Album Reviews

I like Bob Marley, he is peak Regae

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Not a big grime fine, but this album is ok. I feel that there are probably better grime albums out there though. 3/5

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Excellent. Don’t realise it at the time in the shadow of the first album

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This is fine but only the Otis cover is truly great (and it’s really, really great)

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Never heard the album before, kinda what I expected.

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Way too long

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Dark and moody with sultry vocals. A little dreary for my taste, but pretty solid

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GOAT. Enough said.

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A bombastic and theatrical blast of rock, ahead of it's time in '74 i'd wager. Glam-y with plenty of pomp but a sarcasm or bitterness in the lyrics. To me, its crazy that Sparks is an LA group, as they are so UK to me via their music and contemporaries/offspring... Queen, Supertramp, etc etc. Some of it was a bit too high-spirited for me or maybe too much going on for me to lock into a groove but some great songs and playing

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She is funky and I get why people like her, just not for me

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Fun album ... a little weird, but most fun things are

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Already heard it before i like meredith pierce

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She is funky and I get why people like her, just not for me

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And I thought the Kinks were British..

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OK, but doesn't age quite as well as some other bands.

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A little too pop/synth for my tastes, it tries too hard. Still a fairly enjoyable listen.

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This was a very fun album, including hits like Ms. Jackson and So Fresh, So Clean. There were a few "bit" tracks that weren't the best but overall super solid.

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this was okay, nothing special

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wow!

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I'm in the 3 camp, it was decent, just not on my playlist

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Det va mest av alt litt rart, men også egentlig litt fornøyelig? Nokka sånt.

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Positivt overrasket! Foo Fighters er tidvis litt kjedelig, men nok energi og variasjon her til å rate høyere 👻

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So soulful. It makes me yearn for this type of music to come back to the zeitgeist

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Cool 80s new wave sounds, style jumps around a bit

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idk it was good nothing more to say ngl

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One of the GOATS

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Entiendo el hype pero no es algo que escucharía en mi día día. Satellite of love a bop mi favorita

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Jazz never has and never will be for me.

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Really like this one. The long instrumentals are nice. Classic rock album from this era.

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Nice if you are in a pub

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Instant classic. Full of really powerful songs that also complement each other. Has done nothing but grow on me over time.

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Daft Punk Confirmed!!!

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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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Rolling Stone put this at 43 in their top 500 albums of all time. GTFOH. This album isn't even in the top 10 for 1991 let alone top 50 all time. Or maybe this is brilliant and I'm just salty today.

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Woahhhh I actually really love this

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3.3 As ever, Rolling Stones continue to elude me. It's simultaneously an ok but very disappointing album, given it's acclaim. After one of the best album openers of all time (even the tone of those first notes, wow), it descends into some terrible country infused rock (it's no surprise that the Beatles worst output was when they tried to go all yank with Let It Be). After 5 or so pretty shit tunes, Monkey Man starts off with an excellent first 2 minutes, and then descends into a nonsense final 2 minutes of screaming about being a monkey. And finally closes with the incredible Can't get what you want. Such a confusing album. How can you make Gimme Shelter and not realise you need to build your album around this?! Baffling. I always think one year soon the Rolling Stones will click. But after trying for about 19 consecutive years I'm still waiting...

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-like a button down shirt had a bad dream and wrote an album about it. -this band had themselves figured out from day 1. A fully formed, unique style in a debut album. -file under "so square it's funky." A truly punk rock approach to r&b. -no skips. -really sounds like NYC in the late 70s, but also so influential you can hear a glimpse of what 80s new wave will be. Many people copied this sound, but no one did it as well. -say what you will about Byrne, but the guy has no inhibitions on his voice. -it would be hard to name a better rhythm section in rock music in the 70s.

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A+ album title. It was so frustrating trying to get into the Damned in the US in the early/mid 80s as it seemed really hard to find their records. They were always super expensive imports so the only one I could get was an ep with New Rose, Neat Neat Neat and their other early, Nick Lowe produced bangers. Not that I'm complaining, but it was that and that (awesome) Captain Sensible disco song "Wot?" and from just those things it was hard to get a sense of what The Damned was really about. Machine Gun Etiquette hung out there like a tantalizing, impossibly expensive import mystery. So I'm glad to finally catch up. The first couple of songs could almost be Black Flag or Minor Threat. It's like a key missing link between British punk and American hardcore. I'm curious if this album was as directly influential on the first generation hardcore bands as it sounds. I don't love the productions. Too much reverb, especially on the drums, is washing things out. This album would be more intense with less reverb. Still, I liked it a lot and it will likely be a launching point for me to finally get into the damned Damned!

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This is the roots. You can draw lines from all the music I've listened to my entire life that connects back to Fats Domino in some way. If this music hits you right, you never forget how it made you feel the first time you heard it. Pure magic.

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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".

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

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.

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.