Loved it. I only knew Pink Moon and thought Drake was a slightly overrated singer songwriter.
This album was rich and varied
I am a big Neil Young fan. This is him and Crazy Horse in optima forma. Ranging from small, intimate songs to full on grunge, angrily slapping the guitar heavy on distortion. This band was versatile. The opening en the ending versions of My My Hey Hey capture this perfectly.
I would recommend listening to Live Rust though. It is Live Rust, but contains more tracks including a couple of absolute classics.
I get the cultural impact and it has some great songs, but a lot of this album is just noise.
I didn’t know a single song before listening.
I like that it was less pop than the Pet Shop Boys I knew and realised it sounded more like Depeche Mode.
Honestly, just listen to Depeche Mode for a superior sound
Catchy tunes, but nothing memorable
To be honest, the album got a bit boring. No goor listening if you’re not in a club setting
Started with a couple of bangers, bit Adamson lost me halfway through. Nick Cave saved the day at the end
Elton John is known for the wrong songs. This album is one banger after another
If The Velvet Underground and The Doors had a lovechild who grew up to be an angsty teenager
This is prime Rolling Stones. Ending the sixties with a banger
I knew the hits, but never listened to the whole album. It’s surprisingly good.
The album has a couple of well known bangers, but all in all it felt a bit subdued? Monotonous maybe.
It didn’t live up to its reputation
Black Sabbath was still looking for their sound, they found it on their second album.
Still, it had hints of the great music to come
This is a weak Beatles album. Covers and mostly forgettable songs.
Please please me would eank higher for being their debut and on A Hard Days Night the hit machine started to roll.
Sandwiched between these two, With the Beatles is forgettable and an unnecesary inclusion in this list
I am a bit biased. I was born in 1981 and The Prodigy was very much part of the soundtrack of my formative years.
I hadn’t listened to the album as a whole in ages and it was a blast to hear it again.
I was going to give the album five stars, but on an honest relistening, soms songs felt like fillers and some tunes got repetitive.
Still, take me back to a nineties party and I will dance to The Prodigy all night
I have to applaud Madonna for staying relevant for two decades and not continuing down the road that brought her huge success in the eighties.
This album contained some songs that were absolute bangers in clubs around 2000. It still holds up pretty well.
About two months into listening an album a day, it has become obvious that this list of 1001 albums leans very much into American/British rock music. A bit too muchZ
Now, I understand that the Buzzcocks are pioneers of British punk, but really, this is a top 1001 album? It lacks the timeless impact of Nevermind the Bollocks and isn’t musically interesting like some of their later work, or music by The Clash, for instance.
2 stars. Only because I’m in a good mood
I still don’t get Taylor Swift. Sure, the tunes are catchy and poppy, but the extent she has become the voice of a generation? I still don’t feel, hear or see it.
Now this is punk I can get behind
Now this is a debut album
Easiest five stars so far.
Didn’t need a listen, listened to it twice anyway.
God is with Bowie now
I only knew one song by Cheap Trick, guess which one?
I rather like live albums, so I was excited to give this one a go. It was pretty disappointing. The music was uninspired and blend. Despite the occasional crowd noise, it didn’t have much of a live feel.
The album had the bad luck to come one day after Ziggy Stardust, but it really doesn’t deserve more than two stars
Björk is an acquired taste and I was intrigued, but not really a fan of her work in the nineties.
I didn’t know this record at all, but absolutely loved it. No commercial aspirations, just hauntingly beautiful music by an artist who dares to explore musically.
Loved it
Fun, clever. Talking Heads is a band where something always happens.
Nice clean rap, rich melodies. I somehow missed this group, deserves further listening
I was today years old when I learned of the Riot Grrrrl movement.
A shame I missed it, these girls kicked ass.
This. This is why I starter listening to 1001 albums.
Shame it took me 44 years to discover this album
The hits were great fun, the rest of the album more of the same, but inferior.
And then there’s a song about tv dinners…
I gave the album two listens. It is an extremely varied album, showing Stephen Stills range as a songwriter, composer and guitar player.
Smash was part of the soundtrack of my teenage years. For sheer nostalgia, I wanted to rate this record five stars.
The re-listen was a great joy. I was tgis close to shouting out ‘stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfuckers’, but luckily I realized I was in a public place.
The energy is still off te charts, but lyrically and musically, it hasn’t aged that well. Smash is not as timeless as I hoped.
Still, four stars
I gave the album two listens. I was vaguely aware that this was an influential album and was looking forward to giving it a full listen.
Now, I am no native English speaker and the first listen, I just listened to the music and wasn’t impressed.
The second time, I had the lyrics at hand and the album clicked.
The second Bjork record on my 1001 albums journey and she is one of the artists I underestimated.
I loved this record. Ethereal, mysterious. Not looking for chart success, just an hour of beautiful music
The album started with a couple of well known bangers, but was mostly a poorly dated time capsule from the late eighties.
Great debut. Iron Maiden got a lot better though
It’s not nearly as good as Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Weird. I have a thing for rock music of the late sixties and somehow I missed this band entirely.
I really enjoyed this record. I learned what an amplifid jug is, though I’m still not sure how it works :D
Mr. Blue Sky, but one hour long.
This is not just an album, this is art
It was okay, but I will have forgotten having listened to this album this time tomorrow.
Loved it. This is the kind of album I wanted to listen to when I joined this site. Funk, guitars shredding, weirdness, cowbells, what’s not to like.
Wished it was a longer album.
AC/DC is the rock music equivalent of fast food.
Sure, you’re not going to get a Michelin Star dinner, but you know what you’re going to get and sometimes you just crave a juicy burger. Quite often, actually.
Highway to Hell is that fastfood offering, but it has to be said that the menu is stale. After another generic rock aong about how great sex is, I was about to give this album two stars.
The final track, Night Prowler, saved the day.
Rest in peace, Bon Scott
Blur is a musically rich band and it shows on this record.
One of the highlights of Britpop
I never knew I needed a song called Sex Dwarves in my life
This was a trip. Loved it
This is an underrated Britpop album and band
Coldplay is a band you love to hate, but their first album is usually free of criticism.
So I expected to like Parachutes, an album I listened to a few times in the early 2000’s.
The album started with a couple of well known bangers and I fully expected to give this four stars. The second half kind of fizzled out though, Coldplay style.
This was fun and Gin and Juice is an all time classic, but Snoop gets monotomous quickly on this record.
Loved the Slick Rick throwback on Lodi Dodi
I am starting to dislike double albums. This was just too much.
The tunes are catchy and the album contains many tracks that I enjoy dancing to, but listening to the album in its entirety felt like a chore
He amount of punk bands on this list is too damn high.
This album deserves 5 stars for the Hammond solo on Highway Star alone.
As a huge Deep Purple fan, I am obviously biased. This is my favourite studio album by the band. To really enjoy these songs in all their glory, listen to the band live. Deep Purple is a great live band, with virtuoso musicians who love to improvise.
Made in Japan is a great example of an album where Highway Star, Lazy, Smoke on the Water and Space Trucking really shine.
This band and album was a pleasant diacovery for me. An actual original sound
It was a pleasant listen, but also utterly forgettable. Not a single song stuck
Doubted between 4 and 5 stars. The album feels more patchy than its predecessors. It is still a pillar of rock history of course.
I sort of get the meta joke that this album is, but the commercials don’t work for me.
The second half has glimpses of Tommy and save the record for me
About 100 albums in, I have come to dislike double albums and the overrepresentation of Anglo-Saxon rock bands from 1966 until 1986 or so.
After listening to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for 1,5 hours, I’ll only ever complain about double albums again.
The album started fine. Country and bluegrass isn’t really my genre, but we are all on this journey to broaden our horizons, right?
Unfortunately, this was a double album and it dragged on and on and on. The studio outtakes got pretty boring pretty fast too.
Luckily, after almost two hours, the circle became unbroken and I could move on
Started with a couple of big bangers, but the album went to strange places in the second half
Surely there are Elvis records that were more influential?
Enjoyable, but utterly forgettable music
Loved this album. It is dark, moody and timeless. Unmistakably The Cure.
It reminded of Disintegration, released at the other end of the eighties.
Head never heard of this band. I enjoyed it, it has a nice retro feel about it. Clean eighties sound.
I never felt this was a must listen, though
Loved it. Great tunes, harmony, arrangements.
Expected generic seventies rock record and that is what I got, but I liked it anyway.
Halfway through the album the singer made it very clear that he desperately needed to get laid. The second half luckily had a change in themes.
Musically, this was pretty good. Doubted between 3 and 4 stars. I am in a good mood and rounded up
About 100 albums in, this is my third Bjork album. I was familiar with the hit songs that featured in MTV’s rotation back in the day. Good times.
The rest of the record mostly didn’t disappoint either. I am a bit sorry I never gave Bjork a chance before
George Harrison is my favourite Beatle. He wrote some of my favourite Beatles songs and it is not without reason that he was universally beloved by musicians and comedians alike.
This album showed his range from tender love songs to heavier rock. A large chunk of the second album is dedicated to some extended jam sessions. I love those. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall.
Eventually, George had to pass too, way too soon. Luckily his legacy lives on.
I liked Green Day for their short songs. Dookie is part of my teenage soundtrack.
I applaud them for taking punk and wxtending it to a 9 minute epos. I was never a fan of JoS, but on an album, it works
Prog rock is usually too pretentious for me. This album is easy in the ear though, except for the singers voice. It grates.
Respect to Rush for sticking to their own style of music and not going the commercial route.
Wish I could give this 3,5 stars.
I always liked to think that I would have been a hippie had I lived in the sixties.
After listening to this album I am glad to be a nineties kid who grew up on Eurodance.
I give the album two stars because I’ve learned about the interesting life of singer Licorice, who reminded me that amoebas indeed are very small. Also, Neil from The Young Ones was a fan. You can’t go against Neil.
My third Tom Waits album on this list, about 100 albums in.
This one felt hit and miss and it seemed to lack a theme. Apart from the world being mostly shit and that we’ll all die, that is.
I tried jazz, I mever really got into it.
I have a couple of Miles Davis records at home.
So, I guess I kind of knew what I was up for when Bitches Brew came up yesterday. At least, I thought I knew.
Bitches Brew was something else. It is tough to describe, just a couple of genius musicians trying to outdo each other for almost two hours straight.
It isn’t easy listening, I probably never listen to this record again, but it was a good listen.
I am not much of an Adele fan, but I reckon this is probably her magnum opus.
Her voice is great obviously, the songs well arranged and the themes strike a chord.
I read up on the legal issues surrounding A Million Years Ago. That was fun, the aong sounds very plagiarised (I tought of Charles Azanvour) but has been dubbed a musical cliche.
So, this was not on spotify. I had to listen to the album on youtube with ad breaks inbetween songs. Undoable.
I read up on the album and on Dagmar Krause. Listened to some of her other work as well. No doubt she is a fascinating artist and this is an interesting album.
Does it warrant a place in the 1001 albums list? Unlikely, but you can’t have Ziggy Stardust every day.
One again I am biased, because this is one of those albums I devoured growing up.
I love everything about this album. The overture is iconic. The songs rock. Roger Daltrey is a great singer. It was a blast to listen to the album in its entirety again. To be fair, this is one of those albums that need to be listened to in its entirety.
Not knowing this album was a hiatus in my musical knowledge.
It was a fun listen, The Kinks usually are, and the theme of the album is quite clear. I understand how this record became an evergreen, revered by many musicians of later generations.
This album was easy on the ear and Common People should be considered as one of the greatest songs of the nineties.
Forgettable album and artist
It must not have been easy, after making the quintessential pulk album and to follow up with something new.
Religion was an ok song, as was Public Image, but the true iconoclastic track was saved til the end. Fodderstompf was both awful and punk, precisely by not being a typical punk song. Loved the track. Saved the album from being two stars
I went in fully expecting to love this album. I did, I enjoy the old school hiphop. But it has to he said, the beats got a little stale, a little monotomous. It was the age obviously and the very distinct Run DMC style.
Any album that gave the world Free Bird deserves at least 4 stars.
The rest of the album was lesser known to me. I knew Simple Man from a live cd, or a best of, not really sure.
Most of the rest of the tracks felt underwhelming.
I was stoked when Kraftwerk came up. I knew the singe Autobahn of course as well as about ten other tracks. I love those songs and am well aware of the huge impact this band has had on synthpop and electronic music in general.
So, the album starts with a 22 minute version of Autobahn, which was way longer than it should be. The car noises were clever though.
The rest of the album was underwhelming too. Very little in memorable tunes and it left me with no desire to listen to the record ever again.
Still, three stars for the sheer impact of the band and this album
Two weeks after Bitches Brew, I get served this album. What a difference.
Much easier on the ear, but I’m still not and probably never will be a jazz enthousiast.
Yes!
This is the kind of album I wanted to discover when I started listening to 1001 albums!
This wasn’t it.
Walker had a remarkable voice and the album has a couple of intriguing songs, but all of them are Jacques Brel covers
This is the good noise. I am glad that trash metal is included in this list as well
None of the songs on this album really stuck though
Curtis Mayfield is one of thos artists whose voice, music and message are all instantly recognizable, so I knew what I could expect.
My only flaw with the album is that it missed an upbeat track like Supafly or Move on Up. I felt like dancing and this album was more mellow. I suppose the record was more about the message.
This album gets an extra star for the inconic cover art.
Morrissey without the rest of The Smiths is like a virgin mojito. Sure, it tastes good and it lessens your thirst on a sunny day; but you don’t get a buzz.
My analogies suck.
Weezer was right. Timbaland does know his way to the top of the charts.
Loved this album, can’t stand still and it’s a steamy, sensual record.
Another record and band whose sound is instantly recognizable. Nile Rogers shows greatness on this album. Dress up, forget about life for a while, dance and make love.
This was a nice discovery
I am biased, this is one of my favourite albums by one of my favourite artists.
As a fam of Nick Cave, I am ashamed to admit that I had never listened to the Birthday Party. Until today that is.
It was fun, it was the Cave we know form From Her to Eternity, but not quite yet.
Now I am curious about the earlier Birthday Party work as well.
I was fully expecting to give this album five stars. In my opinion, this album, Harvest and Harvest Moon are the quintessential Neil Young albums.
I’ve decided to stick with four for two reasons. One, the album is very short. Two, after Southern Man, the record kind of fizzles out with a couple of less memorable tracks.
This is one of those instant 5 stars no need to listen albums.
I still listened to it twice because it’s Unknown Pleasures. Peter Hook makes me want to learn to play bass.
O only knew MC Solaar from his work with Guru on Jazzamatazz.
This album was very much in the same style. Even though I only understand a couple of words, French is a great language for rapping. Solaar also has a flow that is easy on the ear.
The beats are nice as well. Reminescent of ATCQ
Loved it
