allofmp3 26 posts

wow. this list sucks! of all the great albums of the 00's, does beck really deserve 2 slots? he's great, and there were some great albums on there, but come on! my mom could come up with a better list! sorry

50 cent an album to listen to before I die? please, I'd rather just die.

where are the soundtracks?

sorry, but this list kinda sucks. your missing billy idol in the 80's, and i think the beatles 'help!' is much more deserving of the list than the beatles 'a hard days night.' this list is all over the place.

doves, ryan adams, linking park?

i understand you want us to spend more money and you guys do a fantastic job but this is probably stretching the limits of the best CDs ever list

why bother?

this list stinks!

Like most other people, I miss some of my personal favorites. That's inevitable. However, I still find value in browsing the list; I found a number of gems I forgot or never heard of. Hence, I think it's cool to provide the list.

Not much point arguing about the content here, it is simply a reproduction of a list written by 90 critics (Google for it? Here's one link: http://musicchain.net/entry/1001-Albums-You-Must-Hear-Before-You-Die).

More like 1001 albums that will (mostly) be forgotten by the time you die!

Agree with ppp - many personal favorites missing but some gems in there. Can't believe they missed Welcome to Beautiful South and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, among others. No accounting for taste.

Finally, agree with Anon on 50 Cent. Same with Motorhead and Slayer. I could die quite happily without subjecting myself to that noise.

50 Cent??? an Album/Artist I must hear?!! No, thank you.

Let me just die if I have to listen to all them craps! Poor list.

Oh dear that didn't really work did it, it's a pretty stinky list, but at least reading the comments gave me a good laugh!.Anyway your still loads cheaper than itunes (even if I am a bit nervous about giving my credit card details to a Russian internet site!)

Hmmm...destiny's child an album to hear before i die? i don't see it happening..not a very good list!

Yeah, this is what you get when you take 90 people and blend all their musical tastes together: something that appeals to nobody. But if you only filter out the kinds of music you like, it will be the better albums in those genres.

I love all the "it's not my favorite so it must suck" messages... learn to expand your horizons people, listen to different music with an open mind. There are some incredible samples on 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' - samples that were a 1/2 second sound in another song that has been slowed down, reversed, lowered 3 octaves, and looped.

I don't understand why people assume that just because they don't like a song / type of music that it doesn't have any merit as a work of art. This isn't something you see in any other form of art. People don't say "I don't like Degas, so his art sucks".

Of course, there are albums on that list that I don't like or think very highly of, but I can appreciate the artistic value of each of them.

Hey, nobody's claiming that these are the BEST albums, or that you have to LIKE them...
It's a list that you ought to HEAR. Maybe because they tried a new sound, or were relevent to a particular time or place, or because they paved the way for something else, or showed how an artist first found their feet, or even because they were misguided mistakes.
It's an interesting concept, although 1001 is rather excessive for a list - who's really going to be bothered listening to the whole lot? You probably own about a third of it. The rest is simply interesting, not worth getting stressed about. Check it out as you see fit, or not. There's also 1001 movies to see, 1001 books to read, 1001 places to go, 1001 artworks to view....get out there and experience stuff before you only have 1001 days left!

Seems Ok by me.... :)
But then I've probably the advantage of age on my side... in my mid 50s.

In my heyday (late 60's and 70's), due to the peer pressure and 'identifying' thing, I was only allowed to appreciate heavy/prog rock... Tamla Mowtown was severely *VERBOTEN*!! :D

But as you get older you'll find that the pressures to conform become less and less an issue... and you can appreciate *ALL* forms of music without constraint...

And before you reply saying 'old fuddy duddy' then I ask you refrain doing so until you're in your 40's... but by then you will realise what I have said is true...

A true music lover loves all *good* music in whatever form it is delivered - be it opera, classic, folk, pop, rock, goth, hiphop, grunge, garage, punk....

... and one man's meat is another man's poison... :)

If you are proud enough to sing it in front of your grown up grand kids
then it has value if not it won't stand the test of time.

BTW, it's not *the only* 1001 albums you must hear before you die. Neither is there any reference to what you must *not* here, or what you must hear *after* you die ;-)

(crgwllms, SteveR: good points)

I got the book for my 50th Birthday from my wife.
And maybe sadly I now have most in my music library and am listening to them as and when I can (I have my Itunes on Shuffle by album, so I don't know what's coming).
Like SteveR I don't think you can appreciate different types of music until you've really truly listened to all types of music with an open mind, unfortunately the younger you are the more likely your mind is to be closed.
I was lucky my fathered loved music (mostly classical but he did watch TofTP's) and so I grew up with music. Like SteveR I suppose peer pressure meant I listened mostly to heavy rock, but in truth it's still my favourite especially if it's Bluesy.
Nowadays with 2 children at university and a wife who has a very catholic taste in music in my house your as likely to hear Dolly Partin as Gogol Bordelo as Beethoven as The Doors as Marilyn Manson as Nitin Sawhney as Culture Club and in truth it's all good music

Whatever Jimmya.

I am a youngster but i've lived long enough to know that gansta rap is the only type of music that rocks because it keeps it real, yo. Culture Club ain't real.

"keep it real, yo"??? Whatever! There's that 10% brain thing going on again.

what, ONLY 1001 albums I need to hear before I die??? there must be a bazillion I won't hear then...
if you listen to 3 a day, you'll get thru this list in a year. then you can start in on the next 1001 albums you need to listen to before you get another year older!

*** and anyone who says crap like Robert E needs to grow up a little and open their ears. but my sayin that is worthless as there's no way someone like that is ever going to listen to anyone.
"keep it real?" more like keepin it close-minded.


a list is just a list. it's not saying it is the only list or even the best list...
the more people who contribute to it the better chance of it containing both corporate force-fed homogenized blech, as well as obscure musical gems few have ever heard.

RobertE, music in whatever form is not about being real, it's the complete opposite it's about soul and emotions.
Another thing, where I live we don't have Gangsta's so there music to me, couldn't be less "real".
As for Culture Club I hate to say it but you had to be there. Like a lot of music on the list it has been chosen for what it was in it's time.
nj martian, you couldn't be more right about it only being 1001.
No classical music, a lot of my favourite albums not there etc. etc.

no ween?
well i guess its not available on this site.
if you have a chance, listen to "The Mollusk" by ween
i PROMISE you, you won't be disappointed.
i mark my life by, before i heard that album, and after i heard that album

I was just joking around. I actually agree with your originally posted comments. I was just wanting to see if my stupid comments would spark additional comments. I am pleased to see that they have.

Thank you

re:the 80's 3 glaring omissions 1)Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food. Nothing had ever come out that sounded like that before! Rythmic music with actual undumbed-down lyrics! Joe Jackson - Look Sharp. This was the raw side of New Wave and the first to get mass atention. So much good music on this that bands 25 yrs later, are still covering the tunes! Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet. Much of this used in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing". Angry, sardonic, witty, political, mixing rap with touches of new wave.

@eastindyguy
So because he samples (steals/copies) music from talented people, that makes him an artist?! You suck as much as fiddy.

Yeah, the list sucks. Period

I think the list is kinda OK. Afterall, there's only so many albums that you can fit in a book. Maybe they can publish another 1001 albums in the next couple years...

Hmmm... wrong title...

How about "1001 Albums you must hear somwhere else"?

Another list pushing stale merchandise! SPARE ME!!! That list is just a marketing ploy to get people to buy. Yawn.....

Me & my friend actually compiled the entire list from the book. I have it on my 80G iPod and find myself hitting the skip button frequently. Some decent previously unheard treasures though...We also complied the Rolling Stone 500 Albums also....

I agree with the first comments about there being some glaring omissions and strange inclusions on this list. Quick example; in the 1980's there's no Alison Moyet album, her debut album Alf was an eighties classic; yet Neneh Cherry and Tears For Fears are included. Talking of Alison Moyet the electronic music scene, a huge 80's trend is underrepresented, no Yazoo (Yaz) for instance.

P.S. I need to add just one other glaring omission from the list. The global ambient sound of two decades; Enya.

All the Pixies albums are in there so its a great list for me!

in the end it's just a matter of taste, isn't it?!
i think it's a good opportunity to discover new stuff, even if you only discover you don't like sth.

so you complain about 50cent? what about britney spears then?!?

what a load of crap i have heard here! have any of you really listened to a fraction of the music? There is greTNESS. gET A lIFE IF YOU CANT LISTEN TO ALL OF it!

whaT compli mation this is to some one who is a novice to music appreciation. My hat is off the the people who wrote it. Same on you dipshits who love gangata rap. What a lot to learn!

To anon,

Learn something about fair use laws and what is theft of music, and what isn't.

If sampling something is theft, then Andy Warhol's estate should be paying Campbell's soup millions of dollars - after all he 'sampled' their soup label for one of his paintings (is that theft???).

Creating a derivative work that is substantially different from the original work is not theft. Which is exactly what most rap artists do today... Gone are the "You Can't Touch This" days where DJ's took an entire chorus of a song and pilfered it.

You show not only your ignorance but also your close-mindedness by such statements. Thank you, really, you did nothing but prove my point.

The days of "You Can't Touch This" aren't exactly gone. Puff Daddy still rips entire songs, and I often hear sections of many songs lifted wholesale. Your points are still well taken eastindy.

I always miss The Moody Blues on such lists. they're the greatest band ever, just listen to "Seventh Soujorn", the masterpiece of Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Grahem Edge etc. Why are they always omitted on such sircumstances?

В этом что-то есть и мне нравится эта идея, я полностью с Вами согласен.