Some killer tracks, a lot of filler. It starts incredibly strongly but is dragged down with the folly elements and feels a mess. The second half for the album is weak, in my opinion, songs 5, 6, and 7 just dull.
It's not got anything that really catches and holds my attention. I can hear the influence it's had on popular English music, but that alone doesn't interest me.
Good eclectic mix of samples, lots of shouting vocals and funky riffs. Some good humour, this was a lot more enjoyable than expected. I'd never heard this stuff at all, and will be listening again and possibly deep diving into more of their material properly
Loads of relaxing, slow paced tunes. So much room in the mix for things to breath it's beautiful.
It always feels weird listening to music like this without vocals, it's more background music or a soundtrack to life rather than something I can see me cranking on the good stereo for a focussed listen
Like a poor man's Johnny Cash.
Odd for odd sake.
Very poorly mixed, some odd stuff going on that isn't really working for me. Vocals strained. Instruments are really lacking in power and it never really gets going.
It's funky, sure, but has it aged well - no. It doesn't have as many hooks as some other music of this genre for me to get my toe tapping. Middle of the road.
Bloody dull. Sorry.
Sprightly, shame the cussing is bleeped as I feel it will be more authentic.
The man had some attitude and front on him, fun to hear.
So good, this is really enjoyable stuff. After Johnny Cash, this is right up there but higher standard of music underpinning the lyrics. Even better singing than Cash.
It was alright, I prefer Sublime if I'm going to listen to this type of music
Sweeping vocals, punchy and fun. They don't make them like this anymore
Very wishy washy. It had no bite, lacked fun too.
Very bright pitched album, I can hear queen influences. I don't like the singing but some of the guitar is ace.
Fuck that
Really odd voice, low in the mix and lacking in substance. Some good technical playing, but not really for me.
Some good tunes, let down by poor singing and over indulgence in the last few songs.
Rock solid Christmas album. Seasonal and fun.
Great powerful production given the era.
Top album, fake plastic trees and street spirit are absolutely brilliant.
Some class tunes that pointed to a more experimental future for the band
Very tinny, awkward sounding album. Similar sounding songs played over multiple times, avoid.
Three songs was too much, travesty on the ears.
Punchy recording, detailed mix with some brilliant highest and lows. Strong singing, fun rapping and simple song structures mean these are ear worms. Metal for idiots
Child in time is amazing.
Speed king is an awesome start to the album.
Some indulgence in the keyboard and vocals, but with the skill to back it up.
Not as many iconic tracks as I would have expected, but it's a solid rock album
Some nice beats, this hasn't aged anywhere near as bad as similar albums
Very slow and ponderous. With enough drugs and time, I imagine it would be great to indulge in.
Why use jizz figurines as your art work, stick people have been around for years?
Not for me, 90's rap and hip hop is just drab to listen to in my opinion.
Missing vocals to get the hooks into me for the first song. I feel like that song was an ill recorded Beatles B side without lyrics.
Second song, minorly depressing without any real hook.
Gave up when I got through songs 3, 4 and 5 without wanting to cut off my ears.
Some strong lyrics, funky beats and real attitude. Surprisingly, I quite enjoyed this.
Pleasant, soulful and punchy. Really good stuff, much better than the modern dross in the R&B category.
Too much jazz noodling for me.
A lot to unpack in a single evening of listening. Loads of ideas and noise, arty, cinema style, picture painting, but not particularly enjoyable at first listen.
I imagine this will need multiple goes to get into.
Sounds just like any random pub band in the 80's to me. Shite.
Amazing album. Stuffed full of old school misogyny and riffs galore that's laced with old school humour. Love it, but know that it would never get recorded in this day and age.
Lame
Not quite punchy or fun enough to catch my ear. I grew bored after 6 songs. It never really got going, whilst the first song was catchy it didn't sustain my interest at all.
Feels like a drop off in quality after listening to Deep Purple recently. Some crunchy riffs, flashy solos, but it's just so commercial feeling. I feel like I need to clean myself after listening to this.
Better than expected, second Smith's album I've done. You can here the guitar references in modern UK indie, the lyrics are good and some of the songs are deeper and more challenging than on the previous album I heard.
Amazing, it took me years to get into. So many songs that are a great listen.
Background music at best.
Starts strong, trails off rapidly.
Punchy tunes, aggressive fancy music, not music for your nan to listen to.
Favourite album of my youth.
Hit after hit, grimy, unclean lyrics mixed with some of best rock guitar I've heard that somehow is radio friendly and not suitable for minors.
So many absolute bangers, some filthy lyrics and powerful vocals (albeit in a nasally range).
Very glam, but not quite solid enough to hold my attention. Radio friendly, not much dynamism shown from anyone to bring this into 1001 album territory.
Lame, not for me at all I'm afraid. Everyone must have heard the first track, well it all goes downhill after
It sounds funky but dated heavily. Aggressive lyrics, I like some of their word play and directness.
Dancy, but not as great as Paul's boutique for samples.
Wank music, not the sort you tug to, just wank content that's dates badly I'm afraid.
Very challenging to enjoy, elements of fun, but swamped by odd choices that make this a non-essential listen. Kuntz particularly was just unnecessary, coming from a man that has a vulgar tongue, this was just not needed.
Nope.
Radio friendly bull shit.
Hot for teacher, great drum and guitar but the drums sound like card board boxes.
House of pain has some class riffage.
Hints of Led Zeppelin at points, great guitar and some unnecessary complex drum parts. But otherwise I'd question why this is in a list of 1001 albums of notoriety.
Really beautiful. Slow, passionate, and intricately recorded. I will absolutely listen to this again and again, a top find.
So dated, it's far to awkward to listen to and take seriously.
Some how smoother and more aggressive than the Beastie Boys at the same time. The man drops lots of cleverly rhymes words in a brilliant way that people find appealing, there are stories and layers to some of these songs that are well grooved paths.
Really smooth hip-hop, not as commercial as M&M, but far tighter production values. I really enjoy the mix of the album.
Absolute blast from the past. Fun, rock and pop vibes, much better than more recent Foo Fighter albums in my opinion. However, is it top a 1001 album, nope. It's not pushing the boundaries, nor is it leaving a legacy that stands the rest of time.
At best, it's more fun than Nirvana, but the Foo's evolved from here with Colour and the Shape, as well as Nothing left to lose. I enjoy the album, but it's not worthy of this list.
Middle of the road softness for the elderly
Chocka block full of Metallica style riffs. Lacking poise in the song writing side of things. Vocals sound warped, odd mix.
No doubt they can play fast guitar though, heavy as a counter hammer to Fleet Foxes softness.
This has got it's own feel to it, slightly grimy. It never really expands on the sound and stays in the same grove for pretty much every track, going from slightly dangerous sounding to safe and comfortable due to the lack of gear change.
Nicely recorded, in a similar area to Johnny Cash for me. It sounds like a combo of blues, folk and country in parts, not my sort of thing but I can see the appeal.
It sounds like there's smoke billowing out of my speakers and I'm about to be approached by a gangster with a Tommy gun. Old style, strong vocals, and relaxed pace.
Half ideas, background music, not great.
Loads of energy, some mystery to their sound too - a touch of the Doors mixed with punk. I liked it.
Soft, quite relaxing music. Very unusual voice, not particularly soothing but not jarring, somewhere in-between
Not great. It's like a shit Rolling Stones for me.
Jovial music from the late 60's. An odd mix of big band and rock, it seems out of place now days as there's just entertainment at it's core.
Nice, I offensive, middle of the road, song writing. Piano is fine - not pushing the boat out, music your nan would probably like.
Songs seem strong, but vocal range is small and difference between songs appears minimal.
Suzanne will always remind me of Plan B.
Tame music of the era, nicely recorded and some good tunes.
Very dated, awful keyboard and synths throughout. Trying to sound like the future before the future has been determined has backfired massively here.
Great production, some nicely structured songs, but it's a horrid listen to me. Second Prince album and it's two misses for me, I'm not getting the hype.
Good listen, some smart choices in production considering Megs limits as a drummer. Excellent guitar and song writing, this will not challenge anyone nor will it stretch you out of a comfort zone.
I found a website that supplies durable rope, a stool and a map for some high trees. I finally found me excuse to do it, I'm off to finish myself after this crock or shite.
Like a clash covers band with far less skill and song writing prowess.
MoR soft pop rock
Some absolute bangers, a few fillers along the way, but great lyrics and metaphors, some lovely piano too. It's not dated too bad either, the remix holds well.
Average noise, piss poor recordings
Odd rock, not too shabby, but also not technically that impressive either.
Some really bright songs, a lot better than expected. They remind me of an 80's Weezer for some reason, I think it's the clever composition and simple sounding playing, but it's devilish in parts and harder than you think.
Less aggressive than the Prodigy, funky in parts, and dancey.
Reminds me of Fat Boy Slim in parts too.
Whiny vocals, frantic energy, and some lovely pop rock music that clearly influenced better bands.
Poppy, radio friendly, indie rock n roll. Some nice tunes, not my sort of thing. Poor lyrics in parts with repetition a frequent gimic used.
Disco at it's most catchy, some smash hits and some nice vocals. Smooth bass, and silky vocals. Some clever lyrics pre-hip hop that may have had some influence on things to come in the years to come.
Really poor in parts, sorry but what was they thinking. The first song is solid, but it really dips in quality and seems to have aged incredibly poorly in my opinion. Where albums like Dark side of moon are still great to hear years later, this is not.
Some really good anthems, then some pub rock filler
Country inspired Yank style music. Not sure why Billy is in this and I'm not keen on finding out why he bothered
Brutal, not as radio friendly as
Very poppy, disco inspired music. Really well produced, and I appreciate the Pink Floyd cover as it's an unusual spin on a class song. Unexpected.
Ground work laying album for the Demon Days, which is better all round than this. Enjoyable in parts, but their identity evolved from this point forward.
Very dated rap style, content is strong, but a hard listen
Not so many catchy tunes as on different albums of theirs, I do appreciate the format and the influence that this band had on others. However, is this a top album, my answer is no.
The lack of lyrics on most songs unfortunately holds these back from being really strong numbers for me. I like the guitar parts, but when you hold these to other songs from that era, Rainbow, Sabbath, Zeppelin, the outcome is less favourable in my opinion.
When they do have lyrics it feels to me like Cream did, with my of a Latino feel, I don't mind it at all.
Very radio friendly rock, verging on metal, but soft when compared to earlier efforts. Less speed more composure,
Really strong album, some absolute bangers and amazing piano work.
Like Hendrix lite, I feel it would have been fun live. The recording is dated, which doesn't help, and has a live feeling to the album as it's raw.
Average music for this day and age, it may have felt edgy Bank in the old days but it doesn't feel great now. It feels incredibly samey.
Really frantic post punk tunes.
Nah, not my tempo
Very North London, I could almost hear the influence on the dialect of today's youth from this album.
Awkward listen, it sounds dated and far less interesting than their bio suggested
Nice, pleasant music, not real change in pace or energy to hold my attention.
Not really my jam. Lots of creativity and layers, but it's all a bit 80's experimental for my liking. Some stand out songs, and detail being added all over the place. Definitely worth revisits in comparison to other albums I've heard.
Passive rock and country blend, not really to my liking. Recording standards have improved so much that this feels very poorly presented without having to crank the volume.
There's clearly some guitar noodling here for some folk to enjoy, track 3 for example feels like something that would have been great live with some weed. Could do with more exciting drumming though, very stable and unadventurous.
Not for me, good voice but it's such a weird one that I never find myself enjoying the music.
Ponderous in parts, some classics too. Obviously, the recordings have dated and aren't as clear as you'd get now days. I just find it hard to say that this was ever massive, or that Elvis caused a huge stir around the US, that energy doesn't come from these records.
Fucking amazing in parts, very long, probably a few songs they could have cut to improve the flow and length of the album.
Really bright sounding album. Big tunes, with loads going on. Not my usual bag, but it does have a charm to it.
His voice is strong, but massively regional, it lends a feel to the music that grounds it in the US more than some bands/acts.
Nothing flashy, very working class musicians, grounded and skilled at the same time.
Wow, what can I say that's not already been said. So BLOODY good, if not slightly indulgent music.
Depending on which version you listen to, depends on your experience too. So many versions of this seminal album available.
Skilled and brilliant musicians, some incredible drumming that leaves you reflecting on claims Bonham is the best. Ian Paice was an absolute machine and ran rings around him, with Child in Time alone.
Steven Wilson's remix is particularly detailed in comparison to a CD version I have from years ago
Energy comes spilling out of this record at various points, you could tell they were trying to impose their music and stand out from the crowd.
Great vocals throughout, Vedder's pipes are strong and on good form. Some of the lyrics are deep too
I enjoyed the mix of the album on my stereo, really well recorded, punchy and balanced. The guitar parts are lively, and detailed, the snare hits are loud and clear.
Crappy country music.
Way too much trumpet for me.
I felt like I was listening to skits supporting a sitcom from yesteryear. Technically, I'm sure this is impressive, but if a guitarist started soloing from the beginning to the end of song, it would be awful. I get the same vibe here.
Smooth on the ear, incredible record from a production point of view. Great funky bass in some songs, and loads of lyrics.
Easier on the ear than some similar artists.
Dated and basic rock. Bono's voice isn't one I enjoy, the drumming sounds horribly recorded (hollow and sharp at the same time), and the guitar is just not exciting or that catchy.
I really enjoyed some of this, massively unexpected. I found the groves pleasing, the voice was subtle and not over powering and it was beautifully mixed. Definitely took me by suprise.
Really different, sometimes difficult to enjoy but worth the effort.
Really good, probably the best surprise I've had whilst listening to the albums in this list. There's so much space and time given to the songs, they're not in a rush and the jam things out. I'm impressed.
The second Kendrick album I've listened to now. Similar vibes to the other one, great production values, some skilled lyrical content and some funky base. It doesn't feel like new boundaries are being pushed, it just feels like highly polished pop music to me.
Where's the range in vocal skills, it's rhyming and poetry, but once you've done one they sound similar and begin to blend into incredibly similar songs as there's no real challenge or scale or scope.
Really strong album in parts, her voice is great and there is enough rock to hold my interest. The band are tight and it feels like this would have been great live.
Some great lyrics packed with vengeance, fun and emotions.
However, irony isn't how she describes it.
Like sitting in Nandos, without the chicken loveliness.
This sounds like an album that never gets out of second gear. The songs are stuck in the key of shit.
A slog to listen to, does not catch my attention at all
Not my bag.
Good lyrics but I feel like it's limited without a decent band behind it.
Stunning album, so many good riffs, so much funk, brilliant drumming and Rick Rubin's tight production. Very little filler and massive killer songs, Sir Psycho Sexy a massive highlight among some incredible tunes. I don't feel they reached the same heights after this album.
