Rated 10/10
Absolutely stellar album by the Canadian prog rock GOATs!!! My favourite of their albums!!
Favorite songs: Tom Sawyer, Limelight, YYZ, Red Barchetta
Least favorite songs: if forced to pick, Witch Hunt
5/5
Rated 6/10
Favorite songs: "Oh, What a World", Butterflies, Slow Burn, Rainbow
Least favorite songs: Mother
3/5
Rated 2/10
Wtf Robert Dimnery....a gross French album about pedophilia?? Why??
Before I even understood what this album's theme was (a man falls in love with a 14 year old girl named Melody, and proceeds to seduce her), it gave me an uneasy feeling. The music is fine, but Serge whispers in your ear, and it's just gross. I feel like he is trying to bang me. Fuck off Serge. This prick should be on an FBI watch list...
Favorite songs: Ballade de Melody Nelson
Least favorite songs: En Melody
1/5
Rated 8/10
Favorite songs: Only the Good Die Young, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Movin' Out (Anthony's Song), The Stranger, Vienna, Get It Right the First Time, Everybody Has a Dream
Least favorite songs: Just the Way You Are
4/5
Rated 8/10
This is the album that features Duran Duran's 2 huge hits (Rio, and Hungry Like the Wolf). Cheesy 80's synth pop, but surprisingly not a bad album. They were always a band I just filed under 80's cheese and didn't really explore their back catalog, but there are some solid songs on here. The bass work in New Religion slaps! Surprisingly, their hits aren't their best work. I think it may be because their hits were played to death on radios and they just kinda became bland and boring as a result.
Favorite songs: New Religion, Hungry Like the Wolf, Rio, Hold Back the Rain, Last Chance on the Stairway, My Own Way, Lonely In Your Nightmare
Least favorite songs: Save a Prayer
4/5
60's acid rock. These guys are one of the bands credited with starting the psychadelic genre. It's not bad. This is the transition period. There are psychadelic elements to it, but it isn't way out there like other bands in the psychadelic genre would be in future years ..at the point of this album it was like garage rock made by people who were fucked up on LSD. It's like a more weird Blue Cheer. Interestingly, this band had a member who played the "electric jug". Literally a jug that he would blow into next to a microphone.
Favorite songs: You're Gonna Miss Me, Reverberation, Fire Engine, Thru the Rhythm
Least favorite songs: Splash 1
3/5
Rated 8/10
Sheryl Crow is the kinda artist that you tend to forget how iconic her music is. Really solid album, especially for a debut album!! I feel like I don't give Sheryl the attention she deserves. I haven't thought of her in like 20 years, but then when ya go back and listen to her music again, it is great. I think it may be because her music was played to death on the radio stations in the 90's/00's.
One thing I never noticed before, but immediately heard upon today's listen was how the well known riff from Barenaked Ladies song "Pinch Me" was taken directly from Sheryl Crow's song "Leaving Las Vegas". Another interesting note: If you like Sheryl Crow's song "Strong Enough", look up Adam Baldwin's cover version...I like it even more!
Favorite songs: Strong Enough, "Run, Baby, Run", Leaving Las Vegas, No One Said It Would Be Easy, Solidify, All I Wanna Do
Least favorite songs: We Do What We Can
4/5
Rated 4/10
Meh...
Favorite songs: Love Goes On!, Was There Anything I Could Do
Least favorite songs: Love is a Sign
2/5
Rated 2/10
Shitty electro-indie? They do a cover of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" that isn't horrible...the rest of the album is forgettable at best...another useless pick by Robert Dimnery for essential albums...
Big surprise....they're British....it's surprising how different musical tastes are on both sides of the pond. That is something I've definately learned through this generator. All this Britpop/electro horseshit....I just....don't care ....it doesn't translate over here.
Nothing Can Stop Us is the original version of Kylie Minogue's hit. This version sucks as much as Kylie's.
Favorite songs: Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Spring
Least favorite songs: This is Radio Etienne, Etienne Gonna Die, Dilworth's Theme (fuck skits), Girl VII, Like the Swallow
1/5
Rated 2/10
Terrible vocals, disjointed song structure, absolutely no flow to the album at all....not really what I'd call essential listening...
There is no reason why Dexy's Midnight Runners need 3 albums on this list. Too-Rye-Ay deserved a spot, but this shit?!? The last fleeting noises of a band on the brink of collapse?!? Robert Dimnery has lost his marbles. They were only included because they're British....
Favorite songs: One of Those Things
Least favorite songs: the whole album...
1/5
Rated 2/10
I'm not on near enough drugs to enjoy this....
Favorite songs: A Minha Menina
Least favorite songs: Trem Fantasma
1/5
Favorite songs: Honey Are You Straight or Are You Blind, I Hope You're Happy Now, Blue Chair, Uncomplicated, Tokyo Storm Warning
Least favorite songs: I Want You
3/5
Rated 10/10
Absolute perfection!
Favorite songs: The Irish Rover, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Mountain Dew, Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant/The Rocky Road to Dublin/Galway Races, Bottle of Smoke, Thousands are Sailing, Fiesta, Fairytale of New York, The Broad Majestic Shannon, Sit Down by the Fire, Turkish Song of the Damned, South Australia, The Battle March Medley, Lullaby of London, Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six, Sketches of Spain, Shanne Bradley, Metropolis
Least favorite songs: Worms
5/5
Rated 10/10
Phenomenal blues rock album for #1,001!! Hell yes!!
Favorite songs: La Grange, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Waitin' for the Bus, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers, Master of Sparks, Precious and Grace, Sheik, Have You Heard?
Least favorite songs: "Hot, Blue and Righteous"
5/5
Rated 4/10
One good song does not a good album make. It sold poorly when released....because it sucks ass. Too many of these "sold poorly on release, but garnered a huge cult following later on" albums on this list...
Favorite songs: Time of the Season, This Will Be Our Year, Care of Cell 44, Friends of Mine
Least favorite songs: A Rose for Emily
2/5
Rated 8/10
Like ska mixed with indie rock and polka music.
Favorite songs: I Remember When, Waiting for the Heartaches, Spanish Main, Skeleton Key, Dreaming of You, Simon Diamond
Least favorite songs: Calendars and Clocks
4/5
Political/socially charged hip hop. Dude sounds like Public Enemy by times. Surprisingly not too bad. For once, a hip hop group that isn't obsessed with singing about their cocks!
Favorite songs: Television the Drug of the Nation, Satanic Reverses
Least favorite songs: INS Greencard A-19 191 500
3/5
Rated 4/10
The first song on the album was a rendition of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love (a 25 minute rendition, broken down into 6 parts). Overall, a mid psychadelic rock album. Founded in good music, but the acid takes a hold of them a few times. I will say, I like their version of Who Do You Love way more than George Thorogood's
Favorite songs: Who Do You Love - Pt. 1, Mona
Least favorite songs: Where Do You Love
2/5
Rated 6/10
Favourite songs: The Light, Dooinit, Time Travelin' (A Tribute to Fela), A Film Called (PIMP), The 6th Sense, Heat, Payback is a Grandmother
Least favorite songs: Pops Rap III....All My Children, Geto Heaven Part Two
3/5
Rated 10/10
What an absolute powerhouse of an album. Literally ever song is a fucking banger! No filler at all. Also....Mick Fleetwood's balls, lol.
Favorite songs: The Chain, Go Your Own Way, Don't Stop, Dreams, Second Hand News, I Don't Want to Know, Never Going Back Again, Songbird, You Make Loving Fun, Gold Dust Woman, Oh Daddy
Least favorite songs: none. Absolute perfection.
5/5
