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Liked it more than I thought I would!

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Wasn’t a big Pearl Jam guy back when this came out. Still not a big Pearl Jam guy now decades later. Eddie Vedder’s mumbling ass singing like he got a mouth full of marshmallows. Still, I suppose this is an iconic album that harkens back to a better time. 3.5⭐️

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This album deserves a closer listen than I was able to give it this time. Really interesting and quite diverse musically.

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Musically it is somewhat interesting. Unfortunately, it got boring to me pretty quickly. Not for me.

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Boring, lame, 80s production. Bleh. Definitely did not need to listen to this before I died.

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Besides heroes, everything else sounded less than.

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no way this is a real album. this is a disaster lol. i cannot take this seriously, the guy's voice sounds like a broken sprinkler. i cannot help but laugh. what is happening??? dude this is just noise at a certain point. i do not enjoy. 2/10

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I came upon The Darkness when I caught the music video for I Believe in a Thing Called Love. The video was kitschy and intentionally cheesy, I knew I had to hear the rest of the album. This is glam rock that does not take itself too seriously which is why it is a bit shocking when there are serious songs on here. Love Is Only a Feeling being the highlight of the "serious" songs. There is a song with the line "Get your hands off of my woman, motherfucker," which is very straight to the point. There is also the line "I want to banish you from which you came," which doesn't sound terribly out of place in the song. The lyrics tend to make me laugh. I still listen to The Darkness and they have other albums I believe are close to the level of this one. The constant jumping into falsetto can be a bit jarring but with tongue planted firmly in cheek it does not bother me. He doesn't go into the falsetto quite as much on later albums. Two of the outtakes, Makin' Out and Best of Me, are very worthy of placement on here. Interestingly, the worst song (for me) on this album is the first track, Black Shuck. Overall, I cannot say there is a song on the album I don't like. I can see why a listener would not enjoy this album but it's glam rock that is loud and stupid. I would check out other Darkness albums (not the follow up to this one though, didn't love it as much) and maybe that will convert you further. My favorite tracks: Get Your Hands off My Woman Growing on Me I Believe in a Thing Called Love Love is Only a Feeling Givin' Up Friday Night Love on the Rocks with No Ice Makin' Out

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I get the avant-garde, social commentary reason why it's on this list. But sonically it's just another album in my opinion.

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Some very good songs on here. I really enjoyed listening to them.

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the queen, though not something I usually listen to

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Really really not for me, but that is expected. I can tell the guitar is incredible throughout, so I wish I could handle listening to it more.

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This was a slog

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Absolutely loved it. Going to be doing a deep dive on this artist

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Hmm. Weird squeaky sax solo on "All the Way from Memphis". This is... Fine. Inoffensive but uninspiring. Don't love the vocals. Music is solid. "Violence" is kind of annoying. Overall, meh. It's fine. Nothing I'd likely revisit.

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Rating: 9/10 One of David Bowie’s many incredible classics. When I think of the start of the modern music era, it’s the late 60’s and it feels like this came along to just be so refreshing and unique. Great lyrics and delivery here, the A Side is just full of amazing songs, I love Queen Bitch, and The Bewlay Brothers might be arguably my favorite song here. Works so well as a closer and the mixing and layering of the instrumentation are great. He even has a song for our guy Bob Dylan. 4.5 is the accurate rating but let’s make it a 5 here

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Not what I expected to be listening to this Thursday morning. I remember seeing the music video for “Drive” a lot when I was younger, but that track feels like an outlier for the album. A extra star for the guitar on “Nowhere Fast” and “Consequence.” Minus a star for lyrics that I found to be corny or cringey. And we’re left at one star.

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niet zo mijn ding

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Hot naar her, maar zeker hot.

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Me mola mas el Siamese Dream

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I listen to the first few track then questioned why!

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It's impressive that Steve Winwood was able to intentionally craft music that would become the soundtrack of wandering a large store with a numbing world weariness that leaves you questioning the viability of a human civilization. Even with normal headphones on I'm imagining this coming over the tinny speakers of a largely empty KMART or Ames circa 1991.

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In my nsvh opinion this is one of the most important albums in the history of popular music. It demonstrates that great music doesn't have to be finished, complete or perfect. It shows that the emotional connection from the artist, through the music, to the listener is everything. I couldn't ever listen to this album all the time, but I'll always listen to it now and again, and it will always mean something to me.

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Classiiiiiicccc, gotta say thanks to my parents for making sure I listened to all of these at least once - and this is the second Beatles album to hit my list so far

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Very one note. But the guy's s backstory was fun to read.

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Sehr gutes Album, mit den altbekannten Bangern. Die weniger bekannten Songs finde ich hatten auch n tollen Sound und Texte. Hier gibt es nicht wirklich was zum Meckern

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Boo

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Never really understood the hype on this album.

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So good! Love Miles Davis

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Don’t know why was definitely the stand out, overall it had a nice feeling of early 2000s nostalgia

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This cat has a great sound

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3.5/5 This CCR Album was good but felt like the gas pedal was to the floor the whole time. Had so many great songs, but could have used a ballad or slow down in there. Also I heard it through the grapevine was unnecessarily long.

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What a deliciously smooth listen. And it also went hard psych in parts. I wouldn’t say this is a life changer, but I’d come back to it. 3.5 stars.

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With the exception of “Oh Yoko,” this is a phenomenal album. Yes, Lennon was an abusve dick, but the man was talented and this album showcases that. Favorites: Jealous Guy, I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier, How Do You Sleep? 5

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Yeah, this hits worse now that I'm not a wannabe edgy teenager

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Ray Charles is great.

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Not a terrible album, but was slightly disappointed since screaming for vengeance is really good. Besides the two most popular songs on the album, none of them really stood out besides United. Not bad though.

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Feels like old Weezer Nothing bad, just sounds like something Uma Thurman and John Travolta would be dancing to in Pulp Fiction Going from Just What I needed to I'm in Touch With Your World was rough Very much a pop-product of the times Feels like a drive-in theater

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Horrible.

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A National Treasure: Will always be 5 stars, will always be relevant, always my most listened to vinyl record, always my favorite Bob Dylan.

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Ok, kind of on the slower side but some decent songs.

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These beats are pretty great, especially funky horns. But I don't really vibe with the old school rapper lyrics.

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Not essential, but not bad enough to warrent 2 stars.

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BuT iT's CuLtUrAL aPpRoPriATiOn!!!!!111 Does anyone fucking think on here? Does anyone know what they're talking about? Does anyone know anything about music? There's a certain type of idiot on here (and in life) that hears something like Graceland and sprints, whistle in mouth, to declare Paul Simon guilty of "cultural appropriation." These are the people who were hall monitors in high school and continue to look for infractions anywhere and everywhere in life. According to these assholes, Paul Simon didn't collaborate with musicians in South Africa, he only extracted their music and their culture. And they constantly ignore (or don't want to bother to look) that the music that's on this album shined a light on artists like Barney Rachabane, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hugh Masekela and Clifton Chenier. They don't want to take a minute to understand that this album brought these artists some notoriety and that these artists were appreciative. They don't want to admit, by these artists accounts, that the album was a joy to make. And these assholes just never want to acknowledge the most obvious point, that music has always been a conversation across cultures. Genres exist because cultures collide...rock music exists because of Black Americans. Elvis didn't appear out of thin air fully formed, he was drawing from Black gospel, blues and R&B. The Beatles were borrowing Chuck Berry riffs, girl group harmonies, basslines from Motown, American R&B, Indian sitars and the list goes on and on. Jazz is a mix of african rhythms, european brass band instruments, carribean influences and blues scales. Country is a blend of scottish and irish ballads, Black blues structures, mexican influences on Western swing and African banjo classics. Hip Hip was built on sampling funk, disco, rock and whatever else they could find. But the "cultural appropriation" assholes never worry about nuance. As long as they can plant their flag on some moral hill, they'll ignore everything else. They'll ignore the musicians that wanted to work with Paul Simon, the breaking of a cultural boycott in an effort to collaborate on music and the positive feedback from everyone involved. These "cultural appropriation" assholes have one argument, and it's this: Paul Simon shouldn't have made one of the best and most innovative albums of the 80s because it violates my sensitivities. In doing so, these "cultural appropriation" assholes flatten the South African musicians into props for a moral lecture. And in thinking they're somehow protecting them, it reduces them to passive objects rather than creative artists who wanted to collaborate with Simon and brought the world some fucking awesome music. The "cultural appropriation" assholes just ignore that music isn't pure and it's not supposed to be. Humans borrow from each other and cultures mix and to ignore it is to willfully ignore the way culture actually works. They want rigid boundaries when it suits them and they want rigid boundaries in art when art doesn't obey boundaries. So fuck the cultural appropriation warriors, this album absolutely slaps. If you want to downgrade it for farty bass lines and lyrics you don't like, that's fine. But if you want to get on your high horse and write a review about "cultural appropriation" while ignoring all the music you've 5 starred on this site and think you're some sort of a fucking genius you might want to sit this one out.

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I guess I just don't get it. I don't know why we have so many Nick Cave albums on here. Is he interesting? At times. Murder Ballads was ambitious and intriguing, a worthy inclusion. That said, he is very far from great. Want proof? He is revered by a good amount of critics (mainly English), as evidenced by having 5 albums on this list. And yet, here in the States, he has had one album that has sold more than 100k copies. One. That's incredibly hard to accomplish. Is he a complicated artist that is just misunderstood in the US? Perhaps. Or maybe, just maybe, he's a relatively uninspiring/bad signer, who is a lackluster song writer. Some examples, just from this album: "We'd buy the Sunday newspapers and never read a single word." "I don't believe in an interventionist God but I know, darling, that you do." "In a colonial hotel, we fucked up the sun and then we fucked it down again." He's incredibly trite throughout this record. Him trying sing layers about a "twinkling cunt"? Huh? Worse yet, this collection of songs are very basic with zero real musicality to them. The only bonus is that I've now burned through more than half of his albums on this countdown. Only two more to get rid of. While he hasn't supplanted Amy Winehouse as my least favorite artist on this countdown, I realize now I would rather listen to her than him. At least Amy had an excellent voice and talent, even if she totally wasted both. This dude is predominantly just a waste of time.

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Fucking transphobic moron. The fuck is that cover. Stupid cunt.

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Based Oliver Cromwell.

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Fuck this rapist midget and every scumbag who enabled him.

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I remember when this album came out. A bunch of white people were playing this in an effort to...I dunno, make themselves feel more culturally astute or some shit. It was weird. I'm not saying this is bad music because it's not. It's actually quite good. Whoever's playing these instruments knows what they're doing, their voices are pleasant. And I know the most liked review for this album is some butthurt idiot whining about how if the fact that you can't understand what they're saying bothers you, than you're a racist or some shit. I'm not bothered by this, but fuck him. Like I said, it's quite good, but I fail to understand what makes it significantly better than what I hear when I go to my favorite taco joint, though. I'm sure people could educate me, but I really don't care. Glad I listened to it, probably wouldn't listen to it again...or at least until I get some ground beef, a packet of Taco Bell seasoning, mexican cheese in a bag, grocery store tortillas and make my kid some tacos one night.

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The Good: The Stones!!! The Bad: Early Stones… The Ugly: band-name album… Dear Mr. Dimery, Reading the rules you yourself imposed while creating this list, any album that is a greatest hits, or compilation album of any kind, is not eligible for this list. Based on this criteria, the soundtrack to the Oscar winning movie Saturday Night Fever is not found on this list. Thus we are not exposed to listening to The Bee Gees opus majestus, which managed to do what few, if any, other artist managed to do, which is to have 3 songs simultaneously in the charts. Listening to this album, a couple of things came to mind, primarily the fact that Mick’s voice was irritating as hell, secondly, where are the original songs? Why isn’t there a Chuck Berry album on the damn list? Or any of the other greats who influenced The Stones to even make music? It is a massive disappointment that I’ve had to waste 30 minutes listening to this, when I’d rather have been listening to silence… 1* out of massive spite

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Murderer, rapist turd.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

Rage In Favor Of The Machine.

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

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