1001 Albums Summary

I don't condone the misogyny. However, The Notorious B.I.G. is clearly very talented and it shows on this album. Lots of variety, all done very well. I love the dual vocal tracks on Gimme the Loot, I never would have guessed that he did both parts.

I had never heard of Michael Kiwanuka before this came up. I really liked this album. The singing and songwriting is great and it felt like the album itself was better than the collection of songs.

Another review described this album as "A whole album of Sultans of Swing." I love Sultans of Swing, and I love this album. Mark Knopfler has such a distinctive sound. I love it.

Apparently there are few live albums on this list which I fully support. I don't really understand why this one is included. Maybe there are too many virtuosic parts being played simultaneously but much of this just sounds chaotic to me. I do have a soft spot for Can't Explain but it wasn't even on the original release of this album. I had Nobody's Perfect, a live album by Deep Purple, when I was younger and I think that album is way better than this one.

I didn't really like Foo Fighters when I first heard them in high school. Almost every song I heard sounded the same as the other ones. In the back of my mind I thought I at least liked Big Me. Listening to this album more than 20 years later I feel the same and don't even like Big Me that much. The story of how Dave Grohl created this album is cool though.

A day after strugging through Foo Fighters' debut album I was blessed with this. Wow, can Otis Redding ever sing. He is one of those artists who I have probably heard many times but I couldn't name any of his songs. What a treat!

It took me many listens but I eventually really got into this album. Could I take another 18 minutes of Halleluwah? Absolutely! It reminded me of a video art piece at the National Gallery that was one of the bright points of my pandemic experience. That said, much of this album is too experimental and improvisational for my tastes.

Yesterday I didn't wake up sucking on lemons. I did listen to this album a couple times though. I liked it but don't really understand what all the fuss was about. Nice sounding and atmospheric for the most part.

Deep Purple rock really hard. I love the prominent organ (in Living Wreck it sounded like some kind of wildcat?). Ritchie Blackmore's guitar hooks and solos are great and so are the operatic vocals. In high school I listened to their live album Nobody's Perfect a million times and still love it. I don't know why but for some reason In Rock doesn't hit like that album does. In Rock definitely sounds like an album that would be good live but it just doesn't have the same bite. Or maybe it just doesn't have all the hits. I'm not sure.

I really really like this album. I'm not sure exactly why. Lot's of different sounds and styles, but it is all pretty distinctive Gorillaz.

I appreciate this album introduced a new sub-genre of hip-hop that, for whatever else you might think, sounds great. However Snoop really carries this album and it is not my opinion that Dr. Dre is a great rapper. It is a very long album and by the end I was really ready for it to be over.

I actually really liked a couple songs on this album. However, I found most of it really slow and tiresome. Also, maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I don't really like the constant vocal embellishments that Stevie Wonder uses.

Even a hater like me can't criticize the three song run of Thriller, Beat It and Billie Jean right in the middle of this album. Best three song stretch of all time? Who knows, definitely not me. Anyway, I really struggled with the rest of the album. I'm happy to hear these songs in shopping malls but I won't voluntarily put them on at home.

Going into this I would have put Stevie Nicks and Joni Mitchell on the very opposite ends of the singers I enjoy listening to continuum. But then I listened to this album and I didn't like it. And then I listened to it a couple more times and I still didn't like it. And I listened to it a few more times and I started to like it. Eventually I had my opinion of Joni Mitchell completely overturned. Did I get more sophisticated from listening to one album? I doubt it.

Do I even like rock music anymore? Definitely not this kind of rock music. This album just seemed to go on and on and on and on...Even Song 2 wasn't the joyous harkening back to my youth that I had anticipated.

A common sentiment is that the album suffers because the bass track has been mixed so low as to be undetectable. I completely disagree, I think the guitar, drums and vocals need to be dropped from the mix as well so I can enjoy some piece and quiet. I am an unashamed fan of the more poppy Metallica offerings.

Is over-singing a word? I think I might like the instrumentation but Laura Nyro just sings and sings and sings in this sing-songy way that I find very grating. I am very glad that is over.

I understand that this is a very talented band musically. I will just never enjoy Perry Farrell's nasally voice. I liked the dogs on Been Caught Stealing and the bass line in Three Days. Beyond that, things I liked about this album were few and far between. Rough patch of Blur-Metallica-Laura Nyro and now Jane's Addiction, 6 stars in 4 days. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.

What a pleasant surprise! I didn't pay much attention to this album when it came out because I didn't really like Praise You. I still don't really like Praise You, but listening to it now, overall I really like the album as a whole. It doesn't take itself too seriously like other electronic artists of that era like The Prodigy. It is just really fun, interesting sounding music. I usually approach skits on albums with deserved trepidation...they nailed the one before Rockefeller Skank, though.

This is the most discordant, obnoxious music this list has inflicted on me. I really dislike it. From doing a little bit of reading about it, it seems like this was what Johnny Rotten created when he decided the Sex Pistols were too commercial. It is very bad.

How can you not like a bunch of Irish people doing their best to convince you they are from California? Never heard of this band and I'm suspicious they would not be a common inclusion in a list like this. Is my high rating somewhat overcompensation for having to listen to Public Image yesterday? I'm sure it is but this is a fun album and I also like California!

Wow, going in I thought I would like this album given Run DMC's place in hip-hop history. I found most of the songs sounded very similar to each other, the notable exception being Rock Box with that awesome guitar riff. I guess they walked so others could run, but listening to them walk isn't something I'll choose to do again.

Judged purely on how it sounds this is a top tier album. However most, if not all, electronic music is going to have a pretty low ceiling for me due to my distaste for repetitive music. That plus the misogyny penalty leaves this album middle of the pack. Breathe and Mindfields are so awesome though...

This album starts with the most unpleasant screaming. It doesn't get much better than that the rest of the way through. However, it seems that when they try to make music that is less discordant they are able to. I actually quite enjoyed Can't Stop and R.L. Got Soul. I imagine many others didn't have the endurance to get to that part of the album.

I enjoyed listening to this album. I liked the dual lead singers. I liked the atmosphere it created, it was very easy to just let it wash over you. That said, I doubt I would ever listen to it again.

Did I know anything about Bossa Nova before hearing this? No, but I know a tiny bit now. Either way Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto make beautiful music on this album, especially the tracks with Astrud Gilberto. I wouldn't play it often as it is pretty laid back and liable to put you to sleep but this album will definitely be remembered.

What is the ceiling for an album in which fancy-pantsing is unironically rhymed with dancing? I really like that they recorded this album from a distance on a lake so you can actually hear geese honking in the background. That said I don't really like the songs very much.

After this I am very excited for the generator to throw some more Brian Eno my way. Beautiful soundscapes with just enough use of vocal samples to keep things interesting. Top tier album. A couple tracks (Regiment and The Carrier) weren't available on Youtube Music. I definitely recommend checking out at least Regiment as it is available on compilations. It is my favourite track on the album.

Where to start? I was apprehensive as this was my first bottom 20 album and based on some of the albums that didn't make the bottom 20 I was pretty nervous. This band is a living art exhibit that centres around authoritarian imagery and music. They have an amazing history replete with a ceremonial suicide and are the only band to have played in both North and South Korea. All that is to say they are absolutely fascinating. And their music you may ask? So much better than expected but at the same time exactly what you might expect. Top tier.

Like many of the people on this list, I had heard of Count Basie before but hadn't heard his music. I really enjoyed it. Instrumental jazz that is nice to have on in the background.

Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd is very different. I am a huge fan of Roger Watters/David Gilmour era Pink Floyd and you can hear glimpses of the sound that became so distinctive on later albums. However it is unfortunately overshadowed by Barrett's silly lyrics which makes it a bit of chore to get through.

The falsetto on the first song to mimic a female voice is pretty cringe. Really, the who Michael Jackson from Wish affectation is pretty off-putting. The music is great but can't overcome the frontman. Cry me a River is a classic though.

This is the second awesome Brazilian album the generator has been kind enough to bestow upon me. I can't understand the lyrics but I think I read my favourite song is about a football player. I'll choose to remain ignorant. Also there is no such thing as too much cuica.

I found this album very grating and repetitive. Usually after multiple listens I start liking albums more but not in this case. If they ever find out if they are all the things that are outside of them I won't be around to hear about it. Maybe a 2 but I am really trying to get the most out of this low resolution scale.

My first reaction was, "This rules! I think these are the guys who did Shout." I then realized that was Duran Duran and then found out it was Tears for Fears. Based on that, I don't think I should be given a vote on this one. It generally sounded good, especially the first song.

That was a walk down memory lane. Did I need a reminder that my older sister listened to way better music than me when we were growing up? No, but I'm very glad I was reintroduced to Portishead. The fact that this was a debut album makes it even more impressive. I wonder when we are going to get to the Joe Satriani and Barstool Prophets...

It has been interesting hearing the evolution of heavy metal music from Deep Purple through Judas Priest to Metallica. I am sure there will be more bands to fill in the gaps as I continue this project. I am all in for the Deep Purple leg of the trip and would be nowhere in sight by the time Metallica came around. I think I'd be on board for Judas Priest but would know where the exits were in case things kept going in the same direction. Lots of power and energy but I like music with more of an emphasis on melody.

When this came out I was in my Oyster head/Melwood Cutlery phase so I don't have anything to draw from there. I am bothered less by the shrill lyrics than I maybe should be given my distaste for Jane's Addiction. I'm a sucker for key changes and there is a great one on Rebellion (Lies). I really liked a few of these songs and think this is a really good album, outstanding for a debut.

I liked it but not that much. It sounds like it would be fun to be in the band. Psycho Killer and First Week/Last Week are great but I wasn't really into most of the rest. I like that Tina Weymouth learned bass specifically to join this band and immediately performed one of the iconic bass intros (ever?) on Psycho Killer.

That was very theatrical. If nothing else Meat Loaf sure has a knack for theatrical, epic duets with powerful female singers. I was quite surprised to find out that Paradise and I Would do Anything for Love have different female lead vocalists. Also the one on I Would Do Anything for Love didn't get any royalties. That isn't cool. Anyway, I'll never listen to this again and won't mind. That said, I enjoyed this far more than I'll ever admit.

Who is Mott? What is a Hoople? When will this be over? On second thought, this album is awesome. I am such a sucker for listenable rock music. I still don't like the violins/violence song.

This is not my cup of tea. I liked the Stevie Wonder cover and a couple others. The rest was really slow. He has a great voice but I find his singing lacks vitality or something.

This album grew on me after a few listens but ultimately The Passenger is the only song I really like. I was in a terrible band that covered this song in high school and I probably have a sentimental attraction to it.

It definitely wasn't bad but it is so far outside what I normally listen to that it is hard to say I enjoyed it. Orchestral pieces that were often too bombastic to become background music. I definitely won't be following up on this.

Too discordant for me but I did like the bass parts.

I really enjoyed this album. I was quite familiar with some of the songs as my parents had some of these songs on what must have been a compilation album that I listened to growing up. It is quite beautiful. Bonus points, for a project like this where I find it quite difficult to keep up with the album per day pace, was that it clocked in at only 28 minutes. More bonus points for the song Silent Night which is a top tier Christmas song. I can't wait to add it to the rotation in December.

I was pretty sure I was going to love this album and I did. It was interesting reading a bit about the disconnect between the swamp rock content of their music and their origins in San Francisco. I definitely have a soft spot for the Americana of Mark Twain and John Steinbeck and this music fits in there perfectly. This was my first CCR album and perhaps if there are more I will get tired of the sound but as of now I can't get enough of this.

I don't really understand why this album is on the list. That said, it sounds good.

Looking at the track list and seeing Sunday Bloody Sunday and New Years Day I expected to be in for a treat. After all, clearly they were able to write great songs early in their career. Unfortunately, other than the hits, the songs I didn't already know didn't do much for me. Bono seems to be emoting 100 percent at all times.

I googled if the song Aladdin Sane is good. Gemini tried to convince me it is great but to me it sounds like the cacophony my grade six music class made when the teacher left the room. The other songs aren't as bad as that one but even the songs I like I don't really like.

This was Joni Mitchell-esque in that it took me a few listens to really appreciate it but I ended up really liking it. Despite limiting its thematic scope to being an unapologetically British anti-war album, the album never drags due to PJ Harveys lyrical and musical creativity. Really great!

Up until today I thought Donovan and Morrissey were the same person. Yesterday I couldn't tell you a single unique fact about either of them. I also couldn't today but yesterday I couldn't either. I do respect an album dedicated to vegetarianism though.

This album sounds good but it seems soulless to me. She has a cool story though.

I was unaware that Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake had parallel lives for a while. She put out a way better album than him in 2002. I enjoyed it but I won't ever listen to it again.

Hearing the sitar on the opening track reminded me of The Tea Party, a Canadian rock band active in the mid-90s, around the same time as the Screaming Trees. I immediately entered a Tea Party rabbit hole and may never leave. As it turns out I would probably by happy if The Edges of Twilight was the only album I ever listened to again. Back to the Screaming Trees...they are fine, they sound kind of like another Canadian band of that era, The Headstones. They don't rock nearly as hard as The Tea Party.

I might have done David Bowie dirty with my rating of Aladdin Sane. It is amazing how 40 years elapsed between these two albums and he still makes interesting albums that are so distinctively his. I apologize David.

Breakdown will forever be one of my favourite songs. It seems to be pretty unique in a sea of strummy Americana pop. The only Tom Petty album I ever owned was Full Moon Fever and I was totally unaware that he was recording albums in the mid-70s.

This is what I imagine you would get if you prompted ChatGPT to create a bunch of songs that sound like they weren't quite considered for the Forrest Gump Soundtrack. They are lacking a little something...probably just cultural permeation. The cover art is great!

If I had to listen to Frank Sinatra chug along in first gear for another minute...that would make 47 minutes, which isn't really very much but it felt like an eternity. I'm convinced that everyone who thinks they enjoy listening to Frank Sinatra sing Girl From Ipanema just hasn't heard the Astrud Gilberto version (which I heard thanks to this project).

I've always liked R.E.M. but hadn't heard much of their earlier stuff. I really liked this album. The distinctly R.E.M. harmonies, Michael Stipe's unique voice and the understated guitar are all great. It always seems like R.E.M. have just done their own thing and it has always worked for me.

I enjoyed this far more than I expected to going in. I mean, they are called The Flying Burrito Brothers, how good could this possibly be? Anyway, it doesn't seem fair that somewhere out there Melwood Cutlery is touring northern Ontario singing Loon on the Lake to anyone who will listen, while The Flying Burrito Brothers are...wait...are they playing Kirkland Lake tonight? I jest but it was a very fun listen.

Pretty much every time I hear a male singer/songwriter I wish I were listening to Sixto Rodriguez instead and this goes double for Don McLean. I actually think this would be a great candidate for "albums you don't have to listen to before you die" because everything other than American Pie is just filler. Don MacLean, Iron Butterfly, Snow...maybe there is something there. What a snoozer...

I found this manic and discordant so I didn't particularly enjoy listening to it but at least it wasn't boring.

What a strange double album. The first (Big Boi) half is incredible, maybe my new favourite hiphop album. The great beats + horns combo is pretty much the best thing ever. The second (Andre 3000) half is so much worse. Goofy lyrics and smooth jazz, not great. All in all, the positives outweigh the negatives.

If Metallica's "...And Justice For All" was cruel, then this is clearly unusual punishment. What did I do to deserve this?

So I'm not saying that Jazzy Jo and the Bonheur Bros is a better band than Blue Cheer but I do think that at our last performance if we had have played this album as recorded, the audience would have cleared out almost immediately. The decent covers don't come close to making up for the mindless fiddling of the rest of the album.

Everyone loves Paris because it is so beautiful. But it is just a nice building repeated thousands of times. This album is the Paris of hiphop albums, a good song repeated a bunch of times. I went in with high expectations and didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would.

This is my preferred electronica with less pulsing and more atmosphere. Saint Germain from Wish maybe? I like it quite a bit but I'm going to go listen to Tourist about a billion consecutive times now.

If Soft Cell was going for 'totally fine' on this attempt they nailed it. I am guessing that the 1980s will be worst rated decade because this album was about the best I could have hoped for. There was interesting instrumentation and it wasn't obnoxious. However, it felt like too much style and not enough substance.

You've cat to be kitten me right meow. How can there possibly be more than twenty albums that are lower rated than this?

This is most definitely a rock album. I like rock albums. I'll probably give every Led Zeppelin album I encounter on this journey five stars. This rock album just doesn't seem particularly notable. I'm glad I was in Canada bingeing Collective Soul while Blur and Oasis were fighting for the top of the UK charts in the mid 90s.

Though I recognized One Way or Another and Heart of Glass, I don't think I had heard anything off this album or even the hits very many times before. Well...I remedied that with about a dozen relistens over the last couple weeks. Super catchy and Debbie Harry makes it sound so easy.

Right after being introduced to the dulcet tones of Debbie Harry and Blondie I get this. 54 minutes of these guys braying and yelling and moaning, what a buzz kill.

I actually like how it sounds but the lyrics are so hateful and vile that I can't really look past them. My daughter has a friend who also says mean things to get a reaction. He seems to have grown out of this...he is 8 years old.

For years now I have been describing things I don't like as "puerile tripe", I think originally from a Calvin and Hobbes comic. So imagine my surprise when I came upon some genuine puerile tripe in the wild in the form of The Everly Brothers on their album A Date With The Everly Brothers. Each time I try to listen my neurons stop firing almost immediately and I have yet to even find out what girls are made for! All that said I kind of like it...

I enjoyed this album quite a bit, especially the first half. I haven't heard much Grateful Dead-esque soft rock before but it was so easy to listen to, not in a smarmy Everly Brothers sort of way either. The vocal embellishments on the opening track were surprisingly awesome. As you might expect from a band called Traffic, it was my jam!

This is just a great rock album from tip to tail. There isn't a single song on it that I didn't enjoy.

This album washed over me nicely but after listening I had no particular inclination to listen to it again.

I liked this about as much as you can like an album in which the best song is just the singer insisting he isn't on drugs. The driving rhythms and simply guitar melodies were fun. However I found that it quickly became quite monotonous.

I'm not really into strummy guitar most of the time. However, once I got over myself (somewhat) and just listened to the stories being told, I enjoyed this album a lot. Who would have thought this iconic album would actually be good!

The opening "Hello..." on this album is amazing. Adele's voice is great and I loved performing Rolling in the Deep with Jazzy Jo and the Bonheur Bros. All that said, there wasn't a single song on this album that I felt like listening to again.

I expected to like this much more than I did. It was thankfully less misogynistic than other hip hop albums on this list. However it also lacked the hooks and lyricism of my favourite albums. After getting Ready to Die by Notorious BIG I was amazed by how good an album he created at such a young age. As a relatively contemporaneous album I had no similar feelings when listening to this.

Many years from now (hopefully), lying on my deathbed, listening to my 1001 albums playlist, after confusedly asking the nurse who The Thrills and Flamin' Groovies were, something from this album will come on. I'll settle back in bed, smile and in that moment be genuinely happy. A worthy entry into the '1001 Albums to Listen to While You Die' list. Wait...that isn't what we are doing? Anyway, thanks for feeding me something different, generator!

Felix - "I have the beginnings of a great opening song. Check out this beat and acoustic guitar hook. It is missing something though..." Simon - "...autotune." Felix - "This other song has been killing me. I have the beat and the synth part." Simon - "Yo-yo-yo-yo-yo-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-yo! I know just what it's missing!" Felix - "But what if there is some mentally unstable guy in Belgium who will use this as an excuse to give us a bad rating on the 1001 Albums Generator?" Simon - "Seems weird, let's just name a song Bingo Bango so he can't help but love it." Felix - "OK, mate." Well played Basement Jaxx...well played.

And on the last day god took a little bit of Bob Marley, some Jimi Hendrix, a dollop of James Brown and a powerful dilution of Andre 3000. And he looked upon his creation and he saw that it was good. He saw that it was VERY good. He called his creation One Nation Under A Groove. But he was a jealous god and he feared that his subjects would turn instead to and worship the false god George Clinton. So he hid his creation away, far from the greedy eyes of Youtube Music subscribers. But the people were not deterred and they seeked out Funkadelic, and they listened, and they swooned in joyous rapture. And it was good, very good.

Usually it takes me a few listens to get into music from genres that I am not familiar with. However, from the opening funk bassline of Plastico I was all in on this one. The musicianship is great and I am a sucker for a good horn section.

Two Funkadelic albums in three days. I liked One Nation Under A Groove better but this one is still really good. The funk/rock combo is awesome. After listening to these two albums I went down a George Clinton rabbit hole. It is amazing to me that as a fan of both rock and early hiphop I was totally unaware of P-funk. I feel like at some point after this project I'll have to listen to the entire George Clinton discography.

"I'm not sure if Thom Yorke spends this entire album incessantly whining... but one distracted listen later it seems likely. I can't bring myself to find out.", was what I thought after my first listen. Now a couple listens later I was prepared to write, "I think I'm starting to get the Radiohead hype. I don't have any idea what these songs are about but this is a masterclass in Thom Yorke using his voice to create compelling atmospheres." So I must acknowledge that perhaps this whole project is just a Rorschach Test for my moods. Maybe Taylor is wrong and sometimes haters aren't gunna hate.

I was on such a great streak! Five 4 or 5-star albums in a row, and you ruined it John.

All the energy I associate with punk but so much more. Eclectic, cleanly presented, melodic (not always), technically proficient, this album is many things I don't associate with this genre. Bonus points earned for trolling Sammy Hagar with the album title, and covering Steely Dan. It isn't quite London Calling but it is great nonetheless. I now have a second favourite punk album.

I'm not usually a fan of dramatic over-the-top vocal performances. However I think the controlled chaos of the circus-like arrangements on this album required some vocal acrobatics. Unlike many it seems, I think Bryan Ferry nailed it. My Brian Eno awakening continued with this gem.

You have to respect him for playing right until the final whistle. It is pretty incredible that he still had gas in the tank 49 years and 25 studio albums after his debut. What a fantastic experience for his fans to be gifted this album as they mourned his death. I like a few of the songs on it but overall, like much of Bowie, I could do without.

94 albums in and I think this is the least challenging one I have encountered. Very sanitized and there is a song about shopping. How could I possibly give this more than 3 stars? But there are so many bangers, how could I possibly give this less than 3 stars?

But for this project I would never have spent a few hours listening and relistening to the Pet Shop Boys and then a couple more hours listening to OK Computer. It really makes you appreciate the creativity of Radiohead. I still don't love most of it but I do appreciate it. I didn't give Paranoid Android the credit it deserved back when it came out, what a great song.

My heart says 4 but my ears say 2. I think I'll split the difference, give it a 3 and move on as easily as I apparently did from my obsession with playing Spoonman on guitar in high school. Nostalgia is a powerful drug but even in my inebriated state I couldn't help but notice that Chris Cornell spends a good part of this album wailing in a fairly unappealing way.

Yes! Finally, on my 97th album....something good! Some philistines out there describe this as elevator music. I am sure this stuff is played on elevators all the time. However, if all music on elevators was this good I would have long ago changed my name to Deacon Blues and permanently moved into the Chrysler Building.

Oops she did it again. The second Joni Mitchell album that converted me after a few listens. Plodding but beautiful nonetheless.

What a relief when after seven songs there was finally one with no off-key singing. Are they the American version of Sloan? Once in university I walked into a Sloan show, didn't recognize the song they were playing and left to play Super Mario Brothers 3 with my partner at the time. We spent the hour or so we could have been at Sloan getting killed by this little sun that swooped from one side of the screen to the other. Never did beat that level. Still a better use of my time then going to Sloan, or Pavement if that had been an option. If someone out there is unfortunate enough to have read this review I apologize.

Just like many people I have heard a lot of Led Zeppelin but not in album form and I have no idea what songs are on which album. Since it wasn't numbered I didn't have high expectations. I'm sure someone has made a listicle of this but Physical Graffiti must have a case for the strongest opening seven songs of any album. And we all agree that Kashmir is trhe best rock song ever written right? And Led Zeppelin have at least 3 albums rated better than this? I am going to be doling a lot of stars out to these guys. If only that awesome version of Kashmir on the Godzilla soundtrack could have been included in the original version. Oh...

I would give a regular length album with these songs a single solitary star. However, my quality of life is meaningful improved by only having to listen to this for 15 minutes. I'm still giving it only one star.

Another good one from PJ Harvey. I don't really know what I like about her music so much. Maybe the unique vocal delivery? The inventive drums? The clarity of the mixing? Whatever it is it just works.

Apparently she didn't write any of her own stuff. That is too bad but she sings other people's songs very very well.

Yesterday I had this screen open and my 8 year old daughter came in. She said, "Group Sex? Circle Jerks? Minor Threat? Dad, this is bad." She was right. That was the longest 20 minutes of my life.

Nerdy? Yes. Shrill? Very. Sloppy? Always. Overly sentimental? Of course. Somehow perfect despite all that? Absolutely!

This album made me feel nothing. Even after a couple listens, still nothing. Sometimes it sounded like The Who, the last song sounds a lot like Black Sabbath before Black Sabbath existed. I'm pretty neutral on those bands as well.

A real nice album to have shuffling along in the background. After getting the a Sinatra/Jobim album I keep on expecting Ol' Blue Eyes to join in and ruin in.

I'm no prude but there was one song on here that made me blush...actually who am I kidding. Anyway, I am very much enjoying some of the deeper cuts in electronic music that the generator is exposing me to.

Sometimes this album reminded me of church. Sometimes this album reminded me of the 80s. I have experienced both of those things, sometimes simultaneously. For me, church in the 80s consisted mostly of looking at the clock, waiting for it to be over. That isn't exactly how I felt about this album, but it is a pretty good approximation.

You know, the clarinet tis real nice. The piano is real nice. The horns are real nice. The saxophone is real nice. The drums are understated but nice. But I can't help but feel like something is missing. Perhaps frequencies below around 300 Hz. Maybe I was listening to a bootleg recorded through a tin can pressed to the wall of an adjacent bathroom.

Halfway through the second track I had many questions racing through my mind, "Is Thom Yorke just Rufus Wainwright from Wish?", "Is my distaste for yet another Canadian singer (the first being Joni Mitchell) going to be upended by this project?", "Should I have stayed and watched his show at FolkFest 2008 instead of going for a burrito?". Alas, a few songs later the melancholic pall descending almost Rufus-ifacated me beneath it's Wain-weight. I was glad I survived though as the last two songs are bangers. What a voice!

I'm from a town in north Ontario so I can't help but like this album. Neil Young and Steve Nash are two of my favourite Canadians, but Stills, why would they sing songs with Bill Crosby after what he was accused of?

I went in knowing the name Duran Duran but couldn't have named a song of theirs. It sounds exactly as I expected. Surprisingly enough I stuck around until the last song, which I actually liked. The rest I was very neutral on. Very sterile and dramatic, not for me.

The opening notes of Walk On open this album perfectly and it never lets up. See the Sky About to Rain is the highlight, something about the wavering organ and his wavering voice is incredibly evocative. 114 albums in and I'm not sure I have enjoyed an album more than this one.

Once in university I had a paper due in half an hour and I was a page or so short. So I just grabbed a page's worth of text from a different part of the paper, stuck it in the middle and submitted it. When I got it back, just some sleepy check marks and a scrawled "84". I think something like that is going on with this album. Are we sure they aren't reusing verses or even full songs to fill it out? I wouldn't be surprised if some of their later albums are just re-purposed copies of their early ones. I tried to confirm these ideas on Wikipedia but the entry for this band seems to be longer than the one for World War II and I couldn't be bothered.

As someone who has been in not one but two bad cover bands I feel like I need to defend these guys. And, let's be clear, these guys are way better than any band I have ever been in. I imagine their live shows were a lot of fun. That said, yesterday after listening to Neil Young's One The Beach I really appreciated this project and how it exposed me to new music. I have no such feelings today.

The musical prelude to the first two songs go on for...checks notes...the entire album.

I agree with y'all, this IS the worst REM album.

It was not immediately apparent why this album was included in the list. I consulted Wikipedia and that was no help. It is times like these that I wish I had the book because I am stumped. I did not enjoy that at all.

This album was recorded during 1989 in Arlington, Virginia at Inner Ear Studios. Incidentally, that is the very body part that may need medical attention after listening to this album.

If we all strove for something unattainable like Bob Dylan for those high notes the world would be a better place. Alas we don't and all I can do is sit here and give him the stars he deserves.

This held up much better than its contemporaries. I guess a metaphorical Full Windsor rather than a Slip...sorry. I think Jonathan Davis said it best in Freak on a Leash, "Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da." I take it back. This is every bit as bad as Slipknot.

I guess maybe I would put this on during a long flight but some of the songs are too upbeat for that. I can't think of a context in which I would put this on during a time I intended to remain conscious.

There are some fun-Drake-mentalists out there that insist Nick Drake is a very top-tier artist. I would know because I am married to one. As an aside fun-Drake-mentalists rarely have fun. However, they are...anyway. As another aside, please feel free to use and popularize the term fun-Drake-mentalist, it is almost as bad as Nick Drake himself, but I digress. This album is totally fine, he sings nicely, good for him. While you gather your torches and pitchforks I'll be over here, probably listening to Arcade Fire or Blondie. If you see a 4 or 5 star review you'll know they got to me and they might be coming for you next.

You see, I have tied myself into a pretzel. This is a great album, five stars right? But in a moment of what I can only assume was insanity, I rated the other Arcade Fire album, Funeral, only four. Where is the problem you may ask? Well that album is actually better than this one. How do we right historical wrongs? By emailing the guy who runs this thing as it turns out, but is it that simple? Then I would be tempted to adjust Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd down a notch or two and all of a sudden I am an anchorless ship in the middle of a vast uncharted sea. And as Arcade Fire taught me, there is a great black wave out here somewhere.

I have been surprised by many albums on this list but I think this is the first time I have been floored. This is ambitious, eclectic and absolutely relentless. The rest of it is so good I am (easily) able to look past the occasional thrashy guitar and the nasally vocals.

Hmmmm...these guys sound...belligerent. Starting it off with a song about beating up a woman was...definitely one of the options available. I am clearly not the target audience of this band. However, the instrumentation is heads above the punk and punk-adjacent albums I have heard during this project.

On Youtube Music, Running Up That Hill has 724M listens, Hounds of Love has 9.5M, The Big Sky has 2M and Mother Stands for Comfort has 560K. That means that 99 percent of this albums listeners weren't able to make it to the end of song two. And over 99.9 percent of listeners weren't able to make it through track four. I imagine the vast majority of the 0.1 percent remaining were asleep. For those who would quibble with my methodology, remember we are post-truth now.

The electronic music I like tends to have a variety of instruments and textures. This is not that, it is very repetitive and unremarkable.

80s showtunes? Is this what Hair sounds like? I hope to never find out. According to the lead vocalist, most other bands at the time were 'writing about electric pylons'. He also said they wanted to 'fuse the attitude of punk with the sophistication of disco'. Martin, blink twice if you are ok. Admittedly I have less patience than normal after having to sit through Kate Bush and Les Rhythmes Digitales but this is no good regardless. I just finished the album and the only song I sort of enjoyed was literally a showtune. "Mantrap"...I'll avoid that.

I found most of the music on this album plodding and the vocals delivery clunky. Not as much misogyny as much hiphop on this list but that is damning with faint praise. Is this just a trial balloon by the recording industry to see whether they can convince us that a mediocre artist is good? This reminds me of the bad (Andre 3000) parts of Outkast without any of the good (Big Boi) stuff. No one to save you from my true feelings here Kendrick.

Let's Get It On, the song, is good. However there really isn't anything else on this album I would listen to again. Even with Let's Get It On, I can't even imagine being in a situation in the future where it would feel appropriate to put it on.

Up until today I thought Manu Chow was a post-career foray into the pet food market by a former Spurs legend. Anyway, this is great! Five patchouli petals.

This album was exactly what one might expect. Baby One More Time is an absolute top tier pop song. If these things were easy to write we would hear more of them, but we don't. If they just put this song on the album 11 times I would enjoy it much more, but they can't do that. That said, the filler in the rest of the album is totally fine.

There was some beauty on the instrumental tracks on the back half but overall I found this album pretty beastly.

Familiar with the name but not the music. Boulder to Birmingham is great and I really liked a few other songs as well. 136 albums in and this is my first real country album. This seems too few. Perhaps some Britpop could have been sacrificed?

In 1992 PJ Harvey and Tori Amos both released their debut albums. Meanwhile, there I was in rural Canada picking out my first ever compact disc. Celine Dion's self titled album. Time may not heal all injustice but at least love can move mountains.

Imagine releasing your fifth album in two years and having these songs left to put on it. This band is incredible, five bullfrogs.

Is free jazz the longest, most disconcerting and most complicated cry for help in human history? I think so. I'm going to continue ignoring it but it is really making me uncomfortable.

m b e my bloody earholes

Very atmospheric and seems very similar to Portishead's Dummy, which came out a few years before. With Dummy, when I actually listen to it rather than having it on in the background I still really like it. With this album I don't feel the same way.

Ella Fitzgerald has a beautiful voice. However a chorus of angels or a singing elephant could be singing these songs and I'd be looking for a way to escape half an hour in. Does anyone pronounce oyster "erster"? I don't think so. What were they saying about the squawky woman from Milwaukee? Clearly the sound of the words are much more important than the meaning of the lyrics.

If there is one constant during this process (excluding British music I have never heard of) it is me being excited by a new-to-me hiphop album and then being disappointed. There wasn't much I didn't like about this album but it just felt like it never changed cadence and just plodded along.

I could imagine wandering around a folk festival 20 years ago and coming upon a stage with this guy playing. I'd sit down, adjust my visor, and let out a big contented sigh. I'd have enjoyed a couple songs and then move on, maybe played some hacky sack or got a lentil burger. Oh the times I had! Nowadays time doesn't stretch before me in quite the same way. I'm listening to this guy on a laptop, one of three screens I am attending to, and it just isn't quite the same. Thanks for reminding me of simpler days Devendra.

The inevitable consequence of dividing joy is having less than you began with. That is a very apt description of my experience listening to this drudgerous album.

Like every properly raised Canadian kid my parents sang these songs to me as lullabies. I never really liked Rush night, which was Tuesday. Thursday, however, was Neil Young night which was great because by the time I was 4 I could play most of the guitar solos on my little plastic guitar. Three timbits.

I enjoyed this more than I would have expected based on how terrible it is. I usually try to give every album a couple listens and this album was only tiresome during the first listen. It was excruciating on the second. However, that was nothing compared to the real pain which arrived when YouTube Music served me up some Justice-adjacent suggestions after it finished.

I had no idea Madonna was so concerned about the bourgeoisie and selling out! The downtrodden must have rejoiced upon hearing this. I covered my ears when hearing most of this.

They say an apple a day keeps the Britpop at bay. Thank you for the brief respite Fiona. May your remaining days be filled with brown sugar and cinnamon.

I almost asphyxiated myself with acidic fumes cleaning limescale and mold out of my shower while listening to this album. I can honestly say the music was by far the least pleasant part.

These guys sound more like Oasis than Oasis. Did these guys sound like Oasis before Oasis even existed? Possibly, as it seems like this band probably formed before Oasis did. I don't care enough to determine this myself because it all just 3 stars as far as the eye can see. My two favourite songs on here are the ones with no vocals. I think that fact speaks for itself.

This is my third Bob Dylan album and it has all really started to sound the same. His vocal delivery is unique and the songwriting is great but wow that is a lot of strumming.

Are you sure this isn't late career Alice in Chains after they had run out of good song ideas and rebranded? That Rooster song is twice as good as all the songs on this album combined. Or it could be City and Colour trying to play rock music? Wait a moment...it is City and Colour, not Color...that can only mean one thing...that there is a chance the torturous experience of listening to Save your Scissors is uniquely Canadian? Go look it up, you will probably regret it.

Listening to so much music seems to have broken my brain or maybe it was Os Mutantes. Either way, my brain is now broken.

I really liked the first song of this album. I just wish that they didn't keep repeating it over and over again.

I object to this unholy alliance of emo and nu metal..

This kind of music appears to be my catnip. This album is every bit as shrill and nerdy as Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips, which I also loved. I don't know what it is but I can't get enough of this. Incidentally the lead singer of Mercury Dev used to be in (but not the singer of) The Flaming Lips...before they sounded like this. Parallel evolution in music? I wouldn't put it past either of these bands to have a song about that process.

More like "Shrug"-ie Otis, amirite? Nothing wrong with this album but nothing right either. Probably good to fall asleep to.

This album is somehow very heavy without being noisy. Maybe Tony Iommi's sparse guitar leaves lots of room in the mix for the bass and drums? I don't know, I'm not a very sophisticated listener. However I do know that I enjoyed listening to this album.

So...what I have learned today is that in the early 1960s the Beatles were basically indistinguishable from the Everly Brothers. I'm excited to get some more Beatles albums to see their revolu...er...evolution. Anyway, I like the Everly Brothers and, it turns out, I like this version of the Beatles.

I actually really like most of the instrumentation on this album. However the lyrics are at least a couple standard deviations worse than anything else I have heard during this project...and I sat through something like 4 hours of Ira Gershwin last month.

I found this album very uneven. The forays into punk and polka were not my thing but there are some great pop/rock songs on here. In my opinion this eclecticism worked for Damon Albarn much better on the Gorillaz albums than this one.

This might be the most powerful album I've ever heard. Social commentary instead of misogyny in rap music? Yes, please! Do you think if Flavor Flav had have insisted he wouldn't sell out a couple more times he wouldn't have made those three glorious seasons of Flavor of Love?

This is far more falsetto than anyone could possibly need to hear before they die.

Coeur de Pirate doing Bjork covers? I am interested by this but I also think I like it.

Frankly Mr. Shankly...that felt like it was never going to end.

After a couple listens I still can't find any edge to this album. The vocals are pretty, the harmonies are nice and the instrumentation is pleasant. I'll never listen to any of these songs again. I'm going to prescribe myself a generous dose of Jimi Hendrix to try to erase that polka cover of Hey Joe from my memory and hopefully the rest of this album with it.

A day after I commented that Fifth Dimension by The Byrds is edgeless, I get served up the absolute pinnacle of milquetoasity. This sounds like Rufus Wainwright without the ambition and creativity. Next to these guys Fifth Dimension sounds like a John Zorn/Captain Beefheart collaboration.

Up until this album I always thought Captain Beefheart was a Frank Zappa alter ego. Apparently they did play together at times. Anyway, this album is great. Beefheart's unique vocal delivery makes every song interesting. I can't wait for Trout Mask Replica...

Here is a proposal. You should have the option of providing the generator your birthday. Then on your birthday it could find for you a highly rated album from your favourite genre and serve it up to you as a gift. That would have made me smile. Or we could go the other way and on your birthday serve you up the lowest rated album you have remaining. Throbbing Gristle anyone? That would have made me laugh. Instead...Charles Mingus? I bet even Charles Mingus doesn't want to hear himself on his birthday. Thanks for nothing generator, on my 43rd birthday you could have given me a smile or a laugh. Instead you gave me a grimace. That is not a birthday-worthy facial expression.

In general I would prefer to celebrate rather than punish difference. Apparently I have now discovered the extent to which I really do enjoy difference. It is not nearly enough to give this a positive review.

I liked the rapping but there is far too little and far too much soulless saccharine R&B.

I imagine if I listened to this album more than a couple times I would find it pretty repetitive and tiresome. On the first couple listens, though, there is definitely some magic in those heavy guitar riffs and shrill rapping.

I like the instrumentation on most of this album, and found it engaging and varied. Unfortunately Jaz Coleman's unique combination of singing/blaring/yelling/moaning/bleating significantly detracts from (destroys?) all the tracks he sings on...which is almost all of them

Koffi...I'm sure there is a time and place for this album but the time is not 20:26 CEST and the place is not Woluwe Saint Lambert. Boom...roasted! Hey Koffi...the track list of this album reads like a list of Brussels Metro stations. Boom...roasted!

I'm more of a "A Very Special Christmas" kind of guy. My holiday season doesn't really get into gear until I hear what they are cooking up over on Hollis Avenue. That said, over 60 years after its release, this album still defines the sound of Christmas. That is a pretty incredible accomplishment. Having these songs, or ones that sound just like them, droning on in the background for a couple weeks a year is fine with me.

Observation 1 - Up until I got this album, somewhere in the back of my mind I had conflated Sonny/Cher and Ike/Tina as a single pair. Observation 2 - This album was released when Tina Turner was 45. That is awesome. Observation 3 - After hearing Mark Knopfler wrote Private Dancer I recognized his playing on a bunch of songs. I don't think he played on any of them. Conclusion - She sings powerfully but I don't really like any of the songs except for the Ann Peebles one.

I think if 90 percent of artists were to make this same album I would find it unlistenable. Through some alchemy Talking Heads and Brian Eno make it not only listenable but amazing.

I appreciate this more than like it. It sounds a lot like what I think electronic music sounds like...which I guess is the point with foundational albums like this. I won't be listening again but I learned a bit today and that is a good part of why I am doing this project.

This sounds like a Neil Young album to me with the harmonica and slide guitar. Not what I expected after only hearing Loser and Novacane from Odelay before. I like it but don't think I wouldn't find it notable without Beck's name attached to it.

For an album that bestowed upon us the bass line to one of the most iconic hiphop songs of all time this album is really bland.

I can't be the only one who googled the top review for this album, found out it is some kind of meme, but still don't understand. Hopefully tomorrow I get Rumours so I can return to my comfort zone. It was interesting listening to an album that is so unabashedly pop, yet as a North American, I have never heard a single one of these songs before. They slide off my brain pleasantly but I'll never listen again.

Apparently this is my 13th postpunk album out of 183. That seems like altogether far too many. The best parts of this album reminded me of Midnight Oil (who apparently aren't represented in this list...how can we sleep while this injustice goes unrectified?). The worse parts of this album just reminded me that this wasn't Midnight Oil. I still don't know what postpunk is, but based on my ratings, one unifying characteristic of postpunk albums is that if Brian Eno wasn't involved in their production I will distain them. Anyway, this album was pretty good!

When this album came on I started sweating, my blood pressure went up, one of my legs started twitching, my eyes were unable to focus on my computer and I felt a slight but palpable sense of dread. It took me a moment, but then I realized it was a physiological reaction to the similarity between this album and that monstrosity, Ellla Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book (even the title of that album is bloated...how about Ella Fitzgerald sings Gershwin?). This album is way better than that. The lyrics are way better, it is much shorter, and if the singing isn't on par I can't tell. I even like the bloopers that were included.

Scoffing at country music was one of the intellectual pillars my early years were built upon. Therefore my immediate reaction to George Jones' singing intonation on this album was negative. Postpunk appears to be one of the musical pillars that my 1001 albums experience has has been built upon. Therefore my immediate reaction to the simple melodies and lyrics on this album were positive. Perhaps if there was more country music on this list I would get sick of it. However there isn't and these simple songs done beautifully by George Jones is a welcome break from more challenging music. OK, onto Skunk Anansie...sigh...

This scratches the same itch for me as Evanescence. Unfortunately to the point where I may need skin grafts.

According to The Ringer, Sufjan Stevens made it cool for indie rockers to put down their Pavement and pick up a banjo. That is probably worth five stars right there. I'll give it four stars for the music, another for his service reducing the influence of Pavement, and a sixth in escrow only to be released upon the completion of the fifty states project.

I don't generally comment on album covers, as I don't really care...but this is a particularly good one. This album sounds like it is made by a teenager, just an incredibly talented and confident one. Over a dozen hip hop albums in and I think Beastie Boys and Public Enemy are the only artists I have gotten with comparable energy. I may never listen to another grime album in my life but I am delighted to have heard this one, it is great.

Any thrash is too much thrash in my opinion and there is definitely some here. However, the rest of the album is so melodic, the musicians are so prolific and the guitar solos are so soaring to more than make up for it. Most reviewers suggest that Iron Maiden got better when they replaced this lead singer. I'm actually somewhat excited to hear their later album when it comes up to see if I agree.

A landmark at album 190, the first album on this list I have actually owned. Before napster I didn't have many albums and then after napster I bought very few more. When I was around 8 (around 1990) I was nicely sitting in a chair getting a hair cut in the small town in Ontario I grew up near. Back then the local chamber of commerce tasked someone with giving out 50 dollar gift cards to a couple local shoppers during the christmas season. My angelic little face and freshly chopped mane was enough to deserve one apparently. My parents took me to the local music store and nudged (forced?) me to buy this album and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. I don't know what I would have bought if left to my own devices as at that time our radio was permanently tuned to public radio and my access to music was very limited. If something similar happened to my 8 year old daughter today what would happen? She wouldn't understand, of course, because she has any song she could want at her fingertips already. What two albums would I encourage her to buy from 2008 to 2013 (the analogous period)? Looking through a list of albums from those years I am at a loss...I'd be more likely to give her Harvest and Rumours, a testament to their greatness.

Another mid album from a mid artist. The good news is that only 191 albums in this is already Bowie album number 5 for me. Soooo...only 15 or so more? I want to to lend my voice to the chorus wingeing about some artists being over-represented. Unfortunately these complaints often include a lovely gentleman named Neil Young...and I love Neil Young.

Once you have saddled your band with the name Moby Grape there is only so much you can do. What's your ceiling...maybe Mott the Hoople? I don't get the hype, most of these songs don't seem to go anywhere.

When Safe From Harm started I thought I would love this album. However it devolved into the most familiar hiphop/jazz/electronic/lounge background music I could imagine. It felt like I was out somewhere wearing my nicest plaid shirt and feeling out of place yet again. OK, I just read that this is considered to be the first trip-hop album. For the sake of Portishead I respect this but I didn't really enjoy listening to it that much.

This didn't funk me up nearly as much as those two Funkadelic albums in three days a few months back. I may never recover from that cataclintonsm. I wasn't sold on this album until it hit me with the combination of Sing a Simple Song - Every Day People - Sex Machine. That is about as strong a three song stretch as you are ever likely to come across (including Thriller).

I'd heard of Fela Kuti before and probably heard some of his music. This is the first time I've actually sat down to listen to an album. It is great. He sounds just like my favourite Ottawa band, the Soul Jazz Orchestra, only 40 years earlier. Hearing stuff like this is exactly why I am doing this project.

If armagiven the opportunity armatrading this album for Telling Stories immediately.

You know those songs you have heard a thousand times but you don't know who they are by? Well, The Cars probably do most of them. This album has one of the most prominent ones, Coconut. Is anyone else surprised this song was by a guy with the last name Nilsson? If I had to guess I probably would have said Harry Belafonte. Anyway, this is a good album, a hefty dose of the Beatles with a pinch of Beach Boys harmonies.

This has Atanarjuat vibes. You know that movie where they show birds circling randomly in the air for minutes on end for no apparent reason? All these songs sound the same the first time you listen and still sound the same the third and fourth times as well. Interestingly (?) Elliott Smith said about the album title that he found something fascinating about the idea of figure 8s, trying to make something simple and repetitive as beautiful as possible. Perhaps try a metaphorical 9 or a 4 or something Elliott?

I was worried because on this albums wikipedia page there are comparisons drawn to the album I got yesterday, Figure 8 by Elliott Smith. I found that album very slow and compared it to Atanarjuat, the longest, least interesting movie that I watched as a 7 year old. Was in for Atanarjuat 2: An arctic fox licks an iceberg? As it turns out, no. This album has far more melodies to keep you interested. I still can't say I liked it but I liked some of the songs at least.

What? Atanarjuat 3: An iguana watches Iguazu? This album was so long and slow. I'm not even opposed to elevator music, I gave Aja 5 stars. This is just too much though.

At their best, Queen is bombastic, operatic and awesome. There are plenty of songs on this album that fit that mold. When they veer outside those guardrails, which they do a few times, things get pretty grim pretty fast.

One of my favourite musical memories was my first time in New Orleans around 2010, wandering around the French Quarter popping into bar after bar and sampling the smorgasbord of great music available. If we had have come upon Solomon Burke playing a little club on Frenchman Street we probably would have stopped right there and settled in for the entire set. Sixty years after it was made this album still sounds fresh.

This has got to be the least variant albums on the list. I imagine LTJ Bukem himself couldn't identify which song is which. It isn't bad per se, just tiresome.

Sometimes when people are empowered to put their thoughts to music...their thoughts then get put to music. I don't really like Mick Jagger's singing or what he sings about on this album. Musically, at it's best it reminds me of one of my favourite discoveries from this project The Flamin' Groovies. Perhaps I'll like their later albums better.

There was a lot here I liked. The music was really good and despite it being over an hour long it didn't drag. I also really liked the absence of overt misogyny. However some of the lyrics were a bit tough. An entire song about how they are fake vegetarians?

I think instead of Elephant they should have called this album Pony. Of the one-trick variety. It is a really, really good trick, but like magicians do they probably should have saved it for the end of the show rather than wasting it right up front.

I once got into an animated argument with this guy named Tim. His (preposterous at the time) position was that Nas was a better rapper than Snoop. I vociferously held the inverse position. Now that I have heard Nas, I admit I may have been wrong...but I would never let him know that.

I loved this album in high school. More accurately, I loved the big hits off this album in high school...Even Flow, Jeremy, Alive and I learned to enjoy Once and maybe a couple others. Now, 25 years later, it doesn't hit the same at all. It seems...too aggressive? I guess I'll shut it off and go see my doctor about testosterone supplements...

Apparently the theme of the week is Ponies. Two days ago I got that quintessential one-trick pony The White Stripes. Then today I get Brutal Youth with the new-to-me opener Pony St. It is amazing that my generation of Brits have grown up as mentally stable as they have, with a steady diet of Elvis Costello, Morrissey and David Bowie during their formative years. What was that?

The title Regatta de Blanc makes me a little uncomfortable. That said, I went to a reggae show a couple months ago and I can assure you if the band had have played The Bed's Too Big Without You at any point that night I probably would have stayed past 9:30.

What? Bowie album number six out of my first 211, this is not fair! Actually I really like this album. Maybe all it takes for me to like David Bowie is for Brian Eno to come in and work his magic. I might have to go back and rethink that 2 I gave Heroes. Sound and Vision might be my favourite Bowie song of all!

Is Eric Clapton the best example in history of the 'Fake it til you make it' phenomenon? I feel like he heard blues music and proceeded to play music like he was a blues musician until he got quite good at it. Then after improving as a musician and getting some attention he started playing guitar like he was one of the best, until people thought he was. Of course my feelings are incontrovertibly disproven by the opinions of far more serious people than me, his unassailable musical resume and collaborations. Speaking of feelings, Eric Clapton once, and may still, thought England should be reserved for only...never mind. I challenge anyone to listen to the Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix versions of Little Wing and still disagree with what I have written here.

There was one glorious moment when it sounded like they were going to give up on whatever plodding dirge they were recording and break into Baba O'Riley. That was the best moment of an otherwise forgettable 38 minutes.

I enjoyed this, but not in a "fun to listen to" sort of way but more a "laugh at how preposterous it is that I am voluntarily going through this torture" sort of way. I was hoping my average rating for this project would be close to 3. It tends to drift up but I can always trust Public Image to get me back on track. Two albums, a total of two stars.

This album is like Thriller without that brief interlude with decent songs.

In my mind I put this in a box with the Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald albumsI have already gotten. In that company it stands out solely due to the depth of the lyrics. My comparison may not be fair as this album was released nearly a decade after those two. Regardless, I think it is clearly better.

I just gave Michael Jackson's Off the Wall 2 stars because I didn't think it was good. If we start there and penalize Scritti Politti one star for blatant fraudulence then we are done here. No thought required just morals and math.

Somewhere deep in the liner notes to a Pearl Jam album, probably No Code, is written the following short poem, I was here but now I'm gone Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan That is all I knew of this artist going in, that at one point he was one place and then wasn't, probably because he relocated. I'd say relocation is pretty close to a universal experience. I love it when 'world music' comes along and reminds me of what it means to be truly human! What isn't a universal experience is getting up on a Thursday and listening to Qawwali music while making breakfast. It is very good breakfast-making music.

Here I am, face to face with the foundational album in my least favourite genre of music. It starts off well with Johnny Ramone intonating the word 'bop' in a really cute way on Blitzkrieg Bop. A couple songs in I was still on board but it soon fell apart. I don't think I will ever like the simple brash abrasiveness of your average punk song.

When I was in elementary school my older sister was very into The Nylons. She formed an a cappella band called The A Cappella Fruit with some friends of hers. I think she was Nectarine. Until this very moment I thought A Cappella was one word Acappella. Anyway, "Acappella Fruit" and "Psychedelic Furs" are quite similar as band names go. The first word is an adjective with four syllables. The second word is a single syllable noun starting with an F. It is debatable whether I ever had anything interesting to say in these reviews. It is clear now that I am absolutely bereft of interesting thoughts on these albums. I am pretty much thoroughly ambivalent to this album.

No Body, No Crime is as close to Before He Cheats as we are going to get during this project, isn't it? That's a shame... I was surprised how slow, boring and long this album is. Isn't Taylor Swift the undisputed top pop star for this generation? And this is what her music sounds like? At least there isn't a song about Travis Kelce's member though. also, is she the reason kids these days don't know how what words are supposed to start with a capital?

Herbie Hancock is the name of someone who should play blues but he sure can play jazz.

"This album is long and samey but it is also different and melodic so who am I to deny it a fourth star?", is what I wrote four songs in. About an hour in I came to the realization that as the listener I am the sole arbiter of who receives stars here. Twelve six minute songs that all sound quite similar is too much for me. How about twelve four minute songs? Or eight six minute songs? I deny this album a fourth star.

I loved the cover art and album name. I also really liked about a dozen songs on this album. Unfortunately that still leaves a full album's worth of material I wasn't fond of. Regardless the good outweighs the extraneous. I wish I had gotten a Pixies album before getting this one.

Maybe if I wasn't very tired the day I listened to this I would have enjoyed it more. As it was I didn't find this album engaging at all. The high point was probably the click song, though the introduction felt unnecessary, though perhaps a product of the times. Somewhere around 2500 songs in I can confidently say the song with the guy laughing has taken the 'so bad it is good' crown. I can't imagine it will be threatened by any of the remaining 8000 or so.

I was properly introduced to Deep Purple through their live album Nobody's Perfect. I loved it. Their live energy was palpable and their virtuosity apparent, even on this, a bargain-bin purchase and, as far as I know, an unheralded release. This studio album captures a lot of the same energy on that live album. I can only imagine what seeing them live was actually like. There is no fat on this album, just seven great rock songs from one of the best bands to ever do it.

Do I really like Christina Aguilera and TLC more than Erykah badu? I think i do. That surprises me.

In my summary, Classic Rock is currently my third favourite style. The 1970s are correctly my favourite decade. And I am a dad. Despite all these factors suggesting this should be right in my wheelhouse I found this album pretty sterile.

A couple days ago my family was at one of those aquariums with moving sidewalks where you can watch sharks swim over top of you. We couldn't tell if the sound we were hearing was jazz music from the aquarium sound system or something rubbing in the sidewalk mechanism. That said, this album might be my gateway drug to jazz. While listening I felt mostly just puzzled.

I generally like the music but just like just about everyone else I found it repetitive and long.

I loved a couple of these songs back when I first heard this album in the early 90s. Notably, What it Takes was one of these, though if I had have known at the time how it hinted at the smarmy soft rock that they would soon flood us with on Get a Grip I may not have been so enthusiastic. I still love a few of these songs but they are weighed down by a lot of filler.

I suspect this is another of those indie albums that sounds so familiar because a while bunch of artists who came after them had a similar sound. Who knows, though. Definitely not me, I'm neither Munster nor one of his infamous sons. I won't find out either voluntarily, but perhaps two years from now this project will have skillfully guided me kicking and screaming through this sorry era of pop music.

I love that this album, which sounds so big, like it was destined to be played in fifty thousand seat arenas, before throngs of underwear-throwing fans, was made by a dude in his basement. To all the subterranean geniuses out there toiling on some brilliant idea under a flickering fluorescent light, this one goes out to you. Five sump pumps.

Suzy, for inflicting such aural torment on me this morning I hereby Banshee you to the very depths of my ratings. And stop spelling your name in such a silly way.

I was introduced to this album by my PhD supervisor. I think everyone else in the lab found it (and probably him and I) too nerdy. I loved it then and I love it now.

The way Liam Gallagher sings make it sound like he is constantly sneering or smirking. My favourite song on this album is the only one sung by Noel...hmmm...I wonder why that is. Wrong...it is because the singing is no good on the other ones.

This sounds like the kind of band that was popular on the township or county level but never made it big in the province, let alone the country. They are talented enough that when you see them at a county fair when you are 14 you are impressed. However the intensity with which the lead singer emotes is a bit incongruous, and the dedication that the dozen or so dancers exhibit seems a bit forced. Anyway, this album has been removed from my version of the book, and I see why.

Listening to this album has made me question whether I'll be able to finish this project. That's right...I may never listen to anything else! Thanks for the introduction generator. I am absolutely absolutely smitten.

I wish this was much shlorter.

Though I must admit, most of the content isn't something that really resonates with me, she is very talented, has a distinct sound and at least some of the songs sound great to my ears.

I came here for the music and I'm staying for the music. However I am also staying for the reviews. Currently, the top review for this album states simply, "What I listen to while my rat cooks me dinner." Thank you user 62c77de5c8f97a728892e47c. Your comment brought great joy to my life and you will never know it. To all the comical geniuses out there providing such brilliant commentary, thank you. I don't always like the music, but I always like the reviews. I have nothing insightful or funny to say about this album. Jacques Brel reminds me of a male Carla Bruni and as such, I enjoyed this album quite a bit.

Up until today I would have guessed that The Cardigans were Baggins-looking chaps who played fiddles and sang sea-shanties. Now that I have been disabused of that preposterous notion I will disabuse myself of this monotonous music. A de-ska-ified No Doubt knock-off?

243 albums in and I get my first blues album! I enjoyed it a lot but perhaps if blues was coming up more than 0.4 percent of the time I would notice how samey it is. Great voice and great guitar, not much else to be said.

I listened to The Corner about a billionty times when I was in undergrad. I still love that song, but it might be the only one on this album I really like. The chipmunk backing singers get a bit grating and I find the hiphop/R&B balance tilts too far towards the latter for my tastes. Great album cover though.

I am a goofy kind of guy but this album is even too goofy for me. That said, the Steely Dan sample on Eye Know was a stroke of genius.

This album has more great songs on it than just about any other album has songs. It has energy, plenty of hooks, variety, a message and great musicianship. I'm not going to drop a star from all my other five star albums to give this one the credit it deserves but maybe I should.

An album called Horses by someone named Patti. I was expecting lots of fiddles, maybe a Home on the Range cover. What a pleasant surprise this album was. Supposedly this influenced the nascent punk genre. I wish it had influenced in more, there isn't a simple power chord driven song in sight. Just a collection of great, mostly sparse, songs sung with feeling and played with intention.

I'm all for conscious rock music but the 80s sound and production really ruins it for me.

Well, this album certainly is slity.

I spent a good part of this album waiting for I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) to come on.

One time, in a small town in Cuba, my partner and I met a sort of sleazy American who seemed to live there. He invited us to this local event where we all set around the outside of a small hall while a bunch of dancers performed in the middle. At one point the dancers came to grab partners from the crowd and my partner and I were pulled on to the dance floor. She did great. I tried, I really did, but I was like a stroke victim trying to lift my arm out there. I was sending signals to my limbs and hips but they weren't being received. My dance partner escorted me back to my seat before we had made it through a single song. I bet she was dancing to a song like the ones on this album. I'm not sure what I was doing.

Thankfully this album is only 29 minutes long.

For an album advertised as hardcore much of this album is very corny.

Beck has a very unique ability to make the the actual sound and intonation of the words he is singing an integral part of the song. I enjoyed this album a great deal.

I think it is my fault. Half way through the seventh song I couldn't take the guys vocals anymore. So I grabbed this old monkey's paw I have in my desk and I asked it to give me respite from the singing. Then song eight came on.

Wait, John Martyn has two albums on here and Tracy Chapman gets only one? Robert, make it make sense. Anyway, in high school my older sister had New Beginning. My wife brought Telling Stories to our collective CD collection. Both of those albums are excellent and so is this one.

I enjoyed this more than the first John Martyn album I got, but I still don't like his singing. I've listened to far too much of this guy over the past half year or so. I'm happy to take a break for the next 40 years or so, godwilling.

The top-rated album for good reason. I love it.

Quirky but also very listenable. I enjoyed this.

I never make space in my life to listen to music like this. I like it though, very relaxing.

I listened to the album a bunch of times and read the book entry. The argument for its inclusion seems to be how good it is, rather than any broader impact. I agree it is good but that is dangerous terrain to tread. I'd put the first two Po' Girl albums near the top of my personal 1001 albums list and some of those songs have less than 200 listens on Youtube Music. Go listen to Home to You and Vagabond Lullabies, they are amazing.

This is a tough one. I was strangely drawn into the antics of Simone, Dan, Scott and Mike. Is it a testament to the banality of my own life that I find a tale of someone attempting and failing to return a DVD engaging? Maybe I should I be roaching some more spliffs myself? Anyway, this album is awful.

The generator giveth and the generator taketh away. The generator hath giveth me almost all the David Bowie albums and that hath causeth me to gnash my teeth. Forsooth the generator hath giveth me all three CCR albums and for that I thanketh it. For myself, I have not to giveth but the bestowers of heavenly luminence and I giveth them gladly...5 alligators.

Let us all bow our heads and pray for those who played all 152 minutes of the Deluxe Edition. May we forever keep them close to our hearts.

Was the almost complete commercial victory of Gangsta Rap over the alternatives just because this album sounds so much better than 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul (which came out the same year). I don't know either.

Better than The Cashew Sisters.

One time in high school my dad was driving me and my friends on some long car ride to who knows where. I had just been given a dubbed tape of this album and we put it on. I could tell my dad didn't like it but he was managing. We got to Killing in the Name and I started worrying but didn't know what to do so I just sat there. I think he made it to the 15th 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me', before he yelled something and angrily turned it off. I never listened to this album at home again. This is in my top five albums, perhaps top one.

When I first got together with my now wife, we bought an old van to drive between tree-planting camps. The van had last been used by some young women road tripping around Australia and had spent the last few years decomposing in a field in northern British Columbia. It came with an old Alison Krauss album in the CD player. I love Alison Krauss to this day. How much of that has to do with her music and how much the particular circumstances of our introduction I will never know. If this Gillian Welch album had have been in that old van when we bought it I may have just as strong an attachment to her as I do Krauss, it is that good.

Love, eh? I loved it when that D'Angelo was finally over.

There I was thinking Shout was the absolute pinnacle of human achievement when Everybody Wants to Rule the World came on... Anyway, that debate ended in 1985. Shout is incredible.

Nothing makes you appreciate Tears For Fears more than getting Pet Shop Boys the next day.

Wow...this is as close to a perfect hiphop album as I have ever heard. Wyclef Jean, Pras Michel and Lauryn Hill's distinct vocal styles complement each other so well.

This is definitely the best nu-metal album I have ever heard. It still completely ruined my morning.

I am on a historic string of great albums over here. I don't even care that upon closer inspection I am likely to find that this is just the same song repeated nine times with different lyrics. It is a great, great song. Five fedoras.

I found that a single stray thought in my head was enough to distract me from this music immediately and irreversibly for minutes or even hours. I had a busy couple weeks, now I am in a 17 album hole. Thanks Talvin...

You have to respect that she wasn't complacent between 1996 and 2020. However Tidal is so much better than this.

Just because you like him doesn't mean I have to also.

This guy sings way to much like Laura Nyro for be to enjoy it.

I found this album more interesting than enjoyable. I didn't dislike it, I think I just prefer the ambiance of birds chirping and a cold pitcher of beer shared between friends after a long hike to some mountain chalet to the ambience of this. It sure doesn't sound over fifty years old though. Thanks for serving me up another interesting nugget of music history in such an easily digestible format, generator. Three cabbages.

Sigh...another swirl around the toilet bowl. Wait, am I enjoying this? I think I am. Way better than "This Nation's Saving Grace".

Very uneven, just like Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. But at their best there are few better.

Flask? Bottle? Gourd? Vial? All seem more practical for holding rain...but I'm not high.

Who would have thought you couldn't trust a group that couldn't even come up with a real band name to create a compelling prog rock adaptation of a 100 year old classical composition nobody has ever heard of.

I don't dislike this album. However I only have so much room for storage and analysis of Radiohead sound-alike bands in my brain. As a Canadian, the CRTC has already allocated that space to Rufus Wainwright. Don't blame me, blame the nanny-state.

When I was in high school I had this album. My parents bought me a pair of tickets to the local production as well. However, due to the pedophilia, I was uncomfortable asking any of my friends to come so I went with my sister. I'm pretty sure I came home with a See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me shirt. I don't think I ever wore it...if someone at my high school could pull that shirt off that person was definitely not me. Anyway, I think Uncle Ernie, Cousin Kevin, the Acid Queen and the more cringe aspects of this album were what stuck with me through the intervening 25 years. Re-listening I am struck by just how good most of the music is. I think the narrative nature of the project puts a pretty low ceiling on how good the collection of songs can possibly be. Given the constraints, these guys did about as well as you could have hoped for.

It is quite amazing that these guys hamstrung their own early popularity by releasing the worst song off this album as the second single, then decided to play entirely different music over the next few albums. Despite these factors they are still considered by many to be one of the best bands ever formed. They must be very good.

I prefer songs that sound good. However, I will admit this album sounds way better through headphones than my tiny tinny cell phone speaker.

I'm not sure what annoyed me more, that this album just trundled along in second gear for almost an hour, or that neither Jefferson nor his Airplane seemed to be bothered by this at all.

I saw it in my peripheral vision. Thank god, something familiar. Something to tether myself to in this sea of mediocre adult contemporary schlock. No matter it is still 17 songs away, I can do this. Wait...oh no...this isn't what I expected. Noooooooo! If there was a spare star to penalize Mr. Rundgren I would have. Alas, the scale has a hard lower bound and this album had been firmly entrenched there for 19 songs already.

I am considering doing a bunch of cocaine so I can forget about this album as well.

This album definitely hit different when I was 12 and it felt powerful and dangerous. There are still a lot of great songs on it though.

I'm too old for this.

I'm too young for this.

I really disliked this. So discordant, shrill, loud and annoying.

Eight of the nine David Bowie albums within my first 296? This seems unlikely... According to ChatGPT less than a 1 in 5000 chance? Great, I am cursed. Anyway, this one is better than some. However, if you are like me and don't like songs that name drop other singers then be warned; there is a song on here where he sings to Robert Zimmerman about Bob Dylan. There is also another, perhaps worse, about Andy Warhol.

I don't like how he sings on most of these songs. However, his take on Amish Paradise is really good.

Real smooth pop music like a buttered knife through the brain.

It was at a Smashing Pumpkins concert that I became aware of the studio wizardry that goes into making the band I was hearing live sound like they do on an album. That was during the Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness tour, who's namesake I like less than this album. However I don't like Billy Corgan's voice at any time, pre or post-studio wizardry..

I said this about George Jones earlier but when country music is just simple songs sung beautifully I really like it.

I think Sufjan Stevens should join the Magnetic Fields and they should record 69 love songs for each state.

My unhinged first reaction to hearing this album was, "This sounds like Black Pumas, why aren't they on this list?" Once I got over myself I was able to appreciate this album for the great, empowering, positive, progressive album that it is. And it was distributed for free! I'm still looking forward to Black Pumas, though.

I always associate James Brown with funk but this is really souly and jazzful...I like it!

This album seems to have all my least favourite Led Zeppelin songs. Friends, Celebration Day, Gallows Pole and Bron-Y-Aur Stomp all just rub me the wrong way. Despite that, this band is so good that this still might be a five star album for me.

Horrible, just horrible.

There is a world in which I enjoy these synthesizers and noodly guitar but I think that is a world in which David Lee Roth is a real estate agent.

Hmmmmm...I really liked this....like a lot. Do I have to go back and revisit those other four Radiohead albums I gave 3 and 4 stars to now?

This album didn't blow my hair back but at least it didn't blow it forward either.

This IS way better than Tommy. I feel like I have been living a lie.

Thanks to this album I learned a bit about Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park. Reading about this event was definitely better than listening to the album. Perhaps going forward I will be less vociferous in my criticism of disco music, though.

I only know Tricky from Evolution Revolution Love, that great collaboration with Ed Kowalczyk (shouldn't there be a Live album on here somewhere?). I didn't so much like this album (though I did), as I was drawn in by it's claustrophobic and suffocating atmosphere.

Nothing was cooler to 13 year old me than the Hackers soundtrack which had Halcyon + On + On but this album is so repetitive...

This is a short album but it felt like a long album. However the good songs are really good.

I love getting these awful metal bands. No thought required, one pentagram.

I guess even adult contemporary has to have its landmark albums. However, when an entire genre is devoted to being as unobtrusive as possible isn't that antithetical to landmarkosity? Anyway, I don't know why I had to listen to this, but I did, and now I will forget it.

A whole album of 'Home for a Rest'. This is incredible!

This album is in rarefied air, an improvisational jazz album that I find listenable. And this one is more than that, it is downright enjoyable.

One point for the mullet, one point for the sideburns, one point for the moustache, a bonus point for his passing resemblance to me at points in my life and a point for each weird song making a total of...eight.

I Don't Know I Fell Asleep

Once, many years ago, I heard Bombino at Ottawa Folk Festival. I was entranced. I bought his CD. I never listened to it again. Perhaps this type of music is better live. Anyway, I liked this but I'd know better than to buy the CD now.

Not much here for me to sink my teeth into.The one where they all talked at me simultaneously was fun though.

I like Rage Against the Machine better than I did before after listening to this album because now I have someone else to blame Renegades of Funk on. If I were a better person I would probably be able to appreciate this album for it's place in the evolution of hip-hop music. In this world, though, I just found it a bit cheesy and very longwinded.

Testosterone: The Album

I don't think I like this quite as much as Licensed to Ill or Ill Communication. However it is still diverse, catchy and very fun to listen to. Apparently the hook on Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun isn't a sample but a Beastie Boys original. This group is very good.

This does not sound like the guy who did the infamous superbowl crotch slide.

This guys understanding of geology is schist.

This album won Rolling Stone's award for Best Album of the Year in 1983 over Thriller, War and Synchnonicity. I find that very surprising because I always see R.E.M. as being somewhat peripheral to the major trends in music. While Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots were taking over the airwaves, R.E.M. was just off to the side singing about Kenneth. I don't think I had even heard any of the songs off Murmur before this project. Album of the year? Anyway, maybe it is a testament to the influence of this album that it just sounds so normal over 40 years later. I like the trademark harmonies but I prefer R.E.M. after they got a bit weirder.

My partner in this project was surprised this is Nick Cave. I don't know who Nick Cave is so I can't be surprised yet, maybe later. For now I am just appalled.

Here's to the nameless record executive who fought to limit this album to 80 minutes. Thank you.

Seldom am I sure of my opinion of an album I have never heard before on the first listen. This is an exception. I love it and I suspect I will live it more on subsequent listens.

This is quirky and fun but I had no desire to listen to it a second time.

Oh, I get it! This is why there aren't any Weezer albums on this list. Weezer just blatantly ripped off this already established unknown band's sound. Wait, what? This should be Exhibit A in the legal argument that this list is UK biased right?

This very much sounds like a soundtrack, which is fine. However if we are allowing that, my daughter and I think we should add Encanto or K-Pop Demon Hunters?

So many questions...Is River the best christmas song ever written? Am I the only one who didn't know that Nazareth song was a folk cover? What does she mean by 'mean old daddy'? I enjoyed this album a half unit les than her newer albums on this list but the best songs on this album are about as good as it gets.

This is the best reggae album I have ever heard.

This album has really jammed me up. Another one of those albums that draws no attention to itself and when you force yourself to listen to it it seems fine. Sorry George Harrison.

The first triumphal notes of Plainsong were perfect. We had done it, Shivkumar Sharma had been banished to the dusty tomes of history and it was a new day. However, even by the end of Plainsong, I had lost all interest in the plodding, unadorned chord progressions that are all over this album.

The rats are indeed hot. However, instead of preening, perhaps they could do something about this guitarist who has been soloing for going on nine minutes now.

These guys sure know how to beat you over the head with a chord progression. At least they had the decency to write most of these songs in a minor key.

I think I would like this collection of songs better sung by just about anyone else than Rod Stewart. Incidentally, most of these songs are covers...so I actually could!

There is a five star album in here. Actually there may be two. However, this is just altogether too much Bob Dylan for me in one go.

"I prefer Holger Czukay's solo stuff better than his work with Can," is now a thing I can say. Thank you generator...I suppose

Apparently this album has more cultural import than I am aware of. The only time I am aware of hearing Wilco was on a mixed album I bought in New Zealand. I don't remember any other songs on the album other than 'Grow Your Own' by Darlahood, which I imagine is nowhere near this list. Is this a Foster's Lager situation where way more cultural importance is attached to something by people an ocean away? Who knows. Anyway, three Wilco albums and no Sublime albums is not proportional to the culture I experienced at the time.

Reminiscent of Sarah Slean. Pretty good.

WARNING - Octopus's Garden translates to Octopus's Yard in North American english. Does that make the song more palatable for you? I liked it well enough already.

After putting this album on, every once in a while a track would come on that pricked up my ear and piqued my curiosity. It was inevitably the Thelonious Monk or Bill Evans song that Youtube had served up to me after the album ended.

I don't dislike the lead singer's voice as much as many do. However, what I really don't understand are the CCR comparisons. Does this music sound anything like CCR? No. Is there a single song on here that would deserve inclusion on any CCR album? I don't know, but not any of the CCR albums I have heard.

On the rare occasions that my reviews aren't the most banal and basic opinions and analysis, they consist almost entirely of cynical misinformation that oftentimes borders on criminality. Here I sit, faced with an album of staggering genius and I shall respect if by remaining silent.

You know when, as a kid, you were happily munching away on something. Then someone told you it was mushrooms and you couldn't eat another bite? I just found out this is prog rock...ugh.

I'm sure there are many who could disabuse me of the notion that this is a paint-by-numbers metal album but that is what most of it sounds like to me.

Listening to this album after a long and tiring day filled me with a very particular and unsettling form of despair.

I expected to like this more but I still liked it.

This sounds like what they listen to at clown school.

I'm not sure what I expected when I clicked play but what I got was a pop masterpiece. Wow!

"Does it matter if Jack White recycles guitar riffs from album to album or whether that is just what I perceive?" - Yann Martel - Me

What fresh torture have you in store for me today generator?

I have just one quibble. My favourite covers are those that take a song in a completely new direction, such as The Cardigans version of Ironman. Their cover of A Minha Menina sounds almost exactly like the original. Anyway, if you ever find yourself quibbling with a couple of dudes making music in a shed you have probably lost the plot. This album is great.

I am baffled as to why a guy who can play guitar like Prince can fills his albums with the cheesiest, most boring songs.

Like a long drink at the oasis after what felt like an eternity of Prince's 1999.

I checked my phone without my glasses and thought the song Reaching Out was called Researching Owl. Strange name for a song but remember, this is the artist that barked for most of the song Hounds of Love, so who knows. I propose on the next edition of the book, give one or two of Kate Bush's three slots to Sarah McLachlan. Similar-ish enough and it would save all of our ears some wear and tear.

Robert Wyatt, you've done it again you sly dog you.

This album just sounds like New Orleans, and that is a good thing.

This is undoubtedly the first Bollywood album I have ever listened to.

I am someone who has been in not one but two bands that don't have the dedication to learn full songs. At the best of times we will all look at each other, laugh and then stop playing. Sometimes, however, we will just stop playing, one by one, until there is a single, lonely, unadorned instrument left. With this as background, hearing Little Wing always brings a smile to my lips.

The TV Party they mock so ruthlessly sounds absolutely off the chain compared to anything that I have attended in the past couple of decades...

Wait...prog rock can sound good? As a man who only emerged recently, naked and shivering, from under the massive shadow cast by Geddy Lee and Rush over Canadian music, I wish I had become aware of King Crimson earlier. I still have a complaint or two, such as that the final hour of Moonchild doesn't quite reach the same heights as the first two, but that is neither here nor there.

Here we are, 367 albums in and I have gotten my ninth of the nine David Bowie albums. Less than a one in nineteen thousand chance of getting them all so quickly apparently. Surely someone up there is out to punish me. Anyway, it has been an up and down journey, with the high point ironically being Low. I'm glad I got this last because it is great.

What is more interesting, this album from one BoC or a rate hike from the other BoC. The answer isn't obvious to me.