Album Reviews

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Certainly some of Madonna's best songs are to be found on here, classics of pop music perhaps, but the rest of it is either boring or pretty bad.

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An intersection album for sure, perhaps a bit performative. The orchestration was well done but the vocals just kept sounding like Cookie Monster to me

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0 songs added to my favorites. Would listen again if asked to.

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Surprisingly mediocre, especially some of the ballads. Obviously Boogie on Reggae Woman is great and I enjoyed You haven’t done nothing and They will go when I go. Take or leave the rest.

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Infectiously fun to start, but it lost its spark as it went on and never really branched out.

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The first 4 songs are good, of which Mr. Brightside is amazing. Then it goes downhill.

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Not massive on Peter Gabriel, but this isn't a bad debut album from his solo venture. "Solsbury Hill" is obviously a great hit, but the rest overall are mediocre. Wanted to give a 4, but it's not quite enough for that.

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138/1089 absolutely awful album cover… the music itself it okay, a bit too one-note for me overall but has some good moments such as: Gone and Life it was a fine listen but i was hoping for a bit more 55/100

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Maybe it should be a 4 instead idk. It's good but I'm not sure about it overall.

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Really quite good

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Mixed. Some great tracks , some less so

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I think I’m not supposed to like this band. But I like this band. And I like this album.

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Way too eighties. The Mercy Beat was the best track but it was too little too late. Lacking the hookiness that elevates the songs of theirs that I’ve liked in the past.

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Tää löytyy jopa omalta levyhyllyltä ja on edelleenkin satunnaisessa kuuntelussa. Kunnon viskiheviä, reipas tempo ja railakkaat kitaratilulilut. Sopivan Virve Rostimaisen rosoinen lauluääni ja ekstrapiste viel Doom-biiseistä. 5/5

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Right after Iron Maiden, i think it’s a minor step down for my tastes specifically, but i still enjoyed a lot that this album had to offer.

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I often think that smooth jazz is kind of boring. Like an inoffensive meek accountant you meet at a dinner party. This however was good. Just the tone of the saxophone sold me. Maybe it was due to listening to it early in the morning but the chill music was perfect for me. Nice background music, solid 3.

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Now i dont belive in perfection. Things may well get close but nothing is actually perfect. This gets within a hair to that. Ive always like this but I never sat down and listened to the whole thing. But im sure ive heard every song on its own over the years cause they are all so damn good. Sure if you want in for blister in the sun that's fine. Thats a good song but there are a handful of better tracks here. Just give em a go. They all rock. Its just a unique sound and it has some balls too. Full of passion and killer playing. I love it so much and will always always be happy to spin this again

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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 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.