1001 Albums Summary

I'm not consider myself to be a QOTSA fan by any means. I know their 2-3 most famous songs because they were basically everywhere, but although I liked these, I never bothered to have a look at their albums. Honestly, it's hard to believe that these are the same guys. Never in my life have I heard such a boring and uninspiring album. Neither the guitar riffs, nor the weak lyrics could catch me, leaving me with an overall bad impression of this album. I really hope their newer albums are better.

That didn't age well ...

There is a total of 9 David Bowie albums in this 1001 albums list, but I really wonder why exactly they put this one in. It cannot reach the great albums of the 70s, it's sub-par at best. Surely I don't know all of his albums. Having read the background story it all makes sense, elderly David Bowie weakened by angioplastic surgeries on his way to recovery secretly produces an album. The songs on this album, especially "Where are we now" reflect this but even the melancholy in these lyrics cannot cover up the fact that most songs on this album are average at most. It's highly unlikely that I will ever listen to this again.

This is classic hard rock, straight from the book. It features strong blues influences. Highlights include "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" and "Communication Breakdown. Lyrics are a bit disappointing. Apparently it's all about leaving girls, not leaving girls, cheating girls and so on. Maybe it's typical in 1969 but certainly not interesting at all in 2026.

It’s not really my cup of tea. In fact, I hate it.

I certainly enjoyed listening to this album. It could as well have been published in the 2020s. If I hadn't read the year of publishing, I wouldn't have noticed it's age. Apparently punk hasn't changed much in the last 50 years :-) My highlights are "Mannequin", "Mr. Suit" and "1 2 X U".

I don’t listen to blues every day, or even every year, but I really enjoyed this piece of musical history. “Mannish Boy” is a killer opening track and, hands down, my favorite on this album.

Nice beats, misogyne BS lyrics, okay'ish performance, 3 stars

It's difficult to rate an album I can’t connect with musically, I really don't like country at all. Also I don’t like these "cowboy‑gun" lyrics. "Big Iron" has become more of a meme after beeing heard in the Fallout games and tv show, that's nice but the rest of this album sounds more or less the same to me.

Never been a huge RHCP fan. Most of their stuff sounds the same to me, the singer yelps like a dog whose tail has been stepped on. Californication is clearly the better album. There are some good songs here, but the album is way to long overall. Although I enjoyed some songs, most of them didn't appeal to me, and I couldn't find any interesting lyrics.

A lot of bangers on this one. Sugaaaaaarrrr!

I hate it and hope that I don't hear anything like this ever again in my life.

Not good, not terrible. No highlights.

Sounds like average guitar pop to me. Probably a banger back in the day.

Can't stand his annoyingly whiny voice but still made it to the end

The recording sounds cheap and I feel tricked, turns out this wasn't even recorded at Budokan but mostly at Osaka instead. All the attempts to fix this in the post can't hide the fact that the recording is a Charlie Foxtrot and should have been wiped. However, there are a few big hits on it.

Not my cup of tea, but surprisingly good.

This album didn't click for me right away on the first listen, but on the second play I find it much more interesting. I never expected that I'd enjoy such sad-guy singer-songwriter stuff so much.

I really hoped I would like this album more, especially because it stands out from the crowd of boring guitar‑pop that dominates this list. But I'm afraid I don’t like experimental-ass jazz.

Is this it? I don't think so. There's a lot of filler besides 2 or 3 above‑average songs. Nothing more.

boring af

It's the kind of music where you say it's fun, but you mean it's trash.

Didn't listen to Metallica for quite a while, but this is still a banger. 4 stars!

Banger! Great opener!

This is the definition of meh.

meh

meh

What a waste of vinyl.

I tried what the title suggests, but I found the songs mostly boring and forgettable. Freedom! `90 is a banger and stands out from all this filler material.

Solid rap album but not my cup of tea. We had lo-fi before it was cool.

This must be one of the worst performances I've heard in recent years. How did she manage to find someone to record and publish that crap?

This sounds like someone really tried hard to create fun and enjoyable music, but ended up achieving the opposite for me. These radio-style intros are genuinely annoying. I can't find any song I like, only ones I hate less.

I Wanna Be Your Dog is a banger, the rest sounds boring and forgettable to me.

This is pure cheesy crap, but hey, at least it’s short.

This sounds like pretty generic singer/songwriter guitar pop to me, nothing to hate, but also not much to like.