Discovered A Tribe Called Quest through Midnight Marauder and The Low End Theory earlier this week, so this is a very fun happenstance.
This album is solid, especially for a first album. I still think MM and LET are better, but this is a solid entry. 5/5.
I understand the cultural importance of Bob Dylan, but his music doesn't resonate with me well. I don't like how his voice sounds when he sings, and the harmonica gets old very quickly especially when sustaining a single note.
There are some decent songs on the album though.
This was sometimes a painful listen. The album gets better as it develops, but the first two songs had me thinking it was a joke. The production quality was abysmal with instruments sounding like I was listening to some random high school band practicing in the music room.
This is probably the worst album of the three I've listened to so far from pretty much every standpoint.
Pretty good album with some solid songs, but some a little bit more experimental that don't hit quite as hard.
Still, an enjoyable listen.
Very good album with a nice sound to it.
Barbarism Beings at Home has a excellent instrumental track and resonated very strongly.
Amazing discovery! I'd never heard of Skunk Anansie before but I love their sound! The album tapers off in the part that wasn't in the original tracklist but I won't judge it by that.
Very solid album.
Much better than the Bob Dylan album I'd listened to, but the lyrics didn't resonate with me at all.
This is the first time I'm getting an album that has a song I actually know.
I have a lot of feelings towards this album. I understand where it's coming from and how it was revolutionary in a way for its time, but I can't help but think this is music meant to be listened to live, as listening to it on my own makes it very underwhelming. The Ramones were more interested in being loud than in being interesting, it sounds like.
Still, it's not a BAD album, but it's trying something and not quite achieving it.
I didn't love how it started, but there were a couple of songs (like Afro Left and Space Shanty) that really vibed with me.
This is the first electronic music album I've gotten too, and considering how much of the music I normally listen to derives from electronic music, I think it's important to remark on its legacy.
There are a lot of techniques used in this album that I still hear very often.
Overall an enjoyable listen, though some songs bothered me a little more.
A couple of songs I recognize on this album! But overall, while the sound is okay, Billy Corgan's voice just bothers me a little too much, a bit like Bob Dylan's voice bothers me. This really affects my enjoyment of the album.
Enjoyable listen. Again, comparable to Bob Dylan, but with a better voice and a bit more self-awareness. I thought it was a fine album, but there were no songs that came to get me - they were all just passably fine to listen to.
First album from 50's, but a solid one. I knew Tutti Frutti, but I thought the rest of the album was very enjoyable to listen to.
Pretty good album! First reggae album, but definitely a solid one.
First song (The Kid from Red Bank) started extremely strong, but I think it did capture the spirit of the 50's Cold War era, but it makes for an intense listen. The more relaxed songs are a lot more enjoyable to listen to casually.
Overall, this is a very solid album, and while it starts off a little bit much, the rest of the album is extremely nice and fun to listen to.
This album makes it painfully obvious that the list was created in the early 2000's. While it's fine, it's definitely not an album I would consider particularly good or even influential. It's a fine album with Song 2 being the obvious popular one that I'd heard very often before. But while its songs sound nice, it doesn't have that "influential" vibe that I would expect from albums in this list.
This definitely sounds like the precursor to things like chillhop lofi music that I listen to all the time. However, there are some parts of the album that made me pause the music and stop for a little because it was a bit too much.
However, I can definitely tell this is a highly inspirational album.
A couple of songs I recognize from this album.
Definitely a solid metal album of the very early 80's. There was one section in Rapid Fire that felt like the guitarist had a great rift idea but had trouble executing.
That being said, it's very solid classic metal that is enjoyable to listen to.
Red, White & Blue kinda sucks though and really clashes with the rest of the album.
Pretty good album, very nice to listen to while doing working. I haven't been able to pay close attention to the music, but I'm sure there's a lot of think about based off of the small blurbs I could catch.
Definitely an artist I will continue to seek out.
I am a fan of metal in general, but this is barely listenable. The members barely stay in rhythm with each other and everyone plays so loud you're not even sure what you're listening to. As the album progresses, the sound gets a bit better however. I learned this is because the two sides of the album weren't produced by the same folks.
Like the Ramones, I feel like this is the kind of music that is meant to be experienced live, where a lot of noise drowns everything else and you create a massive moshpit.
That being said, this is undoubtedly an album that had an immense influence on death metal and the other types of metals that I use to listen to all the time as a teenager.
Very nice listening especially considering yesterday's album.
I like the mellow voice and almost ethereal sounds.
However, some songs almost sound like parodies of themselves, which is interesting, but I don't think that was where they wanted to go.
Some very classic Adult Contemporary. I know Adele is 25 on this album, but she has the gravitas and voice of someone much older.
There are obviously some songs I know from this album. Overall it's pretty enjoyable to listen to, but Adele does fall a little outside of the typical music I listen to. That being said, the quality of the songs and the production quality is definitely there, and I have no doubt Adele is going to influence music to come, though in the genre that she is, she sounds more like the culmination of singers that came before her (like Celine Dion or Mariah Carey). Only time will tell how this goes.
The presence of Bohemian Rhapsody makes it start at a 4 because it's too much of a banger. That being said, the rest of the album is not particularly excellent, though there are some other good listens in there.
Do I want to listen to the full album again? Probably not. Do I want to listen to Bohemian Rhapsody again? 100%. Without it the album would've probably been a 3.5.
I know Everybody Hurts is supposed to be the big hitting song of the album, but I find Man On The Moon to be a lot more agreeable.
Overall, this is just one of those other 90's album that I feel we have a ton of in this list. It's not bad, but it's not revolutionary either.
I'm getting sick of 90's alternative rock, but it would be disingenuous to give it anything below a 4; the album is still enjoyable.
I hadn't realized I'd never sat down and listened to Dead Kennedys, and I knew some of their songs.
This sounds exactly like I expect the early 80's brit punk scene to sound like, despite not being British, so very reminiscent of Ramones which I've already reviewed here. But, I think the sound of the Dead Kennedys is a TON more interesting than the Ramones. It sounds like the refined product of what Ramones tried to do.
California Uber Alles is particularly good and might make its way into my main playlist.
This is exactly the kind of album I was hoping to get with this generator.
I understand now why some (typically older) people call Electro music a bunch of alarms and random sounds - this is exactly what this album contains. But, they're able to make it sound coherent and give it musicality. If anything, it proves that any sound can be music if built around it.
Is it good? Sure, it's a vibe. Do I like it? Yes. I think it's well arranged, and interesting to listen to. It's definitely influential.
However, only giving it 4 stars because I don't think I'll be listening to it more often, despite it working really well.
I'm not even sure I would consider this Madonna's best album, so it's hard for me to say it's a great album.
I'm starting to see patterns in how the original author decided which albums to put on the list and which not to put, and I feel (pun intended) that this was added in an effort to recognize how electro music made its way into more mainstream popular albums.
Sure, I'll take it, but this is the late 90's, so it doesn't feel as important to note.
Overall, not bad, but not amazing either. Pretty mid.
The first impression with the first song didn't convince me, but as the album progressed, I really started to like it.
A great listen and overall enjoyed it quite a bit.
I can tell we're getting to more modern stuff because this is very close to the kind of thing I listen to.
Every Breath You Take is probably the reason this album is in here in the first place.
This is a fine album, but I wouldn't put it in my top 100 I don't think. I don't hate it as background music, but I don't think I'll ever actively listen to it ever again.
I am so very happy to be getting an album in a genre I don't know much about from an artist I've never heard of that sounds pretty good. This album is exactly why I'm using this generator.
This is a pretty solid list of tracks. Papa Was A Rollin' Stone is particularly good, and it looks like it's the most popular track of the album, for good reasons in my opinion.
This is one of my partner's childhood/adolescence album, and it does fall into the same years that I was also growing up. They are also songs I haven't listened to in a while.
Nasty Girl's slutshaming message was very bizarre, to the point where I'm thinking I must be reading it wrong.
Fancy has this weird quality where the beat sounds like a song from Ocarina of Time which I thought was funny.
It does feel like the album has very conflicting messages, but (thankfully) the songs that are the best lyrically (Independent Woman and Survivor) are also the best musically. This creates a huge divide in quality on the album. There are too many songs I would classify as 1's or 2's, and then there's Survivor which is probably a 5. I wish I could give this album a quantum ranking. In the absence of such a thing, I'm gonna have to give it a 3.
Oh boy. This is the first Kanye album I'm getting, though I think there are multiple.
I never really listened to Kanye before (apart from the obvious ones like POWER that used to be on the radio all the time).
It's extremely hard to dissociate the artist from the art when it comes to someone like Kanye.
The problem is, the album has some quite good songs. It's got very good beats on most tracks. Some of the lyrics are actually quite good too.
I cannot, in full objectivity, give this album anything below a 3, but the connection to the artist also prevents me from giving it a 5.
Hey look I'm gonna talk about Ramones again.
This is definitely within the same genre and within the same years, but The Clash sounds better overall. That being said, there weren't any songs I'd consider bangers on the album.
Overall enjoyable, but no more. I'd give it a 3.5 but I'll round it up to a 4 simply because this is pretty solid punk music for the 70's.
We're getting into more recent music and I can tell. I don't think I've ever listened to the Black Keys (at least not actively) before, but I've definitely listened to a ton of bands inspired by The Black Keys (or at least, within the same niche).
There is no part of me that can say this is not at least enjoyable, even if maybe generic.
Wow, this is pretty good! I'd never head of Suede before, and they've got a vibe that really works with me.
However, I don't think there was any single song that resonated with me, but the album overall is cohesive and nice to listen to.
I was bracing something as bad as Napalm Death from the year and the album name, but this was surprisingly better.
The sound quality is absolutely bad. The songs themselves at least have musicality. If I'd discovered this when I was 15 or 16, I would probably have liked it a lot, but in hindsight, this is just okay.
Would give 2.5 stars, but deciding to round it down.
Let's be honest: this is noise, but it's good noise. There's definitely musicality in it, and I can respect that a lot.
The titles for the songs are quite nice.
Will I listen to it again? I don't think so. But I cannot in all honesty say I didn't enjoy myself at least a little bit.
"Flow My Tears The Spider Said" is pretty solid. 2.5 stars, rounding up.
I saw "Post-Punk" as its genre, but this sounds absolutely nothing link punk.
It has a strong ethereal quality that I really enjoy. Definitely the kind of album I was hoping to get in this list.
Quite enjoyable, but unlikely I'll be listening to a lot of it in the future.
Enjoyable music, but nothing too crazy. I liked listening to it, but it's unlikely I'd listen to it again.
The crazy part is that Summer Breeze is the basis for a song I love from Vanilla. I had no idea this was taken from here. It's probably my favourite song of the album.
Bumping it up to 4 just because Summer Breeze is a banger
Not very interesting. It's not bad, but it's not great either.
I'm not sure I understand why this album is in here.
I'm only 4 minutes into the first song and I want to give up on the rest of the album so bad. This is barely listenable. The only musician that seems to know what they're doing is the drummer. Okay, second song and the bassist is also not bad. But the guitar and the vocals are truly awful, and they're put way too much at the forefront.
As the album progresses, I realize the first song was probably the worst. Either that, or I got used to the sound after a while and drowned it out.
Either way, physically hurts to listen to. 1/5.
I feel like I've heard of Gang Of Four, but I don't think I'd ever listened to their music.
It's pretty alright. I don't hate it, but I don't think it's an album that's going to stick with me either.
It's got some avant-garde sounds that I was bracing for, but it's more underhanded, so it doesn't come off as wrong.
Pretty enjoyable. Aqualung was probably my favourite track.
Gosh am I a sucker for Jazz. This is really good music.
My biggest issue was finding a version of this album with good enough audio quality, but YouTube came to the rescue here.
I don't really love self-aggrandizing music, and Jay-Z seems to be a perfect example of this style in the rap genre.
There are also no songs that really got to me. The best I can compare him to is Kanye's album I had gotten a few weeks ago, Kanye's beats were better, and the lyrics a bit more self-aware (though that would be lost to him later in life).
I'm surprised there's a Live album on this list. Maybe I have an anti-live album bias. Maybe it's a good thing that there's a live album to specifically combat this bias. I still don't think I enjoyed having the album be live though.
Some of the solos are way too long (like the drum part in The Mule), much longer than they need to be. The songs themselves aren't bad, but the solos are too uninteresting and long.
R.E.M. isn't a strong enough band to warrant two albums on this list.
This album isn't as strong as Automatic For The People, but it sounds very similar.
I would give it 3.5, rounding down.
Depeche Mode is one of those bands that I never actively listened to (despite knowing a few of their songs).
It's solid music. Great sound, perfect ambiance. Very enjoyable.
I'm debating whether it's a 4 or a 5.
This is a fine album. I had very low expectations due to how annoyed I end up being about Wonderwall, but the songs are pretty good over all.
I would give it a 3.5. Still deciding if I'm rounding up or down.
It was fine, but nothing amazing. This would likely be slightly below a 3, but I'm rounding up to a 3.
This album goes from annoying to generic and I don't think I love this.
Still, not completely unlistenable. 2 stars.
Some songs are actually enjoyable and fit right into what I like.
Some songs are not enjoyable at all.
I would give it a quantum ranking of 2 and 4.
That's a fine album. The singer sometimes reminds me of Bob Dylan and that's not a good thing for me.
The music is good though.
3.2 stars, rounding down.
Do I wanna be a contrarian or is that not that good?
I get this is from the 50's and really kick started rock'n'roll, but it's not nearly as good as I would have expected.
Would give probably 3.5, but rounding for disappointment.
2025 is the year I actually get Hip Hop.
This is a pretty solid album, with nice beats. It's not nearly as good as A Tribe Called Quest (from the same era), but it's still pretty solid.
Some songs are very filler-y and really bring down the quality of the album.
Some of the lyrics are really a turn off too.
Would've been a 4 but the lyrics make it a 3.
Pretty nice album - solid voice, nice accompanying music. It's obvious Ella Fitzgerald's voice is the thing being put forward on this album.
It's nice background music, but I don't know how much I'd want to actively listen to this.
This is what I was hoping most albums would be. Instead, we're stuck with music from the anglosphere that influenced other music from the anglosphere.
I'm absolutely glad we got a Senegalese artist singing in different languages, for once.
That being said, the album was quite fine, probably a 3. But, just because of the variety it adds, I'm bumping it up to a 4.
There are like two good songs on this album. The rest is bad. Some of them are downright annoying.
I thought I would like this album considering I've been getting into Hip Hop and I knew I kinda liked some of his songs. But this is just not good.
This is my second Beck album. I'd rated the first one a 4, and I think this is a similarly solid album.
Pretty solid album with catchy tunes. Did not overstay its welcome.
However, there were no songs that were outstandingly catchy.
Beastie Boys always sounds a little bit annoying to me. I don't think there was a single song that I really enjoyed.
It still was listenable, so avoiding the 1/5.
