Album Reviews

First time listening and I love it. What a great discovery. This band formed and played in my hometown and I can’t believe I had never heard of them before.

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Like a Prayer is definitely a classic. The album cover is stunning, and as someone who’s always a sucker for religious themes and imagery in art, I think that aspect deserves far more appreciation. Prince’s contributions are fantastic. “Like a Prayer,” “Express Yourself,” “Love Song,” and “Cherish” are all solid tracks, but honestly, I didn’t care much for the rest of the album; it felt a bit too juvenile/disjointed at times.

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Another obscure UK band, shocker. The album is ok, but absolutely nothing about it seemed particularly great to me.

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Schwache 4, weil die Songs sich schon ziemlich ähneln (außer der Opener, den ich aber gar nicht mochte) und klare Motive oft nicht erkennbar sind. "Take Five" ist aber natürlich ein Bomben-Song, spiele ich selbst auch super gerne auf dem Klavier. Zieht daher den Schnitt wieder nach oben.

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I like Damon Albarn a bit, Blur is my favorite of the Britpop stuff, Gorillaz is great, most of his solo is class. This is a bad project though. Supergroups often flatten each members' individual talents and this has got that going on in spades. It's basically the same song for forty-four minutes with slight variations on the drum fill or keys arrangement. But I found it wholly tedious. I thought I was mildly enjoying it for the bulk of it but during the last song, I heard my phone ring & I was so excited to just hear a new noise for the first time in 40 minutes that I realized I did not enjoy this one at all. One of the curious additions to the book that make you realize it's mostly written by British critics. Remember "Danger Mouse"? Favorite Track: Behind the Sun

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It almost made me appreciate steel guitar. But it felt like boring Counting Crows/Nine Days

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An aural holocaust. Just shit music. Lead singer thinks he’s Bono, going for that sweeping hero, soaring vocals that only Bono can really get away with.

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Interesantes para ser del siglo XXI. Buen disco, bastante variado aunque lo había olvidado totalmente.

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This is a good album

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This was a weird listen. It sounded nice and well produced but it was 22 songs of what seemed like almost the exact same song 22 times. Didn't do much for me at all.

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3.5 stars - best so far

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This is really good

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Good One!

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Nice! Just one stand out song but not bad

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Really great, mix of rock n roll and blues, the two first and two last songs are bangers. Maybe a lack of psychedelic keyboards, 4.5

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A primeira música já me pegou totalmente desprevenido. Nunca soube o nome, e descobrir foi uma boa surpresa. "Come Get To This" usa um sample ridículo de bateria eletrônica barata que estragou a música. Fora isso, o álbum é todo consistente. Esse cara definitivamente tem um vozerão. Não é um estilo de música que gosto muito, mas a qualidade deve ser reconhecida. Melhor do álbum: "Let's Get It On". Pior do álbum: "Come Get To This".

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Pretty fun album. Montage Daydream and and Starman really carrying it I feel

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Whenever The Band comes up on this list my brain says OH FUCK NO IT'S STEELY DAN!!! And then I remember I am dumb and this band is find. The Weight has obvi been played so much it is kind of annoying. I have a bit of a soft spot for I Shall Be Released. I'm sure peeps geek out on the Dylan connection yada yada, but this is middle of the road decent rock but not something incredible IMO. 3.5/5

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Messing around in the studio making tracks that are only interesting to yourself is no basis for creating a record.

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3 out of 5. Better than I thought it would be.

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I guess I hate hardcore now...

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I can see the artistry behind this project and understand why it has received the acclaim that it has, but I was not in the mood to really hear something like this today. I'm sitting more on a 3.5 for this one, but I'm not in the mood to bump it up to 4.

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A landmark Pop album from a genuine triple-threat showman. At the time, Timberlake was the New King of Pop, long before certain revelations ruined more than just the tour.

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Post post-punk noise Rock. More of a freeform

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As good as any Beatles album. Kept listening to this on loop all weekend, thoroughly enjoyed it.

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I think the version I found had a couple tracks that had originally been left off or something. There was a solid album in there, and then a hand full of songs at the end that felt like they should have been cut. That being said, I'm not sure why I haven't heard of this band really before. I know they were the That 70s Show theme, but I feel like I should know them beyond that.

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Swingin' On The Gallows Pole 1001 Albums Generator 171 (11/27/2025) The black sheep of Led Zeppelin's 4 self-titled albums, Led Zeppelin III is certainly the one that I have spent the least time with. Although it opens with one of their most famous songs, the hard rockin' Immigrant Song, this is not representative of what much of the rest of the album has in store. You see, LZ3, especially its second half, is Led Zeppelin's "folk rock" album, which has mixed results. Gallow's Pole and Tangerine are up there with my favorite Zeppelin songs, but Friends and Hats Off To (Roy) Harper are really not great. The latter especially has some experimenting that just falls flat unfortunately. Meanwhile, we've got a few other lesser known hard rock songs here that are overall pretty good. Celebration Day and Out On The Tiles are really great deep cuts and Since I've Been Loving You is really soulful and honestly, quite beautiful. In general, the second half of the album is just weaker and is probably the weakest side of any of LZ's first 4 albums, but it still has some great tracks. Led Zeppelin III deserves its reputation as the worst of the first four albums, but it should not be overlooked; there is a lot of quality here. 3.5/5, rounded up to a 4. Favs: Immigrant Song Since I've Been Loving You Gallows Pole Least Fav: Hats Off To (Roy) Harper

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Pretty damn good blues rock record for this duo. Even though it got played to death, I still don’t tire of it.

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Nirvana just has an authentic musical darkness and danger that is gripping. I don’t usually like this genre, but I love Nirvana. I don’t think this album has the same level of hits as Nevermind, but the album as a whole feels more polished.

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All bangers! No skips.

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I wasn't into synthpop before this record, and I think it's safe to say that I am still not into synthpop after it. Favourite Track(s): Souvenir Least Favourite Track(s): Gravity Never Failed

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Some great songs but found this hard to listen to. Language barriers are kind of hard for me to get into.

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fun!

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this is a new artist for me has some 90's pink floyd feel to it with the english style

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I've always loved this album so I'm giving it all the stars

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Hear echoes of this sound all over. Incredible vocals and great listen

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Yeah I liked this!

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say what you will but the beastie boys are always a good time. licensed to jam the fuck out!!

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Feel very neutral about this.

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- lembra alguns gêneros que tangenciam o hip hop, por ex trip hop, jazz rap, mas com uma pegada bem caribenha - achei inovador, por utilizar técnicas convencionais de corte e sampling, mas de uma perspectiva de música jamaicana - interessante que ele foi lançado pelo selo Warp, um dos mais importantes de música eletrônica inglesa

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3.5

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decent album 2.5 if I could

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4.5

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Rock for people who don't like Rock

It’s horribly bloated. But it’s also pretty good which is annoying. Eric Clapton does have a load of talent. It’s a shame he’s so fucking annoying and stupid

835 albums into this project and I've found nothing gets people salty like a Neil Young album.

Super smooth. Sarah Vaughan is up there in my favourite jazz vocalists, and I think this is the album of hers that I have most enjoyed. Stripped of her usual highly orchestrated, string-heavy arrangements to a bare trio backing, intimately recorded, you get to hear her beautiful tone and phrasing without distraction. There is a touch more breathiness and slight husk in the quieter moments that sounds close and real. Her ability to deliver a real emotional content is wonderful. Probably my favourite Sarah Vaughan record, and I will probably pick a copy up when I see one around. Love the versions of Just a Gigolo and How High the Moon that close out this album. Update: Just last month I found a copy of this in the $2 bin at The Vintage Record in Annandale. I'll take that, thank you. Cover is beaten up, but it's a bargain at twice the price!

It's funny that the time I have given his first 8 or 10 albums can be measured in thousands of hours and yet somehow I never once listened to this one all the way through. This album is on the other side of the mountain. The side where the trail leads back down to earth. Maybe he got his personal life in order or his drinking more under control, but it sort of feels like he doesn't have as much emotionally gripping music to make. I Want You and Blue Chair are much the best here and worthy additions to the cannon. Home is Where You Hang Your Head is pretty good, too. The rest of this is kinda ponderous to me. A lot of songwriters feel compelled to put out new material on a regular schedule whether the material merits it or not. It has the effect of diluting their overall impact and damages their place in the firmament. I think about this a lot because if I get into the regular habit of writing then I will definitely write more than if I don't have a habit, but if I put myself into a situation where I have to produce on any kind of a deadline then while I will have more finished songs, few or even none of them will stand the test of time. Or worse yet, you accidentally re-write other people's material, as appears to have happened here with Tokyo Storm Warning basically being a poorly disguised Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown. Anyway, I love Elvis but this album should not be on this list and makes me question the person who put it on there. Get Happy!, Trust, This Year's Model are only the first three examples of EC albums I would have put on here before this one.

This is top 10 of all time! Neil is my spiritual advisor!

I dunno…it’s like the sonic ‘candification’ of a phoebe brigers record.

Uggghhhhh... fuck off with this shit

Kanye gets no stars

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.