them anyway.
Listening to this album now as an adult and reflecting back on what Hip/Hop Rap was in the 80's and what it is now is shocking. Back in those days, it seems to me, that if you wanted to be taken seriously as a Rap Artist you needed to have a DJ that you could shout out, Public Enemy (PE) had for this album Terminator X and the samples and scratches on this album are beyond amazing. She Watch Channel Zero might the best, just listening to Chuck D rap over clearly a heavy/hard rock guitar riff and drum beat with Flavor Flav doing all the best that a hype man can do.
That brings me to my next point, Public Enemy was more than just Chuck D, Flavor Flav, and Terminator X. You also had Professor Griff and during this time S1W the dance crew that dressed like a paramilitary group out to protect the Public Enemies. My partner was blessed enough to see them when she was in college and they performed at her college and she said it was the greatest show that she has ever seen.
This is a 20 out of 5 stars album.
Not a big fan of Elvis Costello, but can see where people would like this, but it's just not for me. If that makes me a hater, then call me Emperor Palpatine cause I'm letting the hate fill and flow through me.
Let's get a few things out of the way before digging into this. Pink Floyd is one of the greatest Avant-garde, Space Rock, Progressive Rock, bands out there, and like all great British bands two of the member absolutely and totally fucking hate each other. Last I head David Gilmour has even called Roger Waters antisemitic.
I'm sad that one of my favorite albums Ummagumma or Meddle are not on the list of albums to listen to because it's great. Regardless I think that Dark Side of the moon is a good Pink Floyd album but not a great Pink Floyd album in any way. I think that a lot of that comes from people enjoying the idea that this syncs up with "The Wizard Of Oz".
Still a good album I think it's a good transition for them on to some of their biggest albums of all time The Wall, etc.
There was a part of me as I was thinking about this band that I would get the names mixed up. I would say Television in my head when I meant Magazine. I can see this being an important album as it firmly sits between the Punk and New-Wave genres. While this might sound harsh that it excels in neither of them but was solid all around. A good album for fans of both as you won't be disappointed.
The best thing about albums from this era is that you only have about 40 minutes to work with. That means you either put all the great songs on there and push it to the max, or you put the best on there and don't overstay your welcome.
That is not to say that Highway to Hell overstays its welcome, quite the opposite. I wish there were more of this. I want more songs just like this like a great heavy rock album for the ages.
This albums is exactly the thing that I began to fear during this time of music. While it was still in the 'physical' era it represents the "CD" first approach clocking in at about 68 minutes that is only available on a CD if this would have come out when Vinyl was the most popular medium it would prolly have had 20 minutes of songs cut, they would have had to figure out a way to get to a great 40ish minutes of music instead of 68 of meh. The album outstays its welcome.
I really enjoy Madonna's early work. The only track on here that I will remember is Ray Of Light and I think that is mostly because that was on heavy rotation on the radio.
It's crazy that this was recorded in 1957. I had to coble together a bunch of different YouTube videos to experience this album turning it into a sort of fun scavenger hunt.
Another banger of an album. This is a great example of how Jazz can be a basis for all kinds of music. As I was sitting down to write this it I thought of a Stella Sketch where they were arguing over what music they wanted to listen to and they were all a variations of Jazz-Funk!, Jazz! Funk, Jazz Funk! sadly I either dreamed it up or Stella is so protected by Comedy Central thy won't allow it on youtube.
Regardless of if you know Stella or not this is an amazing album.
Not good, not great just kind of there.
Having listened to "White Light" by Gene Clark (a member of The Byrds) I was a little worried about this album. My parents never listened to the Byrds while I was growing up so this is my first time listening to them. Like so many of some of these albums on this must listen to music list i wonder not only why was this one selected but why do we need to listen to 5 other albums by the Byrds. If they are all like this they will all be middle of the road country rock, no need to get all worked up 5 times for this.
I think that there are just better representations of this sound.
Tits On The Radio is the jam from this album. I also enjoyed the Pink Floyd cover as well.
My memory of the Scissor Sisters has them as more electro/dance than this but it does not matter what a treat as a freshman album.
This is my favorite White Stripes album, it's a banger from start to finish. No more notes.
I have no idea what I just listened to but I know this, it was amazing. I have a sneaking suspicion that most of the low rated albums for being 'interesting' or 'weird' or 'experimental' will be 5s in my book and that is what this one is earning.
A fantastic album. For me Wonder Wonder is the top track on the album. Well earned 5 stars.
Patti Smith is my spirt animal.
This is the kind of album that you can just put on in the back ground and it won't offend you or your guests. It was good not great, but an alright in the middle kind of thing.
Sometimes when I'm like "I've never heard this band before" when I get my album for the day I get excited like I'm going to be exposed to something new and exciting, something great. Not with this, this, this is trash.
I can think of all the bands who were formed when they listened tot his album and were like 'fuck if they can get signed so can we'. I do know this though, no one looking to form a band is putting an add out saying 'looking to start a band that sounds like Big Star. I cannot say this more, garbage, garbage, garbage. What is worse, is there seems to be another album from this trash ass band.
-100/5
This album answers the question what happens when a great musician makes an album that does not live up to their prior content. When I was doing research on this album it was said that this was not critically or commercially successful but was reevaluated after his death and in the post mortem period was reevaluated and people were like 'yeah maybe it's good'. Nah, should have stayed where it was. A decent album but not great.
Off The Wall is part of the, in my opinion, holy trinity of Michael Jackson albums. Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad. I mean how could this have been a bad album with Quincy Jones at the helm. Always 5 stars.
I love the prodigy and while not as good as Fat Of The Land, this is a great album. The thing I really love about this kind of music and the simple lyrics is they work often better than something that might be more specific. Fuck Their Law repeated gets you the same idea if they tried to hide it, and well, they were not trying to hide it.
This album is the reason why I started going through this process. I've never heard of Mike Ladd and now I'm glad that I have. I found a new band/rapper that I like and also love that this is again another album where as soon as it started I knew that it was going to be controversial, or at the very least polarizing. Gave me very strong early Kool Keith vibes and I'm here for it. The Bladerunners song having EL-P made it even more. Best song on the whole album though has to be The Animist.
As the first if the "Berlin" trilogy albums this is one of my favorites. I love how it starts with the instrumental "Speed Of Life" this is one of those albums where you just know it's going to be great when you look at the cover. I know that a lot of people don't like 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' but it's a great movie and the cover of this album is a very alien way to represent the music that, I think at that time might have been quiet alien. Bowie always gets max.
It's got Brian Eno! It is Roxy Music! Two member of this band don't like each other so of course it's going to be a good album. It is also a pretty good example of what people thought art rock was like in the 70's. No reason this does not deserve a 5.
If this is your thing, then it will be fine. Not my thing not really interested in it. I only think this album is on here because it's Dennis Wilson if it was anyone else, this would be classified as a typical basic rock album. As I listen to more and more of this I start to wonder is this Dennis Wilson trying to be John Lennon or was John Lennon trying to be Dennis Wilson on his solo work.
For the second day in a row I've gotten a pretty meh album. Maybe it's your thing, I won't yuck yr yum but also don't think this is a good album let alone one I must listen to before I die.
This is one of my favorite eras of punk and rock. Where typical styles and forms were not set in stone.
It's Adam and the Ants how could this be bad.
I knew that I was going to like this when it was the Kinks, figured I would love it move when I read that it was a concept album. There is something special to me about concept albums. I feel that they can be potentially dangerous for bands where if the concept is not clear people might not understand what is going on. Great album.
I don't get the hate for this album. It's a pretty good proto punk or proto garage rock sound. If I don't know the band when I get my album for the day I always try to guess at what the sound is (based on the name and year) and this time I was way off by saying Surf or a kind of Pop Rock. It was a good freshman album and I would like to hear more.
Kind of meh. I don't see the hate and I also don't see why it's here. It's just there as an album.
Roxy Music is one of those bands that, as a record collector, I always knew about. The albums would show up at record shows and stores. They were always presented as a band that you should collect. I think that was mostly due to Brian Eno being in the band than anything else. This is a great album, I don't understand the hate that it is getting.
The thing about Eminem is that he was that generations panic music. I was not a fan of the music but I did enjoy the fuck you attitude. Just like most moral panics it subsided and the world continued to turn and those who claim to love free speech will continue to try to use the power of the state to squash free speech.
The thing about Jack White music is that you can tell it's Jack White. Not saying that's a bad thing or a good thing it's just a thing. A decent album from a good musician.
The best song on this album is Sunday Bloody Sunday.
I really enjoyed this blast from the past.
Pretty good and typical disco of the era with the first track being the most famous.
Harry Nilsson is one of those artists that I heard tons and tons of songs of but never knew they were from the same artist.
Lovely but but of rock and roll.
The Pogues are one of those bands that I love when I hear. Just listening to this folk punk always brings a smile to my face.
Love The Cure, but this album is a bit lacking. But it deserves 5 stars because it's a fuck you album. They decided to change their sound because they were getting too popular. It's right in line with other bands of that era not wanting to sell out.
ABBA is all about pure joy and this is one of the most joyful albums
Brit Pop. Is it the best brit pop? Can't be the best Brit Pop that is Park Life by Blur. It's passable and good, not the best, not the worst.
This is the old school ZZ Top Sound. If you like Texas Blues you're going to need this one in your collection.
Albums like this is when the band should break up. Too great to try to follow up.
Is this as good of an album as Asleep At The Back? I don't think so it's a pretty good album all in all but not as good as their freshman release.
Sigur Rós is one of those bands that if you don't at least appreciate what they are doing I don't want to be friends with you. I'm serious! I don't want to learn Icelandic because I love just thinking of what they might be saying on here. Regardless this album is about as classic as you can get as far as I'm concerned. Cannot get any better than anything that Sigur Rós has put out, every album should be in the book, and that's why it will always get a 5.
Dinosaur Jr. was right at that liminal space between punk and indie rock. Maybe even through in some lo-fi in there. I don't own any Dinosaur Jr but after listening to this I would be interested in getting some if the price was right. I looked this one album up on Disc Ogs and the first edition from SST is sitting at about 100 dollars and I've already got enough expensive habits don't need this one.
I appreciate this album a lot more than most people but I'm also really into that area of Indie Rock/Punk/Hardcore/Metal/Etc as this is the bit of music that fueled a lot of what I got into just a few years later. Regardless of what people say Don't is the best song on the album 5/5.
Queen is one of those bands where I feel that if you're overly critical of them the fans are going to come out of the woodworks and give you 1000 lashes of the cane. Discogs wants to classify this as 'prog rock' but I think that might be pushing it a bit. This is a decent album by a good band, and while most people remember Queen for their hits only one on this album "Killer Queen". I think that most people (me included) know any of these other songs and just know the hits. Which makes me think is a band great when they only have about 1 hit song off each record. For those that love Queen I'm sure that this is a great album but 1 good song out of 13 on the record classic does not make. 2/5
This is Billy Joel before he went crazy.
Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of those bands that I love to hear. There is something comforting from their version of 'southern rock' or 'swap rock' or whatever fake genre you want to come up with. It's been years since I heard this album and I love the cover of Good Golly Miss Molly on there.
This is probably my third favorite album by David Bowie. Young Americans the song is a banger and you've also got Across The Universe and ending with Fame. In my opinion it goes like this in terms of the greatest Bowie Albums from my collection.
1. Low
2. Scary Monsters
3. Young Americans
I'm glad that I got to listen to this album. I thought that Tod Rundgren was a popish musician. I was not going to give it a fair shake until I read that he decided to go more experimental after taking drugs. Normally an experimental album is an automatic 5 stars from me especially if it scratches all the itches I'm looking for. This one did not, still some pop on there and not totally a fuck you album but close.
First off I love The Who, I love The Who, and I don't care if you don't or do because I love The Who.
I sometimes see people on here rating each song so here we go.
Original Album:
A1 Young Man Blues = ∞/10
A2 Substitute = ∞/10
A3 Summertime Blues = ∞/10
A4 Shakin' All Over = ∞/10
B1 My Generation = ∞/10
B2 The Magic Bus = ∞/10
1995 Release:
1. Heaven And Hell = ∞/10
2. I Can't Explain = ∞/10
3. Fortune Teller = ∞/10
4. Tattoo = ∞/10
5. Young Man Blues = ∞/10
6. Substitute = ∞/10
7. Happy Jack = ∞/10
8. I'm a Boy = ∞/10
9. A Quick One, While He's Away = ∞/10
10. Amazing Journey / Sparks = ∞/10
11. Summertime Blues = ∞/10
12. Shakin' All Over = ∞/10
13. My Generation = ∞/10
14. Magic Bus = ∞/10
Before I started this album I was wondering if I was going to nope out of it. In my initial research pre-album I saw that this was a double album and only the artists 3rd. What makes one think they can put out a double LP worth of bangers on only your 3rd shot. Is it because your sister is famous as fuck and you think that you'll be as good as that. Only a listen will tell.
Well I made it through almost all of it, most if that was while I was on hold with a medical billing group so there is that. This does not deserve a double album or 21 tracks, the interludes were terrible, this album is terrible according to discogs she only put out one more album (as of 10/14/2025) so who knows.
Let's get this out of the way right now.
1. Courtney Love Killed Kurt Cobain
2. Kurt Cobain wrote most of this album just like Billy Corgan wrote a substantial portion of Celebrity Skin.
Violet sounds exactly like a song that Nirvana would write the rest of the album is kind of meh in my opinion for me the biggest shame is that most of this was overshadowed by Cobain's death/murder just a few months before. I remember learning that he was dead and then just a few days later this album came out and made Courtney Love a lot of money all for the price of killing one of the greatest musicians of my generation.
If you're thinking that this has more to do about Cobain than the album that's because the only thing worth a shit about Courtney Love is Kurt Cobain.
When I did my research a bit before listening and reading some of the reviews I had a feeling that I would prolly like this a bit more than most people on here. It's a decent shall we say "glitch pop" album, but that leads us to the inherent problem with this whole book/website.
I agree with people on here asking not why it's on here, but not because it's bad but because is so middling. There are plenty, I'm sure, better examples of this kind of music. Hell the Björk albums that were done by Matmos are on here and way better. Speaking of Matmos why are they not on here? Do we need 9 David Bowie albums? Did a better glitch electro pop album lose a spot for one of those multiple Bowie albums or all the Beatles?
Not the best representation of what I'm calling "Glitch Pop" or even glitchy electronic music in general but not worthy of a single or double star.
A man most famous for being 51 marrying Edie Brickell when she was in her 20's and maybe also being part of Simon & Garfunkel. He was married and divorced before his wife was even born. This album (his second solo album was released when his current wife was 6 years old. One of his more famous songs for a movie about a younger man hooking up with an older woman is older than his wife. He was a certified star before his wife was even born. I guess what I'm saying is that Paul Simon is a sex pest, not in the Diddy way of being a sex pest (that we know of) but clearly someone who when we has 51 married someone who was 27.
The album is fine, it's a Paul Simon album. I'm not a super fan but I enjoy it. He is still a sex pest though.
Coming from the art rock / no wave revival from NYC I remember seeing them at Emo's in Austin Texas playing with two other bands who I felt better represent that sound but did not make it. If you like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and have not heard The Seconds or Ex Models you really need to do yourself a solid and get to listening to them. In fact the drummer from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was the drummer for The Seconds. This is a solid outing and good representation of that sound.
The only reason I'm giving it a 4 over a 5 is because I think that The Seconds and Ex Models are better but I still like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
This is one of those albums that I'm shocked is not more 'controversial' than it is because shoegaze can be quite a turn off for some people. I love it, I love shoegaze almost as much as I love Trip Hop. The sort of ethereal sounds and slow moving nature of it all. It was a lovely accompaniment to the book I am reading and I would not have it any other way.
I have to be honest that I only knew the creepy stalking/voyeurism song "Every Breath You Take" from the greatest hits albums and radio play. But was surprised very much by the very new wave songs it's a nice album and not offensive to the ears. But like most of The Police, good songs from a good band, not terrible, not great just middle of the road.
A lot of this is going to come from my research into this that I do before I listen to the album. I was maybe 5 or 6 when this album came out. I definitely remember “You Can Call me Al” but as for the controversy of the album I was not fully aware of but now looking back on it not only should Paul Simon be reevaluated for being a terrible sex pest (see my review for Paul Simon / Paul Simon for more information) he should be ashamed of breaking the UN backed cultural boycott of South Africa.
For those not in the know and the review for this does not go into detail. Much like what we are seeing with Israel South Africa was an apartheid state and there was a United Nations backed cultural boycott of South Africa. Basically band from around the world were refusing to play in South Africa to not play in a terrible place. In some way playing there lent credence to the apartheid regime and one could say that if you did you agreed with the South African policy. There are a lot of bands now that are starting to contemplate doing the same to Israel (look into Massive Attacks statements for more information if you want). A modern, non musical, analogy the Riyadh Comedy Festival where comedians were paid enormous amounts of money to basically white wash the terrible human rights situation in Saudi Arabia.
Enough of all of that though. Except it’s also not like he could not be aware of what was going on he was 45 at the time so should have been plugged into HUGE world affairs issues. And for giggles his wife was 20 and in seven years she would marry him.
The album is OK and for someone who broke a UN boycott to go make it you would assume that there would be quite a bit more songs about apartheid South Africa by my count there were only 3, and it’s not like you have to go to apartheid South Africa to make an anti-apartheid song Peter Gabriel showed everyone how to do so 6 years before this album came out with Biko. One would assume that the prolific and sexy pesty Paul Simon could come up with a full album since he was in apartheid South Africa writing this album.
This album is is so 80's just look at that hair.
In all seriousness this is the female super group of country and western / bluegrass music. Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris were all accomplished in their own rights and then in 1987 they combined like Voltron to gift the world with this album.
This album is everyone who was alive in the 90's and full of a bitterness poured into a sonic mold. The Ironic song that is not even about Ironic things is the weakest song on the album and that says a lot since it was a FUCKING hit. 5 Stars.
Coming out right when America was being the dumbest that I've known it since I was born (Iraq and Afghanistan wars), this whole album is great. This is the kind of music that sooths my savage soul.
I first became fully aware of Massive Attack when I watched the movie Pi and learned they did the soundtrack. Since that time I've been a fan. As a band they hit all the great marks, a few amazing releases, politics that match mine, and just bangers bangers bangers.
Blue lines being their first and while not best, that is Mezzanine, you can see the beginnings of what is going to be great. I don't think I've ever considered them part of the trip hop stuff but that is mostly cause It think of that sound as being more Portishead than Massive Attack, but that is just me. If I could give more stars for this album I would give it 1,000,000 but for now it just has to be 5.
A decent representation of the reemerging of the 'garage rock sound' I just think that some of the Seattle bands were doing it better.
I'm not that big of a fan of Bruce Springsteen. I also understand that by not heaping one million bits of praise upon him might make some of my fellow Americans come after me. Bruce Springsteen falls into the same group so much of this does. Not for me but not something that I would change the radio station if the music came on.
This was the first time I really heard Public Enemy and even then it was just the singles off the album that got radio play. I forgot how hard this album goes in all ways. The music they are rapping over is frenetic and just hearing Chuck D spit so much truth over this beautiful cacophony that Terminator X is laying down. Then you have songs like Burn Hollywood Burn which would fit right in on some metal albums. This is a force to be dealt with just like Public Enemy is, sonically, lyrically, thematically this album is a weapon in your hand just like an AK-47.
This is the kind of album where it’s so fucking good that the people who made it almost need to stop right then and there because there is no topping it, you have created perfection.
I don't know if there is anyway to truly do this justice. Plenty of people on here have already said it's the greatest Minutemen album of all time. Plenty have talked about Mike Watt's bass. D. Boons lyrics are just as great as they have always been.
Enough people have pointed out that the album is a tongue in cheek reference to Sammy Haggar's "I Can't Drive 55". Which by the way sucked it may have been he most fuel efficient 'top speed' to travel at but it made getting from place to place by car terrible.
Just know this if you like eclectic music and punk rock this album is for you.
There is little I know more in this world than that this album fucking rocks. Don't let the haters get you down Turbonegro is great. This is the kind of punk rock we need right now. I know that some people will get sideways with the name and the imagery that they present but come on do you think that Epitaph Records would put out their records if they were racists or worse? You just need to really get into the love of Turbonegro and maybe study up a bit of Latin.
I honestly think that Paul McCarney was better than John Lennon, an the only reason people remember Lennon was cause he was killed.
I think the more I'm forced to listen to Bruce Springsteen the less I think that he really is the working class musical hero we all think that he is.
If there is one thing that this project is proving to me is that Bob Dylan is not that good.
I remember the video for Money For Nothing every time I hear the song I just think of that video of the blocky people walking around. As someone who remembers when MTV did show music videos all the time that song makes sense, to someone now just hearing it I wonder if it does make that much sense. That song alone is making this go from a normal middling 3 start to a 4 star review.
This is one of those bands where I know the name but don't know the music. Now I know why.
Today I learned that Cheap Trick played a show in Japan. I also learned that this is their best selling album. If you're a fan of them you'll like it.
I like KORN fineish. Not a fan of Jonathan Davis, his vocals get on my nerves. Before I relisted to this album (it's been years) I was planning on giving it 3 stars. I prefer the first album and Life Is Peachy over this one but then I heard Fred Durst on the record and that song is fucking trash. I dig Korn's Nu-Metal shit, but Fred Durst is shit and if you have him on your album that is not saving you, even Ice FUCKING Cube having a guest spot on your album will not save you from the 1 star of Fred Durst.
This album is what you get when one of the greatest American Jazz vocalist of all time sings songs from two of the greatest American composers. During my normal research phase I could not find a single album that matched what I found on pandora. I had to stop listening after 40 songs because I pretty much understood what the album was like and did not need to listen to the remaining 30+ songs. It's not that I don't like Ella Fitzgerald or either George and Ira Gershwin. I just feel that 70+ songs in one sitting it asking a lot.
When I was younger I used to hate Tori Amos. Like really hate her. I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that I was into punk and shit and this was far from that kind of music. As I got older though the songs kind of wormed their way into my brain and started to understand why my girlfriend liked them.
James Taylor is one of those artists that a lot of people either love or hate. I am kinda ambivalent about him. What I do know is that this album doesn't have "Chili Dog" on it and therefore loses a star. If you're going to have a song about hotdogs that must be on every fuckin album.
I fuckin love jazz like this. If you don't we don't need to be friends.
I often forget about the kinks but listening to them makes me feel pretty good. I like bands that do that, sometimes.
This album, in my opinion, us a great example of Kraut Rock.
Sometimes you just need a good old rock album in your life.
I love Peter Gabriel. If you look at my Genesis collection it ends with "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" because that is the last album that Peter Gabriel was on and had anything to do with.
I remember fondly every song on this album and especially the music videos for "Sledge Hammer" and "Big Time".
From my memory the Pet Shop Boys had more up tempo songs that you could and should dance too, but from this album it was not like that. The only two memorable songs, for me, were the first and the last.
The only thing I knew The Stone Roses from was the appearance of "Fools Gold" showing up on a Comp that I had other than that I was sure that I knew the song "She Bangs The Drums" but I guess it was from a band who did it better.
When I was an undergraduate my girlfriend and I went to see a performance called "The Important Fragility Of Whiteness" and one of the things that stuck out to me was they fully took on how much black culture and black music Elvis Presley stole. The refrain from that part of the performance was "If we can find a white man who can sing and dance like a black man we will make a million dollars".
I really wished then as I do now that would have also said the same thing about The Rolling Stones. Their entire early work was based on stealing black R&B music from the American south. White people performing black music to make it palatable for white America.
Now, don't get me wrong I love the Rolling Stones and this album has like 5 bangers with 4 opening the album. I don't think that there are any bad songs on this album and it's just great.
Not for me. This was a slog to make it through the whole album. Woof.
NOPE. Who thought we needed this? I've listened to a lot of things that most people would consider unlistenable, but this takes the cake. I made it 2 songs in and noped the fuck out of it.
Before I even start listening to this album we should take note of a few 'issues' with this whole list of music. It should really be named 1001 Albums You Need To Listen To Before You Die (From The Perspective Of A White Boomer Who Really Loved The Music From Their Generation). Why is there so little, for lack of a better term, “World” music on here. You must listen to *almost* every fucking Beatles album but other fantastic music from around the world is not worth you listening to. Don’t get me wrong I love David Bowie, but we don’t need 9 albums of Bowie to get across Bowie some of those slots could have been used for other artists.
This is the kind of album that I would expect to be playing in a headshop. It would go right along with The Grateful Dead and other "Hippie" music. I was first going to compare this to Muzak but it's much better than that. This is a banger and a nice pallet cleanse from the Brian Wilson album I got the other day.
Such a great album it is amazing to me that they were able to keep going after having written their greatest song "California Dreaming".
I was presently surprised by this album. I had high hopes based on the cover that it was going to be a throw back to early psych bands. While, to me, it was not, it was still a good album.
"The Good Die Young" That is unless you're Henry Kissinger, George Bush, an d Dick Cheney. I'm not sure it that truly applies to Janis Joplin but in the cultural zeitgeist she is seen as one of those cut down too early. This album was whatever the most famous song off of it was written by Kris Kristofferson.
While it may seem that I'm giving all Jazz records 5 stars because they are jazz you need to understand so far all they have had on here are great jazz albums. I can quibble with some of the rock and other records on here but man the Jazz, every single one is a banger. This one being no exception.
Where I went to graduate school was notable for being a Jazz program they piped jazz into the student union, when you were put on hold you got some great jazz as your hold music. I think they did this because they knew if you were listening to something as complicated as Blue Rondo a la Turk with all the different signatures and swapping around you would not be mad by being on hold. To this day I still try to buy the yearly album they put out by their best jazz band the One O'clock Lab band. All the bands are named after the time that the lab starts so you'll have the Two O' Clock, Three O'clock, etc. with One O'clock being the best.
I just thought of something, if this was a rock album it would be called 'Math Rock' because of all the time signature switching. The star track on here is Take Five, prolly the most famous of their works. I did not know Dave Brubeck Quartet but I know this song and did not know how many times I've heard this song until I was able to put the name and the track together. The one thing I do enjoy about this time and jazz is you could pretty much tell a jazz album by the cover they all kind of had the "jazz" look.
It's hard to talk about New Order without talking about Joy Division but I'm going to try to do that. In all honesty I love New Order and Joy Division. I have ready books about them, ready books by them, and think they put out great records. This being one of them.
Most people don't know this but Prince is one of the reasons that we have the Explicit Lyrics label on records. We will cover that when we get to Purple Rain. For me, Prince ranks up there as one of the greatest musicians and this album is one of his greatest. I remember going out and buying Dimond and Pearls when I was just 11. Riding my bike to buy it and for some reason my parent thought that prince was OK for an 11 year old to listen to. It does not matter really this is a banger start to finish and get's all the stars.
Wow. I didn't know what to expect but boy this was bad.
While not my favorite Beastie Boys Album it is right up there at maybe the third spot. I'm old enough to remember when they came out, I did not know at the time that they started out as a hard core punk band and then transitioned to hip hop. The best song on here though is Sabotage and the music video is just as memorable.
This is a decent indie rock album by one of the best indie rock bands. Is it as good as Slanted And Enchanted, not by half. Is it as good as Wowee Zowee, nope. It is a decent Pavement album, I think you would get more out of those other two. I also think that this should not be on the list this spot should have been taken by one of the many other bands from that period that are not on here like Yo La Tengo, Polvo, I'll even go out on a limb with one very obscure band from Seattle that I found from a mix tap. Mars Accelerator!
There are two things that would have made this album a slam dunk for me a) it's a jazz album and b) it's big band. But listening to it and having to listen to the announcer took me out of it.
We used to sit around in all night diners drinking shit coffee and smoking cigarettes philosophizing about music. One of the many topics we covered was (at that time) the best Blur album and we would sometimes venture into who was better Blur or Oasis. [Dear Reader we all know the answer is Park Life and Blur]. Blur Blur is right up there as one of the best albums from the best Brit Pop bands out there. I still have to listen to Song 2 two or three times because it's just that good. The rest of the album ranges from middling to great. I see some people on here shit bagging on this because 'only a few are memorable' clearly they have not listened to this album as much as I have, and that is the reason why they can only name a few memorable songs. I'm kind of the opposite on things like this, it's a hard time for me to remember single songs but I do remember albums.
Also for those of you who think that Oasis is better than Blur, let's just say that Damon Albarn is OBE and not a single member from Oasis is.
PS. Essex Dogs is a banger, as is Look Inside America, as is Chinese Bombs, along with M.O.R, also who can forget Bettlebum, and if we're including that we need to also put in Country Sad Ballad Man, and well On Your Own is right up there, dang and so is Theme From Retro, which is followed up by You're So Great, which flows nicely into Death Of A Party, I always forget about how good Strange News from Another Star, and well we have already talked about Song 2.
You know you're in for trouble when as a band you try to turn your name into something as they did with Chic Cheer. Much like someone who always uses the term Chic when talking about fashion this album overstays it's welcome.
Kind of meh really just there.
Not my favorite Bowie, but still a Bowie album
This is an amazing album. I had never heard of Michael Kiwanuka before this and now I'm glad that I have. When I first saw the cover I was like "Awesome I Am Going To Get Some AfroBeat", now I'm like "Awesome, I Got Some Great New Soul". Amazing start to finish.
This album prompted a discussion of what this web page means when it says "brit pop". This is clearly not a brit pop album it's an indie rock album from England but brit pop it is not. I get that it was influential on brit pop but it was not that good. There was one song on here that I recognized but the rest was just meh.
If you've read some of my other reviews on brit pop bands you will know that this is the best Blur album of all time, hands down, no arguments no fighting me on this, just accept that you know deep down this is the best Blur album of all time.
This is an amazing first album. The Weight is honestly one of the best songs from this era. This album is also proof that Bob Dylan should just do art work instead of singing.
This is one of those albums that has one good song and the rest of the album is garbage. I say this fully knowing I hate Elvis Costello.
Before I start talking about Sister we need to get a few things out of the way. Kim Gordon is a fucking national treasure she is an artist who makes music! Two fuck Thurston Moore for what he did to Kim Gordon, he is still a great artist and musician as well but Kim Gordon is the national treasure not Thurston Moore. Ok, let's get into it shall we.
Wait, before we do I should also say that Lee Ranaldo is an amazing guitar player. I don't think that Sonic Youth would sound like they sound if it was not for him, and Steve Shelley does a fantastic job on drums as well.
Sister is right at that cross over period from when Sonic Youth was turning from art/noise artists into indie/noise/art rock. For those that think this is a hard listen to go get "Confusion is Sex" or "Death Valley 69". Anyway, My favorite song on this album is Stereo Sanctity but there really is not a bad track on here. And I know that I'm being biased with my love for this band by giving them a 5 star review on *EVERY* album but Sonic Youth is just that good.
Not terrible, not great, like a lot of the albums here just kind of there.
This is one of their best albums and has a lot of bangers on it. Anyone who rates this less than 5 stars is crazy.
I don't know why this album has such low rating you would think that this would be unlistenable but it's a good little album. I think that people were making this out to be like they were listening to someone who just recorded finger nails on a chalk board. The version I listened to I guess came out later and had a quite lovely of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". Don't believe the haters on here just give it a go with an open mind.
If you don't feel like you want to smash the state when you hear Rise Above I cannot help you bro. Black Flag along with other bands of that era were the DIY pioneers. The ethos of hardcore and punk at that time is still drilled into my bones. Coming up in the scene taught me a lot of things the most important is that this scene is there for you punk and hardcore done right gives people a place of belonging because everyone feels as though they are in it together. I've never felt more like a member of a community than being at a Bane show and realizing that these 300 people here are with us all no matter what.
I think that we can all agree that Tom Petty is if not the greatest one of the greatest guitar players of this generation. This album has my favorite Tom Petty song "Breakdown". Also who can hate on "American Girl", no one that's who. I've said this multiple times before on here but one of the best things about this era is that vinyl was the primary means of getting music out so you better have 40ish minutes of bangers to get on here to make it worth the money. This album clocks in at a bit over 30 minutes and while not every song on here is Breakdown or American Girl you know that it made the cut because it was better than some other garbo they had.
Dear author of the book your preferences are showing again. I am writing this before I even listen to the album but do we really need this much Neil Young on this list, and in life in general. A lot of people might come to his defense because he is 'political' and maybe talk about his 'battle with Spotify'. Sure, he did pull his music, briefly, from Spotify but I do believe you can still listen to it there because in the end he sucks. There are plenty of reasons for artists to pull their music from Spotify but if you're going to do it you need to do it and do permanently. Like most shitty boomers who like to think they solved civil rights, war, and all the other bullshit from the 60's and 70's, Neil Young has pulled the ladder up behind him after making it big. Fuck the newer artists who won't get the same royalties as him he got his.
Cinnamon girl is a great song there are better covers of it out there but it's nice to hear it. The rest of this is the same old bullshit from Neil Young.
And here we are again at the point where a very low rated album is going to get 5 fucking stars. This is Jazz Rock, this is just like Frank Zappa shit, and this has Robert Wyatt on here so from that alone we're talking 5 stars.
I can see where the first bit of Facelift (live) it can be a bit jarring I'm sure to someone who might not be into this kind of music but once it kicks it kicks and the flute at the end is French Kiss good, 18:45 of pure joy.
Slightly All The Time on the vinyl release (according to discogs) contains "noisetee" in the middle sadly that is not listed on the any of the CDs so one would not know when it begins or ends, it's also not part of the official track listing for the album.
This is the greatest record of all time full fucking STOP! Normally would say no notes but I got them.
Before I get into this album this was my first experience with Sonic Youth. I heard/saw the video for Kool Thing on 120 Minutes at a friends house I was so very intrigued by what the song was about. I did not know at the time that it was a fucking art rock dis-track for LL Cool J. I was very young at the time but I knew one thing, this fucking band rocked. I kept listening to them and this album so much that I don't really need to listen to it to talk about it. It's the greatest Sonic Youth Album you've heard hands down. When I started making adult money and could spend that adult money on adult things I bought a sealed version of the Mobile Fidelity release. 200 Grams of Virgin Black Vinyl with the greatest albums of the greatest art noise band no fucking brainer. I've got number 209 and love this album.
Even though this is their first major label album it is stunning. This is very clearly the direction their music was heading as they became less noise and more rock but still keeping it in there. My favorite songs on here are all the ones with Kim Gordon. She is a national treasure and should be protected.
I love how they never gave up the noise totally with the end of side B being just great. An infinite amount of stars for this album.
I don't know if I can think of anything other than amazing to describe this album.
Pretty basic punk rock nothing special. My favorite song was Great British Mistake.
It's almost like Tom Waits started pretending to be a half crazed homeless person so people would leave him alone on mass transit and he is now stuck and cannot change back. That or this is just mad genius coming through, his voice is so noticeable that I can hear a Tom Waits song and know it's him because of how he sings.
Next to Mutations this has to be one of my favorites. I really don't have many notes other than it's a good album.
And here we go with the sex pest Paul Simon. I still need to stress not (that we currently know of) as bad of a sex pest and Diddy, Clinton, Trump, Epstein, etc. Still a bit of a sex pest. Also he kind of looks like Jerry Seinfeld in this cover, another person who seems to have escaped the sex pest label. Now that I've listened to all the albums that are on this list from Paul Simon I can state clearly that I'm not a fan of Paul Simon. I will say this regardless of what you think about Art Garfunkel he did not break a UN backed cultural boycott of Apartheid South Africa and, to my knowledge, is not a sex pest.
The only reason I know the name Nenah Cherry before I started this project was a line from "The Girls Don't Like The Job" by Kool Keith (aka Keith Thornton) 'You'll get no record deal actin like Neneh Cherry, back to work don't flirt.'
Well, now I know that she was also in the Slits for a hot bit. It's a pretty good record totally Hip-Hop for the time and good. She may be getting an extra star that she made it as a reference in a Kool Keith song.
