Tidal was a far superior album. Heavy Ballon’s and Cosmonauts were the two best songs on the album.
Edgy for the time. Probably canceled in today’s culture. Incredible talent with heavy doses of immaturity. I think Marshall probably used the music as self therapy.
Coltrane is a glass of whiskey on the rocks. It’s an early evening smoke on the patio. The second I hear the opening notes I’m transported back to a dinner party with friends. The music can get chaotic and sometimes repetitive, but it’s remains woven into the fabric of our past.
Fun album. Simple garage rock. I remember Last Nite getting radio play
Just not my cup of tea
Soulful voice. Forerunner to Tracy Chapman. The first and last two songs on the album were the best.
One of the first cassette tapes I owned. The first three songs are iconic. The rest of the album doesn’t really hold up well with the passage of time. When I first saw this was going to be the album for today, I initially thought well this will be a 5 star album, but as the songs progressed the rating kept dropping. The first three songs ensure a 3 star but I could be talked into 2.5 stars.
Really thought this album has some solid song writing with melody and lyrics, but can’t get past Nico’s dead voice. Give this album to Taylor Swift and let her redo it and I bet it would be amazing.
Easy listening. Not really my style.
Pretty much exaggerated vibrato
Good samples. Long album, almost 90 mins. Holds up against time.
From beginning to end, every single song was great. You definitely can hear some Beatles influence in some of the songs. I really enjoyed the entire album.
I liked it. I had familiarity with Jeff Buckley, but I was unaware that his dad Tim was also a singer songwriter some of his lyrics. Remind me of pig pen from the Grateful Dead. I will explore some of his other albums.
It’s art, but I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it.
Surprisingly dope little album
Couple of iconic songs in Perfect Day & Wild Side. You can definitely hear the Bowie influence on the album. Some of the songs are a little drab. Not really an album I would return to and re-listen in its entirety.
When the sun warms your eyelids and the salty breeze carries grains of sand across your face, Bob Marley is there—preaching kindness through rhythm. In a world heavy with sorrow, drop the needle on “Stir It Up” and catch a smile. This album is a rebellion set to melody, a call for unity wrapped in sweet grove of palm trees swaying, Marley reminds us that music can make us all Jamaicans for a moment—bound together by rhythm, resilience, and love.
Chill vibes
The greatest rock opera of all time. One summer day of my sophomore year in high school, me and some friends went down to the city market. I had $10. I bought two cassette tapes for $5 each that would change my life. The first was Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys, the other one was Pink Floyd’s The Wall. On the way home we sparked a poorly rolled joint of Tex Mex and pushed play, nothing would ever be the same again.
Temu oasis
Super acquired taste for his voice. It’s not something that I would seek out.
Start to finish, a foundational pillar of good music
Ground breaking album. Showed women can rap salty and talk about being human from their perspective.
1994. Senior year of high school. The sound track of my life.
It was fine
Truly groundbreaking album with some fantastic songs. I was a freshman in college when this album debuted and I had a bit of a crush on the eccentric Canadian. Re-listening to it 30 years later half the album is still fantastic while there are a few songs in which Alanis gets a little screechy and I wouldn’t consider it a first to last gem. However, I’m going to give it 5 stars for the fact that she defined a new genre of female pop rock that crossed into the main stream. I also have a nostalgia soft spot for this album.
Seems like young people from this era got broken up into two different groups, you were either into psychedelic rock like The Grateful Dead, Doors, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Floyd or you went the way of getting drunk at parties and were more likely to listen to Rush, AC/DC, Yes, Three Dog Night. I grew up with the first group but the second group received more radio time. So of course I was familiar with half this Rush Album. I get the attraction. These are outstanding musicians making some really rocking tunes. At the end of the day I’m just not in love with Geddy Lee’s vocals. I don’t dislike it, but it’s not an album of first choice. That’s why it gets 4 stars.
Handful of good songs that defined an era.
Just no.
Interesting. Hadn’t heard of them before. Not terrible.
The Score is one of my top 10 all time favorite albums so when Lauryn released a solo project I was eager to listen. The Miseducation is good but not great album. She definitely used this platform to express an anger on behalf of an impoverished community. Her voice talent is exceptional and the melodies, samples and beats demonstrate a superior musical talent. It’s too bad that she didn’t continue to be a prolific musical artist.
I heard it through the grapevine that I was feeling fine on cloud nine jamming these tasty grooves.
If George Thorogood had a love child with the Sex Pistols it would sound like The Gun Club.
6am on a Saturday morning my grandfather would fire up his 67 ford truck. The frost on the windshield running from the engine heat blowing up through the vents. We would pull out onto the gravel road leaving the farm heading to town in search of the morning paper and bag of fresh donuts. I can still hear that crackle of an AM radio as it plays Merle Haggard. What I wouldn’t give to go back and listen to my grandpa teach me about life.
It’s unfortunate that Otis died in a tragic plane crash at the age of 26. Even though there were only 3 originals on this album you can hear a defining style to his approach to music. He had an impact with such a limited body of work. It would have been interesting to see how his sound evolved in the coming decades.
I can appreciate a good female crooner hitting her notes in front of a live audience.
This album has some really soulful tunes. Fiona does a good job vocally controlling the pain and anger her lyrics express. Some of the beats and bass lines hit sad and sinister. I wouldn’t look to this album on a sunny day but in the right headspace she can cater to powerful emotion.
Not my favorite Beatles album, but the first time I dropped, Nowhere Man and Norwegian Wood came along for the journey.
In the same vein as early Pink
Floyd psychedelic vibe, just not as competent.
Spoken word over jazz. I dig it.
Second TCQ album off this list. Sweet beats.
Soothing vocals. Easy melodies.
Early British punk rock isn’t my jam, but there is probably no Green Day without these guys forging paths. The bassist stands out as exceptional on this album.
Different.
Quirky album. Harmonies are always spot on and can carry even subpar melodies. Feel Flows is a classic. Not their best effort as a band.
At the turn of the century we were looking to see what the next millennium would bring. Out comes this album which gave us a futuristic back drop to electronic back beats behind whimsical melodies. The lyrics are prophetic as one day we will need those vitamins to defeat those ill intentioned machines. The profound lyrics of ‘do you realize’ has lived rent free in my head for 23 years because you really do have a beautiful face.
Tom Petty is one of my top 10 all time artists but other than the two hits on this freshman album the rest was just Meh. I’m giving it 4 stars because those two hits would buy him the runway to make killer albums like Full Moon Fever, Wildflowers & Into the Great Wide Open.
British fun house music. It’s what I’d expect to hear walking into a haunted ride at the Wessex county fair. Our House was a childhood staple on MTV.
Couple of good songs. Not really my jam.
Too many UK albums of middling talent on this list
One of my mother’s favorite albums when I was growing up.
Rocking album!
Couple really good songs
Psychedelia permeates the album. Heavy Syd Barrett influences. Always been a fan of Scarecrow from the relics album. Some of these songs really don’t hold up but the album would create a foundation for some of the greatest music ever created.
Meh. Too much milquetoast British rock on this list.
solid song writing. Fast car is one of those songs that can transport you back 30 years to when we really did speed so fast it felt like we were drunk.
Classic
Hard to find the album on Spotify. Ended up listening to individual songs from other sources.
Not really my thing
I can appreciate the talent but it’s not something I’m going to seek out for my listening pleasure.
I actually liked this album. It reminded me a little of early Bare Naked Ladies.
I was never a huge Wilco fan in the early 2000s, but after listening to the entire album I get the appeal.
Top 10 all time albums. Start to finish a masterpiece.
It was ok.
One late summer night in the early 90s I put a TV on a stand at the end of my bed. From under the bed I pulled a small box with a ceramic pipe and baggie of herb. I loaded the bowl and pushed play on the VCR. The opening scene of Oliver Stone’s movie shows a young kid driving past the wreck of a Native American Chief whose death becomes a seminal moment for the man. I sparked the lighter and pulled a draw of fire through the pipe. As the car pulls away from the accident the camera sweeps away from the road high above the desert with the piano rain drops falling from the classic song Riders on the Storm. I blew the cloud of smoke over the tv screen as the title of the movie THE DOORS descended from the sky into the sand.
This album is a transport to the days between innocent and indulgence.
Truly a fantastic album
Decent jazz from the 80s
The band started out as a blues cover band, but it worked.
Lake a fire is a good song
This is a wonderful album from an artist whose time was too short on earth.
Perfect for dinner or holiday parties. Such a unique and nostalgic talent.
Fine jazz
Very artistic.
This record came out the summer of my senior year in HS, back when you put a CD in the player and listened to it start to finish. I have fond memories of GLove’s funky beats. This was a fun one to listen.
The first time I heard this album in the 90s I knew right away it was special. Still listening to it 30 years later.
Early 70s funk always grooves
Not my cup of tea. I don’t prefer singers to yell through every song.
Not interested in angry noise. I’m sure people love it, just not me.
Early 70s British Psychedelic rock meets a bit of eclectic punk. A fairly experimental album for the time. Bit of a Temu Pink Floyd.
Fun album
Bob always puts me in a good mood
Not really my cup of tea
Norwegian punk rock sounds about how you think it sounds
Very talented artists
Good stuff
Traditional blues from a bygone era
Interesting to hear global blues
Seminal right of passage album. One of the few albums that you discovered listening to on a Walkman while riding the bus in 8th grade while also being able to put it on years later as a freshman in college at a frat party. Kids will be discovering the violent femmes in 2050 and beyond.
I prefer more classical takes on these Christmas songs
I can appreciate the talent, but not something I would put on for my listening pleasure
I like some good Irish foot stomping but a little goes along way. Give me a pint of Guinness and a noisy pub in Dublin any old Saturday night.
No thanks.
Brought the underground rave EDM to the main stream in the mid 90s. I enjoyed their next album more back in the day, but this one set the stage. It gets a bit repetitive, but the beats are foundational to the genre.
A lovely capstone to an iconic American artist.
Siamese Dream is a top 10 all time album so when Mellon Collie came out in 1995 it was highly anticipated. The double album had both hits and some swing and misses. Overall I think the album deserves 5 stars because there are at least four or five gems that stand the test of time.
West African Blues very own Cincinnatus.
Yeah, no.
One of my mother’s favorite albums during my childhood. She passed in 2019 from pancreatic cancer. Her last concert was Elton John’s farewell tour. It will always occupy a special place anytime I hear it.
Temu Rush has a baby with Temu Joan jett
I was surprised how many samples I recognized from future songs that originated with this album. Little long and there were some gems and some stinkers.
Poetry set to renaissance tapestry. The first few minutes of each song are compelling but the repetition after minute 3 gets to be a burden. It’s certainly a creative and artistically styled album, but I wouldn’t call it good.
A few tunes that helped define a generation
Decent rap for the times
Pyramids is a decent song, but this wasn’t a great album.
One decent song. Not sure how albums like this make a top 1000 list.
Just a terrible album
Who is choosing these albums? There just isn’t a world where that album is in the top 1000.
Couple of memorable songs
This was a surprise. Good album.
Fun album
Better than I had expected
Have to hand it to Love for carving out her own place in music history
Funk meets disco
English punk is just not my thing
More English punk
Australian punk slightly better than English punk
80s English pop. Barley better than English 80s punk.
Yacht rock meets funk
Surprisingly decent
Avantgarde funk techno prob ahead of its time but not really that accessible to modern listeners.
Three decent songs that reminded me of middle school the rest of the album was trash.
Just more pop out of the UK. This list is peppered with it.
A defining album mainstreaming an entire genre of music to a mass population of young listeners. Every beginning guitarist wants to learn to play “One”. And Justice for All straddled hard rock and heavy metal which made it consumable on MTV while still providing a radial rush of defiance to popular culture.
Given the context of this album being recorded in 1980 it holds up fairly well. The end of disco gives way to a rebellious rock. The marketing and imagery for Iron Maiden is second only to the Grateful Dead.
Just never been much of a Bowie fan and this album was bad.
How do albums like this make this list?
This album surprised me. It was a nice mix of arrangements. That’s to say it was better than I thought it would be.
Having just listened to the 1998 Hole album, I actually thought this album was the better of the two.
It was fine
Innovative for 1973
Fine classic rock
How does this completely milk toast music make this list? There are 100 albums I could name that would be better than this nonesense.
Oh great! More 90s British punk. The author of this list definitely has a type, too bad she has terrible teeth and can’t cook for shit.
Decent British bull shit. Nice to hear the sample for Beck’s Deborah song.
Holy fuck. More British bull shit! I swear this list has to be a psy-op by the MI6 to see how much terrible music people can tolerate before they quit.
More British bull shit. I could literally move to London and not hear as much terrible music from the UK, because they are not even listening to this garbage. At this point I’m convinced this is a sadistic attempt to jack fuck my Spotify algorithm.
Classic mid 60s sound
More British music, this time the best the island has to offer
Defined a generation. Every Gen X had this cassette tape and could sing along with most of the album. Listening to it today brought back a lot of nostalgia. It was pretty far ahead of its time both lyrically and musically.
Surprisingly great album. You can hear the foundation of music I love from Avett Bros, Wide Spread, Cowboy Ween and heavily flavored with golden country classics. Loved the album and will be adding it to my master list.
If Zoolander and Autobahn had a baby they would make it listen to this album
There is a reason these guys were a one hit wonder, but that one hit is a damn good song.
Finally an album that deserves to be on this list. In fact this album would make a top 100.
Not their best album
The Grateful Dead’s worst album, which is not on this list, is better than this slop. MI6, you win again.
Great more British Bull Shit! This album is indicative of this entire list. One hit wonders who climbed the UK charts when the person picking the albums was in middle school. This album doesn’t even have the one hit wonder song on it, which means at some point we will get the other album from this band. The UK has some of the greatest musical artists of all time, Beatles, Zepplin, Floyd, Queen, Stones, Elton, Who, Sabbath, Clash, Cure…. They all belong in this list, but album after album we keep getting taxed with garbage to see how long we will keep listening. MI6 you win again, the psy-op is going brilliant.
More British music, The Who has a few albums that should be on this list, why would you pick this one? MI6 you win again!
Yacht rock
It’s the Beatles, they don’t make bad albums
They have some solid tunes, this is not the album I would have chosen for this list
Just absolute butcher of Comfortably Numb, sounded like The Bee Gees blew a line of crystal meth and played the song for a clown convention. MI6 you win again!
It was fine. Not really my cup, but I get the appeal
Where is my mind is a great song. The rest of the album is serviceable. 4 stars for the album cover alone.
A remarkable album
Yes! Another 80s British band that wrote their entire album on a Casio keyboard. I had no idea that so many of them existed. The author of this list certainly has a type. The psy-op is going beautifully. MI6 you win again.
Raising Hell deserves to be on this list. This album not so much. The effort to destroy my algorithm continues to succeed.
Different. Decent. In a gadda was a jam.
It was fine
I would rather listen to an 1 hour and 13 min duck fart
Decent. Not sure it’s a slam dunk to be on this list, but it’s probably close. The middle child of a famous family has it rough. I’ll give him 3 stars.
Finally an album that deserves to be on this list. Beck is a generational talent.
Better than I thought it would be
Holiday dinners, cocktails and cigars
Classic
Not her best album
I actually had higher expectations
Elvis doesn’t really make bad music, but nothing on this album outside of Blue Moon really stands out. He has so many other albums that deserve to be on this list, not sure this is one. Keep his gold records on here but cut this one to make room for new artists.
Reminds me of red velvet club rooms in the Alphabet City in the East Village. Smokin weed out of one hitters in the early 2000s when we were young and it was still risky. Bitches Brew would put you into a movie scene.
Interesting concept album.
Ironic title considering the music is neither modern nor country nor western. Has a very early 60s popular sound to it. Ray has a classic voice. Double Laps on this list are a little cumbersome. From a history of music perspective I can see why it would make the list.
Yeah. Ok. Deserves to be on the list.
Genesis has made some good music, too bad it wasn’t on this album. What in the band of merry minstrels is this renaissance fair is going on? Cut this album from the 1000.
I don’t mind an ethnic variety on a list of 1000 albums.
Solid album. Lots of radio play from this album back when we still listened to the radio. Someone Like You will always be an iconic song. Deserves to be on the list.
This was slightly better than I was expecting it to be, but that’s not saying much because I expected it to be terrible.
Solid album. It’s aged well. Too bad the brothers are head cases.
Hmm. Well, it wasn’t terrible. It wasn’t great. I can see how some people dig it.
The British bias on this list has to be an MI6 psyop.
Foundational album for an entire genre. I miss being young.
Willie the Pimp fucks.
Every Zeppelin album deserves to be on this list.
Some of these tunes make me think, I get it, then others are like, I definitely do not get it.
Big fan of the show Vikings
Yeah. Ok. I’m not huge on instrumentals but for 1977, there were some decent funky jazzy fusions.
Human Behaviour was on the radio when I was a junior in Hs. I thought it wasn’t great then and it hasn’t gotten any better. She whines through the entire album. How does this shit make the list?
Janis has some classic tunes. I’m fine with this album being on the list.
Like maybe in the background in the pool area of a French Riviera Resort. But being in this list. No.
Yay! More 80s British pop music and you didn’t even pick the one included in Pretty in Pink. MI6 you win again!
Temu Beatles. 36 songs GTFO! Most don’t hold up 60 years later.
Queen made some amazing music, too bad none of it was on this album!
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
This is their best album, or at least my favorite.
What in the yacht disco is this ginger doing?
This must be the DEI portion of the list
Yay! More 80s British bull shit. You won’t make me quit MI6! No matter how hard you try or how much terrible British music you keep throwing at me, I ain’t going anywhere.
Meh. It’s like trying to stuff a circus into a sausage casing.
I expected this to be better
Solid album from the lil ol’ band from Texas
Oh good. British electronica dance music. Just what I was missing in my life. Thanks MI6!
Not something I would listen to in rotation, but I’m glad it’s on the list. I like the diversity of having some more modern albums rather than constant 80s British pop.
I’m a life long Willie fan, but this arrangements of covers doesn’t belong on this list.
Yeah. Ok. Quintessential 80s pop culture album. Helped cement MTV in the early days that music videos could be creative. The film “Say Anything” is a classic
Sounds like something we would hear in the background of a fine dining restaurant in South America.
Wasn’t on Spotify. Found the artist on Apple Music, but not the entire album.
Meh. Using a skill saw sound effect for a song called chainsaw is such a British thing to do.
I expected more from this album
Finally an album worthy of this list
MI6 you win again. Another shit English band added to the Psy-op to see how long we will keep listening.
Hey, what do you know! A British Indie album on this list that isn’t putrid. Bravo!
Solid reggae album.
This is the quality of album that should make this list
More punk from the UK
If someone typed a prompt into AI and said I want you to make the worst garbage UK rock band, Skynet would spit out Motörhead.
Fairly decent album for the late 80s. Reminded me of being in middle school.
I can hear some pretty strong influences in this album like JJ Cale & ZZ Top. It’s a solid album.
This album is a time capsule of early 70s soul music. It holds up pretty well 50+ years later.
Icelandic music must be an acquired taste, if you can call what I just listened to music. What is up with the dead baby fetus cover? A few of the tunes have interesting melody bass lines, which keeps it from being a 1 star, but barely.
Seems a better fit for late 90s music rather then 2021.
Just not my cup of noise
One of the original 3 power chord rock bands. My dad had this album when I was growing up. Smoke on the Water is almost always one of the first songs a young guitarist learns to play.
3 stars for nostalgia. Been Caught Stealing brought back some memories of kegs in fields.
