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Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

An interesing album. Not really my type. I really liked life in a glasshouse and hnting bears. Love the slow music , it's calming.

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Be

Common

1/5

I have undergrad and post grad degrees in both STEM and humanities so I feel sufficiently qualified to judge this album…. harshly. Vapid, boring, self-congratulatory. Common has nothing to say but says stuff loudly anyway. I hope I never encounter this album again. Be? Should’ve called it Not To Be.

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Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

Die basslijn bij Cool in the pool is echt heerlijk. Gecombineerd met dat moddervette accent van Holger, ja dit is een krautrock album, daar was nog niet eens 1 volledig nummer voor nodig om dáár achter te komen. Krautrock bevalt me meestal boven gemiddeld goed, het is vreemde, soms experimentele muziek in tegenstelling tot de meer conservatieve normale rock n roll. Oh Lord give us More money daarna begint super vreemd. Blaffende honden en toeterende auto's, maar word daarna een soort jazzy progrock nummer? Verdammt, waarom was het niet alleen dat? Want de 2e helft van het nummer is super vet, alleen door de eerste helft denk ik niet snel da tik het nummer nog eens aan zal zetten. Persian love? Heeeeeeerlijk zomers plaatje. Met de perzische invloeden door het nummer heen ben ik oprecht verbaasd over dit album tot nu toe. Het is bij tijden een soort gigantische mengelmoes, maar het werkt een soort van wel? Alleen de zanger, ik ben geen groot fan van hem. Dat zware Duitse accent ligt er net ff te dik bovenop waardoor je het ook nauwelijks nog zingen kan noemen. Nee, eigenlijk vind ik gewoon elk nummer vet, of minstens een groot deel van elk nummer. Dit is geen perfect album, zeker niet, maar als ik dit album nog 10x zou moeten luisteren dan zou dat geen straf zijn. Wat een reis en wat een lekkere verrassing zo op de dinsdag ochtend. FAVO:Cool in dze pool, Persian Love, Hollywood Symphony

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This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

о, да я это слушал и оценил как нечто хорошее, приятно и затвердевшее в фундаменте жанра очень нравится есть хиты, есть отход от блюзовых мелодий, инструментал хороший отпечаток эпохи 3.9

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1/5

Laughably bad. Blur's Parklife but rap and shite. Why on earth is this on the list? Really makes you question the guy picking these albums.

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Van Halen

Van Halen

3/5

This was fine but didn’t do much for me, even including a Kinks cover version didn’t really provide enough sparks. I also wondered if Ice Cream Man was a Tom Waits cover but in fact it was a cover of John Brim, so I was half right. I recognised Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love instantly for its use by Apollo 440 so at least I learned something. So nothing bad about this really, just don’t think it inspired me to return.

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Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Really enjoyable. Best one yet. Mick Jagger with some excellent vocals and some really well put together songs.

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Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

Very good. I was afraid to listen to this when I was younger because I was worried I wouldn't like it. Partly that and I would have had to buy it (these days it's so much easier to enjoy music as a listener!). Anyway, too bad I didn't get it, because it's great!

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1999

Prince

5/5

I love this album despite its flaws - some dubious lyrics and at least one track that probably didn't need to be 8+ minutes - but that's Prince all over.

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Violator

Depeche Mode

1/5

Its okay but overall quite boring and non memorable.

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The Coral

The Coral

4/5

If I were younger or this had been released earlier, I'd have been all over it. As it is, I feel like I missed out somewhat.

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Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Record company: Hey Nick, why is this album only 27 minutes long? Nick: yeah, I had plenty of ideas, but once I started playing each track I got bored and ended them fairly quickly. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ ★★★☆☆ (5/10) Total reviewed : 282 Already owned : 63 Purchased : 15 To buy : 3 Nope : 201

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Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Kermit the Frogs’s ‘Once in a Lifetime’ is one of those rare examples of the cover being better than the original.

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2/5

to jest blur pomieszany z oasis ale gorszy jakos tak dluzy mi sie ten album mimo ze jest krotki troche darcie pizdy w pewnym momencie no na pewno to nie bedzie my new favourite band od 5 piosenki totalne darcie mordy no me gusta to here we go again nawet ok mocno sredni

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Yknow sure hes an awful person and a racist(race traitor) and stupid as a bag of rocks and sexist and a total piece of shit and garbage come to life as a human being and hangs out with trash celebrities and is actually a fucking nazi(dw he said sowwy) but damn can Kanye make a fucking album.

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Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

This is my first time listening to this album, doodododoooododododoooooo. I love the song Make Up and how the tuba just goes "Du du du du 🥳" when Lou sings "we're coming out!"

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Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

Sigue pareciéndome aburrido. Quizá no me he cuadrado buen momento

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Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Muy bueno, la verdad que no me esperaba escuchar a los beach boys haciendo algo medio experimental y a su vez hacer un pop precioso como ellos lo saben hacer, me gustó

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Cut

The Slits

5/5

Everyone should listen to Typical Girls before they get hit by a bus

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Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

5/5

First off, this album kicks major ass. If I had a time machine I would go back to the late 60's in San Francisco. For me, the psychedelic rock scene of that period produced some of the greatest music of all time and you could go see some killer live music every day of the week. Secondly, a bit of a rant. This album starts with a 25 minute version of a Bo Diddley song, but the entirety of this book is devoid of a Bo fucking Diddley album. The most egregious omissions of this book is it's lack of real blues music. By my estimation there are only 5 actual blues records on the list. No Howlin' Wolf, no Buddy Guy, no Big Mama Thornton, no Butterfield Blues Band, no Fred McDowell, no Mississippi John Hurt, no Magic Sam, no Freddie King, No Albert King, no Otis Spann, no James Cotton, and on and on and on. I don't have many soap boxes but this is one of them. But anyway, highly enjoyable listen for me. The recordings of these gigs at the Fillmore West in '68 had the Grateful Dead on the bill also, it must have been jam band heaven.

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The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

5/5

In my share house days in the early 90s, it was common after a big night out for a small posse of die-hards, stragglers and ne'er-do-wells to convene in our lounge room for a late-night chill-out. We were pretty rock crowd, leaning towards alternative, industrial and goth, but The Trinity Sessions album was a favourite for the wee small hours while we came down from the effects of the evening. This record is spacious and gentle, wonderfully and sympathetically underplayed, and Margot Timmins voice is beautiful. I love the simple and honest recording. No notes, five stars.

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2112

Rush

5/5

Coincidently, i just listened to this album yesterday, and i was more than happy to listen again today. Rush is a Mt Rushmore band for me. Like every other band nerd on their high school drum line I idolized Neil Peart and listed to more Rush than I likely should have. I wore out side one of my 2112 cassette learning Overture and Temples of Syrinx, and I will still rock out hard to Temples on my steering wheel. Worth the sore hands and the multiple close calls running off the road. Rush is just three Canadian guys, each an amazing player. They created new music for nearly 40 years, and toured even longer. They never dialed it in, they didn't milk a decades old catalogue, they created to the end. Side one is a dystopian story about the beauty and power of music told in 7 movements. Neil was an avid reader and had been into Ayn Rand for a bit, he was also the author of all the Rush lyrics so that explains side one, aka the first song on the album. Side two is includes some Rush classics, passage to bangkok, something for nothing, tears....why name favorites....side two is as amazing as side one. No bad songs on this album, a classic. Rush is not a band for everyone, and that's more than fine. I'm a fan boy.

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Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

1/5

Duck Rock? Uh, ok..? the British (UK) slant on this list is on full display here, it seems, after reading the reviews before going in. I've never heard of it or him (even in passing) and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable in music. I've been a good sport, so far, but I hold little hope. I do vaguely recognize "Buffalo Gals", but it's been eons since I've heard it. What the actual f*ck is this? Is this what cocaine does? I've never had the privilege. This clinches it -- I officially know what the soundtrack to cocaine sounds like. What a hyperactive mess. I chuckled at the absurdity of it. It's definitely something, but it's not anything I care for. "Jive My Baby" and "Duck For The Oyster" actually had me rolling around laughing they were so absurd. Not sure that was the intent. (1.5/5) because I laughed (unintentionally), but rounding down because there is nothing redeeming here. It actually felt more like an assault.

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Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

after the first two songs i was ready to question myself as to whether i do enjoy jazz after all. the rest of the album however proved i don‘t.

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Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

5/5

Being a middle age guy and standing in the kitchen and having coffee this morning with my wife of 20 years while Sex on Fire is playing is the height of irony. I was barely competent in the sack when I was in my prime, now the only thing on fire is my lower back pain. I'd be laughing right now if it wasn't so damn depressing. Like my last Kings of Leon album, it's much better later in the day. This cats vocals pre coffee are a no go for me, but it's all good this evening. Jared Followill is a badass bass player. Very tasty bass lines and the highlight of this album in my opinion.

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461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

Well what a whole lot of nothing this is. It's like an auditory boiled rice and tofu sandwich. Music you'd hear while you're waiting to have your root canal done. Fuck this shit, I'm putting the new Neurosis album on again

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Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

Hard pass. Tried the first four tracks and this is officially the first album in this sequence I abandoned. I saw someone write that it sounds like a soundtrack. I agree, and not in a good way. Nope. (1/5). Just nope.

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Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

5/5

The Good: Just some good old boys… The Bad: Got it confused with The Dukes of Hazzard! The Ugly: The above mentioned tv series getting the same kind of crap as the album we are about to rate… Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Today, we live in a society where too many idiots scream out of outrage about the usage of a word, or the imagery of a symbol… scream scream scream. The opening track, the first time I remember hearing it, I almost choked on my drink when I got to the end of the song… I doubt many people get that far today, because they hear a word that only certain people are allowed to use. To those idiots, I say, get off your high horse, sit down, listen to the song again, and use your f-ing brain—that is if you have one. I do have to be honest here and admit the fact that, frequently, I can’t be bothered to pay attention to the lyrics on many of the albums that I’ve had the displeasure to listen to. So, I too should get off my high horse… But not before rating this album with a 5*, not because it is that special, but because, out of oh so much shit I’ve had to listen to these past couple of weeks, it shows that sometimes something that seems mediocre is actually worth it’s weight in gold.

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Be

Common

4/5

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.

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Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

4/5

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.

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Scum

Napalm Death

3/5

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".

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Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

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

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Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

4/5

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??!!?

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Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

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.

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Be

Common

1/5

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.

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Be

Common

5/5

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

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Melodrama

Lorde

5/5

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.

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69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

2/5

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

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Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

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

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Be

Common

5/5

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.

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