I listened to this album too many times as a teenager... I still acknowledge its merit but I can't think of it anymore as music for grown-ups. In particular, they take themeselves so fucking seriously: not a glimpse of irony or detachment here. Especially in your lyrics, Roger. It's still somewhat touching how you talk about Syd but, hey man, let's not forget you kicked him out of the band!
Outstanding, especially for being a country album, one of the most boring genres ever invented by humans. But the story behind it, the fact that he was singing those things in that place, the raw energy of the performance, and how the audience reacted to it and interacted with him make a fucking masterpiece out of it.
With the exception of the two obvious songs, soooo boring...
This album brings me back to my youth but it is still quite annoying, starting from the famous singles: as many have already noticed Liam Gallagher's singing is a constant whining howl... In comparison Oasis' first album (that I had never bothered to listen to before today) sounds much more enjoyable...
Simply one of the best debuts (and albums in general) of all time
Really unremarkable. I could have happily died without listening to it...
Not very inspiring... Often, I don't even get the work of his brother Brian (hailed as a genius by almost everyone), how could I find this album interesting?
Not the best they did but, hey, it's still Velvet Underground
I didn't know her and, after reading the presentation, didn't have high expectations but I ended up enjoying this one...
A couple of OK songs while the rest sounds like annoying rap on top of the background music of a porn movie from the 70s
My least favourite Police album, enjoyable but not that great.
Masterpiece. I had always focused on Siouxie's voice and McGeoch's guitar, both amazing, but today I was mostly caught by the rythm section, especially the wild percussions (those toms!)
Beautiful. Never had the chance to listen to a whole Cohen's album. At times repetitive and not really my genre, but 2-3 amazing songs (Avalanche, Famous blue raincoat, Love calls you by your name) alone deserve 4 stars...
Classic masterpiece, no-brainer 5 stars. The perfect blend of popular music and experimentation. And Damo Suzuki is one of the most original (craziest) vocalists ever...
A collection of bland songs (the only one I kind of enjoy is smooth criminal) with an awful production: literally the sound of the 80s in the derogatory sense of the phrase... While the commercial success might be understandable, the critical acclaim will always be a mystery to me.
Too long: it gets repetitive and boring in the end. A single album with the first 7-8 songs would have deserved 4 stars...
Most of it sounds fun but it loses one star because the lyrics are just too silly (how many times they talk about "girlies"?)
An OK album at times enjoyable but as a debut in, say, 1968 it would have been acceptable but in 1976 it was just lame... Come on, punk was behind the corner, Velvet Underground and Stooges were history, Patti Smith, Ramones, Talking Heads, Television were regularly playing at CBGB (and some had already debuted)
I am not a hip-hop fan but I actually enjoyed this one, especially the politically charged lyrics
Perhaps this is not the most compelling Tom Waits' album but still a great one: great sound, great lyrics, great cover...
This album represents the perfect combination of the most annoying aspects of prog rock and 70s pop
1001 albums generator, why do you keep giving me boring 60s pop albums and not the good stuff of that decade? This one has got one good song while the rest is unintersting. Plus, the band's name is stupid and the album cover is ridicolous...
Nice songwriting, energy and political lyrics
This was a discovery. I had never had the chance to listen to ELO (not even Mr Blue Sky!) and I actually enjoyed it a lot. Most of the songs are a lot of fun and arrangements and orchestration are awesome. Sweet Talkin' Woman and Across the Border (with its mariachi trumpets) are the highlights in my opinion. Certainly a bit too baroque for my taste and quite long but surprisingly never boring!
Honest R&B, a few nice songs (my favourite is the title track), but honestly there is nothing really memorable here...
True, it's awfully long, music and lyrics are shite, and the voice of what-the-fuck-is-his-name is outrageous... but look at the cover art!
Not impressed, probably just not my genre...
Again, this project gave me the occasion to listen to an album of an artist I never cared about, and I was positively surprised.
This is a pleasant pop album with solid songwriting. While I don't personally get songs like Just the Way You Are (despite being quite celebrated), the upbeat pieces are great.
I don't get the point of it, like about 90% of hip hop albums...
The album of a synth pop act transitioning to (arty) pop with no synth. Good but I still prefer both what they did before and after.
Timely I got this on december 25th, but no matter how talented the artists and fancy the production, christmas songs suck in all epochs and latitudes.
If you add that the producer was an abusive piece of shit and later a murderer, how can one give it more than 1 star?
Excellent minimalistic synth pop, especially for a debut. Reminds me of Young Marble Giants plus electronica (and 30 years later).
This is an honest jazz album and the sound of the hammond is always amazing, but I didn't find spectacular: until the last minute, I was hoping the songs of chickens would suddenly pop up...
Combining the geniuses of Iggy Pop and David Bowie, nothing can go wrong. The album would already deserve five stars only for China Girl (that, with its threatening atmosphere, sounds way better than Bowie's pop version) plus here there are Dum Dum Boys, Sister Midnight, Nighclubbing...
I expected to hate this album but I didn't. Admittedly, it is too long and vocals and lyrics are often ridicolous, let alone the album's "concept". (Which is appropriate to a ludicrous clown such as MM.) However, the industrial vibes (I guess to be ascribed to Trent Reznor's production) are not that bad...
I am afraid I will never get hip hop, so I was not really impressed by this album but I didn't dislike its jazzy atmosphere...
My favourite Patti Smith's work and one of the best albums of all times. As it's been repeatedly pointed out in other comments, does anyone remember an opening line as powerful as "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"? Every song is a poem and there is not a single filler. And of course the music and Patti's voice are terrific: pure raw energy.
I think that Outside and this one are the only truly convincing Bowie's albums after Let's Dance. For sure it's not particularly original but at least very energetic. My favourite pieces are Valentine's day and You will set the world on fire, which are the most powerful and, not by coincidence, two of the few where Earl Slick plays.
Depressingly beautiful.
(Especially knowing what the boy was experiencing in those years and how it ended.)
I have always loved this album: song writing, guitar and vocals are just perfect.
Never heard of it before. Cool stuff.
The songs are overall enjoyable but, as for Tom Petty, debutting with this stuff in '76 (and few hundred miles from the CBGB) sounds sooo outadated...
Let's be clear: I am a big fan of Radiohead and, unlike many others, I started to listen them from Kid A on, so I am quite biased...
Kid A was a breakthrough album of a band that was already great, something like Sgt. Pepper, and Amnesiac was concieved and recorded during the same sessions, so it's basically Kid A - Part B...
Together they make the best music of the '00s and probably still the best produced in this century.
Not my genre but overall nice. How they use synths is quite impressive for a soul/funk album...
First time I listened to a Grateful Dead's album and, fuck no, you should have let me die without doing that. I can't imagine a single reason why anyone would produce or listen to such boring shit (back then and now). It's just 42 minutes but it felt like 3 hours, I had a hard time getting through it. I was shocked seeing that "Ripple" (one of the blandest and most unimaginative stuff I recently heard) has got almost 100 millions listening on spotify. People, get a life.
There is not a single reason why this album should belong to this list. This is neither country nor pop, but something that sucks as much as country and pop do...
Third shitty country album *in a row*. Third 1-star album in a row... Please give me a break, album generator!
While I was familiar with the obvious later albums by The Who, I never bothered to listen to this one, thinking it would be "immature" or "raw". Well, it kind of is, but in a good way. The sound is really rough and hard for '65 and, although the production does not really higlight it, Keith Moon's drumming is amazing -- I invite you to check him out in the videos of the concerts of that period: he is insane in every sense.
The only negative aspect is Daltrey's vocals: he sings well but he has got no personality, his voice sounds different in every song and his imitation of american accents is quite ridicolous (worse than Mick Jagger's, who, on the other hand, in terms of personality and recognizability had almost no peer). This is also the reason why the James Brown's covers are not reallt convincing...
Well, it's still (or perhaps should I say "already"?) the Beatles, so the vocals are great and there are some good original songs, but it's definitely not an album I would listen to very often...
Great voice, sounds, atmosphere. One of the (many) great scottish bands.
"Slippery When Wet was an instant commercial success, spending eight weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and was named by Billboard as the top-selling album of 1987."
This is the irrefutable demonstration that people haven't become stupid because of the internet, or social networks, or smartphones. They have always been. These technologies just made the fact blatant. However, already 40 years ago, the hints were clear enough to those who wanted to see them.
My favourite PJ's record, absolute masterpiece. Songwriting, arrangements, vocals: everything is perfect.
[Commenters of the kind "Anything making England sound good can fuck off" or "This album makes me proud that the USA seceded from England" are just American losers. Go back listening to your funcking country music, suckers.]
Don't get it at all. In addition, did she really need to add minutes of tedious chitchat after almost every song? Was it not long enough?
When I was a teenager (wasn't this originally music for teenagers, by the way?) I didn't like this record as much as II or IV, finding it too bluesy...
I find it more satisfying now, definitely at the level of the best Blues-Rock of the times (say, the Stones...) but heavier...
This was the first time I listened to an entire Bob Marley's record, of which I only know the most famous songs. Excellent song writing, vocals and arrangements. (And the social/political touch of certain lyrics is great too.) All in all, lot of fun.
As someone else pointed out, the guy managed to produce one hour of music that sounds exactly the same, something that not even minimilast composers such as Steve Reich ever achieved.
I don't see a single reason why one would like to listen to this stuff outside of an elevator. (And given how long the record is, that means that you are probably stuck in the fucking elevator, it must be no fun.)
Since I had little expectation, I found it surprisingly good!
Great record. In particular, electric pianos and synths are amazing.
I expected to hate this record but I actually found it more than listenable. Sure, it's punk rock as much as I am Marylin Monroe, let's call it pop rock, but who cares?
Despite being a fan of the period and the genre, I did not know them at all. Slick new wave sound, I like it.
Not my favourite Primal Scream album but still great stuff
Fantastic voice, of course, but the songs are not so exciting...
Yeah live rock albums are rarely interesting but this one at least lets us know that the guys sounded much more interesting live than in studio (compare it to Tommy...)
Keith Moon's drumming is pure amazing mayhem
Fun but not that impressive, I had higher expectations...
Listenable but, come in, there is really nothing memorable here. It's also way too long.
I haven't reached 8% of this project yet, but it has already made me understand why I don't like American music (with the obvious exceptions): it's because American music sucks (with the obvious exceptions).
Not as boring as Hejira but, again, I don't find much to be excited about here. As someone else noticed, the lady did not really bother to write choruses or melodies in general...
This one was short, at least.
Same great voice but more interesting songs than in I never loved a man...
Who the fuck is this guy and why should he belong here? This is one of the shittiest album on this project so far. It's difficult to conceive a more boring and useless collection of songs.
As if that were not enough, Phil Spector here demonstrates that, on top of being a horrible human, he was also an awful producer and his "wall of sound" was pure bullshit.
Any work of art that conveys the message that capitalistic societies (especially in the US) are shite is of course welcome. But the language of metal (the chainsaw-sounding guitars, the ridiculous vocals, the confusion between a guitar solo and wanking off the guitar) is really not my cup of tea. Of course, one can appreciate the technical virtuosity but, together with the songs being way too long and having way too complex structures, the former also reinforces the feeling that this stuff stems rather from the worst self-referential prog rock of the 70s than from the healthy hard rock/blues rock of, say, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath...
Not my favourite Bjork's album but still great
A pleasant surprise: this lady has a lot of character. Both songwriting and performance are excellent.
Never listened to this one. It starts well with a bunch of fun and energetic songs (including the famous ones) but the second part becomes frankly boring (with the exception perhaps of Queen of the Highway). Such a number of fillers in a 37 mins album can't be regarded as a great achievement...
Why the hell this project includes this record and not Strange Days is beyond my comprehension...
If mainstream commercial pop music were still like this, I would have nothing to complain about. Although, I doubt someone would write lyrics as those of When I Kissed The Teacher today, which adds to the fun...
I don't think the world needed british/celtic folk rock to be a thing... If the "seminal album" of the genre sounds so boring, I don't really want to hear the rest. The only piece of music I actually enjoed is Tam Lin.
Masterpiece. What could have Syd done afterwards if he took (slightly) less LSD?
A complete surprise for me, very good album!
Basically I just enjoyed "Do it again". I don't see why anyone would find listening to this album a valuable way of spending their time. This can be said of any other shit prominently labelled as "soft rock"...
I didn't hate as much as I expected I would given the preliminary information. (Guy goes through bitter divorce and writes one hour long (!) album bitterly accusing the former wife of anything imaginable. No matter how great is the guy in question, this can't bring anything good...)
Still, this is not an album I will listen again to.
This website administers me so much shitty music from the USA, that I am ecstatic when some of the good stuff from that miserable nation finally pops up. Sonic Youth are one of the few truly great American bands (not sure I even need the fingers of two hands to count them...) so, fuck yeah, it's a 5!
I only knew Black hole sun. Actually, that is the only Soundgarden song I knew, which is telling of how much I care about this kind of music. The album is OK but nothing exciting. One point more because of the Beatlesque (quite Abbey Road-like) melodies of that famous song (I didn't fail to notice that even before reading other comments)
Great stuff, although I tend to prefer the upbeat pieces to the "trippy and dreamy" ones...
Probably not the best album by Arcade Fire but I have always liked its dramatic baroque arrangements. Plus, the last two tracks alone deserve five stars...
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(plus, it's shitty rap)
Another discovery: just knew a couple of songs, including the obvious single. Listening to the whole album is amazing. Fun, upbeat, clever, elaborate structures yet raw sound.
