1001 Albums Summary

Very strong opener, very strong closer. The rest of it is completely forgettable saxophone noodling with a crap beatles cover.

I really like this. It's catchy and silly. Wish No Words was longer. I liked how weird they got with Picassos last words, I thought it was cool how they kept bringing back leitmotifs in some of the songs. Jet is a banger.

The worst song on this album is only good. The first 8 songs on this album are some of the best songs of the 90s. It's like a best of compilation.

Both albums are great. Massive songs on both. Would have made one amazing album, but suffers from some filler.

Beforehand: not really looking forward to this, don't particularly like country and western. But respect all 3 artists. Everyone of them are amazing vocalists. Four songs in and wishing it was over. It's the most boring yet amazingly performed album. I'm getting nothing from this. I quit with two songs to go, on the appropriately named "I've had enough."

Starts very strong. Going home has no business being this long. After that a lot of very samey material. Lot of filler in the second half. Strong first half, bland pedestrian second half.

Has some brilliant songs. Way too long and padded.

Ugh. I don't particularly want to listen to the world's most arrogant self declared nazi, but okay. It sounds like every other rap song. I guess it's like how Seinfeld isn't groundbreaking in hindsight because so many other shows copied it. This album is FINE. Maybe if I was listening in 2004 I'd have been blown away but this is very pedestrian, very samey. Good production, good writing and performance. I just feel nothing. I don't get the hype around him, but I don't have to, since he believes his own hype way too much. Also oh my god why is it so long, it has no need to be this long, it's all the same. I get he's doing the whole "what if I mixed hip hop with soul music and gospel" thing but I just don't believe him, it seems like he's trying too hard to force something and it comes off as inauthentic. I feel nothing from this album.

It's a servicable Hendrix album. The 1st album had the pop hooks and the 3rd album had the experimental godliness. This album has little of either. A lot of middling, stumbling, thrown together at the last minute bits of filler. If you ditched the filler, this would make an amazing transitional EP between Are you experienced and Electric Ladyland.

More 80s country. Please no. First song is actually not too bad, very average but not offensive. The vocal thing they do in country where they kind of yodel the words is very contrived and annoying but lets see if I get used to it. Five songs in and absolutely nothing has grabbed me, it's been very forgetful country-by-numbers. How do people listen to this genre for pleasure? It's so insipid. I'm getting nothing from this. It's so boring. Is that his voice or is he being a character? Final thoughts: very well performed and engineered. I gained nothing from this save from mild irritation and bemusement that this asinine genre is so popular. The album ended and I only realised the album was over and had been playing due to the sudden silence, it was like realising that someone in the adjoining room had finally finished vacuuming the carpet. I had completely zoned out and mentally blocked the album about halfway through.

Most of it still holds up. A bit samey in some parts.

This is really really really really good. The last song is a bit mid but literally everything else is great. The title track is amazing.

It's fine I guess, it has some nice songs but nothing memorable

It's okay. Didn't get a lot from it. Like generic 80s post punk mixed with ska. Even though they deal with deep, kind of grim subject matter, the ska makes it sound like kids party music. No songs stick in mind.

It's fine

This was fun, but very samey. Got a bit fatigued by the end as the songs all blended into each other. Didn't hate it, could have done with more variety as an album to break up the relentless gunfighter ballads and trail songs, but when all the songs are supposed to be gunfighter ballads and trail songs then I guess that's on me. If you're in the mood to listen to nothing but well performed gunfighter ballads and trail songs then this is the best you could ask for.

She's really good at singing but this album is boring as all hell

We have Pavement at home. Landfill shite.

It's fine, it's just kinda bland. Maybe when it came out it was fresh and new. The songs are okay, they're upbeat and performed well, they just seem kind of.. throw away. Every song is a 6/10.

Meh. Very forgettable album. Sounds nice enough I guess.

It's a pretty good, fun listen. A very listenable album. Has some big hits. I particularly enjoy the tracks with hard rock influences which isn't very common in rap nowadays. Party vibe. A lot of cool lyrics and a good mix of silly and important subject matter. Only criticism is that, while the backing tracks and lyrics change with each song, their flow and style of rapping stays the exact same which makes the tracks sound interchangeable. I guess that's just a sign of the time period where rap was still new and they didn't have a lot of diversity in style yet. Still good though.

It's okay, it has some brilliant songs like No cars go but the majority of it is filler. Nowhere near as good as their debut.

It's nothing amazing, it's perfectly servicable 90s post grunge. I'm not blown away by any of the songs bar the opener. It's not bad by any means, just nothing special.

I just can't be arsed with this one, I love his politics but his voice is just... he tilts his head back and opens his mouth wide and SINGS EVERYFINK IN THA SAAAME WAAAAY. The backing music is nothing special, the lyrics are amazing on paper. They're just not songs, they're poems bellowed tunelessly over sparce uninteresting jangly music. I just can't be arsed.

I know this album like the back of my hand. Still holds up. Solid album. It's really good. Elephant is only slightly better as it's a more cohesive and fully realised project, whereas this album is more sprawling and eclectic. Elephant is the better album, while this is more a collection of really good tunes. A few like The Union Forever, Little Room, and Aluminum are almost avant-garde (as much as garage rock can be) which can be an understandable turn off for some, but I dig it all the same.

Probably fresh and exciting at the time, now just generic punk band number 43. It's fine for what it is but I didn't get a lot from it.

This blows. Basic as all hell butt rock done better by everyone else. They have no style of their own. Their fast exciting songs sound slow and boring. Oh hold on, wait.. okay Nobody's fault is actually good. But that was the only one that was interesting. Why is this album on the list? Very underwhelming and uninteresting save for literally ONE song.

In an alternate universe, this is one of his more "okay" albums compared to his amazing later work in the late 70s. I want to live in that reality. I'll have to make do with this perfect album.

A lovely, poetic album. Tragically short like the life of the artist. Each song a small, fragile-but-beautiful, perfectly formed gem. The instrumentation is sparce, but that adds to the songs. It's just lovely, comforting, hopeful. A good companion for miserable days.

Really cool

It's alright, there's some good-but-not-memorable tracks, and some boring shite. Nothing stands out particularly. It's not bad by any means. Some fun songs. Didn't dislike it but wouldn't listen again. Solid 5/10.

Its cool, I like the whole psychedelic soul vibes. Nothing immediately stands out though, and it does outstay it's welcome by the end. But a more concentrated, more focused, shorter album of this? That would be awesome.

Its not the best Smiths album, quite a lot of it sounded very dull but it had some classic songs

It was well made, not really my style.

Not feeling it really. I'm not a fan of early 80s post punk production, the guitars are too trebly, too weak, and mixed too low. All the of reverb you can muster, makes every song sparce but still somehow cluttered? The songs feel stretched out and not very interesting, plodding but performed as if they're energetic. I found I couldn't get into it, like when a child is annoying you by singing a song they made up and you have to listen to them to be polite and they just keep going and going and you really want to get up and do something else. Like, I get it, you're being all spooky and enigmatic, well done, can I go yet? The only good part is, above all the image and fashion that so many people latch onto in the scene above all else, Siouxie is a brilliant vocalist and performer. I feel like you have to suspend a lot of belief to get into certain genres of music, you have to let the theatrical and contrived songs do their thing and accept it for what it is in order to "get" it. With post punk, I just don't get it.

I kind of expected more. It's fine. I don't know, something just isn't hitting. I love the Beatles, but their solo albums just don't do it for me. They suffer from not having the input and criticism from the other Beatles, and this album is no different. Title track is a classic. The next few songs are fine, a bit bland but fine. I like Gimme some truth. How do you sleep is kind of offputting. It's a very mean spirited and bitter song and way longer than it needs to be without developing further to warrant it's length. A lot of these songs sound like first drafts, notes put to music that the record company accepted because of who wrote them. Very underwhelmed.

It's just very good. Doesn't outstay It's welcome. Yeah. Solid.

This has some absolute classics. However, it's a very front loaded album. Changes is a classic, Oh you pretty things, Life on Mars are both brilliant. Eight line poem is fine, nothing special. Kooks is fun and cute. After Kooks, you have a meandering procession of pretty "meh" songs. Quicksand is very nothing. Fill your heart is pretty forgettable. Andy Warhol is alright, it's catchy but has very little meat on it's bones. Song for Bob Dylan is fine, it has some nice guitar work. Queen Bitch is very good late album highlight, like a proto version of glam rock. The Bewlay Brothers starts out promising but goes nowhere and ends in a really offputting theatrical way. A very good album with some dross. A transition point between folk 60s Bowie and 70s glam Bowie with some classics thrown in for good measure.

Amazing vocals and harmonies. About 3 classics and the rest are forgettable.

Yeah it's not bad. It's not amazing but I enjoyed it. Fun little record. The instrumentation is cool, very surf rock with some surreal keyboard thrown in. Good production, good musicianship, good satirical lyrics. A lot of cool ideas going on here, not all of them hit (Satisfaction, Sloppy), but the overall majority do. They own the weirdness and it works most of the time. Sometimes it's a bit irritating but maybe it's intentional, you know what these artsy types are like when they want to labour a point. It's like they go so far to the weird side that the weirdometer ticks over and goes back to cool again. It's like if Talking Heads had ADHD as well as autism, and then went surfing.

🤷‍♂️ I find it incredibly difficult to have an opinion on this background music, it's very well performed? My brain is actively filtering it out while I listen to it.

Highway star is awesome, it's cool as fuck. Best version. Amazing organ, amazing guitar. Best song on the album. Child in time is fine musically, if not for it plodding on for a bit too long. However the vocals, specifically his wailing AAAAAAAAAAAAAs for a chorus are a pain in the arse to listen to, they're grating and I actively hate them. Smoke on the water, also awesome and cool as fuck. It's Smoke on the water. The Mule starts off cool then the drum fill becomes a solo... and it just keeps going... I was like nah mate, so I skipped through like 5 whole minutes until the rest of the band kicked back in. Easy skip unless you're really into drums, in which case it's probably the best track. It's a good drum solo, it's just not worth 5 minutes of my time. Strange kind of woman is fine, nothing special at all, a by-the-numbers early 70s hard rock song. About 6 minutes in the singer starts trading licks with the guitar but I don't know, it just sounds annoying, like when someone mocks you by saying your words back to you in a high pitched voice. Led Zeppelin manage to do the same shtick but don't make it irritating. I think I just find Ian Gillan annoying. Sometimes he sounds like a seagull with its nuts in a vise. Lazy is a fun little piece you can boogie to. Doesn't really go anywhere though. Some fun but unimportant filler, gives the impression they used up their actual songs before the gig was over so they spunked this out to pad out the runtime. Edit; For some reason the version I was listening to didn't have Space Truckin on the end. Looking at the runtime I'm thinking this had better be worth it. Starts off pretty cool, not as good as Highway Star but probably in the top 3 of the album so far. I'm halfway through, and while it sounds pretty spacey and far out, it's not really worth it yet. About 11 minutes in it sounds cool. Maybe I'm too sober for it. This isn't in the top 3 anymore haha. There's no need for it to be this long without it developing further as a song, so much meandering noodling and unnecessary padding. There's about 2 minutes where literally nothing happens. About 16 minutes in, Blackmore is back from taking a shit and plays some cool stuff. Oh and it just ends? Okay I guess. Yeah that wasn't worth it. --- The album is cobbled together from 2 dates, one in Osaka and one in Tokyo. Everything on the LP is from Osaka except for The Mule and Lazy. The Tokyo show must have sucked. Overall one or two really high highs and the rest is some average stuff tainted by some annoying choices they didn't have to make. The Organ and Guitar are consistently world class, but you already knew that. About half the songs are guff, and when each song is like 10 minutes and there's only 7 songs, that's not very good value for money.

This came out when I was 16 but I never listened to it at the time, so as a millenial with no nostalgia goggles.. I am completely and utterly indifferent to this. It feels like what you'd play at an indie rave. But I'm not at an indie rave, I'm at home listening to an album. I never understand dance music albums, it's a genre specifically made for a live audience to dance to. Putting it on a cd or album is just like, okay this is what you'd be listening to if you were there but you're not, you're in your car. The drawn out repetition works in a club because you're off your face and you want to dance, but at home not so much. That being said, it's okay, nothing special. Bang average repetetive 80s nostalgic indie electronica. Talking Heads, Kraftwerk, and Bowie inspired bleep bloop music for rich kids on pills. It kind of bored me halfway through because every song is kind of the same and longer than they need to be. I was thoroughly unimpressed.

I don't know why but I wasn't anticipating that I'd enjoy this album, but it's really cool. It's very hypnotic, I feel like I'm going into some sort of trance listening to this. It's very soulful and passionate but also calming. This reduced my cortisol levels and reset my vagus nerve. It's like an hour of musical medicine. Your enjoyment of it will be very situational but I'm chilling out to it and having a nice time. As an experience it's cool, but I don't know when I'd choose to listen to it again.

Good Beatles songs, but a lot of filler.

Never actually heard a Queen album all the way through, just their best-of compilations, so this'll be interesting. Death on two legs is cool, kind of average hard rock song. Sunday afternoon is a bit of an odd, campy vaudeville little follow up, but cute. Oh okay we're back to hard rock... I'm in love with my car blows, its so lame. You're my best friend is brilliant, a classic. 39 is interesting, it's an interesting story but nothing special. I'm wondering what their rationale was here regarding sequencing this album because we're going from one genre to another wildly. Sweet lady is kind of okay, it's nothing amazing, its like the bare minimum of good. Forgettable. Seaside rendezvous we're back to campy vaudeville, it's fine... okay it's annoying never mind. It's fun at least but wtf is this album it's got multiple personality disorder. The Prophet's song is interesting, we're in prog territory now apparently. It's not bad so far... An now a know an now a know an now a know an now a know and now an know an now a know an now a know an now a know an now a know and now an know an now a know an now a know an now a know an now a know and now an know. La lalalala la lalalala la lalalala la lalalalala. What the fuck is this even? The Prophet's Song wasn't worth its artificially inflated runtime, haha, what an annoying drag. Love of my life next.. this is quite lovely. What a nice song. Very tasteful and sweet. Good company now. Back to vaudeville it appears. It's annoying and goes nowhere. Bohemian Rhapsody. Classic. No notes. Next. And we're ending with the national anthem? That's a.. uh.. choice. Sounds like too triumphant a capstone for such a mid and muddled album. Now I see why I've only heard the singles. Yeah on the whole that kind of sucked. It sacrificed consistency for variety which is a bold strategy when most songs are average or just plain bad. I generally like Queen, I used to be a big fan growing up, but this just isn't it.

So. First song. It starts off annoying. Like a broken musical box where everyone's noodling away at their own thing and it doesn't work. Then the guitar line is really nice. Not a fan of the vocals much, too reedy and airy, sounds weak. It seems like everyone is playing a different intricate-for-the-sake-of-showing-off instrumental line and it only works half of the time. Not much to really grab hold of so far. The song progresses (ha) but doesn't really develop, since there's no consistent part to develop from, just independent bits playing simultaneously. There's a bit where everything cuts out and he gets up and he gets down a lot, interspersed with big classical church organ passages as if the song deserves it. Now we're back to the whole band doing some proggy stuff. It doesn't like, lead up to them dropping back in very much, just gives me the impression they decided to start playing again instead of it being a big build up. It ends and it's instantly left my mind. I am thoroughly unimpressed by this song and a bit annoyed because you can tell they really thought they did something with this. Second song, I'm halfway through it and I'm struggling to think of anything to say about it. It sounds.. pretty? It's very boring. Nothing happens in it. God I hate his grating little voice. And it just ends? Okay. What a pointless boring song. NEXT. SONG. Okay this actually has some substance. It actually feels like a SONG. Like an actual thought out piece of music instead of some annoying, pretentious noodling with an asthmatic seagull bleating over it. This feels like an actual band doing actual band shit. It's actually good! It's cool! It's interesting and enjoyable! It develops, it sticks in my mind, it's fun. It's probably the only thing on this album that's worth it. So due to the fact there's only one interesting and enjoyable song on this album of three.. I'm rating the album 1/3. Or rather 5 divided by 3. 1.6666. Lets round it up to two stars.

It's okay, not really my thing

It's objectively a mess, but it's rad so I don't care.

First impression? Café background music. Pleasant enough. I'll try to have more of an active listen tho. I mean, it's not bad, it's very technically proficient, easy to listen to, everyone especially the bassist are amazing players. It's just... it is what it is, and nothing more. It's some unobtrusive jazz performed well. I can't really say anything else about it. Very well executed background music.

Somewhere in the UK, there's an old, toothless man in a flat roofed pub. He thinks females are too liberated and England has too many of "those" people coming over here and taking our jobs. He took early retirement due to a brain injury, and now he goes around telling anyone who'd listen that everything was better back in his day. He slapped a 14 year old girl on the arse once because "she was asking for it" and now he's not allowed within 100 meters of a school. This is his favourite album. This is cocomelon for cockney boomers. It's dire. The backing music is tight and well played but it's not doing anything interesting. The vocals are.. bless him, he's trying. I know Ian was alright as a guy and he overcame a lot, but many people do, and they certainly don't write cockney knees up bedtime how's your father ooh matron nursery rhyme songs about getting your end wet, and that's preferable.

Woooooo!

Just really cool

The guys lyrics are incredible, his voice is good, maybe an acquired taste. The music is okay, it's kind of schmaltzy in some places, and like jazzy clown music in others. One of those albums where I can appreciate the talent and artistry without feeling the need to listen to it ever again.

This is cool. Does Mr Albini know there are EQ settings other than treble? Who cares what he thinks, he's a creep and he's dead. Made a pretty good album tho. Very interesting sounds on here. Like Passing Complexion, that's an unplaceable weird mechanical noise loop they've got as a background, like putting an active guitar pickup through a bandsaw. But it works. I get a lot of Pixies vibes from the screaming and backing tracks, but this came first and its the same guy, so maybe that's why I'm vibing with it so well. Lot of Hella and Brainiac vibes too. Neato. One thing I'm noticing compared with the Pixies (because that's my point of reference), the songs here aren't really songing. They're pieces of music yeah, but most lack songiness. I can relisten to the Pixies because they're songy. Most of these aren't songy, more like sketches to build cool noises around. And that's okay. It's just less appealing to me than a song. Kerosene kicks ass. Bass sounds like a trash can full of aluminium baseball bats in a cement mixer. Strange things is dance music. It's awesome. Nah man this album's fucking rad.

Cool hardcore punk with good songs and a guy who sounds like an old horse on vocals. I've heard better. I don't get the hype. His voice is stupid.

Well done big band jazz pop music.

It's fine. I've heard better Depeche Mode. I really enjoy Violator. I'm noticing the songs aren't particularly long, but they feel long. I'm not really getting a lot from this, it feels very dated and if I'm honest, boring. It's one of those albums where I'm forcing myself to listen to it. I had to skip through the second half of Little 15 to see if anything happened in it, if it was building up to anything. Nope. Violator is awesome, this album is boring.

It's cool. Very forward thinking. Sounds less dated than a lot of 80s music.

I'm not a huge fan of rap and hip hop. However I really enjoy this.

It's alright I guess, kind of annoying and messy.

I'm going to be honest, the first 2 songs were really annoying. I think it's the vocals, they're very bombastic and repetetive. Since they're well known songs I was surprised I didn't care for them. Picture this was really good, very much enjoyed that. Fade away has interesting sounds but not a lot of substance. Pretty Baby is meh. Nothing special. Same for the next song. It's more heavy and energetic, but still. There's a lot of boring throwaway songs on here. Sunday girl is lovely. Heart of glass is really good. The last 2 songs are ehh. Mixed bag here. Mostly mid with a few diamonds. Not essential.

Very ambivalent. It's not a bad album. Didn't hate it, didn't care for it. It's fine for what it is, and I'm sure some people like it. I find it very difficult to have an opinion on it. She has a lovely voice but I'm completely indifferent.

It's interesting. First song sounds like someone with psychosis singing along to the sound of tipping a bucket of clock springs and tin cans downstairs. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Then I heard some bleep bloops and thought.. Eno must be involved. I checked wikipedia, and he was. It starts making sense. I don't mind weird production like this, I don't have a fear of this sort of music. That being said, Crosseyed and Painless is forgettable, it sounds like background music from a 90s kart racing game for the playstation. It's got interesting guitar. On a repeated listen it holds up better. The Great Curve is like, it's fine? But there isn't really much to it. The runtime was too long for what it was and it was immediately forgettable. Once in a lifetime is amazing. 10/10. The only song on the album that is so far worth the hype. Houses in motion is boring. It's kind of funky but ultimately goes nowhere. Seen and not seen is atmospheric and artsy but again, boring. This is a boring album with one good song. I hope it picks up. I guess I just don't like Talking Heads. Bummer. This album is so boring, when it's not being repetetive and staccato boring, it's being dirgey atmospheric boring. The last 2 songs were a slog to get through. I just didn't get any enjoyment from them, nothing happened, they started boring and maintained the boringness without any development for the entire unnecessarily long, bloated, padded track lengths. This album has Once in a lifetime and Born under the punches, and apart from those two gems, the rest of it is pretentious, boring, looped, monotonous, filler. Disappointing. I thought I would enjoy this more but I am thoroughly unimpressed.

Like, yeah I get what he's trying to do, but this is just the opposite of what I enjoy. The idea is interesting on paper, but as an actual project that you're supposed to listen to? I didn't derive anything from this project apart from boredom, and irritation that this album made the list based on it's concept and not it's actual content. A complete waste of time.

Bang average album. Not bad. Not amazing. Vanilla is the favourite flavour for some people. For me I would expect something more if it's on this list. This is definitely one of the albums of all time. It certainly exists.

Loved it, brilliant

I get why the quirkiness can put people off. However, I find it very enjoyable and fun, at times very pretty, calming, mysterious, peaceful, weird, interesting. With a nice cameo from Vashti Bunyan. Reminds me of sunny summer days sitting in the grass. Love this album.

Poems set to music

Its not bad, some of it is very chill and enjoyable. Bit too long.

First song sounds very mid-90s, grunge tinged pop. Getting a lot of 60s jangly influences, bit of sgt pepper horns, and a bit of country pop in her vocals. It's a very pleasant, catchy, and easy-to-listen-to album. Bit of acoustic coffee shop singer-songwriter too, she has a nice voice. Nice lyrics. Gets very samey halfway through. The initial interest wears off. Meh.

Its alright, nothing amazing

Very average, very generic 80s new wave indie landfill. Why is there so much boring 80s new wave on this list? None of it is as special as people remember it being. Anyway, back to this version of the exact same thing... Either it's a victim of everyone piggybacking off of it's style, making it seem boring in retrospect, or it was simply never interesting to begin with. Who can say? Not I. Jangly... by-numbers... average... there's just nothing special about this at all, the same thing they do is done better by so many others. It's perfectly servicable but nothing stands out. The guy's voice is annoying too, he sounds like he's doing an impression of somebody he doesn't like. None of the identical songs interested me. This album could not exist and the world would be unchanged. You put a blank CD in the stereo and this plays. If anything, albums like this on this list have given me a new appreciation and understanding of rap and hip hop. It had to emerge, because by this point, as evidenced by this album and genre, white kids had run out of ideas.

Boring generic country tinged basic american music

It's okay, some good songs, a lot of filler, very average 90s post grunge music

What immediately strikes me is how so much of this could be released today and still sound fresh.

Just really good. Lyrics amazing. The playing is good. The tunes are good. The vocals are the best you're going to really get from him, let's be honest. Just classic after classic. Still holds up. Brilliant album.

First song, it's okay nothing special. Pretty average, well-performed late 60s rock. Second song is really good. Jazzy and catchy, interesting instrumentation, good singing, nice lyrics. 3rd is nice, nothing special but quite sweet. 4, he's belting the song out for sure but does it need belting? 5, this one's nice, kind of chill I gave up doing a song by song. The album is pleasant enough but nothing amazing. I'm kind of bored by this album. It doesn't get any better, it kind of middles around in this jazzy, mellow, background noisey sort of place that refuses to connect with me. He sings with a soulfulness that the songs just don't have. The songs are just okay. They're not badly done, they're not bad songs, they just exist and I can see why people would like them, I'm just not convinced that this guy - who writes and creates these songs - is afforded such legendary status when everything he does is done better by so many other people.

At times It's brilliant, at times it's boring. Way too long with too much filler.

Some of the catchiest, most enjoyable music since the Beatles, written and performed by some absolute bell ends. You can tell they love the smell of their own farts, but when they smell like this then maybe they have a point. Simple crowd pleasers for simple crowds. Music that goes down easy. Lowest common denominator sonic junk food. Still fun to indulge in every now and then.

This is very interesting. Mildly avante garde chamber music with modern flourishes, staccato rhythms on guitars, music concrete, it's like progressive pop classical music. I see how this influenced a lot of indie. A very pleasant, interesting listen. Certainly more of a background music album in parts.

I actually went to Leeds uni and they had a plaque on the wall saying this album was recorded there. Never got round to listening to it tho, so this will be interesting. First song is class, a hard zeppelin-esque blues number with crazy drums abound. A bit rich telling a crowd of boomers that they don't have nothing in the world these days, but that's hindsight for you. Substitute is a neat little rendition. Summertime blues is a fun cover. I get the hype with Moon's drumming now, it's a really interesting setup, the melodic instruments are the rhythm and the drums are the lead, it works very well. It's like his beats are all solos. Shakin all over is pretty cool. This must have been a fun gig, everyone's firing on all cylinders so far. I've never been that into The Who but this is really good. Some bands just don't record very well and you need to see them live. Bass is excellent, he's got some really nice, busy lines. Really ties the songs together. The rhythm section here is so good. The guitar and vocals are fine but I'm not, like, blown away by them or anything. Rest of the album is pretty decent, once you've heard a few you've heard em all.

Gonna be honest, his voice is so irritating and offputting on this one. The music is fine, generic 80s jangliness. He sounds like a mournful seal. Droning on about how miserable he is like an affected nan-child. And god, doesn't he just fucking whine about everything? Every single fucking song, the same uninterested dirge, maybe with a yodelly bit of falsetto chucked in. Something I've noticed about The Smiths is their singles collections are brilliant, and their albums are absolutely dire. So much boring, unimpressive, generic, jangly, throwaway filler. This one is nothing to write home about, definitely not worth the hype. The best thing about it is probably the guitar work on What She Said. Also I think vegetarianism suffers from insufferable, unlikeable, melodramatic bell ends like Morrissey being their main vocal supporters. He may be objectively and morally correct about meat, but him saying it diminishes the message. Because he's such a twat.

Nothing special. Country indie. Proto grunge. Occasional glimpses of hardcore. Based on that, you'd think it would be a fun, cool listen, but I was kind of bored. It's not a long album but I thought it was nearly over when I was halfway through. Most alternative music from the 80s is very similar, and none of it is particularly impressive or interesting to me. It does seem ahead of it's time, however, could have definitely been a 1990 release. Country music seems to be an american thing that you have to be exposed to at a young age in order to normalise it and enjoy it. I was not raised on it and I find anything vaguely Country-esque to be asinine, unwanted, and performative, with their cowboy twang and their yodelly inflections that magically vanish when they speak. Therefore, to me, a very average 80s alt album is only diminished by the presence of Country influences. Aside from that, this album is okay, it's nothing special and I was mostly bored. None of the songs warrant my attention, they're very half formed, meandering, uninteresting, filler. Omg can this album just hurry up and be over already, how is this 47 minute album 2 hours long, and why are none of the tracks worth the effort. Everyone's like ohh but Cobain loved them, they must be good, yeah Cobain loved heroin too so what? It's okay in places, but not essential by any means.

Some amazing tracks with some mushy filler. Some tracks are timeless and some are definitely out of date. A mixed bag but mostly good:)

It's alright, but if you've heard one, you've heard them all. It's a good song, but he does it too many times with different lyrics. Nowt spesh.

Its fine, enjoyable listen, nice summer album, drags a bit near the end

This is really nice. It's very chill and happy. Very mellow. Good vocals, brilliant guitar. The songs are great. Sugar magnolia, friend of the devil, truckin, its a great album.

Its alright, they have a lot of energy but it gets very samey and I prefer the studio versions. It starts off really strong but the sameyness kicks in about halfway through.

Okay I'm 3 songs in and I'm giving up. This is sapping the life from me. Each song takes years off my life. By the time the album is over, I'll be elderly enough to enjoy it. 2 stars, because although this is one of the most boring things I've ever heard, it is at least recorded and performed well. Not for me.

I mean it's alright. Bob Dylany kind of bland country, folky, rootsy ballads. Very inessential. Not interesting enough to stick in the mind or make an impression. The songs kind of just happen and then they're done. They're performed well and all that, it's just... bland. It's not a painful experience to listen to, it's more like you forget you're listening to it while it's playing. Very difficult to find anything to say about this. Whoever compiled this list must have been very easily pleased.

Nice chill, cool album. Nothing very exciting, but very well performed. Love her voice.

It's a very competent, early 90s hip hop album. It's nothing amazing, but it's enjoyable enough. I'm not massively into this genre but it sounds fine to me. Perfectly servicable rap album. Would I have put it on this list? Probably not. It's fine.

First impressions, I'd say it is good music. It is interesting music. Can't really get into it, however. It's very theatrical and some songs are very... gimmicky. It's like she wanted to make the songs as a vehicle for her to explore specific sounds and do accents and noises.. which is fine, it's cool and experimental, but for me.. while it does translate into interesting sounds for consideration, it doesn't particularly translate into music for enjoyment. I appreciate the creativity and artistry, but I wouldn't listen to this album again. Also, a personal annoyance for me is when vocalists put on different accents to inhabit a character, it's so contrived and corny. Whilst listening I'm in the mindset of, well this is interesting. When it finishes I'm in the mindset of okay then, that certainly was an album that exists. Nothing sticks in mind. The album is such an onslaught of experimental quirkiness that you quickly become immune to the bizarre aspects of it, but in doing so, you become indifferent to it.

Its fine, nothing special. Homogeneous album. No standout tracks. All performed well, interesting subject matter, just nothing catchy or memorable. Not a huge fan of his constant falsetto on this album, he sounds like a guy who can kind of sing falsetto and insists on doing it all the time and nobody tells him it's not that good. He sings a lot better on his other albums.

I kind of expected more from an album with such status. But then again, the status it is afforded seems to be based more on its contribution to civil rights rather than it's musicality. It is a very unremarkable soul/funk album. It's alright, but it's nothing mindblowing. Once you've heard one fiddly little guitar line or horn blare then you've heard them all. So much of it sounded like filler or background music. I was completely underwhelmed and confused as to how this album had built up such a legacy. I guess what they had to say regarding civil rights was important, but they could have said it with a less monotonous, less bland album of throwaway music. The bass lines are excellent, however. It's just aside from the subject matter, the songs lack any sort of substance, it's very loose and ramshackle, it feels like the whole album was improvised on the spot with the occasional vocal ooooh or aaaahhh thrown in wherever.

I have very little to say about this. It's performed well, recorded well, sounds nice enough. There's just no real substance to it. I forget the songs as I'm listening to them. Very little variety, quite chill, some interesting sonic ideas. Monotonous vocals. Yeah this is certainly an album that exists. Bland and inconsequential yet pleasant enough. Gets old halfway through. Very repetetive, and what it repeats isn't that interesting.

Incredibly bland. Inoffensive. A CD your mum would have in the car. Some pleasant enough single but very forgettable filler.

Probably amazing at the time, guitar is nice and tasteful, even when going wild. For all his failings as a human being, Clapton is a brilliant guitarist. Not the best per se, he's eclipsed by Hendrix for a start, but it's not a competition. That being said, his playing is pretty much 90% of what he has to offer. His singing is nothing special, and his songs are bland. So what happens when you aren't the best, but you think you are? You get a bloated bunch of noodling about how much you want to fuck your friend's wife. This didn't need to be a double. It's got a hell of a lot of filler. Anyday and the title track are the only real standouts that aren't just an extended blues jam. It could very easily have been an incredible single album. Pretty much nothing else on the album holds a candle to the title track. Quite a lot of this is very inessential.

This may be the okayest album ever. It's pleasant enough and has a nice warm sound, but the songs feel more like extended sketches. He has ideas but nothing that cohesive, the songs kind of exist pleasantly yet uselessly, like bubbles in a lava lamp. They don't really go anywhere but they sound nice while they do it. It does sound nice but it's a bit empty at the same time. He's not particularly great at vocals or songwriting, but he really does excel with production.

Instantly an interesting challenge. It sounds like Banjo Kazooie. First song grew on me tho. Seems like a bit of an acid test to scare people off. Second song is fine enough. He likes his interesting sounds and yelling. Not as good or interesting content, however. I'm getting clown music vibes from this album. With a lot of hall reverb. And clanging metal. I think he's trying to project an image of some haunted, alcoholic carnie character here. I always wonder who the audience is for Tom Waites. He seems like a barfly lounge singer at times who tries to hide behind unhinged characters. When he's just at his piano he sounds alright, quite soulful, nice voice, interesting songs and stories. But at other times he likes to pretend he's a little circus goblin. Interesting dichotomy. I like about half of the songs here, and I'm bemused by the rest. Certainly is an interesting experience. You know what it is? He's being Captain Beefheart. I get it now. To be honest it's kind of boring in parts. Once the abrasive weirdness wears off, it's kind of meh.

Eh, it's fine I guess? I don't really have much to say about it. It's nothing special but it's not bad. Performed well, catchy enough, easy to listen to. Yeah. It's fine.

Underrated album. The first 3 albums of theirs get all the fanfare, but this has Supernaut, Wheels of confusion, Changes, Snowblind... such a good album.

Pretty good blues rock. This is one of those classic albums where it's proficient and enjoyable enough, but still nothing amazing. Not a bad album by any means. A bit samey, bit slow in parts. The guitar sounds too good for the songs most of the time, like he's ripping these amazing solos for some of the most plodding songs, it's quite incongruous, like Messi playing for your local sunday league team. Like a V8 in a shopping cart.

Not really feeling anything here. The music is happening. I am aware I am being musiced at. But it has no effect on me. I find it a bit annoying to be honest. The first few songs are so... nothing. They're mellow enough but, like, yeah I got nothing. Planet 10 is fucking irritating to listen to. Bladerunners is quite good, but that's due to the guest artist. There's a 10 minute instrumental. It's fine, nothing amazing. Followed by another little instrumental, which is again fine, but again, nothing special. I don't want to listen to this anymore. It's tedious. I'm not really into rap and hiphop and all of that kind of stuff at the best of times. So maybe it's good for people who do like it, but for me it's very unimpressive and tiresome. It's not completely without merit, but I gained no enjoyment from this at all.

It's okay, it has a few classics but a lot of country inspired bluesy filler

Yeah it's really good. Lots of great hooks, shimmery guitars, bass riffs, floaty vocals, funky drums... It's a really good album. It's not completely excellent, there are a few throwaways, such as Don't Stop which is an interesting experiment, reversing the entire song that played beforehand and trying to do something with it- that falls a bit flat. There's also some alright but average songs near the end. But I wanna be adored, She bangs the Drums, Waterfall, Made of Stone, I am the resurrection, Fools gold... half of this album contain some of the best late 80s/early 90s songs ever written. It has several 5 star songs, but a few 3 or 4 star ones... which doesn't add up to 5 overall, unfortunately. 4 stars will have to do.

Your generic run of the mill old school hip hop album

Well performed, well recorded. Lovely vocals. Still a country album. I am baffled by country music. It's a very saccharine, very uninteresting acoustic version of christian rock with fiddles, slide guitar, and everyone wears the big hat, puts on the accent, and pretends to be a cowboy. It's so clichéd and performative. Why is this inauthentic, bland, hokey genre so popular? This album is okay, it's kind of boring like a lot of 70s music was, slow, mournful singer-songwriter ballads, chirpy, plonky hoedown stuff, the usual. She is so talented, with such a wonderful voice, yet she wastes it on such a corny genre. What a shame. Good country album I suppose.

Like, it's well performed, written, and recorded. But it's the aural equivalent of beige. It starts good with Tiny Dancer and the songs after are kind of just there. Indian Summer is a bit awkward now, and that's putting it lightly.

This is probably the most 80s album. It's alright, it's quite listenable. I can see why it is so popular. However, aside from the first three songs, it's very bland and unmemorable. The songs are very long for what they are. It's not bad, it's just kind of boring and bland. The musicianship is amazing, Knopfler is one of the greatest guitarists of all time, his playing is tasteful and skillful without showing off, it's just the songs that act as a vehicle for his playing are kind of uninteresting. Brothers in Arms the song has some wonderful guitar work, atmospheric, brooding, mournful, yet the song itself is instantly forgettable.

Pretty unremarkable late 60s psychedelic nuggets pop from the scene's also-rans. Quite a lot of throwaway songs on here. It's fun enough and doesn't overstay it's welcome. Does what it sets out to do, each song has it's unique elements so it keeps the album sounding fresh. Bang average for it's genre, it lacks the special spark that made its contemporaries into classics. It has some nice songs, it's worth listening to and quite enjoyable.

She's good at singing but this album is about as hollow and soulless as any other mass produced item made for supermarkets and your parent's car.

Just kind of boring really. No standout tracks, just some by the numbers vaguely grungey music played well enough by a band who wouldn't be remotely as big as they are if not for their lead singer's marriage. That's not to shit on them entirely, it's fine enough, nothing amazing, but based on their songwriting and performance, is their success and fame proportional? Not really, no. They're average as hell, and so is this album. All the songs languish around the 6/10 mark, competent enough, yet not particularly interesting or essential. Some lyrics are quite good and have something important to say about the lived experience of women, however, the songs as a vehicle for delivering these lyrics are nothing to write home about. I'm intrigued by the start of most of these songs, and by the end I'm left with a sense of "oh, was that it?"

It's okay, quite nice in parts, folk rock kind of thing. It is a bit boring in parts and drags a bit. Not very interesting.

Post-heroin bland-fest from racist old fart who can't sing. Most overrated guitarist on God's green Earth. It's interesting that he'd cover I shot the sheriff considering how in another life, he'd be the sheriff. Ranting aside, it's a very average, well produced album of bland mid 70s rock.

Very chill album. Probably best enjoyed late at night, having a beer, after everyone else has gone to bed. Pleasant enough, easy to listen to, not bad at all. Not a very interesting or exciting listen, but good for what it is.

This is pretty good. I like CCR, no nonsense, straightforward, catchy, radio friendly rock. Kind of like the Oasis of the 60s if they were being country blues instead of The Beatles. A few classics on here, Looking out my backdoor, Run through the jungle, Up around the bend, Who'll stop the rain... some of the best songs of the era. A bit of filler here and there, but it's fun filler. Very enjoyable album, one of their best.

It's okay. The first song and Heroes are incredibly good, but the other non-ambient tracks are a bit throwaway. The ambient tracks are okay, but I have to be in the right mood for them, otherwise I find them tedious.

He's talented, he has a great voice, it's just his songs are so forgettable. Like if Thom Yorke was in Coldplay, but without memorable songs. I can't recall any hooks or riffs or motifs. Nothing. I just know they sounded nice enough while they were playing.

Really good, chill album. Some amazing songs on here.

Sounds a lot like indie music that was released 10 years before it came out. Nothing groundbreaking. It's pretty cool, pleasant enough. Gets quite boring as it goes on. Meh.

Every song on this album (apart from Silver) is amazing.

Clapton before he was a bell end. Cream are such a weird band when you take a step back, amazing blues guitarist, amazing jazz bassist and vocalist, and one of the best drummers who ever drummed, who was possibly more of an asshole than Clapton. Their powers combined, they make... some weird slightly bluesy, slightly jazzy, slightly trippy classics... as well as a bunch of weird cockney knees up gather round the old joanna no fank you muvva av a banarna sort of music. That being said, this is a very smooth, very cool, dreamy, and chilled out album. Even the harder songs like SWLABR are kind of delivered in a laid back kind of style. Some of the lyrics are a bit "I'm 16 and I'm a serious poet". Overall it's a very solid album with a bit of filler thrown in here and there. It's baffling how good this is considering it was made by group of people who hated each other's guts, it never should have worked but somehow it did.

Pretty fun to listen to. Yeah, it's good.

It's okay, nothing amazing

Front loaded with classics, then forgettable filler

It's an instrumental album of 60s standards played on the organ. It's good at being what it is. As long as you go in expecting only that, then you'll be quite pleased.

50 Cent's real name is Arthur Dollar

More maudlin droning over some alright 80s jangle. The musicianship is great, the vocals are insipid, and the songs are average. I really don't get the hype. Their best album is one of their best-of compilations, their albums suffer from so much uninteresting filler. Bang average album, pleasant enough in parts but overall nothing amazing.

The way my heart dropped when he showed up again. He's all about the lyrics. Admittedly, they're very good lyrics. Some of them are just "I'm 14 and this is deep" aphorisms about the human condition, but most of it is fine. It's just the vehicle in which the lyrics are delivered are plodding, uninteresting, basic, bland, and just not very fun to listen to. I mean that in the sense of musicianship and vocals. He dwells in this affected, kitschy, seedy little ramshackle drunk downtrodden barfly persona for everything he does and it gets old really quickly. The vocals he chooses for this persona are kind of grating and annoying. I find characters that artists play to be quite hit or miss, it's very obvious that they're performing a character in some instances and that comes across as contrived and inauthentic to me, which I find off-putting. I just feel with some of these "oh you gotta listen to those lyrics, man" type of artists, that maybe they should stick to the written word, as usually the musical backing and vocals that they employ are quite shoddily put together and overpower the words with their complete meh-ness. The Billy Bragg effect. In short - good lyrics, boring songs, guy performing an asinine character. The thing is, I actually like Tom Waits, I think he's an interesting, cool guy, I just think most of his music is crap.

Country music is insipid dross, and listening to it makes me think America was a mistake. That being said, performed well, recorded well. Seems like it would be a good country album if you're into it. Personally I think this is a cloying, corny, dire collection of syrupy bullshite and it actively detracted from my day.

Very good album. What's interesting about it is that half of it is what people think flower power music is, and the other half of it is what flower power music actually was.

I mean, it's alright but it's nowhere near as good as it sounds. They're obviously talented and they have a lot of interesting ideas, it's just they employ said ideas very haphazardly and thus the songs become less than the sum of their parts. Several songs skirt very close to being quirky for the sake of being irritating, yet the other songs sound fun and interesting. Very mixed bag. It's kind of exhausting, 5 songs in and it's as if I've listened to a whole album of halfbaked ideas wedged into a small amount of songs. It's like having a musical theatre student with untreated adhd as your roommate. As thee title suggests, some of thees music ees very sheet.

Nice :) i liked it

It's fine. Maybe it was groundbreaking at the time, but in 2026 this is some boilerplate thrash influenced groove metal. It's not bad. One is great. But yeah, basic Metallica. It does It's Metallica thing and then it ends.

Nice album, chill.

Pretty cool album, I enjoyed it a lot. Very nostalgic.

Its alright, yeah it was interesting and fun and sounded cool. Brilliant musicianship. Not particularly what I'm into but still very cool.

It's alright, outside of the singles It's pretty repetetive and kind of boring in parts

The first few songs are the indie equivalent of black metal. Annoying reverby vocals, tinny, shittily recorded guitars etc. That being said, halfway through, the album gets listenable and quite enjoyable. Nothing amazing, but not bad.

It's okay, his voice is a bit whiny and annoying. The first two tracks are a bit of a cloying non starter for me. Track 3 is great, very enjoyable and chill, his voice works on this one. Track 4 very good. Most of this album is kind of boring. There isn't a lot to it musically, it's average in that regard. The vocals are an acquired taste. I'm not feeling the country, folky vibe. It's like the basic settings of music. You have to be pretty special to wring any individuality and intrigue from this style, and on this album he does it around 30% of the time. It's such a meh album, but I can see it affecting people. It's schmaltzy enough in parts to make you feel comforted, like a lullaby, and the lyrical content is so bland that you can ascribe whatever meaning you want onto it, like a rorschach test.

I'm getting a lot of effort, composition, talent, dynamics... yet despite that, each track manages to sound like homogenised, muddy blandness. Like, there is no song for the talent to grasp onto, no substance to warrant the pageantry and bombast. I'm left with a very shiny jewel that is hollow and made of aluminium foil. It's quite an underwhelming listen. A procession of middling offerings, none of which stand out or elicit any particular emotion in me. Boiled, unseasoned chicken covered in glitter and trimmed with the finest ermine. Highlights are The March of the Black Queen which comes across as a proto metal dry run for Bohemian Rhapsody, it's interesting enough but pales in comparison to similar songs of the era. One notable outlier is Seven Seas of Rye, which sounds completely different to the rest of the album. It doesn't suffer from the compressed, muddy recording of the other tracks, it sounds bright and fresh and actually has something to it. It's catchy, and is the best track on the album by far, partially because it sounds like it's from a different album.

The first half is actually really good. Well written, performed, composed. Yeah I can see why they got popular. Gets a bit boring and samey in the 2nd half though.

Its okay, not really my style, kind of smooth slow jams, but it was chill and well performed

It's hard to divorce her life from her music, especially since it was the 15th anniversary of her death a few days ago. 15 years since that circus of tabloid headlines, drugs, and chaos reached it's inevitable end. Time flies. She was a talent, even evident on her debut. Very enjoyable, fun, jazzy album. Her bratty irreverence, as well as her smoky voice and knack for a good hook in this album showed a lot of promise which was eventually fulfilled by her more refined and mature sophomore effort. A decent first effort and a tragedy that this album is half of her discography.

It's a good starting point for them, but not as good as their next few albums

It's okay but like, a very average, bland, grunge influenced mid 90s album. Whilst well executed and not bad, none of the songs particularly stand out or stick in the mind. A very okay album, but a bit of a boring one to get through.

I don't get it. This is just empty, monotonous, repetetive background music. And if it isn't empty, it feels empty. It feels designed specifically for people to not engage with it. Just some repetetive bleep bloops over ambient backing, and annoying drum loops with random samples of american guys talking bollocks. It sounds like a PS1 demo disk. It's like hold music for phones.

It's okay in a kind of corny, don't take it too seriously kind of way. Like, I can imagine them thinking they're really heavy and cool, when they're dressed like moms and playing soft pop music with guitars. It's like the kind of thing kids would listen to at a pizza party in the 80s. Like the Transformers movie soundtrack. It's undeniably lame. Naff. Corny. They'd unironically call someone a hot mama or a cool cat. But I love that for them. Very well performed mid music. Not bad, not great. But they seem to be having fun and it's harmless. Something in my brain just can't compute people actively choosing to listen to this or thinking it's cool.

This is really good. Still feels fresh. Just has this energy that never lets up through the whole thing.

It's fine, some good songs, lots of filler

First song is alright, it's a fun little throwaway bit, nice to hear from Jarvis Cocker. The rest of the album is kind of boring. I am baffled that he has one album on here, let alone two. Another soundtrack for a movie that doesn't exist, as if anyone asked for it. Another album that got on here for it's concept rather than its execution. It seems like it would be enjoyed by fans of Tom Waits and Nick Cave (derogatory).

It's fine

Completely meh

Its fine

Fine, chill, very skilled but not very interesting

It's pretty good, fun listen, but kind of immature in a slightly offputting way

Decent, kind of average, fun, just okay

I thought they were saying "what's your take on cats and berries?" It's an average garage punk album except it sounds like it's being yelled by an angry squirrel.

Brilliant album, still amazing

This is lame. It's a well recorded basic late 80s glam hair rock band with 40 year old guy spending every song going "haha, yeah, I have SEX." Like, okay dude, many people do. Who gives a shit. "No you don't understand, I like honky tonk hoochie coochie mamas. Car metaphor. I like em young, I'm a funky fresh cool dude. I like taking drugs with hookers because I'm badass. Yeah, I said ass, so sue me." Please leave.

It's alright. Chill and smooth, but a bit toothless.