Album Reviews

Det som e sprøtt e tanken på kor mange smørjate ballader rockedigganes menn egentlig har hørt opp gjennom åran, det synes æ e aldeles fascineranes. Menn digge svisker så lenge dem kommer med lange og kjedelige gitarsoloer, tror æ e min generelle konklusjon. Helt ok, synes æ!

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The opening run of this album, from the first track to “Clint Eastwood,” legit might be one of the best stretches of songs that Gorillaz have ever had. A fun time to go back to the origin point of this project and hear Albarn still work through what he even wants it to be. Most of the time it sounds great, but even the misses are interesting as What Ifs.

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Kraftwerk gets too much grief for being the weird German techno wizards. They were ahead of their time by decades. Without THIS album, we don't have techno and house and Goa and Dubstep. Hell, maybe not even new age. Yes, Autobahn goes on WAY longer than it needs to. Is this a perfect album? No. Does it deserve respect? Hell yes. Just strap in and take the drive. Go down a back country road and get hypnotized by the looping. Let it flow. My Rating: 5/5

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Wednesday, 24 June, 2026 Side 1 was good. Side 2 lost me a bit. He has an interesting voice. The recording and mix was a bit strange. It’s all very interesting. 1967 must have been quite a year.

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Cringe. Talk about one-note. All that self-serving bravado derailed any chance this might have had to be taken seriously. Definitely some insecurities to be examined here.

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6.8

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Was expecting the worst but actually got something which is pretty good. Very surprised to learn that this is a concept album, something that I didn't think ABBA would really do. Quite a few classics on here, but also a couple of saccharine stinkers that let the side down somewhat. Overall, this was surprisingly alright, if a little dated in the synth department. Favourite track: Money, Money, Money Least favourite track: Dum Dum Diddle

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THIS IS SUCH A CHORE TO GET THROUGH. Like it sounds like a charisma-free slurry of other bands.

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😖

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Ahh Butthole Surfers. Early albums are.... Interesting. If you want to hear more traditional music from them go listen to Independent Wormhole Saloon or Electric Larryland. Pepper even charted! Early Surfers albums were more about seeing how far you could go. Their live shows were something, I never to to see them but I once met a guy that did. They liked to set a cymbal on fire and use it. I've read they had a list of things that would get you kicked out of most venues nowadays. They were weird and wild and didn't care what most thought of their music. They have better albums than this but this one is a memorable experiment.

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Freedealin' five starsin'

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Bleh. Nothing about this is interesting. Great voice, boring use of it.

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Tiny Dancer is Tiny Dancer but this was great all the way through. Elton’s piano is awesome as always but this had a touch of rock to it which I loved.

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Waiting fort the sun, Maggie M'Gill were fine for my taste.

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i really enjoyed it - wouldn't listen to lots of the songs by themselves but together they all worked well.

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I really only know the album "Jacques Brel Is Alive and well in Paris". Looking forward to this one. I recognize a lot of these songs even though they're in French. The sometimes bawdy English versions make me laugh out loud, these still bring a smile to my face.

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If you're a white man getting impatient about if you're gonna have grandkids, there's a chance you point to this record as your justification for live albums being a necessity. Speaking of the dad rock musical zeitgeist, does "Doobie Wah" just coincidentally share the opening riff of the Doobie Brother's "Listen To Te Music"? Does anyone else hear that? I'm not seeing any comment sections talking about it, no whosampled references. Surely I'm not the only one? The rest is all just fine. Earnest performances, a few household hits. Varied but normal instrumentation until he brings out the talkbox on the closing track, which was a revered, mythologized track in the house I grew up in. He might as well have been using magic to make the guitar speak like that. Though this listening experience bumped the record down a few pegs, there's nothing overtly bad about it. Decent writing that dries up after a bit, innovative guitar playing. Soft 3/5

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Alrigth wtf is this bullshit again. One of the worst cover ive ever seen with one of the weirdest name for an album Ive ever read. And ofc its an hour long album. "HeY lOoK aT uS wE mAkE wEiRd MuSiC" This shit sucks. But you just dont get it !!11!111!1 Its not suposed to be good its supposed be fun !!!1!11!1! Yeah im having a ton fun listening to basically a teenage band jam session with the most annoying vocalist known to earth. All the """"""""fun""""""""" wears out prety quickly. The songs starts to sound the same and it gets incressingly more annoying with each passing second. Hitler/5 (ITS ASS)

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Well, this really sent me down a Western Africa griot rabbit hole. I found the deeply layered instrumentals almost hypnotic. But, his voice is a bit grating, like I'm doing an internship in a minaret.

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At first I was like... ANOTHER 80s post-punk-pop album???? But then the more I listened the more I realized this one was actually a little unique. It was using the old 70s Funkadelic style of one consistent groove for 4-5 minutes, then singing over top of it. I liked the grooves. Nothing special. Singing was unbelievably generic for the 80s. But was glad it was slightly unique, when the 80s had such little variation in their mainstream music.

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The Cure—to use a comparison that may or may not work—are the musical equivalent of cilantro. Not everyone likes The Cure, and some people probably think they taste like soap (which, to be fair, is the actual complaint about cilantro). But for those who do get it, there’s something undeniable about Robert Smith’s drawling vocals, the churning undercurrent of guitar and bass, the hypnotic pulse of the drums, and the weirdly gothic imagery that hangs over everything they do. Apparently, I’m one of those people. The funny thing is, I didn’t spend my teenage years dressed in black and moping around in a cloud of existential dread. Outside of a handful of radio hits, I didn’t really know much about The Cure until much later in life. This was my first time listening to Pornography front to back, and while it’s not my favorite of theirs, it scratches those dark, atmospheric itches you didn’t even realize you had until after pressing play. It’s perfectly gloomy in the best possible way—bonus points if you listen to it on a rainy or overcast day.

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Synth-pop, electropop, alternative rock, dance, gothic rock.

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Great passion

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Absolutely a banger of an album

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One of the most influential ever made, still a remarkable album 60 years later

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Onko vähän NOLOA mutta musta tää oli släpperi. Oon helppo. Kuuntelin pari biisiä uusiksi. Ai saatana. Susille minut.

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Not really my thing. The track featuring Norah Jones was OK.

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Fuck yeah

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A fun album. Does not sound like something I would imagine was made during a period of depression and confusion. Seems like something made after acceptance and reinventing oneself. But who am I to tell. I like the low interference of production and the less polished sound more than I liked the Beatles sound.

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You can see how this band has influenced the 90s sca music. I really loved it.

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Yesterday I went into the Cantina at the new Star Wars land at Disneyland and the bartender leans over, sneakily gives me this, and whispers, “It’s not often we get a Resistance General in here. Thank you for your service.” I almost cried.

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Oh fuck yeah. Oh hell yeah. As much as I love the Beastie Boys, I don't believe them when they say they were making fun of "frat boys and party bros" when they performed "Fight For Your Right." It's not like they grew up right away on Paul's Boutique...there's still a lot of hilarious shit and braggadocio on that album, too...they just had an ear for immaculate sounds and producing by the Dust Brothers. I don't think they really grew up and out of the immature phase until Check Your Head. But it sounds good for them to distance themselves from Fight For Your Right and Girls as quickly as they possibly could. This album is awesome...always has been, always will be. I keep seeing mentions about how it hasn't aged well, etc...but whatever, fuck that. This past weekend, I read an article on the DMV rap scene that was on Pitchfork...because I'm from the area, I was curious. And then I listened to some of the music from that article. All that shit makes Licensed To Ill look like nursery rhymes. The production here is immaculate. The bass is awesome. Sonically, it's a masterpiece. What a great album. Fun, hilarious, quotable...just great.

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Don't believe these liars.

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Pioneers of the alternative rock sound that would define the following decade, the 1990s. R.E.M. was making the jangling guitar rock that would bear the labels of indie and college rock. When I came of age in the nineties this sound would find its commercial success. This entire album sounded about 5 years later than its 1988 release date suggests. Lower sounds abound and I mean listen to the distortion on “I Remember California” And yet, this sound is still a work in progress. The album is all over the place. In spots we have bouncy pop with “Stand” whereas others slow down for more intimate work, “The Wrong Child” or “Hairshirt.” We’re transitioning into new eras on this album. R.E.M. has a new label and creative freedom and they’ll use it. For me it all works. I appreciated R.E.M. as a radio and MTV friendly act during their time, even if I never owned an album. Still, terrific form from a band that was a staple of my younger years.

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One of the easiest 5s ever. such an ambitious project, stuffed with a kaleidoscope of references to a state I may never visit, and with such a variety of great songs with fantastic songwriting. He played like 20 different instruments on this which is just mad Casimir Pulaski Day might be my favourite “sad song”, and very funny to think he didn’t come out until like 2023 when you read the lyrics to “Primordial Beast Of The Palisades” Very bold to have a song relating yourself to a pedophilic serial killer and have it not come off in the absolute worst way possible I always run out of steam a bit towards the end, first half is definitely stronger, but it’s all great still

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Quintessential slop

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Standard, late 60s English pop. Sounds like a Sgt. Peppers imitation, honestly. "Private Salts' Empty Kidney Association Troupe", I guess? A poor man's Sgt Pepper... Through the listen I couldn't take my mind off of this comparison and how this record arranged itself in a similar way, with each song feeding from the tracks before and informing the later tracks. An obvious concept album, so I see where the critics and write-ups make that comparison. The music is just standard stuff for the era though, with only a few really catching my ear but not for long. I hate to do this to The Kinks, because I like a bunch of their earlier work, but this one didn't take off for me (3/5). Reading the other reviews here, there's an angle I didn't consider -- how very English this **IS**. Numerous other reviewers talked about how it takes them to small, country villages, and (this is hyperbolic) tea times with aunties and crumpets and shit... ALL of that is lost on me. I've got no personal context for that. The music is middle of the road, unlike Sgt. Peppers, so nothing elevated it out of mediocrity and pulled me into that world The Kinks seemed to be trying to create. Here's my attempt to bend future lists out of the event horizon of all the British invasions and frankly insular English music world, with some keywords I keep using.. THE SUPREMES should have been included.. Anglo-centrism is bad.. Hope that helps.

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To quote Willie Nelson "There are two kinds of men; those who are in love with Emmylou Harris, and those who haven't met her." I only know Emmylou Harris through her records, but that's enough to be madly infatuated. Emmylou Harris has built an incredible body of work as a harmony singer, collaborator and interpreter of songs. But this is one of her rare albums of original songs. Spaciously recorded by Malcolm Burn using a crack band and a host of A-list guests with that atmospheric Lanois-style production, it is spooky and spacious and hard to pigeonhole exactly. It's not the classic country-folk sound of most of her output, but it's classy and sophisticated. But there is no mistaking that Emmylou is the star of the show here. I would listen to her sing the phone book, but this is even better.

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Nina Persson’s cool, almost innocent delivery, the bright melodies, the elegant arrangements, the polished pop shape. Underneath that, a lot of these songs are sour, passive-aggressive, wounded, or emotionally evasive. That contrast is the whole trick. The album sounds sweet without actually being naive.

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I liked it a lot. Interesting sabbath influences coming through (the cover of iron man is obvious, but I seemed to hear variations of the main riff in a later track). The mixing sometimes made it seem like I was listening on the other side of the studio door. Think I'll return to this one in the future.

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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".

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

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??!!?

Rap isn't my preferred genre of music. But I'm a shitty mathematician so I enjoyed this.

I really don't get rap, and I am completely aware of why. I'm a STEM guy, specifically a Ph.D. student in mathematics. Although my verbal intelligence is quite high, it's still about a standard deviation below my quantitative intelligence. Therefore, it should not be too surprising that I prefer melodies to lyricism, and that a genre based on the latter doesn't wow me. I know I'm pretty far out of step with public opinion on this one, but that can easily be attributed to the fact that hipsters with humanities degrees (i.e. extremely verbal-dominant people) are considered the ultimate arbiters of taste for some reason. (Side note: this also explains why prog rock is seen as being for losers.) Best song: Be (Intro), which had a decent instrumental part at the beginning. Everything else just sort of ran together.

Rage In Favor Of The Machine.

Music for incels to wank furiously by

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.

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

The beauty of music is that it is subjective. It’s typically great for a certain group of people, though it’s never right for everyone. Some for the masses, some more niche, but it all has its place. Meanwhile, with lists like this, there’s always artists or records that anyone would have put on in place of what actually made it. Personally, I would have included Queensryche’s Operation Mindcrime, Live’s Throwing Copper, Joe Satriani’s The Extremist, Sara Bareilles’ Little Voice, or John Mellencamp’s Scarecrow album on a list of must hear records. Others would put totally different albums on and that's awesome. What someone likes vs. dislikes is truly subjective. Again, that's the beauty. With that said, this album objectively sucks. I mean truly horrible. Something had to be the lowest rated album on the list, and this was a place well earned. There is nothing redeemable about this record. To quote my wife, “they should have stopped at 1,000.”

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

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.