It's a classic, but is it acceptable in this day and age?
Solid album, rewards multiple listens, comfortingly familiar.
Peaks and troughs.
When it's good Cisco kid and works is a ghetto really good, otherwise pretty boring at times.
Likely won't listen again.
Flows well, innovative at the time, good mix of genres, love it for that.
A solid album, but will I revisit it often?
It's affy long. Enjoyed what I had time for, but 2 hrs!?!
This is stand out the best 1001 album I've listened to yet. From the off its innovative, experimental and engaging.
Far more interesting than the majority of albums on this list I expect.
This album flows brilliantly. I can live without the skits, but the topics, politics, culture and experience that it represents are so well done.
Way ahead of it's peers at the time and no wonder they became so big and influential as they did.
From the off you can hear the influence on other bands. Placebo, Faith No More, Duran Duran (obviously).
Interesting listen, well crafted, I like it.
I don't think I'll visit it time and again though.
A lot of Lou Reed, a little of the National and a remarkably odd choice for 1001 albums I must listen to before I die.
A few good tracks, but largely forgettable.
1965 right in the sweet spot for country being the US of As pop favourite. I like this album, it sounds familiar and it's easy to listen to.
Will I listen again, like lots on the list probably not.
I like the fizzy old production and the chugging rhythms. Decent
The hits are obviously timeless and the band will forever resonate through history, but sounds like Seaside (who has time vaudeville, it's a bit aggravating for my taste) and a song about loving a car.
Pretty decent, but like Alan Partridge I'll stick to the best of.
This one caught me by surprise. Expected to hate it, but I've got more time than I thought for goth pop from the 80s.
Cracking album.
This album was outstanding when I first heard it and carried it's magic all the way to my 5 year old getting into fight for your right.
Great band, eclectic back catalogue and fun times.
This is a good pop album. I like the odd song with hints of the Kinks. Good variety and song writing.
Songs that will stand the test of time. Just not an album that is overly to my tastes for repeat listening.
I kind of wanted to like this a lot more. Iconic and influential band, however it was a bit of a rambling mess. So fantastic moments, some great ability in show, but it didn't hang together.
The lyrics are annoying at best, the subs are all over the place and it's themes are weak and rambling.
I expect much stronger prog albums to come.
All time classic, possibly the best hip hop album ever made.
I've listened to this many times over the years and it flows beautifully. Deserves all the praise it gets, rather than seeing for stardom, it sought credibility through innovation and musicianship. It's so well crafted, it'll take a long time for someone to have quite this level of vision again.
KOL aren't a bad band, but with success comes expectation and pressure to churn out the hits.
This album is what happens, middle of the road dirge which loses the edge and energy that made it cut through in the first place.
I've not listened to this in a long time, I thought I was about to settle in for 2hrs plus of noodling. Not so, 5 songs, 45min... This is going to be good.
I really slept on Pink Floyd as a teen, when I should have been lost in this most weekends. Great album, lovely production, instrumentation, song writing, ambition and execution.
The best album on the list so far by quite a ways.
This album sits in the background neither wowing not offending.
Reminds me of the first Chvrches album, but with a lot less impact and charm.
It sounds exactly like what you'd hear on top shop or H&M.
Lots of 80s influences, but a no point does it surpass those influences, especially not the MJ rips. I don't think I'll bother listening to it again in French, although I expect that would be an easier listen.
Iconic, influenceial and fun. I feel like we could use more consciousness in hip-hop in 2026, and probably for a decade plus before.
Really enjoyed revisiting this classic.
Every song on here is a classic, with the exception of changes, which has been tainted behind repair.
I was going to give a 4 but I don't think you can when you consider this one album spawned multiple metal subgenres and influenced so many bands over the years.
Arguably one of the most influential albums in music? A great listen.
There are songs on this album I love, like disorder and she's lost control. There are a lot of songs that just sit in the background. It's never been one of my go to albums, but the influence on artists I love is huge.
It was pretty enjoyable to give it some time.
I thought this was the antagonist from Warriors when the album popped up.
Alas, it's not, pretty decent 70s punk from down under. A few stands out tracks, great opener, good all round effort. I enjoyed it.
Well crafted and considered nonsense. I never realised until now the parallels with the vocal style of David Byrne.
Devo, the love child of taking heads and Kraftwerk.
The album in which Neil invented grunge? Great album, not my favourite Neil Young however. Still a great album.
That second version of my my, hey hey is great. The fuzz, the fuzz.
A band I struggle to fall in love with, but understand the significance of. Another one for the best of approach. Good album, but unspectacular.
Not my favourite Radiohead album, solid but neither as urgent or important as the earlier albums, or in rainbows that soon followed after.
Great band though, essential part of anyone's musical journey.
Pleasantly surprised again but am album on this list.
Not my cup of tea, but you can hear the influence out maybe had on Regina Spektor or Sharon Van Ettan.
At times I was lost in her voice and instrumentation, which oddly kept reminding me of songs from James Bond films. At other times, I was perplexed at the tedium of it.
I thought I liked Dire Straits. But they are actually pretty annoying.
We get it Mark, your good at guitar, but give it a rest. The noodling is relentless and way too high in the mix. The classics obviously stand the test of time, but the remaining over written, annoyingly sung and the honky Pink Floyd sound is too much.
What is this abomination? From punchy early Dexy's to bloated 12min songs, talking at random times, strange moments of over worked vocals, inane chatter, moments of great Dexy's hooks and then back to the fucking talking.
Never again will I bother with this dross.
This was a delight to listen to. Smooth and flows beautifully. I could listen to this time and again.
I was thinking as I listened just how common that sound created by Miles Davis is in pop culture, TV shows (peanuts, Fraser...) and computer games (transport tycoon...) and countless musicians that borrow this easy going style. A cornerstone of music.
Lovely album, great sound, so easy to listen to and have on in the background.
Could it be 1 of any number of blues albums over the years, probably yeah, but I guess if it ain't broke and all that...
Good fun, metal for the masses.
The longer you listen, the more it all blends into one bland monolith.
Ordinarily I've very little time for double albums. In fact, I can't think of one I like beyond this one.
This one is a belter. 2 albums in one articulating both sounds of Big Boi and Andrei 3000. I loved it on teams and it's still a cracking album now.
Decent jazz standards, average live production, far too much talking for the to be any flow. At over two hours this should have been edited into something different and more rewarding to repeat listens.
Overly long and quite incoherent
Some classics on here and an amazing opening track, but a number of songs are fluff at best. Decent.
This is a great soundtrack to a great film. The issue with translating it to an album is that a number of the songs so abruptly and break the flow.
I forgot how good Air are, great musicianship.
Classic. Absolute banging introduction to an album and the hits keep on coming. I'm constantly in awe of the early influence and DNA of Rick Rubin in both hip hop and metal. The guy has left an indelible mark on the face of music.
This is one of the albums that expanded my horizons into classics and a world of genres as a snotty little teenager.
It's never lost its sheen or brilliance. Lyrical and musically it's such a cool and measured album from start to finish.
Cinematic, considered, theatrical, it's clear why Flaming Lips filled arenas. This is a good album, but with all their music I don't feel an emotional connection to it or the singers voice.
There is something I fundamentally don't 'get' about them as a band, despite liking plenty of their songs.
It's his voice, it's too weak for the sound they produce.
This is probably one of my favourite albums of all time, let alone hip-hop albums. I'm a big fan of hip-hop collectives, the collage of personalities and styles.
The aggression, themes and love of king fu all make for an great blend. The production created a template that endures and the styling is iconic.
All over the place and not in a good way. Some really interesting moments, but too many styles that you could hear delivered much more skilfully by artists from the regions it seeks to replicate.
The longer it goes on the worse it gets, by the end I'm both zoning it out and getting annoyed it's still going.
This is a bit of me this. Love the bass and synth driving the songs. Like the Cure esq vocals. Like the vibe of wearing Sergio Tacchini and Fila on the dance floor.
A fun and at times anthemic listen. I like it more than Unknown Pleasures I'd go as far to say.
This album is alright, a few hits and catchy songs. Boy did their egos inflate behind their talent.
I can't shake the idea that the Verve were the Razorlight of their time and Dick Ashcroft the Jonny Borrell.
More flute, more riffs and less whimsical vocals and lyrics and this would be for me.
As it stands, I really struggle with themed, fantasy, proggy meandering fluff like this. It's often bloated, self indulgent and unsatisfying to listen to.
Beautiful.
Lovely haunting vocals, smooth piano that lulls you into to the song and holds you in. Nothing is forced, nothing is rushed, a great listen.
A confident and brilliantly delivered pieces of music. It's feels very familiar due to the success of the songs.
Some of these lyrics are a bit rich now as Morrissey morphs into everything he was stood against. What a loathsome prick.
That aside, this is a adequate album. At times it slaps, at other times it sounds like a parody of better Smiths albums.
This album was decent, but I expected to like it a while lot more.
Perhaps a few listens will change my mind, but on first listen...
... Yeah, pretty comforting listen as you get to know the songs, I love this style of country folk and others in the scene old and new. This fits in nicely, some of the songs are belters, the album is solid.
This album has huge production, wonderful rifs, it's heavy in a really accessible way and has some of rocks most enduring tracks.
However, it also have songs that drift and drone, especially after mayonnaise. Perhaps with 5 or 6 fewer tracks this would be one of the greats, instead it drifted into mediocrity.
I've always been quite conflicted about this album and band, it seems I still am.
Really clean and confident beats. I think this preceded some of the latest jazz influenced beats, which take it up a notch. Still really good through.
Conscious and intellectual lyrics, the delivery could do with a bit more range, but still a great example of a golden age in hip hop
Such a good album. Noisy post punk distorted tones that cut into jangly rhythms. It delivers hit after hit.
I can hear the influence this album has on lots of the bands I grew up listening to and playing in. It sounds natural and effortless.
I feel like this type of music is sorely lacking from a mainstream of soulless carbon copy nepo baby acts. Where have the breakthrough underground acts gone?
Love the last two tracks, a left turn.
This is prime Pixies. Controlled noise and chaos. Some all time rock tracks. The switching of vocalists keeps it fresh throughout.
Cracker of an album.
13 songs in 33 mins... Muoy Buenos
The art or the artist.
This is the turning point where outstanding talent produces something generational (again), shapes the future of a genre but is also where Kanye as we knew him switches to the dark side in his quest to become the world's biggest bellend.
Yet, I love this album. It's the end of Kanye also.
Bonus points for influencing the birth of punk and bringing (albeit dated and questionable in execution) humour to their art.
But not a great album, I'm glad they walked so others could run, I'm not coming back to this at any point again however.
I love a bit of pop and who doesn't like the Beatles?
Having said that, this is one of the most simplistic and least satisfying examples of the Beatles, it's got some stone cold classics, it's got hints at innovation but overall it has more filler than not.
For years I really had a strong dislike of Pink Floyd. I always thought there was too much going on, it was overblown, it lacked quality control. Since I've grown to love Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and others.
When this album is good, it's phenomenally good, when it's bad it really scrapes the depths of what I can tolerate.
I suspect this album is where our relationship got off on the wrong foot. An album full of hits, but equally full of filler. How can it be full of both at the same time? Because it's too fucking long.
