1001 Albums Summary

Nice pop/folk album, played very well by an excellent backing band, and sang quite beautifully. This list has lots of albums featuring female singers that do ballads with a guitar, this album is better than all of those.

An hard rock powerhouse of an album, genre defying and still an hell of a listen.

An ok bluesy rock folk pop album of the period, nothing groundbreaking but a nice listen.

A very solid album from a soul funky master, the keyboard arrangements elevates even the more meandering songs, an enjoyable listen with some highlights, including an obvious one.

An ok album, if you're into sad folk ballads.

Not my favourite Genesis album, but it's still a great progressive rock landmark that it's worth listening even today.

Quite good easy listening album, the swing and early jazz influences surprised me, this being an album made in the 80s. Sure it has a couple of cheesy 80s rap/italo disco drivel songs, but if you delete/skip them, this is actually one of the finest elevator music albums ever made, and I mean that as a compliment.

One of the seminal jazz recordings you must listen to. The Duke shows to the crowd attending this concert what classic Jazz at his peak sounded like, a true masterpiece.

Good neo ambient album, if a bit dated. Geogaddi aged more gracefully and is the better album.

Just listen to all their discography. It's worth it, and this album is no exception

Surprisingly good jazzy/pop/easy rock album, the band is on fire and the tracks are all very polished, catchy and well written. You must hate pop with a passion to dislike this one.

It would be a fine pop rock album, but the way she sings makes it almost unbearable.

I understand the historical importance of this album for the hip-hop movement, but it's just a bunch of people rapping over samples taken from Kraftwerk. Just listen to the seminal electronic albums made by that german group, instead.

Sounds like a sountrack for a soap opera, probably one of the most boring, generic and uninspired albums ever made.

A classic

Average post punk album with a very tedious singer

Not the best Nirvana album, but surely a well deserved commercial hit, and a good grunge album anyway.

Interesting classical indian music, a bit of a specialized item anyway, as you have to be quite acquainted with microtones and drones.

One of the pinnacles of pop music, and the 80s sound at its best, people used to test stereo systems with this album.

Now, I can appreciate that this kid could rap, but I don't see why I would have to listen to his repetitive "one sample per song" style for an entire album. Some songs even have the same drum'n'bass base in them...interesting for 2 minutes, then a sound sleep comes in.

Badly sung, boringly played, and every song sounds the same. It also cointains the silliest ballad ever made. To avoid at all costs. Not far is the day when, this blatant copy of the worst Beatles song repeated for an entire album, will be seen as it deserves: with a passing glance of disdain.

This must be one of the best 80s pop albums ever made. Yes, it has synths and drum machines, but it does sound very classy and not cheesy in the slightest. Songs are long but very well structured and not boring at all, I would say that quality wise is in the same ballpark as Phil Collins solo outings, and the singing style is very similar. Top notch stuff. It is overlooked probably because it's too soul prog rock for synth heads, and too electronic for old rockers, but it doesn't deserves to be compared with real 80s corny drivel like Dead or Alive, George Michael, Whitney Houston, and too many others to count.

That kind of nasal shrill vocals turn me off.

Great album

As good as everything Queen have done in the 70s, and that means excellent.

Great metal album

A french guy talks, and sometimes sings, at a very high volume under a very cool soundtrack, that unfortunately gets obscured half the time by the loud soliloquy of this french primadonna. He should have positioned the microphone further away from him, or the producer could have turned down the mic volume by at least 5 db, but alas, neither things did happen. The puritan moralists that condemn this album by its subject matter, should be reminded that talking about something is not the same as promoting or endorsing it. It gets a 2 from me, only for the fact that musically this album is butchered by the LOUD vocals.

A very good disco album, the arrangements by Quincy Jones help a lot in maintaning this album fresh sounding,

Average country album with your run of the mill nasal folk singer. Lyrics may be interesting, but it's an album, not a poem's book: if the music is not on par with the lyrics, it deserves a 2.

Very nice country album, it has all the staples of the genre, and done very well.

Seminal and quite awesome "top of the crop" hip hop album, stil worth listening to today.

beach bop americana 50s slop

Another mediocre and boring album by one of the worst bands in history. It sucks. Definitely, Without maybe.

Taylor Swift was born in 1989 on December the 13th, so she doesn't have a clue about what the 80s really were. Hell, she's too young to even remember most of the 90s that well. So this album should be called: "2000s something, when I could actually understand the world I was living in". Anyway, this title could still be a tribute for a decade she likes a lot musically, but that also doesn't seem the case. Her style is generic post 2010s harmless barebone pop, a thing that wasn't really a genre back in '89, even Roxettes have more bite, better production, fuller arrangements and interesting hooks than this mass homogenized product of an album. No, I think that the title of the album is in relation to the year she was born, meaning that before that date nothing was worth listening to or living, because she wasn't there. Listen Taylor, even you aren't so important as to believe that your year of birth should be an album's name or an extremely crucial date, this is entitlement of biblical proportions. We don't care, and personally I don't even like your sorry excuse for a living that you call music. This boring record shouldn't be on this list, or on any list of people that love music.

Great hard blues album, as good as the day it was recorded.

Another folk country album sung by your average female singer...this list is starting to become quite boring, for the most part.

A good group I didn't know anything about, I will listen carefully their 3 first albums, but from what I've heard of this one, they deserve a 5.

Wonderful classic, this one you have to listen to before each new month ends.

Really? One of the worst nu metal album ever made recommended as one of the 1001 albums to absolutely listen in your life? No thanks. I remember, when the singles taken from this album were popular, me and my friends wondering how Korn could fall so low. Not that nu metal is a great genre per se, but this is embarassing: by comparison Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park's records are Beethoven's sonatas. Avoid, don't listen to, and forget it.

Japan are an ok band, some songs are cool, and they were a major musical influence on the new wave movement, third only to David Bowie and Roxy Music. Problem is, Duran Duran are miles better, and the style is very similar, as they clearly took lots of inspiration from Japan, only with better musicianship and songwriting skills. The singer of Japan (Sylvian) is a one octave range, monotone and erratic kind of affair, very boring to listen to after a couple of songs, and sometimes you wonder if he's singing in microtones or if he's just plainly out of tune. The band also experiments a lot, starting from this album. Some experiments land, others don't. So yeah, an essential band only if you really love New Wave, if not I would steer clear.

Sorry, but there's not a single Bee Gees album that's worth listening to in its entirety. Obtain a greatest hits, and thank me later.

A true classic, probably the only electro blues album ever made, and that's a pity. The sound is great and the songs are precise and classy. You have to listen to this, at least once in your life. It also contains one of the best ballads ever made.

Stellar debut from Guns'n'Roses, still one of the best hard rock albums of all time. It has it all, with just a dash of 80s glam influences. More focused than the (great as well) two Use Your Illusions.

Wow, this is the kind of album I subscribed to this list for. I didn't knew 10cc, and now I absolutely have to listen to their discography. This album sounds like a prog version of Beatles and Beach Boys with the whimsical aplomb of Queen. What a rollercoaster, and very catchy too...a mandatory 5/5

Masterpiece, as all Beatles albums are.

I'm quite unsure about this album: on one hand I like the atmosphere and musicianship, it sounds like psychedelic folk from the 70s done right, on the other the use of reverb on the vocals is overdone (maybe to hide limits in their harmonizing?) and most songs are in desperate need of a hook that just isn't there (they're pop enough to have the necessity of catchy refrains). So yeah, I guess this is a middle of the road album for me: good as background music, but not good enough for attentive listening.

Average country music done by very unskilled musicians and some insufferable monotone singers. This list is so full to the brim of such americana mediocrity, that I'm starting to question the musical tastes of the people that made it. I would respect an aural abomination like De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem a lot more than this generic elevator music: At least that horrendous album took some courage to be released in the first place.

This album is truly a cassic, go listen to it,

What's up with this Wilco band? This list recommends 3 albums made by them, but frankly I don't understand why. Overdubbed Instrumentation parts sometimes reach the lounge sophistication of AIR, but what it lacks are memorable songs, and the basic arrangements by the core band are very barebone, like your typical sunday morning christian folk rock band. When the singer doesn't armonize with the rest of the band, it's quite clear that he doesn't know how to sing in tune by himself, and his tone is very shrieky, nasal and unpleasant. Thom Yorke he ain't. After the first couple of songs, all started to merge together as a sonic homogenized insipid baby food full of nursery rhymes. Ironically the only song that stood out for me was "Jesus, etc". They really should become a catechism band, if they aren't already. I score it a 2, just because of the beautiful studio overdubs (pity they underscore a pretty lackluster band) and the few songs that are not ruined by bad singing. But really, I would advise to avoid it and listen to Radiohead, or even (yuck) Coldplay instead. The Wilco's label was right not to publish this album, imho.