Reviews by ninexnineteen

Based on my preconceived idea of what kind of music Ministry played, I was not looking forward to this at all. However, I have been attentive and interested from the opening notes of the album. I don't think this is something I'll listen to often because it's definitely a bit outside of my taste profile, but I don't dislike this at all. Very coherent album without ever sounding samey to me.

On the basis of artistry and originality, I think this probably deserves four stars. While good, I don't think it's something I'd be in the mood to listen to very often

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I like the atmosphere on this album. I don't know what I was expecting from this album, but I never would have guessed this delicate-sounding mix of rock-ish country, and like... lullabies? Almost?

I'm not sure why I thought these guys were some other genre. There's something important about the way you name your band, I guess. "*Cowboy" Junkies," in retrospect should have tipped me off. I think it was the "Junkies" part that threw me. I'd have been listening a long time before this, had I known they sounded like this.

Their rendition of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry was so much more impactful to me than the original. She really has a way of communicating the sadness and desolation that Hank Williams didn't relay to me. It's a whole different song.

Everything on this album is just so delicate. I love it

No bullshit half stars here.
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Anyone else getting "Rocking Muppets" vibes from "Rock on?"

I like the crunchy-yet-clean guitars. I can't think of anyone else who was doing that in 1972.

This is an exceptionally well recorded and mastered album

Telegram Sam is essentially the same song as Get It On.

For 1972, I think this was something very different, and I can absolutely understand why T. Rex were such a sensation at the time.

Overall, enjoyable for me.

⭐⭐⭐.49

It's really touching reading the other reviews of folks who listened and danced to this when they were young. If we were listening to one of her first three albums today, I'd be saying the same thing. I love how long of a thread Madonna has woven through the last 40something years in our lives.

This is actually my first time listening to this album. I stopped consuming new Madonna content when Bedtime Stories came out. Not necessarily because it was bad or anything; I was just getting into other music is all. This isn't bad at all, but I don't think I like it as much as her earlier work. I do like the classic Madonna x electronic/DJ feel to the album

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My first thought when reading the Wikipedia article on this album was "I wonder if this is in the common cultural sphere of Indians, considering how influential it was outside the country." It so happens my neighbor is Indian, and when I asked him about it, he'd never heard of it or the musicians. So, that's kind of a bust there. I mean, it is a HUGE and very diverse country, so it's probably not all that surprising.

As far as the album goes I'm actually VERY MUCH enjoying it. It's reminds me of the sound of ambient electronic music, but with traditional Indian instruments. It's going have to take a serious turn for the worse to keep me from adding this to my personal collection. I'll probably spin this a couple more times today

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Turns out I was listening to the wrong version like everyone else. Listening to the correct version, I definitely like this less.

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So there are multiple versions to this, apparently, and I'm listening to yet another one, that I *think* is the right one? This is getting confusing and shitty, and I feel frustrated that I (and the rest of us) may be listening to and rating various incorrect (or not the original) versions of this album.

I think I need to tap out here. I've listened to three half-albums over the last two hours, and I just can't do anymore. I might have to come back to this.

⭐⭐⭐? Who knows? Were any of the albums I listened to the right one?

New Wave before the New Wave mainstream. I appreciate it. I'm fighting some sort of sinus or tonsil infection and feeling like crap, and thus a little impatient and having a bit of listening fatigue less than halfway through. Not the best mood to be in for an album review. At least three stars though

This album has been so thoroughly dissected by the Wikipedia article and the reviewers here that I won't make too much of an effort but for my own notes.

Wonderful, without exception

Overlong, by a good measure. Should have been two albums, each with some bonus material

George, without a shadow of a doubt, was the BEST Beatle

There are three versions of the album on Tidal, none of which match the original release very well. I listened to the version I thought most resembled the original, and still felt like I was compromising the experience.

I don't think I'm considering Apple Jam as part of the album. While enjoyable on its own, it's kind of non-sequitur. Especially so, when considering how much it adds to the ONE HUNDRED AND SIX MINUTE runtime of the album. That's just too much

Where to start? With the review about "Thom Yorke goes to Broadway?" Sure. Spot on, but I, on the other hand, think that's a positive, contrary to that reviewer. Such grandiose music apparently inspires me to be pretty careless with commas. Pizzazz!

I couldn't focus on reading the Wikipedia article, nor could I pay attention to my own thoughts for the review while this played. Everything here commands my attention. This isn't pop. You're not going to have some catchy hook stuck in your head for a week, driving you to buy the album or request it on the radio (does that still happen?). This is a "sit down and appreciate the music while it's happening" album.

Over a year ago, the 1,001 list brought me this album's sister, Want Two. I think I had previously heard Wainwright's name, but never his music. I loved that album, and I love this too. Both will be fine additions to my personal collection

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I would have loved to have heard this in 1993, and I wonder what I would have thought of it then. What else was happening around that time? Enigma? I liked them. Enya? Same. But that's really all I can remember with similar vibes. Anyway, in 2026, it's a lot of what I want in an ambient electronic record.

Green Calx took an interesting turn away from "chill out" music, which breaks the immersion for me. Ptolemy and Hedphelym (which required a skip halfway through) were other tracks that didn't seem very "ambient" to me and took me out of the relaxed space the preceding tracks brought me to.

It's really difficult for me to imagine someone 14 years old putting this together in the mid 80s. While I appreciate the ahead-of-its-time-ness and honestly, would consider it revolutionary, I can't help but wonder if this guy was like SUPER weird as a kid. I can't imagine someone so young basically writing the blueprints for what really wouldn't become a popular genre for 15 or more years. Truly incredible when you think about it.

This would have been an easy 4 stars with the omission of the three previously mentioned tracks. In spite of those three, it'll still wind up at that rating, taking into account just how foundational this album was and how early it happened, sounding NOTHING like anything else at the time.

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This is my 3rd PJ Harvey album in as many months, and I understand there are 4? No matter how good, I don't think any artist should get more than two (in very rare cases, at that).

That said, I liked one of the former, and was pretty aggressively meh about the other. This one, I quite like. 8 appreciate the dynamics, and since that's something nobody does anymore, I was thinking there was something wrong with my headphones. No, it's just the way music is supposed to be recorded.

I can't exactly pinpoint why I like this, really. It's got a very "recorded in a garage by a garage band" feel to it, which I normally don't like. Actually, there is a lot about this I wouldn't like in another album, but it works for me here.

Me-Jane is probably the highlight of the album for me. Adding this to my personal collection

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I wish I would have heard this in 2002 because in 2026, this sounds like it could have been made today. Super fresh and current. Probably about 15 minutes longer than I would have liked, all told.

There wasn't a (music, not spoken word) track on this album that my foot was still. I'll definitely be adding Phrenology to my personal collection

Review of the comments:

A lot of privilege and bigotry going on in these reviews... Some of you are fucking disgusting. Don't be surprised when your adult children don't let you see your grandchildren.

- a middle-aged white dude

Review of the album:

Never heard of this group before today, and I'll definitely be digging further into their catalog. I'm a sucker for downtempo electronic, so that was a big plus, right off the bat. Also appreciated were the reggae-styled bass on the occasional track, and the afrobeat influence on others.

I don't know that this is something I'd spin on a regular basis, but certainly as an artwork, I am impressed. Maybe like looking at The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch: I don't think I'd hang it in my house, but I'd stop at it for an hour every time I was at the museum. Or maybe even go to the museum once a year to see it.

As I was agonizing over the writing of that last paragraph, I changed my mind while a couple other songs played. I'd hang this in my house. And I'm definitely checking out the artist further. Thanks, 1001 Albums!

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Not sure why there are 2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs albums on the list. While this is pretty decent, I don't think it tops the other one. Also, really, should there EVER be two albums from the same artist on the list?

Y Control is the standout track for me here

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This, I think, is my favorite album of the Smiths. Exceptional recording/mixing/mastering only adds to my enjoyment. In so many recordings of a multi-piece ensemble, the acoustic guitar gets buried in the mix, and you almost never have the bass guitar featured so prominently in rock-adjacent music. I don't need to add this to my personal collection, because it's already there

I'll spin this more than once today, guaranteed

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This is the second of her albums I have had in just a couple of months.

The Thom Yorke song was good because it sounded like Radiohead

This Is Love was tough to get through.

I'm not finding too much to like here, and honestly, I'm looking forward to the end

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What a way to start the back half of the 1,001 Albums list! I got the notification just now that I had rated my 500th album just before I pushed play on this. Before we were a full measure into the song, I was tapping my foot. Very few albums get me right from the start like that.

This album sounds like if Daft Punk were on a pleasantly chill weed buzz.

I think all the reviews complaining about the title are missing the point. The name of the album is taken from a song, and the song is clearly a fundamentalist preacher wanting to destroy rock and roll. DJ Mylo is not saying his album will destroy rock and roll or that he wants to destroy it

This was a lot of the same song. I just do not enjoy Motorhead. I get Motorhead from an intellectual and musical perspective, but they're not for me

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I don't think I would have liked Running Up That Hill were it not for its repetition and dramatic use in Stranger Things, where I first heard it. By the finale, I got goosebumps every time it was featured in the show. Kate Bush was never in my wheelhouse at all. Having been primed by the show, I think I was finally ready to listen to this album.

This was unique, but not in the all-too-common "Look! I don't have to follow the rules and I can fart in a can" Frank Zappa kind of way. This was unique in a "hey, what if we made guitars louder with electricity?" kind of way. It's still a guitar, the skills required are the same, but it sounds different and has different capabilities.

I was somewhat trepidatious about listening to everything after the first track, but every last one of them earned their play and my attention. I think I'll add this to my collection and hang out with my new friend Hounds of Love soon

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I grew up in the 80s listening to mostly country, and I don't remember ever hearing this guy's name. Reading the Wikipedia article of the artist, I did remember having listened to Copperhead Road. Anyway, this does not sound at all like the country I was hearing in the 80s; though it does sound a lot like today's "Americana" genre (which is just what they call country now because mainstream country is rap now). All that to say, it sounds far more modern than most of the country of its time, with the possible exception of Dwight Yoakam who released an album in 86 as well.

This is both forward-looking for its time and old school all at once. Even though it's forward-looking, I'm not sure I'd consider groundbreaking or even especially unique, though I might say that about Yoakam's 86 release. I enjoyed the album, but I don't think it's something I'll come back to. And I'll probably listen to Guitars, Cadillacs, etc, etc now

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I have had some tangential exposure to this album and have maybe accidentally heard a track or three. I always had this idea Meat Loaf and this album were some sort of gag, maybe? I don't know, exactly; these thoughts and memories are pretty ethereal for me. I had pretty low expectations when I got this album last night, which has only served me well.

I don't think this is anything I would have spun intentionally, but having it pop up for me on the list has been a pleasure. I appreciate the operatic qualities, the somehow-tasteful-yet-over-the-top instrumentation, AND the dude has pipes. The song structure throughout the whole album is also a positive for me. The verse-chorus-verse-bridge structure makes sense; I don't necessarily get tired of it, but when I listen to music that strays from those boundaries, it always feels like a relief somehow

This album has won me over. I didn't want to like it, but it's too good for me to have felt that way for long

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