Hasn't aged all that well, but some great tunes. Might have given it 5 stars except for the terrible first song "Invaders."
Hasn't aged at all well. A mix of silly pop songs and white boys trying to sing the blues.
Really liked this. Didn't know much about the Cure before but found it really interesting and atmospheric.
Decent pop singer songwriter stuff. Not really my thing but some huge hits. Would have given it a neutral 3 stars except that her whiny nasal voice really started to grate by the end!
Electronica for middle aged middle class White people, but some super catchy tunes in the first half of the album. Gets a bit generic ambient towards the end.
The point at which Metallica shift from a metal band to a stadium rock band? Some great songs (that have been overplayed to death) and some filler. Metallica lyrics are always pretty stupid but here it seems like they're trying to be deep but failing massively.
I tried to give it my best shot but I just really didn't enjoy this at all. I'm sure at the time a woman singing about being empowered sexually was unusual and ground-breaking...but the music did nothing for me.
Had never heard of this band... Heard that it was Americana which sounds like something I would like. In the end it was decent but it didn't really grab me.
Hadn't listened to this in ages. Forgot just how good it was.
Great proggy rock.
Didn't really get into this at all. Quite background-y.
Maybe if I knew more about hip-hop I would be more impressed?
I'd never really listened to Patti Smith before but I liked this a lot. A little punky, a little Doors-y.
Some interesting stuff but a lot of funk-disco jams. Kind of liked it but it didn't grab me.
I enjoyed this. It was some fun kind of pop rock and roll. I don't really understand why it's in the 1001 albums list though?
Was tossing up between 3 and 4 stars but gave it 4 because I really liked Watching The Defectives.
Hasn't aged that well but I suspect inspired a lot of 80s hair metal. Some great cheesy tunes.
I really liked this. Poignant and sad in places but really good.
Probably quite influential on all the garage rock bands of the noughties but I didn't find it all that exciting.
Some great songs in amongst a bloated concept album that probably isn't quite as clever as Pink Floyd think it is. Gave it 4 for the classic songs but someone really should have had a word.
Well this was very country. The older I get the more I like folksy/country music. This was a bit twangy yee-haw for me but I didn't hate it. I was surprised it was as recent as 1965.
I'd heard of Adam and the Ants before but never actually heard them. Not what I was expecting but also not very exciting. Kind of standard 80s glam rock/new wave?
I was really excited when I saw this come up as I've never listened to much Aretha Franklin but I was kind of disappointed. Her voice is amazing but the songs never grabbed me and her version of Drown In My Own Tears was kind of meh.
I've never listened to this album, but I liked it a lot. Almost gave it 5 stars. I didn't think the "hit" songs on this were as good as their best but a consistently enjoyable album.
I liked this a lot but didn't love it - very short and a little too background-y in places.
Bluesy rock is a genre I normally really like but this didn't really grab me.
Nick Cave: "I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
Did I expect to enjoy this? No. Did I go in with preconceived expectations? Yes.
I just don't get what people see in the RHCP. It's like someone took an annoying high school white boy funk band and decided what they really needed was a super-whiny singer.
I thought Give It Away was about a bad a song as they could make... But then the next song was even worse!
Didn't love this on a first listen but it kind of grew on me. Was tossing up between 3 and 4 stars.
Not quite a 5 for me. Some great songs (I'm on Fire, Dancing in the Dark) but also a lot of fine but not exciting pop-rock filler (Darlington County, Working on the Highway).
I liked the song Aqualung in all its creepy glory, but the rest of the album was a bit samey/generic folk rock to me. Cool flute-ness but nothing really caught me.
A few great songs and a few that drag a bit. I really liked Sin City and their version of Do Right Woman.
I loved the title track and I enjoyed the one about the steam train. I really wanted to like the rest but I just never really got into it.
I think a later poppier MSP CD might have been my first ever album. Interesting to listen to their punkier stuff. I liked a few songs but found most of it wasn't very catchy.
I haven't listened to this for ages but what a weird concept and what a cool album. June Carter's voice on Jackson is really something else!
Some interesting pop-blues-rock. I really liked 4 or 5 of the tracks and then some of the others were pretty meh.
I really like this album. Bluesy proggy rock but with a Latin twist. Great cover of Black Magic Woman and I really like Oye Como Va and Samba Pa Ti.
Tossing up between a 3 and 4 but probably just a 4 from me. Some cool sounds and tunes and I like the singer's voice a lot. Some filler too.
You can definitely see where they were going with this but I didn't find anything as good as later CSN/Neil Young songs.
Meh, sounded like pretty generic hip-hop. Wasn't a fan.
Basic bitch pop rock but very well done, some very good songs. Given how good their best songs are it baffles me how much complete dross U2 have put out.
Generic clubby dance music. Maybe this is wildly significant and important but if it is, it's lost on me! Some nostalgia but mostly just kind of annoying. Would have been better without the obnoxious auto-tune.
I really liked the vibe of the first few songs when I listened - a bit Beck meets Bill Callaghan. Ended up quite liking it, but even after a couple of listens nothing really grabbed me.
I have Joy Division's other album on CD but had never heard most of this. I really liked it. Not always the easiest thing to listen to, but interesting and different.
I liked this album quite a lot and was tossing up giving it 5 stars. In the end I didn't think there quite enough killer songs for 5.
I like the style of music and I like a lot of the songs...but for some reason I wasn't a massive fan of these versions of these songs. Didn't love the singer's voice and a lot of the songs felt quite slow and laboured.
I didn't love her voice which I found quite nasally. None of the songs really caught my attention. Basically I didn't really like it, although I thought some of the backing music was quite cool.
I liked bits of this, but other bits drifted. I've listened to another Jane's Addiction album which seemed a bit more focused.
I thought I really liked this album but actually when I listened to it this time I didn't love it quite as much. Still very good though!
Liked the first couple of songs a lot but nothing after that really grabbed me.
I really liked this. More than I expected to.
Nice to go back to a 30- something minute album rather than 1 hour +.
Meh, pretty generic punk. I guess this was influential in some way? Didn't love it.
What if we take all the genres of music we know about and put them on one album?!
Not what I was expecting at all. I quite liked it but nothing really grabbed me.
A weird hodge podge of not very interesting songs. I thought I would like this. I didn't.
When I was 14 or 15 I was considering buying this album on CD. My friend Ben told me that I shouldn't because it was "rich white boys singing about how angry they are that their parents wouldn't give them enough pocket money." So I didn't.
I was expecting to hate this, but I didn't. Not a great album by any means, but some fun songs.
I quite like Bob Marley but I found this album a bit meh. This version of No Woman No Cry is nowhere near as good as the live one.
My sister had this on CD when I was 13 or so. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I actually enjoyed this. I don't know that I've listened to it for 20+ years.
Coldplay, but better, before Coldplay existed?
3 stars for the music, plus 1 for nostalgia value.
Some good songs, a great song (7 o clock news) and quite a lot of filler. The Bob Dylan pastiche is kind of terrible. Generally I thought this was good but a bit too twee in places.
Controversial opinion but I don't really like Any Winehouse's voice. I get this album was huge and influential but meh.
Tossing up between 3 and 4. I really like Walk on the Wild Side, and I really like Lou Reed's voice, but I felt like a lot of this album could basically be some Velvet Underground b-sides.
This was really fun! Jazzy rock and rolly weirdness. I liked it.
Tossing up between 2 and 3 stars.
Electropop without any catchy tunes.
Meh.
I liked this, fun bluesy-guitar stuff.
Kind of weird hearing Rod Stewart singing, but not the lead.
I really liked some of this. Some of the songs about whiskey and the bottle were a bit too country even for me, but I really like her voice.
I really liked aspects of this, much more than I expected to.
Good tunes, cool samples - the only bit I didn't like was their very whiny voices. 3.5 stars.
I expected to hate this based on Girls Just Wanna Have Fun but there were actually some pretty cool songs. I had no idea she wrote Time After Time.
Some cheesy bangers on here, but at the end it was all just very samey.
A real mixed bag. Some white boy blues and some decent soft-rock. Would have given it a higher score, but the pointless cover of I Shot the Sherriff, complete with white boy reggae and awful fake-Jamaican accent, is atrocious.
I'm sure it was important and significant, and I liked some of the samples, but I never really got into it.
Some nice tunes but a lot of it I found quite backgroundy. I'm not a huge soul person and I find the vocal histrionics a bit offputting in places.
Some interesting songs and I could imagine it would be a good movie...but doesn't really work as an album to me. Too much plot exposition etc.
Amazing album. It all went downhill after this for Metallica in my opinion, but this is a masterpiece.
I liked the two famous songs on this album and I quite liked the rest...but it was just very background-y. Maybe if I listened to it a bunch more times, I'd get into it.
Generic cock rock. No idea how this made the 1001 albums list in 1987 given people like AC/DC had already been doing it for a decade by then.
Sounded it like it could have been the soundtrack to This Is Spinal Tap if the lyrics had been funny and the band had been in on the joke.
I liked this quite a lot, more than I expected to. I'm not a big funk/soul person but this was kind of cool and despite being a movie soundtrack, it held my attention pretty well. 3.5 stars.
Haunting, sparse, beautiful.
I love Billy Bragg, I like Wilco so I had high hopes. So this was a huge disappointment. Really liked Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key and Birds and Ships but most of the rest is pretty meh.
An eclectic mix, but I generally really liked it. Moody and interesting, if a little inconsistent.
I'm sure this is very clever and very good if you're into this kind of thing.
But I'm too ignorant to understand so a lot of it was just very background-y without much of a tune. I liked the odd bit but never really got into it. 2.5 stars.
More generic Britpop - again no idea why this is on the list. I quite enjoyed it though, catchier tunes than the previous Supergrass album I had a few months ago.
This was really fun. Had never hurt of them before this but enjoyed the eclectic funny rock/pop songs.
Meh. Pretty generic melodic/poppy metal. No idea why this is on the 1001 albums list.
I really liked this. A bit funky, a bit prog, good fun. Almost gave it 5.
I quite liked this, but I could never really shake the feeling that it felt like an album of unreleased "leftover" Beatles tracks. Band On The Run is a great song, but the rest is...fine. Not bad by any stretch, but not great easier. Tossing up between 3 and 4 stars.
A very eclectic mix and some interesting stuff in there but as a whole it never really caught me.
A lot of bands I really like are apparently really influenced by Sonic Youth. This was fine, but didn't love it.
Some nice pop songs but very samey by the end.
I liked this a lot more than the previous Aretha Franklin album I got a while back. Some great tunes done really well.
I was quite excited about this album. I like the Rolling Stones and have listened to quite a few albums of theirs but not this one. In the end it was fine, but nothing really grabbed me. A lot of pretty samey country blues. Really enjoyed their version of Stop Breaking Down.
Perfectly fine background music.
I could have hurt this album ten times in restaurants and I'm not sure I would have remembered it.
I can't believe this album is over 30 years old - it sounds like "modern" music to me but it was as close to the Beatles early stuff as it is to the current day.
Some fun tunes and I really liked the very heavy guitars on a pop-rock thing they have on some songs.
Based on the timing, I guess this was very influential but it's not very interesting to listen to. Not nearly as fun as other early punk like the Sex Pistols and the Ramones.
Really enjoyed the first few songs but then it got slower and less interesting. Still a fun album.
Beautiful voice and some cool tunes but quite same-y. I suspect if you really like this sort of thing it's great but it's not really my cup of tea.
Didn't like her voice, didn't get into any of the tunes. Meh all a bit backgroundy. Lyrics have a lot of attitude but didn't make it any less forgettable. Is Badass Background a genre?
Not really a style of music I listen to any more, but this was one of the first CDs I owned when I was about 13.
Hadn't listened to Fatboy Slim in decades...but it's actually kind of good. Seeing him live in this era must have been pretty amazing.
I thought I would really like this as I only knew the big hits from it. Listened a couple of times through and never really got into it - really liked Wait In Vain, One Love, and Three Little Birds but the rest didn't really catch me.
I didn't really know the Pretenders but I had a vague thought they were a kind of genetic synth pop group. I liked this way more than I expected. Much rockier and punkier than I thought it would be.
Reminded me of The Who at their most proggy. Decent but nothing that seemed that new or different.
Early Metallica but a lot heavier and without the catchy tunes. Didn't love the singing style, liked a lot of the guitar tone. Just felt it could have done with some catchier tunes.
Maybe if I listened to this more I'd get into it, but it never really caught me on two runs through. A bit too clever and nerdy?
Generic jangly blues-pop.
Music was about to get a whole lot better in the next few years but this was pretty average.
Quite fun. Sort of like the Modern Lovers if they were punkier. Nothing too life-changing, and apart from Blister In The Sun, nothing too memorable.
A strange mix, some great psychedelic songs and then some pretty forgettable kind of soft-folk stuff.
I think this is a very good album. I have no idea why it's on this list. I don't think there's anything particularly new about it - it's just indie-rock done well.
Relatively interesting background lounge jazz. Not sure why I needed to hear this before I died.
Pretty awful. Sounds like a weird pastiche of Michael Jackson done by some White English guys. No idea why it's in the book.
Just never really got into this, no tunes to catch onto. I really like some of his other music but this didn't grab me at all. Tossing up between two and three stars.
Really liked this. Nice songs and just the right amount of instrumentation to be interesting but not distracting.
A couple of interesting electronica bits and then a lot of quite generic 80s pop. Definitely didn't feel as fresh/interesting/different as the Joy Division stuff to me.
Catchy pop-rock with some funky basslines. Decent, but not sure what is new about it.
I had never heard of Neu! and this is a bizarrely eclectic album with some very modern-sounding ambient stuff and a couple of punk songs (before punk was invented). Great, and finding stuff like this is the reason I do the 1001 albums thing.
Didn't love this musically. The sexual politics has not aged well.
I've listened to this album a few times in the past because I feel like I *should* really like it...but I just find it impenetrable. She has an amazing voice but I don't find the songs very interesting.
Not a huge funk fan generally but this album is pretty awesome. Fat and dirty.
Nice indie pop. Very good but not great.
I don't know loads of Pixies stuff, but what I know I really like. So I was kind of excited to see this.
I mean it's fine. But when you're doing pop-post-punk you need some catchy tunes, and I didn't really find any here. Just not in the same league as Doolittle and I don't really understand why it's in the book.
I liked what they were trying to do with the art rock thing but didn't think they quite pulled it off. "Ooooh, we've got a song in German" - great, but it's not a very interesting song.
Never heard of this band but this was kind of fun. Wholesome feel good funky rap. Nothing blew me away, but I quite enjoyed it. Almost four stars.
Love the songs - didn't think these were the most exciting recordings of them, but still almost gave this a 5.
This is a really good album. Their best in my opinion. It's a pity the lead singer turned out to be a creep.
I know this is White Boy Blues but I think it's a fresh and interesting take on the blues. A great album for me.
Quite fun cheesy blues music. Quite enjoyed listening to it but not sure I'll ever listen to it again. Almost 4 stars, but not quite.
A pretty cool live blues album. Teenage me would have absolutely loved this. For 40-year old me, it was probably just a 4*. Super talented musician and some cool segments in the epic jams, but I just don't get as excited about 20 minute guitar solos as I used to.
Some good songs... Almost gave it a 4. Amazing how dated this and a lot of other music from the mid-late 60s sounds now compared with what was about to come.
Psycho Killer is a great song. Unfortunately a lot of this album just feels like less good versions of Psycho Killer - quirky pop rock with social commentary, but not done as well.
Kind of interested to listen to this...I thought it would be funky. Maybe the funk phase came later. This just felt like a not very interesting live recording of some soul-type music. Didn't love it.
I was a huge fan of Blur back in the day, and still like them a lot.
This album is fine, but not one of their best, in my opinion.
I knew a couple of tracks but that was basically all the NIN I knew. This is pretty cool - occasionally hard to listen to, but some great songs.
I really liked this album. I knew BB King was a great blues guitarist, but I didn't know he had such a cool voice. Almost gave this 5 stars.
Meh... Just not a style I'm really in to.
Beautiful voice but not a style of music I love. Quite enjoyed it but probably won't ever listen to it again.
This album is a real mixed bag. The End is an amazing song. Break on Through (To the Other Side) and Light My Fire are fantastic....and then there's a lot of pretty paint-by-numbers psychedelic pop, e.g. Twentieth Century Fox, I Looked At You.
Generally very good, but I wish they'd had better quality control.
Never heard this before but I quite like it. Chill guitar-driven lo-fi pop-rock. I guess quite influential on a lot of noughties lo-fi music?
Great album...very close to giving it 5 stars. Funny lyrics and catchy tunes - and somehow never takes itself too seriously.
