Reviews

Bad, just bad 90's house music w/ tons of samples. Repetitive and annoying. I can't write more about it. I'm too angsty now from listening to it. That's a 1 for you!

I have a few tracks off this one on set lists, and while not really breaking new ground Little Simz has great flow and decent beats. Solid, quick little album I’m happy to see show up on this list.

This is the kind of album that plays on the overhead speakers while you get a root canal. 🦷

3/5

rly good 4

I remember the precise moment I first heard De La Soul. I was refinishing my parents' kitchen cabinets and looking at the clock above their oven when Eye Know came on the radio. It felt like salvation. From many things, not the least of which a decade where popular music was dominated by boomer nostalgia. It's ironic perhaps but they were sampling Steely Dan, a boomer band if there ever was one, but to say something completely new. Genius. Simply one of my very favorite records. The kind of out of nowhere creative explosion that created an entire sub genre that would have consumed all of hip hop if not for the dominance of gangsta rap. So far out on a limb they had to kill themselves off with their next record, De La Soul is Dead. Took sampling to such an insane extreme that it took the lawyers over thirty years to clear all of the samples, so it couldn't debut on streaming platforms until 2023. Sadly, Trugoy (Yogurt backwards, for some unknown reason) aka Plug Two, one of the greatest rappers the world will ever see, died a month before. Anyway, I can't tell you what it felt like to hear so many cultural touchstones from my youth brought together in one place. In the very first song you get Schoolhouse Rock and Johnny Cash. They were making funky and funny tunes out of Hall and Oates! They combined all of these nuggets to create an entire world with its own vocabulary. Like other truly great albums it takes you on a journey to a place you've never been. The Promised Land, in this case. Maybe it was the drugs, but for the roughly two years between this album and De La Soul Is Dead I literally believed that the D.A.I.S.Y. Age was going to transform the world and bring humanity together to usher in an enlightened era. That's what I was working toward. That, and getting more drugs. Anyway, incredibly creative album and powerful statement on the promise of youth and positive energy unlike anything before or since. I don't like those "best of" lists - music is not a competition and making it a sport diminishes its magic, but I wouldn't have a problem if you came with Three Feet High And Rising as the greatest album ever made and I will be sorely disappointed if it isn't one of the very highest rated by the 1001 community.

Truth In Advertising right before your eyes, because this fucker ROCKS. We are back in the saddle, ladies and gentlemen, and you can start it at any volume you like but I promise that by the end of the first track you will be at 11. By the end of side one you will have snorted an eight-ball of blow, untucked your swashbuckler shirt, picked up chlamydia and peeled out in your Camaro off into the sunset. By the end of side two you will collapse, exhausted, satisfied and sanctified. There is something about the sound of the guitars on this album that epitomizes 1970s rock n roll and gets me all jazzed up. I can't put words to it. The mix is perfect, too - you cannot understand most of the words in the literal sense but they come through loud and clear in a more profound way. I was never really a big fan of cock rock but I got into Aerosmith by way of avant garde "composer" Glenn Branca by way of Sonic Youth, the guitar players of which met as members of Branca's Guitar Army. I read an interview where Branca described a life-altering experience stumbling upon an Aerosmith rehearsal at an empty theater as a college student in Boston in the early 1970s. Even nerds must rock, and I concur with this list's editors that Rocks is truly an album you must hear before you die. I just hope you have the good fortune to survive it.

I fucking hate britpop, it‘s a deep hate, a discriminating hate, but there are some exceptions. Pulp‘s Different Class is a masterpiece, and that‘s about it, not a long list, is it? And somehow Rob had the gall to put so many britpop albums on this list, at least we have 7 Costello albums to listen to. The vocals are whiny, the lyrics aren‘t anything to write home about and the band is just generally not that good musically, so you know, basically the usual ordeal for this god forsaken genre called britpop. On top of that, I absolutely DESPISE the discourse around Oasis; you can‘t make just two apparently good albums and be hailed as the second coming of The Beatles (or Bach for that matter), it just doesn‘t work like that. And the whole reunion tour is a farce, just a despicable cash grab. To my surprise it’s somehow en vogue to ironically like Oasis and dress up as one of the lads of bygone days. Ultimately I‘m the actual farce in this equation, because I do actually enjoy this album. To paraphrase a review I read on here: „this is the epitome of lager rock“, and honestly? The world needs its lager rock, but in small doses and preferably prescribed by your health care provider, and that‘s basically the gist of why I‘m not condemning this album to the void of forgetting. 4/5

Supertramp is a shiny amalgam of Floyd, Steely Dan, ELO and bunch of other slightly pretentious middle-of-the-road 70s bands blended into a bland slurry and garnished with saxophone. 1.5 stars, rounding down because I am so fucking bored.

Heck yeah. Early psychedelic rock it's where it's at. I'm only familiar with his 'hits' and I've been missing out. This stuff is pretty fantastic. I need to dig deeper into his catalog. Extra stars for having half the mighty Led Zep playing on the title track.

I can’t believe the top review for this record (as of Dec 2023) is from someone trying to use their PhD in Mathematics as justification for not liking hip-hop. Weak.

Oh fuck yeah, now we're talking. Wait no, I swear I'm not being pretentious. This is the lowest rated album on this site because I guess mostly people aren't very fond of German people smashing metal plates together - who would have guessed. But halle-fucking-lujah, this is something this list needs more of. Albums that make you go "well, that was an experience and now I'm a changed man". Nobody is lying on their deathbed wishing they heard more crappy 80s post-punk or late 60s psychedelic rock. THIS is what we all deserve to be listening to as we embrace eternal oblivion. I'm giving this a high rating not only because I genuinely really love it, but also to help Kid Rock move to his rightful place as the actual worst album on this list. Together we can make a difference. Save the turtles.

Brings back vivid memories of when me and my mate Ray went on a trip to Dresden. We met this rotund goth in a bar, head to toe with tattoos and piercings, real filth and after a while took her into the disabled bogs for a spit roast. We were both pumping away in her with Napalm Death on in the background and her wailing "MEIN GOTT" at the top of her lungs. I remember spaffing all over her back just as Siege of Power kicked in. As i shoot over her, she takes Ray's cock out of her gob and says "do you want fries with that?" in a faux American accent. Anyway, we go outside and there's this gammy little geezer in a wheelchair sitting there furious, giving me daggers, because he's had to wait so long, so I lean into him and I go "I hope you have as much fun in there as we just did you little cunt".

Shit like this on the list is both refreshing and infuriating. Refreshing because it is good, fun, interesting, and also not something I would regularly be exposed to! It's why I started this project and keeps me coming back. It's infuriating because the fact that it is included here means that Robert Dimery, the original author of the 1001 albums list is aware that music like this exists. He's clearly aware that there is an entire world of music out there. SO WHY HAVE I LISTENED TO 200 80s BRITISH NEW WAVE ALBUMS AND 200 SCOTTISH ROCK ALBUMS FROM THE 90S??!!?

Back when I was in college, there was this dude who would come into the bar I worked at on a Friday night and play fucking 10 Neil Young songs in a row. He would also hit on girls by doing magic tricks. I remember how angry I got every time he made me listen to an hour of Neil Young because I was just trying to have a good time, and he fucking made me listen to this sad, soppy fuck who writes nothing but songs that sound indistinguishable from each other and never seemed to enjoy a happy moment in his entire like. Fuck that guy, and fuck Neil Young. 2/5

Back when I was in college I used to go to a bar and listen to Neil tunes and do magic tricks for women. There was a bartender there, he was the best. I loved that guy. Some of the best years of my life.

Sorry Boomers/Gen X, I was like 20 when this came out so it's one of the best things to ever happen to me. Sorry it's not King Crimson or whatever.

The only enjoyment I got from this was reading the review about the brothers in Dresden and their lovely and talented tattooed friend.

Music for incels to wank furiously by

5: The moustache that appear on Art if you put your thumb on Pauls face on the album cover. 5: The songs.

Most 60's groups had three choices: copy the beatles, copy the beach boys, or sexually abuse minors. These guys changed the game and did all three- Four stars!

i ain’t listening to all that i’m happy for u tho or sorry that happened

The only reason this is here is because it’s from before streaming, when if you bought a shit album you had to convince yourself you liked it.

Rage In Favor Of The Machine.

I am definitely not the target demographic for this album, but I still thought it was very good. There's a lot of skill and artistry put into these tracks, so much so that it is almost invisible. 4 stars for me, plus an extra star just to spite the mathematics PHD guy.