Already kinda knew I’d love this one, very nostalgic album, good excuse to listen again.
Yeeeah not overly keen, maybe it would just take a couple more lessons to get used to Janis Joplin’s voice
Appreciate that ‘weird’ experimental albums are on this list. Even if they don’t get rated so well by everybody else it seems.
I feel a lot of the sounds explored in this album inspire a lot of the more contemporary music I love today, for that PIL deserve their flowers.
Don’t get me wrong, none of this is going on my playlists anytime soon, but it’s a cracking experience as an album.
Maybe it’s just because I got Metal Box before I got this one, but man, there is just nothing interesting me here at all. Just sounds astoundingly safe.
Radio Free Europe is a very strong track though, credit where it’s due.
Needed this one to come up and remind me what an actual 6 star album sounds like.
Not the most original opinion for this to be one of my favourite albums ever made I know, but it has to be up there.
Every song builds off of the pageantry of the last, building a sprawling epic that maturely explores some deeply existential themes. The one-two punch of Time into Great Gig in the Sky in particular elevates me out of my chair. Only to pull you back into the retail addicted monotony of our modern day-to-day lives with the excellent Money.
There’s so much personality in André 3000 and Big Boi’s performances, which brings a tonne of energy to the album. Combined with some very punchy production (Especially on tracks like Bombs over Baghdad and Xplosion) and it’s hard not to bob your head for the entirety of the hour+ runtime.
Not sure I can get into the interludes to be honest. When I’m already a little weary about how long this album is, they just get a liiiiittle annoying. Wasn’t really pulled in by the humour of them either. Heavily felt some fatigue on the back half of the album. If this was trimmed down it’d be an all-timer.
Feel like being born in 1997 and therefore never being around for the early 90s eurobeat scene might reduce my enjoyment of this album.
There’s a fine line between weird music that’s good and weird music that is godawful to my ears. I recently gave Metal Box by Public Image Ltd 5 stars on here, but if that album was just a teensy bit zanier it would’ve been a one.
I regret to say this album starting with a noise that would kill my nan on the spot is a teensy bit zanier.
Title song and N.I.B are 10/10 tracks. First half of the album is outstanding, the B side just isn’t as solid though, with Evil Woman and Sleeping Village probably being a 1-2 of the weakest songs on the album.
Still, can’t ignore the brilliant, ominous, deeply occult aura of this album. I’m sure parent groups must’ve hated this on release back in the 70s! Feels very ahead of its time. There’s a harmonica solo, THEN a bass solo. Incredible really.
Favourite Song: N.I.B
Worst Song: Evil Woman, Don’t Play Your Games With Me
Not sure I listened to the right album, but it was by the same band and had the same name soooo... Close enough?
So much of this album is very outdated, with the corny, one-note flows, identical in just about every song in the album, couple with some weird lyrics (Think he said something about preferring underage girls in The New Style? Ick).
On the bright side, the singles are great. Fight For Your Right and No Sleep Till Brooklyn both have such a rousing energy. Feels like in those two they actually get the rap/rock fusion correct, unlike the rest of the album. Those two songs do make me want to explore the rest of the Beastie Boys discography, I'm hoping they get it right on later releases.
Favourite Song: No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Worst Song: Girls
Fuck me dead this is so uninspiring. Just nothing interesting happening at all in here. To be honest I feel this sound is generic and played out by 1970 even.
An absolutely masterpiece of Britpop. Obviously mileage will vary based on your attitude towards the genre, as a Brit myself this is heritage so you’ll have to forgive my bias.
Also the fuck is up with the top review for this album. Like wooooah no way in the list of 1001 albums the same genre comes up once or twice, like yeah no shit dude
Genuinely my least favourite kind of music, sorry.
‘Perfect Day’ yeah Perfect Song more like am I right fellas haha (This album is absolutely stellar)
One of my dad’s favourite albums which, I mean yeah, it’s a dad album.
This sounds great, people need to open themselves up to weirder sounds more. Especially the production of the music from Regiment, Help Me Somebody and The Jezebel Spirit, very danceable, infectiously so.
I like these weirder albums. I should’ve given The Modern Dance a better chance.
Opening two tracks are great stuff. A lot of this albums makes me feel like I’m playing some long forgotten game for the Playstation 1.
I like it, but I don’t think I’ll ever revisit it.
Always struggle not to think of either Christmas or the Fallout games when I hear old music like this.
It’s okay, nothing is particularly interesting to me once you get over the novelty of it being old.
Say what you rightfully will about the man, but back in the day Kanye made some real masterpieces.
This album in particular is what got me not only into rap but listening to music seriously in general, listening to albums in full and engaging with them in a meaningful way. A part of me wishes somebody else's album did that for me but here we are. I miss the old Kanye.
As a man with zero memory of the 20th century, I hadn’t really ever heard Cat Stevens talked about amongst my peers. Sure, I’d heard ‘Wild World’ and ‘Father and Son’ before, but that was the height of it.
This is what this generator is for really, because I would’ve gone my whole life never even thinking to listen to this, which would’ve been a shame, because it’s bloody fantastic.
Some interesting soundscapes but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t bored out of my mind.
pfffft, yeah not for me
Alarmingly relevant to the times we live in today. America has always been awful, who knew?
God, what an influential album. Feel like you hear sounds influenced by Yeezus today still, and you probably will decades from now.
Literally my favourite album so this rating can only go one way lmao
Was wondering when they’d show up.
This album has my absolute favourite Beatles song on it, ‘In My Life’. It isn’t the strongest Beatles album besides that, the opening few tracks are brilliant and then the album slowly regresses just a tad. But I mean, come on now, it’s literally the Beatles.
Really struggle to find anything to like in this tbh, after 2 tracks I was already bored out my mind listening to a sound I’ve heard done better in albums released before 1967 even.
Maybe you just had to be there.
Floored by how low the score for this is on this platform I can’t lie…
Loved Linkin Park as a kid. As an adult, I’ll be real, nostalgia bias can only take this so far. Eww I feel like I’m betraying 10 year old me :(
Will probably now be listened to 100s of times in my life as it gets added into the retinue of albums to listen to at work, alongside Animals by Pink Floyd and basically the whole discography of Aphex Twin
Very bland, feels like a million other albums should’ve been in the list first. I can sort of see how this might’ve led to inspiring bands like Arctic Monkeys or whoever later on maybe.
Certainly did take me back to being a child in 2004, can say that about it.
The Beatles are great because they’ll make a song called ‘Bungalow Bill’ and it’ll fucking suck and then the next song on the album is literally ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ and it’s one of the best songs ever produced. No other band doing shit like that.
Yeah said it before, this is my least favourite kind of music. Tom Petty hasn’t changed my opinion on that just today. Sorry!
Might genuinely be the worst one on the list so far. Why is this even here?
There’s undeniably a couple bops in here. Not what I really fancy listening to a whole hour of though.
Absolutely cannot get into this dudes vocals. There’s some interesting instrumentals that almost sound a little off-key, your mileage may vary with those aspects of the album. Yeah not feeling it.
Best album from my favourite band, easy choice really
I might just not be a Morrissey kinda guy
Some real filler in here but the highs are real high. One Way or Another and Heart of Glass are both all timers
Adele undeniably has one of the most technically brilliant, beautiful voices in popular music today.
… But by god her music is so booooooooooring…
Reading about Billie Holiday’s life while listening to this made me deeply upset on a workday morning. Albums quite good though.
I think a sudden love for jazz has been my favourite discovery from doing this whole thing.
After hearing so much about My Bloody Valentine I was kinda excited to finally sit down and listen to them.
Loveless is better than this right? Right?!?
My favourite male vocalist I think. God it sucks what happened to Jeff Buckley, he should still be making music today.
I really struggle to get into this the way I’ve gotten into other jazz in this list. Might be the lack of sax?
